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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Rural communities: 14 laws
Renews funding authority for the drinking water system serving the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana.
Lifts deed restrictions on a 3.6-acre parcel the federal government gave to the City of Paducah, Kentucky.
Lets farmers and ranchers get emergency conservation money up front after a disaster, instead of paying first and waiting for reimbursement.
Lets government-backed investment funds put more money into small businesses in rural and low-income areas and in critical technologies.
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.
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.
Transfers federal land in Arizona to La Paz County for solar energy development.
Restores federal payments to rural counties with national forest land, which pay for schools and roads.
Cancels a land agency plan for northeastern Wyoming that ended new federal coal leasing in the Buffalo area.
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.
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.