American Productive Capacity Authority Act (Hybrid Architecture)

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 FOR THE PURPOSE OF ORGANIZING AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE AT THE SCALE OF EMERGING ROBOTIC MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY, FOR THE BENEFIT OF EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN AS A SHAREHOLDER, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, AUTHORIZING TREASURY BORROWING UP TO FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS, ESTABLISHING AN INDUSTRY ASSESSMENT ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING REVENUE PASSED THROUGH TO CONSUMERS, ESTABLISHING A REVENUE POOLING AND SHAREHOLDER DISTRIBUTION MECHANISM MODELED ON THE ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT OF 1971, ESTABLISHING SPECIAL-PURPOSE LOCAL TAXING DISTRICTS AT THE OPTION OF LOCAL VOTERS, AND PROVIDING EFFECTIVE DATES.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

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LONG TITLE

AN ACT CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AUTHORITY (APCA) AS A FEDERALLY CHARTERED CITIZEN-SHAREHOLDER CORPORATION; ENACTING NEW SECTIONS OF TITLE 15 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE RELATING TO THE FEDERAL CHARTER OF APCA; ESTABLISHING APCA'S CORPORATE FORM, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDER STRUCTURE, AND CITIZEN-SHAREHOLDER ENROLLMENT MECHANISM ON THE MODEL OF THE ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT OF 1971 WITH SHARES NON-TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT BY INHERITANCE OR GIFT TO AMERICAN CITIZENS; AUTHORIZING UP TO FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS OF TREASURY BORROWING AUTHORITY UNDER THE MODEL OF TITLE 39 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE; ESTABLISHING A QUARTERLY INDUSTRY ASSESSMENT ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTIVE-AI REVENUE UNDER THE MODEL OF SECTION 254 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996 AND VALIDATED BY FCC v. CONSUMERS' RESEARCH (2025); ESTABLISHING A REVENUE-POOLING MECHANISM ACROSS REGIONAL AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY CORPORATIONS UNDER THE MODEL OF ANCSA SECTION 7(i) AND A SHAREHOLDER DISTRIBUTION MECHANISM UNDER THE MODEL OF ANCSA SECTION 7(j) AND THE ALASKA PERMANENT FUND DIVIDEND; AUTHORIZING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SPECIAL-PURPOSE LOCAL APCA 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; ESTABLISHING APCA AS A FEDERAL CORPORATION UNDER THE MODEL OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (1933) WITH A SENATE-CONFIRMED BOARD; ESTABLISHING AN AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY PERMANENT FUND UNDER THE MODEL OF THE ALASKA PERMANENT FUND; ESTABLISHING A PHASED IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE PROCEEDING FROM A PILOT FLEET OF ROBOTIC MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS AT A DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL LABORATORY SITE THROUGH A STAGED EXPANSION TO A FULL CLOSED-LOOP MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; AUTHORIZING APCA TO COORDINATE WITH FEDERAL FUSION ENERGY PROGRAMS INCLUDING COMMONWEALTH FUSION SYSTEMS, HELION ENERGY, TAE TECHNOLOGIES, AND ZAP ENERGY FOR ELECTRICAL POWER PROCUREMENT; PROVIDING FOR SUNSET OF THE INDUSTRY ASSESSMENT UPON ACHIEVEMENT OF APCA OPERATIONAL SELF-SUFFICIENCY; AND PROVIDING EFFECTIVE DATES FOR IMPLEMENTATION.

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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. Upon filing, each chamber shall refer the bill to the appropriate standing committee or committees.

COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT: Due to the comprehensive nature of this legislation, this Act may be referred to multiple committees of jurisdiction:

House of Representatives: - Committee on Energy and Commerce (Title II industry assessment, Title III fusion energy procurement, productive capacity) - Committee on Financial Services (Title II Treasury borrowing authority, shareholder corporation structure) - Committee on Ways and Means (Title II revenue pooling tax treatment, Title IV shareholder dividend tax treatment) - Committee on Armed Services (Title III Department of Defense and Department of Energy national laboratory siting; humanoid manufacturing procurement) - Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (Title III robotic manufacturing technology, Title III fusion energy programs) - Committee on Education and the Workforce (Title IV citizen service architecture, K-20 education integration) - Committee on Agriculture (Title III at-cost food production integration with state food assurance programs)

Senate: - Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Committee on Finance - Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - Committee on Armed Services - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

FISCAL IMPACT: The Congressional Budget Office shall prepare a fiscal impact statement pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 602. This Act authorizes initial federal appropriations totaling five to ten billion dollars in start-up capital, fifty billion dollars in Treasury borrowing authority, and a quarterly industry assessment on domestic manufacturing and productive-AI revenue with a contribution factor not to exceed five percent at peak deployment and sunset upon APCA operational self-sufficiency.

FLOOR VOTE: Passage requires a constitutional majority in each chamber. House of Representatives: 218 of 435 members. Senate: simple majority subject to cloture requirements where applicable.

CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS: This Act is enacted pursuant to the Commerce Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3); the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18); the General Welfare Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1); and the precedent of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 (constitutionality affirmed in Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 297 U.S. 288 (1936)) and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (extensive subsequent affirmation).

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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:

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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."

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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.

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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 service was established as a federal undertaking on the constitutional authority later codified at Article I, Section 8, Clause 7. The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 reorganized the United States Postal Service as an independent establishment of the executive branch, self-funded by postage revenue, with a fifteen-billion-dollar Treasury borrowing authority under Title 39 of the United States Code. In Fiscal Year 2024 the United States Postal Service generated $79.5 billion in operating revenue. The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 eliminated the 2006 retiree health pre-funding mandate, integrated postal retirees into Medicare, and codified six-day mail delivery. The USPS structural model demonstrates that a federally chartered entity can be self-funded by service revenue, backed by Treasury borrowing, operate continuously for two and a half centuries, and accept periodic legislative reform without losing its identity as a federal undertaking.

(2) THE REAGAN-ERA LIFELINE PRECEDENT (1985). On May 7, 1985, the Federal Communications Commission under the administration of President Ronald Reagan established the Lifeline program in response to consumer affordability concerns following the AT&T divestiture of 1984. The Telecommunications Act of 1996, Section 254 (47 U.S.C. 254), formalized the Universal Service Fund as a permanent statutory program. The USF disburses approximately $8 to $9 billion annually across four programs (Lifeline, High Cost / Connect America, E-rate, Rural Health Care). The USF is funded not by general appropriations but by a quarterly industry assessment on telecommunications carriers' interstate and international end-user revenues, set as a contribution factor by the FCC, passed through to consumers as a visible line item on telephone and broadband bills. The fourth-quarter 2025 contribution factor was 38.1 percent; the first-quarter 2026 contribution factor is proposed at 37.6 percent. On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States in FCC v. Consumers' Research, No. 24-354, upheld this contribution mechanism against a nondelegation challenge, reversing the Fifth Circuit's en banc July 2024 ruling. The USF model demonstrates that Congress can authorize a federally administered industry assessment, validated by the United States Supreme Court as of 2025, to fund a program of universal access without recourse to general fund appropriations.

(3) THE NIXON-ERA ANCSA PRECEDENT (1971). On December 18, 1971, President Richard Nixon signed into law the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (Public Law 92-203), 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; the only material amendments (1991) expanded the eligibility window. The ANCSA model demonstrates that a federal statute can charter private corporations whose shares are issued to a defined citizen class on a non-transferable basis, with a statutorily mandated revenue-pooling and pass-through mechanism, operating successfully across more than half a century and across the administrations of nine Presidents.

(4) THE FDR-ERA TVA PRECEDENT (1933). On May 18, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Tennessee Valley Authority Act (Public Law 73-17), codified at 16 U.S.C. Chapter 12A. The TVA was chartered as a federal corporation to provide electrical power, flood control, navigation management, and economic development across a seven-state region of the American Southeast. Beginning in 1959, the TVA's power program became self-funded with no further federal appropriations for the power activity. The TVA today serves more than ten million customers across Tennessee and parts of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia. The TVA is governed by a nine-member Board of Directors, all nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, serving five-year staggered terms. The TVA makes "payments in lieu of taxes" to states and counties in its service area. The Supreme Court of the United States, in Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 297 U.S. 288 (1936), sustained the constitutionality of the TVA Act under the Commerce Clause, the General Welfare Clause, and the powers incident to federal property management. After ninety-three years of operation across every Presidential administration since 1933, the TVA structural model has been preserved across deeply divergent political cycles. The TVA model demonstrates that a federal corporation can operate continuously for nearly a century, serve a multi-state region, transition from appropriated start-up to revenue-funded self-sufficiency, and maintain bipartisan congressional support.

(5) 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 Earnings Reserve Account funds the annual Permanent Fund Dividend, distributed to every eligible resident of Alaska who meets one-year residency, intent to remain, and clean-felony-year requirements. The 2024 dividend was $1,702 per resident with approximately one billion dollars in total disbursements. The 2025 dividend was set at one thousand dollars per resident by Alaska House Bill 53. The Permanent Fund itself is structurally permanent, surviving changes in state legislative majorities and gubernatorial administrations for fifty consecutive years. The Permanent Fund model demonstrates that a citizen dividend on natural-resource revenue can be operationalized at state scale across half a century without expropriation of the underlying fund principal.

(6) 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 across multiple successor institutional forms, culminating in the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996 establishing the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). 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, with each state library agency submitting a five-year state plan for IMLS approval. The Public Libraries Survey reports data from approximately nine thousand public libraries through the Federal State Cooperative System. 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 several states (Washington, Illinois, Ohio, parts of New York, parts of 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. The American library model demonstrates that a multi-jurisdictional federal-state-local layered funding architecture can sustain a universal-access civic institution across nearly three centuries.

FINDINGS RELATING TO THE STRUCTURAL CHALLENGE THIS ACT ADDRESSES:

(7) THE FEDERAL STRUCTURAL OVERLOAD. The Congress finds, with the civilizational diagnosis articulated in Cooper, Historical Apoplexy (2025-2026), that the federal governmental apparatus is operating under conditions of measurable structural mismatch between its founding design and its current scale. Twenty-two federal government shutdowns have occurred since 1976. The 2025 federal shutdown lasted forty-three days, the longest in United States history, furloughing approximately 670,000 federal employees. The House of Representatives has been frozen at four hundred thirty-five members since the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, producing a representation ratio of approximately 762,000 constituents per representative, the worst ratio in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Senate cloture motions, forty-nine total between 1917 and 1970, now exceed two thousand per decade. The federal debt ceiling has been raised, extended, or revised seventy-eight times since 1960, weaponized to the brink of sovereign default on multiple occasions, producing in 2011 the first credit-rating downgrade in United States history. The implications for this Act are that any federal program proposed in 2026 must be designed to operate inside a federal apparatus that is structurally overloaded and politically volatile. The Act is accordingly designed to be self-funded after initial start-up, governed by a federal corporation with a Senate-confirmed staggered-term Board, and structurally insulated from single-administration political attack on the model of TVA, USPS, and ANCSA.

(8) THE FORGOTTEN AMERICAN LINEAGE OF PRODUCTIVE-CAPACITY ENGINEERING. The Congress finds, with the analytical framework articulated in Cooper, Historical Apoplexy (2025-2026), that American engineering practitioners across the twentieth century specified resource-based productive-capacity systems that were not implemented at scale and have been substantially forgotten in contemporary policy discourse. Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) developed a comprehensive specification of a closed-loop self-repairing automated factory connected to renewable energy across more than seven decades of engineering work, substantially completed at a twenty-one-acre research facility in Venus, Florida. R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) developed "Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science" specifying global resource management at scale. Donella Meadows (1941-2001), working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, applied systems dynamics to global resource constraints. Stafford Beer (1926-2002) designed and deployed Cybersyn, an operating cybernetic governance system, for a foreign government in 1971-1973. None of these practitioners used the word "utopia" to describe their own engineering work. The contemporary policy discourse has substantially forgotten this lineage, with the result that productive-capacity proposals are dismissed under terminology drawn from a sixteenth-century work of fiction (Thomas More, "Utopia," 1516) that no engineering practitioner has claimed. This Act treats the lineage as engineering practice and the dismissal as terminological confusion to be set aside in favor of statutory specificity.

(9) THE REPLICATION THRESHOLD. The Congress finds 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 as of July 2025, a price point that was reported in Forbes April 27, 2026, to have been "thought to be five years away." The Congress further finds that foundation-model robotic intelligence (Skild AI, Physical Intelligence, Figure AI, Field AI, Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics) has combined ecosystem valuation exceeding sixty billion dollars as of 2026, and is on a demonstrated trajectory to provide the cognitive substrate for robotic manufacturing systems that learn manufacturing tasks across hardware platforms. 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 toward transit-time and tooling rather than labor-time. The Congress finds, on the basis of public reporting, the analytical framework articulated in Cooper, Historical Apoplexy (2025-2026), and academic analysis (Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Hyundai, Apptronik, Agility Robotics, Figure AI, and Unitree public disclosures 2025-2026; Forbes April 27, 2026, reporting on the Unitree R1 price point; Cambridge University analysis of self-reproducing systems; the von Neumann theoretical framework, "Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata," 1966), that the replication threshold will likely be crossed within the next decade, and that the American manufacturing economy will either organize itself to participate in that threshold crossing as a common asset of the American people or will fail to do so, in which case the productive capacity will accrue to a small number of private firms and foreign sovereign actors without American citizen participation. This Act is designed to ensure the former outcome.

(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, USDA Economic Research Service food-spending data, the USDA Food Dollar Series, USDA ERS food-insecurity statistics, 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, on a federal appropriation of approximately $1.3 billion per year. The commissary precedent demonstrates that at-cost distribution of staple goods is operationally feasible at scale within the United States and has been operationally proven for one hundred fifty-eight years. This Act extends the commissary precedent from military-only at-cost food distribution to a civilian citizen-shareholder productive-capacity authority.

(11) THE 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, modeled on the Defense Commissary Agency precedent and benchmarked to a Colorado state-level proposal originally drafted in 2016, comprising at-cost food assurance bills now publicly available at imran.theamanuensis.com/apoplexy. This federal Act is designed to operate in supplement to those state proposals where they pass, and as a stand-alone federal mechanism where state proposals do not pass. This Act assumes that some, but not all, state proposals will reach enactment within the implementation timeline of this Act.

(12) THE CITIZEN-SHAREHOLDER RATHER THAN SUBJECT FRAMING. The Congress finds, on the basis of fifty-five years of operational experience with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, that an American statutory program of universal access to productive capacity is most durable when American citizens are constituted as shareholders in the chartering entity, with property rights in those shares protected by their non-transferability outside the citizen class. The shareholder framing positions the American people as owners and decisionmakers in the productive capacity authority rather than as supplicants of a federal agency. This Act follows the ANCSA structural choice in this regard without modification.

(13) THE SUNSET AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY FRAMING. The Congress finds that the most fiscally responsible long-term posture for this Act is one in which the federal industry assessment authorized under Title II is designed to sunset upon the achievement of operational self-sufficiency by the American Productive Capacity Authority. The TVA precedent demonstrates that a federal corporation can transition from appropriated start-up to revenue-funded self-sufficiency within twenty-six years (1933-1959). The USPS precedent demonstrates that an independent federal establishment can operate on service-fee revenue with Treasury borrowing backstop. This Act incorporates both lessons.

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TITLE I

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AMERICAN PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AUTHORITY

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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 3.

(d) "State Corporation" means any of the up to fifty state-level subsidiary corporations of the Authority chartered under Section 4.

(e) "Local Taxing District" means any special-purpose taxing district authorized under Section 5 at the option of local voters.

(f) "Citizen-Shareholder" means a citizen of the United States enrolled under Section 6 holding non-transferable shares in the Authority.

(g) "Permanent Fund" means the American Productive Capacity Permanent Fund established by Section 7.

(h) "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.

(i) "Section 7(j)-equivalent" means the shareholder distribution mechanism established by Section 9 modeled on Section 7(j) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 and the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend.

(j) "Industry Assessment" means the quarterly assessment authorized under Section 10 modeled on the Universal Service Fund contribution mechanism upheld in FCC v. Consumers' Research (2025).

(k) "Replication Threshold" has the meaning given that term in Section 1(9) of this Act.

(l) "Productive Capacity" means 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.

(m) "Fusion Energy Procurement Authority" has the meaning given that term in Section 21.

SECTION 3. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, 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.

(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; (2) to ensure that the productive capacity gains from the Replication Threshold accrue to the American people rather than to a small number of private firms or foreign sovereign actors; (3) to coordinate the procurement, deployment, and operation of robotic manufacturing systems at federal scale; (4) to distribute the economic returns of productive capacity to American Citizen-Shareholders on an Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend model and on the ANCSA Section 7(j) model; (5) to coordinate with federal fusion energy programs for the electrical power necessary for full-scale productive capacity operations; and (6) to operate, where requested by states and localities, at-cost distribution of staple goods in coordination with state food assurance programs.

(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, except as modified by this subsection. (1) Each member shall serve a term of ten years, staggered so that no more than two member terms expire in any single Presidential administration. (2) Three member positions shall be reserved for: (A) one engineering specialist with a documented record of operational productive-capacity work; (B) one specialist in cooperative or shareholder corporate governance; (C) one specialist in fusion energy or industrial energy infrastructure. (3) A member may not be removed except for cause established under the Administrative Procedure Act. (4) Vacancies shall be filled within ninety days of occurrence by Presidential nomination and Senate confirmation.

(d) CORPORATE FORM. The Authority shall be chartered under the laws of the District of Columbia as a non-profit corporation. The Authority's Articles of Incorporation shall be drafted by the Secretary of the Treasury in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget within one hundred eighty days of enactment of this Act, and shall be filed within thirty days of completion of drafting.

(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.

(f) GENERAL POWERS. The Authority shall have all powers necessary or proper to carry out the purposes specified in subsection (b), including the power to: enter into contracts; acquire and dispose of real and personal property; engage in research and development; enter into agreements with federal, state, tribal, local, and foreign-sovereign entities; issue debt obligations subject to the Treasury borrowing cap in Title II; receive grants and gifts; charter Regional Corporations and State Corporations; and exercise all other corporate powers customary to a federally chartered corporation.

SECTION 4. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Establishment of Regional Corporations.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT. The Authority shall charter up to twelve Regional Corporations, one for each of the twelve regions defined by the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) economic-region classification, within five years of enactment of this Act.

(b) BEA REGIONS. The twelve BEA regions are: New England, Mideast, Great Lakes, Plains, Southeast, Southwest, Rocky Mountain, Far West, Alaska, Hawaii, and two additional regions to be defined by the Authority's Board for U.S. Territories and a thirteenth at-large region for citizens not domiciled in any of the BEA regions, modeled on the thirteenth ANCSA Regional Corporation for Alaska Natives residing outside Alaska.

(c) 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.

(d) 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.

(e) 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.

SECTION 5. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Establishment of State Corporations and Local Taxing Districts.

(a) STATE CORPORATIONS. The Authority may charter up to one State Corporation per state, the District of Columbia, and the territories, each as a non-profit subsidiary corporation of the Regional Corporation in whose Region it sits. State Corporations shall be responsible for: (1) facility siting within the state in coordination with state and local governments; (2) the local-deployment relationship with school-attached productive capacity nodes authorized under Title IV; (3) the citizen-facing service relationship; (4) supply-chain coordination with state food assurance programs (where adopted) and with state education systems; and (5) operations of any Local Taxing Districts within the state.

(b) LOCAL TAXING DISTRICTS. State Corporations may, at the option of local voters and subject to the laws of the relevant state, establish Local Taxing Districts for the limited purposes of: (1) acquiring real property for productive capacity facility siting; (2) financing local infrastructure (water, sewer, electrical, road) supporting productive capacity facilities; (3) operations and maintenance of Local Taxing District property; and (4) such other purposes specifically related to productive capacity facility operations as the Authority's Board authorizes by rule.

(c) LOCAL TAXING DISTRICT FORMATION. A Local Taxing District 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 Corporation; and (4) authorization by the Authority's Board.

(d) LOCAL TAXING DISTRICT POWERS. A Local Taxing District is hereby authorized to levy property taxes on real property within its boundaries, issue bonds, and exercise other powers customary to special-purpose taxing districts under state law, on the model of the public library taxing districts operative in Washington, Illinois, Ohio, and parts of New York and California.

(e) LOCAL TAXING DISTRICT PROTECTION. Property taxes collected by a Local Taxing District shall not be commingled with city, county, or state general fund revenues, and shall be expended exclusively for the purposes authorized in subsection (b).

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SECTION 6. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, 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.

(c) NON-TRANSFERABILITY. Shares issued under this Section may be: (1) inherited by lineal descendants of the Citizen-Shareholder; (2) gifted by a Citizen-Shareholder to another United States citizen; or (3) escheated to the Permanent Fund upon death of the Citizen-Shareholder 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 or other obligation is void ab initio. Shares are not subject to attachment, garnishment, or judicial execution in any civil action arising under federal or state law.

(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. The shares issued under this Section have no intrinsic cash value at issuance. The shares confer the right to distributions authorized under Section 9 and the right to vote in Regional Corporation Board elections authorized under Section 4. No distribution is guaranteed by issuance of shares.

(f) ENROLLMENT RECORDS. The Authority shall maintain enrollment records including each Citizen-Shareholder's full legal name, date of birth, United States citizenship status, Region of domicile, share count, and contact information sufficient for distribution under Section 9. The Authority shall maintain enrollment records under the privacy protections of the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a) and shall not disclose enrollment records except as authorized by law.

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TITLE II

FUNDING ARCHITECTURE

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SECTION 7. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, 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.

(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); (3) make distributions to the Authority's operating accounts to support productive capacity operations as authorized by the Board; (4) invest in productive capacity facility construction, research and development, and humanoid manufacturing system procurement as authorized by the Board; 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).

(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. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Revenue Pooling Mechanism (Section 7(i)-equivalent).

(a) ESTABLISHMENT. Modeled 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 gross revenues received by each Regional Corporation from productive capacity operations (food production, household supplies production, modular component production, basic-materials production, and other productive operations specified by the Authority's Board) 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) State Corporation operations funded through Local Taxing Districts (Section 5); (2) federal grants specifically restricted to a Region; (3) Permanent Fund investment returns retained at the Parent Authority.

(e) GEOGRAPHIC LUCK FRAMING. The Congress finds that some Regions will develop greater productive capacity earlier than others due to factors including proximity to existing manufacturing infrastructure, proximity to fusion energy generation, available real estate, available technical workforce, and similar considerations. 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. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Citizen-Shareholder Distribution (Section 7(j)-equivalent and Permanent Fund Dividend).

(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. Fifty percent (50%) of the Section 7(i)-equivalent pooled revenue (Section 8(b)) and fifty percent (50%) of the Permanent Fund earnings (Section 7(c)) shall be distributed annually to Citizen-Shareholders on a per-share basis.

(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. The Authority shall maintain payment records for not less than seven years.

(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 (Section 6(a)) for the entire prior fiscal year. Newly enrolled Citizen-Shareholders (whether by birth or by post-effective-date naturalization) 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. No annual appropriations process and no executive branch directive may reduce the Distribution. This provision insulates the Distribution from the political variability documented in the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend experience.

SECTION 10. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Industry Assessment.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT. Modeled on the Universal Service Fund contribution factor mechanism authorized under 47 U.S.C. 254 and upheld in FCC v. Consumers' Research, No. 24-354 (June 27, 2025), this Section establishes an industry assessment on domestic manufacturing and productive-AI revenue to fund the Authority's productive capacity build-out.

(b) ASSESSMENT BASE. The assessment is levied on the gross interstate revenue of: (1) domestic manufacturing entities with annual revenue exceeding one billion dollars; (2) domestic providers of foundation-model robotic intelligence services and embodied artificial intelligence services with annual revenue exceeding one hundred million dollars; and (3) such other industry segments as the Authority's Board specifies by rule and as Congress confirms by appropriations rider.

(c) CONTRIBUTION FACTOR. The Authority's Board shall set the quarterly contribution factor based on the projected funding need to support the Authority's productive capacity build-out, not to exceed five percent (5%) of the assessment base at peak deployment. The contribution factor shall be set in the Federal Register at least thirty days before the start of each fiscal quarter.

(d) PASS-THROUGH. Entities subject to the assessment may pass the assessment through to their commercial customers and end-users on the model of the Universal Service Fund line-item disclosure. Pass-through shall be in the form of a visible line item.

(e) COLLECTION. The assessment shall be remitted to the Authority on a quarterly schedule and shall be collected, audited, and enforced through mechanisms substantially identical to those used by the Universal Service Administrative Company under 47 U.S.C. 254.

(f) SUNSET. The assessment authorized by this Section shall sunset automatically upon the Authority's certification of operational self-sufficiency, defined as: (1) two consecutive fiscal years in which the Authority's Section 7(i)-equivalent pooled revenue (Section 8) exceeds the prior-year assessment receipts; (2) maintenance of an operating reserve at the Parent Authority of not less than three years of operating expenses; and (3) maintenance of a Permanent Fund balance of not less than ten years of operating expenses. The Authority shall certify operational self-sufficiency to Congress in a written report filed not later than ninety days after the close of the fiscal year in which all three conditions are met.

(g) JUDICIAL REVIEW. The setting of the quarterly contribution factor is subject to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act and under the standards articulated in FCC v. Consumers' Research, No. 24-354 (2025).

SECTION 11. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Treasury Borrowing Authority.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT. Modeled on the Treasury borrowing authority of the United States Postal Service under Title 39 of the United States Code, 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 fifty billion dollars ($50,000,000,000) in outstanding principal at any one time.

(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 five billion dollars); and (5) initial Regional Corporation operating capital (not to exceed two hundred fifty million dollars per Regional Corporation).

(d) REPAYMENT. Treasury borrowing shall be repaid from the Authority's gross revenues over a period not to exceed forty years from the date of 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, in which case the United States may recover from the Authority's assets.

SECTION 12. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Initial Appropriation.

(a) APPROPRIATION. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five billion dollars ($5,000,000,000) for Fiscal Year 2027 and the sum of five billion dollars ($5,000,000,000) for Fiscal Year 2028, to be used by the Authority for: (1) initial start-up costs including establishment of the Parent Authority, the Regional Corporations, and the initial State Corporations; (2) the Wave 1 pilot deployment authorized under Section 14; (3) initial Permanent Fund seeding (not to exceed three 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) 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 of the Authority and Permanent Fund under Section 7(e); (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.

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TITLE III

OPERATIONS AND PHASED IMPLEMENTATION

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SECTION 13. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Implementation Phases.

(a) PHASED DEPLOYMENT. The Authority shall deploy productive capacity operations in five sequential Waves: (1) Wave 1, Pilot Deployment (Section 14); (2) Wave 2, Multi-Regional Deployment (Section 15); (3) Wave 3, School-Attached Deployment (Section 16); (4) Wave 4, Citizen Service Architecture (Section 17, cross-referenced to Title IV); (5) Wave 5, Closed-Loop Operations (Section 18). The Authority's Board may revise the schedule of Waves by rule but may not skip Waves.

(b) WAVE TARGETS. Approximate timing targets for each Wave are: Wave 1 within twenty-four months of enactment; Wave 2 within sixty months of enactment; Wave 3 within ninety-six months of enactment; Wave 4 within one hundred twenty months of enactment; Wave 5 thereafter. The Authority may proceed faster than these targets but may not extend any Wave beyond two years of the target without notification to Congress.

SECTION 14. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Wave 1 Pilot Deployment.

(a) PILOT FACILITY. Within twenty-four months of enactment, the Authority shall establish a pilot productive capacity facility at a Department of Energy national laboratory site selected by the Authority's Board in consultation with the Secretary of Energy. Candidate sites include Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Tennessee), Idaho National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory (Illinois), or such other national laboratory site as the Board determines.

(b) PILOT FLEET. The pilot facility shall be equipped with not fewer than eight nor more than twelve humanoid manufacturing systems, procured on the open market from established American or American-allied manufacturers including Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Apptronik, Agility Robotics, Figure AI, or such other manufacturer as the Board determines.

(c) PILOT SCOPE. The pilot facility shall produce: (1) school supplies including pens, pencils, notebooks, and basic classroom equipment; and (2) canned foods derived from at-cost agricultural sourcing. The pilot shall demonstrate end-to-end operation of a productive capacity facility including raw materials sourcing, manufacturing, quality control, packaging, distribution to test customers, and reporting.

(d) PILOT BUDGET. The pilot deployment shall be funded from the Section 12 initial appropriation, with a budget not to exceed twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) in capital plus annual operating costs not to exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the first three fiscal years.

(e) PILOT REPORTING. The Authority shall report to Congress on pilot operations not later than thirty months after enactment, including: operational metrics, financial results, technical lessons learned, recommendations for Wave 2 scaling, and any recommended amendments to this Act.

SECTION 15. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Wave 2 Multi-Regional Deployment.

(a) STATE-LEVEL FACILITIES. Following Wave 1 reporting, the Authority shall deploy one productive capacity facility in each state through the State Corporation structure (Section 5), in a phased rollout completed within sixty months of enactment.

(b) STATE FACILITY SCOPE. Each state facility shall produce: (1) school supplies for the state's public school systems; (2) canned and packaged foods sufficient to supply at-cost distribution to state food assurance programs (where adopted by states under the Historical Apoplexy State Legislative Adaptation series or analogous state legislation); and (3) basic textile production for the state's K-12 school system.

(c) STATE FACILITY FINANCING. Each state facility shall be financed through a combination of: (1) Authority working capital (Section 11 Treasury borrowing); (2) State Corporation operating revenue from at-cost goods sales; (3) Local Taxing District revenue (Section 5(b)) where applicable; (4) federal appropriations to the Authority through the Section 12 initial appropriation; (5) Industry Assessment receipts (Section 10).

(d) STATE FACILITY BUDGET CEILING. The aggregate cost of Wave 2 shall not exceed five billion dollars ($5,000,000,000) over thirty-six months, provided that Authority Board may extend by up to twenty percent on written notification to Congress of the operational basis for the increase.

SECTION 16. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Wave 3 School-Attached Deployment.

(a) HIGH SCHOOL NODES. Following Wave 2 reporting, the Authority shall deploy productive capacity nodes attached to public high schools across the United States, in coordination with state education systems and on the model of public-library taxing districts. The deployment shall be phased over forty-eight months following Wave 2 completion.

(b) NODE SCOPE. Each high school node shall: (1) operate a small-scale productive capacity cell producing notebooks, pencils, basic tools, small modular components, and basic foodstuffs for distribution to the school and the surrounding community; (2) serve as a citizen-facing demonstration site for the Authority; (3) integrate with the K-20 education curriculum at the discretion of the State Corporation and the State Department of Education; (4) provide rotational work-experience opportunities for students at the discretion of the State Corporation; and (5) participate in the Authority's Section 7(i)-equivalent revenue pooling.

(c) NODE FINANCING. Each high school node shall be financed primarily through: (1) Local Taxing Districts established under Section 5(b) specifically for the node; (2) state appropriations through the State Corporation; (3) Authority working capital where Local Taxing District formation is unsuccessful.

(d) AGGREGATE WAVE 3 BUDGET. The aggregate cost of Wave 3 shall not exceed one hundred billion dollars ($100,000,000,000) over forty-eight months, funded primarily from Industry Assessment receipts and Local Taxing District revenues. Treasury borrowing under Section 11 shall not be the primary source.

SECTION 17. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Wave 4 Citizen Service Architecture.

(a) See Title IV for the full Citizen Service Architecture, including the Non-Negotiable Floor (Section 19), the Personal Productive Asset entitlement (Section 19A), the Access Tiers (Section 20), and Age-Cohort Service Rotation (Section 20(g)).

(b) WAVE 4 START. Wave 4 begins upon completion of Wave 3 high school node deployment in not fewer than thirty-three states, projected at one hundred twenty months after enactment.

SECTION 17A. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, 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 Civic Robot 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), reorganized for the productive technology of the 2020s and the decades following. The Civic Robot 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 Civic Robot Corps shall conduct labor across the following sectors:

(1) MANUFACTURING SECTOR. The Civic Robot Corps is the principal labor body of the Authority's productive capacity facilities. Corps units shall conduct assembly, fabrication, machining, welding, casting, molding, finishing, quality control, packaging, warehousing, and inventory operations across the Authority's facilities and across the State Corporations' facilities. The Manufacturing Sector is the operational backbone of the Civic Robot Corps and the principal labor source of the Authority's at-cost goods production.

(2) INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE SECTOR. Corps units shall conduct repair, maintenance, and construction of physical infrastructure, including roads, bridges, tunnels, water systems, wastewater systems, electrical grid components, natural-gas distribution lines (where applicable), public buildings, public housing, federal property, and the rights-of-way thereof, in coordination with federal, State, and local infrastructure authorities. The scope extends from routine pothole patching through full bridge reconstruction.

(3) ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION SECTOR. Corps units shall conduct ecological restoration on public lands, including reforestation, fire-fuel-load management, invasive-species control, watershed restoration, soil remediation, wetland reconstruction, prairie reconstruction, beach and dune restoration, and habitat reconstruction.

(4) PUBLIC WORKS SECTOR. Corps units shall construct and maintain public facilities, including parks, public libraries, community centers, public housing, federal courthouses, post offices, public-transit infrastructure, and federally owned lands.

(5) AGRICULTURAL LABOR SECTOR. Corps units shall provide agricultural labor on State Corporation-operated agricultural land and, where agreement is reached with private landholders on terms set by the State Corporation, on private land. Labor includes planting, weeding, pest management, harvest, on-site processing, packaging, and distribution of at-cost foodstuffs into the State Corporation's distribution network and into the at-cost distribution channels established by State food assurance acts where adopted.

(6) DISASTER RESPONSE SECTOR. Corps units shall be available for 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. Disaster response labor includes search-and-rescue operations, debris clearance, temporary infrastructure stabilization, provision of emergency shelter and water, distribution of emergency food, evacuation transport assistance, and post-event reconstruction labor.

(7) EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSISTANCE SECTOR. Corps units may provide emergency-medical-services assistance in support of licensed EMS personnel during emergencies declared under paragraph (6) or otherwise. Such assistance is limited to: scene stabilization; victim transport; vital-signs assessment; application of basic first aid; operation of automated external defibrillators; and logistical support to licensed EMS personnel. Corps units shall not perform hospital-grade, surgical, or other clinical medical operations. The boundary between EMS assistance and hospital operations remains the responsibility of separate legislation governing the medical profession and is outside the scope of this Act.

(c) EXCLUSIONS. The Civic Robot Corps shall not conduct any of the following:

(1) MILITARY OR DEFENSE OPERATIONS. Corps units shall not be deployed in armed conflict, combat support, weapons handling, weapons manufacturing, military logistics, military training, or any other defense-related function. The military application of robotic systems remains the responsibility of the Armed Forces of the United States under separate legislation governing the Department of Defense, and is outside the scope of this Act.

(2) HOSPITAL OR CLINICAL MEDICAL OPERATIONS. The Civic Robot Corps medical function is limited to the first-response and EMS-assistance roles in paragraph (b)(7). Hospital operations, surgical procedures, clinical care, mental-health treatment, prescription medical practice, and similar operations remain the responsibility of licensed medical professionals under separate legislation governing the medical profession.

(3) LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS. Corps units shall not conduct arrests, criminal investigation, surveillance, intelligence collection, immigration enforcement, customs enforcement, or any other law-enforcement operation. These functions remain the responsibility of federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement under existing law.

(d) LIMITED FEDERAL OPERATING POSTURE. The principal operating posture of the Civic Robot 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 State Corporations during the Wave 2 deployment window of Section 15; (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 energy procurement and grid operations under Section 21. The federal Corps shall not duplicate, supersede, or preempt State Corps operations within any State.

(e) STATE CIVIC ROBOT CORPS. Each State Corporation shall establish a State Civic Robot Corps not later than the Wave 2 deployment window of Section 15. The Authority shall transfer initial Corps units, training standards, and operational protocols to each State Corporation on a phased schedule synchronized with State productive capacity facility deployment. The State Civic Robot Corps operates under the laws of the State, the priorities of the State's emergency-management authority, and the policies of the State Corporation, with federal coordination limited to subsection (d).

(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 Civic Robot Corps. To the maximum extent consistent with the federal Corps' minimum operational requirement under subsection (d), federal funds appropriated or collected under this Act shall be diverted to State Corporations for State-level Corps operations, distribution determined by the State's lawful processes. The federal layer sets up and the State Corporations distribute according to State priorities; the federal layer retains minimal direct-operational authority.

(g) CITIZEN-DIRECTED CIVIC ROBOT CORPS LABOR. A Citizen-Shareholder who, under Section 19A(b)(1), directs the Citizen-Shareholder's Personal Productive Asset into the Civic Robot Corps shall be deemed to have contributed productive labor to the Corps at the per-unit labor rate established by the Authority's Board by rule. The Citizen-Shareholder so directing the Personal Productive Asset shall receive the dividend supplement specified in Section 19A(b)(1) in lieu of residential deployment.

(h) NO CIVILIAN COMPULSION. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to compel any citizen to perform service in the Civic Robot Corps or to direct a Personal Productive Asset into the Corps. Citizen service of any kind under this Act is voluntary.

SECTION 18. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Wave 5 Closed-Loop Operations.

(a) WAVE 5 START. Wave 5 begins upon Authority certification that robotic manufacturing systems within the Authority can: (1) be assembled by other robotic manufacturing systems within the Authority; (2) be maintained and repaired by other robotic manufacturing systems within the Authority; and (3) produce at least seventy-five percent of their own component parts. This certification shall be made publicly to Congress and shall trigger the operating posture changes specified in this Section.

(b) THE REPLICATION THRESHOLD. The Wave 5 certification is the operational mark of crossing the Replication Threshold defined in Section 1(9).

(c) ECONOMIC RECONFIGURATION. Upon Wave 5 certification: (1) the Industry Assessment (Section 10) shall sunset on the schedule specified in Section 10(f); (2) the per-Citizen-Shareholder Distribution under Section 9 shall be re-calibrated to reflect the now-compounding output of the Authority; and (3) the Authority's pricing of at-cost goods may be reduced commensurate with the reduction in production costs.

(d) FUSION ENERGY INTEGRATION. By Wave 5, the Authority shall have entered into power purchase agreements with one or more United States fusion energy programs including but not limited to Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Helion Energy, TAE Technologies, and Zap Energy. The Authority shall coordinate with the Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on fusion energy procurement.

SECTION 21. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Fusion Energy Procurement Authority.

(a) FUSION ENERGY PROCUREMENT. The Authority is hereby granted authority to enter into power purchase agreements, capacity reservations, and related fusion energy procurement instruments with United States fusion energy companies, including but not limited to those identified in Section 18(d).

(b) FERC COORDINATION. The Authority shall coordinate with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on grid interconnection of fusion energy procured by the Authority. The first fusion plant connected to the PJM Interconnection grid is Commonwealth Fusion Systems ARC at Chesterfield County, Virginia (CFS application April 2026), establishing the federal regulatory pattern for such procurement.

(c) DOE COORDINATION. The Authority shall coordinate with the Secretary of Energy on national laboratory siting, fusion energy program funding support, and related technical coordination.

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TITLE IV

CITIZEN SERVICE ARCHITECTURE AND ACCESS TIERS

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SECTION 19. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, The Non-Negotiable Floor.

(a) PURPOSE. This Section establishes a non-negotiable floor of productive capacity goods available to every Citizen-Shareholder regardless of service status. The floor operates in cooperation with the Personal Productive Asset entitlement under Section 19A and the Civic Robot Corps under Section 17A.

(b) BASE PROVISION. Every Citizen-Shareholder is entitled, on demand and at no cost beyond the Citizen-Shareholder's pro-rated 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 Authority's Board; and (4) such other basic goods as the Authority's Board specifies by rule.

(c) NO MEANS TEST. The base provision under subsection (b) is NOT means-tested. Every Citizen-Shareholder is eligible regardless of income, employment status, residency status (so long as a United States citizen), or other personal circumstance.

(d) BASE PROVISION FUNDING. The base provision is funded from the Authority's gross revenue on a first-priority basis. The Authority's Board shall report annually on the financial performance of the base provision relative to total Authority revenue, and shall manage the Authority's operations to ensure that the base provision is continuously fundable.

(e) DELIVERY. The base provision shall be available at: (1) State Corporation distribution centers; (2) school-attached productive capacity nodes; (3) other distribution mechanisms as the Authority's Board specifies.

SECTION 19A. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, 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 the Access Tier provisions of Section 20 and per the Citizen-Shareholder's elected deployment configuration.

(b) RESIDENTIAL DEPLOYMENT IS OPTIONAL, DEPLOYMENT ELECTIONS. The Congress finds that the contemporary public discussion of household robotics has narrowed substantially around a limited set of tasks (such as the folding of laundry), and the Congress further finds that this narrowing substantially understates the productive capability of the units now reaching deployment scale. The Congress further finds that residential deployment of the Personal Productive Asset is one option among several and is not a precondition of any other right under this Act. A Citizen-Shareholder, on claim, may elect any one of the following deployment configurations:

(1) DIRECT-TO-CORPS DEPLOYMENT. The Citizen-Shareholder may direct the Personal Productive Asset into the Civic Robot Corps established under 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) STATE CORPORATION DEPLOYMENT. The Citizen-Shareholder may direct the Personal Productive Asset to the State Corporation of the Citizen-Shareholder's Region for State-level productive operations under Section 4.

(3) PRIVATE EMPLOYER DEPLOYMENT. The Citizen-Shareholder may direct the Personal Productive Asset to the Citizen- Shareholder's elected commercial or cooperative employer for productive deployment under the lawful operations of that employer, on terms set between the Citizen-Shareholder and the employer.

(4) RESERVE-AND-CLAIM-LATER. The Citizen-Shareholder may hold the entitlement in reserve and claim residential deployment or any of the deployment configurations in paragraphs (1) through (3) at a later date.

(5) RESIDENTIAL DEPLOYMENT. The Citizen-Shareholder may elect residential deployment of the Personal Productive Asset at the Citizen-Shareholder's primary residence, 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 under subsection (b)(5), 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, a residentially deployed Personal Productive Asset may perform the following labors:

(1) AGRICULTURAL LABOR AT RESIDENTIAL SCALE. Cultivation of a home garden or community plot of arbitrary size, including ground preparation, planting, irrigation, weed management, 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, tire change, tire replacement, oil and fluid changes, brake service, belt and hose replacement, battery service, alignment within the safety envelope established under subsection (f), and routine mechanical work on the Citizen-Shareholder's automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, and small equipment.

(3) RESIDENTIAL FIRST-RESPONSE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE. Assessment of vital signs, application of 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 medical or veterinary care, and 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. The boundary between residential first-response medical assistance and hospital-grade operations is the subject of separate legislation governing the medical profession.

(4) DOMESTIC ANIMAL CARE AND VETERINARY ASSESSMENT. Feeding, watering, exercising, and bathing of household pets and small livestock; behavioral observation and reporting of abnormal signs to the Citizen-Shareholder and, where appropriate, to the Citizen-Shareholder's veterinarian; transport of animals to professional veterinary care; operation of automated feed and water systems for small-scale livestock; and routine cleaning of habitats, kennels, coops, and stalls.

(5) RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, AND MAINTENANCE. Carpentry, painting, drywall installation and repair, plumbing within the residential scope, electrical work within applicable safety codes, roofing repair within applicable safety codes, 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, and the construction of additions to the residence in conformity with State and local building codes.

(6) CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF ON-PROPERTY RENEWABLE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE. Construction, installation, and maintenance of 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, including 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 productive capacity 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 individual replication capacity is materials-limited and workspace-limited; it is 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, and routine domestic assistance to elderly or disabled household members. The boundary between domestic assistance and licensed professional care-giving services is the subject of separate legislation.

(10) SUCH OTHER LAWFUL LABOR. Such other lawful physical labor as the Citizen-Shareholder directs and as the safety envelope and standards established under subsection (f) permit. The list in paragraphs (1) through (9) is illustrative and not exhaustive.

(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, operate, or otherwise interact with a Personal Productive Asset. The right declared in the Paramount Declaration is the Citizen-Shareholder's to claim or to decline. 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 establishing the operational parameters within which residentially deployed Personal Productive Assets may perform the labors enumerated in subsection (c). The Safety Envelope shall be promulgated by notice-and-comment rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act, shall be periodically amended as operational experience accumulates, and shall be read to permit, not restrict, the spectrum of labor described in subsection (c).

(g) STATE COORDINATION. The Authority shall coordinate with State Corporations under Section 4 and with State licensing authorities to ensure that residentially deployed Personal Productive Assets operate in compliance with State building codes, State electrical codes, State motor-vehicle laws, State veterinary regulations, and other applicable State and local law.

SECTION 20. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, Access Tiers and Service Unlock.

(a) ACCESS TIERS. Above the Non-Negotiable Floor (Section 19), the Authority's productive capacity is organized into Access Tiers. Each Citizen-Shareholder may access goods at each Tier as that Citizen-Shareholder satisfies the conditions established for each Tier under this Section.

(b) TIER 1, BASE-PLUS. Tier 1 expands the base provision to include higher-quality variants, broader selection, and a wider range of basic household goods. Eligibility for Tier 1: completion of K-12 education or its equivalent.

(c) TIER 2, ENHANCED. Tier 2 expands to include technical equipment, specialized clothing, advanced foodstuffs, and similar goods. Eligibility for Tier 2: completion of two consecutive years of citizen service in any qualifying program (including but not limited to: Wave 3 high school productive capacity node service; AmeriCorps; Peace Corps; armed forces active duty; civil service; teaching; nursing; public safety; firefighting; specified Authority operations roles).

(d) TIER 3, ADVANCED. Tier 3 expands to include specialized manufacturing-grade equipment, advanced household goods, premium distribution priorities, and similar advanced goods. Eligibility for Tier 3: completion of four consecutive years of citizen service plus completion of a two-year post-secondary credential.

(e) TIER 4, PREMIUM. Tier 4 expands to include rare or specialized goods, and longer-term Authority partnership benefits. Eligibility for Tier 4: completion of six or more years of citizen service, completion of a four-year post-secondary credential, plus satisfaction of additional criteria specified by the Authority's Board.

(f) NO FORCED LABOR. Nothing in this Section requires any Citizen-Shareholder to perform service. Citizen-Shareholders who do not perform service remain eligible for the Non-Negotiable Floor (Section 19) without exception.

(g) AGE-COHORT SERVICE ROTATION. The Authority's Board may, in consultation with the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, establish age-cohort rotation patterns within citizen service categories. Such age-cohort patterns shall not constitute compulsory service and shall not impair the Non-Negotiable Floor under Section 19 or the Personal Productive Asset entitlement under Section 19A.

(h) DIGNITY OF SERVICE FRAMING. The Citizen Service Architecture established in this Title is designed to reflect the American tradition of voluntary service to country and community, including the Civilian Conservation Corps (1933-1942), the Works Progress Administration (1935-1943), the GI Bill (1944 onward), the Peace Corps (1961 onward), AmeriCorps (1993 onward), the United States Armed Forces, and the public-service workforce broadly. The Tier structure rewards service; it does not punish non-service.

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TITLE V

THE PERPETUAL OPERATING STATE, TERMINAL CONFIGURATION OF THE AUTHORITY

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SECTION 26. New sections of Title 15 of the United States Code, 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. The Congress finds this property of the design important to state plainly in the legislative record.

(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(a). The fleet repairs itself under Section 18(a). The fleet gathers raw materials, processes those materials, fabricates goods, distributes goods, and conducts the maintenance of its own facilities, on the schedule set by the citizens of the United States, acting through their representatives in Congress and through the Authority's Board.

(c) THE ENERGY PRECONDITION. The continuous operation of the system is contingent upon a continuous supply of electrical energy, secured through the Fusion Energy Procurement Authority of Section 21 and through coordination with the Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Helion Energy, TAE Technologies, Zap Energy, and other United States fusion energy programs identified in the verification notes preceding this Act. So long as the energy supply is maintained, the productive 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 upon 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 extension of American civilization beyond the surface of the Earth is a question reserved to the citizens of a future generation to decide. The Congress finds it important, however, to state the following plainly on the legislative record: the productive system established by this Act 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 the energy supply is maintained and the replication and repair systems retain integrity under Section 18.

(e) NOT A FICTION-DERIVED CLAIM. The Congress further finds that 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 (Resource-Based Economy, twentieth-century American futurist and industrial designer working at Venus, Florida), R. Buckminster Fuller (Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science), Donella Meadows (systems dynamics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Stafford Beer (cybernetics; designer and operator of the Cybersyn system, 1971-1973), and the broader twentieth-century American engineering tradition of closed-loop productive systems. None of those practitioners used the word "utopia" to describe their own engineering work. This Act does not use it either.

(f) NO CLAIM OF ELIMINATING THE HUMAN CONDITION. This Act makes no claim that the productive system it establishes will eliminate human mortality, accident, novel pathogen, violence, environmental hazard, grief, loss, conflict, error, or the broader range of conditions that have characterized human life across the recorded historical record. Human beings will continue to experience the full range of those conditions. What the Act does claim, and what its operational provisions are designed to deliver, is the closure of the measurable gap between the productive capacity of the United States and the basic material needs of every citizen. The two propositions, closure of the productive-capacity gap, and the persistence of human conditions outside the scope of material provision, are independent. This Act addresses the first. It is silent on the second, because engineering is silent on the second.

(g) THE CITIZEN AS BENEFICIARY. In all phases of operation, in all configurations, and at all scales of deployment, the residentially deployed Personal Productive Asset of Section 19A, the State-deployed Civic Robot Corps of Section 17A, the Authority's central productive facilities of Title III, and the mature post-Wave-5 closed-loop system, 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 and to relieve the citizen of the material burdens that have constrained human life since the construction of the first agricultural surplus. 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 to Congress under Section 24 a section specifically reporting on the operational status of the perpetual operating state characteristic described in this Section, including the state of replication systems, the state of repair systems, the state of energy supply, and any deviation from the autonomous operation characteristic described in subsection (b).

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TITLE VI

SEVERABILITY, IMPLEMENTATION, REPORTING, AND EFFECTIVE DATE

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SECTION 22. Severability.

If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this Act and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances are not affected by such invalidity. The Congress finds that this Act is comprised of severable parts and that the failure of any one part shall not invalidate the remainder.

SECTION 23. Implementation timeline.

(a) GENERAL EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act shall take effect on October 1 following the date of 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) ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION. The Authority's Articles of Incorporation shall be filed within thirty days of completion of drafting under Section 3(d), but not later than two hundred seventy days after the effective date.

(d) WAVE TARGETS. The Authority shall pursue the Wave targets specified in Section 13(b). The Authority's Board shall report any deviation from target schedules to Congress within thirty days of the deviation becoming apparent.

(e) RULEMAKING. The Authority shall promulgate rules under the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 553) for: (1) the Citizen-Shareholder enrollment process; (2) the Section 7(i)-equivalent pooling calculation; (3) the annual Distribution payment process; (4) the Industry Assessment quarterly contribution factor; (5) Local Taxing District authorization; (6) Access Tier eligibility; and (7) such other matters as required by this Act.

SECTION 24. Reporting requirements.

(a) ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS. The Authority shall submit to Congress not later than December 31 of each year a comprehensive report on the operations of the Authority during the prior fiscal year, including:

(1) Financial Statements: audited financial statements prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, including the Permanent Fund.

(2) Productive Capacity Operations: the number of operating facilities; the quantity of goods produced by category; the quantity of goods distributed by Access Tier; the inventory at year-end; the unit-cost trajectory by goods category.

(3) Citizen-Shareholder Distribution: the per-share distribution amount; the total dollars distributed; the number of Citizen-Shareholders receiving distribution; the geographic distribution by Region.

(4) Wave Progress: progress against Wave schedule targets; identified risks; recommended schedule adjustments.

(5) Industry Assessment: the quarterly contribution factor history; the assessment base and revenue collected; the entities subject to the assessment.

(6) Treasury Borrowing: outstanding principal; rates; repayment schedule.

(7) Local Taxing Districts: the number of Local Taxing Districts established; the aggregate property tax levied; the use of revenues.

(8) Citizen Service Architecture: the number of Citizen-Shareholders in each Access Tier; the qualifying service categories pursued; the geographic distribution.

(9) Personal Productive Asset (Section 19A): the number of Citizen-Shareholders enrolled; the number of units claimed; the deployment-configuration breakdown (residential, Direct-to-Corps, State Corporation, private employer, reserve); the use-case distribution; safety-envelope events and resolutions.

(10) Civic Robot Corps (Section 17A): the number of Corps units operating in each Sector at federal, State, and local levels; labor delivered per Sector; coordination with State Corporations; disaster-response deployments; EMS-assistance deployments.

(11) Perpetual Operating State (Section 26): the state of replication systems, repair systems, energy supply, and the autonomous-operation characteristic, per Section 26(h).

(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. The GAO audit shall include: (1) operational compliance with this Act; (2) financial controls; (3) the Section 7(i)-equivalent pooling calculation; (4) the Industry Assessment calculation; (5) the Distribution payment process.

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

AMERICAN-LINEAGE CITATION TABLE

| Provision | Modeled on (American institutional root) | |---|---| | Section 3, Parent Authority federal corporation form | Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, 16 U.S.C. Chapter 12A | | Section 3, Senate-confirmed Board with staggered terms | Tennessee Valley Authority Board structure | | Section 4, Regional Corporations | Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, 43 U.S.C. Chapter 33 (twelve Regional Corporations + thirteenth at-large) | | Section 5, Local Taxing Districts | Special-purpose library taxing districts in Washington, Illinois, Ohio, and parts of New York and California | | Section 6, Citizen-Shareholder enrollment | Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act enrollment of Alaska Natives at the December 18, 1971, qualifying date | | Section 6, Non-transferable shares | ANCSA Sections 7(h) and related provisions on share inheritance and gift but not sale | | 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 | Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (1982-present) + ANCSA Section 7(j) pass-through | | Section 10, Industry Assessment | Universal Service Fund contribution factor mechanism, 47 U.S.C. 254; upheld FCC v. Consumers' Research, 24-354 (June 27, 2025) | | Section 11, Treasury borrowing | United States Postal Service borrowing authority, Title 39 U.S.C. ($15 billion cap modeled, expanded to $50 billion) | | Section 12, Initial appropriation | Combination of TVA initial appropriation (1933) + IMLS / LSTA federal seed model | | Section 14, Wave 1 pilot at DOE national lab | TVA experimental authority precedent for federal corporations operating at national lab sites | | Section 16, School-attached nodes | American public library Federal State Cooperative System; LSTA Grants to States population-based formula | | Section 19, Non-Negotiable Floor | Defense Commissary Agency at-cost food precedent, 10 U.S.C. 2484; plus aggregate American civic infrastructure traditions | | Section 20, Access Tiers and Service Unlock | American civilian service traditions (CCC, WPA, GI Bill, Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) + military service traditions | | Section 21, Fusion energy procurement | Commonwealth Fusion Systems ARC at Chesterfield County, Virginia (PJM Interconnection application April 2026); Helion Energy Microsoft PPA (2023) | | Section 22, Severability | Standard federal severability practice | | Section 24, Reporting | TVA Annual Report; USPS 10-K reporting; ANCSA corporation annual reports |

KEY UNITED STATES STATUTORY CITATIONS

- Continental Congress establishment of the Post Office, July 26, 1775 - 39 U.S.C. (Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, Postal Service Reform Act of 2022) - 47 U.S.C. 254 (Universal Service, Telecommunications Act of 1996) - 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) - 10 U.S.C. 2484 (Defense Commissary Agency no-profit pricing) - 20 U.S.C. (Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, Library Services and Technology Act) - 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)

KEY UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

- Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 297 U.S. 288 (1936) (TVA constitutionality affirmed) - FCC v. Consumers' Research, No. 24-354 (June 27, 2025) (USF contribution mechanism upheld against nondelegation challenge) - Numerous ANCSA-related decisions affirming the constitutionality of the statutory framework

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.

The parallel State food assurance legislation referenced in Section 1(11) is publicly available at the same address.

CITATION

Cooper, I. (2025-2026). American Productive Capacity Authority Act: A Federal Legislative Adaptation of 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 (Hybrid Architecture variant) establishes the American Productive Capacity Authority as a federally chartered citizen-shareholder corporation, on the combined model of the United States Postal Service (1775/1970), the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971), the Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933), the Alaska Permanent Fund (1976), the Federal Communications Commission Universal Service Fund / Lifeline (1985, validated SCOTUS 2025), and the Franklin-era public library tradition (1731/IMLS-LSTA 1996). 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: $50B Treasury borrowing, up-to-5% USF-style industry assessment, 50% citizen distribution, local taxing districts