SRES 386 designates the week of September 14-20, 2025, as "Community School Coordinators Appreciation Week" in the U.S. Senate. The resolution recognizes community school coordinators for their role in building partnerships that support student success, family engagement, and community resources. It encourages schools, families, and officials to celebrate these coordinators through events during the designated week. This is a symbolic resolution with no funding or policy changes, solely intended to honor coordinators' contributions.
HRES 718 is a non-binding resolution expressing congressional support for increasing Latino participation in STEM careers. It highlights that Latinos make up 18.2% of the U.S. workforce but only 14.8% of STEM workers, despite growing educational enrollment and strong interest in STEM fields. The resolution encourages federal investment in initiatives to support Latino students pursuing STEM education and careers, particularly through Hispanic-serving institutions. It emphasizes that boosting Latino representation in STEM would strengthen the U.S. workforce, improve economic mobility, and reduce reliance on foreign workers.
This bill expands Medicare coverage to include certain pharmacist services in medically underserved areas. It allows pharmacists licensed in their state to provide services that would otherwise be covered if done by a physician (like medication management), specifically in health professional shortage areas or medically underserved regions. Medicare would pay 80% of the physician fee schedule rate for these services, starting January 1, 2027. The bill requires the development of new billing codes for pharmacists under Medicare's physician fee schedule. It directly affects pharmacists working in designated underserved communities and Medicare beneficiaries there.
This bill, the SUN Act (S 2803), requires the President to submit a detailed report to Congress within 15 days whenever the National Guard is deployed domestically under federal law (excluding natural disaster responses). The report must include the legal justification, effects on local situations, input from law enforcement, total costs, and confirmation that the deployment won’t hinder disaster response under the Stafford Act. It directly affects the President and federal agencies by adding congressional oversight for most domestic National Guard uses. The exception for natural disasters covered by the Stafford Act is explicitly stated.
This bill bans forced arbitration clauses in employment, consumer, antitrust, and civil rights disputes. It prohibits agreements that require individuals to resolve such disputes through private arbitration before any conflict arises, and also blocks waivers that prevent people from joining class or collective lawsuits. The law directly affects workers facing workplace issues, consumers with purchase disputes, and individuals alleging discrimination or civil rights violations. It ensures these cases can be handled in court rather than private arbitration, applying to disputes occurring after the law takes effect.
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2025 would establish a National Police Misconduct Registry to track officer complaints, disciplinary actions, and misconduct records across all law enforcement agencies. It would require law enforcement agencies to implement body-worn camera programs with specific recording and retention policies, ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants in drug cases, and reform qualified immunity to make it easier to hold officers accountable for misconduct. The bill mandates comprehensive data collection on use of force incidents, requiring agencies to report detailed information about stops, searches, and force used, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, and other demographics. These provisions would directly affect all Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies that receive federal grant funding, with requirements for policy changes, training, and data reporting.
The National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2025 would establish a government-owned bank to finance infrastructure projects across the United States, aiming to address a $3.69 trillion financing gap identified by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The bank would provide loans up to $5 trillion for transportation, energy, environmental, and community development projects, with specific criteria focused on economic growth, environmental benefits, and serving disadvantaged communities. It would be governed by a 25-member Board of Directors with diverse regional and expertise qualifications, and would operate with tax exemptions and capital requirements to ensure financial stability. The bill also establishes regional economic accelerator planning groups to coordinate infrastructure development and create a pipeline of projects for the bank to finance.
The FAIR Act of 2025 would prohibit companies from requiring pre-dispute arbitration agreements or waivers that prevent individuals from joining class or collective lawsuits in employment, consumer, antitrust, or civil rights cases. This directly affects workers, consumers, and small businesses who currently face forced arbitration for issues like workplace discrimination, product defects, or unfair business practices. The bill makes such agreements unenforceable while allowing voluntary arbitration after disputes arise and leaving collective bargaining agreements unaffected. It applies to all disputes occurring after the law takes effect, without changing how voluntary arbitration works post-dispute.
HR 5357, the College Students Continuation of Mental Health Care Act of 2025, allows college mental health providers to offer telehealth services to enrolled or recently attending students across state lines. It directly affects college mental health providers (employed by institutions of higher education) and students registered at or who attended the college within the past three months. Key provisions require providers to verify student identity, obtain consent for telehealth, maintain backup communication methods, and respect state prohibitions on specific services while operating under their home state’s licensing rules. The bill also clarifies that malpractice insurance covers these telehealth services as if provided in the provider’s home state and permits states to form compacts to facilitate cross-state telehealth.
The Taxpayer Funds Oversight and Accountability Act (HR 1558) requires federal agencies to improve financial management by shifting from a 5-year to a 4-year planning cycle for governmentwide spending oversight. Each agency must develop a specific 4-year plan within 90 days, focusing on strengthening spending tracking, financial record accuracy, and cost management through internal controls. Agencies must also submit annual reports to Congress detailing progress on financial management goals, including how they address system weaknesses and prevent errors in spending. This directly affects all executive branch agencies and aims to increase transparency in federal spending without making policy judgments about outcomes.
HJRES 121 proposes a constitutional amendment to allow Congress and states to set reasonable limits on money raised or spent to influence elections. It would permit regulations distinguishing between natural persons (individuals) and corporations or other artificial entities, potentially restricting corporate spending in elections. The amendment explicitly states that such regulations cannot abridge press freedom. This is a proposed constitutional change requiring ratification by three-fourths of state legislatures, not yet law.
The Measuring the Cost of Disasters Act of 2025 requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to create and maintain a public database and webpage tracking U.S. billion-dollar disasters. The database will include each disaster’s estimated total cost, type (e.g., hurricane, wildfire), location, dates, and visual maps showing trends over time - similar to a previously available NOAA tool. NOAA must update this resource twice yearly as new data becomes available, using existing federal and non-federal partnerships. This policy change makes historical disaster cost data publicly accessible for research and transparency, without altering disaster response or funding mechanisms.
