Safeguarding Taxpayer Dollars in Child Care Act

HR21 — Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Mandates care and penalties for infants born alive after an abortion. This bill would set standards of care, require reporting, create criminal penalties, and allow civil suits when an infant is born alive following an abortion. - Women and families: A woman on whom an abortion is performed may sue anyone who violates the law and recover objectively verifiable medical and psychological damages, punitive damages, and statutory damages equal to three times the cost of the abortion. Courts must award reasonable attorney's fees to prevailing plaintiffs and may award fees to defendants if a suit is frivolous. - Health care practitioners and facility employees: Any practitioner present at a birth resulting from an abortion must exercise the same professional skill, care, and diligence as for any other live-born infant of the same gestational age. Practitioners or employees who know of a failure to comply must immediately report the violation to appropriate State or Federal law enforcement. - Criminal and statutory consequences: Violators face fines, up to 5 years in prison, or both, and anyone who intentionally kills a born-alive infant is punished under the murder statute. The bill also updates chapter headings and adds statutory definitions for "abortion" and "attempt."

HR1870 — SPEED for BEAD Act

Would streamline and expand broadband deployment under the BEAD program by setting a clear gigabit standard, allowing any technology that meets performance, and limiting grant-related conditions and federal rate-setting. - Families and communities: Would treat any technology that meets the performance criteria as reliable broadband and defines gigabit as at least 1,000 megabits per second (1,000 Mbps), broadening which builds qualify. - Workers and trainees: Would add telecommunications workforce development as an eligible use of BEAD funds, opening federal support for training and hiring. - Local implementers and providers: Would let project applicants remove high-cost locations from defined project areas and still receive subgrants, and would bar grant conditions tied to wages, project labor agreements, union or local-hiring rules, diversity or equity requirements, network management rules like data caps, and certain letters of credit. - Program funding rules: Would require unused BEAD allocations, after deadlines, to be transferred to the general fund of the Treasury.

HR5181 — SOAR Act Improvements Act

broaden eligibility for Washington-area families while extending and reshaping the District of Columbia scholarship program's funding, accreditation, testing, and reporting rules to increase access and oversight. - Families and students: Would allow students living anywhere in the Washington metropolitan region to qualify, adding Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in Maryland and Arlington and Fairfax counties plus Alexandria and Falls Church in Virginia. It also replaces "kindergarten" with "pre-kindergarten" for scholarship uses to cover younger children. - Schools and scholarship entities: Would make grants 5-year awards with the option to renew for up to another 5 years without a new competition if the Secretary agrees. It requires participating schools to hold national or regional accreditation and gives schools joining after enactment up to 5 years to obtain full accreditation. - Program oversight and funding: Would raise tutoring-related student assistance from $2 million to $2.2 million and let grant recipients set lower maximum scholarship amounts if desired. It directs the Institute of Education Sciences to run evaluations and publish a public report by January 1, 2027 and every 7 years after, updates what evaluations must cover including academic progress, graduation and college outcomes, and expands reporting to include school violence, suspensions, and expulsions. It also extends the program's authorization of appropriations through fiscal year 2032 and changes how yearly funds are split beginning in fiscal year 2024.

HR1585 — Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act

Expand and modernize the Conrad State 30 J-1 waiver program to extend its life, strengthen protections for physician hires and families, and change how waiver slots are allocated and reported. It would reset the program termination to three years after enactment and treat provisions as effective beginning September 30, 2018.

HR987 — Fair Access to Banking Act

Prevents banks and payment networks from cutting off customers for political or reputational reasons. It sets a national standard that forces objective, risk-based decisions and creates a private right of action for people and businesses harmed by unfair denials. - Families and households keep access to bank accounts and payment services without being excluded for politics or reputation, and any denial must include a written, quantifiable justification. - Lawful businesses and nonprofits, including politically unpopular ones, gain protection from category-based refusals and can sue for treble damages and attorney’s fees if a covered institution violates the rules. - Banks, credit unions, and payment networks must adopt impartial, data-driven risk standards, may face civil penalties, and large institutions that refuse service could lose access to discount window lending or automated clearing house services.

HR4145 — Ensuring Justice for Camp Lejeune Victims Act of 2025

Clarifies and reorganizes how Camp Lejeune water‑contamination claims are proved and handled in court, with new rules on venue, evidence, attorney fees, and retroactive effect. The bill would change where victims file claims, what plaintiffs must prove about exposure and harm, set caps on contingency fees, and make those changes apply back to August 10, 2022. - Families and victims: Plaintiffs would need to show a link between the type of contaminant and their injury and that they were at Camp Lejeune for at least 30 days. The evidentiary rule requires proof that a causal relationship either exists or is at least as likely as not. - Courts and cases: The bill removes the rule forcing initial filing only in the Eastern District of North Carolina. That court would still control coordinated pretrial work, but cases may be transferred for pretrial and trial to the Eastern, Middle, or Western Districts of North Carolina or the District of South Carolina. Jurors may decide trials and courts must resolve these cases on an expedited schedule. - Attorneys and fees: Contingency fee caps would be 20 percent for settlements reached before a civil action is filed and 25 percent for settlements or judgments after filing. Fee splits between firms must match the work performed and attorneys may agree to lower fees. The changes would take effect as if enacted on August 10, 2022 and apply to any claim under Section 804 that is pending or filed on or after enactment.