hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Every Drop Counts Act

Bill: 119-hr-338
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-21]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Water resources funding
Water storage

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Every Drop Counts Act

This bill expands the Bureau of Reclamation's Small Storage Program, which is a grant program for small surface water or groundwater storage projects in certain western states.

First, the bill expands the types of projects that are eligible for grants under the program. Specifically, the bill makes a project eligible for a grant if the project (1) has water storage capacity of recharges no less than 200 acre-feet and no more than 150,000 acre-feet on an average annual basis over the life of the project for storage or use; and (2) increases groundwater aquifer storage, conveys water to or recovers water from groundwater storage, and stabilizes groundwater levels.

Next, it extends Reclamation's authority to carry out the grant program for another five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Broadband Resiliency and Flexible Investment Act

Bill: 119-hr-339
Sponsor: Rep. Crenshaw, Dan [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
The HCT/P Modernization Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-340
Sponsor: Rep. Crenshaw, Dan [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Cell biology and embryology
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Internet, web applications, social media
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

The HCT/P Modernization Act of 2025

This bill requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide information to stakeholders and report on the regulation of human cell and tissue products, also referred to as human cells, tissues, or cellular or tissue-based products (HCT/Ps), which are articles containing or consisting of human cells or tissues that are intended for use in a human recipient.

The bill requires the FDA to conduct workshops to educate stakeholders and facilitate discussion with them on advancing the science and regulation of human cell and tissue products. The FDA must establish a public docket to receive written comments on this topic, and submit to Congress a report with recommendations on regulating these products. 

Additionally, the bill requires the FDA to publish on its website educational materials about the Tissue Reference Group and best practices for obtaining a recommendation about products from them. Also, annually for three years, the FDA must publish on its website information on the inquiries submitted and average response times for the Tissue Reference Group, as well as the number of human cell and tissue manufacturers that have registered with the FDA and the number of inspections the FDA has conducted with respect to these manufacturers since 2019. (The Tissue Reference Group is a working group within the FDA that receives product-specific questions from, and provides recommendations for, stakeholders on the regulation of human cell and tissue products under the FDA’s rules.) 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Railroad Responsibility Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-341
Sponsor: Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Railroad Responsibility Act of 2025

This bill provides states with the authority to adopt or enact any law, regulation, order, or other requirement limiting the duration that a railroad carrier may block a grade rail crossing. Specifically, this bill states that federal transportation laws do not preempt a state from adopting or enacting these limits. 

As background, state and federal courts have generally found that state laws regarding obstructed crossings are preempted by one or more federal laws, thereby rendering the state laws unenforceable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Honor Inauguration Day Act

Bill: 119-hr-342
Sponsor: Rep. De La Cruz, Monica [R-TX-15]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
National symbols

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Honor Inauguration Day Act

This bill requires the U.S. flag to be flown at its highest peak on each presidential Inauguration Day.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act

Bill: 119-hr-343
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Congressional oversight
Family planning and birth control
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act

This bill prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from awarding family planning grants to entities that perform abortions or provide funding to other entities that perform abortions. To receive a grant, an entity must certify it will refrain from those activities during the grant period.

The bill provides exceptions for abortions (1) in cases of rape or incest; or (2) when the life of the woman is in danger due to a physical disorder, injury, or illness. It also exempts hospitals unless they provide funds to non-hospital entities that provide abortions.

HHS must submit a report to Congress annually on this prohibition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Anti-Congestion Tax Act

Bill: 119-hr-344
Sponsor: Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Anti-Congestion Tax Act 

This bill prohibits the Department of Transportation (DOT) from awarding capital investment grants to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for projects in New York until DOT certifies that vehicles using certain crossings to enter into Manhattan's congestion tolling zone receive exemptions from congestion tolls. The vehicular crossings include the Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel, the George Washington Bridge, and any other crossing immediately before entry into the congestion tolling zone.

As background, the MTA's Central Business District Tolling Program for New York City charges drivers a toll to enter an area in Manhattan designated as the Congestion Relief Zone. Under the bill, 
c

ongestion tolling zone
 generally means any roadways, bridges, tunnels, approaches, or ramps that are located within, or enter to, the Congestion Relief Zone, with some modifications.

Specifically, the bill requires the MTA to credit a vehicle for the vehicular crossing toll from the amount of the congestion toll charged to the vehicle for entering the congestion tolling zone.

Further, the bill allows drivers entering Manhattan using any of the vehicular crossings immediately before entry into the congestion tolling zone to receive a federal tax credit at the end of the year equal to the amount paid in congestion tolls for using the crossing. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act

Bill: 119-hr-346
Sponsor: Rep. Joyce, John [R-PA-13]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act

 
This bill modifies the waiver process under the Clean Air Act related to state emission control standards for new motor vehicles (or new motor vehicle engines). 
 
Under current law, states are preempted from adopting or enforcing emission control standards for new motor vehicles (or new motor vehicle engines) unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides a waiver authorizing a state to adopt such standards if certain requirements are met. 
 
The bill provides that state standards that directly or indirectly limit the sale or use of new motor vehicles with internal combustion engines are not eligible for waivers. The bill also prohibits the EPA from determining that any state standards amended after the bill's enactment are within the scope of an existing waiver.
 
Additionally, the bill requires the EPA to revoke waivers granted between January 1, 2022, and the date of enactment of this bill if the standards directly or indirectly limit the sale or use of new motor vehicles with internal combustion engines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H96)
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-347
Sponsor: Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Animals

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act of 2025

This bill expands the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Grant Program to include separate grants to rescue sea turtles for the next seven years. The grants must be used for

the recovery, care, or treatment of sick, injured, or entangled sea turtles;

responses to rescue stranded sea turtles;

the collection of data and samples from living or dead stranded sea turtles for scientific research or health assessments;

facility operating costs that are directly related to activities to assist sea turtles; or 

development of stranding network capacity where facilities do not exist or are sparse.

In addition, the bill establishes the Sea Turtle Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Rapid Response Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Stop Corrupt Iranian Oligarchs and Entities Act

Bill: 119-hr-348
Sponsor: Rep. Kustoff, David [R-TN-8]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Stop Corrupt Iranian Oligarchs and Entities Act

This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to report to Congress on certain individuals and entities in Iran that have close relationships with the Iranian government. 

The report must include specified information, including (1) identifying senior foreign political figures and oligarchs in Iran, their known sources of income, and their non-Iranian business affiliations; (2) assessing the emergence of parastatal entities and their leadership structure; and (3) the potential effects of imposing sanctions or debt and equity restrictions on such oligarchs, parastatal entities, or Iranian state-owned enterprises.

For the purposes of this bill, an Iranian parastatal entity is one in which Iranian state ownership is at least 25% and that had revenues of at least $2 billion in 2016.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Goldie’s Act

Bill: 119-hr-349
Sponsor: Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Animals

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Goldie's Act

This bill expands enforcement provisions under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).

Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to document and record detailed descriptions of violations of the act observed during inspections and investigations. USDA must provide a copy of all records documenting violations to state, local, and municipal animal control or law enforcement officials within 24 hours of such inspections or investigations.

Inspections must be held at least once a year of each research facility, the premises of each animal dealer, and each exhibitor of animals. If violations are found during inspections, then USDA must conduct any necessary follow-up inspections until all the violations are corrected. Inspectors must confiscate or destroy in a humane manner animals found to be suffering physical or psychological harm as a result of failure to comply with the AWA.

Violators are subject to civil penalties as outlined in the bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act

Bill: 119-hr-350
Sponsor: Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crimes against property
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Government information and archives
Lawyers and legal services
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act

 
This bill requires certain state and local prosecutors to report data on criminal referrals and outcomes of cases involving murder or non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson, or any offense involving the illegal use or possession of a firearm. 
 
The reporting requirement applies to state and local prosecutors in a jurisdiction with 380,000 or more persons that receives funding under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program. The report must contain data on
 
 
cases referred for prosecution, 
 
cases declined for prosecution,
 
cases resulting in a plea agreement with the defendant,
 
cases initiated against defendants with previous arrests or convictions, and
 
defendants charged who were released or eligible for bail. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to prohibit congestion or cordon pricing in a value pricing program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-hr-351
Sponsor: Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 
This bill prohibits the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) from establishing or maintaining a value pricing program under the FHWA's Value Pricing Pilot Program that includes value pricing, congestion pricing, or cordon pricing. 

In general, value pricing, also referred to as congestion pricing, includes a variety of strategies to manage congestion on highways and surface streets (e.g., charging drivers on congested roadways during peak periods). Cordon pricing is a form of congestion pricing that includes a zone-based pricing system that involves either variable or fixed charges to drive within or into a congested area within a city.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Motorist Tax Abuse Act

Bill: 119-hr-352
Sponsor: Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Motorist Tax Abuse Act

This bill prohibits the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) from establishing or maintaining cordon pricing for the Central Business District Tolling Program for New York City under the FHWA's Value Pricing Pilot Program. The New York program charges drivers a toll to enter an area in Manhattan designated as the Congestion Relief Zone.

 In general, cordon pricing is a form of congestion pricing that includes a zone-based pricing system that involves either variable or fixed charges to drive within or into a congested area within a city.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Family First Act

Bill: 119-hr-353
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Blake D. [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Growth Act

Bill: 119-hr-354
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Blake D. [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
Justice for Jocelyn Act

Bill: 119-hr-355
Sponsor: Rep. Nehls, Troy E. [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Justice for Jocelyn Act

This bill limits Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) Alternatives to Detention program, which supervises non-U.S. nationals (
aliens
 under federal law) subject to removal who are released from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Specifically, releases under this program are prohibited unless all detention beds are filled and DHS found no alternatives after exercising and exhausting all reasonable options.

The bill requires all individuals on ICE’s nondetained docket to be enrolled in the program and be subject to continuous GPS monitoring and curfew.

Further, the bill requires a non-U.S. national who was arrested and released to be removed in absentia if an immigration officer submits an affidavit to an immigration judge stating that the individual failed to comply with a condition of release.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia Prosecutor Home Rule Act

Bill: 119-hr-356
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
District of Columbia
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Legislative rules and procedure
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

District of Columbia Prosecutor Home Rule Act

This bill shifts the responsibility for prosecuting all violations of the laws, ordinances, and regulations of the District of Columbia (DC) to a local prosecutor's office.

Currently, the responsibility for prosecuting such violations is shared between DC and the federal government. Generally, the local Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia prosecutes crimes committed by juveniles and criminal violations of municipal regulations, and the federal U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia prosecutes all other crimes.

The bill also specifies that current employees of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia who continue to be employed by the local prosecutor's office retain their eligibility as federal employees for purposes of health insurance, retirement, and other federal benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E22)
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in House