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Ukrainian Protection Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-6892
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Europe
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Military operations and strategy
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Travel and tourism
Ukraine

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 

 Ukrainian Protection Act of 2022 

 
This bill designates Ukraine as a temporary protected status (TPS) country for 18 months from the enactment of this bill. (Qualified nationals of a TPS-designated country shall have work authorization and may not be removed from the United States while the designation is in effect.)
 
To qualify for TPS, a national of Ukraine must (1) meet certain admissibility and eligibility requirements generally required for such status, and (2) register with the Department of Homeland Security. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
IGNITE HBCU and MSI Excellence Act

Bill: 117-hr-6893
Sponsor: Rep. Adams, Alma S. [D-NC-12]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 

Institutional Grants for New Infrastructure, Technology, and Education for HBCU and MSI Excellence Act or the IGNITE HBCU and MSI Excellence Act

 
This bill establishes a grant program to support long-term improvements of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), graduate programs at HBCUs, and other minority-serving institutions (MSIs).
 
Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to award grants to HBCUs and MSIs to improve campus facilities. A recipient must use grant funds for certain activities, such as constructing or renovating facilities, carrying out major repairs, and strengthening the safety and security of a campus. Any new construction, modernization, or renovation projects must meet building code and energy and water conservation requirements.
 
Further, HBCUs and MSIs must seek to procure contracts from certain small businesses, including those owned and controlled by veterans and service-disabled veterans.
 
The bill prohibits the use of grant funds for specified activities, including for the payment of routine and predictable maintenance costs, minor repairs, and utility bills.
 
The Government Accountability Office must study the implementation of the grant program.
 
The bill also requires ED to repay the outstanding balance of principal, interest, fees, and costs and any related reimbursements for certain capital financing loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
No Energy Revenues for Russian Hostilities Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-6894
Sponsor: Rep. Barr, Andy [R-KY-6]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Europe
Foreign and international banking
Foreign property
Licensing and registrations
Oil and gas
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Russia
Sanctions

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 

No Energy Revenues for Russian Hostilities Act of 2022

 
This bill prohibits, with some exceptions, the Department of the Treasury from authorizing certain energy-related transactions that would otherwise be blocked by an executive order barring transactions related to specified harmful foreign activities of the Russian government.
 
The bill also revokes a license issued February 28, 2022, by the Office of Foreign Assets Control within Treasury that authorized certain transactions barred by the executive order.
 
The bill allows a waiver from the limitation on an energy transaction if the transaction involves funds owed to a Russian person and the funds are to be used for the sale of agricultural commodities, food, medicine, or medical devices. The bill terminates on the earlier of five years after its enactment, or 30 days after the President reports to Congress that Russia has ceased activities destabilizing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Commission on Sustaining Medicare and Social Security Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-6895
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Census and government statistics
Disability assistance
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices
Medicare
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 

Commission on Sustaining Medicare and Social Security Act of 2022

 
This bill temporarily establishes the Commission on Sustaining Medicare and Social Security within the legislative branch to report on specified information relating to the Medicare program and the Social Security retirement and disability programs. The report must address (1) the impact of using alternative price indexes to determine cost-of-living adjustments; (2) the impact of using alternative formulas to calculate certain Medicare premiums; and (3) recommendations to prevent fraud, increase integrity, increase sustainability, and reduce improper payments in the programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-03-02
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: 2022-03-02
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: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
RETURN Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-6896
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 

Reduce Exposure and the Threat of Unused Residual Narcotics Act of 2022 or the RETURN Act of 2022

 
This bill requires regulations that govern the disposal of narcotics by reverse distributors to be revised so as to allow these entities to open and inspect packages that are received through mail-back programs and to allow them to send the packages offsite for destruction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2022-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
PUPPETS Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-6897
Sponsor: Rep. Gimenez, Carlos A. [R-FL-26]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Europe
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign property
Georgia (Republic)
Government information and archives
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Moldova
Russia
Sanctions
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Terrorism
Ukraine

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 

Preventing Usurpation of Power and Privileges by Extralegal Territories' Sedition Act of 2022 or the PUPPETS Act of 2022

 
This bill designates specified entities as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorist organizations. The bill also prohibits the Department of Defense from taking any action that implies recognition of the sovereignty of such entities over territory or airspace claimed by the governments of Ukraine, Moldova, or Georgia. 
 
Entities subject to this bill include any entities holding themselves out to be the governments of any region of Ukraine that was not elected through elections in 2019 or 2020, the Pridnestrovian Moldovian Republic, the Republic of South Ossetia, or the Republic of Abkhazia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2022-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2022-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Debt Relief Act

Bill: 117-hr-6898
Sponsor: Rep. Hayes, Jahana [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 

Teacher Debt Relief Act

 
This bill allows an eligible teacher to use the same teaching service to qualify for both the Teacher Loan Forgiveness program and the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Russian Sovereign Debt Prohibition Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-6900
Sponsor: Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Conflicts and wars
Europe
Foreign loans and debt
Military operations and strategy
Russia
Securities
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Ukraine

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 

Russian Sovereign Debt Prohibition Act of 2022 

 
This bill prohibits U.S. financial institutions from participating in the secondary Russian-backed bond market. This prohibition expires on the earlier of (1) 5 years after the date of enactment, or (2) 30 days after the President reports to Congress that Russia has ceased its destabilizing activities in Ukraine. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the use of Federal funds for the private interim storage of spent nuclear fuel, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-6901
Sponsor: Rep. Leger Fernandez, Teresa [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 
This bill generally prohibits the use of federal funds, including funds from the federal Judgment Fund, for interim storage of spent nuclear fuel by a privately owned facility.
 
The prohibition does not apply to (1) manufacturers of nuclear reactors or fabricators of nuclear fuel that accept the return of spent nuclear fuel, (2) nuclear power plants that accept spent nuclear fuel for interim storage, or (3) privately owned interim storage facilities that are currently in operation. Funds may also be used for costs associated with transferring or storing spent nuclear fuel at sites owned by the Department of Energy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 660 East Harrison Street, in Republic, Missouri, as the "Special Agent Sgt. Joseph M. Peters Post Office".

Bill: 117-hr-6902
Sponsor: Rep. Long, Billy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 660 East Harrison Street, in Republic, Missouri, as the "Special Agent Sgt. Joseph M. Peters Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out activities to suppress wildfires, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-6903
Sponsor: Rep. McClintock, Tom [R-CA-4]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 
This bill sets out requirements for wildfire suppression and management activities carried out by the Forest Service.
 
Within 24 hours of detecting a wildfire on Forest Service land, the service must use (to the maximum extent practicable) all available resources to extinguish the wildfire. Additionally, the service may not inhibit the firefighting activities of state and local agencies that are authorized to respond to wildfires on Forest Service land.
 
Further, the service may not initiate a backfire or burnout as part of a fire suppression strategy unless ordered by the responsible incident commander and must control any initiated fire until it is extinguished. An individual who is harmed by an improperly initiated or controlled backfire or burnout may sue the United States.
 
The bill also limits the service's use of prescribed fires (i.e., the controlled application of fire by a team of experts under specified weather conditions to restore health to ecosystems that depend on fire). The service must comply with all applicable laws and regulations concerning prescribed fires and must immediately suppress (to the maximum extent practicable) a prescribed fire that exceeds its prescription.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
action_date: 2022-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Patients Before Profits Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-6904
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Katie [D-CA-45]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Chemical and biological weapons
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Insurance industry and regulation
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 

Patients Before Profits Act of 2022

 
This bill prohibits a group health insurance plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage from reducing contracted rates or terminating contracts with health care providers during a public health emergency period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Defund Putin Act

Bill: 117-hr-6905
Sponsor: Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Belarus
Coal
Europe
Free trade and trade barriers
Oil and gas
Russia
Tariffs
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 

Defund Putin Act

 
This bill withdraws normal trade relations treatment from Russia. It also requires the President to take actions as may be necessary to prohibit the importation of petroleum, natural gas, petrochemicals, and coal from Russia and Belarus.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend Public Law 94-241 to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to increase the number of permits that are available for employers in Construction and Extraction Occupations seeking Commonwealth Only Transitional Workers, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-6906
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 
This bill authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, by the request of the governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, to increase the annual cap on nonimmigrants permitted to perform construction work associated with preparation for or recovery from a major disaster or emergency in the Northern Mariana Islands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2022-03-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E202)
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Cuban Family Reunification Parole Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-6907
Sponsor: Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: 

Cuban Family Reunification Parole Act of 2022 

 
This bill directs the Department of State to restart processing applications under the Cuban Family Reunification Parole Program. (The program, which was suspended in 2017, allows eligible U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents to apply for parole for family members in Cuba, who can then enter the United States while waiting for immigrant visas.)
 
The State Department must prioritize applications filed before this bill's enactment and ensure that the adjudication of such applications begin no later than six months after this bill's enactment date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Mykhaylo Gnatyuk and Melnik Gnatyuk.

Bill: 117-hr-6908
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Provides for the relief of Mykhaylo Gnatyuk and Melnik Gnatyuk.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Tetyana Zvarychuk.

Bill: 117-hr-6909
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2022-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Provides for the relief of Tetyana Zvarychuk.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Introduced in House