hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
COVID–19 Mine Worker Protection Act

Bill: 117-s-184
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Coal
Department of Labor
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Mining
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

COVID-19 Mine Worker Protection Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Labor to promulgate health and safety standards to protect coal miners from occupational exposure to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). Labor shall promulgate emergency standards within seven days of this bill's enactment, and such emergency standards shall be in force until permanent standards are established.
 
Labor shall also collect data to track and investigate cases of exposure to COVID-19 among coal miners.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Cancel the Coin Act

Bill: 117-s-185
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Currency

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Cancel the Coin Act

 
This bill prohibits the Department of the Treasury from minting or issuing any coin, including platinum bullion coins and proof platinum coins, having a nominal or face value exceeding $200.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Early Educators Apprenticeship Act

Bill: 117-s-186
Sponsor: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2021-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Child care and development
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Housing and community development funding
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Rural conditions and development
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: 

Early Educators Apprenticeship Act 

 
This bill establishes a grant program to award to partnerships&#8212;which may include employers, institutions of higher education, labor unions, and community-based organizations&#8212;the federal share of the costs of apprenticeship programs focused on early childhood education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Pandemic Emergency Manufacturing Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-187
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Blood and blood diseases
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Genetics
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Immunology and vaccination
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Inflation and prices
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Marketing and advertising
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Minority health
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement
Public participation and lobbying
State and local government operations
Strategic materials and reserves
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

Pandemic Emergency Manufacturing Act of 2021

 
This bill establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) an Emergency Office of Manufacturing for Public Health to manufacture and distribute medical products to address COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) or medical products that are on shortage or vulnerable to shortage.
 
The office must (1) obtain the rights to manufacture the applicable medicines, ingredients, diagnostic tests, medical devices, personal protective equipment, and supplies; (2) manufacture or contract to manufacture such items; and (3) construct, or enter into construction contracts for, facilities to manufacture certain medicines, such as vaccines.
 
HHS may issue involuntary licenses allowing the office to make, use, sell, import, or export an invention related to an applicable drug, biological product, or device and to use clinical trial data and confidential information. Such a license must provide the rights holder with reasonable compensation.
 
The office must (1) provide such COVID-19 products at no cost to federal, state, local, and other health programs and certain domestic health care providers and suppliers; (2) offer COVID-19 products at cost to other commercial and international entities; and (3) offer other medical products to entities at a fair price, based on cost and other considerations. 
 
The office shall prioritize the manufacture of certain COVID-19 products and meet manufacturing timelines specified in the bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Coronavirus Containment Corps Act

Bill: 117-s-188
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Federal-Indian relations
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Intergovernmental relations
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Minority employment
Minority health
Performance measurement
Racial and ethnic relations
Right of privacy
Rural conditions and development
State and local government operations
Unemployment
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

Coronavirus Containment Corps Act

 
This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop, within 21 days, a nationwide contact tracing strategy for COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) that addresses issues including workforce needs.
 
To implement that strategy, the bill establishes grant programs in the CDC and the Indian Health Service (IHS). It also expands programs in the Department of Labor.
 
The CDC must award grants to state and local health departments to, among other purposes, hire and train individuals for contact tracing positions and related roles. The IHS must award similar grants to tribes and tribal organizations. Additionally, Labor must award grants for states and other jurisdictions to support recruitment and employment of dislocated workers and other individuals in public health roles.
 
Grants and contracts that include contact tracing in their scope of work must comply with prevailing wage requirements that apply to federal service contracts. Employees who work under such grants or contracts must receive similar compensation to that prevailing in the locality where work is performed.
 
The CDC and Labor must report certain information on specified timelines, and the Government Accountability Office must evaluate the activities of grantees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Ethan's Law

Bill: 117-s-190
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

Ethan's Law

 
This bill establishes a framework to regulate the storage of firearms on residential premises at the federal, state, and tribal levels.
 
At the federal level, the bill establishes statutory requirements for firearms on residential premises to be safely stored if a minor is likely to gain access without permission or if a resident is ineligible to possess a firearm.
 
An individual who violates the requirements is subject to criminal penalties. A firearm stored in violation of the requirements is subject to seizure and forfeiture.
 
At the state and tribal levels, the bill requires the Department of Justice to award grants to implement functionally identical requirements for the safe storage of firearms. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
FALSE Act

Bill: 117-s-191
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

Federal Actors Lying Should be Eliminated Act or the FALSE Act

 
This bill requires the removal of federal employees who knowingly and willfully make false statements to the government, misappropriate funds, or enter inaccurate information into the government's public spending website (USAspending.gov).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
River Democracy Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-192
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Air quality
Aquatic ecology
California
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Federal-Indian relations
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Fishes
Forests, forestry, trees
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Oregon
Wetlands
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

River Democracy Act of 2021

 
This bill designates specified river segments, primarily in Oregon, as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-06-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Sponsor Introductory remarks on measure: CR S319-320)
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Adopt GREET Act

Bill: 117-s-193
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Motor fuels

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

Adopt the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation model Act or the Adopt GREET Act

 
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to update the methodology used in life-cycle analyses of greenhouse gas emissions that result from the production and use of corn-based ethanol and biodiesel fuel. The EPA must update its methodology within 90 days and every five years thereafter. In the first update, the EPA must adopt the most recent Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation model (commonly referred to as the GREET model) developed by Argonne National Laboratory. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text: S320)
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
SERVE Act

Bill: 117-s-194
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Government information and archives
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Mental health
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Nutrition and diet
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

Supporting Eating Disorders Recovery Through Vital Expansion Act or the SERVE Act

 
This bill provides for inpatient and outpatient treatment of eating disorders under TRICARE for dependents of members of the uniformed services. Dependents are eligible for such care regardless of their age, except with respect to residential service.
 
The bill also requires the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (with respect to the Coast Guard) to identify, treat, and rehabilitate members of the armed forces who have an eating disorder.
 
Finally, DOD and the Department of Veterans Affairs must jointly develop, publish, and disseminate clinical practice criteria and guidelines on the identification and treatment of eating disorders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
SAFE TO DRIVE Act

Bill: 117-s-195
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

States Afforded Funding Extensions To Oppose Driving Recklessly In Vehicular Engagements Act or the SAFE TO DRIVE Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Transportation to use up to 25% of the amounts available for national priority safety program grants to award grants to any state that certifies it has enacted a distracted driving statute that (1) is applicable to drivers of all ages, (2) makes a violation of the statute a primary offense, and (3) prohibits texting or all non-navigational viewing of a personal wireless communications device.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Nonprofit Energy Efficiency Act

Bill: 117-s-196
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Building construction
Educational facilities and institutions
Energy efficiency and conservation
Health facilities and institutions
Materials
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

Nonprofit Energy Efficiency Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Energy to establish a pilot program to award grants for providing nonprofit buildings with energy-efficiency materials.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
CREATE JOBS Act

Bill: 117-s-197
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business expenses
Income tax deductions
Real estate business
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

Cost Recovery and Expensing Acceleration to Transform the Economy and Jumpstart Opportunities for Businesses and Startups Act or the CREATE JOBS Act

 
This bill allows permanent expensing of qualified property (i.e., property with a recovery period of 20 years or less and that is computer software, water utility property, or film, television, or live theatrical production property). It also modifies depreciation provisions for residential rental property and nonresidential real property. 
 
The bill repeals provisions for the amortization of research and experimental expenditures, thus providing for direct expensing of such expenditures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Secure Data and Privacy for Contact Tracing Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-199
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Immunology and vaccination
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Performance measurement
Right of privacy
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

Secure Data and Privacy for Contact Tracing Act of 2021

 
This bill establishes grants for state, tribal, and territorial health departments to incorporate digital contact tracing technology in COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) contact tracing programs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must award the grants.
 
Any technology developed or procured with these grants must meet privacy, security, and other conditions. Grantees that acquire technology that does not meet these conditions lose eligibility for this, and future, funding for COVID-19 contact tracing technology.
 
In addition, federal privacy standards for personal health information expressly apply to information transmitted or maintained by grant-funded programs. Current law restricts the use and disclosure of personal health information by health care providers, health plans, health clearinghouses, and their business associates. However, there is an exception to these standards for information used by, or disclosed to, a public health authority.
 
The bill also prohibits the use of data derived from the contact tracing technology in legal proceedings or for immigration enforcement.
 
The Government Accountability Office must evaluate this program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Relaunching America’s Workforce Act

Bill: 117-s-200
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Aging
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child care and development
Child health
Community life and organization
Computers and information technology
Disability assistance
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Economic development
Economic performance and conditions
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment and training programs
Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Higher education
Home and outpatient care
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Labor-management relations
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Mental health
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Military personnel and dependents
Minority education
Minority employment
Nutrition and diet
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public-private cooperation
Retail and wholesale trades
Rural conditions and development
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Transportation costs
Transportation employees
Unemployment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education
Women's health
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

Relaunching America's Workforce Act 

 
This bill establishes several grant programs to address employment, the workforce, and education access in response to the COVID-19 national emergency. 
 
The Department of Labor must provide grants in response to the COVID-19 national emergency to
 
 
provide training and employment for dislocated, unemployed, and underemployed workers; 
 
support youth employment; 
 
establish workforce information systems improvements; 
 
provide reentry employment opportunities for justice system-involved youth or young adults, formerly incarcerated youths or adults, and former offenders; and 
 
 create or expand apprenticeship programs. 
 
 
Programs directed towards assisting Native Americans and migrant and seasonal farmworkers may be extended. 
 
The Department of Education must provide grants to expand the capacity of adult education providers to prioritize serving adults with low-literacy or numeracy levels negatively impacted by the COVID-19 national emergency, and to improve or expand career and technical education programs and programs of study to respond to state and local needs as a result of the COVID-19 national emergency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Access to Health Care in Rural and Underserved Areas Act

Bill: 117-s-201
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

Improving Access to Health Care in Rural and Underserved Areas Act

 
This bill directs the Health Resources and Services Administration to award up to 100 grants for federally qualified health centers or rural health clinics to provide accredited continuing medical education to their primary care providers. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Care for Veterans During COVID Act

Bill: 117-s-202
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2021-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health facilities and institutions
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: 

Emergency Care for Veterans During COVID Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to furnish veterans who are enrolled in the VA health care system with emergency treatment at non-VA facilities during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency. The VA may not require such veterans to seek authorization for such emergency treatment during this time. The bill also sets forth the payment rates and procedures for such emergency treatment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2021-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate