hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Rural Obstetrics Readiness Act

Bill: 119-hr-1254
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical education
Rural conditions and development
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 

Rural Obstetrics Readiness Act

This bill creates and expands federal grant programs within the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to increase capacity to provide emergency obstetric health services in rural areas or areas without practitioners or facilities specializing in obstetric services. 

Specifically, HRSA must establish a program for providing grants to certain hospitals or consortiums that include hospitals in rural areas or areas with maternal health care professional shortages for training, developing a workforce, and purchasing equipment relating to obstetric emergencies. In addition, the bill requires HRSA’s Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health Capacity program to provide grants for training on emergency obstetric services for practitioners in rural health care facilities without dedicated obstetric units. HRSA must also establish a pilot program to provide grants to government entities for developing or improving telehealth access programs to support urgent maternal health care in rural facilities without a dedicated obstetric unit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Investing in Our Communities Act

Bill: 119-hr-1255
Sponsor: Rep. Kustoff, David [R-TN-8]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Long-Term Care Transparency Act

Bill: 119-hr-1256
Sponsor: Rep. Langworthy, Nicholas A. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 

Long-Term Care Transparency Act

This bill requires the Administration on Aging to submit to Congress an annual report that (1) aggregates reports submitted to the administration by state long-term care ombudsman offices for the year, and (2) summarizes the findings of such reports. 

(State long-term care ombudsman programs investigate and respond to complaints by and on behalf of residents in long-term care facilities, including nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other adult care homes. Each state long-term care ombudsman office is required to submit an annual report to the administration including data related to complaints and conditions in long-term care facilities and an evaluation of the problems experienced by long-term care residents.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
OPIOIDS Act

Bill: 119-hr-1257
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Laurel M. [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Employment and training programs
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local government operations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Improving Contractor Cybersecurity Act

Bill: 119-hr-1258
Sponsor: Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Government information and archives
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 

Improving Contractor Cybersecurity Act

This bill prohibits an executive agency from entering into a contract for information technology unless the contractor maintains a vulnerability disclosure policy (VDP) and program.

The contractor must report to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the Department of Homeland Security, within seven days after the VDP is published and on an ongoing basis as vulnerability reports are received, information regarding

any valid or credible report of a not previously known public vulnerability on a system that uses commercial software or services that affect, or are likely to affect, other parties in government or industry once a patch or viable mitigation is available; and

any other situation where the contractor determines it would be helpful or necessary to involve CISA.

CISA must submit vulnerabilities to the MITRE Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database and the National Institute of Standards and Technology National Vulnerability Database.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
The Global Demining Protection Act

Bill: 119-hr-1259
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 

The Global Demining Protection Act

This bill requires the Department of State to take such actions as needed to issue a waiver to allow for the immediate resumption of all State Department programs, projects, and activities related to demining, clearing of unexploded ordnance, and small arms destruction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
U.S. Park Police Modernization Act

Bill: 119-hr-1260
Sponsor: Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of the Interior
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement officers
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Land and Water Conservation Fund Water Amendments Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-1261
Sponsor: Rep. Mast, Brian J. [R-FL-21]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Give Kids a Chance Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-1262
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Arab-Israeli relations
Bahrain
Cancer
Child health
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Executive agency funding and structure
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
International law and treaties
Israel
Licensing and registrations
Medical research
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Performance measurement
Prescription drugs
Research administration and funding
Telephone and wireless communication
United Arab Emirates
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 

Give Kids a Chance Act of 2025

This bill expands the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) authority with respect to research on rare pediatric diseases, including by permitting the FDA to take enforcement action against drug sponsors that fail to satisfy pediatric study requirements and by reauthorizing programs that support pediatric research. 

Specifically, the bill

modifies requirements relating to molecularly targeted pediatric cancer investigations to permit research on new drugs in combination with active ingredients that have already been approved, provided certain conditions are met;

permits the FDA to take enforcement action against drug sponsors that fail to comply with pediatric study requirements, if such sponsors demonstrated a lack of due diligence in satisfying the requirement;

renews the FDA’s authority to award priority review vouchers to sponsors of new products intended to treat rare pediatric diseases through September 30, 2029; and

reauthorizes through FY2027 certain funding for the National Institutes of Health to support priority pediatric research. 

The bill also provides statutory authority for the FDA’s interpretation of the orphan drug exclusivity period. The bill specifies, consistent with FDA regulations, that the seven-year market exclusivity period for drugs for rare diseases or conditions (i.e., orphan drugs) prohibits the approval of the same drug for the same approved use or indication with respect to the disease or condition. (In 
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Becerra
, a court rejected the FDA’s interpretation and held that orphan drug exclusivity extends to all uses or indications for the disease or condition.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-09-17
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 47 - 0.
action_date: 2025-09-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Strengthening the Quad Act

Bill: 119-hr-1263
Sponsor: Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Asia
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Energy research
India
Infrastructure development
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
International organizations and cooperation
Japan
Oceania
Strategic materials and reserves
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 

Strengthening the Quad Act

This bill directs the Department of State to seek to establish a working group with Japan, Australia, and India to facilitate closer cooperation on shared interests and values. (The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, also known as the Quad, is a coalition comprised of the United States and these three countries.)

The bill also requires the State Department to report to Congress a strategy for bolstering engagement and cooperation with the Quad. The strategy shall summarize current and past Quad initiatives, including those to promote broad-based and inclusive economic growth, technology cooperation, energy innovation, and resilient supply chains. The strategy shall also recommend (1) how Congress can help address certain barriers to implementing and expanding Quad cooperation, (2) new authorities needed to strengthen U.S. leadership in and contributions to Quad initiatives, and (3) additional resources needed to expand successful initiatives.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-05-19
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-05-19
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 334 - 51 (Roll no. 132). (text: CR H2119-2120)
action_date: 2025-05-19
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): 334 - 51 (Roll no. 132). (text: CR H2119-2120)
action_date: 2025-05-19
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2135-2136)
action_date: 2025-05-19
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: 2025-05-19
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1263.
action_date: 2025-05-19
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2119-2121)
action_date: 2025-05-19
text: Mr. Huizenga moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
USA Batteries Act

Bill: 119-hr-1264
Sponsor: Rep. Meuser, Daniel [R-PA-9]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act to expand eligibility for certain wastewater infrastructure grants, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-hr-1265
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E120)
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Combating Illicit Xylazine Act

Bill: 119-hr-1266
Sponsor: Rep. Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA-19]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Water Systems PFAS Liability Protection Act

Bill: 119-hr-1267
Sponsor: Rep. Perez, Marie Gluesenkamp [D-WA-3]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 

Water Systems PFAS Liability Protection Act

 
This bill exempts specified water management entities from liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) for releases of certain perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly referred to as PFAS. Specifically, the entities covered under the bill are public water systems, publicly or privately owned or operated treatment works, municipalities with a stormwater discharge permit, political subdivisions or special districts of a state that act as a wholesale water agency, and contractors performing the management or disposal activities for such entities.
 
Under the bill, the exemption only applies if a specified entity transports, treats, disposes of, or arranges for the transport, treatment or disposal of PFAS consistent with applicable laws and during and following the conveyance or treatment of water under federal or state law, such as through the management or disposal of biosolids consistent with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
 
Liability for damages or costs associated with the release of certain PFAS must not be precluded if an entity acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2025-02-12
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: 2025-02-12
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: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Extending Limits of U.S. Customs Waters Act

Bill: 119-hr-1268
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, Maria Elvira [R-FL-27]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-1269
Sponsor: Rep. Scanlon, Mary Gay [D-PA-5]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Cancer
Congressional oversight
Disability assistance
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Law enforcement officers
Worker safety and health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
To suspend the production of the penny and nickel, to require the Comptroller General of the United States to carry out a study on pennies and nickels, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-hr-1270
Sponsor: Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
To provide additional funding for scholarships for students at 1890 institutions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-hr-1271
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, David [D-GA-13]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 
This bill provides specified funds to the 1890 Scholarships Program for FY2025 and each succeeding year for student scholarships. This National Institute of Food and Agriculture program provides grants to 1890 Institutions (i.e., historically Black colleges and universities that belong to the U.S. land-grant university system) for students who intend to pursue a career in the food and agricultural sciences.

The bill also permanently reauthorizes the 1890 Scholarships Program.

Further, the bill specifies that student scholarships include scholarships for programs leading to a bachelor or graduate degree.

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Secure Storage Information Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-1272
Sponsor: Rep. Sherrill, Mikie [D-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Korean American Divided Families National Registry Act

Bill: 119-hr-1273
Sponsor: Rep. Subramanyam, Suhas [D-VA-10]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Family relationships
Family services
Government information and archives
North Korea

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 

Korean American Divided Families National Registry Act

This bill establishes a national registry of Korean American families who wish to be reunited with family members living in North Korea. The bill also requires the Department of State to include reunions of such families in any direct dialogue with North Korea.

Specifically, the bill requires the State Department to (1) collect information on Korean American families, divided from North Korean family members after the Korean War armistice, who wish to be reunited with such family members; and (2) establish a national registry of information on those families to facilitate future reunions. The State Department must ensure that any direct dialogue with North Korea includes progress towards holding such reunions.

The State Department must report to Congress periodically on the registry, previous reunions, and on certain North Korean actions related to reunions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
PROTECT Our Children Reauthorization Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-1274
Sponsor: Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-25]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Computers and information technology
Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Domestic violence and child abuse
Human trafficking
Intergovernmental relations
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement administration and funding
Missing persons
Pornography
Sex offenses
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in House