Senate bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Risky Research Review Act
Official title: A bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to establish the Life Sciences Research Security Board, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen. Rand Paul R-KYWhere it went
- IntroducedMar 5, 2025
- Committee actionJul 30, 2025
- Passed Senate—
- Passed House—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 17, 2025 — Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 164.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to S. 854.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “S. 854, Risky Research Review Act” on August 20, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on July 30, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, August 20, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61696
- CBO publication date
- August 20, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- S. 854, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/s/854
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 21, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of January 21, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
1 cosponsor — 1 Democrat
1 of 1 cosponsors (100%) are from the other party.
More from the sponsor
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- S.Res. 29 (119th) An original resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President of the United States possesses legal authority under existing…
- S.Res. 77 (119th) An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- S. 485 (119th) Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2025
Related bills
- H.R. 1864 (119th) Risky Research Review ActRelated bill
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.