hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Wildfire Resilience Through Grazing Research Act

Bill: 119-s-602
Sponsor: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2025-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-13
text: 

Wildfire Resilience Through Grazing Research Act

This bill expands the high-priority research and extension areas at the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to include the research and development of ungulate grazing land management techniques to promote wildfire mitigation, fuel reduction, and post-fire recovery. (An 
ungulate
 is a hooved grazing mammal.) 

Specifically, the bill allows USDA to provide grants to land-grant institutions for supporting the research and development of wildfire-related ungulate grazing land management techniques that improve soil health and are compatible with activities that protect against adverse environmental effects. This includes compatibility with activities that protect against the spread of invasive plant species and disease, soil erosion, water quality degradation, and watershed degradation.

The grants to land-grant universities may also be used to disseminate information to public and private landowners, land managers, and livestock owners regarding these wildfire-related grazing land management techniques and compatible activities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the General George C. Marshall House in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an affiliated area of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-s-603
Sponsor: Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2025-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Safe Home Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-604
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Family relationships
Government information and archives

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
CHAMPVA Children's Care Protection Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-605
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: 

CHAMPVA Children's Care Protection Act of 2025

This bill provides that a child shall be eligible for medical care under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) until the child's 26th birthday, regardless of the child's marital status.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-21
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Contaminated Wells Relocation Act

Bill: 119-s-606
Sponsor: Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Government liability
Pollution liability
State and local finance
Virginia
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: 

Contaminated Wells Relocation Act

This bill permits the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to enter into an agreement to reimburse the town of Chincoteague, Virginia for costs directly associated with the removal and relocation of drinking water wells currently situated on NASA property. 

(Drinking water wells located at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility near Chincoteague have tested positive for perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly referred to as PFAS, resulting from the use of certain firefighting foams at the site beginning in the 1970s. NASA currently operates a water treatment system to remove PFAS from the affected water supply.) 

Any such agreement must include, to the extent practicable, (1) a provision for the removal and relocation of the wells remaining on NASA property, (2) a description of the location to which the wells are planned to be relocated, and (3) a current cost estimate of such relocation. Replacement wells must be established on property under the administrative control of the town of Chincoteague. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-09-08
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 149.
action_date: 2025-09-08
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-61.
action_date: 2025-09-08
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-61.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Veteran Access to Care Act

Bill: 119-s-607
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Telephone and wireless communication
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: 

Improving Veteran Access to Care Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish an integrated project team to improve the process for scheduling VA health care appointments. Among other objectives, the team must (1) develop or continue the development of a scheduling system and platform that enables personnel and patients of the VA to view available appointments for VA care, (2) create a process through which patients can telephonically speak with a scheduler who can assist in determining availability and scheduling, and (3) carry out other functions with respect to health care appointments furnished by the VA.

In carrying out its objectives, the team must consult and coordinate with the deployment schedule and capabilities of the VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization Program.

If the VA determines a required objective or any feature or service in connection with an objective cannot be implemented or incorporated, the VA must report to Congress providing an explanation and setting forth a plan without that objective. 

The VA must also report to Congress on the progress in fulfilling the team’s objectives under the bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-30
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-11
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
IRS MATH Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-608
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: 

Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act of 2025 or the IRS MATH Act of 2025

This bill requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide specific information on a notice related to a math or clerical error, send a notice related to an abatement of taxes assessed due to a math or clerical error, provide procedures for requesting such an abatement, and implement a pilot program for sending notices of a math or clerical error.

Under the bill, a notice sent by the IRS regarding a math or clerical error must include

a clear description of the error and the specific federal tax return line on which the error was made,

an itemized computation of adjustments required to correct the error,

the telephone number for the automated transcript service, and

the deadline for requesting an abatement of any tax assessed due to the error.

Further, the bill requires the IRS to send a notice related to an abatement of tax assessed due to a math or clerical error that clearly describes the abatement and includes an itemized computation of adjustments to be made to the items described in the notice of the error.

The bill also requires the IRS to

provide procedures for requesting an abatement of tax assessed due to a math or clerical error,

implement a pilot program to send notices of a math or clerical error by certified or registered mail, and

report to Congress certain information about the pilot program.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
BRAVE Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-609
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Disability assistance
Family relationships
Government studies and investigations
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Labor market
Mental health
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Wages and earnings
Women's health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring VetSuccess On Campus Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-610
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Educational guidance
Higher education
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: 

Ensuring VetSuccess On Campus Act of 2025

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to ensure that the VetSuccess on Campus (VSOC) program is located in every state. The program supports veterans, servicemembers, and qualified dependents who are transitioning from military service to college life.

The VA must ensure that at least one VSOC counselor is located in each state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-30
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-11
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Caring for Survivors Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-611
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability assistance
Marriage and family status
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: 

Caring for Survivors Act of 2025

This bill increases the monthly rate of dependency and indemnity compensation payable to surviving spouses through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Dependency and indemnity compensation is a monthly payment made to eligible survivors (i.e., spouses, parents, or children) of (1) certain veterans who died as a result of a service-connected condition; (2) service members killed while on active military duty or active or inactive duty for training; or (3) veterans who did not die from a service-connected condition, but were totally disabled by a service-connected disability for a certain period of time.

The bill also (1) reduces, from 10 years to 5 years, the period of time that certain veterans must have been rated totally disabled due to a service-connected disability in order for a survivor to qualify for benefits; and (2) specifies the amount that is payable to survivors of veterans who were rated totally disabled for a period of less than 10 years before their death.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-11
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-s-612
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Federal-Indian relations
Indian social and development programs
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: 
This bill authorizes grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations for activities related to recreational travel and tourism.
 
Specifically, the bill authorizes (1) the Bureau of Indian Affairs to make these grants to and enter into agreements with Indian tribes and tribal organizations; (2) the Office of Native Hawaiian Relations to make these grants to and enter into agreements with Native Hawaiian organizations; and (3) other federal agencies to make these grants to and enter into agreements with tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-08
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 72.
action_date: 2025-05-08
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-20.
action_date: 2025-05-08
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-20.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Flood and Agricultural Forecasts Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-613
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural research
Atmospheric science and weather
Emergency communications systems
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Natural disasters
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: 

Improving Flood and Agricultural Forecasts Act of 2025

This bill provides statutory authority for the National Mesonet Program (NMP) maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). (Mesonets are networks of automated weather and soil observation stations that collect data used in measuring, tracking, and forecasting weather and its effects. The NMP is a national network of local mesonets that collects and disseminates non-federal atmospheric weather observations in the United States.)

The bill sets forth certain requirements for the NMP, including that the program must obtain weather observations in order to improve understanding and forecasting of atmospheric, drought, fire, and water events, and establish means to integrate increased numbers and types of environmental observations into the program annually. However, NOAA may obtain data under the program only when it is demonstrably cost effective and meets or exceeds certain data quality standards. 

Of funds appropriated to the program annually, NOAA must award at least 15% to state, tribal, private, and academic entities seeking to build, expand, or upgrade mesonet system equipment and capacity. Entities receiving funds must agree to provide data to the NMP. In allocating funding, NOAA must prioritize providing funds to entities in remote areas and areas that lack environmental monitoring stations. 

NOAA must also ensure the NMP has an active advisory committee, comprised of subject matter experts, to make recommendations on data needs and procurement, among other topics. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the area of Sumner Row between 16th Street and Northwest and L Street Northwest in Washington, District of Columbia, as "Alexi Navalny Way".

Bill: 119-s-614
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
District of Columbia
Europe
Protest and dissent
Roads and highways
Russia

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text: CR S1010-1011)
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Chemical Tax Repeal Act

Bill: 119-s-615
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Foundation of the Federal Bar Association Charter Amendments Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-616
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: District of Columbia
Federally chartered organizations
Lawyers and legal services

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-05
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2025-05-05
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2025-05-01
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2709-2710; text: CR S2709-2710: 2)
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
OPIOIDS Act

Bill: 119-s-617
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Employment and training programs
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local government operations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting America’s Agricultural Land from Foreign Harm Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-618
Sponsor: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: 

Protecting America's Agricultural Land from Foreign Harm Act of 2025

This bill prohibits persons associated with the governments of Iran, North Korea, China, or Russia from purchasing or leasing agricultural land in the United States.

Specifically, the President must prohibit any person (individual or entity) owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of these foreign governments from purchasing or leasing (1) public agricultural land that is owned by the United States and administered by a federal department or agency, or (2) private agricultural land that is located in the United States.

A person that violates or attempts to violate this prohibition is subject to civil and criminal penalties. This prohibition does not require a person that owns or leases agricultural land as of the date of this bill's enactment to sell that land.

Further, the President must prohibit a person associated with these foreign governments and who leases, or who has full or partial ownership of, agricultural land in the United States from participating in Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs. Exceptions are included to allow for participation in USDA programs related to food safety, the health and labor safety of individuals, or certain reporting and disclosure requirements.

The bill excludes U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents from these restrictions.

The bill also amends the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 (AFIDA) to require reporting on security interests and leases.

Finally, the Government Accountability Office must submit a report to Congress on AFIDA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Credit Freeze for Kids Act

Bill: 119-s-619
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate