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Veterinary Services to Improve Public Health in Rural Communities Act

Bill: 119-s-620
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Animal and plant health
Arctic and polar regions
Congressional oversight
Health promotion and preventive care
Immunology and vaccination
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: 

Veterinary Services to Improve Public Health in Rural Communities Act

This bill expands support for public health veterinary services (e.g., disease surveillance or vaccination) in tribal communities to address zoonotic infectious diseases (i.e., diseases that spread between humans and animals).

Specifically, the bill authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Indian Health Service (IHS), to expend funds for public health veterinary services to prevent and control zoonotic disease infection and transmission in IHS areas where the risk for disease occurrence in humans and wildlife is endemic.

HHS may assign or deploy veterinary public health officers from the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps to IHS areas.

Additionally, HHS must submit a biennial report to Congress on the use of funds, the assignment and deployment of veterinary public health officers from the USPHS Commissioned Corps, data related to the monitoring and disease surveillance of zoonotic diseases, and related services.

The bill also includes the IHS as a coordinating agency in the National One Health Framework. (This framework addresses zoonotic diseases and advances public health preparedness in the United States.)

The bill requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study on the delivery of oral rabies vaccines to wildlife reservoir species that are connected to the transmission of rabies to tribal members living in Arctic regions of the United States. The study must (1) evaluate the efficacy of the oral rabies vaccines, and (2) make recommendations to improve the delivery of these vaccines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 174.
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-69.
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-69.
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
A bill to accept the request to revoke the charter of incorporation of the Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota at the request of that Community, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-s-621
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Minnesota

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: 
This bill accepts the request of the Lower Sioux Indian Community (a federally recognized Indian tribe in Minnesota) to revoke the community's charter of incorporation.


Legislative actions:
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
Leech Lake Reservation Restoration Amendments Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-622
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Federal-Indian relations
Forests, forestry, trees
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Minnesota

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: 

Leech Lake Reservation Restoration Amendments Act of 2025

This bill transfers certain federal land located in the Chippewa National Forest in Cass County, Minnesota, to the Department of the Interior for the benefit of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.

Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to transfer for the benefit of the tribe land in the Chippewa National Forest that records maintained by the Bureau of Indian Affairs show was sold without the unanimous consent of the rightful landowners.

Upon agreement between USDA and the tribe, USDA shall substitute alternative National Forest System land located in Cass County, Minnesota, on an acre-for-acre basis for those parcels of federal land to be transferred in a manner that avoids inholdings and provides a preference for land adjacent to or near existing Leech Lake trust lands and lands of cultural importance to the tribe, to the maximum extent practicable.

USDA may transfer land to Interior on a rolling basis as that land is identified and surveys are completed.

USDA, acting through the U.S. Forest Service, must provide for public engagement and comment to implement this bill.


Legislative actions:
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
No IRIS Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-623
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Equal COLA Act

Bill: 119-s-624
Sponsor: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1011)
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Border Patrol Training Act

Bill: 119-s-625
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2025-02-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Law enforcement officers
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-18
text: 

Veterans Border Patrol Training Act

This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to collaborate with the Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Veterans Affairs to establish a five-year interdepartmental pilot program, under which DHS must use the DOD SkillBridge Program to train and hire transitioning servicemembers as border patrol agents for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.


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
SOCIAL MEDIA Act

Bill: 119-s-626
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
ENABLE Act

Bill: 119-s-627
Sponsor: Sen. Schmitt, Eric [R-MO]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Alan T. Shao II Fentanyl Public Health Emergency and Overdose Prevention Act

Bill: 119-s-628
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-629
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Quapaw Tribal Settlement Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-630
Sponsor: Sen. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Federal-Indian relations
Government trust funds
Indian claims

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: 

Quapaw Tribal Settlement Act of 2025

This bill creates a trust account, funds the account, and establishes a distribution process to settle certain claims between the federal government and the Quapaw Nation (a tribe in Oklahoma). 

Specifically, the bill establishes the Quapaw Bear Settlement Trust Account and directs the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Trust Funds Administration to administer all funds appropriated to the trust account. 

Interior must make payments to the tribe and individual members of the tribe in accordance with the January 2020 recommendation of the review panel of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

The bill outlines the distribution process for the settlement funds in the trust account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Historic Tax Credit Improvement Act

Bill: 119-s-631
Sponsor: Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
IHS Workforce Parity Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-632
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Medical education
Temporary and part-time employment

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: 

IHS Workforce Parity Act of 2025

This bill allows recipients of Indian Health Professions Scholarships or participants in the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program to fulfill their service obligations through half-time clinical practice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-12
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 74.
action_date: 2025-05-12
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-21.
action_date: 2025-05-12
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-21.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Presidential and First Spouse Coin Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-633
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-634
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Detention of persons
Disability and health-based discrimination
Due process and equal protection
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: 

Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2025 

This bill prohibits the detention or imprisonment of an individual based solely on an actual or perceived protected characteristic of the individual. The term 
protected characteristic
 includes each of the following: race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and any additional characteristic that the Department of Justice determines to be a protected characteristic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Homecare Choice Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-635
Sponsor: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health personnel
Licensing and registrations
Nursing
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: 

Veterans Homecare Choice Act of 2025

This bill includes any nurse registry as an eligible health care provider under the Veterans Community Care Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Under the bill, a nurse registry is a person who satisfies applicable state licensure requirements and procures, or attempts to procure, contracts or agreements on behalf of registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants, home health aides, companions, or homemakers under which such individuals may furnish health care-related or assistive services and receive compensation.


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: 2025-05-21
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act

Bill: 119-s-636
Sponsor: Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Federal appellate courts
First responders and emergency personnel
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Judicial review and appeals
Labor standards
Labor-management relations
Law enforcement officers
State and local government operations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project Amendments Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-637
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Government trust funds
Indian lands and resources rights
Infrastructure development
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
New Mexico
Rural conditions and development
Water resources funding
Water storage
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: 

Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project Amendments Act of 2025

This bill extends deadlines and otherwise revises the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project. This project was first authorized by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which settled the Navajo Nation's water rights in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico.

Specifically, the bill extends through December 31, 2029, the deadline for constructing project facilities.

The bill allows for additional project service areas, including by allowing the Navajo Nation to expand the project service area in order to deliver water supply from the project to Lupton, Arizona. The bill also sets forth criteria to authorize non-project water to flow outside of the project service area to Navajo communities in Utah.

The bill directs the Department of the Interior to take certain land into trust for the benefit of the Navajo Nation.

The bill also establishes (1) the Navajo Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund; and (2) the Jicarilla Apache Nation Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement Trust Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Act of June 22, 1948.

Bill: 119-s-638
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Clergy Act

Bill: 119-s-639
Sponsor: Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Income tax exclusion
Religion
Social security and elderly assistance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: 

Clergy Act

This bill establishes a two-year window for certain members of the clergy and Christian Science practitioners to revoke their exemption from Social Security and Medicare taxes on ministerial earnings. Under current law, such individuals who object to participation in public insurance programs on religious or conscientious grounds may apply to the Internal Revenue Service for an irrevocable exemption and will not receive Social Security or Medicare benefits in retirement unless they have qualifying credits from other employment.

The Internal Revenue Service must develop a plan to inform members of the clergy and Christian Science practitioners of their eligibility to revoke prior exemptions, pursuant to the bill's changes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act, Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, and Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act

Bill: 119-s-640
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Government trust funds
Indian lands and resources rights
New Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: 

Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act, Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, and Aamodt Litigation Settlement Act

This bill authorizes deposits representing unpaid interest into the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund, the Taos Pueblo Water Development Fund, and the Aamodt Settlement Pueblos’ Fund. These funds were established in 2009 and 2010 under certain water rights settlement agreements that did not allow accrual of interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Safe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-641
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: 

Safe and Affordable Drugs from Canada Act of 2025

This bill requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow for the personal importation of prescription drugs from Canada in certain instances.

Such a drug must (1) be purchased from an approved Canadian pharmacy and dispensed by a pharmacist licensed in Canada; (2) be purchased by an individual for personal use only and in quantities not to exceed a 90-day supply; (3) be filled using a valid prescription from a physician licensed in a U.S. state; and (4) have the same active ingredients, route of administration, dosage form, and strength as an FDA-approved drug. Certain types of drugs may not be imported under this program, such as controlled substances, biological products, or intravenously injected drugs.

An approved pharmacy under this program must be located and licensed in Canada and meet additional requirements, such as participation in ongoing and comprehensive quality assurance programs.

The FDA must publish a list of approved Canadian pharmacies on its website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-642
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2025-02-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Michigan

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: 

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to transfer funds to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) in Baraga County, Michigan, in order to settle the KBIC's land claims and clear title to those lands.

The KBIC may use these funds for any lawful purpose except to acquire land for gaming.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 175.
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-70.
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-70.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-19
text: Introduced in Senate