PROTECT USA Act of 2025
Latest action. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Prevent Regulatory Overreach from Turning Essential Companies into Targets Act of 2025 or the PROTECT USA Act of 2025
This bill prohibits businesses integral to U.S. national interests from complying with certain foreign sustainability regulations, including the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.
Specifically, any business entity integral to U.S. national interests is barred from complying with any foreign sustainability due diligence regulation (i.e., any foreign law, regulation, or legal instrument that requires a person to assess the environmental or social impacts of its operations or value chain, take actions to address those impacts, and report on those impacts and actions).
Entities covered by this bill include those that do business with any part of the federal government, including by way of federal contracts or leases. Other covered entities include those businesses organized under the laws of the United States that (1) derive at least 25% of their revenue from activities related to the extraction or production of raw materials from the earth, (2) are primarily involved in manufacturing, or (3) produce arms or other products integral to U.S. national defense.
The bill prohibits adverse action against entities that comply with this prohibition and requires the President to take action in the public interest to protect such entities from an adverse action. Affected entities may bring a civil action against persons who have taken an adverse action. Penalties for violators include up to a $1 million fine and three years of ineligibility for federal awards or contracts.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in Senate" stage on March 12, 2025. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
4 steps remain before this bill could become law.
The record's latest action, on March 12, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
- Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
- Passage by the Senate
- Passage by the House
- The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.
How likely is it to become law?
Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.
In the 118th Congress (2023-24), 274 of the 16,565 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 1.7 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.
This one is not there yet: 4 steps are still outstanding, listed above.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
Bill Hagerty (R-TN) introduced it on March 12, 2025, and 1 member has since signed on as a cosponsor.
They are 1 Republican.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on March 12, 2025, 547 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 547 days ago, on March 12, 2025.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 119th Congress has not finished by January 3, 2027 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- SenateIn committee, no floor vote yet
- HouseAwaits Senate passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers