Legislation Archive

Directs a GAO review of EPA clean water infrastructure technical assistance and requires follow-up planning on recommendations for underserved distressed communities

Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to acquire or build a cloud-based Veterans Health Administration inventory management system and test it through a pilot before wider deployment

Modify the VA Veteran Readiness and Employment program by tightening entry and time limits and adding reporting and outside review for vocational rehabilitation services

Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs through FY2027 to give Health Professionals Scholarship Program participants an employment contract within 90 days after finishing their courses, tied to high-need VA clinical positions

Require the Department of Veterans Affairs to modernize veterans and survivors claims processing through automation planning, dependency benefit case handling, and document labeling improvements

Extends and broadens a VA pilot program allowing more non-VA licensed health professionals to perform veterans' disability examinations across state licensure jurisdictions through 2031

Apply full inflation-based cost-of-living adjustments to Federal Employees Retirement System annuities whenever the Consumer Price Index rises, removing current-law limits on larger increases

Prohibit executive agencies from reclassifying civil service positions into new excepted service schedules unless specified preexisting conditions and consents are met

Increases 2026 federal employee pay rates by raising statutory and prevailing rate pay and adding a locality pay increase

Extends through FY2026 the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs and related pilot programs for federal research awards to small businesses

Establishes a pipeline safety engagement framework for 2025 to guide stakeholder participation in pipeline oversight

Expand career pathway opportunities in health professions for low-income individuals through federal legislation

Authorize a measure titled the DEMO Act for consideration in the House and referral to tax-writing jurisdiction

Prohibits manufacturing processing using and distributing commercial asbestos and asbestos-containing products, with limited national security exemptions

Expand health career training at community and technical colleges by advancing programs tied to workforce preparation

Expand support for health professions students by addressing essential skills training and child care needs

Require an evaluation of health career training program impacts and outcomes to measure results in workforce training

Expand rural health workforce training opportunities through targeted health training programs

Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to reserve Health Profession Opportunity Grants for tribal applicants and ensure a minimum number of awards

Establishes the HOPE Act as a House bill referred to the Ways and Means Committee for further consideration

Establishes a federal labor market response framework to address employment and workforce conditions

Establishes the Opioid Treatment Providers Act to govern opioid treatment providers under federal law

Establishes health care workforce training measures under the Health CARE Training Act

Establishes a mentoring and family support measure aimed at assisting families through mentoring services

Reclassifies marijuana under federal law to change how cannabis is treated in drug policy