Sponsor
Seth Magaziner
Representative · D-RI
Representative · D-RI
The bill broadens pay, benefits, oversight, consumer protections, and clean‑energy incentives that help military members, veterans, workers, families, and beneficiaries while increasing federal spending and imposing new compliance, administrative, and operational costs on taxpayers, employers, and government agencies.
Active-duty and reserve service members receive a guaranteed 4.0% pay raise beginning Oct 1, 2026, increasing take‑home basic pay and providing predictable compensation.
Federal, GAO, Library of Congress, state, rail, and air employees gain statutory paid annual leave accrual (at least 1 hour per 25 worked), carryover/payout protections, anti‑retaliation remedies, and preserved bargaining/local-law enhancements, improving work–life balance and income stability.
Children and families served by Head Start keep services through FY2028 due to 'such sums as may be necessary' authorization, giving local grantees multi‑year funding certainty for planning and continued operations.
Taxpayers and the federal budget face substantially higher outlays across multiple provisions (military pay raise, veterans benefits, open‑ended Head Start funding, renewable credits, Medicare coverage carve‑outs, and continued Global Fund commitments), increasing deficit or requiring offsets.
The new federal paid‑leave mandate raises labor costs, recordkeeping and reporting burdens, and potential litigation exposure for employers (including small businesses, public entities, and multi‑jurisdictional employers).
Extending and restoring larger renewable tax credits reduces federal revenue and adds IRS compliance complexity, increasing long‑term budget costs and prompting potential disputes or administrative burden.
Based on analysis of 17 sections of legislative text.
Creates DHS intelligence Ombuds office; fixes FY2027 military pay; raises VA disability; bans NE offshore leases; changes clean-energy tax credits; bans House members from owning individual corporate stock.
Official title: To improve the lives of the American people, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 18, 2026 by Seth Magaziner · Last progress June 18, 2026
Creates a new DHS Intelligence Transparency and Oversight Office led by a senior career Ombuds to review DHS intelligence for timeliness, objectivity, and politicization and to provide confidential complaint channels and recommendations. Makes a range of policy changes across pay, benefits, energy, tax credits, workforce rules, and program authorizations — including a fixed 4.0% uniformed services pay raise for FY2027, a 3% increase in wartime VA disability compensation, changes to clean energy tax credits and production credit phaseout timing, a prohibition on new offshore oil and gas leasing off certain New England coasts, and a ban on House Members owning individual corporate common stock. Also establishes definitions and coverage for a new paid "Protected Time Off" leave scheme that reaches many categories of employees including federal and certain legislative staff; makes a CFPB medical-information rule effective as law; extends HIV/AIDS/TB/Malaria program deadlines to 2030 and increases a statutory count; lengthens the service obligation for Cyber Scholarship-for-Service recipients from 3 to 5 years; and contains numerous technical, funding, and timing provisions with varying effective dates.