
SEPTEMBER 2025 LEGISLATION DOCKET
National Speech & Debate Association • updated 8/25/25
SEPTEMBER 2025 DOCKET
A Bill to Fund the Completion of the East Coast Greenway 3
A Bill to Ban the Wearing of Non-PPE Masks by Federal Law Enforcement Agents 4
A Bill to Amend the Home Rule Law to Strengthen Executive Power 5
A Bill to Provide for Automatic Facial Copyrighting 6
A Bill to Modernize Aerial Light Celebrations 7
The Bye-Bye One Big Beautiful Bill Act (BBOBBBA) 8
A Bill to End Federal Subsidization of Healthcare for Congresspeople 9
A Bill to Fund and Encourage Public Composting Initiatives 10
A Bill to Provide a Simple, Common-Sense Resolution to the Hudson Islands Dispute 11
A Resolution to Encourage the Criminalization of Vehicular Pet Abandonment 12
A Bill to Fund the Completion of the East Coast Greenway
- BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
- SECTION 1. Congress shall allocate $500 million per year for each of the next five years to the
- Department of Transportation (DOT) to fund completion of the approximately 2,000
- remaining miles of the East Coast Greenway (ECG), thereby linking Calais, Maine, to Key
- West, Florida, with trails built for pedestrians and cyclists.
- SECTION 2. The DOT shall oversee the implementation of this legislation and shall be tasked with
- designing an efficient, equitable, accessible process by which states and other jurisdictions
8 may apply for and receive funding to complete their portions of the ECG.
- SECTION 3. This legislation shall take effect at the start of the next congressional fiscal year.
- SECTION 4. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
A Bill to Ban the Wearing of Non-PPE Masks by Federal Law Enforcement Agents
- BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
- SECTION 1. No federal law enforcement agent, including those working for Immigration and Customs
- Enforcement (ICE), shall obscure their face in the line of duty unless to do so is medically
- indicated or otherwise legitimately required for the safe and effective discharge of their
- duties.
- SECTION 2. Federal law enforcement agents are specifically forbidden from wearing facemasks for
- purposes of intimidation or to disguise their identities from the public.
- SECTION 3. Any federal law enforcement agent found to be in violation of this legislation shall be
- issued a formal warning on first offense, placed on two weeks of unpaid leave on second
- offense, and terminated on third offense. Any federal agent in a supervisory role who is
- found to have ordered their employees to violate this legislation shall be immediately and
- permanently terminated.
- SECTION 4. This legislation shall be jointly overseen by the Occupational Safety and Health
- Administration (OSHA), which shall be tasked with determining which situations do and do
- not require federal law enforcement agents to obscure their faces with personal protective
- equipment (PPE), and the Department of Justice, which shall be tasked with general
- enforcement.
- SECTION 5. This legislation shall take effect immediately upon passage.
- SECTION 6. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
A Bill to Amend the Home Rule Law to Strengthen Executive Power
- BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
- SECTION 1. Section 740(b–c) of Public Law 93–198 (the District of Columbia Home Rule Act) shall be
- amended such that no time limit is imposed on the right of the President of the United
- States to seize control of the Metropolitan Police Force of the Federal District.
- SECTION 2. Henceforth, should the President take command of the Metropolitan Police Force, such
- control shall only terminate through the President’s voluntary relinquishment or resulting
- from a joint resolution of the Senate and the House of Representatives explicitly ordering
- the end of such a state of affairs.
- SECTION 3. This legislation shall take effect immediately upon passage.
- SECTION 4. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
A Bill to Provide for Automatic Facial Copyrighting
- BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
- SECTION 1. All citizens and residents of the United States and its territories henceforth shall
- automatically possess full and unconditional copyright on their own faces and any images
- or likenesses thereof, excluding normal exceptions such as Fair Use.
- SECTION 2. Any person, corporation, or other entity wishing to use a citizen or resident’s face in a
- manner protected by copyright law must obtain explicit written permission and provide
- just compensation or face civil and, under extreme circumstances, criminal penalties. This
- shall include any future usage of faces by artificial intelligence services.
- SECTION 3. When a citizen or resident passes away, the copyright to their face shall pass to their heirs
- of beneficiaries as part of their estate. If none are named, relevant laws of interstate
- succession shall come to bear. The copyright shall remain enforceable by its rightful
- owner(s) for 70 years following the death of its original owner, after which point the face in
- question shall enter the public domain. This provision shall not apply retroactively to those
- who are already deceased at the time this legislation takes effect.
- SECTION 4. The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress shall oversee implementation of this
- legislation.
- SECTION 5. This legislation shall take effect on January 1, 2026.
- SECTION 6. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
A Bill to Modernize Aerial Light Celebrations
- BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
- SECTION 1. Municipalities throughout the United States and its territories are hereby banned from
- staging elaborate fireworks shows to commemorate holidays, festivals, and other
- celebrations.
- SECTION 2. In lieu of fireworks shows, municipalities are encouraged to stage large-scale drone light
- shows instead.
- SECTION 3. This legislation shall be jointly overseen by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
- Explosives (ATF) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
- SECTION 4. This legislation shall take effect on January 2, 2026.
- SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
The Bye-Bye One Big Beautiful Bill Act (BBOBBBA)
- BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
- SECTION 1. Public Law 119–21 (the One Big Beautiful Bill Act) is hereby fully and unconditionally
- repealed, with all relevant statutes to be restored to their statuses prior to that legislation.
- SECTION 2. This legislation shall take effect immediately upon passage.
- SECTION 3. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
A Bill to End Federal Subsidization of Healthcare for Congresspeople
- BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
- SECTION 1. Elected members of federal Congress (Representatives and Senators) shall no longer
- receive any employer contributions from the federal government toward their healthcare
- costs, including dental and vision insurance. Should a Representative or Senator choose to
- purchase health, dental, or vision coverage, they shall be responsible for covering these
- costs on their own.
- SECTION 2. Should universal healthcare someday be provided to citizens of the United States and its
- territories, Representatives and Senators shall of course reap these benefits along with
- their constituents, unless specifically excluded from them.
- SECTION 3. The money saved through this legislation shall be redirected to the Centers for Medicare &
- Medicaid Services (CMS) to support insurance for those in need.
- SECTION 4. This legislation shall take effect on January 1, 2026.
- SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
A Bill to Fund and Encourage Public Composting Initiatives
- BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
- SECTION 1. Congress shall establish a fund of $2 billion to support municipalities throughout the United
- States and its territories in establishing public composting programs.
- SECTION 2. To be eligible for these funds, a municipality must propose a program that makes
- composting accessible and functional to its citizens free of charge (or as part of whatever
- fees they already pay for waste services), and which also creates regular opportunities for
- citizens to obtain mature compost for gardening and other personal uses.
- SECTION 3. This legislation shall be overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which
- shall be specifically tasked with establishing an equitable and efficient system for
- municipalities to apply for and receive these funds.
- SECTION 4. This legislation shall take effect at the start of the next fiscal year.
- SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
A Bill to Provide a Simple, Common-Sense Resolution to the Hudson Islands Dispute
- BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
- SECTION 1. The Hudson River islands of Ellis Island, Liberty Island, and Shooters Island shall henceforth
- exist entirely under the dominion of New Jersey and shall be shared in no part with New
- York.
- SECTION 2. Those portions of these islands that are under federal ownership and operation shall
- continue to be administered in the same manner.
- SECTION 3. This legislation shall take effect on January 1, 2026.
- SECTION 4. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
A Resolution to Encourage the Criminalization of Vehicular Pet Abandonment
1 | WHEREAS | It is estimated that hundreds of pets die from being abandoned in cars every year; and |
2 | WHEREAS | These deaths can occur not just due to heat but also due to cold, thirst, and other factors |
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| besides; and |
4 | WHEREAS | In many parts of the United States and its territories, there are no laws protecting pets from |
- such mistreatment, and those laws that exist elsewhere are often too vague to be
- meaningfully enforceable; and
- WHEREAS Pet ownership is a privilege, not a right, and one which requires significant maturity and
- responsibility; now, therefore be it
- RESOLVED by the Congress here assembled that all jurisdictions throughout these United States are
- encouraged to enact tough laws that protect pets by criminalizing their abandonment in
- motor vehicles under any and all circumstances; and be it
- FURTHER RESOLVED that Congress also urges the passage of Good Samaritan laws that protect others
- from entering a vehicle without the owner’s permission to rescue an abandoned pet, even
- if to do so would result in damage to the vehicle.