Laws
The 118 laws passed since the current Congress began on January 3, 2025. 2 have a plain-language account written from the law's official text, 115 have an account written from the official description of the bill and 1 has no full account yet. 117 of 118 laws have saved official text. The text of 1 law is Not published yet: Public Law 119-116.
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Renews federal work on diseases spread by ticks and mosquitoes through fiscal year 2030.
Renames the historic trails center in Casper, Wyoming, for Barbara L. Cubin.
Requires a public online map of where fishing, boating and other recreation are restricted in U.S. ocean waters.
Text not published yetMakes the General George C. Marshall House in Virginia an affiliated site of the National Park System.
Lets the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma bring its treaty land claim in federal court.
Renews funding authority for the drinking water system serving the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana.
Requires a yearly public report on pending hydropower license applications.
Authorizes and expands sanctions and tariffs on Russia and extends existing sanctions on Iran.
Requires the federal prison system to act on sexual harassment and assault of its staff by incarcerated people.
Adds College Station, Texas, and El Centro, California, to the places where federal court can sit.
Makes permanent the tax deduction for personal losses in federally declared disasters and keeps wildfire relief payments tax-free.
Gives more time to build a memorial to emergency medical workers in Washington, D.C.
Requires agencies to report a flexible type of contract, used mostly for research and prototypes, on the public federal spending website.
Lifts deed restrictions on a 3.6-acre parcel the federal government gave to the City of Paducah, Kentucky.
Allows a monument to Medal of Honor recipients to be built on the National Mall.
Keeps the federal government funded at about last year's levels through December 11, 2026.
Lets farmers and ranchers get emergency conservation money up front after a disaster, instead of paying first and waiting for reimbursement.
A package of housing measures intended to increase the supply of homes.
Allows phone emergency alerts to be sent when a shark attack happens nearby.
Protects Alaska Native artists' right to make and sell handicrafts from walrus ivory and other marine mammal materials.
Gives the Department of Homeland Security extra money for border and immigration enforcement, in seven amounts that add up to $69.545 billion.
Authorizes a major VA medical facility project in St. Louis, Missouri.
Orders a report from Congress's auditor on esophageal cancer.
Allows Capitol Police officers to serve to an older retirement age.
Creates a medal honoring police officers and first responders.
Settles the land entitlement of the Alaska Native village corporation for Saxman, Alaska.
Lets government-backed investment funds put more money into small businesses in rural and low-income areas and in critical technologies.
Adjusts the boundary of the Sloan Canyon conservation area in Nevada and allows a water pipeline.
Gives certain licensed hydropower projects more time to start construction.
Requires the FCC to check that companies applying for rural broadband subsidies can deliver what they promise.
Sets deadlines for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to process mortgage paperwork for homes and businesses on tribal land.
Extends again the surveillance authority that lets intelligence agencies collect the communications of foreigners abroad from U.S. providers without individual warrants.
Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
Cancels a federal order that had closed about 225,000 acres of national forest in northeastern Minnesota, near the Boundary Waters, to new mining leases for 20 years.
Extends through April 30, 2026 the surveillance authority that lets intelligence agencies collect the communications of foreigners abroad from U.S. providers without individual warrants.
Renews the federal programs that set aside research money for small businesses.
Makes it harder to dismiss lawsuits seeking the return of art stolen during the Holocaust on the ground that too much time has passed.
Allows the President to award the Medal of Honor to John W. Ripley for valor in Vietnam.
Clears the way for the honorary promotion of Army Captain Cody Khork after his death.
Creates a congressional time capsule for the nation's 250th anniversary.
Cancels a District of Columbia law that changed how D.C.'s income and business taxes follow federal tax rules.
Lets Social Security share its full death records with the Treasury system that checks payments before they go out, so agencies stop paying people who have died.
Raises pay for bankruptcy trustees and extends temporary bankruptcy judgeships.
Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for a further group of federal agencies.
Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for the Commerce and Justice Departments, science agencies, energy and water programs, the Interior Department and the EPA.
Lets survivors of human trafficking ask federal courts to clear certain convictions and arrests that resulted from being trafficked.
Changes when the VA must rewrite a disabled veteran's job training plan.
Requires the VA and Congress's auditor to report on the causes of VA budget shortfalls.
Veterans' disability payments no longer count as income when they apply for certain federal housing help.
Lets schools in the federal lunch program serve whole and 2% milk again.
Transfers federal land in Arizona to La Paz County for solar energy development.
Renews funding authority for fishery research in the Great Lakes.
Renews the Congressional Award program, which recognizes young people for service and achievement.
Updates how the federal marine debris program and its foundation are run.
When the IRS postpones a tax deadline after a disaster, the time allowed to claim a refund is now extended to match.
Gives Alaska Native veterans of the Vietnam era more time to apply for a land allotment.
Requires federal agencies to publish digital maps of the rules for boating and fishing on federal waterways.
Protects 40 acres at the Wounded Knee massacre site as land owned by the Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes.
The annual defense policy law.
Restores federal payments to rural counties with national forest land, which pay for schools and roads.
Updates the federal charter of the Foundation of the Federal Bar Association.
Speeds up repayment to veterans whose benefits were misused by the person appointed to manage their money.
Stops GI Bill money from going to public college programs that charge reservists using the benefit more than in-state tuition.
Requires the VA to review regularly whether the automatic life insurance amount for service members is high enough.
Awards Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 U.S. Olympic men's hockey team.
Cancels a land agency decision that limited oil and gas leasing on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Cancels a land agency plan for northeastern Wyoming that ended new federal coal leasing in the Buffalo area.
Cancels a land agency plan for central Alaska that set aside large areas for conservation and limited development.
Cancels a land agency plan for federal lands in North Dakota that limited where coal, oil and gas could be leased.
Cancels a land agency plan for eastern Montana that ended new federal coal leasing in the Miles City area.
Cancels a land agency plan that limited oil and gas leasing in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
Asks the Interior Secretary to allow one-time displays on the National Mall and the Washington Monument.
Requires the State Department to review its rules for contact with Taiwan regularly and report to Congress.
Renews federal programs for preventing and treating opioid addiction and supporting recovery.
Raises the special pension paid to Medal of Honor recipients.
Raises disability payments to veterans and payments to survivors by the same cost-of-living percentage as Social Security.
Requires airport security screeners to handle breast milk, formula and feeding equipment hygienically.
Changes how interest earned by the federal wildlife restoration fund is used for wetlands conservation.
Requires IRS notices about math errors on a tax return to say plainly what the error is, how the IRS changed the return, and how long the taxpayer has to dispute it.
Requires the Justice Department to publish its unclassified records on Jeffrey Epstein in a searchable form within 30 days.
Ends the 43-day government shutdown of fall 2025.
Stops credit bureaus from selling a person's information to other lenders the moment they apply for a mortgage, unless the person agrees or already does business with that lender.
Requires the Commerce Department to report to Congress each year on its export license decisions for sensitive technology.
Requires the VA to brief Congress regularly on its budget so that shortfalls surface early.
Orders a National Academies study of cancer rates and deaths among military aircrew.
Lets the VA step in when a veteran falls behind on a VA-backed home loan, by covering missed payments and adding them to the end of the loan.
Renames the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge in Texas for Jocelyn Nungaray.
Lets the IRS push back tax deadlines for people in areas where a governor has declared a disaster, without waiting for a federal declaration.
Cancels about $9 billion that Congress had already approved: roughly $8 billion in foreign aid and about $1 billion for public broadcasting.
Creates the first federal rules for payment stablecoins (digital tokens pegged to the dollar).
Permanently places fentanyl-related substances in the most restricted drug category, which carries the strictest criminal penalties, and eases registration for researchers who study them.
Renames the Salem Maritime site in Massachusetts a National Historical Park and orders a study of expanding its boundary.
Makes technical fixes to a 1989 law that transferred federal land for the Apex industrial site in Nevada.
Changes the rule that required Alaska Native village corporations to hand land to the State of Alaska to be kept for future cities.
Payments from Alaska Native settlement trusts no longer count against aged, blind or disabled Alaska Natives when agencies decide whether they qualify for certain assistance programs.
Cancels an EPA rule that had stopped certain large sources of toxic air pollution from being moved into a less strictly regulated category.
Cancels a bank regulator's rule that changed how proposed bank mergers are reviewed, restoring the earlier, faster process.
Lets the Defense Department sell surplus aircraft and parts to companies that fight wildfires.
Cancels the EPA approval that let California set stricter smog-pollution limits for heavy-duty truck engines.
Cancels the EPA approval that let California phase out sales of new gasoline-only cars by 2035.
Cancels the EPA approval that let California require truck makers to sell a rising share of zero-emission trucks.
Cancels an EPA rule that tightened limits on toxic air emissions from tire manufacturing plants.
Cancels a National Park Service rule that restricted where off-road vehicles could drive in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
Makes it a federal crime to publish intimate images of a person without consent, including AI-generated ones, and requires online platforms to remove them within 48 hours of a victim's request.
Cancels a rule that would have put the largest digital payment apps under the consumer bureau's regular supervision.
Cancels a consumer bureau rule that would have limited overdraft fees at the largest banks and credit unions.
Cancels an Energy Department efficiency standard for commercial refrigerators and freezers.
Cancels an Energy Department rule on how appliance makers certify, label and report the energy use of their products.
Cancels an Energy Department efficiency standard for walk-in coolers and freezers used by stores and restaurants.
Cancels an Energy Department efficiency standard for tankless gas water heaters.
Cancels an IRS rule that would have required decentralized finance platforms to report their customers' digital asset sales the way stockbrokers do.
Funds the federal government through September 30, 2025, mostly at the prior year's levels, with more for defense and less for non-defense programs.
Cancels a rule that required offshore oil and gas leaseholders to submit archaeological surveys of the seabed before drilling.
Cancels an EPA rule that set up how oil and gas facilities would be charged a fee for excess methane emissions.
Requires immigration authorities to detain non-citizens without legal status who are charged with, arrested for or convicted of theft-related crimes, assaulting a police officer, or crimes causing death or serious injury.