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Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act

Bill: 119-hr-885
Sponsor: Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act

This bill directs the Department of State to designate four specified drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. (Among other things, such a designation allows the Department of the Treasury to require U.S. financial institutions to block transactions involving the organization.)

The four specified cartels in the bill are the Gulf Cartel, the Cartel Del Noreste, the Cartel de Sinaloa, and the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion.

The bill also requires the State Department to submit a detailed report on those four cartels and any other cartels it may identify. Based on this report, the State Department must designate as a foreign terrorist organization any such identified cartel (or faction thereof) that meets certain criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization.

The bill specifies that it may not be construed to expand eligibility for asylum.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Beat Bad Bureaucrats Act

Bill: 119-hr-886
Sponsor: Rep. Rulli, Michael A. [R-OH-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Beat Bad Bureaucrats Act

This bill prohibits the Small Business Administration (SBA) from garnishing Social Security payments to victims of identity theft on account of certain delinquent SBA loans obtained fraudulently during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Specifically, the SBA may not garnish an individual’s Social Security payments related to a covered loan if (1) the individual’s name was used to fraudulently obtain the loan, and (2) the individual has reported the identity theft to the SBA. Under the bill, 
covered loans
 are Disaster Loans granted in response to COVID-19 between January 31, 2020, and December 31, 2021 (e.g., Economic Injury Disaster Loans) and loans granted under the Paycheck Protection Program. The prohibition on garnishment does not apply if the SBA determines that an individual is not a victim of identity theft. 

Further, the SBA must post instructions on how to report identity theft on its public website and include them in the written notice provided to delinquent borrowers before garnishing their pay. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Lower Grocery Prices Act

Bill: 119-hr-887
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Food industry and services
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Lower Grocery Prices Act

This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to submit a report to Congress on changes in the Consumer Price Index for food at home over the past 20 years. The report must also include recommendations to help lower food at home costs for U.S. consumers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Stop Sports Blackouts Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-888
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Stop Sports Blackouts Act of 2025

This bill requires cable and satellite broadcast providers to issue rebates to customers who are denied access to video programming included in their subscription because of programming negotiations. 

Specifically, where a provider’s negotiations related to the retransmission or carriage of video programming result in the provider failing to offer access to programming included in a customer’s subscription, the customer must be issued a rebate for the affected period. The Federal Communications Commission is directed to issue rules to this effect, including to establish the appropriate amount for such a rebate. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Deliver Housing Now Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-889
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Housing and community development funding
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Stopping Pharma’s Ripoffs and Drug Savings For All Act

Bill: 119-hr-890
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Stopping Pharma’s Ripoffs and Drug Savings For All Act

This bill addresses double patenting with respect to drug-related patents. Specifically, the bill requires an owner of drug-related patents, if the owner lists more than one patent as covering a particular drug, to prove in certain proceedings that each patent covers a distinct invention. If the patent owner fails to do so, then the owner shall have disclaimed patent protection from all the listed patents after the first patent expires.

This requirement shall apply to various proceedings challenging the validity of drug-related patents, as well as to infringement lawsuits filed by the patent owner against companies seeking Food and Drug Administration approval for generic or biosimilar versions of patented drugs.

The bill also directs the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to review its examination procedures to prevent granting multiple patents for the same drug or biological product, unless the patents cover distinct inventions. The USPTO shall report to Congress its findings and recommendations from the review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Pro-Housing Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-891
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Community life and organization
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Low- and moderate-income housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Rural conditions and development
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Mortgage Rate Reduction Act

Bill: 119-hr-892
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Mortgage Rate Reduction Act

This bill authorizes the federal guarantee, or insurance, of certain second mortgages. Specifically, this applies to properties with a first mortgage guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) or the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). For a second mortgage to qualify, the first mortgage on the property must be guaranteed under the same authority.

The bill also requires the publication of mortgage guarantee information by the FHA, VA, and Department of Agriculture. For each mortgage guaranteed, these agencies must publish the address of the property and the date of the loan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Working Families Housing Tax Credit Act

Bill: 119-hr-893
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Drugs Out of Schools Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-894
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Community life and organization
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Keeping Drugs Out of Schools Act of 2025

This bill allows the Office of National Drug Control Policy to award grants for eligible entities to implement school-community partnerships for preventing and reducing substance use and misuse among youth. 
Eligible entity
 refers to a coalition that (1) receives or has received a grant under the Drug-Free Communities Support Program, and (2) has a memorandum of understanding in effect with not less than one local school to establish a school-community partnership.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Justice for Victims of Partial-Birth Abortion Act

Bill: 119-hr-895
Sponsor: Rep. Self, Keith [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
District of Columbia

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Access to High-Impact Tutoring Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-896
Sponsor: Rep. Sherrill, Mikie [D-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Advisory bodies
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Labor-management relations
Performance measurement
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Expanding Access to High-Impact Tutoring Act of 2025

This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to award grants to state educational agencies and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for implementing, administering, and evaluating tutoring programs in elementary and secondary schools.

Additionally, the bill directs ED to establish an advisory board. Among its duties, the advisory board must (1) evaluate and approve plans to ensure that LEAs will meet tutoring program requirements, (2) provide technical assistance and guidance to grant recipients, and (3) develop a nationwide tutoring workforce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Aviation-Impacted Communities Act

Bill: 119-hr-897
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Aviation-Impacted Communities Act

This bill increases access to noise mitigation measures for aviation-impacted communities.
 
Under the bill, an 
aviation-impacted community
 is a community that is located not more than one mile from any point at which a commercial or cargo jet route is 3,000 feet or less above ground level.

The bill expands noise mitigation program funding under the Airport Improvement Program to include aviation-impacted communities that are not currently within the 65 day-night average sound level (DNL) standard.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must conduct outreach to aviation-impacted communities to inform them of the opportunity to be a designated community. A designated community must form a community board to provide information to airport operators and the FAA concerning aviation impacts (e.g., aircraft noise).

A community board may petition the FAA to conduct a community assessment and, based on the assessment, the FAA must devise an action plan that alleviates or addresses the community’s concerns.

In addition, the FAA must enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study and provide the FAA with a framework and diagnostic tool for conducting community assessments.

The FAA must provide grants for necessary noise mitigation in a designated community for residences, hospitals, nursing homes, adult or child day care centers, schools, and places of worship. Further, the FAA and airport operators must provide (1) noise mitigation grants for communities subject to significant frequency of overhead flights, and (2) noise mitigation for residences impacted by significant nighttime aircraft noise.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Aviation Noise and Emissions Mitigation Act

Bill: 119-hr-898
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
To terminate the Department of Education.

Bill: 119-hr-899
Sponsor: Rep. Massie, Thomas [R-KY-4]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Department of Education
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 
This bill terminates the Department of Education on December 31, 2026.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-900
Sponsor: Rep. Soto, Darren [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Emergency planning and evacuation
Geography and mapping
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Natural disasters
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2025

This bill directs the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to establish a program to

study the short-term and long-term mechanisms that cause sinkholes, including extreme storm events, prolonged droughts causing shifts in water management practices, aquifer depletion, and other major changes in water use; and

develop maps, using three-dimensional elevation data, that depict zones that are at greater risk of forming sinkholes.

The USGS must establish a public website that displays such maps and other relevant information critical for use by community planners and emergency managers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-15
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-07-14
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3223-3224)
action_date: 2025-07-14
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3223)
action_date: 2025-07-14
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2025-07-14
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-07-14
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 900.
action_date: 2025-07-14
text: Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2025-07-02
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 147.
action_date: 2025-07-02
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-182.
action_date: 2025-07-02
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-182.
action_date: 2025-04-09
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-04-09
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Research Security and Accountability in DHS Act

Bill: 119-hr-901
Sponsor: Rep. Strong, Dale W. [R-AL-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Research and development
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Research Security and Accountability in DHS Act

This bill requires the Science and Technology Directorate in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop a department-wide policy for safeguarding research and development from unauthorized access or disclosures of sensitive information in related acquisitions.

Additionally, the Government Accountability Office must report on the compliance of DHS with a 2021 presidential memorandum and related guidance that required certain disclosures about government-funded research and development (e.g., conflicts of interest involving foreign governments).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-11
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-03-10
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-03-10
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 410 - 1 (Roll no. 64). (text: CR H1051)
action_date: 2025-03-10
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 410 - 1 (Roll no. 64). (text: CR H1051)
action_date: 2025-03-10
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1058-1059)
action_date: 2025-03-10
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2025-03-10
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 901.
action_date: 2025-03-10
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1051-1052)
action_date: 2025-03-10
text: Mr. Green (TN) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
RECOGNIZING Judea and Samaria Act

Bill: 119-hr-902
Sponsor: Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Retiring the Egregious Confusion Over the Genuine Name of Israel’s Zone of Influence by Necessitating Government-use of Judea and Samaria Act or the RECOGNIZING Judea and Samaria Act

This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to prepare or promulgate certain materials (including any policy, guidance, regulation, executive order, or other work products) that refers to Judea and Samaria as the West Bank. The prohibition does not apply to U.S. obligations under international treaties or other agreements.

The bill also amends certain laws to replace the term 
the West Bank
 with 
Judea and Samaria
.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House