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Enhancing Oversight To End Discrimination in Policing Act

Bill: 117-hr-3732
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Marilyn [D-WA-10]
Introduced: 2021-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Executive agency funding and structure
Judicial procedure and administration
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Mental health
Racial and ethnic relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: 

Enhancing Oversight to End Discrimination in Policing Act

 
This bill expands the capacity to enforce a law that prohibits patterns or practices of misconduct by state and local law enforcement agencies.
 
Current law prohibits state and local law enforcement agencies from engaging in patterns or practices of conduct that violate constitutional or federal rights. Further, current law authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) to file civil cases to eliminate the pattern or practice of misconduct. Typically, DOJ's Civil Rights Division conducts pattern-or-practice investigations and resolves any misconduct through a consent decree instead of a trial.
 
This bill provides statutory authority for state attorneys general to bring pattern-or-practice cases in federal court. The bill also authorizes grants to help states pursue pattern-or-practice investigations and cases.
 
 Additionally, the bill authorizes additional amounts for DOJ's Civil Rights Division and requires a certain portion to be used for enforcement and technical assistance related to pattern-or-practice cases.
 
Finally, the bill requires DOJ's Civil Rights Division to modify the procedures for consent decrees and settlement agreements to ensure that the consent decrees and settlement agreements (1) foster the creation and use of alternative remedies such as mental health support or community-based restorative justice mechanisms; and (2) incorporate community oversight requirements, such as a community oversight body. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Essential Caregivers Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3733
Sponsor: Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-22]
Introduced: 2021-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and paralysis
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: 

Essential Caregivers Act of 2021

 
This bill requires skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities for the intellectually disabled, and nearby inpatient rehabilitation facilities to establish an essential caregivers program during a public health emergency. 
 
Under the program, facilities must allow each resident to select up to two essential caregivers to provide daily living assistance, emotional support, or companionship during the emergency. Facilities must afford such caregivers 12 hours of access to residents each day (or unlimited access for end-of-life care), and caregivers must agree to follow facility protocols for staff safety. Facilities may deny access to caregivers who violate protocols, subject to certain notification requirements; the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must establish an appeals process relating to such decisions and may take specified enforcement actions against facilities that violate the bill's requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3301-3304)
action_date: 2021-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2021-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, to increase the Federal share payable for certain projects in environmental justice communities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-3734
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2021-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: 
This bill allows the Department of Transportation (DOT) to increase the federal share for projects under the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program that primarily benefit environmental justice communities (i.e., low-income or minority communities). DOT must also evaluate whether the current apportionment method is appropriate for achieving program goals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
E-Filing Standards Improvement Act

Bill: 117-hr-3735
Sponsor: Rep. Vela, Filemon [D-TX-34]
Introduced: 2021-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: 

E-Filing Standards Improvement Act

 
This bill modifies requirements for electronic filing of tax returns. Specifically, it requires the Internal Revenue Service to issue an e-filing receipt to taxpayers who submit returns electronically that indicates acceptance or rejection of a return. If a return is rejected, the filing receipt must provide information for resolving the issue causing the rejection. The taxpayer shall be allowed 15 business days to correct and resubmit the return electronically. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Installation Agreement Affordability Act

Bill: 117-hr-3736
Sponsor: Rep. Vela, Filemon [D-TX-34]
Introduced: 2021-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: 

Installation Agreement Affordability Act

 
This bill revises provisions allowing a waiver of the fee imposed on installment agreements paid by electronic payment through a debit instrument to extend eligibility for such waiver to all taxpayers regardless of income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
TEAMS Act

Bill: 117-hr-3737
Sponsor: Rep. Vela, Filemon [D-TX-34]
Introduced: 2021-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Department of the Treasury
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: 

Tax-preparer Enforcement, Accountability, and Minimum Standards Act or the TEAMS Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of the Treasury to regulate tax return preparers, including by sanctioning preparers for incompetence and disreputable behavior and by establishing minimum competency standards for preparers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
John Lewis Taxpayer Protection Act

Bill: 117-hr-3738
Sponsor: Rep. Vela, Filemon [D-TX-34]
Introduced: 2021-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Crime victims
Department of the Treasury
Disability and paralysis
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Income tax credits
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public contracts and procurement
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: 

John Lewis Taxpayer Protection Act

 
This bill sets forth provisions for the protection of taxpayers from abusive tax collection practices and provides other protections for low-income taxpayers. 
 
Specifically, it 
 
 
repeals the authority for private sector tax collection contracts,
 
allows an exclusion from gross income for income attributable to the discharge of taxpayer indebtedness, 
 
repeals the suspension of the statute of limitations during a pending application for taxpayer assistance orders, 
 
restricts tax levies on tax-exempt retirement plans, 
 
suspends tax levies on taxpayers during periods of financial disability, 
 
repeals the partial payment requirement for submitting offers in compromise of tax liabilities, 
 
requires the Internal Revenue Service to provide notice to taxpayers of eligibility for the earned income tax credit and refunds of such credit, 
 
authorizes the Department of the Treasury to regulate and sanction income tax preparers, and 
 
increases funding for low-income taxpayer clinics and taxpayer services.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Coast Guard Combat-Injured Tax Fairness Act

Bill: 117-hr-3739
Sponsor: Rep. Vela, Filemon [D-TX-34]
Introduced: 2021-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: 

Coast Guard Combat-Injured Tax Fairness Act
 
 
This bill extends the provisions of the Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2016 to the Department of Homeland Security, with respect to the U.S. Coast Guard when it is not operating in the Department of the Navy. That act directed the Department of Defense to identify (1) certain disability severance payments paid after January 17, 1991, to veterans with combat-related injuries, from which it withheld amounts for tax purposes; and (2) the individuals to whom such severance payments were made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2021-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3740
Sponsor: Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2021-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: 

Handgun Licensing and Registration Act of 2021

 
This bill establishes a statutory framework for the licensing and registration of all handguns owned, possessed, or controlled in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the President to award the Purple Heart to Louis Boria, Jr., for injuries incurred during World War II and the Korean War while a member of the Marine Corps.

Bill: 117-hr-3741
Sponsor: Rep. Soto, Darren [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2021-06-04 in the House
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: 
This bill authorizes the President to award the Purple Heart to Louis Boria, Jr., for injuries incurred during World War II and the Korean War while a member of the Marine Corps.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Vaccine INFO Act

Bill: 117-hr-3742
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health promotion and preventive care
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Vaccine Information for Nursing Facility Operators Act or the Vaccine INFO Act

 
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to revise specified regulations that govern infection prevention and control programs in Medicare skilled nursing facilities and Medicaid nursing facilities to ensure that facilities provide their staff with specified information about certain immunizations.
 
For each immunization recommended for health care personnel by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, facilities must provide their staff with information about the benefits and potential side effects of each immunization.
 
Additional requirements apply based on whether or not a facility offers any of the recommended immunizations to its staff. Facilities that offer such immunizations must provide the information to staff before offering the immunization. Facilities that do not offer such immunizations must also provide information to staff about the availability and costs of the immunizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-07-21
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2021-07-21
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2021-07-15
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2021-07-15
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Stronger Communities through Better Transit Act

Bill: 117-hr-3744
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Stronger Communities through Better Transit Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Transportation to establish a grant program to support operating projects for public transportation (e.g., service expansion) and related capital improvements, particularly in underserved communities and areas of persistent poverty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Decentralized Wastewater Grant Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3745
Sponsor: Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government lending and loan guarantees
Low- and moderate-income housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Solid waste and recycling
State and local finance
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Decentralized Wastewater Grant Act of 2021

 
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a grant program for decentralized wastewater treatment systems in households with certain incomes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Accountable Care in Rural America Act

Bill: 117-hr-3746
Sponsor: Rep. Arrington, Jodey C. [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Accountable Care in Rural America Act

 
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to exclude certain components from a methodology used under the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The program enables accountable care organizations (ACOs) to receive payments for savings stemming from care coordination and management. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires the CMS to exclude an ACO's assigned Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries from certain regional adjustments to the ACO's benchmark for savings determinations, and to otherwise ensure that an ACO is not in a less favorable financial position due to its share of assigned beneficiaries in the region. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Securing American Research from Cyber Theft Act

Bill: 117-hr-3747
Sponsor: Rep. Babin, Brian [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Securing American Research From Cyber Theft Act

 
This bill establishes a pilot program and modifies a current program related to cybersecurity for federally supported research and data. 
 
The bill directs the National Science Foundation to award grants to establish a pilot program to ensure the security of federally supported research data and to assist regional institutions of higher education and their researchers in complying with regulations regarding the safeguarding of sensitive information and other relevant regulations and federal guidelines.
 
The bill requires the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program to provide for improving the security, reliability, and resiliency of computing and networking systems used by higher education and other nonprofit research institutions for the processing, storage, and transmission of sensitive federally funded research and associated data.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Katherine’s Law for Lung Cancer Early Detection and Survival Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3749
Sponsor: Rep. Boyle, Brendan F. [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medical tests and diagnostic methods

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Katherine's Law for Lung Cancer Early Detection and Survival Act of 2021

 
This bill requires private health insurance plans to cover, without cost sharing, screenings for the detection of lung cancer for certain high-risk individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Equity in Transit Service Planning Act

Bill: 117-hr-3750
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2021-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: 

Equity in Transit Service Planning Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to issue best practices to assist providers of public transportation with defining major service changes for purposes of complying with federal civil rights laws. The bill also requires that, within three years of DOT issuing the best practices, the Transit Cooperative Research Program of the National Academy of Sciences must review how providers define major service changes.
 
Under current law, public transportation providers must evaluate the impact of major service changes on minority and low-income populations. Typically, a major service change is presented as a numerical standard (e.g., a change that affects more than a given number of route miles or hours) with the standards set by the providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-06-08
text: Introduced in House