S2441-119

In Committee

Build Now Act of 2025

119th Congress Introduced Jul 24, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Build Now Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies. The main policy domain is Housing, Government Operations, Environment.

Who Benefits and How

homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Build Now Act of 2025.
  • Section idb6595fbc62e04d50bf37b3926b21bf76: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term covered recipient means a metropolitan city or urban county, as those terms are defined in section 102 of the Housing and...
  • Section id62a4a0ac2fca4b728be6c9051ce23334: 3. Adjustments to community development block grant allocations In allocating amounts to an eligible recipient under section 106 for a fiscal year, the...
  • Section id57d341e552d24adfb272811f82731607: 4. Calculation of housing units In calculating the number of housing units in the jurisdiction of an eligible recipient under any provision of this Act, the...
  • Section idd1aa2f9f25e44cfa9046c76c45f93126: 5. Annual report on housing growth improvement rate Before allocating funds under section 106 for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall publish a report that—...

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Build Now Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies.

Key Policy Areas

Housing, Government Operations, Environment

Primary Purpose

This bill, Build Now Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies.

Policy Domains

Housing Government Operations Environment

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies
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Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies
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homeowners, renters, builders, and housing agencies: ,

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Jul 24, 2025

Mr. Kennedy (for himself and Ms. Warren) introduced the following …

Jul 24, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, …

Jul 24, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Housing Government Operations Environment
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_housing_and_urban_development"
→ Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"eligible recipient" §idb6595fbc62e04d50bf37b3926b21bf76

any covered recipient unless— the median Small Area Fair Market Rent in the jurisdiction of the covered recipient is at or below the 60th percentile of median Small Area Fair Market Rents in the jurisdictions of all covered recipients

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