US Senator

Alex Padilla 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 14)

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB291

Introduced
1/29/25  
Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program Amendment Act of 2025
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB318

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
ANCHOR Act Accelerating Networking, Cyberinfrastructure, and Hardware for Oceanic Research Act
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB320

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB322

Introduced
1/29/25  
Improving Atmospheric River Forecasts ActThis bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish an atmospheric river forecast improvement program.In carrying out the program, NOAA must seek to reduce loss of life and property and other economic losses caused by atmospheric river events through research and development on accurate, effective, and actionable forecasting and warnings. The program must generally involve the establishment of quantitative atmospheric river forecast skill metrics, the development of an atmospheric river forecast system within a unified forecast system, and the development of tools and products to predict periods of active or inactive atmospheric river landfalls and inland penetration, among other activities. The program must periodically test and evaluate the value of incorporating innovative observations (e.g., observations from radar, aircraft, ocean buoys, and other sources) to facilitate the improvement of modeling and forecasting. The program must also consider the development of best practices for communicating the existence and severity of atmospheric river events, as well as other information about atmospheric rivers. The program may seek to improve precipitation modeling, with an emphasis on forecasting for complex terrain. The bill also requires NOAA to acquire and sustain adequate crewed and uncrewed aircraft (i.e., drones), equipment, and personnel necessary to meet air reconnaissance mission requirements annually during the expected atmospheric river season (November through March). 

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

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Us Congress 2025-2026 Regular Session

Us Congress Senate Bill SB297

Introduced
1/29/25  
PSA Screening for HIM Act Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men Act
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB306

Introduced
1/29/25  
Refer
1/29/25  
Fire Ready Nation Act of 2025
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB310

Introduced
1/29/25  
Build Housing with Care Act of 2025
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB32

Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/25  
Local Access to Courts Act or LACAThis bill adds College Station to the list of places where court must be held in the Galveston Division of the Southern District of Texas. Additionally, the bill adds El Centro to the list of places where court must be held in the Southern District of California.  
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB324

Introduced
1/29/25  
Smarter Weather Forecasting for Water Management, Farming, and Ranching Act of 2025This bill directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish pilot projects to support improved subseasonal to seasonal precipitation forecasting for water management in the western United States and for agriculture nationwide. (Under current law, subseasonal means the time range between two weeks and three months, and seasonal means the time range between three months and two years.)Specifically, NOAA must establish a pilot project to address challenges to improving forecasting and related product development for water management in the western United States. The project must address, among other items, improvements to operational modeling in mountainous regions and to the forecasting of atmospheric rivers. NOAA must also establish a second pilot project to address challenges to improving forecasting and related product development for U.S. agriculture. The project must address, among other items, improvements to operational modeling of warm-season precipitation and to the prediction of certain spring and summer weather patterns.  Each pilot project must include activities that engage with and leverage the resources of academic institutions and entities within NOAA, and that achieve measurable objectives for operational forecast improvement. NOAA’s authority with respect to these pilot projects expires five years after the bill’s enactment. 
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB325

Introduced
1/29/25  
Coordinated Federal Response to Extreme Heat Act of 2025
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB326

Introduced
1/30/25  
American Music Fairness Act
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB336

Introduced
1/30/25  
Disaster Mitigation and Tax Parity Act of 2025
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB338

Introduced
1/30/25  
Fred Korematsu Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2025
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB339

Introduced
1/30/25  
Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
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Us Congress Senate Bill SB341

Introduced
1/30/25  
Smoke and Heat Ready Communities Act of 2025