S 3341, the Investing in All of America Act of 2025, modifies rules for Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs) to adjust their debt limits and expand eligible investments. It lowers the maximum leverage ratio for certain SBICs from $300 million to $200 million and sets a new $125 million cap on excluded investments for companies funding businesses in rural areas, critical technology sectors, or small manufacturers. The bill specifically affects SBICs licensed under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 and the businesses they finance in targeted geographic or industry areas. Key changes include revised financial thresholds and updated definitions for "rural" and "critical technology" to qualify for debt exclusions. These provisions directly alter how SBICs calculate allowable debt when supporting small businesses.
This bill establishes two federal prize competitions to advance research on two key AI safety areas: interpretability (making AI decisions understandable to humans) and adversarial robustness (resisting malicious attacks that cause harmful outputs). The Secretary of Homeland Security must launch these competitions within 270 days of enactment, consulting with agencies like the National Institute of Standards and Technology and AI industry experts. Competitions will evaluate submissions based on practical value in high-risk AI applications, such as healthcare or finance, and require participants to submit frameworks or models. The Secretary must report to Congress 180 days after the competitions end, assessing research gaps and suggesting policy actions. The bill authorizes $10 million in funding for these competitions over fiscal years 2026-2030.
The AI Workforce PREPARE Act requires the Department of Labor to collect and analyze data on how artificial intelligence affects jobs, including tracking AI adoption by employers and forecasting impacts on specific occupations. It establishes an AI Workforce Research Hub to lead this effort, mandates new survey questions about AI in the workplace, and requires employers to disclose when AI contributes to mass layoffs. The bill creates detailed employment forecasts for occupations most affected by AI, with prediction intervals showing uncertainty ranges, and aims to integrate this data into workforce training programs. These provisions are designed to help workers, employers, and policymakers prepare for AI-driven changes in the labor market.
The "No Robot Bosses Act" (HR 6371) prevents employers from making final employment decisions (like hiring, firing, or promotions) using automated systems without human oversight. It requires companies with 11+ employees to test these systems for bias against protected groups, explain how they work in plain language to workers, and provide opportunities for workers to dispute automated decisions through human review. The bill creates a new Technology and Worker Protection Division within the Department of Labor to enforce these rules and requires annual public reports on bias testing. It also includes strong whistleblower protections for workers who report violations. The law applies to most employers but excludes certain government entities and labor organizations acting in their representative capacity.
HR 6395 directs the Secretary of State to develop a strategy for renegotiating the 1947 agreement that hosts the United Nations headquarters in New York. The strategy must identify potential U.S. locations for the UN, negotiate with the UN, and secure Senate approval for relocation. The Secretary must report the strategy's details and timeline to the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committees within a specified timeframe. This bill creates a procedural process for potential relocation but does not mandate or implement the move itself.
HR 6372, the D.C. Shield Law Repeal Act, repeals the Human Rights Sanctuary Amendment Act of 2022 (D.C. Law 24-257), which had modified District of Columbia protections for certain immigrant residents. The bill restores the previous legal framework that existed before the 2022 amendment took effect. This directly affects D.C. law and its implementation regarding immigrant rights within the District.
HR 6406, the Parental Workforce Training Act, provides federal grants to local workforce boards to help parents cover childcare costs while participating in job training programs. It directly affects parents with dependent children who are enrolled in employment and training activities under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). The bill authorizes $10 million in funding to award competitive grants, allowing local boards to provide direct childcare subsidies to eligible individuals through their chosen providers (as long as they meet state/local quality standards). Local boards must report on participant enrollment and program completion rates within one year of grant implementation. This is a concrete policy change establishing a new childcare support mechanism within existing workforce programs.
HR 6391, the Save Oak Flat from Foreign Mining Act, repeals Section 3003 of the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act that would have transferred Oak Flat (2,422 acres in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest) to Resolution Copper for mining. The bill withdraws Oak Flat from all public land use, preventing the foreign-owned mining venture (Rio Tinto/BHP) from extracting copper beneath the site for export to China. It directly protects the area, which is a sacred site for Indigenous peoples and a National Register Historic Property, from a mine projected to consume 250 billion gallons of groundwater over 40 years and cause significant land subsidence. The bill halts a process that would have allowed foreign corporations to mine copper from public land without requiring domestic smelting or benefiting U.S. consumers.
Building Resources and Access for Veterans' Mental Health Engagement Act of 2025 or the BRAVE Act of 2025 This bill addresses mental health services and care provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), including matters related to personnel, Vet Center administration, care for women veterans, and access to care. The bill authorizes the VA to waive the licensure or certification requirement for individual licensed professional mental health counselor appointees for a reasonable period of time. The bill also extends the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program and increases the maximum annual grant amount. The VA must provide Vet Centers with guidance for assessing outreach activities and implement processes to periodically assess the extent to which (1) veterans and eligible members of the Armed Forces experience barriers to obtaining services at Vet Centers, and (2) Vet Center staff may encounter barriers to providing services. Among other requirements, the VA must also survey and host listening sessions with women veterans to gauge the effectiveness of the VA’s suicide prevention, lethal-means safety, and mental health resources and messaging campaigns; initiate efforts to modify the Recovery Engagement and Coordination for Health-Veterans Enhanced Treatment (REACH VET) program to incorporate risk factors weighted for women; annually offer a mental health consultation to veterans who are receiving compensation for a service-connected disability relating to a mental health diagnosis; and implement a pilot program to provide access to mental health residential treatment programs for veterans with a spinal cord injury or disorder.
This bill establishes a new interagency Task Force to dismantle foreign scam operations targeting Americans, particularly through "pig butchering" scams in Southeast Asia. The Task Force, chaired by the Secretary of State, will coordinate efforts across multiple agencies to shut down scam centers, impose sanctions on perpetrators, and support victims of trafficking. It requires a detailed strategy within 180 days and annual reports to Congress on progress, including sanctions imposed and funds recovered. The bill authorizes $30 million for these efforts in fiscal years 2026-2027, focusing on countries like Cambodia, Laos, and Burma where scam centers operate with forced labor.
This bill would amend the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and prohibit its operations within the United States. It would require the President to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization under immigration law and impose new visa restrictions, including immediate revocation of current visas, for individuals identified as members. The bill mandates annual reports from the Secretary of State identifying Muslim Brotherhood branches worldwide and determining which should be designated as terrorist organizations under existing laws. These provisions would directly affect Muslim Brotherhood members, branches, and affiliated organizations seeking entry to or operating within the United States.
S 3302, the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act of 2025, requires drug manufacturers developing cancer treatments to conduct pediatric-focused research for certain drugs targeting pediatric cancer mechanisms. It amends FDA drug approval processes to mandate molecularly targeted pediatric cancer investigations for drugs with new active ingredients or specific approved combinations, ensuring studies address dosing, safety, and efficacy for children. The bill also extends priority review vouchers (which expedite FDA reviews) for rare pediatric disease treatments until 2030 and mandates GAO studies to evaluate how effectively these incentives spur new pediatric cancer drug development. These changes apply to new drug applications submitted three years after the law's enactment, with reports due to Congress at 6, 8, and 10 years.
