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Special Districts Provide Essential Services Act

Bill: 117-s-91
Sponsor: Sen. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Federal Reserve System
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Securities
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

Special Districts Provide Essential Services Act

 
This bill makes special districts eligible for the Coronavirus Relief Fund and the Municipal Liquidity Facility program.
 
Specifically, the bill makes special districts eligible for payments from amounts paid to states from any new appropriations to the fund. A special district must submit a request for payment to the state with information demonstrating that the special district has experienced or is likely to experience during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency
 
 
 reduced revenue or operational funding derived from provided services, taxes, fees, or other sources of revenue; 
 
 reduced indirect funding from the federal government, the state, or a unit of general government below the state level; or
 
 as a result of the COVID-19 emergency, increased expenditures necessary to continue operations.
 
 
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall include special districts as eligible issuers in the Municipal Liquidity Facility program, which was created in response to the COVID-19 emergency to buy municipal securities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-92
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Appropriations
Assault and harassment offenses
Comprehensive health care
Consumer affairs
Crimes against women
Employee benefits and pensions
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Income tax credits
Sex offenses
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2021

 
This bill modifies provisions relating to federal funding for, and health insurance coverage of, abortions.
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits the use of federal funds for abortions or for health coverage that includes abortions. Such restrictions extend to the use of funds in the budget of the District of Columbia. Additionally, abortions may not be provided in a federal health care facility or by a federal employee. 
 
Historically, language has been included in annual appropriations bills for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that prohibits the use of federal funds for abortions&#8212;such language is commonly referred to as the Hyde Amendment. Similar language is also frequently included in appropriations bills for other federal agencies and the District of Columbia. The bill makes these restrictions permanent and extends the restrictions to all federal funds (rather than specific agencies). 
 
The bill's restrictions regarding the use of federal funds do not apply in cases of rape, incest, or where a physical disorder, injury, or illness endangers a woman's life unless an abortion is performed. The Hyde Amendment provides the same exceptions.
 
The bill also prohibits qualified health plans from including coverage for abortions. Currently, qualified health plans may cover abortion, but the portion of the premium attributable to abortion coverage is not eligible for subsidies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Hire Student Veterans Act

Bill: 117-s-94
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax credits
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

Hire Student Veterans Act 

 
This bill allows a work opportunity tax credit for hiring a veteran attending an educational institution using educational assistance provided under certain programs administered by the Department of Defense or the Department of Veterans Affairs. It also modifies the minimum employment period required for veterans who qualify for the credit under this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Women’s Public Health and Safety Act

Bill: 117-s-95
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Medicaid
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

Women's Public Health and Safety Act

 
This bill allows a state to exclude from participation in the state's Medicaid program a provider that performs an abortion, unless (1) the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, or (2) the woman suffers from a physical issue that would place her in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. Under current law, a state plan for medical assistance must provide that any individual eligible for medical assistance may obtain required services from any provider qualified to perform them.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Reopen and Rebuild America’s Schools Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-96
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Air quality
Appropriations
Building construction
Buy American requirements
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Disability and paralysis
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental health
Fires
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Income tax credits
Indian social and development programs
Infrastructure development
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Lighting, heating, cooling
Metals
Minority education
Natural disasters
Noise pollution
Pest management
Preschool education
Public contracts and procurement
School administration
Science and engineering education
Securities
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
U.S. territories and protectorates
Water quality
Water use and supply
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

Reopen and Rebuild America's Schools Act of 2021

 
This bill provides support for long-term improvements to public elementary and secondary school facilities. 
 
First, the bill sets forth allocations to states and establishes a need-based grant program for local educational agencies (LEAs) to improve school facilities. Further, the bill specifies allowable uses of grant funds, including carrying out major repairs, improving indoor air quality, and making facilities accessible to disabled individuals.
 
 Additionally, the bill requires LEAs that receive funds for new construction, modernization, or renovation projects to comply with hazard-resistance building codes and performance criteria under the WaterSense program of the Environmental Protection Agency. Further, the bill requires LEAs to adopt certain green practices (environmental standards) and requires the use of iron, steel, and manufactured products that are made in the United States (Buy America).
 
The bill restores school infrastructure tax credit bonds.
 
The bill also sets forth reporting requirements, including annual reports on grant program projects and a report by the Government Accountability Office that requires a study of the geographic distribution of projects, the impact of projects on student and staff health and safety, and the accessibility of projects to high-poverty schools.
 
Next, the bill extends through FY2026 the Impact Aid Construction program.
 
Finally, the bill establishes a grant program to assist LEAs with repairing or replacing concrete foundations affected by pyrrhotite (an iron sulfide material linked to crumbling foundations). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S200-201)
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Dental Benefit Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-97
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Dental care
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health personnel
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

Medicare Dental Benefit Act of 

2021

 
This bill provides for Medicare coverage of dental and oral health services, including routine diagnostic and preventive services, basic and major dental services, and emergency care; dental prostheses are also covered. Currently, such services are excluded from Medicare coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Neighborhood Homes Investment Act

Bill: 117-s-98
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Business investment and capital
Economic development
Economic performance and conditions
Government information and archives
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Income tax credits
Inflation and prices
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

Neighborhood Homes Investment Act

 
This bill establishes a new business-related tax credit to finance home building and rehabilitation in neighborhoods that meet certain eligibility criteria relating to poverty rates, income, and home values. The credit is limited to 35% of the lesser of the qualified development cost (i.e., the cost of construction, substantial rehabilitation, demolition, and environmental remediation of residential properties) or 80% of the national median sale price for new homes. The credit applies to single family homes containing four or fewer residential units, condominiums, or houses or apartments owned by cooperative housing corporations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Life at Conception Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-99
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Abortion
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Genetics

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

Life at Conception Act of
 
2021

 
This bill declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual comes into being. 
 
Nothing in this bill shall be construed to require the prosecution of any woman for the death of her unborn child, a prohibition on in vitro fertilization, or a prohibition on use of birth control or another means of preventing fertilization. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Default Prevention Act

Bill: 117-s-100
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Medicare
Military personnel and dependents
Social security and elderly assistance
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

Default Prevention Act 

 
This bill requires the following obligations to be granted priority over all other U.S. obligations if the public debt reaches the statutory limit:
 
 
 principal and interest on debt held by the public; 
 
compensation, allowances, and benefits for members of the Armed Forces on active duty; 
 
Social Security benefits; 
 
Medicare benefits; and
 
obligations under any program administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
 
 
If Congress is notified, the Department of the Treasury may issue additional debt in excess of the debt limit for the priority obligations. Treasury may issue the additional debt during the 30-day period beginning on the date on which the United States is unable to use revenues or extraordinary measures to fully pay the priority obligations at the time they are due. 
 
(The term 
extraordinary measures
 refers to a series of actions that Treasury may implement to allow the United States to borrow additional funds without exceeding the debt limit. The measures generally include suspensions or delays of debt sales and suspensions or redemptions of investments in certain government funds.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-101
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Environmental health
Environmental regulatory procedures
Geography and mapping
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health information and medical records
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act of 2021

 
This bill establishes an interagency Environmental Justice Mapping Committee that must create a tool to identify environmental justice communities. Environmental justice communities are communities with significant representation of communities of color, low-income communities, or tribal and indigenous communities that experience, or are at risk of experiencing, higher or more adverse human health or environmental effects, as compared to other communities.
 
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must establish an environmental justice data repository to maintain the data collected by the committee. The EPA must make the repository available to regional, state, local, and tribal governments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
West Los Angeles VA Campus Improvement Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-102
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
California
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health facilities and institutions
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Land use and conservation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

West Los Angeles VA Campus Improvement Act of 2021

 
This bill requires that land use revenues received by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in connection with the use of an easement, certain leases, or third-party land use at the VA's West Los Angeles Campus in Los Angeles, California, be used exclusively for specified purposes on campus.
 
The bill prescribes that such revenues be used exclusively for
 
 
the renovation and maintenance of the land and facilities at the campus;
 
supporting construction, maintenance, and services at the campus relating to temporary or permanent supportive housing for homeless or at-risk veterans and their families;
 
implementing minor construction projects at the campus; or
 
implementing community operations at the campus that support the development of emergency shelter or supportive housing for homeless or at-risk veterans and their families. 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S201)
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Read the Bills Act

Bill: 117-s-103
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Government liability
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

Read the Bills Act

 
This bill establishes requirements relating to the introduction and consideration of any bill or resolution in either chamber of Congress.
 
Specifically, the bill requires any measure introduced in either chamber to contain a provision citing the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the proposed measure, including all of its provisions. Further, the text must also set forth the current law such measure is amending and the proposed modifications to the law. 
 
Additionally, a vote on final passage of a measure (except private bills) may not occur in either chamber unless (1) the full text of the measure is published on an official website of each chamber at least seven days before the vote, (2) public notice of the specific calendar week during which the vote is scheduled to take place is posted on the respective website at least six days before the Monday of such week, and (3) there is a reading of its full text verbatim by the Clerk of the House of Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate to the respective chamber.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Social Determinants of Health Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-104
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Intergovernmental relations
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

Improving Social Determinants of Health Act of 2021

 
This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish a program to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequities by, for example, coordinating activities across the CDC. As part of the program, the CDC must award grants to eligible organizations to build capacity to address social determinants of health. The CDC shall provide for an independent evaluation of certain grants and report findings to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-105
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2021

 
This bill provides continuing appropriations to prevent a government shutdown if any appropriations measure for a fiscal year has not been enacted before the fiscal year begins or a joint resolution making continuing appropriations is not in effect. 
 
For an initial 90-day period, the bill provides continuing appropriations at 99% of the rate for the preceding year to continue programs, projects, and activities for which funds were provided in the preceding fiscal year. The bill reduces the continuing appropriations by 1% after the first 90-day period and by an additional 1% for each subsequent 90-day period until the applicable appropriations legislation is enacted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success Act

Bill: 117-s-106
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success Act or the A PLUS Act
 
 
This bill creates a framework under which states may receive federal elementary and secondary education funds on a consolidated basis and use such funds for any educational purpose permitted by state law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate
New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-107
Sponsor: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2021-01-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Intergovernmental relations
Meat
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: 

New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act of 2021

 
This bill allows meat and poultry products inspected by State Meat and Poultry Inspection programs to be sold in interstate commerce. Under the inspection programs, the Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service allows states that meet certain requirements to inspect meat and poultry. The state-inspected products are currently limited to intrastate commerce, unless a state opts into a separate Cooperative Interstate Shipment Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2021-01-28
text: Introduced in Senate