hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Special Measures to Fight Modern Threats Act

Bill: 117-s-3876
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2022-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: 

Special Measures to Fight Modern Threats Act 

 
This bill expands the special measures available to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to combat money laundering regarding 
 
 
a jurisdiction outside of the United States; 
 
a financial institution operating outside of the United States; 
 
a class of transaction within, or involving, a jurisdiction outside of the United States; or 
 
one or more types of accounts. 
 
 
Specifically, FinCEN may prohibit or impose conditions upon the opening or maintaining in the United States of a correspondent account or payable-through account by any domestic financial institution or domestic financial agency without requiring, as under current law, that such account be for or on behalf of a foreign banking institution. 
 
Further, FinCEN may prohibit or impose conditions upon certain transmittals of funds to or from any domestic financial institution or domestic financial agency if such transmittal of funds involves any such jurisdiction, institution, class of transaction, or type of account. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
CURB CIPS Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3877
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2022-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
China
Congressional oversight
Europe
Foreign and international banking
Foreign property
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Russia
Sanctions
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: 

Crippling Unhinged Russian Belligerence and Chinese Involvement in Putin's Schemes Act of 2022 or the CURB CIPS Act of 2022

 
This bill imposes sanctions on any Chinese financial institution that uses China's Cross-Border Interbank Payment System or Russia's System for Transfer of Financial Messages to conduct transactions with any Russian financial institution or financial institution affiliated with an entity holding itself out to be the government of (1) the Republic of South Ossetia- the State of Alania, (2) the Donetsk People's Republic, (3) the Luhansk People's Republic, (4) the Republic of Abkhazia, or (5) the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. 
 
For the purposes of this bill, a Chinese or Russian financial institution is one organized under the laws of, located in, or owned or controlled by China or Russia. Similarly, a financial institution is affiliated with one of the named entities if it is organized under the laws of, located in territory controlled by, or owned or controlled by such an entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Justice Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3878
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2022-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Law

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: 

Access to Justice Act of 2022

 
This bill requires a federal judicial district (or two adjacent districts or parts of districts) to establish a defender organization (i.e., a federal public defender organization or community defender organization).
 
Currently, a federal judicial district (or part of a district or two adjacent districts) may establish a defender organization if at least 200 persons annually require the appointment of counsel. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
CHARGE Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3879
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2022-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: 

Connecting Hard-to-reach Areas with Renewably Generated Energy Act of 2022 or the CHARGE Act of 2022

 
This bill modifies planning, transparency, cost allocation and pricing, interconnections, and other aspects of the regulation and operation of transmission networks with a particular focus on improving the resiliency of the electric grid and integrating renewable energy sources into the grid. It also provides funding for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to implement specified provisions of the bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
SMART Copyright Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3880
Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
Introduced: 2022-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: 

Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act of 2022 or the SMART Copyright Act of 2022 

 
This bill authorizes the Library of Congress to designate technical measures (i.e., measures that identify, manage, or protect copyrighted works) and requires providers of internet-related services to make reasonable accommodations for applicable designated technical measures. A copyright owner may sue and receive monetary damages from a service provider that fails to make such reasonable accommodations. 
 
The bill also modifies requirements relating to a provision that limits the liability of service providers for acts of copyright infringement committed by the service providers' users.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Teachers LEAD Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3881
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2022-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: 

Teachers Leading, Educating, Advancing, and Designing Act of 2022 or the Teachers LEAD Act of 2022

 
This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to (1) award competitive grants to eligible entities (e.g., local educational agencies) to carry out teacher leadership programs, and (2) coordinate with the Department of the Interior to develop and implement a teacher leadership program plan for and award grants to Bureau of Indian Education schools. Further, ED may award planning grants to eligible entities to develop program proposals.
 
The Institute of Education Sciences must conduct an independent evaluation of grant activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
STOP PUTIN Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3882
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2022-03-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Europe
Foreign and international corporations
Government studies and investigations
Oil and gas
Russia
Sanctions
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: 

Stop Top Oil Producers and Protect Ukraine from Tyrannical Invasions Now Act of 2022 or the STOP PUTIN Act of 2022

 
This bill requires the End-User Review Committee to review whether specified Russian energy entities should be added or removed from the Entity List. The Entity List identifies entities reasonably believed to be involved in, or to pose a significant risk of being or becoming involved in, activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.
 
The committee must conduct the review within 15 days of this bill's enactment and every 90 days thereafter. 
 
The bill specifies that an entity may be removed from the Entity List only by an act of Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2022-03-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Port of Brunswick Navigation Channel Improvement Act

Bill: 117-s-3883
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2022-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Georgia
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: 

Port of Brunswick Navigation Channel Improvement Act

 
This bill authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to carry out the Brunswick Harbor Navigation Project in Brunswick, Georgia, in accordance with the plans for navigation channel modifications and improvements laid out in the report issued by the Chief of Engineers on March 11, 2022. The report recommends plans to widen the current authorized channel in three locations.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 404 U.S. Highway 41 North in Baraga, Michigan, as the "Cora Reynolds Anderson Post Office".

Bill: 117-s-3884
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2022-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Michigan
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 404 U.S. Highway 41 North in Baraga, Michigan, as the "Cora Reynolds Anderson Post Office."
action_date: 2022-11-14
text: 
This bill designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 404 U.S. Highway 41 North in Baraga, Michigan, as the Cora Reynolds Anderson Post Office.

action_date: 2022-12-02
text: 
This act designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 404 U.S. Highway 41 North in Baraga, Michigan, as the Cora Reynolds Anderson Post Office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-12-02
text: Became Public Law No: 117-218.
action_date: 2022-12-02
text: Became Public Law No: 117-218.
action_date: 2022-12-02
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2022-12-02
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2022-11-28
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2022-11-28
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2022-11-14
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2022-11-14
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8489)
action_date: 2022-11-14
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2022-11-14
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 3884.
action_date: 2022-11-14
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8489)
action_date: 2022-11-14
text: Mrs. Maloney, Carolyn B. moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2022-09-21
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2022-09-21
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2022-09-21
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2022-09-20
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4876; text: CR S4876)
action_date: 2022-09-20
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2022-04-04
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 327.
action_date: 2022-04-04
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2022-04-04
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2022-03-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate

Enacted as: number: 117-218
No Government Contracts for Known Leakers Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3885
Sponsor: Sen. Hagerty, Bill [R-TN]
Introduced: 2022-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: 

No Government Contracts for Known Leakers Act of 2022

 
This bill prohibits the U.S. government from knowingly contracting with persons who have previously disclosed nonpublic government information to unauthorized persons.
 
The bill sets penalties for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Future of Water Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3886
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2022-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: 

Future of Water Act of 2022 

 
This bill prohibits the trading of futures contracts in water or water rights. A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a commodity or financial instrument at a set price at a specific time.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016 with respect to the definition of land use revenue.

Bill: 117-s-3887
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2022-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: 
This bill amends the West Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016 to expand the definition of 
l

and use revenue
 to include any funds received as compensation for an easement authorized on, above, or under lands at the Department of Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles Campus. Under current law, such revenues are then usable for purposes related to renovating and maintaining the land, facilities, and services at the campus.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2022-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Government Surveillance Transparency Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3888
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2022-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: 

Government Surveillance Transparency Act of 2022

 
This bill requires that law enforcement authorities notify subjects of criminal surveillance orders that cover emails, texts, and similar electronic data and limits the ability of authorities to delay or preclude the required notice. In addition, the bill (1) prohibits, subject to exceptions, courts from sealing criminal surveillance orders; (2) generally requires that public docket records related to criminal surveillance orders be made publicly available; and (3) permits any person to request that a court unseal a surveillance order.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Employee Rights Act

Bill: 117-s-3889
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2022-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: 

Employee Rights Act

 
 This bill makes various changes with respect to the collective bargaining process and labor relations.
 
 For example, the bill permits an employer to refuse to collectively bargain with a union within 90 days prior to the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement if the employer receives evidence that the majority of the employees in the bargaining unit do not support the union.
 
 The bill requires support from a majority of the employees in the bargaining unit (not just a majority of the employees voting) when electing union representation. The bill also requires unions to provide bargaining unit employees with the right to vote by secret ballot, including when voting whether to engage in a strike or refusal to work.
 
 Further, union dues, fees, assessments, and other contributions may be used for only collective bargaining or contract administrative functions.
 
 Additionally, the bill establishes a process for nullifying executive orders that the Office of Management and Budget determines are likely to result in an employer ordering a plant closure or mass layoff.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Intergovernmental Cooperation and Reducing Duplication Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3890
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2022-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: 

Improving Intergovernmental Cooperation and Reducing Duplication Act of 2022

 
This bill addresses intergovernmental cooperation and duplicative spending in federal programs.
 
Specifically, the bill authorizes the President to prescribe information technology products and platforms and other similar or supporting services that an executive agency is especially competent and authorized by law to provide.
 
Further, it requires an executive agency, when providing services prescribed by the President to a state, local, territorial, or tribal government, to take all available necessary and appropriate steps to increase cooperation and reduce administrative burden between the state, local, territorial, or tribal government requesting the service and the agency.
 
Additionally, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in coordination with the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, must publish a strategic plan to improve cooperation between and support greater harmonization, effectiveness, and the reduction of burdens and costs between the federal government and state, local, territorial, and tribal governments.
 
The OMB must (1) issue guidance implementing these provisions, and (2) report on actions and activities taken by executive agencies in this regard.
 
The General Services Administration may provide specified specialized or technical services to a state, local, territorial, or tribal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Postal Banking Act

Bill: 117-s-3891
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2022-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Congressional oversight
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: 

Postal Banking Act

 
This bill grants the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) the power to provide basic financial services, including
 
 
low-cost, small-dollar loans, in specified amounts; 
 
small dollar lending servicing, which shall ensure that the customer's access to the products and the public interest is given significant consideration; 
 
small checking accounts and interest-bearing savings accounts in specified amounts; 
 
transactional and remittance services; and 
 
other basic financial services in the public interest. 

 
It grants the USPS the power to set interest rates and fees for the financial instruments and products provided by the USPS that meet specified requirements.
 
The USPS (1) shall not be granted a bank charter or become an insured depository institution for the purpose of capital requirements, and (2) shall be subject to the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code regarding bank deposits and collections.
 
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors shall transfer to the USPS such sums as necessary to carry out the services described in this bill, which shall (1) be sufficient to ensure that the products substantially decrease the number of people who do not have a bank account or use alternative financial products such as payday lending, check cashing, prepaid debt cards, and overdraft fees; and (2) be provided to the USPS through a separate account.
 
The Government Accountability Office shall submit to Congress an annual report that includes the demographics, number of participants, and average balances and uses for such products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Conservation Reserve Program Improvement Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3892
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2022-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Farmland
Land use and conservation
Livestock
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: 

Conservation Reserve Program Improvement Act of 2022 

 
This bill revises the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) of the Farm Service Agency. The CRP is a land conservation program that provides an annual rental payment to farmers in exchange for farmers removing environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and planting species that will improve environmental health and quality.
 
Specifically, the bill
 
 
establishes a continuous enrollment procedure for the conservation reserve of land that will be enrolled under the state acres for wildlife enhancement initiative;
 
provides federal cost sharing payments for the establishment of grazing infrastructure on all CRP contracts and practices, if grazing is included in the conservation plan and addresses a resource concern; and
 
increases the CRP annual rental payment limitation from $50,000 to $125,000.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S1290-1291)
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
WASH Sector Development Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3893
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2022-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: 

Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Sector Development Act of 2022 or the WASH Sector Development Act of 2022

 
This bill directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish the Water and Sanitation Needs Working Group to measure and report on the number and approximate geographic distribution of households that do not have access to drinking water infrastructure or a means for the safe collection and disposal of wastewater. The EPA must also establish a program under which it awards grants to nonprofit organizations for assisting such households.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2022-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate