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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Veterans and military families: 20 laws
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.
Authorizes a major VA medical facility project in St. Louis, Missouri.
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.
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.
Gives Alaska Native veterans of the Vietnam era more time to apply for a land allotment.
The annual defense policy law.
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.
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.
Ends the 43-day government shutdown of fall 2025.
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.