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I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3448 
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to establish additional payments 
for unborn livestock under the livestock indemnity payment program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2025 
Mr. JACKSON of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to establish addi-
tional payments for unborn livestock under the livestock 
indemnity payment program. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Livestock Indemnity 
Program Enhancement Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘LIP En-
hancement Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL PAYMENT FOR UNBORN LIVESTOCK. 
Section 1501(b) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 
U.S.C. 9081(b)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(5) ADDITIONAL PAYMENT FOR UNBORN LIVE-
STOCK.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In the case of unborn 
livestock death losses incurred on or after Janu-
ary 1, 2025, the Secretary shall make an addi-
tional payment to eligible producers on farms 
that have incurred such losses in excess of the 
normal mortality due to a condition specified in 
paragraph (1). 
‘‘(B) PAYMENT
RATE.—Additional pay-
ments under subparagraph (A) shall be made at 
a rate— 
‘‘(i) determined by the Secretary; and 
‘‘(ii) less than or equal to 85 percent 
of the payment rate established with re-
spect to the lowest weight class of the live-
stock, as determined by the Secretary, act-
ing through the Administrator of the Farm 
Service Agency. 
‘‘(C) PAYMENT AMOUNT.—The amount of 
a payment to an eligible producer that has in-
curred unborn livestock death losses shall be 
equal to the payment rate determined under 
subparagraph (B) multiplied, in the case of live-
stock described in— 
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‘‘(i) subparagraph (A), (B), or (F) of 
subsection (a)(4), by 1; 
‘‘(ii) subparagraph (D) of such sub-
section, by 2; 
‘‘(iii) subparagraph (E) of such sub-
section, by 12; and 
‘‘(iv) subparagraph (G) of such sub-
section, by the average number of birthed 
animals (for one gestation cycle) for the 
species of each such livestock, as deter-
mined by the Secretary. 
‘‘(D) UNBORN LIVESTOCK DEATH LOSSES 
DEFINED.—In this paragraph, the term ‘unborn 
livestock death losses’ means losses of any live-
stock described in subparagraph (A), (B), (D), 
(E), (F), or (G) of subsection (a)(4) that was 
gestating on the date of the death of the live-
stock.’’. 
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I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3449 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to establish a program to provide 
grants to eligible recipients for eligible operating support costs of public 
transportation, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2025 
Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia (for himself, Mr. COHEN, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Ms. 
TLAIB, Mr. FROST, Mr. CLEAVER, Ms. DEAN of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. DOGGETT, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mrs. RA-
MIREZ, Mr. KENNEDY of New York, Mrs. MCIVER, Ms. NORTON, Mr. 
SMITH of Washington, Mrs. SYKES, Mr. GOMEZ, Ms. SIMON, Mr. DAVIS 
of Illinois, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. GARCIA of California, 
Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Mr. MULLIN, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. MCGARVEY, Mr. 
RASKIN, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. 
HORSFORD, Mrs. MCBATH, Ms. MENG, Mr. RUIZ, Mr. CARTER of Lou-
isiana, Ms. TITUS, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. FIELDS, Mr. MORELLE, Ms. SCAN-
LON, Ms. OMAR, Mrs. FOUSHEE, Mr. TONKO, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, 
Ms. ADAMS, Mr. MAGAZINER, Mr. POCAN, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. EVANS of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. LANDSMAN, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. 
JAYAPAL, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. MFUME, Mr. 
DELUZIO, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. THANEDAR, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mrs. BEATTY, 
Ms. BROWN, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. GARCI´A of Illi-
nois, Ms. LEE of Pennsylvania, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. NEAL, Ms. PINGREE, 
Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. SHERMAN, Ms. 
BUDZINSKI, Ms. ANSARI, Mr. NADLER, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, 
Mr. RYAN, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. CASTEN, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. 
GARCIA of Texas, Ms. SHERRILL, Mr. FIGURES, Mr. CASAR, Ms. 
VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. HOULAHAN, Mr. SORENSEN, Mr. HUFFMAN, Ms. 
ESCOBAR, Mr. FOSTER, Ms. CHU, Ms. ROSS, Mr. VARGAS, Ms. 
STANSBURY, Mr. GOLDMAN of New York, Mr. AMO, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, 
Ms. SEWELL, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. HARDER of California, Mr. QUIGLEY, 
Ms. SALINAS, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. BISHOP, and Mr. IVEY) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure 
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(i) The joint resolution shall be re-
ferred to the appropriate committee. 
(ii) If a committee to which a joint 
resolution has been referred has not re-
ported the joint resolution within 5 legisla-
tive days after the date of referral, that 
committee shall be discharged from further 
consideration of the joint resolution. 
(iii) Beginning on the third legislative 
day after each committee to which a joint 
resolution has been referred reports the 
joint resolution to the House or has been 
discharged 
from 
further 
consideration 
thereof, it shall be in order to move to pro-
ceed to consider the joint resolution in the 
House. All points of order against the mo-
tion are waived. Such a motion shall not be 
in order after the House has disposed of a 
motion to proceed on the joint resolution. 
The previous question shall be considered 
as ordered on the motion to its adoption 
without intervening motion. The motion 
shall not be debatable. A motion to recon-
sider the vote by which the motion is dis-
posed of shall not be in order. 
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SEC. 2. CONDITION ON RECEIPT OF CAPITAL INVESTMENT 
GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the Secretary of Transportation may not 
award a capital investment grant described in section 
5338(d) of title 49, United States Code, to the Metropoli-
tan Transportation Authority for a project in New York 
State until the Secretary certifies that any vehicle entering 
the congestion tolling zone using a vehicular crossing 
known as the Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel, or the 
George Washington Bridge, or any other vehicular cross-
ing for the use of crossing immediately before entry into 
the congestion tolling zone, receives an exemption as fol-
lows: The vehicle is credited an amount equal to the toll 
charged to such vehicle for the use of such crossing imme-
diately before entry into the congestion tolling zone from 
the amount of the congestion toll charged to such vehicle 
for purposes of entering the congestion tolling zone. 
(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION FOR GEORGE WASH-
INGTON BRIDGE.—For purposes of subsection (a), a vehi-
cle receives an exemption while crossing the George Wash-
ington Bridge if such vehicle is treated in the same man-
ner as a vehicle crossing the Henry Hudson Bridge is 
treated on the first date on which the congestion toll is 
charged. 
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I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3451 
To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the Bonneville 
Shoreline Trail. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2025 
Mr. KENNEDY of Utah introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the 
feasibility of designating the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. BONNEVILLE SHORELINE TRAIL FEASIBILITY 
STUDY. 
Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 
U.S.C. 1244(c)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(50) BONNEVILLE
SHORELINE
TRAIL.—The 
Bonneville Shoreline Trail, a system of trails and po-
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tential trails extending approximately 280 miles 
from the Idaho-Utah border to Nephi, Utah, fol-
lowing the Bonneville bench that was created by the 
historic Lake Bonneville.’’. 
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I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3453 
To modify the program of grants to support high-quality charter schools. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2025 
Ms. LETLOW (for herself, Ms. TOKUDA, Mr. KILEY of California, Mr. CASE, 
and Mr. CISCOMANI) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Education and Workforce 
A BILL 
To modify the program of grants to support high-quality 
charter schools. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Empower Charter 
School Educators to Lead Act’’. 
SEC. 2. GRANTS TO SUPPORT HIGH-QUALITY CHARTER 
SCHOOLS. 
Section 4303 of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7221b) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Our Con-
stitution and Communities Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND INTENT OF CONGRESS WITH RE-
SPECT TO CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET AND IM-
POUNDMENT CONTROL ACT OF 1974. 
Section 1001 of the Congressional Budget and Im-
poundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 681) is amend-
ed to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 1001. FINDINGS AND INTENT OF CONGRESS. 
‘‘(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
‘‘(1) Article I of the Constitution of the United 
States vests the legislative power, and particularly 
the exclusive power of the purse, in Congress. 
‘‘(2) Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution of 
the United States vests the executive power in the 
President subject to the express obligation that the 
President take care that the laws be faithfully exe-
cuted, including those laws by which Congress exer-
cises its Article I power of the purse. 
‘‘(3) Congress alone has the constitutional 
power to appropriate funds, and the President has 
the obligation to faithfully execute those laws and to 
obligate as well as expend funds that have been law-
fully appropriated. 
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(1) Section 1201(a) of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3801(a)) is amended, in the matter 
preceding paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘subtitles A 
through I:’’ and inserting ‘‘subtitles A through J:’’. 
(2) Section 1241(e)(1) of the Food Security Act 
of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3841(e)(1)) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘subtitle I’’ and inserting ‘‘subtitle J’’. 
(3) Section 1244(d) of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3844(d)) is amended by striking 
‘‘I.’’ and inserting ‘‘J.’’. 
SEC. 3. FUNDING. 
Section 1241 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 
U.S.C. 3841) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by inserting ‘‘and for each of fiscal years 2026 
through 2030 with respect to paragraph (5),’’ 
after ‘‘2031,’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) The forest conservation easement program 
established under subtitle I, using $100,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b), by inserting ‘‘, and each 
of fiscal years 2026 through 2030 with respect to 
paragraph (5) of that subsection,’’ after ‘‘2031’’. 
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‘‘SEC. 1018. JUSTICIABILITY. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—If, under this part, budget au-
thority is required to be made available for obligation or 
expenditure and such budget authority is not made avail-
able for obligation or expenditure, such action or failure 
to take action shall constitute final agency action within 
the meaning of section 704 of title 5, United States Code. 
Such action or failure to act is not committed to agency 
discretion by law within the meaning of section 701 of title 
5, United States Code. 
‘‘(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—This section shall 
not be construed to prevent the President from proposing 
budget authority for deferral or rescission under section 
1012 or 1013. 
‘‘SEC. 1019. SEVERABILITY. 
‘‘If any provision of this Act, or the application there-
of, is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this 
Act and its application to other circumstances shall not 
be affected thereby.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impound-
ment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 note) is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 1017 the 
following new items: 
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‘‘Sec. 1018. Justiciability. 
‘‘Sec. 1019. Severability.’’. 
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I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3460 
To prohibit employment discrimination against whistleblowers reporting AI 
security vulnerabilities or AI violations, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2025 
Mr. OBERNOLTE (for himself and Mr. LIEU) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce 
A BILL 
To prohibit employment discrimination against whistleblowers 
reporting AI security vulnerabilities or AI violations, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘AI Whistleblower Pro-
tection Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) AI SECURITY VULNERABILITY.—The term 
‘‘AI security vulnerability’’ means any failure or 
lapse in security that could potentially allow emerg-
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ing artificial intelligence technology to be acquired 
by a person (including a foreign entity) by theft or 
other means. 
(2) AI VIOLATION.—The term ‘‘AI violation’’ 
means— 
(A) any violation of Federal law, including 
rules and regulations, related to or committed 
during the development, deployment, or use of 
artificial intelligence; or 
(B) any failure to appropriately respond to 
a substantial and specific danger that the devel-
opment, deployment, or use of artificial intel-
ligence may pose to public safety, public health, 
or national security. 
(3) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.—The term ‘‘ar-
tificial intelligence’’ includes any of the following: 
(A) An artificial system that performs 
tasks under varying and unpredictable cir-
cumstances without significant human over-
sight, or that can learn from experience and im-
prove performance when exposed to data sets. 
(B) An artificial system developed in com-
puter software, physical hardware, or other con-
text that solves tasks requiring human-like per-
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(B) in subsection (b)— 
(i) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘; 
or’’ and inserting ‘‘or knowingly failed to 
comply with a requirement under section 
2258A;’’; 
(ii) in paragraph (2)(C)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘sections’’ and in-
serting ‘‘this section or section’’; and 
(II) by striking the period and 
inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) for purposes of subsection (a)(2)(C), 
knowingly distributed or transmitted the material, or 
made the material available, except as required by 
law, to— 
‘‘(A) any other entity; 
‘‘(B) any person not employed by the pro-
vider or domain name registrar; or 
‘‘(C) any person employed by the provider 
or domain name registrar who is not conducting 
any research described in that subsection.’’; 
(3) in section 2258C— 
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(4) PROCEDURE
FOR
GRANTING
IMMIGRANT 
STATUS.—Section 204 of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1154) 
is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a)(1)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking 
‘‘to classification by reason of a relation-
ship described in paragraph (1), (3), or (4) 
of section 203(a) or’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) in clause (i), by redesignating 
the second subclause (I) as subclause 
(II); and 
(II) by striking ‘‘203(a)(2)(A)’’ 
each place such terms appear and in-
serting ‘‘203(a)’’; and 
(iii) in subparagraph (D)(i)(I), by 
striking ‘‘a petitioner’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘(a)(1)(B)(iii).’’ and inserting ‘‘an 
individual younger than 21 years of age for 
purposes of adjudicating such petition and 
for purposes of admission as an immediate 
relative under section 201(b)(2)(A)(i) or a 
family-sponsored immigrant under section 
203(a), as appropriate, notwithstanding 
the actual age of the individual.’’; 
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(ii) by striking ‘‘November 15, 2026’’ 
and inserting ‘‘November 15, 2030’’; and 
(9) in subsection (l), as so redesignated— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in subparagraph (B), by inserting 
‘‘the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs,’’ after ‘‘the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary,’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (C), by inserting 
‘‘the Committee on Homeland Security,’’ 
after ‘‘the Committee on the Judiciary,’’; 
(B) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(3) 
through (6) as paragraphs (4) through (7), re-
spectively; 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 
following new paragraph (3): 
‘‘(3) The term ‘unified combatant command’ 
has the meaning given that term in section 161 of 
this title.’’; and 
(D) in paragraph (4), as redesignated by 
subparagraph (B)— 
(i) in clause (viii), by striking ‘‘; or’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
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(ii) in clause (ix), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting a semicolon; 
and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new clauses: 
‘‘(x) protection of the buildings, 
grounds, and property to which the public 
are not permitted regular, unrestricted ac-
cess and that are under the jurisdiction, 
custody, or control of the Department of 
Defense and the persons on that property 
pursuant to section 2672 of this title; 
‘‘(xi) assistance to Federal, State, or 
local officials in responding to incidents in-
volving nuclear, radiological, biological, or 
chemical weapons, high-yield explosives, or 
related materials or technologies, including 
pursuant to section 282 of this title or the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5121 et seq); 
‘‘(xii) 
activities 
listed 
in 
section 
2692(b) of this title; or 
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‘‘(xiii) emergency response that is lim-
ited to a specified timeframe and loca-
tion.’’. 
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I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3464 
To establish the State Border Security Reinforcement Fund and the State 
Criminal Alien Prosecution and Detention Fund, to make appropriations 
to each of these funds, and to authorize the use of such amounts 
for grants to eligible States, State agencies, and units of local government 
for specified purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2025 
Mr. ROY (for himself, Mr. PFLUGER, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. ELLZEY, Mr. 
GOLDEN of Maine, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. MORAN, and Mr. MCCAUL) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish the State Border Security Reinforcement Fund 
and the State Criminal Alien Prosecution and Detention 
Fund, to make appropriations to each of these funds, 
and to authorize the use of such amounts for grants 
to eligible States, State agencies, and units of local gov-
ernment for specified purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘State Border Security 
Assistance Act’’. 
SEC. 2. STATE BORDER SECURITY REINFORCEMENT FUND. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT
OF FUND.—There is estab-
lished, in the Department of Homeland Security, a fund, 
which shall be known as the ‘‘State Border Security Rein-
forcement Fund’’ (referred to in this section as the 
‘‘Fund’’). The Secretary of Homeland Security shall use 
amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for the 
Fund for grants to eligible States, State agencies, includ-
ing National Guard units, and units of local government 
for any of the following purposes: 
(1) Construction or installation of a border 
wall, border fencing, or other barriers or buoys along 
the southern border of the United States, which may 
include planning, procurement of materials, and per-
sonnel costs related to such construction. 
(2) Any work necessary to prepare the ground 
at or near the United States border to allow con-
struction or maintenance of a border wall or other 
barrier fencing or effective surveillance. 
(3) Information-gathering and surveillance to 
detect and interdict the unlawful entry of persons or 
contraband across the United States border. 
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