Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Medal of Sacrifice Act
The bill establishes a standardized federal medal and an advisory Commission to honor officers killed in the line of duty, providing formal recognition for grieving families while imposing modest federal administration costs and a strict eligibility rule that could exclude some disputed cases from recognition.
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
The bill channels substantial new federal support and procedural changes to speed housing supply, disaster recovery, and veteran/tenant protections while increasing transparency, but it raises trade-offs in higher federal spending, larger administrative burdens, privacy and environmental risks, and potential impacts on rental supply and local counseling capacity.
Fiscal Year 2025 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act
The bill directs a large federal investment to expand and modernize VA medical facilities in St. Louis—delivering greater local capacity, improved operations, and construction jobs—but it requires a sizeable upfront taxpayer cost and carries risks of overruns and reduced funding flexibility for other VA priorities.
Lulu’s Law
The bill improves public safety by sending timely shark-threat alerts to beachgoers, but risks alert fatigue and adds decision-making burdens for local emergency managers and regulators.
Redesignate the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming, as the "Barbara L. Cubin National Historic Trails Interpretive Center".
The bill renames a federal facility in Casper, trading small, one-time administrative costs for modest local benefits like increased recognition and clearer, consistent federal records.
Designate the General George C. Marshall House in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an affiliated area of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
The bill preserves public access, interpretation, and local control of the Marshall House while providing limited federal assistance — but it avoids full federal ownership or funding, which shifts long‑term costs and some protections to local managers.
TREY'S Law
The bill strengthens survivors’ ability to speak, report, and seek remedies for child sexual abuse—improving transparency and accountability—but does so at the cost of reducing confidentiality options, triggering litigation, and raising federalism and retroactivity disputes that affect victims, institutions, and state authorities.
Community Bank Deposit Access Act of 2025
The bill expands liquidity and regulatory clarity for small banks by allowing more custodial deposits and setting rate rules, while trading off increased potential concentration of large deposits and competitive distortions that could raise systemic risk and stress certain institutions.
American Access to Banking Act
The bill aims to lower barriers and improve success for new banks and credit unions—particularly in underserved areas—by streamlining applications, clarifying rules, and promoting mentorship and coordination, but it does so at the cost of added federal administrative expense, potential supervisory strain, and risks of uneven treatment or weakened investor protections.
Keeping Deposits Local Act
The bill provides clearer rules and preserves liquidity and predictable treatment for many banks (and potential benefits for public entities) but increases risks of concentration and systemic exposure while imposing study and potential compliance costs that may disadvantage smaller banks and leave gaps about end‑user effects.
Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act
The bill strengthens parental notification and control over K–8 students' name/pronoun and sex‑separated accommodation changes—providing clearer rules for schools and involving families—while increasing risks to transgender and nonbinary students' privacy, mental health, access to accommodations, and creating legal and administrative challenges for districts.
25th Anniversary of 9/11 Commemorative Coin Act
The bill commemorates 9/11 with limited-issue coins that provide symbolic recognition and a potential surcharge-funded revenue stream for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum while protecting taxpayers through cost-recovery rules — but the museum and beneficiaries only receive funds if coin sales and surcharge rules permit, creating the risk of delayed, reduced, or no payments and adding administrative and accessibility burdens.
Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act
The bill facilitates regional water infrastructure and utility maintenance while adding conservation acreage, but accelerates approvals and relaxes controls over federal land materials in ways that could harm public lands and reduce federal revenue/oversight.
Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025
The bill secures and clarifies tribal land transfers and public access—strengthening tribal rights, reducing legal uncertainty, and protecting public/subsistence access—while limiting private/corporate land accumulation and development options and imposing administrative, management, and potential legal costs on federal and local authorities.
Investing in All of America Act of 2025
The bill expands private-capital deployment to targeted small businesses by increasing SBIC leverage exclusions and caps and clarifying rules, but it reduces the ability to count public funds as private capital—weakening public leverage—and limits both the scope and immediacy of benefits for some firms.
Amend chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize an increase of the retirement age for members of the Capitol Police.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new support—loans, grants, conservation, infrastructure, and program modernization—toward farmers and rural communities while increasing federal spending, administrative complexity, and some risks to environmental safeguards, equity, and regulatory oversight.
Fostering the Future Act
The bill will improve access to and coordination of housing supports for foster youth—potentially reducing youth homelessness—but relies on existing funding and adds administrative demands, meaning benefits may be limited or require tradeoffs in state and federal budgets.
Taxpayer Due Process Enhancement Act
The bill strengthens taxpayer procedural protections and access to Tax Court and clarifies tolling rules, but those protections increase litigation and administrative burdens and create new risks (especially if disputes are not perfectly preserved) that can delay collections and raise costs for both taxpayers and the IRS.
Star-Spangled Summit Act of 2026
The bill secures a long-term, low-cost, and fast permit for local flaggers to preserve a community practice, but does so by waiving environmental review and agency discretion and shifting costs to taxpayers while limiting access to newcomers.
Fisher House Availability Act of 2026
The bill expands temporary lodging access to benefit veterans and their support networks and standardizes eligibility, but it risks straining limited lodging capacity, increasing operational costs, and creating uneven access unless additional resources and consistent implementation are ensured.
Veterans Community Care Scheduling Improvement Act
The bill aims to speed and make VA appointment scheduling more transparent and to prevent short-term pension interruptions for veterans, but it requires new IT systems and reporting that raise taxpayer costs, operational and privacy risks, and added administrative strain on VA staff.
Veterans’ Transition to Trucking Act of 2025
The bill centralizes approval of multi-State truck driver apprenticeship programs within the VA to expand and speed GI Bill access and veteran employment in trucking, trading increased federal access and workforce benefits for reduced state control and potential administrative and compliance frictions.
North Dakota Trust Lands Completion Act of 2026
The bill clarifies and simplifies ownership and exchange of certain North Dakota lands—strengthening tribal protections, preserving leases and some environmental safeguards—while trading off fuller environmental review, public procedural protections, and creating administrative, economic, and compliance burdens for states, permittees, and nearby communities.
To designate the General George C. Marshall House, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an affiliated area of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
The bill secures public access and NPS planning support for the Marshall House as an affiliated site, but stops short of federal ownership or regulatory authority—improving preservation capacity while leaving funding and protection of the surrounding setting largely to local stakeholders.
Monitor Accountability Act
Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act of 2025
The bill clarifies and expands federal coverage of bail-posting as prohibited assistance—improving prosecution consistency and immigration enforcement—but increases criminal exposure for those who post bail, risks limiting immigrants' access to pre-removal release, and raises enforcement and financial burdens.
Cashless Bail Reporting Act
The bill increases federal transparency about jurisdictions that allow release on recognizance—potentially enabling oversight, policy change, and targeted advocacy—but risks politicized federal discretion, reputational pressure on localities, greater pretrial detention for vulnerable defendants, and added DOJ administrative costs.
Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025
This bill aims to create a comprehensive federal framework that promotes clearer classifications, custody protections, and pathways for legitimate digital‑asset activity to expand market participation and safety, but it does so by imposing substantial compliance costs, carving out jurisdictional limits that risk oversight gaps, and creating tradeoffs that could reduce some investor protections and push activities offshore.
Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025
The bill makes it easier for industry and small refineries to introduce and certify more fuel options and restores certain retired RFS credits, trading off increased consumer fuel choices and reduced regulatory friction against greater local air pollution risks, potential cost shifts in the renewable fuels market, and reduced procedural transparency.
