HR 706 · 119th Congress 2025–2027

DHS Biodetection Improvement Act

Introduced Jan 23, 2025 Originated House Sponsor Dale W. Strong R-AL

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 12, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 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.

  1. IntroducedJan 23, 2025
  2. Passed HouseMar 11, 2025
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

DHS Biodetection Improvement Act

This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to assess how it has utilized Department of Energy national laboratories and sites for research and development in carrying out DHS missions and to report to Congress a strategy for how DHS will conduct biodetection research and development in coordination with such laboratories and sites.

Cosponsors 1

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 23, 2025.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-LAClay HigginsOriginalJan 23, 2025

Actions 12

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 12, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
  2. Mar 11, 2025Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1126)
  3. Mar 11, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  4. Mar 11, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: 3/10/2025 CR H1046-1047)
  5. Mar 11, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: 3/10/2025 CR H1046-1047)
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Subjects

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Text 3

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Mar 12, 2025Referred in Senate
  2. Mar 11, 2025Engrossed in House
  3. Jan 23, 2025Introduced in House

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