WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump signed four bills into law Friday that expand federal spending transparency, extend tax relief for disaster victims, preserve authority for a national emergency medical services memorial, and remove federal restrictions from land in Paducah, Kentucky.
The Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025, H.R. 2069, brings “other transaction agreements” under federal spending-transparency requirements, including reporting through USAspending.gov. The agreements are an alternative contracting mechanism used by federal agencies. Congressional materials show the measure cleared the House Oversight Committee 40-0 in March.
The legislation expands the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to cover those agreements and establishes related data standards, oversight, and reporting requirements. A Senate version introduced in 2025 called for the Treasury Department to establish the necessary data standards within three years.
Trump also signed the Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act, H.R. 5366, extending federal tax treatment intended to reduce the financial burden on households recovering from federally declared disasters.
The law extends the deduction for qualified disaster-related personal casualty losses and excludes qualified wildfire relief payments from gross income. House tax-writing materials described the legislation as extending more favorable treatment for personal casualty losses and preserving the exclusion for qualifying wildfire payments tied to eligible disaster declarations.
The House passed H.R. 5366 by voice vote in April, and the Senate passed it by unanimous consent Aug. 7 before sending it to Trump. The measure was renamed for the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California, who had worked on disaster tax relief legislation.
H.R. 2196, the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Extension Act, extends the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation’s authority to establish a commemorative work on federal land in Washington honoring the service of emergency medical services personnel.
Congressional materials show the legislation extends authorization for the memorial through Nov. 3, 2032. Congress originally authorized the memorial under a 2018 law.
The fourth measure, H.R. 1276, directs the Interior Department to remove deed restrictions from approximately 3.62 acres previously conveyed by the federal government to Paducah, Kentucky.
The restrictions covered provisions including easements, reservations, terms, conditions and covenants contained in the federal quitclaim deed. The law directs the Interior secretary to execute the documents necessary to remove them.
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