hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Stop the ICC Act

Bill: 119-s-493
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2025-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
National Plan for Epilepsy Act

Bill: 119-s-494
Sponsor: Sen. Schmitt, Eric [R-MO]
Introduced: 2025-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical research
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: 

National Plan for Epilepsy Act

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a national plan, form an advisory council, and take other actions to address epilepsy. The requirements sunset on December 31, 2035.

Specifically, the bill requires HHS to carry out a National Plan for Epilepsy to prevent, diagnose, treat, and cure epilepsy. In carrying out the plan, HHS must implement activities such as coordinating research and services across all federal agencies and soliciting public comments.

Also, HHS must establish an Advisory Council on Epilepsy Research, Care, and Services. The advisory council must report to HHS and Congress every two years with an evaluation of federally funded efforts.

Additionally, HHS must annually report to Congress with recommended actions based on its assessments of the nation’s progress on epilepsy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Prove It Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-495
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Government information and archives
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Wildfire Victim Tax Relief and Recovery Act

Bill: 119-s-496
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: 

Wildfire Victim Tax Relief and Recovery Act

This bill allows farmers to defer taxes on gain from the sale or exchange of livestock because of a fire. (Conditions apply.) The bill also allows individuals to exclude from gross income (for tax purposes) certain disaster relief payments received in connection with specific Texas wildfires.

Currently, farmers may defer gain on the sale or exchange of livestock (other than poultry) held for draft, breeding, or dairy purposes due to drought, flood, or other weather-related conditions for two years (four years if attributable to a federally-declared disaster). Otherwise, under current law, gain on the sale of livestock (including poultry) due to such weather-related conditions attributable to a federally-declared disaster may be deferred for one year. (Conditions apply.)

The bill adds fire to the list of circumstances for which the gain on the sale or exchange of livestock may be deferred, thus allowing farmers to defer such gains for up to four years (depending on the type of livestock and whether the sale is attributable to a federally-declared disaster).

The bill also allows individuals to exclude from gross income payments received from federal, state, or local government agencies or Xcel Energy (or any subsidiary, insurer, or agent of Xcel Energy) as compensation for unreimbursed losses, damages, and certain expenses attributable to the

Smokehouse Creek, 687 Reamer, and Roughneck Fires (Hutchinson County, Texas, February and March 2024);

Windy Deuce Fire (Moore County, Texas, February 2024); and

Grape Vine Creek Fire (Gray County, Texas, February 2024).



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
FENCE Act

Bill: 119-s-497
Sponsor: Sen. Hagerty, Bill [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
United States Colored Troops Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 119-s-498
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2025-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Military history
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Racial and ethnic relations
Smithsonian Institution
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: 

United States Colored Troops Congressional Gold Medal Act

 
This bill provides for the award of a Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to the African Americans who served with Union forces in recognition of their bravery and outstanding service during the Civil War.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-499
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2025-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: 

Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2025

This bill provides continuing appropriations to prevent a government shutdown if an appropriations bill for a fiscal year has not been enacted before the fiscal year begins and continuing appropriations are not in effect.

For an initial 90-day period, the bill provides continuing appropriations at 94% of the rate for the preceding year to continue programs, projects, and activities for which funds were provided in the preceding fiscal year. The bill reduces the continuing appropriations by 1% after the first 90-day period and by an additional 1% for each subsequent 90-day period until the applicable appropriations legislation is enacted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
CAREER Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-500
Sponsor: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2025-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Strategy for Public Health Preparedness and Response to Artificial Intelligence Threats

Bill: 119-s-501
Sponsor: Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC]
Introduced: 2025-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Chemical and biological weapons
Congressional oversight
Emergency planning and evacuation
Infectious and parasitic diseases

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-502
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: 

Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act of 

2025

This bill temporarily allows additional hospitals to qualify as critical access hospitals (CAHs) that receive special payment under Medicare.

Currently, in order to qualify as a CAH under Medicare, a hospital must either (1) be located more than 35 miles (or 15 miles in mountainous regions or areas with only secondary roads) from another hospital, or (2) have been certified prior to January 1, 2006, by the state as a necessary provider of services in the area.

The bill allows a hospital to also qualify if the hospital is a small, rural hospital that (1) serves a health professional shortage area, or a high number of low-income individuals or Medicare beneficiaries; (2) has experienced financial losses for two consecutive years; and (3) attests to having a strategic plan to address financial solvency and to committing to provide a service that is in high demand in the hospital's service area. This authority expires nine years after the bill's enactment.

The Government Accountability Office must study the effects of the bill's implementation. In addition, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission must study and recommend payment systems for rural hospitals under Medicare. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must subsequently establish a mechanism and issue guidance on how newly designated CAHs may transition to different payment models under Medicare, including any new payment models recommended by the commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S820-821)
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
NET Act

Bill: 119-s-503
Sponsor: Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2025-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: 

Network Equipment Transparency Act or the NET Act

This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to report biennially on the impact of network equipment availability on the deployment of advanced telecommunications capabilities (i.e., broadband). This assessment must be included in the FCC’s reports on the state of the communications marketplace, which are submitted to Congress and published publicly every other year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 171.
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-66.
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-66.
action_date: 2025-05-21
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
High Rise Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-504
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2025-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Fires
Income tax deductions
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
‘Protect Small Businesses from Excessive Paperwork Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-505
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: 

Protect Small Businesses from Excessive Paperwork Act of 2025

This bill extends the deadline for certain companies that are required to file beneficial ownership information with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Specifically, the bill requires companies formed or registered before January 1, 2024, to submit this information to FinCEN by January 1, 2026, instead of by January 1, 2025, as required under current regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Coordinating Care for Senior Veterans and Wounded Warriors Act

Bill: 119-s-506
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Medicare
Performance measurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: 

Coordinating Care for Senior Veterans and Wounded Warriors Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to implement a three-year pilot program to coordinate, navigate, and manage care and benefits for veterans who are enrolled in both the Medicare program and the VA health care system.


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: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Promoting Precision Agriculture Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-507
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: 

Promoting Precision Agriculture Act of 2025 

This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop voluntary standards for precision agriculture (i.e., managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality).

USDA, in consultation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), must develop voluntary, consensus-based, private sector-led interconnectivity standards, guidelines, and best practices for precision agriculture to promote economies of scale and ease the burden of adoption. USDA must (1) coordinate with relevant public and trusted private sector stakeholders and relevant industry organizations, and (2) consult with sector-specific agencies and state and local governments.

Further, in developing the standards, USDA must, in consultation with NIST and the FCC, consider the

connectivity needs of precision agriculture equipment,

cybersecurity challenges facing precision agriculture, and

impact of artificial intelligence on this area.

The Government Accountability Office must periodically assess and report to Congress on the standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S861-862)
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
BEACH Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-508
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: 

Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2025 or the BEACH Act of 2025

This bill reauthorizes through FY2029 and expands an existing program of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that awards grants to states and local governments to (1) monitor the water quality of coastal recreational waters adjacent to beaches or similar points of access that are used by the public; and (2) notify the public, local governments, and the EPA when the water is not safe for recreational activities.

Specifically, the bill expands the program to allow the EPA to award grants for identifying sources of contamination (i.e., pathogens) for coastal recreation waters. It also allows grants to be used for monitoring and notification of contamination in (1) shallow waters upstream from recreational waters, and (2) recreational waters on beaches.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Future Logging Careers Act

Bill: 119-s-509
Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Financing Our Energy Future Act

Bill: 119-s-510
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Taxpayers’ Wallets Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-511
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Labor-management relations
User charges and fees

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act

Bill: 119-s-512
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Immigration status and procedures
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: 

Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act

This bill establishes new federal criminal offenses for operating a motor vehicle within 100 miles of the U.S. border while fleeing from a U.S. Border Patrol agent or a federal, state, or local law enforcement officer who is actively assisting or under the command of the U.S. Border Patrol.

The bill establishes criminal penalties for an offense, including a mandatory minimum prison term for an offense resulting in death or serious bodily injury. Additionally, a non-U.S. national who is convicted of or admits to committing an offense is inadmissible, deportable, and ineligible for immigration relief (including asylum).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Help Our Kelp Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-513
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
MERP Clarifications Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-514
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

Bill: 119-s-515
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget process
Congressional-executive branch relations
Legislative rules and procedure
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: 
This bill repeals the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (ICA). The ICA generally limits the authority of the President to impound (i.e., withhold from obligation or expenditure) funds that have been appropriated by Congress and establishes related procedures. It also establishes expedited legislative procedures that Congress may use to consider legislation to enact rescissions proposed by the President. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
SHIELD Act of 2023

Bill: 119-s-516
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Crimes against children
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Domestic violence and child abuse
Internet, web applications, social media
Pornography
Sex offenses
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: 

Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution Act of 2025 or the SHIELD Act of 2023 [
sic
]

This bill establishes new federal criminal offenses related to the distribution of sexual exploitative content. 

First, the bill makes it a crime to knowingly mail or distribute (or intentionally threaten to mail or distribute) an intimate visual depiction of a recognizable adult engaged in sexual conduct. To constitute a crime, certain elements must be met, including that the distribution must be nonconsensual; the depiction is not a matter of public concern; and the distribution must be intended to cause harm or cause harm. A violator is subject to a fine, a prison term of up to two years, or both; mandatory restitution; and the forfeiture of material involved in the offense, property constituting or derived from the proceeds from the offense, and property used to commit or facilitate the offense.

Second, the bill makes it a crime to knowingly mail or distribute (or intentionally threaten to mail or distribute) a visual depiction of a nude minor with intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, or degrade the minor, or to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person. A violator is subject to a fine, a prison term of up to three years, or both; mandatory restitution; and the forfeiture of material involved in the offense, property constituting or derived from the proceeds from the offense, and property used to commit or facilitate the offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Forest Data Modernization Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-517
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act

Bill: 119-s-518
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: 

Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act

This bill prohibits federal funding of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR), and any successor organization to PBS or NPR. The prohibition extends to the payment of dues to or the purchase of programming from PBS or NPR by a public broadcast station using federal funds. 

The bill also directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to transfer to the Department of the Treasury for the purpose of reducing the public debt an amount equal to certain funding that would have otherwise been provided to PBS or NPR in FY2025-FY2027.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate