hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Stop Russian Market Manipulation Act

Bill: 119-s-808
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Europe
Metals
Russia
Trade restrictions
Ukraine

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: 

Stop Russian Market Manipulation Act

This bill prohibits the importation of specified minerals from Russia.

Specifically, the bill prohibits the importation of platinum, palladium, braggite, rhodium, ruthenium, nickel, cooper, or zinc if the mineral is (1) produced in Russia or by a Russian entity; or (2) determined to have been exchanged with, swapped for, or otherwise obtained in lieu of such a mineral in a manner designed to evade or circumvent this prohibition. The President may not waive this prohibition.

The prohibition shall continue to apply until one year after the President certifies to Congress that the Russian government has ended all hostilities against Ukraine. If the Russian government resumes hostilities against Ukraine within three years of a certification, then the prohibition shall resume effect.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Saving Privacy Act

Bill: 119-s-809
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
No Cuts to Public Schools Act

Bill: 119-s-810
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
RTP Full Funding Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-811
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure veterans may obtain a physical copy of a form for reimbursement of certain travel expenses by mail or at medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-s-812
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2025-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that a veteran may obtain a physical copy of the form needed for travel reimbursements at any VA medical facility or, upon request, by mail. The VA must also ensure a veteran may submit the form to any VA medical facility in person or by mail. Such medical facilities must evaluate the form and process any claim associated with the form.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
SHOPP Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-813
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 28 East Airy Street in Norristown, Pennsylvania, as the "Charles L. Blockson Post Office Building".

Bill: 119-s-814
Sponsor: Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA]
Introduced: 2025-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Pennsylvania
Postal service

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the outdoor amphitheater at the Blue Ridge Music Center in Galax, Virginia, as the "Rick Boucher Amphitheater".

Bill: 119-s-815
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2025-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Increasing American Jobs Through Greater United States Exports to Africa and Latin America Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-816
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: 

Increasing American Jobs Through Greater United States Exports to Africa and Latin America Act of 

2025

This bill requires the President to establish a comprehensive U.S. strategy and a standardized training plan to increase U.S. exports to Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Specifically, the bill directs the President to establish and submit to Congress a comprehensive U.S. strategy for public and private investment, trade, and development in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The strategy shall focus on increasing exports of U.S. goods and services to Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean by at least 200% in real dollar value within 10 years.

Additionally, the bill directs the President to develop a plan for standardized training of (1) U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service officers, and (2) economic officers of the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development. 

The bill also directs the Department of Commerce to (1) designate a Special Africa Export Strategy Coordinator, and (2) designate a Special Latin America and the Caribbean Export Strategy Coordinator. These coordinators shall oversee the development and implementation of the strategy to increase U.S. exports to Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text: CR S1461-1462)
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Falun Gong Protection Act

Bill: 119-s-817
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
China
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Foreign property
Human rights
Medical ethics
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Religion
Sanctions
Visas and passports

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Abandoned Well Remediation Research and Development Act

Bill: 119-s-818
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2025-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
End Tobacco Loopholes Act

Bill: 119-s-819
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S1462-1463)
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Caribbean Basin Security Initiative Authorization Act

Bill: 119-s-820
Sponsor: Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2025-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act

Bill: 119-s-821
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Congressional oversight
Department of State
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Taiwan

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 52.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-03-27
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Scientific EXPERT Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-822
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government information and archives
Medical research
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: 

Scientific External Process for Educated Review of Therapeutics Act of 2025 or the Scientific EXPERT Act of 2025

This bill requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to facilitate and participate in externally led, science-focused drug development meetings to discuss the development of treatments for rare diseases and conditions. 

The FDA must enter into an arrangement with the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA under which the foundation agrees to convene such meetings. Meetings must be held at least four times a year, and each meeting must focus on a different rare disease or condition. 

The foundation must establish a permanent steering committee to review and recommend topics for each meeting. In evaluating potential topics, the committee must consider unmet therapeutic needs, patient population sizes for different diseases and conditions, and whether a disease or condition would benefit from clarity and alignment on drug development questions, among other factors. 

In planning each meeting, the foundation must develop a list of medical experts, drug sponsors, scientific organizations, patient organizations, and other entities to be invited to participate. Representatives of the FDA’s review divisions must attend each meeting. 

After each meeting, the foundation must make available a summary of the meeting noting areas of consensus, areas where additional clarification or information is needed, and next steps agreed upon with the FDA.

The bill also requires the FDA to indicate whether it incorporated any input from these meetings when approving a new drug or biologic. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Intergovernmental Critical Minerals Task Force Act

Bill: 119-s-823
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2025-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:

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

Bill: 119-s-824
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-825
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Preventing Antisemitic Harassment on Campus Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-826
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Supporting Rural Veterans Access to Healthcare Services Act

Bill: 119-s-827
Sponsor: Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Transportation costs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' organizations and recognition

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: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
School Bus Safety Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-828
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: 

School Bus Safety Act of 2025

This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to issue rules requiring school buses to have certain safety features. DOT must also establish a grant program to assist in the implementation of the requirements.

Specifically, DOT must issue rules requiring school buses to include

three-point safety belts for all seats,

a fire suppression system which addresses engine fires,

a firewall between the engine and passenger compartment that prevents hazardous quantities of gas or flames from passing through the firewall,

increased performance standards for interior flammability and smoke emissions,

an automatic emergency braking system,

an event data recorder, and

an electronic stability control system.

DOT must also require at least eight hours of behind-the-wheel training for school bus operators that meets specified requirements.

Further, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) must issue rules on the evaluation of safety sensitive personnel for moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea.

NHTSA must also study the benefits of requiring school buses manufactured in, or imported into, the United States to be equipped with a motion-activated detection system that is capable of detecting road users (e.g., pedestrians and bicyclists) and alerting the bus operator of their presence. NHTSA must issue rules implementing such a requirement.

Finally, DOT must establish a grant program to assist local educational agencies in (1) purchasing school buses equipped with three-point safety belts or any of the other safety features required under this bill, and (2) modifying existing school buses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 840 Front Street in Casselton, North Dakota, as the "Commander Delbert Austin Olson Post Office".

Bill: 119-s-829
Sponsor: Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
North Dakota
Postal service

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-830
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1498)
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
REP VA Act

Bill: 119-s-831
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: 

Representing VA with Accuracy Act or the REP VA Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that any call made to a veteran by a VA employee or contractor regarding VA services or benefits is made from a single, well-known telephone number and uses caller identification that indicates the call is from or on behalf of the VA.

The VA must also ensure the Veterans Health Administration has at least one call center in each time zone in the United States to address concerns regarding appointments and referrals for health care.


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: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
EPIC Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-832
Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Move the ICC Out of NYC Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-833
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Frank Connor and Trooper Werner Foerster Justice Act

Bill: 119-s-834
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Reduce Food Loss and Waste Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-835
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: 

Reduce Food Loss and Waste Act of 2025

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a voluntary Food Loss and Waste Reduction Certification Program in order to reduce food loss and waste, increase donations of excess food to certain nonprofit organizations, and increase the use of alternative disposal methods for food (e.g., redirection to animal feed and composting).

Specifically, USDA must establish criteria for the certification of eligible participants (e.g., state or local governments, corporations, farms or food producers, retail grocers, restaurants, and schools).

USDA must also establish criteria for recognizing accreditation bodies to accredit third-party certifiers to review and certify program participants. Preference in accrediting third-party certifiers must be given to institutions of higher education that have expertise in food loss and waste reduction. USDA must maintain on a publicly available USDA website a list of (1) recognized accreditation bodies, and (2) accredited third-party certifiers.

Further, USDA must establish a voluntary label that certified program participants may use to indicate that they are certified. USDA must also promote certified participants on the USDA website and through events.

Finally, USDA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must revise a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed on December 17, 2020, and relating to cooperation and coordination on food loss and waste. USDA must implement this bill in coordination with the FDA and the EPA and in accordance with the revised MOU.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S1498-1499)
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act

Bill: 119-s-836
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Consumer affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Right of privacy
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-06-25
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Defending American Jobs and Affordable Energy Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-837
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
ACRE Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-838
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Safeguarding Honest Speech Act

Bill: 119-s-839
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Digital Integrity in Democracy Act

Bill: 119-s-840
Sponsor: Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate