hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
End Unaccountable Amnesty Act

Bill: 119-s-225
Sponsor: Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

End Unaccountable Amnesty Act

This bill revises, restricts, and repeals various laws and programs addressing the admissibility and deportability of certain non-U.S. nationals (
aliens
 under federal law). The bill includes changes to the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, the treatment of unaccompanied children, and removal proceedings.

Under current law, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may grant a foreign state Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which protects qualified nationals of that foreign state from removal from the United States. The bill instead requires an act of Congress to grant TPS to a foreign state. The bill limits TPS status to 12 months, subject to extension.

The bill also generally requires the return of unaccompanied inadmissible children to their country of nationality or last habitual residence, among other changes. Under current law, DHS is authorized (not required) to return these children, and only if their country of nationality or last habitual residence is contiguous to the United States.

The bill also repeals the law allowing for the cancellation of removal or adjustment of the immigration status of qualifying non-U.S. nationals. 

Under the bill, certain forms of identification, including a Notice to Appear issued by DHS, are no longer valid documents for purposes of airport security checkpoints.

The bill also limits the ability of DHS to grant parole (temporary admission granted on a case-by-case basis). For example, the bill limits the granting of parole to a list of specific situations, such as the imminent death of a close family member.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act

Bill: 119-s-226
Sponsor: Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act

This bill requires the Department of State to develop and implement a strategy to discourage foreign countries and nongovernmental organizations from providing financial or material support to the Taliban, including by using U.S.-provided foreign assistance to discourage countries and organizations from providing such support to the Taliban.

The State Department must report to Congress on (1) foreign countries and nongovernmental organizations that have provided financial or material support to the Taliban and U.S. efforts to oppose such support; (2) the strategy to discourage such support and a plan for the strategy's implementation; (3) U.S.-funded direct cash assistance programs in Afghanistan; and (4) the Afghan Fund, including Taliban influence over Da Afghanistan Bank (the Afghan central bank).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
PEACE Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-227
Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Civics education
Education programs funding
Racial and ethnic relations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Protect Equality And Civics Education Act of 2025 or the PEACE Act
 
of 2025

This bill prohibits the use of federal funding made available for the American History and Civics Education program to fund a curriculum, teaching, or counseling that promotes a divisive concept (e.g., race stereotyping or scapegoating) under the priorities noticed in the Department of Education's proposed rule titled 
Proposed Priorities-American History and Civics Education
, published on April 19, 2021.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Acequia Communities Empowered by Qualifying Upgrades for Infrastructure Act

Bill: 119-s-228
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Acequia Communities Empowered by Qualifying Upgrades for Infrastructure Act

This bill specifies that agricultural producers who rely on acequia systems are eligible to receive assistance under the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program for all losses suffered as a result of drought, flood, or other natural disasters. Acequias, or community ditches, are community-operated and -organized water irrigation systems.

The bill also provides that a special use permit shall not be required on Department of Agriculture (USDA) or Department of the Interior land for the (1) presence or use of an acequia or the use of the acequia's water, or (2) routine maintenance and minor improvements conducted by a community user or governing body of an acequia.

Further, USDA must submit a report to Congress on agricultural producers who rely on acequia systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
DTC Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-229
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance
Marketing and advertising
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Drug-price Transparency for Consumers Act of 2025 or the DTC Act of 2025

This bill requires consumer advertisements for prescription drugs and biological products to include certain price information if the drug or biologic is (1) covered under Medicare or Medicaid, and (2) required to include a risk summary under current law.

Specifically, such advertisements must clearly and conspicuously disclose the wholesale price for a 30-day supply of the drug or biologic and may explain that a consumer may pay a different amount for the drug or biologic depending on the consumer's health insurance coverage.

The requirement does not apply to advertisements for drugs or biologics with a wholesale cost of less than $35 for a one-month supply.

Each violation of this requirement is subject to a civil penalty of not more than $100,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S337-338; Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S337)
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Unborn Child Support Act

Bill: 119-s-230
Sponsor: Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Separation, divorce, custody, support
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Unborn Child Support Act

 
 This bill requires states to apply child support obligations to the time period during pregnancy. This requirement is applicable retroactively based on a court order at the request of the pregnant parent and a determination by a physician of the month during which the child was conceived. Existing state requirements are applicable to these obligations, such as proof of parenthood.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
WEATHER Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-231
Sponsor: Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Withstanding Extreme Agricultural Threats by Harvesting Economic Resilience Act of 2025 or the WEATHER Act of 2025

This bill requires the federal crop insurance program (FCIP) to provide for the research and development of a single index insurance policy to insure against agricultural income losses due to covered weather conditions.

Specifically, the FCIP must develop a single index policy that is available in every state, each U.S. territory, and the District of Columbia to insure against agricultural income losses due to one or more covered weather conditions. 
Covered weather conditions
 are those found to be closely correlated with agricultural income losses, including high winds, excessive moisture and flooding, extreme heat, abnormal freeze conditions, wildfire, hail, drought, and any other severe weather or growing conditions applicable to small-scale farmers.

Under an index policy, claim payments are generally triggered based on a predetermined index that is entirely independent of the individual farm operation (e.g., rainfall level). Under such a policy, the payments are automatically triggered when the index reaches a certain level rather than when an insured farmer files a claim. 

In carrying out the research and development, the FCIP must hold stakeholder meetings to solicit producer and agent feedback.

In addition, the FCIP must make publicly available a report on the results of the research and development, and any recommendations to Congress with respect to those results. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-232
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Restoring Confidence in the World Anti-Doping Agency Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-233
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Athletes
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Olympic games
Wages and earnings

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-06-25
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-234
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Congressional oversight
Crimes against property
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sex offenses
State and local government operations
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act of 2025 

This bill requires certain state and local prosecutors to report data on criminal referrals and outcomes of cases involving murder or non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson, or any offense involving the illegal use or possession of a firearm.

The reporting requirement applies to state and local prosecutors in a jurisdiction that has 360,000 or more persons and receives funding under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program. The report must contain data on

cases referred for prosecution,

cases the prosecutor declined to prosecute or refer for diversion,

cases for which the prosecutor declined to reach a plea agreement,

cases that resulted in a plea agreement or referral for diversion, and

offenses the prosecutor did not prosecute due to an internal policy.

If a state or local prosecutor complies with these requirements, the bill requires (1) the Department of Justice to give priority in disbursing Byrne JAG program funds to the local government served by the prosecutor, and (2) the local government to ensure that the prosecutor receives a portion of the funds.

Additionally, the bill prohibits states and local governments from receiving funds under the Byrne JAG program if they have in effect a policy that prohibits the use of cash bail for a defendant in a case involving the illegal use or illegal possession of a firearm.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Apprenticeship Pathways Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-235
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Building construction
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Medical education
Public contracts and procurement
Science and engineering education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Act of August 9, 1955 (commonly known as the "Long-Term Leasing Act"), to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land in the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation and land held in trust for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-s-236
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Land use and conservation
Massachusetts

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 
This bill authorizes the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) to lease their land held in trust for a term of up to 99 years. Both tribes are located in Massachusetts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-237
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Cancer
Congressional oversight
Disability assistance
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Law enforcement officers
Worker safety and health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 78.
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-05-15
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
FREE Act

Bill: 119-s-238
Sponsor: Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Legal fees and court costs
Licensing and registrations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Crow Revenue Act

Bill: 119-s-239
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Montana
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Crow Revenue Act

This bill addresses the exchange of mineral interests in Montana involving the federal government, the Crow Tribe of Montana, and a private party.

Specifically, the bill requires 

the Department of the Interior to accept the relinquishment of a specified federal coal lease associated with the Bull Mountains Mine near Roundup, Montana (the current operator of the mine is Signal Peak Energy); 

the Joe and Barbara Hope Mineral Trust (Hope Family Trust) to convey approximately 4,660 acres of subsurface mineral interests located within the boundaries of the Crow Indian Reservation in Big Horn County, Montana, to the tribe; and 

Interior to convey approximately 4,530 acres of subsurface mineral interests and 940 acres of surface interests located in Musselshell County, Montana, to the Hope Family Trust. 

Prior to these conveyances, the tribe must notify Interior that the tribe and the Hope Family Trust have agreed on a revenue-sharing formula for the development of the mineral and surface interests in Musselshell County, Montana.

The mineral interests conveyed by the Hope Family Trust to the tribe shall be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the tribe, upon the tribe's request. These mineral interests shall not be subject to state or local taxation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-240
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Dams and canals
Government trust funds
Indian lands and resources rights
Montana
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025

This bill revises the water rights settlement agreement entered into by the Crow Tribe of Montana and Montana.

The Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010 ratified, authorized, and confirmed the water rights compact between the tribe and Montana. Among other provisions, this settlement act authorized the Bureau of Reclamation to plan, design and construct the following two major projects on the Crow Reservation: (1) the rehabilitation and improvement of the Crow Irrigation Project (CIP); and (2) the planning, design, and construction of the MR&I System (the municipal, rural, and industrial water system of the Crow Reservation).

Among other provisions, the bill revises the settlement act to

replace references to the 
MR&I System
 with 
MR&I Projects
; 

establish a nontrust, interest-bearing account (to be known as the Crow CIP Implementation Account) to allow Reclamation to continue to work on the rehabilitation of the CIP; 

create a new MR&I Projects Account, through which the tribe must use funds for activities related to water production, treatment, or delivery infrastructure; and

extend by five years (to 2030) the period during which the tribe has the exclusive right to construct hydropower facilities on the Yellowtail Afterbay Dam in Montana.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Northern Montana Water Security Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-241
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Dams and canals
Department of the Interior
Economic development
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal-Indian relations
Government information and archives
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Historical and cultural resources
Hunting and fishing
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Missouri River
Montana
Outdoor recreation
State and local government operations
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water storage
Water use and supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Northern Montana Water Security Act of 2025

This bill modifies and ratifies a specified water rights settlement agreement entered into by the United States, Montana, and the Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana (i.e., the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes). The bill also authorizes wastewater infrastructure on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana.

The bill requires the community's water rights to be held in trust for the benefit of the community and its allottees. The community must enact a tribal water code to regulate its water rights.

Additionally, the bill authorizes the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (as applicable) to enter negotiations with Montana to exchange certain state lands for federal lands to be held in trust for the benefit of the community. The bill prohibits gaming on the land taken into trust.

The bill also

establishes the Aaniiih Nakoda Settlement Trust Fund (and specified accounts) for purposes of carrying out this bill,

establishes the Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Settlement Implementation Fund (and specified accounts) for purposes of carrying out this bill, and

provides funding for specified accounts established by the bill.

The bill also authorizes Interior to plan, design, construct, operate, maintain, and replace community water distribution and wastewater treatment facilities for the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Dignity for Aborted Children Act

Bill: 119-s-242
Sponsor: Sen. Ricketts, Pete [R-NE]
Introduced: 2025-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Cemeteries and funerals
Census and government statistics
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Health information and medical records
Health personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: 

Dignity for Aborted Children Act

This bill establishes requirements for abortion providers with respect to the disposal of human fetal tissue from an abortion.

Specifically, it requires abortion providers to obtain a patient's informed consent for one of two specified methods of disposition and to retain the corresponding documentation in the patient's file.

First, patients may choose to retain possession of the tissue. A patient may choose to transfer the tissue to an entity that provides interment or cremation services.

Second, patients may choose to release the tissue to the provider. Providers must ensure any tissue released to them is interred or cremated within seven days of the procedure in a manner consistent with state law regarding the disposal of human remains.

Abortion providers must submit reports annually to the Department of Health and Human Services about these requirements and other specified information.

The bill establishes civil penalties for violations of the requirement to retain documentation of informed consent, and it establishes criminal penalties for violations of the requirement regarding the disposal of human fetal tissue.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate