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Increased TSP Access Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-575
Sponsor: Rep. Baird, James R. [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Increased TSP Access Act of 2025

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to modify the certification process for Technical Service Providers (TSPs) at the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) by establishing an approval process for nonfederal certifying entities and a streamlined certification process for TSPs that hold certain specialty certifications.

As background, TSPs are third-party service providers, such as private businesses, Indian tribes, and nonprofit organizations, that work on behalf of customers to offer planning, design, and implementation services that meet NRCS criteria.

The bill specifies that USDA must ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, third-party providers with expertise in the technical aspects of conservation practice design, implementation, and evaluation are eligible to become approved TSPs.

USDA must provide a streamlined certification process for TSPs who hold appropriate specialty certifications (e.g., certified crop advisors).

In determining the eligibility of a nonfederal certifying entity, USDA must consider the ability, experience, expertise, and history of the entity. USDA must decide whether to approve an application submitted by a nonfederal certifying entity to certify TSPs within a specified time period. 

USDA must also review a TSP's certification by a nonfederal certifying entity within a specified time period. If the certification is satisfactory, USDA must include the TSP on a USDA-maintained registry of certified TSPs.

The bill also specifies that TSPs must be paid at rates equivalent to technical assistance provided by USDA.

Further, USDA must provide accessible public information on TSPs, including information on funding, certification results, and utilization rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
To codify Executive Order 14096 relating to revitalizing our Nation's commitment to environmental justice for all.

Bill: 119-hr-576
Sponsor: Rep. Barragán, Nanette Diaz [D-CA-44]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Environmental health
Environmental regulatory procedures
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 
This bill provides statutory authority for Executive Order 14096, which was issued on April 26, 2023, to advance a government-wide approach to environmental justice, including by directing each federal agency to (1) make achieving environmental justice part of its mission, (2) issue an Environmental Justice Strategic Plan every four years, and (3) provide public notice of certain toxic chemical releases. The Executive Order also established the White House Office of Environmental Justice as well as an Environmental Justice Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Treatment and Homelessness Housing Integration Act of 2024

Bill: 119-hr-577
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-41]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disability assistance
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health facilities and institutions
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Mental health
Performance measurement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Sarah’s Law

Bill: 119-hr-578
Sponsor: Rep. Feenstra, Randy [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Sarah's Law

This bill requires the Department of Justice or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain a non-U.S. national (
alien
 under federal law) who is unlawfully present in the United States and has been charged with, arrested for, convicted of, or admits to having committed acts that constitute the essential elements of a crime that resulted in the death or serious bodily injury of another person.

DHS must obtain information about the identity of any victims of the crimes for which the detained individual was charged or convicted. DHS shall provide the victim, or a relative or guardian of a deceased victim, with information about the detained individual, including name, date of birth, nationality, immigration status, criminal history, and a description of any related removal efforts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-579
Sponsor: Rep. Feenstra, Randy [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Family relationships
Family services
Government information and archives
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025

This bill requires state plans for child welfare services to provide for the development and implementation of a family partnership plan to improve foster care placement stability, increase rates of kinship placements, and align the composition of foster and adoptive families with the needs of children in or entering foster care.

The Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families also must include in its annual report information from states about the number, demographics, and characteristics of foster and adoptive families as well as a summary of the challenges related to recruiting and being foster or adoptive parents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H962-963)
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H962-963)
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 579.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H962-964)
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Unfunded Mandates Accountability and Transparency Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-580
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Competition and antitrust
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Economic performance and conditions
Federal Reserve System
Federal-Indian relations
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial review and appeals
Labor market
Monetary policy
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Performance measurement
Small business
State and local finance

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-21
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 19.
action_date: 2025-05-21
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, the Budget, and 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: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, the Budget, and 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: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, the Budget, and 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: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, the Budget, and 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: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-581
Sponsor: Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child care and development
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act of 2025

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide states and tribal entities with grants to increase access to licensed child care services.

The grants may be used to develop and expand the child care workforce or child care facilities in locations with insufficient available child care. Specifically, grants cover 50% of the cost of programs to support the education and training of caregivers or projects to build, expand, or renovate child care facilities in these areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Community Protection and Wildfire Resilience Act

Bill: 119-hr-582
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Community Protection and Wildfire Resilience Act

This bill establishes a wildfire resilience grant program within the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), expands an existing U.S. Forest Service (USFS) wildfire risk reduction grant program, and requires the USFA and Government Accountability Office (GAO) to produce various reports and resources relating to wildfire resilience.

Specifically, the bill requires the USFA to award grants to state or local governments, tribes, volunteer fire departments, or groups thereof for developing a community protection and wildfire resilience plan or carrying out projects that support strategies described in such a plan. 

Also, under current law, the USFS’s Community Wildfire Defense Grant program provides grants to at-risk communities for implementing wildfire risk reduction, including reducing hazardous fuels and restoring fire-adapted ecosystems, but excluding activities such as construction and home hardening (e.g., roof upgrades, fire-resistant siding). The bill expands the eligible project types to include construction or modification of a structure to increase fire-resistance and modification of a structure or the adjacent area to reduce exposure to contact with wildfire. 

Additionally, the bill requires the USFA to develop and publish a map depicting communities at risk from wildfire. The USFA must also provide a report evaluating and ensuring public entities have radio communication capabilities adequate for wildfire management. The bill also requires the GAO to publish a study on potential certification for community protection and wildfire resilience plans, and a report assessing impediments for federal wildfire resilience programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and 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: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and 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: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and 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: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
BEACH Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-583
Sponsor: Rep. Joyce, David P. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2025 or the BEACH Act of 2025

This bill reauthorizes through FY2029 and expands an existing program of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that awards grants to states and local governments to (1) monitor the water quality of coastal recreational waters adjacent to beaches or similar points of access that are used by the public; and (2) notify the public, local governments, and the EPA when the water is not safe for recreational activities.

Specifically, the bill expands the program to allow the EPA to award grants for identifying sources of contamination (i.e., pathogens) for coastal recreation waters. It also allows grants to be used for monitoring and notification of contamination in (1) shallow waters upstream from recreational waters, and (2) recreational waters on beaches.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
No Medicaid for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-584
Sponsor: Rep. Kiley, Kevin [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Immigrant health and welfare
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

No Medicaid for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2025

This bill prohibits state Medicaid programs from covering individuals who are unlawfully present in the United States, except for certain emergency services for which federal payment is authorized under current law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Supporting Veteran Families in Need Act

Bill: 119-hr-585
Sponsor: Rep. LaLota, Nick [R-NY-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Family services
Low- and moderate-income housing
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Supporting Veteran Families in Need Act

 
This bill permanently extends authorization for the Supportive Services for Veteran Families program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides supportive services to very low-income veterans (and their families) occupying or transitioning to permanent housing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Vietnam Veterans Liver Fluke Cancer Study Act

Bill: 119-hr-586
Sponsor: Rep. LaLota, Nick [R-NY-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Cancer
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Medical research
Veterans' medical care
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

Vietnam Veterans Liver Fluke Cancer Study Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct an epidemiological study and report on the prevalence of cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) in veterans who served in the Vietnam theater of operations during the Vietnam era. The study must identify the rate of incidence of cholangiocarcinoma in such veterans and in U.S. residents.

The bill also requires the VA to track and report on the prevalence of cholangiocarcinoma using the Veterans Affairs Central Cancer Registry. Additionally, the VA must periodically submit follow-up reports to Congress regarding the epidemiological study and information collected from the cancer registry regarding the prevalence of bile duct cancer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 411 - 0 (Roll no. 89). (text: CR H1435-1436: 1)
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 411 - 0 (Roll no. 89). (text: CR H1435-1436: 1)
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1441-1442: 5)
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 586.
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1435-1437)
action_date: 2025-04-07
text: Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2025-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
To remove the lesser prairie-chicken from the lists of threatened species and endangered species published pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and to amend that Act to exclude the lesser prairie-chicken from the authority of that Act.

Bill: 119-hr-587
Sponsor: Rep. Mann, Tracey [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Animals

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 
This bill removes the lesser prairie-chicken (
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
), including each of its distinct population segments, from the threatened and endangered species lists that are published under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Further, the bill prohibits the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from designating such species as threatened or endangered, and thus, protecting such species under such act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act

Bill: 119-hr-588
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Air quality
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Mining
Minnesota
Water quality
Watersheds
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
FACE Act Repeal Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-589
Sponsor: Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2025-01-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Civil actions and liability
Crimes against property
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Family planning and birth control
Health facilities and institutions
Religion
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: 

FACE Act Repeal Act of 2025

This bill repeals provisions of federal criminal law that prohibit conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with persons who are seeking to (1) obtain or provide reproductive health services, or (2) exercise their right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-06-10
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 13 - 10.
action_date: 2025-06-10
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Introduced in House