hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
No Propaganda Act

Bill: 119-s-519
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: 

No Propaganda Act

This bill prohibits federal funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and rescinds certain funds that were provided to the corporation. (The corporation is a congressionally created nonprofit that supports local public television and radio broadcasting.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Supporting the Abused by Learning Options to Navigate Survivor Stories Act

Bill: 119-s-520
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Cosmetics and personal care
Domestic violence and child abuse
Employment and training programs
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Supporting Access to Rural Community Hospitals Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-521
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: 

Supporting Access to Rural Community Hospitals Act of 2025

This bill temporarily allows additional hospitals to qualify as critical access hospitals (CAHs) that receive special payment under Medicare.

Currently, in order to qualify as a CAH under Medicare, a hospital must either (1) be located more than 35 miles (or 15 miles in mountainous regions or areas with only secondary roads) from another hospital, or (2) have been certified prior to January 1, 2006, by the state as a necessary provider of services in the area. Hospitals also must meet certain size and service requirements, including having no more than 25 acute care inpatient beds.

The bill allows, for one year, hospitals that are participating in the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program to also qualify as CAHs. (The program tests the feasibility of cost-based reimbursement for small rural hospitals that are too large to qualify as CAHs.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Credit Union Board Modernization Act

Bill: 119-s-522
Sponsor: Sen. Hagerty, Bill [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: 

Credit Union Board Modernization Act 

 
This bill revises the required frequency of meetings held by a credit union's board of directors. Specifically, new credit unions and credit unions with a low soundness rating must meet monthly. All other credit unions must hold at least six meetings annually, with at least one meeting held during each fiscal quarter. Currently, all credit union boards must meet at least once a month.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Protect Medicaid Act

Bill: 119-s-523
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health programs administration and funding
Immigrant health and welfare
Immigration status and procedures
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: 

Protect Medicaid Act

 
This bill prohibits federal payment under Medicaid for the administrative costs of providing health benefits to noncitizens who are ineligible for Medicaid based on their immigration status. The Department of Health and Human Services must report on specified information regarding states that provide health benefits to such individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-524
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Appropriations
Assault and harassment offenses
Atmospheric science and weather
Aviation and airports
Border security and unlawful immigration
Citizenship and naturalization
Civics education
Civil actions and liability
Coast guard
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Defense spending
Department of Commerce
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Emergency planning and evacuation
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee hiring
Employee leave
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Evidence and witnesses
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Great Lakes
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Higher education
Hunting and fishing
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
International law and treaties
Lakes and rivers
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Mental health
Military education and training
Military facilities and property
Military history
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
National Guard and reserves
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Neurological disorders
Oil and gas
Pacific Ocean
Personnel records
Public contracts and procurement
Puerto Rico
Puget Sound
Research and development
School athletics
Sex offenses
Smuggling and trafficking
Student aid and college costs
Texas
Transportation costs
Transportation safety and security
U.S. territories and protectorates
User charges and fees
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Virgin Islands
Water quality

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-10
text: Held at the Desk
action_date: 2025-03-10
text: Received in the House
action_date: 2025-03-06
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1521-1568; text: CR S1522-1568)
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to transfer the functions, duties, responsibilities, assets, liabilities, orders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, grants, loans, contracts, agreements, certificates, licenses, and privileges of the United States Agency for International Development relating to implementing and administering the Food for Peace Act to the Department of Agriculture.

Bill: 119-s-525
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-526
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Medical ethics
Prescription drugs
State and local government operations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Prescription Pricing for the People Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-527
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business ethics
Business records
Competition and antitrust
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records
Inflation and prices
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 42.
action_date: 2025-04-10
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-04-10
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-04-03
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
GLRI Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-528
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: 

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2025 or the GLRI Act of 2025

This bill reauthorizes through FY2031 the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which carries out programs and projects to protect and restore the Great Lakes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Capping Prescription Costs Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-529
Sponsor: Sen. Warnock, Raphael G. [D-GA]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Prescription drugs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
WEST Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-530
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S862)
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
American Apprenticeship Act

Bill: 119-s-531
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2025-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Performance measurement
State and local government operations
Vocational and technical education

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
OPTN Fee Collection Authority Act

Bill: 119-s-532
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 

OPTN Fee Collection Authority Act

This bill authorizes the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), for three years, to collect registration fees directly from a member of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) (e.g., organ procurement organizations and transplant hospitals) for each transplant candidate the member places on the waiting list. 

 Registration fees for the OPTN were historically collected through a contractor. The bill authorizes HRSA, for three years following the bill’s enactment, to collect registration fees directly from OPTN members for each candidate they place on the list and distribute the fees to support the operation of the OPTN. HRSA must publish on the OPTN website the amount of fees collected from each member and their use.

The bill requires the Government Accountability Office to conduct a review relating to the registration fees and report to Congress within two years after the bill’s enactment.

Additionally, the bill supports (1) the integration of electronic health records systems into the OPTN, such as automated referrals and granting procurement organizations access to records of potential donors; and (2) the establishment of a dashboard to display statistics relating to the OPTN.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
National Right-to-Work Act

Bill: 119-s-533
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Presidential Allowance Modernization Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-534
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Family relationships
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Wages and earnings

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Respect Parents’ Childcare Choices Act

Bill: 119-s-535
Sponsor: Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child care and development
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Family relationships
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Income tax credits
Licensing and registrations
Marriage and family status
Religion
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations
Tax treatment of families

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair SHARE Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-536
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 

Fair Sharing of Highways and Roads for Electric Vehicles Act of 2025

This bill imposes a new excise tax in the amount of $1,000 on the sale of an electric vehicle and a new excise tax in the amount of $550 on the sale of a battery module weighing over 1,000 pounds for use in an electric vehicle. The bill also requires the Department of the Treasury to transfer amounts collected from the new excise taxes to the Highway Trust Fund. (The Highway Trust Fund, which supports surface transportation programs and projects, is funded by transportation-related excise taxes.)

The bill defines 
electric vehicle
 as a light-duty vehicle (a motor vehicle weighing less than 8,500 pounds that is manufactured for use on public roads) that is powered by a battery with a capacity of at least seven kilowatt hours and is recharged through an external source of electricity. Under the bill, the excise tax does not apply to hybrid vehicles, which are powered by a combination of fuel and a rechargeable energy storage system.

The bill defines 
battery module
 as a module with two or more battery cells configured to create voltage or current (or no battery cells) and with an aggregate capacity of at least seven kilowatt hours (or one kilowatt hour for a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-537
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 

Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2025

This bill bars the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the Forest Service from prohibiting or regulating the use of lead ammunition or tackle on federal land or water. The bill makes exceptions for specified existing regulations and where the FWS, the BLM, or the Forest Service determines that a decline in wildlife population at the specific unit of federal land or water is primarily caused by the use of lead in ammunition or tackle, based on the field data from such unit, and the state approves the regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Eliminating Leftover Expenses for Campaigns from Taxpayers (ELECT) Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-538
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
PROTECT Our Children Reauthorization Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-539
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Computers and information technology
Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Domestic violence and child abuse
Human trafficking
Intergovernmental relations
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement administration and funding
Missing persons
Pornography
Sex offenses
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 80.
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-05-15
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Continuity in Veterans Health Act

Bill: 119-s-540
Sponsor: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 

Ensuring Continuity in Veterans Health Act

This bill requires the consideration of continuity of care when determining whether care through the Veterans Community Care Program is in the best medical interest of a veteran.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
ELITE Vehicles Act

Bill: 119-s-541
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: 

Eliminate Lavish Incentives To Electric Vehicles Act or the ELITE Vehicles Act

This bill eliminates federal tax credits for the purchase of certain clean vehicles (generally electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles) and electric vehicle recharging stations.

Specifically, the bill repeals the federal tax credits for

the purchase of a qualified used clean vehicle (tax credit of up to $4,000 for the purchase of a previously-owned clean vehicle before 2033),

the purchase of a qualified new clean vehicle (tax credit of up to $7,500 for the purchase of a new clean vehicle before 2033),

the purchase of a qualified commercial clean vehicle (business tax credit of up to $40,000 for the purchase of a commercial clean vehicle before 2033), and

alternative fuel vehicle refueling property used to recharge electric vehicles (tax credit of up to $1,000 for individuals or up to $100,000 for businesses for the installation of property before 2033 that is used to recharge electric vehicles).



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
English Language Unity Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-542
Sponsor: Sen. Moreno, Bernie [R-OH]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Play for Women Act

Bill: 119-s-543
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Mining Regulatory Clarity Act

Bill: 119-s-544
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Government trust funds
Land use and conservation
Mining

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-04-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Combating Illicit Xylazine Act

Bill: 119-s-545
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2025-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate