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To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish qualifications for the appointment of a person as a marriage and family therapist, qualified to provide clinical supervision, in the Veterans Health Administration.
The bill expands veterans' access to supervised MFT services and eases VA hiring by allowing nationally AAMFT-approved supervisors without state authorization, at the cost of potential variation from state supervision standards and modest added administrative complexity and expense for the VA.
Veterans Law Judge Experience Act of 2025
The bill prioritizes VA-specific legal experience on the Board to improve decision quality and speed for veterans, but does so at the risk of narrowing the candidate pool, reducing perspective diversity, and creating appointment delays or perceptions of insider hiring.
Mortgage Insurance Tax Deduction Act of 2025
The bill lets many homeowners deduct mortgage insurance premiums and lower their taxes starting in 2025, but it reduces federal revenue and adds tax-code complexity and administrative burden.
Mortgage Debt Tax Forgiveness Act of 2025
The bill lets homeowners exclude forgiven principal-residence debt discharged after 2025—easing tax burdens and simplifying administration—but at the cost of lower federal revenue, unequal treatment for earlier discharges, and potential indirect effects on lender behavior.
Marine Mammal Climate Change Protection Act of 2026
The bill creates targeted, funded mandates to identify and protect marine mammals from climate impacts—improving conservation and coordination—while increasing federal spending and imposing potential regulatory, permitting, and economic costs on fishing, development, and agencies under tight deadlines.
Producing Real Opportunities for Technology and Entrepreneurs Investing in Nutrition Act
The bill invests heavily to jumpstart domestic alternative‑protein R&D, jobs, and supply‑chain resilience—especially benefiting researchers, rural producers, and biomanufacturing firms—while raising tradeoffs in taxpayer cost, possible advantages to larger firms over small producers, and food‑safety/regulatory and implementation risks.
Zero Food Waste Act
This bill provides substantial, predictable federal funding and targeted grants to expand food‑waste reduction infrastructure and advance equity and market development, but does so at significant long‑term taxpayer cost while placing eligibility limits and reporting burdens that could disadvantage small nonprofits and some local governments.
WISER Act of 2025
The bill restores VA eligibility and provides one-time compensation to certain women veterans separated under EO 10240 and streamlines the claims process, but it imposes costs on taxpayers and may still leave some veterans without relief due to proof requirements and funding uncertainty.
VA CPE Modernization Act
The bill improves retention and clinical skills of full-time VA clinicians via modest, adjustable CPE reimbursements—boosting veteran care—but raises VA costs and leaves part-time/non-listed staff without equivalent support.
This act may be cited as the “Gold Star Siblings Educational Benefits Act
The bill expands education benefit eligibility to include many siblings and clarifies definitions—making more veteran family members eligible for assistance—while increasing program costs and administrative demands that could slow payments or reduce available entitlement for others.