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Protecting our Pharmaceutical Supply Chain from China Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-2495
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Asia
Business expenses
China
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Income tax deductions
Manufacturing
Military medicine
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement
Trade restrictions
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Protecting 

o

ur Pharmaceutical Supply Chain from China Act of 2021 

 
This bill requires the federal government to maintain a registry of certain foreign-sourced drugs, prohibits federal health care programs from purchasing drugs containing ingredients manufactured in China, requires drugs to be labeled for country of origin, and offers domestic manufacturing facility tax incentives.
 
The Food and Drug Administration shall maintain (1) a list of foreign-sourced drugs and active ingredients that are critical for consumer health and safety, and (2) another list identifying such drugs that are produced exclusively in China or use ingredients produced in China. 
 
The bill phases in a restriction on federal health care programs purchasing drugs with active ingredients manufactured in China. By January 1, 2024, such programs may not purchase a drug with any active ingredients from China. The Department of Health and Human Services may issue a waiver for an agency or program that is unable to meet this requirement, but no waiver may apply to drugs purchased in or after 2026.
 
Each drug must have labeling listing the country of origin of each active ingredient, and a drug without this labeling shall be deemed misbranded. 
 
The bill allows 100% tax expensing for qualified pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing property placed in service between 2020 and 2026. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Vulnerable Road Users Safety Act

Bill: 117-s-2496
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Vulnerable Road Users Safety Act

 
This bill addresses road safety, with a particular focus on the safety of vulnerable road users (e.g., pedestrians, bicyclists, and users of scooters and other micromobility vehicles.)
 
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Highway Administration must implement specified recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to improve safety for vulnerable road users. Additionally, if a state experiences an increase in the rate of fatalities and injuries of vulnerable road users, it must prioritize in its highway safety improvement program the implementation of NTSB pedestrian safety recommendations.
 
The bill also requires the Intelligent Transportation System Joint Program Office of the Department of Transportation to incorporate bicyclists and other vulnerable road users into research concerning the safe deployment of connected vehicle systems (i.e., systems that use data from short-range communication broadcasts and exchanges with other vehicles to sense other vehicles and road users and identify potential hazards).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Nondebtor Release Prohibition Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-2497
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Civil actions and liability
Corporate finance and management
Federal appellate courts
Judicial review and appeals
Jurisdiction and venue

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Nondebtor Release Prohibition Act of 2021 

 
This bill addresses the release by bankruptcy courts of creditor or other third-party claims against non-debtors. Complex bankruptcies may involve third-party claims against non-debtors associated with the debtor, such as the debtor's officers, directors, or employees. Currently, in carrying out a bankruptcy plan, bankruptcy courts may release non-debtors from liability (there is a split in the judicial circuits regarding this practice). 
 
The bill generally prohibits a bankruptcy court from (1) releasing or modifying a non-debtor's liability through the approval of a bankruptcy plan or through an order, or (2) enjoining a judicial proceeding or other act to collect or otherwise enforce such a claim or cause of action against a non-debtor. However, the bill provides for the release of such liability if express consent is given by the third party. 
 
The bill also generally limits an order or decree to temporarily enjoin a proceeding against a non-debtor to 90 days. 
 
Additionally, the bill gives appellate jurisdiction to the appropriate U.S. court of appeals regarding an order or decree to temporarily enjoin or stay a proceeding against a non-debtor in a Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy case. Currently, U.S. district courts have appellate jurisdiction for these matters. 
 
Upon request of an interested party, and after notice and a hearing, the court shall dismiss a Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy case if the debtor was involved in certain restructuring activity that (1) had the intent or foreseeable effect of separating a debtor's assets from a debtor's liabilities and the debtor assuming or retaining such liabilities, and (2) occurred in the 10-year period prior to the filing of the bankruptcy petition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Miranda Rights for Kids Act

Bill: 117-s-2498
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Detention of persons
Evidence and witnesses
Family relationships
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Lawyers and legal services

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Protecting Miranda Rights for Kids Act

 
This bill establishes procedural requirements related to the custodial interrogation of a minor.
 
Among the requirements, the custodial interrogation of a minor must comply with the following:
 
 
an arresting officer must notify the minor's parent, guardian, or legal custodian of the arrest and provide the location where the minor is being detained; and
 
a minor who is subject to a custodial interrogation must consult with legal counsel in person before waiving the privilege against self-incrimination or the right to counsel.
 
 
If a custodial interrogation does not comply with the requirements, then a statement by a minor during the custodial interrogation and any evidence derived from that statement are inadmissible.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
SAFE DATA Act

Bill: 117-s-2499
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business ethics
Civil actions and liability
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Corporate finance and management
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Right of privacy
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability Act or the SAFE DATA Act

 
This bill establishes various requirements relating to the collection of consumer data, data transparency and security, and corporate accountability, including limiting the amount of data a covered entity may collect.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
PRESERVE Online Speech Act

Bill: 117-s-2500
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Preventing Restrictions and Empowering Speakers to Enable Robust and Varied Exchanges in Online Speech or the PRESERVE Online Speech Act

 
This bill requires interactive computer services (e.g., social media companies) to issue a public disclosure containing specified information related to a request or recommendation by a government entity that the service moderate content on its platform. Examples of such moderation include eliminating the ability of a user to comment upon information or terminating or limiting a user's account.
 
Failure to comply with this requirement shall result in a fine of $50,000 per day, which shall be deposited in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. The Federal Communications Commission must submit an annual report that includes the contents of each such public disclosure. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Offshore Wind Jobs and Opportunity Act

Bill: 117-s-2501
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Offshore Wind Jobs and Opportunity Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Energy to award offshore wind career training grants to institutions of higher education or labor organizations to develop, offer, or improve educational or career training programs that provide skills necessary for employment in the offshore wind industry.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act

Bill: 117-s-2502
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act
 
This bill expands eligibility for the expungement of records related to a first-time drug possession offense.
 
Current law permits expungement for offenders who commit the offense before age 21. This bill permits expungement for offenders who commit the offense at any age.
action_date: 2021-12-13
text: 

Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act
 
 
This bill expands eligibility for the expungement of records related to a first-time drug possession offense.
 
Current law permits expungement for offenders who commit the offense before age 21. This bill permits expungement for offenders who commit the offense at any age.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-12-13
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 183.
action_date: 2021-12-13
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Durbin without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2021-12-13
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Durbin without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2021-09-23
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Community-Based Gang Intervention Act

Bill: 117-s-2503
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Community-Based Gang Intervention Act 
 
This bill extends federal support for juvenile justice and delinquency prevention efforts to programs and activities involving community-based gang intervention. 
First, the bill authorizes community-based gang intervention grants for nonprofit community-based organizations to reduce and stop gang-related and gang-motivated violence and crime. 
Second, the bill modifies the qualifications of representatives of state advisory groups to specify that (1) a representative of a public agency includes an individual from a public agency concerned with community-based gang intervention, and (2) a representative of a nonprofit organization includes a person with a special focus on community-based gang intervention. 
Third, the bill adds, as a purpose area under the Incentive Youth Promise Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention Programs, providing community-based gang intervention and gang prevention activities to juveniles and their families.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Exercise and Fitness for All Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-2504
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Exercise and Fitness for All Act
 
of 2021

 
This bill requires the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) to develop guidelines for exercise or fitness service providers regarding the provision of accessible exercise or fitness equipment.
 
The Access Board must subsequently promulgate regulations, consistent with the guidelines, requiring that exercise or fitness classes and instruction provided by fitness providers are accessible to people with disabilities. The regulations also must require that each provider make at least one employee available to assist people with disabilities with using the accessible exercise or fitness equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6223 Maple Street in Omaha, Nebraska, as the "Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Jackson French Post Office".

Bill: 117-s-2505
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6223 Maple Street in Omaha, Nebraska, as the "Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Jackson French Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Tree Spiking Mitigation Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-2506
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Tree Spiking Mitigation Act of 2021

 
This bill directs the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to coordinate to take necessary actions to ensure the detection, identification, and, as determined to be appropriate, mitigation of tree spiking devices located on federal lands. A tree spiking device includes spikes, nails, or other objects hammered, driven, fastened, or otherwise placed into or on any timber to impede logging.
 
To carry out such activities, the Forest Service and the BLM shall prioritize areas in which (1) incidences of tree spiking devices have occurred, or (2) the Forest Service and the BLM suspect that there are tree spiking devices. 
 
No later than 90 days after the enactment of this bill, the Forest Service and the BLM shall, where appropriate, update safety guidelines and training protocols to include the awareness, detection, identification, and mitigation of tree spiking devices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Eliminating Debtor’s Prison for Kids Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-2507
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child health
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Detention of persons
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Elementary and secondary education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Judicial procedure and administration
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Legal fees and court costs
Mental health
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Eliminating Debtor's Prison for Kids Act of 2021

 
This bill directs the Department of Justice to make grants for states to provide mental and behavioral health services to at-risk youth, including juveniles in secure detention facilities or secure correctional facilities in the state.
 
A state that receives a grant must (1) prohibit certain fees from being imposed on juvenile offenders or their parents or guardians; and (2) report, for inclusion in a national report, certain information about fines and fees imposed on adults and juveniles in the criminal justice system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans and Consumers Fair Credit Act

Bill: 117-s-2508
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Department of Defense
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Military personnel and dependents
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Veterans and Consumers Fair Credit Act 

 
This bill applies certain military consumer credit protections to all consumers. Specifically, the bill caps the interest rate on extensions of consumer credit at 36%. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-09-13
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2022-01-05
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development. Hearings held.
action_date: 2021-07-29
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S5143)
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
New Partnerships Initiative Authorization Act

Bill: 117-s-2509
Sponsor: Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

New Partnerships Initiative Authorization Act

 
This bill provides statutory authority for the New Partnerships Initiative within the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
 
The initiative aims to diversify the USAID's partner base by creating avenues for new, underutilized, and local partners to work with, and access funding from, the USAID. The bill defines
 
 

new partner
 as a nonprofit that has not received USAID funding as a prime partner in the past five years,
 

underutilized partner
 as a nonprofit that has received less than $25 million in direct or indirect awards from the USAID in the past five years, and
 

local partner
 as a local entity or locally established partner of a U.S.-based nonprofit.
 
 
The USAID must annually report to Congress on funding awarded to new, underutilized, and local partners.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S5143-5144)
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Revitalizing Downtowns Act

Bill: 117-s-2511
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Revitalizing Downtowns Act

 
This bill expands the investment tax credit to add a qualified office conversion credit. The amount of such credit is 20% of the qualified conversion expenditures with respect to a qualified converted building. The bill defines 
qualified converted building
 as any building if (1) prior to conversion, the building was nonresidential real property which was leased, or available for lease, to office tenants; (2) the building has been substantially converted from an office use to a residential, retail, or other commercial use; (3) the building was initially placed in service at least 25 years prior to the beginning of the conversion, and (4) straight line depreciation is allowable with respect to the building.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Supreme Court Ethics Act

Bill: 117-s-2512
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2021-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Law

Summary:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: 

Supreme Court Ethics Act

 
This bill establishes a new statutory requirement for the Judicial Conference of the United States to issue a judicial code of conduct for judges and justices of U.S. courts, including Justices of the Supreme Court.
 
Currently, the Judicial Conference issues a code of conduct for judges of U.S. courts (but not for Justices of the Supreme Court).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate