#Legislation

Concepts (7)

• DoD ESOP Pilot Program Pilot authority in the Fiscal Year 2022 defense authorization act, introduced as S.2402 by Warren and Tillis, for sole-source follow-on contracts to S corporations owned 100 percent through employee stock ownership plans.
• Epstein Files Transparency Act Statute of November 19, 2025, forced to a House vote by discharge petition, requiring the Attorney General to publish within 30 days the Justice Department's unclassified records on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Statute of October 25, 1978, requiring court orders from a specially designated panel of federal judges for electronic surveillance inside the United States to obtain foreign intelligence information.
• National Security Act of 1947 Statute of July 26, 1947, that created the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Military Establishment, barring the new agency from police, subpoena, law-enforcement or internal-security functions.
• New Jersey UAP Research Law New Jersey law approved January 12, 2026 that pairs an air traffic controller loan redemption program with aviation grants supporting a Center for the Study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, which Kean University is to house.
• Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act The Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), enacted April 20, 2024, reauthorized FISA Section 702 through April 20, 2026, codified modest procedural reforms to FBI querying practices, and defeated a bipartisan warrant amendment by a 212-212 tied House vote.
• Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act Senate amendment of July 2023 by Schumer and Rounds, modeled on the JFK records law, passed with the 2024 defense bill and cut in conference to a National Archives records collection with no review board.