Legislation Archive | 119th Congress

Modifies State Department Taiwan guidance oversight by requiring recurring biennial reviews and congressional reports while the guidance remains in effect

Bars Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members, certain October 7 attack participants, and all PLO members from U.S. admission and some immigration protections

Requires the HUD Office of Inspector General to testify before Congress each year on fraud prevention oversight and agency accountability

Require banking regulators and GAO to report to Congress after a systemic risk determination tied to a failed insured depository institution, including supervisory failures and management misconduct

Prohibit District of Columbia courts and administrative tribunals from deferring to the Mayor's interpretations of statutes and regulations in proceedings

Extends Medicare’s Acute Hospital Care at Home Program through FY2030 and requires a study of program quality costs services and patient demographics

Requires the U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank to back and vote for continuing a pause on Burma financing unless Treasury finds that contrary to the national interest

Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise venture capital fund rules so more secondary transactions and fund of funds investments count as qualifying venture capital investments

Lowers the market value threshold for securities issuers to qualify as well-known seasoned issuers and use automatic shelf registrations

Expands venture capital fund qualification limits so larger funds can remain eligible for regulatory exemptions under investment firm rules

Require the Small Business Administration to carry out GAO recommendations for modernizing IT systems and report its implementation plan to Congress

Extends to 10 years the statute of limitations for fraud-based criminal and civil offenses involving the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant and Restaurant Revitalization Fund programs

Requires the Small Business Administration to strengthen its Office of Rural Affairs through qualified leadership, rural small business outreach, and annual activity reporting

Authorize long-term lease investment authority within the National Park System to support park property management and development

Establishes federal beach and swimmer safety measures through the Safe Beaches, Safe Swimmers Act

Prohibits federal contract solicitations from imposing minimum education requirements for contractor personnel unless a contracting officer justifies them and agencies receive implementation guidance

Renames Social Security retirement benefit claiming ages and related delayed-claiming terminology used by the Social Security Administration

Requires the Social Security Administration to assign a single trained point of contact for people whose Social Security numbers have been misused in identity theft cases

Requires written approval from the reporting supervisor before the IRS sends penalty-related communications to a taxpayer and defines that supervisor for federal tax penalty reviews

Directs the Social Security Administration to issue a new Social Security number to a child under 14 when the child's card was lost or stolen in the mail

Expands U.S. Tax Court procedural authority by broadening subpoena powers, allowing equitable tolling of some petition deadlines, and making related judicial administration changes

Expand whistleblower protections for contractors by broadening legal safeguards for reporting misconduct in federal contracting

Designates the United States Postal Service facility at 514 Frelinghuysen Avenue in Newark, New Jersey, as the Mildred Joyce Coleman Crump Post Office Building

Require reporting on official time use by federal employees and labor organizations to increase disclosure of that labor-management practice

Authorize emergency support for food banks through the Food Bank Emergency Support Act of 2025