Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono
The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness
Continued Rapid Ohia Death Response Act of 2025
The bill strengthens Hawaii-focused coordination, research, and assistance to combat Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death, but its narrow scope and lack of dedicated funding or detailed implementation requirements risk uneven effectiveness, shifted costs to states, and limits on long-term flexibility.
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 86-014 Farrington Highway in Wai'anae, Hawai'i, as the "U.S Representative Colleen Hanabusa Post Office Building".
Farmland for Farmers Act of 2026
The bill strengthens protections to keep farmland locally owned—clarifying eligibility, increasing transparency, enabling state and federal enforcement, and exempting public research uses—while restricting institutional and out-of-state investment and imposing new compliance burdens and strong penalties that raise legal and financial risks for some owners.
Tariff Free Farming Act
The bill freezes tariffs on key farm inputs to provide price certainty for farmers, rural communities, and agribusinesses, but it limits the executive branch's tariff tools—reducing trade leverage and potentially shifting costs onto taxpayers or domestic producers.
Rare Earth Magnet Market Revitalization Act
The bill strengthens U.S. national-security and supply-chain resilience for rare-earth magnets and promotes domestic recycling and allied production, but does so at the likely cost of higher prices, potential short-term supply bottlenecks, regulatory burdens, and some fiscal risk to taxpayers.
To amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to ensure adequate staffing and resources for the Institute of Tropical Forestry and the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry.
The bill secures staff and resources to strengthen regional research and local land-management benefits in Puerto Rico and the Pacific Islands, but raises federal costs and creates staffing mandates that could strain appropriations and reduce managerial flexibility.
To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to allow certain States to directly purchase commodities, and for other purposes.
The bill gives States flexibility to buy food locally and tailor assistance faster and more responsively, but it risks uneven access, higher costs, and variable program quality if States mismanage cash allocations or face expensive commercial markets.
Atomic Civilians Recognition and Compensation Act
The bill provides formal recognition and a path to compensation for civilian workers and contractors exposed during nuclear activities, but procedural documentation requirements, funding uncertainty, and offsets for prior payments may delay, reduce, or block actual financial relief while imposing modest taxpayer costs.
Restoring Trust in Public Safety Act
The bill directs federal funding and accountability to help law enforcement and communities permanently destroy firearms—improving safety and equity—while creating modest recurring federal costs and additional administrative and compliance burdens for smaller jurisdictions and grantees.
CARE for First Responders Act
The bill expands access to crisis counseling, 24/7 mental‑health support, peer programs, family education, and mobile crisis units for emergency responders (including 911 telecommunicators), improving responder wellbeing and local capacity, but it requires added federal spending, creates administrative and staffing demands, and may produce coverage gaps due to funding caps and eligibility/definition ambiguities.