Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
To reauthorize the Fort Peck Reservation Rural Water System Act of 2000.
The bill clarifies and potentially strengthens legal and administrative tools for water service on the Fort Peck Reservation, improving local control and coordination, but leaves funding uncertain and could add compliance costs for tribal governments.
Wabeno Economic Development Act
The bill enables a specific small business to buy federal land quickly and increases permitting transparency for construction materials (potentially easing supply constraints), at the cost of reducing public land and environmental protections, creating legal/title risks, and raising concerns about fairness and tradeoffs between speed and safeguards.
Benton MacKaye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study Act of 2026
The bill seeks to establish and study a 287-mile scenic nonmotorized trail that could boost recreation and local economies, but it introduces potential costs, land-use constraints for nearby owners, and environmental/infrastructure pressures unless sufficient funding and management protections are provided.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new support and multi‑year funding to farmers, rural infrastructure, conservation, nutrition, and research—improving access to credit, broadband, and technical assistance—while creating sizable new federal spending, added administrative complexity, and tradeoffs that could favor larger operators and reduce some environmental and state regulatory safeguards.
Rural Broadband Protection Act of 2025
The bill increases accountability and the likelihood that universal service funds build working broadband by restricting awards to proven providers and adding penalties, but it raises barriers and financial risks that can exclude smaller providers, increase costs, and slow deployment.
Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill sustains and directs federal grant support to expand and better-coordinate rural health services and increase community input, while creating modest new administrative burdens and preserving ongoing federal spending that may limit funding flexibility.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill speeds and standardizes larger up-front disaster-related advance payments so producers and private forest owners can recover faster, while increasing federal fiscal exposure, administrative overhead, and risks of repayment or valuation disputes 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.
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.
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the Pleasant Valley Ranger District Administrative Site to Gila County, Arizona.
The bill transfers ~232.9 acres of National Forest land to Gila County at no purchase cost to enable local veteran services and planning control, while shifting financial risks and removing public forest land from federal management—trading expanded veteran-focused facilities for reduced public access and increased local fiscal and legal liability.
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.
Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill preserves and clarifies SRS funding and program language—providing timely, continued payments and legal certainty for rural counties—while reducing some new payments by prior disbursements, narrowing certain advisory authorities, and increasing short‑term federal outlays and minor administrative burdens.
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey a parcel of property of the Forest Service to Perry County, Arkansas, and for other purposes.
The bill transfers a small parcel to the county at no purchase price to enable local public uses, but shifts cleanup, conveyance costs, and reversion risk onto the county—trading federal cost savings for local financial, legal, and planning burdens.
Office of Rural Affairs Enhancement Act
The bill expands and professionalizes SBA rural outreach and transparency—likely improving access and accountability for rural small businesses—while increasing administrative burdens, potential taxpayer costs, and the risk that outreach becomes more promotional than neutral.
Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act
The bill provides a public study intended to identify opportunities and regulatory barriers to U.S. production—helping governments and businesses plan for reshoring and local manufacturing growth—while risking added costs to consumers and taxpayers and likely producing only gradual, not immediate, changes.
Precision Agriculture Satellite Connectivity Act
The bill directs the FCC to pursue regulatory steps that could speed satellite-enabled precision agriculture and inform policymakers, but it provides no funding and risks favoring certain technologies while adding FCC workload.
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.
Agricultural Risk Review Act of 2025
The bill strengthens national-security oversight of agricultural land and ag-related transactions by adding USDA expertise and intelligence-triggered reviews for specified adversary nationals, trading greater protection for U.S. food supply and ag IP against increased transaction scrutiny, potential delays, reduced foreign investment, and added administrative burden.
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 of elevated mental-health and suicide risks among farmers and rural communities—potentially reducing stigma and spurring outreach—while not providing funding or direct services, which may raise expectations or cause concern without immediate 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.
Community Reclamation Partnerships Act of 2025
The bill creates clearer pathways, tools, and community roles for remediating mine drainage—likely improving water quality—while shifting financial and administrative burdens to states and taxpayers and introducing legal and sunset-related uncertainties for project partners.
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.
American Music Tourism Act of 2025
The bill uses federal promotion to boost music tourism and related economic and cultural benefits for businesses and communities while risking local crowding and safety challenges and requiring federal spending that could displace other priorities.
Rural Broadband Protection Act of 2025
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.
Nutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act of 2025
The bill could clarify authority and stabilize funding for state-led nutria eradication, improving control efforts, but unclear replacement language creates risk that grant access or appropriations could be narrowed, undermining those programs and harming rural ecosystems and economies.
Designating October 16, 2025, and October 16, 2026, as "World Food Day".
The resolution spotlights global hunger and promotes research, conservation, and public engagement that could increase aid and agricultural resilience, but it may raise expectations and push spending or market-based approaches without authorizing new funding or systemic reforms.
Designating November 20, 2025, as "National Rural Health Day".
The resolution raises the profile of rural health and creates a focal day for outreach, but it is symbolic and does not provide funding or policy changes to address the underlying problems.
