Law Bills in Congress
6 analyzed bills.
The federal courts and judges, civil and criminal procedure, evidence, legal services, and liability and tort rules. “Law” is one of the 32 policy areas Congress.gov assigns to legislation, and unlike subject terms a bill gets exactly one of them — the single best description of what it is mainly about. Every bill here has been analyzed and summarized in plain language.
6 of the Law bills Bill Explainer have analyzed come from the 119th Congress, 3 from the House and 3 from the Senate. They sit in the Law policy area. Recurring subject terms across them include Constitution and constitutional amendments, California, Judges and State and local courts.
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of nine justices.
This joint resolution, H.J. Res. 1 of the 119th Congress, proposes a constitutional amendment to fix the size of the Supreme Court of the United States at nine justices – one chief justice and eight associate justices...
LACA
H.R. 625, the Local Access to Courts Act (LACA), is a narrowly tailored, bipartisan bill that amends two provisions of Title 28 of the United States Code to authorize additional locations where federal district court ...
Protect the Gig Economy Act of 2025
What the bill does: H.R. 100, the “Protect the Gig Economy Act of 2025,” would amend Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23—the rule that governs when lawsuits can proceed as class actions in federal court. Rule 23(a) cur...
SOPRA
The Separation of Powers Restoration Act of 2025 (SOPRA) is a targeted amendment to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), specifically to 5 U.S.C. § 706, which governs the scope of judicial review of federal agency ...
LACA
S. 32, the Local Access to Courts Act (LACA), is a narrowly tailored court-organization bill that makes two specific changes to where federal district courts may hold proceedings in Texas and California. It amends Tit...
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of nine justices.
S.J. Res. 16 is a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of exactly nine justices. Currently, the Constitution does...