Donald Norcross

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5408) to accelerate workplace time-to-contract under the National Labor Relations Act.

This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 5408) to accelerate workplace time-to-contract under the National Labor Relations Act.

Give America a Raise Act

This bill would increase the federal minimum wage, which is the lowest hourly rate employers are legally allowed to pay workers. The change would affect millions of low-wage workers across the country by raising their base pay, though it could also lead some businesses to adjust their hiring or staffing decisions. The bill is currently being reviewed by the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

SEPSIS Act

The proposal would improve how hospitals identify and treat sepsis, a life-threatening condition where the body's response to infection damages its own tissues, by requiring better training, faster testing, and clearer treatment guidelines for emergency room and hospital staff. This would affect patients who develop sepsis during hospital stays or emergency visits, as well as hospitals and healthcare workers who would need to implement new protocols. The goal is to reduce deaths and complications from sepsis, which kills thousands of Americans each year.

Save Our Ships Act

The legislation would protect and preserve historic U.S. military vessels by establishing requirements for their maintenance and preventing their disposal or scrapping. It affects the Navy, veterans' organizations, and communities that host these ships as museums or memorials, ensuring these important pieces of American military history remain available for public education and remembrance.

Trust Through Transparency Act of 2025

The bill would require federal immigration agencies to publicly disclose more information about immigration enforcement activities, detention practices, and case outcomes so that the public and Congress can better understand how immigration laws are being applied. It aims to increase accountability and transparency in how the Department of Homeland Security and related agencies handle immigration matters, affecting both immigrants and the general public's ability to monitor government operations.

Expressing support for the designation of October 1, 2025, as "National Animal Rescue Day" to create awareness of the importance of animal adoption, to educate on the importance of spaying and neutering animals, and to encourage animal adoptions throughout the United States.

This resolution supports the designation of a National Animal Rescue Day to create awareness for animal rescue programs throughout the year and address the challenge of pet overpopulation through continued spaying and neutering.

Faster Labor Contracts Act

This bill would likely speed up the process for negotiating labor contracts between employers and unions, possibly by setting shorter timeframes for negotiations or streamlining how disputes are resolved. The changes would affect workers seeking union representation and the companies that employ them by making contract talks move more quickly. The specific details of how negotiations would be accelerated would depend on the bill's full text.

Empowering Striking Workers Act of 2025

This bill would provide financial support and benefits to workers who are on strike, likely including unemployment insurance or direct payments to help them cover living expenses during labor disputes. The legislation aims to strengthen workers' bargaining power by reducing the financial hardship they face when striking for better wages, working conditions, or other employment terms. It would affect both unionized and non-unionized workers involved in labor actions against their employers.

Peter J. McGuire Labor Day Landmark Act

Peter J. McGuire Labor Day Landmark Act This bill designates the Peter J. McGuire Memorial and Peter J. McGuire Gravesite in Pennsauken, New Jersey, as the Peter J. McGuire Memorial National Commemorative Site. The Department of the Interior may enter into cooperative agreements to provide the public with educational and interpretive facilities and programs concerning the commemorative site. Interior may also provide technical and financial assistance to any entity with which it has entered into such cooperative agreement.

Warehouse Worker Protection Act

The bill would establish new safety and working condition standards for warehouse workers, likely including rules about work hours, break times, and physical demands to prevent injuries and exhaustion. It would apply to large warehouses and distribution centers, affecting both the companies that operate them and the hundreds of thousands of workers employed in these facilities across the country.

Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2025

This legislation would allow federal employees and postal workers to collectively bargain over a broader range of workplace issues, including pay, benefits, and working conditions that are currently set by law or management alone. The change would give public sector unions more negotiating power similar to what private sector unions have, potentially leading to different compensation packages and work arrangements across federal agencies. Federal employees, their unions, and federal agencies would be most directly affected by these expanded negotiation rights.

No Tax Breaks for Union Busting (NTBUB) Act

No Tax Breaks for Union Busting (NTBUB) Act This bill excludes from the tax deduction for ordinary and necessary business expenses amounts paid or incurred to influence employees with respect to labor organizations or labor organization activities. The bill also imposes information reporting requirements related to such expenses and imposes penalties for failure to comply. Under the bill, amounts paid to influence employees with respect to labor organizations include amounts paid (including wages and other costs) in connection with an action that results in a complaint or settlement related to an unfair labor practice or a finding of interference, influence, or coercion related to railway employees’ rights to organize and bargain collectively; for any meeting or training attended by employees and at which labor organizations are discussed; and that require certain employer disclosures and financial reporting. (Some exceptions apply.) The bill requires employers to file a return reporting certain information related to expenses paid to influence employees with respect to labor organizations and imposes a penalty for noncompliance. The amount of the penalty is the greater of (1) $10,000, or (2) $1,000 multiplied by the number full-time equivalent employees. Additional penalties apply for violations that continue for more than 90 days. The bill also imposes information reporting requirements on persons conducting activities on behalf of another person to influence employees with respect to labor organizations. The bill allows certain penalties for noncompliance with the reporting requirements to be waived if noncompliance is due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect.

Seizure Awareness and Preparedness Act

Seizure Awareness and Preparedness Act This bill directs the Department of Education to award competitive grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for carrying out a program that supports elementary and secondary students who have epilepsy or a seizure disorder. Specifically, LEAs must use these subgrants to train school personnel on seizure awareness and preparedness that covers individualized health care plans and individualized emergency health care plans for students who have epilepsy or a seizure disorder.

TREATS Act

Telehealth Response for E-prescribing Addiction Therapy Services Act or the TREATS Act This bill permanently allows health care practitioners to prescribe certain controlled substances for treating substance use disorders via telehealth without evaluating the patient in person. Generally, a health care practitioner may not prescribe a controlled substance via telehealth unless they first conduct an in-person medical evaluation. Federal regulations currently provide a temporary exception to this requirement, allowing practitioners to prescribe schedule II-V controlled substances for legitimate medical purposes (such as treating substance use disorders) via telehealth without an in-person evaluation. However, this temporary regulatory flexibility expires on December 31, 2025. The bill permanently allows practitioners to prescribe schedule III-V controlled substances for the treatment of a substance use disorder via telehealth without conducting an in-person evaluation. In such instances, a practitioner may conduct a telehealth evaluation using audio-only or audio and video equipment.