Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
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.
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.
North Dakota Trust Lands Completion Act of 2026
The bill streamlines and clarifies State–Federal land exchanges and strengthens tribal trust and conservation protections in North Dakota—providing title clarity and continuity for leases and grazing—while accelerating conveyances and reducing some procedural protections, which raises environmental, administrative, and fiscal risks for communities, agencies, and certain landholders.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new investments and program expansions to support farmers, specialty crops, rural infrastructure, conservation, and nutrition, accelerating technology adoption and resilience but doing so with large new budget commitments, added administrative complexity, potential inequities favoring larger or better‑resourced actors, and some rollbacks of environmental and regulatory safeguards.
Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill secures multi-year funding and stronger community‑centered rural health services through 2030, but does so at a cost to taxpayers and with added administrative requirements for recipients.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill speeds larger advance federal payments to farmers and private forest owners to accelerate recovery from wildfires and emergency threats, but increases upfront federal costs, administrative complexity, and repayment risk for recipients.
Made in America Jobs Act of 2026
The bill channels federal grants to encourage reshoring and expand manufacturing capacity and training — potentially creating local jobs and skills — but increases federal spending and risks favoring certain firms or producing low-quality jobs if strong conditions are not attached.
Expanding Appalachia’s Broadband Access Act
The bill commissions an evidence-gathering study on satellite broadband that could improve connectivity and economic opportunity in rural ARC areas, but it introduces administrative costs and the risk of delaying on-the-ground broadband deployment while waiting for results.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill expands and accelerates emergency restoration aid for wildfire-affected private landowners (including federally- or human-caused fires), improving recovery speed but increasing federal costs, oversight risk, and administrative complexity.
Post-Disaster Reforestation and Restoration Act
The bill focuses federal resources and new grant/contract pathways to accelerate tribal and federal reforestation and improve project success, but it creates short-term program uncertainty, administrative costs, and risks unequal access for smaller tribes without additional capacity support.
Save Our Sequoias Act
The bill directs extensive new coordination, funding, and expedited authorities to protect and restore giant sequoias—trading faster, better‑funded action and greater Tribal participation for higher federal costs, reduced routine public/environmental review, and increased role for donors and private
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the Pleasant Valley Ranger District Administrative Site to Gila County, Arizona.
The bill transfers federal land to Gila County at minimal federal cost to support veterans' services and local control, but shifts compliance costs, liability, and restrictive use conditions to the county, potentially straining local finances and exposing it to cleanup and reversion risks.
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Access Act
The bill clarifies and secures Monument boundaries and encourages voluntary, cooperative land conservation and visitor services—boosting tourism and preserving traditional uses—while creating uncertainty and possible economic, tax, environmental, and management costs for local landowners, governments, Tribes, and taxpayers.
Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025
The bill expands acceptable milk and fortified nondairy options and strengthens allergy-safety training in schools—improving access and safety for many students—while creating modest new costs, administrative requirements, and a possible increase in saturated-fat availability.
Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act
The bill improves the feasibility of completing the Arkansas Valley Conduit and lowers local annual payment burdens through federal support and flexible repayment, but it shifts substantial upfront and long-term costs and risks onto local governments and utilities while reducing near-term federal receipts.
Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill speeds and clarifies delivery and administration of Secure Rural Schools funding and extends program authorities through FY2025—benefiting state and local planning and reducing legal ambiguity—while lowering net payments for some jurisdictions (due to offsets), adding administrative and budgetary trade-offs, and creating implementation uncertainties for advisory committees and federal administrators.
Amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations, and for other purposes.
The bill creates a targeted federal grant program to help tribal and Native Hawaiian communities develop tourism, infrastructure, and cultural programs, but the modest $35M authorization and likely administrative/coordination burdens may limit how many communities truly benefit.
Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2025
The bill creates a Utah-focused forest health and wildfire prevention Institute and enables university partnerships, but it leaves funding and implementation details unspecified and may increase federal administrative burdens.
STEWARD Act of 2025
The bill directs modest, targeted federal grants and standardized data tools to expand recycling infrastructure and market visibility—particularly for underserved communities—but progress may be limited by modest overall funding, setup delays, reporting burdens, exclusions (like outreach), and remaining local cost pressures that could shift burdens to taxpayers and local governments.
Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act
The bill aims to guide reshoring and reduce regulatory barriers by producing a public, targeted Commerce study that could create actionable opportunities for manufacturers and rural communities, but it consumes federal resources and risks producing incomplete findings or encouraging protectionist or regionally uneven outcomes.
United States Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill modernizes and clarifies grain-standards administration—potentially improving grading accuracy, trade efficiency, and financial transparency—but leaves legal and implementation gaps and shifts potential costs and administrative burdens onto producers, agencies, and small businesses unless further funding and clearer drafting are provided.
Designating the week beginning on October 12, 2025, as "National Wildlife Refuge Week".
The resolution expands conservation, recreation, education, and hazard-reduction benefits from the National Wildlife Refuge System for millions of Americans while committing federal resources and management priorities that may restrict some land uses, raise taxpayer costs, and require additional management and consultation to handle visitor impacts and co-stewardship.
Great Lakes Mass Marking Program Act of 2025
The bill improves fishery management and local fishing economies by funding and standardizing hatchery mass‑marking and data-sharing, but it increases federal/state costs, concentrates authority, creates operational and data‑governance burdens for Tribal and state partners, and carries ecological risks to wild fish if not carefully managed.
To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
This package delivers sizable tax relief, defense/industrial and targeted domestic investments while tightening immigration and benefit rules and expanding fossil fuel development — producing near‑term financial and program gains for many Americans at the cost of higher federal spending, greater compliance burdens, and increased risks to climate, coverage, and immigrant access.
Expanding Access to Capital for Rural Job Creators Act
The bill inserts unspecified regulatory text that creates legal and operational uncertainty and may raise compliance costs for financial firms until the content is clarified.
Supporting the designation of May 29, 2025, as "Mental Health Awareness in Agriculture Day" to raise awareness around mental health in the agricultural industry and workforce and to continue to reduce stigma associated with mental illness.
The resolution raises awareness and gives policymakers justification to address rural and agricultural mental-health needs, but it does not provide funding or services and may heighten concern without delivering concrete help.
American Music Tourism Act of 2025
The bill aims to boost local economies and make U.S. music attractions easier to find for travelers, but it could increase taxpayer costs, concentrate benefits in established hubs, raise local prices, and strain sensitive local environments.
Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act
The bill directs a public study that could identify reshoring opportunities to boost supply resilience and domestic jobs, but those gains may come with higher consumer prices, potential taxpayer costs, infrastructure strain for rural areas, and limits to the study's accuracy if firms withhold data.
Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
The bill funds and sustains a wide range of defense, veterans, health, infrastructure, and research programs to avoid shutdowns and preserve near‑term services, but does so by increasing federal spending, extending temporary authorities, and reducing some oversight and multi‑year certainty—shifting fiscal and accountability risks into the near future.
Rural Small Business Resilience Act
The bill increases outreach and speeds SBA action to help rural disaster-declared residents and small businesses access recovery assistance, but it may raise agency costs and divert SBA capacity from other programs if additional funding is not provided.
