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DHS Transnational Criminal Investigative Units Act

Bill: 117-hr-4713
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

DHS Transnational Criminal Investigative Units Act

 
This bill provides statutory authority for the Homeland Security Investigations Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit Program within the Department of Homeland Security.
 
The program coordinates homeland security investigations into transnational criminal organizations and cooperates with foreign law enforcement partners to facilitate the prosecution of transnational criminal organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Quapaw Tribal Landowner Settlement Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4715
Sponsor: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian claims
Oklahoma

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

Quapaw Tribal Landowner Settlement Act of 2021

 
This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to make FY2021 payments to members of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma in accordance with the January 2020 recommendation of the review panel of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-31
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2021-08-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Refuge From Cruel Trapping Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4716
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Civil actions and liability
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Legal fees and court costs
Outdoor recreation
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

Refuge From Cruel Trapping Act of 2021

 
 This bill prohibits, with specified exceptions, the use or possession of body-gripping traps in the National Wildlife Refuge System. 
 
The bill imposes on persons who possess or use such traps in the system (1) for a first offense, a civil fine of up to $500 for each body-gripping trap possessed or used; and (2) for subsequent offenses, a civil fine of up to $1,000 for each body-gripping trap possessed or used, imprisonment for up to 180 days, or both such a civil fine and imprisonment.
 
The bill makes any body-gripping traps that are possessed or used in violation of this bill, and any wildlife captured by the use of such traps, including the pelts and raw fur, subject to civil forfeiture. 
 
 Persons found to be in violation of such prohibition shall pay all associated court costs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-01-20
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2021-08-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Global Migration Agreement Act

Bill: 117-hr-4717
Sponsor: Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

Global Migration Agreement Act

 
This bill requires the Department of State to promote in bilateral relationships and multilateral organizations the adoption of a binding Global Migration Agreement. Among other purposes, such agreement should (1) address the root causes of migration; (2) centralize the human rights of migrants, recognizing the particular vulnerabilities of marginalized groups; and (3) provide global funding for crisis response involving both internal and cross-border migrants at risk.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and Nonproliferation.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Stop Arming Human Rights Abusers Act

Bill: 117-hr-4718
Sponsor: Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
International law and treaties
Law enforcement administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Sanctions
Trade restrictions
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

Stop Arming Human Rights Abusers Act

 
This bill imposes certain sanctions on countries that violate international human rights law or international humanitarian law.
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits the provision of security assistance to, the sale or commercial export of arms to, or the exchange of law enforcement with a foreign country that has committed genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes.
 
The bill also establishes the U.S. Commission on Atrocity Accountability and Human Rights to review such violations of international human rights law or international humanitarian law and to make policy recommendations with respect to the imposition of sanctions for such violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and Nonproliferation.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, and Accountability.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Homeland Security, 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: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Homeland Security, 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: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Homeland Security, 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: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Homeland Security, 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: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Space Resources Institute Act

Bill: 117-hr-4719
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

Space Resources Institute Act

 
This bill directs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to submit a report on the merits of, and options for, establishing an institute related to space resources in order to advance NASA's objectives for maintaining U.S. preeminence in space. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Energy Sector Innovation Credit Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4720
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Building construction
Business expenses
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy prices
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental technology
Government information and archives
Income tax credits
Industrial facilities
Nuclear power
Product development and innovation
Research and development
Retail and wholesale trades
State and local government operations
Tax-exempt organizations
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

Energy Sector Innovation Credit Act of 2021

 
This bill adds new tax credits for investment in qualified emerging technology energy property and for the production of electricity from emerging energy technology. The bill defines
 qualified emerging energy property
 as property that is constructed, reconstructed, erected, or acquired by the taxpayer and is (1) a facility for the production of electricity from emerging energy technology, (2) carbon capture equipment, or (3) energy storage technology. 
 
The bill also adds a new tax credit for the production of electricity from clean hydrogen. The bill defines
 clean hydrogen
 as hydrogen that is produced through a production method for which the rate of the greenhouse gas emission is greater than zero and not greater that 2,500g CO2-e per kilogram of hydrogen produced, or is equal to or less than zero.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-07-28
text: ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Schweikert asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 4720, a bill originally introduced by Representative Reed, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
UNRWA Accountability and Transparency Act

Bill: 117-hr-4721
Sponsor: Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

UNRWA Accountability and Transparency Act

 
This bill makes changes to U.S. foreign policy in matters concerning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
 
For purposes of this policy, the bill defines 
Palestinian refugee
 as a person who (1) resided from June 1946 to May 1948 in Mandatory Palestine (a region controlled by Britain until 1948), (2) was personally displaced as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict, and (3) has not accepted citizenship or other permanent adjustment in status in another country.
 
The bill withholds U.S. funding for the UNRWA unless the Department of State makes certifications concerning the UNRWA's staff, partners, and funding. Specifically, the State Department must certify that neither UNRWA staff and partners nor its funding and facilities are affiliated with terrorism or engaged in the dissemination of anti-American, anti-Israel, or anti-Semitic ideologies. Additionally, the State Department must certify that the UNRWA is subject to comprehensive financial audits by an independent auditing firm and is unaffiliated with any financial institutions that the United States considers to be complicit in money laundering or terror financing.
 
The bill also requires the State Department to implement a plan to encourage other countries to align their activities and efforts regarding the UNRWA with U.S. policy objectives, including the phase out of the UNRWA by resettling Palestinian refugees in countries other than Israel and in territories not controlled by Israel. The State Department must report to Congress on this plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and Nonproliferation.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Vote Without Fear Act

Bill: 117-hr-4722
Sponsor: Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

Vote Without Fear Act

 
This bill establishes new federal criminal offenses for possessing a firearm or causing a firearm to be present in or within 100 yards of a federal election site.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Forgiveness Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4723
Sponsor: Rep. Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

Fairness in Forgiveness Act of 

2021

 
This bill extends Public Service Loan Forgiveness program eligibility to contractor employees who work at national laboratories owned by the Department of Energy. 
 
The bill takes effect as if enacted on October 1, 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Strengthening Loan Forgiveness for Public Servants Act

Bill: 117-hr-4724
Sponsor: Rep. Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

Strengthening Loan Forgiveness for Public Servants Act

 
This bill revises the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program to provide for partial loan cancellation based on the length of public service employment. 
 
Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to cancel 15%, 15%, 20%, 20%, and 30% of the amount a borrower owes after 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 years of public service employment, respectively, on Federal Direct Loans made after the bill's enactment. Under the current PSLF program, ED must cancel the balance of interest and principal due on a borrower's Federal Direct Loans after the borrower makes 120 monthly loan payments while employed in a public service job.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
No Student Loan Interest Act

Bill: 117-hr-4725
Sponsor: Rep. Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

No Student Loan Interest Act

 
This bill provides for zero-interest rates on certain federal student loans.
 
Specifically, the bill sets the interest rate at 0% for (1) existing loans made under the Federal Family Education Loan Program or the Federal Direct Loan Program, and (2) new loans made under the Federal Direct Loan Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Student Loan Interest Deduction Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4726
Sponsor: Rep. Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

Student Loan Interest Deduction Act of 2021

 
This bill modifies the tax deduction for student loan interest to (1) increase the maximum deduction for interest paid on any qualified education loan to $5,000 ($10,000 for married couples filing a joint tax return), and (2) repeal the limitation on the deduction based upon modified adjusted gross income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
STEM K to Career Act

Bill: 117-hr-4727
Sponsor: Rep. Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

STEM K to Career Act

 
This bill provides for loan forgiveness and tax credits related to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) education and addresses work-study for students employed in STEM fields.
 
The bill requires the Department of Education to forgive student loan obligations of borrowers employed as full-time teachers of STEM in elementary or secondary schools in which the number of low-income children exceeds a certain percentage. Portions of the student loan debt, including interest, shall be forgiven on the basis of years of service, with 100% forgiven for five years of teacher service.
 
The bill allows (1) an increased tax deduction for expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers for STEM education supplies; (2) a tax credit for the employment of STEM interns; and (3) a tax credit for employment of individuals who participated in an apprenticeship program in a STEM field, with the amount determined according to the degree of completion of the program.
 
Beginning with FY2022, an institution of higher education must use at least 7% of federal work-study funds to compensate students employed in STEM fields.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2021-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3920)
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act

Bill: 117-hr-4728
Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act

 
This bill shortens the standard workweek under federal law from 40 hours to 32 hours over a three-year phase in period. It also requires specified overtime pay for workdays longer than eight hours.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Andy’s Bill

Bill: 117-hr-4729
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

Andrew J. Young Safeguarding the Mississippi River Together Act or the Andrew J. Young SMRT Act or Andy's Mississippi River Bill or Andy's Bill.

 
This bill establishes a National Mississippi River Program for the preservation of the Mississippi River Corridor. 
 
The Environmental Protection Agency, coordinating with specified federal departments, may enter into agreements with a state or local government to develop a National Mississippi River Program Office, provide grants, assistance, studies, coordination, and essential restoration and protection of the Mississippi River Corridor to 
 
 
sustain essential environmental services;
 
maintain the ecological integrity, health, and biodiversity of federal lands as well as lands managed under federal programs;
 
protect critical national infrastructure, habitat, fish and wildlife resources; and
 
support the major U.S. economies that depend on the Mississippi River.
 
 
The Program Office shall develop a comprehensive Mississippi River Restoration Plan to guide implementation of projects to sustain the corridor.
 
In order to support the plan and for other purposes, the bill establishes a series of ongoing studies and investigations to sustain the corridor.
 
Once every five years the Program Office shall complete an updated economic profile of the corridor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
The Post-Widows Tax Repeal SBP Open Enrollment for Service-Disabled Veterans Act

Bill: 117-hr-4730
Sponsor: Rep. Waltz, Michael [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

The Post-Widows Tax Repeal SBP Open Enrollment for Service-Disabled Veterans Act

 
This bill establishes an open enrollment period for the Survivor Benefit Plan for a member or former member of the uniformed services who, on the day before the first day of the enrollment period, discontinued participation in the Survivor Benefit Plan (due to spousal eligibility for dependency and indemnity compensation), and is entitled to retired pay, or would be entitled to retired pay but for the fact the individual is under 60 years of age.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Service Organization Modernization Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-4731
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2021-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: 

Veterans Service Organization Modernization Act of 2021 

 
This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide competitive grants to veterans service organizations for repairs or rehabilitation of existing facilities and for modernization of technologies. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-07-27
text: Introduced in House