Raphael Warnock

This resolution designates October 26, 2025, as the Day of the Deployed in honor of the deployed members of the Armed Forces and their families.

Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025

This act requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to increase the amounts payable for wartime disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children. Specifically, the VA must increase the amounts by the same percentage as the cost-of-living increase in benefits for Social Security recipients that is effective on December 1, 2025. The act requires the VA to publish the amounts payable, as increased, in the Federal Register.

The VA is authorized to make a similar adjustment to the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who have not received compensation for service-connected disability or death.

This resolution supports the designation of October 5-11, 2025, as National 4–H Week and recognizes the important role of 4–H as the youth development program of the Cooperative Extension System and the Department of Agriculture.

This resolution expresses support for designating September 2025 as PCOS Awareness Month. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is caused by a hormone imbalance and can cause symptoms such as infertility, weight gain, excess hair growth, and acne.

This joint resolution nullifies the rule titled Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability, which was issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on June 25, 2025.

The rule makes several changes to enrollment requirements for health insurance exchanges, including (1) requiring annual open enrollment periods for all exchanges to begin by November 1 and end by December 31, (2) requiring all exchanges to conduct pre-enrollment verification of eligibility for at least 75% of new enrollments through special enrollment periods, and (3) prohibiting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients from enrolling in plans through exchanges or in state Basic Health Programs (state programs for certain low-income residents).

The rule also prohibits individual and small group health insurers from covering certain sex-trait modification procedures as an essential health benefit.

This resolution expresses support for the goals and ideals of Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month. Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder than can lead to pain, anemia, infections, and stroke.

Veterans Mental Health and Addiction Therapy Quality of Care Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to seek to enter into an agreement with an independent and objective organization to study the difference in quality of mental health and addiction therapy care provided by the VA compared to non-VA providers across various modalities. The organization must publish its findings publicly.

This bill provides for the reliquidation of certain golf cart tires imported into the United States during specified time periods. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) defines liquidation as the final computation or ascertainment of duties on entries for consumption or drawback entries.

Within 90 days of this bill's enactment, CBP must

• reliquidate each entry of K389 Hole-N-One golf cart tires at the rate of duty applicable to such tires under subheading 4011.69.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (the general rate of duty for this subheading is free) on the date of entry, and

• refund with interest any duties previously paid with respect to the entry.

Child Care Access Means Parents In Schools Reauthorization Act or the CCAMPIS Reauthorization Act

This bill reauthorizes through FY2031 and revises the Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program. The program awards grants to support the participation of eligible low-income parents in postsecondary education through the provision of campus-based child care services.

Among other revisions to the program, the bill increases the minimum and maximum grant amounts, allows grant funds to be used for additional purposes (e.g., child care subsidies and support services), and specifies additional grant application requirements.

Protect America's Workforce Act

This bill nullifies two executive orders: Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs (issued on March 27, 2025) and Further Exclusions From the Federal Labor- Management Relations Program (issued on August 28, 2025). The executive orders exclude specified executive branch agencies and subdivisions from the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute and the Foreign Service Labor-Management Relations Statute. The statutes authorize federal employees' participation in collective bargaining and enforce collective bargaining rights.

The bill also specifies that a collective bargaining agreement that is in place as of March 26, 2025, and is between an executive branch agency and any labor organization that is an exclusive representative of federal employees, shall have full force and effect through the stated term of the agreement.

This resolution supports the designation of November 16, 2025, as National Warrior Call Day and encourages individuals to engage with warriors (i.e., members of the Armed Forces and veterans) to connect and provide support.

Driver Reimbursement Increase for Veteran Equity Act of 2025 or the DRIVE Act of 2025

This bill increases the mileage reimbursement rate available to beneficiaries for travel to or from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities in connection with vocational rehabilitation, required counseling, or for the purpose of examination, treatment, or care. Specifically, the bill makes the reimbursement rate for such travel equal to or greater than the mileage reimbursement rate for government employees using private vehicles when no government vehicle is available.

The bill also requires the VA to ensure that an allowance based on mileage is paid not later than 90 days after the request is properly submitted to the VA.

Fertilizer Research Act of 2025

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to publish on the department's website a report on the U.S. fertilizer industry. Among other things, the report must include

• a description of the impacts on the fertilizer industry that influence the prices that agricultural producers receive for their products;

• a description of the size and value of the U.S. fertilizer market over the previous 25 years;

• a description of the importation of fertilizer into the United States and the impacts that antidumping and countervailing duties have on retail fertilizer prices;

• a study of market concentration of the U.S. fertilizer industry;

• an assessment of the regulatory environment governing fertilizer production, distribution, and usage; and

• a description of the extent to which current public price reporting of fertilizer is transparent for market participants and recommendations on whether further reporting is needed.