Post-Disaster Reforestation and Restoration Act of 2025

HR3151 — SHIPS for America Act of 2025

Rebuild U.S. commercial shipbuilding and a U.S.-flag strategic fleet by pairing new tax credits, grants, and operating payments with stronger cargo-preference rules and workforce and innovation programs to restore domestic capacity and sealift readiness. It centralizes maritime strategy in a White House advisor and a Maritime Security Board and funds a broad set of industrial, port, and training programs to favor U.S.-built, U.S.-crewed vessels.

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.

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.

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.

HR6644 — Housing for the 21st Century Act

*A federal push to increase housing supply by modernizing zoning and reforming housing programs.* The bill pairs model zoning guidelines and local planning pilots with HOME program changes and multiple HUD pilots to speed production and improve tenant supports. - Families and renters: HOME program rules harmonize income limits to 100% of area median income and raise homeownership eligibility to 110% AMI, expanding who can get help for rental and homebuying. Tenants in federally assisted housing gain new supports such as an eviction helpline and pilots for escrow accounts and internet-connected temperature sensors to track habitability. - Local governments and planners: HUD must publish model zoning guidelines within 3 years and recipients must report on land-use policy adoption. The bill funds pattern-book grants and planning/implementation pilots so jurisdictions can adopt pre-approved designs and streamline permitting. - Builders and manufactured housing sector: The law lets manufactured homes be built without a permanent chassis and requires new federal standards plus state certification within 1 year to ensure parity in financing, titling, and installation.

HR2853 — Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2025

This bill creates a centralized Organized Retail and Supply Chain Crime Coordination Center to unify federal, state, local, Tribal, and private-sector efforts. It also strengthens federal criminal tools by expanding forfeiture predicates, adding covered financial instruments, and setting $5,000 aggregate thresholds for certain stolen-goods offenses. - Retailers and supply-chain businesses get a federal hub for intelligence sharing and loss-prevention help. The bill cites a 93% rise in larceny incidents and a 90% rise in average dollar loss from 2019 to 2023. - Prosecutors and investigators gain broader forfeiture and money-laundering authority by adding sections 659, 2314, and 2315 as predicate offenses and by including money orders, general-use prepaid cards, gift certificates, and store gift cards as covered instruments. It also adds a $5,000 aggregate value threshold to those stolen-goods crimes. - The Department of Homeland Security must stand up the Center within 90 days and staff it with federal and state detailees. The law requires evaluations and follow-up reports on grant and training needs and sunsets the Center after 7 years.