Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary Committee Bills & Legislation

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Us Congress Senate Bill SB307

Introduced
1/29/25  
Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB304

Introduced
1/29/25  
Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB321

Introduced
1/29/25  
Decoupling America's Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act of 2025
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Us Congress Senate Bill SR47

Introduced
1/30/25  
A resolution designating January 30, 2025, as "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution".
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Us Congress Senate Bill SR44

Introduced
1/29/25  
This resolution designates January 26-February 1, 2025, as National School Choice Week.
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB329

Introduced
1/30/25  
Keeping Drugs Out of Schools Act of 2025This bill allows the Office of National Drug Control Policy to award grants for eligible entities to implement school-community partnerships for preventing and reducing substance use and misuse among youth. Eligible entity refers to a coalition that (1) receives or has received a grant under the Drug-Free Communities Support Program, and (2) has a memorandum of understanding in effect with not less than one local school to establish a school-community partnership.
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB331

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
2/27/25  
Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act or the HALT Fentanyl ActThis bill permanently places fentanyl-related substances as a class into schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. A schedule I controlled substance is a drug, substance, or chemical that has a high potential for abuse; has no currently accepted medical value; and is subject to regulatory controls and administrative, civil, and criminal penalties under the Controlled Substances Act.Under the bill, offenses involving fentanyl-related substances are triggered by the same quantity thresholds and subject to the same penalties as offenses involving fentanyl analogues (e.g., offenses involving 100 grams or more trigger a 10-year mandatory minimum prison term).Additionally, the bill establishes a new, alternative registration process for certain schedule I research.The bill also makes several other changes to registration requirements for conducting research with controlled substances, includingpermitting a single registration for related research sites in certain circumstances,waiving the requirement for a new inspection in certain situations, andallowing a registered researcher to perform certain manufacturing activities with small quantities of a substance without obtaining a manufacturing registration.Finally, the bill expresses the sense that Congress agrees with the interpretation of the Controlled Substances Act in United States v. McCray, a 2018 case decided by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. In that case, the court held that butyryl fentanyl, a controlled substance, can be considered an analogue of fentanyl even though, under the Controlled Substances Act, the term controlled substance analogue specifically excludes a controlled substance.
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB344

Introduced
1/30/25  
A bill to require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to identify and conduct recurrent vetting of evacuees from Afghanistan found not to be properly vetted before entering the United States.
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB326

Introduced
1/30/25  
American Music Fairness Act This bill establishes that the copyright holder of a sound recording shall have the exclusive right to perform the sound recording through an audio transmission. (Currently, the public performance right only covers performances through a digital audio transmission in certain instances, which means that nonsubscription terrestrial radio stations generally do not have to get a license to publicly perform a copyright-protected sound recording.) Under the bill, a nonsubscription broadcast transmission must have a license to publicly perform such sound recordings. The Copyright Royalty Board must periodically determine the royalty rates for such a license. When determining the rates, the board must base its decision on certain information presented by the parties, including the radio stations' effect on other streams of revenue related to the sound recordings. Terrestrial broadcast stations (and the owners of such stations) that fall below certain revenue thresholds may pay certain flat fees, instead of the board-established rate, for a license to publicly perform copyright-protected sound recordings.
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Us Congress Senate Bill SJR8

Introduced
1/30/25  
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Homeland Security relating to "Increase of the Automatic Extension Period of Employment Authorization and Documentation for Certain Employment Authorization Document Renewal Applicants".
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Us Congress House Bill HB895

Introduced
1/31/25  
Ensuring Justice for Victims of Partial-Birth Abortion Act
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Us Congress House Bill HB830

Introduced
1/31/25  
SAFE Act Save Americans from the Fentanyl Emergency Act
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Us Congress House Bill HB883

Introduced
1/31/25  
Counter SNIPER Act Countering Subversion and Negligence in Protecting Election Runners Act
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Us Congress House Bill HB886

Introduced
1/31/25  
Beat Bad Bureaucrats ActThis bill prohibits the Small Business Administration (SBA) from garnishing Social Security payments to victims of identity theft on account of certain delinquent SBA loans obtained fraudulently during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the SBA may not garnish an individual’s Social Security payments related to a covered loan if (1) the individual’s name was used to fraudulently obtain the loan, and (2) the individual has reported the identity theft to the SBA. Under the bill, covered loans are Disaster Loans granted in response to COVID-19 between January 31, 2020, and December 31, 2021 (e.g., Economic Injury Disaster Loans) and loans granted under the Paycheck Protection Program. The prohibition on garnishment does not apply if the SBA determines that an individual is not a victim of identity theft. Further, the SBA must post instructions on how to report identity theft on its public website and include them in the written notice provided to delinquent borrowers before garnishing their pay. 
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Us Congress House Bill HB850

Introduced
1/31/25  
SHUSH Act Silencers Help Us Save Hearing Act