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Climate Risk Disclosure Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1217
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Business records
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Corporate finance and management
Financial services and investments
Oil and gas
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

Climate Risk Disclosure Act of 2021

 
This bill directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to require an issuer of securities to annually disclose information regarding climate change-related risks posed to the issuer, including an issuer's strategies and actions to mitigate these risks.
 
Specifically, issuers must report their direct and indirect greenhouse-gas emissions and disclose their fossil fuel-related assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-09-14
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Green New Deal for Public Housing Act

Bill: 117-s-1218
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Architecture
Building construction
Buy American requirements
Child care and development
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Emergency planning and evacuation
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental health
Family services
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Housing and community development funding
Housing industry and standards
Indian social and development programs
Infrastructure development
Labor market
Lighting, heating, cooling
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public contracts and procurement
Public housing
Rural conditions and development
Solid waste and recycling
State and local government operations
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

Green New Deal for Public Housing Act

 
This bill addresses energy efficiency and workforce development in the context of public housing.
 
Specifically, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) must award grants to public housing agencies (PHAs) and other eligible entities under a variety of new programs, including programs for 

 
 
facilitating workforce development and high-income employment transition;
 
 
conducting physical needs assessments and subsequent energy efficiency retrofits; and
 
 
making upgrades, replacements, and improvements for energy efficiency, building electrification, and water quality upgrades.
 
 
Recipients of these grants must provide relocation assistance for residents who are displaced during construction and must ensure that they can return to their homes once retrofitting is completed.
 
A certain percentage of the employment positions generated by these grant programs and other specified federal grant programs must be filled by low-income individuals, and a specified percentage of certain contracts associated with these programs must be awarded to businesses owned by residents of public housing.
 
The bill also repeals a provision that prohibits a PHA from using HUD funds to construct or operate new public housing units if doing so would result in the PHA owning or operating more units than it did on October 1, 1999.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish the policy of the United States regarding the no-first-use of nuclear weapons.

Bill: 117-s-1219
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Military operations and strategy
Nuclear weapons

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 
This bill establishes that it is U.S. policy to not use nuclear weapons first.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
United States Cadet Nurse Corps Service Recognition Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1220
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Conflicts and wars
Health personnel
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Monuments and memorials
Nursing
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

United States Cadet Nurse Corps Service Recognition Act of 2021

 
This bill recognizes service as a member of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps between July 1, 1943, and December 31, 1948, as active duty service. The active duty designation entitles qualifying individuals to certain benefits afforded to veterans, such as burial benefits (not including interment at Arlington National Cemetery) and honorary veteran status.
 
Under the bill, the Department of Defense (DOD) must issue individuals who served in the corps during the specified period a discharge from their service under honorable conditions if such a discharge is warranted based on the duration and nature of the service. 
 
Such individuals are not entitled to Department of Veterans Affairs benefits aside from those related to burials and memorials.
 
The bill also authorizes DOD to produce a service medal or other commendation, memorial plaque, or grave marker to honor the individuals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-28
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2021-06-23
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 117-231.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Wildland Firefighter Recognition Act

Bill: 117-s-1221
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2021-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Forests, forestry, trees
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: 

Wildland Firefighter Recognition Act

 
This bill requires the Office of Personnel Management to develop a distinct wildland firefighter occupational series. The series must apply to the following positions
 
 
forestry technician;
 
range technician; 
 
other positions related to significant prevention, preparedness, control, suppression, or management activities for wildland firefighters; and 
 
other positions conducting activities necessary to meet any other emergency incident. 
 
 
The Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture must use the series in the advertising and hiring of a wildland firefighter. 
 
The bill requires an employee in a wildland firefighter occupational series to receive a pay differential based on the unusual physical hardship or hazardous nature of the position. 
 
An individual employed as a wildland firefighter on the date on which the occupational series takes effect may (1) remain in the occupational series in which the individual is working, or (2) be included in the wildland firefighter occupational series. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Bonneville Shoreline Trail Advancement Act

Bill: 117-s-1222
Sponsor: Sen. Romney, Mitt [R-UT]
Introduced: 2021-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Utah
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: 

Bonneville Shoreline Trail Advancement Act

 
This bill modifies the wilderness designations of certain lands in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah. 
 
The bill designates approximately 326.27 acres in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest as part of the Mount Olympus Wilderness. 
 
The bill also removes the following lands in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest from designation as wilderness:
 
 
approximately 11.17 acres in the Mount Naomi Wilderness,
 
 approximately 197.4 acres in the Mount Olympus Wilderness,
 
 approximately 9.8 acres in the Twin Peaks Wilderness, and 
 
 approximately 107.9 acres in the Lone Peak Wilderness Area.
 
 
The lands removed from designation as wilderness shall be managed as part of the forest.

action_date: 2022-09-21
text: 

Bonneville Shoreline Trail Advancement Act

 
This bill modifies the wilderness designations of certain lands in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah. 
 
The bill designates approximately 326.27 acres in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest as part of the Mount Olympus Wilderness. 
 
The bill also removes the following lands in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest from designation as wilderness:
 
 
approximately 11.17 acres in the Mount Naomi Wilderness,
 
 approximately 197.4 acres in the Mount Olympus Wilderness,
 
 approximately 9.8 acres in the Twin Peaks Wilderness, and 
 
 approximately 107.9 acres in the Lone Peak Wilderness Area.
 
 
The lands removed from designation as wilderness shall be managed as part of the forest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-09-21
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 496.
action_date: 2022-09-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 117-153.
action_date: 2022-09-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 117-153.
action_date: 2022-05-03
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2021-06-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
GRACE Act

Bill: 117-s-1223
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2021-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Disaster relief and insurance
Public transit
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: 

Giving Relief to American Communities in Emergencies Act or the
 
GRACE Act 

 
This bill extends authority through FY2022 for the Department of Transportation (DOT) to distribute formula funding for certain programs using the 2000 Census for areas that lost their urbanized area designation because their population fell below 50,000 after the 2000 census as a result of a major disaster. 
 
Upon request by a state in which an urbanized area that experiences a disaster-related population decrease is located, DOT may elect for purposes of the public transportation emergency relief program to (1) use the population of such area, as determined in the decennial census before the most recent decennial census; and (2) continue to treat the area as an urbanized area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting the Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 117-s-1224
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2021-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: General agriculture matters
Historic sites and heritage areas
Iowa

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: 
This bill redesignates the America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership in Iowa as the Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area.
 
The bill extends through FY2031 the authority of the Department of Agriculture to provide grants or other assistance for the heritage area.
 
The bill increases the total amount that may be appropriated for the heritage area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-10-06
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Standardization of Collegiate Oversight of Revenues and Expenditures Act

Bill: 117-s-1225
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2021-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Advisory bodies
Athletes
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
School athletics
Sports and recreation facilities
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: 

Standardization of Collegiate Oversight of Revenues and Expenditures Act or the SCORE Act

 
 This bill requires institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in federal student-aid programs to report on additional information related to intercollegiate athletic programs. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires an IHE that is a member of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association to include in its annual report (1) the amount of sports-related revenue in specified categories (e.g., ticket sales, student fees, and concessions), disaggregated by each sports team; and (2) the sports-related expenses in specified categories (e.g., salaries and benefits, team travel, and recruiting), disaggregated by each sports team.
 
In addition, the bill requires the Department of Education to appoint a task force to review definitions related to revenue and expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
CFPB Pay Fairness Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1227
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2021-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: 

CFPB Pay Fairness Act of 

2021

 
This bill requires employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be compensated according to the General Schedule pay scale for federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Territorial Equity Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1228
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2021-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: American Samoa
Appropriations
Caribbean area
Child health
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Food assistance and relief
Government information and archives
Guam
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Labor standards
Medicaid
Medicare
Northern Mariana Islands
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
Prescription drugs
Puerto Rico
Retail and wholesale trades
State and local finance
State and local government operations
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: 

Territorial Equity Act of
 
2021

 
This bill alters provisions relating to the treatment of U.S. territories under Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, and other federal assistance programs. 
 
The bill modifies provisions under several health care programs with respect to U.S. territories. Among other changes, the bill
 
 
eliminates Medicaid funding limitations for U.S. territories beginning in FY2022, 
 
repeals provisions that exclude residents of Puerto Rico from a certain automatic enrollment process for Medicare medical services, 
 
establishes minimum criteria for certain elements used in Medicare Advantage payment calculations for areas within U.S. territories, and 
 
allows residents of U.S. territories who are unable to obtain health insurance through their employer or a health insurance exchange to instead obtain coverage that is at least as broad as the coverage available to Members of Congress and their staff through the District of Columbia exchange. 

 
The bill also modifies provisions under other federal assistance programs. Among other changes, the bill
 
 
allows Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program);
 
makes residents of Puerto Rico eligible for the federal earned income tax credit; and
 
extends the SSI program to Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
SOAR Act

Bill: 117-s-1229
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2021-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
Government liability
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Motor vehicles
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
User charges and fees
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: 

Simplifying Outdoor Access for Recreation Act or the SOAR Act

 
 This bill sets forth and revises provisions regarding special recreation permits for use by individuals and groups to engage in recreational activities on federal recreational lands and waters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-12-02
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Bank Service Company Examination Coordination Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1230
Sponsor: Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]
Introduced: 2021-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: 

Bank Service Company Examination Coordination Act of 2021

 
This bill requires the coordination of state banking agencies with federal banking agencies in regulating and examining the activities of bank service companies. It also allows for the sharing of information related to examinations and regulations between federal and state agencies. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Construction Consensus Procurement Improvement Technical Corrections Act

Bill: 117-s-1231
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2021-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Architecture
Building construction
Congressional oversight
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: 

Construction Consensus Procurement Improvement Technical Corrections Act 

 
This bill prohibits the federal government from using reverse auctions for complex, specialized, or substantial design and construction services. Reverse auctions allow the sellers to bid down the price of a project and typically result in the contractor with the lowest bid winning the contract.
 
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council must define 
complex, specialized, or substantial design and construction services
.
 
The General Services Administration shall report to specified congressional committees on this bill's effectiveness. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to modify the maximum paycheck protection program loan amount for farmers and ranchers, sole proprietors, independent contractors, and self-employed individuals.

Bill: 117-s-1232
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2021-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Business expenses
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government lending and loan guarantees
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Self-employed
Small business
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: 
This bill modifies the calculation of loan amounts for partnerships with no employees (e.g., self-employed farmers) under the Paycheck Protection Program, which was established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19.
 
Specifically, the bill allows such individuals to apply for a loan in the amount of the difference between their gross and net income loan amounts, even if they have already received a loan based on their net income and received forgiveness for that loan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Tax Fairness and Compliance Simplification Act

Bill: 117-s-1233
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2021-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business records
Cosmetics and personal care
Employment and training programs
Employment taxes
Income tax credits
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: 
 
Small Business Tax Fairness and Compliance Simplification Act 

 
This bill expands the tax credit for a portion of the employer-paid Social Security taxes for employee cash tips to include beauty service establishments. (Under current law, the credit is limited to tips received for providing, serving, or delivering food or beverages.)
 
The credit applies to tips received in connection with providing beauty services to a customer or client if tipping employees who provide the service is customary. 
Beauty services
 include barbering and hair care, nail care, esthetics, and body and spa treatments.
 
The bill also (1) establishes an employer tip reporting safe harbor for beauty service establishments, and (2) specifies reporting requirements for income received from renting space to individuals who provide beauty services. 
 
The employer tip reporting safe harbor for beauty service establishments provides an exemption from certain Internal Revenue Service tip examinations for employers who meet certain requirements for educational programs, reporting procedures, compliance with tax law, and recordkeeping.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate