hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Returning SBA to Main Street Act

Bill: 119-s-298
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Commuting
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Rural conditions and development
Small Business Administration
Wages and earnings

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 21.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Ernst with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Ernst with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-02-20
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. 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 Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Mentoring to Succeed Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-299
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Government studies and investigations
Performance measurement
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Mentoring to Succeed Act of 2025

This bill establishes grants to support mentoring programs for eligible youth (e.g., in-school youth, out-of-school youth, or youth who are failing academically or who meet specified criteria). 

Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Labor to award competitive grants for certain community-based organizations or partnerships involving community-based organizations to (1) establish, expand, or support mentoring programs; (2) assist eligible youth enrolled in secondary schools in developing cognitive and social-emotional skills; and (3) prepare eligible youth for success in high school, postsecondary education, and the workforce.

Additionally, Labor must work with the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Department of Education to (1) refer grant recipients to the National Mentoring Resource Center to obtain mentoring resources, and (2) provide grant recipients with information regarding transitional services for eligible youth returning from correctional facilities and transition services for students with disabilities.

The bill also requires Labor's Chief Evaluation Office to study and report on mentoring programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S482-484)
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
DLARA

Bill: 119-s-300
Sponsor: Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disaster relief and insurance
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Small business

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 22.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Ernst with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-03-04
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Ernst with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-02-20
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. 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 Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Border Security is National Security Act

Bill: 119-s-301
Sponsor: Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Border Security is National Security Act

This bill authorizes appropriations through FY2028 for the Department of Defense to provide border security support to the Department of Homeland Security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act

Bill: 119-s-302
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
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: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Defund the CFPB Act

Bill: 119-s-303
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Defund the CFPB Act

This bill caps funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at $0.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-304
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025 

This bill limits birthright citizenship by redefining what it means to be 
subject to the jurisdiction
 of the United States.

Currently, a person born in the United States and subject to U.S. jurisdiction is entitled to citizenship. Under the bill, a person is subject to U.S. jurisdiction if he or she is born to a parent who is (1) a U.S. citizen or national, (2) a lawful permanent resident residing in the United States, or (3) a non-U.S. national (
alien 
under federal law) in lawful status who is performing active service in the Armed Forces.

The bill does not affect the citizenship or nationality status of any person born before the bill's enactment date.


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
Small Business Technological Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-305
Sponsor: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Computer security and identity theft
Government lending and loan guarantees

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-21
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act

Bill: 119-s-307
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Assault and harassment offenses
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Department of Justice
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act

This bill establishes requirements for the Department of Justice (DOJ) and component agencies to assess and respond to incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault by incarcerated individuals against Bureau of Prisons (BOP) staff.

Specifically, the bill requires DOJ to adopt national standards for the prevention, reduction, and punishment of sexual harassment and sexual assault by incarcerated individuals against correctional officers or other employees of the BOP.

Additionally, the bill requires the BOP to fully implement the recommendations of the DOJ Inspector General contained in the report titled 
Evaluation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Efforts to Address Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Committed by Inmates Toward Staff
.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-05
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2025-05-05
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2025-05-01
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2643: 2; text: CR S2643)
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2643: 2; text: CR S2643)
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-04-29
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
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
Graduate Opportunity and Affordable Loans Act

Bill: 119-s-308
Sponsor: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Graduate Opportunity and Affordable Loans Act

This bill limits federal student loan borrowing for graduate and professional students.

Specifically, the bill terminates the ability of a graduate or professional student to receive a Direct PLUS Loan. Institutions of higher education (IHEs) must notify their prospective and enrolled graduate and professional students that Direct PLUS Loans terminate on June 30, 2025.

Additionally, the bill establishes the aggregate loan limit for Direct Unsubsidized Loans as $65,000 for a graduate student (in addition to the amount borrowed for undergraduate education) and $130,000 for a professional student (in addition to the amount borrowed for undergraduate education).

The bill allows IHEs to set lower loan limits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A PLUS Act

Bill: 119-s-309
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success Act or the A PLUS Act
 

This bill creates a framework under which states may receive federal elementary and secondary education funds on a consolidated basis and use such funds for any educational purpose permitted by state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Build Housing with Care Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-310
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Child care and development
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Housing and community development funding
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Build Housing with Care Act of 2025

This bill establishes a competitive grant program to support co-located childcare and housing facilities. It also requires the Government Accountability Office to study the availability and affordability of childcare for residents of public housing.

Specifically, the Department of Housing and Urban Development must award the grants to eligible entities, which include community development financial institutions, public housing authorities, licensed childcare providers, government entities, housing developers, and consortia of such entities. Entities must use the grants for designing, planning, constructing, acquiring, renovating, or otherwise supporting new or existing housing facilities with childcare providers on the same premises or nearby. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
ACE Act

Bill: 119-s-311
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Achieving Choice in Education Act or the ACE Act

This bill expands the expenses that may be paid for with tax-free distributions from a qualified tuition program (known as a 529 plan) to include certain elementary, secondary, and homeschool education expenses and makes other changes related to 529 plans. The bill also limits the tax exclusion for interest on state or local bonds.

Under current law, 529 plan distributions are excluded from gross income if they are used to pay for qualified higher education expenses, which includes up to $10,000 (per year and per beneficiary) for tuition at an elementary or secondary public, private, or religious school.

The bill expands the expenses that may be paid for with tax-free 529 plan distributions to include homeschooling tuition and the following expenses related to elementary, secondary, and homeschool education:

curriculum,

books,

instructional and online educational materials,

tutoring or educational classes outside the home,

testing fees,

fees for dual enrollment in a higher education institution, and

educational therapies for disabled students.

The bill also increases the amount of tax-free 529 plan distributions that may be used to pay for elementary, secondary, and homeschool education expenses to $20,000.

The bill increases the annual gift tax exclusion by $20,000 for contributions made to a 529 plan. (Under current law, up to $19,000 may be excluded from taxable gifts in 2025.)

Finally, the bill limits the tax exclusion for interest on state or local bonds to bonds issued by states that meet minimum school choice requirements or political subdivisions of such states.


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
Jamie Reed Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act

Bill: 119-s-312
Sponsor: Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Civil actions and liability
Drug therapy
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Higher education
Prescription drugs
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Surgery and anesthesia

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
Stop Funding Global Terrorists Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-313
Sponsor: Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Stop Funding Global Terrorists Act of 2025

This bill prohibits the United States from making any voluntary or assessed contributions to the United Nations (UN) for assistance to Afghanistan until the Department of State certifies to Congress that (1) no U.S. funds are used in cash shipments by the UN to Afghanistan, and (2) terrorist organizations do not receive funds as a result of such cash shipments. If the State Department later determines such a certification is inaccurate, it must revoke the certification and notify Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Hotel Fees Transparency Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-314
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Inflation and prices
Internet, web applications, social media
Landlord and tenant
Marketing and advertising
Service industries
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

Hotel Fees Transparency Act of 2025

This bill requires providers of short-term lodging (e.g., hotels, short-term rentals, and third-party online sellers) to include certain price information when displaying, advertising, or marketing reservations for lodging.

Specifically, such providers must (1) display the total services price, including the base price and any service fees, if a price is displayed in an advertisement. marketing material, or a price list; (2) disclose the total services price at the time the services are first displayed to an individual seeking to purchase such services and anytime thereafter during the purchasing process; and (3) disclose, prior to the final purchase, any tax, fee, or assessment imposed by any government entity (or quasi-government entity) on the sale of such services.

The bill provides for enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general (or other authorized state officials).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-14
text: Star Print ordered on the reported bill.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 49.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment. With written report No. 119-15.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment. With written report No. 119-15.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without 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
AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-315
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Government studies and investigations
Motor vehicles
Technology assessment
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: 

AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025

This bill requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to issue a rule requiring AM radio capabilities to be standard in all new passenger vehicles. (AM radio is often used to deliver emergency alerts and news and entertainment programming; some newer vehicles do not include AM equipment.)

Specifically, this bill applies to passenger vehicles (1) manufactured in the United States for sale in the United States, imported into the United States, or shipped in interstate commerce; and (2) manufactured after the rule's effective date. The rule must require all such vehicles to have devices that can receive signals and play content transmitted by AM stations or digital audio AM stations installed as standard equipment and made easily accessible to drivers.

Prior to the rule's effective date, manufacturers that do not include devices that can access AM radio as standard equipment (1) must inform purchasers of this fact through clear and conspicuous labeling, and (2) may not charge an additional or separate fee for AM radio access.

DOT may assess civil penalties for any violation of the rule. The Department of Justice may also bring a civil action to enjoin a violation.

DOT’s authority to issue the rule expires 10 years after the bill’s enactment. 

Further, the Government Accountability Office must study and report on the dissemination of emergency alerts to the public, including by conducting an assessment of AM broadcast stations relative to other Integrated Public Alert and Warning System communication technologies.

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-03
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 39.
action_date: 2025-04-03
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-11.
action_date: 2025-04-03
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-11.
action_date: 2025-02-05
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
Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-316
Sponsor: Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2025-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate