Dillon’s Law

HR452 — Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act

This law awards Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team as a formal recognition of their Lake Placid victory and its lasting effect on American morale and the sport of hockey. It directs the Treasury to strike the medals and sets rules for duplicates, display, and funding. - Team legacy and public recognition: The Act honors the 1980 team with a symbolic national award that reinforces their historical and cultural significance for fans, players, and communities connected to the game. - Museum displays and research access: One gold medal goes to the Lake Placid Olympic Center, one to the United States Hockey Hall of Fame Museum in Eveleth, Minnesota, and one to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs for display and research. - Mint operations and collectibles: The Secretary of the Treasury will strike the medals, may sell bronze duplicates at prices that cover costs, and classifies the medals as national and numismatic items. The U.S. Mint Public Enterprise Fund pays for production and receives proceeds from duplicate sales.

HR2192 — Air America Act of 2025

Creates a one-time cash award program for former Air America employees and eligible survivors. The bill would pay set lump-sum awards based on years of documented service and set rules for claims and payments. - Former U.S. citizen employees with at least five years of qualifying service would receive a $40,000 lump-sum award, plus $8,000 for each full year beyond five. Survivor awards would be split in equal shares among a surviving spouse, dependent, or child. - The CIA Director would administer claims, rely on Air America, government, or personal records to prove service, and publish procedures for filing, appeals, and payment timing. Director determinations would be final and attorneys' or agents' fees are limited to 25 percent of any award. - Total awards are capped at $60 million. If claims exceed that amount the Director must seek additional funds from Congress and must report to congressional committees every 180 days on payments and denials until funds are exhausted. Authorizes up to $60 million in one-time awards; any additional funding would require congressional appropriation.

HR1262 — Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act

Speeds and strengthens pediatric cancer drug development. It expands which cancer products companies must study in children, reshapes organ transplant network governance and fees, and adds new FDA international and transparency steps. - Children with cancer and researchers: Requires pediatric studies that produce clinically meaningful data on dosing, safety, and early effectiveness and widens the kinds of drug combinations studied. It also sets aside $25 million for pediatric drug studies in each of fiscal years 2026, 2027, and 2028. - Transplant patients and transplant network members: Changes Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network governance and financing by allowing quarterly registration fees, requiring those fees fund OPTN operations, improving electronic health record integration, and calling for a GAO review within two years. - FDA partners and drug makers: Creates an Abraham Accords Office to boost regulatory coordination and technical assistance abroad, and forces more transparency during generic (ANDA) reviews about whether generics are qualitatively and quantitatively the same as listed drugs. It also raises the Medicare Improvement Fund amount from $1.4 billion to $2.6 billion. Increases federal outlays by roughly $1.3 billion, driven by a $1.2 billion boost to the Medicare Improvement Fund and $75 million for pediatric studies, adding to federal spending.

HR3514 — Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2025

Standardize prior authorization in Medicare Advantage plans to make approvals faster and more transparent for beneficiaries and providers. The bill would require plans that use prior authorization to adopt a secure electronic PA program, publish plan-level PA data, and follow federal timeframes and enrollee protections.

HR649 — Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025

Would allow whole milk in federally funded school meals. This bill would let schools offer flavored and unflavored whole milk, organic or non-organic, as part of the school lunch program while changing how milk fat is treated for nutrition limits and restricting certain milk purchases. - Students and families: Students would gain more beverage choices including whole and lactose-free options. Schools must still provide a documented milk substitute for students whose disability restricts their diet. - School meal programs: Milk fat in these allowed fluid milks would not count toward the average saturated fat limit used to check meal compliance under 7 C.F.R. § 210.10. - Procurement and school authority: The Secretary would have to prohibit schools from buying milk produced by China state-owned enterprises, and the Secretary could not stop schools from offering the specified milk options.

HR1422 — Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025

Targets Iran's energy revenue through global sanctions. This bill would create a broad sanctions framework to punish foreign persons who process, export, or sell Iran-origin oil, condensates, gas, LNG, or petrochemical products. It pairs blocking of assets and visa bans with ownership-based triggers, waivers, humanitarian carve-outs, and new reporting to limit Iran's access to energy markets and finance for weapons and terrorism. - Foreign energy firms and financial institutions would face blocking of property and bans on transactions if they knowingly handle Iran-origin energy or are 50% or more owned by such actors. Associated aliens could become inadmissible and have visas revoked. - Maritime operators, insurers, flag registries, and LNG pipeline facilities would be exposed to sanctions risk when linked to Iran-origin shipments, though safety-of-crew rules and specific exemptions for imports remain. - Humanitarian organizations would keep explicit exemptions for agricultural commodities, food, medicine, medical devices, and humanitarian assistance to avoid disrupting aid. - U.S. agencies and private companies would see new duties: an interagency working group and multilateral contact group would coordinate enforcement, and private-sector reporting would be required to flag evasion and proceeds from intercepted Iran-origin energy sales.