hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Clergy Act

Bill: 119-hr-227
Sponsor: Rep. Fong, Vince [R-CA-20]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Income tax exclusion
Religion
Social security and elderly assistance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

Clergy Act

This bill establishes a two-year window for certain members of the clergy and Christian Science practitioners to revoke their exemption from Social Security and Medicare taxes on ministerial earnings. Under current law, such individuals who object to participation in public insurance programs on religious or conscientious grounds may apply to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for an irrevocable exemption and will not receive Social Security or Medicare benefits in retirement unless they have qualifying credits from other employment.

The IRS must develop a plan to inform members of the clergy and Christian Science practitioners of their eligibility to revoke prior exemptions, pursuant to the bill's changes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase and adjust for inflation the above-the-line deduction for teachers.

Bill: 119-hr-228
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Income tax deductions
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 
This bill increases the above-the-line tax deduction for unreimbursed expenses incurred by an eligible educator for classroom supplies and certain professional development courses. (Above-the-line deductions are subtracted from gross income to calculate adjusted gross income.)

Under current law, an eligible educator may deduct up to $300 in 2025 (adjusted annually for inflation) for unreimbursed expenses for classroom supplies and certain professional development courses. An 
eligible educator
 is defined as a kindergarten through grade 12 teacher, instructor, counselor, principal, or aide who works at least 900 hours during a school year in a school that provides elementary or secondary education. 

Under the bill, an eligible educator may deduct up to $1,000 in 2025 for unreimbursed expenses for classroom supplies and certain professional development. For tax years after 2025, the $1,000 limit on the tax deduction is adjusted annually for inflation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the implementation of the Rock Springs Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan.

Bill: 119-hr-229
Sponsor: Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Land use and conservation
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 
This bill prohibits the Bureau of Land Management from implementing, administering, or enforcing the Rock Springs Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan, which was published on December 20, 2024. The plan includes guidance for managing public lands administered by the office and located in Lincoln, Sweetwater, Uinta, Sublette, and Fremont Counties in southwestern Wyoming.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the implementation of the Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment for the Buffalo, Wyoming Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management.

Bill: 119-hr-230
Sponsor: Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Department of the Interior
Mining
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 
This bill prohibits the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from implementing, administering, or enforcing its 2024 Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment for its Buffalo Field Office in Wyoming. The field office manages 780,291 acres of public lands and 4,731,140 acres of mineral estates within Campbell, Johnson, and Sheridan Counties in north-central Wyoming.

In 2015, the BLM published a management plan for the field office that allowed leases of certain public lands or mineral estates within the office's planning area for the development of coal. 

In 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana in 
Western Organization of Resource Councils v. Bureau of Land Management 
ordered the BLM to complete a new environmental impact statement (EIS) for the management plan under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, which requires an agency to include all reasonable alternatives to its action and the environmental impacts resulting from the action. Specifically, the court ordered the BLM to issue an EIS that considers an alternative of not leasing coal under the management plan as well as an alternative that limits the amount of coal potentially available for leasing.

In response to the court order, the BLM published an amendment to the plan on November 27, 2024. The amended plan made no acres within the office's planning area available for future coal leasing in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, it allowed existing coal leases to be developed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Colorado River Basin System Conservation Extension Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-231
Sponsor: Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Arizona
California
Colorado
Congressional oversight
Nevada
New Mexico
Utah
Water resources funding
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

Colorado River Basin System Conservation Extension Act of 2025

This bill extends through FY2026 the Bureau of Reclamation's pilot projects to increase water levels in the Upper Colorado River Basin and Lake Mead due to drought conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Discharged
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
SALT Fairness and Marriage Penalty Elimination Act

Bill: 119-hr-232
Sponsor: Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

SALT Fairness and Marriage Penalty Elimination Act

This bill increases the limitation on the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes (commonly known as the SALT deduction cap) to $100,000 ($200,000 for married individuals filing a joint federal income tax return). 

Under current law, the SALT deduction cap is $10,000 ($5,000 for married individuals filing separate federal income tax returns). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
HELP PETS Act

Bill: 119-hr-233
Sponsor: Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Education programs funding
Higher education
Research and development
Research ethics

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

Higher Education Loses Payments for Painful Experiments, Tests and Studies Act or the HELP PETS Act

This bill prohibits an institution of higher education (IHE) from receiving federal funds if the IHE conducts or funds painful research on dogs or cats. 
Painful research
 refers to any research, biomedical training, experimentation, or biological testing classified in specified pain categories by the Department of Agriculture.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
HOV Lanes for Heroes Act

Bill: 119-hr-234
Sponsor: Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

HOV Lanes for Heroes Act

 
This bill provides authority for a public authority to allow a disabled veteran to use a high occupancy vehicle (HOV) facility if such veteran has a license plate that clearly identifies the vehicle, a registered transponder, or other method of qualifying identification.
 
The public authority may not charge a toll to the veteran for use of the HOV facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
National Museum of Play Recognition Act

Bill: 119-hr-235
Sponsor: Rep. Morelle, Joseph D. [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
New York State

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

National Museum of Play Recognition Act

This bill designates the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in Rochester, New York, as the National Museum of Play.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employee Return to Work Act

Bill: 119-hr-236
Sponsor: Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the House
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: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Paws Off Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-237
Sponsor: Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Department of Health and Human Services
Food supply, safety, and labeling

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

Paws Off Act of 2025 

This bill forbids the sale of food that contains xylitol unless the food's label contains a warning about the toxic effects of xylitol for dogs if ingested.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Technology Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-238
Sponsor: Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

Healthy Technology Act of 2025 

This bill establishes that artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning technology may be eligible to prescribe drugs.

Currently, certain drugs may be dispensed only upon a prescription provided by a practitioner licensed by law to administer the drug. Under this bill, an AI or machine learning technology may qualify as such a prescribing practitioner if the technology is (1) authorized by state law to prescribe the drug involved; and (2) approved, cleared, or authorized under certain federal provisions pertaining to medical devices and products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Protect Local Farms Act

Bill: 119-hr-240
Sponsor: Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2025-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor standards
State and local government operations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: 

Protect Local Farms Act

This bill provides that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) preempts any state law that establishes a maximum workweek (i.e., the maximum number of hours an employee is permitted to work without receiving overtime pay) of less than 60 hours for agricultural employees. 

Under the FLSA, agricultural employees are generally exempt from federal overtime requirements. However, federal overtime requirements currently do not preempt state laws that provide greater protections to employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Sergeant Ted Grubbs Mental Healthcare for Disabled Veterans Act

Bill: 119-hr-241
Sponsor: Rep. Yakym, Rudy [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Mental health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: 

Sergeant Ted Grubbs Mental Healthcare for Disabled Veterans Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to furnish care or services under the Veterans Community Care Program (VCCP) to an eligible veteran with a service-connected mental disorder not later than five days after the veteran seeks care for such disorder. Current law requires the VA to establish access standards for furnishing hospital care, medical services, or extended care services under the VCCP to veterans who are (1) enrolled in the VA health care system, or (2) not enrolled but are in the 12-month period following their discharge from service and meet other requirements (e.g., having a service-connected disability).

Under the bill, the VA must modify its access standards for furnishing such care and services under the VCCP to require the provision of care or services not later than five days after an eligible veteran with a service-connected mental disorder rated at 50% or more seeks treatment for such disorder.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in House
MANAGER Act

Bill: 119-hr-242
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-17]
Introduced: 2025-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: 

Manager Attitudes and Notions According to Government Employee Responses Act or the MANAGER Act

This bill requires federal agencies to conduct an annual survey of managers and make the results publicly available.

The survey must include the topics covered by the existing annual employee survey and also specified questions related to employee performance and the disciplinary system. The bill directs the Office of Personnel Management to prescribe standard survey questions to be included in all agencies' surveys. The bill requires agencies to post their survey results on agencies' websites unless the agency head determines that doing so would harm national security. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Georgian Nightmare Non-Recognition Act

Bill: 119-hr-243
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-09 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Europe
Georgia (Republic)
Human rights
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: 

Georgian Nightmare Non-Recognition Act

This bill prohibits federal officials and employees from taking any action, or expending any federal funds, to recognize or imply U.S. recognition of (1) Bidzina Ivanishvili, or (2) any government of the nation of Georgia that is led by Bidzina Ivanishvili or any proxies.

The bill also specifies that the United States must recognize the incumbent president of Georgia prior to the October 26, 2024, elections as the only legitimate leader of Georgia.

The President may declare this policy void if the chairman and co-chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission certify that Georgia has held free and fair elections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H189)
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2025-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Veterans’ True Choice Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-244
Sponsor: Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]
Introduced: 2025-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disability and paralysis
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Military medicine
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: 

Veterans' True Choice Act of 2025

This bill allows covered veterans to receive coverage under TRICARE Select, a health care program of the Department of Defense (DOD). Veterans covered by this bill include those with service-connected disabilities, former prisoners of war, Purple Heart recipients, Medal of Honor recipients, those discharged from service due to disability, and those entitled to disability compensation.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) must reimburse DOD's costs of enrolling eligible veteran beneficiaries in the program.

A covered veteran may not concurrently receive medical care from DOD and the VA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2025-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Grant Integrity and Border Security Act

Bill: 119-hr-245
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: 

Grant Integrity and Border Security Act

This bill requires an applicant for a federal grant to certify that the applicant has not violated in the last 10 years, is not currently violating, and will not violate during the term of the grant the federal criminal prohibition against bringing into the United States or harboring certain non-U.S. nationals (i.e., 
aliens
 under federal law). Upon determination by the granting agency that a grantee is in violation of this bill, the agency must withhold any federal grant funds from the grantee.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) must report to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) individuals convicted of, or who admitted to, such a violation. Additionally, the DOJ must report to OMB if DOJ believes there is a reasonable basis to conclude that an individual has committed such a violation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in House
SALT Fairness for Working Families Act

Bill: 119-hr-246
Sponsor: Rep. Underwood, Lauren [D-IL-14]
Introduced: 2025-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: 

SALT Fairness for Working Families Act

This bill increases the limitation on the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes (commonly known as the SALT deduction cap) to $15,000 ($30,000 for married individuals filing a joint federal income tax return). 

Under current law, the SALT deduction cap is $10,000 ($5,000 for a married individuals filing separate federal income tax returns).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in House