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A bill to amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to remove the exclusion of certain small business concerns from the disadvantaged business enterprise program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-s-4413
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2022-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-15
text: 

This bill removes the maximum annual revenue threshold that limits certain small businesses owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals from receiving funding under the disadvantaged business enterprise program. The program provides such small businesses the opportunity to compete for federally funded transportation contracts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2022-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Expose Hospitals Violating Price Transparency Act

Bill: 117-s-4414
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2022-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-15
text: 

Expose Hospitals Violating Price Transparency Act

 
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to publish a list of hospitals that are not in compliance with the hospital price transparency rule, which requires hospitals to provide clear, accessible pricing information online about the items and services they provide. The list must include any hospitals that have received a written communication from the CMS about potential noncompliance.
 
The bill also requires the Government Accountability Office to report on compliance and enforcement of the price transparency rule, including recommendations for improving price transparency to patients, employers, and the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Lake Champlain Basin Program Reauthorization Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4415
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Lake Champlain Basin Program Reauthorization Act of 2022

 
This bill revises and reauthorizes through FY2033 the Lake Champlain Basin Program, which supports restoration and protection efforts for Lake Champlain and its surrounding watershed located in New York, Vermont, and Quebec.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Educational Choice for Children Act

Bill: 117-s-4416
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Elementary and secondary education
Income tax credits
Student aid and college costs
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Educational Choice for Children Act

 
This bill allows individuals and corporations a new tax credit after 2022 for charitable contributions to tax-exempt organizations that provide scholarships to elementary and secondary school students. Such students must be members of a household with incomes not greater 300% of the area median gross income and be eligible to enroll in a public elementary or secondary school. 
 
The bill excludes from the gross income of taxpayer dependents any scholarship amount for the elementary or secondary education expenses of eligible students. It also prohibits governmental control over scholarship granting organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Patent Trial and Appeal Board Reform Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4417
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Patent Trial and Appeal Board Reform Act of 2022

 
This bill modifies the authorities and procedures of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the body within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) that decides administrative patent validity challenges and reviews (e.g., inter partes reviews and post-grant reviews).
 
For example, the bill (1) authorizes the director of the PTO to review and set aside PTAB decisions, (2) modifies the time limits for filing such patent validity challenges at the PTAB, and (3) limits the institution of certain such challenges if the challenges are filed by the same petitioner and includes one or more of the same claims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Development Investment Tax Credit Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4418
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Community Development Investment Tax Credit Act of 2022

 
This bill allows a new tax credit for investment in Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) to benefit underserved communities. The credit amount is a specified percentage of investment in a CDFI during successive ten year periods. The total credit amount is capped at $1 billion in 2022, $1.5 billion in 2023, and $2 billion in 2024 and each year thereafter, adjusted for inflation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Good Jobs for Good Airports Act

Bill: 117-s-4419
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Good Jobs for Good Airports Act

 
This bill addresses pay, benefits, and labor standards for certain airport service workers. Airport service workers include security officers, food service workers, cleaning staff, ticketing agents, and retail service workers.
 
Specifically, the bill establishes a minimum wage and benefit standard for such airport service workers at large, medium, and small hub airports. It also prohibits small, medium, and large hub airports from accessing federal funds for airport development projects unless the airports certify that such airport service workers are paid no less than the higher of $15 per hour, the applicable state or local minimum wage and fringe benefits, or the prevailing wage and fringe benefits required under the Service Contract Act as established by the Department of Labor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
CREST Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4420
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Carbon Removal and Emissions Storage Technologies Act of 2022 or the CREST Act of 2022

 
This bill expands the current research and development programs of the Department of Energy (DOE) for capturing and storing carbon dioxide to include methods that harness natural processes, such as the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and its storage in geological, biobased, or ocean reservoirs. In addition, the bill establishes a five-year pilot program under which DOE must purchase from certain facilities carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere or upper hydrosphere.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-12-01
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3004-3005)
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Advancing Tribal Parity on Public Land Act

Bill: 117-s-4421
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Federal-Indian relations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Religion
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Advancing Tribal Parity on Public Land Act

 
This bill addresses tribal interests in the disposal and management of public land.
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits the federal government from disposing of public land or National Forest System land unless the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture (USDA) determines, through consultation with any interested Indian tribe, that such disposal would not impact the rights and interests of any interested tribe and would not impair access to a reservation.
 

Interested Indian tribe
 means an Indian tribe with (1) historic, precontact, cultural, or religious connection to a cultural site located on the tract of public land; (2) a former reservation located on the tract of public land; or (3) treaty rights or other reserved rights associated with the tract of public land.
 
Interior and USDA must, prior to conducting a sale of a tract of public land, notify all tribes of the availability of land for sale. Further, Interior and USDA must sell the tract of land to an interested Indian tribe that submits a bid at fair market value. Land acquired by an interested tribe shall be taken into trust by Interior for the benefit of the tribe.
 
Additionally, the bill revises various public land provisions, including to (1) add the interests of tribes to the list of considerations for land exchanges, and (2) authorize tribes to acquire land for recreational and other public purposes.
 
 The bill also requires each public land advisory board to include at least one representative of an interested Indian tribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Energy Efficiency for Affordable Housing Act

Bill: 117-s-4422
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Energy Efficiency for Affordable Housing Act

 
This bill increases the amount of the low-income housing tax credit for rehabilitation expenditures for buildings that achieve enhanced energy performance. The bill also exempts such credit from the basis adjustment applicable to the new energy efficient home tax credit and extends that credit through 2031.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act

Bill: 117-s-4423
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Federal-Indian relations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Livestock
Motor vehicles
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act

 
This bill provides for the preservation of tribal cultural sites on public land, including by establishing the Tribal Cultural Areas System, setting forth requirements related to land management, and authorizing certain actions by tribes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Recreation and Public Purposes Tribal Parity Act

Bill: 117-s-4424
Sponsor: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Recreation and Public Purposes Tribal Parity Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to sell or lease public lands to federally recognized Indian tribes for recreational or public purposes, subject to annual acreage limitations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-12-01
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3005)
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Sickle Cell Care Expansion Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4425
Sponsor: Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Blood and blood diseases
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Health personnel
Hereditary and development disorders
Higher education
Medical education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Sickle Cell Care Expansion Act of 2022

 
This bill establishes programs to increase treatment and other services for populations with sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that can lead to pain, anemia, infections, and stroke.
 
Specifically, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must award grants to federally qualified health centers, community-based organizations, or other nonprofits that treat or otherwise support populations with sickle cell disease for education and advocacy programs concerning the disease. HHS must also award grants to nonprofits, including hospitals or institutions of higher education, that provide comprehensive care to populations with sickle cell disease for programs to support the transition from pediatric to adult care for patients with the disease.
 
Additionally, the Health Resources and Services Administration must establish a program to provide scholarships or student loan repayment awards to individuals who commit to engage in clinical practice or research related to sickle cell disease for a period of obligated service as physicians.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Special Needs Trust Improvement Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4426
Sponsor: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 
 
Special Needs Trust Improvement Act of 2022 

 
This bill allows a nonprofit charitable organization to be named as the remainder beneficiary of a Special Needs Trust (i.e., a trust that preserves a beneficiary's eligibility for needs-based government benefits).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Checks and Balances Act

Bill: 117-s-4427
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Checks and Balances Act

 
This bill expands congressional oversight of guidance documents (and other statements of policy) issued by a task force or similar entity composed of members of a federal agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Taiwan Policy Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4428
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Aviation and airports
China
Collective security
Economic development
Foreign aid and international relief
Free trade and trade barriers
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
International organizations and cooperation
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military education and training
Military operations and strategy
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Taiwan
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Taiwan Policy Act of 2022

 
This bill provides support to Taiwan and addresses related issues.
 
For example, the bill (1) establishes the Taiwan Security Assistance Initiative, which shall provide foreign military financing assistance for Taiwan and contain other measures to strengthen the U.S.-Taiwan defense relationship; (2) establishes a comprehensive training program with Taiwan's government to familiarize the U.S. military and Taiwan's military with each other and achieve interoperability; and (3) authorizes the Department of State to take actions to help Taiwan become a non-borrowing member of the Inter-American Development Bank. 

action_date: 2022-09-15
text: 

Taiwan Policy Act of 2022

 
This bill provides support to Taiwan and addresses related issues.
 
For example, the bill (1) establishes a comprehensive training program with Taiwan's government to familiarize the U.S. military and Taiwan's military with each other and achieve interoperability, and (2) authorizes the Department of State to take actions to help Taiwan become a non-borrowing member of the Inter-American Development Bank.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-09-15
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 488.
action_date: 2022-09-15
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Menendez with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2022-09-15
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Menendez with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2022-09-14
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Warning Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4429
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Fair Warning Act of 2022

 
This bill bars an employer from ordering a site closing or mass layoff until 90 calendar days after the employer has served written notice of such an order to (1) each representative of the affected employees as of the time of the notice or each affected employee, (2) the Department of Labor and the governor of the state where the site closing or mass layoff is to occur, and (3) the state or entity designated by the state to carry out rapid response activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4430
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Commerce
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Intellectual property
Intergovernmental relations

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act of 2022

 
This bill establishes the Interagency Task Force on Patents to support coordination and communication between the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on activities relating to patents for human drugs and biological products. The task force's duties shall include establishing a process for the PTO to request from the FDA information relating to certain patent applications to help patent examiners carry out their duties.

action_date: 2022-08-02
text: 

Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act of 2022

 
This bill establishes the Interagency Task Force on Patents to support coordination and communication between the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on activities relating to patents for human drugs and biological products. The task force's duties shall include establishing a process for the PTO to request from the FDA information relating to certain patent applications to help patent examiners carry out their duties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-08-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 463.
action_date: 2022-08-02
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Durbin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2022-08-02
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Durbin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2022-07-28
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Bill: 117-s-4431
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2022-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: 

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

 
This bill prohibits employment practices that discriminate against making reasonable accommodations for qualified employees affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. A 
qualified employee
 is an employee or applicant who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the position, with specified exceptions.
 
Specifically, the bill declares that it is an unlawful employment practice to
 
 
fail to make reasonable accommodations to known limitations of such employees unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on an entity's business operation;
 
 require a qualified employee affected by such condition to accept an accommodation other than any reasonable accommodation arrived at through an interactive process;
 
 deny employment opportunities based on the need of the entity to make such reasonable accommodations to a qualified employee; 
 
 require such employees to take paid or unpaid leave if another reasonable accommodation can be provided; or 
 
take adverse action in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment against a qualified employee requesting or using such reasonable accommodations.
 
 
The bill sets forth enforcement procedures and remedies that cover different types of employees in relation to such unlawful employment practices.
 
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission must provide examples of reasonable accommodations that shall be provided to affected employees unless the employer can demonstrate that doing so would impose an undue hardship.
 
The bill prohibits state immunity under the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution from an action for a violation of this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-06-21
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 425.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2022-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate