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Save America’s Clean Energy Jobs Act

Bill: 117-s-985
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Save America's Clean Energy Jobs Act

 
This bill allows taxpayers to receive direct payments of amounts relating to the tax credit for the production of electricity from renewable resources, the energy tax credit, and the carbon oxide sequestration tax credit in lieu of such credits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Tax Credit Amendments Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-986
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Business investment and capital
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental technology
Income tax credits
Income tax rates
Oil and gas
Public utilities and utility rates
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Tax Credit Amendments Act of 2021

 
This bill extends the carbon oxide sequestration tax credit through 2030. It also permits taxpayers to elect to receive a payment in lieu of the tax credits for carbon oxide sequestration and qualifying advanced coal projects. 
 
The bill also makes other modifications to certain carbon sequestration credits, including (1) an allowance of carbon sequestration credits against the base erosion minimum tax, (2) modifications to sequestration requirements for certain qualifying advanced coal project credit equipment, and (3) increasing the sequestration credit value for direct air capture projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Japanese American Confinement Education Act

Bill: 117-s-988
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Asia
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Detention of persons
Due process and equal protection
Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Japan
Military history
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Racial and ethnic relations
Research administration and funding
U.S. history
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Japanese American Confinement Education Act

 
This bill establishes a museum program on the historical importance of Japanese American confinement during World War II and permanently reauthorizes the Japanese American Confinement Sites preservation program.
 
The bill directs the Department of the Interior to establish a program of grants to a Japanese American museum to educate individuals in the United States on the historical importance of such confinement and the commitment of the United States to equal justice.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area Reauthorization Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-990
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
New Mexico
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area Reauthorization Act of 2021

 
This bill extends the authority of the Department of the Interior to provide any assistance to the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area in New Mexico for another 15-year period. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-10-06
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act

Bill: 117-s-991
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Interest, dividends, interest rates
International law and treaties
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act

 
This bill modifies tax provisions relating to certain large domestic and foreign corporations to prevent offshoring of jobs and factories and tax evasion. 
 
Specifically, the bill 
 
 
restores higher tax rates on the taxable income of corporations and personal service corporations (up to 35% on taxable income exceeding $10 million);
 
revises the definition of
 subpart F income
 for controlled foreign corporations to equalize tax rates on domestic and foreign corporations; 
 
requires multinational companies to disclose basic country-by-country information including revenues, profits, and number of employees; 
 
prohibits corporations from disregarding parts of their structure in determining whether they owe taxes in the current year or can defer payment (repeal of check-the-box rules); 
 
impose limitations on the tax deduction for the interest expense of members of financial reporting groups with excess domestic indebtedness; 
 
modifies rules relating to inverted corporations; 
 
treats corporations with gross assets of $50 million or more and managed and controlled in the United States as U.S. taxpayers; 
 
increases the rate and expands the applicability of the base erosion and anti-abuse excise tax; 
 
modifies foreign tax credit rules applicable to certain industries receiving specific economic benefits; and
 
repeals the tax deduction for foreign-derived intangible income.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Help Students Vote Act

Bill: 117-s-992
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Higher education
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Help Students Vote Act

 
This bill addresses voter registration of students who attend institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in federal student-aid programs. The bill also directs IHEs to use a specified portion of federal work-study grants to compensate students for civic engagement activities.
 
Specifically, the bill (1) requires IHEs to make every reasonable effort to distribute voter registration applications to each of their students at least twice a year, (2) authorizes grants to IHEs that greatly exceed the requirements governing the distribution of voter registration applications, and (3) allows civil actions against IHEs that violate the requirements.
 
In addition, the bill requires IHEs to use a specified portion of federal work-study grants to compensate students who are employed in civic engagement activities, including voter registration, nonpartisan voter engagement, and voter participation work.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Preventing SBA Assistance from Going to China Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-993
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Asia
China
Corporate finance and management
Foreign and international corporations
Securities
Small Business Administration
Small business
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Preventing SBA Assistance from Going to China Act of 2021

 
This bill prohibits the Small Business Administration from providing aid, counsel, or assistance to a small business concern that (1) is headquartered in China, or (2) has more than 25% of voting stock owned by citizens of China. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
For the 99.5 Percent Act

Bill: 117-s-994
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Farmland
Inflation and prices
Land use and conservation
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

For the 99.5 Percent Act

 
This bill imposes increased tax rates on decedent estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers.
 
 Estates with a value of over $1 billion are taxed at a 65% tax rate. The basic exclusion amount is reduced to $3.5 million. 
 
The bill increases (1) to $3 million the reduction in valuations of farmland for estate tax purposes and adjusts such increased amount for inflation, and (2) to $2 million the maximum estate tax exclusion for contributions of conservation easements. It also increases to 60% the applicable percentage for such exclusion. 
 
The bill requires (1) consistent basis reporting for property acquired by gift and transfers in trust, and (2) executors of estates and donors of gifts required to file a gift tax return to disclose to the Department of the Treasury, and to recipients of any interest in an estate or a gift, information identifying the value of each interest received.
 
The bill sets forth estate valuation rules for certain transfers of nonbusiness assets and limits estate tax discounts for certain individuals with minority interests in a business acquired from a decedent.
 
The bill expands rules for valuing assets in grantor retained annuity trusts to require that (1) the right to receive fixed amounts from an annuity last for a term of not less than 10 years and not more than the life expectancy of the annuitant plus 10 years, and that such fixed amounts not decrease during the first 10 years of the annuity term, and (2) the remainder interest have a value when transferred that is not less than the the greater of 25% of the fair market value of the trust property or $500,000. The bill also sets forth rules for the application of transfer taxes to a grantor trust (a trust in which the grantor retains control over the trust assets and has the right to receive income from the trust). 
 
 The bill eliminates the generation-skipping transfer tax exemption for any trust whose termination date is not greater than 50 years after its creation. 
 
The bill modifies the tax exclusion for annual gifts to eliminate the present interest requirement for such exclusion and to impose a new, aggregate per donor limit equal to twice the annual exclusion amount in effect for the taxable year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Student Debt Relief Scams Technical Corrections Act

Bill: 117-s-995
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Department of Education
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Lawyers and legal services
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Stop Student Debt Relief Scams Technical Corrections Act

 
This bill revises the requirements for third-party access to the central database for student aid (i.e., the National Student Loan Data System).
 
First, the bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to issue, by July 1, 2021, its guidance on the use of access devices.
 
Additionally, the bill provides ED with discretion to approve applications from authorized persons or entities for third-party data access to the system.
 
The bill also expands the categories of persons or entities that are authorized to access the system to include certain for-profit organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
IMPACT Act

Bill: 117-s-996
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Minority education
Minority employment
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Improving Minority Participation And Careers in Telecommunications Act or the IMPACT Act

 
This bill establishes a grant program to assist certain institutions of higher education with setting up a program that prepares minority students to participate in the telecommunications workforce.
 
 Specifically, the bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, acting through the Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives, to establish the Telecommunications Workforce Training Grant Program. This grant program shall provide funds to historically Black colleges or universities, tribal colleges or universities, or minority-serving institutions to facilitate the creation of programs that (1) educate and train students to participate in the telecommunications workforce, and (2) include both a curriculum and apprenticeship or internship opportunities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Office of Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Policy Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-997
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Executive Office of the President
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Industrial policy and productivity
Infrastructure development
Intellectual property
International organizations and cooperation
Manufacturing
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Monetary policy
Public contracts and procurement
Research and development
Science and engineering education
Small business
Trade secrets and economic espionage

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Office of Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Policy Act of 2021

 
 This bill addresses the manufacturing capacity of the United States. 
 
The bill establishes the Office of Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Policy, led by the Chief Manufacturing Officer, to serve as a source of manufacturing and industrial innovation analysis and judgment for the President with respect to the major policies, plans, and programs of the federal government. The office must establish a national strategic plan for manufacturing and industrial innovation that identifies critical needs to the manufacturing sector, including emergency readiness and resilience. 
 
The Government Accountability Office must report on the efforts of the office along with recommendations for improvements.
 
The bill also establishes the Federal Strategy and Coordinating Council on Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation within the executive branch to be chaired by the President to coordinate manufacturing and industrial innovation policy. 
 
Finally, the bill establishes the National Medal of Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation to be awarded for outstanding contributions to knowledge in manufacturing and industrial innovation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Save Rural Hospitals Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-999
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Save Rural Hospitals Act of 

2021

 
This bill establishes an area wage adjustment floor for Medicare hospital payments in states that are not frontier states and excludes such adjustments from certain budget neutrality rules.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Virginia Wilderness Additions Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1000
Sponsor: Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Virginia
Water quality
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Virginia Wilderness Additions Act of 2021
 

This bill

adds specified additional lands in the George Washington National Forest (a part of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky) to the Rough Mountain Wilderness, and 
 
designates specified land in the forest as a potential wilderness area for incorporation into the Rich Hole Wilderness.
 
 
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) may use motorized equipment and mechanized transport in the potential wilderness area until it is incorporated into the Rich Hole Wilderness in order to enhance natural ecosystems by implementing certain activities to improve water quality and aquatic passage, as described in the Forest Service document titled 
Decision Notice for the Lower Cowpasture Restoration and Management Project
 and dated December 2015. In carrying out such water quality and aquatic passage improvement activities, USDA must use the minimum tool or administrative practice that has the least amount of adverse impact on wilderness character and resources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1819)
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Pandemic Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1001
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Business investment and capital
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Competition and antitrust
Congressional operations and organization
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee hiring
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Legislative rules and procedure
Public participation and lobbying
Small business
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Pandemic Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Act of 2021

 
This bill establishes in the legislative branch the Pandemic Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Commission to make recommendations and propose legislation for modification, consolidation, harmonization, or repeal of regulations to reduce compliance costs, encourage growth and innovation, improve competitiveness, and protect public safety.
 
 The commission must give priority to regulations (1) the repeal or modification of which may assist recovery or response to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic and future pandemics, (2) that impose disproportionately high costs on a small entity, (3) that create substantial recurring paperwork burdens or transaction costs, or (4) that could be made more effective while reducing regulatory costs. 
 
The bill sets forth reporting requirements for the commission and procedures for congressional consideration of commission reports, recommendations, and proposed legislation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Junk Plan Accountability and Disclosure Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1002
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2021-03-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
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
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Income tax credits
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Medicaid
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Tax-exempt organizations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: 

Junk Plan Accountability and Disclosure Act of 2021

 
 This bill establishes requirements for certain noncomprehensive health insurance coverage and provides for additional outreach activities to increase enrollment in qualified health plans.
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits online advertisements for health insurance coverage that reasonably mislead an individual (1) to believe that the advertisement is on behalf of a government entity such as a state or federal health insurance exchange, or (2) about the cost or benefits of noncomprehensive coverage (e.g., short-term, limited-duration insurance) compared to a qualified health plan under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The bill provides authority for the Federal Trade Commission to enforce these prohibitions.
 
 The bill also requires certain types of coverage (e.g., coverage for nontraditional benefits or student health insurance coverage) to provide consumers with a clear statement indicating the benefits the coverage provides and that the coverage is not a comprehensive health plan. These plans also must meet specified reporting requirements.
 
In states with a federally administered exchange, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must conduct outreach and educational activities to individuals about the availability of qualified health plans through the exchange. The bill also provides grants for states to conduct open enrollment outreach with respect to qualified health plans and to explore solutions to promote greater enrollment. The bill provides funding for these outreach activities.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Introduced in Senate