hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Focus on Learning Act

Bill: 119-s-404
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Congressional oversight
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Government studies and investigations
School administration
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: 

Focus on Learning Act

This bill requires certain federal actions to address the use of mobile devices in elementary and secondary schools.

First, the bill directs the Office of the Surgeon General, in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to study and report on the use of mobile devices in elementary and secondary schools nationwide. Among other elements, this study must include the impact of mobile device use on student learning and academic achievement, student educational outcomes, and student mental health.

Second, the Department of Education, in consultation with HHS, must establish a pilot program to award grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to enable participating schools served by such LEAs to purchase secure containers and install lockers in order to create a school environment free of mobile devices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act

Bill: 119-s-405
Sponsor: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Athletes
School athletics
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: 

Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act

This bill requires certified national governing bodies (NGBs) of amateur sports (e.g., USA Gymnastics) to prohibit a person whose sex is male from participating in an amateur athletic competition that is designated for females, women, or girls.

Under the bill, 
male
 means an individual who has, had, will have—or would have, but for a developmental or genetic anomaly or historical accident—the reproductive system that at some point produces, transports, and utilizes sperm for fertilization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Naval Readiness Act

Bill: 119-s-406
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alliances
Asia
China
Collective security
Congressional oversight
Europe
Foreign property
Marine and inland water transportation
Military procurement, research, weapons development

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Coast Guard Readiness Act

Bill: 119-s-407
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Job Protection Act

Bill: 119-s-408
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Employee leave
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act

Bill: 119-s-409
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Love Lives On Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-410
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Marriage and family status
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: 

Love Lives On Act of 2025

This bill extends entitlement for various benefit programs and services for surviving spouses of deceased members of the Armed Forces or veterans.

The bill provides that the remarriage of a surviving spouse must not bar the furnishing of dependency and indemnity compensation or special pension benefits to such spouse.

Additionally, the Department of Defense may not terminate the payment of an annuity for a surviving spouse under the Survivor Benefit Plan solely because the surviving spouse remarries.

The bill also expands the definition of a dependent under TRICARE to include a remarried widow or widower whose subsequent marriage has ended due to death, divorce, or annulment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-11
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Flight 293 Remembrance Act

Bill: 119-s-411
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Plum Island Preservation Act

Bill: 119-s-412
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Plum Island Preservation Study Act

Bill: 119-s-413
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
ADS for Mental Health Services Act

Bill: 119-s-414
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Digital media
Government information and archives
Health promotion and preventive care
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Mental health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-06-24
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 102.
action_date: 2025-06-24
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-32.
action_date: 2025-06-24
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-32.
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
DOT Victim and Survivor Advocate Act

Bill: 119-s-415
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: 

DOT Victim and Survivor Advocate Act

This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish the position of National Roadway Safety Advocate to work directly with victims and survivors of road crashes or their families (i.e., stakeholders).

Specifically, the purposes of the advocate are to (1) document and communicate recommendations from stakeholders to DOT on the needs, objectives, plans, approaches, content, and accomplishments of DOT's roadway safety programs and activities; and (2) serve as a resource and point of contact for stakeholders on relevant roadway safety issues.

The bill specifies that the advocate position must be filled by a career appointment.

The bill prohibits the advocate from taking certain actions, such as

creating or authorizing DOT policies, priorities, or activities; or

disclosing or discussing any enforcement matters that are under investigation or in litigation.

The advocate must submit an annual report to DOT highlighting systemic issues relating to roadway safety based on information provided by stakeholders. The report must include recommendations on how to remedy the issues.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park Establishment Act Amendments Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-416
Sponsor: Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Farmland
Forests, forestry, trees
Geography and mapping
Government information and archives
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Vermont

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
INFORM Act

Bill: 119-s-417
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Defending Defense Research from Chinese Communist Party Espionage Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-418
Sponsor: Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Europe
Government information and archives
Higher education
Iran
Middle East
Military procurement, research, weapons development
North Korea
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Russia

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Reauthorizing Support and Treatment for Officers in Crisis Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-419
Sponsor: Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Family services
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: 

Reauthorizing Support and Treatment for Officers in Crisis Act of 2025

This bill reauthorizes through FY2029 grants for state and local law enforcement agencies and other organizations to provide family support services and mental health services to law enforcement personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 79.
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: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Dairy Business Innovation Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-420
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: 

Dairy Business Innovation Act of 2025

This bill increases the authorization of appropriations for the Dairy Business Innovation (DBI) Initiatives
 
for each fiscal year. Under the Agricultural Marketing Service, the DBI Initiatives support dairy businesses in the development, production, marketing, and distribution of dairy products. The DBI Initiatives provide direct technical assistance and subawards to dairy businesses, including for niche dairy products and dairy products derived from cow milk, sheep milk, and goat milk.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
American Beef Labeling Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-421
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: 

American Beef Labeling Act of 2025

This bill reinstates mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) requirements for beef. COOL is a labeling law that requires retailers, such as full-line grocery stores, supermarkets, and club warehouse stores, to provide information to customers regarding the source of certain foods.

Specifically, the bill requires the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), in consultation with the Department of Agriculture (USDA), to determine a means of reinstating mandatory COOL for beef that is compliant with World Trade Organization rules. The USTR and USDA must implement the means of reinstating mandatory COOL for beef within one year of the bill's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S668)
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Right to Contraception Act

Bill: 119-s-422
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Family planning and birth control
Federal preemption
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Retirement Fairness for Charities and Educational Institutions Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-424
Sponsor: Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Financial services and investments
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Religion
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: 

Retirement Fairness for Charities and Educational Institutions Act of 2025

This bill allows 403(b) retirement plans (i.e., retirement plans designed for certain employees of public schools, charities, and churches) to invest in collective investment trusts, which are a group of pooled investment assets held by a bank or trust company, and in insurance company separate accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Enhancing Energy Recovery Act

Bill: 119-s-425
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S668)
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Accountability and Dignity in Government Contracting Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-426
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Human trafficking
Public contracts and procurement
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
TAILOR Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-427
Sponsor: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Congressional oversight

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: 

Taking Account of Institutions with Low Operation Risk Act of 2025 or the TAILOR Act of 2025

This bill addresses the supervision of financial institutions.

Federal financial regulatory agencies must (1) tailor any regulatory actions so as to limit burdens on the institutions involved, with consideration of the risk profiles and business models of those institutions; and (2) report to Congress on specific actions taken to do so, as well as on other related issues. The bill's tailoring requirement applies to future regulatory actions and to regulations adopted within the last seven years.

The bill also reduces certain reporting requirements for community banks eligible for a simplified capital leverage ratio.

Finally, federal banking agencies must report on the modernization of bank supervision, including examiner workforce and training and statutory changes necessary to achieve more effective supervision.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
SAFE Orbit Act

Bill: 119-s-428
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Congressional oversight
Department of Commerce
Executive agency funding and structure
International scientific cooperation
Space flight and exploration
Spacecraft and satellites

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: 

Situational Awareness of Flying Elements in Orbit Act or the SAFE Orbit Act

This bill provides statutory authority for the Traffic Coordination System for Space, which is being developed by the Office of Space Commerce to provide space situational awareness data and services to space operators. (
Space situational awareness
 means an understanding of the space operational environment and the identification, tracking, and prediction of the behavior of space objects and debris.)

As an initial matter, the bill provides for the elevation of the Office of Space Commerce to a standalone bureau within the Department of Commerce. (The office currently sits within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.)

The bill authorizes the bureau to acquire location tracking data, positional and orbit determination information, conjunction data messages, and other data, analytics, information, and services deemed necessary to avoid collisions in space. The bureau must disseminate this information at no charge (1) through a public database of space situational awareness information and services, including space traffic coordination; and (2) through the provision of basic situational awareness services to satellite operators. The bill also sets forth certain requirements for the collection and dissemination of such information, including that, to the extent practicable, the provision of service to satellite operators may not compete with private situational awareness products.

Finally, the bill provides immunity for the United States government from any suit for a cause of action arising from the provision or receipt of space situational awareness services or information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 170.
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with amendments. With written report No. 119-65.
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with amendments. With written report No. 119-65.
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
STRATEGIC Minerals Act

Bill: 119-s-429
Sponsor: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Materials
Mining
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment
Strategic materials and reserves
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
TICKET Act

Bill: 119-s-430
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Cyber Conspiracy Modernization Act

Bill: 119-s-431
Sponsor: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Criminal procedure and sentencing

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Fort Ontario Holocaust Refugee Shelter National Historical Park Establishment Act

Bill: 119-s-432
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Geography and mapping
Monuments and memorials
New York State
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Public-private cooperation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
National Manufacturing Advisory Council Act

Bill: 119-s-433
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2025-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Economic development
Industrial policy and productivity
Manufacturing
Public participation and lobbying
Public-private cooperation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-15
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2025-07-15
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2025-07-15
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2025-07-14
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S4339: 1; text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S4340-4341)
action_date: 2025-07-14
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2025-06-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 89.
action_date: 2025-06-02
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment. With written report No. 119-27.
action_date: 2025-06-02
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment. With written report No. 119-27.
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate