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Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-611
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Chuck [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act of 2025

This bill provides a private right of action against state and local jurisdictions with certain policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts, and contains additional provisions related to such jurisdictions. Currently, such cooperation is generally not required.

An individual (or certain relatives of such an individual) who is the victim of any felony for which an alien has been arrested, convicted, or sentenced to a prison term of at least one year may sue a state or local jurisdiction if the jurisdiction failed to comply with (1) certain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requests related to arresting and detaining aliens, and (2) a DHS request to detain the alien in question or provide a notification about the release of the alien. A jurisdiction that accepts certain federal grants may not assert immunity in such a civil action.

A jurisdiction (or employee of a jurisdiction) that complies with certain DHS detainer requests shall be deemed to be acting as an agent of DHS. A complying jurisdiction or employee of the jurisdiction shall not be liable in any lawsuit relating to compliance with such requests. In a lawsuit against an employee of the jurisdiction, the United States shall be substituted in as the defendant, and remedies shall be limited to provisions for bringing tort claims against the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Financial 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: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Financial 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: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Financial 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: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Providers Safety Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-612
Sponsor: Rep. Escobar, Veronica [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Health Care Providers Safety Act of 2025

This bill authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants to health care providers for security services and other expenses related to physical security and cybersecurity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
ATF Transparency Act

Bill: 119-hr-613
Sponsor: Rep. Fulcher, Russ [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

ATF Transparency Act

This bill modifies procedural requirements related to the transfer or making of firearms that are subject to regulation under the National Firearms Act (e.g., machine guns, short-barreled shotguns, and silencers).

The bill permits the transfer of a firearm if 90 days have elapsed since the application to transfer the firearm was filed, and the application has not been denied. Additionally, the bill establishes an administrative relief process with respect to an application to transfer that is denied.

The bill permits the making of a firearm if 90 days have elapsed since the application to make the firearm was filed, and the application has not been denied.

Finally, the bill requires reports on firearms-related background check inquiries that remain unresolved after 90 days and the percentage of firearms-related background check inquiries related to the transfer of a firearm that were administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
SAFE Grilling Act

Bill: 119-hr-614
Sponsor: Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Strengthening Awareness and Funding Education for Grilling Act or SAFE Grilling Act

This bill requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to develop and implement a public awareness campaign about the dangers associated with cooking using a grill and best practices for using a grill safely to prevent injuries and fires.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a refundable tax credit for individuals for amounts paid for gas and electricity for primary residences.

Bill: 119-hr-615
Sponsor: Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy prices
Income tax credits
Landlord and tenant
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 
This bill establishes a refundable tax credit of up to $350 for qualified energy costs, subject to limitations.

Under the bill, 
qualified energy costs
 are defined as amounts paid by an individual to (1) a utility for gas or electric service to a principal residence, or (2) a landlord for gas or electric service provided by a utility if such amounts are included in the rent for leased property used as the individual’s primary residence.

The bill requires a landlord to report the portion of rent attributable to gas and electric service to the Internal Revenue Service and the tenant by the end of January each year.

Under the bill, an individual with a modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) in excess of $200,000 (or $400,000 for a joint filer) may not claim the tax credit for qualified energy costs. Under the bill, MAGI is the taxpayer's adjusted gross income increased by amounts excluded from gross income for

foreign housing costs;

foreign earned income; and

income sourced to or effectively connected with a trade or business in Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, or the Northern Mariana Islands.

Finally, the tax credit for qualified energy costs may not be claimed by an individual who may be claimed as a dependent by someone else or if another tax credit or tax deduction is claimed for the same costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to double the dollar limitation for the energy efficient home improvement credit with respect to heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, biomass stoves, and boilers.

Bill: 119-hr-616
Sponsor: Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits
Lighting, heating, cooling
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 
This bill increases the limit on the energy efficient home improvement tax credit to $4,000 (from $2,000) for the cost of an electric or natural gas heat pump, an electric or natural gas heat pump water heater, a biomass stove, or a biomass boiler.

Under current law, a taxpayer may claim a nonrefundable tax credit of 30% of the cost, up to $2,000, for an electric or natural gas heat pump, an electric or natural gas heat pump water heater, a biomass stove, or a biomass boiler for a principal residence. (Under current law, taxpayers may also claim a nonrefundable tax credit of 30% of the costs, up to $1,200, for certain other eligible energy-efficient property such that some taxpayers may qualify for a maximum tax credit of $3,200.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
American Music Tourism Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-617
Sponsor: Rep. Harshbarger, Diana [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Music
Performing arts
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

American Music Tourism Act of 2025

This bill directs the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) of the Department of Commerce to promote tourism to music-related and sports attractions.

The bill requires NTTO to promote domestic and international travel and tourism to U.S. music festivals, concert venues, and other music-related attractions and locations. The bill also expands NTTO's current mandate to facilitate sports and recreation events and activities to include the promotion of international travel and tourism to such activities in the United States.

NTTO must report its activities and findings to Congress within one year after the bill's enactment and, thereafter, every two years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 59.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1635-1636)
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1635-1636)
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 617.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1635-1637: 1)
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Mr. Bilirakis moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2025-04-24
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 46.
action_date: 2025-04-24
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-69.
action_date: 2025-04-24
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-69.
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 52 - 1.
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
Nor Rel Muk Wintu Nation Federal Recognition Act

Bill: 119-hr-619
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: California
Federal-Indian relations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Nor Rel Muk Wintu Nation Federal Recognition Act

 
This bill extends federal recognition to the Nor Rel Muk Wintu Nation.
 
The bill makes the tribe and its members eligible for services and benefits provided to federally recognized tribes, without regard to the existence of a reservation or the location of the residence of any member. The service area of the tribe is considered to be Trinity County, California.
 
The tribe must submit a membership roll to the Department of the Interior. The tribe must maintain the membership roll.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
FARM Act

Bill: 119-hr-620
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson, Ronny [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Federal officials
Government studies and investigations
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Foreign Adversary Risk Management Act or the FARM Act

This bill places the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). It also requires CFIUS to review any investment that could result in foreign control of any U.S. agricultural business.

Further, the bill includes agricultural systems and supply chains in the definitions of 
critical infrastructure
 and 
critical technologies
 for the purposes of reviewing such investments.

The Department of Agriculture and the Government Accountability Office must each annually analyze and report on foreign influence in the U.S. agricultural industry.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-621
Sponsor: Rep. Joyce, David P. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Employment and training programs
First responders and emergency personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Protecting First Responders from Secondary Exposure Act of 2025 

This bill expands the allowable uses of grant funds under the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program administered by the Department of Justice.

Specifically, the bill allows grants to be used for purchasing containment devices for first responders and training first responders on the use of containment devices to prevent secondary exposure to fentanyl and other potentially lethal substances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to increase funding for the conservation stewardship program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-hr-622
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Trent [R-MS-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 
This bill increases funding for the Conservation Stewardship Program. As background, this Department of Agriculture program provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers to maintain and improve existing conservation systems and to adopt additional conservation activities in a comprehensive manner on a producer's entire operation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
LICENSE Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-623
Sponsor: Rep. LaHood, Darin [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Licensing Individual Commercial Exam-takers Now Safely and Efficiently Act of 2025 or the LICENSE Act of 2025 

This bill requires the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCA) to revise regulations to relax certain requirements related to commercial driver's license (CDL) testing. 

Specifically, the FMCA must allow a state or third-party examiner who has maintained a valid CDL test examiner certification and has previously completed a CDL skills test examiner training course to administer the CDL knowledge test, so long as they have completed one unit of instruction regarding the CDL knowledge test.

The FMCA must also allow a state to administer a driving skills test to any CDL applicant regardless of the applicant's state of domicile or where the applicant received driver training.

As background, the FMCA implemented temporary waivers for similar CDL testing-related requirements in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These waivers have since expired.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
RIFLE Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-624
Sponsor: Rep. Mann, Tracey [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Department of Justice
Evidence and witnesses
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Internet, web applications, social media
Licensing and registrations
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
LACA

Bill: 119-hr-625
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: California
State and local courts
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Local Access to Courts Act or LACA

This bill adds College Station to the list of places where court must be held in the Galveston Division of the Southern District of Texas.

Additionally, the bill adds El Centro to the list of places where court must be held in the Southern District of California.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
Northwest Energy Security Act

Bill: 119-hr-626
Sponsor: Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Dams and canals
Electric power generation and transmission
Idaho
Lakes and rivers
Montana
Oregon
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Northwest Energy Security Act

This bill requires Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) operations to be consistent with the preferred alternative in a 2020 environmental impact statement (EIS) decision that focuses on the operations, maintenance, and configuration of dams in the system rather than wild fish restoration. The system includes dams in the Columbia and Snake rivers in Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho.

Specifically, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Bonneville Power Administration, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must operate the FCRPS consistent with the 
Columbia River System Operations Environmental Impact Statement Record of Decision
 dated September 2020. Thus, Reclamation, the Bonneville Power Administration, and the Army Corps must follow the EIS rather than the 2023 Resilient Columbia Basin Initiative—and a supplemental EIS proposed in 2024—that focus on wild fish restoration in the Columbia Basin.

The EIS decision may be amended if each agency determines that (1) changes are necessary for public safety or electrical grid reliability, or (2) certain requirements in the decision are no longer necessary.

Further, the bill requires statutory authorization for any structural modification, action, study, or engineering plan that (1) restricts FCRPS hydroelectric dam generation; or (2) limits navigation on the Snake River in Washington, Oregon, or Idaho.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-627
Sponsor: Rep. Norman, Ralph [R-SC-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Child health
Family planning and birth control
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Sex and reproductive health
State and local government operations
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: 

Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 2025

This bill requires states, as a condition of federal payment under Medicaid for family planning services, to report certain abortion data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (Currently, reporting is voluntary.) The CDC must develop standardized questions for states with respect to specified variables (e.g., maternal demographics and methods of abortion).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Introduced in House