hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Continuing Access to 504 Capital Act

Bill: 117-s-2709
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2021-08-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2021-08-10
text: 

Continuing Access to 504 Capital Act

 
This bill authorizes the Small Business Administration (SBA) to guarantee an additional $1 billion of loans made under the 504 Program. Such loans, made through SBA community partners and certified by the SBA, provide long-term, fixed rate financing for major fixed assets that promote business growth and job creation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-08-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2021-08-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Empowering Local Curriculum Act

Bill: 117-s-2711
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2021-08-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Racial and ethnic relations
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Teaching, teachers, curricula
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2021-08-11
text: 

Empowering Local Curriculum Act

 
This bill specifies that nothing in federal education law shall be construed to require the use, teaching, promotion, or recommendation of any academic discipline, program, or activity that holds certain principles related to race or sex.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-08-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-08-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize appropriations for planning for United States participation in the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Japan.

Bill: 117-s-2712
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2021-08-11 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-08-11
text: 
This bill authorizes FY2022 activities for planning for U.S. participation in the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Japan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-08-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2021-08-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Market Economy Sourcing Act

Bill: 117-s-2713
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2021-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Legislative rules and procedure
Manufacturing
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: 

Market Economy Sourcing Act

 
This bill limits the content from nonmarket economy countries that may be included in free trade agreement qualifying goods.
 
A nonmarket economy country is a foreign country that does not operate on market principles of cost or pricing structures, so that sales of merchandise in such country do not reflect the fair price of the merchandise.
 
The bill requires that, during the five-year period following entry into force of a free trade agreement, no more than 20% of a qualifying good may originate in a nonmarket economy country, and no more than 10% thereafter.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide funds for administration of the earned income tax credit in Puerto Rico.

Bill: 117-s-2714
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2021-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: 
This bill provides funds for the administration of the earned income tax credit in Puerto Rico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules for constructive ownership with respect to real estate investment trusts.

Bill: 117-s-2715
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2021-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: 
This bill modifies rules relating to the constructive ownership of assets in a real estate investment trust.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
American Beef Labeling Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-2716
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2021-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural trade
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Free trade and trade barriers
Meat

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: 

American Beef Labeling Act of 2021

 
This bill reinstates mandatory country-of-origin labeling requirements for beef.
 
Specifically, the bill requires the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to develop a means of reinstating the requirements that complies with the rules of the World Trade Organization. The USTR and the Department of Agriculture must implement the means within one year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S6458)
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
FASTER Act

Bill: 117-s-2717
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2021-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: 

Funding for Aviation Screeners and Threat Elimination Restoration Act or the FASTER Act

 
This bill repeals the requirement that a portion of aviation security service fees collected from passengers be credited as offsetting receipts and deposited in the general fund of the Treasury. It requires such fees to be deposited into a separate account in the Treasury for expenditure to pay only the costs of activities and services for which the fee is imposed (i.e., aviation security screening).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Due Process Guarantee Act

Bill: 117-s-2718
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2021-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: 

Due Process Guarantee Act

 
This bill limits the detention authority of the United States. 
 
Current law prohibits the indefinite detention of a U.S. citizen unless it is authorized by an act of Congress.
 
This bill prohibits the indefinite detention of a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident unless it is authorized by an act of Congress that (1) is consistent with the Constitution, and (2) expressly authorizes the detention.
 
Additionally, the bill specifies that no U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident who is apprehended in the United States may be imprisoned or otherwise detained without charge or trial unless such imprisonment or detention is expressly authorized by an act of Congress.
 
Finally, it specifies that a general authorization to use military force or similar measure, on its own, does not authorize the indefinite detention of a person who is arrested in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6458-6459; text: CR S6459)
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Prioritizing Clean Energy and Climate Cooperation with India Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-2719
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2021-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Asia
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Electric power generation and transmission
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy prices
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental technology
Foreign aid and international relief
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Higher education
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
India
Industrial facilities
Intellectual property
International organizations and cooperation
Lighting, heating, cooling
Oil and gas
Public utilities and utility rates
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Rule of law and government transparency
Rural conditions and development
Technology transfer and commercialization
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: 

Prioritizing Clean Energy and Climate Cooperation with India Act of 2021

 
This bill establishes the U.S.-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership and addresses related issues. 
 
The partnership shall serve as the primary forum and funding mechanism for U.S.-India cooperation on clean energy technology matters.
 
The Department of State must report to Congress a comprehensive multiyear strategy for implementing the partnership. 
 
The bill requires programs to promote U.S.-India partnerships in (1) research and innovation for clean energy technologies, (2) initiatives for providing technical assistance for grid improvement and energy efficiency in India, and (3) initiatives to develop new renewable energy generation capacity in India.
 
The U.S. Agency for International Development must work cooperatively with India's government on integrating scientifically supported climate change risk reduction and building resilience capacities in India.
 
The State Department must report to Congress on the prospects for cooperation between U.S. states and states in India on clean energy issues.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans’ Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research Act

Bill: 117-s-2720
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2021-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cancer
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: 

Veterans' Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish in its National Surgery Office an interdisciplinary clinical pathway for all stages of prostate cancer. Clinical pathways are health care management tools designed around research and evidence-based practices that provide direction for the care and treatment of a specific condition. The clinical pathway must include specified elements, such as a diagnosis pathway and a treatment pathway.
 
The VA must consult with and incorporate feedback from (1) veterans who have received prostate cancer care at its medical facilities, and (2) experts in multidisciplinary cancer care and clinical research.
 
Additionally, the VA must publish the clinical pathway on a public VA website and annually update the pathway as needed based on medical literature and evidence-based guidelines.
 
The bill also requires the VA to submit a plan to establish a prostate cancer program using the comprehensive prostate cancer clinical pathway.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-12-15
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2021-10-20
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Internal Revenue Service to issue a report on the tax gap, to establish a fellowship program within the Internal Revenue Service to recruit mid-career tax professionals to create and participate in an audit task force, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-s-2721
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2021-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Department of the Treasury
Employee hiring
Executive agency funding and structure
First Amendment rights
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Political movements and philosophies
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: 
This bill requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to report to Congress on projections of the estimated tax gap (i.e., the difference between tax liabilities owed to the IRS and those liabilities that the IRS actually collects). The IRS may use artificial intelligence and related data analysis tools to calculate a tax gap projection. The bill also requires the Joint Committee on Taxation to issue periodic reports to the congressional tax committees on the tax gap projection. 
 
The bill restricts IRS funding to FY2021 levels for audits and enforcement until it publishes an updated tax gap projection. Funding is also restricted for certain purposes, including (1) targeting U.S. citizens who exercise their First Amendment rights, (2) targeting a group for regulatory scrutiny based on its ideological beliefs, and (3) auditing individual taxpayers with an adjusted gross income of less than $400,000. 
 
The bill directs the IRS to establish a fellowship program to recruit private sector tax experts to join the IRS to create and participate in the audit task force. The purposes of the tax force include performing audit case selection, educating IRS employees on emerging issues, auditing selected taxpayers, addressing offshore tax evasion, and identifying, mentoring, and training IRS junior employees with respect to audits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Esidronio Arreola-Saucedo, Maria Elena Cobian Arreola, Nayely Arreola Carlos, and Cindy Jael Arreola.

Bill: 117-s-2722
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2021-09-13 in the Senate
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Provides for the relief of Esidronio Arreola-Saucedo, Maria Elena Cobian Arreola, Nayely Arreola Carlos, and Cindy Jael Arreola.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6459-6460; text: CR S6460)
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
FAIR Scoring Act

Bill: 117-s-2723
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2021-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget process
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Employment taxes
Income tax rates
Legislative rules and procedure
Racial and ethnic relations
Sales and excise taxes
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: 

Fiscal Analysis by Income and Race Scoring Act or the FAIR Scoring Act

 
This bill requires the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) cost estimates for legislation to include a distributional analysis by race and income if the legislation will have a gross budgetary effect of at least 0.1% of gross domestic product in any fiscal year during the 10-year budget window.
 
CBO's analysis must show the transfers that would result by race and income level, and the effects must be shown both in dollars and as a percent change in after-tax-and-transfer-income. 
 
The bill also requires CBO to report to Congress on methods for conducting such a distributional analysis by gender.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
NFIP Extension Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-2724
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2021-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: 

NFIP Extension Act of 2021

 
This bill reauthorizes the National Flood Insurance Program through September 30, 2022. 
 
The bill shall take effect as if it had been enacted on September 30, 2021.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Accountability for Online Firearms Marketplaces Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-2725
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2021-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: 

Accountability for Online Firearms Marketplaces Act of 2021

 
This bill removes the federal liability protection that a provider of an interactive computer service (e.g., a social media company) receives for content provided by third parties if the provider operates an online firearms marketplace. 
Online firearms marketplace
 refers to an interactive computer service that (1) facilitates firearm-related transactions, (2) advertises or otherwise makes available proposals for transferring firearms, or (3) makes digital instructions for programming a three-dimensional printer to make a firearm.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Transportation Expansion Act

Bill: 117-s-2726
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2021-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: 

Public Transportation Expansion Act 

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Transportation to support access to affordable housing and enhanced mobility for residents in certain disadvantaged communities or low-income riders through grants for construction of new fixed guideway capital projects, construction of zero-emission bus rapid transit projects, or other public transportation projects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-2727
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2021-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Congressional officers and employees
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: 

Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2021

 
This bill provides continuing appropriations to prevent a government shutdown if any of the appropriations bills for a fiscal year have not been enacted before the fiscal year begins and continuing appropriations are not in effect.
 
The bill also limits official travel, congressional recesses or adjournments, and the consideration of legislation that is unrelated to appropriations after the beginning of a fiscal year if the appropriations process has not been completed. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Read the second time and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title VI of the Social Security Act to extend the coverage of Coronavirus Relief Fund payments to Tribal Governments.

Bill: 117-s-2728
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2021-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Appropriations
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Federal-Indian relations
Health programs administration and funding
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Minority health
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: 
This bill extends through December 31, 2022, the coverage period for the Coronavirus Relief Fund to make payments to tribal governments for necessary expenditures incurred as a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Device Access for Every American Act

Bill: 117-s-2729
Sponsor: Sen. Warnock, Raphael G. [D-GA]
Introduced: 2021-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: 

Device Access for Every American Act

 
This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a program that provides a $400 voucher to a low-income individual for the purchase of a connected device (i.e., a desktop, laptop, or tablet computer) for which the FCC shall reimburse the retailer.
 
The FCC must (1) collaborate with retailers to ensure the wide acceptance of vouchers and the wide availability of covered devices, (2) establish a website that links to offerings by retailers of eligible connected devices, (3) establish a catalog of such offerings that is accessible to consumers without internet access, and (4) advertise the availability of the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Comprehensive Mental Health in Schools Pilot Program Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-2730
Sponsor: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2021-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Mental health
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: 

Comprehensive Mental Health in Schools Pilot Program Act of 2021

 
This bill requires the Department of Education to establish a pilot program to award grants to local educational agencies for establishing comprehensive mental and behavioral health services programs in elementary and secondary schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6500-6501)
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2245 Rosa L Parks Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "Thelma Harper Post Office Building".

Bill: 117-s-2731
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2021-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2245 Rosa L Parks Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "Thelma Harper Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate