SHADOW Act

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.

HR5401 — Pay Our Troops Act of 2026

Guarantees continued pay for military personnel during a federal funding gap. This bill would create a temporary appropriation to keep pay and allowances flowing for active-duty service members and the civilians and contractors who directly support them if FY2026 regular appropriations are not in effect.

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.

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.

HR6875 — AI OVERWATCH Act

This bill would impose tight new export controls on high‑performance integrated circuits to block their transfer to certain "countries of concern." It also creates a narrow exemption for verified U.S. entities and builds in stepped-up technical updates and Congressional review. - U.S. chip makers and exporters would face a new license requirement for defined "covered integrated circuits" sent to entities in listed countries of concern, with no general license allowed and prior licenses to those countries terminated. - Firms that qualify as a "Trusted United States Person" could be exempted if they meet security, ownership, sourcing, and audit rules, including a limit that no more than 10 percent of ultimate beneficial ownership may be held by any entity primarily domiciled in a country of concern and a 90‑day window for BIS to seek public input on standards. - Licenses would need a 30‑day certification to relevant congressional committees before approval and could be blocked by an expedited joint resolution; the bill also requires a national security strategy and a DNI FY2026 assessment of China’s CIC capabilities.

HR3095 — To direct the United States Postal Service to designate single, unique ZIP Codes for certain communities, and for other purposes.

Assigns a single, unique ZIP Code to each of 66 named communities. This bill would direct the U.S. Postal Service to designate one ZIP Code for each listed community within 270 days after enactment. The list names 66 specific places across multiple states. The ZIP Code assignments must occur without any condition or phase‑in schedule. The Act contains no appropriation, funding mechanism, enforcement provision, penalty, sunset, or other operative provisions and does not create or change any programs beyond the required ZIP Code designations.