No Federal Funds for Ballot Harvesting Act This bill requires each state, in order to receive federal funds for election administration, to prohibit the knowing collection and transmission of a ballot in a federal election that was mailed to another person (commonly referred to as ballot harvesting), with exceptions.

The Vets Connect Act requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to create a secure, privacy-protected online platform and database that allows veterans to find and reconnect with others they served alongside. The system will match veterans based on military service information—such as branch, unit, rank, and deployment dates—but will not store or share personal contact details like phone numbers or addresses without explicit permission from each veteran. Access to the platform is limited to verified veterans only, and participation is entirely voluntary; veterans can opt out, limit their visibility, or delete their information at any time. The law prohibits anyone from using information from the system for commercial purposes, marketing, or data sales, and establishes penalties for misuse. The VA's Office of Inspector General will oversee the system's security and compliance to ensure veteran data remains protected.

H.R. 6436 modifies the Tree Assistance Program, a federal initiative that helps farmers recover from crop losses, by allowing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make advance payments to eligible orchardists and nursery tree growers. Under the bill, the USDA can disburse up to 25 percent of assistance payments before farmers actually begin replanting their damaged or lost trees, rather than requiring them to complete replanting work first. This change affects fruit and nut orchardists as well as nurseries that grow trees for sale. The bill does not establish new funding amounts or specify a timeline for implementation beyond allowing advance disbursement of existing Tree Assistance Program funds. The measure is intended to ease cash flow challenges for farmers by providing them partial payment upfront to help cover costs associated with replanting efforts.

H.Res. 711 is a symbolic resolution honoring the victims of Hurricane Helene and expressing support for affected communities in western North Carolina, particularly North Carolina's 11th Congressional District, one year after the hurricane made landfall on September 27, 2024. The resolution acknowledges the catastrophic damage caused by the hurricane, including loss of life, displaced families, and severe damage to infrastructure such as roads, bridges, schools, and hospitals. It recognizes and thanks first responders, emergency personnel, volunteers, and community leaders who worked to rescue people and begin recovery efforts. The House of Representatives commits to supporting impacted communities through disaster relief, recovery, and rebuilding initiatives, and calls on federal agencies to work with Congress to accelerate the recovery process. This is a commemorative resolution with no direct funding attached, but it reaffirms congressional intent to assist affected areas in their ongoing recovery efforts.

Justice for America’s Veterans and Survivors Act of 2025This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to annually report on causes of death among veterans.

The Stratton Ridge Air Force Memorial Act authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to relocate a memorial honoring nine Air Force crew members who died in a plane crash on August 31, 1982, in North Carolina's Cherokee and Nantahala National Forests. The memorial would be moved from private land adjacent to the Cherohala Skyway to the Stratton Ridge rest area in Graham County, North Carolina, on National Forest System land. The bill requires approval from the Secretary of Agriculture, the North Carolina Department of Transportation, and potentially the Federal Highway Administration before installation. Importantly, no federal funds may be used for the relocation, installation, or maintenance of the memorial—all costs must be covered by the individual or entity requesting the installation. The Secretary may impose conditions on the special use authorization, including restrictions on expanding the memorial in the future.

The Helene Small Business Recovery Act allows the President to waive federal rules that normally prevent disaster victims from receiving duplicate benefits when recovering from major disasters. Specifically, it targets businesses and individuals harmed by disasters declared in 2023 or 2024 (including Hurricane Helene) and allows them to receive both loans and other federal assistance for the same losses, as long as the funds are used toward actual disaster losses and the President determines the waiver serves the public interest. The President has 45 days to approve or deny any waiver request submitted by a governor or affected entity, and cannot use income limits to disqualify applicants. The bill removes the standard restriction that prevented people from receiving multiple forms of federal aid for the same disaster damage, intending to help small businesses and other entities rebuild more easily without having to choose between different types of assistance.

This bill creates tax incentives for investors who put capital gains into special investment funds focused on cleaning up and developing contaminated brownfield and Superfund sites. Investors can defer paying taxes on their capital gains if they reinvest them in qualified distressed opportunity funds within 180 days of a sale, with the taxes ultimately due by 2033 or when the investment is sold, whichever comes first. The bill also offers tax breaks for long-term investors—those holding investments for at least 5, 7, or 10 years receive increasingly larger increases to their tax basis, with investors holding for 10 years getting full tax forgiveness on gains. The investment funds must maintain at least 90 percent of their assets in qualifying properties like businesses, equipment, or real estate in distressed zones, and face penalties if they fall short of this requirement. The program applies to investments made after the bill's enactment and sunsets on December 31, 2033.

Disaster Survivors Fairness Act of 2025This bill establishes a unified application system for disaster assistance, expands disaster assistance for individuals and households, and requires related studies and reporting.The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) must establish an interagency electronic information sharing system known as the unified disaster application system to carry out disaster assistance, including administration of a universal application for federal disaster assistance for individuals.The bill expands FEMA's assistance to individuals and households by (1) changing the eligibility standard for housing assistance from residences rendered uninhabitable to residences damaged by a disaster, (2) allowing direct (i.e., non-financial) assistance for home repair and hazard mitigation for residences, and (3) allowing hazard mitigation assistance for residences separate from assistance for home repairs.FEMA may (1) provide funding for state agencies to establish websites to provide information on post-disaster recovery resources; and (2) reimburse state, tribal, or local governments for certain costs relating to sheltering emergency response personnel.The bill extends FEMA's authority to implement state-managed housing assistance as a pilot program.FEMA must establish an online dashboard displaying certain information relating to the Individual Assistance program for each major disaster declaration.FEMA must also conduct a study and report to Congress on challenges for renters seeking disaster assistance.The Government Accountability Office must report on (1) identity theft and fraud in federal disaster assistance, (2) preliminary damage assessment practices under the Individual Assistance program, and (3) challenges in obtaining assistance under Public Assistance alternative procedures.

The Unemployment Integrity Act of 2025 tightens requirements for people receiving unemployment benefits by requiring them to respond to job-related requests, attend interviews, participate in reemployment services, and comply with skill assessments or drug testing if requested. The bill also allows employers to voluntarily report to states when claimants fail to meet these requirements. Additionally, the legislation directs the Department of Labor to study whether increasing random audits of unemployment claims improves program administration, with regulations potentially adjusting audit levels within one year of the report. States would have one year to implement these new requirements (or until after their next legislative session for states with biennial legislatures), and states that refuse to adopt these provisions would be ineligible to receive extended and emergency unemployment compensation funds from the federal government.

Restoring Access to Mountain Homes ActThis bill authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide Public Assistance (PA) grant funding, under certain conditions, to reimburse government entities covered under the major disaster declaration for North Carolina relating to Tropical Storm Helene for the costs of repairing, replacing, or restoring private roads and bridges damaged by Helene.Under current law, the PA program provides grants for repairing disaster damage to infrastructure owned or legally maintained by government entities (or certain nonprofits). The bill authorizes PA funding for permanent repair work on privately owned and maintained roads and bridges significantly damaged by Helene in North Carolina, as costs incurred by state, tribal, or local governments for such work are eligible for reimbursement. Also, under current law, the costs of repairing damage that existed before the disaster are generally ineligible for PA. The bill makes the repair, replacement, or restoration costs eligible for reimbursement under PA regardless of pre-existing condition.Additionally, the bill contains criteria and conditions for reimbursement, including that to be eligible a road or bridge must be used as the sole means of accessing primary residences or essential community services. Reimbursement is under PA’s alternative procedures, and the bill requires FEMA to determine eligible costs based on estimates prepared by engineers.Recipients of funds from FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program (IHP) before the bill’s enactment may use IHP funds for repairs eligible under the bill without those costs counting against their maximum amount of IHP assistance.

Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025This bill provides a private right of action against state and local jurisdictions with certain policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts, and contains additional provisions related to such jurisdictions. Currently, such cooperation is generally not required.An individual (or certain relatives of such an individual) who is the victim of any felony for which an alien has been arrested, convicted, or sentenced to a prison term of at least one year may sue a state or local jurisdiction if the jurisdiction failed to comply with (1) certain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requests related to arresting and detaining aliens, and (2) a DHS request to detain the alien in question or provide a notification about the release of the alien. A jurisdiction that accepts certain federal grants may not assert immunity in such a civil action.A jurisdiction (or employee of a jurisdiction) that complies with certain DHS detainer requests shall be deemed to be acting as an agent of DHS. A complying jurisdiction or employee of the jurisdiction shall not be liable in any lawsuit relating to compliance with such requests. In a lawsuit against an employee of the jurisdiction, the United States shall be substituted in as the defendant, and remedies shall be limited to provisions for bringing tort claims against the federal government.

Promoting Resilient Buildings Act of 2025This bill authorizes local governments to implement the previous edition of building codes with funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) and Safeguarding Tomorrow Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) programs. It also establishes a pilot program for residential resilience retrofits under the BRIC program.Under current law, local governments may use funding provided under the BRIC and Safeguarding Tomorrow RLF programs to establish and carry out the latest published editions of relevant building codes and standards. The bill allows local governments to use BRIC grant funding to carry out the latest two published editions (i.e., either the current edition of a building code or the previous edition) and requires BRIC to consider adoption of either of the latest two editions when determining whether to provide assistance. The bill also allows local governments to use loan funding from the Safeguarding Tomorrow RLF program for implementing the latest two published editions of building codes, including amendments government entities make to such codes.Additionally, the bill establishes under the BRIC program a pilot program for states and local governments to provide grants to individuals for residential resilience retrofits (i.e., projects that increase a home’s resilience to natural hazards). To provide this assistance, FEMA may use up to 10% of the assistance made available to BRIC applicants annually. The pilot program terminates at the end of FY2028.

Equal Representation ActThis bill requires that the statement sent by the President to Congress after the decennial census indicating the number of persons in each state exclude noncitizens. (This statement is the basis for reapportionment of U.S. Representatives.)The bill also requires any questionnaire used in the decennial census to include a checkbox or other similar option for respondents to indicate whether the respondent and each household member is (1) a U.S. citizen, (2) a U.S. national but not a citizen, (3) a non-U.S. national (alien under federal law) lawfully residing in the United States, or (4) a non-U.S. national unlawfully residing in the United States.The Department of Commerce must make public the number of persons in each state, disaggregated by each of these four categories.