S. 1260 · 119th Congress

Rural Housing Service Reform Act of 2025

Introduced on Apr 2, 2025 by Tina Smith (D-MN). 14 cosponsors, 7 of them from another party. Latest action (Apr 2, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Apr 2, 2025
Cosponsors
14
7 from the other party
Policy area
Housing and Community Development
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Progress

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  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

A bill to reform rural housing programs, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
  • Community life and organization
  • Congressional oversight
  • Government lending and loan guarantees
  • Government studies and investigations
  • Housing and community development funding
  • Housing finance and home ownership
  • Housing supply and affordability
  • Indian social and development programs
  • Landlord and tenant
  • Low- and moderate-income housing
  • Residential rehabilitation and home repair
  • Rural conditions and development

Summary

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Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Tina SmithD-MNSponsor

Democrats · 6

Independents · 1

Republicans · 7

Roll calls

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No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

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  1. Apr 2, 2025Introduced in Senate
  2. Apr 2, 2025 · SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Committees

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Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. HOUSING POLICY COUNCIL6 reports
    $210K reported (all issues)
  2. MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION6 reports
    $4.4M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION$125K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  3. AARP5 reports
    $22.2M reported (all issues)
  4. NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS5 reports
    $150K reported (all issues)
  5. Up for Growth Action, Inc.5 reports
    $260K reported (all issues)
  6. Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. .4 reports
    $399.5K reported (all issues)
  7. Opportunity Finance Network-Formerly National Community Cap4 reports
    $230K reported (all issues)
  8. NATIONAL MULTIFAMILY HOUSING COUNCIL2 reports
    $3.4M reported (all issues)
  9. Association For Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International1 report
    $29.3K reported (all issues)
  10. INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY BANKERS OF AMERICA1 report
    $866.8K reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

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  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.