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Moms Matter Act

Bill: 117-hr-909
Sponsor: Rep. Blunt Rochester, Lisa [D-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Disability and health-based discrimination
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Mental health
Minority education
Minority employment
Minority health
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Moms Matter Act

 
This bill establishes two grant programs to address maternal mental health conditions and substance use disorders, with a focus on racial and ethnic minority groups.
 
First, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration must award grants for maternal behavioral health services. Eligible grantees include
 
 
state, tribal, and local governments;
 
health care providers; and
 
organizations that serve pregnant and postpartum individuals.
 
 
 
Second, the Department of Health and Human Services may award grants to grow and diversify the maternal mental and behavioral health workforce by establishing or expanding schools and training programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Healthcare Improvement Act

Bill: 117-hr-910
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Budget process
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Health programs administration and funding
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Veterans Healthcare Improvement Act

 
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to review and report on the budget requests for Department of Veterans Affairs medical care accounts in the President's submitted budgets for FY2022-FY2024. Medical care accounts are the following accounts of the Veterans Health Administration: Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, Medical Facilities, and Medical Community Care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Saracini Enhanced Aviation Safety Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-911
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Saracini Enhanced Aviation Safety Act of 20

21

 
This bill requires the Federal Aviation Administration to issue an order requiring installation of a secondary cockpit barrier on commercial passenger aircraft.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans Mental Health Act

Bill: 117-hr-912
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Census and government statistics
Congressional oversight
Cultural exchanges and relations
Employment and training programs
Federal-Indian relations
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Mental health
Minority employment
Minority health
Veterans' medical care
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans Mental Health Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide mental health and suicide prevention outreach to American Indian and Alaska Native veterans.
 
Specifically, the bill requires that each VA medical center have a full-time minority veteran coordinator. The coordinator must receive training in the delivery of culturally appropriate mental health and suicide prevention services to American Indian and Alaska Native veterans.
 
Further, the suicide prevention coordinator and minority veteran coordinator of each VA medical center must develop and disseminate a written plan for conducting mental health and suicide prevention outreach to all tribes and urban Indian health organizations within the area of the medical center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Subcommittee on Health Discharged.
action_date: 2021-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Build a Better VA Act

Bill: 117-hr-913
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health facilities and institutions
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Build a Better VA Act

 
This bill prohibits funds from being appropriated for any fiscal year for a Department of Veterans Affairs major medical facility lease unless the House and Senate Committees on Veterans' Affairs adopt resolutions approving the lease. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2021-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
action_date: 2021-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Dental Care for Veterans Act

Bill: 117-hr-914
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Dental care
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Dental Care for Veterans Act

 
This bill expands eligibility for veterans for dental care provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Specifically, the bill makes all veterans who are enrolled in the VA health care system eligible for VA-provided dental services. Currently, only veterans who have a service-connected dental issue or meet other narrow criteria are eligible for certain dental services.
 
The bill phases in eligibility over four years based upon existing eligibility, degree of service-connected disability or other disability, prisoner of war status, award of a Purple Heart, financial need, or VA health care eligibility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
RAFT Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-915
Sponsor: Rep. Burchett, Tim [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional committees
Congressional operations and organization
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Government information and archives
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Reforming America's Fiscal Toolkit Act of 2021 or the RAFT Act of 2021 

 
This bill modifies the federal budget process to provide for the establishment of a target for the ratio of the public debt to the estimated gross domestic product (GDP).
 
Specifically, the bill requires congressional budget resolutions to include a recommended ratio of public debt to GDP. In addition, congressional budget resolutions for even-numbered fiscal years must either (1) instruct one or more congressional committees to recommend changes in existing laws necessary to achieve the target ratio, or (2) request the establishment of a Joint Select Committee on Fiscal Responsibility to make the recommendations.
 
The bill also sets forth requirements for (1) establishing the Joint Select Committee on Fiscal Responsibility if it is requested, and (2) considering the recommendations of the joint committee or other congressional committees using expedited legislative procedures in the Senate. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
REDUCE Act

Bill: 117-hr-916
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Rebalance for an Effective Defense Uniformed and Civilian Employees Act or the REDUCE Act

 
This bill limits full-time positions in the Department of Defense (DOD), in each of FY2026-FY2030, to not more than 85% of the number of such positions at the end of FY2021. Not more than 1,000 of the positions may be career appointees within the Senior Executive Service. 
 
DOD may offer voluntary separation incentive payments and voluntary early retirement payments to achieve the reductions but must use involuntary measures, beginning at the start of FY2021, to achieve required reductions in personnel levels if voluntary measures are inadequate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Kangaroo Protection Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-917
Sponsor: Rep. Carbajal, Salud O. [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Civil actions and liability
Mammals
Trade restrictions
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Kangaroo Protection Act of 2021

 
This bill establishes new federal crimes related to commercial activities involving kangaroos and kangaroo products.
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits
 
 
the import for commercial purposes, possession with intent to sell, or sale of a kangaroo; and
 
the introduction into interstate commerce; manufacture for introduction into interstate commerce; sale, trade, or advertisement in interstate commerce; or offer to sell, or transport or distribute in interstate commerce, any kangaroo product. 
 
 
A violator is subject to civil and criminal penalties. Additionally, a kangaroo or kangaroo product used in a violation is subject to forfeiture.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Stronger Medicaid Response to the COVID–19 Pandemic Act

Bill: 117-hr-918
Sponsor: Rep. Cárdenas, Tony [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Drug therapy
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health promotion and preventive care
Immigrant health and welfare
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medicaid
Medical tests and diagnostic methods

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Stronger Medicaid Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Act

 
This bill allows COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) vaccines, prevention, and treatment, as well as prevention and treatment for conditions that may complicate COVID-19 treatment, for uninsured individuals to be covered under Medicaid during the public health emergency. (Currently, state Medicaid programs have the option to cover COVID-19 testing for uninsured individuals.)
 
The bill also (1) specifically allows COVID-19 testing, vaccines, prevention, and treatment, as well as prevention and treatment for complicating conditions, for certain unlawful aliens to be covered under Medicaid during the public health emergency; and (2) specifies how the value and provision of COVID-19 assistance should be considered with respect to certain governmental programs and requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Unemployment Relief for Nonprofits Act

Bill: 117-hr-919
Sponsor: Rep. Casten, Sean [D-IL-6]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Labor standards
Licensing and registrations
Motor carriers
Puerto Rico
Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Emergency Unemployment Relief for Nonprofits Act

 
This bill extends funding through October 3, 2021, for the reimbursement to state unemployment funds of amounts otherwise required of certain government entities and nonprofit organizations. Under current law, this period ends on September 6, 2021.
 
 The bill also increases the amount of these reimbursements from 50% to 75% of amounts paid for weeks of unemployment beginning after March 31, 2021, and ending on or before October 3, 2021.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park Expansion and Redesignation Act

Bill: 117-hr-920
Sponsor: Rep. Clyburn, James E. [D-SC-6]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Delaware
District of Columbia
Elementary and secondary education
Historic sites and heritage areas
Kansas
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Racial and ethnic relations
South Carolina
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site Expansion Act

 
This bill expands the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site currently located in Topeka, Kansas, to include additional sites in Clarendon County, South Carolina, and establishes as affiliated areas specified sites in Farmville, Virginia; Wilmington and Hockessin, Delaware; and the District of Columbia.
 

action_date: 2022-12-14
text: 

Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park Expansion and Redesignation Act

 
This bill redesignates the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site currently located in Topeka, Kansas, as the Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park.
 
Further, the bill expands the park to include additional sites in Clarendon County, South Carolina, and establishes as affiliated areas specified sites in Farmville, Virginia; Wilmington, Claymont, and Hockessin, Delaware; and the District of Columbia.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-12-14
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 451.
action_date: 2022-12-14
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 117-627.
action_date: 2022-12-14
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 117-627.
action_date: 2022-04-06
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2022-04-06
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2022-04-06
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2021-04-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2021-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Horse Transportation Safety Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-921
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Civil actions and liability
Mammals
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Horse Transportation Safety Act of 20

21

 
This bill prohibits a person from transporting a horse in interstate commerce in a motor vehicle (except a vehicle operated exclusively on rail or rails) containing two or more levels stacked on top of one another. 
 
The bill prescribes civil penalties for knowing violations of such prohibition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Crimea Annexation Non-Recognition Act

Bill: 117-hr-922
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Europe
Foreign aid and international relief
Russia
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Ukraine

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Crimea Annexation Non-Recognition Ac
t 
 
This bill prohibits any federal agency from taking any action or extending any assistance that recognizes or implies recognition of Russia's sovereignty over Crimea, its airspace, or its territorial waters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2021-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Europe, Energy, the Environment and Cyber.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Southern Border Communities Reimbursement Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-924
Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
California
Emergency planning and evacuation
Food assistance and relief
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Latin America
Mexico
New Mexico
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Southern Border Communities Reimbursement Act of 2021 

 
This bill authorizes reimbursement to jurisdictions and organizations for the costs of providing humanitarian relief to aliens, including the cost of emergency preparedness activities. The reimbursement authorized under this bill shall be for FY2021-FY2023 and shall be distributed by the Emergency Food and Shelter Program National Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
To provide emergency funding for home visiting programs during the pandemic, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-926
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Appropriations
Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Domestic violence and child abuse
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
Food assistance and relief
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Poverty and welfare assistance
Wages and earnings
Women's health
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 
This bill provides supplemental funding to the Department of Health and Human Services for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. This program supports voluntary home visits by social workers and other professionals for families with young children in at-risk communities.
 
The funds may be used to
 
 
expand access to virtual visits, such as by acquiring necessary technology for participating families;
 
provide for specified training and administrative costs, including hazard pay; and
 
meet emergency needs of participating families for diapers, prepaid grocery cards, and other supplies.
 
 
An entity that receives these funds must maintain existing staffing and funding levels, coordinate as practicable with local diaper banks when providing emergency supplies, and meet other conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Enhancement Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-927
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2021-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child care and development
Income tax credits
Inflation and prices
Marriage and family status

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: 

Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Enhancement Act of 2021

 
This bill modifies the tax credit for employment-related expenses incurred for the care of a taxpayer's dependent to (1) increase to $400,000, the adjusted gross income threshold level above which the credit is incrementally reduced; (2) increase the dollar limits on the allowable amount of the credit; (3) specify rules for married couples filing separate returns; (4) allow an inflation adjustment to the adjusted gross income threshold and the maximum credit amounts, beginning after 2022; and (5) make the credit refundable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-08
text: Introduced in House