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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.
Where it standsBefore the House35 representatives score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- House: next
- Senate: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govHeirs 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
How the Senate breaks down
- 7Swing 70–100
- 65Middle 30–70
- 28Entrenched 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-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
10 activeShow all 10 cosponsors
- Byron Donalds (R-FL-19)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC-AL)
- Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO-5)
- Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-7)
- Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX-7)
- Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-12)
- Sanford D. Bishop (D-GA-2)
- Shomari Figures (D-AL-2)
- Jennifer L. McClellan (D-VA-4)
- Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX-29)
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.
