Fresh Starts for Foster Youth 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.

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.

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.

HR2854 — Neighborhood Homes Investment Act

Creates a Neighborhood Homes Credit to spur development and substantial rehabilitation of affordable, owner-occupied homes in distressed neighborhoods. It also excludes certain state energy subsidies for those qualified residences from federal gross income. - Families and homebuyers would get more affordable owner-occupied homes targeted to distressed census tracts and a 5-year principal-residence rule that can trigger repayment if a home is sold early. Repayment can be up to 50% of the gain and phases down by 10 percentage points each full year. - Homeowners who rehabilitate their own home would be eligible for an owner-occupied rehabilitation credit capped at $50,000 and generally limited to 50% of qualifying rehab costs above amounts paid to the homeowner. The bill also covers special remediation like pyrrhotite when certified by testing. - States would create a Neighborhood Homes Credit Agency to allocate credits, certify projects, place liens, waive repayments for hardship, and report to the IRS. Annual state ceilings use the greater of $9 per resident or $12,000,000, plus carryover.

HR5658 — Child Care for Every Community Act

This bill would create a universal, community-based child care and early learning entitlement that guarantees access for every child younger than compulsory school age. It focuses on affordable slots, community control through designated "prime sponsors," and national standards for quality, workforce, facilities and family supports. - Families: Every covered child would be entitled to a funded child care slot and low-income families (at or below 200% of the poverty line) could pay no fees, with family fees capped at 7% of income for others. Programs must offer culturally and linguistically appropriate options and supports for homeless, migrant, dual-language and children with disabilities. - Workers and providers: The bill would fund training, set staff qualification timelines, and require wages comparable to local school pay or military child care scales with a living wage floor and a cap at Executive Schedule level II. Grants would support recruitment, preservice and inservice training and facility upgrades. - Communities and states: Local prime sponsors, including tribes and nonprofits, would plan services, coordinate with Head Start, schools and nutrition programs, and could receive supplemental grants to scale in underserved areas. The Secretary would allocate funds with at least 50% of non-entitlement remaining funds for workforce and compensation and at least 20% for supplemental assistance.

HR3971 — Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act

Extending workplace rights to domestic workers. The bill would set enforceable labor standards for household workers, add overtime and live‑in protections, require written agreements, create a Domestic Employee Standards Board, and push Medicaid rules to cover home care workers.