hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Long Island Sound Restoration and Stewardship Reauthorization Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-781
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Expanding Local Meat Processing Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-782
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: 

Expanding Local Meat Processing Act of 2025

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to revise its regulations to allow certain packers to hold an ownership interest in, finance, or participate in the management or operation of a market agency selling livestock on a commission basis.

The bill applies to packers that have a cumulative slaughter capacity of (1) less than 2,000 animals per day or 700,000 animals per year with respect to cattle or sheep, and (2) less than 10,000 animals per day or 3 million animals per year with respect to hogs.

In addition, the bill includes a disclosure requirement for a market agency that has an ownership interest in, finances, or participates in the management or operation of a packer to which the agency sells consigned livestock. Specifically, the market agency must disclose on the account of sale (1) the name of the packer, and (2) the nature of the relationship between the market agency and the packer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Assistance for Rural Water Systems Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-783
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Veterans Transportation to Care Act

Bill: 119-s-784
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Rural conditions and development
Transportation costs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: 

Rural Veterans Transportation to Care Act

This bill expands and makes permanent the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) grant program that provides transportation options to veterans for medical purposes.

First, the bill expands the program to cover transportation for veterans in rural areas, in addition to veterans in highly rural areas (who are already eligible under the program).

The bill also authorizes the VA to award such grants to county veterans service organizations and tribal organizations to assist veterans with transportation for medical care.

Further, the bill increases the maximum grant amount to $60,000. However, if a grant recipient is required to purchase a vehicle to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, such grant amount may be increased to not more than $80,000.

Finally, the bill defines
 rural
 and 
highly rural 
in the same manner as the terms are given under the Rural-Urban Commuting Areas (RUCA) coding system of the Department of Agriculture. RUCA uses population density and commuting patterns to assign designations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-21
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans Land Allotment Extension Act

Bill: 119-s-785
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: 

Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans Land Allotment Extension Act

This bill extends for an additional five years the time period during which an eligible Alaska Native veteran may apply for a land allotment under the Alaska Native Vietnam Era Veterans Land Allotment Program. The program makes Alaska Native veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Vietnam between August 5, 1964, and December 31, 1971, or their heirs eligible to receive up to 160 acres of federal land in Alaska.

Under the current program, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management may accept applications through December 29, 2025. This bill extends this time period for an additional five years to December 29, 2030.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Health Funding Restoration Act

Bill: 119-s-786
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Government trust funds
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
VetPAC Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-787
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: 

VetPAC Act of 2025

This bill establishes the Veterans Health Administration Policy Advisory Commission for purposes of reviewing operations at the Veterans Health Administration and preparing reports with recommendations for Congress based on such review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-30
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-11
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
HOPE (Humans over Private Equity) for Homeownership Act

Bill: 119-s-788
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Critical Minerals Security Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-789
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Government studies and investigations
International organizations and cooperation
Metals
Mining
Strategic materials and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: 

Critical Minerals Security Act of 2025

This bill establishes requirements for the Department of the Interior related to securing U.S. access to critical minerals and rare earth element (REE) resources. 
Critical minerals
 mean any mineral, element, substance, or material designated as critical by the U.S. Geological Survey. 
REEs
 mean cerium, dysprosium, erbium, europium, gadolinium, holmium, lanthanum, lutetium, neodymium, praseodymium, promethium, samarium, scandium, terbium, thulium, ytterbium, and yttrium. 

First, Interior must report on the critical mineral and REE resources, including recyclable or recycled materials containing those resources, around the world. Among other information, the report must include an assessment of the global ownership and supply of critical mineral and REE resources. Interior must submit the report within a year and every two years thereafter.

Next, Interior must establish a process to assist a U.S. person—a U.S. citizen, a non-U.S. National (alien under federal law) lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or an entity organized under U.S. laws—seeking to divest stock in mining, processing, or recycling operations for critical minerals and REEs in a foreign country with finding a purchaser that is not under the control of North Korea, China, Russia, or Iran.

Finally, Interior must develop (1) a strategy to collaborate with U.S. allies and partners to develop advanced mining, refining, separation, processing, and recycling technologies; and (2) a method for sharing related intellectual property with U.S. allies and partners to enable those countries to license those technologies and develop their resources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to redesignate the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming, as the "Barbara L. Cubin National Historic Trails Interpretive Center".

Bill: 119-s-790
Sponsor: Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site Establishment Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-791
Sponsor: Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Government Spectrum Valuation Act

Bill: 119-s-792
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: 

Government Spectrum Valuation Act 

This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to periodically estimate the value of specified electromagnetic spectrum that is allocated to federal agencies.

Each federal agency that is assigned or allocated a portion of that spectrum must include the most recent estimated value of its spectrum, as determined by NTIA, in its annual budget and financial statements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2019 to modify and reauthorize the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 119-s-793
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to audit Federal spectrum.

Bill: 119-s-794
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: 
This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to audit and report to Congress on electromagnetic spectrum that is assigned or allocated to federal entities. The report must identify each spectrum band used by a federal entity and detail where, how, and to what extent each such band is being used. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Farmers Freedom Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-795
Sponsor: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Book Minimum Tax Repeal Act

Bill: 119-s-796
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S1431)
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Family Building FEHB Fairness Act

Bill: 119-s-797
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Family planning and birth control
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care coverage and access
Sex and reproductive health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Capital Gains Inflation Relief Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-798
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
United States Legal Gold and Mining Partnership Act

Bill: 119-s-799
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Precision Brain Health Research Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-800
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Medical research
Mental health
Neurological disorders
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: 

Precision Brain Health Research Act of 2025

This bill expands the Scott Hannon Initiative for Precision Mental Health, a program at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Specifically, the bill expands the scope of the initiative by requiring the identification and validation of brain and mental health biomarkers among veterans for repetitive low-level blast exposure, dementia, and other such brain conditions. Currently, the initiative addresses several other conditions such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The VA must work with the Department of Defense to establish a data-sharing partnership under the initiative.

The bill requires the VA to conduct various research studies about repetitive low-level blast exposure under the initiative.

The VA must seek to enter into a contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to work in tandem with the initiative on validation of brain and mental health biomarkers among veterans and report on the findings at least once every two years.

The VA must assess all in progress and planned translational research studies under the initiative and report to Congress on the assessment.

Additionally, the VA must report to Congress on the initiative at least once every two years and include recommendations for immediate administrative and legislative action to improve the initiative.

The bill authorizes the initiative through FY2034.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-30
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-05-21
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Higher Education Reform and Opportunity Act

Bill: 119-s-801
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: 

Higher Education Reform and Opportunity Act

This bill revises requirements governing student loans and the accreditation of institutions of higher education (IHEs).

Specifically, the bill consolidates federal student loans into one student loan program and phases out loan forgiveness for borrowers.

Additionally, the bill makes postsecondary education courses and programs (e.g., apprenticeship programs) that provide credits toward a postsecondary certification, credential, or degree eligible for federal student aid funding if the courses and programs are accredited by a state that has an alternative accreditation agreement with the Department of Education (ED).

The bill requires IHEs to publish certain enrollment and financial aid information, including (1) the percentage of former financial aid recipients who are employed at various intervals following graduation, and (2) the average amount of total federal student loan debt accrued upon graduation. The Government Accountability Office must compile, study, and report on all such information published by IHEs. Further, the bill prohibits the disclosure of personally identifiable information and directs ED to establish penalties for violations.

 Lastly, the bill requires an IHE to pay a default rate fine for a fiscal year in an amount that is equal to the applicable percentage of outstanding federal student loans (i.e., the total amount of loans issued to students for attendance at the IHE for which regular on-time payments are not being made). An IHE shall receive a $400 credit for each graduate of the IHE who received a Federal Pell Grant while enrolled at the IHE during the fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Pay Our Coast Guard Act

Bill: 119-s-802
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: 

Pay Our Coast Guard Act

This bill provides continuing appropriations to the Coast Guard for pay and benefits when there is a Coast Guard-specific funding lapse.

Under the bill, a 
Coast Guard-specific funding lapse
 occurs when (1) a bill providing appropriations for the Coast Guard for a fiscal year has not been enacted before the beginning of that fiscal year, and no joint resolution providing continuing appropriations for the Coast Guard is in effect; and (2) a bill providing appropriations for the Department of Defense (DOD) for the fiscal year has been enacted before the beginning of the fiscal year, or a joint resolution providing continuing appropriation for DOD is in effect. 

If a Coast Guard-specific funding lapse occurs, the bill provides appropriations to the Coast Guard for

pay and allowances for military members of the Coast Guard who perform active service or inactive-duty training;

pay and benefits for certain civilian employees and contract employees;

the payment of a death gratuity;

payments for travel related to funerals, the dignified transfer of remains, and unit memorial services; and

the temporary continuation of the basic allowance for housing for dependents of members of the Coast Guard dying on active duty.

The bill generally provides the appropriations to the Coast Guard until the earlier of (1) the enactment of specified Coast Guard appropriations legislation, or (2) the termination of the availability of appropriations for DOD.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Keep Americans Safe Act

Bill: 119-s-803
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Retail and wholesale trades
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: 

Keep Americans Safe Act

 
This bill establishes a new criminal offense for the import, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD).
 
The bill does not prohibit certain conduct with respect to an LCAFD, including the following:
 
 
 importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession related to certain law enforcement efforts, or authorized tests or experiments;
 
importation, sale, transfer, or possession related to securing nuclear materials; and
 
 possession by a retired law enforcement officer.
 
 
The bill permits continued possession of, but prohibits sale or transfer of, a grandfathered LCAFD.
 
Newly manufactured LCAFDs must display serial number identification and the date of manufacture.
 
 Additionally, the bill allows a state or local government to use Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program funds to compensate individuals who surrender an LCAFD under a buy-back program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Accountability for Endless Wars Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-804
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text: CR S1431)
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Combating International Islamophobia Act

Bill: 119-s-805
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Hatch Act Enforcement Transparency and Accountability Act

Bill: 119-s-806
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Congressional oversight
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Office of Special Counsel
Personnel records

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Guarding Readiness Resources Act

Bill: 119-s-807
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: 

Guarding Readiness Resources Act

This bill modifies the treatment of funds received by the National Guard Bureau as a reimbursement from a state or other U.S. territory (e.g., Guam) for the use of military property.

Specifically, the funds must be credited to (1) the appropriation, fund, or account used in incurring the obligation; or (2) an appropriation, fund, or account currently available for the purposes of which the expenditures were made. Further, the funds may only be used by the Department of Defense for the repair, maintenance, replacement, or other similar functions related directly to assets used by National Guard units while operating under state active duty status.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2025-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate