Fourth Amendment Restoration Act

HR25 — FairTax Act of 2025

Replaces federal individual income and payroll taxes with a national sales tax. This plan imposes a 23% consumption tax starting January 1, 2027, creates a monthly Family Consumption Allowance rebate, and redesigns trust fund allocations for Social Security and Medicare. - Families: Creates a monthly rebate equal to the sales tax rate times the monthly poverty guideline. Rebates are paid by the Social Security Administration to a designated adult and require annual registration. - Workers and beneficiaries: Repeals payroll taxes and the estate and gift tax regimes effective 2027 and reallocates sales tax receipts to trust funds. For 2027 the bill directs about 27% to OASI and DI and about 7.7% to HI and SMI. - States and businesses: Establishes destination-based rules and a federal‑state cooperative system where sellers generally collect the tax and business purchases and bona fide investments are excluded from tax.

HR624 — RIFLE Act of 2025

Would replace current ATF and Justice Department enforcement of federal firearms licensing with a graduated civil penalties regime and stronger procedural protections for licensees. It would set tougher proof rules for revocation and add formal notice, hearing, and timeline requirements for enforcement actions.

HR6225 — PAUSE Act of 2025

This bill would create a nationwide pause on issuing visas and providing immigration status until a set of conditions in the immigration system are met. It would also restrict who can claim birthright citizenship and bar many federal benefits for certain noncitizens. - Families and children: Would restrict birthright citizenship to a child born in the United States only if at least one parent is a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident. It would also allow state and local governments to deny access to public schools for people present without lawful status. - Nonimmigrants and pending applicants: Would prevent nonimmigrants from adjusting to lawful permanent resident status and pause new visas or status grants. It would revoke applications filed before enactment if the new rules make the applicant ineligible and refund any fee paid. - People screened by ideology or affiliation: Would bar lawful status for people described as Islamists or observers of Sharia law, members or associates of the Chinese Communist Party, known or suspected terrorists, or people affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations. - Low-income immigrants and borrowers: Would deny many federal benefits and supports to aliens, including Medicare and Medicaid emergency medical care in certain cases, Supplemental Security Income, SNAP, WIC, premium tax credits, the Earned Income Tax Credit, federal student loans, HUD housing assistance, and Small Business Administration loans or guarantees.

HR6512 — Putting Patients First Healthcare Freedom Act

Creates a State waiver program that replaces premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions with individual "Trump Health Freedom Accounts" paid into residents’ accounts. The bill also expands account-based and employer-sponsored options and blocks federal funding for abortion and certain gender-transition procedures. - Families and consumers: Residents in States that get a waiver receive the premium tax credit and cost-sharing reduction amounts as deposits into Trump Health Freedom Accounts instead of traditional marketplace subsidies. Deposits use a national-average silver benchmark and can be paid monthly, quarterly, or as a lump sum. - Employers and workers: Employers can offer CHOICE arrangements and association plans that reimburse individual-market care up to fixed caps and pool risk. Eligible employers get a credit of $100 per enrolled employee per month in year one and half that amount in year two. - Patients, providers, and insurers: The bill bars federal funds from paying for abortion coverage and for defined "specified sex-trait modification procedures," while preserving life and rape/incest exceptions and requiring clear plan disclosures and abortion surcharges. Authorizes cost-sharing reduction payments from general Treasury funds and creates a reinsurance program funded at $50 per member-month with a hard annual cap of $6.0 billion for 2026–2030.

HR2395 — SHORT Act

Reclassifies short‑barreled rifles and shotguns under federal law and limits state oversight. The SHORT Act would change the Internal Revenue Code and Title 18 to treat certain short‑barreled weapons differently, create a federal safe harbor for people who comply with Chapter 44, preempt state taxes and registration rules, and require destruction of some National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record entries. - Owners who follow federal Chapter 44 rules would be regarded as meeting any state or local registration or licensing requirement for short‑barreled rifles and shotguns. - States and localities would be barred from imposing taxes other than general sales or use taxes, or from requiring markings, recordkeeping, or registration for short‑barreled rifles and shotguns that affect interstate commerce. - The Attorney General would have to destroy within 365 days certain NFRTR registrations and transfer and maker applications that identify owners or makers of those weapons.

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.

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