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Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-627
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Income tax credits
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act of 2021

 
This bill allows tax credits for (1) energy storage technologies, and (2) battery storage technology. 
 
The bill expands the tax credit for investments in energy property to include equipment that (1) receives, stores, and delivers energy using batteries, compressed air, pumped hydropower, hydrogen storage (including electrolysis), thermal energy storage, regenerative fuel cells, flywheels, capacitors, superconducting magnets, or other technologies identified by the Internal Revenue Service; and (2) has a capacity of at least five kilowatt hours. 
 
The bill also expands the tax credit for residential energy efficient property to include expenditures for battery storage technology that (1) is installed on or in connection with a dwelling unit located in the United States and used as a residence by the taxpayer, and (2) has a capacity of at least three kilowatt hours. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Guidance Out Of Darkness Act

Bill: 117-s-628
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

Guidance Out Of Darkness Act or the GOOD Act

 
This bill establishes requirements concerning the posting of agency guidance documents. Specifically, an agency must publish guidance documents online on the dates they are issued, publish all of its guidance documents that are in effect in a single location on a designated website, display a hyperlink on its website that provides access to the guidance documents on such website, and indicate on such website if a guidance document has been rescinded.
 
The documents must be categorized as guidance documents and further divided into subcategories. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
GAO Database Modernization Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-629
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

GAO Database Modernization Act of 2021

 
This bill requires federal agencies to report to the Government Accountability Office certain information about agency rules that are made ineffective due to an agency action or other reason.

action_date: 2022-04-27
text: 

GAO Database Modernization Act of 2021

 
This bill requires federal agencies to report to the Government Accountability Office certain information about agency rules that are made ineffective due to an agency action or other reason.

action_date: 2022-05-26
text: 

GAO Database Modernization Act of 2021

 
This bill requires federal agencies to report to the Government Accountability Office certain information about agency rules that are made ineffective due to an agency action or other reason.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-05-31
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2022-05-31
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2022-05-31
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2022-05-26
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2735; text: CR S2735)
action_date: 2022-05-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2022-04-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 347.
action_date: 2022-04-27
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 117-96.
action_date: 2022-04-27
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 117-96.
action_date: 2021-07-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Disability Employment Incentive Act

Bill: 117-s-630
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Poverty and welfare assistance
Railroads
Small business
Transportation employees
Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

Disability Employment Incentive Act 

 
This bill expands tax credits and deductions that are available for employers who hire and retain employees with disabilities.
 
The bill expands the work opportunity tax credit to include the hiring of employees who receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. For employers who hire vocational rehabilitation referrals, Supplemental Security Income recipients, or SSDI recipients, the bill also (1) increases the amount of wages that may be taken into account for the credit, and (2) allows an additional credit for second-year wages. 
 
With respect to the tax credit for expenditures by eligible small businesses to provide access to disabled individuals, the bill increases the limits that apply to (1) the amount of expenditures that are eligible for the credit, and (2) the gross receipts and full-time employees of eligible small businesses.
 
The bill also expands the tax deduction for expenditures to remove architectural and transportation barriers to the handicapped and elderly. The bill modifies the deduction to (1) increase the limitation on the amount of the deduction, and (2) allow the deduction to be used for certain improvements in the accessibility of i nternet or telecommunications services to handicapped and elderly individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
COVID–19 Mental Health Research Act

Bill: 117-s-631
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child health
Disability and paralysis
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical research
Mental health
Minority health
Research administration and funding
Women's health
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

COVID-19 Mental Health Research Act

 
This bill requires the National Institute of Mental Health to support mental health research activities related to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). The institute must coordinate these activities with other components of the National Institutes of Health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
IDEA Act

Bill: 117-s-632
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Government information and archives
Intellectual property
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement Act of 2021 or the IDEA Act

 
This bill requires the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to request demographic information from the inventor on each patent application submitted to the USPTO.
 
Inventors shall not be required to provide the requested information, which shall include gender, race, and military or veteran status.
 
The USPTO shall (1) publish an annual public report about the collected data, including the collected data broken down by the types of technology covered by the patent applications; and (2) make the underlying data publicly available. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-29
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1425-1426)
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
One Agency Act

Bill: 117-s-633
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Competition and antitrust
Consumer affairs
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Justice
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

One Agency Act

 
This bill consolidates antitrust enforcement authority in one agency by transferring all Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust functions, employees, assets, and funding to the Department of Justice (DOJ). The bill also transfers to DOJ the responsibility for reviewing specified communications transactions that are currently the duty of the Federal Communications Commission.
 
The bill does not remove the authority of the FTC to police certain unfair and deceptive acts and practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Girls LEAD Act

Bill: 117-s-634
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Crimes against women
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign aid and international relief
Government information and archives
HIV/AIDS
Human rights
Marriage and family status
Nutrition and diet
Performance measurement
Public participation and lobbying
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
Rule of law and government transparency
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Women's rights
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

Girls' Leadership, Engagement, Agency, and Development Act of 2021 or the Girls LEAD Act

 
This bill directs the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to jointly report to Congress a strategy to strengthen the participation of adolescents, particularly girls, in democracy, human rights, and governance.
 
The State Department and the USAID shall (1) implement activities to achieve this goal, including activities to increase adolescent girls' civic and political knowledge and skills and address barriers to political participation; and (2) prioritize foreign assistance funding for democracy, human rights, and governance programs toward achieving the goals in this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor and the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area Reauthorization Act

Bill: 117-s-635
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Connecticut
Historic sites and heritage areas
Massachusetts

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor and the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area Reauthorization Act 

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2036 the Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor and the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area in Connecticut and Massachusetts. 
 
The bill also repeals the limitation on the total amount of funding that may be appropriated for the corridor and heritage area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-10-06
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-636
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Budget process
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Inflation and prices
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act of 2021

 
This bill directs the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance requiring federal agencies to report annually to Congress regarding certain federally funded projects that are (1) more than five years behind schedule, or (2) have expenditures that are at least $1 billion more than the original cost estimate for the project. 

action_date: 2021-05-10
text: 

Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act of 2021

 
This bill directs the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance requiring federal agencies to report annually to Congress regarding certain federally funded projects that are (1) more than five years behind schedule, or (2) have expenditures that are at least $1 billion more than the original cost estimate for the project. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 56.
action_date: 2021-05-10
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment. With written report No. 117-22.
action_date: 2021-05-10
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment. With written report No. 117-22.
action_date: 2021-03-17
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Supporting Early-Career Researchers Act

Bill: 117-s-637
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Higher education
Minority education
Minority employment
Research administration and funding
Science and engineering education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

Supporting Early-Career Researchers Act

 
This bill authorizes the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a two-year pilot program to award grants to highly qualified early-career investigators to carry out an independent research program at the institution of higher education chosen by such investigator, to last for a period not greater than two years.
 
In awarding grants, the NSF shall give priority to (1) early-career investigators who are from groups that are underrepresented in scientific research, and (2) early-career investigators who choose to carry out independent research at a minority-serving institution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Promoting Infrastructure by Protecting Our Subcontractors and Taxpayers Act

Bill: 117-s-638
Sponsor: Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Infrastructure development
Public contracts and procurement
Roads and highways
State and local finance
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

Promoting Infrastructure by Protecting Our Subcontractors and Taxpayers Act

 
This bill revises the transportation infrastructure finance and innovation program to require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to ensure that the design and construction of a project carried out under the program must have appropriate payment and performance security, regardless of whether the obligor is a state, local government, agency or instrumentality of a state or local government, public authority, or private party.
 
DOT may accept such payment and performance security requirements if it makes a written determination that the federal interest is adequately protected.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Grandfamilies Technical Assistance Center Act

Bill: 117-s-639
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Aging
Appropriations
Community life and organization
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability assistance
Executive agency funding and structure
Family relationships
Family services
Indian social and development programs
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

Grandfamilies Technical Assistance Center Act

 
 This bill provides additional FY2021 funding for the Administration for Community Living to establish a National Technical Assistance Center on Grandfamilies and Kinship Families. The center must provide technical assistance to government agencies, nonprofits, and other community-based organizations that support kinship caregiver families. The focus must be on families in which the primary caregiver is 55 years or older or the child has one or more disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Invest in Our Democracy Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-640
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Education programs funding
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Higher education
State and local government operations
Subversive activities

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

Invest in Our Democracy Act of 2021

 
This bill directs the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to provide grants to institutions of higher education to reduce tuition for state or local election officials, employees of such election officials, and employees of the EAC who are enrolled in accredited certificate programs in election administration or cybersecurity at such institutions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Landowner Fairness Act

Bill: 117-s-641
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Judicial review and appeals
Land transfers
Licensing and registrations
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Property rights
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

Landowner Fairness Act

 
This bill limits the use of eminent domain to take private property for the construction and operation of a natural gas pipeline facility. 
 
Specifically, this bill ends the legal presumption that natural gas exports are by definition in the public interest. In addition, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission must consider certain factors in issuing certificates of public convenience and necessity for natural gas projects. Finally, the bill prohibits the holder of a certification of public convenience and necessity from exercising the right of eminent domain for a pipeline designed to export liquefied natural gas to a foreign country.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Air Carrier Access Amendments Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-642
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2021-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access Board
Administrative remedies
Aviation and airports
Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Department of Transportation
Disability and health-based discrimination
Disability and paralysis
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: 

Air Carrier Access Amendments Act of 2021

 
This bill expands provisions prohibiting discrimination against disabled individuals by an air carrier. Specifically, it enumerates certain actions that an air carrier must take or may not take with respect to a disabled individual. It also requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to ensure that disabled individuals traveling in air transportation are able to file complaints with DOT in response to disability-related discrimination and receive assistance from DOT through a hotline or comparable electronic means.
 
The bill authorizes an aggrieved individual and the Department of Justice to bring a civil action for discrimination.
 
The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board shall prescribe regulations setting forth minimum standards for aircraft with new or existing type certificates to ensure the accessibility of individuals with disabilities, including those who use wheelchairs. The standards shall address, among other things, boarding and deplaning equipment, seating accommodations, lavatories, visually accessible announcements, and proper stowage of assistive devices in the cargo hold to prevent damage. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate