Ron Johnson

Right to Treat Act

The bill would likely expand healthcare providers' ability to treat patients according to their medical judgment, possibly by reducing certain regulatory restrictions or liability concerns that limit treatment options. The specific changes would affect doctors, hospitals, and other medical professionals, as well as the patients they serve. The exact scope depends on which regulations or legal barriers the bill targets, which would be clarified as it moves through the committee process.

SOAR Permanent Authorization Act

The SOAR Permanent Authorization Act would make a federal education program permanent rather than requiring Congress to reauthorize it periodically. This would provide stable, ongoing funding for the program without needing lawmakers to vote to continue it every few years, allowing schools and students who benefit from it to plan more reliably for the future.

Shutdown Fairness Act

The proposal would require the federal government to continue paying federal employees during government shutdowns, ensuring they receive their regular paychecks even when Congress fails to pass a budget. This would affect millions of federal workers across agencies who currently go unpaid during shutdowns, while also potentially reducing pressure on lawmakers to quickly resolve budget disputes since the immediate financial hardship on workers would be eliminated.

Shutdown Fairness Act

Shutdown Fairness Act This bill provides appropriations to pay federal employees who work during a government shutdown. Specifically, the bill provides appropriations for federal agencies to provide standard rates of pay, allowances, pay differentials, benefits, and other payments to excepted employees for work performed during any period in which interim continuing appropriations or full-year appropriations are not in effect for a fiscal year (i.e., a government shutdown). An excepted employee is an employee who is required to work during a government shutdown. Under current law, excepted employees are not paid until the government shutdown is over. This bill provides appropriations to pay excepted employees during a government shutdown. The bill also specifies that the term excepted employee includes certain contractors who support federal employees during a government shutdown and members of the Armed Forces who are on active duty. A federal agency may not use the funds provided by this bill during any period in which continuing appropriations are in effect for the purpose of paying excepted employees of the agency. The bill must take effect as if it had been enacted on September 30, 2025.

A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to release a reversionary interest in certain land in the Black River State Forest in Millston, Wisconsin, and for other purposes.

The federal government would give up its claim to a piece of land in Wisconsin's Black River State Forest that it currently has the right to reclaim, allowing the state or current landowners to have full control of the property. This change affects how the land can be used and managed going forward, removing a restriction that gave the federal government the ability to take back the land under certain conditions. The bill is a technical fix for a specific property ownership issue in Wisconsin.

Interstate Commerce Simplification Act of 2025

Interstate Commerce Simplification Act of 2025 This bill expands the definition of solicitation of orders to include business activities that serve an independently valuable business function apart from the solicitation of orders for purposes of the limitation on a state’s authority to impose a net income tax on an out-of-state seller. Under current law, a state is prohibited from imposing a net income tax on income derived from within the state from interstate commerce if the only business activity within the state is the solicitation of orders for the sale of tangible personal property, provided that the orders are approved (or rejected) and filled by shipment or delivery from outside of the state. Further, the Supreme Court has held that the term solicitation of orders includes (1) activities that are strictly essential to making requests for purchases, and (2) ancillary activities that serve no independent business function apart from their connection to requests for purchases. Under the bill, the definition of solicitation of orders is expanded to include business activities that facilitate the solicitation of orders even if such business activities serve an independently valuable business function apart from the solicitation.

Eliminate Shutdowns Act

Eliminate Shutdowns Act This bill provides continuing appropriations to prevent a government shutdown if the appropriations bills for a fiscal year have not been enacted before the fiscal year begins and continuing appropriations are not in effect. Specifically, the bill provides appropriations at the rate of operations that was provided for the prior fiscal year to continue programs, projects, and activities that were funded in the preceding fiscal year.

No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act

Any international agreement the World Health Organization negotiates about preparing for future pandemics would need approval from the U.S. Senate before the United States could join it, rather than allowing the President to approve it alone. This would give Congress a formal say in whether America commits to pandemic preparedness treaties with other countries. The requirement would apply specifically to WHO pandemic-related agreements and treaties.