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Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1700
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Child safety and welfare
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Detention of persons
Due process and equal protection
Elementary and secondary education
Employee hiring
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Mental health
Monuments and memorials
Pedestrians and bicycling
Performance measurement
Racial and ethnic relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Law 

Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act of 2021

 
This bill requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to take specified steps to address accreditation standards, management operations, and misconduct of law enforcement.
 
Specifically, it requires DOJ to develop uniform accreditation standards for law enforcement agencies and adopt policies and procedures to encourage law enforcement agencies to pursue accreditation. It authorizes DOJ to make grants to law enforcement agencies to obtain accreditation from certified organizations. 
 
The bill authorizes DOJ to make grants for studying law enforcement agency management and operations standards and developing pilot programs to address law enforcement misconduct. 
 
DOJ must study the prevalence and effect of any law, rule, or procedure that allows a law enforcement officer to delay the investigation and prosecution of complaints of law enforcement misconduct. 
 
The bill also establishes the Task Force on Law Enforcement Oversight to coordinate the detection and referral of complaints of alleged law enforcement misconduct.
 
Law enforcement agencies must report data regarding practices on traffic violation stops, pedestrian stops, frisk and body searches, and use of deadly force.
 
Finally, DOJ must create a medallion for survivors of each law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty and memorialized on the wall of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Census IDEA Act

Bill: 117-s-1701
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Census Improving Data and Enhanced Accuracy Act or the Census IDEA Act

 
This bill prohibits the Department of Commerce, in the 2030 decennial census of population and each decennial census thereafter, from (1) implementing any major operational design element that has not been researched, studied, and tested for a period of at least three years before the decennial census date; or (2) including on the questionnaire for the census any subject, type of information, or question that was not submitted to Congress.
 
The Government Accountability Office shall determine and report to Congress on whether the subjects, types of information, and questions to be included in that decennial census have been adequately researched, studied, and tested to the same degree as in previous decennial censuses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1702
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Air quality
Atmospheric science and weather
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Intergovernmental relations
Medical education
Medical research
Minority health
Research administration and funding
Scientific communication
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Act of 

2021

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take a series of actions to address the potential impacts of climate change on public health.
 
Specifically, HHS must develop a strategic action plan and a climate and health program to ensure the public health and health care systems in the United States and other nations are prepared for, and can respond to, the impacts of climate change on health. HHS must revise the plan periodically to reflect new scientific developments and information.
 
Additionally, HHS must establish a permanent science advisory board to provide (1) scientific and technical recommendations on the impacts of climate change on public health, and (2) advice for purposes of issuing the plan and conducting the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Access to Retirement Savings Act

Bill: 117-s-1703
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business education
Department of the Treasury
Employee benefits and pensions
Government information and archives
Income tax credits
Licensing and registrations
Securities
Small business
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Improving Access to Retirement Savings Act 

 
This bill allows employers who establish a tax-exempt 403(b) pension plan to participate in a multiple employer plan (MEP) and to take the small employer pension plan start-up tax credit for their first three years of participation in a MEP. 
 
The bill also establishes a safe harbor to allow certain pension plans to correct errors in administering automatic enrollment and escalation features for plans enrolling in a MEP, if such errors are corrected within a specified time period in a manner favorable to plan participants. It also permits employers that amend a stock bonus, pension, profit sharing, or annuity plan for a previous plan year to increase benefits accruals to elect to treat such amendment as having been adopted at the end of the current plan year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Telehealth Expansion Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1704
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Income tax deductions
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Telehealth Expansion Act of 2021

 
This bill makes permanent the exemption for telehealth services from certain high deductible health plan rules.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
AICT Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1705
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Digital media
Director of National Intelligence
Employee hiring
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Higher education
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Military operations and strategy
Right of privacy
Student aid and college costs
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Artificial Intelligence Capabilities and Transparency Act of 2021 or the AICT Act of 2021

 
This bill addresses artificial intelligence capabilities related to national defense and security.
 
The bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to designate a chief digital recruiting officer within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness to oversee a digital recruiting office. The office must be responsible for (1) identifying DOD needs for specific types of digital talent, (2) recruiting technologists, (3) integrating federal scholarship for service programs into DOD civilian recruiting, and (4) partnering with human resource teams in the military services and DOD components to use direct-hire authorities to accelerate hiring. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Energy must also designate chief digital recruiting officers to be responsible for the same objectives in those departments.
 
DOD must carry out a pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of establishing the Artificial Intelligence Development and Prototyping Fund.
 
DOD must plan for the development of a modern digital ecosystem to enable development, testing, fielding, and continuous update of artificial intelligence-powered applications at speed and scale from headquarters to the tactical edge.
 
The National Institute of Standards and Technology within the Department of Commerce must establish a program to provide accreditation to organizations that are determined to be competent at evaluating the specified effects of artificial intelligence systems used by persons in DOD, an element of the intelligence community, or the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Taxpayer Receipt Act

Bill: 117-s-1706
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Government information and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Taxpayer Receipt Act

 
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to provide taxpayers with a one-page document that contains information regarding the federal budget for the most recently completed fiscal year. The document must include total outlays during the year, total revenues collected during the year, the deficit or surplus for the year, and the total debt held by the public. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Audit the Pentagon Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1707
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Budget deficits and national debt
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Audit the Pentagon Act of 2021

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to reduce spending for any department, agency, or other DOD element that DOD determines has not achieved an unqualified opinion on its full financial statements for the calendar year ending during that fiscal year.
 
Specifically, the amount available to such department, agency, or element for the fiscal year when the determination is made must be 1% less than the amount otherwise authorized to be appropriated. Amounts unavailable to such department, agency, or element must be applied on a pro rata basis against each program, project, and activity.
 
DOD must deposit such unavailable amounts in the general fund of the Department of the Treasury for purposes of deficit reduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1708
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Asia
Citizenship and naturalization
Conflicts and wars
Family relationships
Immigration status and procedures
Philippines
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2021

 
 This bill exempts from worldwide or numerical limitations certain family-sponsored immigrant visas for the sons and daughters of Filipino World War II veterans who were naturalized under certain laws providing for naturalization for service during World War II.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2783-2784)
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
ANTI-Drugs Act

Bill: 117-s-1709
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking officers in Interdicting Drugs Act or the ANTI-Drugs Act 

 
This bill provides statutory authorization for the Operation Stonegarden grant program within the Department of Homeland Security. Through the program, the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall provide grants for enhancing border security to law enforcement agencies that are (1) in a state with an international land or maritime border, and (2) involved in an active U.S. Customs and Border Protection operation coordinated through the Border Patrol.
 
The bill also reauthorizes through FY2026 (1) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program, which provides federal assistance to state and local enforcement agencies in areas deemed as critical drug trafficking regions; and (2) the Community Oriented Policing Services program within the Department of Justice, which provides grants for various law enforcement-related purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Resilient Highways Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1710
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Atmospheric science and weather
Floods and storm protection
Natural disasters
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Resilient Highways Act of 20

21

 
This bill addresses projects to improve the resiliency of federal-aid highways, bridges, and tunnels on and off the National Highway System.
 
Specifically, the bill
 
 
allows states to use up to 15% of funds apportioned under the national highway performance program for projects to mitigate the risk of recurring damage or the cost of future repairs from extreme weather, flooding, and other natural disasters on infrastructure that is part of the National Highway System; 
 
provides for a maximum federal cost-share of up to 100% for these projects; and
 
authorizes emergency relief funds to be used to pay for these projects, including raising roadway grades, deepening channels to prevent flooding, improving drainage, and stabilizing slopes.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the posthumous honorary promotion to general of Lieutenant General Frank Maxwell Andrews, United States Army.

Bill: 117-s-1711
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 
This bill authorizes the President to issue a posthumous honorary commission promoting Lieutenant General Frank Maxwell Andrews, U.S. Army, to the grade of general.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act to require confirmation of employment status for long-term unemployed individuals, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-s-1712
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Business records
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Personnel records
State and local government operations
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 
This bill requires each state that offers pandemic unemployment assistance (PUA) or pandemic emergency unemployment compensation (PEUC) to condition benefit eligibility for a long-term unemployed individual on an employer's confirmation that work is unavailable for the unemployed individual.
 
Specifically, each state unemployment agency must request confirmation from the unemployed individual's most recent employer that the individual's position is not available at the time of the request. Unless the employer provides this confirmation, the state must terminate the individual's PUA or PEUC.
 
The bill's provisions apply only to long-term unemployed individuals who have received PUA or PEUC for more than 30 weeks of unemployment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the honorary promotion of Master Sergeant Harold B. Pharis, United States Army (retired), to Sergeant Major.

Bill: 117-s-1713
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 
This bill authorizes the honorary promotion of Master Sergeant Harold B. Pharis, United States Army (retired), to the grade of Sergeant Major.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
HAVANA Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1714
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Congressional oversight
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Neurological disorders
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks Act of 2021 or the HAVANA Act of 2021

 
This bill specifically authorizes the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, and other agencies to provide payments to agency personnel who incur brain injuries from hostilities while on assignment.
 
Specifically, the bill allows agency personnel and their families to receive payments for brain injuries that are incurred (1) during a period of assignment to a foreign duty station; (2) in connection with war, insurgency, hostile acts, terrorist activity, or other agency-designated incidents; and (3) not as the result of willful misconduct. 
 
The bill's authority applies to injuries incurred before, on, or after the date of the bill's enactment. Agencies must submit classified reports on the bill's implementation, including the number of payments made and the amount of each payment. 
 
Since 2016, some intelligence, diplomatic, and other governmental personnel have reported experiencing unusual cognitive and neurological impairments while on assignment (particularly abroad), the source of which is currently under investigation. Symptoms were first reported by personnel stationed in Cuba and have since been collectively referred to as 
Havana Syndrome
.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2784)
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act for Airports

Bill: 117-s-1715
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act for Airports

 
This bill makes certain airport projects eligible for funding under the transportation infrastructure finance and innovation program of the Department of Transportation (DOT), including projects for airport noise capability planning and for constructing gates and related areas at which passengers board or exit aircraft. DOT may provide funding for these projects only if all steel and manufactured goods used in the projects are produced in the United States, with specified exceptions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
BABIES Act

Bill: 117-s-1716
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
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
Hospital care
Licensing and registrations
Medicaid
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Birth Access Benefiting Improved Essential Facility Services Act or the BABIES Act

 
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish a Medicaid demonstration program to improve freestanding birth center services for women with low-risk pregnancies. 
 
Among other things, the CMS must (1) publish criteria for freestanding birth centers to participate in the program, including specified accreditation, licensure, and service requirements; (2) publish guidance for states to establish prospective payment systems under Medicaid for program participants; and (3) award planning grants for states to develop program proposals. The CMS may choose up to six states to participate in the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate