H.R. 1156 · 119th Congress · Labor and employment
Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Mar 11, 2025
Roll call ↗295
127
Passed the House.
Passed the House on March 11, 2025.
Latest action: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 29
- IntroducedFeb 10, 2025
- CommitteeFeb 25, 2025
- Passed HouseMar 11, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 25
- all Republicans
- House committee
- Ways and Means
- Lobbying
- At least 6
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
Congress sets a 10-year deadline to prosecute or civilly pursue fraud tied to pandemic unemployment benefits.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, March 11, 2025
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
Congress sets a 10-year deadline to prosecute or civilly pursue fraud tied to pandemic unemployment benefits. The bill amends the CARES Act so that any criminal prosecution or civil enforcement action for a listed set of federal fraud, theft, identity-theft, access-device, mail, wire, bank, money-laundering, and False Claims Act offenses connected to a pandemic unemployment claim must be brought within 10 years of the violation or conspiracy. It applies this deadline to three programs: Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation and Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation, and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation. The extended deadline does not revive any case whose statute of limitations had already run out before enactment. The bill also rescinds $5,000,000 from unobligated CARES Act balances.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 6 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 31 quarterly reports filed by 1 lobbying firm and by 5 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Nebraska Hospital Association; Associated General Contractors of America; Job Creators Network; Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.; Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (Sbe Council). Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 1 other is not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.