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Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson Campus of the Alaska VA Healthcare System Act of 2022


Summary: Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson Campus of the Alaska VA Healthcare System Act of 2022 This act designates the medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Anchorage, Alaska, as the Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson Campus of the Alaska VA Healthcare System.
Paul D. Wellstone Building Act of 2022


Summary: Paul D. Wellstone Building Act of 2022 This act designates the federal building located at 212 Third Avenue South in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the Paul D. Wellstone Federal Building.
Don Young Recognition Act


Summary: Don Young Recognition Act This act designates (1) the volcanic peak known as Mount Cerberus as Mount Young; (2) the Jobs Corps center located at 800 East Lynn Martin Drive in Palmer, Alaska, as the Don Young Alaska Job Corps Center; and (3) the federal office building located at 101 12th Avenue in Fairbanks, Alaska, as the Don Young Federal Office Building.
Energy Security and Lightering Independence Act of 2022


Summary: Energy Security and Lightering Independence Act of 2022 This bill authorizes an alien crewman to obtain a permit to land in the United States for up to 180 days if, during this period, the crewman will perform ship-to-ship liquid cargo transfer operations involving a vessel engaged in foreign trade. Currently, an alien crewman may obtain a permit to land for up to 29 days.
Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2021

To require the United States Postal Service to continue selling the Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp until all remaining stamps are sold, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2021 2. Reauthorization; requirement to sell all stamps (a) In general Section 2(c) of the Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Act of 2010 ( 39 U.S.C. 416 Public Law 111–241 (1) in paragraph (2)— (A) by striking of at least 6 years, (B) by inserting before the period at the end the following: and ending not earlier than the date on which the United States Postal Service provides notice to Congress under paragraph (5) (2) by adding at the end the following: (5) Requirement to sell all stamps printed (A) In general The United States Postal Service shall sell each copy of the Multinational Species Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamp that the United States Postal Service prints under this Act. (B) Notification of Congress The United States Postal Service shall notify the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House of Representatives when all copies of the Multinational Species Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamp printed under this Act have been sold. . (b) Retroactive applicability (1) In general The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted on the day after the date of enactment of the Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2013 ( Public Law 113–165 (2) Consequence of destruction of stamps If the United States Postal Service destroys 1 or more Multinational Species Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamps before the date of enactment of this Act, the United States Postal Service shall print and sell the same number of such stamps on or after that date of enactment.

Summary: Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2021 This bill directs the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to sell each copy of the Multinational Species Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamp and notify Congress when all copies have been sold. If the USPS destroys one or more such stamps before this bill's enactment, it shall print and sell the same number of such stamps.
Providing Accountability Through Transparency Act of 2021

To require each agency, in providing notice of a rule making, to include a link to a 100-word plain language summary of the proposed rule. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Providing Accountability Through Transparency Act of 2021 2. Requirement to post a 100-word summary to regulations.gov Section 553(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (2) , and (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following: (4) the Internet address of a summary of not more than 100 words in length of the proposed rule, in plain language, that shall be posted on the Internet website under section 206(d) of the E-Government Act of 2002 ( 44 U.S.C. 3501 .

Summary: Providing Accountability Through Transparency Act of 2021 This bill requires the notice of a proposed rule by a federal agency to include the internet address of a summary of the rule. The summary must be 100 words or fewer, written in plain language, and posted on regulations.gov.
Guidance Clarity Act of 2021

To require a guidance clarity statement on certain agency guidance, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Guidance Clarity Act of 2021 2. Guidance clarity statement required (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Agency; rule The terms agency rule (2) Guidance The term guidance (A) means an agency statement of general applicability, intended to have a future effect on the behavior of regulated parties, that sets forth a policy on a statutory, regulatory, or technical issue, or an interpretation of a statute or regulation; and (B) does not include— (i) a rule promulgated pursuant to notice and comment under section 553 of title 5, United States Code; (ii) a rule exempt from rulemaking requirements under section 553(a) of title 5, United States Code; (iii) a rule of agency organization, procedure, or practice; (iv) a decision of an agency adjudication under section 554 of title 5, United States Code, or any similar statutory provision; (v) internal guidance directed to the issuing agency or other agency that is not intended to have a substantial future effect on the behavior of regulated parties; or (vi) internal executive branch legal advice or legal opinions addressed to executive branch officials. (b) Requirement Each agency shall include a guidance clarity statement as described in subsection (c) on any guidance issued by that agency on and after the date of enactment of this Act. (c) Guidance clarity statement A guidance clarity statement required under subsection (b) shall— (1) be displayed prominently on the first page of the document; and (2) include the following: The contents of this document do not have the force and effect of law and are not meant to bind the public in any way. This document is intended only to provide clarity to the public regarding existing requirements under the law or agency policies.

Summary: Guidance Clarity Act of 2021 This bill requires federal agencies to state on the first page of guidance documents that such guidance (1) does not have the force and effect of law, and (2) is intended only to provide clarity to the public about existing legal requirements or agency policies.
Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness Act

To exempt payments made from the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account from sequestration under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 1. Short titles This Act may be cited as the Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness Act REEF Act 2. Treatment of payments from the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account (a) In general Section 256(i)(1) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 906(i)(1) (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking and (2) in subparagraph (C), by inserting and (3) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following new subparagraph: (D) any payment made from the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account (established by section 10 of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act) for the purpose of carrying out the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, and funds appropriated or transferred to or otherwise deposited in such Account, . (b) Effective date The treatment of payments made from the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account pursuant to the amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect 7 days after the date of enactment of this Act and shall apply only to obligations incurred on or after such effective date for such payments.

Summary: Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness Act or the REEF Act This bill permanently exempts payments made from the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account from sequestration. Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals. Currently, this exemption ends 30 days after the termination of the COVID-19 national emergency period.
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act of 2021


Summary: Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act of 2021 This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convey specified property in Anchorage, Alaska, to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium for use in connection with health programs. The conveyance shall not require any consideration from, or impose any obligation, term, or condition on, the consortium or allow for any U.S. reversionary interest in the property. The consortium shall not be liable for any environmental contamination that occurred before the conveyance. Further, HHS shall not be liable for any environmental contamination from the date on which the consortium assumes control of, occupies, and uses the property.
Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Land Transfer Act of 2021


Summary: Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Land Transfer Act of 2021 This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convey specified property in Sitka, Alaska, to the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium for use in connection with health and social services programs. The conveyance shall not require any consideration from, or impose any obligation, term, or condition on, the consortium or allow for any U.S. reversionary interest in the property. The consortium shall not be liable for any environmental contamination that occurred before the conveyance. Further, HHS shall not be liable for any environmental contamination from the date on which the consortium assumes control of, occupies, and uses the property.
Alaska Tourism Restoration Act


Summary: Alaska Tourism Restoration Act This bill temporarily allows specific foreign-owned and foreign-flagged cruise ships to transport passengers directly between ports in the states of Washington and Alaska without stopping in Canada. Under current law, these ships cannot transport passengers from one U.S. port to another without stopping in a foreign country. The bill deems a round trip voyage between ports in the states of Washington and Alaska as a foreign voyage if (1) during the voyage, the operators of such voyage send U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Canada Border Services Agency an email containing the names of each alien crew member with a valid nonimmigrant work visa; and (2) the voyage begins not later than February 28, 2022. The operators of these voyages must also retain a COVID-19 Conditional Sailing Certificate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Authority to conduct these voyages shall terminate on March 31, 2022, or when Canada lifts its COVID-related restrictions, whichever occurs first. Voyages may not occur during any period for which the CDC has issued an order to suspend cruise ship operations. The bill also directs the Department of Transportation to require, through regulations, the installation of automated external defibrillators on passenger vessels (including cruise ships).
Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of 2021

To amend section 3661 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the consideration of acquitted conduct at sentencing. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of 2021 2. Acquitted conduct at sentencing (a) Use of information for sentencing (1) Amendment Section 3661 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting , except that a court of the United States shall not consider, except for purposes of mitigating a sentence, acquitted conduct under this section (2) Applicability The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall apply only to a judgment entered on or after the date of enactment of this Act. (b) Definitions Section 3673 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking As (a) As ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (b) As used in this chapter, the term acquitted conduct (1) an act— (A) for which a person was criminally charged and adjudicated not guilty after trial in a Federal, State, or Tribal court; or (B) in the case of a juvenile, that was charged and for which the juvenile was found not responsible after a juvenile adjudication hearing; or (2) any act underlying a criminal charge or juvenile information dismissed— (A) in a Federal court upon a motion for acquittal under rule 29 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure; or (B) in a State or Tribal court upon a motion for acquittal or an analogous motion under the applicable State or Tribal rule of criminal procedure. .

Summary: Prohibiting Punishment of Acquitted Conduct Act of 2021 This bill limits the consideration of acquitted conduct (e.g., conduct underlying criminal charges for which an individual was found not guilty) by a federal court at sentencing.
Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act


Summary: Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act This bill makes several budgetary, technical, and procedural changes, particularly in relation to Medicare and increasing the debt limit. Specifically, the bill continues to exempt Medicare from sequestration until March 31, 2022. (Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.) The bill also establishes expedited Senate procedures for considering legislation to increase the debt limit. The procedures limit debate, waive points of order, and prohibit amendments. The procedures may only be used once and expire after January 16, 2022. Additionally, the bill (1) temporarily extends other provisions under Medicare, including a payment increase under the physician fee schedule; and (2) requires any debits recorded for FY2022 on the statutory pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) scorecards to be deducted from the scorecards for 2022 and added to the scorecards for 2023.
Sunshine Protection Act of 2021

To make daylight saving time permanent, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 2. Making daylight saving time permanent (a) Repeal of temporary period for daylight saving time Section 3 of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 ( 15 U.S.C. 260a (b) Advancement of standard time (1) In general The second sentence of subsection (a) of section 1 of the Act of March 19, 1918 (commonly known as the Calder Act 15 U.S.C. 261 (A) by striking 4 hours 3 hours (B) by striking 5 hours 4 hours (C) by striking 6 hours 5 hours (D) by striking 7 hours 6 hours (E) by striking 8 hours by 7 hours (F) by striking 9 hours 8 hours (G) by striking 10 hours; 9 hours; (H) by striking 11 hours 10 hours (I) by striking 10 hours. 11 hours. (2) State exemption Such section is further amended by— (A) redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and (B) inserting after subsection (a) the following: (b) Standard time for certain States and areas The standard time for a State that has exempted itself from the provisions of section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 ( 15 U.S.C. 260a(a) Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 (1) the standard time for such State or area, as the case may be, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section; or (2) the standard time for such State or area, as the case may be, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section as it was in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 . (3) Conforming amendment Such section is further amended, in the second sentence, by striking Except as provided in section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 ( 15 U.S.C. 260a(a) Except as provided in subsection (b),

Summary: Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 This bill makes daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time, effective November 5, 2023. States with areas exempt from daylight saving time may choose the standard time for those areas.
Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2021

To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to make a technical correction to the water rights settlement for the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2021 2. Authorization of payment of interest on trust funds established under settlement Section 10807 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 ( Public Law 111–11 (1) in subsection (b)(3)— (A) by striking There is (A) In general There is ; and (B) by adding at the end the following: (B) Interest payments There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for deposit into the Development Fund the interest that would have accrued during the period beginning on October 1, 2009, and ending on January 25, 2016, on balances held in the Development Fund, as calculated using the applicable rate for interest-bearing obligations of the United States if the amounts in the Development Fund had been invested in accordance with— (i) the Act of April 1, 1880 (21 Stat. 70, chapter 41; 25 U.S.C. 161 (ii) the first section of the Act of June 24, 1938 (52 Stat. 1037, chapter 648; 25 U.S.C. 162a ; and (2) in subsection (c)(3)— (A) by striking There is (A) In general There is ; and (B) by adding at the end the following: (B) Interest payments There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for deposit into the Maintenance Fund the interest that would have accrued during the period beginning on October 1, 2009, and ending on January 25, 2016, on balances held in the Maintenance Fund, as calculated using the applicable rate for interest-bearing obligations of the United States if the amounts in the Maintenance Fund had been invested in accordance with— (i) the Act of April 1, 1880 (21 Stat. 70, chapter 41; 25 U.S.C. 161 (ii) the first section of the Act of June 24, 1938 (52 Stat. 1037, chapter 648; 25 U.S.C. 162a .

Summary: Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2021 This bill authorizes deposit of specified interest payments into the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Water Rights Development Fund. This fund was established in 2009 under the water rights settlement agreement for the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation.
Duplication Scoring Act of 2021

To require the Comptroller General of the United States to review certain legislation in order to identify potential risks of duplication of and overlap with existing Federal programs, offices, and initiatives. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Duplication Scoring Act of 2021 2. Assessments of reported bills by GAO Section 719 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (i) (1) In this subsection— (A) the term covered bill or joint resolution (B) the term Director (C) the term existing duplicative or overlapping feature (D) the term GAO duplication and overlap report Public Law 111–139 31 U.S.C. 712 (E) the term new duplicative or overlapping feature (2) For each covered bill or joint resolution— (A) the Comptroller General shall, to the extent practicable— (i) determine the extent to which the covered bill or joint resolution creates a risk of a new duplicative or overlapping feature and, if the risk so warrants, identify— (I) the name of the new Federal program, office, or initiative; (II) the section of the covered bill or joint resolution at which the new duplicative or overlapping feature is established; and (III) the GAO duplication and overlap report in which the existing duplicative or overlapping feature is identified; and (ii) submit the information described in clause (i) to the Director and the committee that reported the covered bill or joint resolution; and (iii) publish the information prepared under clause (i) on the website of the Government Accountability Office; and (B) subject to paragraph (3), the Director may include the information submitted by the Comptroller General under subparagraph (A)(ii) as a supplement to the estimate for the covered bill or joint resolution to which the information pertains submitted by the Director under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 (3) If the Comptroller General has not submitted to the Director the information for a covered bill or joint resolution under paragraph (2)(A)(ii) on the date on which the Director submits the estimate for the covered bill or joint resolution to which the information pertains under section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ( 2 U.S.C. 653 . 3. Effective date The amendment made by this Act shall take effect on the earlier of— (1) the date that is 60 days after the date on which the Director of the Office of Management and Budget next, in accordance with section 1122(a) of title 31, United States Code, updates the information made available on the website required under that section; or (2) the date on which a new Congress begins after the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.

Summary: Duplication Scoring Act of 2021 This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to analyze legislation reported by a congressional committee and report on whether the legislation would create a risk of a new duplicative or overlapping program, office, or initiative in an area previously identified as an area of duplication, overlap, or fragmentation.
Protecting Moms Who Served Act of 2021


Summary: Protecting Moms Who Served Act of 2021 This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to implement the maternity care coordination program. The VA must provide community maternity care providers (i.e., non-VA maternity care providers) with training and support with respect to the unique needs of pregnant and postpartum veterans, particularly regarding mental and behavioral health conditions in relation to the service of the veterans in the Armed Forces. Additionally, the Government Accountability Office must report on maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity among pregnant and postpartum veterans, with a focus on racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes for veterans.