Sponsored By: Senator Rep. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ-3]
Introduced
This bill would treat tips automatically added to a customer's bill and tips suggested by a business as paid voluntarily for the qualified-tips tax deduction under section 224(d)(2)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code. It clarifies that automatic service charges and business‑prompted suggested tips count as voluntary payments when applying that specific deduction. The change focuses on tax treatment and would affect businesses that add or prompt tips, customers who pay them, and taxpayers claiming the qualified-tips deduction.
Personalized for You
Sign up for a PRIA Policy Scan to see your personalized alignment score for this bill and every other piece of legislation we track. We analyze your financial profile against policy provisions to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.
1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
This bill would treat tips automatically added at payment and business-prompted suggested tips as paid voluntarily. If enacted, tipped workers and businesses would face different tax-reporting treatment under section 224(d)(2)(A). The text gives no effective date, dollar amounts, or implementation details.
Free Policy Watch
Pick a topic. PRIA runs your household against live legislation and sends you a free personalized readout.
Pick a topic to get started
Rep. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ-3]
AZ • D
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
No roll call votes available for this bill.
View on Congress.govSurfaced from PRIA's policy knowledge graph — ranked by signal strength, connected by evidence.
Appropriations package that would fund Treasury and IRS while imposing rulemaking limits and detailed DC policy constraints, affecting taxpayers, community lenders, and DC residents.
The federal government runs two closely related conservation-workforce pipelines on public lands: the Youth Conservation Corps YCC and the Public Lands Corps PLC. YCC is a summer employment program fo
The Uruguay Round Agreements Act URAA of 1994 19 U.S.C. §§ 3501–3624 implemented U.S. membership in the World Trade Organization WTO and incorporated the Uruguay Round trade agreements — the broadest
The World Trade Center Health Program is a federally funded health benefits program that provides free medical monitoring and treatment to those who were exposed to the toxic dust, debris, and fumes f
Workers' compensation is the United States' primary workplace injury system — a no-fault insurance program where employees who are injured on the job receive medical coverage and partial wage replacem
Take It Personal
Take the PRIA Score to see how policy affects your household, then upgrade to PRIA Full Coverage for year-round monitoring.
Already have an account? Sign in
S2838 — Protecting Our Democracy Act
This bill would tighten presidential accountability by creating new oversight of pardons and emoluments and by strengthening ethics, disclosure, and enforcement across the Executive Branch. - Presidents, pardon recipients, and former Presidents would face new limits and disclosures. The Attorney General would have to send prosecution materials to congressional committee leaders within 30 days after a pardon for defined "covered offenses", the bill bans a President's self‑pardon, and pardon recipients must disclose gifts from the prior 365 days and file annual gift reports for five years. - Executive branch officials and appointees would face upgraded ethics rules and enforcement. Agencies would require enforceable ethics pledges, the Office of Government Ethics could impose fines and order disgorgement or divestiture, the Executive Office of the President would get an Inspector General appointed within 120 days, and whistleblowers would gain broader protections including new private remedies in the intelligence community. - Elections, Congress, and the public would get stronger transparency and oversight tools. The bill would expand congressional subpoena and budget enforcement, limit emergency powers, require political committees to report certain foreign contacts and platforms to keep ad records, and it would require Presidents and major party candidates to disclose 10 years of tax returns while capping inaugural donations at $50,000.
S2823 — FAMILY Act
Creates a national paid family and medical leave insurance program that would pay monthly benefits to people who take caregiving or medical leave. The program centers administration at the Social Security Administration and sets eligibility, benefit formulas, state grant rules, and data-sharing to prevent fraud. - Families: People taking leave for caregiving or a serious health condition would get monthly wage-replacement benefits based on a tiered formula that starts at 85% for low wages and steps down for higher earnings. Initial benefit thresholds in 2026 include $1,257 and $3,500 and the law sets a minimum and maximum monthly benefit. - Workers and applicants: Eligibility would depend on wages or self-employment income over the most recent eight quarters with an initial earnings test of $2,000 in 2026. Benefit periods are measured over a year, applications can request retroactive coverage up to 365 days, and the bill requires certifications and appeals processes. - States, employers, and administration: The bill preserves and coordinates with state leave laws by creating a "legacy State" category and an annual grant program starting in 2027 for qualifying States, with up to 7% allowed for administrative costs. It would create an Office of Paid Family and Medical Leave inside SSA to run the program, share data with federal and state partners, and require periodic GAO reviews.
S2763 — Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act
Insulate the Social Security Administration from political interference and fund its operations. This bill would limit political appointee access to beneficiary systems, require career-led internal offices, and create new funding for customer service and grants. - Keeps SSA field office presence and staffing at January 1, 2025 levels and limits closures. It requires maintained live-operator access, improved phone metrics within 12 months, expanded online applications, and codifies overpayment recovery of up to 10 percent of a benefit or $10 per month. - Creates grant programs for disability advocacy and local assistance. It authorizes $25.0 million for State protection and advocacy grants for FY2026–2030 and $15.0 million per year for FY2026–2030 to fund at least 10 community grants annually, with minimum awards of $500,000 and required beneficiary representation on governance boards. - Restructures SSA governance and funding rules. It removes SSA from Department of Government Efficiency oversight, restricts political access to beneficiary data with civil and criminal penalties, reestablishes three Deputy Commissioner-led internal offices, sets an annual appropriation formula equal to 1.2 percent of specified benefit payments beginning FY2026, requires Medicare administration funding from HI and SMI trust funds, and creates a $2.0 billion Customer Experience Fund for FY2026–FY2035 while excluding SSA administrative costs from certain budget enforcement calculations. The bill would authorize significant new administrative spending and dedicated funding mechanisms and would change how SSA administration is counted in federal budget enforcement.
S3869 — Healthy Families Act
National earned paid sick time. This bill would create a federal framework requiring covered employers to provide paid sick leave that accrues at 1 hour per 30 hours worked and can be used for personal illness, caregiving, preventive care, or needs related to domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. - Families: Parents and caregivers can use paid sick time to care for children or other covered family members, attend medical appointments, or address safety and legal needs related to domestic violence or stalking. - Workers: Employees earn 1 hour per 30 hours worked, can use leave after 60 days of employment, and may use up to 56 hours per year unless an employer offers a higher cap. - Employers and federal staff: Employers that employed one or more employees for 20 or more workweeks must comply and must post notices, keep records, and follow certification and confidentiality rules. The Secretary of Labor can investigate violations and pursue civil remedies, and the bill explicitly covers entities like the Government Accountability Office and the Library of Congress.
S51 — Washington, D.C. Admission Act
This bill would admit the District of Columbia as the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, giving its residents full congressional representation. It would also carve out a separate federal 'Capital' around core federal buildings and set a staged transition for courts, services, and federal property. - Residents: District residents would gain two Senators and one Representative immediately upon admission and the current non‑voting Delegate office would be repealed. - Territory and federal limits: A defined Capital area including the Capitol, White House, Supreme Court, and adjacent federal lands would remain under U.S. title or jurisdiction and generally would not be subject to state taxation except where Congress permits. - Courts, justice, and transition supports: The bill would keep federal prosecution support, U.S. Marshals services, pretrial and public defender arrangements, and Bureau of Prisons housing rules during transition; it would provide a temporary Federal Medical Assistance Percentage uplift for five years and establish an 18‑member Statehood Transition Commission to oversee the change.
S4220 — Veterans Health Administration Novel Therapeutics Preparedness Act
Creates an Office of Novel Therapeutics within the Veterans Health Administration to coordinate evaluation and safe rollout of emerging mental health treatments. The bill would set national clinical models, training standards, and designate centers of excellence to prepare VA sites for intensive therapies such as psychedelic-assisted care. - Veterans and families: Would build eligibility guidance and clinical pathways to expand appropriate access for conditions like PTSD, treatment-resistant depression, substance use disorder, suicidality, and other clinically appropriate conditions. - Clinicians and VA sites: Would require a workforce-readiness assessment, national training and credentialing standards, protected clinical time for preparation and integration, and designation of centers of excellence with at least one center in each Veterans Integrated Service Network to build infrastructure and staff capacity. - Research, oversight, and coordination: Would create a Clinical Implementation Program to generate real-world evidence and refine care models, establish a Veteran Advisory Committee, and require coordination with HHS, the FDA, CMS, the Department of Defense, and the DEA for regulatory, reimbursement, and safety planning.
