This bill establishes a new federal agency called the United States Interagency Council on Housing Affordability and Preservation to coordinate government efforts on affordable housing and rental market fairness. The council will be composed of representatives from 21 federal departments and agencies, including HUD, the Treasury Department, and the Department of Labor, with leadership rotating annually among members. Within 12 months of enactment, the council must develop a National Strategic Plan to Preserve Affordable Housing and update it annually, while also monitoring federal housing programs, providing technical assistance to states and local governments through 10 regional coordinators, and publishing bimonthly bulletins about available federal resources. The bill authorizes $4.8 million annually for fiscal years 2027 through 2031 to support the council's operations, including staffing and regional workshops. The council will submit annual reports to Congress assessing affordable housing problems and recommending legislative and administrative actions to address them.

This bill would restrict the executive branch's ability to suspend the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, which provides immigration opportunities to applicants from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. The legislation prohibits the Secretary of State or Homeland Security from pausing or stopping the program entirely, though it allows for targeted restrictions on specific countries or regions, case-by-case denials based on individual security concerns, and temporary suspensions lasting no more than 60 days. When implementing any country-specific restrictions or temporary pauses, the executive branch must notify Congress within seven days with detailed explanations of the threat, the national security or foreign policy rationale, and steps to resume normal processing, with this information published in the Federal Register. The bill also protects individuals already selected for diversity visas from losing their eligibility due to broad administrative pauses. This legislation is aimed at congressional Democrats who support the diversity visa program and want to prevent future administrations from indefinitely halting the program without explicit legislative authorization.

H.R. 9090, the Advancing Menopause Care and Mid-Life Women's Health Act, directs the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services to expand research on menopause and mid-life women's health, including studies on symptoms, treatments, and health disparities affecting women during perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause. The bill authorizes $25 million annually through 2031 to support biomedical research, clinical studies, and the establishment of Centers of Excellence that will develop and distribute evidence-based treatment resources to healthcare providers and patients, with priority given to centers serving rural and medically underserved areas. The legislation also requires research on how menopausal symptoms affect women in the workplace and mandates coordination across federal agencies including Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department to ensure integrated efforts and avoid duplicating programs. This comprehensive approach aims to improve both the care and understanding of menopause-related health issues affecting millions of American women.

This bill aims to increase the supply of affordable housing and lower rents by authorizing $15 billion in federal funding over ten years, split equally among three housing programs: the Home Investment Partnerships Program, Community Development Block Grants, and the Housing Trust Fund. The funding targets areas experiencing high housing costs relative to local incomes, primarily affecting low-income families in expensive urban areas nationwide. Additionally, the bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development to conduct a comprehensive study within two years to assess how area median income calculations work for affordable housing programs and recommend reforms that could make housing more affordable for low-income and middle-class families in high-cost areas. The study will specifically examine whether alternative calculation methods—such as ZIP code-level analysis or different metrics altogether—could better serve urban residents, and will include detailed analysis of how high-cost area adjustments currently affect housing affordability in places like New York City.

The Moms Matter Act establishes two main federal grant programs to address maternal mental health and substance use disorders. First, it creates a Maternal Mental Health Equity Grant Program that awards grants to eligible organizations like community health centers, nonprofits, and state health departments to expand mental health services for pregnant and postpartum individuals, with priority given to areas with high maternal mortality rates and health professional shortages. Eligible organizations can use funding to integrate mental health care into prenatal settings, expand group care programs, provide addiction treatment referrals, reduce stigma, train maternity care providers, and establish suicide prevention programs. Second, the bill authorizes grants to educational institutions to grow and diversify the workforce of mental health professionals who specialize in maternal care, with particular emphasis on recruiting students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups and those planning to work in underserved areas. The legislation authorizes $25 million annually for the first grant program and $15 million annually for the workforce development program, running from fiscal years 2027 through 2031, with reporting requirements to track effectiveness and outcomes.

The INVEST Act would expand the federal work opportunity tax credit to include veterans hired specifically in renewable energy jobs. Employers who hire veterans with relevant credentials—such as military training in renewable energy fields, a vocational degree in renewable energy completed within the past year, or a green building certification—would receive a tax credit on the wages paid to these employees. The bill defines renewable energy broadly to include solar, wind, hydroelectric, biomass, and geothermal resources. The legislation would apply to veterans hired after December 31, 2025, and also ensures that U.S. territories receive equivalent tax benefits to maintain parity with the federal incentive. This provision aims to help transition military personnel into the growing clean energy sector while giving employers financial incentives to hire this workforce.

This bill directs Congress's Joint Committee on the Library to commission and install a statue of Shirley Chisholm, the groundbreaking African American congresswoman, in the U.S. Capitol building. The committee has up to two years from the bill's enactment to secure the statue through an agreement with an artist or sculptor, and it must be placed in a permanent public location within the Capitol. The bill authorizes whatever funding is necessary to complete the project, with those appropriated funds remaining available until fully spent. The Joint Committee can delegate the contracting work to the Architect of the Capitol if needed. This legislation honors Chisholm's historic legacy as the first Black woman elected to Congress and seeks to ensure her prominence in the nation's most important legislative building.

This bill requires the federal government to strengthen safety standards for automatic emergency braking systems in cars by September 1, 2029. Specifically, it directs the Department of Transportation to update safety rules so that these crash-prevention systems work better in low-light conditions and can detect and respond to vulnerable road users like pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists—including people with different skin tones and clothing colors. The bill defines vulnerable road users as anyone not inside a motor vehicle with more than three wheels, encompassing pedestrians, bicyclists, wheelchair users, and riders of vehicles like ATVs and tractors. The updated safety rule must be finalized within two years of the rulemaking process beginning, with manufacturers given an additional two years to comply with the new standards. This legislation aims to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries by ensuring modern safety technology protects a broader range of people on roads.

H.Res. 1018 is a congressional resolution expressing the House's position that women's rights and leadership are essential to Haiti's stability and democratic recovery. The resolution condemns widespread sexual violence against Haitian women and girls, their systematic exclusion from Haiti's transitional government (including zero women on the seven-member Transitional Presidential Council), and the international community's failure to prioritize women's needs in support efforts. It also criticizes recent U.S. State Department and Defense Department decisions to dismantle institutional commitments to women's peace and security initiatives, which the resolution argues contradicts the 2017 Women, Peace, and Security Act that Congress passed. The resolution calls for urgent action to ensure women hold at least 30 percent of all government positions per Haiti's constitution, to fund survivor services and prosecutions of gender-based violence, to protect women in displacement sites, and to rebuild the State Department's Office of Global Women's Issues and the Defense Department's Women, Peace, and Security program. While this is a sense-of-the-House resolution without direct funding or legal force, it represents Congress expressing its expectations for U.S. policy toward Haiti and criticizing recent executive branch actions on women's rights initiatives.

The Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act of 2025 extends civil rights protections to people affected by artificial intelligence systems used in major life decisions, such as hiring, housing, education, criminal justice, and government benefits. The law prohibits developers and deployers of AI algorithms from using these systems in discriminatory ways or causing unfair impacts based on protected characteristics like race, sex, disability, and national origin, while requiring independent audits before deployment and annual impact assessments afterward. Companies must submit evaluations to the Federal Trade Commission, publicly disclose their AI practices in plain language, maintain human appeal options for consequential decisions, and protect whistleblowers from retaliation. Enforcement is handled by the FTC (with up to 500 new staff members), state attorneys general, and individuals who can sue directly without restrictions on class actions, with penalties reaching up to $15,000 per violation or 4 percent of annual revenue. The law does not preempt existing labor, health, safety, or other federal and state protections.

H.Res. 889 is a resolution to censure Representative Cory Mills of Florida for conduct the resolution characterizes as bringing discredit to the House. The resolution cites multiple allegations: a February 2025 domestic violence incident involving assault of a 27-year-old woman at his residence (where DC police found probable cause for arrest but the U.S. Attorney declined to prosecute), a July 2025 report from a former romantic partner alleging he threatened to release intimate images and harm her future partners, and a resulting October 2025 court order protecting against dating violence. Additionally, the resolution addresses Congressional ethics concerns including potential financial disclosure violations and campaign finance irregularities, as well as disputed claims about his Bronze Star military award, with five former service members contradicting the accounts he submitted for the decoration. If passed, the censure would require Mills to appear in the House chamber for a public reading of the resolution and would remove him from the Committee on Armed Services.

Closing Loopholes for Oil and other Sources of Emissions Act or the CLOSE Act This bill amends the Clean Air Act to revise requirements for hazardous air pollutants. Specifically, the bill allows (1) emissions from oil or gas exploration or production wells and emissions from pipeline compressors or pump stations to be aggregated with emissions from other similar sources and regulated as a major source of toxic air pollutants, (2) emissions from those wells to be aggregated for purposes of emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants, and (3) emissions from oil or gas production wells to be regulated as an area source of toxic air pollutants. The Environmental Protection Agency must (1) issue a final rule adding hydrogen sulfide to the list of hazardous air pollutants; and (2) revise the list of air pollution sources within 365 days after issuing the rule to include categories and subcategories of major sources and area sources of hydrogen sulfide, including oil and gas wells.

The Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2025 requires large companies to assess and document the impact of their artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems on consumer decisions in critical areas like employment, housing, credit, healthcare, and education. Companies with at least $5 million in annual revenue that deploy these systems must conduct impact assessments before and after deployment, maintain three years of documentation, and submit annual reports to the Federal Trade Commission, which has two years to establish detailed regulatory rules. The law applies to companies with significant scale—those with over $50 million in revenue, $250 million in equity value, or data on more than one million consumers—and requires them to evaluate how their algorithms perform across different demographic groups while consulting with stakeholders and testing for privacy risks. The FTC will enforce the law through a new Bureau of Technology and maintain a public repository of assessment summaries that consumers can search by company and decision type, while state attorneys general also gain authority to pursue violations on behalf of residents. This legislation aims to increase transparency and accountability in algorithmic decision-making while protecting consumers from potentially discriminatory or harmful automated systems.

This resolution seeks to censure Representative Cory Mills of Florida for conduct deemed to reflect discredit on the House. The censure motion addresses several allegations: a February 2025 domestic violence incident at his residence involving an alleged assault of a 27-year-old woman (which the DC Metropolitan Police determined had probable cause for arrest but was not prosecuted), July 2025 reports that he threatened to release intimate images and harm a former partner, financial disclosure violations and improper campaign contributions identified in an August 2024 Office of Congressional Conduct investigation, and disputed claims about his Bronze Star military decoration from 2003. According to the resolution, multiple military personnel who served with Mills have contradicted the heroic accounts underlying his Bronze Star recommendation, and former Brigade Commander Arnold Gordon-Bray denied signing the Bronze Star recommendation despite what appeared to be his signature on the paperwork. If passed, the resolution would require Mills to appear in the House chamber for a formal public censure reading, which is a formal rebuke but does not remove him from office. There is no specific timeline or funding involved in this enforcement action.

H.Res. 654 is a symbolic resolution expressing the House of Representatives' position that Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, was wrongfully convicted and should be exonerated. The resolution asserts that Garvey's 1920s mail fraud conviction was politically motivated and unjust, and that his prosecution by U.S. law enforcement was retaliation for his influential movement promoting African-American economic independence and human rights. The resolution affects no one materially since it contains no binding law or funding, but it calls on the President to take steps to formally clear Garvey's name and restore his reputation in the United States. This is a nonbinding measure submitted by Representative Yvette Clarke of New York that reflects congressional sentiment rather than enacting new policy.

H.Res. 655 is a symbolic resolution expressing congressional support for designating August 17, 2025, as "Marcus Garvey Recognition Day." The resolution honors Marcus Garvey, a historic Black leader who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and mobilized over 1.5 million members to support economic independence initiatives for African Americans, including the Black Star Line shipping company. The resolution notes that Garvey was granted a posthumous presidential pardon in 2025, making this an appropriate time to formally recognize his contributions to Black history and his legacy in North American and Caribbean communities. The resolution calls on the President to issue a proclamation encouraging Americans to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. This is a non-binding resolution with no funding or enforcement mechanism—it expresses the House's sentiment and requests presidential action but does not create any binding obligations or allocate resources.

This bill directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a comprehensive study on whether chemical hair straighteners are linked to uterine cancer, with special attention to higher rates of the disease among women of color. The study, which will be conducted in coordination with the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health, will review existing research, examine different types of hair straightening products (including those with dyes, bleach, and perms), and determine whether additional safety testing requirements should be imposed on manufacturers. The department must submit a methodology plan to Congress within 45 days, begin the study within 180 days of the bill's enactment, and deliver a final report within two years. This legislation aims to address potential health risks from widely used beauty products while ensuring the safety of consumers across all racial and ethnic backgrounds.

This bill directs the federal government to expand research, education, and data collection efforts focused on uterine fibroids, a condition affecting an estimated 26 million American women. The legislation authorizes $30 million annually from 2026 through 2030 for research conducted through the National Institutes of Health, addressing what Congress finds to be significantly underfunded research relative to the disease's impact. The bill also requires the Department of Health and Human Services to create a public education campaign about fibroid prevalence and treatment options, establish a database tracking Medicaid coverage of fibroid treatments, and work with healthcare providers to promote evidence-based care—with special attention to minority populations, who experience higher rates and more severe cases of uterine fibroids. Additional funding for education and healthcare provider outreach is authorized at levels to be determined for fiscal years 2026 through 2030. Overall, the bill aims to address gaps in research, awareness, and disparities in diagnosis and treatment for what Congress identifies as the leading cause of hysterectomies and a significant economic burden on the healthcare system.

The Consumer Online Payment Transparency and Integrity Act (H.R. 4365) strengthens protections for consumers who sign up for free trials, automatic renewals, and subscription services. The bill requires companies to clearly disclose these features upfront, send reminders at least seven days before charging customers, and provide simple cancellation methods (online, phone, email, or mail) that are just as easy to use as the sign-up process. Companies must also obtain customer approval each year before renewing subscriptions and cannot use misleading design tactics—known as "dark patterns"—to trick people into staying enrolled. If a company violates these rules, the automatic renewal becomes void and customers must receive a full refund for charges stemming from the violation. The Federal Trade Commission will enforce the law, treating violations as deceptive business practices, and the requirements take effect one year after the bill becomes law, with some exemptions for service contracts determined appropriate by the FTC.

The No Biometric Barriers to Housing Act of 2025 would ban the use of facial recognition, fingerprint scanning, and other biometric surveillance technologies in federally funded affordable housing units starting one year after the law takes effect. The ban applies to all housing programs receiving federal assistance, including public housing, Section 8 rental assistance, and supportive housing for elderly and disabled residents. The legislation aims to prevent discrimination and bias against tenants by restricting surveillance tools that could be used to unfairly deny housing access or monitor residents. Within one year of enactment, the Department of Housing and Urban Development must report to Congress on any current or past use of these technologies in federally assisted housing, their effects on tenants, and potential civil rights impacts on vulnerable communities. The bill contains no specific funding provisions but requires the HUD report to document existing usage patterns and assess risks to fair housing practices.

This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security's Under Secretary for Science and Technology to evaluate how climate change affects U.S. homeland security operations and, if funding is available, conduct research to develop solutions. The evaluation must examine how climate change impacts emergency preparedness, disaster response, and recovery efforts, as well as whether federal disaster funding structures are adequate to address these effects. The Under Secretary must consult with other federal agencies, state and local governments, and critical infrastructure operators as part of this work. The bill requires annual reports to Congress on research activities for four years beginning one year after enactment. No specific funding amount is designated in the legislation, meaning any research would depend on available departmental appropriations.