hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Charitable Act

Bill: 119-s-317
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Charitable Act

This bill allows an individual taxpayer who does not itemize their tax deductions to claim a tax deduction for charitable contributions and eliminates the tax penalty for overstating charitable contributions. (Some limitations apply).

Under the bill, for tax years beginning in 2026 or 2027, an individual taxpayer who does not itemize their tax deductions may deduct charitable contributions of up to one-third of the standard deduction allowed to such individual. (Under current law, an individual taxpayer generally must itemize their tax deductions to deduct charitable contributions.)

The bill also eliminates the tax penalty for an underpayment of taxes attributable to overstated charitable contributions by taxpayers who do not itemize deductions. (Under current law, taxpayers who claim a deduction under this bill may be assessed a tax penalty in the amount of 50% of the portion of an understatement of tax liability attributable to overstated charitable contributions.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
ANCHOR Act

Bill: 119-s-318
Sponsor: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
National Science Foundation
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Accelerating Networking, Cyberinfrastructure, and Hardware for Oceanic Research Act or the ANCHOR Act 

This bill requires the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a plan to improve the cybersecurity and telecommunications capabilities of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet (ARF).

ARF is comprised of U.S.-flagged vessels that provide at-sea laboratories where oceanographic scientists, educators, and students research and learn about marine science. 

The bill requires the plan to include assessments of

telecommunications and networking needs of ARF, consistent with typical scientific missions;

cybersecurity needs appropriate for the ownership of ARF vessels and their typical research functions;

the costs necessary to meet these needs; and

the time required to implement necessary upgrades.

The plan must also include (1) a spending plan for the NSF, the Office of Naval Research, nonfederal owners of ARF vessels, and users of the vessels to cover identified costs; and (2) a proposal regarding the adoption of common solutions or consortial licensing agreements, or the centralization of cybersecurity, telecommunications, or data management at a single facility. 

Among other factors specified in the bill, the NSF must consider the network capabilities necessary to meet mission needs (e.g., to upload data to shoreside servers), international standards and guidance for information security, and requirements for controlled unclassified or classified information. 

The plan must be provided to Congress within one year of the bill's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2025-10-10
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2025-10-08
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2025-10-08
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-10-08
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 169.
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-64.
action_date: 2025-09-29
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-64.
action_date: 2025-05-21
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program Enhancement Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-319
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program Enhancement Act of 2025

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 cattle fever ticks; 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: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-320
Sponsor: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Building construction
Emergency communications systems
Emergency planning and evacuation
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government studies and investigations
Natural disasters
Research administration and funding

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Decoupling America's Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-321
Sponsor: Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Asia
China
Civil actions and liability
Computers and information technology
Immigration status and procedures
Intellectual property
Research and development
Technology transfer and commercialization
Trade restrictions
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Atmospheric River Forecasts Act

Bill: 119-s-322
Sponsor: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Improving Atmospheric River Forecasts Act

This bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish an atmospheric river forecast improvement program.

In carrying out the program, NOAA must seek to reduce loss of life and property and other economic losses caused by atmospheric river events through research and development on accurate, effective, and actionable forecasting and warnings. The program must generally involve the establishment of quantitative atmospheric river forecast skill metrics, the development of an atmospheric river forecast system within a unified forecast system, and the development of tools and products to predict periods of active or inactive atmospheric river landfalls and inland penetration, among other activities. 

The program must periodically test and evaluate the value of incorporating innovative observations (e.g., observations from radar, aircraft, ocean buoys, and other sources) to facilitate the improvement of modeling and forecasting. The program must also consider the development of best practices for communicating the existence and severity of atmospheric river events, as well as other information about atmospheric rivers. The program may seek to improve precipitation modeling, with an emphasis on forecasting for complex terrain. 

The bill also requires NOAA to acquire and sustain adequate crewed and uncrewed aircraft (i.e., drones), equipment, and personnel necessary to meet air reconnaissance mission requirements annually during the expected atmospheric river season (November through March). 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S484-485)
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
PLAN for Broadband Act

Bill: 119-s-323
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Congressional oversight
Geography and mapping
Government studies and investigations
Internet, web applications, social media
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Proper Leadership to Align Networks for Broadband Act or the PLAN for Broadband Act

This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to develop and implement a national strategy to improve the coordination and management of federal broadband programs and agency consideration of applications to build or maintain broadband infrastructure on federal property. 

The NTIA must also develop and publish for public comment a plan for the implementation of the national strategy. Among other requirements, the implementation plan must establish, for federal broadband programs that are not technologically neutral (i.e., programs that involve a preference for certain broadband technologies), a ceiling on the amount of funding that may be awarded to support the provision of broadband service to a single location. 

The bill also requires executive branch agencies to identify and address factors that contribute to delays in their review of applications for easements, rights-of-way, or leases related to communications infrastructure projects on federal property. (Under current law, agencies are generally required to act on such applications within 270 days.) Agencies must also establish methods to alert employees when the agency is at risk of failing to meet the 270-day deadline with respect to a particular application. 

Finally, the bill lowers the cost threshold for certain broadband infrastructure projects to qualify as 
covered projects
 under the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act from $200 million to $5 million. Such projects qualify for expedited federal environmental review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Smarter Weather Forecasting for Water Management, Farming, and Ranching Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-324
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Smarter Weather Forecasting for Water Management, Farming, and Ranching Act of 2025

This bill directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish pilot projects to support improved subseasonal to seasonal precipitation forecasting for water management in the western United States and for agriculture nationwide. (Under current law, 
subseasonal
 means the time range between two weeks and three months, and 
seasonal
 means the time range between three months and two years.)

Specifically, NOAA must establish a pilot project to address challenges to improving forecasting and related product development for water management in the western United States. The project must address, among other items, improvements to operational modeling in mountainous regions and to the forecasting of atmospheric rivers. 

NOAA must also establish a second pilot project to address challenges to improving forecasting and related product development for U.S. agriculture. The project must address, among other items, improvements to operational modeling of warm-season precipitation and to the prediction of certain spring and summer weather patterns. 

Each pilot project must include activities that engage with and leverage the resources of academic institutions and entities within NOAA, and that achieve measurable objectives for operational forecast improvement. NOAA’s authority with respect to these pilot projects expires five years after the bill’s enactment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Coordinated Federal Response to Extreme Heat Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-325
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Air quality
Atmospheric science and weather
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Department of Commerce
Environmental health
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
American Music Fairness Act

Bill: 119-s-326
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: 

American Music Fairness Act

 
This bill establishes that the copyright holder of a sound recording shall have the exclusive right to perform the sound recording through an audio transmission. (Currently, the public performance right only covers performances through a digital audio transmission in certain instances, which means that nonsubscription terrestrial radio stations generally do not have to get a license to publicly perform a copyright-protected sound recording.)
 
Under the bill, a nonsubscription broadcast transmission must have a license to publicly perform such sound recordings. The Copyright Royalty Board must periodically determine the royalty rates for such a license. When determining the rates, the board must base its decision on certain information presented by the parties, including the radio stations' effect on other streams of revenue related to the sound recordings. 
 
Terrestrial broadcast stations (and the owners of such stations) that fall below certain revenue thresholds may pay certain flat fees, instead of the board-established rate, for a license to publicly perform copyright-protected sound recordings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
HONOR Act

Bill: 119-s-327
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2025-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Sports Blackouts Act

Bill: 119-s-328
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2025-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: 

Stop Sports Blackouts Act

This bill requires cable and satellite broadcast providers to issue rebates to customers who are denied access to video programming included in their subscription because of programming negotiations. 

Specifically, where a provider’s negotiations related to the retransmission or carriage of video programming result in the provider failing to offer access to programming included in a customer’s subscription, the customer must be issued a rebate for the affected period. The Federal Communications Commission is directed to issue rules to this effect, including to establish the appropriate amount for such a rebate. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Keeping Drugs Out of Schools Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-329
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2025-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Community life and organization
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: 

Keeping Drugs Out of Schools Act of 2025

This bill allows the Office of National Drug Control Policy to award grants for eligible entities to implement school-community partnerships for preventing and reducing substance use and misuse among youth. 
Eligible entity
 refers to a coalition that (1) receives or has received a grant under the Drug-Free Communities Support Program, and (2) has a memorandum of understanding in effect with not less than one local school to establish a school-community partnership.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
CCP IP Act

Bill: 119-s-330
Sponsor: Sen. Curtis, John R. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
China
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign property
Intellectual property
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Sanctions
Visas and passports

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-23
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Holocaust Education and Antisemitism Lessons Act

Bill: 119-s-332
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2025-01-30 in the Senate
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: 2025-01-30
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: 2025-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Homeowner Energy Freedom Act

Bill: 119-s-333
Sponsor: Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
American Values Act

Bill: 119-s-334
Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2025-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Hospital Support Act

Bill: 119-s-335
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: 

Rural Hospital Support Act

This bill modifies and extends certain payment adjustments for rural hospitals under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system.

Specifically, the bill indexes payment adjustments for sole community hospitals and Medicare-dependent hospitals to FY2016 operating costs, if it results in higher payments for such hospitals. The bill also makes payment adjustments for Medicare-dependent hospitals and low-volume hospitals permanent (the adjustments currently expire on March 31, 2025).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Disaster Mitigation and Tax Parity Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-336
Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
Introduced: 2025-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: 

Disaster Mitigation and Tax Parity Act of 2025

This bill excludes from gross income, for federal income tax purposes, payments received from a state catastrophe loss mitigation program by an individual for the purpose of making improvements to the individual’s property that mitigate the impact of certain disasters.

Under current law, individuals may exclude from gross income, for federal income tax purposes, payments received under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act or the National Flood Insurance Act (as in effect on April 15, 2005) for hazard mitigation. (Some exceptions apply.) Further, under current law, such payments do not increase the basis of the property for which the payments are made.

The bill allows a similar exclusion from gross income for certain payments received by an individual from a program established by

a state (or any political subdivision or instrumentality of the state),

a joint powers authority, or

an entity that was established by the state to provide essential or basic property insurance and is regulated by the state.

Under the bill, such payments must be for making improvements to the individual’s property for the sole purpose of reducing damage that would be done to the property by a windstorm, earthquake, flood, or wildfire.

Finally, the bill provides that such payments from a state catastrophe loss mitigation program do not increase the basis of the property for which the payments are made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate