Flexible Leave Act

HR6900 — American Affordability Act of 2025

This bill would be a broad tax-credit overhaul that rewrites incentives across housing, families, and clean energy. It would create monthly child payments, reshape housing tax programs, and add new investment credits for recycling, transmission, and batteries. - Families, children, and caregivers: It would create a monthly Child Tax Credit of $300 for children 6 and older and $360 for those under 6, with a portal and presumptive eligibility rules. It would also raise the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit rates to 50% and increase qualifying expense limits to $8,000 single and $16,000 per family. - Renters, homebuyers, and developers: It would change Low‑Income Housing Tax Credit rules, repeal the qualified contract option for most buildings, and create new housing incentives including an Affordable Housing Conversion Credit with program caps described that include $12.0 billion and a separate $3.0 billion AHCC designation program. - Clean energy, transport, and industry: It would extend many clean energy and clean vehicle credits and add new investment credits that are generally 30%. It would authorize a $3.0 billion advanced battery credit allocation and create credits for water reuse, recycling, and transmission line projects.

HR5089 — Weather Act Reauthorization Act of 2025

This bill would reauthorize and modernize NOAA weather research to strengthen forecasting, observations, and hazard communication across storms, tsunamis, floods, harmful algal blooms, and aviation. It focuses on more data, open community models, social and behavioral science, and new computing and satellite planning to speed research into operations and improve public warnings. - Families and coastal communities: Would fund better forecasts and clearer risk messages for hurricanes, tornadoes, atmospheric rivers, coastal flooding, tsunamis, and harmful algal blooms. It includes dedicated authorizations like $30 million per year for tsunami programs and $27.5 million per year for HAB activities to support detection, mapping, and outreach. - Emergency managers and users: Would modernize warning tools and delivery systems. Provisions require an AWIPS cloud plan, replacement of NWSChat, NOAA Weather Radio upgrades, and aviation data buys including up to $10 million per year for aircraft observations and turbulence improvements. - Scientists, compute centers, and industry: Would create an Earth Prediction Innovation Center and a NOAA Data Lake, expand a DOE-linked computing research initiative, and fund demonstration/transition programs including $50.3 million per year for subseasonal pilots and $20 million per year for NESDIS transition efforts.

HR1144 — Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025

Strengthens survivor services and tightens foreign‑assistance rules to fight human trafficking. It reauthorizes and expands prevention, survivor support, international tiering and reporting, and funding through FY2029. - Domestic survivors gain a new HHS employment and education program that funds scholarships, case management, expungement help, job training, and recovery services. Services are limited to a five‑year cumulative period per beneficiary. - International policy changes tighten withholding of nonhumanitarian, nontrade‑related foreign assistance to central governments until they meet trafficking standards and add reporting on trafficking for organ removal. The law also requires the annual Trafficking in Persons report be available in printed hardcopy. - Funding and grants are rebased and extended for FY2025–2029, raising the main TVPA annual baseline to $23.0 million. The bill also requires competitive awards and dedicates $5.0 million per year for the National Human Trafficking Hotline, cybersecurity, and public education. Authorizes higher annual federal funding for TVPA programs through FY2029, increasing authorized federal spending compared with prior baselines.

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.

HR5106 — Restore Trust in Congress Act

A ban on Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children owning or trading certain investments during federal service. It sets clear definitions for covered investments, deadlines for divestiture, narrow exemptions, and penalties to curb conflicts of interest and increase transparency. - Members of Congress and families: Prohibits direct or indirect ownership or trading of defined “covered investments” while serving. People covered on enactment must divest within 180 days and those who become covered afterward have 90 days to divest. - Ethics offices and enforcement: The supervising ethics office issues guidance, can grant extensions for liquidity or vesting, and manages Certificates of Divestiture tied to tax rules. Violations carry a 10 percent fee of the investment value, disgorgement of profits, and public posting of assessed fines, with payments to the Treasury. - Trusts and narrow exceptions: Qualified Blind Trusts must be divested while Family Trust exemptions are allowed only if covered individuals did not contribute, act as grantor, or control the trust. An Occupational Exception lets a spouse or dependent trade when it matches their primary job.

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.