Responsible Legislating Act
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- senate
- president
Last progress January 3, 2025 (11 months ago)
Introduced on January 3, 2025 by James P. McGovern
Sponsors
House Votes
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, Oversight and Government Reform, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Foreign Affairs, Education and Workforce, Small Business, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, House Administration, Energy and Commerce, Homeland Security, Science, Space, and Technology, Appropriations, Rules, Ethics, Transportation and Infrastructure, the Budget, and Financial Services , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Senate Votes
Presidential Signature
AI Summary
This bill, called the Responsible Legislating Act, makes changes that touch everyday life: helping people save more for retirement, increasing safety around schools, checking foreign roles in ports and chip-making, supporting farming, adjusting credit union rules, continuing NASA leases, and adding funding for key federal agencies. It also calls for a public hearing within one year to review how it’s working.
- Retirement savings: Raises how much people can put into a Roth IRA and allows some contributions to SIMPLE or SEP plans to be included (limits apply).
- School safety: Adds up to 5 years to prison time for certain human trafficking or forced-sex crimes that happen in or near schools.
- Chips and ports: Commerce must report on efforts to bring foreign investment to U.S. chip manufacturing, and the Federal Maritime Commission must study how foreign-owned terminals at the 15 largest container ports affect U.S. economic security.
- Farming: Extends livestock market price reporting through fiscal year 2025.
- Credit unions: Lets credit unions with satisfactory safety ratings hold board meetings less often.
- NASA: Allows NASA to keep leasing out some facilities and property through 2033.
- Funding: Provides additional money for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture, State, Defense, Homeland Security, and Energy.
- Oversight: Requires hearings within one year of the law taking effect to review how it’s being carried out.