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Resilient Manufacturing Task Force Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4359
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2020-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Department of Commerce
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Industrial policy and productivity
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Manufacturing

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: 

Resilient Manufacturing Task Force Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Department of Commerce to establish for one year the Resilient Manufacturing Task Force. Among other duties, the task force shall (1) identify critical vulnerabilities in the supply chains of products and resources that are essential to U.S. economic security, with a particular focus on vulnerabilities that have been made worse by COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019); and (2) develop specified plans to mitigate such vulnerabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act

Bill: 116-s-4360
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2020-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Contracts and agency
Criminal justice information and records
Disability and paralysis
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Firearms and explosives
Health personnel
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Mental health
Minority education
Nursing
School administration
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student records
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: 

Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act

 
This bill prohibits the use of federal funds for sworn law enforcement officers in schools. It also establishes a grant program to replace sworn law enforcement officers in schools with personnel and services that support mental health and trauma-informed services.
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits the use of federal funds to hire, maintain, or train sworn law enforcement officers in elementary or secondary schools, preschools, or programs based in elementary or secondary schools. Further, it prohibits the use of public safety and community policing grants for sworn law enforcement officers who operate in and around elementary and secondary schools.
 
Additionally, the bill directs the Department of Education to award grants to local educational agencies to (1) replace sworn law enforcement officers in elementary and secondary schools with personnel and services that support mental health and trauma-informed services, and (2) reform school safety and disciplinary policies to reflect evidence-based practices that do not rely on the criminal justice system.
 
A recipient must use grants funds to carry out certain activities, such as hiring or training specified staff, implementing trauma-informed services, and providing professional development to teachers and staff. It prohibits the use of grant funds for (1) establishing or enforcing zero-tolerance school discipline policies, (2) purchasing or installing surveillance equipment (e.g., metal detectors), or (3) arming teachers or other school personnel. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Worker Relief and Security Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4361
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2020-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Appropriations
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child care and development
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government trust funds
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Self-employed
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Temporary and part-time employment
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: 

Worker Relief and Security Act of 2020

 
This bill extends, and expands eligibility for, pandemic unemployment assistance; it also extends federal pandemic unemployment compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S4595-4596)
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Water and Energy is a Human Right Act

Bill: 116-s-4362
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2020-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Energy assistance for the poor and aged
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public utilities and utility rates
Rural conditions and development
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: 

Emergency Water and Energy is a Human Right Act

 
This bill creates a grant program, administered by the Department of Health and Human Services, to provide funds to states and Indian tribes to assist low-income households that pay a high proportion of household income for drinking water and wastewater services. 
 
Specifically, states and Indian tribes must provide payments to owners and operators of public water systems and wastewater treatment works to reduce rates charged to low-income households. Owners and operators must also conduct outreach activities to ensure that households are aware of the available rate reduction assistance.
 
Further, any entity receiving financial assistance under this grant program must ensure that no home energy service, public water system service, or wastewater treatment works is or remains disconnected or interrupted during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency because of nonpayment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Toxic Exposure Safety Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4363
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2020-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Appropriations
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Census and government statistics
Congressional oversight
Department of Energy
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Education programs funding
Environmental health
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health information and medical records
Higher education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
Neurological disorders
Nuclear weapons
Personnel records
Public contracts and procurement
Radiation
Research administration and funding
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: 

Toxic Exposure Safety Act of 2020

 
This bill expands an existing program to provide compensation to Department of Energy (DOE) employees and contractors for illnesses caused by occupational exposure to radiation and certain substances to cover additional workers with illnesses caused by toxic substances. 
 
The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program shall cover DOE employees and contractors who are members of the Toxic Special Exposure Cohort established under this bill. The Department of Health and Human Services shall establish rules for determining whether a DOE employee or contractor qualifies as a cohort member, including a list of qualifying diseases. 
 
The bill also requires the Department of Labor to create or update assessments of toxic substance exposure in each DOE facility.
 
The bill also appropriates funds as necessary for DOE's assistance with certain Labor activities related to DOE facilities. 
 
Furthermore, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences shall conduct or support research on the epidemiological impacts of toxic substance exposure at DOE facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to require online retailers to disclose whether articles sold by such retailers originate in the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-4364
Sponsor: Sen. McSally, Martha [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2020-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
China
Consumer affairs
Manufacturing
Retail and wholesale trades
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: 
This bill requires an online retailer to disclose whether articles sold through its platform originate in China.
 
Specifically, any online retailer selling articles of foreign commerce imported into the United States shall legibly state and conspicuously disclose on the webpage for each such article if the article or any major component thereof originates in China or if the article was manufactured or assembled in China. 
 
The bill also authorizes the Department of the Treasury to determine the acceptable method of disclosure and to authorize the exception of certain articles from disclosure requirements. Further, such disclosure is not required to be made for specified types of products (e.g., coffee and tea, spices, and silk products).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify licensure requirements for contractor medical professionals to perform medical disability examinations for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-4365
Sponsor: Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR]
Introduced: 2020-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Health personnel
Licensing and registrations
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: 
This bill authorizes additional health care professionals to perform medical disability examinations as part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) pilot program. Currently, the pilot program authorizes physicians with current and unrestricted licenses to perform medical disability examinations on persons applying for VA benefits. Under the bill, the following contract health care professionals are authorized to perform such examinations if they meet licensure requirements: physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, audiologists, and psychologists.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
21st Century Entrepreneurship Act

Bill: 116-s-4366
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2020-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business education
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Elementary and secondary education
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: 

21st Century Entrepreneurship Act

 
This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to develop a curriculum for volunteers with the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) to teach underrepresented students (e.g., minority students, English learners, and children with disabilities) about entrepreneurship.
 
The SBA shall develop and implement a strategy to encourage partnerships between the SCORE program and community learning centers to teach this curriculum and, in developing the curriculum, collaborate with education specialists and groups with experience serving underrepresented children.
 
The SBA must submit a biennial report on partnerships between the SCORE program and community learning centers, the number of students reached through the entrepreneurship curriculum, and plans for improving the curriculum.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Savings Accounts For All Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4367
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2020-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: 

Health Savings Accounts For All Act of 2020

 
This bill revises provisions relating to health savings accounts (HSAs). Specifically, the bill 
 
 
repeals the annual limitation on tax-deductible contributions to HSAs by plan participants and their employers;
 
eliminates the requirement that an HSA participant must be enrolled in a high deductible health plan as a condition of eligibility;
 
expands qualified medical expenses to include prescription and over-the-counter drugs;
 
allows payments from HSAs for health insurance premiums;
 
allows payment of medical expenses incurred prior to the establishment of an HSA and correction of administrative errors prior to the due date of an applicable tax return; 
 
allows a tax-free rollover of amounts in an HSA, upon the death of an account holder, to the account holder's child, parent, or grandparent; and 
 
extends bankruptcy protections to HSAs on the same basis as tax-preferred retirement plans. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting American Heroes Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4368
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2020-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug therapy
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health technology, devices, supplies
Immunology and vaccination
Manufacturing
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement
Strategic materials and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: 

Protecting American Heroes Act of 2020

 
This bill provides funding for the Strategic National Stockpile and expands certain authorities under the Defense Production Act of 1950 to support domestic supply chains for medical countermeasures and other supplies procured for the stockpile. It also makes changes to reporting requirements, threat-based reviews, and other aspects of the administration of the stockpile.
 
Specifically, it authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to use authorities under the Defense Production Act of 1950 during a declared public health emergency to the same extent as the President is authorized to do so. Currently, that act confers upon the President a broad set of authorities to influence domestic industry in order to provide essential materials and goods needed for the national defense.
 
In addition, the Government Accountability Office must assess any plans related to the domestic supply chain in its annual reports on the stockpile.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4369
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2020-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child health
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Emergency planning and evacuation
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Environmental regulatory procedures
Environmental technology
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Industrial facilities
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Pollution liability
Public contracts and procurement
Public participation and lobbying
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: 

Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement policies, programs, and regulations related to air quality monitoring. 
 
Specifically, the EPA must implement a program using specified methods and technologies to administer or conduct the best available form of fenceline monitoring (i.e., monitoring of ambient air concentration using technology at a site's property line) of specified stationary sources of hazardous air pollutants. The stationary sources to be monitored must include the 25 high-priority facilities named in the EPA Inspector General report (#20-N-0128) from March 31, 2020, and at least another 25 major sources or synthetic area sources.
 
Among other requirements, the EPA must also
 
 
determine whether whether to add fenceline monitoring for any additional stationary sources,
 
complete an evaluation and promulgate a determination on whether any existing emission factors must be updated to better reflect or account for the results of fenceline monitoring data collected under the established program,
 
promulgate regulations establishing emission standards for specified source categories,
 
require an additional 80 National Core multi-pollutant monitoring stations, and
 
deploy at least 1,000 air quality sensors to monitor specified pollutants in census tracts or counties with per capita death rates from COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) that are at least 10% higher than the national average.
 
 
Finally, the Department of Health and Human Services and the EPA must carry out a Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research grant program to establish and support at least 10 research centers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4370
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2020-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Immigration status and procedures
Trade restrictions
Trade secrets and economic espionage
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: 

Stop Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2020

 
This bill makes the misappropriation of trade secrets a ground for deporting or barring an alien from entry into the United States.
 
Specifically, an alien may be denied entry into the United States if there are reasonable grounds to believe that the alien has violated, is violating, or is seeking entry to violate any U.S. law relating to the misappropriation of trade secrets or economic espionage. 
 
Similarly, an alien may be deported if the alien has violated, is violating, or after admission into the United States violates any U.S. law relating to the misappropriation of trade secrets or economic espionage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair FSAs Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4371
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2020-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Infectious and parasitic diseases
National Guard and reserves
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: 

Fair FSAs Act of 2020

 
This bill requires employers to allow employees who separate from employment to elect to receive a distribution from their health flexible spending arrangement. It also allows employees to roll over existing balances attributable to a reduction in expected elective health care expenses in the plan year due to the outbreak of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Dependent Care Expense Relief Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4372
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2020-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child care and development
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: 

Dependent Care Expense Relief Act of 2020

 
This bill allows the carryover of unused dependent care flexible spending arrangement benefits from plan year 2020 to plan year 2021. It also allows employees terminated from employment to be reimbursed for unused dependent care benefits during a specified period. 
 
The bill requires the Department of the Treasury to issue rules or guidance to expand the definition of dependent care expenses eligible to be reimbursed from a dependent care flexible spending arrangement to account for changes in the dependent care needs of taxpayers due to a COVID-19 (i.e., corornavirus disease 2019) emergency declaration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make modifications to the educational assistance programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs relating to apprenticeship and on-job training for participants who become unemployed, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-4373
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2020-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Student aid and college costs
Unemployment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: 
This bill eliminates the required proportional reduction in Department of Veterans Affairs training assistance benefits for apprenticeships or on-job training for up to 120 days while an individual is unemployed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate