Servicemember Healthcare Freedom Act of 2025

S2838 — Protecting Our Democracy Act

This bill would tighten presidential accountability by creating new oversight of pardons and emoluments and by strengthening ethics, disclosure, and enforcement across the Executive Branch. - Presidents, pardon recipients, and former Presidents would face new limits and disclosures. The Attorney General would have to send prosecution materials to congressional committee leaders within 30 days after a pardon for defined "covered offenses", the bill bans a President's self‑pardon, and pardon recipients must disclose gifts from the prior 365 days and file annual gift reports for five years. - Executive branch officials and appointees would face upgraded ethics rules and enforcement. Agencies would require enforceable ethics pledges, the Office of Government Ethics could impose fines and order disgorgement or divestiture, the Executive Office of the President would get an Inspector General appointed within 120 days, and whistleblowers would gain broader protections including new private remedies in the intelligence community. - Elections, Congress, and the public would get stronger transparency and oversight tools. The bill would expand congressional subpoena and budget enforcement, limit emergency powers, require political committees to report certain foreign contacts and platforms to keep ad records, and it would require Presidents and major party candidates to disclose 10 years of tax returns while capping inaugural donations at $50,000.

S2819 — Head Start for America's Children Act

This bill would expand and modernize Head Start to serve more infants and toddlers, require more year‑round and extended‑day options, and strengthen mental‑health, disability, and Native language supports. - Families and children: Would broaden eligibility to include families at or below 60% of the State median income and explicitly cover homeless children, foster care children, and children with disabilities. It would add mental‑health screening during home visits and push many center‑based programs toward full‑calendar‑year operation by Sept. 30, 2027 with defined exemptions. - Early childhood workers and providers: Would expand Early Head Start provider eligibility and prioritize partnerships with Tribal, minority‑serving, and Hispanic‑serving institutions. It would raise staff training expectations, require wage and benefits comparability reporting, and tie a three‑year teaching commitment to certain loan repayment rules. - Native American, Native Hawaiian, and migrant/seasonal programs: Would institutionalize Tribal and Native Hawaiian participation in governance, fund language and cultural preservation, bar non‑Native grantees for Native programs, and exempt these programs from the year‑round requirement while reserving a 4.5% grant pool for them. Would authorize a FY2026 baseline of $144.9 billion and multi‑year targeted reservations including $4.4 billion for extended operations and $300 million for slot conversions, thereby increasing federal spending.

S1541 — SHIPS for America Act of 2025

Expand U.S. shipbuilding and maritime capacity for national and economic security. The SHIPS for America Act of 2025 would create a broad statutory framework to grow U.S.-flag fleets, boost domestic shipbuilding and repair, modernize mariner credentials and training, and fund ports, cable repair, and maritime innovation. - Mariners and students would get credential modernization, new scholarships and loan-forgiveness eligibility, and major academy support including about $125.0 million per year for the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy FY2026–FY2035. - U.S. shipyards and builders would gain new financing tools and incentives including a Title XI revolving loan start of $100.0 million and $100.0 million per year for small shipyard assistance FY2026–FY2035. - Commercial shipping, ports, and national security would be reshaped by stronger cargo-preference rules, tariff and tonnage-tax penalties for foreign-of-concern shipyards, and a Strategic Commercial Fleet with targets of at least 10 vessels in year three and 20 vessels per year thereafter. If enacted, it would authorize a Maritime Security Trust Fund capped at $20.0 billion and multiple annual appropriations and program payments through FY2035, increasing federal spending obligations over the next decade.

S1507 — Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025

Bold goal: cut greenhouse gas pollution from U.S. agriculture to net zero by 2040 and at least 50% by 2030. The bill directs USDA to write and report on an Action Plan, expand research and extension, beef up conservation and soil health programs, and fund rural energy, manure alternatives, food‑waste reduction, and labeling rules to shrink emissions and boost climate resilience.

S3990 — PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026

Guarantees no-cost access to PrEP and PEP across public and private health coverage. This bill would require plans to cover FDA-approved HIV prevention drugs, diagnostics, counseling, and follow-up, ban most prior authorization rules, strengthen privacy for family plans, bar insurers from penalizing people who take PrEP/PEP, and fund grants and education to boost access and uptake. - People and families would get FDA-approved PrEP and PEP plus related tests, counseling, lab work, and adherence services with no cost-sharing in covered plans and, for most plans, no prior authorization. It would also keep PrEP/PEP use private within family health plans so other enrollees do not see that information. - Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, VA, and DoD beneficiaries would see expanded prevention coverage. Medicare would add prevention services to Part B with no coinsurance or deductible and place prevention drugs in Part D with zero cost-sharing for plan years after January 1, 2027, while Medicaid and CHIP would align coverage and VA and DoD would remove cost-sharing as specified. - States, tribes, community health centers, rural clinics, and nonprofit providers would be eligible for grants to pay for drugs, testing, outreach, administration, and adherence services, with programs required within 1 year of enactment. The bill would fund national public and provider education campaigns through FY2026–2030 and require evaluations and annual reports for five years.

S2823 — FAMILY Act

Creates a national paid family and medical leave insurance program that would pay monthly benefits to people who take caregiving or medical leave. The program centers administration at the Social Security Administration and sets eligibility, benefit formulas, state grant rules, and data-sharing to prevent fraud. - Families: People taking leave for caregiving or a serious health condition would get monthly wage-replacement benefits based on a tiered formula that starts at 85% for low wages and steps down for higher earnings. Initial benefit thresholds in 2026 include $1,257 and $3,500 and the law sets a minimum and maximum monthly benefit. - Workers and applicants: Eligibility would depend on wages or self-employment income over the most recent eight quarters with an initial earnings test of $2,000 in 2026. Benefit periods are measured over a year, applications can request retroactive coverage up to 365 days, and the bill requires certifications and appeals processes. - States, employers, and administration: The bill preserves and coordinates with state leave laws by creating a "legacy State" category and an annual grant program starting in 2027 for qualifying States, with up to 7% allowed for administrative costs. It would create an Office of Paid Family and Medical Leave inside SSA to run the program, share data with federal and state partners, and require periodic GAO reviews.