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Fair PPP Accounting Act

Bill: 117-s-1200
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business expenses
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government lending and loan guarantees
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Small business
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

Fair PPP Accounting Act

 
This bill modifies eligibility for second draw loans under the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).
 
Specifically, the bill provides for a period of 90 consecutive days to determine whether a borrower experienced a loss in revenue from 2019 to 2020 that qualifies them for a second draw loan. Currently, this qualification period must align with a corresponding calendar quarter from the previous year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Reconnecting Communities Act

Bill: 117-s-1202
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Air quality
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Economic development
Employee hiring
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Government studies and investigations
Infrastructure development
Land use and conservation
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Noise pollution
Pedestrians and bicycling
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public contracts and procurement
Railroads
Regional and metropolitan planning
Roads and highways
Transportation costs
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

Reconnecting Communities Act

 
This bill establishes a grant program to remove, retrofit, or otherwise address infrastructural barriers (e.g., highways, railways, or viaducts) that impede mobility and connectivity, with a particular focus on communities of color and low-income communities.
 
Under this program, the Department of Transportation (DOT) must award three types of grants:
 
 
community engagement, education, and capacity-building grants to educate and involve community members in transportation and economic development planning;
 
planning and feasibility study grants to develop designs, conduct environmental reviews, and carry out other preliminary activities required to remove, retrofit, or mitigate an infrastructural barrier; and
 
capital construction grants to remove, retrofit, or mitigate an infrastructure barrier.
 
 
DOT must award the community engagement, education, and capacity-building grants and the planning and feasibility study grants to state, tribal, and local governments; metropolitan planning organizations; and nonprofits. An eligible entity may apply for and receive funding from more than one type of grant.
 
DOT must award the capital construction grants to the owner of an infrastructure barrier. The owner may, if applicable, partner with other eligible entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-12-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported favorably.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2036)
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
MMEDS Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1203
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Business expenses
Business investment and capital
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Economic development
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government studies and investigations
Health technology, devices, supplies
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Industrial facilities
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Manufacturing
Minority health
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Unemployment
Veterans' medical care
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

Medical Manufacturing, Economic Development, and Sustainability Act of 2021 or the MMEDS Act of 2021

 
This bill provides incentives for relocating medical manufacturing facilities in the United States and for manufacturing medical products (i.e., drugs and devices) in economically distressed zones. Specifically, the bill allows a income tax credit for 40% of the sum of wages paid in a medical product manufacturing economically distressed zone, employee fringe benefit expenses, and depreciation and amortization allowances with respect to qualified medical product manufacturing facility property, and a credit for economically distressed zone products and services acquired by domestic medical product manufacturers..
 
The bill also directs the Department of Health and Human Services to study the extent to which the health of aging individuals and vulnerable populations have been disproportionately harmed by the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic and prior epidemics and pandemics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Bust Up Big Tech Act

Bill: 117-s-1204
Sponsor: Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Corporate finance and management
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

Bust Up Big Tech Act

 
This bill prohibits large online platforms in the business of offering search engines, marketplaces, or exchanges from selling, advertising, or otherwise promoting their own goods and services on their websites. The bill also prohibits such online platforms from providing online hosting services or back-end online services to any other entity that is not owned by the platform. Such platforms are those with more than $1.5 billion in global revenue during the most recent tax year and over 30 million U.S. users or 300 million worldwide users


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Iran Nuclear Deal Advice and Consent Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1205
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
International law and treaties
International organizations and cooperation
Iran
Middle East
Nuclear power
Nuclear weapons
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Sanctions
Senate
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

Iran Nuclear Deal Advice and Consent Act of 2021

 
This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action&#8212;commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal&#8212;unless the President commits to submit any successor agreement to the Senate for advice and consent as a treaty.


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
PUA Eligibility Clarification Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1206
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

PUA Eligibility Clarification Act of 2021

 
This bill revokes the authority of the Department of Labor to establish additional eligibility criteria for COVID-19 pandemic unemployment assistance with respect to self-certification by individuals who are directly affected by the COVID-19 public health emergency.
 
Labor must rescind the guidance titled 
Expanded Eligibility Provisions for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Program
, issued on February 25, 2021. The guidance makes individuals eligible to receive regular unemployment compensation and COVID-19 PUA if they (1) refuse an offer to work or return to work because of certain safety concerns, (2) provide services to educational institutions or educational service agencies, and (3) experience a reduction of hours or a temporary or permanent layoff.
 
A recipient of such PUA before enactment of this bill is not required to repay it. However, this requirement excludes individuals who, as of such enactment, were approved for PUA but have not received it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S2036)
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Community-Based Sentencing Alternatives for Caretakers Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1207
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Community life and organization
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Employment and training programs
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

Community-Based Sentencing Alternatives for Caretakers Act of 2021

 
This bill requires sentencing courts to consider a community-based alternative sentence in the case of certain individuals who are caretakers (e.g., parents).
 
Current law sets forth seven factors that sentencing courts must consider when imposing a sentence. 
 
This bill establishes a new, eighth factor that courts must consider when imposing a sentence on a caretaker for a nonviolent offense. Specifically, courts must consider a community-based alternative sentence, which is a sentence that may require the defendant to complete or participate in community-based programming, counseling, or treatment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to provide for the issuance of Green Bonds and to establish the United States Green Bank, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-s-1208
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural practices and innovations
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Corporate finance and management
Credit and credit markets
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Executive agency funding and structure
Forests, forestry, trees
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government lending and loan guarantees
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Land use and conservation
Motor fuels
Public transit
Regional and metropolitan planning
Securities
Solid waste and recycling
State and local finance
Water use and supply
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 
This bill establishes a U.S. Green Bank to finance climate change mitigation and adaptation projects at the state and local level by capitalizing regional, state, and municipal green banks. 
 
The Department of the Treasury must issue green bonds to provide the bank with (1) an initial capitalization of $10 billion; and (2) additional capitalization, upon the bank's request, of no more than $50 billion in aggregate at any one time.
 
The bill also establishes in the Treasury a revolving Green Bank Establishment Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Investors’ Personally Identifiable Information Act

Bill: 117-s-1209
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Right of privacy
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

Protecting Investors' Personally Identifiable Information Act 

 
This bill prohibits the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from requiring a national securities exchange, association, or a member of either to provide a market participant's personally identifiable information to satisfy the reporting requirements of the Consolidated Audit Trail (which tracks market activity). However, this information must be provided to the SEC upon request. The SEC must destroy the information not later than one day after the conclusion of the matter for which this information was required. 


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
Big Cat Public Safety Act

Bill: 117-s-1210
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Civil actions and liability
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Mammals
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Trade restrictions
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

Big Cat Public Safety Act

 
This bill revises requirements governing the trade of big cats (i.e., species of lion, tiger, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, or cougar or any hybrid of such species). Specifically, it revises restrictions on the possession and exhibition of big cats, including to restrict direct contact between the public and big cats.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Cahokia Mounds Mississippian Culture National Historical Park Act

Bill: 117-s-1211
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: General Native American affairs matters
Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Illinois
Land transfers
Missouri
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

Cahokia Mounds Mississippian Culture National Historical Park Act

 
This bill provides for the establishment of the Cahokia Mounds Mississippian Culture National Historical Park in Collinsville, Illinois; Monroe, Madison, and St. Clair Counties, Illinois; and St. Louis City County, Missouri, as a unit of the National Park System.
 
The Department of the Interior may acquire lands and interests within the boundary of the park by donation, purchase, or exchange, except that any land owned by such states or a political subdivision of one the states may be acquired only by donation. 
 
Interior may enter into cooperative agreements with such states and their political subdivisions, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, Indian tribes, and individuals to (1) identify, interpret, and restore nationally significant historical or cultural and natural resources related to the life of the Mississippi culture within the park, subject to the condition that such an agreement must provide for reasonable public access; and (2) conduct research related to Mississippian culture.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-09-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S2037)
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Investing in Tomorrow's Workforce Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1212
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Child care and development
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee hiring
Employee leave
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Labor market
Manufacturing
Public-private cooperation
Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

Investing in Tomorrow's Workforce Act of 2021

 
This bill (1) directs the Department of Labor, beginning after the earlier of submission of the Government Accountability Office's study on automation or October 1, 2022, to award grants to eligible partnerships to support demonstration and pilot projects relating to the training needs of workers who are, or are likely to become, dislocated workers as a result of automation; (2) expands training programs for such workers, including activities that prepare the individuals for occupations in the technology sector; (3) authorizes the award of national dislocated worker grants to provide employment and training assistance to workers affected by advances in automation technology; and (4) expands funding for national dislocated worker grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S2037-2038)
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
National SEAL Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1213
Sponsor: Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Congressional oversight
Employment and training programs
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

National Strategy to Ensure American Leadership Act of 2021 or the National SEAL Act of 2021

 
This bill directs the Department of Commerce to (1) seek to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a study to identify the 10 most critical emerging science and technology challenges facing the United States; and (2) develop recommendations for legislative or administrative action to ensure U.S. leadership in matters related to such challenges. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
State Grazing Management Authority Act

Bill: 117-s-1214
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Livestock
State and local government operations
User charges and fees
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

State Grazing Management Authority Act

 
This bill requires the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Forest Service, upon the request of a state, to enter into cooperative agreements providing for the state to manage grazing allotments on eligible federal land in that state. Land is eligible if it is subject to a grazing permit or lease issued by the BLM or the Forest Service and has periodically or historically been used or offered for livestock grazing.
 
At the request of a state, a cooperative agreement shall include an assignment to the state of the environmental review responsibilities of the BLM or the Forest Service under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) with respect to an allotment management plan.
 
A cooperative agreement shall include, with respect to an allotment management plan, the assignment to a state of the responsibilities of the BLM or the Forest Service to approve or construct water infrastructure improvements to improve public grazing.
 
A state that enters into a cooperative agreement shall establish a commission to advise the state on the substance and terms of the agreement and any matters related to carrying it out. 
 
A cooperative agreement shall provide for the development of a process by a state to resolve disputes related to a decision by the state with respect to an allotment management plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-10-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
True Reciprocity Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1215
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
China
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Free trade and trade barriers
International organizations and cooperation
News media and reporting
Sanctions
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Trade agreements and negotiations
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

True Reciprocity Act of 2021 

 
This bill directs the Department of State to report to Congress on how China's government creates barriers to the work of U.S. diplomats, officials, journalists, businesses, and nongovernmental organizations in China. The report shall include assessments of (1) the impact of Chinese government sanctions on U.S. nonprofit organizations, (2) the Chinese government's treatment of U.S. citizens and whether such treatments adhere to international agreements related to due process, and (3) activities that the Chinese government and affiliated entities are allowed to conduct in the United States but that are denied to U.S. entities in China.


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
Temporary Extension of Fentanyl Scheduling Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-1216
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2021-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Summary:
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: 

Temporary Extension of Fentanyl Scheduling Act of 2021

 
This bill extends until July 6, 2022, the temporary scheduling order issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration to place fentanyl-related substances in schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. The temporary order expires on May 6, 2021.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-20
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 45.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2021-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate