This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve how it uses mobile medical units to serve veterans in rural and underserved areas. The VA must designate an office to oversee the mobile medical unit program, conduct a comprehensive inventory of all its units to assess their condition and current use, and evaluate whether certain VA medical centers should be required to deploy these units to rural areas at least once yearly. Within 180 days of the bill's enactment, the VA must complete these assessments and submit a detailed report to Congress identifying barriers to expanding mobile medical unit services, such as staffing shortages and funding limitations, along with recommendations for improvement. The bill specifically requires the VA to work with local veterans service organizations to identify suitable deployment locations and to address findings from a prior 2023 Comptroller General report on mobile medical unit operations. No specific funding is authorized in the legislation, but it establishes clear timelines for the VA to complete these planning and assessment efforts over the next six months to a year.

This bill directs the U.S. Department of Commerce to develop a comprehensive strategy for promoting Wi-Fi and unlicensed spectrum technologies globally, with particular emphasis on countering efforts by China and other adversaries to undermine American technological leadership. The plan must be completed within 180 days and submitted to Congress, and it will focus on advocating for harmonized spectrum use at the 2027 World Radiocommunication Conference in Shanghai, which will involve coordination across multiple federal agencies including the State Department, Defense Department, and intelligence agencies. The bill emphasizes that Wi-Fi technology is a major economic driver contributing over $1 trillion annually to the U.S. economy and is critical infrastructure for commercial activity, education, healthcare, and public safety. Following the conclusion of the 2027 conference, the Commerce Department must submit an implementation report to Congress within 90 days detailing how effectively the strategy was executed and including mechanisms to track progress. The legislation contains no new direct appropriations but establishes firm timelines and interagency coordination requirements to ensure a unified American position at the international conference.

The ACPAC Modernization Act modifies the Aviation Consumer Protection Advisory Committee, which was established to provide recommendations on airline consumer protection issues. The bill adds ticket agents as members of the committee, expanding the group to include this stakeholder perspective in aviation consumer protection discussions. The legislation amends Section 411 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, making technical corrections to the committee's membership structure. The bill was introduced by Senator Rosen in August 2026 and referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

The Jobs, Not Waste Act of 2026 terminates the decades-long licensing process for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada and prohibits the federal government from reconsidering the site for this purpose in the future. The bill requires the Secretary of Energy to reclaim the Yucca Mountain site and mitigate environmental damage caused by previous characterization activities. Within 180 days of enactment, the Office of Management and Budget must submit a study to Congress examining the economic viability and job creation potential of alternative uses for the site, including renewable energy development, scientific research, and defense applications such as unmanned aircraft command facilities. The legislation affects the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Nevada residents who have long opposed the nuclear waste repository project, while the study is intended to identify new economic opportunities for the site.

This bill authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to expand air quality monitoring in rural and remote areas affected by wildfires by funding portable air sensors, which are cheaper and easier to operate than traditional air monitors. The legislation allows existing Clean Air Act grants to be used for purchasing and operating these sensors, and it creates new competitive grant programs providing $10 million annually from 2027 through 2032 for air pollution control agencies to deploy sensors in underserved communities. The bill also directs the EPA to expand existing air sensor loan programs into regions and tribal lands not currently served and to provide technical assistance for sensor placement, maintenance, and data management. Priority will be given to rural areas that currently lack air quality monitoring infrastructure and communities most severely impacted by wildfire smoke, which poses documented health risks including respiratory and cardiac complications. The EPA must develop standardized quality assurance templates within 180 days to ensure consistent implementation across all programs.

The Preserving Patient Access Act protects Medicare beneficiaries and individuals with private insurance from losing access to their doctors and medications mid-year. Under the bill, Medicare Advantage plans and prescription drug plans cannot remove a patient's current doctor from their network or eliminate coverage for a drug the patient is currently taking without allowing that patient to switch to a different plan outside the normal enrollment period. The same protections apply to people with individual health insurance plans purchased through the marketplace or privately. These changes take effect January 1, 2027, giving insurance plans time to adjust their policies and procedures. The bill essentially creates new mid-year escape routes for patients who would otherwise be forced to switch providers or medications or pay out-of-pocket costs until the next open enrollment period.

This resolution condemns a Chinese law, known as the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law, for institutionalizing coercive assimilation of ethnic and religious minorities. The resolution also calls on the President to consider related sanctions and urges the Department of State to work with allies to monitor and report on the impacts of the law.

This bill establishes a U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Defense Innovation Working Group to collaborate on developing, producing, and acquiring unmanned systems and related defense technologies. The working group, chaired by senior Pentagon officials and including Ukrainian military and defense industry representatives, will analyze combat lessons from Ukraine's military operations, identify Ukrainian-designed unmanned systems that have proven effective in combat, and explore joint development and production agreements between the two countries. The group will prioritize integrating Ukrainian systems into U.S. defense programs, assess supply chain requirements, and identify regulatory barriers that need to be removed to accelerate procurement and manufacturing. Congress will receive initial briefing within 120 days of enactment and semiannual progress reports thereafter detailing identified systems, acquisition pathways, supply chain analysis, and intellectual property frameworks. The working group will operate for five years with a possible one-year extension if the Secretary of Defense determines it remains vital to national security.