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Opioid Response Enhancement Act

Bill: 115-s-2437
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Indian social and development programs
Minority health
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 

Opioid Response Enhancement Act

 
This bill amends the 21st Century Cures Act to reauthorize through FY2023 a program of grants to states and tribal entities to carry out activities addressing the opioid epidemic. It allows states and tribal entities to use the grants to carry out public health-related activities addressing other substance abuse that is a substantial or similar public health threat to the opioid epidemic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Flu Vaccine Act

Bill: 115-s-2438
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 

Flu Vaccine Act

 
This bill requires the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to conduct or support research for a universal influenza vaccine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Toll Credit Marketplace Act

Bill: 115-s-2439
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Regional and metropolitan planning
Roads and highways
State and local finance
Transportation programs funding
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 

Toll Credit Marketplace Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to establish and implement a pilot program to develop a toll credit marketplace for states to buy and sell toll credits. States may use funds from the sale of toll credits to offset the nonfederal share of the cost of any transportation project. 
 
The Government Accountability Office shall study and report on the performance of the toll credit marketplace. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
CARES Act

Bill: 115-s-2440
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Marketing and advertising
Prescription drugs
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 

Comprehensive Addiction Reform, Education, and Safety Act of 2018 or the CARES Act

 
This bill establishes new requirements related to the marketing and distribution of controlled substances.
 
Among other things, the bill does the following:
 
 
requires predissemination review of television advertisements for controlled substances,
 
increases penalties for drug manufacturers who commit certain violations involving opioids, and
 
requires the prior conviction records of opioid manufacturers to be made publicly available. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Steel Industry American Heritage Area Act of 1996 to repeal the funding limitation.

Bill: 115-s-2441
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing
Metals
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Pennsylvania
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 
This bill amends the Steel Industry American Heritage Area Act of 1996 to repeal the limitation on the total amount that may be appropriated for the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area (formerly the Steel Industry American Heritage Area) in Pennsylvania.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-08-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 115-526.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
New Skills for New Jobs Act

Bill: 115-s-2442
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Income tax credits
Licensing and registrations
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 

New Skills for New Jobs Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to make quarterly matching payments to an eligible community college in an amount equal to the aggregate new job tax withholding matches received by the college for providing qualified training to job trainees under a state new jobs training tax credit program. 
 
Under a state new jobs training tax credit program, state income taxes that have been withheld by an employer on behalf of a trainee who has been employed are paid to the eligible community college, to the extent that the payment does not exceed the cost of qualified training specified in a contract between the college and the employer.
 
The bill also provides funding for Treasury to carry out the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Careers Act

Bill: 115-s-2443
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Higher education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 

Careers Act

 
This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Department of Education to award competitive grants to state educational agencies for: (1) activities to address the shortage of career counselors in public schools and, (2) subgrants to local educational agencies for the expansion of effective career-counseling programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Energy Cybersecurity Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-2444
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Atmospheric science and weather
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Emergency planning and evacuation
Employment and training programs
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government studies and investigations
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Natural disasters
Oil and gas
Public contracts and procurement
Public utilities and utility rates
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 

Energy Cybersecurity Act of 2018

 
This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to develop advanced cybersecurity applications and technologies for the energy sector. 
 
 DOE shall:
 
 
advance the security of field devices and third-party control systems;
 
leverage electric grid architecture as a means to assess risks to the energy sector, including by implementing an all-hazards approach to communications infrastructure, control systems architecture, and power systems architecture;
 
 perform pilot demonstration projects with the energy sector to gain experience with new technologies; and
 
 develop workforce development curricula for energy sector-related cybersecurity.
 
 
 DOE may also implement within the energy sector cybertesting and cyberresilience programs that target:
 
 
DOE emergency response capabilities,
 
 cooperation with the intelligence communities for energy sector-related threat collection and analysis,
 
enhancing the tools of DOE and the Electricity Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ES-ISAC) for monitoring the status of the energy sector,
 
 expanding industry participation in ES-ISAC, and 
 
 technical assistance to small electric utilities to assess cybermaturity posture.
 
 
DOE must develop an advanced energy security program that secures diverse energy networks in order to increase the functional preservation of the electric grid operations or natural gas and oil operations in the face of natural and human-made threats and hazards, including electric magnetic pulse and geomagnetic disturbances.
 
DOE shall study alternative management structures and funding mechanisms to expand industry membership and participation in ES-ISAC.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Grid Modernization Act

Bill: 115-s-2445
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Atmospheric science and weather
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Economic development
Electric power generation and transmission
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy prices
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government information and archives
Higher education
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Infrastructure development
Lighting, heating, cooling
Materials
Performance measurement
Public utilities and utility rates
Public-private cooperation
Regional and metropolitan planning
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Rural conditions and development
Small towns
State and local government operations
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 

Grid Modernization Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE)to conduct a program to modernize the electric grid, including by (1)developing standards to compare the storage capacity, cycle length, capabilities, and reliability of different types of electricity storage; (2)promoting the development of micro-grid systems; (3)facilitating a collaborative process to develop model grid architecture; and (4) ensuring a reliable, resilient, affordable, safe, and secure electric grid. (A micro-grid system means a stand-alone electrical system that uses grid-scale energy storage.)
 
DOE must also establish a grant program to carry out projects related to the modernization of the electric grid, including the application of technologies to improve observability, advanced controls, and prediction of system performance on the distribution system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Safe Staffing for Nurse and Patient Safety Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-2446
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 

Safe Staffing for Nurse and Patient Safety Act of 2018

 
This bill requires hospitals, as a condition of Medicare participation, to develop staffing plans for nursing services in accordance with specified criteria.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Smart Building Acceleration Act

Bill: 115-s-2447
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Building construction
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government studies and investigations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Public contracts and procurement
Public utilities and utility rates
Research and development
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 

Smart Building Acceleration Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a Federal Smart Building Program to implement smart building technology in certain federal buildings and demonstrate the costs and benefits of smart buildings. Smart buildings are buildings with energy systems that: (1) are flexible and automated; (2) have extensive operational monitoring and communication connectivity, allowing remote monitoring and analysis of building functions; (3) take a systems-based approach in integrating the overall building operations for control of energy generation, consumption, and storage; (4) communicate with utilities and other third-party commercial entities, if appropriate; (5) protect the health and safety of occupants and workers; and (6) are cybersecure.
 
DOE may expand awards made under the Federal Energy Management Program and the Better Building Challenge to recognize specific federal agency achievements in accelerating the adoption of smart building technologies.
 
DOE must conduct a survey of privately owned smart buildings throughout the United States and evaluate their costs and benefits.
 
As part of the Better Building Challenge, DOE must demonstrate policies and approaches that accelerate the transition to smart buildings. DOE must conduct research and development on barriers to the integration of advanced building technologies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-2448
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Economic development
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental health
Environmental regulatory procedures
Environmental technology
International law and treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 

American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2018 

 
This bill directs the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce the use of hydrofluorocarbons through rulemaking. This must include an allowance allocation and trading program and the advancement of new technology to replace hydrofluorocarbons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
21st Century Energy Workforce Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-2449
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Alternative and renewable resources
Department of Energy
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Minority employment
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Unemployment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 

21st Century Energy Workforce Act
 
of 2018

 
This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a 21st Century Energy Workforce Advisory Board to develop a strategy for the support and development of a skilled energy workforce.
 
Based on the board's recommendations, DOE shall establish a clearinghouse to:
 
 
maintain and update information and resources on training and workforce development programs for energy- and manufacturing-related jobs; and
 
act as a resource and provide guidance for secondary schools, institutions of higher education (including community colleges and minority-serving institutions), and workforce development, labor management, and industry organizations that would like to develop and implement such related training programs. 
 
 
DOE shall also establish a pilot program to award grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for job training programs that lead to an industry-recognized credential.
 
Grant amounts are limited to $2 million for any one fiscal year. The federal share of the cost of a job training and education program using a grant shall be up to 65%, while the non-federal share may not be less than 50% cash.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Poverty Measurement Improvement Act

Bill: 115-s-2450
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2018-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: 

Poverty Measurement Improvement Act

 
This bill requires the Bureau of the Census, for each of FY2019-FY2028, to conduct a new survey of income and poverty in the United States and to supplement and verify the information obtained using data from the most recent available Current Population Survey (CPS), data furnished by state and federal agencies that administer such benefits, and income-tax data. The Census Bureau shall include in the survey questions related to whether an individual has previously been incarcerated or is on probation. In addition, the Census Bureau shall: (1) collect data from the appropriate administering agencies regarding the income of, and federal means-tested benefits received by, individuals who have previously been incarcerated or are on probation; (2) produce tables and graphs showing for each year the poverty rates and related data calculated using the survey responses and other information collected; and (3) create a database that contains data from the survey, data from the most recent available CPS, and data furnished by administering agencies. 
 
State agencies that administer federal means-tested benefits shall report annually on the benefits received by each household.
 
The Census Bureau must annually provide specified summary statistics comparing income levels to consumption habits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2018-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Protection from Overprescribing Act

Bill: 115-s-2451
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2018-02-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-26
text: 

Protection from Overprescribing Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to consider when awarding a grant to a state to support the state's prescription drug monitoring program whether the state's program provides reports to law enforcement agencies, licensing boards, and other agencies describing any prescribers who repeatedly fall outside of expected norms or standard practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2018-02-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Surface Warfare Enhancement Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-2452
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2018-02-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-26
text: 

Surface Warfare Enhancement Act of 2018

 
This bill directs the Department of the Navy to:
 
 
conduct a comprehensive review of its operational and administrative chains-of-command and functions;
 
 implement a training and readiness matrix for Navy surface ships;
 
 conduct a comprehensive assessment of the Navy standard workweek;
 
 require that watchstanders on Navy surface ships shall maintain a career record of watchstanding hours and specific operational evolutions;
 
 establish minimum at-sea and simulator time and evolution requirements for qualified Navy officers in certain positions;
 
provide for the use of not fewer than six Navy Yard Patrol craft in total at the Surface Warfare Officer School Basic Division Officer Course in San Diego, California, and Norfolk, Virginia; and
 
 maintain manning fit and manning fill for ships assigned to the Forward Deployed Naval Forces at levels not less than the levels established for each ship class or type of unit deploying from the United States.
 
 
Vessels listed in the Naval Vessel Register may not be homeported in a location other than in the United States or Guam for a period of more than 10 consecutive years.
 
 The bill imposes certain limitations on transition of enlisted training to Ready Relevant Learning block learning, modernized delivery, or similar approaches, and grants authority to treat military units as unavailable for deployment due to a significant readiness deficiency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2018-02-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring the Value of the 340B Program Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-2453
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2018-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-27
text: 

Ensuring the Value of the 340B Program Act of 2018

 
This bill requires a hospital participating in the 340B drug discount program to include, in any Medicare cost report to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, information on: (1) the aggregate acquisition costs of the hospital for drugs acquired under the program; and (2) the aggregate revenues the hospital received from all payors for such drugs, disaggregated by insurance status. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2018-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Sunlight in Workplace Harassment Act

Bill: 115-s-2454
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2018-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2018-02-27
text: 

Sunlight in Workplace Harassment Act 

 
This bill amends the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 to require disclosure of settlements and complaints related to sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and other types of discrimination. Specifically, certain issuers of securities must annually disclose this information to shareholders and the public. Issuers must also describe the measures taken to prevent employees from committing further abuse, harassment, or discrimination. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2018-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate