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Maintaining Innovation and Safe Technologies Act

Bill: 119-hr-193
Sponsor: Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Maintaining Innovation and Safe Technologies Act

This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to issue guidance on payment requirements for certain remote monitoring devices (e.g., glucose monitors) under Medicare medical services. Specifically, the CMS must issue guidance on payment requirements for devices that use artificial intelligence components and that transmit information to health care providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
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: 2025-01-03
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: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Venue Named Under Exception Act

Bill: 119-hr-194
Sponsor: Rep. Self, Keith [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: District of Columbia
Federal district courts
Jurisdiction and venue
Maryland
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Venue Named Under Exception Act or the VENUE Act

This bill changes the venue rules for cases involving criminal offenses on federal property in the National Capital Region. 
Venue 
refers to the court where it is proper for a case to proceed.

Specifically, the bill requires certain cases involving criminal offenses committed on federal property in the National Capital Region (Washington, DC and specified regions of Maryland and Virginia) to be brought in the district of the last known residence of the offender (or of any one of two or more joint offenders). If the last residence of the offender is not known, then the case may be brought in DC. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
CBP Relocation Act

Bill: 119-hr-195
Sponsor: Rep. Self, Keith [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of Homeland Security
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Land transfers
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Relocation Act or the CBP Relocation Act

This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to relocate the headquarters of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (including the functions, personnel, and real assets of the headquarters) to Texas no later than January 1, 2026.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act

Bill: 119-hr-196
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
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 operations support for taxpayer services and enforcement activities, 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. 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Lake Winnibigoshish Land Exchange Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-197
Sponsor: Rep. Stauber, Pete [R-MN-8]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Geography and mapping
Land transfers
Minnesota

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Lake Winnibigoshish Land Exchange Act of 2025

This bill directs the Forest Service to exchange specified land along the shoreline of Lake Winnibigoshish (commonly known as Lake Winnie) in the Chippewa National Forest in Minnesota for specified land owned by Big Winnie Land and Timber, LLC (BWLT), if BWLT offers to make the exchange. The land acquired by the Forest Service must be added to and managed as part of Chippewa National Forest. 

The bill outlines requirements and conditions for the exchange. For example, the Forest Service must reserve an easement for road access to certain land in the forest. The bill also conditions the exchange on the satisfactory completion of a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment by BWLT before the nonfederal land is accepted in the exchange.

In addition, the exchange must be for equal value or the values must be equalized by a cash payment, subject to an exception.

Finally, the bill directs BWLT to pay all closing costs associated with the exchange.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H242-243)
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H242-243)
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 197.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H242-244)
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
SERVE Our Communities Act

Bill: 119-hr-198
Sponsor: Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Community life and organization
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Family services
Health care coverage and access
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health
State and local courts
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Stop Enabling Repeat Violence and Endangering Our Communities Act or the SERVE Our Communities Act

 
This bill authorizes the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to states and local governments for mentoring, transitional services, and training to help offenders successfully reintegrate back into the community after incarceration. To be eligible for a grant, a state or local government must take steps to prevent repeat offenses by violent offenders and allow a state court or magistrate to consider the danger an individual poses to the community when determining bail or pretrial release conditions. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Implementing DOGE Act

Bill: 119-hr-199
Sponsor: Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Federal Freeze Act

Bill: 119-hr-200
Sponsor: Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee hiring
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Federal Freeze Act

This bill bars pay raises for federal employees for one year and requires reductions in the number of employees at each federal agency.

The bill prohibits agencies from increasing the basic pay of any employee for one year after enactment. Also in that first year, the bill prohibits each federal agency from increasing the number of its employees beyond the number employed on the date of the bill's enactment, except that the agency may increase such number when making appointments to positions related to law enforcement, public safety, or national security.

Additionally, the bill requires reductions in force such that within three years of the bill's enactment the number of employees at each agency is 5% lower than it was on the date of the bill's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employee Performance and Accountability Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-201
Sponsor: Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Employment and training programs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Federal Employee Performance and Accountability Act of 2025

This bill establishes a pilot program making pay increases for certain federal employees contingent on job performance.

Under the bill, each executive agency must identify employees to participate in the five-year pilot program from among employees classified at or above the GS-11 level and holding positions with clearly measurable performance criteria. Each agency must select 1%-10% of these employees to participate in the program. An agency may opt out if participation potentially risks national security or public safety.

The bill provides that a participating agency

must increase an employee's pay by up to 10% if the employee significantly exceeded established performance metrics during the preceding year, 

 may not increase the pay of an employee who met established performance metrics during the preceding year, and 

must reduce by 10% the pay of an employee who rates below expectations for the preceding year.

Participating employees are ineligible for annual or locality-based pay increases authorized under current law during the pilot. 

The bill also requires agencies to establish performance plans and evaluation systems for participating employees. Agencies must also provide training and resources to help participating employees understand and meet performance requirements.

Participating agencies must report cost savings, productivity metrics, and other information to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) every year. OMB and the Government Accountability Office must jointly report on the final outcome of the program.

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Commission to Relocate the Federal Bureaucracy Act

Bill: 119-hr-202
Sponsor: Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Commission to Relocate the Federal Bureaucracy Act

This bill establishes a commission to study the relocation of nonsecurity-related federal agencies based in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area to other areas throughout the United States. Within one year of the bill's enactment the commission must submit a report to Congress that includes relocation recommendations based on specified considerations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Red Light Act

Bill: 119-hr-203
Sponsor: Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Red Light Act

This bill directs the Department of Transportation to withhold all of a state's share of certain federal highway funds (specifically, funds for the National Highway Performance Program, the Highway Safety Improvement Program, and the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program) in FY2023 and thereafter if such state has enacted a law to provide driver's licenses or other identification cards to aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
No Congressional Funds for Sanctuary Cities Act

Bill: 119-hr-205
Sponsor: Rep. Van Duyne, Beth [R-TX-24]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

No Congressional Funds for Sanctuary Cities Act

This bill prohibits federal funds from being used as congressionally directed spending (i.e., an earmark) for jurisdictions that withhold information about citizenship or immigration status or do not cooperate with immigration detainers.

Specifically, such funds are denied to any jurisdiction that has a law, policy, or practice that prohibits or restricts any government entity from

maintaining, sending, or receiving information regarding the citizenship or immigration status of any individual;

exchanging information regarding an individual's citizenship or immigration status with a federal, state, or local government entity;

complying with a valid immigration detainer from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); or

notifying DHS about an individual's release from custody.

The funding restriction does not apply to a law, policy, or practice that only applies to an individual who comes forward as a victim of or a witness to a criminal offense.

This prohibition begins in FY2026.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
SHARKED Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-207
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Aquatic ecology
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fishes
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Supporting the Health of Aquatic systems through Research Knowledge and Enhanced Dialogue Act of 2025 or the SHARKED Act of 2025

This bill requires the Department of Commerce to establish a task force to address and report to Congress about critical needs with respect to shark depredation. (Shark depredation is the partial or complete removal of a hooked fish by a shark directly from a fishing line before the line is retrieved.) 

The duties of the task force are, among other responsibilities, to (1) develop ways to improve coordination and communication across the fisheries management and shark research communities; (2) identify research priorities and funding opportunities; (3) develop recommended management strategies to address shark depredation; and (4) coordinate the development and distribution of educational materials.

The bill specifies that the task force must include representatives of each Regional Fishery Management Council, each Marine Fisheries Commission, the fish and wildlife agencies of coastal states, and the National Marine Fisheries Service. The task force must also include researchers and others with relevant expertise.

The task force must report its findings to Congress within two years after the bill's enactment and every two years thereafter until the task force is terminated. The task force sunsets within seven years after the date of its establishment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H240-241)
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H240-241)
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 207.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H240-242)
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
No Budget, No Pay Act

Bill: 119-hr-208
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

No Budget, No Pay Act 

This bill withholds the salaries of Members of a chamber of Congress that has not agreed to a budget resolution for the next fiscal year by April 15, as required by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

Salaries are withheld from April 16 until the earlier of (1) the day on which the chamber of Congress agrees to a budget resolution for the next fiscal year, or (2) the last day of the Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Inaction Has Consequences Act

Bill: 119-hr-209
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Inaction Has Consequences Act 

This bill withholds the salaries of Members of a chamber of Congress that has not passed each of the annual appropriations bills before the beginning of the fiscal year, beginning with FY2026. Salaries are released on the earlier of (1) the date on which the chamber of Congress passes the bills, or (2) the last day of the Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Dental Care for Veterans Act

Bill: 119-hr-210
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2025-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Dental care
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-06
text: 

Dental Care for Veterans Act

 
This bill expands eligibility for veterans for dental care provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Specifically, the bill makes all veterans who are enrolled in the VA health care system eligible for VA-provided dental services. Currently, only veterans who have a service-connected dental issue or meet other narrow criteria are eligible for certain dental services.
 
The bill phases in eligibility over four years based upon existing eligibility, degree of service-connected disability or other disability, prisoner of war status, award of a Purple Heart, financial need, or VA health care eligibility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2025-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-06
text: Introduced in House
Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act

Bill: 119-hr-211
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2025-01-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Family planning and birth control
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Veterans' medical care
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-06
text: 

Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act

 
This bill prohibits the Department of Veterans Affairs from requiring payment from a veteran for any contraceptive item that is required to be covered by health insurance plans without a cost-sharing requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2025-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-06
text: Introduced in House