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Social Media NUDGE Act

Bill: 117-s-3608
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

Nudging Users to Drive Good Experiences on Social Media Act or the Social Media NUDGE Act

 
This bill requires social media platforms that have more than 20 million monthly active users to implement certain content-agnostic interventions to address social media addiction and the amplification or prioritization of certain content.
 
First, the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine must conduct a study to identify reasonable content-agnostic interventions such as limits on account creation and content sharing. Second, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) must issue regulations requiring social media platforms to implement appropriate interventions identified by the study. 
 
The bill provides for enforcement of the requirements of this bill by the FTC.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Gas Prices Relief Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3609
Sponsor: Sen. Kelly, Mark [D-AZ]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy prices
Government trust funds
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Roads and highways
Sales and excise taxes
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

Gas Prices Relief Act of 2022

 
This bill provides for a temporary exemption through 2022 from the excise tax on gasoline (other than aviation gasoline) and from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund financing rate. The Department of the Treasury must transfer from the general fund to the Highway Trust Fund and the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund amounts resulting from the exemption provided by this bill.
 
The bill also expresses congressional policy that consumers immediately receive the benefit of this exemption.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Chattahoochee River Act

Bill: 117-s-3610
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

Chattahoochee River Act

 
This bill requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to provide design and construction assistance for water-related resource protection and restoration projects that affect the Chattahoochee River Basin. The basin is located in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires USACE to provide assistance to state and local agencies and tribal entities for projects that include (1) sediment and erosion control, (2) ecosystem restoration, (3) protection of essential public works, and (4) the beneficial uses of dredged material. 
 
Further, the bill requires USACE, stakeholders, and state and local agencies to develop a comprehensive Chattahoochee River Basin restoration plan. The plan must give priority to eligible projects that will also improve the quality or quantity of the water or that use natural hydrological features and systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Provider Relief Fund Improvement Act

Bill: 117-s-3611
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Crime prevention
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Mental health
Violent crime
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

Provider Relief Fund Improvement Act

 
This bill extends deadlines, expands the uses of, and makes other changes pertaining to the Provider Relief Fund. The fund reimburses health care providers for increased expenses or lost revenue attributable to COVID-19.
 
Specifically, the bill extends the deadline by which providers must use any reimbursements they received in 2020 from the fund to the end of the COVID-19 emergency. Providers must use reimbursements received in the first half of 2021 by the end of the emergency or June 30, 2022, whichever is later.
 
Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services must distribute the remaining provider relief funds by March 31, 2022. Providers must use these funds by June 30, 2023.
 
The bill also allows the use of the funds for workplace safety activities, such as hiring additional security personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
STOCK Act 2.0

Bill: 117-s-3612
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

STOCK Act 2.0

 
This bill expands restrictions on investment practices and requirements for financial disclosures that apply to specified high-level government officials.
 
In particular, the bill bars individual stock trading by (1) Members of Congress, (2) the President and Vice President, (3) Supreme Court Justices, (4) governors of the Federal Reserve Board, and (5) presidents and vice presidents of Federal Reserve banks.
 
Additionally, the bill requires financial disclosures to include loans, contracts, and other benefits (excluding salaries, compensation, or tax refunds) from the federal government. It also requires additional officials, namely judges and senior leaders of Federal Reserve banks, to make the disclosures.
 
Further, the bill directs supervising ethics agencies to make the disclosures publicly available in formats that are easily searchable, sortable, and downloadable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Chimp Sanctuary Act

Bill: 117-s-3613
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

Chimp Sanctuary Act

 
This bill prohibits the housing of chimpanzees at any Air Force installation. Any chimpanzees currently housed at an Air Force installation must be transferred to Chimp Haven in Louisiana.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
United States-Russian Federation Seafood Reciprocity Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3614
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Europe
Russia
Seafood
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

United States-Russian Federation Seafood Reciprocity Act of 2022

 
This bill prohibits the importation of seafood and seafood products from Russia. The prohibition shall terminate on the date on which the President determines and certifies to Congress that the Russian government has terminated its prohibition on the importation of seafood products from the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Cutting Medicare Prescription Drug Prices in Half Act

Bill: 117-s-3615
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

Cutting Medicare Prescription Drug Prices in Half Act

 
This bill caps the cost of prescription drugs under Medicare at the amount that the Department of Veterans Affairs or the General Services Administration pays for the drug, whichever is lower.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3616
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act
 
of 2022

 
This bill requires certain actions to support access to higher education for children and youth who are homeless or in foster care.
 
Among other provisions, the bill requires institutions of higher education (IHEs) participating in financial aid programs to give priority to these students for any on-campus housing during and between academic terms. Further, the bill requires IHEs to designate a staff liaison to assist these students with support services, programs, and community resources in a variety of areas, including financial aid and housing.
 
The bill also requires these students to receive in-state tuition rates at public IHEs. Under current law, some states offer these students in-state tuition or provide them with tuition waivers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Restoring Confidence to the World Anti-Doping Agency Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3617
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Athletes
Disability and paralysis
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Europe
International organizations and cooperation
Olympic games
Russia
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

Restoring Confidence to the World Anti-Doping Agency Act of 2022

 
This bill modifies the authority of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) with respect to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
 
Specifically, the ONDCP, in conjunction with USADA, must
 
 
 use all available tools to ensure that WADA maintains a proper conflict-of-interest policy and that independent athletes from the United States and other democratic countries, or representatives of such athletes, have voting positions on the Executive Committee and governing bodies of WADA;
 
demonstrate leadership within the global community;
 
have strict standards that work toward countering the state-sponsored doping system of the Russian Federation and other state-sponsored, systemic fraud through doping; and
 
work collaboratively with democratic countries.
 
 
The bill requires the United States to have at least one seat on the Executive Committee of WADA as a condition of its participation in WADA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Cybersecurity Oversight Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3618
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

Federal Cybersecurity Oversight Act of 202

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This bill limits exemptions, and the duration of exemptions, from federal cybersecurity requirements and adds reporting requirements with respect to such exemptions. Specifically, exemptions may only be granted by the Office of Management and Budget and expire after one year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Vichai Sae Tung (also known as Chai Chaowasaree).

Bill: 117-s-3619
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Provides for the relief of Vichai Sae Tung (also known as Chai Chaowasaree).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act

Bill: 117-s-3620
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Intergovernmental relations
Marketing and advertising
Medical research
Right of privacy
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act

 
This bill temporarily establishes a commission with members appointed through the Government Accountability Office to study and report on issues related to protecting individual privacy while advancing the use of personal health information.
 
The study must address, for example, the use of personal health information by federal, state, and local governments for public health activities and the various statutory and regulatory requirements that apply to such information. In addition, the bill restricts the commission's use and disclosure of any personal health information or proprietary business and financial information obtained in conducting the study.
 
The commission must report its findings, conclusions, and recommendations (as well as those of any dissenting members of the commission) for balancing privacy protections and the appropriate use of personal health information.
 
The commission terminates 30 days after submitting its final report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
CASC Act

Bill: 117-s-3621
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Atmospheric science and weather
Department of the Interior
Emergency planning and evacuation
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental education
Intergovernmental relations
Natural disasters
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

Climate Adaptation Science Centers Act or the CASC Act

 
This bill provides statutory authority for the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The centers must provide scientific expertise to managers of natural resources, cultural resources, and ecosystem services to inform decisions that aid adaptation to a changing climate and extreme weather events. The program shall include a National Climate Adaptation Science Center and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers.
 
Among its activities, the National Center shall 
 
 
serve as the national office for the regional centers,
 
develop and facilitate coordination among the regional centers, and 
 
conduct research on cross-regional and national science priorities.
 
 
Regional centers shall develop research, education, training, and advisory service priorities regarding the impacts of climate trends and variability on natural and cultural resource management. 
 
The USGS shall establish an Advisory Committee on Climate and Natural Resource Sciences to identify and recommend priorities for ongoing research needs on such impacts in informing the research priorities of the National Center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S613-614)
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
ACTION for National Service Act

Bill: 117-s-3622
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

America's Call To Improve Opportunities Now for National Service Act or the ACTION for National Service Act

 
This bill (1) converts the Corporation for National and Community Service into the AmeriCorps Administration and revises its membership, leadership, and authority; (2) reauthorizes programs carried out by the administration; (3) establishes a National Service Foundation to accept and administer gifts on behalf of the administration; (4) modifies the calculation of national service educational awards; and (5) otherwise modifies provisions related to national and volunteer service programs.
 
Additionally, the bill creates an interagency Civilian Climate Corps, operated by the administration, to conduct service projects addressing climate change.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S614)
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-3623
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2022-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Aging
Assault and harassment offenses
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Commemorative events and holidays
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Justice
Detention of persons
Disability and paralysis
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Firearms and explosives
Genetics
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Human trafficking
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial procedure and administration
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Marriage and family status
Medical education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Minority health
Nursing
Photography and imaging
Pornography
Rural conditions and development
Separation, divorce, custody, support
Sex offenses
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Small business
Smuggling and trafficking
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local courts
State and local government operations
Violent crime
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: 

Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022

 
This bill modifies and reauthorizes through FY2027 programs and activities under the Violence Against Women Act that seek to prevent and respond to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. 
 
The bill also authorizes new programs, makes changes to federal criminal laws, and establishes new protections to promote housing stability and economic security for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-10
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 268.
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S614-615)
action_date: 2022-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Shoreline Health Oversight, Restoration, Resilience, and Enhancement Act

Bill: 117-s-3624
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2022-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-10
text: 

Shoreline Health Oversight, Restoration, Resilience, and Enhancement Act

 
This bill provides for the development of water and water-related resources projects and activities with a particular emphasis on those carried out by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 
 
Among other things, the bill 
 
 
revises and modifies the flood mitigation and riverine restoration program to include coverage of coastal storm damage;
 
authorizes the Corps to carry out specified water resources development and conservation projects in accordance with plans laid out in designated reports or decision documents; 
 
 authorizes the Department of the Army to continue periodic nourishment for specified projects for coastal storm risk management for an additional period of 50 years; 
 
 authorizes the Army to use funds for water resources development purposes to carry out, at full federal expense, a measure located on, or benefitting, federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of another federal agency under specified conditions; 
 
authorizes the Army to provide in advance the federal share of funds required for the acquisition of land, easements, and rights-of-way for, and the relocation of, certain projects;
 
directs the Army to establish a program to provide environmental assistance to nonfederal interests in the Chattahoochee River Basin; and 
 
requires the Army to expedite the replacement of the Mississippi River mat sinking unit.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2022-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Employee Retention Tax Credit Reinstatement Act

Bill: 117-s-3625
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2022-02-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment taxes
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2022-02-10
text: 

Employee Retention Tax Credit Reinstatement Act

 
This bill provides for a reinstatement of the employee retention tax credit through 2021. The credit was established to compensate employers whose businesses were negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic for wages paid to their employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2022-02-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2022-02-10
text: Introduced in Senate