hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Helping Small Businesses THRIVE Act

Bill: 119-s-202
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Defund Planned Parenthood Act

Bill: 119-s-203
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Family planning and birth control
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Sex and reproductive health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Defund Planned Parenthood Act

This bill prohibits providing federal funding to Planned Parenthood Federation of America or its affiliates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act

Bill: 119-s-204
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child care and development
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
Health information and medical records
Legal fees and court costs
Religion

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act

Bill: 119-s-205
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Birth defects
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Disability and health-based discrimination
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act

 
 This bill creates new federal crimes related to the performance of an abortion on an unborn child who has Down syndrome.
 
It subjects a violator to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to five years, or both.
 
It also authorizes civil remedies, including damages and injunctive relief.
 
A woman who undergoes such an abortion may not be prosecuted or held civilly liable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Restoring Trade Fairness Act

Bill: 119-s-206
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural trade
Asia
Budget deficits and national debt
China
Congressional oversight
Customs enforcement
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Inflation and prices
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Tariffs
Trade restrictions
U.S. International Trade Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Restoring Trade Fairness Act

This bill establishes various trade measures related to China, including by revoking China's permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status and increasing the rates of duty (i.e., tariffs) on Chinese imported goods. The bill prohibits imported goods originating from North Korea, China, Russia, or Iran from receiving de minimis treatment. (Current law allows for U.S. imports under a de minimis
 
threshold of $800 per shipment to enter free of tariffs, fees, and taxes.)

Specifically, the bill revokes China's PNTR status. Currently, China's PNTR status allows for Chinese goods to have duty rates set forth in column 1 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS). With the removal of China's PNTR status, the bill generally sets the applicable duty rates on imported Chinese goods at the higher rates listed in column 2 of the HTS, with exceptions.

The bill establishes a minimum duty rate of 35% for all Chinese goods, which requires column 2 rates to be at least 35%. However, the bill establishes a minimum duty rate of 100% for a list of specified goods (e.g., various minerals, certain vaccines and drugs, and certain defense-related articles). Duty rates are phased in over five years and adjusted annually for inflation.

The bill also

authorizes the President to take additional actions related to trade with China, 

requires merchandise imported from China to be appraised based on U.S. value, and 

establishes a trust fund to compensate U.S. producers for lost revenue resulting from retaliatory actions by China.



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

Bill: 119-s-207
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Abortion
Education programs funding
Health facilities and institutions
Higher education

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Protecting Life on College Campus Act of 

2025

This bill prohibits the award of federal funds to an institution of higher education (IHE) that hosts or is affiliated with a school-based service site that provides abortion drugs or abortions to its students or to employees of the IHE or the site. An IHE that hosts or is affiliated with a site must, in order to remain eligible for federal funds, annually certify that the site does not provide abortion drugs or abortions to students or employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Training Program.

Bill: 119-s-208
Sponsor: Sen. Schmitt, Eric [R-MO]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Crime victims
Employment and training programs
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Human trafficking
Smuggling and trafficking
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-209
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Civil actions and liability
Health care quality
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2025

This bill makes a medical practitioner who performs a gender-transition procedure on an individual who is less than 18 years of age liable for any physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological harms from the procedure for 30 years after the individual turns 18.

Additionally, if a state requires medical practitioners to perform gender-transition procedures, that state shall be ineligible for federal funding from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Under the bill, 
g

ender-transition procedures
 generally include certain surgeries or hormone therapies that change the body of an individual to correspond to a sex that is discordant with the individual's biological sex. They exclude, however, interventions to treat (1) individuals who either have ambiguous external biological sex characteristics or lack a normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action; (2) infections, injuries, diseases, or disorders caused by a gender-transition procedure; or (3) a physical disorder, injury, or illness that places an individual in imminent danger of death or impairment of a major bodily function.


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

Bill: 119-s-210
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Marketing and advertising
Political advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government Act or the SWAG Act

This bill prohibits any federal agency or entity from using federal funds to purchase, acquire, or distribute swag (i.e., products distributed at no cost with the sole purpose of advertising or promoting an agency, organization, or program) or to manufacture or use a mascot for promotional purposes. Exceptions to these prohibitions include (1) express authorization in law, (2) recruitment related to armed forces enlistment, and (3) military academy athletic team mascots.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Resiliency for Ranching and Natural Conservation Health Act

Bill: 119-s-211
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Atmospheric science and weather
Civil actions and liability
Disaster relief and insurance
Ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Government trust funds
Hunting and fishing
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Livestock
Natural disasters
Outdoor recreation
Water use and supply
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S336-337)
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
POLICE Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-212
Sponsor: Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement officers
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Protect Our Law enforcement with Immigration Control and Enforcement Act of 2025 or the POLICE Act of 2025

This bill makes assaulting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responder a deportable offense.

Specifically, the bill makes deportable any non-U.S. national (
alien
 under federal law) who has been convicted of (or admits to have committed) any act that constitutes the essential elements of any offense involving assault of a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responder.

The Department of Homeland Security must publish annually on its website a report on the number of individuals deported in the previous fiscal year pursuant to this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Main Street Tax Certainty Act

Bill: 119-s-213
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Main Street Tax Certainty Act 

This bill makes permanent the qualified business income (QBI) tax deduction.

Under current law, individuals, estates, and trusts may deduct the lower of (1) 20% of QBI from a qualified business, qualified real estate investment trust dividends, and qualified publicly traded partnership income; or (2) 20% of taxable income less net capital gain. (Some limitations apply.)

However, under current law, the QBI tax deduction expires after December 31, 2025. 


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

Bill: 119-s-214
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Inflation and prices
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Monetary Enhancement for Distinguished Active Legends Act of 2025 or the MEDAL Act of 2025

This bill increases the monthly special pension for living Medal of Honor recipients from $1,406.73 to $8,333.33 and establishes a rate of $1,406.73 for the monthly special pension for surviving spouses of Medal of Honor recipients. Both amounts must be adjusted annually for inflation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-21
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Maintaining Academy Culture and Assuring Retention of Tradition, Honor, and Unity of the Republic Act (MACARTHUR) Act

Bill: 119-s-215
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Maintaining Academy Culture and Assuring Retention of Tradition, Honor, and Unity of the Republic Act (MACARTHUR) Act

This bill requires the Department of the Army to amend the mission statement of the United States Military Academy to include the phrase “Duty, Honor, Country.”


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Save Our Seas 2.0 Amendments Act

Bill: 119-s-216
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Charitable contributions
Department of Commerce
Indian social and development programs
International organizations and cooperation
Marine pollution
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Water quality

Summary:

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 Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S3001-3002; text: CR S3001-3002)
action_date: 2025-05-20
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 40.
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-12.
action_date: 2025-04-08
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz without amendment. With written report No. 119-12.
action_date: 2025-02-05
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act Amendments Act

Bill: 119-s-217
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Building construction
Intergovernmental relations
Land transfers
Licensing and registrations
Nevada

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the area between the intersections of 16th Street, Northwest and Fuller Street, Northwest and 16th Street, Northwest and Euclid Street, Northwest in Washington, District of Columbia, as "Oswaldo Paya Way".

Bill: 119-s-218
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
District of Columbia
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 
This bill designates the area in front of the Cuban embassy in the District of Columbia as Oswaldo Payá Way. (Oswaldo Payá was a pro-democracy activist in Cuba.)


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

Bill: 119-s-219
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Veterans Health Care Freedom Act

This bill requires the Center for Innovation for Care and Payment within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to implement a three-year pilot program to provide veterans who are enrolled in the VA health care system with the ability to choose health care providers through the covered care system. Under the bill, the
 covered care system
 includes VA medical facilities, health care providers participating in the Veterans Community Care Program (VCCP), and eligible entities or providers that have entered into a Veterans Care Agreement.

A veteran participating in the program may elect to receive care at any provider in the covered care system.

The pilot program removes certain requirements (e.g., location of the veteran) to access care at VA and non-VA facilities. After four years, the bill permanently phases out the requirements for accessing care under the VCCP and Veterans Care Agreements and requires the VA to provide such care under the same conditions of the pilot program. Additionally, after four years, veterans may receive care at a VA medical facility regardless of whether the facility is in the same Veterans Integrated Service Network as the veteran.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-05-21
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act

Bill: 119-s-220
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Monuments and memorials
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Extending Limits of United States Customs Waters Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-221
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:

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

Bill: 119-s-222
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Agriculture
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025

This bill revises requirements for milk provided by the National School Lunch Program of the Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Currently, schools participating in the program must provide milk that is consistent with the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans; USDA regulations require milk to be fat-free or low-fat and allow milk to be flavored or unflavored. The bill modifies these restrictions and instead permits schools to offer students whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, and fat-free flavored and unflavored milk. The milk that is offered may be organic or nonorganic.

Further, schools currently must provide a substitute for fluid milk, on receipt of a written statement from a licensed physician, for students whose disability restricts their diet. Under the bill, a parent or legal guardian may also provide the written statement.

In addition, schools currently participating in the program must provide meals that meet certain nutrition requirements; USDA regulations require that the average saturated fat content of the meals offered must be less than 10% of the total calories. Under the bill, fluid milk is excluded from the saturated fat content calculation; milk fat included in any fluid milk provided by the program must not be considered saturated fat for the purposes of measuring compliance with USDA regulations.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-07-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 111.
action_date: 2025-07-10
text: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Reported by Senator Boozman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-07-10
text: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Reported by Senator Boozman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2025-06-03
text: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2025-04-01
text: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 119-55.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Restoring the First Amendment and Right to Peaceful Civil Disobedience Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-223
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Civil actions and liability
Crimes against property
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Family planning and birth control
Health facilities and institutions
Religion
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: 

Restoring the First Amendment and Right to Peaceful Civil Disobedience Act of 2025

This bill repeals provisions of federal criminal law that prohibit conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with persons who are seeking to (1) obtain or provide reproductive health services, or (2) exercise their right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2025-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Promoting Domestic Energy Production Act

Bill: 119-s-224
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2025-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

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