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Veteran’s Choice Accountability Act

Bill: 119-hr-554
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Performance measurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: 

Veteran's Choice Accountability Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to evaluate VA programs that furnish hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care to ensure that the most intensively used specialized care programs are maintained as centers of excellence. The bill also requires the VA to submit an evaluation of the VA's implementation of the VA Budget and Choice Improvement Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Affairs Transfer of Information and Sharing of Disability Examination Procedures With DOD Doctors Act

Bill: 119-hr-555
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Military personnel and dependents
Personnel records
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: 

Veterans Affairs Transfer of Information and Sharing of Disability Examination Procedures With DOD Doctors Act

 
This bill addresses the sharing of medical information and disability examination procedures between the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Veterans Affairs (VA). It requires that if a member of the Armed Forces who is required to receive a physical examination upon separation from active duty has or is believed to have a medical condition that may make the member eligible for veterans' disability compensation and benefits, the examination must be performed by a VA-certified health care provider.

If the condition is discovered during the physical examination and the examining health care provider is not VA-certified, the examination must be completed by a VA-certified provider. 
 
An eligibility determination made as part of such an examination shall be binding on the VA and be used as the basis for assigning the member's disability rating.
 
The VA and DOD shall jointly establish a system to share data and maintain the medical and personnel records of Armed Forces members and veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-556
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Hunting and fishing
Land use and conservation
Metals
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: 

Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2025

This bill bars the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the Forest Service from prohibiting or regulating the use of lead ammunition or tackle on federal land or water. The bill makes exceptions for specified existing regulations and where the FWS, the BLM, or the Forest Service determines that a decline in wildlife population at the specific unit of federal land or water is primarily caused by the use of lead in ammunition or tackle, based on the field data from such unit, and the state approves the regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-15
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 17.
action_date: 2025-07-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2025-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Introduced in House
Working Class Bonus Tax Relief Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-557
Sponsor: Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: 

Working Class Bonus Tax Relief Act of 2025

This bill allows a tax deduction for bonuses received by an individual, subject to income limitations, through 2029. The amount of the deduction may not exceed 15% of the individual’s regular wages from the same employer. Further, the deduction is not allowed for individuals with annual adjusted gross income exceeding $100,000 (or $150,000 for heads of the household and $200,000 for married couples filing a joint return). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Tip Tax Termination Act

Bill: 119-hr-558
Sponsor: Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: 

Tip Tax Termination Act 

This bill excludes from gross income for federal tax purposes up to $20,000 of eligible tips received during the tax year. The bill also requires the Internal Revenue Service to modify the tables and procedures used to withhold federal income tax from wages to take into account eligible tips excluded from gross income. 

The bill defines 
eligible tips
 as amounts received while performing services in a position that generally relies on tips as part of wages, including cosmetology, hospitality, and food service.

Further, under the bill, the amount of eligible tips excluded from gross income must not be included in determining federal tax deductions or credits, except for purposes of calculating the child tax credit and earned income tax credit.

Finally, the exclusion from gross income only applies to eligible tips received before 2030. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Seniors in the Workforce Tax Relief Act

Bill: 119-hr-559
Sponsor: Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: 

Seniors in the Workforce Tax Relief Act

This bill establishes a new above-the-line federal tax deduction through 2029 for individuals who attain the age of 65 before the end of the tax year. (Above-the-line deductions are subtracted from gross income to calculate adjusted gross income.)

Under the bill, the amount of the tax deduction is $25,000 for individuals (or $50,000 for joint filers and surviving spouses) and begins to phase out for individuals with an adjusted gross income over $100,000 (or $200,000 for joint filers and surviving spouses). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Second Job Tax Relief Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-560
Sponsor: Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Overtime Pay Tax Relief Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-561
Sponsor: Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: 

Overtime Pay Tax Relief Act of 2025

This bill allows a tax deduction for overtime compensation received by an individual, subject to income limitations, through 2029. The amount of the deduction may not exceed 20% of the individual’s regular wages from the same employer. Further, the deduction is not allowed for an individual with adjusted gross income exceeding $100,000 (or $150,000 for a head of the household and $200,000 for a married couple filing a joint return). 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
No Retaining Every Gun In a System That Restricts Your Rights Act

Bill: 119-hr-563
Sponsor: Rep. Cloud, Michael [R-TX-27]
Introduced: 2025-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Congressional oversight
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: 

No Retaining Every Gun In a System That Restricts Your Rights Act

This bill modifies the retention requirements for firearm transaction records of federal firearms licensees (FFLs) that go out of business.

Current law generally requires FFLs that go out of business to deliver their firearm transaction records to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

This bill removes the requirement for FFLs that go out of business to deliver their firearm transaction records to the ATF. Further, the bill requires the ATF to destroy all out-of-business records it has collected from FFLs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Repeal the TikTok Ban Act

Bill: 119-hr-564
Sponsor: Rep. Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2025-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia Federal Judicial Officials Residency Equality Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-565
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC]
Introduced: 2025-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
District of Columbia
Federal district courts
Judges
Judicial procedure and administration
Law enforcement officers
State and local courts

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: 

District of Columbia Federal Judicial Officials Residency Equality Act of 2025

This bill requires U.S. district and circuit court judges, U.S. district court clerks, U.S. attorneys, and U.S. marshals who are appointed to serve in the District of Columbia to be residents of the District of Columbia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E49)
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Cleaner Air Spaces Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-566
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-50]
Introduced: 2025-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: 

Cleaner Air Spaces Act of 2025

This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to provide grants to air pollution control agencies, including at least one tribal agency with jurisdiction over air quality, to implement cleaner air space programs (i.e., programs to provide clean air to the public during wildland fire smoke events). Generally, such programs must be located in areas at risk of exposure to wildland fire smoke and must help provide educational materials, clean air centers (i.e., one or more clean air rooms in a publicly accessible building), and air filtration systems to certain households. Clean air rooms are rooms designed to keep levels of harmful air pollutants as low as possible during wildland fire smoke events.

Under the bill, air pollution control agencies must partner with at least one community-based organization in implementing such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Labor Representation in the Workforce System Act

Bill: 119-hr-567
Sponsor: Rep. Sherrill, Mikie [D-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Labor-management relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: 

Expanding Labor Representation in the Workforce System Act

This bill increases from 20% to 30% the workforce representation on state and local workforce development boards.

Workforce development boards perform a variety of functions to carry out the programs and services authorized under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, including by developing and implementing plans for workforce development and investment activities. 

Current law specifies that boards must include representatives of labor organizations, among others with relevant expertise. The bill specifies that labor organizations include organizations that

are considered labor organizations based on the definition included in the National Labor Relations Act (e.g., unions); 

are composed of labor organizations (e.g., a labor union federation or a state or municipal labor body); or

 would be considered labor organizations but for the fact that the organization represents agricultural laborers or individuals employed by a federal agency, a government corporation, a Federal Reserve Bank, a state or local government, or an employer that is subject to the Railway Labor Act.

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Auto Theft Prevention Act

Bill: 119-hr-568
Sponsor: Rep. Sherrill, Mikie [D-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-20 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property
Law enforcement administration and funding
Motor vehicles
Smuggling and trafficking
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: 

Auto Theft Prevention Act

This bill establishes a grant program to combat auto theft and stolen automobile trafficking.

Specifically, the bill directs the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services within the Department of Justice to award grants for state and local law enforcement agencies to combat auto theft and stolen vehicle trafficking. 

The bill also allows funds under the Community Oriented Policing Services grant program to be used to combat auto thefts and stolen automobile trafficking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Introduced in House
Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-569
Sponsor: Rep. Babin, Brian [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025 

This bill limits birthright citizenship by redefining what it means to be 
subject to the jurisdiction
 of the United States.

Currently, a person born in the United States and subject to U.S. jurisdiction is entitled to citizenship. Under the bill, a person is subject to U.S. jurisdiction if he or she is born to a parent who is (1) a U.S. citizen or national, (2) a lawful permanent resident residing in the United States, or (3) a non-U.S. national (
alien 
under federal law) with a lawful immigration status who is performing active service in the Armed Forces.

The bill does not affect the citizenship or nationality status of any person born before the bill's enactment date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the child tax credit with respect to stillbirths.

Bill: 119-hr-570
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 
This bill expands the definition of a qualifying child to include a stillborn child for purposes of the child tax credit. (Under current law, taxpayers may claim a tax credit of up $2,000 for each qualifying child.)

Under the bill, a stillborn child is an unborn child (1) carried in the womb for a gestational period of 20 weeks or more, and (2) delivered after the spontaneous intrauterine fetal demise of the child.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
____ Act

Bill: 119-hr-571
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 
This bill implements a means test for certain elementary and secondary school students aged 18 or older to collect Social Security child’s benefits. 

Specifically, a child beneficiary aged 18 years or older may not be eligible for Social Security child’s benefits based on their status as a full-time elementary or secondary school student if the individual on whose wages and income the benefit is based (e.g., the child’s parent or guardian) (1) is entitled to Social Security benefits, (2) is 67 years of age or older, and (3) has more than $125,000 of annual earnings for the taxable year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
RED TAPE Act

Bill: 119-hr-572
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-17]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Government information and archives
Judicial review and appeals
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Studying NEPA’s Impact on Projects Act

Bill: 119-hr-573
Sponsor: Rep. Yakym, Rudy [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Studying NEPA’s Impact on Projects Act

This bill directs the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to annually report on the impact of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) on projects that require NEPA review. CEQ must publish the report on its website and submit it to certain congressional committees. The report must include

specified information about NEPA litigation, such as the number of cases, the status of cases, and their outcomes;

the length and costs of the environmental impact statements and environmental assessments prepared; and 

the time it takes to complete environmental reviews under NEPA.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-09-10
text: Committee Hearings Held
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
ALIGN Act

Bill: 119-hr-574
Sponsor: Rep. Arrington, Jodey C. [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House