hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Complete COVID Collections Act

Bill: 119-s-68
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Debt collection
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Infectious and parasitic diseases

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 8.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Ernst with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Reported by Senator Ernst with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
COLLUDE Act

Bill: 119-s-69
Sponsor: Sen. Schmitt, Eric [R-MO]
Introduced: 2025-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: 

Curtailing Online Limitations that Lead Unconstitutionally to Democracy's Erosion Act or the COLLUDE Act

 
This bill limits federal liability protection, sometimes referred to as Section 230 protection, that generally precludes providers and users of an interactive computer service (e.g., a social media company) from being held legally responsible for content provided by a third party.
 
Specifically, the bill removes the protection if a provider restricts access to or availability of content containing political speech because of a governmental request unless the request serves a legitimate law enforcement or national security purpose.
 
In addition, the bill changes legal procedures for applying the protection. Currently, the protection serves as broad immunity that typically allows the early dismissal of lawsuits, thereby preempting lawsuits and statutes that impose liability for third-party content. This bill makes the protection an affirmative defense, which means the provider or user must prove that the protection applies before the lawsuit may be dismissed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the imposition of sanctions with respect to Ansarallah and its officials, agents, or affiliates for acts of international terrorism.

Bill: 119-s-70
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 
This bill requires the President to designate Ansarallah, the Iran-backed movement in Yemen also known as the Houthis, as a foreign terrorist organization. The President must also report to Congress a determination as to whether specified foreign persons are officials, agents, or affiliates of Ansarallah.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Baby Changing on Board Act

Bill: 119-s-71
Sponsor: Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Disability and health-based discrimination
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
Railroads

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Baby Changing on Board Act

This bill requires Amtrak passenger rail trains to have a baby changing table in at least one restroom in each car, including in an Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990-compliant restroom. The bill applies to passenger rail trains that are (1) owned and operated by Amtrak, and (2) solicited for purchase after the bill's enactment for use by Amtrak.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Justice for Jocelyn Act

Bill: 119-s-72
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Justice for Jocelyn Act

This bill limits Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) Alternatives to Detention program, which supervises non-U.S. nationals (
aliens
 under federal law) subject to removal who are released from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Specifically, releases under this program are prohibited unless all detention beds are filled and DHS found no alternatives after exercising and exhausting all reasonable options.

The bill requires all individuals on ICE’s nondetained docket to be enrolled in the program and be subject to continuous GPS monitoring and curfew.

Further, the bill requires a non-U.S. national who was arrested and released to be removed in absentia if an immigration officer submits an affidavit to an immigration judge stating that the individual failed to comply with a condition of release.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
EMPSA

Bill: 119-s-73
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Marriage and family status
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Eliminating the Marriage Penalty in SSI Act or EMPSA

This bill excludes a spouse's income and resources when determining eligibility for Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and disregards marital status when calculating the SSI benefit amount, for an adult who has a diagnosed intellectual or developmental disability. (SSI is a federal income supplement program designed to help aged, blind, and disabled individuals with limited income and resources meet basic needs.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Play for Girls Act

Bill: 119-s-74
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Athletes
Congressional oversight
Crimes against women
Sex offenses
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Sports and recreation facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Fair Play for Girls Act

This bill requires the Department of Justice to report to Congress on violence against females in athletics in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Federal Financial Management Act

Bill: 119-s-75
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Performance measurement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
SMART Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-76
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Competition and antitrust
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Economic performance and conditions
Inflation and prices
Judicial review and appeals

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Setting Manageable Analysis Requirements in Text Act of 2025 or the SMART Act of 2025

This bill requires agencies, when publishing a proposed or final major rule, to include a framework for assessing whether the rule achieves its regulatory objective. An agency must assess a rule in the time frame included in the framework. The assessment must compare the rule's anticipated and actual benefits and costs.

Additionally, the assessment must determine whether (1) the rule has been rendered unnecessary because of changes to the subject area affected by the rule or it overlaps with, duplicates, or conflicts with other rules, or state and local government regulations; (2) the rule should be expanded, streamlined, or otherwise modified to accomplish the rule's objective; and (3) other alternatives or modifications to the rule could better achieve the rule's objective. 

The bill defines a major rule as a rule likely to cause (1) an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more; (2) a major increase in costs or prices; or (3) significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation, health, safety, the environment, or the ability of U.S.-based enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Early Participation in Regulations Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-77
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Competition and antitrust
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Economic performance and conditions
Government information and archives
Industrial policy and productivity
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Early Participation in Regulations Act of 2025

This bill directs agencies to publish an advance notice of a proposed rulemaking at least 90 days before publishing a notice of proposed rulemaking for a major rule. A 
major rule
 is a rule that the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) determines is likely to impose (1) an annual economic effect of $100 million or more; (2) a major increase in costs or prices for consumers, individual industries, government agencies, or geographic regions; or (3) significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation, health, safety, the environment, or the ability of U.S. enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises.

The advance notice must

include a description of the problem the rule may address, alternatives under consideration, and the legal authority for proposing the rule; and

solicit and provide at least 30 days for submission of written data, views, and argument from interested persons.

Any difference between such advance notice and the notice of proposed rulemaking may not be considered arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law for the purposes of review under the Administrative Procedure Act.

Advance notice is not required if the proposing agency is not required to publish notice of proposed rulemaking or OIRA finds that advance notice is (1) not in the public interest, (2) duplicative of a similar process, (3) not practicable due to a required deadline, or (4) for a rule that is routine or periodic in nature.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
TRUE Accountability Act

Bill: 119-s-78
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disaster relief and insurance
Government information and archives
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Taxpayer Resources Used in Emergencies Accountability Act or the TRUE Accountability Act

This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue guidance to certain executive branch agencies for the development of internal control plans that are available for immediate use in future emergencies or crises. (
Internal control
 refers to a process that provides reasonable assurance of achieving effective and efficient operations, reliable financial reporting, and legal compliance.)

This guidance must be in alignment with the Government Accountability Office reports entitled 
A Framework for Managing Improper Payments in Emergency Assistance Programs
 and 
A Framework for Managing Fraud Risks in Federal Programs
. 

Periodically, the agencies subject to this guidance must submit their internal control plan to OMB and OMB must submit such agency plans to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
ACCESS Act

Bill: 119-s-79
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Allowing Contractors to Choose Employees for Select Skills Act or the ACCESS Act

This bill prohibits federal contract bid solicitations for contractor personnel from including minimum educational requirements unless the contracting officer justifies the requirements. The prohibition applies to educational requirements that may be met through education alone, education or experience, or a combination of education and experience.

The bill also requires the Office of Management and Budget to issue implementing guidance to federal agencies, including instructions for contracting officers that encourage using alternatives to education requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
STEP Act

Bill: 119-s-80
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Guidance Clarity Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-81
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Guidance Clarity Act of 2025

This bill requires federal agencies to state on the first page of guidance documents that such guidance (1) does not have the force and effect of law, and (2) is intended only to provide clarity to the public about existing legal requirements or agency policies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Telework Reform Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-82
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Commuting
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Employee performance
Employment and training programs
Family relationships
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Labor-management relations
Law enforcement officers
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: 

Telework Reform Act of 2025

This bill establishes additional terms and conditions for executive agency telework policies. It also authorizes agencies to noncompetitively hire qualified covered veterans, military spouses, and spouses of law enforcement officers for remote telework (i.e., full-time telework from an approved alternative worksite). 

The bill provides, among other requirements, that agencies

limit telework agreements to a period of one year,

review telework agreements at least annually,

ensure that telework policies address the extent to which telework may be restricted based on performance or disciplinary action, and 

establish systems to confirm that employees are working solely at approved worksites.

The bill also authorizes agencies to noncompetitively appoint veterans, military spouses, and spouses of law enforcement officers with appropriate qualifications to remote telework positions. The authority for hiring spouses of law enforcement officers is a seven-year pilot program. 

Further, the bill requires the (1) Office of Management and Budget to issue guidelines to protect the security of information and systems used while teleworking, and (2) the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study comparing the processing time for constituent services provided by agencies as of the study's date with the average processing times in 2019.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Thin Blue Line Act

Bill: 119-s-83
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the Senate
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: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Sarah's Law

Bill: 119-s-84
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Sarah's Law

 
This bill requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain a non-U.S. national (
alien
 under federal law) who is unlawfully present in the United States and has been charged with a crime that resulted in the death or serious bodily injury of another person.
 
 ICE must make reasonable efforts to obtain information about the identity of any victims of the crimes for which the detained individual was charged or convicted. ICE shall provide the victim, or a relative or guardian of a deceased victim, with information about the detained individual, including name, date of birth, nationality, immigration status, criminal history, and a description of any related removal efforts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Continued Rapid Ohia Death Response Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-85
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Continued Rapid Ohia Death Response Act of 2025

This bill establishes requirements to research and control the fungus Ceratocystis, known as Rapid Ohia Death, which has killed more than a million native trees in Hawaii.

Specifically, the Department of the Interior must partner with the Department of Agriculture and Hawaii to control and address the fungus.

In addition, the U.S. Geological Survey must continue to research Rapid Ohia Death vectors and transmission.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must continue to partner with Hawaii and local stakeholders to manage ungulates (e.g., certain mammals such as deer) in Rapid Ohia Death control areas on federal, state, and private land.

Finally, the Forest Service must continue to provide (1) financial assistance to prevent the spread of the fungus and to restore the native forests of Hawaii, and (2) staff and necessary infrastructure funding to the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry to research the fungus.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

Bill: 119-s-86
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 
This bill eliminates automatic increases to pay for Members of Congress, beginning with the 120th Congress. 

Current law automatically increases Member pay according to a formula. The annual increase is (1) based on the percentage change in private sector wages as measured by the Employment Cost Index (ECI); and (2) capped at the percentage increase to General Schedule (GS) employees' base pay. The annual adjustment automatically goes into effect unless Congress modifies the increase in legislation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Let's Get to Work Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-87
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Let's Get to Work Act of 2025

This bill modifies and expands work requirements under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and certain housing programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Specifically, the bill expands the applicability of the work requirements for SNAP recipients who are able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs). As background, SNAP recipients who are ABAWDs have work-related requirements in addition to the general SNAP work registration and employment and training requirements.

The bill applies the work requirements for ABAWDs to adults who are not over 60 years old, whereas these requirements currently apply to adults who are not over 55 years old.

Further, the ABAWD exemption for a parent or household member with responsibility for a dependent child is restricted under the bill to a dependent child under the age of six. Currently, the child must be under the age of 18. 

The bill allows a member of a household with responsibility for a dependent child to participate in SNAP for up to 6 months (currently 3 months) over a 36-month period without meeting the ABAWD work requirements.

The bill also includes an exception for an individual who (1) is responsible for a dependent individual, and (2) is married to and resides with an individual who complies with the SNAP work requirements.

Additionally, the bill establishes work requirements for families residing in public housing by applying the SNAP work requirements for ABAWDs to the HUD public housing and tenant-based rental assistance (voucher) programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in Senate