Sponsored By: Senator Jeanne Shaheen
Introduced
Local consent and public notice before new ICE processing sites. This bill would require public comment, state and local agreement, and congressional notification before the Department of Homeland Security or any federal agency may build, buy, renovate, or operate a new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing site or detention center.
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If enacted, the bill would define which local leaders must sign before new ICE processing sites can move forward. It would define a "new processing site or detention center" as any facility run by or under contract with ICE, including Detention Reengineering Initiative sites, that begins holding people on or after enactment. The bill would require the agency to publish a Federal Register notice open at least 30 days that describes the project, the agency's due diligence, compliance with detention guidance and environmental rules, an economic impact analysis, and an engineering review of waste exportation, water use, and electrical demand. After the comment period, the agency head would have to respond to significant comments, enter a signed written agreement with the mayor or county executive (or equivalent), a majority of the local council, and the State Governor, send the executed agreement to specified congressional committees, and wait at least 30 days after that submission before proceeding.
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Jeanne Shaheen
NH • D
Maggie Hassan
NH • D
Sponsored 2/23/2026
Mark Kelly
AZ • D
Sponsored 3/3/2026
Rep. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ-3]
AZ • D
Sponsored 3/10/2026
Jon Ossoff
GA • D
Sponsored 3/25/2026
Timothy Kaine
VA • D
Sponsored 4/14/2026
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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S1503 — Equality Act
Treat sexual orientation and gender identity as forms of sex discrimination across federal law. The bill would explicitly add sexual orientation and gender identity to federal sex‑discrimination protections and apply those rules across many statutes and programs.
S2903 — Safe Step Act
Creates a mandatory, transparent exceptions process for medication step therapy so patients and prescribers can quickly request coverage of a non-preferred drug when medically needed. The bill sets timelines, standard forms, and public notice rules to make exception requests faster and clearer. - Patients and prescribers would get a clear path to request exceptions, submit clinical rationale on a standard paper or electronic form, and designate a third-party advocate. Plans must respond within 72 hours for routine requests and within 24 hours for emergencies, and granted exceptions must remain covered for at least one year. - Group health plans and insurers would have to publish the process, forms, required supporting information, and contact details on plan materials and websites. The bill limits information requests to what is strictly necessary and stops pharmacy benefit managers or third-party administrators from withholding data needed for reporting. - Plans would report counts and outcomes of exception requests by circumstance, specialty, and condition starting not later than three years after enactment and each year thereafter by October 1. The Secretary of Labor would compile a Congressional summary of trends, and the Secretary must issue final implementing regulations within six months with the rule applying to plan years that begin at least six months after enactment.
S852 — Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025
Strengthens worker organizing rights and enforcement. The bill would expand who counts as employees and joint employers, speed representation and bargaining, require voter lists and workplace postings, and increase penalties and remedies for unfair labor practices. - Workers and jobseekers: Would broaden employee coverage and set a three-factor test that presumes employee status unless all three criteria are met. It would protect use of employer-provided electronic communications for organizing and clarify that the duration or pattern of strikes does not strip protection. - Employers and bargaining: Would require employers to provide unions detailed voter lists and timely notices. It would force a fast initial bargaining process with mandatory mediation and binding arbitration if negotiations fail. - Enforcement and remedies: Would expand National Labor Relations Board authority, allow private civil suits after a waiting period, make Board orders immediately effective, and raise civil penalties for unfair labor practices to up to $50,000 per violation and up to $100,000 for repeat or aggravated offenses.
S2150 — Women’s Health Protection Act of 2025
Guarantee nationwide protections for a person's right to obtain abortion services and a provider's right to deliver them. The Women's Health Protection Act of 2025 would create a federal rule that stops laws and rules that single out abortion or place heavier burdens on abortion than on similar medical procedures. It defines key terms, protects pre-viability care, allows post-viability care to protect life or health, and explicitly protects interstate travel and the movement of medicines, equipment, patients, and providers. - Families and patients: Would protect access to abortion before viability and allow post-viability care when needed to protect life or health. It would bar medically unnecessary in-person visit rules and stop forced disclosure of why a patient seeks care. - Health care providers: Would protect providers' ability to give abortion care including by telemedicine and across state lines, and would forbid facility, staffing, testing, or disclosure requirements that are not required for similar procedures. - States and interstate commerce: Would preempt conflicting state laws and recognize a right to travel and to assist others in getting reproductive health services across state lines. - Courts and enforcement: Would let the Attorney General sue and would create a private right of action so patients and providers can seek injunctive relief and attorney's fees. It would limit state sovereign immunity where federal law allows challenges.
S1748 — Kids Online Safety Act
Protecting minors online is the core aim of the Kids Online Safety Act, which would make platforms that serve young users adopt a legal duty of care, add parental controls and safeguards, and force more transparency about recommendation algorithms. The bill targets design features that boost minor engagement and limits certain research on children to reduce mental-health and harassment risks. - Families and minors: The bill would define a "child" as under 13 and a "minor" as under 17, require verifiable parental consent for known children, and give parents tools to control privacy, purchases, and autoplay for streaming. - Platforms and products: Covered services would face limits on personalized design features, a ban on market research involving children under 13, and public reporting and independent audits of safeguards, including detailed de-identified data on minor usage for platforms with over 10 million monthly U.S. users. - Regulators, schools, and tech oversight: The Federal Trade Commission would enforce the rules with state attorneys general able to act as well, a Kids Online Safety Council of 11 members would advise and report within 1 and 3 years, and a separate title would force notice and opt-outs for "opaque" algorithms and let users switch to input-transparent systems.
S2523 — John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025
This bill would restore and strengthen federal voting-rights protections by rewriting Section 2, creating a practice-based preclearance process for certain election changes, and boosting transparency and enforcement. - Voters in racial, language-minority, and Tribal communities would gain broader legal standards to challenge discrimination. The bill would add distinct Section 2 tests for vote-dilution, vote-denial, and intentional discrimination and add a retrogression standard that applies to actions taken on or after 2021. - State and local election officials would face new preclearance and public-notice rules. Covered changes like election methods, redistricting shifts, ID rules, polling-place moves, and voter-list removals would need review before implementation and require pre-election notices 30 days before Federal elections with 48-hour updates. - The Department of Justice and private citizens would get stronger tools to enforce rights. The Attorney General would centralize observers, extend bilingual protections to 2037, seek preventive relief, issue pre-action information demands, and pursue expanded court remedies.
