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Amends 26 U.S.C. 274(n)(2)(C) by striking 'or' at the end of clause (iv) and adding a new clause (v) that excludes certain meals provided on specified vessels or at specified fish processing facilities from the 50-percent limitation.
Designates the existing text of subsection (cc) as paragraph (1); replaces the date range '2012 through 2025' with '2012 through 2030'; replaces the specific agency list 'the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Education may each' with 'each Federal agency required to carry out an SBIR program may'; and adds new paragraphs (2) (a funding-limit provision) and (3) (a reporting requirement).
Alters the heading (text not specified in the section) and replaces each occurrence of a specified term with the phrase 'covered program'; also extends the statutory reference from 'fiscal year 2025' to 'fiscal year 2030'.
Replaces the phrase 'at the end of fiscal year 2025' with the specific date 'on September 30, 2030'.
Replaces the date 'September 30, 2025' with 'September 30, 2030'.
Amends 18 U.S.C. 912 by replacing subsection (a) and adding subsections (b) and (c) to prohibit knowingly using artificial intelligence to impersonate, falsely assume, or pretend to be an officer or employee of the United States (including mimicking voice or likeness without an explicit disclaimer); prescribes penalties of a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 3 years, or both; and adds definitions for "artificial intelligence" and "impersonates."
Inserts a new section (section 208, "Professional nonprofit theater grants") into Title II of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 by adding the Professional Nonprofit Theater Grant Program after section 207 (42 U.S.C. 3147).
Inserts a new subchapter (Chapter 76) after subchapter V of title 38 to establish a Veterans Affairs–Public Health Service Joint Scholarship Program.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, Education and Workforce, Oversight and Government Reform, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Small Business, Science, Space, and Technology, Homeland Security, Intelligence (Permanent Select), House Administration, Ways and Means, Rules, Ethics, the Budget, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced January 22, 2026 by James P. McGovern · Last progress January 22, 2026
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, Education and Workforce, Oversight and Government Reform, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Small Business, Science, Space, and Technology, Homeland Security, Intelligence (Permanent Select), House Administration, Ways and Means, Rules, Ethics, the Budget, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House