Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act
The bill protects firearms retailers' privacy and limits firearm-specific transaction labeling while preserving payment-security functions, but it shifts enforcement to the federal level, preempts local regulation, and leaves retailers without a private lawsuit option — potentially slowing remedies and imposing costs on banks.
To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes.
The bill temporarily prevents a gap in federal surveillance authorities and buys administrative time, but it prolongs privacy risks and eases near‑term pressure for reform.
Secure America Act
The bill substantially boosts funding and multi-year authority to strengthen border screening, staffing, and targeted immigration enforcement (including resources for child-exploitation investigations), at the cost of large taxpayer spending and increased enforcement and surveillance that raise privacy, community trust, and civil‑liberties concerns for immigrant and border communities.
Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act
The bill strengthens federal screening, verification, and reporting to detect and recover improper payments and improve program integrity, but it increases data sharing, privacy risks, administrative costs, and the potential for payment delays and compliance burdens—especially for small recipients and nonfederal partners.
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
The bill strengthens veterans' privacy and protects firearm‑related rights from administrative VA fiduciary determinations, at the cost of reducing an administrative pathway into federal background‑check lists and shifting responsibility (and potential delay) to courts and agencies, which may raise public‑safety and implementation concerns.
Safe Cloud Storage Act
The bill strengthens secure, audited storage and custody of digital child sexual-abuse evidence to aid investigations and protect victims, while creating privacy risks, reduced vendor incentives to prevent misuse, higher domestic-data costs, and additional administrative burdens.
Criminal History Access Act of 2026
The bill improves legal clarity and accelerates data‑sharing among law enforcement and sentencing bodies to support coordination and more consistent sentencing, but it raises significant privacy risks and implementation burdens as access expands across many jurisdictions.
Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.
The bill increases DHS transparency, detainee protections, targeted operational funding, and training controls—but it also imposes heavy new oversight/reporting rules, procurement and operational limits, and some rescissions that could slow emergency response, raise administrative costs, and reduce program flexibility.
Amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and for other purposes.
The bill trades a brief two-week continuity of intelligence collection and ongoing investigations against a short extension of surveillance authorities that prolongs privacy, oversight, and business uncertainty concerns.
Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act
The bill tightens oversight and accountability around FBI queries and preserves cash privacy by blocking a Fed‑issued retail CBDC, but it also extends contested Section 702 authorities, creates new criminal liabilities and administrative burdens that could hamper operations, and leaves legal ambiguities about token carve‑outs.
Taxpayer Notification and Privacy Act
The bill strengthens taxpayer privacy and reduces unnecessary third‑party contacts by requiring clearer notices and a minimum response period, but it may slow IRS processing, leaves an exception that still permits sudden third‑party requests, and delays implementation for 12 months.
To expand the sharing of information with respect to suspected violations of intellectual property rights in trade.
The bill improves IP enforcement by allowing CBP to share marketplace-originated nonpublic data (with some procedural limits and notification) but risks broader disclosure of sensitive commercial information and expanded recipient access that could harm privacy and dampen cooperation from marketplace partners.
To amend the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to extend the authorities of title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 through April 30, 2026, and for other purposes.
The bill provides clearer timing and reduces statutory ambiguity by setting a firm repeal date for Title VII, but that near-term repeal risks gaps in intelligence and law-enforcement capabilities and creates transitional legal and compliance costs if no replacement is in place.
Servicemembers’ Credit Monitoring Enhancement Act
The bill clarifies and expands FCRA protections to explicitly cover all service members — improving credit protections and consistency across federal law — but introduces a one-year delay and some compliance costs and short-term regulatory uncertainty that could affect agencies, creditors, and (ind)
Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act
The bill improves federal detection and recovery of improper payments and clarifies state cost sharing and agency notifications, at the cost of broader death‑record data sharing that raises privacy risks and can temporarily harm wrongly flagged beneficiaries while imposing modest state burdens.
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
The bill boosts oversight, targeted defense and foreign-aid investments, and health and program transparency, but does so by locking funds into many earmarks and reporting mandates that increase administrative costs, reduce executive flexibility, raise near‑term taxpayer obligations, and constrain federal personnel and agency responsiveness.
DEFIANCE Act of 2025
The bill strengthens rights and remedies for people harmed by nonconsensual intimate deepfakes—providing recognition, injunctive relief, long statutes of limitation, and substantial monetary damages—while creating risks of broad liability, chilling speech and research, increased moderation and privacy trade-offs, and legal uncertainty for creators, platforms, and courts.
To advance policy priorities that will break the gridlock.
The bill advances a mix of oversight, privacy, national‑security, veterans, and programmatic measures that preserve funding and expand protections, but does so at the cost of higher near‑term federal spending, added compliance and administrative burdens, and some limits or uncertainties around transparency and enforceability.
Epstein Files Transparency Act
The bill substantially increases public access and congressional oversight of DOJ records (boosting transparency and accountability) but does so on rapid timelines that raise serious risks to victim privacy, ongoing prosecutions, national security, reputations of uncharged individuals, and DOJ resources.
Strengthening Oversight of DHS Intelligence Act
The bill increases privacy and civil‑rights protections and accountability inside DHS intelligence activities, at the trade‑off of added administrative cost and the risk of slower or more restricted intelligence sharing that could hinder operations.
Foreign Adversary Communications Transparency Act
The bill increases transparency about foreign ties in the broadband and communications sector to reduce national-security risks and improve procurement decisions, but it may raise costs, harm some companies' reputations, and weaken paperwork/privacy oversight with downstream effects on prices and competition for consumers.
D. C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2025
The bill concentrates juvenile treatment and tailors programs for under-18s while improving public data transparency and analytical access — but it risks excluding 18–24-year-olds from youth services, increasing adult system costs, and creating privacy, compliance, and stigma harms from broad data publication.
Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act
The bill preserves individual privacy, the current role of banks, and congressional control by prohibiting a Fed retail CBDC, but that protection comes at the cost of foregoing potential consumer benefits (cheaper, faster payments and greater financial inclusion), slowing innovation, and limiting Fed crisis-response tools.
Understanding Cybersecurity of Mobile Networks Act
The bill promises greater public transparency and coordinated cybersecurity best practices for mobile networks, but risks exposing vulnerabilities if reporting isn't carefully redacted, may omit important 5G risks, and will impose administrative costs on government and industry.
Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act
The bill strengthens consumer privacy and consent around prescreened mortgage credit reports, at the cost of added compliance and operational burdens for lenders, servicers, and CRAs and a potential reduction in prescreen-based offers reaching some consumers.
TAKE IT DOWN Act
The bill strengthens victims' ability to remove and seek redress for nonconsensual intimate images and criminalizes AI deepfakes, but it also creates compliance costs, legal uncertainty, and risks of over‑removal and privacy harms for victims and legitimate speakers.
Protecting Children Over Profits Act
The bill prioritizes faster access to provider-held records and lower federal costs to accelerate child-exploitation investigations, but does so by weakening procedural protections and removing compensation for providers—raising privacy risks, potential overbroad use, and financial/operational strains on small tech providers that could, paradoxically, harm investigations over the long run.
PARSA
The bill prioritizes protecting retirement assets and participant data from exposure to foreign-adversary or sanctioned entities and increases transparency and oversight — at the cost of higher compliance and reporting burdens, potential divestments that could lower returns, and added liability and operational challenges for plan sponsors and service providers.
TLDR Act
The bill increases transparency and accessibility of privacy terms (helping vulnerable users and enabling automated tools) at the cost of added compliance burdens, competitive pressure on smaller firms, and some regulatory and reputational risks.
Genomic Data Protection Act
The bill gives consumers stronger, timely control and federal privacy protections for genomic data while increasing regulatory enforcement and compliance burdens — improving privacy but creating added costs, limited exceptions to deletion, and potential state-level fragmentation.
