Congressional Digest — September 2025: 31 Bills That Moved Past Committee
Back through the record we go. September 2025 put 31 bills past committee, including 2 signed into law — most of them without a single headline. The plain-language rundown of each is below, full breakdown linked.
Signed into law
HR 2808 — Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act. This law restricts when credit reporting agencies can share consumers' credit reports with third parties during the home-buying process. Third parties may only receive such reports if they have the consumer's consent or have an existing financial relationship with the consumer.
Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act
Through both chambers
HR 3944 — Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026. This bill provides FY2026 appropriations for three areas of the federal government: military construction and veterans affairs, agriculture and food safety, and the legislative branch.
Passed the House
HR 1402 — TICKET Act. The TICKET Act requires ticket sellers, including secondary market sellers, to display the full total price of a ticket—including all fees—upfront the first time a ticket is shown to a buyer, and to provide an itemized breakdown of every charge before purchase is completed.
HR 1860 — Women Veterans Cancer Care Coordination Act. This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to hire or designate a Regional Breast Cancer and Gynecologic Cancer Care Coordinator for each of its regional health care administrative areas.
Women Veterans Cancer Care Coordination Act
HR 2334 — Servicemember Residence Protection Act. This bill would amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to prevent state squatter's rights laws from applying to properties owned by military servicemembers when a squatter occupies those properties while the owner is away on active military service.
Servicemember Residence Protection Act
HR 2503 — Undersea Cable Control Act. This bill directs the President and the Department of Commerce to take steps to block foreign adversaries from obtaining equipment and materials used to build, maintain, or operate undersea cable systems.
HR 2591 — Mental Health in Aviation Act of 2025. This bill requires the FAA to review and update its mental health regulations and policies for pilots and air traffic controllers, including reclassifying medications that may be safely used to treat mental health conditions and improving the process for obtaining special medical certificates.
Mental Health in Aviation Act of 2025
HR 2635 — Uyghur Policy Act of 2025. This bill directs the U.S. State Department to prioritize policies supporting Uyghurs and other minority groups in China's Xinjiang region, including efforts to secure the release of political prisoners.
HR 2643 — Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025. This bill requires the President to impose visa and property-blocking sanctions on foreign individuals and entities with ties to prominent criminal gangs in Haiti.
Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025
HR 2721 — Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025. This bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to run a two-year pilot program providing headstones or burial markers to veterans who died on or before November 1, 1990, and were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable.
Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025
HR 3015 — National Coal Council Reestablishment Act. This bill gives the National Coal Council a permanent legal foundation by directing the Department of Energy to reestablish it and removing the requirement that it renew its charter every two years.
National Coal Council Reestablishment Act
HR 3055 — TRANSPORT Jobs Act. This bill requires the Department of Transportation to create and publish a plan called the Veteran to Supply Chain Employee Action Plan, aimed at helping veterans and transitioning military service members find jobs in the supply chain industry, including port, ocean, rail, and trucking sectors.
HR 3062 — Promoting Cross-border Energy Infrastructure Act. This bill creates a new congressional approval process for energy infrastructure that crosses U.S. borders with Canada or Mexico, replacing the current system based on executive orders.
Promoting Cross-border Energy Infrastructure Act
HR 3400 — TRAVEL Act of 2025. This bill would allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to assign VA physicians to serve as traveling doctors for up to one year, providing health care to veterans in U.S. territories including American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
HR 3423 — Facility for Runway Operations and Safe Transportation Act. The FROST Act would expand the allowed uses of Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grant funds to include storage facilities for aircraft deicing equipment and fluids. Under current law, airports can use AIP funds for deicing structures and equipment but not for storing them.
Facility for Runway Operations and Safe Transportation Act
HR 3424 — SPACE Act of 2025. The SPACE Act of 2025 directs the General Services Administration (GSA) to work with federal agencies to improve shared-space arrangements in federally leased buildings. GSA must identify concerns, develop criteria for expanding space sharing, and set measurable goals in consultation with agency tenants.
HR 3425 — Personnel Oversight and Shift Tracking Act of 2025. This bill directs the Federal Protective Service (FPS) to improve oversight of contracted security personnel guarding federal buildings.
Personnel Oversight and Shift Tracking Act of 2025
HR 3427 — Water Resources Technical Assistance Review Act. This bill requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review EPA programs that provide technical assistance for clean water infrastructure, then report findings and recommendations to Congress.
Water Resources Technical Assistance Review Act
HR 3428 — Mid-Atlantic River Basin Commissions Review Act. This bill requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review and report on the ethics policies, public communications practices, and funding of three Mid-Atlantic river basin commissions: the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, the Delaware River Basin Commission, and the Interstate Commi…
Mid-Atlantic River Basin Commissions Review Act
HR 3481 — Delivering Digitally to Our Veterans Act of 2025. This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to offer an electronic option for veterans to send and receive correspondence related to their VA educational assistance benefits. Veterans must be given the opportunity to opt in to using electronic communication rather than being automatically enrolled.
Delivering Digitally to Our Veterans Act of 2025
HR 3486 — Stop Illegal Entry Act of 2025. This bill increases criminal penalties for non-U.S. nationals who illegally enter the United States and later commit crimes or attempt to reenter. It establishes mandatory minimum prison sentences and raises maximum sentences across several categories of illegal entry and reentry offenses.
Stop Illegal Entry Act of 2025
HR 3494 — VA Hospital Inventory Management System Authorization Act. This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to purchase or develop a cloud-based inventory management system for the Veterans Health Administration. Before a full rollout, the VA would be required to run a pilot program at one VHA facility to confirm the system works satisfactorily.
VA Hospital Inventory Management System Authorization Act
HR 3579 — Veterans Readiness and Employment Program Integrity Act. This bill modifies the VA's Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) program, which provides job training and employment services to veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Veterans Readiness and Employment Program Integrity Act
HR 3767 — Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025. This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to guarantee that participants in its Health Professionals Scholarship Program receive an employment contract within 90 days of completing their studies, through FY2027.
Health Professionals Scholarship Program Improvement Act of 2025
HR 3838 — Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026. This bill sets defense policy and authorizes funding for Department of Defense programs, military construction, and national security activities for fiscal year 2026.
HR 3854 — Modernizing All Veterans and Survivors. This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop and implement technological improvements to how it processes veterans' and survivors' benefit claims, including automation tools and better document management.
Modernizing All Veterans and Survivors
HR 3951 — Rural Veterans’ Improved Access to Benefits Act of 2025. This bill extends and expands a pilot program that allows the VA to contract with non-VA health care professionals to perform disability examinations for veterans, regardless of where those professionals are licensed.
Rural Veterans’ Improved Access to Benefits Act of 2025
Passed the Senate
S 93 — Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2025. This bill extends through FY2030 a federal program addressing harmful algal blooms and low-oxygen conditions in U.S. marine, coastal, and freshwater systems.
Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2025
S 306 — Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025. The Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025 directs NOAA to establish and expand wildfire weather services, including a coordinated fire weather program, a fire weather test bed, and a new Incident Meteorologist Service within the National Weather Service.
S 725 — Enhancing First Response Act. This bill requires the FCC to issue reports and hold public hearings after major communications outages, examine gaps in 9-1-1 outage reporting, and review compliance with existing emergency calling rules.
S 1038 — TRACE Act. The TRACE Act would require the National Institute of Justice to add a new data field to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) indicating whether a missing person was last known to be on federal land or in U.S. territorial waters.
Every bill above links to its full breakdown — purpose, who it affects, both sides of the argument, and how your senators voted. The record is always better than the rumor.
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