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American Productive Capacity Authority Act (Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure)
The ANCSA-anchored variant.
The American Productive Capacity Authority Act (Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure variant) establishes the American Productive Capacity Authority as a federally chartered citizen-shareholder corporation modeled directly on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971), with twelve Regional Corporations plus a thirteenth at-large, non-transferable shares to every citizen at birth or enactment, and a 75% citizen distribution from Section 7(i)-equivalent pooled revenue. The variant explicitly declines to establish an industry assessment. Offered to any legislator or constituent group to introduce, adapt, or campaign on; the full draft follows, with the verification chain folded at the end.
UNITED STATES CONGRESS 119th Congress, 2nd Session 2026
H.R. ____ S. ____
BY __________ (Introduced by request)
CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AUTHORITY AS A FEDERALLY CHARTERED CITIZEN-SHAREHOLDER CORPORATION, MODELED CLOSELY ON THE ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT OF 1971, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, AUTHORIZING TREASURY BORROWING UP TO ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS, ESTABLISHING REVENUE POOLING AND CITIZEN-SHAREHOLDER DISTRIBUTION MECHANISMS, AND PROVIDING EFFECTIVE DATES.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
LONG TITLE
AN ACT CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AUTHORITY (APCA) AS A FEDERALLY CHARTERED CITIZEN-SHAREHOLDER CORPORATION UNDER THE MODEL OF THE ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT OF 1971; ENACTING NEW SECTIONS OF TITLE 15 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE; CHARTERING TWELVE REGIONAL APCA CORPORATIONS ON THE ANCSA REGIONAL CORPORATION MODEL WITH AN ADDITIONAL AT-LARGE CORPORATION FOR CITIZENS NOT DOMICILED IN A NUMBERED REGION; ISSUING NON-TRANSFERABLE SHARES TO EVERY UNITED STATES CITIZEN AT BIRTH OR ENACTMENT, INHERITABLE OR GIFTABLE TO OTHER UNITED STATES CITIZENS BUT NOT SALABLE; ESTABLISHING A SECTION 7(i)-EQUIVALENT REVENUE POOLING MECHANISM REQUIRING SEVENTY PERCENT (70%) OF EACH REGIONAL CORPORATION'S PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY REVENUE TO BE SHARED ACROSS REGIONS; ESTABLISHING A SECTION 7(j)-EQUIVALENT CITIZEN-SHAREHOLDER DISTRIBUTION MECHANISM PAYING SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT (75%) OF POOLED REVENUE TO CITIZEN SHAREHOLDERS ANNUALLY; AUTHORIZING TREASURY BORROWING UP TO ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS UNDER THE MODEL OF TITLE 39 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE (UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE); ESTABLISHING AN AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY PERMANENT FUND ON THE ALASKA PERMANENT FUND MODEL; EXPLICITLY DECLINING TO ESTABLISH AN INDUSTRY ASSESSMENT OR INDUSTRY SURCHARGE OF ANY KIND ON DOMESTIC INDUSTRY; PROVIDING THAT ALL OPERATING REVENUE OF THE AUTHORITY SHALL BE DERIVED FROM AT-COST SALES OF GOODS PRODUCED BY THE AUTHORITY AND FROM INVESTMENT EARNINGS OF THE PERMANENT FUND; ESTABLISHING A PHASED IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE; AUTHORIZING THE AUTHORITY TO COORDINATE WITH FEDERAL FUSION ENERGY PROGRAMS FOR ELECTRICAL POWER PROCUREMENT; AND PROVIDING EFFECTIVE DATES FOR IMPLEMENTATION.
LEGISLATIVE ROUTING NOTE
FILING PROCEDURE: This Act shall be filed as a joint resolution with companion bills in the House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT: - House Committee on Financial Services (Title II Treasury borrowing, citizen-shareholder corporation structure) - House Committee on Energy and Commerce (Title III productive capacity, fusion energy procurement) - House Committee on Natural Resources (ANCSA precedent and analogous citizen-corporation framework) - House Committee on Armed Services (Title III DOE national laboratory siting) - House Committee on Ways and Means (Title II distribution tax treatment) - House Committee on Agriculture (at-cost food production) - Companion Senate referrals to: Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Indian Affairs (for ANCSA precedent expertise); Armed Services; Energy and Natural Resources; Finance; Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
FISCAL IMPACT: This variant authorizes initial federal appropriations of twenty billion dollars ($20,000,000,000) total in start-up capital (Section 12) and one hundred billion dollars ($100,000,000,000) in Treasury borrowing authority (Section 11). It establishes NO industry assessment or industry surcharge. The Congressional Budget Office shall prepare a fiscal impact statement pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 602.
FLOOR VOTE: Passage requires a constitutional majority in each chamber.
CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS: Commerce Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3); Necessary and Proper Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18); General Welfare Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1); precedent of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 and the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 (Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 297 U.S. 288 (1936)).
LEGISLATIVE DECLARATION
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
THE PARAMOUNT DECLARATION OF THIS ACT
(I) ON THE WORD "ROBOT", ITS ORIGIN AND ITS CORRECT MEANING.
The word "robot" entered the English language from the Czech-language play "R.U.R." (Rossumovi Univerzalni Roboti, "Rossum's Universal Robots") by Karel Capek, first published in 1920 and first produced on the stage in Prague on January 25, 1921. The word was coined for the play by Karel Capek's brother, the painter and writer Josef Capek, who proposed it during the writing of the manuscript. The Czech root "robota" denotes physical labor, drudgery, or assigned work, and is cognate with the Old Church Slavonic "rabota" (servitude, work). From the moment of its first published appearance, the word "robot" has named what it still names today: a constructed machine that performs physical labor on behalf of a human being.
This Act adopts the word in its original Capek meaning. A "robot," within the meaning of this Act, is a physical machine, of any form factor, humanoid, stationary, mobile, aerial, sub-scale, or fixed-installation, that perceives its surroundings, accepts instruction, and performs physical labor in response. Humanoid form is one category among many. The word names function, not form.
(II) THE PARAMOUNT RIGHT OF EVERY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES.
The Congress finds that the productive technology now reaching deployment scale, as documented in the verification notes preceding this Act and in the legislative findings of Section 1, creates the material precondition for a right not previously possible in the history of any human civilization: the right of every citizen of the United States to a personal productive asset capable of performing physical labor on the citizen's behalf.
The Congress further finds that this right is paramount among the provisions of this Act. The corporate form of the American Productive Capacity Authority under Title I, the funding architecture of Title II, the operational provisions of Title III (including the Civic Robot Corps established under Section 17A), the citizen service architecture of Title IV (including the Personal Productive Asset entitlement established under Section 19A), the Terminal Configuration of Title V, and every other operational feature of this Act exist for the purpose of effectuating the right declared in this subsection. Where a conflict arises between any operational provision and the right declared in this subsection, the right declared in this subsection governs.
The Congress further finds that the right declared in this subsection is unalienable. It is held by every citizen of the United States, born within or naturalized into the United States, without distinction. It is not contingent on the citizen's employment status, residence, income, political affiliation, service to country, or any other condition. The right is the citizen's to claim or to decline. No claim shall be conditioned upon any political, ideological, or behavioral test.
(III) PROPOSED ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
The Congress hereby proposes the following Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, to be submitted to the Legislatures of the several States for ratification under the procedure of Article V of the Constitution. This proposed Article of Amendment is reproduced verbatim below, and the Congress further finds that the ratification of this Article of Amendment by the States is the principal constitutional objective of this Act:
ARTICLE [TO BE DESIGNATED UPON RATIFICATION] OF AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
"Section 1. The right of every citizen of the United States,
whether born within or naturalized into the United States, to a
personal productive asset of a kind defined by law, shall not be
infringed.
"Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this Article
by appropriate legislation, including the establishment of the
means by which the asset is designed, manufactured, distributed,
maintained, and, where elected by the citizen, deployed.
"Section 3. No citizen shall be compelled to accept, possess, or
operate the asset described in Section 1. The right is the
citizen's to claim or to decline, and no benefit, privilege, or
right of citizenship shall be conditioned upon the claim of the
asset.
"Section 4. Nothing in this Article shall be construed to alter
the provisions of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, or Tenth Articles of
Amendment. The asset described in Section 1 is a productive
instrument and is not a weapon within the meaning of the Second
Article of Amendment."
The Archivist of the United States shall transmit this proposed Article of Amendment to the Legislatures of the several States not later than ninety (90) days after the date of enactment of this Act, in accordance with the procedure of Article V of the Constitution of the United States.
(IV) THE OPERATIONAL MANDATE PRECEDES RATIFICATION.
The right declared in subsection (II), and the corresponding entitlement provided for under Section 19A of this Act, are operational mandates of this Act and shall be honored by the American Productive Capacity Authority from the date of enactment of this Act, irrespective of the status of the constitutional amendment process initiated under subsection (III). The proposed Article of Amendment is the formal constitutional codification of a right this Act creates as a matter of operational federal law and which the Authority is required to effectuate as a matter of operational federal law.
SECTION 1. Legislative findings and declaration.
The Congress hereby finds and declares as follows:
FINDINGS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN LINEAGE OF THIS ACT:
(1) THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS POSTAL PRECEDENT (1775). On July 26, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the United States Post Office and appointed Benjamin Franklin as the first Postmaster General. The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 reorganized the United States Postal Service as an independent establishment of the executive branch, with fifteen-billion-dollar Treasury borrowing authority under Title 39 of the United States Code. The USPS structural model demonstrates that a federally chartered entity can be self-funded by service revenue, backed by Treasury borrowing, and operate continuously for two and a half centuries.
(2) THE NIXON-ERA ANCSA PRECEDENT (1971). On December 18, 1971, President Richard Nixon signed into law the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, codified at 43 U.S.C. Chapter 33. The Act extinguished all aboriginal title to remaining acreage in Alaska in exchange for the federal transfer of forty-four million acres of land and $962.5 million in cash (approximately $7.4 billion in 2024 dollars) to twelve Regional Corporations chartered under Alaska state corporate law and to more than two hundred subordinate village corporations. Every Alaska Native enrolled before December 18, 1971, received one hundred shares in the appropriate Regional Corporation and one hundred shares in the appropriate village corporation. Those shares were and remain inheritable to lineal descendants or transferable as a gift to other Alaska Natives, but they cannot be sold to outside capital. Section 7(i) of the Act requires that seventy percent of all revenues received by each Regional Corporation from timber resources and the subsurface estate be shared with the other eleven Regional Corporations on a per-shareholder basis. Section 7(j) requires that fifty percent of the Section 7(i) pooled revenue pass through to the village corporations and at-large shareholders. The Arctic Slope Regional Corporation reported $5.7 billion in revenue for 2024 and announced a record $122 per share dividend in December 2025 to more than fourteen thousand shareholders. After fifty-five years of operation, ANCSA has not been politically reversed. **THIS VARIANT ADOPTS THE ANCSA STRUCTURE AS ITS PRIMARY CHARTERING MODEL.**
(3) THE FDR-ERA TVA PRECEDENT (1933). On May 18, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, codified at 16 U.S.C. Chapter 12A. The TVA was chartered as a federal corporation. After ninety-three years of operation across every Presidential administration since 1933, the TVA structural model has been preserved across deeply divergent political cycles. **THIS VARIANT ADOPTS THE TVA FEDERAL CORPORATION FORM** while emphasizing the ANCSA shareholder structure as the operating posture.
(4) THE ALASKAN PERMANENT FUND PRECEDENT (1976). In 1976, the citizens of Alaska amended their state constitution to add Article 9, Section 15, establishing the Alaska Permanent Fund. The principal of the Fund cannot be spent; only earnings may be appropriated. The 2025 Permanent Fund Dividend was set at one thousand dollars per resident by Alaska House Bill 53; the 2024 dividend was $1,702. **THIS VARIANT ESTABLISHES AN AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY PERMANENT FUND ON THE ALASKA MODEL** as the long-term capital base of the Authority.
FINDINGS RELATING TO THE VARIANT POSTURE:
(5) NO INDUSTRY ASSESSMENT. This variant declines to establish an industry assessment, industry surcharge, or any other tax of any kind on any domestic industry. The Hybrid variant draws on the Universal Service Fund precedent (47 U.S.C. 254) and the FCC v. Consumers' Research SCOTUS decision (June 27, 2025) to authorize an industry assessment of up to five percent. This Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure variant explicitly does not. The Authority's revenue under this variant comes entirely from: (i) at-cost goods sales by the Authority's productive capacity facilities; (ii) Treasury borrowing during the startup window per Section 11; (iii) earnings on the American Productive Capacity Permanent Fund (Section 7); and (iv) investment returns on the Authority's working capital reserves.
(6) THE NO-NEW-TAXES POSTURE. The Congress finds that the Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure variant offers the cleanest fiscal posture for the Authority: no new taxes on American households, no new taxes on American industry, no pass-through assessments visible on any consumer bill. The variant carries all of the structural advantages of the ANCSA model with none of the political friction associated with visible industry surcharges (the Universal Service Fund contribution factor reached 38.1 percent of telecom revenue in the fourth quarter of 2025, and the SCOTUS upheld it in FCC v. Consumers' Research; the political-acceptance work nonetheless remains ongoing). The Authority under this variant operates on its own at-cost revenue plus a Treasury borrowing backstop that the Authority must repay from operating revenue.
(7) THE LARGER CITIZEN DIVIDEND. The Congress finds that, given the absence of an industry-assessment funding stream, this variant directs a larger share of pooled productive-capacity revenue to citizen-shareholders than the Hybrid variant. Specifically, Section 7(j)-equivalent distributes seventy-five percent (75%) of the Section 7(i)-equivalent pool to citizen-shareholders annually, compared to fifty percent (50%) in the Hybrid variant. The remaining twenty-five percent (25%) goes to the Permanent Fund for reinvestment in next-generation productive capacity. This larger distribution recognizes that, with no industry contributing to the operating costs, the citizen-shareholders are the sole source of capital risk through their Treasury-borrowing guarantee and accordingly receive the largest share of operating return.
(8) THE LARGER TREASURY BORROWING. The Congress finds that this variant authorizes Treasury borrowing of up to one hundred billion dollars ($100,000,000,000), double the $50 billion authorization in the Hybrid variant, on the model of the United States Postal Service Treasury borrowing authority (Title 39 U.S.C.). The larger authorization is justified by (i) the absence of an industry-assessment funding stream that would otherwise contribute capital during the scale-up window; (ii) the demonstrated USPS structural soundness over fifty-five years of operation with Treasury borrowing backstop; and (iii) the need to provide adequate capital for the Wave 2 multi-regional deployment and the Wave 3 school-attached deployment without resorting to deficit financing through general appropriations.
(9) THE REPLICATION THRESHOLD. The Congress finds, with the analytical diagnosis articulated in Cooper, Historical Apoplexy (2025-2026), that humanoid robotic manufacturing has entered production deployment as of 2025-2026, with Boston Dynamics Atlas in production for Hyundai and Google DeepMind, Tesla Optimus production-scale targets of fifty thousand to one million units per year by 2027, Apptronik Apollo at a five-billion-dollar valuation with backers including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Deere, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and consumer humanoid units (Unitree R1) shipping at five thousand nine hundred dollars per unit. The replication threshold is the civilizational discrete moment at which reliable robot-built-by-robot manufacturing becomes operational. Before the threshold, productive capacity scales linearly with human labor inputs and follows ordinary industrial cost curves. After the threshold, productive capacity compounds: each new factory is built by the prior fleet, unit cost on goods approaches the sum of energy plus raw materials plus amortized capital with the labor term approaching zero, and construction timelines collapse. This Act is designed to ensure that the American productive-capacity gains from the threshold crossing accrue to the American citizen-shareholder body through the ANCSA-style corporation structure, rather than to a small number of private firms or foreign sovereign actors.
(10) THE PRODUCTIVE-CAPACITY ARITHMETIC. The Congress finds, with the civilizational diagnosis articulated in Cooper, Historical Apoplexy (2025-2026), and on the basis of Bureau of Labor Statistics manufacturing data, Federal Reserve G.17 capacity-utilization data, the USDA Economic Research Service food-spending and food-insecurity data, the USDA Food Dollar Series, Feeding America 2025 closure-cost analysis, and the 10 U.S.C. Section 2484 Defense Commissary Agency operational record, that American food scarcity is a markup problem, not a production problem. United States food-at-home spending in 2024 was approximately $1.09 trillion; the USDA Food Dollar Series reports a farm share of 24.3 cents per retail dollar and a marketing share of 75.7 cents. The United States food-insecure population is approximately 47.9 million (USDA ERS 2023). The estimated cost to close the food insecurity gap is approximately $32 billion per year (Feeding America 2025). The current annual food markup above production cost is approximately $496 billion per year, which is approximately fifteen times the cost of closing the food insecurity gap. The Defense Commissary Agency, established in 1867 and operating under the no-profit pricing rule of 10 U.S.C. Section 2484, operates 236 stores serving 2.8 million authorized users, generating approximately $4 billion in annual sales with consumer savings of 17 to 44 percent versus commercial retail. This Act extends the commissary precedent from military-only at-cost food distribution to a civilian citizen-shareholder productive-capacity authority.
(11) THE SUNSET-NOT-APPLICABLE FRAMING. The Hybrid variant includes a sunset clause on the industry assessment upon achievement of operational self-sufficiency. This Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure variant does not establish an industry assessment and accordingly has no sunset-of-surcharge clause. The variant instead establishes a phased Treasury-borrowing-repayment schedule (Section 11(d)) and a self-sufficiency declaration upon completion of which the Authority transitions from Treasury-borrowing-dependent capital sourcing to self-funded operations.
(12) AMERICAN-PRECEDENT-ONLY FRAMING. The Congress finds that this Act, in each of its three variants, draws exclusively on American statutory, constitutional, and operational precedents. No foreign sovereign wealth fund, foreign social democracy, or foreign collectivist economic system is cited or relied upon in the design of this Act. American institutional roots are sufficient.
TITLE I
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AUTHORITY
SECTION 2. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Definitions.
For the purposes of this Act, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) "Authority" or "APCA" means the American Productive Capacity Authority established by this Act.
(b) "Parent Authority" means the federally chartered parent corporation established by this Title.
(c) "Regional Corporation" means any of the up to twelve regional subsidiary corporations of the Authority chartered under Section 4, modeled on the twelve Alaska Native Regional Corporations chartered by ANCSA in 1971.
(d) "Citizen-Shareholder" means a citizen of the United States enrolled under Section 6 holding non-transferable shares in the Authority.
(e) "Permanent Fund" means the American Productive Capacity Permanent Fund established by Section 7.
(f) "Section 7(i)-equivalent" means the revenue-pooling mechanism established by Section 8 modeled on Section 7(i) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, with seventy percent (70%) of regional productive capacity revenue pooled across regions.
(g) "Section 7(j)-equivalent" means the citizen-shareholder distribution mechanism established by Section 9 modeled on Section 7(j) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 and on the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend, with seventy-five percent (75%) of pooled revenue paid to citizen-shareholders annually.
(h) "Productive Capacity" has the meaning given that term in Section 2 of the Hybrid variant, namely the integrated industrial capacity to manufacture, repair, distribute, and recycle physical goods including food, household supplies, basic textiles, modular electronic and mechanical components, building materials, and other goods specified by the Authority's Board.
(i) "At-Cost Goods Revenue" means the gross revenue of the Authority derived from sales of goods produced by the Authority's productive capacity facilities at prices set at cost plus an administrative margin not to exceed five percent (5%) above production cost.
SECTION 3. Establishment of the Parent Authority.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT. There is established the American Productive Capacity Authority, a federally chartered citizen-shareholder corporation, as an independent establishment of the executive branch and an instrumentality of the United States, on the model of the Tennessee Valley Authority (16 U.S.C. Chapter 12A) and the United States Postal Service (Title 39 U.S.C.), modified by the citizen-shareholder structure of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (43 U.S.C. Chapter 33).
(b) PURPOSE. The Authority is established for the following purposes: (1) to organize the productive capacity of the United States at the scale of emerging robotic manufacturing technology, for the common benefit of American citizens as shareholders of the Authority, on the ANCSA precedent; (2) to ensure that the productive capacity gains from the replication threshold accrue to the American citizen-shareholder body rather than to a small number of private firms or foreign sovereign actors; (3) to distribute annual cash dividends to American citizen-shareholders on the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend precedent; (4) to operate without imposing any industry assessment, industry surcharge, or new tax of any kind on American households or American industry; and (5) to coordinate with federal fusion energy programs for the electrical power necessary for full-scale productive capacity operations.
(c) BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The Authority shall be governed by a Board of Directors of nine members, nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate, on the model of the Tennessee Valley Authority Board. Each member shall serve a term of ten years, staggered so that no more than two member terms expire in any single Presidential administration. A member may not be removed except for cause established under the Administrative Procedure Act.
(d) CORPORATE FORM. The Authority shall be chartered under the laws of the District of Columbia as a non-profit corporation.
(e) IMMUNITY AND LIABILITY. The Authority shall enjoy the immunities of an instrumentality of the United States. The Authority may sue and be sued in its own name. The Authority shall not be liable for the debts or obligations of the United States; the United States shall not be liable for the debts or obligations of the Authority except to the extent of the Treasury borrowing authority specifically authorized under Title II.
SECTION 4. Establishment of Regional Corporations on the ANCSA Model.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT. The Authority shall charter, within five years of enactment, up to twelve Regional Corporations corresponding to the twelve regions defined by the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) economic-region classification, plus a thirteenth at-large Regional Corporation for citizens not domiciled in any numbered region. This 13-corporation structure parallels the twelve ANCSA Regional Corporations within Alaska plus the thirteenth Regional Corporation for Alaska Natives residing outside Alaska.
(b) CORPORATE FORM. Each Regional Corporation shall be chartered under the laws of a state within its region (selected by the Authority's Board) as a non-profit subsidiary corporation of the Authority, on the ANCSA precedent of state-chartered corporations operating under federal statutory mandate.
(c) BOARD GOVERNANCE. Each Regional Corporation shall be governed by a Board of Directors of seven members, elected by the Citizen-Shareholders of that Region from candidates qualified under standards established by the Authority's Board. Elections shall be held every two years on staggered terms. The first Regional Corporation Board members shall be appointed by the Authority's Board, with elected members replacing appointed members on a phased schedule completed within seven years of each Regional Corporation's charter.
(d) OPERATIONS. Each Regional Corporation shall operate productive capacity facilities within its region. Each Regional Corporation shall report quarterly to the Authority's Board on operations, finances, shareholder communications, and pending corporate actions.
(e) SBA 8(a) FEDERAL CONTRACTING PREFERENCE. Each Regional Corporation shall be eligible for Small Business Administration 8(a) federal contracting preference on the same terms as Alaska Native Corporations under existing federal statute. This eligibility provides a Wave 1 / 2 revenue bootstrap for productive capacity operations and reflects an established federal posture extending to ANCSA corporations.
SECTION 5. Decline to Establish Local Taxing Districts.
(a) THIS VARIANT EXPLICITLY DECLINES to establish local special-purpose taxing districts of the kind authorized in the Hybrid variant under the public library taxing district model. The Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure variant operates entirely through the Regional Corporation structure under Section 4. Local property tax authority is not part of this variant's funding architecture.
(b) RATIONALE. The local-taxing-district authority of the Hybrid variant is appropriately retained in the Federal-State-Local Layered variant, which is designed around library-precedent layered governance. This variant emphasizes corporate operating revenue plus Treasury borrowing, not property taxation. Adopting this variant means accepting that the Authority's local footprint is corporate (factories sited, operated, and maintained by Regional Corporations on commercially acquired or federally leased land) rather than civic-district.
SECTION 6. Citizen-Shareholder Enrollment.
(a) AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT. Every citizen of the United States is hereby enrolled as a Citizen-Shareholder of the American Productive Capacity Authority. (1) Citizens born on or before the effective date of this Act are enrolled effective the date of enactment. (2) Citizens born after the effective date of this Act are enrolled at birth.
(b) SHARE ISSUANCE. Each Citizen-Shareholder shall receive one hundred shares in the Parent Authority and one hundred shares in the Regional Corporation of the Region in which the Citizen-Shareholder is domiciled on the date of enrollment. Citizen-Shareholders not domiciled in any defined Region (e.g., overseas citizens) shall receive shares in the thirteenth at-large Regional Corporation. This 100-share-per-corporation structure parallels ANCSA's original 100-share distribution to enrolled Alaska Natives in 1971.
(c) NON-TRANSFERABILITY. Shares issued under this Section may be: inherited by lineal descendants; gifted to another United States citizen; or escheated to the Permanent Fund upon death without designated descendants or gift recipients. Shares may NOT be sold for cash or other consideration. Any purported sale of shares is void ab initio. Any attempted pledge of shares as collateral for a loan is void ab initio. Shares are not subject to attachment, garnishment, or judicial execution. This non-transferability provision is the load-bearing structural feature inherited from ANCSA.
(d) PROPERTY RIGHT. The shares issued under this Section are recognized as the property of the Citizen-Shareholder and are protected under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution against taking without just compensation.
(e) NO CASH VALUE AT ISSUANCE. The shares issued under this Section have no intrinsic cash value at issuance. The shares confer the right to distributions under Section 9 and the right to vote in Regional Corporation Board elections under Section 4. No distribution is guaranteed by issuance of shares.
TITLE II
FUNDING ARCHITECTURE, CITIZEN-SHAREHOLDER CORPORATION VARIANT
SECTION 7. Establishment of the American Productive Capacity Permanent Fund.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT. There is established the American Productive Capacity Permanent Fund as a perpetual fund of the Authority, modeled on the Alaska Permanent Fund (Alaska Constitution Article 9, Section 15).
(b) PURPOSE. The Permanent Fund shall: (1) hold the Authority's share of Section 7(i)-equivalent pooled revenue not distributed under Section 9; (2) hold escheated shares under Section 6(c); (3) make distributions to the Authority's operating accounts to support productive capacity operations; (4) invest in productive capacity facility construction, research and development, and humanoid manufacturing system procurement; and (5) preserve the long-term capital base of the Authority.
(c) PRINCIPAL AND EARNINGS DISTINCTION. The principal of the Permanent Fund shall not be spent. Only earnings of the Permanent Fund (whether from investment returns or from Section 7(i)-equivalent contributions not distributed under Section 9) may be appropriated for the purposes specified in subsection (b)(3) and (b)(4). This principal-protection rule is the locked structural feature inherited from the Alaska Permanent Fund and from no other archetype.
(d) MANAGEMENT. The Permanent Fund shall be managed by an independent Investment Committee of five members, appointed by the Authority's Board, with fiduciary obligations to the Citizen-Shareholders.
(e) AUDIT. The Permanent Fund shall be audited annually by the Government Accountability Office and the results made public.
SECTION 8. Revenue Pooling Mechanism (Section 7(i)-equivalent).
(a) ESTABLISHMENT. Modeled directly on Section 7(i) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, this Section establishes a revenue-pooling mechanism among the Regional Corporations.
(b) POOLING REQUIREMENT. Seventy percent (70%) of all At-Cost Goods Revenue received by each Regional Corporation from productive capacity operations shall be transferred to the Authority's central pooling account within thirty days of the close of each fiscal quarter.
(c) POOL DISTRIBUTION. The Authority shall distribute the pooled revenue among the Regional Corporations on a per-Citizen-Shareholder basis, weighted by the share count held by Citizen-Shareholders domiciled in each Region. The Authority shall publish the calculation methodology in the Federal Register annually.
(d) EXEMPTIONS. Revenues from the following sources are exempt from Section 7(i)-equivalent pooling: (1) federal grants specifically restricted to a Region; (2) Permanent Fund investment returns retained at the Parent Authority; (3) Treasury borrowing under Section 11 allocated for capital purposes.
(e) GEOGRAPHIC LUCK FRAMING. The Congress finds that some Regions will develop greater productive capacity earlier than others. The Section 7(i)-equivalent pooling requirement is designed to ensure that the long-term productive capacity gains accrue to all Regions and to all Citizen-Shareholders on a common basis, and that no Region becomes a permanent winner at the expense of others. This framing follows the fifty-five-year operational experience of the ANCSA pooling mechanism.
SECTION 9. Citizen-Shareholder Distribution (Section 7(j)-equivalent).
(a) ESTABLISHMENT. Modeled on Section 7(j) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 and on the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend, this Section establishes the annual Citizen-Shareholder Distribution.
(b) DISTRIBUTION FORMULA. **SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT (75%)** of the Section 7(i)-equivalent pooled revenue (Section 8(b)) and **SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT (75%)** of the Permanent Fund earnings (Section 7(c)) shall be distributed annually to Citizen-Shareholders on a per-share basis.
THIS PERCENTAGE IS HIGHER THAN THE FIFTY PERCENT (50%) DISTRIBUTION IN THE HYBRID VARIANT. The higher percentage is justified by the absence of an industry assessment funding stream in this variant; the citizen-shareholders are the sole guarantors of the Authority's Treasury borrowing through their citizenship and accordingly receive the larger share of operating return.
(c) DISTRIBUTION SCHEDULE. The annual Citizen-Shareholder Distribution shall be paid on October 1 of each year (or the next business day), following the close of the fiscal year on September 30.
(d) PAYMENT METHOD. Distribution shall be made by direct deposit, by check, or by such other method as the Authority's Board specifies by rule.
(e) FEDERAL TAX TREATMENT. The Citizen-Shareholder Distribution is treated as taxable ordinary income to the recipient for federal income tax purposes, on the model of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend.
(f) ELIGIBILITY. Distribution is paid only to Citizen-Shareholders who were enrolled for the entire prior fiscal year. Newly enrolled Citizen-Shareholders become eligible for their first full-year distribution in the year following the fiscal year of enrollment.
(g) NO REDUCTION CLAUSE. The Distribution Formula in subsection (b) may not be reduced except by amendment of this Act.
SECTION 10. NO Industry Assessment.
(a) EXPLICIT DECLINATION. This Act expressly declines to establish an industry assessment, industry surcharge, contribution factor, or any similar mechanism that would impose a cost on any domestic industry as a precondition to the Authority's operations.
(b) RATIONALE. The Universal Service Fund contribution factor mechanism (47 U.S.C. 254, upheld in FCC v. Consumers' Research, No. 24-354, June 27, 2025) is preserved as an option for legislative authors in the Hybrid variant of this Act. Its omission from this variant reflects the political-acceptance objective of the Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure framing: no new taxes on industry, no pass-through costs to households, no visible line items on consumer bills attributable to the Authority.
(c) SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENT. Should the Authority's Treasury borrowing under Section 11 prove insufficient for the Wave 2 through Wave 5 deployment schedule, Congress retains its plenary authority to amend this Act to introduce an industry assessment in accordance with the SCOTUS framework of FCC v. Consumers' Research (2025). Such amendment would be subject to the ordinary legislative process and would not be required for this Act to be enacted in its present form.
SECTION 11. Treasury Borrowing Authority.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT. Modeled on the Treasury borrowing authority of the United States Postal Service (Title 39 U.S.C.) and informed by the amount necessary to support Wave 1 through Wave 5 deployment without an industry assessment alternative, this Section establishes the Authority's Treasury borrowing capacity.
(b) BORROWING CAP. The Authority may borrow from the United States Treasury, at rates set by the Secretary of the Treasury approximately equal to the cost to the Treasury of borrowing at comparable maturities, not to exceed **ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS ($100,000,000,000)** in outstanding principal at any one time.
THIS BORROWING CAP IS DOUBLE THE FIFTY BILLION DOLLAR ($50,000,000,000) CAP IN THE HYBRID VARIANT. The doubled cap reflects the absence of an industry-assessment funding stream that would otherwise contribute capital during the Wave 2 through Wave 5 deployment scale-up.
(c) PURPOSE. Treasury borrowing under this Section shall be used exclusively for the following capital purposes: (1) acquisition of land for productive capacity facilities; (2) construction of productive capacity facilities; (3) procurement of humanoid manufacturing systems and related capital equipment; (4) initial Permanent Fund seeding (not to exceed fifteen billion dollars); and (5) initial Regional Corporation operating capital (not to exceed five hundred million dollars per Regional Corporation).
(d) REPAYMENT. Treasury borrowing shall be repaid from the Authority's At-Cost Goods Revenue over a period not to exceed fifty years from the date of each borrowing, with annual repayment scheduled to commence not later than seven years after each borrowing.
(e) NOT A GENERAL FUND COMMITMENT. Treasury borrowing under this Section is a corporate obligation of the Authority. The general fund of the United States Treasury is not committed except in the event of formal default by the Authority.
SECTION 12. Initial Appropriation.
(a) APPROPRIATION. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten billion dollars ($10,000,000,000) for Fiscal Year 2027 and the sum of ten billion dollars ($10,000,000,000) for Fiscal Year 2028, total **twenty billion dollars ($20,000,000,000)**, to be used by the Authority for: (1) initial start-up costs including establishment of the Parent Authority and the Regional Corporations; (2) the Wave 1 pilot deployment; (3) initial Permanent Fund seeding (not to exceed five billion dollars per fiscal year); and (4) such other purposes as the Authority's Board specifies in writing to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate not less than thirty days before expenditure.
(b) THIS INITIAL APPROPRIATION IS DOUBLE THE TEN BILLION DOLLAR ($10,000,000,000) APPROPRIATION IN THE HYBRID VARIANT. The doubled appropriation reflects the absence of an industry-assessment funding stream during the Wave 1 / 2 startup window.
(c) NO FURTHER FEDERAL APPROPRIATION. After Fiscal Year 2028, the Authority shall not receive direct federal appropriations from the general fund, except for: (1) annual appropriations specifically for the costs of the Government Accountability Office audit; (2) federal grants awarded through ordinary competitive grant processes (which the Authority may receive on the same basis as other federally chartered entities); and (3) such other narrow appropriations as Congress specifically authorizes in subsequent legislation.
TITLE III
OPERATIONS AND PHASED IMPLEMENTATION
SECTION 13. Implementation Phases.
(a) PHASED DEPLOYMENT. The Authority shall deploy productive capacity operations in the same five-Wave sequence as the Hybrid variant: (1) Wave 1, Pilot Deployment; (2) Wave 2, Multi-Regional Deployment; (3) Wave 3, School-Attached Deployment; (4) Wave 4, Citizen Service Architecture; (5) Wave 5, Closed-Loop Operations.
(b) WAVE BUDGETS UNDER THIS VARIANT. Because there is no industry assessment funding stream, each Wave's budget is sourced entirely from the Section 12 appropriation, Section 11 Treasury borrowing, Section 8 pooled operating revenue, and Permanent Fund earnings (Section 7). The Authority's Board shall manage cash flow such that each Wave commences only when sufficient capital is on hand.
(c) WAVE TARGETS. Approximate timing targets are: Wave 1 within twenty-four months; Wave 2 within sixty months; Wave 3 within one hundred eight months (nine years, slightly slower than Hybrid due to absence of industry-assessment capital); Wave 4 within one hundred thirty-two months; Wave 5 thereafter.
SECTION 14. Wave 1 Pilot Deployment.
Wave 1 shall be carried out substantially as described in the Hybrid variant Section 14: an 8-to-12 humanoid robotic manufacturing system pilot at a DOE national laboratory site, producing school supplies and canned food, with a capital budget not to exceed $25 million and operating budget not to exceed $5 million per fiscal year for the first three years. Wave 1 is funded from the Section 12 initial appropriation.
SECTION 15. Wave 2 Multi-Regional Deployment.
(a) STATE-LEVEL FACILITIES. Following Wave 1 reporting, the Authority shall deploy one productive capacity facility per Region through the Regional Corporation structure (Section 4), in a phased rollout completed within sixty months of enactment.
(b) FINANCING UNDER THIS VARIANT. Each Regional Corporation facility shall be financed primarily through: (1) Authority working capital from the Section 12 initial appropriation; (2) Treasury borrowing under Section 11; (3) early At-Cost Goods Revenue from Wave 1 operations. There is no industry assessment funding stream for Wave 2 under this variant.
(c) AGGREGATE WAVE 2 BUDGET CEILING. The aggregate cost of Wave 2 shall not exceed seven billion dollars ($7,000,000,000) over thirty-six months, funded primarily through Treasury borrowing under Section 11. The slightly higher ceiling versus the Hybrid variant ($5B) reflects the absence of industry-assessment supplemental funding.
SECTION 16. Wave 3 School-Attached Deployment.
(a) HIGH SCHOOL NODES. Wave 3 shall be carried out substantially as described in the Hybrid variant Section 16, with productive capacity nodes attached to public high schools in coordination with state education systems. The 2-to-4 year deployment window remains.
(b) FINANCING UNDER THIS VARIANT. The Wave 3 high school nodes shall be financed through: (1) operating revenue from Wave 1 / Wave 2 production (the Section 8 pool); (2) Treasury borrowing under Section 11; (3) cooperative agreements with state education departments and local school boards on the model of LSTA Grants to States but without federal formula grant matching. There is no industry assessment under this variant. There are no local taxing districts under this variant.
(c) WAVE 3 BUDGET. The aggregate cost of Wave 3 shall not exceed forty billion dollars ($40,000,000,000) over forty-eight months, funded primarily through Treasury borrowing (Section 11) and operating revenue (Section 8). The substantially lower budget compared to the Hybrid variant ($100B) reflects (i) the absence of industry-assessment funding; (ii) the absence of local taxing district funding; and (iii) the necessarily smaller per-node footprint when sourced from Authority capital alone.
SECTION 17. Wave 4 Citizen Service Architecture.
See Title IV for the full Citizen Service Architecture, including the Non-Negotiable Floor (Section 19), the Personal Productive Asset entitlement (Section 19A), and the Access Tiers (Section 20). Wave 4 begins upon completion of Wave 3 high school node deployment in not fewer than thirty-three states.
SECTION 17A. The Civic Robot Corps (CRC).
(a) ESTABLISHMENT. There is established, within the Authority, the Civic Robot Corps, a federally chartered labor body composed of robotic productive units operated for the public good. The Corps is the modernized successor of the Civilian Conservation Corps (1933-1942), the Works Progress Administration (1935-1943), and the Public Works Administration (1933-1943). The Corps is parallel in operating concept to the Personal Productive Asset of Section 19A: productive capacity deployed for the public good is the public-scale extension of the productive capacity deployed for the individual citizen.
(b) SECTORS OF RESPONSIBILITY. The Corps shall conduct labor across the following Sectors:
(1) MANUFACTURING SECTOR, the principal operating posture. Corps
units conduct assembly, fabrication, machining, welding,
casting, molding, finishing, quality control, packaging,
warehousing, and inventory operations across the Authority's
and the Regional Corporations' productive capacity facilities.
(2) INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE SECTOR. Corps units
conduct repair, maintenance, and construction of physical
infrastructure (roads, bridges, water and wastewater systems,
electrical grid components, public buildings, public housing,
federal property, rights-of-way), in coordination with
federal, State, and local infrastructure authorities. Pothole
repair through bridge reconstruction is in scope.
(3) ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION SECTOR. Reforestation, fire-fuel-load
management, invasive-species control, watershed restoration,
soil remediation, wetland and prairie reconstruction, beach
and dune restoration, habitat reconstruction on public lands.
(4) PUBLIC WORKS SECTOR. Construction and maintenance of public
facilities: parks, public libraries, community centers, public
housing, federal courthouses, post offices, public-transit
infrastructure, federally owned lands.
(5) AGRICULTURAL LABOR SECTOR. Agricultural labor on Regional
Corporation agricultural land and, where agreement is reached
with private landholders on terms set by the Regional
Corporation, on private land. Planting, weeding, pest
management, harvest, processing, packaging, and distribution
of at-cost foodstuffs into the Regional Corporation's
distribution network and into the at-cost channels of State
food assurance acts where adopted.
(6) DISASTER RESPONSE SECTOR. Deployment in response to floods,
hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes, severe winter
storms, infrastructure failures, and other emergencies
declared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or by
State emergency-management agencies. Labor includes
search-and-rescue, debris clearance, temporary infrastructure
stabilization, emergency shelter and water provision,
emergency food distribution, evacuation transport assistance,
and post-event reconstruction.
(7) EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSISTANCE SECTOR. EMS assistance
in support of licensed EMS personnel during emergencies under
paragraph (6) or otherwise: scene stabilization, victim
transport, vital-signs assessment, basic first aid, AED
operation, logistical support. Corps units shall not perform
hospital-grade, surgical, or clinical medical operations.
(c) EXCLUSIONS. The Civic Robot Corps shall not conduct:
(1) MILITARY OR DEFENSE OPERATIONS. No deployment in armed
conflict, combat support, weapons handling, weapons
manufacturing, military logistics, or military training. The
military application of robotic systems is the responsibility
of the Armed Forces under separate legislation governing the
Department of Defense and is outside the scope of this Act.
(2) HOSPITAL OR CLINICAL MEDICAL OPERATIONS. Corps medical
functions are limited to first-response and EMS-assistance.
Hospital, surgical, and clinical operations remain the
responsibility of licensed medical professionals under
separate legislation.
(3) LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS. No arrests, criminal investigation,
surveillance, intelligence collection, immigration enforcement,
customs enforcement, or other law-enforcement operations.
(d) LIMITED FEDERAL OPERATING POSTURE. The principal operating posture of the Corps is at the State and local level. The federal Corps retained at the Authority level shall be the minimum necessary to (1) supply initial Corps units and operational standards to the Regional Corporations during the Wave 2 deployment window, (2) conduct cross-State coordination for the Disaster Response Sector, and (3) coordinate with the Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on energy procurement under Section 21. The federal Corps shall not duplicate, supersede, or preempt State Corps operations.
(e) STATE-LEVEL DEPLOYMENT. Each Regional Corporation shall establish a State-level (or Region-level) Civic Robot Corps operating under the laws of the States within its Region and under the priorities of the Regional Corporation's Board. The Authority shall transfer initial Corps units and standards on a phased schedule.
(f) DIVERSION OF FUNDS TO STATES. The federal-to-State diversion principle established in the parallel State food assurance acts applies to the funding architecture of the Corps. To the maximum extent consistent with the federal Corps' minimum operational requirement under subsection (d), Authority funds shall be diverted to Regional Corporations for State-level and Region-level Corps operations.
(g) CITIZEN-DIRECTED CORPS LABOR. A Citizen-Shareholder who under Section 19A(b)(1) directs the Personal Productive Asset into the Corps shall be deemed to have contributed productive labor at the per-unit labor rate established by the Authority's Board by rule, and shall receive the dividend supplement specified in Section 19A(b)(1) in lieu of residential deployment.
(h) NO COMPULSION. Citizen service of any kind under this Act is voluntary.
SECTION 18. Wave 5 Closed-Loop Operations.
Wave 5 shall be carried out substantially as described in the Hybrid variant Section 18: certification that robotic manufacturing systems within the Authority can be assembled, maintained, and produce at least seventy-five percent of their own components by other robotic manufacturing systems within the Authority. Upon Wave 5 certification: (1) the Distribution under Section 9 shall be re-calibrated to reflect the compounding output; (2) Authority pricing of at-cost goods may be reduced commensurate with the reduction in production costs.
SECTION 21. Fusion Energy Procurement Authority.
The Authority is granted the same fusion energy procurement authority as the Hybrid variant Section 21. The Authority shall coordinate with the Commonwealth Fusion Systems ARC at Chesterfield County, Virginia (PJM Interconnection application filed April 2026), with Helion Energy Polaris at Chelan County, Washington (Microsoft PPA 2023, target 2028 delivery), and with other United States fusion energy programs.
TITLE IV
CITIZEN SERVICE ARCHITECTURE AND ACCESS TIERS
SECTION 19. The Non-Negotiable Floor.
Established as in the Hybrid variant Section 19. Every Citizen-Shareholder is entitled, on demand and at no further cost beyond the pro-rated tax contribution, to basic foodstuffs, basic clothing materials, basic shelter materials, and such other basic goods as the Authority's Board specifies. No means test. No service requirement. The base provision is funded from the Authority's gross revenue on a first-priority basis. The floor operates in cooperation with the Personal Productive Asset entitlement under Section 19A.
SECTION 19A. The Personal Productive Asset (PPA).
(a) ENTITLEMENT. Pursuant to the right declared in the Paramount Declaration of this Act, every citizen of the United States enrolled as a Citizen-Shareholder under Section 6 is entitled, on claim, to receive from the Authority one (1) Personal Productive Asset at a baseline specification established by the Authority's Board, supplied without monetary payment from the Citizen-Shareholder. Additional units may accrue per Section 20 and per the Citizen-Shareholder's elected deployment configuration.
(b) RESIDENTIAL DEPLOYMENT IS OPTIONAL, DEPLOYMENT ELECTIONS. The Congress finds that contemporary public discussion of household robotics has narrowed around a limited set of tasks (such as the folding of laundry) and that this narrowing substantially understates the productive capability of units now reaching deployment scale. Residential deployment is one option among several and is not a precondition of any other right under this Act. A Citizen-Shareholder may elect any one of the following configurations:
(1) Direct the Personal Productive Asset into the Civic Robot
Corps (Section 17A) in a Sector of the Citizen-Shareholder's
specification, and receive in lieu of residential deployment a
per-share dividend supplement calculated by the Authority's
Board by rule.
(2) Direct the Personal Productive Asset to the Regional
Corporation in the Citizen-Shareholder's Region for
Region-level productive operations.
(3) Direct the Personal Productive Asset to the Citizen-
Shareholder's elected commercial or cooperative employer on
terms set between the Citizen-Shareholder and the employer.
(4) Hold the entitlement in reserve and claim residential or any
other deployment at a later date.
(5) Elect residential deployment subject to the use-case spectrum
in subsection (c) and the safety envelope in subsection (f).
(c) USE-CASE SPECTRUM FOR RESIDENTIALLY DEPLOYED PERSONAL PRODUCTIVE ASSETS. Where the Citizen-Shareholder elects residential deployment, the Personal Productive Asset is competent to perform the full spectrum of physical labor performable by a competent adult human given comparable tools, materials, and workspace. Without limitation, the Personal Productive Asset may perform:
(1) AGRICULTURAL LABOR AT RESIDENTIAL SCALE. Cultivation of a
home garden or community plot of arbitrary size: ground
preparation, planting, irrigation, weed and pest management,
harvest of vegetables, fruit, grain, and forage, and the
canning, preservation, dehydration, freezing, fermentation,
or cellaring of the harvest for off-season consumption. The
Personal Productive Asset is competent to grow a tomato in
May, harvest it in August, and can it for consumption in
February of the following year.
(2) VEHICLE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE. Tire rotation, change, and
replacement; oil and fluid changes; brake service; belt and
hose replacement; battery service; alignment within the safety
envelope under subsection (f); routine mechanical work on the
Citizen-Shareholder's automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, and
small equipment.
(3) RESIDENTIAL FIRST-RESPONSE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE. Assessment of
vital signs; basic first aid; recognition of conditions
requiring professional medical attention; operation of an
automated external defibrillator in cardiac emergencies;
transport of an affected person or animal to professional care;
administration of standing-order medications prescribed by the
Citizen-Shareholder's licensed physician. The Personal
Productive Asset shall not perform hospital-grade or surgical
procedures.
(4) DOMESTIC ANIMAL CARE AND VETERINARY ASSESSMENT. Feeding,
watering, exercising, bathing of household pets and small
livestock; behavioral observation and reporting of abnormal
signs; transport to professional veterinary care; operation of
automated feed and water systems; routine cleaning of
habitats, kennels, coops, and stalls.
(5) RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, AND MAINTENANCE. Carpentry,
painting, drywall installation and repair, plumbing within
residential scope, electrical work within applicable safety
codes, roofing repair, landscaping and grounds maintenance,
snow and ice removal, seasonal weatherization, repair of
household furniture (including the structural repair of a
damaged couch), general property upkeep, additions to the
residence in conformity with State and local building codes.
(6) CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF ON-PROPERTY RENEWABLE ENERGY
INFRASTRUCTURE. Residential solar photovoltaic systems,
residential wind turbines, battery storage systems,
micro-hydroelectric systems where applicable, ground-source
heat pumps, and the associated wiring, inverters, controllers,
and storage subsystems, in conformity with State and local
electrical and building codes.
(7) HOUSEHOLD FABRICATION AND TOOL OPERATION. Operation, repair,
and maintenance of small workshop tools owned by the
Citizen-Shareholder: hand tools, power tools, lathes, mills,
drill presses, welders, three-dimensional printers,
computer-numerical-controlled equipment, and woodworking
equipment, for the manufacture of replacement parts, household
goods, hand tools, and durable equipment.
(8) MANUFACTURE OF ADDITIONAL ROBOTIC UNITS AND TOOLS. Where the
Citizen-Shareholder has access to the necessary materials and
workspace, the Personal Productive Asset may manufacture,
repair, replicate, and assemble additional productive units
and additional tools, on the same engineering principle by
which the Authority's facilities manufacture and replicate
units at industrial scale (see Section 18, Wave 5
Closed-Loop Operations, and Title V, The Perpetual Operating
State). The Personal Productive Asset's replication capacity
is materials-limited and workspace-limited, not
principle-limited.
(9) DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE AND HOUSEHOLD CARE. Meal preparation,
cleaning, laundry, light retail and errand operations,
transportation of the Citizen-Shareholder and family members,
supervision and care of children at the Citizen-Shareholder's
direction and within the safety envelope, routine domestic
assistance to elderly or disabled household members.
(10) SUCH OTHER LAWFUL LABOR as the Citizen-Shareholder directs
within the safety envelope.
(d) CORRECTION TO THE LEGISLATIVE RECORD. The Congress hereby explicitly corrects the contemporary public record on the productive capability of the units described in subsection (c). The current public conversation has substantially limited itself to narrow domestic tasks. The Congress finds that the units now reaching production scale are competent to perform the full spectrum of physical labor a trained adult human can perform with comparable tools and workspace, and the legislative record of this Act shall not be left to imply otherwise.
(e) NO COMPULSION. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to compel any Citizen-Shareholder to accept, possess, or operate a Personal Productive Asset. A Citizen-Shareholder who declines forfeits no other right under this Act.
(f) SAFETY ENVELOPE. The Authority shall publish, within one hundred eighty (180) days of enactment, a Safety Envelope under the Administrative Procedure Act establishing operational parameters for residentially deployed Personal Productive Assets. The Safety Envelope shall be read to permit, not restrict, the spectrum of labor described in subsection (c).
(g) STATE COORDINATION. The Authority shall coordinate with Regional Corporations and State licensing authorities to ensure compliance with State building codes, electrical codes, motor-vehicle laws, veterinary regulations, and other applicable State and local law.
SECTION 20. Access Tiers and Service Unlock.
Established as in the Hybrid variant Section 20. Access Tiers 1 through 4 expand the base provision to include higher-quality variants, broader selection, technical equipment, specialized goods, and premium distribution priorities. Tier eligibility is established through voluntary citizen service in qualifying programs (high school productive capacity nodes, AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, armed forces, civil service, teaching, nursing, public safety, firefighting, specified Authority operations roles). No forced labor; the Non-Negotiable Floor (Section 19) and the Personal Productive Asset entitlement (Section 19A) are available regardless of service.
TITLE V
THE PERPETUAL OPERATING STATE, TERMINAL CONFIGURATION OF THE AUTHORITY
SECTION 26. The Perpetual Operating State.
(a) DESIGN END-STATE. The Congress finds, with the analytical framework articulated in Cooper, Historical Apoplexy (2025-2026), that the architecture established by this Act, the productive-capacity facilities of Title III, the energy-procurement authority of Section 21, the Civic Robot Corps of Section 17A, the Personal Productive Asset entitlement of Section 19A, and the Wave 5 closed-loop certification of Section 18, combines to a productive system designed to operate on a sustained basis without conditional dependency on continuous direct human labor at any of the Authority's facilities.
(b) AUTONOMOUS OPERATION CHARACTERISTIC. The productive system, by design, continues operating per its programmed parameters whether or not human operators are physically present at the Authority's facilities at any given moment. The robotic productive fleet replicates itself under Section 18. The fleet repairs itself. The fleet gathers raw materials, processes them, fabricates goods, distributes goods, and conducts maintenance of its own facilities, on the schedule set by the citizens of the United States through their representatives and through the Authority's Board.
(c) THE ENERGY PRECONDITION. Continuous operation is contingent upon continuous electrical energy supply, secured through the Fusion Energy Procurement Authority of Section 21 and coordination with the Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Helion Energy, TAE Technologies, Zap Energy, and other United States fusion energy programs. So long as energy supply is maintained, the system is designed to maintain itself.
(d) THE INTERGENERATIONAL FRONTIER FORMULATION. The Congress finds that the productive system established by this Act is not contingent on continuous human presence at the Authority's facilities for continued operation. Should the citizens of the United States, in some future generation, elect to extend the work of American civilization beyond the surface of the Earth, to permanent settlement of the Moon, of Mars, of the Venus cloud-deck habitable zone identified by Geoffrey Landis (NASA Glenn, 2003) at 50-55 kilometers altitude, or to destinations beyond the Solar System, the productive capacity established by this Act would continue to manufacture, distribute, repair, and maintain itself on Earth in the absence of resident human operators at any individual facility, supplying the material foundation of the citizens who remain on Earth and the material precondition of any expedition that departs. This Act takes no position on the question of extraterrestrial settlement. The Congress finds it important, however, to state on the legislative record: the system is not designed in such a way that the withdrawal of human attendance from any individual facility terminates operations. The system continues per its programming so long as energy supply is maintained and replication and repair systems retain integrity under Section 18.
(e) NOT A FICTION-DERIVED CLAIM. This Section is not, and shall not be construed as, a claim derived from the literary tradition. The word "utopia," originating in the 1516 work of fiction by Thomas More (a work whose contents include slavery, defensive war, euthanasia, state-arranged marriages, and compulsory labor, and whose author was executed by Henry VIII in 1535), is not the intellectual tradition in which this Act is written. This Act is written in the engineering tradition of Jacque Fresco, R. Buckminster Fuller, Donella Meadows, and Stafford Beer, none of whom used the word "utopia" to describe their own engineering work.
(f) NO CLAIM OF ELIMINATING THE HUMAN CONDITION. This Act makes no claim that the productive system will eliminate human mortality, accident, novel pathogen, violence, environmental hazard, grief, loss, conflict, or error. What the Act does claim is the closure of the measurable gap between the productive capacity of the United States and the basic material needs of every citizen.
(g) THE CITIZEN AS BENEFICIARY. In all phases of operation, the citizen of the United States is the beneficiary of the productive system, not its laborer-of-necessity. The system exists to provide labor on the citizen's behalf. This is the operational meaning of the right declared in the Paramount Declaration of this Act.
(h) PERPETUAL OPERATING-STATE REPORTING. The Authority shall include in the Annual Report under Section 24 a section reporting on the operational status of the perpetual operating state characteristic, including replication systems, repair systems, energy supply, and any deviation from the autonomous-operation characteristic in subsection (b).
TITLE VI
SEVERABILITY, IMPLEMENTATION, REPORTING, AND EFFECTIVE DATE
SECTION 22. Severability.
If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act is not affected.
SECTION 23. Implementation timeline.
(a) GENERAL EFFECTIVE DATE. October 1 following enactment.
(b) BOARD CONFIRMATION TIMELINE. The President shall nominate the initial nine members of the Authority's Board within ninety days of the effective date. The Senate shall consider such nominations within sixty days of receipt.
(c) WAVE TARGETS. As specified in Section 13(c).
(d) RULEMAKING. The Authority shall promulgate rules under the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 553) for: (1) Citizen-Shareholder enrollment; (2) Section 7(i)-equivalent pooling calculation; (3) Section 7(j)-equivalent distribution payment process; (4) Regional Corporation governance; (5) Permanent Fund investment policy; (6) Access Tier eligibility; and (7) such other matters as required by this Act.
SECTION 24. Reporting requirements.
(a) ANNUAL REPORT. The Authority shall submit to Congress not later than December 31 of each year a comprehensive report on operations, financial statements, Productive Capacity Operations, Citizen-Shareholder Distribution, Wave Progress, Treasury Borrowing, Citizen Service Architecture, the Personal Productive Asset entitlement under Section 19A, the Civic Robot Corps under Section 17A, and the perpetual operating state characteristic under Section 26.
(b) PUBLIC ACCESS. The Annual Report shall be made publicly available at imran.theamanuensis.com/apoplexy, on the Authority's own website, and through the Government Publishing Office.
(c) GAO AUDIT. The Government Accountability Office shall audit the Authority's operations annually.
SECTION 25. Effective date.
This Act shall take effect on October 1 of the fiscal year following the date of enactment, except where a later effective date is specified for a particular section.
APPENDIX
VARIANT COMPARISON TABLE
| Provision | Hybrid variant | Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure (this variant) | Federal-State-Local Layered | |---|---|---|---| | Federal corporation form | Yes (TVA model) | Yes (TVA model + ANCSA shareholder posture) | No, federal grant-distribution agency only | | Citizen-shareholder structure | Yes (national + regional) | Yes (national + 12 regional + at-large 13th, ANCSA model directly) | Yes (at the local district level only) | | Non-transferable shares | Yes | Yes (load-bearing structural feature) | Yes | | Section 7(i)-equivalent revenue pooling | 70% | 70% | Pooling at state level only | | Section 7(j)-equivalent distribution | 50% to shareholders | **75% to shareholders** | Distribution at local level | | Permanent Fund | National | National | Per-state | | Industry assessment | Yes (up to 5%, USF model, SCOTUS-validated) | **NO assessment of any kind** | Small (1-2% cap) | | Treasury borrowing cap | $50 billion | **$100 billion** | $10 billion | | Initial federal appropriation | $10 billion total | **$20 billion total** | $500 million annual ongoing | | Local taxing districts | Yes (library model) | **NO local taxing districts** | Yes (central operational unit) | | Sunset clause | On industry assessment | N/A (no assessment) | On industry assessment | | "No new taxes" framing | Partial (assessment is industry-paid) | **Complete (zero new taxes)** | Partial | | GOP-friendliness | Moderate-high | **Highest** | High | | Democratic-friendliness | Moderate-high | Moderate | **Highest** | | Federalist-friendliness | Moderate | Moderate | **Highest** |
AMERICAN-LINEAGE CITATION TABLE (variant-specific)
| Provision | Primary American institutional root | |---|---| | Section 3, Parent Authority federal corporation | Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, 16 U.S.C. Chapter 12A | | Section 3, Senate-confirmed Board with staggered 10-year terms | Tennessee Valley Authority Board structure | | Section 4, twelve Regional Corporations + thirteenth at-large | Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, 43 U.S.C. Chapter 33 | | Section 4(e), SBA 8(a) federal contracting preference | Federal procurement statute extending SBA 8(a) to Alaska Native Corporations | | Section 6, Citizen-Shareholder enrollment | ANCSA enrollment of Alaska Natives at the December 18, 1971, qualifying date | | Section 6, Non-transferable shares | ANCSA Sections 7(h) and related provisions | | Section 7, Permanent Fund | Alaska Permanent Fund (Alaska Constitution Article 9, Section 15, 1976) | | Section 8, Section 7(i)-equivalent revenue pooling | ANCSA Section 7(i): 70% of regional resource revenue pooled | | Section 9, Citizen-Shareholder Distribution (75%) | Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend + ANCSA Section 7(j); enhanced share reflects no-assessment funding posture | | Section 10, NO Industry Assessment | Explicit decline; preserves USF mechanism as Hybrid variant option | | Section 11, Treasury borrowing ($100B cap) | USPS Title 39 borrowing authority, scaled up | | Section 12, Initial appropriation ($20B) | Combination of TVA initial appropriation + ANCSA initial cash transfer (scaled) |
KEY UNITED STATES STATUTORY CITATIONS
- 43 U.S.C. Chapter 33 (Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971) - 16 U.S.C. Chapter 12A (Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933) - 39 U.S.C. (Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, Postal Service Reform Act of 2022) - 10 U.S.C. 2484 (Defense Commissary Agency no-profit pricing) - Alaska Constitution Article 9, Section 15 (Alaska Permanent Fund) - 5 U.S.C. 552a (Privacy Act of 1974) - 5 U.S.C. 553 (Administrative Procedure Act rulemaking) - Small Business Administration 8(a) Business Development Program (15 U.S.C. 637(a)), Alaska Native Corporation extension authorities
UNIFIED FRAMEWORK CITATION
Where this Act invokes an analytical framework rather than a primary data source, the framework is articulated in:
Cooper, I. (2025-2026). Historical Apoplexy. The Amanuensis. Available at imran.theamanuensis.com/apoplexy and at historicalapoplexy.com.
The framework is cited as a single unified work in the findings of Section 1 and in Section 26 of this Act. Per-paper subordinate citations are not used in the legislative text.
CITATION
Cooper, I. (2025-2026). American Productive Capacity Authority Act, Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure Variant: A Federal Legislative Adaptation of the Historical Apoplexy. The Amanuensis. https://imran.theamanuensis.com/apoplexy
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This legislative adaptation is part of the Historical Apoplexy series by Imran Stanton Cooper. The work is offered to any citizen, legislator, or advocacy group to introduce, adapt, or campaign on. No PAC, no candidate committee, no solicitation. Petitioning a government for redress of grievances is explicitly protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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Verification notes & full source chain
The American Productive Capacity Authority Act (Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure variant) establishes the American Productive Capacity Authority as a federally chartered citizen-shareholder corporation modeled directly on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971), with twelve Regional Corporations plus a thirteenth at-large, non-transferable shares to every citizen at birth or enactment, and a 75% citizen distribution from Section 7(i)-equivalent pooled revenue. The variant explicitly declines to establish an industry assessment. Treasury borrowing capacity is $100 billion, modeled on Title 39 (United States Postal Service). The Act centers a paramount constitutional right of every American citizen to a personal productive asset, codified as a proposed amendment to the Constitution. The Act establishes the Civic Robot Corps as a public-good labor body and provides for the perpetual operating state of the productive system.
Funding posture: No industry assessment, $100B Treasury borrowing, 75% citizen distribution, no local taxing districts