Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2025

HR51 — Washington, D.C. Admission Act

Full statehood for Washington, Douglass Commonwealth would admit the District of Columbia as a new state on equal footing, while defining a smaller federal "Capital" and setting staged transitions for courts, property, and federal programs. - Capital residents would gain full congressional representation: two U.S. Senators and one U.S. Representative. The bill also requires states to allow "absent Capital" residents to vote by absentee ballot in federal elections. - The U.S. House would be permanently increased to 436 members and apportionment would be adjusted beginning with the first decennial census after admission. - The bill defines the federal Capital with a required 180-day survey, preserves federal court, prosecutorial, prison, parole, National Guard, and employee benefit arrangements on a temporary basis, and phases those responsibilities to the State as it certifies the necessary laws and personnel are in place.

HR1589 — American Dream and Promise Act of 2025

New pathways to permanent residence. This bill would create a ten‑year conditional permanent resident status for certain people who entered as children and would add an adjustment pathway for specified Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure holders. - Young long‑term residents and DACA‑eligible people could get a ten‑year conditional status if they meet rules like continuous presence since Jan 1, 2021 and education or credential benchmarks. They could convert to full permanent residence after meeting removal‑of‑condition rules and have limits on removal while applying. - Nationals with qualifying TPS or DED status who meet continuous‑presence rules could apply within a three‑year window and face a capped application fee of $1,140. - The bill creates a competitive grant program to help applicants, allows fee exemptions for youth, low‑income people, foster care alumni, and those with serious disabilities, and adds a $25 supplemental surcharge to fund appointed counsel.

HR1101 — Taxpayer Data Protection Act

This bill would sharply restrict who can access the Department of the Treasury's public money receipt and payment systems and the data they hold. It creates two narrow access pathways and new oversight for unauthorized use. - Treasury officers, employees, and contractors would need to be eligible, have a most recent performance rating at the fully successful level or higher, and have served at least 1 year in the civil service or under contract to get access. - Other individuals would need an appropriate security clearance under the National Security Act, must not be special Government employees, must not violate conflict rules under section 208, must have at least 1 year of continuous civil service, complete required privacy and cybersecurity training, and sign a written ethics agreement. - Anyone who is not an officer or employee but accesses these systems would be treated as an executive branch employee for conflict-of-interest rules, and actions like stopping or changing payments count as personal and substantial participation. - The Treasury Inspector General must investigate each unauthorized access and report to Congress within 30 days with a description of the incident, a risk assessment, and details of any stopped payments.

HR20 — Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025

Strengthens worker organizing rights and enforcement. The bill broadens who counts as an employee or joint employer and builds tougher remedies, penalties, and election rules to make organizing and bargaining easier to enforce and monitor. - Workers: Expands who is treated as an employee by tightening the three-part test for independent contractors and broadening the joint-employer test to include direct, indirect, and reserved control. It adds clear protections for strike participation and allows back pay without reduction and liquidated damages equal to twice awarded damages. - Employers: Requires prompt disclosure and new notice duties including a detailed voter list within two business days and multilingual employee notices. Noncompliance can trigger civil penalties including up to $50,000 per unfair labor practice, up to $10,000 per refusal to obey Board orders, and fines for posting or voter-list violations. - Elections, agencies, and unions: NLRB must adopt remote electronic voting within one year and aim to hold elections within twenty business days. The bill also boosts NLRB reporting and transparency, expands private suits, and creates new whistleblower protections and expedited enforcement.

HR14 — John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2025

This bill would restore robust federal oversight of voting rights by rewriting Section 2 and creating a broad practice-based preclearance system. It sets new tests for vote-dilution and vote-denial claims, adds retrogression rules for actions on or after January 1, 2021, and requires extensive public notice, data disclosure, and observer powers. - Minority and language-minority voters: Provides clearer legal paths to challenge districting and practices that dilute or abridge votes, recognizes coalitions of minority groups, and applies retrogression rules to actions from January 1, 2021. - States and local election officials: Triggers preclearance using a 25-year lookback with numeric thresholds and creates an administrative bailout that requires demonstrating sustained compliance over a 10-year period to avoid coverage. - Enforcement, oversight, and courts: Expands who may sue to include private "aggrieved persons", centralizes observer authority in the Attorney General, and authorizes pre-suit inspection and information demands that courts may enforce or modify.

HR999 — Right to Contraception Act

A national right to contraception. This bill would codify a federal non-discrimination right for people to obtain and use contraception and for health care providers to give contraceptives and related information. - Individuals and families would have a statutory right to obtain contraceptives, use fertility‑awareness methods, or undergo sterilization without government-imposed limits on access. - Health care providers would have a protected right to provide contraceptives, counseling, referrals, and information free from coercion or government interference. - Federal law would block state or federal rules that single out or restrict contraceptive access unless the rule significantly advances access and is the least restrictive option. The Attorney General could sue to stop violations and people and providers could bring private lawsuits, and the bill applies notwithstanding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.