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Risk-Informed Spending for Cybersecurity Act

Bill: 116-s-4785
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2020-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: 

Risk-Informed Spending for Cybersecurity Act 

 
This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, in coordination with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, to develop a standard model for creating a risk-based budget for cybersecurity spending. 
 
The risk-based budget must (1) be developed by identifying and prioritizing cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities through analysis of threat intelligence, incident data, and tactics, techniques, procedures, and capabilities of cyber threats; and (2) allocate resources based on the risks identified and prioritized. 
 
Within two years of the development of the model, federal agencies must begin using the model to develop annual cybersecurity and information technology budget requests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey to, and take into trust for the benefit of, the Burns Paiute Tribe certain land in the State of Oregon.

Bill: 116-s-4786
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2020-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey specified lands in Oregon to the Burns Paiute Tribe. Interior must take such land into trust for the benefit of the tribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Native American Child Protection Act

Bill: 116-s-4787
Sponsor: Sen. McSally, Martha [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2020-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Assault and harassment offenses
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Domestic violence and child abuse
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Minority health
Sex offenses
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: 

Native American Child Protection Act

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2026 and otherwise revises certain programs related to the prevention, investigation, treatment, and prosecution of family violence, child abuse, and child neglect involving Indian children and families.
 
Specifically, the bill revises the Indian Child Abuse Treatment Grant Program to encourage the use of grants for culturally appropriate treatment services and programs.
 
The bill renames the Indian Child Resource and Family Services Centers as the National Indian Child Resource and Family Services Center. It also requires such center to (1) provide advice, technical assistance, and training to urban Indian organizations; (2) develop certain technical assistance materials for Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations; and (3) develop model intergovernmental agreements between tribes and states to prevent, investigate, treat, and prosecute incidents of family violence, child abuse, and child neglect involving Indian children and families.
 
Additionally, the bill revises the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Program to allow Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and intertribal consortia to use program funds for additional activities, such as operational costs for child protective services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Protect Parent Organized Direction of Students Act

Bill: 116-s-4788
Sponsor: Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2020-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Income tax deductions
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Licensing and registrations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: 

Protect Parent Organized Direction of Students Act

 
This bill prohibits states and localities that regulate the free formation of educational pods from receiving federal emergency education funding for COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) relief. An 
educational pod 
refers to a small group of three or more students at the elementary or secondary school level who are from more than one family and learn together in person outside of the school.
 
In addition, the bill temporarily expands the tax deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers to include certain home educators.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Eliminate the Digital Divide Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4789
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2020-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Poverty and welfare assistance
Rural conditions and development
State and local government operations
Telecommunication rates and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: 

Eliminate the Digital Divide Act
 
of 2020

 
This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission to establish a program to provide funding to states for expanding access to broadband service in unserved areas. States must distribute these funds to certain broadband service providers for projects that offer a low-cost broadband service option for low-income subscribers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Know Your Vets Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4790
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2020-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government information and archives
Military personnel and dependents
Personnel records
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: 

Know Your Vets Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to ensure that a member of the Armed Forces who is separating or retiring from service may elect to have DOD transmit their name and contact information to accredited veterans service officers based on the post-separation mailing address they provided. An accredited veterans service officer is a person who has been recognized by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for purposes of preparation, presentation, and prosecution of claims for VA benefits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Community-Based Response Act

Bill: 116-s-4791
Sponsor: Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
Introduced: 2020-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Aging
Child safety and welfare
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Disability and paralysis
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Emergency communications systems
First responders and emergency personnel
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Human trafficking
Immigrant health and welfare
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Mental health
Performance measurement
Racial and ethnic relations
Sex offenses
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: 

Community-Based Response Act

 
This bill establishes a program to assist communities with implementing alternative emergency response models in vulnerable populations to resolve crisis situations that may not require a law enforcement response or situations where a law enforcement response may increase the risk of harm.
 
Specifically, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in consultation with the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Justice, must award grants to eligible partnerships to establish or expand these models. The partnerships must consist of a unit of local or tribal government that is independent of law enforcement agencies and a nonprofit, community-based organization or consortium of such organizations. The partnerships may also include other entities, such as nonprofit or public institutions of higher education and behavioral health organizations.
 
A partnership may use grant funds for a variety of purposes, such as triaging 9&#8211;1&#8211;1 calls to refer certain emergencies to entities other than law enforcement. In awarding these grants, HHS must prioritize partnerships that include community-based organizations that have a record of effectively serving, and are led by members of, vulnerable populations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
RISER Act

Bill: 116-s-4792
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2020-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Economic development
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Rural conditions and development
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: 

Remove Impediments for a Successful Economic Recovery Act or the RISER Act

 
This bill extends the deadline for the use of sums from the Coronavirus Relief Fund for states or local governments that use such funds to respond to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency in accordance with a qualifying economic development plan until December 31, 2022 (currently, funds may be used for costs incurred through December 30, 2020). The plan must be approved by the state or the governing board of a university before December 30, 2020.
 
Such funds may be used, in accordance with such plan, for costs of the state or local government that are necessary expenditures incurred due to the public health emergency and were not accounted for in the budget most recently approved as of this bill's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Defend COVID Research from Hackers Act

Bill: 116-s-4793
Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
Introduced: 2020-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Foreign property
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Intellectual property
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Sanctions
Subversive activities
Trade secrets and economic espionage
Visas and passports
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: 

Defend COVID Research from Hackers Act

 
This bill authorizes the President to impose visa-blocking, property-blocking, or economic sanctions on a foreign person that is involved in activities that are reasonably likely to result in a significant threat to U.S. national security, foreign policy, public health, economic health, or financial stability.
 
The Department of State must submit a report detailing the extent of known or attempted cyber-enabled activities by foreign persons related to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) and assessing whether those activities qualify for the imposition of sanctions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program of the Federal Communications Commission for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020.

Bill: 116-s-4794
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2020-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Appropriations
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: 
This bill provides FY2020 supplemental appropriations to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. 
 
 Under the program, the FCC provides funding for health care providers to purchase telecommunications services, information services, and devices necessary to provide critical connected care services during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. 
 
The bill designates the funding as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Cyber Sense Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4795
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2020-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Crime prevention
Electric power generation and transmission
Public utilities and utility rates
Research and development
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: 

Cyber Sense Act of 20

20

 
This bill requires the Department of Energy to establish a voluntary Cyber Sense program to test the cybersecurity of products and technologies intended for use in the bulk-power system. The bulk-power system includes facilities and control systems necessary for operating an interconnected electric energy transmission network, and electric energy from generation facilities needed to maintain transmission system reliability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Care Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4796
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2020-10-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Aging
Alternative treatments
Appropriations
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Biological and life sciences
Business records
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Competition and antitrust
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Contracts and agency
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Dental care
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and health-based discrimination
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Genetics
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Immunology and vaccination
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Inflation and prices
Insurance industry and regulation
Intellectual property
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial review and appeals
Licensing and registrations
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Marketing and advertising
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical ethics
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Mental health
Minority health
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Retail and wholesale trades
Right of privacy
Rural conditions and development
Sales and excise taxes
State and local finance
State and local government operations
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax-exempt organizations
Telephone and wireless communication
User charges and fees
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-05
text: 

Fair Care Act of 2020

 
 This bill addresses the health care system, including Medicare, Medicaid, the private health insurance market, and the prescription drug approval process. The bill also revises tax provisions related to certain health care costs and establishes requirements for lawsuits involving health care provided, at least in part, through a federal program or with federal funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2020-10-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Chinese-Backed Media Accountability Act

Bill: 116-s-4797
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2020-10-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Health promotion and preventive care
Human rights
Infectious and parasitic diseases
News media and reporting
Political parties and affiliation
Protest and dissent
Religion
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-05
text: 

Chinese-Backed Media Accountability Act

 
This bill places restrictions on nonimmigrant visas for journalists from China who work for a Chinese state-run media organization.
 
The Department of State shall report to Congress on the number of Chinese nationals who (1) work as journalists for an organization identified as a Chinese state-run media organization (or whose work product is effectively controlled by China's government or the Chinese Communist Party); (2) were in the United States on the date this bill was enacted; and (3) were issued an H-1B, I-1, or L-1 visa in the past year. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services may not approve a petition for one of these visas for such a Chinese journalist until the State Department submits this report, which shall be due within 30 days of this bill's enactment. The State Department shall update this report every two years and provide other related information.
 
In addition, the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs must ensure that (1) the number of such visas issued to Chinese journalists does not exceed the number of U.S. journalists in China, and (2) such a visa is valid for no longer than 90 days. 
 
The bill identifies specific organizations, such as China Central Television and the People's Daily, as Chinese state-run media organizations, and directs the State Department to identify any other organizations that qualify as such.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-10-05
text: Introduced in Senate
National Child Identification Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-4798
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2020-10-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime victims
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Human trafficking
Missing persons

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-05
text: 

National Child Identification Act of 2019

 
This bill permits the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants for local law enforcement to distribute in-home fingerprint and DNA identification kits to families. These kits can be turned over to law enforcement to assist in locating missing or trafficked children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-10-05
text: Introduced in Senate
SHAME Act

Bill: 116-s-4799
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2020-10-05 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Abortion
Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Family planning and birth control
Foreign property
Government information and archives
Human rights
Political parties and affiliation
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
Sanctions
Visas and passports
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-05
text: 

Sanctioning and Highlighting Authoritarian Medicine and Eugenics Act of 2020 or the SHAME Act

 
This bill imposes sanctions on individuals and entities responsible for carrying out coercive policies to limit births in China's Xinjiang province.
 
Specifically, the Department of State shall annually report to Congress the identities of any Chinese government official or agency or any member of the Chinese Communist Party that knowingly orders, controls, or routinely carries out such coercive policies in Xinjiang, such as requiring involuntary abortions or mandatory contraception use. The State Department shall also publish a list of the named entities and individuals on its website in English and Mandarin Chinese. 
 
The President shall impose property-blocking sanctions on the individuals and entities named in the report, as well as visa-blocking sanctions on the named individuals. An individual or entity that violates, attempts to violate, or conspires to violate the sanctions provided under this bill may be subject to civil and criminal penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2020-10-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Access to Financial Services Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4801
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2020-10-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Civil actions and liability
Legal fees and court costs
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-19
text: 

Fair Access to Financial Services Act of 2020 

 
This bill prohibits financial institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, including sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill also provides an aggrieved person with a private right of action for preventive relief. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2020-10-19
text: Introduced in Senate