👀 I’m Just a Bill#
A pilot project of the Political Expedition Council#
“I’m just a bill, yes I’m only a bill, and I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill.”
— Schoolhouse Rock 1975
The Schoolhouse Rock cartoon ended in 1975. We’re putting it back — with a verification standard, a 30-Crown Council that crosses every line we’ve drawn, and the kind of plain-language explanation the original cartoon couldn’t do at modern legislative scale.
How it works#
- Real bills. Every Bounty Poster covers a real bill currently in (or recently through) the U.S. Congress.
- Plain language. What is it? What does it actually do? Who votes when? How does it affect ordinary families?
- Cooperative composition. Each poster identifies which Liana Banyan Initiatives the bill structurally affects.
- Shirley Temple Truth Score. Every poster carries a vetting status. 🟡 Provisional = drafted but not yet Council-vetted. 🟢 Verified = 16 of 30 active Council members agreed it meets the standard.
30 Bounty Posters (BP039 launch batch)#
Federal economy + reconciliation#
Social Security + retirement + aging#
Voting + civic#
Safety + protection#
Food + agriculture#
Education + workforce#
Healthcare#
Workplace + family#
Veterans#
Manufacturing + infrastructure#
Privacy + technology#
Housing#
The Council that vets these#
The 30-member Political Expedition Council represents the full cross-section of American public life. See the Council Charter for governance details.
Each Crown letter is published on Cephas at crown-initiative/. When 16 of 30 active Council members agree on a Bounty Poster’s accuracy, the 🟢 Verified badge goes up.
Why “I’m Just a Bill”#
The original Schoolhouse Rock cartoon assumed:
- Citizens have time to read legislation
- Bills are written in language non-lawyers can parse
- Public-facing civic information is non-partisan and trustworthy
None of those assumptions hold anymore. The cartoon ended in 1975 because somebody decided kids didn’t need to know how a bill becomes a vote anymore. We’re putting that back.
With the verification standard, with the Council that crosses every line, with the transparency the original cartoon couldn’t match.
Not Left. Not Right. Forward.
Help Each Other Help Ourselves.
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Rural Electrification 2.0 A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Rural electric cooperative modernization legislation in the 119th Congress, addressing aging rural-electric infrastructure, clean-energy transition financing, and rural-cooperative debt-restructuring options.
What does it actually do? USDA Rural Utilities Service loan modernization Cooperative-utility clean-energy transition financing Rural-broadband + rural-electric infrastructure-coordination provisions Rural-cooperative governance modernization (Crown candidate references abound) How does this affect cooperative-class families? Direct composing structurally — rural electric cooperatives are the legacy cooperative-class infrastructure (~1,000 cooperatives serving ~42 million Americans). Their modernization composes with Liana Banyan’s cooperative-class architecture as kin-cooperative federation potential.
...
👀 Rural Emergency Services Rural EMS funding 119th Congress: volunteer EMS provider provisions · ambulance reimbursement reform · rural-EMS workforce. Composes with Rural Hospital Stabilization + Rural Mental Health + Federal Bus System. 🟡 Provisional. Help Each Other Help Ourselves.
👀 Rural Grocery Tax Credit What Federal rural grocery tax credit in the 119th Congress addressing food-desert formation in rural communities (~30M Americans live more than 10 miles from a grocery store).
What it does Tax credit for grocery operators in designated rural food deserts · cooperative-grocery model preference · USDA technical-assistance integration. Composes #2 Lets Get Groceries (Stacy Mitchell ILSR model directly) · Farm Bill Reauthorization.
🟡 Provisional. Help Each Other Help Ourselves.
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Rural Hospital Stabilization A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Rural hospital stabilization legislation in the 119th Congress addressing the documented closure rate of rural hospitals (~150+ closed since 2010, with hundreds more financially at-risk).
What does it actually do? Enhanced Medicare reimbursement for designated rural hospitals Critical Access Hospital program modernization Rural Emergency Hospital designation expansion Telehealth permanence for rural-hospital service-line continuity Workforce provisions composing with rural mental health legislation How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes with #6 Tatiana Schlossberg Health Accords + #7 MSA. Rural members face the documented care-desert created by hospital closures. The cooperative composes with whatever federal floor exists.
...
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Rural Mental Health Access Act A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Mental health access legislation in the 119th Congress targeting rural and frontier communities where the documented mental-health-provider shortage is most severe.
What does it actually do? Telehealth expansion — extends rural telehealth reimbursement parity Provider recruitment — National Health Service Corps loan-repayment expansion for rural mental-health providers Crisis services — funds rural 988 + Veterans Crisis Line capacity Community Health Workers — funding for non-clinical peer-support roles in rural communities Loan repayment — student-loan forgiveness for mental-health providers serving rural designations Who votes when? Senate HELP + House Energy and Commerce active consideration How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes with #5 The Family Table rural family-care infrastructure, #6 Tatiana Schlossberg Health Accords (rural Galveston-pattern composition), and #8 Defense Klaus rural survivor-class crisis-response.
...
👀 Rural Postal Service Rural postal service protection 119th Congress: rural delivery standard preservation · POStPlan facility reversal · rural-route mail-carrier provisions. Composes with Postal Service Reform + rural infrastructure cluster. 🟡 Provisional. Help Each Other Help Ourselves.
👀 I’m Just a Bill — SAVE Act (H.R.22) Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? The SAVE Act would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for federal voter registration. It was introduced in the 119th Congress and has been a recurring priority for one wing of Congress over multiple sessions.
What does it actually do? In plain language:
...
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Save Local Journalism Act A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Local journalism support legislation in the 119th Congress addressing the documented collapse of local newsrooms (~1/3 of U.S. newspapers closed since 2005; ~200 million Americans live in news deserts).
What does it actually do? Local journalism tax credit — for publishers employing local journalists Subscriber credit — for individual subscribers to local outlets Antitrust safe harbor — limited collective-bargaining authority for news publishers vs platform aggregators Public-interest journalism grants — direct funding for investigative and civic journalism Library/educational use — strengthens fair-use provisions for educational distribution Who votes when? House Ways & Means + Senate Finance + House/Senate Judiciary active consideration How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes with #15 Power-to-the-People Council “I’m Just a Bill” pilot (Bounty Posters are themselves a form of cooperative-class civic journalism), #13 JukeBox (cooperative-class media infrastructure), and PRESS Act Bounty Poster.
...
👀 School Bus Electrification Federal school bus electrification 119th Congress: EPA Clean School Bus Program continuation · Tribal/rural priority · charging-infrastructure. Composes with Save-the-World Paper 2 + Universal Pre-K + School Meals. 🟡 Provisional. Help Each Other Help Ourselves.
👀 I’m Just a Bill — School Counselor Ratio A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Federal funding to lower the student-to-school-counselor ratio (currently ~400:1 average vs ASCA-recommended 250:1).
What does it actually do? Title I funding stream for counselor hiring Title IV Mental-Health-Services funding expansion Tribal/rural priority allocations Multi-tier-system-of-supports framework integration How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes with Save-the-World Paper 12 (Universal Childhood), #5 The Family Table, and Rural Mental Health Access Act Bounty Poster.
...