Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025

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.

HR3633 — Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025

Would create a comprehensive federal framework to regulate digital assets, stablecoins, exchanges, and custody across the SEC and CFTC. It would set rules for issuer disclosures and a maturity test for blockchains, register digital-commodity exchanges and brokers, require qualified custodians, protect individual self-custody, and prohibit a retail Federal Reserve CBDC.

HR471 — Fix Our Forests Act

Speeds hazardous fuels reduction and wildfire resilience by creating designated fireshed areas, a joint Fireshed Center, and new authorities that would streamline planning, data sharing, and on-the-ground restoration across federal, Tribal, state, local, private, and nonprofit lands. - Communities and households: At-risk communities would get coordinated mapping, smoke forecasting, and a unified grant application to make funding for home hardening and local projects easier to access. - Tribal governments and state/local partners: Tribes or Governors could trigger shared‑stewardship agreements within 90 days to join cross‑boundary planning and fireshed assessments that prioritize tribal water supplies and community risk. - Forest managers, utilities, and responders: Agencies would gain faster project authorities including NEPA exemptions for designated firesheds, higher Healthy Forests Restoration Act project thresholds (10,000 acres), a 150‑foot hazard‑tree clearance for power lines, expanded contracting tools, and intra‑agency strike teams to speed environmental reviews and implementation. Note: The sources set many deadlines, reporting rules, pilot programs, and several seven‑year sunsets but do not provide a specific federal cost estimate.

HR4075 — Fire Weather Development Act of 2025

Strengthen NOAA's wildfire forecasting and observation capabilities. This bill would create a NOAA program to improve fire weather and fire environment forecasts, early detection, smoke forecasting, and delivery of forecasts and warnings to emergency managers and land managers. - Families, communities, and local emergency responders would get clearer forecasts and smoke dispersion guidance aimed at reducing deaths, injuries, and property loss. - Land managers, the U.S. Forest Service, and State and Tribal partners would gain new tools, higher-resolution observations, grid-based fuel moisture and danger assessments, and modeling that links climate forecasts to local decisions and prescribed burn impacts. - Researchers, the weather industry, and technology providers would be eligible for competitive grants, contracts, and private-sector data purchases. The bill would fund unmanned aircraft system pilot programs and testing and authorizes $5.0 million for fiscal year 2026 for UAS activities while generally barring procurement of UAS from foreign countries of concern with a waiver process. Includes a $5.0 million authorization for fiscal year 2026 for unmanned aircraft system activities under the program.

HR3756 — FISH Act of 2025

This bill would establish an IUU vessel 'blacklist' and new enforcement tools to stop seafood tied to illegal fishing and forced labor from entering U.S. markets. - U.S. seafood industry and importers would face stricter import controls. The bill directs Customs and Border Protection to target seafood from listed vessels and creates import bans and seizure authorities while allowing a narrow exception for unaware importers. - Coast Guard and enforcement agencies would gain stepped-up powers and reporting duties. The bill expands boarding authority, requires tracking of corrective measures after boardings, and mandates annual, Congress-disclosable enforcement and bilateral engagement reports. - Foreign vessels, flag States, and partners would see new pressure and support. Vessels can be added to an IUU list for links to illegal fishing or forced labor, listed vessels face port and servicing bans and possible sanctions, and the bill funds capacity building and RFMO assessments to improve compliance. Authorizes $20.0 million annually for the Department of Commerce from 2025 through 2030 and $4.0 million for a National Academies study, increasing federal spending by those amounts.

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.