S 4538 — Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act
Congress · introduced 2025-02-06
Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act to provide competitive workforce development and capacity building grants to eligible entities that are seeking to expand access to representation for individuals facing deportation by increasing the workforce and strengthening the legal services infrastructure needed to provide such representation.
Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_SENATE_COMM
Sponsors
- John Liu (—, NY-16) — sponsor · 2025-02-06
- Leroy Comrie (—, NY-14) — cosponsor · 2025-02-06
- Michael Gianaris (—, NY-12) — cosponsor · 2025-02-06
- Pete Harckham (—, NY-40) — cosponsor · 2025-02-06
- Michelle Hinchey (—, NY-41) — cosponsor · 2025-02-06
- Robert Jackson (—, NY-31) — cosponsor · 2025-02-06
- Shelley Mayer (—, NY-37) — cosponsor · 2025-02-06
- Julia Salazar (—, NY-18) — cosponsor · 2025-02-06
- Luis R. Sepúlveda (—, NY-32) — cosponsor · 2025-02-06
- José M. Serrano (—, NY-29) — cosponsor · 2025-02-06
- Toby Ann Stavisky (—, NY-11) — cosponsor · 2025-02-06
- Jeremy Zellner (—, NY-61) — cosponsor · 2025-02-06
Action timeline
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Inbound (12)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-06 | John Liu | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-06 | Shelley Mayer | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-06 | Michael Gianaris | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-06 | Michelle Hinchey | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-06 | Toby Ann Stavisky | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-06 | Robert Jackson | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-06 | Luis R. Sepúlveda | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-06 | Pete Harckham | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-06 | Jeremy Zellner | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-06 | Julia Salazar | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-06 | Leroy Comrie | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-06 | José M. Serrano | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Liu (—, state_upper NY-16) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Jeremy Zellner (—, state_upper NY-61) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | José M. Serrano (—, state_upper NY-29) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Julia Salazar (—, state_upper NY-18) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Leroy Comrie (—, state_upper NY-14) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Luis R. Sepúlveda (—, state_upper NY-32) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Michael Gianaris (—, state_upper NY-12) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Michelle Hinchey (—, state_upper NY-41) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Pete Harckham (—, state_upper NY-40) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | Robert Jackson (—, state_upper NY-31) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Shelley Mayer (—, state_upper NY-37) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | Toby Ann Stavisky (—, state_upper NY-11) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.
- 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Julia Salazar (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Leroy Comrie (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by José M. Serrano (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Michelle Hinchey (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Toby Ann Stavisky (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Luis R. Sepúlveda (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Robert Jackson (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Pete Harckham (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Shelley Mayer (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Jeremy Zellner (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-06 · sponsored by John Liu (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-06 · cosponsored by Michael Gianaris (cosponsor) · sponsorship