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Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO02)
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Joe Neguse

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Joe Neguse is a Representative from Colorado, born in Bakersfield, California, in 1984. He graduated from Thunder Ridge High School and earned both his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Before Congress, he served as a nonprofit executive, university regent, and executive director of the Colorado department of regulatory agencies, and worked as a lawyer.

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Bills Joe Created (2023 - Current)


118th Congress: House Bill No. 4385

December 23, 2024 / Became Law

Drought Preparedness Act

This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991, which allows the Bureau of Reclamation to provide drought assistance to Hawaii or certain western states.


118th Congress: House Bill No. 5770

December 23, 2024 / Became Law

Water Monitoring and Tracking Essential Resources (WATER) Data Improvement Act

This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 the United States Geological Survey's (1) Federal Priority Streamgage network—previously known as the National Streamflow Information Program—that tracks the amount of water in streams and rivers; (2) groundwater monitoring program, including the National Groundwater Monitoring Network; and (3) grants for water estimation, measurement, and monitoring...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 1319

December 18, 2024 / Scheduled for Future Consideration

Biking on Long-Distance Trails Act

This bill establishes requirements related to long-distance bike trails. The Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) shall identify not fewer than 10 long-distance bike trails that make use of existing trails and roads, and not fewer than 10 areas in which there is an opportunity to...



118th Congress: House Bill No. 7671

December 10, 2024 / Scheduled for Future Consideration

Disaster Management Costs Modernization Act

This bill authorizes the President to allow recipients of certain disaster relief assistance to use excess management cost funds for (1) building capacity to prepare for, recover from, or mitigate the impacts of a major disaster or emergency; or (2) management costs associated with other major disasters, emergencies, disaster preparedness...





118th Congress: House Bill No. 10074

October 29, 2024 / Referred to a Committee

Carbon Cost Act of 2024

This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to coordinate with the National Academy of Sciences to study alternatives for a nonpartisan congressional office or agency to make science-based projections of the effect of federal legislation on global greenhouse gas emissions.


118th Congress: House Bill No. 4297

October 25, 2024 / Scheduled for Future Consideration

Bolts Ditch Act

This bill designates additional entities (the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District and the Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority) that may maintain Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado.




















118th Congress: House Bill No. 7619

March 11, 2024 / Referred to a Committee

Expand the Behavioral Health Workforce Now Act

This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to issue guidance for states on ways to increase education, training, recruitment, and retention of mental health and substance use disorder providers under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), particularly in rural and underserved areas.




118th Congress: House Bill No. 7234

February 5, 2024 / Referred to a Committee

NACIE Improvement Act

This bill revises the membership and duties of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education. Specifically, the bill requires the President to ensure that the council includes at least one member who is the president of a tribal college or university. Additionally, the bill requires the council to submit its...




118th Congress: House Bill No. 6979

January 11, 2024 / Referred to a Committee

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit to small businesses for research activities related to the mitigation of certain drug threats.

This bill allows certain small businesses a new tax credit for 10% of their qualified drug threat mitigation research expenses. Such expenses include research into mitigating or treating the effects of specified drugs, including any emerging drugs, fentanyl, a fentanyl-related substance, or methamphetamine.




118th Congress: House Bill No. 6685

December 7, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Research and Development Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2023

This bill modifies the refundable research tax credit for new and small businesses to (1) provide for an inflation adjustment to the limit on credit refundability; (2) allow refundable amounts to cover all payroll taxes paid by such businesses; and (3) extend eligibility for the credit to small businesses with...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 6557

December 1, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

To direct the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness to conduct a study on certain grace periods under the Transition Assistance Program of the Department of Defense.

This bill requires the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness of the Department of Defense to study and report on reforms to grace periods under the Transition Assistance Program (TAP). Among other elements, the study must include an assessment of grace periods that allow for...


118th Congress: House Resolution No. 867

November 13, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Expressing support for the designation of November 9, 2023, as "National Microtia and Atresia Awareness Day".

This resolution supports the designation of National Microtia and Atresia Awareness Day. Microtia is a congenital condition affecting the outer ear; it is often accompanied by aural atresia (the absence or closure of the external ear canal resulting in hearing loss).




118th Congress: House Bill No. 5970

October 25, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

SNAP Tribal Food Sovereignty Act of 2023

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to enter into self-determination contracts, self-governance compacts, and funding agreements with Indian tribes and tribal organizations, upon the request of a tribe, to carry out the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).


118th Congress: House Bill No. 5971

October 25, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Study on Improving Lands Act

This bill requires the Department of Agriculture to (1) direct a study on the state of soil health on federal lands that determines impacts such as grazing, wildfire, recreation, and invasive species; and (2) create a database of the information collected during the study.




118th Congress: House Bill No. 5503

September 14, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Tribal Conservation Priorities Inclusion Act

This bill includes Indian tribes as entities that can identify priority resource concerns under certain federal conservation programs. Currently, a priority resource concern is defined as a natural resource concern or problem, as determined by the Department of Agriculture, that is identified at the national, state, or local level as...





118th Congress: House Bill No. 5149

August 4, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

To direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out a pilot program to provide stipends to certain members separating from the Armed Forces.

This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to implement a pilot program to provide stipends to certain individuals who DOD determines will experience financial hardship during the first 120 days following separation from the Armed Forces. An individual must have separated from the Armed Forces under honorable conditions and...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 5150

August 4, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

To direct the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress a report evaluating beneficiary access to TRICARE network pharmacies.

This bill requires the Department of Defense to evaluate and report on beneficiary access to TRICARE network pharmacies under the TPharm5 contract (i.e., the current retail pharmacy network contract), including changes versus the TPharm4 contract.


118th Congress: House Bill No. 5151

August 4, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Further Strengthening Supply Chains for Servicemembers and Security Act of 2023

This bill requires the Defense Logistics Agency to modify Defense Logistics Agency Instructions 5025.03 and 3110.01 to require Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support to coordinate annually with customers in the military departments to test responsiveness of the agency's contingency contracts for pharmaceuticals and to include the results of the testing...







118th Congress: House Bill No. 4746

July 19, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Tribal Access to Clean Water Act of 2023

This bill expands access to water resources for Native communities (i.e., Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian communities). Specifically, the bill allows the Department of Agriculture to make or insure loans and make grants to eligible entities (e.g., Native communities) for technical assistance to develop, use, and control water. Additionally, the...



118th Congress: House Bill No. 4495

July 6, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Aircraft Noise Reduction Act

This bill allows a general aviation airport to make reasonable adjustments to air traffic and training patterns of noncommercial charter flights for the purposes of implementing aircraft noise limitations. A general aviation airport is a public-use airport that does not have scheduled service or that has scheduled service with less...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 4382

June 27, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Agricultural Access to Addiction and Mental Health Care Act

This bill directs the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to study the accessibility of addiction and mental health care providers and services for farmers and ranchers impacted by severe and persistent drought, extreme weather events, instability in the commodities market, and misinformation targeting consumers. For example, the study...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 4383

June 27, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Military Families Mental Health Services Act

This bill authorizes the Department of Defense to waive cost-sharing requirements for the first three outpatient mental health visits for certain beneficiaries of TRICARE Select and TRICARE Prime each year. Under the bill, active-duty family members are eligible for such waiver of cost-sharing requirements under both TRICARE Select and TRICARE...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 4384

June 27, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2023

This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 the Project Safe Neighborhoods grant program within the Department of Justice. The bill also allows funds under the program to be used for hiring crime analysts to assist with violent crime reduction efforts;the cost of overtime for law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and law enforcement assistants...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 4348

June 23, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Fairness in Social Security Act of 2023

This bill excludes from modified adjusted gross income, for income tax purposes, any lump-sum social security benefit payment (i.e., a payment of more than one month of social security benefits) that is attributable to months ending before the beginning of the taxable year. It also waives any statute of limitation...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 4197

June 16, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization Act of 2023

This bill reauthorizes and expands the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration program, which helps fund collaborative and community-based forest management. To be eligible for support, a collaborative forest landscape restoration proposal must describe plans to prevent, remediate, or control invasions of pathogens. For each proposal nominated for selection by a Forest...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 4179

June 15, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Reverse Transfer Efficiency Act of 2023

This bill allows the release of a transfer student's educational records from an institution of postsecondary education where a student earned credit for coursework to an institution of postsecondary education where the student was previously enrolled in order to apply the student's coursework and credits toward completion of a recognized...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 4180

June 15, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Federal Labs Modernization Act of 2023

This bill requires certain agencies to report on the state of research infrastructure at federal laboratories and other facilities. Specifically, the bill requires the Office of Science and Technology Policy to include in a report to Congress a description of the deficiencies in funding for research infrastructure in research facilities...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 4040

June 12, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Recycling and Composting Accountability Act

This bill establishes data collection and reporting requirements concerning composting and recycling programs. Specifically, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must issue several reports related to composting and recycling, including a report on the capability of the United States to implement a national composting strategy in order to reduce contamination rates...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 4041

June 12, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Lobbying Disclosure Improvement Act

This bill requires registered lobbyists to disclose whether they are exempt from having to register as foreign agents due to their lobbying activities and status as registered lobbyists.


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3917

June 7, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

National Manufacturing Advisory Council for the 21st Century Act

This bill establishes the National Manufacturing Advisory Council within the Department of Commerce to support the U.S. manufacturing sector. The council must advise Commerce about global and domestic manufacturing trends and threats to the manufacturing sector in the United States, including on matters such as supply chain interruptions, logistical challenges,...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3918

June 7, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basin Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Reauthorization Act of 2023

This bill reauthorizes through FY2031 and revises the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Upper Colorado River and San Juan River Basin recovery implementation programs to restore populations of certain endangered and threatened fish. The goal of the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program is to recover the humpback chub...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3844

June 6, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Sustainable Agriculture Research Act

This bill revises the goals of the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AGARDA). Specifically, the bill expands the goals to require AGARDA to enhance the role of sustainable agriculture in innovative voluntary resilience solutions in the United States through the development of agricultural technologies that may address the impact...



118th Congress: House Bill No. 3789

June 1, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

CLEAR Act of 2023

This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to submit any proposed or temporary regulation, prior to its publication, to the National Taxpayer Advocate for comment on the impact of such regulation on taxpayer rights or taxpayer burden. Treasury must consider the comments of the National Taxpayer Advocate before prescribing...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3776

May 31, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act of 2023

This bill establishes a voucher program through which public housing agencies (PHAs) shall offer support services to help families who have children and are unstably housed, live in an area of concentrated poverty, or are at risk of being displaced from an opportunity area for children move to areas with...



118th Congress: House Bill No. 3716

May 25, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

SPUR Act

This bill raises from 23% to 25% the government-wide goal for participation by small businesses in procurement contracts.


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3717

May 25, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

MicroCap Small Business Investing Act of 2023

This bill authorizes the Small Business Administration (SBA) to issue up to ten Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) licenses each year to certain applicants. An SBIC is a privately owned company, licensed and regulated by the SBA, which invests in small businesses through debt and equity. A license issued under...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3718

May 25, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Department of Veterans Affairs Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Processing Claims Improvement Act of 2023

This bill requires the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to update an ongoing, national training program for claims processors who review compensation claims for service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Such claims processors will be required to participate in the training at least once a...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3719

May 25, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Save Affordable Housing Act of 2023

This bill revises the low-income housing tax credit to repeal the qualified contract option for a building that received its allocation of housing credit dollar amount before January 1, 2023, or received before that date, a determination from the bond issuer or housing credit agency of its eligibility to receive...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3720

May 25, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

HUBS for Veterans Act of 2023

This bill establishes a grant program to assist the transition of military personnel to civilian life. It directs the Department of Labor to carry out a five-year grant program for nonprofit organizations, state boards, or local boards to assist the transition of the following persons from Armed Forces service to...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3562

May 22, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Forest Service Flexible Housing Partnerships Act of 2023

This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 and modifies the authority of the Forest Service to lease its administrative sites. The Forest Service may accept services occurring off of the administrative site as consideration for a lease. The Forest Service may lease an administrative site for up to 100 years, and leases...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3437

May 17, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act

This bill provides for the conservation of specified lands in Colorado. Specifically, the bill designates specified federal lands within the White River National Forest as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, the proposed Williams Fork Mountains Wilderness as a potential wilderness area, the Spraddle Creek Wildlife Conservation Area, the...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3338

May 15, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

To authorize additional district judgeships for the district of Colorado, and for other purposes.

This bill increases from seven to eight the total number of U.S. district court judgeships for the District of Colorado and requires court in that district to be additionally held at Fort Collins, Colorado. The President must appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional judge for...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3252

May 11, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Colorado Judgeship Act

This bill increases from seven to ten the total number of U.S. district court judgeships for the District of Colorado. The President must appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, three additional judges for that judicial district.


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3107

May 5, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Improving Outdoor Recreation Coordination Act

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to establish the Federal Interagency Council on Outdoor Recreation. The council shall meet as frequently as appropriate for purposes of coordinating specified policies and activities, including recreation management policies across federal agencies; the response by federal land management agencies to public health...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 3108

May 5, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Tim’s Act

This bill increases compensation for federal wildland firefighters (including qualifying prevailing rate employees) and establishes related requirements. The bill increases the minimum rate of basic pay for firefighters at General Schedule (GS) levels 1 through 5 to at least the rate of pay for step 3 of GS-6. (A wildland...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 2897

April 26, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

End Gun Violence Act of 2023

This bill extends federal restrictions on the sale or disposition of firearms and ammunition to a new category of persons: persons who have been convicted in any court of a violent misdemeanor within the preceding five years.


118th Congress: House Bill No. 2898

April 26, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Secure Background Checks Act of 2023

This bill extends federal restrictions on the receipt, possession, shipment, and transportation of firearms and ammunition to two new categories of persons: persons who fail to meet the minimum age requirements imposed by federal law and by the law of their resident state; and persons who are out-of-state residents and...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 2899

April 26, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

STOP Violence Act of 2023

This bill allows funds under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program to be used to assist public assembly facilities in preparing for and protecting against mass violence.



118th Congress: House Bill No. 2438

March 30, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

C.A.R.E. for Mental Health Professionals Act

This bill establishes a grant program to promote interstate licensure compacts for mental health professionals. These are licensure agreements enacted by two or more states to mutually recognize the licenses of counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, or pediatric mental health professionals. The Health Resources and Services Administration must award grants to interstate...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 2439

March 30, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Ally’s Act

This bill requires private health insurance plans to cover certain hearing devices and systems (e.g., bone-anchored auditory implants) and related items and services. The financial requirements and treatment limitations applicable to such coverage may be no more restrictive than the requirements and limitations for other medical and surgical benefits covered...



118th Congress: House Bill No. 1812

March 27, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Reforming Broadband Connectivity Act of 2023

This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make changes to the financing of the Universal Service Fund. This fund, which is financed by fees contributed by telecommunications carriers, supports programs to expand the availability of and access to telecommunications services. Specifically, the bill directs the FCC to (1)...


118th Congress: House Resolution No. 248

March 23, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Recognizing the contributions of Clela Rorex, pioneering county clerk who advanced civil rights for all couples seeking to be married in 1975.

This resolution expresses support for the designation of Clela Rorex Day to recognize Clela Rorex for issuing the first same-sex marriage license in the United States and becoming a pioneer for civil rights and same-sex marriage.


118th Congress: House Bill No. 1717

March 22, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act of 2023

This bill establishes the Interagency Task Force on Patents to support coordination and communication between the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on activities relating to patents for human drugs and biological products. The task force's duties shall include sharing information about (1)...



118th Congress: House Resolution No. 195

March 3, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Expressing the need for the Federal Government to establish a national biodiversity strategy for protecting biodiversity for current and future generations.

This resolution calls for the federal government to establish a national biodiversity strategy, which must include a goal of conserving at least 30% of U.S. lands and waters to protect biodiversity and address climate change by 2030 and other goals necessary to reduce the threats to biodiversity.


118th Congress: House Bill No. 1316

March 1, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Save Children’s Coverage Act

This bill allows states to provide for extended coverage under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) of children after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. It also allows for extended Medicaid coverage of certain low-income, formerly homeless, or formerly incarcerated adults. Specifically, after the emergency period...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 1317

March 1, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Continental Divide Trail Completion Act

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior to complete the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail by November 10, 2028. USDA and Interior must establish a joint Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management trail completion team to work in coordination with the administrator...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 565

January 26, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Land Restoration and Resiliency Act of 2023

This bill directs the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to enter into cooperative agreements with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to establish the Community Resilience and Restoration Fund at the foundation, for purposes including to improve community safety in the face of climactic extremes through conservation and protection of...



118th Congress: House Bill No. 480

January 24, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Wildfire Recovery Act

This bill makes changes with respect to the federal cost share for Fire Management Assistance Grants and provides that the federal share shall be not less than 75% of the eligible cost. Specifically, the bill directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to conduct and complete a rulemaking to provide...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 481

January 24, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Wildfire Smoke Relief Act

This bill provides for assistance for the purchase of smoke inhalation prevention equipment to specified individuals at risk of wildfire smoke-related illness. The President, in carrying out the Transitional Sheltering Assistance Program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), shall provide (1) assistance to a state or local government, local...


118th Congress: House Bill No. 482

January 24, 2023 / Referred to a Committee

Western Wildfire Support Act of 2023

This bill establishes activities to address wildfires. The bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior to establish spatial fire management plans before the end of FY2026. The bill establishes accounts in the Treasury for addressing wildfires, a program to train and certify citizens who...