President Donald Trump signed four bills into law Friday, September 11, including measures addressing federal spending transparency, disaster tax relief, an emergency medical services memorial and land-use restrictions in Kentucky, the White House announced.
Spending transparency and disaster tax relief
H.R. 2069, the Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025, expands the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to cover other transaction agreements.
The law gives the Department of the Treasury up to three years to make data on those agreements automatically available through a centralized view on USAspending.gov. Within one year, Treasury must begin publishing annual reports showing how much federal award spending agencies have not posted to the site and explaining why those records remain unavailable. The law also strengthens data-quality standards and inspector general oversight.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated in May that the bill would add less than $500,000 in federal administrative costs over the 2026-2031 period.
H.R. 5366, the Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act, allows eligible taxpayers to deduct qualified disaster losses without itemizing and without applying the usual 10% adjusted-gross-income threshold to those losses. The provision covers qualifying major disasters with incident periods beginning from December 28, 2019, through December 31, 2026.
The law also excludes qualified wildfire relief payments received in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025, from gross income under specified conditions. The wildfire provision covers federally declared fires from 2015 through 2026 and bars a double tax benefit for the same loss.
An April CBO estimate projected that H.R. 5366 would reduce federal receipts by $408 million over the 2026-2036 period.
Land and memorial measures
H.R. 1276 directs the interior secretary to remove existing deed restrictions from approximately 3.62 acres at the Paducah Memorial Army Reserve Center in Kentucky. The city may transfer the property only to the Oscar Cross Boys & Girls Club of Paducah, and future development must remain compatible with public or recreational use.
H.R. 2196, the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Extension Act, gives the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation seven years from enactment to establish a commemorative work on federal land in the District of Columbia and its environs honoring emergency medical services personnel.
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