Venezuela Democratic Transition Strategy 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.

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.

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.

HR3069 — Medicare for All Act

This bill would create a national health insurance program called "Medicare for All" to provide universal, comprehensive health coverage for every U.S. resident. It sets the benefit package, bans cost‑sharing for covered care, negotiates drug and device prices, and phases existing federal coverage into the new system during a multi‑year transition. - Families and children: Covers maternity care, pediatric services, mental health, prescription drugs, dental, vision, and more with no out‑of‑pocket costs for covered items. Children under 19 become eligible one year after enactment. - Older adults and people with disabilities: Establishes an entitlement to medically necessary long‑term services and supports in home and community settings, prioritizes independence and supports activities of daily living, and removes the 24‑month Medicare waiting period for people with disabilities. - Providers and the health system: Creates regional offices, pays institutional providers with negotiated quarterly global budgets and individual clinicians via a national fee schedule, restricts private contracting for covered services for two years, and gives the Secretary authority to negotiate prices and, if needed, license manufacture of drugs.

HR4312 — SCORE Act

Creates a national framework protecting student‑athletes' ability to sell their name, image, and likeness (NIL) and sets a cap on total institutional NIL payments through a revenue‑linked pool limit. It would also cap agent fees at 5% and require institutions and athletic associations to provide health, academic, and career supports while standardizing written contracts and privacy rules. - Student athletes: Student athletes would have the right to sign NIL deals, hire agents, and keep NIL agreement details private. Any deal over $600 must be in writing and includes a termination right beginning six months after the athlete is no longer enrolled. - Institutions and conferences: Institutions subject to the bill would need to provide medical care for participation injuries, mental health services, academic support, and career counseling and must maintain grant‑in‑aid during the grant period. These institutional duties apply when a coach's base salary exceeds $250,000 or annual athletic revenue reaches $20 million, and institutions must field at least 16 varsity teams. - Agents, associations, and third parties: Agents face a 5% fee cap plus new registration and disclosure rules enforceable by state attorneys general. Interstate intercollegiate athletic associations would set and monitor a pool limit equal to 22% of the average annual sports revenue of their top 70 member institutions and would have authority to adopt related competition and recruitment rules.

HR4245 — GLOBE Act of 2025

Advance LGBTQI human rights worldwide. This bill would set a U.S. policy and tools package to reduce violence, discrimination, and criminalization of people based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics by creating new diplomatic posts, funding, sanctions tools, and immigration changes. - People facing persecution and civil society: Would get targeted grants, emergency assistance, technical support, and capacity building through a new Global Equality Fund and a USAID Global Development Partnership, with a focus on historically excluded groups. - Refugees and asylum seekers: Would treat persecution for sexual orientation or gender identity as membership in a particular social group, repeal the asylum filing deadline, expand Priority 2 refugee processing for vulnerable LGBTQI nationals, and expand access to appointed counsel in some proceedings. - U.S. government operations and partners: Would create a permanent Special Envoy and a USAID Senior LGBTQI Coordinator, require PEPFAR partners to train on LGBTQI health needs, allow self-selected sex markers on State Department IDs, publish a biannual sanctions list with visa inadmissibility consequences, and require regular reporting and interagency coordination.