Senate Bills

Establishes predictable permitting timelines and a lead agency for federal energy reviews while preserving major environmental protections. It also funds grid modernization, pipeline monitoring, and physical and cybersecurity projects, with priority for rural and energy-producing communities.

The bill broadly calls for clearer tax standards, transparent reporting, and accountable implementation but specifies no tax rates, reforms, enforcement mechanisms, or concrete policy changes.

Creates an HHS grant program for preventive care, mental-health services, and telehealth in underserved communities, with priority for reducing emergency-room use and helping working families. Recipients must report access, usage, and cost savings while protecting patient privacy.

The bill creates labor protections, layoff-notice requirements, portable benefit accounts, and federally funded training for workers in defense, logistics, and advanced manufacturing, with contractor contributions and Department of Labor enforcement.

The bill prevents federal agencies from tying authorized funding to changes in state firearm laws unless Congress expressly approves that condition in a future law. It preserves constitutional federal authority and each state’s power to set its own firearm regulations.

The bill broadly calls for clearer infrastructure standards, transparent reporting, and accountable implementation, but provides no specific projects, funding levels, deadlines, or enforcement mechanisms.

Authorizes $150 million annually for five years in voluntary DHS security grants to houses of worship and religious nonprofits, prioritizing credible threats while barring federal interference in religious activity.

Requires annual federal agency reviews of waste, improper payments, and outdated contracts, with quarterly public reporting. Approved savings would reduce the deficit or support essential services while shielding major benefits, national security, and public safety from across-the-board cuts.

The bill creates a bipartisan federal program to strengthen Louisiana’s hurricane and flood resilience and modernize roads, bridges, ports, and waterways, with project prioritization, public disclosures, independent audits, and annual congressional oversight.

The bill streamlines federal permitting for South Dakota renewable energy, storage, and transmission projects while preserving environmental and tribal reviews. It also promotes grid reliability and requires notice, fair compensation, and voluntary agreements for affected landowners.