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Expressing concern about the growing problem of book banning and the proliferation of threats to freedom of expression in the United States.

Bill: 119-hres-797
Sponsor: Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2025-10-08 in the House

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Armed Services, 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: 2025-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Armed Services, 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: 2025-10-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Armed Services, 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: 2025-10-08
text: Submitted in House
action_date: 2025-10-08
text: Submitted in House
Expressing support for the designation of the week of September 15 through September 21, 2025, as "Rail Safety Week" in the United States, and supporting the goals and ideals of reducing highway-rail grade crossing-related incidents, fatalities, and injuries.

Bill: 119-hres-798
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2025-10-08 in the House

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-10-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-10-08
text: Submitted in House
action_date: 2025-10-08
text: Submitted in House
Recognizing President Donald J. Trump's Role as a Transformational Peacemaker Whose Achievements in International Diplomacy Merit the Nobel Peace Prize.

Bill: 119-hres-799
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2025-10-10 in the House

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Submitted in House
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Submitted in House
Expressing profound sorrow over the death of Alexander Michel Odeh.

Bill: 119-hres-800
Sponsor: Rep. Correa, J. Luis [D-CA-46]
Introduced: 2025-10-10 in the House

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Submitted in House
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Submitted in House
Providing for the consideration of the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 12) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve.

Bill: 119-hres-801
Sponsor: Rep. Luna, Anna Paulina [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2025-10-10 in the House

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Submitted in House
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Submitted in House
Requiring the House of Representatives to convene and hold recorded quorum calls during a Government shutdown, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-hres-802
Sponsor: Rep. Moskowitz, Jared [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2025-10-10 in the House

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2025-10-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2025-10-10
text: Submitted in House
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Submitted in House
Urging the Director of the Food and Drug Administration to reevaluate the safety of all chemical abortion drugs in light of recent independent studies, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-hres-803
Sponsor: Rep. Rose, John W. [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2025-10-10 in the House

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Submitted in House
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Submitted in House
Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Bill: 119-s-6
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Health personnel
Legal fees and court costs
Medical ethics
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

This bill establishes requirements for the degree of care a health care practitioner must provide in the case of a child born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion.

Specifically, a health care practitioner who is present must (1) exercise the same degree of care as would reasonably be provided to any other child born alive at the same gestational age, and (2) ensure the child is immediately admitted to a hospital. Additionally, a health care practitioner or other employee who has knowledge of a failure to comply with the degree-of-care requirements must immediately report such failure to law enforcement.

A health care practitioner who fails to provide the required degree of care, or a health care practitioner or other employee who fails to report such failure, is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, up to five years in prison, or both.

An individual who intentionally kills or attempts to kill a child born alive is subject to prosecution for murder.

The bill bars the criminal prosecution of a mother of a child born alive under this bill and allows her to bring a civil action against a health care practitioner or other employee for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 47. Record Vote Number: 11. (CR S294-295)
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (CR S283)
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (CR S275-276)
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (CR S258)
action_date: 2025-01-20
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S258)
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 4.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-9
Sponsor: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Athletes
Education programs funding
School athletics
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025

This bill generally prohibits school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs that are for women or girls.

Specifically, the bill provides that it is a violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for federally funded education programs or activities to operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities that are designated for women or girls. (Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs or activities, including in public elementary and secondary schools and in colleges and universities.) Under the bill,
 sex
 is based on an individual's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 45. Record Vote Number: 100. (CR S1455-1456)
action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (CR S1455)
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (CR S1434)
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
action_date: 2025-01-08
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 2.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
REMOTE Act

Bill: 119-s-21
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commuting
Computers and information technology
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

Requiring Effective Management and Oversight of Teleworking Employees Act or the REMOTE Act

This bill directs executive agencies to track employees' computer network activity, compare the activity of teleworking and on-site employees, and report on any deficiencies in the performance of teleworking employees.

First, the bill requires each agency to establish policies to track for every employee (1) the average number of daily logins, (2) the average daily duration of the network connection, and (3) the network traffic generated while the employee works. This information must be collected from employees working primarily on-site within 180 days after the bill's enactment and from teleworking employees within one year after the bill's enactment. The bill also directs each agency to publish this data in the agency’s fiscal year budget justification materials, including a comparison of the average login rates of on-site and teleworking employees.

Next, the bill directs any manager who revokes a teleworking employee's authorization to telework (due to a reason specific to that employee) to document for the employee and the agency's Human Capital Office (1) the total number of days that the employee teleworked in the six work periods immediately preceding the revocation, (2) a narrative summary of the circumstances giving rise to the revocation, and (3) any steps the manager took to discipline the employee before revoking the employee's telework authorization. 

Finally, agencies must report to the Chief Human Capital Officers Council about any adverse effects of telework policies on the performance of the executive agency. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
SWAMP Act

Bill: 119-s-22
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Building construction
District of Columbia
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Maryland
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

Strategic Withdrawal of Agencies for Meaningful Placement Act or the SWAMP Act

This bill prohibits new construction, major renovation, leasing, or renewing a lease of certain executive agency headquarters in the District of Columbia metropolitan area and establishes a competitive bidding process for the relocation of such headquarters.

The General Services Administration (GSA) must (1) establish a process to allow an executive agency to request the GSA to issue a solicitation for the relocation of its headquarters or allow the GSA to issue such a solicitation without a request, if necessary; (2) allow any state or political subdivision of a state to respond to a solicitation with a proposal for the relocation of the agency's headquarters; and (3) in consultation with the executive agency, select a state or political subdivision of a state for the relocation of the agency's headquarters using a competitive bidding procedure based on certain considerations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
DRAIN THE SWAMP Act

Bill: 119-s-23
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commuting
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

Decentralizing and Reorganizing Agency Infrastructure Nation-wide To Harness Efficient Services, Workforce Administration, and Management Practices Act or the DRAIN THE SWAMP Act

This bill relocates 30% of employees of executive agencies who are based in the Washington, DC area and reduces the office headquarters of agencies by 30%. It also ends full-time telework for relocated employees and for those who remain based in the DC area.

Under the bill, each agency must relocate at least 30% of full-time employees based at the agency’s headquarters, including full-time telework employees who receive DC-area locality pay (unless telework is an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act). The bill does not apply to certain essential employees in the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Defense, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Homeland Security.

In determining the new duty stations, each agency must promote geographic diversity and ensure adequate staffing throughout the regions of the agency. Compensation for relocated employees must be according to the locality pay scale for their new duty station. Agencies must provide their reduction plans to Congress within 180 days and complete the relocations within one year after the bill's enactment.

Further, the Office of Management and Budget must identify at least 30% of agency headquarters' office space (i.e., real property) to sell or to cease leasing. Agency heads must complete the space reduction within two years after the bill's enactment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 154 First Avenue East in Jerome, Idaho, as the "Representative Maxine Bell Post Office".

Bill: 119-s-24
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Idaho
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 
This bill designates the facility of the U.S. Postal Service located at 154 First Avenue East in Jerome, Idaho, as the Representative Maxine Bell Post Office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-25
Sponsor: Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Department of the Treasury
Environmental health
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government trust funds
Mining
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
State and local government operations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to exclude locality adjustments from average pay for purposes of computing the amount of retirement annuities of new employees.

Bill: 119-s-26
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 
This bill excludes locality-based comparability payments from the calculation of retirement and disability annuities for new employees in the Federal Employees’ Retirement System. (General schedule and certain other federal employees receive locality-based comparability payments when their official worksite is located in a geographic area with a pay disparity between federal and non-federal workers of more than 5%.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Employee Return to Work Act

Bill: 119-s-27
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commuting
Computers and information technology
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

Federal Employee Return to Work Act

This bill prohibits providing certain annual or locality-based pay increases to teleworking federal employees.

Currently, federal law mandates annual adjustments to General Schedule (GS) pay rates according to (1) a formula based on the annual percentage change in the Employment Cost Index (a measure of labor costs in the private sector); and (2) the difference between public and private sector pay rates in an employee's locality, if that difference exceeds 5%. For example, in 2025, the default annual rate of pay for a GS-7 (step 1) employee is $49,960; the adjusted annual rate of pay for a GS-7 (step 1) employee in the locality pay area that includes Washington, DC, is $57,164. 

The bill makes executive agency employees who telework at least one day each week (or, in the case of an alternative work schedule, 20% or more each week) ineligible for these payments.

The bill is effective on the first day of the fiscal year beginning after the bill's enactment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Informing Consumers about Smart Devices Act

Bill: 119-s-28
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computers and information technology
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Internet, web applications, social media
Photography and imaging
Right of privacy
Sound recording

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

Informing Consumers about Smart Devices Act

 
This bill requires manufacturers of internet-connected devices (e.g., smart appliances) that are equipped with a camera or microphone to disclose to consumers prior to purchase that a camera or microphone is part of the device.
 
The bill does not apply to mobile phones, laptops, or other devices that a consumer would reasonably expect to include a camera or microphone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 47.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-13.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-13.
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Sunshine Protection Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-29
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: State and local government operations
Time and calendar

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

Sunshine Protection Act of 2025

This bill makes daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time.

States with areas exempt from daylight saving time may choose the standard time for those areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
ERASER Act

Bill: 119-s-30
Sponsor: Sen. Schmitt, Eric [R-MO]
Introduced: 2025-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-08
text: 

Expediting Reform And Stopping Excess Regulations Act or the ERASER Act

This bill generally requires federal agencies to repeal three rules before issuing a new rule.

In the case of a new nonmajor rule, an agency must repeal at least three rules that, to the extent practicable, are related to the new rule.

In the case of a new major rule, (1) an agency must repeal at least three rules that are related to the new major rule, and (2) the cost of the new major rule must be less than or equal to the cost of the repealed rules. A 
major rule
 is a rule that has resulted in or is likely to result in (1) an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more; (2) a major increase in costs or prices for consumers, individual industries, government agencies, or geographic regions; or (3) significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, or innovation.

These requirements apply to rules issued through the notice and comment process and do not apply to interpretative rules, general statements of policy, or rules of agency organization, procedure, or practice. Further, the requirements do not apply to a rule or major rule that relates to the management, organization, or personnel of an agency or procurement by the agency.

Any rule repealed under this bill must be published in the Federal Register.

Finally, the Government Accountability Office must report on the number and estimated cost of rules and major rules currently in effect.

 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the mountain at the Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming, as Devils Tower, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-s-31
Sponsor: Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2025-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-08
text: 
This bill declares that the mountain at the Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming shall be known and designated as Devils Tower.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate