H.R. 1640: HEIRS Act of 2025 · Congress Swing Tracker

H.R. 1640119th CongressHousing and Community Development

HEIRS Act of 2025

Sponsored by Rep. Nikema Williams (D-GA) · 10 active : 1 Republican, 9 Democrats

Latest action: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 693.

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Where it standsBefore the House

Hasn’t passed either chamber

House: next
Senate: not yet
President: not yet

52 representatives score as swing votes

Summary

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Heirs Estate Inheritance Resolution and Succession Act of 2025 or the HEIRS Act of 2025

This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide grants to assist individuals with the legal processes associated with inheriting certain real property.

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Under the first program, HUD must provide grants to states that have enacted the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act (UPHPA) (or similar state law). The UPHPA provides due process protections against forced property sales for individuals who inherit real property from a landowner without a will. Historically, state property laws have provided that recipients of such property become tenants-in-common, which permits a single tenant to exercise their right to partition and sell the property.

A state or local government must use grant funds to assist residents with expenses related to establishing and documenting property ownership rights or settling a decedent's estate, including costs related to

obtaining title reports, title abstracts, copies of public records, and land surveys;

estate planning;

heirs searches or tracing services; and

recording and filing fees, notary fees, and legal fees and expenses.

Under the second program, HUD must provide grants to housing counseling agencies, legal services clinics at institutions of higher education, and qualified nonprofits. Such organizations must use grant funds to provide housing counseling, legal assistance, and financial assistance related to title clearing and home retention efforts for individuals who inherit property as tenants-in-common.

Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Financial Services · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to

Subjects

Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Low- and moderate-income housing

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the Senate breaks down

9Swing 70–100
62Middle 30–70
29Entrenched 0–30

Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score. The bill is not before the Senate right now; these scores show where members would stand.

Key players in the Senate

Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional

: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.

Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

1
Susan M. Collins

Similar past votes, Senate

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Not applicable in the Senate. There is not enough similar voting history (weight 4.0 of 5.0 needed), so this input is left out of the score rather than counted as missing.

H.R. 6644 · Jun 22, 2026 · Roll call 841On the MotionA bill a bill to increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes.
Motion Agreed toSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 6644 · Jun 18, 2026 · Roll call 839On the Cloture MotionA bill a bill to increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes.
Cloture Motion Agreed toSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 6644 · Jun 16, 2026 · Roll call 834On the Motion to ProceedA bill a bill to increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes.
Motion to Proceed Agreed toSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 6644 · Mar 12, 2026 · Roll call 712On Passage of the BillA bill a bill to increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes.
Bill PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 6644 · Mar 11, 2026 · Roll call 711On the Cloture MotionA bill a bill to increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes.
Cloture Motion Agreed toSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 6644 · Mar 11, 2026 · Roll call 710On the AmendmentIn the nature of a substitute.
Amendment Agreed toSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 6644 · Mar 10, 2026 · Roll call 709On the Cloture MotionIn the nature of a substitute.
Cloture Motion Agreed toSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 6644 · Mar 4, 2026 · Roll call 704On the Motion to ProceedA bill a bill to increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes.
Motion to Proceed Agreed toSame policy area×0.5

Cosponsors

10 active

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How the swing score works

Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.

Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.

Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.

Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.

Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.

Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.