Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
ZOMBIE Act
The bill improves measurement and risk-based controls to better detect and prevent improper federal payments, but does so at the cost of higher agency compliance burden, narrower reporting of problem payments, and less frequent public visibility.
Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act
The bill strengthens agencies' ability to pause/segment payments and requires notice and faster contest procedures to reduce improper payments, but it also risks delaying funds for needy recipients, creating recurring interruptions for programs with frequent flags, and producing uneven implementation due to narrow definitions and guidance reliance.
Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
The bill directs studies and a congressional report to improve coordination and funding access for cross‑boundary wildfire mitigation—potentially accelerating on‑the‑ground hazard reduction—while imposing modest study costs and risking regulatory changes or funding shifts that could affect landowners and other programs.
Wabeno Economic Development Act
The bill trades localized economic gains and faster, more transparent permitting for construction and a modest one‑time federal receipt against risks to public land access, environmental protections, and longer‑term public control of national forest parcels.
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025
The bill meaningfully increases public transparency and oversight of federal awards by standardizing and publishing more data and creating reporting deadlines, but those benefits come with nontrivial administrative and compliance costs, potential diversion of staff from program delivery, and remaining security/coverage exceptions.
Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2025
The bill aims to expand and better target PTSD and behavioral-health care for public-safety personnel—especially in rural and Tribal areas—by producing DOJ-informed program options and confidentiality-focused grants, but it may require new spending, impose implementation burdens on small/local agencies, and raise privacy and federal-vs-local control concerns.
Tribal Warrant Fairness Act
The bill gives Tribal governments a clearer, formal role in U.S. Marshals fugitive task forces and clarifies legal authority in Tribal jurisdictions to improve public safety, while imposing modest federal costs and added legal/operational complexity for officers.
Carla Walker Act
The bill aims to strengthen public forensic capacity and guide adoption of forensic genetic genealogy to solve cases faster, but it raises substantial privacy, equity, and cost concerns unless Congress pairs funding with clear safeguards and equitable distribution rules.
Federal Fraud Prevention Workforce Training Act
The bill centralizes and funds standardized antifraud training and oversight to reduce improper payments across federal and subnational programs, but it imposes new training and compliance burdens, administrative complexity, and modest additional federal spending that could slow grant access for some recipients.
Federal Program Integrity and Fraud Prevention Act of 2026
The bill tightens protections for taxpayer funds and gives agencies clearer tools to bar fraudulent contractors, but it also risks excluding people who avoided conviction, imposes new administrative burdens, may shrink the contractor workforce, and could politicize waiver decisions.
Bonuses for Cost-Cutters and Fraud Preventers Act of 2026
The bill creates financial incentives, transparency, and oversight to find and rescind wasteful federal spending—potentially saving taxpayer money—but raises risks of program disruptions from rescissions, added administrative burdens from incentives, and reduced participation by some oversight personnel.
Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act
The bill improves federal detection and recovery of improper payments through expanded data access, verification, and standardized reporting—but does so at the cost of significant new privacy and data‑sharing risks and substantial administrative and cash‑flow burdens on states, recipients, and some beneficiaries.
Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act
The bill centralizes congressional control over appointments and restructures personnel rules at the Library, GPO, and Copyright Office to speed staffing and clarify employee rules—improving operational continuity and some workplace protections—while increasing risks of politicization, reduced external oversight, implementation costs, and potential impacts on public access and civil-service norms.
American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2026
The bill provides predictable federal funding, formal studies, and Tribal consultation to preserve and interpret historic battlefield sites—strengthening preservation capacity and education/tourism benefits—while imposing modest recurring federal costs and risks of local regulatory impacts, applicant uncertainty, and possible displacement of other preservation priorities.
Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill increases local, tribal, and scientific input and creates a framework for science-based restoration of regional marine resources, but its recommendations are non-binding, appointment and funding mechanisms create representation and continuity risks, and the Commission’s limited authority may constrain long-term effectiveness.
License to Drill Act
The bill centralizes mineral leasing receipts into a single Fund to improve predictability and transparency, but it risks reducing and delaying funds for state and local governments and creates greater federal discretion and potential funding uncertainty for mineral programs.
To take certain land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Pechanga Band of Indians, and for other purposes.
The bill returns ~860 acres to the Pechanga Band as federal trust land and protects it for cultural and environmental preservation, strengthening tribal sovereignty while restricting commercial uses (notably gaming) and reducing local tax revenue, requiring ongoing coordination over existing encumbrances.
Geothermal Energy Advancement Act
The bill seeks to speed and stabilize geothermal development on public lands—benefiting energy providers and nearby communities—while imposing federal costs, risking diversion of agency attention from other land uses, creating operational strains, and limiting some employee protections.
Florida Safe Seas Act of 2025
The bill trades away a textual ambiguity to give clearer authority to state and federal fisheries managers, but that same change—and any unspecified inserted language—could broaden regulatory reach and impose economic uncertainty and compliance costs on states and local operators.
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act
The bill restores and clarifies ANCSA-related land, shares, and corporate status for five southeastern Alaska communities to enable local control and economic development, while trading off reduced public land management, potential shareholder disputes, and administrative, environmental, and safety risks.
Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
The bill commissions a GAO study to improve coordination, funding access, and efficiency for cross‑boundary wildfire mitigation—potentially increasing treatments and federal dollars' value—but it risks delaying immediate actions and adding administrative costs or resource needs to implement recommended changes.
Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act of 2026
This bill increases and automates targeted veterans' and survivors' benefits and expands/extends access to VA home-financing and federal retirement rules, improving support for beneficiaries in the near term but raising federal costs and locking some changes in place (some only temporarily) while leaving gaps for similarly needy people who don't meet existing eligibility.
American Access to Banking Act
The bill makes launching de novo banks and credit unions faster and more transparent—likely improving local credit access and aiding small/community institutions—while increasing administrative costs, creating some investor/depositor safety risks if oversight or protections are weakened, and producing potential unevenness in who benefits.
Safe Cloud Storage Act
The bill improves law enforcement’s ability to store, secure, and retain digital child sexual abuse evidence by using vetted private vendors with strict security and retention rules, but it creates meaningful privacy, civil‑liberties, and legal‑accountability risks and adds compliance costs that may fall to governments and taxpayers.
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
The bill channels substantial new federal support and procedural changes to speed housing supply, disaster recovery, and veteran/tenant protections while increasing transparency, but it raises trade-offs in higher federal spending, larger administrative burdens, privacy and environmental risks, and potential impacts on rental supply and local counseling capacity.
Southcentral Foundation Land Transfer Act of 2025
The bill transfers a federal parcel to a community health provider to expand local health services and speed reuse, while limiting the new owner's liability for past contamination — trading improved local care access and lower operating costs against potential environmental health risks and public cleanup or foregone federal revenue.
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Land Transfer Act of 2025
The bill places ~265 acres into federal trust for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians—strengthening tribal land base, protections, and legal clarity and increasing transparency—while shifting local land-use control to federal/trust jurisdiction and limiting future local tax and gaming revenue opportunities, with modest federal administrative costs.
Fostering the Future Act
The bill makes it easier for foster-experienced youth to access housing supports and improves federal-state coordination and data collection, but relies on shifting existing program flexibility and adds administrative requirements — benefits may be limited without additional funding and consistent implementation.
Star-Spangled Summit Act of 2026
The bill secures a long-term, fee‑exempt, fast permit for local residents and nonprofits to display a flag at Kyhv Peak, but it does so by removing environmental review and shifting costs and access priorities in ways that reduce federal environmental oversight and broaden taxpayer liability.
Fisher House Availability Act of 2026
The bill expands space-available lodging to better support veterans traveling for non-VA care and their families, improving access and caregiver support, but it risks capacity shortages, added costs, and variable availability unless matched with additional resources and clear implementation safeguards.
