# American Stability and Long-Term Prosperity Act

## Legislative architecture (working draft — Version 2, 2026)

This outline is for use by congressional staff, the Office of Legislative Counsel, committee professional staff, and CBO/JCT scoring teams. It is **not** introduced statutory text and **not** a CBO score.

**Short title:** American Stability and Long-Term Prosperity Act

**Long title:** A bill to restore long-term federal fiscal sustainability, protect middle-income households from the costs of consolidation, close measurable outcome gaps with peer democracies, modernize the institutional capacity of the United States Government, and for other purposes.

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### Title I — Findings, Purposes, and Definitions
Regular order. Senate Budget; House Budget. New title.

Congressional findings, including the ten measurable gaps versus peer democracies; purposes (fiscal restoration, middle-class protection, intergenerational stewardship, human flourishing); definitions, including the $40,000–$150,000 hold-harmless band and the well-being impact statement; intergenerational equity as a procedural framing standard.

### Title II — Revenue Optimization
Reconciliation-eligible (carbon fee may need a separate vehicle). Senate Finance; House Ways and Means. Title 26; Title 19; Title 31.

Corporate tax modernization; capital gains and carried interest; estate and transfer tax; IRS modernization with audit-rate guarantees below $400,000 AGI; carbon pricing and border adjustment; tax-expenditure restructuring; information reporting.

### Title III — Spending Efficiency and Entitlement Sustainability
Most subtitles reconciliation-eligible. Titles 42, 10, 20, 18, 40, 31.

Social Security solvency; Medicare site-neutral payment; drug-price negotiation expansion; defense procurement reform; program consolidation; higher-education subsidy restructuring; means-testing refinement; federal real estate; criminal-justice modernization (partnered with Title VIII D7); improper-payment reduction (partnered with Title VIII D10).

### Title IV — Growth Acceleration and Strategic Investment
Mixed vehicles; immigration requires regular order.

Infrastructure; clean power and grid; workforce accounts; universal pre-K; skills-based legal immigration (implementation architecture in Title VIII D9); R&D; small business and regional development; strategic manufacturing.

### Title V — Planetary Stewardship and Climate Resilience
Mixed; substantial regular-order requirements.

National climate fiscal strategy; fossil-fuel subsidy phase-out and just transition; green infrastructure; natural capital; Climate Resilience Reserve Fund; international climate finance.

### Title VI — Institutional Integrity and Generational Investment
Regular order. Titles 2, 31, 5, 44.

Independent Fiscal Council; fiscal rules; long-horizon governance; digital government; ethics modernization; intergenerational equity framework; **Well-Being Impact Standard** for any legislation with a ten-year fiscal effect above $10 billion; Generational Investment Framework; American Sovereign Wealth Fund.

### Title VII — Oversight, Reporting, and Accountability
Regular order.

Annual CBO implementation-status scoring; GAO audits; joint oversight committee; public dashboard; Independent Fiscal Council annual scorecard; automatic stabilizers; sunset reviews at Years 5, 10, and 15; D9 immigration-data reporting; D10 digital-infrastructure security, privacy, and once-only compliance; emergency exceptions; severability.

### Title VIII — Human Flourishing and Societal Infrastructure
Regular order; independently scored; individual subtitles may move on separate vehicles.

- Subtitle A — Universal primary care and public-option coverage (D1)
- Subtitle B — Maternal, infant, and family-leave continuity (D2)
- Subtitle C — Teacher Corps and K–12 modernization (D3)
- Subtitle D — Dual-track vocational and higher-education reform (D4)
- Subtitle E — Social housing and housing-cost stabilization (D5)
- Subtitle F — Mental health parity and 988 infrastructure (D6)
- Subtitle G — Criminal justice and corrections modernization (D7)
- Subtitle H — Community violence intervention and firearm public health (D8)
- Subtitle I — Points-plus-employer immigration modernization (D9)
- Subtitle J — Digital public infrastructure / once-only government (D10)

Each subtitle carries an explicit hold-harmless declaration, a five-year sunset with affirmative reauthorization, and a findings clause naming the international precedent.

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Full working draft (PDF, Version 2 default): `/documents/american-stability-and-long-term-prosperity-act.pdf`

Version 1 archive: `/documents/american-stability-and-long-term-prosperity-act-v1.pdf`