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I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1009 
To require all Federal agencies to translate COVID–19 materials into multiple 
languages, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 11, 2021 
Ms. MENG (for herself, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. GREEN of Texas, Ms. 
SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Ms. BLUNT 
ROCHESTER, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. CASE, Mr. LIEU, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. 
GRIJALVA, Mr. GOMEZ, Ms. PORTER, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. KILMER, 
Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. PRESSLEY, Ms. CASTOR
of Florida, Ms. 
SA´NCHEZ, Mr. HORSFORD, Ms. ESHOO, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. PRICE of 
North Carolina, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Mr. MCNERNEY, Ms. STRICKLAND, Mr. 
LOWENTHAL, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. SIRES, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Mr. 
CARSON, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Ms. NEWMAN, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. BRENDAN 
F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. TORRES of New York, Ms. JOHNSON of 
Texas, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Mr. EVANS, and Mr. MEEKS) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Over-
sight and Reform 
A BILL 
To require all Federal agencies to translate COVID–19 
materials into multiple languages, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘COVID–19 Language 
Access Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. TRANSLATION OF MATERIALS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each Federal agency that receives 
Federal assistance related to the COVID–19 pandemic 
shall translate any English language written material pre-
pared for the general public relating to such pandemic, 
including COVID–19 vaccine distribution and education, 
into the languages described in subsection (b) not later 
than 7 days after any such material is made available in 
English. 
(b) LANGUAGES COVERED.—The material described 
in subsection (a) shall be translated, at a minimum, into 
Spanish, Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Haitian Creole, 
French, Hindi, Hmong, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lao-
tian, Russian, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese, Greek, Polish, 
Thai, and Portuguese. 
(c) DEFINITION OF COVID–19 PANDEMIC.—In this 
section, the term ‘‘COVID–19 pandemic’’ means the pub-
lic health emergency declared by the Secretary pursuant 
to section 319 of the Public Health Service Act on Janu-
ary 31, 2020, entitled ‘‘Determination that a Public 
Health Emergency Exists Nationwide as the Result of the 
2019 Novel Coronavirus’’. 
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(E) the National Museum of the United 
States Army; and 
(F) any other location determined appro-
priate by the Smithsonian Institution. 
SEC. 4. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
Under such regulations as the Secretary may pre-
scribe, the Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in 
bronze of the gold medal struck under section 3 at a price 
sufficient to cover the costs of the medals, including labor, 
materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses. 
SEC. 5. NATIONAL MEDALS. 
(a) NATIONAL MEDALS.—Medals struck under this 
Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 51 of title 
31, United States Code. 
(b) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of section 
5134 of title 31, United States Code, all medals struck 
under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic items. 
SEC. 6. AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS; PROCEEDS OF 
SALE. 
(a) AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS.—There is 
authorized to be charged against the United States Mint 
Public Enterprise Fund such amounts as may be nec-
essary to pay for the costs of the medals struck under 
this Act. 
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mation described in subparagraph (A)) to con-
duct client surveys. 
‘‘(3) REGULATIONS.—The Administrator shall 
issue regulations to establish standards for requiring 
disclosures during a financial audit under paragraph 
(1)(B). 
‘‘(l) PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION.—The Adminis-
trator shall— 
‘‘(1) publish information about the program 
under this section online, including— 
‘‘(A) on the website of the Administration; 
and 
‘‘(B) on the social media of the Adminis-
tration; and 
‘‘(2) request that the resource and lending part-
ners of the Administration and the district offices of 
the Administration publicize the program. 
‘‘(m) ANNUAL REPORTING.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date on which the Administrator establishes the 
program under this section, and annually thereafter, the 
Administrator shall submit to Congress a report on the 
activities under the program, including— 
‘‘(1) the number of startup, newly established, 
and growing small business concerns participating in 
the project carried out by each eligible entity under 
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a cooperative agreement under this section (in this 
paragraph referred to as ‘participants’), including a 
breakdown of the owners of the participants by race, 
gender, veteran status, and urban versus rural loca-
tion; 
‘‘(2) the retention rate for participants; 
‘‘(3) the total and median amount of capital 
accessed by participants, including the type of cap-
ital accessed; 
‘‘(4) the total and median number of employees 
of participants; 
‘‘(5) the number and median wage of jobs cre-
ated by participants; 
‘‘(6) the number of jobs sustained by partici-
pants; and 
‘‘(7) information regarding such other metrics 
as the Administrator determines appropriate. 
‘‘(n) FUNDING.— 
‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out this section. 
‘‘(2) 
ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPENSES.—Of 
the 
amount made available to carry out this section for 
any fiscal year, not more than 10 percent may be 
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used by the Administrator for administrative ex-
penses.’’. 
(b) REGULATIONS.—The Administrator of the Small 
Business Administration shall promulgate regulations to 
carry out section 49 of the Small Business Act, as added 
by subsection (a). 
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I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1012 
To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the members of the Women’s 
Army Corps who were assigned to the 6888th Central Postal Directory 
Battalion, known as the ‘‘Six Triple Eight’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 11, 2021 
Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin (for herself, Mr. LATURNER, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, 
Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. 
BARRAGA´N, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. VEASEY, Mrs. AXNE, Ms. 
JAYAPAL, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. TRONE, Mr. LIEU, Mr. 
POCAN, Mr. COHEN, Mr. SABLAN, Mr. NEGUSE, Mr. COLE, Mr. EVANS, 
Mr. RASKIN, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Ms. KELLY of Illinois, Mr. 
LAWSON of Florida, Mrs. BUSTOS, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. 
KHANNA, Mr. CARSON, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Ms. NORTON, Mr. 
SMITH of Washington, Mr. COOPER, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. 
BEYER, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. COSTA, Mr. PASCRELL, Ms. WILD, Mr. NOR-
CROSS, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Ms. 
BASS, Mr. KIND, Mr. VICENTE GONZALEZ of Texas, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, 
Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. TONKO, Mrs. DEMINGS, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mr. WELCH, 
Mr. STANTON, and Mr. JONES) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the 
Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently de-
termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the members of 
the Women’s Army Corps who were assigned to the 
6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as 
the ‘‘Six Triple Eight’’. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘ ‘Six Triple Eight’ Con-
gressional Gold Medal Act of 2021’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) On July 1, 1943, President Franklin D. 
Roosevelt signed into law legislation that established 
the Women’s Army Corps (referred to in this section 
as the ‘‘WAC’’) as a component in the Army. The 
WAC was converted from the Women’s Army Auxil-
iary Corps (referred to in this section as the 
‘‘WAAC’’), which had been created in 1942 without 
official military status. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt 
and Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of the Na-
tional Council of Negro Women, advocated for the 
admittance of African-American women into the 
newly formed WAC to serve as officers and enlisted 
personnel. 
(2) Dubbed ‘‘10 percenters’’, the recruitment of 
African-American women to the WAAC was limited 
to 10 percent of the population of the WAAC to 
match the proportion of African Americans in the 
national population. Despite an Executive order 
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list (PCL–5), improvement in psychosocial 
function, and therapeutic compliance; and 
(C) reducing the dependence of partici-
pants on prescription narcotics and psycho-
tropic medication. 
(j) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated for the period of fiscal year 
2021 through fiscal year 2024, $10,000,000 to carry out 
the program under this section. 
(k) TERMINATION.—The authority to carry out a 
program under this section shall terminate on the date 
that is 3 years after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. An eligible veteran in possession of a service dog fur-
nished under the program as of the date of the termi-
nation of the program may keep the service dog after the 
termination of the program for the life of the dog. 
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(b) PROCEEDS OF SALE.—Amounts received from the 
sale of duplicate bronze medals authorized under section 
4 shall be deposited into the United States Mint Public 
Enterprise Fund. 
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I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1013 
To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to provide that a 
member of the Armed Forces and the spouse of that member shall 
have the same rights regarding the receipt of firearms at the location 
of any duty station of the member. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 11, 2021 
Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina (for himself and Mr. YOUNG) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to 
provide that a member of the Armed Forces and the 
spouse of that member shall have the same rights regard-
ing the receipt of firearms at the location of any duty 
station of the member. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protect Our Military 
Families’ 2nd Amendment Rights Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. RECEIPT OF FIREARM OR AMMUNITION BY SPOUSE 
OF MEMBER OF THE ARMED FORCES AT A 
DUTY STATION OF THE MEMBER OUTSIDE 
THE UNITED STATES. 
Section 925(a)(3) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘or to the spouse of such a 
member’’ before ‘‘or to’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘members,’’ and inserting 
‘‘members and spouses,’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘members or’’ and inserting 
‘‘members, spouses, or’’; and 
(4) by striking ‘‘member or’’ and inserting 
‘‘member, spouse, or’’. 
SEC. 3. RESIDENCY OF SPOUSES OF MEMBERS OF THE 
ARMED FORCES TO BE DETERMINED ON THE 
SAME BASIS AS THE RESIDENCY OF SUCH 
MEMBERS FOR PURPOSES OF FEDERAL FIRE-
ARMS LAWS. 
Section 921(b) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) For purposes of this chapter, a member of the 
Armed Forces on active duty, or a spouse of such a mem-
ber, is a resident of— 
‘‘(1) the State in which the member or spouse 
maintains legal residence; 
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‘‘(2) the State in which the permanent duty 
station of the member is located; and 
‘‘(3) the State in which the member maintains 
a place of abode from which the member commutes 
each day to the permanent duty station of the mem-
ber.’’. 
SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendments made by this Act shall apply to con-
duct engaged in after the 6-month period that begins with 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1014 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a pilot program 
to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy to a veteran who has a traumatic 
brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 11, 2021 
Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a 
pilot program to furnish hyperbaric oxygen therapy to 
a veteran who has a traumatic brain injury or post- 
traumatic stress disorder. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Veterans National 
Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM TO FURNISH HYPERBARIC OXY-
GEN THERAPY TO A VETERAN WITH TRAU-
MATIC BRAIN INJURY OR POST-TRAUMATIC 
STRESS DISORDER. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall implement a pilot program to furnish HBOT 
to a veteran who has a traumatic brain injury or post- 
traumatic stress disorder through a health care provider 
described in section 1703(c)(5) of title 38, United States 
Code. 
(b) LOCATIONS.—The Secretary shall select three 
Veterans Integrated Service Networks in which to operate 
the pilot program. 
(c) FUNDING.— 
(1) There is in the general fund of the Treasury 
a fund to be known as the ‘‘VA HBOT Fund’’ (in 
this Act referred to as the ‘‘Fund’’). 
(2) The sole source of monies for the Fund 
shall be donations received by the Secretary for ex-
press purposes of the Fund. 
(3) Amounts in the Fund shall be available to 
the Secretary without fiscal year limitation to pay 
for HBOT under subsection (a). 
(4) The Fund shall terminate on the termi-
nation date under subsection (d). 
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(d) TERMINATION.—The pilot program shall termi-
nate on the day that is five years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act. 
(e) HBOT DEFINED.—In this Act, the term 
‘‘HBOT’’ means hyperbaric oxygen therapy with a medical 
device— 
(1) approved by the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration; or 
(2) issued an investigational device exemption 
by the Food and Drug Administration. 
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I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1017 
To prohibit the use of Federal funds to install permanent fencing around 
the United States Capitol, any of the Capitol Buildings, or any portion 
of the Capitol Grounds. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 11, 2021 
Ms. NORTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To prohibit the use of Federal funds to install permanent 
fencing around the United States Capitol, any of the 
Capitol Buildings, or any portion of the Capitol Grounds. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Fencing at the 
United States Capitol Complex Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PROHIBITING USE OF FUNDS FOR PERMANENT 
FENCING AROUND UNITED STATES CAPITOL. 
No Federal funds may be used to install permanent 
fencing around— 
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(1) the perimeter of any of the Capitol Build-
ings described in section 5101 of title 40, United 
States Code; or 
(2) the perimeter of the United States Capitol 
Grounds, or any portion thereof, described in section 
5102 of such title. 
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I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1018 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the differential 
wage payment credit. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 11, 2021 
Mr. PANETTA (for himself and Mr. WENSTRUP) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase 
the differential wage payment credit. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reservist Pay Equity 
Act of 2021’’. 
SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF EMPLOYER WAGE CREDIT FOR EM-
PLOYEES WHO ARE ACTIVE DUTY MEMBERS 
OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES. 
(a) INCREASE IN DIFFERENTIAL WAGE PAYMENT 
CREDIT.—Section 45P(a) of the Internal Revenue Code 
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of 1986 is amended by striking ‘‘20 percent’’ and inserting 
‘‘50 percent’’. 
(b) ADJUSTMENT FOR INFLATION.—Section 45P(b) 
of such Code is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(4) ADJUSTMENT
FOR
INFLATION.—In the 
case of any taxable year beginning after 2021, the 
$20,000 amount in paragraph (1) shall be increased 
by an amount equal to— 
‘‘(A) such dollar amount, multiplied by 
‘‘(B) the cost-of-living adjustment deter-
mined under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar 
year in which the taxable year begins, by sub-
stituting ‘calendar year 2020’ for ‘calendar year 
1996’ in subparagraph (A)(ii) thereof. 
If the amount as increased under the preceding sen-
tence is not a multiple of $100, such amount shall 
be rounded to the nearest multiple of $100.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to payments made after December 
31, 2020. 
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‘‘(i) the individual to whom the ballot 
was mailed; 
‘‘(ii) registered to vote in the jurisdic-
tion where the ballot is being submitted; 
and 
‘‘(iii) submitting the mail-in ballot in 
lieu of casting a ballot in-person, and will 
not attempt to cast a ballot in-person after 
submitting the mail-in ballot. 
‘‘(2) RETURN OF BALLOTS IN-PERSON.—An in-
dividual may choose to return a mail-in ballot in-per-
son to the polling place where the individual is reg-
istered to vote in lieu of returning the ballot by mail. 
‘‘(e) OPTION TO VOTE IN-PERSON.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—An individual who receives 
a mail-in ballot with respect to an election for Fed-
eral office may instead vote in-person in such elec-
tion if the individual turns in the blank or incom-
plete mail-in ballot received by the individual to the 
polling location where the individual plans to vote in- 
person. 
‘‘(2) PROVISIONAL BALLOT.—If the individual 
attempts to vote in-person but does not bring their 
blank or incomplete mail-in ballot to the polling loca-
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(2) Pairing a service dog with a veteran costs 
approximately $25,000, including training of the 
service dog as well as training of the veteran with 
the service dog and follow-up services and support. 
(3) Organizations like K9s For Warriors and 
other members of the Association of Service Dog 
Providers for Military Veterans have proven track- 
records of training service dogs for veterans with se-
vere post-traumatic stress disorder and dramatically 
improving those veterans’ quality of life, ability to 
re-enter society, and, most importantly, their 
chances of survival. 
(4) New, rigorous scientific research provides 
persuasive weight to the growing anecdotal evidence 
that service dogs ameliorate the symptoms associ-
ated with post-traumatic stress disorder, and in par-
ticular, help prevent veteran suicide. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the Department of Veterans Affairs must be 
more effective in its approach to reducing the burden of 
veteran suicide connected to mental health disorders, in-
cluding post-traumatic stress disorder. 
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actment of this section, provide that the lump-sum 
credit shall be payable to such Member to the same 
extent and in the same manner as if such Member 
satisfied paragraphs (1) through (4) of section 
8424(a) as of such date of enactment. 
‘‘(e) EXCLUSIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 
term ‘Member’ does not include the Vice President.’’. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions at the beginning of chapter 84 of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after 
the item relating to section 8425 the following: 
‘‘8425a. Termination of further retirement coverage of Members of Congress.’’. 
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