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INSPIRES Act

Bill: 116-s-3397
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Infrastructure development
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Public-private cooperation
Rural conditions and development
Science and engineering education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Inspiring New STEM Professionals by Investing in Renovation of Education Spaces Act or the INSPIRES Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Education to establish grant programs (1) for the modernization, renovation, or repair of career- and technical-education facilities; and (2) to enable secondary schools that are located in rural areas or that serve Native American students to improve facilities that provide science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and to support high-speed internet in STEM facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
EARN IT Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-3398
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Business records
Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Domestic violence and child abuse
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Human trafficking
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Legislative rules and procedure
Pornography
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020 or the EARN IT Act of 2020

 
This bill revises the framework governing the prevention of online sexual exploitation of children.
 
Among other things, the bill does the following:
 
 
establishes the National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention;
 
directs the commission to develop best practices for interactive online services providers (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children;
 
requires interactive online service providers to certify compliance with the best practices (or implement other reasonable practices to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children), or else they lose liability protections from claims alleging violations of child sexual exploitation laws; and
 
replaces statutory references to 
child pornography
 with 
child sexual abuse material
.
 

action_date: 2020-07-20
text: 

Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020 or the EARN IT Act of 2020

 
This bill revises the framework governing the prevention of online sexual exploitation of children.
 
Among other things, the bill does the following:
 
 
establishes the National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention,
 
directs the commission to develop best practices for interactive online services providers (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) to prevent the online sexual exploitation of children, 
 
limits the liability protections of online service providers with respect to claims alleging violations of child sexual exploitation laws, and
 
replaces statutory references to 
child pornography
 with 
child sexual abuse material
.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 491.
action_date: 2020-07-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Graham with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2020-07-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Graham with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2020-07-02
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2020-03-11
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
FCHIP Extension Act

Bill: 116-s-3399
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Frontier Community Health Integration Project Extension Act or the FCHIP Extension Act

 
This bill reauthorizes the Frontier Community Health Integration Project (FCHIP) through August 1, 2024. (FCHIP is a demonstration project that aims to improve access to, and integration of, acute care, extended care, and other health services for Medicare beneficiaries in rural areas.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Ending Passenger Rail Forced Arbitration Act

Bill: 116-s-3400
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Age discrimination
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Disability and health-based discrimination
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Housing discrimination
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
Racial and ethnic relations
Railroads
Religion
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Ending Passenger Rail Forced Arbitration Act

 
This bill prohibits all pre-dispute arbitration agreements and pre-dispute joint-action waivers with respect to consumer and civil rights disputes between the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) and its customers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-3401
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Social Security Administration
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local government operations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2020

 
This bill phases in a new funding formula for determining benefit amounts under the windfall elimination provision (WEP). (The WEP reduces Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits for those who receive pensions for certain non-covered employment.)
 
The new formula adjusts an individual's total lifetime earnings based on the proportion of those earnings subject to Social Security payroll taxes. It applies to individuals who (1) become eligible for old-age or disability benefits after 2060, and (2) have earnings from non-covered service performed in a year after 1977. Beneficiaries who become eligible for benefits between 2022 and 2060 receive the higher of their benefit calculated under the existing WEP or the new formula. In addition, certain beneficiaries currently impacted by the WEP receive an additional payment. 
 
The Social Security Administration must include non-covered earnings in Social Security account statements and must study the feasibility of partnering with certain pension systems to address data sharing issues related to non-covered pensions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Espionage Act Reform Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-3402
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Espionage and treason
Evidence and witnesses
Government studies and investigations
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Espionage Act Reform Act of 2020

 
This bill limits the scope of certain criminal offenses relating to classified information. 
 
Under the bill, the offense of disclosing classified information to an unauthorized person may be committed only by an individual who is authorized to receive the classified information and has signed a nondisclosure agreement regarding such classified information (i.e., a covered person), whereas under current law any individual may be charged with this offense. Under the bill, this offense shall not apply to disclosures of information to any Member of Congress, a federal court, an inspector general in the intelligence community, or certain bodies such as the Federal Trade Commission. 
 
Similarly, under the bill, certain offenses related to gathering, transmitting, or losing defense information may be committed only by a covered person or a foreign agent, whereas currently such offenses may be committed by any person. Under the bill, an individual who is not a foreign agent may not be criminally charged for such offenses unless the individual meets certain requirements, such as having committed a felony under federal law in the course of committing the offense.
 
An offense related to obtaining and copying a document connected with the national defense shall apply only to an unlawfully obtained nonpublic document, whereas the current statute does not limit the scope of this offense to such documents.
 
An offense related to dispensing certain public property of value shall apply only to tangible things, whereas the current statute does not limit the scope of this offense to tangible things.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish a lower Missouri River flood prevention program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-3403
Sponsor: Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Floods and storm protection
Iowa
Missouri
Missouri River
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Transportation and Public Works
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 
This bill requires the Army Corps of Engineers to study and construct water resources development projects to provide flood protection to communities that are located in the Lower Missouri River Basin and have experienced multiple flooding events over a 10-year period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
VALID Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-3404
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Federal preemption
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government information and archives
Health technology, devices, supplies
Licensing and registrations
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Performance measurement
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Verifying Accurate Leading-edge IVCT Development Act of 2020 or the VALID Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Food and Drug Administration to regulate in vitro clinical tests (i.e., tests intended for the collection, preparation, analysis, or in vitro clinical examination of specimens from the human body in order to provide information about a disease, condition, or treatment for a disease or condition).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
DIPLOMA Act

Bill: 116-s-3405
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Adoption and foster care
Adult education and literacy
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Civics education
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Disability and paralysis
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Family relationships
Financial literacy
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government information and archives
Higher education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Special education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Developing Innovative Partnerships and Learning Opportunities that Motivate Achievement Act or the DIPLOMA Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Education to award grants to states and, through them, subgrants to consortia of local educational agencies and community partners to address school readiness and achievement. Subgrants may be used for activities including early learning, academic support services, parent-education programs, and teacher training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Interagency Committee on Women’s Business Enterprise Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-3406
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
Department of Labor
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Public contracts and procurement
Small business
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Interagency Committee on Women's Business Enterprise Act of 2020

 
This bill revises the duties, membership, and reporting requirements of the Interagency Committee on Women's Business Enterprise.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Fairness in Disaster Relief Act

Bill: 116-s-3407
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Government lending and loan guarantees
Interest, dividends, interest rates
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Fairness in Disaster Relief Act 

 
This bill authorizes the President to reimburse local governments for interest expenses for loans pertaining to disaster relief.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act

Bill: 116-s-3408
Sponsor: Sen. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Long-Term Care Veterans Choice Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to enter into contracts to place certain disabled veterans in medical foster homes at the request of such veterans. Specifically, the bill concerns veterans with service-connected disabilities to whom the VA is required to provide nursing home care. Medical foster homes are homes designed to provide non-institutional, long-term, supportive care for veterans who are unable to live independently and prefer a family setting.
 
In any year, not more than a daily average of 900 veterans placed in a medical foster home may have their care covered.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Secure United States Bases Act

Bill: 116-s-3409
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Family relationships
Firearms and explosives
Foreign aid and international relief
International exchange and broadcasting
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military education and training
Military personnel and dependents
Terrorism
Travel and tourism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Secure United States Bases Act

This bill revises requirements related to U.S.-based foreign military training programs. 
Specifically, the bill
 
 
creates a visa category for certain aliens who have been accepted into a U.S.-based military training program;
 
adds application, vetting, and monitoring requirements for foreign military trainees; and
 
requires the Department of Defense to develop a method for classifying the relative risk, by country, of accepting foreign personnel into U.S. military training programs.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
AIM-HIGH Act

Bill: 116-s-3410
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Higher education
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Access to Instructional Materials in Higher Education Act of 2020 or the AIM-HIGH Act

 
This bill revises model demonstration programs requiring the Department of Education (ED) to award certain grants or contracts to eligible partnerships to develop systems for the timely delivery and quality of instructional materials to postsecondary students with print disabilities.
 
Specifically, the bill (1) revises the definition of 
student with a print disability
, and (2) requires such instructional materials to be commercially produced or open source and in accessible formats. 
 
Additionally, the bill requires eligible partnerships to include (1) one or more institutions of higher education with demonstrated expertise in meeting the needs of students with print disabilities, and (2) a public or private entity with demonstrated expertise in developing such materials in accessible formats. Such public or private entity must also have a demonstrated capability to partner with national consumer organizations with the capacity to engage postsecondary students with print disabilities in the development and implementation of such materials.
 
 It also authorizes ED to complete a national expansion of such model programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
KIDS Act

Bill: 116-s-3411
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Digital media
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Educational technology and distance education
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Gambling
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Kids Internet Design and Safety Act or the KIDS Act

 
 This bill prohibits commercial online platforms that are directed to children from engaging in certain practices, including implementing features that encourage additional engagement with the platform, promoting certain types of content, and using certain advertising methods.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Guidance Clarity Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-3412
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Guidance Clarity Act of 2020

 
 This bill requires federal agencies to state on the first page of guidance documents that such guidance (1) does not have the force and effect of law, and (2) is intended only to provide clarity to the public about existing legal requirements or agency policies. Excluded from this requirement is guidance directed to the issuing agency or other agency that is not intended to have a substantial effect on the behavior of regulated parties, as well as internal executive branch legal advice or opinions addressed to executive branch officials.

action_date: 2020-11-17
text: 

Guidance Clarity Act of 2020

 
 This bill requires federal agencies to state on the first page of guidance documents that such guidance (1) does not have the force and effect of law, and (2) is intended only to provide clarity to the public about existing legal requirements or agency policies. Excluded from this requirement is guidance directed to the issuing agency or other agency that is not intended to have a substantial effect on the behavior of regulated parties, as well as internal executive branch legal advice or opinions addressed to executive branch officials.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-11-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 590.
action_date: 2020-11-17
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. With written report No. 116-297.
action_date: 2020-11-17
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. With written report No. 116-297.
action_date: 2020-03-11
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate