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No Budget, No Pay Act

Bill: 119-s-88
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

No Budget, No Pay Act

This bill prohibits Members of Congress from being paid in a fiscal year until both chambers approve the budget resolution and pass all regular appropriations bills for that fiscal year. Retroactive pay is prohibited for such a period.

This bill takes effect on September 29, 2027.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Sporting Firearms Access Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-89
Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Evidence and witnesses
Firearms and explosives
Hunting and fishing
Judicial review and appeals
Legal fees and court costs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Historic Roadways Protection Act

Bill: 119-s-90
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land use and conservation
Roads and highways
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Historic Roadways Protection Act

This bill prohibits the Bureau for Land Management (BLM) from closing historical roads on public lands in certain areas of Utah until the Federal District Court for Utah makes a decision on each of the R.S. 2477 cases, which are cases brought by Utah and counties to keep historical roads on BLM land in Utah open for public use.

By way of background, a provision of the Mining Law of 1866, commonly known as R.S. 2477, granted rights-of-way to states and counties across public lands for the construction of roads for public use in order to promote settlement of the American West. In 1976, Congress repealed R.S. 2477 when it enacted the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), but FLPMA preserved rights-of-way that had been established under R.S. 2477. After the BLM released travel management plans that closed some historical roads, Utah and 22 counties filed lawsuits about their rights-of-way across public lands for historical roads.

Until the BLM certifies that those cases have been decided, the bill prohibits the BLM from obligating or expending federal funds to (1) finalize or implement a new travel management plan for certain travel management areas in Utah; or (2) implement, with respect to land within the boundary of Utah, the Indian Creek (Canyon Rims) Travel Management Plan, the San Rafael Desert Travel Management Plan, the San Rafael Swell Travel Management Plan, or the Labyrinth/Gemini Bridges Travel Management Plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-91
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025 

This bill addresses wildfires by authorizing post-fire recovery activities, supporting adoption of technology, and requiring additional federal coordination.

The bill authorizes federal wildfire response and recovery activities by

providing statutory authority for Burned Area Emergency Response Teams to coordinate emergency stabilization and erosion planning, and

establishing an account to fund federal rehabilitation projects in areas impacted by a wildfire (e.g., ecosystem restoration, replacing infrastructure critical for land management).

Additionally, for all hazard types, the bill includes post-disaster assistance in the federal disaster preparedness program and authorizes assistance to states for operating websites to provide information on post-disaster recovery resources.

The bill requires federal agencies to develop and utilize technologies for managing wildfires by

expediting the permitting and use of wildfire detection equipment (e.g., sensors, cameras);

providing funding to Indian tribes for slip-on tanker units that convert vehicles into fire engines;

performing research and development on wildfire response applications of unmanned aircraft systems (e.g., drones);

studying radio communications systems, situational awareness tools, and wildland fire predictive modeling; and

administering a prize competition for technological innovation for managing wildfire-related invasive species.

The bill directs federal agencies to plan and coordinate on wildfire management by

incorporating the best available science and planning tools into spatial fire management policies for federal lands, 

collaborating with state agencies for mutual aid in fire suppression (including reimbursing states for suppressing fires caused by military operations), and 

studying training gaps for integrating structural (e.g., local) firefighters into wildfire response.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Defending American Sovereignty in Global Pandemics Act

Bill: 119-s-92
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2025-01-14 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: 

Defending American Sovereignty in Global Pandemics Act

This bill prohibits the United States from becoming a party to a World Health Organization (WHO) agreement related to strengthening pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response except pursuant to a treaty made under Article II, Section 2, clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution (which requires that two-thirds of Senators present concur with the treaty).

The bill also prohibits federal funding for WHO beginning on the effective date of such an agreement and ending on the date when the Senate ratifies the agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text: CR S140)
action_date: 2025-01-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 119-s-94
Sponsor: Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act

This bill provides for the award of Congressional Gold Medals to the members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic men's ice hockey team in recognition of the team's achievement at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Parris Island Protection Act

Bill: 119-s-95
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military facilities and property
South Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Parris Island Protection Act

This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to close or realign Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island in South Carolina, or to conduct any planning or other activity related to such closure or realignment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
FAIR PREP Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-96
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Fostering Autonomy in Independent Returns by Prohibiting Redundant and Extralegal Programs Act of 2025 or the FAIR PREP Act of 2025

This bill prohibits the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from preparing federal tax returns or refund claims, with some exceptions. The bill specifically prohibits the preparation of federal income tax returns or refund claims through the IRS’s Direct File program. (The Direct File program currently allows qualified taxpayers in 25 participating states to prepare and electronically file free federal tax returns through a portal on the IRS’s website.)

The bill defines 
prepare
 with respect to federal tax returns and refund claims as (1) the completion (in whole or in part) of any form or schedule for the purpose of calculating federal taxes or refunds, and (2) the filing (either electronically or on paper) of such federal tax returns or refund claims.

However, under the bill, federal and state tax returns and refund claims may be prepared through the IRS’s Free File program (a program that allows certain taxpayers to prepare and file free federal and state income tax returns using third-party tax-preparation software) or the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance grant program (through which the IRS partners with local community organizations to help low-income and disabled individuals and persons with limited English proficiency prepare and file free federal and state income tax returns).

 Further, the Department of the Treasury may not award grants or enter into contracts or other transactions for the development or operation of an electronic tax preparation service. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Securing Semiconductor Supply Chains Act

Bill: 119-s-97
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Economic development
Manufacturing
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Securing Semiconductor Supply Chains Act

This bill requires the SelectUSA program to solicit comments from state economic development organizations regarding federal efforts to increase foreign direct investment in semiconductor-related manufacturing and production. SelectUSA must then report to Congress on such comments and the strategies that SelectUSA may employ to increase such investment and to secure the U.S. semiconductor supply chain.

SelectUSA is a Department of Commerce program established to coordinate federal efforts to attract and retain business investment in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-26
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2025-05-26
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2025-05-23
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3002; text: CR S3002-3003)
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2025-05-06
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 67.
action_date: 2025-05-06
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-18.
action_date: 2025-05-06
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-18.
action_date: 2025-03-12
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Broadband Protection Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-98
Sponsor: Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Internet, web applications, social media
Rural conditions and development
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Rural Broadband Protection Act of 2025

This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a process to vet applicants for certain funding programs that support affordable broadband deployment in high-cost areas, including rural communities.

Specifically, the FCC must conduct a rulemaking to develop a vetting process for applicants seeking funding under high-cost universal service programs for the deployment of a broadband-capable network and the provision of supported services over the network. The FCC must require applications for such funding to document each applicant’s technical, financial, and operational capabilities related to the proposed deployment, as well as a reasonable business plan. 

The FCC must evaluate applications against reasonable and well-established standards and must consider each applicant’s history of compliance with the requirements of other government broadband funding programs. After the rulemaking is finalized, funds may only be awarded to applicants that satisfy the standards established therein. 

Finally, the FCC must set financial penalties for applicants that default in some manner during the evaluation process before they are authorized to begin receiving support. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-03
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2025-07-03
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2025-06-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2025-06-26
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S3570; text: CR S3570)
action_date: 2025-06-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 48.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-14.
action_date: 2025-04-28
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-14.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening Support for American Manufacturing Act

Bill: 119-s-99
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Industrial policy and productivity
Manufacturing
Product development and innovation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Strengthening Support for American Manufacturing Act

This bill requires the Department of Commerce to contract with the National Academy of Public Administration to study and report on the offices and bureaus of the department that are relevant to critical supply chain resilience and manufacturing and industrial innovation.

The report must evaluate the purpose, statutory authority, effectiveness, efficiency, and limitations of each such office and bureau and provide recommendations to improve their effectiveness, efficiency, and impact.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-03-31
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 35.
action_date: 2025-03-31
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-9.
action_date: 2025-03-31
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-9.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act

Bill: 119-s-100
Sponsor: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the Senate
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: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act

Bill: 119-s-101
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act

This bill prohibits the Department of Energy (DOE) from using the Nuclear Waste Fund for certain activities related to radioactive waste disposal unless DOE has entered into a written agreement for a repository with (1) the governor of the state in which the proposed repository will be located, (2) affected local governments, (3) local governments contiguous to the affected local governments if spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste will be transported through them for disposal at the repository, and (4) affected Indian tribes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
ROOMIE Act

Bill: 119-s-102
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Lease and rental services

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Reinforce Occupancy Obligations for Maximized Interagency Efficiency Act or the ROOMIE Act

This bill establishes occupancy requirements for federal office buildings and directs agencies to sell or terminate leases on unused office space. 

The bill directs agencies to amend their policies within 120 days of the bill's enactment to require not less than 80% of the agency's employees to work on site. The policies must also ensure that at least 60% of the usable square feet of the agency's office space is occupied by agency employees. 

Agencies that do not employ enough individuals to occupy 60% of the agency's office space must provide an occupancy plan to the General Services Administration and Congress detailing how it will meet that goal, particularly by working with other federal agencies. The plan must be submitted within one year of the bill's enactment.

The Government Accountability Office must report to Congress regarding agencies' compliance with these requirements.

Agencies that do not comply with these requirements must sell their properties, terminate leases, or not renew leases, as applicable.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Extend the TikTok Deadline Act

Bill: 119-s-103
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Overturn Biden’s Offshore Energy Ban Act

Bill: 119-s-104
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: 

Overturn Biden’s Offshore Energy Ban Act

This bill nullifies two presidential memoranda that were published on January 6, 2025, including (1) the 
Memorandum on the Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Natural Gas Leasing,
 relating to the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, and Pacific areas of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS); and (2) the 
Memorandum on the Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Natural Gas Leasing,
 relating to the Bering Sea areas of the OCS. The memoranda prohibited the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) from issuing offshore leases for the exploration, development, or production (i.e., offshore drilling) of oil or natural gas in those areas.

This bill reverses the withdrawal to allow BOEM to issue leases in those areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act

Bill: 119-s-105
Sponsor: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2025-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
South Dakota
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-15
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. 176.
action_date: 2025-10-02
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-71.
action_date: 2025-10-02
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 119-71.
action_date: 2025-03-05
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-106
Sponsor: Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]
Introduced: 2025-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Licensing and registrations
Medicare
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: 

Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2025

This bill expands Medicare coverage of chiropractic services to include all services provided by chiropractors, rather than only subluxation corrections through manual manipulation of the spine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2025-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate