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Preventing SBA Assistance from Going to China Act

Bill: 117-hr-1138
Sponsor: Rep. Jacobs, Chris [R-NY-27]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Asia
China
Corporate finance and management
Foreign and international corporations
Securities
Small Business Administration
Small business
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Preventing SBA Assistance from Going to China Act 
 
 
This bill prohibits the Small Business Administration from providing aid, counsel, or assistance to a small business concern that (1) is headquartered in China, or (2) has more than 25% of voting stock owned by citizens of China. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Feeding Homeless Youth During COVID–19 Act

Bill: 117-hr-1139
Sponsor: Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Adult day care
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child care and development
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Food assistance and relief
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Infectious and parasitic diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Feeding Homeless Youth During COVID-19 Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to reimburse institutions that are emergency shelters for meals and supplements provided under the Child and Adult Care Food Program during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency to individuals who have not attained the age of 25 and who are receiving assistance from such shelters. Under current law, individuals who are older than age 18 are not eligible to participate in the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Juror Non-Discrimination Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-1140
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Mondaire [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Federal district courts
Judicial procedure and administration
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Specialized courts

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Juror Non-Discrimination Act of 2021

 
This bill prohibits the exclusion of individuals from jury service on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Broadband Competition and Efficient Deployment Act

Bill: 117-hr-1141
Sponsor: Rep. Joyce, John [R-PA-13]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Historic sites and heritage areas
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Broadband Competition and Efficient Deployment Act 

 
This bill excludes the deployment or modification of certain telecommunications service facility projects from specified review requirements.
 
Specifically, the bill excludes from specified environmental and historic preservation review a project for the placement, construction, or modification of a telecommunications service facility in or on infrastructure that supports or houses a facility for communication by wire.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
ESCAPE Act

Bill: 117-hr-1142
Sponsor: Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Emergency planning and evacuation
First responders and emergency personnel
Floods and storm protection
Infrastructure development
Natural disasters
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Public transit
Railroads
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Enhancing the Strength and Capacity of America's Primary Evacuation routes Act or the ESCAPE Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to provide assistance for projects that strengthen and protect mass evacuation routes.
 
Specifically, DOT must (1) establish criteria for states, tribal and local governments, and other entities to identify mass evacuation routes; (2) establish a competitive grant program to provide grants for resilience projects that strengthen and protect evacuation routes that are essential for providing and supporting mass evacuations caused by emergency events; and (3) provide grants to resilience projects that ensure the ability of the evacuation route to provide safe passage during a mass evacuation and reduce the risk of damage to evacuation routes as a result of future emergency events. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2021-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
LOAN Act

Bill: 117-hr-1143
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Abortion
Bankruptcy
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Higher education
Intergovernmental relations
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Lenders Offer Assistance Now Act or the LOAN Act 

 
This bill requires the discharge of a private education loan in the event of the student borrower's disability. Such a discharge is not considered income for tax or other purposes. Additionally, the bill prohibits the automatic default of a private education loan due to the disability of a loan cosigner. 
 
Furthermore, the bill generally permits the discharge of student loans in bankruptcy. Under current law, student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy unless repayment would be an undue hardship to the debtor and the debtor's dependents. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to regain observer status for Taiwan in the World Health Organization, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-1145
Sponsor: Rep. Kim, Young [R-CA-39]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Congressional oversight
International organizations and cooperation
Taiwan
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 
This bill directs the Department of State to include additional information in its annual reports concerning Taiwan's participation at the World Health Organization's World Health Assembly (WHA) as an observer. The report shall describe changes and improvements to the State Department's plan to support Taiwan's observer status at the WHA, following any meetings at which Taiwan did not participate under such status. (China has opposed Taiwan's participation in the WHA.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Right to Expediency Act

Bill: 117-hr-1147
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Postal service
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Veterans Right to Expediency Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to deliver notice of the denial of claims for VA benefits by certified mail.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
CABLE Leadership Act

Bill: 117-hr-1148
Sponsor: Rep. Long, Billy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Government information and archives
Infrastructure development
State and local government operations
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Cable Access for Broadband and Local Economic Leadership Act or the CABLE Leadership Act

 
This bill establishes a 120-day deadline for a cable franchising authority to act on a complete request for a new franchise. 
 
Further, the bill deems such a request granted on the day after this deadline expires if the franchising authority has not granted or denied the request by that date, and it outlines when such a request shall be considered complete. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Communities Overregulating Networks Need Economic Competition Today Act

Bill: 117-hr-1149
Sponsor: Rep. Long, Billy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Emergency communications systems
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Communities Overregulating Networks Need Economic Competition Today Act or the CONNECT Act

 
This bill prohibits a state or political subdivision thereof from providing or selling broadband internet access service. Such provision or sale may continue if there is no more than one other commercial provider of broadband internet access that provides competition in a particular area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Modernizing America’s Apprenticeship Act

Bill: 117-hr-1150
Sponsor: Rep. Luetkemeyer, Blaine [R-MO-3]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Labor
Employment and training programs

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Modernizing America's Apprenticeship Act

 
This bill provides statutory authority for federal regulations titled 
Apprenticeship Programs, Labor Standards for Registration, Amendment of Regulations
 published by the Department of Labor in the Federal Register on March 11, 2020.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
CPR Fund Act

Bill: 117-hr-1151
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Appropriations
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Consumer credit
Debt collection
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government trust funds
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Temporary and part-time employment

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Consumer Protection Relief Fund Act or the CPR Fund Act 

 
This bill establishes the Consumer Protection Relief Fund for the purpose of repaying certain loans owed by vulnerable borrowers who are experiencing financial difficulty due to the impact of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). To qualify for repayment, the holder of the loan must 
 
 
commit to issuing or purchasing other loans to vulnerable borrowers in an amount at least equal to the payment received, 
 
forgive the borrower's remaining loan balance, and 
 
terminate any negative reporting to consumer reporting agencies with respect to the borrower's loan. 
 
 
A loan must be a closed-end installment loan&#8212;a loan extended at a set amount and repaid by the borrower with a fixed amount over a limited number of payment periods&#8212;to qualify for repayment. However, the bill excludes from eligibility a student, auto, or mortgage loan. 
 
Aggregate payments with respect to a borrower may not exceed $9,500. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Green Buses for Every Community Act

Bill: 117-hr-1152
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Housing and community development funding
Public transit
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Green Buses for Every Community Act

 
This bill requires at least 10% of funding made available in a fiscal year for the low or no emissions competitive grant program for buses and bus facilities to be distributed to projects serving predominantly low-income communities. The bill defines a 
low-income community 
as any population census tract if (1) the poverty rate for such tract is at least 20%; or (2) the tract is not located within a metropolitan area and the median family income for such tract does not exceed 80% of statewide median family income, or the tract is located within a metropolitan area and the median family income does not exceed the 80% or the metropolitan area median family income.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
REAP Act

Bill: 117-hr-1153
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Sean Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Protection of officials
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Restoring and Enforcing Accountability of Presidents Act or the REAP Act

 
This bill eliminates the monetary allowance and funding for travel expenses for any former President convicted of a felony while holding office or for acts committed during or after holding office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Facilitating DIGITAL Applications Act

Bill: 117-hr-1156
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Infrastructure development
Land use and conservation
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Facilitating the Deployment of Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act or the Facilitating DIGITAL Applications Act

 
This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to submit a report every 60 days describing whether the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture have established online portals for the acceptance, processing, and disposal of a Form 299, as well as any barriers to the establishment of such portals. Form 299 is the application form for the right to install, construct, modify, or maintain a communications facility on federal real property. Both departments shall notify the NTIA not later than three business days after establishing their online portals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2021-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
action_date: 2021-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Tragedies Between Police and Communities Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-1159
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Mental health
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Preventing Tragedies Between Police and Communities Act of 2021

 
This bill requires a state or local government that receives funding under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program to train law enforcement officers on de-escalation techniques and require law enforcement to use such techniques.
 
The Department of Justice (DOJ) may reduce the JAG allocation of a state or local government that fails to comply with the training requirement. DOJ must reduce by 15% the JAG allocation of a state or local government that fails to require law enforcement officers to use de-escalation techniques.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
INFLUENCE Act

Bill: 117-hr-1160
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Gregory [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2021-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Area studies and international education
Asia
Business records
China
Contracts and agency
Cultural exchanges and relations
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government information and archives
Higher education
Intellectual property
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Research and development
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: 

Intelligence on Nefarious Foreign Leaders Using Education Networks for Corrupt Enrichment Act or the INFLUENCE Act

 
This bill lowers the disclosure threshold regarding gifts or contracts from a foreign source that institutions of higher education (IHEs) must report to the Department of Education (ED). It also requires IHEs to disclose information related to foreign involvement in sensitive projects.
 
Under current law, an IHE is required to disclose to ED a gift or contract that is from a foreign source and is valued at $250,000 or more, considered alone or in combination with all other gifts from or contracts with a foreign source. The bill instead requires the IHE to disclose such a gift or contract that is valued at $50,000 considered alone or $100,000 or more in combination with all other gifts or contracts.
 
Further, ED must update annually on its website a database of the disclosed information, and an IHE that receives a gift or contract from a foreign source must post certain information on its website. Information made publicly available must not include sensitive information.
 
Additionally, the bill requires IHEs to disclose information related to foreign involvement in sensitive projects. It also requires a specific contract provision for a cultural or language program that is funded by the Chinese government to operate at an IHE.
 
Finally, ED must establish a process to notify federal agencies of violations of the bill. ED must also report on foreign and national security issues affecting IHEs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Introduced in House