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Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act

Bill: 119-s-243
Sponsor: Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Arizona
Cancer
Civil actions and liability
Colorado
Department of Justice
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Education programs funding
Environmental health
Government information and archives
Government liability
Government trust funds
Guam
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health care costs and insurance
Higher education
Idaho
Medical research
Military history
Mining
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
North Dakota
Nuclear weapons
Oregon
Personnel records
Public contracts and procurement
Radiation
Research administration and funding
South Dakota
Texas
U.S. territories and protectorates
Utah
Washington State
Worker safety and health
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act

 

This bill reauthorizes and expands programs that compensate individuals who were exposed to radiation during certain nuclear testing or uranium mining and who subsequently developed medical conditions, including cancers.

Under current law, compensation is payable to individuals based on requirements including the (1) dates when exposure occurred, (2) duration of exposure, (3) type of exposure, and (4) resulting medical condition. 

Among other changes to this program, the bill (1) extends the eligible dates when qualifying atmospheric exposure occurred, (2) authorizes compensation to individuals with combined work histories in uranium mining, (3) adds core drilling as an eligible mining occupation, and (4) increases the amount of compensation awarded to qualifying individuals. 

The bill also expands this program to compensate individuals located in specified areas in Alaska, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee associated with waste from the Manhattan Project and who subsequently developed specified types of cancer.

The bill extends until five years after this bill's enactment the statute of limitations for the filing of claims. 

The bill also expands eligibility under an existing occupational illness compensation program for former Department of Energy employees.

The bill also establishes a grant program for institutions of higher education to study the epidemiological impacts of uranium mining and milling among individuals without occupational exposure.

The bill directs the Government Accountability Office to study and report to Congress on the unmet medical benefits coverage for individuals who were exposed to radiation in atmospheric nuclear tests conducted by the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
ROUTERS Act

Bill: 119-s-244
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Removing Our Unsecure Technologies to Ensure Reliability and Security Act or the ROUTERS Act

This bill requires the Department of Commerce, in consultation with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, to conduct a study on the national security risks posed by consumer routers and modems (including devices that combine a modem and router) and provide the results of the study to Congress. The study must address devices developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons (i.e., individuals and entities) owned by, controlled by, or subject to the influence of China, Iran, North Korea, or Russia. 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-06-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 87.
action_date: 2025-06-02
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with amendments. With written report No. 119-25.
action_date: 2025-06-02
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with amendments. With written report No. 119-25.
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Insure Cybersecurity Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-245
Sponsor: Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Insurance industry and regulation
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Insure Cybersecurity Act of 2025

This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to establish a working group on cyber insurance policies. Under the bill, these are defined as policies that offer coverage for losses, damages, and costs incurred due to cyberattacks and related incidents.

The working group is directed to analyze and address issues in the cyber insurance market facing both insurers and their customers. Specifically, the working group must develop information for customers on how to effectively evaluate policy options, and for insurers on how to clearly communicate with customers regarding policy provisions.

Additionally, the working group is directed to analyze and explain in layman’s terms

terminology commonly used in cyber insurance policies, including terminology used to include or exclude coverage for losses from cyber incidents;

how common policy provisions correspond to cyber incidents and potential responses, including ransomware and potential ransom payments; and

constraints faced by insurers in covering higher losses in cyber risk areas, such as reputational damage and loss of intellectual property.

At the conclusion of the working group's term, NTIA must publish and disseminate informative resources for cyber insurance stakeholders, including any recommendations formulated by the working group. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-06-09
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 90.
action_date: 2025-06-09
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-28.
action_date: 2025-06-09
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-28.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Interstate Transport Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-246
Sponsor: Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Intergovernmental relations
Legal fees and court costs
Motor vehicles
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Interstate Transport Act of 2025

This bill permits an individual to transport a knife between two places (e.g., states) where it is legal to possess, carry, or transport the knife. The knife must be transported in compliance with the bill's accessibility and secure storage requirements, unless it is an emergency knife or tool designed to cut seat belts.

An individual who is transporting a knife in compliance with this bill may not be arrested for a knife violation unless there is probable cause to believe the individual failed to comply with the accessibility or secure storage requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Choices for Increased Mobility Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-247
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Disability and paralysis
Health care costs and insurance
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Choices for Increased Mobility Act of 2025

This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish specific billing codes under Medicare for certain materials used in ultralightweight manual wheelchairs.

Specifically, the CMS must establish at least two billing codes for the base of the wheelchair, with at least one code for a base with titanium or carbon fiber construction material and at least one code for a base without these materials. Suppliers receive the same payment under Medicare for these wheelchairs as would otherwise apply, but may bill beneficiaries for any difference between the payment and the actual charge for the wheelchair. The CMS may require suppliers to inform beneficiaries of their potential financial liability in these cases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Sustainable Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Services in the Home Act

Bill: 119-s-248
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Sustainable Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Services in the Home Act

 
This bill permanently allows services relating to cardiac rehabilitation programs, intensive cardiac rehabilitation programs, and pulmonary rehabilitation programs to be furnished via telehealth at a beneficiary's home under Medicare. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Pediatric Technologies Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-249
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Manufacturing

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Access to Pediatric Technologies Act of 2025

This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish, upon request, specific payment methodologies for qualifying pediatric technologies under the Medicare physician fee schedule. 
Qualifying pediatric technologies
 are medical devices that are (1) covered under Medicare, (2) approved by the Food and Drug Administration, (3) currently billed using a specified temporary billing code for emerging technologies, and (4) predominantly used or specifically designated for pediatric patients.

The CMS must develop a payment methodology for a qualifying pediatric technology upon request from the manufacturer and based on available data, including pricing information and claims data. Manufacturers must include relevant information in their requests to enable the CMS to develop the corresponding methodologies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance Act

Bill: 119-s-250
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Life in Health Savings Accounts Act

Bill: 119-s-251
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Protecting Life in Health Savings Accounts Act

This bill excludes expenses paid for an abortion from qualified medical expenses eligible for reimbursement from certain tax-exempt savings accounts. (Some exceptions apply.)

Under the bill, amounts paid for an abortion, other than an excluded abortion, are not qualified medical expenses eligible for reimbursement from a health savings account, Archer medical savings account, health flexible spending arrangement, health reimbursement arrangement, or retiree health account.

The bill defines 
excluded abortion
 as any abortion (1) related to a pregnancy that is the result of rape or incest; or (2) performed because a woman is suffering from a physical disorder, injury, or illness (including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself) that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death if an abortion were not performed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
GOOD Act

Bill: 119-s-252
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Guidance Out Of Darkness Act or the GOOD Act

 
This bill establishes requirements concerning the posting of agency guidance documents. Specifically, an agency must publish guidance documents online on the dates they are issued, publish all of its guidance documents that are in effect in a single location on a designated website, display a hyperlink on its website that provides access to the guidance documents on such website, and indicate on such website if a guidance document has been rescinded.
 
The documents must be categorized as guidance documents and further divided into subcategories. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Abortion Is Not Health Care Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-253
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Abortion Is Not Health Care Act of 2025

This bill excludes amounts paid for an abortion from the itemized tax deduction for qualified medical and dental expenses, subject to exceptions. 

Under current law, individuals who itemize their tax deductions may deduct qualified medical and dental expenses to the extent that such expenses exceed 7.5% of the individual’s adjusted gross income for the tax year. Further, under current law, the calculation of the itemized tax deduction for medical and dental expenses may include amounts paid for a legal abortion.

Under the bill, amounts paid for an abortion may not be claimed as part of the itemized deduction for medical and dental expenses. However, under the bill, amounts paid for an abortion may be included in the itemized deduction for medical and dental expenses if (1) the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; or (2) a woman is suffering from a physical disorder, injury, or illness (including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself) that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death if an abortion were not performed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
ARTIST Act

Bill: 119-s-254
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Historical and cultural resources
Mammals
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Alaska’s Right To Ivory Sales and Tradition Act or the ARTIST Act

This bill prohibits states from imposing bans on marine mammal products produced by Alaska Natives.

Specifically, states may not prohibit the importation, sale, transfer, trade, barter, or possession of marine mammal ivory, marine mammal bone, or baleen legally produced by an Alaska Native as an authentic Alaska Native article of handicrafts and clothing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2025-10-08
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2025-10-08
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-10-08
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-10-06
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 178.
action_date: 2025-10-06
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-73.
action_date: 2025-10-06
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-73.
action_date: 2025-06-25
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Archie Cavanaugh Migratory Bird Treaty Amendment Act

Bill: 119-s-255
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Birds
Historical and cultural resources

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Archie Cavanaugh Migratory Bird Treaty Amendment Act

This bill states that nothing in the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 (MBTA) prohibits possessing, selling, bartering, purchasing, shipping, or transporting any authentic Alaska Native handicraft, clothing, or art on the basis that it contains a nonedible migratory bird part, so long as the bird was not taken in a wasteful or illegal manner. (The MBTA implements four international treaties that the United States entered into with Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Russia. The MBTA prohibits the taking of protected migratory bird species without prior authorization.)

The bill directs the Department of State to work with the Department of the Interior to enter into appropriate bilateral procedures with countries that are parties to the treaties under the MBTA to clarify the treatment of Alaska Native handicraft containing nonedible migratory bird parts from the species of migratory birds listed in those treaties. Further, Interior must modify any regulations implementing the MBTA to implement this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Pardon Transparency and Accountability Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-256
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2025-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Lawyers and legal services
Licensing and registrations
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-257
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2025-01-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Computers and information technology
Economic development
Economic performance and conditions
Intergovernmental relations
Manufacturing
Public-private cooperation
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-27
text: 

Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025

This bill requires the Industry and Analysis office of the International Trade Administration of the Department of Commerce to monitor and respond to disruptions in critical industries and supply chains.

Specifically, the office must (1) establish the Supply Chain Resilience Working Group; (2) assess, map, and model critical supply chains; (3) identify high-priority supply chain gaps and vulnerabilities in critical industries; (4) identify and evaluate the effect of potential supply chain disruptions on market stability; and (5) collaborate with other governmental bodies and key international partners to identify opportunities to reduce supply chain gaps and vulnerabilities.

Additionally, the office, in consultation with the working group and specified nongovernmental entities, must make recommendations and implement a strategy to improve the security and resiliency of manufacturing capacity and supply chains for critical industries (including critical industries for emerging technologies).

The bill includes various reporting requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-03
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2025-07-03
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2025-06-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2025-06-26
text: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S3571-3577)
action_date: 2025-06-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-06-26
text: The committee amendments agreed to by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-06-26
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S3570-3577)
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 50.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with amendments. With written report No. 119-16.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with amendments. With written report No. 119-16.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-27
text: Introduced in Senate