HUD Transparency Act of 2025
Latest action · Dec 2, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 7, 2025
- Passed HouseDec 1, 2025
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
HUD Transparency Act of 2025
This bill requires the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to annually testify before Congress.
Specifically, the office must testify regarding
- efforts to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse;
- ability to conduct and supervise audits, investigations, and reviews;
- actions to identify opportunities for HUD programs to progress and succeed;
- recommendations to improve overall efficiency and public accountability;
- the extent to which HUD has resources sufficient to carry out its statutory mission; and
- ongoing activities regarding any such additional work.
Cosponsors 12
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 7, 2025 to Jun 12, 2025; 6 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-TX | Dan Crenshaw | Original | Jan 7, 2025 |
| R-PA | Daniel Meuser | Original | Jan 7, 2025 |
| R-WY | Harriet M. Hageman | Original | Jan 7, 2025 |
| R-TN | John W. Rose | Original | Jan 7, 2025 |
| R-NY | Michael Lawler | Original | Jan 7, 2025 |
| R-MN | Tom Emmer | Original | Jan 7, 2025 |
| R-MO | Ann Wagner | Mar 25, 2025 | |
| R-GA | Barry Loudermilk | Mar 25, 2025 | |
| R-TX | Roger Williams | Mar 31, 2025 | |
| R-NC | Tim Moore | Apr 30, 2025 | |
| R-MI | Bill Huizenga | Jun 9, 2025 | |
| R-TX | Pete Sessions | Jun 12, 2025 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Jan 7, 2025Markup Jun 10, 2025Reported Jul 15, 2025 |
| Senate | Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee | Referred Dec 2, 2025 |
Actions 12
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 2, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
- Dec 1, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4944-4945)
- Dec 1, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4944)
- Dec 1, 2025Mr. Davidson moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Dec 1, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 225.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H4944, H4945Text printed H4944Cost estimates H4945 | Maxine Waters D-CA, Monica De La Cruz R-TX, Warren Davidson R-OH | Dec 1, 2025 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Aug 14, 2025H.R. 225, HUD Transparency Act of 2025As reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on July 15, 2025
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 3, January 7, 2025, page H63.
Printed hearings 2
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 119-22 | EXPANDING CHOICE AND INCREASING SUPPLY: HOUSING INNOVATION IN AMERICA138 pages | Financial Services Committee | May 14, 2025 |
| Serial No. 119-13 | DECADES OF DYSFUNCTION: RESTORING ACCOUNTABILITY AT HUD52 pages | Financial Services Committee | Apr 8, 2025 |
CRS reports 2
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 2
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R48732 | ROAD to Housing Act of 2025 | Report | Oct 20, 2026 |
| R48743 | Housing Issues in the 119th Congress | Report | Sep 25, 2026 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 3061 | HUD Transparency Act of 2025 | Identical bill | Oct 28, 2025 |
Titles 6
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to testify before the Congress annually, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- HUD Transparency Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- HUD Transparency Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- HUD Transparency Act of 2025
- Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text
- HUD Transparency Act of 2025
- Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text
- To require the Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to testify before the Congress annually, and for other purposes.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Housing and Community Development.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 2, 2025Referred in Senate
- Dec 1, 2025Engrossed in House
- Jul 15, 2025Reported in House
- Jan 7, 2025Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
