This bill supports the Republic of Georgia’s democracy by addressing improper influences, kleptocracy, and sanctions evasion, particularly focusing on Russian and Chinese activities. It mandates reports and sanctions on corruption, establishes a democracy monitoring task force, and enhances economic and security assistance. Funds are conditional on Georgia showing progress towards fair elections and a balanced pre-election environment, reinforcing the U.S. commitment to Georgia’s democratic and economic development.

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The bill aims to support new financial institutions, focusing on rural areas lacking adequate banking services. Key provisions include a 3-year phase-in for capital standards, flexibility in modifying business plans, phased leverage ratios for rural banks, and a study on the low number of new banks. This bill addresses barriers to entry and promotes banking services in underserved communities.

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This bill establishes an AI program to enhance DOE's missions in national security, science, and energy. This includes creating the FASST program, establishing AI R&D Centers, advancing risk mitigation strategies, and focusing on workforce development. The Act authorizes $2.4 billion annually for five years, emphasizing AI's role in enhancing U.S. scientific and economic competitiveness.

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This bill establishes the Good Samaritan Mine Remediation Fund, promoting the voluntary cleanup of abandoned hardrock mines by non-liable entities. It outlines detailed procedures for obtaining Good Samaritan permits, ensuring financial assurance, and implementing environmental monitoring and safety measures.

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This bill proposes the creation of a Supply Chain Crime Coordination Center to collect and analyze data pertaining to supply chain fraud and theft and identify regions, transportation modes, distribution networks, and retail stores that face significant organized crime. The bill calls for the formation of a Supply Chain Fraud and Theft Task Force. This task force will tackle fraud and theft across the U.S. supply chain, focusing on rail, motor carrier, and intermodal systems. The task force must submit a report to Congress within 180 days of its establishment and annually for five years. These reports will assess the task force's efficiency in identifying and dismantling organized theft groups.

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This bill mandates that individuals convicted of unlawful activities on U.S. higher education campuses after October 7, 2023, must complete a minimum of six months of community service in Gaza.

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The bill requires Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) and their affiliates to disclose detailed fee information to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, focusing on transparency and accountability in drug pricing. Comprehensive annual reports will be published publicly.

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This bill focuses on water resources projects of the Army Corps of Engineers, including modernizing environmental reviews, public-private partnerships, indemnification clauses, levee safety, and the Tribal Partnership Program. Overall, it seeks to improve project efficiency, communication, and adaptability to legal and environmental changes and includes guidelines for implementing these ideas.

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This bill responds to increased case filings and antiquated judicial staffing by authorizing 66 new district judgeships, acknowledging a 30% rise in filings since 1990 and current backlogs with an average of 491 case filings per judgeship per year. It phases in judgeships from 2025 to 2035 and incorporates measures for transparent workload assessment and adequate funding to maintain judiciary efficiency and operational objectiveness.

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The SMART Leasing Act establishes an enhanced use lease pilot program. Authorized by the Administrator of General Services, this program allows federal agencies to lease underutilized nonexcess real property and related personal property at fair market value. The objective is to optimize the use of federal assets while generating revenue that can be reinvested in capital revitalization and deficit reduction.

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This bill eases federal restrictions on interstate firearm transactions. It allows licensed dealers to sell all types of firearms across state lines if either party is "temporarily located" in a state and permits transactions at temporary sites, which is currently not legal. It also redefines residency for military personnel and federal employees for firearm purchasing purposes, including their duty station and commuting home within their state.

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The bill states that sex is solely based on reproductive biology and genetics at birth and makes it a violation for recipients of federal funds running athletic programs to allow biologically males to participate in women’s or girls' sports. It allows males to practice or train with women’s or girls' teams if no female is deprived of a roster spot, participation opportunity, scholarship, or any other benefit. The act calls for a study on biological males competing against females.

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This bill includes enhancing the Child Tax Credit with increased refunds and inflation adjustments, and allowing full expensing for domestic R&D. It proposes tax agreements to prevent double taxation, extends favorable tax treatments for disaster-impacted communities like wildfire compensation exclusions, and increases the state housing credit ceiling for low-income housing tax credits. Each section aims to support families, encourage innovation, and provide relief.

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This bill mandates the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to regulate digital asset transactions. The bill proposes the first crypto-specific regulations under federal law, defines anonymity-enhanced cryptocurrency and digital assets, requires digital asset kiosk owners to verify identities, and imposes registration and reporting on unhosted wallet providers and digital asset miners. Americans must report foreign digital assets over $10,000.

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The Fixing Administrations Unethical Corrupt Influence Act would restrict potential conflicts of interest for former top officials of key federal health agencies. It targets those who have worked within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The bill institutes a prohibition on service and profit by former high-ranking officials from these agencies. They would be forbidden from serving on the board of any firm that develops or researches drugs, biological products, or devices for eight years following their federal employment. They are also banned from profiting from these products if they were involved in the grant approval process for the same during their tenure.

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The bill prohibits the use of federal funds for maintaining offices or programs related to diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and accessibility within federal agencies and under federal contracts. It would ban the employment of Chief Diversity Officers or similar positions and stop the use of funds for DEI-related training courses or any training asserting inherent systemic superiority or inferiority based on race, sex, ethnicity, or religion.

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This joint resolution authorizes the use of United States Armed Forces against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The resolution highlights Iran's persistent nuclear advancements and cites several incidents and reports demonstrating the escalating threat posed by Iran’s nuclear activities to both regional and global security.

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This bill extends the National Alzheimer's Project to 2035, emphasizing healthy aging, cognitive health, underserved populations, and public-private collaborations. It stresses the critical need for adopting healthy behaviors to reduce cognitive decline. Expanding the act’s reach to a broader demographic, including historically underserved populations, is a notable step toward inclusivity.

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This bill establishes national data privacy rights. It minimizes data collection to what companies need, allows opting out of data processing, requires consent for sensitive data transfers, and mandates access, correction, deletion, and export of personal data. It enables opt outs of targeted advertising and empowers suits for privacy violations, banning mandatory arbitration. It bans discrimination based on personal data, allows opting out of algorithmic decisions and mandates algorithm reviews.

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This bill aims to protect individuals from non-consensual digital forgeries, often termed deepfakes. This bill allows victims to bring a civil action against the perpetrators. This includes those who create, possess with intent to disclose, or distribute such digital forgeries without the victim's consent. It ensures privacy protection for plaintiffs, permitting the use of pseudonyms, redacting personal information and keeping the disputed digital forgeries under court custody during litigation.

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The bill aims to reform and continue USDA programs through 2029, covering commodity policy, marketing loans, disaster assistance, conservation, billions of dollars in subsidies to agriculture companies and food security (SNAP) cutbacks. This is an omnibus bill and covers many programs and companies that are funded especially under this cyclical bill.

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This bill mandates the Comptroller General to conduct a comprehensive study focusing on various aspects of synthetic drug trafficking. This includes analyzing the involvement of transnational criminal organizations, the business models they employ, and their financial methods. The study will also look into the use of online markets and social media platforms like Snapchat, Discord, and Facebook for drug marketing and transactions.

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This bill mandates platforms to safeguard children's data, limit addictive features, and ensure privacy and transparency. It requires parental tools, reporting mechanisms, and third-party audits to protect minors from online harm.

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This bill amends U.S. Code Title 41 to prevent mandatory minimum experience or education requirements for contractor personnel unless justified by contracting officers. It promotes alternative credentials like apprenticeships.

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This bill seeks to amend the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982, mandating that the Secretary issue production allocation determinations for units and communitization agreements within 120 days.

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This bill revises the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, repealing section 5101 and updating the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act, which defines and criminalizes bribe demands by foreign officials.

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The bill mandates mandates that U.S. federal agencies only procure American flags made entirely in the USA, with exceptions for availability, resale, small procurements, and presidential waivers to honor trade agreements.

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This bill mandates annual reports by the Office of Management and Budget on federal projects over budget by $1 billion or delayed by five years, aimed at improving transparency and accountability.

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This joint resolution disapproves a Department of Education rule on Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance, rendering the rule void.

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This resolution states that Congress disapproves of the SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121. This bulletin provides interpretive guidance on accounting for obligations to safeguard crypto-assets that an entity holds for its platform users. Essentially, it directs entities on how to reflect these obligations in their balance sheets, stressing the need for disclosure regarding the nature and amount of these assets and associated liabilities.

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