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Clean Water Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3751
Sponsor: Rep. Carbajal, Salud O. [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Floods and storm protection
Hydrology and hydrography
Natural disasters
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Clean Water Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Act

 of 2021

 
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a grant program for increasing the resilience of publicly owned treatment works (e.g., systems used to treat wastewater or sewage) to natural hazards, such as extreme weather events. Under the program, the EPA must award grants to (1) a municipality; or (2) an intermunicipal, interstate, or state agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Parity Implementation Assistance Act

Bill: 117-hr-3753
Sponsor: Rep. Cárdenas, Tony [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Parity Implementation Assistance Act

 
This bill provides grants to assist states with the implementation of the federal mental health parity requirements. States receiving the grants must request and review from private health insurance plans their required comparative analysis of nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTLs) with respect to mental health or substance use disorder benefits. (NQTLs are limitations on the scope or duration of benefits for treatment, such as preauthorization requirements.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Military Education and Values Act

Bill: 117-hr-3754
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Military education and training
Military personnel and dependents
Racial and ethnic relations
Teaching, teachers, curricula
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Military Education and Values Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to issue guidance prohibiting the use of any education or training methodology within DOD and the Armed Forces that promotes or causes a racial divide or lack of equality. Such guidance must also reiterate that members of the Armed Forces of all races will be treated equally and update service members on the core tenets of the U.S. military.
 
DOD must report on the status of critical race-theory and other race-based training education methodologies in the Armed Forces.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Department of Homeland Security Climate Change Research Act

Bill: 117-hr-3756
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Emergency planning and evacuation
Government studies and investigations
Homeland security
Natural disasters
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Department of Homeland Security Climate Change Research Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to evaluate current federal research and development regarding approaches to mitigate the consequences of climate change on homeland security, identify research and development gaps, and conduct additional research and development to fill those gaps.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-09-14
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 14.
action_date: 2022-09-14
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2022-09-14
text: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation Discharged.
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Multiple Substance Impaired Driving Prevention Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3757
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Licensing and registrations
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Multiple Substance Impaired Driving Prevention Act of 2021

 
This bill includes substances other than alcohol within the scope of federal programs for preventing impaired driving. It also addresses reporting of impaired driving arrests, citations, convictions, and related matters to federal and other databases.
 
Under current law, if a state does not have (or enforce) certain laws to address repeat intoxicated drivers, a portion of that state's Federal-aid highway funding must be reserved for alcohol-related countermeasures for impaired driving. This bill provides that reserved funds may also be used for countermeasures for single or multiple substance impaired driving.
 
Additionally, states may use grants for impaired driving countermeasures to improve (1) reporting of information about crashes and impaired driving to federal, state, and local databases; and (2) research using such information.
 
The Government Accountability Office must also study the extent to which states and localities report information about impaired driving to relevant federal databases and use the databases to identify repeat impaired driving offenders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Fishing Equipment Tax Relief Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3758
Sponsor: Rep. Crist, Charlie [D-FL-13]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Hunting and fishing
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Fishing Equipment Tax Relief Act of 2021

 
This bill reduces from 10% to 3% the excise tax rate that applies to the sale of portable, electronically-aerated bait containers by the manufacturer, producer, or importer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Physical Therapist Workforce and Patient Access Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3759
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Higher education
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Physical Therapist Workforce and Patient Access Act of 2021

 
This bill makes physical therapists eligible for the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program. This program assists primary care, mental health, and dental providers in repaying eligible student loans in exchange for working in areas with shortages of such providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Point Roberts Small Business Fairness Act

Bill: 117-hr-3760
Sponsor: Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Canada
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government lending and loan guarantees
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Point Roberts Small Business Fairness Act 

 
This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish a program to make forgivable loans to certain small businesses that are impacted by border closures due to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).
 
Eligible small businesses must (1) have experienced a loss in revenue that is greater than 50% during the second, third, or fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in the previous year; and (2) show that the closure of the U.S.-Canada border directly resulted in a reduction in gross receipts or restricted the ability of American customers to access the location of such businesses.
 
The maximum loan amount shall be equal to 75% of the business's FY2019 revenue, and the SBA shall forgive 100% of the value of such loan, less the amount the borrower received from (1) any other loan forgiveness program, or (2) any emergency advance under the economic impact disaster loan program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Promising Pathway Act

Bill: 117-hr-3761
Sponsor: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Prescription drugs
Scientific communication

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Promising Pathway Act

 
This bill establishes a provisional approval pathway for medicines intended for serious or life-threatening diseases, including illnesses posing a threat of epidemic or pandemic. The period of the provisional approval is for two years and is potentially renewable.
 
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must establish a priority review system to evaluate completed provisional approval applications within 90 days of receipt. A provisional approval application may be approved if the FDA determines that (1) there is substantial evidence of safety for the drug; and (2) there is relevant early evidence of efficacy, based on adequate and well-controlled investigations.
 
During the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, or another epidemic or pandemic, the FDA must accept and review various portions of a provisional approval application on a rolling basis.
 
The manufacturer of a provisionally approved drug must require patients to participate in an observational registry. A manufacturer that fails to comply with registry requirements is subject to civil penalties.
 
A provisionally approved drug must be labeled as such.
 
If a drug that receives provisional approval status is not brought to market within 180 days of the approval, the approval must be rescinded.
 
The bill also limits the liability of a manufacturer of a provisionally approved drug with respect to any claim under state law alleging that the drug is unsafe or ineffective.
 
Private health insurers and federal health care programs shall not deny coverage of a provisionally approved drug on the basis of it being experimental.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
No Vax Pass Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3762
Sponsor: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

No Vax Pass Act of 2021

 
This bill generally prohibits states and localities from expending COVID-19 relief funds on systems (other than in health care contexts) that verify an individual's COVID-19 vaccination status.
 
However, the bill provides an exception for state educational agencies, local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, secondary schools, and elementary schools. These entities may implement a system to verify the COVID-19 vaccination status of students and staff provided that requirements for COVID-19 vaccines are no stricter than requirements for any other vaccine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3763
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act of 2021

 
This bill modifies eligibility for, and other components of, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, including by (1) increasing applicable income and resource limits used to determine SSI eligibility, (2) equalizing treatment of married couples when both spouses receive SSI as compared to two unmarried individuals, and (3) eliminating the penalty on SSI applicants or recipients who transfer resources to another individual for less than fair market value.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Disability Employment Incentive Act

Bill: 117-hr-3765
Sponsor: Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Poverty and welfare assistance
Railroads
Small business
Transportation employees
Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Disability Employment Incentive Act 

 
This bill expands tax credits and deductions that are available for employers who hire and retain employees with disabilities.
 
The bill expands the work opportunity tax credit to include the hiring of employees who receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. For employers who hire vocational rehabilitation referrals, Supplemental Security Income recipients, or SSDI recipients, the bill also (1) increases the amount of wages that may be taken into account for the credit, and (2) allows an additional credit for second-year wages. 
 
With respect to the tax credit for expenditures by eligible small businesses to provide access to disabled individuals, the bill increases the limits that apply to (1) the amount of expenditures that are eligible for the credit, and (2) the gross receipts and full-time employees of eligible small businesses.
 
The bill also expands the tax deduction for expenditures to remove architectural and transportation barriers to the handicapped and elderly. The bill modifies the deduction to (1) increase the limitation on the amount of the deduction, and (2) allow the deduction to be used for certain improvements in the accessibility of internet or telecommunications services to handicapped and elderly individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Optimizing the Cattle Market Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3766
Sponsor: Rep. Hartzler, Vicky [R-MO-4]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Optimizing the Cattle Market Act of 2021

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish and maintain a library or catalog of each type of contract offered by packers to producers for the purchase of all or part of the production of fed cattle (including cattle that are purchased or committed for delivery).
 Fed cattle
 means a steer or heifer that has been feeding on a ration of roughage and feed concentrates prior to slaughter, including grains, protein meal, grass, and other nutrient-rich feeds.
 
USDA must create and maintain a publicly available library or catalog of the types of contracts that are being offered by packers to, and are open to acceptance by, producers for the purchase of fed cattle. It must also conduct educational outreach activities for producers on how best to use the library or catalog.
 
Additionally, USDA must also establish (1) regional mandatory minimum thresholds to enhance price discovery and transparency for cattle market participants; and (2) methods for establishing such thresholds, which shall be publicly available. 
 
Further, the bill revises daily reporting requirements for packer processing plants by requiring them to include the number of cattle scheduled to be delivered for slaughter each day for the subsequent 14 days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Educational Equity Challenge Grant Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3767
Sponsor: Rep. Hayes, Jahana [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child health
Congressional oversight
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Mental health
Minority education
Rural conditions and development
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Educational Equity Challenge Grant Act of 2021

 
This bill establishes a program through which the Department of Education must award grants to eligible entities (e.g., state and local educational agencies) to address students' academic, social, emotional, mental, behavioral, and physical health needs related to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employee Disclosure (FED) Transparency Act

Bill: 117-hr-3768
Sponsor: Rep. Hice, Jody B. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee performance
Freedom of information
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Federal Employee Disclosure (FED) Transparency Act

 
This bill requires federal agencies to report to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) information about each performance bonus awarded to an employee. The OPM must publish such information. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Servicemember Safety and Security Improvement Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3769
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson, Ronny [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
Missing persons

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Servicemember Safety and Security Improvement Act of 2021

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense to instruct each military department to review its policies and procedures for reporting members of the Armed Forces who are absent without leave, on unauthorized absence, or missing.
 
Military installations must update the policies and procedures related to absent or missing service members with a focus on force protection, enhanced security for members living on base, and prioritizing the reporting of missing service members to local and federal law enforcement at the earliest reasonable time.
 
The commander of each military installation must establish a protocol for sharing information with local and federal law enforcement agencies about service members who are absent without leave, on unauthorized absence, or missing. Each military installation must submit the established protocol to the relevant installation command.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House