hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Thin Blue Line Act

Bill: 119-hr-378
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime victims
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Health personnel
Law enforcement officers
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Thin Blue Line Act

 
This bill expands the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responder.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Healthcare Freedom and Choice Act

Bill: 119-hr-379
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Healthcare Freedom and Choice Act

This bill nullifies a rule regarding short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans. The rule was promulgated by the Internal Revenue Service, Employee Benefits Security Administration, and Department of Health and Human Services; is titled 
Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance and Independent, Noncoordinated Excepted Benefits Coverage
; and was published April 3, 2024.

Short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans are plans that may only offer coverage for a limited amount of time and are exempt from the market requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (e.g., coverage of individuals with preexisting conditions).

The rule limits the length of the initial contract period for such a plan to no more than three months and, taking into account any renewals or extensions, the maximum coverage period to no more than four months. The rule also includes within the maximum renewal period limitation a new plan sold by the same issuer, or any issuer that is a member of the same controlled group, to the same policyholder within a 12-month period.

Regulations in effect prior to the rule this bill nullifies permitted short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans with an initial contract period of fewer than 12 months and a maximum coverage period of up to 36 months, including renewals and extensions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Workforce, and 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: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Workforce, and 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: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Workforce, and 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: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Affordable Shipping for All Act

Bill: 119-hr-380
Sponsor: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Affordable Shipping for All Act

This bill limits shipping services from excluding service or charging higher prices to noncontiguous areas of the United States.

Specifically, private shipping services (e.g., FedEx) and the U.S. Postal Service are prohibited from charging a higher rate to ship a consumer product or producer good (e.g., raw material) to a noncontiguous area of the United States than they charge to ship the same product to and from a location within the contiguous United States. Under the bill, a noncontiguous area includes Alaska and Hawaii and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States (including Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands).

Additionally, such shipping services may not exclude services to such a noncontiguous location.

Consumer products or producer goods valued at more than $10,000 are exempt from the requirements of this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E28)
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
LNG Public Interest Determination Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-381
Sponsor: Rep. Casten, Sean [D-IL-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Department of Energy
Energy prices
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Marine and inland water transportation
Oil and gas
Public participation and lobbying
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

LNG Public Interest Determination Act of 2025

This bill modifies and expands requirements for exporting natural gas, including liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Under the existing provisions of the Natural Gas Act, exporters of natural gas must obtain authorization to make such exports from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Additionally, FERC must authorize such exports if they are consistent with the public interest.

The bill directs exporters of natural gas to obtain authorization from the Department of Energy (DOE) rather than from FERC. Before granting an authorization, DOE must determine that the export would not likely (1) contribute significantly to climate change; (2) materially increase energy prices or energy price volatility for U.S. consumers; or (3) create a disproportionate health or environmental burden on rural, low-income, minority, and other vulnerable communities.

The bill also classifies an authorization of the exportation of natural gas as a major federal action that triggers the environmental review process required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).

Additionally, the bill terminates the categorical exclusion for exports of natural gas, and any associated transportation of LNG by marine vessels, from NEPA environmental review requirements. A categorical exclusion is a class of actions that a federal agency has determined do not significantly affect the quality of the human environment and, thus, do not require either an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Exported Carbon Emissions Report Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-382
Sponsor: Rep. Casten, Sean [D-IL-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Exported Carbon Emissions Report Act of 2025

This bill directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to annually collect, calculate, and publish information on certain emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from fossil fuels. Specifically, the EPA must publish information, for each of the previous 10 years, on the total emissions of carbon dioxide and methane that are released (1) within the boundaries of the United States that are the result of the extraction, processing, transportation, combustion, and other use of fossil fuels; and (2) outside the boundaries of the United States that are the result of leakage and combustion of fossil fuels produced or refined in the United States and subsequently exported.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-383
Sponsor: Rep. Casten, Sean [D-IL-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business expenses
Department of the Treasury
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
One Agency Act

Bill: 119-hr-384
Sponsor: Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

One Agency Act

This bill consolidates federal antitrust enforcement authority in one department by transferring the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) antitrust functions, employees, assets, and funding to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

The bill provides a one-year period for DOJ to implement the transition and allows DOJ to extend the period once for an additional 180 days. During the transition period, DOJ may restructure the department's antitrust division and deputize FTC antitrust employees to investigate and prosecute antitrust violations on behalf of DOJ prior to the completion of the transfer of personnel from the FTC to DOJ.

DOJ is also authorized to require businesses to file annual or special reports about the business’s organization, conduct, practices, management, and relationship to other businesses filing such reports.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Combating Global Corruption Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-385
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Combating Global Corruption Act of 2025 

This bill requires the Department of State to address corruption in foreign governments.

The State Department must annually publish a ranking of foreign countries based on their government's efforts to eliminate corruption. Corruption, for the purposes of the bill, is the unlawful exercise of entrusted public power for private gain, including by bribery, nepotism, fraud, or embezzlement.

The bill outlines the minimum standards that the State Department must consider when creating the ranking. These considerations include, for example, whether a country has criminalized corruption, adopted measures to prevent corruption, and complied with the United Nations Convention against Corruption and other relevant international agreements. Tier one countries meet the standards; tier two countries make some efforts to meet the standards; tier three countries make 
de minimis
 or no efforts to meet the standards.

If a country is ranked in the second or third tier, the State Department must designate an anti-corruption contact at the U.S. diplomatic post in that country to promote good governance and combat corruption.

The State Department must also evaluate whether there are foreign persons (individuals or entities) engaged in significant corruption in all third-tier countries for the purpose of potential imposition of sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. The State Department must annually provide Congress with a list of those persons that the President has sanctioned pursuant to this evaluation, the dates sanctions were imposed, and the reasons for imposing sanctions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
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: 2025-01-14
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: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Chinese Currency Accountability Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-386
Sponsor: Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Currency
International monetary system and foreign exchange

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Chinese Currency Accountability Act of 2025

This bill requires the United States to oppose, absent specified conditions, any increase in the weight of Chinese currency (i.e., the renminbi) in the basket of currencies (currently, a set of five currencies, each with different weightings) used to determine the value of Special Drawing Rights. Special Drawing Rights are international reserve assets created by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to supplement member countries' official foreign exchange reserves.

Specifically, the Department of the Treasury must instruct certain U.S. officials at the IMF to oppose any such increase unless Treasury has certified that China is in compliance with certain standards and international agreements, including that (1) China is in compliance with all general obligations of members of the IMF, (2) China has not been found to have manipulated its currency in the preceding 12 months, and (3) China adheres to the rules and principles of the Paris Club and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H595)
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H595)
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 386.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H595-596)
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Mr. Hill (AR) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Texas Agricultural Producers Assistance Act

Bill: 119-hr-387
Sponsor: Rep. De La Cruz, Monica [R-TX-15]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Texas Agricultural Producers Assistance Act

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to submit a report to Congress on USDA assistance available for agricultural producers in Texas related to Mexico's non-compliance with a 1944 treaty with the United States concerning water utilization. 

Specifically, the USDA report must list all of the existing USDA authorities and programs that are or could be made available to provide assistance to agricultural producers in Texas that have suffered economic losses due to Mexico not delivering water to the United States in accordance with the Treaty on Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande, including the Supplementary Protocol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program Enhancement Act

Bill: 119-hr-388
Sponsor: Rep. De La Cruz, Monica [R-TX-15]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program Enhancement Act

This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to enter into a contract to evaluate the Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program.

 Under the program, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service works in coordination with the Texas Animal Health Commission to combat the spread of cattle fever ticks, which can spread a serious cattle disease called bovine babesiosis or cattle fever.

Specifically, USDA must enter into a contract to review and report on the Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program with a (1) land-grant college or university, or (2) non-land-grant college of agriculture.

The review must include an evaluation of the program's (1) effectiveness with respect to preventing and reducing the spread of tick-borne illnesses in cattle; and (2) benefits, and the burdens of compliance, to cattle producers.

The review must also evaluate the treatment protocols developed and implemented under the program.

Further, the review must evaluate the federal and state funds allocated to support the program for the most recent fiscal year.

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2025-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Southern Border Farmers and Ranchers Protection Act

Bill: 119-hr-389
Sponsor: Rep. De La Cruz, Monica [R-TX-15]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Southern Border Farmers and Ranchers Protection Act

This bill directs the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to provide payments to agricultural producers to implement certain conservation practices in counties at or near the Texas southern border. In general, this Department of Agriculture program provides technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers and forest landowners to address natural resource concerns.

Specifically, EQIP must provide payments to agricultural producers to implement conservation practices to address and repair damage to agricultural land and farming infrastructure that is in a county at or near the Texas southern border and contributes to natural resource concerns or problems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
ACERO Act

Bill: 119-hr-390
Sponsor: Rep. Fong, Vince [R-CA-20]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Asia
Aviation and airports
China
Emergency planning and evacuation
Fires
Intergovernmental relations
Public contracts and procurement
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations Act or the ACERO Act

This bill provides statutory authority for the Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) project. The ACERO project conducts research and development activities regarding aerial response to wildfires using uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and other advanced aviation technologies. It is administered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 

The bill directs the ACERO project to address airspace management and deconfliction during wildfire response efforts, including through real-time information sharing among response teams and the development of a platform to provide situational awareness of aerial assets. The bill also directs the ACERO project to establish a multiagency concept of operations to facilitate the coordination of aerial wildfire response among federal, state, and local government agencies. NASA must consult with other federal agencies and departments to avoid duplication of these efforts. 

NASA generally may not procure UAS manufactured or assembled by specified foreign entities, including entities domiciled in or controlled by China, for use by the ACERO project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-06-11
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 34 - 0.
action_date: 2025-06-11
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
Extend the TikTok Deadline Act

Bill: 119-hr-391
Sponsor: Rep. Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
PRECEPT Nurses Act

Bill: 119-hr-392
Sponsor: Rep. Kiggans, Jennifer A. [R-VA-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Providing Real-world Education and Clinical Experience by Precepting Tomorrow's Nurses Act or the PRECEPT Nurses Act

This bill establishes a new, nonrefundable tax credit for eligible nurse preceptors, subject to limitations. The bill also requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to report to Congress certain information about the tax credit for nurse preceptors.

Under the bill, a nonrefundable tax credit of $2,000 is allowed for an eligible nurse preceptor through 2032. An 
eligible nurse preceptor
 is defined as an individual who provides at least 200 certified hours of supervision and personalized experiential learning, training, instruction, and mentoring in the clinical practice of nursing to a nursing student, advanced practice registered nursing student, or newly hired licensed nurse in a community designated as a health professional shortage area. 

The bill also requires the IRS to report to Congress

the number of taxpayers that claim the tax credit for nurse preceptors each year and the geographic distribution of such taxpayers,

aggregated and averaged data on the preceptorships served by taxpayers as an eligible nurse preceptor, and

the effectiveness of the tax credit in increasing the number of nurse preceptors in the United States.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in House