This bill amends federal workforce training laws to give states and local areas more flexibility in running job training programs. Specifically, it increases the percentage of funding that local areas must reserve for training current workers from 20 to 30 percent, and raises the funding reserved for transitional jobs from 10 to 15 percent. The legislation also requires states to report performance data on incumbent worker training programs to help adjust performance standards across different workforce programs. Additionally, it allows local workforce boards to operate one-stop career centers—which provide job training and employment services—if they have written agreements with local officials and follow proper conflict-of-interest rules. The bill affects state and local workforce agencies, employers, and workers seeking job training services, though it does not specify new federal funding amounts or implementation timelines.

The STOP Senior Fraud Act authorizes banks and other financial institutions to delay or refuse transactions for up to 55 days if they reasonably believe financial exploitation is occurring involving older adults (age 62+), vulnerable persons, or accounts with a history of fraud. The delay can be extended to 85 days if the institution conducts an internal review supporting their concerns. When a transaction is blocked, banks must notify the account holder, a trusted contact if available, and report the suspected exploitation to law enforcement and adult protective services within two business days. The bill requires financial institutions to train employees on identifying and handling potential financial exploitation and protects banks from liability for good faith decisions to delay, refuse, or allow transactions under these provisions. The law takes effect 180 days after enactment and allows the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to issue implementing rules, while preserving any state or local protections that offer greater safeguards for seniors and vulnerable people.

This resolution recognizes and celebrates National Salvation Army Week, designated for May 11 through May 17, 2026. The measure honors the Salvation Army's charitable work since its founding in 1865, highlighting its role in providing disaster relief, food assistance, shelter, job training, and other social services to vulnerable populations including homeless individuals, veterans, and those recovering from addiction. The resolution notes that the Salvation Army serves more than 27 million Americans annually and operates shelters, food pantries, and emergency relief programs across the country. The measure also references the organization's famous Red Kettle Campaign, which has been raising charitable funds since 1891. This is a ceremonial resolution with no funding or binding requirements; it simply expresses the House's appreciation for the organization's work and encourages Americans to support its charitable mission.

This bill amends federal farm and rural development law to provide additional financial help to rural water, wastewater, and waste disposal systems. Eligible rural water systems can receive grants, zero-percent interest loans, or one-percent interest loans, and the government can also forgive or modify existing loans or refinance old debts for these systems. The bill targets assistance toward rural systems that need help maintaining public health and safety, as well as those located in economically disadvantaged areas, with the Secretary of Agriculture determining eligibility based on factors like the affordability of water services relative to household income. The legislation was introduced in February 2026 and does not specify total funding amounts or implementation timelines in the provided text.

This bill directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide technical assistance to help rural communities and organizations better access federal agricultural development programs. The Secretary of Agriculture must establish this assistance program within one year and can work directly with local governments, nonprofits, businesses, healthcare facilities, and community organizations in underserved rural areas. The bill targets geographically distressed areas, including those in socially vulnerable communities, counties with persistent poverty, economically struggling regions, or areas near the U.S.-Mexico border that lack adequate water, sewer, or housing services. Beginning one year after the bill's enactment, the Agriculture Department must publish annual public reports detailing how the technical assistance program has benefited these underserved areas, and submit these reports to relevant congressional committees. The legislation does not specify dedicated funding amounts but requires the department to deliver the assistance through existing authorities or new cooperative agreements.

This bill reauthorizes and expands the Commission on Farm Transitions—Needs for 2050, a federal advisory body that studies challenges facing American agriculture. The legislation requires the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the commission within 60 days of the bill's passage and broadens its mandate to examine how farmers access affordable and timely land, training programs, and financing, as well as issues affecting women farmers and historically underserved communities. The commission will also investigate barriers to agricultural land succession, foreign ownership trends, and state and federal policies that help or hinder farm transitions. The bill extends the commission's reporting deadline from one year to two years after enactment and extends its overall authorization through 2029, giving policymakers more time to study and develop solutions for helping the next generation enter farming and for supporting existing farmers' transitions.

The Working for Tips Tax Relief Act of 2025 would allow workers in tip-based occupations to exclude up to $35,000 in reported tips annually from their taxable income, providing tax relief to service sector workers like servers, bartenders, and taxi drivers. The exclusion begins phasing out for single filers with adjusted gross income between $50,000 and $75,000 (and joint filers between $100,000 and $150,000), with no benefit available for those exceeding these thresholds. The bill applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025, and currently expires after December 31, 2028, though the legislation directs the Treasury Department to conduct a pilot program afterward to evaluate making the provision permanent. The Treasury must publish a list of qualifying tip-receiving occupations within 90 days and submit biennial reports to Congress assessing the program's impact on workforce participation and wage equity. The bill includes safeguards against income reclassification abuse and requires taxpayers to provide their Social Security numbers to claim the deduction.

H.R. 5939 authorizes Congress to award a single Congressional Gold Medal to honor the Marine helicopter aircrews and Navy Corpsmen who served in medical evacuation and support missions during the Vietnam War from 1962 to 1975. The bill recognizes their contributions in transporting over 3.2 million troops, conducting more than 1.6 million sorties, and medically evacuating approximately 189,000 patients while facing significant combat risks, with 26 medevac Corpsmen and 845 total helicopter crew members and passengers killed during the war. The Secretary of the Treasury will design and strike the gold medal, which will be permanently housed at the National Museum of the United States Navy for display and research, though Congress encourages the museum to loan it to Vietnam War-related locations. The bill authorizes production of duplicate bronze medals for sale to the public, with proceeds deposited back into the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund to offset costs, and does not require a specific appropriation.

The RESET Act would prohibit states from redrawing congressional district lines between the once-every-ten-year census and apportionment, with limited exceptions. States could only conduct additional redistricting if ordered by a court to comply with the Constitution or the Voting Rights Act of 1965, or if voters approve it through a statewide referendum (referenda ordered after November 3, 2026 only). The bill applies to all redistricting that occurs after the 2020 census and relies on Congress's constitutional authority to regulate federal elections and enforce voting rights protections. The legislation does not affect how states handle redistricting for state and local offices, only congressional districts. The bill was introduced on October 28, 2025, and referred to the House Judiciary Committee.

H.Res. 641 is a symbolic resolution expressing Congressional support for community health centers and designating August 3-9, 2025, as National Health Center Week. The resolution encourages all Americans to visit their local community health centers and recognize their contributions to healthcare access. Community health centers serve approximately 10 percent of Americans across 14,000 communities nationwide, with particular importance in rural and underserved areas, and provide affordable primary care regardless of a patient's ability to pay or insurance status. The resolution highlights that these centers generate significant economic benefits—for example, North Carolina's community health centers employ over 6,500 people and save the Medicaid program an estimated $477 million annually through cost-effective care. The resolution also calls on Congress to extend the Community Health Center Fund beyond its September 30 expiration date, as it provides 70 percent of federal funding for these facilities.

H.R. 4277 clarifies how rural emergency hospitals are paid under Medicaid by ensuring they are treated as outpatient hospitals rather than inpatient facilities. This change affects rural emergency hospitals—smaller facilities designed to serve remote communities—and directs the federal government to explicitly include their services in Medicaid's definition of covered outpatient hospital services, which could improve their financial stability. The bill also ensures that nursing facility services within rural emergency hospitals are covered under Medicaid's nursing facility benefit. The amendments take effect immediately upon enactment, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services must issue final regulations within 12 months to implement the new payment rules.

This bill directs the Air Force Secretary to prioritize replacing older fighter aircraft with advanced models like the F-15EX, F-35, and F-16 variants at active-duty Air Force bases, particularly those with high deployment rates. The legislation specifically highlights the achievements of the 335th Operational Squadron at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina, crediting them with intercepting over two dozen Iranian drones in 2024, and emphasizes that current F-15E legacy aircraft have declining mission capability rates around 55 percent. The bill requires the Air Force to sequentially replace aging fighters starting with squadrons that deploy at least 30 percent of the time, and mandates the Government Accountability Office to review procurement challenges and submit preliminary findings within one year and a final report shortly thereafter. Additionally, the Air Force Secretary must submit annual progress reports to Congress on how well the modernization effort is proceeding. The legislation does not specify a total budget amount but commits the Pentagon to sustained procurement of advanced fighter aircraft until all legacy planes across Air Combat Command Fighter Wings are replaced.

The Flight Education Access Act increases federal student loan limits for undergraduate students pursuing commercial pilot training at accredited institutions, allowing dependent students to borrow up to $111,000 total and independent students up to $137,500 total in unsubsidized loans, while also raising subsidized loan limits to $65,000. The bill requires schools to provide borrowers with enhanced disclosures about loan costs, interest rates, and repayment terms before disbursing funds, and mandates that flight education programs maintain a 70% completion rate to remain eligible for federal funding. Institutions must collect and report detailed data on student enrollment, completion rates, and demographics broken down by gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, with the Department of Education submitting biennial reports to Congress and the Government Accountability Office conducting a review within two years. The legislation authorizes $3 million annually from 2025 through 2035 for implementation and preserves all existing pilot training standards under current law.

H.Res. 404 is a ceremonial resolution recognizing and celebrating National Salvation Army Week from May 12-18, 2025. The resolution honors the Salvation Army's 160-year history of providing social services to Americans in need, including disaster relief, food assistance, shelter, and support for vulnerable populations such as homeless individuals, veterans, and those recovering from addiction. The measure commends the organization for serving over 27 million Americans annually and highlights iconic programs like the Red Kettle Campaign, which has raised funds for charitable causes since 1891. The resolution encourages all Americans to support the Salvation Army's work and join in acts of service and generosity. As a House resolution, this is a symbolic measure with no budget appropriation or enforcement mechanism—it simply expresses congressional recognition and appreciation for the organization's charitable work.

The Coast Guard Combat-Injured Tax Fairness Act extends protections that were previously available only to military service members to Coast Guard personnel who have suffered combat-related injuries. Specifically, the bill amends a 2016 tax fairness law to ensure that Coast Guard members receive the same tax treatment on their severance payments as other combat-injured veterans, correcting what the legislation describes as improper tax withholding on these payments. The bill applies to Coast Guard members regardless of which federal department oversees the Coast Guard at any given time—currently the Department of Homeland Security, but historically the Department of Transportation or Navy. Federal officials have one year from the bill's enactment to identify and report all amounts that were improperly withheld from Coast Guard veterans and to ensure such withholding stops going forward. No specific funding amount is mentioned in the legislation, as it primarily addresses tax adjustments and administrative compliance rather than new spending.

Haliwa Saponi Indian Tribe of North Carolina ActThis bill extends full federal government-to-government relations to the Haliwa Saponi Indian Tribe of North Carolina.The bill makes the tribe and its members eligible for services and benefits provided to federally recognized tribes, without regard to the existence of a reservation. The service area of the tribe shall include Halifax, Warren, Nash, Franklin, Vance, and Granville Counties in North Carolina.The tribe must submit the most recent membership roll and governing documents to the Department of the Interior.The bill also authorizes Interior to take land into trust for the benefit of the tribe and proclaim a reservation for the tribe.

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense to jointly develop a comprehensive 10-year strategy for maintaining adequate stockpiles of anthrax countermeasures—including vaccines, treatments, and preventive medicines—for both civilians and military personnel. The strategy must be completed within 180 days of the bill's enactment and address threats from foreign adversaries, terrorist organizations, and drug-resistant anthrax strains, while ensuring manufacturers of these countermeasures remain viable and sustainable. Within the same timeframe, the two departments must submit an initial report to Congress detailing the anthrax threat, current federal programs addressing it, and efforts to ensure military families overseas have access to these protections, followed by annual updates. The reports will be classified but may include unclassified summaries. The bill does not specify new funding amounts but directs coordination among relevant federal health and defense agencies to maintain national preparedness against anthrax bioterrorism.

Veterans Employment Readiness Yield Act of 2025 or the VERY Act of 2025 This bill revises terminology used under the Veteran Readiness and Employment program, specifically by replacing the use of employment handicap with employment barrier.

Nuclear Medicine Clarification Act of 2025This bill requires the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to revise its regulations so that health care providers must report to the NRC when a dose of a radioactive drug caused by an extravasation exceeds specified quantities. An extravasation generally means the unintentional presence of a radioactive drug in the tissue surrounding the blood vessel following an injection.Under the NRC’s current regulations, health care providers licensed by the NRC to use radioactive materials must submit a report to the NRC for any instance, known as a medical event, where the administered dose of a radioactive drug exceeds specified quantities or criteria. In 2024, the NRC published a draft proposed rule that would add an extravasation as a medical event that must be reported. The draft proposed rule’s reporting threshold is based on a physician’s determination that the administration results or may potentially result in a radiation injury from an extravasation. The reporting threshold proposed by the NRC does not contain a quantified dose.The bill requires the NRC to revise its regulations to add an extravasation as a medical event that must be reported, and it additionally requires the reporting threshold to be based on quantified doses (as specified in the bill).

Old Drugs, New Cures ActThis bill exempts manufacturers of certain long-standing drugs from paying specialized rebates under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program and the Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program. (Under these programs, drug manufacturers pay rebates to state Medicaid programs for certain drugs covered under Medicaid and to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for certain drugs covered under Medicare.)Specifically, manufacturers may request that a drug that would otherwise be considered a line extension under the Medicaid and Medicare rebate programs to instead be designated as a priority research drug. (A line extension refers to an oral dose of a new formulation of an existing drug, such as an extended release formulation, that would subject the drug to specialized rebates under the Medicaid and Medicare drug rebate programs.)Under the bill, a drug qualifies as a priority research drug if (1) at least 10 years have elapsed since the drug was first approved, (2) the manufacturer is investigating a new use of the drug that would address a significant unmet need, and (3) the new use addresses a disease or condition that has a high prevalence among beneficiaries of Medicaid, Medicare, or other federal health care programs.

Cybersecurity for Rural Water Systems ActThis bill amends the Department of Agriculture (USDA) Circuit Rider Program to include cybersecurity technical assistance for rural water systems serving fewer than 10,000 people. Under the program, USDA provides technical assistance to rural water systems that are experiencing day-to-day operational, financial, or managerial issues.Specifically, the program's cybersecurity technical assistance must (1) assess system efficacy in protecting against cyber threats; and (2) implement cybersecurity plans, procedures, and technologies to protect against cyber threats.The bill also reauthorizes the Circuit Rider Program through FY2030.

Agricultural Commodities Price Enhancement ActThis bill increases the reference prices for certain commodities under the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs. Specifically, the bill increases the reference prices for wheat, corn, soybeans, peanuts, and seed cotton.The ARC and PLC programs, administered by the Farm Service Agency, offer financial assistance to eligible agricultural producers, and the reference prices are used to calculate benefits under the programs. The ARC Program is an income support program that provides payments to producers when actual crop revenue declines below a specified guarantee level. The PLC Program provides income support payments when the effective price for a covered commodity falls below its effective reference price.

Promoting Precision Agriculture Act This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop voluntary standards for precision agriculture (i.e., managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality).USDA, in consultation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), must develop voluntary, consensus-based, private sector-led interconnectivity standards, guidelines, and best practices for precision agriculture to promote economies of scale and ease the burden of adoption. USDA must (1) coordinate with relevant public and trusted private sector stakeholders and relevant industry organizations, and (2) consult with sector-specific agencies and state and local governments.Further, in developing the standards, USDA must, in consultation with NIST and the FCC, consider theconnectivity needs of precision agriculture equipment,cybersecurity challenges facing precision agriculture, andimpact of artificial intelligence on this area.The Government Accountability Office must periodically assess and report to Congress on the standards.

H.R. 1858 updates federal flood and watershed management programs to better protect agricultural lands and communities from flooding. The bill expands the Emergency Watershed Program to allow the Department of Agriculture to undertake enhanced protective measures that go beyond fixing immediate damage, as long as those measures are cost-effective and protect watersheds from repeated flooding. The legislation also requires the Department of Agriculture to complete a comprehensive national study within two years examining flood vulnerabilities on agricultural lands, including crop and livestock losses, mitigation effectiveness, and current federal and state flood data. Additionally, the bill increases federal cost-sharing from 65 percent to 90 percent for rehabilitation projects that repair old structural flood-prevention measures nearing or past their intended lifespan. Overall, the bill affects farmers and agricultural communities by improving flood protection infrastructure and providing better data on flood risks to support future policy decisions.

Maintaining Investments in New Innovation Act This bill requires drug products with genetically targeted technology to have had market approval for at least 11 years in order to qualify for the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program. (The program requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs under Medicare beginning in 2026. Among other requirements, drugs must have had market approval for at least 7 years (for drug products) or 11 years (for biologics) to qualify for negotiation.)