Did the Senate Judiciary or Rules committees hold hearings on S.128 (the SAVE Act) after April 2025?

1. Referral and committee assignment: the formal record

S.128 was officially introduced in the Senate on January 16, 2025, and the formal congressional tracking services record that the bill was “read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration,” which is the procedural step that places the measure in that committee’s jurisdiction for consideration ^{[1] [2]}. Congress.gov’s compound “All Info” page confirms committees and committee activity are where one would expect to find any hearings or markups, but the specific actions recorded in the provided extracts only show referral and listing — not the occurrence of hearings ^[7].

2. What happened after the House vote in April 2025

The House passed H.R.22 — the House companion to S.128 — on April 10, 2025, and multiple trackers note that the bill then moved to the Senate for consideration, which in normal practice would route further consideration to the committee of jurisdiction ^{[8] [3] [9]}. Advocacy and watchdog groups reacted immediately, urging Senators either to defeat the bill or to block it via the filibuster; these reactions underline that the Senate calendar was the next battleground but do not constitute evidence that any committee held hearings ^{[6] [10] [11]}.

3. Public pressure, political messaging, and assertions of “stalled” status

Republican Study Committee members publicly complained that the Senate had not moved the bill to a floor vote and called for immediate action, framing the measure as long “collecting dust” and urging Senate Republicans to act ^{[4] [5]}. Those communications are political pressure aimed at forcing committee or floor action; they repeatedly assert delay but do not cite committee hearing dates or minutes, and the reporting clips provided do not contain independent verification of any hearings having taken place ^{[4] [5]}.

4. Absence of documented hearings in the supplied sources

Across the supplied official tracking pages and advocacy reporting there is no citation, calendar entry, or committee report that records a Judiciary or Rules committee hearing on S.128 after April 2025; the bill status entries focus on referral and advocacy responses rather than showing a transcribed or scheduled committee hearing ^{[7] [1] [2] [12]}. If a hearing had occurred, the typical documentary traces — committee hearing notices, witness lists, transcripts, or a committee report — would be expected in the Congress.gov or GovTrack records excerpted here, but those are absent from the provided material ^{[7] [12]}.

5. Alternative interpretations and limits of the record

It remains possible that hearings or informal briefings took place that are not captured in the specific sources supplied; the dataset includes advocacy, bill trackers, and summaries but does not include a full search of committee calendars, the Senate’s official hearing archive, or a complete Congress.gov docket beyond the “all info” summary excerpt ^{[7] [12]}. Given the evidence at hand, however, the responsible conclusion is that no documented hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee or the Senate Rules and Administration Committee on S.128 after April 2025 appear in these sources.

6. Bottom line

Based on the provided reporting and official tracking excerpts, S.128 was referred to the Senate Rules and Administration Committee in January 2025 and the House companion passed in April 2025, but there is no documentation in these sources that either the Senate Judiciary Committee or the Senate Rules and Administration Committee held hearings on S.128 after April 2025; public statements instead characterize the bill as stalled and urge action or opposition ^{[1] [2] [8] [4] [6]}.