hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
GRID Broadband Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4763
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2022-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-03
text: 

Grants to Rapidly Invest and Deploy Broadband Act of 2022 or the GRID Broadband Act of 2022

 
This bill establishes a program through which the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) must award competitive, matching grants for constructing or otherwise expanding fiber optics communications infrastructure to support broadband expansion. Eligible grantees include electric grid operators, transmission owners or operators, and other electric utilities. In awarding the grants, the NTIA must prioritize recipients that, among other activities, monitor threats to and otherwise support the security of the electric grid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2022-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act

Bill: 117-s-4764
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2022-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-03
text: 

Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act

 
This bill establishes various grants and related programs that address sexual and reproductive health care for individuals with disabilities.
 
Specifically, the Health Resources and Services Administration must support
 
 
training for health care providers who offer sexual and reproductive health care to individuals with disabilities, and
 
educating individuals with disabilities about sexual and reproductive health care.
 
 The Administration for Community Living must establish a national center to provide recommendations, technical assistance, and other resources related to the provision of sexual and reproductive health care for individuals with disabilities. 
The bill also authorizes support for medical schools, nursing schools, and other educational institutions that offer obstetrics and gynecology training programs to expand the number of individuals with disabilities entering the reproductive health care workforce.
 
Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services must study the effectiveness and other aspects of reproductive health care services and programs for individuals with disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Acting on the Annual Duplication Report Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4765
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2022-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-03
text: 

Acting on the Annual Duplication Report Act of 2022

 
This bill requires various activities to implement recommendations identified in a report issued by the Government Accountability Office for reducing fragmentation, overlap, and duplication in federal programs. It specifically addresses recommendations concerning (1) the regulation of radioactive materials and disposal of low-level radioactive waste, and (2) coordination of federal efforts to reduce the risks of chronic health conditions through diet.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2022-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to revise the rules for approval by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of commercial driver education programs for purposes of veterans educational assistance, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-s-4766
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 
This bill authorizes approval of certain commercial driver education programs for purposes of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) educational assistance if the programs meet specified requirements. Under current law, the VA may not approve enrollment of a veteran in courses for programs that do not lead to a standard degree that are offered at a new branch (i.e., a branch that has been operating for less than 2 years) of an educational institution.
 
Under the bill, a commercial driver education program offered at a new branch of an educational institution may be approved if it is appropriately licensed and uses the same curriculum as a commercial driver education program offered by the educational institution at another location that is already approved for purposes of VA educational assistance.
 
The educational institution must submit a report demonstrating the curriculum at the new branch is the same as the curriculum at the primary location in order to be exempt from the current prohibition against course approval at new branches.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
PLAN for Broadband Act

Bill: 117-s-4767
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Proper Leadership to Align Networks for Broadband Act or the PLAN for Broadband Act

 
This bill directs the President to develop and implement a national strategy to improve the coordination and management of federally supported programs for expanding access to and adoption of broadband internet. The President must coordinate with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on the strategy's implementation.
 
The Government Accountability Office must study the effectiveness of the strategy and its implementation and make recommendations for improvement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Taxing Big Oil Profiteers Act

Bill: 117-s-4768
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 
 
Taxing Big Oil Profiteers Act 

 
This bill imposes an additional 21% tax through 2025 on the excess profits (i.e., current profits over normal return) of oil and natural gas companies that have average annual gross receipts during a three-year period of over $1 billion. 
 
The bill imposes on publicly-traded domestic corporations a tax equal to 25% of the fair market value of the stock of the corporation repurchased during the taxable year. The tax does not apply to a repurchase made after 2025 or that is treated as dividend. It also does not apply if the total value of the stock repurchased during a taxable year does not exceed $1 million.
 
The bill disqualifies certain large oil and natural gas companies from the use of the LIFO (last-in first-out) inventory accounting method.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Registered Traveler Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4769
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Registered Traveler Act of 2022

 
This bill provides statutory authority for the Transportation Security Administration to establish and maintain the Registered Traveler Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
No Taxpayer Funds for Illegal Alien Abortions Act

Bill: 117-s-4770
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

No Taxpayer Funds for Illegal Alien Abortions Act

 
This bill prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from using federal funds to (1) pay for an abortion except if the life of the mother is endangered or the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest, or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate any abortion. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Tribal Energy Investment Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4771
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Tribal Energy Investment Act of 2022

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Energy to provide direct loans to Indian tribes and tribal energy development organizations for energy development. These direct loans shall be made through the Federal Financing Bank.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
COLLEGE Act

Bill: 117-s-4772
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Changing Our Learning, Loans, Endowments, and Graduation Expectations Act or the COLLEGE Act

 
This bill requires institutions of higher education (IHEs) to provide cost-match awards to enrolled students based on the size of the IHE's endowment fund, makes IHEs responsible for a percentage of the student loan balance of students who are in default, and establishes related reporting requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
FISH Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4773
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act of 2022 or the
 
FISH Act of 2022 

 
This bill addresses illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU fishing).
 
For example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration must establish, publish, and put vessels on a U.S. black list that denies port privileges, certain travel through, delivery of supplies, delivery of services, or transshipment in the exclusive economic zone for vessels that have conducted IUU fishing and vessels that have the same owner as a vessel on the black list.
 
The President shall impose sanctions with respect to each foreign person that the President determines is the beneficial owner of a vessel on the black list.
 
Further, the U.S. Coast Guard must (1) increase its observation and boarding of vessels on the high seas that are suspected of IUU fishing, and (2) coordinate with regional fisheries management organizations to determine what corrective measures each nation has taken after its vessels have been boarded for suspected IUU fishing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
EASE Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4774
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Ethanol Access for a Sustainable Economy Act of 2022 or the EASE Act of 2022

 
This bill revises the Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) requirements to provide for the year-round sale of ethanol-gasoline fuel blends that contain more than 10% denatured anhydrous ethanol. RVP is a metric of gasoline volatility (i.e., how quickly fuel evaporates into the atmosphere). Current law prohibits the sale of gasoline that exceed certain RVP limits during the high ozone season (i.e., the summer months). However, current law provides waivers from this requirement, including a waiver that gives certain ethanol-gasoline fuel blends containing 10% denatured anhydrous ethanol a higher RVP limit under certain conditions. This bill expands the waiver to include ethanol-gasoline fuel blends containing more than 10% of such ethanol, thus allowing year-round sales of such fuel blends.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Border Patrol Enhancement Act

Bill: 117-s-4775
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Border Patrol Enhancement Act

 
This bill addresses various issues related to U.S. Border Patrol staffing. 
 
For example, the bill (1) establishes the Border Patrol Reserve; (2) establishes for the U.S. Border Patrol an authorized personnel level of 20,500 agents, which may be adjusted by the Department of Homeland Security; (3) requires the U.S. Border Patrol to complete a personnel requirements determination model; and (4) provides for higher minimum pay rates for agents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
SAVES Act

Bill: 117-s-4776
Sponsor: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Security to Avoid Violence in Educational Settings Act or the SAVES Act

 
This bill transfers certain funds to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to carry out a grant program for school safety and security.
 
Specifically, the bill transfers funds appropriated for energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements at public school facilities (currently known as the Department of Energy's Renew America's Schools Program) to DOJ for the grant program.
 
DOJ must award grants to states (and states must provide subgrants to eligible entities, such as local educational agencies and schools) for planning and designing school buildings and facilities, installing infrastructure, and implementing technology or other measures that strengthen security on school premises.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to permit the Miami Nation of Indiana to apply for acknowledgement as a federally recognized Indian tribe, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-s-4777
Sponsor: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 
This bill authorizes the Miami Nation of Indiana to submit a petition to the Department of the Interior for acknowledgment as a federally recognized Indian tribe. When reviewing the petition, Interior may not use a previous denial as a reason to deny it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
SAFE Risky Research Act

Bill: 117-s-4778
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Securing America's Federally-funded Extramural Risky Research Act or the SAFE Risky Research Act

 
This bill prohibits federally funded research on pathogens of pandemic potential or other dangerous biological agents or toxins if the research is carried out by foreign institutions located in countries of concern.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
ISS Extension Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4779
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

ISS Extension Act of 2022

 
This bill extends U.S. support and use of the International Space Station through FY2030.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Marine Highway Transportation Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4780
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Improving Marine Highway Transportation Act of 2022 

 
This bill modifies the definition of 
marine highway transportation
 to include the carriage by a documented vessel of cargo that is bulk, liquid, or loose cargo loaded in tanks, holds, hoppers, or on deck.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Border Airport Fairness Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4781
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Border security and unlawful immigration
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Border Airport Fairness Act of 2022

 
This bill requires the President to designate certain primary airports near the border as ports of entry and terminate the user fee requirement for customs services at these airports.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
STOP FENTANYL PACKAGE

Bill: 117-s-4782
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Streamlining Text for Official Policy by Formulating Effective Needed Tools to Address Narcotics, Yearly Loss of life and Protect Americans from Chemical Killers and Against Gangs Effectively Act or the STOP FENTANYL PACKAGE

 
This bill temporarily expands access to drugs that reverse opioid overdoses and makes other changes to drug control activities.
 
The bill expands the authority of health care providers to distribute, and the authority of first responders and lay administrators to administer, opioid overdose reversal drugs. Health care providers may distribute the drugs to those at risk of an overdose or others in the community able to assist an individual at such risk. Additionally, the bill provides immunity from civil and criminal liability and other adverse actions for injuries that arise from distributing or administering those drugs unless the injury was caused by gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. The authority and liability protections terminate 90 days after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) terminates the on-going opioid public health emergency first declared on October 26, 2017, and the bill preempts state laws that provide lesser protections.
 
Further, the Department of Justice (DOJ) must support training for law enforcement on drug-related matters and upgrading laboratories; HHS and DOJ may award grants for improving data collection and surveillance concerning overdoses. The bill also expands existing drug control activities. For example, recipients may use their community policing grants to procure equipment that protects first responders from secondary fentanyl exposure.
 
Other matters addressed in the bill include
 
 
interagency coordination of drug control activities;
 
uniform reporting standards for information concerning drug control activities;
 
budgeting for a program that analyzes fentanyl samples; and
 
challenges with implementing State Opioid Response grants.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Doug Zembiec Gold Star Family Support Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4783
Sponsor: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Doug Zembiec Gold Star Family Support Act of 2022

 
This bill requires the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness within the Department of Defense (DOD) to implement a pilot program on providing training to, validating, and deploying grief companions to facilitate DOD bereavement care following casualty notifications for members of the Armed Forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Access Act

Bill: 117-s-4784
Sponsor: Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]
Introduced: 2022-08-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Geography and mapping
Hunting and fishing
Land transfers
Maine
Monuments and memorials
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: 

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Access Act

 
This bill modifies the boundaries of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine.
 
The boundaries of the monument shall be the boundaries depicted on the map titled 
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Proposed Boundary Revision
 and dated July 2022. 
 
The Department of the Interior may acquire, by purchase from a willing seller, donation, or exchange (1) land and interests in land within the boundary of the monument, and (2) land and interests in land for access into the monument from roads and communities adjacent to or in the vicinity of the monument. Nothing in this bill authorizes the use of eminent domain to acquire land or an interest in land. 
 
Any land added to the monument shall be managed to preserve existing hunting, fishing, and snowmobile uses. 
 
The bill allows for the gathering by hand of fiddlehead ferns in the monument for personal use and consumption by the general public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-09-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2022-08-04
text: Introduced in Senate
PASS Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4786
Sponsor: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2022-08-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural trade
Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Europe
Federal officials
Foreign and international corporations
Iran
Middle East
North Korea
Russia
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2022-08-06
text: 

Promoting Agriculture Safeguards and Security Act of 2022 or the
 
PASS Act of 2022 

 
This bill establishes requirements to address the national security risk to the agricultural sector of the United States. 
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits persons who are acting on behalf of China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea from purchasing or investing in U.S. agricultural land and companies. The President may waive this prohibition, on a case-by-case basis, if the President determines that the waiver is vital to U.S. national security interests. 
 
The bill also places the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and requires CFIUS to review certain transactions involving investments by foreign persons in the U.S. agricultural sector. 
 
Additionally, the Department of Agriculture must report on the risks that foreign purchases of U.S. businesses engaged in agriculture pose to the agricultural sector of the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2022-08-06
text: Introduced in Senate