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Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 9640) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for examination and disclosure with respect to Presidential income tax returns; providing for consideration of the bill (S. 1942) to standardize the designation of National Heritage Areas, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hres-1529
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2022-12-21 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.R. 9640) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for examination and disclosure with respect to Presidential income tax returns; providing for consideration of the bill (S. 1942) to standardize the designation of National Heritage Areas, and for other purposes.
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: 
This resolution sets forth the rule for consideration of H.R. 9640 and S. 1942.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 193 (Roll no. 531). (text: CR H9968)
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 193 (Roll no. 531).(text: CR H9968)
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H9972)
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H. Res. 1529, the Chair put the question on adoption of the resolution and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mrs. Fischbach demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: The previous question was ordered without objection.
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H. Res. 1529.
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: Considered as privileged matter. (consideration: CR H9968-9969)
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 169.
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: Rule provides for one hour of debate on each measure. Also provides for a motion to recommit H.R. 9640 and a motion to commit S. 1942. H. Res. 693 and H. Res. 1434 are adopted. Provides for the Majority Leader or a designee that the House suspend the rules as though under clause 1 of rule XV with respect to multile measures.
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: The House Committee on Rules reported an original measure, H. Rept. 117-660, by Mr. McGovern.
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: The House Committee on Rules reported an original measure, H. Rept. 117-660, by Mr. McGovern.
action_date: 2022-12-21
text: Introduced in House
Recognizing the 50th Anniversary of the National Minority Supplier Development Council.

Bill: 117-hres-1530
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2022-12-22 in the House
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2022-12-22
text: 
This resolution recognizes the 50th anniversary of the National Minority Supplier Development Council.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-12-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2022-12-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-12-22
text: Introduced in House
Impeaching Joseph R. Biden.

Bill: 117-hres-1532
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2022-12-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2022-12-27
text: 
This resolution impeaches President Biden for treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors. The resolution alleges a variety of offenses ranging from the way he managed the withdrawal of the U.S. military from Afghanistan, to his handling of migrants on the border, to shielding his son from prosecution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-12-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-12-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-12-27
text: Introduced in House
AACCENT Act

Bill: 117-s-2
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2022-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: 

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Centers to Establish National Training Act or the AACCENT Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to award three grants in geographically diverse regions to establish a network of resource centers to improve access to tools, technologies, strategies, training, and other methods used to supplement or replace speech (i.e., augmentative and alternative communication) for individuals with significant expressive communication disabilities. These are communication disabilities (other than communication disabilities that are primarily visual or auditory in nature) that prevent or significantly limit an individual from understanding or being understood using spoken words, resulting in the need for or benefit from augmentative and alternative communication.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Interactive Federal Review Act

Bill: 117-s-3
Sponsor: Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2022-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: 

Interactive Federal Review Act

 
This bill revises the environmental review process for federal-aid highway projects.
 
Specifically, the Department of Transportation (DOT) must
 
 
encourage recipients of federal highway funding to utilize interactive, digital, cloud-based platforms when carrying out environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA); 
 
select at least 10 federal-aid highway projects to demonstrate the use of interactive, digital, cloud-based platforms in carrying out the environmental impact analysis and community engagement processes under NEPA; and
 
 publish technology-neutral best practice guidance to encourage sponsors of projects that receive federal funds from DOT to use an interactive, digital, cloud-based platform in carrying out the environmental impact analysis and community engagement processes required under NEPA.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure appropriate supervision requirements for outpatient physical therapy and outpatient occupational therapy.

Bill: 117-s-5
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2022-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: 
This bill prohibits the supervision requirements for physical therapy assistants and occupational therapy assistants for covered outpatient services under Medicare from being different from supervision requirements under state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act

Bill: 117-s-6
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2022-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: 

Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act

 
This bill removes and otherwise modifies certain requirements related to the approval of biosimilars, such as prohibiting the Food and Drug Administration from requiring studies that assess the risks of switching between the biosimilar and the reference biologic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Mental and Physical Health Care Comorbidities Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-8
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2022-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: 

Mental and Physical Health Care Comorbidities Act of 2022

 
This bill establishes a demonstration program to test hospital innovations that support low-income or uninsured individuals with serious mental and physical health comorbidities and to identify appropriate payment reforms under Medicare and Medicaid. Participating hospitals must (1) have a proportionally high number of Medicare or Medicaid patients, and (2) develop a plan and related quality metrics for innovations to provide coordinated care and address social determinants of health for individuals with serious mental illness or emotional disturbance and physical comorbidities (e.g., chronic conditions).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Trafficking Survivors Relief Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-9
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2022-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: 

Trafficking Survivors Relief Act of 2022 

 
This bill establishes a process to vacate convictions and expunge arrest records for certain criminal offenses committed by victims of human trafficking that directly result from or relate to having been a trafficking victim.
 
It defines the offenses eligible to be vacated or expunged and sets forth procedures for filing a motion.
 
The Government Accountability Office must assess the impact of this process, including the number of human trafficking survivors who file motions to vacate convictions or expunge records. 
 
The bill permits certain grants for legal representation to be used to seek post-conviction relief. 
 
Finally, the bill creates a rebuttable presumption that a defendant committed certain offenses under duress if the defendant establishes that he or she was a victim of human trafficking at the time of the offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Justice for Murder Victims Act

Bill: 117-s-10
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2022-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: 

Justice for Murder Victims Act

 
This bill allows a prosecution to be instituted for any federal homicide offense without regard to the time that elapsed between the act or omission that caused the death of the victim and the death of the victim. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of relief from active duty as a regular commissioned officer of the Armed Forces.

Bill: 117-s-11
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2021-01-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Federal officials
Military command and structure
Military personnel and dependents
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-03
text: 
This bill allows the first person nominated and appointed as Secretary of Defense after 12:01 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on January 20, 2021, to be a person who is, on the date of appointment, at least four years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of the Armed Forces. Under current law, an individual may not be appointed as Secretary of Defense within seven years after relief from such active duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-06
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
action_date: 2021-03-04
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S1037)
action_date: 2021-03-03
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S999)
action_date: 2021-01-06
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1.
action_date: 2021-01-03
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2021-01-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of relief from active duty as a regular commissioned officer of the Armed Forces.

Bill: 117-s-12
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2021-01-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Federal officials
Military command and structure
Military personnel and dependents
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-03
text: 
This bill allows the first person nominated and appointed as Secretary of Defense after 12 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on January 20, 2021, to be a person who is, on the date of appointment, at least four years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of the Armed Forces. Under current law, an individual may not be appointed as Secretary of Defense within seven years after relief from such active duty.

action_date: 2021-01-21
text: 
This bill allows the first person nominated and appointed as Secretary of Defense after 12 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on January 20, 2021, to be a person who is, on the date of appointment, at least four years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of the Armed Forces. Under current law, an individual may not be appointed as Secretary of Defense within seven years after relief from such active duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-21
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 3.
action_date: 2021-01-21
text: Committee on Armed Services. Reported by Senator Inhofe without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2021-01-21
text: Committee on Armed Services. Reported by Senator Inhofe without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2021-01-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-01-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations on improvements to the security, integrity, and administration of Federal elections.

Bill: 117-s-13
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2021-01-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Election Assistance Commission
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Postal service
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-06
text: 
This bill establishes a bipartisan advisory committee within the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to study the integrity and administration of the November 2020 general election. The committee must also make recommendations to the EAC, state legislatures, and Congress on best practices for administering federal elections, including best practices to prevent improper voting and increase the security of vote-by-mail ballots. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-19
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 2.
action_date: 2021-01-06
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2021-01-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Seniors from Emergency Scams Act

Bill: 117-s-15
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2021-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Aging
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Crime prevention
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: 

Protecting Seniors from Emergency Scams Act

This bill requires the Federal Trade Commission to report on, and increase awareness regarding, scams targeting older adults. Specifically, the commission must
 
 
report on the number and type of scams that target older adults and provide policy recommendations to prevent such scams; 
 
revise the commission's web portal with current information about such scams, including contact information for law enforcement and adult protective services agencies; and 
 
coordinate with media outlets and law enforcement to disseminate such information. 


action_date: 2021-12-16
text: 

Protecting Seniors from Emergency Scams Act

This bill requires the Federal Trade Commission to report on, and increase awareness regarding, scams targeting older adults. Specifically, the commission must
 
 
report on the number and type of scams that target older adults and provide policy recommendations to prevent such scams; 
 
revise the commission's web portal with current information about such scams, including contact information for law enforcement and adult protective services agencies; and 
 
coordinate with media outlets and law enforcement to disseminate such information. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-12-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 191.
action_date: 2021-12-16
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cantwell without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2021-12-16
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cantwell without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2021-04-28
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Custody Protection Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-16
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2021-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Family relationships
Separation, divorce, custody, support
Teenage pregnancy

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: 

Child Custody Protection Act of 2021

 
This bill establishes new criminal offenses related to the transportation of a minor across state lines for an abortion.
 
Specifically, the bill makes it a crime to knowingly transport a minor across a state line to obtain an abortion without satisfying a parental involvement law in the minor's resident state. A parental involvement law requires parental consent or notification, or judicial authorization, for a minor to obtain an abortion.
 
A violator is subject to criminal penalties&#8212;a fine, up to one year in prison, or both. The bill provides an exception for an abortion that is necessary to save the life of a minor whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, illness, or condition.
 
Additionally, the bill imposes criminal penalties on an individual who commits incest with a minor and knowingly transports the minor across a state line to receive an abortion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Ban Birth Tourism Act

Bill: 117-s-17
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2021-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Citizenship and naturalization
Immigration status and procedures
Travel and tourism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: 

Ban Birth Tourism Act

 
This bill provides statutory authority for the ban on admitting an alien into the United States as a nonimmigrant if the alien's primary purpose for entering is to give birth to a child in the United States in order to obtain U.S. citizenship for that child.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 229 Minnetonka Avenue South in Wayzata, Minnesota, as the "Jim Ramstad Post Office".

Bill: 117-s-18
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2021-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Minnesota
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 229 Minnetonka Avenue South in Wayzata, Minnesota, as the "Jim Ramstad Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
FEED Act

Bill: 117-s-19
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2021-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Food assistance and relief
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: 

FEMA Empowering Essential Deliveries Act or the FEED Act

 
This bill authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to approve state, local, and Indian tribal government plans to partner with small and mid-size restaurants and nonprofit organizations to provide nutritious meals to individuals in need.
 
Specifically, during the period following the President's emergency declaration of March 13, 2020, and under any subsequent major disaster declaration that supersedes it, FEMA may approve plans from state, local, and Indian tribal governments that (1) establish contracts with small and mid-sized restaurants and nonprofits, including faith-based organizations and soup kitchens, to prepare healthy meals for people in need; and (2) provide for partnerships with nonprofit organizations to purchase directly from food producers and farmers.
 
FEMA shall waive federal matching requirements under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act during such period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Removing Incentives for Outsourcing Act

Bill: 117-s-20
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2021-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax deductions
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: 

Removing Incentives for Outsourcing Act 

 
This bill modifies the tax treatment of foreign source income of domestic corporations to (1) eliminate a provision that allows companies to deduct a portion of the tangible assets of their controlled foreign corporations (CFCs) before the tax on foreign income applies, and (2) require net CFC tested income to be determined on a country-by-country basis rather than globally.
 
The bill also requires the Joint Committee on Taxation to study options for reforming laws related to the taxation of income from international sources. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate