Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to balancing the budget.

HR137 — TCJA Permanency Act

Rewrite of individual income tax rates would remake brackets, reshape family tax benefits, and change rules for pass‑through businesses and the alternative minimum tax. The bill would permanently set new tax tables with inflation adjustments, overhaul the child tax credit and standard deduction framework, and make numerous conforming changes across the tax code.

HR4669 — FEMA Act of 2025

FEMA becomes an independent, cabinet-level agency with a clarified all-hazards mission and consolidated federal leadership for preparedness, response, recovery, mitigation, and interoperable communications. The bill also rewrites large parts of the Stafford Act to speed repairs, expand assistance, strengthen mitigation, and publish new public dashboards for disaster spending and individual aid metrics. - Families and disaster survivors: Expands housing help with a FEMA Emergency Home Repair program, authorizes direct repair assistance, and extends some temporary assistance periods from 18 to 24 months. Noncongregate sheltering can be provided without a fixed address and states cannot require a credit card for hoteling. - State, Tribal, and local governments and utilities: Creates expedited Section 409 grants for repairing public and qualifying nonprofit facilities with a Federal share floor of 75% and incentives up to 85% for resilience. Offers small-disaster block grants equal to 80% of the estimated Federal public assistance share and sets a Tribal hazard-mitigation minimum of $75.0 million per year. - Private nonprofits and houses of worship: Treats private nonprofits and houses of worship as eligible for assistance without regard to religious character and expands nonprofit closeout and eligibility parity with governments.

HR740 — Veterans’ ACCESS Act of 2025

Faster, clearer access to VA community care and mental health treatment. This bill would set measurable drive‑time and wait‑time standards for community care, tighten timelines and appeals for denials, and standardize rapid screening and admission for residential mental health programs. - Veterans and households: Veterans would get written notice of eligibility within two business days and VA would have to schedule primary, mental health, and most extended care within a 30‑minute average drive and 20 days of request. Specialty care would be scheduled within a 60‑minute drive and 28 days. - Mental health patients and families: The bill would require a standardized clinical screen within 48 hours of an admission request and admission of priority cases within 48 hours of determination. Placement must weigh veteran preferences and proximity to social supports and VA must offer accredited non‑VA options and transportation help if it cannot meet standards. - Providers and VA modernization: Provider claim deadlines would extend from 180 days to 1 year. The bill would reform the Center for Innovation with a required budget line item, create a three‑year pilot in at least five sites to allow outpatient mental health and substance use care without referrals, and require an interactive online self‑service appointment and appeals tool with a plan due in 180 days.

HR3946 — FIGHT Act of 2025

The FIGHT Act of 2025 would amend the Animal Welfare Act to ban gambling on animal fighting and broaden enforcement tools against those who sponsor, exhibit, transport, or profit from animal fights. It also sets a legal definition of "rooster" and blocks minors from attending these events. - Families and children: Stops anyone from causing a person under 16 to attend an animal fighting venture and makes attendance by minors unlawful. - Rooster owners and shippers: Defines a rooster as any male Gallus domesticus older than 6 months and bars transport of roosters through the mail or other interstate instruments. - Law enforcement and private enforcers: Prohibits sponsorship, exhibition, and gambling (including broadcasts) on animal fighting ventures and creates a civil citizen-suit path with fines up to $5,000 per violation and a required 60-day notice. Courts can order seizures of property used to facilitate violations and may award costs and fees when appropriate.

HR260 — No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act

Counters foreign assistance to the Taliban by forcing the State Department to identify foreign actors who fund the group, suspend U.S. aid tied to those actors, and develop a strategy to discourage future support. The bill pairs strict reporting deadlines with measures to limit cash flows that could benefit the Taliban. - Would require a State Department strategy within 180 days that includes support for Afghan women and girls and plans to relocate eligible at-risk Afghans and allies to the United States or third countries. - Any country or nongovernmental organization the Secretary identifies as supporting the Taliban would face immediate suspension of all U.S. foreign assistance. - Imposes detailed oversight and reporting: a 180-day report naming foreign actors and how aid was used; a 90-day review of U.S.-funded direct cash assistance in Afghanistan; recurring 90- and 180-day updates on the Afghan Fund; and semiannual assessments for five years. Would rescind unobligated Afghanistan reconstruction balances and transfer them to the general fund to reduce the federal deficit.

HR2725 — Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025

Rewrites and expands the Low‑Income Housing Tax Credit to boost construction and affordability for very low‑income renters. It would rename the program the Affordable Housing Credit and change how states get credits, who counts as low‑income, and how projects qualify and claim credits. - Families and residents: Would change tenant rules so most full‑time students under age 24 do not count as low‑income occupants, allow tenant‑based voucher payments to be excluded from rent calculations in certain projects, and add protections for survivors of domestic violence and for veterans. - Developers and owners: Would raise state allocations and set the minimum allocation at $4,876,000 in 2025, create a bigger credit when at least 20% of units serve extremely low‑income households, treat relocation costs as eligible rehab expenses, and tighten acquisition‑basis and foreclosure timing rules. - States, tribes, and rural areas: Would require housing agencies to apply community revitalization and cost‑reasonableness criteria, add Indian areas and rural areas to difficult development area rules with specific NAHASDA exceptions, and bar prioritizing local official approval or contributions in allocation plans.

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