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American Productive Capacity Authority Act (Federal-State-Local Layered Pure)
The library-anchored variant.
The American Productive Capacity Authority Act (Federal-State-Local Layered Pure variant) establishes the American Productive Capacity Administration as a small federal grant-distribution agency at the operational scale of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (Museum and Library Services Act of 1996), distributing population-based formula grants to State Productive Capacity Agencies, which in turn coordinate Local Productive Capacity Taxing Districts authorized at the option of local voters under the public-library taxing-district model. Citizen-shareholders are enrolled at the LPCTD level under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act share-issuance structure. 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 GRANT PROGRAM IN THE PATTERN OF THE LIBRARY SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY ACT GRANTS TO STATES, ESTABLISHING STATE PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AGENCIES IN EACH STATE AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AUTHORIZING LOCAL PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY TAXING DISTRICTS UNDER STATE-LAW VOTER-APPROVAL PROCEDURES, ISSUING NON-TRANSFERABLE SHARES TO LOCAL DISTRICT RESIDENTS, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, AUTHORIZING ANNUAL FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS OF UP TO ONE BILLION DOLLARS, A SMALL INDUSTRY ASSESSMENT NOT TO EXCEED TWO PERCENT, TREASURY BORROWING UP TO TEN BILLION DOLLARS, AND PROVIDING EFFECTIVE DATES.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
LONG TITLE
AN ACT CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY GRANT PROGRAM AS A FEDERAL-STATE-LOCAL LAYERED FRAMEWORK MODELED ON THE LIBRARY SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY ACT (MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES ACT OF 1996); ENACTING NEW SECTIONS OF TITLE 20 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE; ESTABLISHING THE AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY ADMINISTRATION (APCA) AS A SMALL FEDERAL GRANT-DISTRIBUTION AGENCY AT THE INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES OPERATIONAL SCALE; ESTABLISHING THE PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY GRANTS TO STATES (PCGTS) PROGRAM DISTRIBUTING ANNUAL FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS UNDER A POPULATION-BASED FORMULA TO STATE PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AGENCIES IN EACH STATE, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AND THE FIVE TERRITORIES; AUTHORIZING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF LOCAL PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY TAXING DISTRICTS UNDER THE MODEL OF PUBLIC-LIBRARY TAXING DISTRICTS OPERATING IN WASHINGTON, ILLINOIS, OHIO, AND PARTS OF NEW YORK AND CALIFORNIA, AT THE OPTION OF LOCAL VOTERS; AUTHORIZING LOCAL PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY TAXING DISTRICTS TO ISSUE NON-TRANSFERABLE SHARES TO RESIDENT CITIZENS UNDER THE MODEL OF THE ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT OF 1971; AUTHORIZING UP TO ONE BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR IN FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS PLUS A SMALL INDUSTRY ASSESSMENT NOT TO EXCEED TWO PERCENT MODELED ON THE UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND CONTRIBUTION FACTOR (SCOTUS-VALIDATED IN FCC v. CONSUMERS' RESEARCH, 24-354, 2025) AS A FEDERAL FUNDING-CEILING MEASURE; AUTHORIZING TREASURY BORROWING NOT TO EXCEED TEN BILLION DOLLARS FOR FEDERAL-LAYER OPERATIONS; 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 Education and the Workforce (LSTA precedent; primary jurisdiction) - House Committee on Energy and Commerce - House Committee on Financial Services (Title II Treasury borrowing) - House Committee on Ways and Means (Title II industry assessment; state-distribution tax treatment) - House Committee on Natural Resources (ANCSA precedent for local share structure) - House Committee on Agriculture - Companion Senate referrals to: Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Indian Affairs; Energy and Natural Resources; Finance; Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
FISCAL IMPACT: This variant authorizes federal appropriations not to exceed one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) per fiscal year for the Productive Capacity Grants to States program; an industry assessment not to exceed two percent (2%) on domestic productive-AI revenue; and Treasury borrowing not to exceed ten billion dollars ($10,000,000,000). Total federal fiscal exposure is materially smaller than variants A or B. Operating capital primarily originates at the state and local levels through state appropriations, local property taxes from Productive Capacity Taxing Districts, and at-cost goods sales.
FLOOR VOTE: Passage requires a constitutional majority in each chamber.
CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS: Commerce Clause; Necessary and Proper Clause; General Welfare Clause; spending power; precedent of the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996 (federal grant-distribution to state library agencies).
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 federal-state-local layered architecture established under Titles I through III, the small federal Administration of Section 3, the State Productive Capacity Agencies of Section 4, the Local Productive Capacity Taxing Districts of Section 5, the Local Operating Subsidiaries of Section 6, the Civic Robot Corps established under Section 17A, 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 Administration, the State Productive Capacity Agencies, and the Local Operating Subsidiaries 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.
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 FRANKLIN-ERA PUBLIC LIBRARY PRECEDENT (1731-PRESENT). On July 1, 1731, Benjamin Franklin and several Junto members established the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first lending library in the American colonies. The American public library tradition has continued for nearly three hundred years. The Museum and Library Services Act of 1996 established the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Library Services and Technology Act Grants to States program distributes approximately $180 million annually across all fifty states plus the District of Columbia and five territories under a population-based formula. State library agencies submit five-year state plans subject to IMLS review. Aggregate American public library funding is approximately eighty-five percent local property tax, seven to ten percent state appropriations, and one to two percent federal. In Washington, Illinois, Ohio, and parts of New York and California, public libraries are organized as special-purpose taxing districts with direct property-tax authority levied at the option of local voters, structurally insulated from city and county general fund politics. **THIS VARIANT ADOPTS THE LIBRARY MODEL AS ITS PRIMARY ARCHITECTURE.**
(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 issued shares to Alaska Natives that are inheritable, giftable to other Alaska Natives, but not salable to outside capital. After fifty-five years of operation, ANCSA has not been politically reversed. **THIS VARIANT ADOPTS THE NON-TRANSFERABLE SHARE STRUCTURE FROM ANCSA, BUT APPLIES IT AT THE LOCAL PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY TAXING DISTRICT LEVEL** rather than at the federal level. Residents of an LPCTD receive non-transferable shares in their LPCTD's operating subsidiary.
(3) THE REAGAN-ERA LIFELINE PRECEDENT (1985). On May 7, 1985, the Federal Communications Commission under President Reagan established the Lifeline program in response to the AT&T divestiture. The Telecommunications Act of 1996, Section 254 (47 U.S.C. 254), formalized the Universal Service Fund. On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court in FCC v. Consumers' Research, No. 24-354, upheld the contribution mechanism against a nondelegation challenge. **THIS VARIANT USES A SMALL INDUSTRY ASSESSMENT (UP TO 2%) MODELED ON THE USF MECHANISM** to fund federal grant distribution to state Productive Capacity Agencies. The assessment is substantially smaller than the up-to-5% authorization in the Hybrid variant and is explicitly absent in the Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure variant.
(4) THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS POSTAL PRECEDENT (1775). USPS structural model serves as the borrowing-authority precedent in the United States Postal Service Title 39 U.S.C. framework. **THIS VARIANT ADOPTS A SMALLER TREASURY BORROWING CAP** ($10 billion vs $50 billion Hybrid and $100 billion Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure) given the federal layer's operational role is distribution, not direct operations.
(5) THE ALASKAN PERMANENT FUND PRECEDENT (1976). The Alaska Permanent Fund principal cannot be spent; only earnings may be appropriated. **THIS VARIANT AUTHORIZES STATE-LEVEL PERMANENT FUNDS** at the discretion of each State Productive Capacity Agency, rather than a single federal Permanent Fund.
FINDINGS RELATING TO THE VARIANT POSTURE:
(6) FEDERALIST FRAMING. The Congress finds that productive capacity operations are most appropriately organized through a federal-state-local layered architecture in which federal authority is limited to standard-setting, formula-grant distribution, and audit, while state authority handles intermediate-level governance and local authority handles operational facility siting, taxation, and shareholder governance. This framing respects the constitutional design of dual sovereignty and preserves the Tenth Amendment posture that powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people.
(7) LIBRARY-PRECEDENT VOTER APPROVAL. The Congress finds that local voter approval for special-purpose Productive Capacity Taxing Districts provides a structural mechanism by which each locality determines for itself whether to participate in the Productive Capacity program. This mechanism follows the public-library taxing-district precedent operating in Washington, Illinois, Ohio, and parts of New York and California for multiple decades, in which library funding is insulated from city and county general fund politics by direct voter approval of property tax levies.
(8) STATE INTERMEDIARY. The Congress finds that state Productive Capacity Agencies, on the model of the fifty state library agencies + District of Columbia + five territorial library agencies that administer LSTA Grants to States, provide an established intermediary structure that respects state sovereignty while allowing federal grant distribution to flow effectively to local operations.
(9) THE LOCAL CITIZEN-SHAREHOLDER. The Congress finds that the non-transferable share structure of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 is appropriately applied at the LPCTD level. Local residents who vote to establish their LPCTD receive non-transferable shares in the LPCTD's operating subsidiary, with dividend distributions paid from LPCTD operating revenue. This combines two American institutional roots: the ANCSA share-issuance structure and the public-library local taxing-district structure.
(10) STATE LEGISLATIVE PRECEDENT. The Congress takes notice of the parallel state-level legislation drafted for thirty-three United States states plus a parallel adaptation for the United Kingdom Parliament, comprising at-cost food assurance bills publicly available at imran.theamanuensis.com/apoplexy. This Layered variant of the federal Act is designed to operate as a federal grant-distribution layer above state and local adoption of those state proposals where they pass.
(11) THE REPLICATION THRESHOLD. The Congress finds, with the analytical diagnosis articulated in Cooper, Historical Apoplexy (2025-2026), and as in the other variants, that humanoid robotic manufacturing has entered production deployment as of 2025-2026 and that productive capacity gains from the threshold crossing will accrue either to a small number of private firms and foreign sovereign actors, or to organized American citizen ownership structures. This Layered variant ensures the latter outcome through local taxing district shareholders rather than through a national-corporation shareholder structure.
(12) THE PRODUCTIVE-CAPACITY ARITHMETIC. The Congress finds, with the civilizational diagnosis articulated in Cooper, Historical Apoplexy (2025-2026), and on the basis of USDA Economic Research Service data, the USDA Food Dollar Series, Feeding America 2025 analysis, and the Defense Commissary Agency operational record under 10 U.S.C. 2484 (established 1867), that American food scarcity is a markup problem. US food-at-home spending 2024 was approximately $1.09 trillion; markup above production cost is approximately $496 billion per year (roughly fifteen times the approximately $32 billion per year cost of closing the food-insecurity gap).
(13) AMERICAN-PRECEDENT-ONLY FRAMING. The Congress finds that this Act 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.
TITLE I
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY ADMINISTRATION AND THE FEDERAL-STATE-LOCAL FRAMEWORK
SECTION 2. Definitions.
For the purposes of this Act:
(a) "Administration" or "APCA" means the American Productive Capacity Administration established by this Title. (NOTE: this variant calls it "Administration" rather than "Authority" to underscore the federal agency role, distribution, standard-setting, audit, rather than direct-operations corporate role.)
(b) "State Agency" or "SPCA" means the State Productive Capacity Agency established in each State pursuant to Section 4.
(c) "Local Productive Capacity Taxing District" or "LPCTD" means a special-purpose taxing district established under Section 5 at the option of local voters.
(d) "Local Operating Subsidiary" or "LOS" means the productive-capacity operating entity formed by an LPCTD to operate productive capacity facilities and issue non-transferable shares to LPCTD resident citizens under Section 6.
(e) "Productive Capacity Grants to States" or "PCGTS" means the annual federal formula grant established under Section 7 on the Library Services and Technology Act precedent.
(f) "Productive Capacity" has the meaning given that term in the Hybrid variant Section 2.
SECTION 3. Establishment of the American Productive Capacity Administration.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT. There is established the American Productive Capacity Administration as an independent federal agency, on the model of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (Museum and Library Services Act of 1996; 20 U.S.C. 9101 et seq.).
(b) PURPOSE. The Administration is established for the following purposes: (1) to administer the Productive Capacity Grants to States program; (2) to publish standards and best practices for productive capacity operations at the state and local level; (3) to review and approve five-year state plans submitted by State Productive Capacity Agencies; (4) to audit grant compliance; (5) to coordinate with federal fusion energy programs for grid-level electrical power planning; and (6) to maintain a national Federal-State Cooperative System data collection on productive capacity operations, on the model of the existing FSCS for public libraries.
(c) DIRECTOR. The Administration shall be led by a Director, nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate, for a four-year term. The Director may be reappointed once. The Director may not be removed except for cause established under the Administrative Procedure Act.
(d) SIZE. The Administration shall be a small federal agency, on the IMLS operational scale: approximately three hundred full-time-equivalent employees, plus grant-administration contractors, with an annual operating budget not to exceed approximately one hundred million dollars and total budgetary resources (operating budget plus PCGTS formula grants) not to exceed approximately **one billion two hundred million dollars per year** at peak deployment.
(e) NO DIRECT OPERATIONS. The Administration shall NOT operate any productive capacity facility directly. All productive capacity facility operations occur at the State Agency level (Section 4) or the LPCTD level (Section 5).
SECTION 4. Establishment of State Productive Capacity Agencies.
(a) STATE AGENCY DESIGNATION. Each State shall designate, by State legislation enacted within twenty-four months of enactment of this Act, a State Productive Capacity Agency. The designation may be a newly created agency, a designated function within an existing State agency (Department of Education, Department of Economic Development, or analogous), or a non-profit corporation chartered for the purpose under State law. The Administration shall accept any such designation that meets the minimum statutory requirements of this Title.
(b) STATE PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY ADMINISTRATIVE PLAN. Each State Agency shall submit to the Administration a five-year State Productive Capacity Administrative Plan (SPCAP) describing: (1) the State's governance structure for productive capacity operations; (2) the proposed schedule for establishing LPCTDs within the State; (3) the proposed allocation of PCGTS formula grant funds; (4) the proposed performance metrics; and (5) the relationship to existing state-level food assurance legislation under the Historical Apoplexy State Legislative Adaptation series (where adopted). This SPCAP requirement is modeled directly on the LSTA five-year state plan.
(c) STATE MATCH REQUIREMENT. Each State Agency must provide a state appropriation matching at least thirty-three percent of the State's PCGTS formula grant for the SPCAP to be approved.
(d) STATE PERMANENT FUND OPTION. Each State Agency is authorized to establish a State Productive Capacity Permanent Fund on the model of the Alaska Permanent Fund, capitalized from State Agency operating revenue plus State appropriations.
SECTION 5. Local Productive Capacity Taxing Districts.
(a) AUTHORIZATION. State Agencies may, in coordination with localities within their States and subject to the laws of the relevant State, authorize the establishment of Local Productive Capacity Taxing Districts (LPCTDs) on the model of the special-purpose library taxing districts operating in Washington (e.g., Timberland Regional Library), Illinois, Ohio, and parts of New York and California.
(b) FORMATION. An LPCTD shall be formed only upon: (1) petition of qualified electors within the proposed district boundary, in accordance with State law; (2) approval by majority vote at a regularly scheduled election; (3) approval of the relevant State Agency; and (4) compliance with the Administration's published district-formation standards.
(c) LPCTD POWERS. An LPCTD is hereby authorized (subject to State constitutional and statutory law) to: (1) levy property taxes on real property within its boundaries; (2) issue bonds; (3) acquire real property for productive capacity facility siting; (4) operate productive capacity facilities (through its Local Operating Subsidiary under Section 6); and (5) exercise other powers customary to special-purpose taxing districts under State law.
(d) LPCTD PROPERTY-TAX PROTECTION. Property taxes collected by an LPCTD shall not be commingled with city, county, or State general fund revenues, and shall be expended exclusively for productive capacity purposes specified in subsection (c).
(e) LPCTD GOVERNANCE. Each LPCTD shall be governed by a Board of Directors elected by the qualified electors of the LPCTD at regular elections held under State law.
SECTION 6. Local Operating Subsidiaries and Citizen-Shareholder Enrollment.
(a) LOCAL OPERATING SUBSIDIARY. Each LPCTD shall form a Local Operating Subsidiary (LOS) under State corporate law to: (1) operate the LPCTD's productive capacity facilities; (2) issue non-transferable shares to LPCTD resident citizens; (3) administer the annual dividend distribution to LPCTD shareholders; and (4) maintain operating records subject to State audit and Administration oversight.
(b) AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT. Each citizen of the United States who is a resident of an LPCTD is hereby enrolled as a citizen-shareholder of the LPCTD's Local Operating Subsidiary upon: (1) the LPCTD's establishment under Section 5(b); (2) the citizen's residency in the LPCTD service area; and (3) the citizen's continuous residency status as defined by State law for purposes of the LPCTD's annual shareholder election.
(c) SHARE ISSUANCE. Each citizen-shareholder shall receive one hundred shares in the LOS of each LPCTD in which the citizen-shareholder is resident. A citizen-shareholder who relocates to a different LPCTD during the year shall be enrolled in the new LPCTD's LOS and shall remain enrolled in the prior LPCTD's LOS for purposes of dividend distribution attributable to the period of prior residency.
(d) NON-TRANSFERABILITY. Shares issued under this Section may be inherited by lineal descendants of the citizen-shareholder; gifted to another United States citizen who is a resident of any LPCTD; or escheated to the State Permanent Fund (if established under Section 4(d)) upon death of the citizen-shareholder without designated descendants or gift recipients. Shares may NOT be sold for cash or other consideration. The non-transferability rule is the ANCSA precedent applied at the local level.
(e) PROPERTY RIGHT. The shares issued under this Section are recognized as the property of the citizen-shareholder under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
TITLE II
FUNDING ARCHITECTURE, FEDERAL-STATE-LOCAL LAYERED VARIANT
SECTION 7. Productive Capacity Grants to States (PCGTS).
(a) ESTABLISHMENT. Modeled directly on the Library Services and Technology Act Grants to States program (Museum and Library Services Act of 1996), this Section establishes the Productive Capacity Grants to States formula grant program.
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. There is authorized to be appropriated to the Administration for the PCGTS program **up to one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) per fiscal year**, beginning in Fiscal Year 2027.
(c) FORMULA. PCGTS funds shall be distributed annually to the State Productive Capacity Agencies in accordance with a population-based formula established by the Administration in regulations. The formula shall be substantially similar to the LSTA Grants to States formula.
(d) STATE MATCH REQUIREMENT. To receive PCGTS funds, each State Agency must (1) submit an approved SPCAP under Section 4(b); (2) provide a State appropriation matching at least thirty-three percent of the PCGTS formula award (Section 4(c)); and (3) maintain compliance with performance reporting requirements.
(e) DISTRIBUTION. PCGTS funds shall be deposited in the State Agency's PCGTS sub-fund and may be used by the State Agency for: (1) initial LPCTD formation grants; (2) State-level standard setting, training, and technical assistance; (3) State Permanent Fund seeding; and (4) such other state-level productive capacity purposes as the SPCAP specifies.
SECTION 8. State Agency Pooling Among LPCTDs.
(a) STATE-LEVEL POOLING. Each State Agency shall implement a pooling mechanism among the LPCTDs in its State on the State Agency's discretion, on the model of the ANCSA Section 7(i) revenue-pooling mechanism but at State scope. The State Agency shall publish in State regulations the percentage of LPCTD operating revenue subject to state-level pooling, which shall not be less than twenty percent and not more than fifty percent.
(b) DISTRIBUTION OF POOLED REVENUE. The State Agency shall distribute pooled LPCTD revenue among the LPCTDs in the State on a per-resident basis, or by such other formula as the State Agency adopts and the Administration approves.
(c) NO FEDERAL POOLING. There is NO federal-level pooling under this variant. Pooling is a State-Agency-level mechanism only. This preserves state sovereignty and avoids creating a national redistribution mechanism.
SECTION 9. Local Citizen-Shareholder Distribution.
(a) ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION. Each LPCTD's Local Operating Subsidiary shall distribute annually to its citizen-shareholders, on a per-share basis, an amount equal to at least fifty percent (50%) of the LOS's net operating revenue after operating costs, debt service, and any state-level pooling contribution under Section 8(a).
(b) RETENTION. Up to fifty percent (50%) of LOS net operating revenue may be retained by the LOS for reinvestment in facility expansion, new equipment acquisition, and operational improvements.
(c) DISTRIBUTION SCHEDULE. The annual 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 LOS Board specifies.
(e) FEDERAL TAX TREATMENT. The LPCTD citizen-shareholder distribution is treated as taxable ordinary income to the recipient for federal income tax purposes, on the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend model.
SECTION 10. Industry Assessment.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT. Modeled on the Universal Service Fund contribution factor mechanism (47 U.S.C. 254, upheld in FCC v. Consumers' Research, No. 24-354, June 27, 2025), this Section establishes a small industry assessment.
(b) ASSESSMENT BASE AND CAP. The assessment is levied on the gross interstate revenue of (1) domestic providers of foundation-model robotic intelligence services with annual revenue exceeding one hundred million dollars, and (2) domestic humanoid manufacturing entities with annual revenue exceeding one billion dollars.
The assessment is capped at **two percent (2%) of the assessment base at peak deployment**, substantially smaller than the up-to-five-percent authorization in the Hybrid variant.
(c) PURPOSE. Industry assessment receipts shall be used to supplement the PCGTS formula grants (Section 7) and to support the Administration's operating expenses (Section 3(d)).
(d) PASS-THROUGH. As with the USF, assessment-paying entities may pass the assessment through to commercial customers as a visible line item.
(e) COLLECTION. The Administration shall promulgate regulations governing assessment collection, audit, and enforcement on the model of USAC procedures.
(f) SUNSET. The assessment shall sunset upon the Administration's certification that the State Agency network is collectively self-sufficient on operating revenue and State appropriations alone.
SECTION 11. Treasury Borrowing Authority.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT. The Administration 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 **ten billion dollars ($10,000,000,000)** in outstanding principal at any one time.
This is substantially smaller than the $50B (Hybrid) or $100B (Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure) authorizations, reflecting the Administration's smaller direct-operational role.
(b) PURPOSE. Treasury borrowing shall be used exclusively for: (1) PCGTS formula grant front-loading during the Wave 1 / Wave 2 startup window; (2) Administration operating capital; and (3) federal-layer support for LPCTD formation grants.
(c) REPAYMENT. Treasury borrowing shall be repaid from industry assessment receipts over a period not to exceed thirty years.
SECTION 12. Initial Appropriation.
(a) APPROPRIATION. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) for Fiscal Year 2027 and five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) for Fiscal Year 2028, for Administration start-up costs plus initial PCGTS formula grant funding.
(b) THIS INITIAL APPROPRIATION IS SUBSTANTIALLY SMALLER than the $10B (Hybrid) or $20B (Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure) appropriations, reflecting the smaller federal-layer scale of this Layered variant.
(c) ONGOING APPROPRIATIONS. Beginning in Fiscal Year 2029, the Administration shall request annual appropriations through the regular appropriations process, not to exceed the authorized amount under Section 7(b) plus operating expenses under Section 3(d). After the first ten years of operation, appropriations may be ramped down to the level supportable by industry assessment receipts.
TITLE III
OPERATIONS AND PHASED IMPLEMENTATION
SECTION 13. Implementation Phases.
(a) PHASED DEPLOYMENT. Productive capacity operations under this variant shall proceed at the State Agency and LPCTD level following a phased implementation tied to State Agency designations and LPCTD formations. The federal Administration shall provide standards and formula grants but does not directly operate facilities.
(b) WAVE 1, Federal Standards and First State Designations (Year 1-2). The Administration publishes standards for: (1) State Agency designation criteria; (2) SPCAP content; (3) LPCTD formation procedures; (4) LOS governance; (5) shareholder enrollment; (6) operating performance metrics. Initial PCGTS formula grants are distributed to State Agencies that have submitted approved SPCAPs.
(c) WAVE 2, First LPCTD Formations and Pilot Operations (Year 2-5). States with high adoption potential (e.g., Washington, Illinois, Ohio, which already have public-library taxing-district experience) authorize initial LPCTDs. Pilot LOS operations begin at a small number of LPCTDs.
(d) WAVE 3, School-Attached LPCTD Expansion (Year 4-8). State Agencies coordinate with State education departments for LPCTD-school-attached deployment in public high schools. Local property tax levies fund local productive capacity nodes attached to schools.
(e) WAVE 4, Citizen Service Integration (Year 6-10). State Agencies coordinate with State education and workforce departments for integration with K-20 education + service-unlock access tier architecture (Title IV).
(f) WAVE 5, Closed-Loop Operations (Year 10+). Following replication threshold crossing, LPCTDs may scale operations to full closed-loop production. The Administration certifies threshold crossing at the LPCTD-network level rather than at the federal-corporation level.
SECTION 14. Wave 1 Federal Standards.
(a) WAVE 1 BUDGET. The Wave 1 standards-development and initial PCGTS distribution shall be funded from the Section 12 initial appropriation, not to exceed five hundred million dollars per fiscal year.
(b) DOE COORDINATION. Standards development shall be coordinated with the Department of Energy, including potential pilot facility hosting at DOE national laboratory sites (Oak Ridge, Idaho, Argonne) at the discretion of the relevant State Agency.
SECTION 15. Wave 2 State Coordination.
(a) STATE AGENCY GRANTS. The Administration shall make PCGTS formula grants to State Agencies that have submitted approved SPCAPs and provided State match.
(b) INITIAL LPCTD ESTABLISHMENT. State Agencies shall coordinate with local jurisdictions to support voter referenda for LPCTD establishment.
(c) AGGREGATE WAVE 2 FEDERAL BUDGET. Aggregate federal Wave 2 funding (PCGTS plus operating) shall not exceed approximately one billion dollars per year over four years. Local LPCTD funding (property tax levies) is in addition and is not capped by this Act.
SECTION 16. Wave 3 School-Attached LPCTD Deployment.
(a) SCHOOL-ATTACHED LPCTD MODEL. State Agencies shall coordinate with State Departments of Education and local school boards to encourage the formation of school-attached LPCTDs that combine local property tax authority with K-12 educational integration.
(b) FINANCING. School-attached LPCTDs are funded primarily through: (1) local property tax levies (voter-approved); (2) State Agency PCGTS pass-through grants; (3) State appropriations.
(c) AGGREGATE WAVE 3 FEDERAL BUDGET. Federal-layer support shall not exceed the authorized PCGTS annual appropriation. Local property tax revenue is the dominant funding mechanism and is not capped by this Act.
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 the operational deployment of school-attached LPCTDs in not fewer than twenty States.
SECTION 17A. The Civic Robot Corps (CRC).
(a) ESTABLISHMENT. There is established the Civic Robot Corps, a nationwide labor body composed of robotic productive units operated for the public good. Consistent with the federal-state-local layered architecture of this Act, the Civic Robot Corps operates primarily at the State Agency and Local Productive Capacity Taxing District level, with a minimal federal coordination layer at the Administration. 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).
(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 LOS-operated
productive capacity facilities.
(2) INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE SECTOR. Repair,
maintenance, and construction of physical infrastructure
(roads, bridges, water and wastewater systems, electrical
grid components, public buildings, public housing, federal,
State, and local property) 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, and 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, and federally, State-, or
locally owned lands.
(5) AGRICULTURAL LABOR SECTOR. Agricultural labor on LPCTD- or
State Agency-operated agricultural land and, where agreement
is reached with private landholders on terms set by the LPCTD
or State Agency, on private land. Planting, weeding, pest
management, harvest, processing, packaging, and distribution
of at-cost foodstuffs into the LPCTD 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.
(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.
(3) LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS. No arrests, criminal
investigation, surveillance, intelligence collection,
immigration enforcement, customs enforcement, or other
law-enforcement operations.
(d) FEDERAL ROLE IS MINIMAL. Consistent with the federalist posture of this variant, the federal Administration retains only the minimum Corps capacity necessary to (1) publish operational standards for Corps deployment at the State Agency and LPCTD level; (2) conduct cross-State coordination for the Disaster Response Sector under paragraph (b)(6); and (3) coordinate with the Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on grid-level energy planning. The Administration shall not operate Corps units directly in the production, infrastructure, ecological-restoration, public works, agricultural, or EMS-assistance sectors. Those operations are the responsibility of the State Agencies and LPCTDs.
(e) STATE AND LOCAL DEPLOYMENT. Each State Productive Capacity Agency and, at the State Agency's direction, each LPCTD and its Local Operating Subsidiary, may operate a Corps unit population calibrated to local need and funded from local property tax revenue (Section 5), State appropriations (Section 4), Section 8 state-level pooling, and PCGTS pass-through grants (Section 7).
(f) DIVERSION OF FUNDS. The federal-to-State-to-local diversion principle established by the LSTA grant model and adopted in the parallel State food assurance acts applies fully to the Corps. The federal Administration sets up the standards, the State Agencies distribute funds and coordinate, and the LPCTDs operate the units according to local rulings.
(g) CITIZEN-DIRECTED CORPS LABOR. A citizen-shareholder of an LOS 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 LOS Board, 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.
(a) WAVE 5 START. Wave 5 begins upon the Administration's certification that the LPCTD network collectively has the productive capacity to (1) assemble, (2) maintain, and (3) produce at least seventy-five percent of its own component parts through robotic manufacturing systems at LOS-operated facilities.
(b) THE REPLICATION THRESHOLD. The Wave 5 certification is the operational mark of crossing the replication threshold, defined as the discrete moment at which reliable robot-built-by-robot manufacturing becomes operational across the LPCTD network.
SECTION 21. Fusion Energy Procurement Coordination.
The Administration is granted authority to coordinate with the Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the fusion energy companies identified in the verification notes (Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Helion Energy, TAE Technologies, Zap Energy) for grid-level fusion energy planning relevant to the LPCTD network's eventual electrical demand.
State Agencies and individual LPCTDs may enter into power purchase agreements directly with fusion energy providers subject to State and local procurement law.
TITLE IV
CITIZEN SERVICE ARCHITECTURE AND ACCESS TIERS
SECTION 19. The Non-Negotiable Floor.
Established as in the Hybrid variant Section 19. Every citizen of the United States who is a resident of any LPCTD is entitled, on demand and at no further cost beyond pro-rated local property tax contribution, to: (1) basic foodstuffs sufficient for daily caloric and nutritional requirements; (2) basic clothing materials sufficient for seasonal climate variation; (3) basic shelter materials in the form specified by the LOS Board; and (4) such other basic goods as the LOS Board specifies by rule.
NO MEANS TEST. NO SERVICE REQUIREMENT.
(a) DELIVERY. The base provision shall be available at LOS-operated distribution centers within the LPCTD service area.
(b) FUNDING. The base provision is funded from LOS gross revenue on a first-priority basis.
(c) RELATIONSHIP TO PERSONAL PRODUCTIVE ASSET. 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 who is a resident of an LPCTD is entitled, on claim, to receive from the Local Operating Subsidiary one (1) Personal Productive Asset at a baseline specification established by the Administration's standards and adopted by the LOS 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. Where a citizen is a resident of an area that has not yet formed an LPCTD, the State Productive Capacity Agency shall hold the entitlement in reserve for the citizen until an LPCTD is formed in the citizen's area or the citizen relocates to an existing LPCTD.
(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) operating at the LPCTD, State, or federal
level, in a Sector of the citizen-shareholder's specification,
and receive in lieu of residential deployment a per-share
dividend supplement from the LOS calculated by the LOS Board
by rule.
(2) Direct the Personal Productive Asset to the LOS for LPCTD
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; 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; AED operation 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. No hospital-grade or surgical procedures.
(4) DOMESTIC ANIMAL CARE AND VETERINARY ASSESSMENT. Feeding,
watering, exercising, bathing of household pets and small
livestock; behavioral observation; transport to professional
veterinary care; operation of automated feed and water
systems; routine cleaning of habitats, kennels, coops, stalls.
(5) RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, AND MAINTENANCE. Carpentry,
painting, drywall, plumbing within residential scope,
electrical work within applicable safety codes, roofing
repair, landscaping, snow and ice removal, weatherization,
repair of household furniture (including a damaged couch),
general property upkeep, additions 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, micro-hydroelectric
systems where applicable, ground-source heat pumps, and the
associated wiring, inverters, controllers, and storage
subsystems, in conformity with State and local codes.
(7) HOUSEHOLD FABRICATION AND TOOL OPERATION. Hand tools, power
tools, lathes, mills, drill presses, welders, 3D printers,
CNC equipment, and woodworking equipment, for manufacture of
replacement parts, household goods, hand tools, 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 tools, on the same engineering principle by which the
LOS facilities manufacture and replicate units at industrial
scale (see Section 18 and Title V). 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, supervision and care of children at the
citizen-shareholder's direction 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.
(f) SAFETY ENVELOPE. The Administration 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. Each State Productive Capacity Agency may supplement the federal Safety Envelope with State-specific provisions consistent with State law. The Safety Envelope shall be read to permit, not restrict, the spectrum of labor described in subsection (c).
(g) STATE AND LOCAL COORDINATION. The LOS shall coordinate with the State Productive Capacity Agency 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, with tier eligibility established through voluntary citizen service in qualifying programs. Tier eligibility under this variant may also be established through service to the local LPCTD (e.g., LPCTD volunteer work, LOS facility training programs, school-attached LPCTD apprenticeships). 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
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 federal Administration's standard-setting under Title I, the State Productive Capacity Agencies and Local Productive Capacity Taxing Districts and Local Operating Subsidiaries of Title I, the funding architecture of Title II, the energy procurement coordination 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 individual LOS facility.
(b) AUTONOMOUS OPERATION CHARACTERISTIC. The productive system, by design, continues operating per its programmed parameters whether or not human operators are physically present at any given LOS facility 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 citizen-shareholders of each LPCTD through their LOS Boards.
(c) THE ENERGY PRECONDITION. Continuous operation is contingent on continuous electrical energy supply. State Agencies and LPCTDs are authorized under Section 21 to enter into power purchase agreements directly with United States fusion energy providers (Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Helion Energy, TAE Technologies, Zap Energy, and others) and with other generating sources. 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 any individual LOS facility 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 Administration 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), aggregated across the LPCTD network.
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) DIRECTOR CONFIRMATION. The President shall nominate the Administration's Director within ninety days of the effective date.
(c) STATE AGENCY DESIGNATIONS. Each State shall designate its State Productive Capacity Agency within twenty-four months of enactment.
(d) RULEMAKING. The Administration shall promulgate rules under the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 553) for: (1) State Agency designation; (2) SPCAP requirements; (3) LPCTD formation standards; (4) LOS governance; (5) shareholder enrollment; (6) PCGTS formula; (7) industry assessment calculation; (8) state-level pooling mechanisms; and (9) such other matters as required by this Act.
SECTION 24. Reporting requirements.
(a) ANNUAL REPORT. The Administration shall submit to Congress not later than December 31 of each year a comprehensive report including: PCGTS formula grant amounts by State; State Agency activity by State; LPCTD formations and operations; aggregate LOS production and revenue; aggregate citizen-shareholder dividend distribution; Wave progress; industry assessment receipts; Treasury borrowing; the Personal Productive Asset entitlement under Section 19A; the Civic Robot Corps under Section 17A at federal, State, and LPCTD levels; 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 Administration's own website, and through the Government Publishing Office.
(c) GAO AUDIT. The Government Accountability Office shall audit the Administration annually.
SECTION 25. Effective date.
This Act shall take effect on October 1 of the fiscal year following the date of enactment.
APPENDIX
VARIANT COMPARISON TABLE
| Provision | Hybrid | Citizen-Shareholder Corporation Pure | Federal-State-Local Layered (this variant) | |---|---|---|---| | Federal corporation form | Yes (TVA model) | Yes | **No, federal Administration as grant-distribution agency only** | | Federal layer scale | Large ($50B+ borrowing) | Largest ($100B+ borrowing) | **Small (~$1B/yr operating)** | | Citizen-shareholder structure | National + regional | National + regional | **Local (at LPCTD level)** | | Non-transferable shares | Yes | Yes | Yes (at local district level) | | 7(i)-equivalent revenue pooling | 70% nationally | 70% nationally | **State-level, 20-50% (state discretion)** | | 7(j)-equivalent distribution | 50% | 75% | **50% at LOS level** | | Permanent Fund | National | National | **Per-state (state discretion)** | | Industry assessment | Up to 5% | None | **Up to 2%** | | Treasury borrowing cap | $50B | $100B | **$10B** | | Initial federal appropriation | $10B total | $20B total | **$1B total + $1B/yr ongoing** | | Local taxing districts | Yes | No | **Yes (central operational unit)** | | GOP-friendliness | Moderate-high | Highest | High | | Democratic-friendliness | Moderate-high | Moderate | **Highest (civic infrastructure framing)** | | Federalist-friendliness | Moderate | Moderate | **Highest (10th Amendment posture)** |
AMERICAN-LINEAGE CITATION TABLE (variant-specific)
| Provision | Primary American institutional root | |---|---| | Section 3, federal Administration (small grant-distribution agency) | Institute of Museum and Library Services, MLSA 1996, 20 U.S.C. 9101 | | Section 4, State Agency designation + 5-year plan | LSTA five-year state plan requirement | | Section 5, Local Productive Capacity Taxing Districts | Public library taxing districts in WA / IL / OH / NY / CA | | Section 6, citizen-shareholder + non-transferable shares (at LPCTD level) | ANCSA share-structure applied at local district level | | Section 7, PCGTS formula grants | LSTA Grants to States, population-based formula | | Section 8, state-level pooling | ANCSA Section 7(i) at state scope | | Section 9, LPCTD shareholder distribution | ANCSA Section 7(j) + Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend at local scope | | Section 10, small industry assessment (2% cap) | USF mechanism, SCOTUS-validated 2025 | | Section 11, $10B Treasury borrowing | USPS Title 39 borrowing authority, scaled to small federal-layer role | | Section 12, $500M annual appropriation | LSTA-scale federal grant-program budget |
KEY UNITED STATES STATUTORY CITATIONS
- 20 U.S.C. 9101 et seq. (Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, Library Services and Technology Act) - 43 U.S.C. Chapter 33 (Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971) - 47 U.S.C. 254 (Universal Service Fund, Telecommunications Act of 1996) - Alaska Constitution Article 9, Section 15 (Alaska Permanent Fund) - 39 U.S.C. (Postal Service borrowing precedent, scaled) - 10 U.S.C. 2484 (Defense Commissary Agency) - 5 U.S.C. 552a (Privacy Act of 1974) - 5 U.S.C. 553 (Administrative Procedure Act rulemaking)
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, Federal-State-Local Layered Pure Variant: A Federal Legislative Adaptation of the Historical Apoplexy. The Amanuensis. https://imran.theamanuensis.com/apoplexy
FIRST AMENDMENT NOTICE
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 (Federal-State-Local Layered Pure variant) establishes the American Productive Capacity Administration as a small federal grant-distribution agency at the operational scale of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (Museum and Library Services Act of 1996), distributing population-based formula grants to State Productive Capacity Agencies, which in turn coordinate Local Productive Capacity Taxing Districts authorized at the option of local voters under the public-library taxing-district model. Citizen-shareholders are enrolled at the LPCTD level under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act share-issuance structure. 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: $10B Treasury borrowing, up-to-2% industry assessment, $1B/yr formula grants, local taxing districts as operational unit