hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Restoring Access to Mountain Homes Act

Bill: 119-hr-760
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Chuck [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

Restoring Access to Mountain Homes Act

This bill authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide Public Assistance (PA) grant funding, under certain conditions, to reimburse government entities covered under the major disaster declaration for North Carolina relating to Tropical Storm Helene for the costs of repairing, replacing, or restoring private roads and bridges damaged by Helene.

Under current law, the PA program provides grants for repairing disaster damage to infrastructure owned or legally maintained by government entities (or certain nonprofits). The bill authorizes PA funding for permanent repair work on privately owned and maintained roads and bridges significantly damaged by Helene in North Carolina, as costs incurred by state, tribal, or local governments for such work are eligible for reimbursement. 

Also, under current law, the costs of repairing damage that existed before the disaster are generally ineligible for PA. The bill makes the repair, replacement, or restoration costs eligible for reimbursement under PA regardless of pre-existing condition.

Additionally, the bill contains criteria and conditions for reimbursement, including that to be eligible a road or bridge must be used as the sole means of accessing primary residences or essential community services. Reimbursement is under PA’s alternative procedures, and the bill requires FEMA to determine eligible costs based on estimates prepared by engineers.

Recipients of funds from FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program (IHP) before the bill’s enactment may use IHP funds for repairs eligible under the bill without those costs counting against their maximum amount of IHP assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
HITS Act

Bill: 119-hr-761
Sponsor: Rep. Estes, Ron [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act

Bill: 119-hr-762
Sponsor: Rep. Feenstra, Randy [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act

This bill requires states to recoup any overpayments of benefits made to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients and adjusts the formula for determining a state's liability rate for overpayments.

As background, the SNAP quality control system measures how accurately SNAP state agencies determine a household’s eligibility and benefit amount and determines overpayments of benefits and underpayments. States that have comparatively high payment error rates for two consecutive years are assessed a penalty (i.e., liability amount). The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) must use a statutory formula to determine the liability amount.

Under current law, FNS must set a tolerance level for excluding small payment errors in the calculation of payment error rates (e.g., $56 or less in FY2024). This bill reduces the tolerance level for excluding small errors to $0 for FY2025 and each succeeding fiscal year.

The bill also requires state agencies to recoup any overpayments of benefits made to SNAP beneficiaries.

The bill adjusts the liability rate formula to reduce the state payment error rate based on the percentage of overpayments recouped by the state. Further, the bill increases the multiplier used in the liability rate formula to 25% (from 10%).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
James J. Andrews and William H. Campbell Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 119-hr-763
Sponsor: Rep. Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck" [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Military history
Military personnel and dependents
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

James J. Andrews and William H. Campbell Congressional Gold Medal Act

This bill provides for the award of a single Congressional Gold Medal in commemoration of James J. Andrews and William H. Campbell to recognize their bravery and devotion during the Civil War as the only civilian members of Andrews’ Raiders, who launched a daring military raid that became known as the Great Locomotive Chase.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Global Health, Empowerment and Rights Act

Bill: 119-hr-764
Sponsor: Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-22]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

Global Health, Empowerment and Rights Act

This bill establishes that a foreign nongovernmental organization shall not be disqualified from receiving certain U.S. international development assistance solely because the organization provides medical services (including counseling and referral services) using non-U.S. government funds if the medical services do not violate the laws of the country in which they are being provided. Such foreign organizations shall not be subject to requirements relating to their use of non-U.S. funds for advocacy or lobbying activities other than those that apply to U.S. nongovernmental organizations receiving such assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
MAILS Act

Bill: 119-hr-765
Sponsor: Rep. Fulcher, Russ [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Postal service
State and local government operations
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

Mandating Advisable and Informed Locations and Solutions Act or the MAILS Act

This bill requires the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to (1) establish a formal process for a local government official to request a new post office, and (2) modify how it communicates with local officials and the public about certain topics.

Specifically, USPS must modify existing regulations with respect to temporary relocations of postal retail services for holidays, special events, overflow business, and commemorative events. USPS may not implement any such temporary relocation for more than two days unless it first collects and considers community input. USPS must also provide specified notifications to local officials and the public, periodic updates to local officials, and a public presentation about such a relocation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
SEWER Act

Bill: 119-hr-766
Sponsor: Rep. Garcia, Robert [D-CA-42]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health programs administration and funding
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

Surveilling Effluent Water for Epidemic Response Act or the SEWER Act

This bill provides statutory authority for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) program, which detects and monitors pathogens in wastewater. It requires the CDC to expand and intensify the activities of the NWSS, including with respect to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), influenza, mpox, dengue, West Nile virus, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). 

The NWSS provides funding and guidance to public health departments for wastewater surveillance activities. Under the NWSS, health departments and other partners coordinate on wastewater surveillance at sampling sites and share data with the CDC. The NWSS was initially implemented to monitor SARS-CoV-2 and has since expanded to include influenza A, avian influenza A, mpox, and RSV. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
FLASH Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-767
Sponsor: Rep. Garcia, Robert [D-CA-42]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Holocaust Education and Antisemitism Lessons Act

Bill: 119-hr-768
Sponsor: Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Elementary and secondary education
Government studies and investigations
Historical and cultural resources
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Religion
Teaching, teachers, curricula
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
World history

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

Holocaust Education and Antisemitism Lessons Act

 
This bill directs the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to study and report on Holocaust education efforts in states, local educational agencies (LEAs), and public elementary and secondary schools. Among other elements, the study must (1) determine whether states and LEAs require Holocaust education as part of the curriculum taught in public elementary and secondary schools, (2) identify the standards and requirements relating to Holocaust education, and (3) identify the types of instructional material used to teach students about the Holocaust.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
All Aboard Act

Bill: 119-hr-769
Sponsor: Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

All Aboard Act

This bill requires Amtrak to issue refunds to rail passengers for the purchase price of rail passenger transportation that is cancelled or delayed due to a failure of Amtrak.

Specifically, the Department of Transportation (DOT) must issue regulations requiring Amtrak to issue full refunds to passengers for the purchase price of the covered rail passenger transportation if there is a cancellation or a delay of more than three hours in the journey completion time that is due to a failure of Amtrak.

Under the bill, 
covered rail passenger transportation 
means (1) rail passenger transportation provided by, or on behalf of, Amtrak; or (2) commuter rail passenger transportation that travels over Amtrak-owned rails, regardless of whether it is provided by Amtrak or other rail carriers.

The regulations must include procedures for (1) determining if a cancellation or delay is due to a failure of Amtrak, and (2) Amtrak to dispute that a cancellation or delay is subject to the refund requirements.

The bill prohibits Amtrak from receiving federal funds for any period during which DOT determines that Amtrak is noncompliant with these requirements.

Amtrak must submit a report to Congress on alternative asset maintenance strategies to replace the 
run-to-fail maintenance model
 (i.e., using passenger rail equipment and infrastructure until it no longer works or exceeds its estimated lifespan), including the cost of the strategies. Within two years of this bill's enactment, Amtrak must (1) stop using a run-to-fail maintenance model, and (2) implement a new asset maintenance strategy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Accountability for Veterans Act

Bill: 119-hr-770
Sponsor: Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Disability assistance
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

Accountability for Veterans Act

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to report to Congress on certain appeals, resources, and VA health care systems. Specifically, the report must address (1) the reasons why there is a backlog of appeals of claims for VA disability benefits; (2) ways to increase the amount of information, resources, and tools provided by the VA to individuals participating in the Transition Assistance Program of the Department of Defense; and (3) the management problems impacting one-star health care systems of the VA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Rural Health Care Access Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-771
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark E. [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Hospital care
Medicare
State and local government operations
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

Rural Health Care Access Act of 2025

This bill eliminates certain criteria that hospitals must meet in order to qualify as critical access hospitals that receive special payment under Medicare.

Specifically, the bill eliminates the requirement that a hospital must either (1) be located more than 35 miles (15 miles in mountainous regions or areas with only secondary roads) from another hospital, or (2) have been certified prior to January 1, 2006, by the state as a necessary provider of services in the area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Rural ER Access Act

Bill: 119-hr-772
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark E. [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

Rural ER Access Act

 
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to repeal regulations that require off-campus facilities to be located within 35 miles of the main hospital or critical access hospital in order to receive provider-based status under Medicare (i.e., to be considered as hospital outpatient departments for purposes of Medicare payment).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to repeal certain provisions relating to the acceptance and use of contributions for public-private partnerships, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-hr-773
Sponsor: Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:

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

Bill: 119-hr-774
Sponsor: Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

Protecting Agricultural Spaces Through Effective Ranching Strategies Act or the PASTURES Act

This bill prohibits the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior from imposing penalties on livestock owners for grazing on certain public lands. 

Under the bill, covered lands are National Forest System lands, lands administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or public lands (1) on which grazing is allowed by a permit or lease on or after the date of the bill's enactment and is then subsequently prohibited, and (2) that border private property.

Specifically, the departments may not impose a penalty on an owner of livestock (including cattle, bison, horses, sheep, and goats) for grazing on covered lands that do not have a fence to prevent grazing.

The bill specifies that USDA or Interior, depending on the covered land, is responsible for any expense related to the construction or maintenance of a fence for the prevention of grazing by livestock.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
action_date: 2025-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
No Net Gain in Federal Lands Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-775
Sponsor: Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Nutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-776
Sponsor: Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Farmland
Land use and conservation
Mammals
Pest management
State and local government operations
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

Nutria Eradication and Control Reauthorization Act of 2025

This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 the Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2003, which allows the Department of the Interior to provide financial assistance to states for (1) eradicating or controlling nutria, and (2) restoring marshland damaged by nutria. Nutria are invasive, semi-aquatic rodents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 361 - 56 (Roll no. 29). (text: CR H449)
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 361 - 56 (Roll no. 29). (text: CR H449)
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H451-452)
action_date: 2025-02-04
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: 2025-02-04
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 776.
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H449-450)
action_date: 2025-02-04
text: Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Closing the College Hunger Gap Act

Bill: 119-hr-777
Sponsor: Rep. Hayes, Jahana [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: 

Closing the College Hunger Gap Act

This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to send information regarding potential eligibility for assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to certain college students.

Specifically, ED must send this information, in both written and electronic form, to a student who submits the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and has a negative or zero student aid index for the year. ED must also provide the student with contact information for the state agency that administers SNAP in the state in which the student resides.

ED must consult with the Department of Agriculture and other applicable federal or state agencies to design the written and electronic communications regarding potential SNAP eligibility and the SNAP application process.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-28
text: Introduced in House