Commonsense Legislating Act
Latest action · Nov 20, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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.
- IntroducedNov 12, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 21
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 20, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Nov 13, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
- Nov 12, 2025Introduced in House
- Nov 12, 2025Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Small Business, Appropriations, Ethics, Education and Workforce, the Judiciary, Veterans' Affairs, Natural Resources, House Administration, Science, Space, and Technology, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Homeland Security, Rules, and the Budget, 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.
In the Congressional Record 11
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.
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.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 191, November 12, 2025, page H4667.
Related bills 7
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 612 | A bill to amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations, and for other purposes. | Related bill | Dec 17, 2025 |
| S 1027 | Military Spouse Hiring Act | Related bill | Mar 13, 2025 |
| HR 2033 | Military Spouse Hiring Act | Related bill | Mar 11, 2025 |
| HR 2949 | Working Families Task Force Act of 2025 | Related bill | Apr 17, 2025 |
| HR 3863 | VA Mental Health Outreach and Engagement Act | Related bill | May 4, 2026 |
| HR 4276 | To amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations, and for other purposes. | Related bill | Nov 19, 2025 |
| HR 4520 | SBIR/STTR Application Assistance Act | Related bill | Jul 17, 2025 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To advance commonsense priorities.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Commonsense Legislating Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 12, 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.
