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TSA Commuting Fairness Act

Bill: 119-hr-862
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Timothy M. [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Commuting
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

TSA Commuting Fairness Act

This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to submit to Congress a study on the feasibility of treating as on-duty hours the time TSA employees working at airport locations spend traveling between regular duty locations, airport parking lots, and bus and transit stops.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-11
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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 voice vote. (text: CR H1048)
action_date: 2025-03-10
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1048)
action_date: 2025-03-10
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 862.
action_date: 2025-03-10
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1048-1049)
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 Transportation and Maritime Security.
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
National Human Trafficking Database Act

Bill: 119-hr-863
Sponsor: Rep. Kiley, Kevin [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Human trafficking
Intergovernmental relations
Internet, web applications, social media
Smuggling and trafficking
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

National Human Trafficking Database Act

This bill establishes a framework to collect comprehensive data on human trafficking.

At the federal level, the bill requires the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) within the Department of Justice to establish an online database that includes human trafficking data for each state.

At the state level, the bill authorizes grants for covered state agencies (e.g., a state bureau of investigation or similar law enforcement agency) to collect and report human trafficking data to the OVC.


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
Freedom to Cooperate Act

Bill: 119-hr-864
Sponsor: Rep. Kiley, Kevin [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Freedom to Cooperate Act

This bill addresses issues related to state and local government cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts.

A state may not prohibit its personnel or another government entity from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement efforts or making inquiries about an individual's immigration status. Currently, a government entity is only barred from prohibiting the sharing of immigration-related information with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

DHS may issue a detainer if there is probable cause to believe that an individual arrested for any criminal or motor vehicle offense is inadmissible or deportable.

Furthermore, the bill provides legal immunity for a state or local government entity or official temporarily detaining a non-U.S. national under federal authority.


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
Service-Disabled Veteran Opportunities in Small Business Act

Bill: 119-hr-865
Sponsor: Rep. LaLota, Nick [R-NY-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Service-Disabled Veteran Opportunities in Small Business Act

This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide employees at any federal agency that has not met the goal of awarding at least 3% of its prime contracts and subcontracts to small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans with training to increase the number of such contracts awarded.

For each fiscal year, the SBA must report a list of each agency that did not meet the contracting goal and the number of trainings the SBA provided.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
ROUTERS Act

Bill: 119-hr-866
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Removing Our Unsecure Technologies to Ensure Reliability and Security Act or the ROUTERS Act

This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to conduct a study on the national security risks posed by consumer routers and modems (including devices that combine a modem and router) and provide the results of the study to Congress. The study must address devices developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons (i.e., individuals and entities) owned by, controlled by, or subject to the influence of China, Iran, North Korea, or Russia. 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1661)
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1661)
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 866.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1661-1662: 1)
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Mr. Bilirakis moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2025-04-24
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 52.
action_date: 2025-04-24
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-75.
action_date: 2025-04-24
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-75.
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
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
IGO Anti-Boycott Act

Bill: 119-hr-867
Sponsor: Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

IGO Anti-Boycott Act

This bill penalizes U.S. persons (individuals or entities) that participate in certain boycotts imposed by international governmental organizations (IGOs).

The bill expands an existing law that prohibits various actions by U.S. persons in relation to boycotts imposed by foreign governments on a country that is friendly to the United States and not itself the object of a U.S. boycott. This bill applies those prohibitions to similar boycotts imposed by IGOs.

Prohibited actions include (1) refusing to do business with companies organized under the laws of the boycotted country, if the refusal is pursuant to an agreement with or request from the country or IGO imposing the boycott; (2) furnishing information about whether any person has a business relationship with or in the boycotted country; and (3) furnishing information about whether someone is associated with charitable or fraternal organizations that support the boycotted country.

Criminal penalties for willful violations of this law include fines of up to $1 million. In addition to such fines, individuals may be imprisoned for up to 20 years. Civil penalties may include fines and revocations of export licenses for certain national security-related items.

The bill also requires the President to annually submit to Congress and make available to the public a report describing these boycotts and listing the foreign countries and international organizations involved in fostering or imposing them.


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
Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act

Bill: 119-hr-868
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Laurel M. [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Assault and harassment offenses
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Department of Justice
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act

This bill requires the Department of Justice to adopt national standards for the prevention, reduction, and punishment of sexual harassment and sexual assault by incarcerated individuals against correctional officers or other employees of the Bureau of Prisons.


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
Keep Our PACT Act

Bill: 119-hr-869
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Susie [D-NV-3]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers Act or the Keep Our PACT Act 

This bill provides funding through FY2035 for grant programs operated by local educational agencies to provide supplementary educational and related services to low-achieving students and other students who attend elementary and secondary schools with relatively high concentrations of students from low-income families. Additionally, the bill permanently reauthorizes the grant program to assist states and outlying areas in providing special education and related services to children with disabilities.

The amounts provided by the bill are designated as an emergency requirement for the purposes of Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) rules and other budget enforcement procedures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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 Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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
Physicians for Underserved Areas Act

Bill: 119-hr-870
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Susie [D-NV-3]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee hiring
Health personnel
Medical education
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Physicians for Underserved Areas Act

 
This bill modifies how a hospital's residency positions are redistributed after it closes for purposes of graduate medical education payments under Medicare.
 
Under current law, if a hospital with an approved medical residency program closes, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must redistribute the hospital's residency positions to other hospitals in the following order: (1) hospitals in the same core-based statistical area as the closed hospital, (2) hospitals in the same state as the closed hospital, (3) hospitals in the same region of the country as the closed hospital, and (4) other remaining hospitals. In order to receive the additional positions, hospitals must demonstrate a likelihood of filling the positions within three years.
 
The bill removes the requirement that the CMS prioritize hospitals in the same region of the country as the closed hospital. It also requires hospitals to demonstrate a likelihood of (1) starting to use the positions within two years, and (2) filling the positions within five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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
RULES Act

Bill: 119-hr-871
Sponsor: Rep. Luna, Anna Paulina [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Refugees Using Legal Entry Safely Act or RULES Act

This bill requires non-U.S. nationals (
aliens
 under federal law) applying for asylum to arrive and apply at a U.S. port of entry. Applicants are prohibited from being paroled into the U.S. pending approval of such application. Further, individuals apprehended in the U.S. without legal immigration status are ineligible for asylum. Applicants rejected for asylum are barred from applying for asylum in the future. Under current law, an applicant may reapply in changed or extraordinary circumstances.


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
To amend title 10, United States Code, to modify the rate of pay for care or services provided under the TRICARE program based on the location at which such care or services were provided.

Bill: 119-hr-873
Sponsor: Rep. McCormick, Richard [R-GA-7]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Military medicine

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the rate of pay for care or services provided under the Community Care Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs based on the location at which such care or services were provided, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-hr-874
Sponsor: Rep. McCormick, Richard [R-GA-7]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Veterans' medical care

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Defense Base Act to exclude Guam.

Bill: 119-hr-876
Sponsor: Del. Moylan, James C. [R-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Guam
Military personnel and dependents
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:

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
Deliver for Veterans Act

Bill: 119-hr-877
Sponsor: Del. Moylan, James C. [R-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability assistance
Motor vehicles
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Deliver for Veterans Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to include delivery costs when paying the full purchase price of an automobile or other conveyance for certain disabled veterans or members of the Armed Forces. Currently, the VA must pay the lesser of (1) $26,417.20 (adjusted annually for inflation), or (2) the full purchase price associated with providing an automobile or other conveyance to such individuals (not including delivery costs).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1439)
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1439)
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 877.
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1439: 1)
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Katrina and Leslie Schaller Act

Bill: 119-hr-878
Sponsor: Del. Moylan, James C. [R-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Guam
Poverty and welfare assistance
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Katrina and Leslie Schaller Act

This bill extends the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program to include Guam. (SSI is a federal assistance program designed to help aged, blind, and disabled individuals with limited income and resources meet their basic needs. Guam has been excluded from SSI since Congress created the program in 1972.)

Under the bill, the Social Security Administration may waive or modify statutory requirements relating to the provision of SSI benefits as necessary to adapt the program to the needs of Guam.

The bill also eliminates an existing cap on payments to Guam under SSI, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, and other assistance programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-879
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Gregory F. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025

This bill increases certain payment adjustments under the Medicare physician fee schedule for services furnished between April 1, 2025, and January 1, 2026.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Household Goods Shipping Consumer Protection Act

Bill: 119-hr-880
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
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: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E80-81)
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
No Foreign Persons Administering Our Elections Act

Bill: 119-hr-882
Sponsor: Rep. Pfluger, August [R-TX-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Employee hiring
Foreign labor
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: 

No Foreign Persons Administering Our Elections Act

This bill prohibits states and local jurisdictions from hiring noncitizens to administer federal elections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Counter SNIPER Act

Bill: 119-hr-883
Sponsor: Rep. Pfluger, August [R-TX-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Protection of officials

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