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H.R. 1684: PAST Act of 2025 · Congress Swing Tracker

H.R. 1684119th CongressAnimals

PAST Act of 2025

Sponsored by Rep. Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA) · 207 active : 25 Republicans, 181 Democrats, 1 Independent

Latest action: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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Where it standsBefore the House

Hasn’t passed either chamber

House: next
Senate: not yet
President: not yet

21 representatives score as swing votes

Summary

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Prevent All Soring Tactics Act of 2025 or the PAST Act of 2025

This bill increases protections for horses at shows, exhibitions, sales, or auctions (horse events) to prevent the practice of soring horses. Generally, the soring of horses includes certain actions taken on horses' limbs to produce higher gaits that may cause pain, distress, inflammation, or lameness.

Specifically, the bill expands existing soring prohibitions under the Horse Protection Act, including by banning the use of certain action devices (e.g., nonprotective boots) on specified horse breeds.

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The bill also requires soring inspectors at horse events to be assigned by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the Department of Agriculture rather than appointed by the management of horse events. APHIS must also license, train, and oversee inspectors to detect and diagnose soring at such events.

Additionally, the bill increases penalties for violations of the act. It also directs APHIS to disqualify horses found to be sore from being shown or exhibited for specified periods. Further, APHIS may permanently disqualify violators from participating in horse events after the third or any subsequent violation.

By way of background, APHIS issued a

rule

in 2024 to increase efforts to protect horses from soring practices. However, in 2025, a court vacated parts of the rule as exceeding APHIS' statutory authority (e.g., prohibiting the use of certain action devices) while deeming other parts acceptable (e.g., establishing APHIS-designated inspectors).

APHIS subsequently delayed the effective date of the rule to December 31, 2026.

Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReferred to

Subjects

No legislative subjects recorded yet. Similar-vote matching falls back to the policy area.

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-v2, 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, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

1
Susan M. CollinsRepublican · Maine

Similar past votes, Senate

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Not applicable in the Senate. There is not enough similar voting history (weight 1.0 of 5.0 needed), so this input is left out of the score rather than counted as missing.

S.J.Res. 24 · Sep 28, 2023 · Roll call 243On Overriding the VetoA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to "Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for Northern Long-Eared Bat".
Veto SustainedSame policy area×0.5
S.J.Res. 24 · May 11, 2023 · Roll call 123On the Joint ResolutionA joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to "Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for Northern Long-Eared Bat".
Joint Resolution PassedSame policy area×0.5

Cosponsors

207 active

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Adam Smith (D-WA-9)
Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13)
Al Green (D-TX-9)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14)
Alma S. Adams (D-NC-12)
Ami Bera (D-CA-6)
Andrea Salinas (D-OR-6)
André Carson (D-IN-7)
Becca Balint (D-VT-AL)
Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS-2)
Betty McCollum (D-MN-4)
Bill Foster (D-IL-11)
Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12)
Brad Sherman (D-CA-32)
Bradley Scott Schneider (D-IL-10)
Brittany Pettersen (D-CO-7)
Carlos A. Gimenez (R-FL-28)
Chellie Pingree

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.