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Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-160
Sponsor: Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Military assistance, sales, and agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025

This bill reauthorizes the Department of Defense to sell its excess aircraft and aircraft parts that are acceptable for commercial sale for wildfire suppression purposes. Such authority begins October 1, 2025, and ends October 1, 2035.

The bill also provides that such aircraft may be used to deliver water by air in order to suppress wildfire (the previous authority only provided for the delivery of fire retardant).

The bill removes the previous limitation on providing international wildfire suppression assistance with such purchased aircraft.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-06-12
text: Became Public Law No: 119-18.
action_date: 2025-06-12
text: Became Public Law No: 119-18.
action_date: 2025-06-12
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2025-06-12
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2025-06-10
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2025-06-10
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2025-06-03
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-06-03
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2390)
action_date: 2025-06-03
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2390)
action_date: 2025-06-03
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 160.
action_date: 2025-06-03
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2390)
action_date: 2025-06-03
text: Mr. Comer moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2025-04-09
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2025-04-09
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2025-04-09
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S2480)
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S2480: 2)
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Senate Committee on Armed Services discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Senate Committee on Armed Services discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate

Enacted as: number: 119-18
She DRIVES Act

Bill: 119-s-161
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Transportation
Motor vehicles
Transportation safety and security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-31
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 141.
action_date: 2025-07-31
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-56.
action_date: 2025-07-31
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-56.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-162
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Family relationships
Family services
Government information and archives
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025

This bill requires state plans for child welfare services to provide for the development and implementation of a family partnership plan to improve foster care placement stability, increase rates of kinship placements, and align the composition of foster and adoptive families with the needs of children in or entering foster care.

The Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families also must include in its annual report information from states about the number, demographics, and characteristics of foster and adoptive families as well as a summary of the challenges related to recruiting and being foster or adoptive parents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Students on Campus Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-163
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Protecting Students on Campus Act of 2025

This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) and institutions of higher education (IHEs) participating in federal student aid programs to distribute information on how to report alleged violations of civil rights under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in federally funded programs or activities.)

Specifically, the bill requires ED's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to conduct a public awareness campaign regarding the rights of individuals under Title VI. This campaign must be updated annually and distributed to IHEs.

The bill requires an IHE to post a link on its website on how to file a Title VI complaint with OCR. Additionally, the IHE must annually post the materials from OCR's public awareness campaign. The information must be posted in high-traffic public places on campus (e.g., student centers) and high-traffic websites (e.g., the website for student services). 

OCR must give monthly congressional briefings on (1) the number of complaints filed with OCR, (2) how OCR plans to address those complaints and the investigations opened in response to those complaints, and (3) how long those complaints remain open. Additionally, the bill prohibits OCR from closing or dismissing a complaint due to resolution via another agency or avenue. 

The bill also requires annual reporting by IHEs on discrimination complaints. Further, the bill directs ED's Office of Inspector General to audit and study discrimination complaints.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-164
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2025

This bill allows Congress to disapprove multiple regulations under one joint resolution of disapproval if the regulations were submitted for review during a portion of the final year of a President's term.

Under current law, the Congressional Review Act generally provides for a period of additional review during the succeeding Congress for regulations that were submitted during the last 60 legislative days of the prior Congress. However, each joint resolution may disapprove of only one regulation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues Act

Bill: 119-s-165
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues Act

This bill permanently places fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. A schedule I controlled substance is a drug, substance, or chemical that has a high potential for abuse; has no currently accepted medical value; and is subject to regulatory controls and administrative, civil, and criminal penalties under the Controlled Substances Act.

Fentanyl-related substances are currently regulated under schedule I through a temporary order issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration. The temporary order expires on March 31, 2025.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Justice for Fallen Law Enforcement Act

Bill: 119-s-166
Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Congressional oversight
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Law enforcement officers
Violent crime

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Protect and Serve Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-167
Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement officers
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Protect and Serve Act of 2025

This bill establishes a new criminal offense for knowingly assaulting a law enforcement officer and causing serious bodily injury (or attempting to do so) in circumstances that affect interstate commerce.

It imposes criminal penalties—a prison term, a fine, or both—on a violator.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Energy for America’s Economic Future Act

Bill: 119-s-168
Sponsor: Sen. Schmitt, Eric [R-MO]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Energy for America’s Economic Future Act

This bill establishes a fund to reduce the principal of the federal debt. Each fiscal quarter, 25% of the total revenue generated by activities relating to advancing artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States as well as 25% of the total revenue generated by federal oil and gas lease sales must be deposited into the fund. Total revenue includes bonus bid amounts collected at the time of an oil or gas lease sale, as well as royalties, rental payments, and fees accrued over the life of the lease that were disbursed to the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-169
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child care and development
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide states and tribal entities with grants to increase access to licensed child care services.

The grants may be used to develop and expand the child care workforce or child care facilities in locations with insufficient available child care. Specifically, grants cover 50% of the cost of programs to support the education and training of caregivers or projects to build, expand, or renovate child care facilities in these areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
BIG OIL from the Cabinet Act

Bill: 119-s-170
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Coal
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Oil and gas
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Banning In Government Oil Industry Lobbyists from the Cabinet Act or the BIG OIL from the Cabinet Act

This bill prohibits the appointment of an individual to specified high-level federal positions if that individual has served as an executive officer of a fossil fuel entity, a fossil fuel lobbyist, or an executive officer of a fossil fuel trade association in the previous 10 years.

The applicable federal positions include the Chief of Staff to the President, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of State, and all political appointments in specified agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to remove the lesser prairie-chicken from the lists of threatened species and endangered species published pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, to amend that Act to exclude the lesser prairie-chicken from the authority of that Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-s-171
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 
This bill removes the lesser prairie-chicken (
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
), including each of its distinct population segments, from the threatened and endangered species lists that are published under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Further, the bill prohibits the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from designating such species as threatened or endangered, and thus, protecting such species under such act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Stopping Adversarial Tariff Evasion Act

Bill: 119-s-172
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
Caribbean area
China
Cuba
Europe
Iran
Latin America
Middle East
North Korea
Russia
Trade agreements and negotiations
Trade restrictions
Venezuela

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Fueling Alternative Transportation with a Carbon Aviation Tax Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-173
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Amtrak Transparency Act

Bill: 119-s-174
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Amtrak Transparency Act

This bill increases Amtrak's open meeting and public disclosure requirements.

Specifically, the Amtrak Board of Directors must comply with federal open meeting requirements under the Government in the Sunshine Act.

In addition, at least 30 days prior to the board convening, the board must publicly post an announcement of the meeting and the anticipated meeting agenda.

The board must also annually convene a meeting to which state departments of transportation with long-distance routes or state-supported routes are invited to participate.

Further, Amtrak must publicly disclose the discretionary bonus compensation paid to an Amtrak officer or non-bargaining unit employee.

Upon request, Amtrak must also disclose to a state or the State-Amtrak Intercity Passenger Rail Committee vendor agreements of $250,000 or more for certain services on state-supported routes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to rescind the unobligated balances of amounts appropriated for Internal Revenue Service enhancements and use such funding for an External Revenue Service.

Bill: 119-s-175
Sponsor: Sen. Moreno, Bernie [R-OH]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act 

This bill rescinds unobligated funds that were provided by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for enforcement activities related to the determination and collection of taxes, for taxpayer services, for operations support for taxpayer services and enforcement activities, for business system modernization, and for a task force to research options for a free, direct electronic filing (e-filing) tax return system. 

The bill also rescinds unobligated funds that were provided by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 for expenses of the

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration,

Office of Tax Policy,

U.S. Tax Court, and

offices within the Department of the Treasury that provide oversight and support for the IRS.

Finally, the bill expresses the sense of Congress that the rescinded unobligated funds that were appropriated to the IRS by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 should be appropriated for the establishment and administration of an External Revenue Service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Not One More Inch or Acre Act

Bill: 119-s-176
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Protect Funding for Women's Health Care Act

Bill: 119-s-177
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Family planning and birth control
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Sex and reproductive health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Protect Funding for Women's Health Care Act

 
This bill prohibits federal funding of Planned Parenthood Federation of America or its affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, or clinics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-178
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Child health
Family planning and birth control
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Sex and reproductive health
State and local government operations
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 2025

This bill requires states, as a condition of federal payment under Medicaid for family planning services, to report certain abortion data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (Currently, reporting is voluntary.) The CDC must develop standardized questions for states with respect to specified variables (e.g., maternal demographics and methods of abortion).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
FARM Act

Bill: 119-s-179
Sponsor: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Federal officials
Government studies and investigations
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Foreign Adversary Risk Management Act or the FARM Act

This bill places the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). It also requires CFIUS to review any investment that could result in foreign control of any U.S. agricultural business.

Further, the bill includes agricultural systems and supply chains in the definitions of 
critical infrastructure
 and 
critical technologies
 for the purposes of reviewing such investments.

The Department of Agriculture and the Government Accountability Office must each analyze and report on foreign influence in the U.S. agricultural industry.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-180
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Employment and training programs
First responders and emergency personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act of 2025 

This bill expands the allowable uses of grant funds under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program administered by the Department of Justice.

Specifically, the bill allows grants to be used for purchasing containment devices for first responders and training first responders on the use of containment devices to prevent secondary exposure to fentanyl and other potentially lethal substances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 77.
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-05-15
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate