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A bill to prohibit certain former employees of the intelligence community from providing certain services to governments of countries that are state sponsors of terrorism, the People's Republic of China, and the Russian Federation, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-s-4456
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2022-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-22
text: 
This bill prohibits certain former employees of any intelligence community element from providing services related to intelligence, military, or internal security to the government of China, Russia, or a country that is a state sponsor of terrorism. 
 
Generally, this restriction shall apply to any employee, including any contractor or detailee, who had a level of access to sensitive information such that the relevant intelligence community element determines that such restrictions are necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3078; text: CR S3078-3079)
action_date: 2022-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4457
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2022-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-22
text: 

Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022

 
This bill makes a medical practitioner who performs a gender-transition procedure on an individual who is less than 18 years of age liable for any physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological harms from the procedure for 30 years after the individual turns 18.
 
Additionally, if a state requires medical practitioners to perform gender-transition procedures, that state shall be ineligible for federal funding from the Department of Health and Human Services.
 
Gender-transition procedures generally include certain surgeries or hormone therapies that change the body of an individual to correspond to a sex that is discordant with the individual's biological sex. They exclude, however, interventions to treat (1) individuals who either have ambiguous external biological sex characteristics or lack a normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action; (2) infections, injuries, diseases, or disorders caused by a gender-transition procedure; or (3) a physical disorder, injury, or illness that places an individual in imminent danger of death or impairment of a major bodily function.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Debt Relief and College Affordability Act

Bill: 117-s-4459
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Student Debt Relief and College Affordability Act

 
This bill makes changes to the Federal Pell Grant program and addresses repayment options, loan disclosures, and loan counseling for student loans.
 
For example, the bill (1) directs the Department of Education (ED) to provide federal student loan forgiveness and cancellation for recipients of Pell Grants, (2) increases the maximum Pell Grant award, (3) terminates interest capitalization and origination fees for Federal Direct Loans, and (4) requires ED to maintain online counseling tools that provide borrowers with entrance and exit student loan counseling.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
END FENTANYL Act

Bill: 117-s-4460
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Customs enforcement
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Government information and archives
Human trafficking
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Eradicating Narcotic Drugs and Formulating Effective New Tools to Address National Yearly Losses of life Act or the END FENTANYL Act

 
This bill requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection to review and update, as necessary, manuals and policies related to inspections at ports of entry to ensure the uniformity of inspection practices to effectively detect illegal activity along the border, such as the trafficking of drugs and humans. 

action_date: 2022-11-14
text: 

Eradicating Narcotic Drugs and Formulating Effective New Tools to Address National Yearly Losses of life Act or the END FENTANYL Act

 
This bill requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection to review and update, as necessary, manuals and policies related to inspections at ports of entry to ensure the uniformity of inspection practices to effectively detect illegal activity along the border, such as the smuggling of drugs and humans. 

action_date: 2022-12-14
text: 

Eradicating Narcotic Drugs and Formulating Effective New Tools to Address National Yearly Losses of life Act or the END FENTANYL Act

 
This bill requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection to review and update, as necessary, manuals and policies related to inspections at ports of entry to ensure the uniformity of inspection practices to effectively detect illegal activity along the border, such as the smuggling of drugs and humans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-12-15
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2022-12-15
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2022-12-15
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2022-12-14
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7188; text: CR S7188)
action_date: 2022-12-14
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2022-11-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 544.
action_date: 2022-11-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 117-193.
action_date: 2022-11-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 117-193.
action_date: 2022-08-03
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Expanding Access to Mental Health Training Act

Bill: 117-s-4461
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Expanding Access to Mental Health Training Act

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2027 grants for training teachers and other school personnel to recognize the symptoms of childhood and adolescent mental health disorders. These grants are awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to states, localities, Indian tribes, and nonprofits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
RESPONSE Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4462
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Reaching Every Survivor with Police and On-site Nonprofit Services Evaluations Act of 2022 or the RESPONSE Act of 2022

 
This bill requires the Office on Violence Against Women of the Department of Justice to establish a pilot program under which community-based organizations or victim service providers may dispatch victim advocates to crime scenes involving domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to terminate General License No. 8C of the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury and require the application of sanctions under Executive Order 14024 to the entities listed in General License No. 8C.

Bill: 117-s-4463
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 
This bill terminates General License No. 8C, which was issued by the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control to authorize energy-related transactions involving specified Russian financial institutions. Further, the bill applies property-blocking sanctions to those Russian financial institutions listed in the license.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Kaena Point National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 117-s-4464
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Hawaii
Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Kaena Point National Heritage Area Act

 

 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating Honolulu County, Hawaii, as a National Heritage Area, to be known as the Kaena Point National Heritage Area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-09-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3162-3163)
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Access to Medication Abortion Act

Bill: 117-s-4467
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Protecting Access to Medication Abortion Act

 
This bill directs the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take steps to allow patients to receive prescriptions for mifepristone, a drug approved by the FDA for medical abortion, via telehealth and for prescriptions for the drug to be filled by mail. 
 
(Mifepristone is subject to a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, which imposes various safety-related requirements. During the COVID-19 public health emergency, the FDA suspended enforcement of the current strategy's requirement that the drug must be dispensed in person, and this suspension is still in effect. In December 2021, the FDA stated the data supported modifying the strategy to remove the in-person dispensing requirement.)
 
Under this bill, the FDA must require the holder of the relevant approved drug application to submit a proposal to modify the strategy. The modification shall (1) remove the in-person dispensing requirement, (2) allow patients to access prescriptions for mifepristone via telehealth, and (3) authorize all pharmacies certified to dispense mifepristone to patients to do so via mail.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Diagnosis in Medicine Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4468
Sponsor: Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Improving Diagnosis in Medicine Act of 2022

 
This bill requires various activities to improve diagnostic safety and quality in health care.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must convene an expert panel to make recommendations about the data needed to accelerate diagnostic safety and quality research. In convening the panel, HHS must coordinate with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and other HHS components.
 
HHS must also establish an interagency council to develop a strategic plan and recommendations to improve diagnosis in health care.
 
In addition, AHRQ must (1) establish a quality improvement program related to diagnostic errors that includes dissemination of evidence-based strategies to improve diagnostic quality, safety, and health-care value; and (2) seek to contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study disparities in diagnostic safety and quality.
 
The bill also allows specified grants provided by AHRQ and by the National Institutes of Health to be used for diagnostic safety and quality research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
SAD Act

Bill: 117-s-4469
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation Act or the SAD Act

 
This bill prohibits advertisements that use deceptive or misleading statements related to the provision of abortion services. Abortion services include (1) surgical and non-surgical procedures to terminate a pregnancy, or (2) providing referrals for such procedures.
 
The Federal Trade Commission must promulgate rules to implement the prohibition, and the bill provides for enforcement by the commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Montana Sportsmen Conservation Act

Bill: 117-s-4470
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Montana Sportsmen Conservation Act

 
This bill releases the Middle Fork Judith, Hoodoo Mountain, and Wales Creek wilderness study areas from further study for wilderness designation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Hardest-Hit Small Business COVID Relief Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4471
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Hardest-Hit Small Business COVID Relief Act of 2022

 
This bill requires the Small Business Administration to provide grants to small businesses that experienced substantial losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Care Capacity for Pediatric Mental Health Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4472
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Health Care Capacity for Pediatric Mental Health Act of 2022

 
This bill establishes programs to support the provision of pediatric mental, emotional, behavioral, and substance use disorder services, particularly in underserved and other high-need areas.
 
The Health Resources and Services Administration must award funding to children's hospitals and other facilities that provide such pediatric services for
 
 
integrating and coordinating the provision of services to meet community needs,
 
workforce training, and
 
constructing new sites of care or otherwise expanding capacity at existing sites to provide services. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Defense Infrastructure Support Act

Bill: 117-s-4473
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Defense Infrastructure Support Act

 
This bill extends to September 30, 2025, the authority of the Department of Defense to use a working capital fund for unspecified minor military construction projects to revitalize and recapitalize defense industrial base facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Prohibiting Federal Emergencies for Abortion Act

Bill: 117-s-4474
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Prohibiting Federal Emergencies for Abortion Act

 
This bill prohibits the President and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from declaring a federal emergency relating to abortion.
 
Specifically, neither the President nor HHS may declare a national emergency for purposes of (1) promoting, supporting, or expanding access to abortion; or (2) taking adverse action against or litigating against states that prohibit or otherwise restrict abortion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Manufactured Housing Community Sustainability Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4475
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Manufactured Housing Community Sustainability Act of 2022

 
This bill allows a new tax credit equal to 75% of the gain from the sale or exchange of real property to a qualified manufactured home community cooperative or corporation if (1) the property is acquired for use as a manufactured home community, (2) the seller (or any related person) owned the property for the entire two-year period before the sale or exchange, and (3) the property is transferred subject to a binding covenant that the property will be used as a manufactured home community for at least 50 years or the maximum permissible term under state laws that restrict such covenants to a lesser term.
 
The bill defines 
manufactured home community 
as a community comprised primarily of manufactured homes used solely for residential purposes and owned by a manufactured home community cooperative or corporation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
SSBCI Improvement Act

Bill: 117-s-4476
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

SSBCI Improvement Act

 
This bill modifies how funds are transferred to (and recouped from) states under the State Small Business Credit Initiative. For example, if a state's allocated amount is less than or equal to $1,000,000 the Department of the Treasury must provide the full amount in a single transfer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Eliminate Useless Reports Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4477
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Budget process
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Eliminate Useless Reports Act of 2022

 
This bill requires federal agencies to include a list of outdated or duplicative reporting requirements in their annual budget justifications. The agencies must also include recommendations for ending, modifying, consolidating, or reducing the frequency of each of the outdated or duplicative reports. 

action_date: 2022-12-15
text: 

Eliminate Useless Reports Act of 2022

 
This bill requires federal agencies to include a list of outdated or duplicative reporting requirements in their annual budget justifications. The agencies must also include recommendations for ending, modifying, consolidating, or reducing the frequency of each of the outdated or duplicative reports. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-12-15
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 655.
action_date: 2022-12-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 117-264.
action_date: 2022-12-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 117-264.
action_date: 2022-08-03
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Historic Lighthouse Resiliency Act

Bill: 117-s-4478
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Historic Lighthouse Resiliency Act

 
This bill authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carry out projects to (1) improve the resilience of historic light stations against the adverse effects of climate change, (2) ensure continued public access to historical light stations, and (3) improve public safety on the grounds of historical light stations.
 
The Corps must conduct a study of national historic light stations to determine the long-term protection needs of such stations and establish a national database of the stations based on the results of the study.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. CR S3163)
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Magnet Injury Prevention Act

Bill: 117-s-4479
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2022-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: 

Magnet Injury Prevention Act

 
This bill prohibits as hazardous consumer products specified small, high-powered magnets. The prohibition includes magnets that (1) are designed and marketed for entertainment or mental stimulation (e.g., puzzle working, sculpture building, or certain jewelry); (2) are not classified as a toy or children&rsquo;s jewelry subject to existing standards; (3) pose a choking, aspiration, or ingestion risk to young children; and (4) have a magnetic field magnitude above a certain threshold.
 
The bill also authorizes the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue product safety standards for certain other types of small, high-powered magnets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2022-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate