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POWER Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-164
Sponsor: Rep. Hoyle, Val T. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Promoting Opportunities to Widen Electrical Resilience Act of 2025 or the POWER Act of 2025

This bill authorizes electric utilities receiving certain emergency assistance for the restoration of power to also carry out cost-effective hazard mitigation activities in combination with the power restoration activities. 

Additionally, the bill specifies that electric utilities receiving such assistance for a facility may, if otherwise eligible, also receive hazard mitigation assistance for the same facility under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Public Assistance program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 419 - 2 (Roll no. 13). (text: 1/13/2025 CR H103)
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 419 - 2 (Roll no. 13). (text: 1/13/2025 CR H103)
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H168-169)
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 164.
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H103-104)
action_date: 2025-01-13
text: Mr. Graves moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2025-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act

Bill: 119-hr-165
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
South Dakota
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to complete all actions necessary to place approximately 40 acres of land in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, into restricted fee status for the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. 
Restricted fee status
 refers to land that is owned by a tribe or tribal member but is subject to restrictions by the United States against alienation (i.e., sale or transfer) or encumbrance (e.g., liens, leases, or rights-of-way) by operation of law.
 
The bill requires the land to be held and maintained as a memorial and sacred site, as outlined by the document titled
 Covenant Between the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
 and dated October 21, 2022. Further, it prohibits commercial development and gaming activity on the land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-10-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 177.
action_date: 2025-10-02
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-72.
action_date: 2025-10-02
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-72.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 416 - 0 (Roll no. 22). (text: 1/21/2025 CR H246-247)
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 416 - 0 (Roll no. 22). (text: 1/21/2025 CR H246-247)
action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H285)
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 165.
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H246-248)
action_date: 2025-01-21
text: Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Fair Lending for All Act

Bill: 119-hr-166
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Fair Lending for All Act 

This bill adds classes of individuals protected under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.

With respect to credit transactions, the bill adds sexual orientation, gender identity, and an applicant's location based on zip code or census tract as classes protected against discrimination. (Currently, discrimination is prohibited on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age, or because an applicant receives public assistance.)

The bill establishes criminal penalties for violations of prohibited credit discrimination.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is required to review loan applications for compliance with specified consumer laws and to establish an Office of Fair Lending Testing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Community Reclamation Partnerships Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-167
Sponsor: Rep. LaHood, Darin [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Coal
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government liability
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
Mining
Public participation and lobbying
State and local government operations
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Community Reclamation Partnerships Act of 2025

This bill revises the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Program, which restores land and water adversely impacted by surface coal mines that were abandoned before August 3, 1977.

Until September 30, 2032, the bill allows a state with an approved reclamation program to enter into a memorandum of understanding with relevant federal or state agencies for remediating mine drainage on abandoned mine land and water impacted by abandoned mines.

In addition, the bill authorizes a partnership between a state and a community reclaimer for remediating abandoned mine land if certain conditions are met. A community reclaimer is a person who (1) voluntarily assists a state in a reclamation project, (2) did not participate in the creation of site conditions at the proposed site or activities that caused any land or waters at the site to become eligible for reclamation or drainage abatement expenditures, and (3) is not subject to outstanding violations of surface coal mining permits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-14
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-05-13
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-05-13
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1970-1971)
action_date: 2025-05-13
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1970-1971)
action_date: 2025-05-13
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 167.
action_date: 2025-05-13
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1970-1972)
action_date: 2025-05-13
text: Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
TORCH Act

Bill: 119-hr-168
Sponsor: Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Targeted Operations to Remove Catastrophic Hazards Act or the TORCH Act

This bill establishes requirements concerning forest management on federal land, including provisions to expedite the approval of forest management activities.

Specifically, it expands exclusions from environmental review requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 for certain forest management activities, including by directing the Forest Service to develop a categorical exclusion for forest management activities that mitigate the risks associated with high-priority hazard trees. A categorical exclusion is a class of actions that a federal agency has determined do not significantly affect the quality of the human environment and, thus, do not require an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement.

The bill also exempts the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management from the requirement to reinitiate consultation with the Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 on an approved, amended, or revised land management plan when (1) a new species is listed or critical habitat is designated, or (2) new information reveals that the land management plan may affect a listed species or critical habitat in a manner or to an extent not previously considered.

It also creates and modifies requirements related to vegetation management practices and forest management activities, such as activities to reduce wildfire risks. For example, the bill modifies the treatment of certain revenue under good neighbor agreements, which allow federal agencies to partner with state and local governments to carry out certain restoration services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Prevent Family Fire Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-169
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Mike [D-CA-49]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Income tax credits
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Prevent Family Fire Act of 2025 

This bill establishes a new business tax credit on the sale of a safe firearm storage device on or before December 31, 2032. 

The amount of the tax credit is 10% of the retail sales price (up to a maximum price of $400 and excluding separately stated sales tax) of a safe firearm storage device. The tax credit is allowed only on the first retail sale of a safe firearm storage device for a use other than resale or long-term lease.

The bill defines 
safe firearm storage device
 as a device that is (1) designed and marketed to deny unauthorized access to a firearm or ammunition or render such items inoperable; and (2) is secured by a combination lock, key lock, or lock based on biometric information.

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
USPS Subpoena Authority Act

Bill: 119-hr-170
Sponsor: Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Evidence and witnesses
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

USPS Subpoena Authority Act

This bill expands the administrative subpoena authority of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).

Specifically, the bill authorizes subpoenas to investigate additional violations of law that involve the mail, including violations related to controlled substances and hazardous materials.

The bill also expands the senior USPS officials to whom subpoena approval authority may be delegated to include the Chief Postal Inspector.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Make Transportation Authorities Accountable and Transparent Act

Bill: 119-hr-171
Sponsor: Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Public transit
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Make Transportation Authorities Accountable and Transparent Act

This bill directs the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Transportation to conduct an audit of public transportation spending under certain laws (including specified coronavirus relief laws) and report to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Defund Heroin Injection Centers Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-172
Sponsor: Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Defund Heroin Injection Centers Act of 2025

This bill prohibits federal funds from being made available to a state, local, tribal, or private entity that operates or controls an injection center (i.e., a medically supervised injection site) in violation of the federal statute commonly known as the Crack House Statute. The statute generally prohibits making facilities available for the purpose of unlawfully using a controlled substance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
High Rise Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-173
Sponsor: Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Fires
Income tax deductions
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Consequences for Social Security Fraud Act

Bill: 119-hr-174
Sponsor: Rep. McClintock, Tom [R-CA-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Consequences for Social Security Fraud Act

This bill adds additional criminal offences to the grounds upon which a non-U.S. national (
alien
 under federal law) may be barred from admission into the United States or deported. Specifically, an individual who has been convicted of, or admits to committing, Social Security fraud, identification document fraud, or fraud related to COVID-19 financial assistance programs is inadmissible or deportable under the bill. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Deport Alien Gang Members Act

Bill: 119-hr-175
Sponsor: Rep. McClintock, Tom [R-CA-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Deport Alien Gang Members Act

This bill makes non-U.S. nationals (
aliens
 under federal law) associated with criminal gangs inadmissible for entry into the United States and deportable. The bill also establishes procedures to designate groups as criminal gangs.

An individual shall be inadmissible if certain officers or agencies know or have reason to believe that the individual is or was a criminal gang member or has participated or aided such a group's illegal activities. An individual who is or was a member of such a gang, has participated or aided such a group's illegal activities, or seeks to enter or has entered the United States in furtherance of such activity shall be deportable.

Such individuals must be subject to mandatory detention. Furthermore, such individuals shall not be eligible for (1) asylum; (2) temporary protected status; (3) special immigrant juvenile visas; or (4) parole, unless they are assisting the government in a law enforcement matter.

The bill defines a criminal gang as a group of five or more persons (1) where one of its primary purposes is committing specified criminal offenses and its members have engaged in a continuing series of such offenses within the past five years, or (2) that has been designated as a criminal gang by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The bill also establishes procedures for DHS to designate a group as a criminal gang, including notifying Congress, publishing a notice in the Federal Register, and providing an opportunity for the group to petition for review of the designation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-176
Sponsor: Rep. McClintock, Tom [R-CA-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures
Israel
Middle East
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act

This bill imposes immigration-related penalties on certain non-U.S. nationals (
aliens
 under federal law) who are involved with terrorism or attacks against Israel.

Under this bill, members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad or Hamas or individuals who participated in or otherwise facilitated the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel may not be admitted into the United States.

The bill also expands an existing admissions bar against officers, representatives, and spokespersons of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Under this bill, all PLO members are barred from admission into the United States.

The bill also prohibits any non-U.S. national who participated in or otherwise facilitated the October 7, 2023, attacks from seeking any immigration-related relief or protections, including (1) protection from being deported to a country where the individual's life or freedom would be threatened, or (2) asylum in the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security must annually report to Congress the number of individuals found to be inadmissible or deportable due to their participation in or facilitation of the attacks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-21
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 17.
action_date: 2025-03-21
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 119-27.
action_date: 2025-03-21
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 119-27.
action_date: 2025-02-26
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2025-02-26
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Yosemite National Park Equal Access and Fairness Act

Bill: 119-hr-177
Sponsor: Rep. McClintock, Tom [R-CA-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Congressional oversight
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: 

Yosemite National Park Equal Access and Fairness Act

This bill modifies the Raker Act, which allowed San Francisco to dam the Hetch Hetchy Valley within Yosemite National Park, to (1) increase the annual rent San Francisco pays to the National Park Service (NPS), and (2) direct the NPS to expand public access to the reservoir and lake created by the dam.

Specifically, the bill increases rent paid by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission for the use of the park from $30,000 to $2 million per year. That amount must be adjusted annually to reflect increases in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers. The commission may not recoup such sums from wholesale water or power customers. The bill allows collected rent to be used by the Department of the Interior for wildfire mitigation activities in the park and other national parks in California.

The bill also requires the NPS to administer the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and Lake Eleanor Basin areas for public recreation, benefit, and use in a manner that will preserve scenic, historic, scientific, or otherwise important features.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-03
text: Introduced in House