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No Repeat Child Sex Offenders Act

Bill: 119-hr-393
Sponsor: Rep. Luna, Anna Paulina [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crimes against children
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Human trafficking
Sex offenses
Smuggling and trafficking
Violent crime

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Holding Child Predators Accountable Act

Bill: 119-hr-394
Sponsor: Rep. Luna, Anna Paulina [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against children
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Pornography

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Justice for Rape Survivors Act

Bill: 119-hr-395
Sponsor: Rep. Luna, Anna Paulina [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime victims
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Justice for Rape Survivors Act

This bill establishes a 30-year statutory mandatory minimum prison term for the following federal sexual abuse offenses: 

causing another person to engage in a sexual act by using force against that person or by threatening or placing that person in fear,

engaging in or attempting to engage in a sexual act with another person by rendering the other person unconscious or intoxicated,

causing or attempting to cause another person to engage in a sexual act by threatening or placing that person in fear,

engaging or attempting to engage in a sexual act if the other person is incapacitated, and

engaging or attempting to engage in a sexual act without the other person's consent. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
TRUST in Congress Act

Bill: 119-hr-396
Sponsor: Rep. Magaziner, Seth [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Commodities markets
Family relationships
Financial services and investments
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Members of Congress
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress Act or the TRUST in Congress Act

 
This bill requires a Member of Congress, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a Member, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a Member of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 216 Cumberland Street in Rochester, New York, as the "Minister Franklin Florence Memorial Post Office".

Bill: 119-hr-397
Sponsor: Rep. Morelle, Joseph D. [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
New York State
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: This bill designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 216 Cumberland Street in Rochester, New York, as the "Minister Franklin Florence Memorial Post Office".

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 15.
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Committee Hearings Held
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Geothermal Cost-Recovery Authority Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-398
Sponsor: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Geothermal Cost-Recovery Authority Act of 2025

This bill expands the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to give the Department of the Interior the authority to collect certain fees from applicants for, or holders of, geothermal leases through September 30, 2032. Specifically, Interior may direct those applicants or leaseholders to reimburse the United States for costs from (1) processing applications for geothermal leases on federal land, such as applications for geothermal drilling permits; and (2) inspecting and monitoring geothermal exploration and development activities, including reclamation activities.

Interior may reduce the amount of the fee if it determines that (1) the full reimbursement would impose an economic hardship on the applicant, or (2) a less than full reimbursement is necessary to promote the greatest use of geothermal resources.

Interior may use those fees only to the extent that they are provided in advance in appropriations acts for (1) processing applications for geothermal leases, and (2) inspecting and monitoring related exploration and development activities.

Within five years of the bill's enactment, Interior must submit to Congress a report that includes an assessment of how the fees affect Interior's geothermal leasing program and any recommendations for updates to the fees and the program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
To permanently extend the American Samoa economic development tax credit.

Bill: 119-hr-399
Sponsor: Del. Radewagen, Aumua Amata Coleman [R-AS]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
No taxpayer funding for United Nations Human Rights Council Act

Bill: 119-hr-400
Sponsor: Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

No taxpayer funding for United Nations Human Rights Council Act

This bill requires the Department of State to withhold from the U.S. contribution to the United Nations (U.N.) the amount that would be allocated to the U.N. Human Rights Council. Such withheld funds must be rescinded and must not be considered arrears to be repaid to any U.N. entity.

The bill also prohibits the State Department from making voluntary contributions to the U.N. Human Rights Council.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
No Taxpayer Funding for the World Health Organization Act

Bill: 119-hr-401
Sponsor: Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

No Taxpayer Funding for the World Health Organization Act

 
This bill prohibits the United States from providing any assessed or voluntary contributions to the World Health Organization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
DEBT Act

Bill: 119-hr-402
Sponsor: Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Department of the Treasury
House Committee on Ways and Means
Senate Committee on Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Debt Explanation Before Taxwriters Act or the DEBT Act

 
This bill requires the Secretary of the Treasury to appear before the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee before the federal debt limit is reached or extraordinary measures are taken to prevent the United States from defaulting on its obligations.
 
The term
 extraordinary measures 
generally refers to a series of actions that the Department of the Treasury may implement to allow the United States to borrow additional funds without exceeding the debt limit. The measures generally include suspensions or delays of debt sales and suspensions or redemptions of investments in certain government funds.
 
The bill requires the Secretary of the Treasury to appear before the committees to provide a detailed explanation of (1) the extraordinary measures that Treasury will take and the administrative costs of taking the measures, and (2) any reversal of such measures and any other changes in the funding of federal government obligations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Our Next Natural Disaster Act

Bill: 119-hr-403
Sponsor: Rep. Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Preventing Our Next Natural Disaster Act

This bill modifies the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Specifically, the bill

increases the amount that may be set aside from FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund for BRIC from 6% to 15% of certain disaster grant amounts;

authorizes FEMA to set aside 2% from the BRIC 15% set-aside for assistance with community planning and capacity building;

provides a 90% federal cost share for BRIC grants to environmental justice communities, and increases the maximum number of people in small impoverished communities, which are also eligible for the 90% BRIC federal cost share; and

authorizes FEMA to develop guidance regarding how to incorporate climate change into the National Risk Index, benefit-cost analyses, and improved codes, specifications, and standards to address natural hazards.

FEMA must

prioritize BRIC assistance for high hazard risk communities, environmental justice communities, communities with low tax revenue base per capita, and communities with a low rate of code adoption and enforcement and infrastructure maintenance expenditures;

provide community outreach on project planning and grant administration; and

establish a central federal database to consolidate funding data collected by all local, state, and federal agencies involved in post-disaster response and pre-disaster mitigation spending and categorize the data by type of project, funding source, and hazard types using a user-friendly database and interactive map.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Hearing Protection Act

Bill: 119-hr-404
Sponsor: Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Keep Every Extra Penny Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-405
Sponsor: Rep. Fulcher, Russ [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Keep Every Extra Penny Act of 2025

This bill excludes from gross income for federal income tax purposes overtime compensation paid for hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week (as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938). Under current law, overtime compensation paid to a taxpayer is included in gross income for purposes of calculating federal income taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
PROTECT Jewish Student and Faculty Act

Bill: 119-hr-406
Sponsor: Rep. Yakym, Rudy [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Promote Restoring Order To End Campus Targeting of Jewish Students and Faculty Act or the PROTECT Jewish Student and Faculty Act

This bill requires institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in federal student aid programs to adopt a standard definition of anti-Semitism in their student and employee codes of conduct and prohibit such conduct on campus.

Specifically, the IHE must include in its documents related to student and employee conduct a definition of anti-Semitism which states that (1) anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews; and (2) rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism may be directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals, including the property of such individuals, and Jewish community institutions and religious facilities. (This definition is the same as the working definition of anti-Semitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.)

Additionally, the IHE must include in such documents a statement that anti-Semitic conduct is prohibited on campus and that such conduct may result in expulsion or termination of employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Prevent Tariff Abuse Act

Bill: 119-hr-407
Sponsor: Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Tariffs
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Prevent Tariff Abuse Act

This bill prohibits the President from exercising authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose duties, tariff-rate quotas, or other quotas on imports entering the United States. (IEEPA provides the President with broad authority to regulate various economic transactions following a declaration of a national emergency.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
To nullify the Presidential memoranda on the withdrawal of certain areas of the outer Continental Shelf from oil or natural gas leasing.

Bill: 119-hr-408
Sponsor: Rep. Arrington, Jodey C. [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

This bill nullifies two presidential memoranda that were published on January 6, 2025, including (1) the 
Memorandum on the Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Natural Gas Leasing,
 relating to the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, and Pacific areas of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS); and (2) the 
Memorandum on the Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Natural Gas Leasing,
 relating to the Bering Sea areas of the OCS. The memoranda prohibited the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) from issuing offshore leases for the exploration, development, or production (i.e., offshore drilling) of oil or natural gas in those areas.

This bill reverses the withdrawal to allow BOEM to issue leases in those areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Supporting Transit Commutes Act

Bill: 119-hr-409
Sponsor: Rep. Auchincloss, Jake [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuting
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deductions
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Supporting Transit Commutes Act 

This bill provides employers a tax deduction for certain transportation fringe benefits given to employees.

Under the bill, employers may deduct costs for providing employees transportation in a commuter highway vehicle (e.g., van pool) between the employee’s home and place of work or a transit pass. The amount of the deduction cannot exceed the aggregate exclusion amount for such fringe benefits ($325 per month per employee in 2025 and adjusted annually). Further, under the bill, the deduction cannot exceed 50% of such amount for transportation fringe benefits provided under a salary reduction agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans Land Allotment Extension Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-410
Sponsor: Rep. Begich, Nicholas [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Conflicts and wars
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Military history
Veterans' organizations and recognition
Vietnam
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans Land Allotment Extension Act of 2025

This bill extends for an additional five years the time period during which an eligible Alaska Native veteran may apply for a land allotment under the Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans Land Allotment Program. The program makes Alaska Native veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Vietnam between August 5, 1964, and December 31, 1971, or their heirs eligible to receive up to 160 acres of federal land in Alaska.

Under the current program, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management may accept applications through December 29, 2025. This bill extends this time period for an additional five years to December 29, 2030.


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: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-07-14
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3227)
action_date: 2025-07-14
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2025-07-14
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 410.
action_date: 2025-07-14
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3227-3228: 1)
action_date: 2025-07-14
text: Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2025-07-10
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 153.
action_date: 2025-07-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-188.
action_date: 2025-07-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-188.
action_date: 2025-06-25
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-06-25
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2025-06-25
text: Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs Discharged
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-411
Sponsor: Rep. Bergman, Jack [R-MI-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Michigan

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Land Claim Settlement Act of 2025

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to transfer funds to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) in Baraga County, Michigan, in order to settle the KBIC's land claims and clear title to those lands.

The KBIC may use these funds for any lawful purpose except to acquire land for gaming.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-06-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held
action_date: 2025-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Bay Mills Indian Community of the State of Michigan to convey land and interests in land owned by the Tribe.

Bill: 119-hr-412
Sponsor: Rep. Bergman, Jack [R-MI-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Michigan

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 
This bill allows the Bay Mills Indian Community of Michigan to transfer, lease, encumber, or otherwise convey its real property that is not held in trust by the United States. The United States shall not be held liable for any loss resulting from a transfer of real property by the tribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House