Senate Bills

The bill expands voluntary federal immigration-enforcement cooperation with Louisiana law enforcement while funding training, data sharing, and detention coordination. It also expedites temporary work authorization for verified labor shortages with wage, civil-rights, due-process, and fraud safeguards.

Expands federal rental assistance for low-income households and funds competitive grants to build, rehabilitate, and preserve permanently affordable rental housing. Funding prioritizes severe cost burdens, homelessness, displacement risk, and threatened affordable units.

Repeals the 90/10 revenue rule for for-profit colleges, voids existing enforcement regulations, and bars the Education Secretary from imposing a similar federal-revenue limit in the future.

The bill caps lifetime federal student borrowing, ends new Grad and Parent PLUS loans, requires colleges to share the cost of widespread non-repayment, and mandates standardized disclosures of prices, debt, completion, earnings, and repayment outcomes. It also requires universities with endowments over $1 billion to disclose financial and spending data.

Authorizes $500 million in competitive HUD grants for Ohio communities facing vacancy, industrial decline, or displacement to expand workforce housing, preserve affordable units, and assist first-time homebuyers. Projects leveraging nonfederal investment and benefiting locally employed residents receive priority.

The bill expands targeted border enforcement and anti-smuggling penalties while funding more immigration judges, asylum officers, interpreters, and case-management resources to process claims promptly and fairly.

Establishes competitive HUD grants to expand and preserve affordable housing in high-cost communities through regulatory reforms, infrastructure, resilient construction, and developer partnerships, while offering qualified first-time buyers down-payment assistance and low-interest financing.

Creates competitive HUD grants for affordable, energy-efficient housing and infrastructure in high-cost or fast-growing communities, prioritizing conservation, local input, environmental compliance, and protections against displacement.

Establishes competitive HUD grants to convert vacant buildings into energy-efficient housing near jobs and transit, prioritizing affordability, permitting reform, local investment, fair housing, prevailing wages, and transparent reporting.

Establishes competitive HUD grants and expanded tax incentives for workforce housing, while rewarding faster, transparent electronic permitting. It prioritizes veterans, first responders, and working families, preserves local zoning authority, and requires annual performance reporting.