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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Safety and policing: 12 laws
Requires the federal prison system to act on sexual harassment and assault of its staff by incarcerated people.
Allows phone emergency alerts to be sent when a shark attack happens nearby.
Gives the Department of Homeland Security extra money for border and immigration enforcement, in seven amounts that add up to $69.545 billion.
Allows Capitol Police officers to serve to an older retirement age.
Creates a medal honoring police officers and first responders.
Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
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.
Renews federal programs for preventing and treating opioid addiction and supporting recovery.
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.
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.
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.