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Romance Scam Prevention Act

Bill: 119-s-841
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Internet, web applications, social media
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: 

Romance Scam Prevention Act

This bill requires online dating service providers (i.e., mobile applications or websites) to provide users with a fraud ban notification if the user has established an account with the service and received a message through the service from a banned user of the service.

The fraud ban notification must include (1) the username or other profile identifier of the banned user and the most recent time when the user who is receiving the notification sent or received a message through the service to or from the banned user, (2) a statement that the banned user may have been using a false identity or attempting to defraud other users, (3) a statement that the user should not send cash (or another form of currency) or personal financial information to another user, (4) information about avoiding online fraud (e.g., a link to another website or a disclosure) and (5) contact information for the provider's customer service department.

The bill provides for enforcement of these requirements by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-09-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 145.
action_date: 2025-09-02
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-58.
action_date: 2025-09-02
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-58.
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute 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
No Hezbollah In Our Hemisphere Act

Bill: 119-s-842
Sponsor: Sen. Curtis, John R. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign property
Iran
Latin America
Lebanon
Middle East
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Sanctions
Terrorism
Visas and passports

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 53.
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: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-843
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Endangered and threatened species
Reptiles
Seashores and lakeshores

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 118.
action_date: 2025-07-16
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment. With written report No. 119-41.
action_date: 2025-07-16
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment. With written report No. 119-41.
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment 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
Faster Labor Contracts Act

Bill: 119-s-844
Sponsor: Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

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
Farmland Security Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-845
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: 

Farmland Security Act of 2025

This bill authorizes increased civil penalties for violations of the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 (AFIDA) and increases Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversight of and research into foreign investment in agricultural land. As background, AFIDA and the regulations that implemented the act require foreign investors who acquire, transfer, or hold an interest in U.S. agricultural land to report such holdings and transactions to USDA.

In general, the bill allows USDA to determine an appropriate civil penalty amount for an AFIDA violation by removing the cap that currently prohibits the civil penalty from exceeding 25% of the fair market value of the interest in the agricultural land associated with the violation.

Under an exception in the bill, the civil penalty for a foreign-owned shell corporation is 100% of the fair market value of the interest in the agricultural land. The bill defines a shell corporation to include a company, association, firm, partnership, society, joint stock company, trust, or estate that has no or nominal operations. The penalty does not apply if the shell corporation remedies a defective filing or failure to file within 60 days of USDA providing notice.

USDA must conduct annual compliance audits of at least 10% of the reports. Further, USDA must provide state and county-level personnel certain annual training.

USDA must also annually conduct research and submit a report to Congress on foreign investment in agricultural land, including trends in the purchase of U.S. agricultural land by foreign-owned shell corporations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Care Workforce Act

Bill: 119-s-846
Sponsor: Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Families

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 S1499-1500)
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Care Availability and Affordability Act

Bill: 119-s-847
Sponsor: Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL]
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. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1499-1500)
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
REPORT Act

Bill: 119-s-848
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: 

Reporting Efficiently to Proper Officials in Response to Terrorism Act of 2025 or the REPORT Act

This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and (as appropriate) the National Counterterrorism Center to submit a report to specified congressional committees whenever an act of domestic or international terrorism occurs in the United States.

Specifically, within one year after completion of the government investigation of the act of terrorism, these entities must submit a publicly accessible report including the facts of the event and recommendations for improving homeland or national security to prevent similar future acts. Information that could jeopardize an ongoing investigation or prosecution may be withheld. The requirement sunsets five years after the bill’s enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
The Allegiance Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-849
Sponsor: Sen. Moreno, Bernie [R-OH]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review Act

Bill: 119-s-850
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Canada
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
North America

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
GUARD Act

Bill: 119-s-851
Sponsor: Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Families

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-852
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
INNOVATE Act

Bill: 119-s-853
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Espionage and treason
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Performance measurement
Product development and innovation
Public contracts and procurement
Small business
Subversive activities
Technology transfer and commercialization
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-23
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Risky Research Review Act

Bill: 119-s-854
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Advisory bodies
Biological and life sciences
Congressional oversight
Employee performance
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: 

Risky Research Review Act

This bill establishes the Life Sciences Research Security Board to oversee the award of federal funding for high-risk life sciences research. 
High-risk life sciences research 
means the study of an organism, virus, or related product that could be misapplied to pose a significant threat to the public or could enhance the transmissibility or virulence of certain high-risk pathogens (e.g., Ebola).

Specifically, the bill establishes the board as an independent agency that must review proposed high-risk life sciences research, determine whether a federal agency may award funding for the research, and determine minimum required controls for funded research. Entities that are seeking federal funding must attest to whether their research is high-risk life sciences research. Agencies must certify the validity of these attestations and submit proposed high-risk life sciences research to the board. Agencies must also notify the board of intended awards for other life sciences research for potential review. 

In making its determinations, the board must consider specified factors, including whether the benefits of the research outweigh the risks. The bill prohibits agencies from awarding federal funding for high-risk life sciences research without approval of the board or for life sciences research currently under board review. The board may also review awards that were made before the bill’s enactment.

Entities that fail to properly attest to the nature of their research may lose their eligibility for funding. Additionally, agency employees who fail to comply with the bill's requirements are subject to disciplinary action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-09-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 164.
action_date: 2025-09-17
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-09-17
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-07-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Royalty Transparency Act

Bill: 119-s-855
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Intellectual property
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-09-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 165.
action_date: 2025-09-17
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-09-17
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Paul with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-07-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying Act

Bill: 119-s-856
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government information and archives
Licensing and registrations
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Water Conservation Rebate Tax Parity Act

Bill: 119-s-857
Sponsor: Sen. Curtis, John R. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Hershel ‘Woody' Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act

Bill: 119-s-858
Sponsor: Sen. Justice, James C. [R-WV]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: 

Hershel "Woody" Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act

This bill requires the authorized monument honoring Medal of Honor recipients to be located within the Reserve (the great cross-axis of the National Mall, which generally extends from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and from the White House to the Jefferson Memorial).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Mining Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Prevention Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-859
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alaska
Arizona
California
Civil actions and liability
Colorado
Congressional oversight
Energy revenues and royalties
Environmental health
Federal preemption
Federal-Indian relations
Forests, forestry, trees
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Idaho
Indian lands and resources rights
Judicial review and appeals
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Mining
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
North Dakota
Nuclear power
Oregon
South Dakota
Utah
Washington State
Water quality
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wyoming

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
BUST FENTANYL Act

Bill: 119-s-860
Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Department of Justice
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign and international banking
Foreign property
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
International organizations and cooperation
Latin America
Mexico
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Sanctions
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 54.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-03-27
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Disaster Assistance Simplification Act

Bill: 119-s-861
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
HBOT Access Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-862
Sponsor: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Genomic Data Protection Act

Bill: 119-s-863
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
HELP Copays Act

Bill: 119-s-864
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Lobbying Disclosure Improvement Act

Bill: 119-s-865
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government information and archives
Licensing and registrations
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Accelerating Broadband Permits Act

Bill: 119-s-866
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2025-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: 

Accelerating Broadband Permits Act

This bill makes specified changes to processes for federal review of certain communications and broadband infrastructure projects. 

Specifically, the bill requires executive branch agencies to identify and address factors that contribute to delays in their review of applications for easements, rights-of-way, or leases related to communications infrastructure projects. (Under current law, executive branch agencies with control over buildings or property may grant such easements, rights-of-way, or leases to entities seeking to install, construct, modify, or maintain communications facilities. Generally, agencies must act on such applications within 270 days.) 

Under the bill, agencies must develop controls to ensure accurate tracking of processing times for such applications and take action to address factors contributing to delays as they occur. Agencies must also establish methods to alert employees when the agency is at risk of failing to meet the 270-day deadline with respect to a particular application. (These provisions were recommended by the Government Accountability Office in an April 2024 report to Congress entitled 
Broadband Deployment: Agencies Should Take Steps to Better Meet Deadline for Processing Permits
.) 

Separately, the bill lowers the cost threshold for certain broadband infrastructure projects to qualify as 
covered projects
 under the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act from $200 million to $5 million. Such projects qualify for expedited federal environmental review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text: CR S1581)
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate