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A bill to establish a community-driven decisionmaking pilot program to demonstrate enhanced community-based decisionmaking in the transportation planning process, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-s-1717
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Regional and metropolitan planning
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 
This bill establishes a pilot program to facilitate community involvement in transportation planning by supporting partnerships between one or more transportation planning agencies (e.g., local and regional metropolitan planning organizations) and community-based organizations.
 
To carry out the program, the Department of Transportation must award grants to such partnerships for, among other purposes, facilitating public meetings and stipends to cover expenses of community participants related to their engagement in transportation planning processes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park Expansion Act

Bill: 117-s-1718
Sponsor: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Conflicts and wars
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Historic sites and heritage areas
Land use and conservation
Manufacturing
Military history
U.S. history
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site Expansion Act

 
This bill adds to the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in California Nystrom Elementary School--The Maritime Building and other areas as the Department of the Interior deems appropriate.
 
Within the boundaries of the park, Interior may acquire lands, improvements, waters, or interests therein by donation, purchase, exchange, or transfer. Any lands, or interests therein, owned by California or any political subdivision of California may be acquired only by donation.

action_date: 2022-10-18
text: 

Rosie the Riveter National 

Historical Park

 Expansion Act

 
This bill adds Nystrom Elementary School to the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in California.
 
The Department of the Interior may also add certain other areas to the park. Such other areas must 
 
 
be determined to be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places;
 
have a direct connection to World War II home front themes in Richmond, California; and 
 
relate to the purpose, significance, and interpretive themes of the park.
 
 
Interior may enter into cooperative agreements with the West Contra Costa Unified School District and other appropriate public and private agencies, organizations, and institutions to carry out the purposes of this bill.
 
Interior shall coordinate visitor interpretation of the Nystrom Elementary School site with the West Contra Costa Unified School District.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-10-18
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 531.
action_date: 2022-10-18
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin under authority of the order of the Senate of 10/14/2022 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 117-180.
action_date: 2022-10-18
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin under authority of the order of the Senate of 10/14/2022 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 117-180.
action_date: 2022-07-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2022-05-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2785)
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Fast Track To and Through College Act

Bill: 117-s-1719
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement
School administration
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Fast Track To and Through College Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Education to award grants to certain partnerships with state educational agencies to support statewide implementation of early college fast track pathways and early high school graduation fast track pathways. 
 
The bill defines 
e

arly college fast track pathway
s as programs of advanced coursework resulting in credit that (1) is equivalent to at least two semesters of full-time postsecondary enrollment, and (2) satisfies the requirements for a high school diploma. In addition, the bill defines 
e

arly high school graduation fast track pathways
 as scholarships for students who graduate high school early, do not require remedial coursework in postsecondary education, and attend a public two- or four-year institution of higher education.
 
The bill also makes certain high school students participating in an early college fast track pathway eligible to receive Pell Grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Postal Service Reform Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1720
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Intergovernmental relations
Medicare
Performance measurement
Postal Regulatory Commission
Postal service
Public participation and lobbying
Retail and wholesale trades
State and local government operations
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Postal Service Reform Act of 2021

 
This bill addresses the finances and operations of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).
 
The bill requires the Office of Personnel Management to establish, within the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, the Postal Service Health Benefits Program for USPS employees and retirees and provides for coordinated enrollment of retirees under this program and Medicare. The bill repeals the requirement that the USPS annually prepay future retirement health benefits.
 
Additionally, the USPS may establish a program to enter into agreements with an agency of any state government, local government, or tribal government, and with other government agencies, to provide certain nonpostal products and services that reasonably contribute to the costs of the USPS and meet other specified criteria.
 
The USPS must develop and maintain a publicly available dashboard to track service performance and must report regularly on its operations and financial condition.
 
The bill requires mail delivery to occur at least six days a week.
 
The Postal Regulatory Commission must annually submit to the USPS a budget of its expenses. It must also conduct a study to identify the causes and effects of postal inefficiencies relating to flats (e.g., large envelopes). 
 
The USPS Office of Inspector General shall perform oversight of the Postal Regulatory Commission. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Eric’s Law

Bill: 117-s-1721
Sponsor: Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Judicial procedure and administration

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Eric's Law

 
This bill modifies procedures with respect to capital sentencing hearings.
 
If a jury at a capital sentencing hearing does not reach a unanimous recommendation on the defendant's sentence and there is a motion by the attorney for the government, the court must order a new special sentencing hearing and impanel a new jury. If the new jury at the special sentencing hearing does not reach a unanimous recommendation on the defendant's sentence, then the court is prohibited from imposing a death sentence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting America From Spies Act

Bill: 117-s-1722
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2021-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Espionage and treason
Family relationships
Immigration status and procedures
Subversive activities
Technology transfer and commercialization
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: 

Protecting America From Spies Act

 
This bill expands the grounds for barring aliens who have engaged in acts relating to espionage or sabotage from entering the United States.
 
Specifically, any alien shall be inadmissible if the alien has engaged in or will engage in an act that (1) violates a U.S. law relating to espionage or sabotage; (2) would violate any U.S. law relating to espionage or sabotage if it occurred in the United States; or (3) violates any U.S. law prohibiting the export of goods, technology, or sensitive information. Currently, an alien shall be inadmissible if the alien seeks to enter the United States to engage in such an action.
 
Furthermore, the bill expands these grounds of inadmissibility and other security-related grounds to cover the spouse or child of the barred alien if the act occurred in the last five years.
 
The bill also modifies the authority of the Department of Justice to waive certain security-related grounds of inadmissibility for an alien applying for a nonimmigrant visa.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act

Bill: 117-s-1723
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2021-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Congressional oversight
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Prescription drugs
Sales and excise taxes
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: 

Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act
 
 
 
This bill imposes an excise tax on the sale of any active opioid. The tax is equal to one cent per milligram so sold and it is imposed on the manufacturer, producer, or importer of the opioid. The term
 active opioid
 means any controlled substance that is opium, an opiate, or any derivative thereof. 
 
The bill provides block grants for substance abuse treatment programs. 
 
The Department of Health and Human Services must report on the impact of this bill on (1) the retail cost of active opioids; (2) patient access to such opioids, particularly cancer and hospice patients; and (3) the use of tax revenues to improve substance abuse treatment efforts. The report must also make suggestions for improving access to opioids for cancer and hospice patients and substance abuse treatment efforts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Agents Disclosure and Registration Enhancement Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1724
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2021-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Licensing and registrations
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: 

Foreign Agents Disclosure and Registration Enhancement Act of 2021

 
This bill provides the Department of Justice (DOJ) with a mechanism to demand evidence for investigating compliance with foreign-agent disclosure requirements and increases penalties relating to such requirements. 
 
DOJ may issue civil investigative demands to a person who may have information relevant to an investigation related to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA). Such demands may be for documents, written answers to questions, or oral testimony. The bill prescribes various procedures and requirements, such as minimum notice periods when seeking oral testimony. Investigative demands may be enforced or challenged in district court. 
 
Such investigative demands may not require the production of information that would be protected from disclosure under (1) the rules governing grand jury subpoenas, or (2) the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to the extent the rules are consistent with this bill. 
 
The bill increases the maximum criminal fine for certain FARA violations from $10,000 to $200,000. It shall be unlawful for an agent of a foreign principal to willfully fail to disclose being a FARA-registered agent before or during a meeting with a Member of Congress (or with staff of a Member or congressional committee). 
 
The bill provides for various civil penalties for failing to meet agent registration requirements. The foreign principal of a penalized agent may not pay the imposed fines.
 
The Government Accountability Office shall (1) analyze the effectiveness of FARA enforcement, and (2) audit the exemption to the Lobbying Disclosure Act for FARA-registered agents. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3196)
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to grant a Federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated.

Bill: 117-s-1725
Sponsor: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2021-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federally chartered organizations
General Native American affairs matters
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: 
This bill grants a federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans Inc., which is a nonprofit corporation organized in the United States.

action_date: 2022-11-17
text: 
This bill grants a federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans Inc., which is a nonprofit corporation organized in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-25
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2022-11-25
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2022-11-25
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S6761-6762)
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6760-6762)
action_date: 2022-11-17
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
21st Century Buy American Act

Bill: 117-s-1726
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2021-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Buy American requirements
Congressional oversight
Digital media
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Infrastructure development
Manufacturing
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement
Public participation and lobbying
Transportation costs
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: 

21st Century Buy American Act

 
This bill modifies domestic product preferences for federal acquisitions. The bill also allows the Department of Defense to make or guarantee loans to manufacturers under the Defense Production Act for specified uses, such as to increase the capacity to produce items that are vital to national security.
 

The bill requires more than 60% of a product's cost to be from domestic components for the product to qualify as American for purposes of the Buy American Act.
 
The bill narrows the circumstances under which the overseas use exception and the public interest exception to domestic content requirements may be made.
 
The General Services Administration must maintain BuyAmerican.gov, which must include and make available to the public (1) information on all waivers and exceptions to domestic product preference laws requested, under consideration, or granted; and (2) publicly available contact information for the contracting agencies.
 
No requested waiver of a domestic product preference law may be granted if (1) the request was not made available to the public, (2) the information available to the agency concerning the request was not made available to the public, or (3) no opportunity for public comment concerning the request was granted. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicaid Bump Act

Bill: 117-s-1727
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2021-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care quality
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
Mental health
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: 

Medicaid Bump Act

 
This bill increases the Medicaid federal matching rate, also known as the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), for behavioral health expenses that exceed prior levels (i.e., as of March 31, 2019). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must specify which services are eligible for the increased FMAP. States must use funds to supplement state funding for programs in effect as of April 1, 2021, and to increase the capacity, efficiency, and quality of services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Extinction Prevention Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1728
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2021-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: American Samoa
Antigua and Barbuda
Aquatic ecology
Arizona
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
California
Canada
Caribbean area
Colorado
Congressional oversight
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecology
El Salvador
Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fishes
Government trust funds
Grenada
Guam
Guatemala
Haiti
Hawaii
Honduras
Horticulture and plants
Insects
Jamaica
Lakes and rivers
Latin America
Mexico
Nevada
New Mexico
Nicaragua
Northern Mariana Islands
Oregon
Panama
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
U.S. territories and protectorates
Utah
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: 

Extinction Prevention Act of 2021

 
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to provide financial assistance for the conservation of 
 
 
 butterflies and moths in North America; 
 
plant species in Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands;
 
freshwater mussels in the United States; and 
 
bony fish found in desert ecosystems in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah.
 
 
Among other things, the bill establishes the North America Butterfly Conservation Fund, the Pacific Islands Plant Conservation Fund, the Freshwater Mussel Conservation Fund, and the Southwest Desert Fish Conservation Fund. In selecting projects for assistance, Interior must prioritize projects that conserve threatened and endangered species.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
American Jobs Matter Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1729
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2021-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Employee hiring
Government Operations and Politics
Government information and archives
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: 

American Jobs Matter Act of 2021

 
This bill requires an executive agency to include the effects on employment within the United States (a jobs impact statement) in the evaluation factors that must be considered in each solicitation for competitive proposals for contracts in excess of $1 million for the procurement of (1) manufactured goods, (2) goods or services listed in a required report of industrial base capabilities, or (3) any item procured as part of a major defense acquisition program. 
 
An agency must state in the solicitation for such competitive proposals that it will consider, as an evaluation factor, information included in an offer related to the effects on employment within the United States.
 
Each agency must (1) annually assess the accuracy of such a statement submitted by an offeror awarded a contract, and (2) track the number of jobs created or retained during the performance of such contract. If the number of jobs created or retained falls short of agency estimates, an agency may consider this as a factor that affects a contractor's past performance in the award of future contracts. 
 
The Department of Defense (DOD) shall report annually on the frequency of use within DOD of jobs impact statements in the evaluation of competitive proposals. 
 
The Department of Defense Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation must be revised to implement this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate