hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Agriculture Resilience Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1507
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: 

Agriculture Resilience Act
 
of 2025 

This bill establishes, expands, and revises multiple programs and activities of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) primarily to reduce carbon emissions from the agricultural sector.

Specifically, USDA must finalize and implement a plan to achieve net-zero emissions from the sector by 2040. USDA must periodically review and revise the plan, as necessary, and annually report on its implementation.

Additionally, the bill expands the scope of various USDA research, extension, and education programs; conservation programs; and livestock programs to incorporate climate change mitigation and adaptation. Expanded activities include efforts to improve soil health and preserve farmland and grassland.

Further, the bill changes programs that support renewable energy in rural areas to address carbon emissions in the agricultural sector. Among these changes, the bill provides statutory authority for the AgSTAR program for reducing methane emissions from livestock waste and requires the program to be moved from the Environmental Protection Agency to USDA.

The bill also addresses food waste, for example, by (1) standardizing the voluntary labels used by food producers to indicate the date by which food should be used or discarded, and (2) making composting activities eligible for support through USDA conservation programs. Moreover, the bill establishes grants to reduce and prevent food waste in landfills and in schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Shivwits Band of Paiutes Jurisdictional Clarity Act

Bill: 119-s-1508
Sponsor: Sen. Curtis, John R. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Jurisdiction and venue
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: 

Shivwits Band of Paiutes Jurisdictional Clarity Act

This bill confers legal jurisdiction to the State of Utah over certain civil cases involving the Shivwits Band of Paiutes. It also allows the tribe to lease its land held in trust. The tribe is located in southwestern Utah.

Specifically, the bill confers jurisdiction to the State of Utah over any civil cause of action (1) to which the Shivwits Band of Paiutes is a party, and (2) that arises on or within Indian lands. Under the bill, 
Indian lands
 are lands of the tribe that are (1) held in trust for the benefit of the tribe, or (2) subject to restrictions by the United States against alienation (i.e., sale or transfer).

Additionally, the bill specifies that any cause of action arising from any contract or agreement (including a lease) to which the tribe is party or that affects or arises on these Indian lands shall be deemed a civil cause of action. Therefore, this bill allows the tribe and third parties to resolve contract disputes in state court.

The bill also authorizes the tribe to lease its land held in trust for a term of up to 99 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening Local Processing Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1509
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S2666-2668: 2)
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Reauthorization Act

Bill: 119-s-1510
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Housing Bond Enhancement Act

Bill: 119-s-1511
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Military Servicemembers Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1512
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act

Bill: 119-s-1513
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Geography and mapping
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: 

Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act

This bill takes approximately 1,082.63 acres of specified lands in Washington into trust for the benefit of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. Land taken into trust shall be part of the tribe's reservation.

Further, the bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act

Bill: 119-s-1514
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: 

Quinault Indian Nation Land Transfer Act

This bill administratively transfers approximately 72 acres of specified lands in Washington from the U.S. Forest Service to the Department of the Interior. Interior must take this land into trust for the benefit of the Quinault Indian Nation. Land taken into trust shall be part of the tribe's reservation.

The bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.

The bill requires Interior, for purposes of taking the land into trust, to meet the disclosure requirements for hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants, without otherwise being required to remediate or abate those hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1515
Sponsor: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Cahokia Mounds Mississippian Culture Study Act

Bill: 119-s-1516
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S2668: 1)
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
BE GONE Act

Bill: 119-s-1517
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening America’s Turning Point Act

Bill: 119-s-1518
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Arctic Refuge Protection Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1519
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Investment Accelerator Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1520
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Stand with Israel Act

Bill: 119-s-1521
Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act

Bill: 119-s-1522
Sponsor: Sen. Hagerty, Bill [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Water Research Optimization Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1523
Sponsor: Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Atmospheric science and weather
Geography and mapping
Hydrology and hydrography
Lakes and rivers

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-21
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
William S. Knudsen Defense Remobilization Act

Bill: 119-s-1524
Sponsor: Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Common Cents Act

Bill: 119-s-1525
Sponsor: Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Retirement Savings for Americans Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1526
Sponsor: Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Housing Affordability Act

Bill: 119-s-1527
Sponsor: Sen. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
CHILD Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1528
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Contracts and agency
Criminal justice information and records
Employee hiring
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 128.
action_date: 2025-07-28
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-07-28
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-07-24
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S2716: 2)
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Keep Finfish Free Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1529
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
SERVE Act

Bill: 119-s-1530
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Assault Weapons Ban of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1531
Sponsor: Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the railroad track maintenance credit.

Bill: 119-s-1532
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: 
This bill increases the annual limit on the tax credit for qualified railroad track maintenance expenses (also referred to as the short line railroad tax credit) and expands eligibility for claiming the credit.

Under current law, the tax credit is limited each tax year to $3,500 multiplied by the sum of the number of miles of railroad track owned or leased by the taxpayer (miles owned or leased) and the number of railroad track miles assigned to the taxpayer by a Class II or III railroad (miles assigned). This bill increases the annual limit to $6,100 multiplied by the sum of miles owned or leased and miles assigned. The $6,100 amount used in the calculation of the tax credit limit is adjusted for inflation for tax years beginning after 2025.

The bill also expands eligibility for the tax credit to include gross expenses for maintaining railroad tracks owned or leased as of January 1, 2024. Under current law, the tax credit is limited to gross expenses for maintaining railroad tracks owned or leased as of January 1, 2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make permanent and codify the pilot program for use of contract physicians for disability examinations, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-s-1533
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disability and paralysis
Health personnel
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:

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: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Women and Underrepresented Minorities in STEM Booster Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1534
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Patient Monitoring (RPM) Access Act

Bill: 119-s-1535
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Building Ships in America Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1536
Sponsor: Sen. Kelly, Mark [D-AZ]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans’ Transition to Trucking Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1537
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: 

Veterans' Transition to Trucking Act of 2025

This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to act as a state approving agency to approve multi-state apprenticeship programs (i.e., non-federal apprenticeship programs operating in more than one state) for purposes of VA educational assistance benefits. (State approving agencies are designated by states to provide, among other duties, approval of courses of education for purposes of VA education benefits.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Better CARE for Animals Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1538
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Depot Investment Reform Act

Bill: 119-s-1539
Sponsor: Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Fairness for Victims of SNAP Skimming Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1540
Sponsor: Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: 

Fairness for Victims of SNAP Skimming Act of 2025

This bill requires the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to provide for the replacement of the full amount of a household's stolen benefits.

Specifically, using funds provided by the Department of Agriculture, a state agency must provide a household with replacement SNAP benefits equal to the amount of benefits stolen through card skimming, card cloning, or similar fraudulent methods. This requirement applies if the state agency determines that the benefits were stolen and meets certain requirements. 

Under current law, a state agency may only replace SNAP benefits that were stolen between the period beginning on October 1, 2022, and ending on December 20, 2024. Further, the replacement amount is limited to the lesser of the amount of (1) the benefits stolen, or (2) two months of the household's monthly allotment immediately prior to the date on which the benefits were stolen. Thus, this bill permanently extends the provision and provides for the replacement of the full amount of the benefits stolen.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
SHIPS for America Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1541
Sponsor: Sen. Kelly, Mark [D-AZ]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Uyghur Policy Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1542
Sponsor: Sen. Curtis, John R. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Opportunity Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1543
Sponsor: Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Labor-management relations
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: 

Veterans Opportunity Act of 2025

This bill establishes the Veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition Administration to administer economic opportunity assistance programs for veterans and their dependents and survivors.

Specifically, the Veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition Administration must administer the following Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs:

vocational rehabilitation and employment programs,

educational assistance programs,

veterans' housing loan and related programs,

the responsibilities of the VA with respect to the Transition Assistance Program, and

any other VA program that the VA determines is appropriate.

Prior to the transfer of administrative responsibilities, the bill requires the VA to certify that (1) the transition of the provision of services will not negatively affect the provision of such services to veterans, and (2) such services are ready to be transferred.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-21
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Insurance Data Protection Act

Bill: 119-s-1544
Sponsor: Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Repeatedly Flooded Communities Preparation Act

Bill: 119-s-1545
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2025-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-01
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1546
Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
Introduced: 2025-05-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Intellectual property
Judicial procedure and administration
Judicial review and appeals

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-05-01
text: Introduced in Senate