hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Federal Freeze Act

Bill: 119-s-357
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee hiring
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
RETIREES FIRST Act

Bill: 119-s-358
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Employee Performance and Accountability Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-359
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Employment and training programs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Wages and earnings

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity discretionary spending.

Bill: 119-s-360
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Supporting Victims of Human Trafficking Act

Bill: 119-s-361
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime victims
Human trafficking
Law enforcement administration and funding
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to allow certain Federal minerals to be mined consistent with the Bull Mountains Mining Plan Modification, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-s-362
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Mining
Montana

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
STOP MADNESS Act

Bill: 119-s-363
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: 

Stifling Transnational Operations and Proliferators by Mitigating Activities that Drive Narcotics, Exploitation, and Smuggling Sanctions Act or the STOP MADNESS Act

This bill allows the President to impose sanctions on (1) foreign governments the President determines knowingly refuse or obstruct U.S. efforts to repatriate its citizens who have unlawfully entered the United States, and (2) foreign governments or foreign persons the President determines knowingly facilitate unlawful immigration into the United States.

The President may waive sanctions if the President determines that it is in the national security interest of the United States.

If a person violates this bill, criminal and civil penalties applicable to violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) apply.

To carry out the bill, the President may exercise authorities under the IEEPA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Hearing Protection Act

Bill: 119-s-364
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Bolts Ditch Act

Bill: 119-s-365
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Lakes and rivers
Water storage
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: 

Bolts Ditch Act

This bill allows additional entities—the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District and the Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority—to access and use the Bolts Ditch and its headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado for the purposes of the diversion of water and use, maintenance, and repair of such ditch and headgate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Muhammad Ali Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 119-s-366
Sponsor: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: 

Muhammad Ali Congressional Gold Medal Act

 
This bill provides for the posthumous award of a Congressional Gold Medal to Muhammad Ali.
 
There is authorized to be charged against the U.S. Mint Public Enterprise Fund such amounts as may be necessary to pay for the costs of the medals struck under this bill.
 
Sums received from the sale of duplicate bronze medals authorized by this bill shall be deposited into that fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S545-546)
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Arming Cartels Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-367
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Firearms and explosives
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Organized crime
Retail and wholesale trades
Smuggling and trafficking
Trade restrictions

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S546)
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
BLOCK Act

Bill: 119-s-368
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Budget deficits and national debt
Business investment and capital
Competition and antitrust
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Economic performance and conditions
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Industrial policy and productivity
Inflation and prices
Judicial review and appeals
Legislative rules and procedure
Monetary policy
Unemployment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
NO GOTION Act

Bill: 119-s-369
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act

Bill: 119-s-370
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
SBA Disaster Transparency Act

Bill: 119-s-371
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Government information and archives
Internet, web applications, social media
Small business

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 23.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Ernst without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Ernst without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Investing in Community Resilience Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-372
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: 

Investing in Community Resilience Act of 2025

This bill expands the activities eligible to increase the federal cost share under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance (PA) program.

Under current law, FEMA provides PA applicants (i.e., government entities and certain nonprofits) a minimum federal cost share of 75% of the costs of repairing or replacing eligible disaster-damaged facilities, but FEMA may increase this to up to 85% if the applicant invests in certain incentive measures that increase disaster readiness and resilience. The bill expands the measures eligible to cause this increase to include (1) investments in preparedness programs, (2) programs designated by FEMA that increase disaster resilience through building standards or land use practices, and (3) support for community emergency response teams or similar non-governmental organizations that provide disaster assistance and advance preparedness.

The bill takes effect one year after enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Stopping Political Discrimination in Disaster Assistance Act

Bill: 119-s-373
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: 

Stopping Political Discrimination in Disaster Assistance Act

This bill prohibits discrimination on the basis of political affiliation by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other participating entities (i.e., public or private entities providing or receiving assistance) in carrying out federal major disaster or emergency relief and assistance activities.

Current law requires FEMA and other participating entities to provide federal major disaster or emergency relief and assistance without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, nationality, sex, age, disability, English proficiency, or economic status. The bill adds political affiliation to the classes protected under this requirement. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Direct Property Acquisitions Act

Bill: 119-s-374
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: 

Direct Property Acquisitions Act

This bill requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a pilot program for local governments selected by FEMA to apply directly to FEMA for Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) assistance for property acquisition and structure demolition or relocation projects. FEMA must also submit annual reports.

Under current FEMA regulations, local governments are ineligible to apply directly to FEMA for HMGP assistance and must apply indirectly through a state or Indian tribal government. The bill authorizes local governments, if determined eligible and selected by FEMA, to apply directly to FEMA for HMGP assistance for property acquisition. The pilot program must terminate within eight years after FEMA’s initial selection. Local governments may participate for up to 48 months. 

The bill requires FEMA to select up to two local governments from each of FEMA’s 10 regions (only one per state) to participate. For a local government to be eligible, FEMA must determine it is capable of meeting all applicable federal and state requirements for administering hazard mitigation assistance with limited assistance from the state, and FEMA must receive positive feedback from the state regarding its eligibility. In making this determination, FEMA must consult with the state and provide written justification for its decision based on factors including the local government’s history of implementing hazard mitigation projects and level of risk from severe weather.

Additionally, the bill requires FEMA to submit to specified congressional committees an annual report evaluating the pilot program’s effectiveness and future. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Transition-to-Success Mentoring Act

Bill: 119-s-375
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Congressional oversight
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education
Performance measurement
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: 

Transition-to-Success Mentoring Act

 
This bill establishes a transition-to-success mentoring program requiring the Department of Education (ED) to award grants to eligible entities (e.g., local educational agencies) to provide school-based mentoring programs to assist at-risk students in transitioning from middle to high school. ED must also work with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to (1) refer grant recipients to the National Mentoring Resource Center to obtain mentoring resources, and (2) provide grant recipients with information regarding transitional services for eligible students returning from correctional facilities and transition services for students with disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Expanded Food Safety Investigation Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-376
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agricultural research
Animal and plant health
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Livestock
Meat
Medical research
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: 

Expanded Food Safety Investigation Act of 

2025

This bill provides that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may, under specified circumstances, request access to a concentrated animal-feeding operation (i.e., a stabled or confined animal-feeding operation of a specified size) to conduct microbial sampling.

Specifically, the bill allows the FDA to request access if the FDA determines that sampling is necessary to facilitate an investigation of a foodborne-illness outbreak, determine the cause of an outbreak, or address other public health needs. Concentrated animal-feeding operations must provide reasonable access for sampling, including sampling of plants, animals, water, and the environment. The bill imposes penalties on operations that refuse to provide reasonable access. 

Data collected in sampling efforts under this bill must be shared with the Department of Agriculture and state and federal public health agencies to facilitate the detection, investigation, and prevention of foodborne illness.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Students Helping Young Students Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-377
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Higher education
National and community service
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Temporary and part-time employment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: 

Students Helping Young Students Act of 

2025

This bill expands the Federal Work-Study Program to include work-study programs at institutions of higher education that compensate students who are employed in educational after-school, before-school, or nonschool community service activities at public elementary and secondary schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Expediting Hazard Mitigation Assistance Projects Act

Bill: 119-s-378
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: 

Expediting Hazard Mitigation Assistance Projects Act

This bill authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to waive or reduce environmental or historic preservation requirements for property acquisition and structure demolition or relocation projects receiving assistance under certain hazard mitigation programs.

Specifically, this authority applies to such projects receiving funding under FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, or Flood Mitigation Assistance program. The bill authorizes FEMA to waive or reduce environmental and historic preservation requirements for these projects as FEMA determines appropriate, such as requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 or the National Historic Preservation Act.

Before waiving or reducing such requirements, the bill requires FEMA to consult with state and local officials, for no more than 30 days, on the necessity of the waiver or reduction. Also, before making such a determination, FEMA must consider factors including details of the acquisition and demolition or relocation project, the implications for disaster recovery, and whether the waiver or reduction could cause serious environmental issues.

FEMA must report annually to Congress for five years on topics including FEMA's use of its authority under the bill, the extent to which this authority expedited or enhanced the acquisition process under FEMA's programs, and related recommendations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
No Red and Blue Banks Act

Bill: 119-s-379
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: 

No Red and Blue Banks Act

This bill prohibits the General Services Administration from awarding a contract to a depository institution insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation if the institution avoids doing business with companies based solely on social policy considerations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Obstetrics Readiness Act

Bill: 119-s-380
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2025-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical education
Rural conditions and development
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: 

Rural Obstetrics Readiness Act

This bill creates and expands federal grant programs within the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to increase capacity to provide emergency obstetric health services in rural areas or areas without practitioners or facilities specializing in obstetric services. 

Specifically, HRSA must establish a program for providing grants to certain hospitals or consortiums that include hospitals in rural areas or areas with maternal health care professional shortages for training, developing a workforce, and purchasing equipment relating to obstetric emergencies. In addition, the bill requires HRSA’s Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health Capacity program to provide grants for training on emergency obstetric services for practitioners in rural health care facilities without dedicated obstetric units. HRSA must also establish a pilot program to provide grants to government entities for developing or improving telehealth access programs to support urgent maternal health care in rural facilities without a dedicated obstetric unit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
10 Percent Credit Card Interest Rate Cap Act

Bill: 119-s-381
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2025-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: 

10 Percent Credit Card Interest Rate Cap Act 

This bill temporarily caps credit card interest rates at 10%.

Creditors that knowingly violate this bill forfeit the entire interest of the debt. The bill also provides a private right of action for debtors to recover interest, finance charges, or fees. The action must be brought within two years of the violation. In addition, violations of this bill are subject to civil liability under the Truth in Lending Act, which is enforced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission. 

These changes sunset on January 1, 2031. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate