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We Need Eviction Data Now Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-5361
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2021-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: 

We Need Eviction Data Now Act of 2021

 
This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish and maintain a national eviction database. The database must contain eviction data compiled annually by state courts. HUD must award grants to local governments and nonprofit organizations to collect data from landlords on illegal self-help evictions for inclusion in the database.
 
The bill also requires HUD to establish an advisory committee on eviction research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Stop Foreign Payoffs Act

Bill: 117-hr-5362
Sponsor: Rep. Golden, Jared F. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2021-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: 

Stop Foreign Payoffs Act 

 
This bill prohibits certain government officials and their family members from holding foreign financial interests and also requires divestiture of any such interests in a prescribed manner and time frame. 
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits the President, cabinet officials, and Members of Congress from holding any financial interest in, or receiving payment from, a foreign business. Such individuals must divest any such interest by either converting the interest into cash or another investment, or by placing the interest in a qualified blind trust or diversified trust; divestiture must occur no later than 30 days after either the issuance of implementing regulations or after the individual takes office. The bill's requirements apply to the spouses, children, sons-in-law, and daughters-in-law of such individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Back To Work Act

Bill: 117-hr-5363
Sponsor: Rep. Hinson, Ashley [R-IA-1]
Introduced: 2021-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee hiring
Government studies and investigations
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Labor market
State and local government operations
Temporary and part-time employment
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: 

Back To Work Act

 
This bill requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Government Accountability Office, and the Small Business Administration to prepare a joint report on the impact of pandemic unemployment programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Protect Taxpayers’ Privacy Act

Bill: 117-hr-5364
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2021-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Employee performance
Evidence and witnesses
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Right of privacy
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: 

Protect Taxpayers' Privacy Act

 
This bill increases to $250,000 the criminal penalty for unauthorized disclosures of taxpayer information by federal employees and tax return preparers. It also lowers the evidentiary requirements for removal of employees from federal service who disclose tax return information without authorization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Primary Health Services Enhancement Act

Bill: 117-hr-5365
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2021-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: 

Primary Health Services Enhancement Act

 
This bill expands Medicare coverage to include physical therapy services provided by rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain contributions by government entities are treated as contributions to capital.

Bill: 117-hr-5366
Sponsor: Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2021-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax exclusion
Public utilities and utility rates
Solid waste and recycling
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: 
This bill allows an exclusion from gross income, for income tax purposes, of certain amounts received as contributions to capital by a regulated public utility that provides water or sewerage disposal services. It also provides a three-year statute of limitations period for any deficiency attributable to the treatment of such amounts as a contribution to capital.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Advancing Energy Manufacturing in Coal Communities Act

Bill: 117-hr-5367
Sponsor: Rep. Lamb, Conor [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2021-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: 

Advancing Energy Manufacturing in Coal Communities Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Energy to establish a program to award grants to certain manufacturing firms for qualifying advanced energy projects. To qualify for a grant, a project must (1) re-equip, expand, or establish a manufacturing or recycling facility for the production or recycling of advanced energy property (e.g., property designed to produce renewable energy); or (2) re-equip an industrial or manufacturing facility with equipment designed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of that facility substantially below the greenhouse gas emissions under current best practices. Further, the project must have a reasonable expectation of commercial viability and be located near or in an area where a coal mine has closed or coal-fired plant that produced electricity has been retired.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Investing in Energy Regions Act

Bill: 117-hr-5368
Sponsor: Rep. Lamb, Conor [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2021-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: 

Investing in Energy Regions Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a program to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of carrying out clean energy projects on current and former mine land. Under the program, DOE must select no more than five projects that will be carried out in geographically diverse regions. At least two of the projects must be solar projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
American Jobs in Energy Manufacturing Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-5369
Sponsor: Rep. Lamb, Conor [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2021-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental technology
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Income tax credits
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: 

American Jobs in Energy Manufacturing Act of 2021

 
This bill revises the definition of 
qualifying advanced energy project
 for purposes of the tax credit for such project. Specifically, the bill expands the definition to include property designed to produce energy from water, property designed to produce energy conservation technologies, light-, medium-, or heavy-duty electric or fuel cell vehicles, certain hybrid vehicles, and manufacturing facilities designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 
 
The definition also includes projects located in a census tract in which a coal mine closed after 1999 and in which a coal-fired electric generating unit was retired after 2009, and provides additional credit allocations for projects to retool, expand, or build new facilities that make or recycle energy-related products, and for projects in communities where coal mines have closed or coal-fired electric units have been retired.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-5370
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2021-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: 

Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act of 

2021

 
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to establish a demonstration program to allow hospitals to provide medically tailored, home-delivered meals to Medicare beneficiaries who have a diet-impacted disease (e.g., kidney disease) and have daily living limitations.
 
Participating hospitals must (1) retain a physician, registered dietitian or nutrition professional, or clinical social worker to screen, monitor, and coordinate services for individuals who receive meals through the program; and (2) contract with experienced organizations for meal delivery. Hospitals may choose to also provide meals to an individual's primary caregiver or to a dependent under the age of 18 who resides in the same household.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Permanently Preserving America’s Investment in Manufacturing Act

Bill: 117-hr-5371
Sponsor: Rep. Morelle, Joseph D. [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2021-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: 

Permanently Preserving America's Investment in Manufacturing Act

 
This bill makes permanent the allowance for depreciation, amortization, or depletion for purposes of determining the income limitation on the tax deduction for business interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services from using any Federal funds to create or maintain an office to address climate and health equity, or for any climate change program, project, or activity.

Bill: 117-hr-5372
Sponsor: Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10]
Introduced: 2021-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: 
This bill prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using federal funds for maintaining an office to address climate and health equity or for any climate change program, project, or activity. (On August 30, 2021, pursuant to a presidential directive, HHS established the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity to address the impact of climate change on the health of the American people.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Valley-Wide Noise Relief Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-5373
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2021-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: 

Valley-Wide Noise Relief Act of 2021

 
This bill permits airports to implement partial or total mandatory nighttime curfews if they had a voluntary curfew in place before the passage of the Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990 and meet other requirements. (That act imposes stringent requirements on airports seeking to implement night curfews and other types of noise rules or restrictions.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-24
text: Introduced in House
SHOP SAFE Act

Bill: 117-hr-5374
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2021-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Contracts and agency
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Intellectual property
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Product safety and quality
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-26
text: 

Stopping Harmful Offers on Platforms by Screening Against Fakes in E-commerce Act or the SHOP SAFE Act

 
This bill makes an electronic commerce platform liable for infringement of a registered trademark by a third-party seller of goods that implicate health and safety unless the platform takes certain actions.
 
Specifically, the platform may be contributorily liable if the seller uses a counterfeit mark in connection with selling, offering, or advertising such goods on the platform. The platform may avoid such liability by taking certain actions before the infringing act, including (1) requiring the seller to have a registered agent or a verified address for service of process in the United States, (2) verifying the seller's identity and contact information, (3) requiring the seller to agree to not use counterfeit marks with goods sold on the platform, (4) implementing procedures for trademark owners to request the removal of listings for counterfeit goods, and (5) implementing policies to remove and ban repeat offenders. 
 
A person who knowingly makes a material misrepresentation in a request to a platform to take down a seller listing (because the listing allegedly uses a counterfeit mark and implicates health and safety concerns) shall be civilly liable to the seller injured by the resulting improper takedown. If a person makes 10 or more such improper takedown requests, the platform may sue on behalf of the sellers who consent to the platform's lawsuit. A party suing under this bill may choose to receive statutory damages (as opposed to actual damages) of $2,500-$75,000 for each improper request, depending on the circumstances of the case. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-29
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 30 - 8.
action_date: 2021-09-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2021-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-26
text: Introduced in House
To regulate tax return preparers and refund anticipation payment arrangements.

Bill: 117-hr-5375
Sponsor: Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2021-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: 
This bill authorizes the Department of the Treasury to certify or decertify (for incompetence or willful misrepresentation) the practice of tax return preparers and impose fees on such preparers. It also authorizes Treasury to require tax return preparers to provide disclosures to person receiving tax return preparation services and regarding refund anticipation payment arrangements. 
 
Treasury may impose a penalty on tax return preparers who fail to make required disclosures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Cancer Patient Equity Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-5377
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2021-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Medicaid
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: 

Cancer Patient Equity Act of 2021

 
This bill provides for coverage of certain cancer diagnostic and laboratory tests under Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Specifically, the bill provides for coverage of microarray analysis, DNA and RNA sequencing, whole-exome sequencing, and other next-generation sequencing for individuals diagnosed with cancer.
 
Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services must establish an education and awareness program for physicians and the public about genomic testing and the role of genetic counselors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Spectrum Innovation Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-5378
Sponsor: Rep. Doyle, Michael F. [D-PA-18]
Introduced: 2021-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: 

Spectrum Innovation Act of 2021

 
This bill specifies a process for auctioning a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum between 3100 megahertz (MHz) and 3540 MHz for nonfederal use, shared federal and nonfederal use, or a combination of those uses. Most wireless technologies (e.g., mobile communication) rely on the electromagnetic spectrum to transmit signals.
 
Specifically, the Office of Management and Budget must transfer funding from the Spectrum Reallocation Fund to federal entities for planning related to the reallocation. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Executive Office of the President must oversee the planning.
 
Informed by the planning, the Department of Commerce must identify at least 200 MHz of spectrum for reallocation. In identifying the spectrum, Commerce must consult with the Department of Defense, the Office of National Science and Technology Policy, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC must (1) adopt rules authorizing the use of the identified spectrum in consultation with the NTIA, and (2) auction licenses for the identified spectrum within seven years of the bill's enactment.
 
Additionally, the President must modify or withdraw (subject to certain limits) current federal assignments of the identified spectrum to increase nonfederal use. The FCC must allow for opportunistic uses (i.e., allow devices to opportunistically identify and transmit on unused spectrum without infringing on the rights of the spectrum license holder) of a withdrawn or modified assignment. An allowed opportunistic use must cease after the auction if the use is inconsistent with the rights of the licensee that obtains its license through the auction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-09-27
text: Introduced in House