All Roll Calls
Yes: 361 • No: 56
Sponsored By: Representative Harder, Josh [D-CA-9]
Passed House
Extends authorization for nutria eradication and control through FY2030. This bill keeps in place the federal authority for the Department of the Interior to provide financial assistance to states to remove invasive nutria and restore marshland damaged by them.
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This bill would extend authorization for nutria eradication and control activities through 2030. It would let federal, state, and local agencies keep carrying out or funding control work. Rural residents and smallholder farmers in affected areas could keep getting help from these programs. It would also fix a minor punctuation error in the statute's reference to the Secretary. The changes would take effect upon enactment.
Harder, Josh [D-CA-9]
CA • D
Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-22]
CA • R
Sponsored 1/28/2025
Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-8]
CA • D
Sponsored 1/28/2025
Rep. Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA-19]
CA • D
Sponsored 1/31/2025
All Roll Calls
Yes: 361 • No: 56
house vote • 2/4/2025
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Yes: 361 • No: 56
HR471 — Fix Our Forests Act
Speeds hazardous fuels reduction and wildfire resilience by creating designated fireshed areas, a joint Fireshed Center, and new authorities that would streamline planning, data sharing, and on-the-ground restoration across federal, Tribal, state, local, private, and nonprofit lands. - Communities and households: At-risk communities would get coordinated mapping, smoke forecasting, and a unified grant application to make funding for home hardening and local projects easier to access. - Tribal governments and state/local partners: Tribes or Governors could trigger shared‑stewardship agreements within 90 days to join cross‑boundary planning and fireshed assessments that prioritize tribal water supplies and community risk. - Forest managers, utilities, and responders: Agencies would gain faster project authorities including NEPA exemptions for designated firesheds, higher Healthy Forests Restoration Act project thresholds (10,000 acres), a 150‑foot hazard‑tree clearance for power lines, expanded contracting tools, and intra‑agency strike teams to speed environmental reviews and implementation. Note: The sources set many deadlines, reporting rules, pilot programs, and several seven‑year sunsets but do not provide a specific federal cost estimate.
HR4206 — CONNECT for Health Act of 2025
Expands Medicare telehealth access by removing geographic limits and ending an in-person requirement for telemental health. It would also change payment rules for clinics and require more oversight, training, and data reporting. - Medicare beneficiaries would be able to receive telehealth across geographies beginning October 1, 2025. Telemental health would no longer require a six-month in-person visit and tribal and Native Hawaiian facilities would be exempt from originating-site rules starting January 1, 2026. - Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics would be paid for telehealth under outpatient or prospective payment methods and telehealth costs as distant-site care would count as allowable PPS costs. The HHS Secretary could waive limits on which practitioner types may furnish telehealth starting October 1, 2025 with annual public comment and a three-year reassessment requirement. - The bill would strengthen program integrity funding for telehealth, require CMS to post quarterly telehealth data, and add telehealth to quality-measure reviews within 180 days. It also mandates a beneficiary engagement study and a Government Accountability Office report on hospice recertification within three years.
HR2709 — Save Our Sequoias Act
A nationwide, time-limited program to protect giant sequoias by creating a formal shared stewardship partnership and fast-tracking protective projects. This bill would set up a cross-jurisdictional coalition, require health and reforestation planning, authorize emergency protective actions, fund grants and a philanthropic protection fund, and create strike teams and monitoring to speed on-the-ground work.
HR2548 — Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025
Automatic, recurring sanctions on the Russian government and its affiliates. This bill would create a multi-layered sanctions regime that forces mandatory measures within 15 days of a covered determination and requires reassessment every 90 days. - U.S. financial institutions and investors: Banks, brokers, and U.S. investment funds would be barred from processing transfers to the Russian Federation, buying Russian sovereign debt, or making monetary investments in entities owned or controlled by the Russian government. Many prohibitions would take effect within 15 days of a covered determination and recur every 90 days. - Energy, trade, and commodities: The bill would ban U.S. exports of energy to Russia, bar investments in the Russian energy sector, and prohibit imports of uranium sourced from Russia or Rosatom. It would also raise duties on imports from Russia to not less than 500 percent and allow similar duties on third countries trading in Russian-origin energy commodities. - Individuals, exchanges, and payment networks: High‑ranking Russian officials, oligarchs, and sector actors would face property blocks and visa ineligibility under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The SEC would be directed to bar listing or trading of Russian‑affiliated issuers and global financial messaging providers could be sanctioned for continuing service to designated banks.
HR1262 — Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
Speeds and strengthens pediatric cancer drug development. It expands which cancer products companies must study in children, reshapes organ transplant network governance and fees, and adds new FDA international and transparency steps. - Children with cancer and researchers: Requires pediatric studies that produce clinically meaningful data on dosing, safety, and early effectiveness and widens the kinds of drug combinations studied. It also sets aside $25 million for pediatric drug studies in each of fiscal years 2026, 2027, and 2028. - Transplant patients and transplant network members: Changes Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network governance and financing by allowing quarterly registration fees, requiring those fees fund OPTN operations, improving electronic health record integration, and calling for a GAO review within two years. - FDA partners and drug makers: Creates an Abraham Accords Office to boost regulatory coordination and technical assistance abroad, and forces more transparency during generic (ANDA) reviews about whether generics are qualitatively and quantitatively the same as listed drugs. It also raises the Medicare Improvement Fund amount from $1.4 billion to $2.6 billion. Increases federal outlays by roughly $1.3 billion, driven by a $1.2 billion boost to the Medicare Improvement Fund and $75 million for pediatric studies, adding to federal spending.
HR1383 — Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025
Extends Secure Rural Schools payment authority and program tools while adding a temporary, targeted adjustment for 2024–2025. The bill would preserve funding pathways for counties with Federal land and keep local project and advisory authorities in place through the late 2020s.
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