hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
CHILD Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-413
Sponsor: Rep. Bice, Stephanie I. [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Combating High Inflation Limiting Daycare Act of 2025 or the CHILD Act of 2025

This bill increases the maximum annual amount that may be contributed to a dependent care assistance program (generally known as a dependent care flexible spending account [FSA]).

Under the bill, the maximum annual amount that may be contributed to a dependent care FSA increases from $5,000 ($2,500 for married taxpayers who file separate federal tax returns) to $10,000 ($5,000 for married taxpayers who file separate federal tax returns) and is adjusted annually for inflation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Student Visa Security Improvement Act

Bill: 119-hr-414
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Student Visa Security Improvement Act

This bill establishes new requirements for foreign student visas and participating educational institutions. 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must review the applications of student visa applicants and conduct in-person interviews when appropriate to determine whether they are inadmissible due to terrorist-related activities. DHS must also conduct on-site reviews of applications and supporting documents deemed appropriate prior to final adjudication.

Institutions and exchange student visitor programs must ensure that student visa-holders are active participants in the program. Students must be regularly observed and must be reported on if they transfer or change majors. The bill also provides for enhanced access to the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System for institutions and programs that meet staffing and training requirements.

The Government Accountability Office must review the fees for the Student and Exchange Visitor program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Stop Act

Bill: 119-hr-415
Sponsor: Rep. Boyle, Brendan F. [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Stop Act

This bill prohibits federal officeholders from directly soliciting contributions for certain federal election purposes. 

Specifically, the bill prohibits a federal officeholder from soliciting funds directly from any person (1) for or on behalf of any political committee, or (2) for or on the behalf of any person for use for federal election activity. However, a federal officeholder may participate in a fundraising event (e.g., planning, attending, or speaking at an event), as long as the federal officeholder does not engage in any written or verbal solicitation of funds in connection with the event.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
No Welfare for the Wealthy Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-416
Sponsor: Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

No Welfare for the Wealthy Act of 2025

This bill requires all households participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to meet the program's income and asset requirements, thereby eliminating certain alternative SNAP eligibility pathways.

Currently, a household may be eligible for SNAP by meeting program-specific federal eligibility requirements, which include both income and asset tests. A household may also be automatically or 
categorically eligible
 for SNAP based on eligibility for or receiving cash benefits from other specified low-income assistance programs (e.g., Temporary Assistance for Needy Families [TANF]). Under this categorical eligibility, households that already meet financial eligibility rules in a program like TANF are not required to go through a SNAP financial eligibility determination. 

A majority of states also provide broad-based categorical eligibility (BBCE), a policy that makes most households with an income below a certain threshold categorically eligible for SNAP. Under BBCE, these states typically make households categorically eligible through receiving or being authorized to receive a minimal non-cash TANF benefit or service (e.g., a pamphlet). A state may set its own BBCE financial eligibility requirements for a household so long as the gross income requirement is below a certain level. A state's requirements do not have to match SNAP program-specific eligibility requirements. For example, most states that provide BBCE do not have an asset test for SNAP eligibility.

The bill requires all SNAP households, including those that qualify under categorical eligibility, to meet the program's income and asset requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
End U.N. Censorship Act

Bill: 119-hr-417
Sponsor: Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

End U.N. Censorship Act

This bill specifies that no federal funds may be made available to support the iVerify tool (a fact-checking tool developed by the United Nations Development Programme) or any other effort that seeks to label speech or expression as mal-, mis-, or dis-information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Accountability in Agency Rulemaking Act

Bill: 119-hr-418
Sponsor: Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal officials

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Ensuring Accountability in Agency Rulemaking Act

This bill requires, subject to a limited exception, that any agency rule promulgated under notice and comment procedures must be (1) initiated by a senior appointee (e.g., an individual who was appointed by the President or is a non-career member of the Senior Executive Service), and (2) issued and signed by an individual who was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs must issue guidance for agencies to implement this requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Protecting America From Spies Act

Bill: 119-hr-419
Sponsor: Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Protecting America From Spies Act

This bill expands the grounds for barring non-U.S. nationals (
aliens
 under federal law) from entering the United States on the basis of espionage or sabotage.

Currently, an individual is inadmissible if the individual seeks to enter the United States to engage in an act that (1) violates a U.S. law relating to espionage or sabotage; or (2) violates any U.S. law prohibiting the export of goods, technology, or sensitive information. Under the bill, an individual is inadmissible if the individual engages, has engaged, or will engage in such an act or in an act that would violate any U.S. law relating to espionage or sabotage if it occurred in the United States.

Furthermore, the bill expands these grounds of inadmissibility and other security-related grounds to cover the spouse or child of the barred individual if the act occurred in the last five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Federal Grant Accountability Act

Bill: 119-hr-420
Sponsor: Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Research administration and funding
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Federal Grant Accountability Act

This bill limits the indirect costs that are allowable under federal research awards to institutions of higher education (IHEs). (Generally, indirect costs represent expenses that are not specific to a research project but are needed to maintain the infrastructure and administrative support for federally funded research.)

Specifically, the total amount of indirect costs allowable under a federal research award may not exceed the total amount of indirect costs allowable under private research awards. The Office of Management and Budget must determine the average indirect cost rate applicable to private research awards.

Additionally, the Government Accountability Office must study and report on (1) the indirect cost rates allowable under federal research awards to IHEs, including awards made by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other such organizations; and (2) the indirect cost rates allowable under private research awards to IHEs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
No Subsidies for Wealthy Universities Act

Bill: 119-hr-422
Sponsor: Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Higher education
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

No Subsidies for Wealthy Universities Act

This bill limits the indirect costs that are allowable under federal research awards to institutions of higher education (IHEs) with endowments above specified thresholds. (Generally, indirect costs represent expenses that are not specific to a research project but are needed to maintain the infrastructure and administrative support for federally funded research.)

Specifically, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) must annually collect information regarding the endowments of each IHE that has entered into a program participation agreement with the Department of Education.

With this collected information, NCES must identify and make lists of (1) each IHE with an endowment of more than $5 billion, and (2) each IHE with an endowment of more than $2 billion (but not more than $5 billion). NCES must submit these lists to the Office of Management and Budget, which must then distribute the lists to federal agencies, Congress, and the public.

The bill establishes the following limits on the indirect costs allowable under federal research awards:

for an IHE with an endowment of more than $5 billion, the IHE is prohibited from using these awards for indirect costs;

for an IHE with an endowment of more than $2 billion (but not more than $5 billion), the IHE is limited to an indirect cost rate of 8%; and

for all other IHEs, an indirect cost rate of 15%.

The Government Accountability Office must annually report to Congress on indirect cost reimbursement on federal research awards for IHEs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, 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: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, 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: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-423
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2025 

This bill modifies the treatment of certain student loans in bankruptcy.

Specifically, it allows private student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy regardless of whether a debtor demonstrates undue hardship. Under current law, student loans may be discharged in bankruptcy only if the loans impose an undue hardship on the debtor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
State Border Security Reimbursement Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-424
Sponsor: Rep. Crenshaw, Dan [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

State Border Security Reimbursement Act of 2025 

This bill requires the federal government to reimburse eligible states for their border security expenses.

To be eligible, a state must have expended more than $2.5 billion on border security and enforcement in the 10 years before this bill's enactment. If such a state provides by a certain deadline an accounting of all of its nonfederally funded border security expenses, the federal government must reimburse the full amount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act

Bill: 119-hr-425
Sponsor: Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act

This bill repeals the Corporate Transparency Act. The act requires existing companies and newly created companies to report beneficial ownership information to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network for purposes of addressing the financing of terrorism and money laundering.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Housing Survivors of Major Disasters Act

Bill: 119-hr-426
Sponsor: Rep. Espaillat, Adriano [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Housing Survivors of Major Disasters Act

This bill expands eligibility for disaster housing assistance under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Individuals and Households Program (IHP) with respect to property damage, availability of housing resources, and constructive (i.e., implied) ownership. 

Specifically, the bill lowers the level of damage required to be eligible for IHP housing assistance, so the residence must be damaged by a major disaster instead of rendered uninhabitable.

Also, under current law, FEMA is authorized to provide IHP assistance for permanent housing construction where (1) no alternative housing resources are available; and (2) other types of temporary housing assistance are unavailable, infeasible, or not cost-effective. The bill authorizes IHP permanent housing construction where FEMA determines such assistance is a cost-effective alternative to other housing solutions, such as providing for temporary housing costs.

Additionally, the bill requires FEMA to consider an individual's or household’s claim of constructive ownership, where evidence supports such ownership is more likely than not, when determining eligibility for IHP financial assistance for home repair or replacement for a residence without documented ownership rights. FEMA must consider all evidence provided (e.g., deeds, tax receipts, insurance documents) when determining whether constructive ownership more likely than not exists. If FEMA determines the evidence is insufficient, FEMA may require a signed declarative statement describing the constructive ownership.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Interstate Commerce Simplification Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-427
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzgerald, Scott [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Interstate Commerce Simplification Act of 2025

This bill expands the definition of 
solicitation of orders
 to include business activities that serve an independently valuable business function apart from the solicitation of orders for purposes of the limitation on a state’s authority to impose a net income tax on an out-of-state seller.

Under current law, a state is prohibited from imposing a net income tax on income derived from within the state from interstate commerce if the only business activity within the state is the solicitation of orders for the sale of tangible personal property, provided that the orders are approved (or rejected) and filled by shipment or delivery from outside of the state. Further, the Supreme Court has held that the term 
solicitation of orders
 includes (1) activities that are strictly essential to making requests for purchases, and (2) ancillary activities that serve no independent business function apart from their connection to requests for purchases.

Under the bill, the definition of 
solicitation of orders
 is expanded to include business activities that facilitate the solicitation of orders even if such business activities serve an independently valuable business function apart from the solicitation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Bonuses for Cost-Cutters Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-428
Sponsor: Rep. Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck" [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Bonuses for Cost-Cutters Act of 

2025

This bill expands the awards program for cost-saving identifications by federal employees of fraud, waste, or mismanagement to include identifications of certain operational expenses that are wasteful (i.e., that are identified as wasteful by an employee and that an agency determines are not required for the purposes for which the amounts were made available). An agency must propose any identified wasteful expenses for rescission.

The bill also doubles the maximum cash award that may be made under the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Rosie the Riveter Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 119-hr-429
Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-8]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Rosie the Riveter Commemorative Coin Act

This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue coins in recognition and celebration of the women who contributed to the U.S. home front during World War II. All sales of coins issued under this bill must include a surcharge to be paid to the Rosie the Riveter Trust to support the National Park Service in maintaining and repairing the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
SALT Deductibility Act

Bill: 119-hr-430
Sponsor: Rep. Garbarino, Andrew R. [R-NY-2]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Securing Access to Lower Taxes by ensuring Deductibility Act or the SALT Deductibility Act

This bill repeals the limitation on the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes (commonly known as the SALT deduction cap).

Under current law, a SALT deduction cap of $10,000 ($5,000 for married individuals filing separate federal income tax returns) applies for tax years 2018 through 2025 and expires beginning in 2026.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Pony Up Act

Bill: 119-hr-431
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Pony Up Act

This bill requires the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to pay a citizen for late payment fees or penalties incurred due to late delivery of mail by USPS.

Late delivery of mail means that (1) USPS received a bill or notice of bill at least 12 days prior to the payment due date and delivered such bill or notice of bill less than 6 days prior to the payment due date; or (2) USPS received a payment at least 5 days prior to the payment due date and delivered such payment after the due date. 

USPS is not required to pay a citizen for late payment fees or penalties when a bill, notice of bill, or payment is delayed for reasons outside of USPS control (for example, if a major disaster or emergency declared by the President caused the delay).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
Seventh Amendment Restoration Act

Bill: 119-hr-432
Sponsor: Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Judicial procedure and administration
Jurisdiction and venue

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in House