HILTON Act

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.

HR137 — TCJA Permanency Act

Rewrite of individual income tax rates would remake brackets, reshape family tax benefits, and change rules for pass‑through businesses and the alternative minimum tax. The bill would permanently set new tax tables with inflation adjustments, overhaul the child tax credit and standard deduction framework, and make numerous conforming changes across the tax code.

HR5244 — To provide for the authorities of the Secretary of State.

strengthening U.S. diplomacy and UN strategy by reorganizing the Department of State and making the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations the clear coordinator of U.S. policy inside the UN system. The bill creates new senior roles and offices to improve policy, legal, intelligence, and communications decision making.

HR1386 — To establish a Department of State Domestic Protection Mission relating to unmanned aircraft system and unmanned aircraft.

Creates a time-limited State Department Domestic Protection Mission that would authorize targeted actions to detect, disrupt, seize, or destroy unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) threatening designated high-risk diplomatic facilities and assets. It would pair that authority with Federal Aviation Administration coordination, privacy limits, budget reporting, and congressional oversight for up to 7 years. - Diplomatic facilities and personnel: The Secretary of State could authorize detection, identification, monitoring, warnings, disruption of control signals, seizure, or destruction of UAS near covered facilities. Seized UAS could be forfeited to the United States under federal law. - UAS operators and owners: Communications used to control UAS could be intercepted or accessed only as necessary during an authorized operation, and devices could be disabled, have control exercised, confiscated, or destroyed. Intercept records must generally be retained no longer than 180 days unless needed for investigation, prosecution, ongoing security operations, or legal requirements. - Airspace and interagency coordination: Actions would require coordination with the FAA, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the Federal Communications Commission to avoid adverse impacts on safe airport operations and the national airspace. The bill would require a consolidated unclassified budget display with an optional classified annex and semiannual congressional briefings for seven years.

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.

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.