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Child Care for Working Families Act

Bill: 118-s-1354
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Adoption and foster care
Appropriations
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability assistance
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Family services
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government information and archives
Higher education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
Mental health
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Poverty and welfare assistance
Preschool education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Special education
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula
U.S. territories and protectorates
Wages and earnings

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
PASTEUR Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1355
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Appropriations
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug therapy
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical research
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 

Pioneering Antimicrobial Subscriptions To End Upsurging Resistance Act of 2023 or the PASTEUR Act

 of 

2023

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enter into subscription contracts for critical-need antimicrobial drugs, provides $6 billion in appropriations for activities under the bill, and contains other related provisions. 
 
A manufacturer of a Food and Drug Administration-approved antimicrobial drug may apply to HHS to have the drug designated as a critical-need antimicrobial, and HHS may enter into a subscription contract for such a critical-need antimicrobial. The bill imposes certain requirements related to such contracts, including a mechanism to lower payments under the contract in certain instances to limit the manufacturer's revenue from the drug. 
 
Furthermore, HHS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shall award grants to support efforts to encourage the appropriate use of antimicrobial drugs and efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance. The CDC shall also track and assess data relating to antibacterial resistance and human antibiotic use and make such data publicly available.
 
HHS shall also establish a Committee on Critical Need Antimicrobials. The committee shall develop a list of prioritized infections for which new antimicrobial drug development is needed, among other duties.
 
Within six years of the bill's enactment, the Government Accountability Office shall report to Congress a study on the bill's effectiveness in developing priority antimicrobial drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
ASSESS AI Act

Bill: 118-s-1356
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 

Assuring Safe, Secure, Ethical, and Stable Systems for AI Act or the ASSESS AI Act

 
This bill directs the President to appoint a task force to assess the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties implications of artificial intelligence (AI).
 
The task force shall
 
 
assess existing policy, regulatory, and legal gaps for AI applications and associated data; and
 
make recommendations to Congress and the President for legislative and regulatory reforms to ensure that uses of AI and associated data in federal government operations comport with freedom of expression, equal protection, privacy, civil liberties, civil rights, and due process.
 
 
The task force may (1) engage with representatives from a private sector organization, subject to specified requirements; and (2) recommend to Congress the creation of a similar task force focused on another emerging technology.
 
The task force shall terminate 18 months after its establishment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Responsible Digital Asset Advertising Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1357
Sponsor: Sen. Sinema, Kyrsten [I-AZ]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 

Responsible Digital Asset Advertising Act of 2023 

 
This bill sets forth requirements for the advertising of digital assets. Advertisements must not make any false or misleading claims or omit any material fact or qualification. Advertisements must also disclose applicable fees and whether someone was paid for a testimonial. 
 
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission must enforce this bill and may collect fees to offset the cost of supervising these advertisements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
LAKES Act

Bill: 118-s-1358
Sponsor: Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 

Lake Access Keeping Economies Strong Act or the LAKES Act

 
This bill modifies requirements relating to the collection and retention of user fees at certain recreation facilities.
 
Specifically, the bill modifies requirements for a cost-sharing program for the management of recreation facilities established by the Water Resources Development Act of 1992. Currently, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may enter into cooperative agreements with nonfederal public and private entities to provide for operation and management of recreation facilities and natural resources at civil works projects. The bill requires private entities entering such agreements to be nonprofit.
 
The bill requires the Corps, before entering into a cooperative agreement, to ensure that such entities have the authority and capability to (1) carry out the terms of the agreement, and (2) pay any damages in the event of a failure to perform.
 
It also authorizes the Corps to allow private nonprofit entities to collect user fees. Currently, only nonfederal public entities may collect such fees.
 
The bill also authorizes the Corps and other federal agencies to transfer to nonfederal public entities or private nonprofit entities user fees received by the Corps or another federal agency under a visitor reservation service for recreation facilities and natural resources managed by the nonfederal public entities or private nonprofit entities.
 
In addition, the bill modifies requirements under the Flood Control Act of 1968 to direct the Corps to spend at least 80% of the fees collected at a recreational site for the operation and maintenance of that site.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
CLAIM Act

Bill: 118-s-1359
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 

Clarifying Law Around Insurance of Marijuana Act or the CLAIM Act 

 
This bill generally provides a safe harbor from penalties or other adverse agency action for insurance companies that provide services to cannabis-related legitimate businesses in jurisdictions where such activity is legal. 
 
The Government Accountability Office must report on barriers to marketplace entry for minority-owned and women-owned cannabis-related businesses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
PFAS Exposure Assessment and Documentation Act

Bill: 118-s-1360
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 

PFAS Exposure Assessment and Documentation Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to include in various health evaluations an assessment of whether a member of the Armed Forces has been exposed to perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly referred to as PFAS.
 
Specifically, the bill requires DOD to ensure that any periodic health assessment, physical assessment for recently separated members, pre-deployment medical examination, post-deployment medical examination, and post-deployment health reassessment provided to a member of the Armed Forces includes an evaluation of whether the member has been exposed to PFAS or was based or stationed at a military installation with a known or suspected release of PFAS during the period the member was there.
 
If any of the evaluations result in a positive determination of potential exposure to PFAS, DOD must provide blood testing during the evaluation to be included in the member's health record. 
 
DOD must pay for blood testing to determine and document potential exposure to PFAS for former members of the Armed Forces or family members of such members who lived at a location identified by DOD as having a known or suspected PFAS release during the time the individuals lived there.
 
DOD must share results of the evaluations with the Department of Veterans Affairs and establish a registry of members of the Armed Forces who have been exposed to, or suspected to have been exposed to, PFAS. Members may elect to be excluded from the registry.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for floodplain easement restoration and management, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-s-1361
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 
This bill amends the Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program to allow the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide for certain floodplain easement restoration and management activities. The EWP Program offers technical and financial assistance, including the purchase of floodplain easements, to safeguard people and property from floods, drought, fires, windstorms, and other natural disasters that impair a watershed.

Under the bill, USDA may provide financial and technical assistance to restore the adapted vegetative cover and the hydrologic functions and values of wetlands on these purchased floodplain easements. USDA also has the sole discretion to enter into compatible-use agreements with landowners and agreements with government agencies and nongovernmental organizations to address the maintenance and management of the vegetative cover and wetlands restoration measures for these floodplain easements.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Transparency in CFPB Cost-Benefit Analysis Act

Bill: 118-s-1362
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 

Transparency in CFPB Cost-Benefit Analysis Act 

 
This bill sets forth information required to be included in a rulemaking made by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Specifically, the CFPB must publish a justification of the proposed rulemaking; a quantitative and qualitative assessment of all anticipated direct and indirect costs and benefits; alternatives to the proposed rulemaking; impacts on small businesses; and any assumptions, data, or studies used in preparing this information. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Repeal CFPB Act

Bill: 118-s-1363
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 

Repeal CFPB Act

 
This bill repeals the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010, which established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Agents Disclosure and Registration Enhancement Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1364
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text:  

Foreign Agents Disclosure and Registration Enhancement Act of 2023

 
This bill provides the Department of Justice (DOJ) with a mechanism to demand evidence for investigating compliance with foreign-agent disclosure requirements and increases penalties relating to such requirements. 
 
DOJ may issue civil investigative demands to a person who may have information relevant to an investigation related to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA). Such demands may be for documents, written answers to questions, or oral testimony. The bill prescribes various procedures and requirements, such as minimum notice periods when seeking oral testimony. Investigative demands may be enforced or challenged in district court. 
 
Such investigative demands may not require the production of information that would be protected from disclosure under (1) the rules governing grand jury subpoenas, or (2) the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to the extent the rules are consistent with this bill. 
 
The bill increases the maximum criminal fine for certain FARA violations from $10,000 to $200,000. Agents of a foreign principal must disclose being a FARA-registered agent before or during a meeting with a Member of Congress (or with staff of a Member or congressional committee). 
 
The bill provides for various civil penalties for failing to meet agent registration requirements. The foreign principal of a penalized agent may not pay the imposed fines.
 
The Government Accountability Office shall (1) analyze the effectiveness of FARA enforcement, and (2) audit the exemption of certain foreign agents from FARA-registration if the agent has engaged in lobbying activities and has registered under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. 

 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Conservation Reserve Program Amendments Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1365
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Endangered and threatened species
Farmland
Fruit and vegetables
Public contracts and procurement
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 

Conservation Reserve Program Amendments Act of 2023

 
This bill amends the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) of the Farm Service Agency to provide for the enrollment of citrus land in the program. CRP is a land conservation program that provides an annual rental payment to farmers in exchange for removing environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and planting species that will improve environmental health and quality.
 
Specifically, the bill allows the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to include cropland in the program that is otherwise ineligible if the land has been used to plant a citrus crop during the 10-year period preceding the date of the bill's enactment. USDA must enroll citrus land using existing continuous enrollment procedures. 
 
USDA may give priority to citrus land that is at risk of conversion or development, is of ecological significance, or is affected by huanglongbing (i.e., citrus greening, a bacterial disease spread by an insect that is known as the Asian citrus psyllida and feeds on citrus). The total acreage of citrus land enrolled in the conservation reserve must not exceed 100,000 acres for each of FY2024-FY2028.
 
Further, the bill excludes citrus land from existing adjusted gross income limitations for payments or benefits under CRP.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Forest Incentives Program Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1366
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Building construction
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Energy efficiency and conservation
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Materials
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 

Forest Incentives Program Act of 2023

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish two programs to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions. 
 
Specifically, USDA must establish (1) a forest incentives program to achieve emission reductions and carbon sequestration on private forest land through carbon incentives contracts and conservation easement agreements, and (2) an incentives program to achieve emission reductions from material choices in buildings.
 
USDA shall pay owners of forest land under a contract or agreement for (1) certain forestry practices that measurably increase carbon sequestration and storage over a designated period on such land, with appropriate crediting for the carbon benefits of harvested wood products; or (2) conservation easements on such land.
 
USDA shall pay owners of nonresidential buildings used for commercial or state or local government for using less energy-intensive commercial or industrial products in new construction or building renovation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
HELLPP Act

Bill: 118-s-1367
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicaid
Medicare
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 

Helping Ensure Life- and Limb-Saving Access to Podiatric Physicians Act or the HELLPP Act

 
This bill adds podiatrists as covered physicians under the Medicaid program. 
 
Additionally, the bill revises certain documentation requirements related to Medicare coverage of therapeutic shoes for individuals with diabetes. 
 
Finally, the bill subjects payments made to a Medicaid provider or supplier to a continuing levy for federal taxes owed by the provider or supplier. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Preventing PLA Acquisition of United States Technology Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1368
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Asia
China
Higher education
International exchange and broadcasting
Research administration and funding
Subversive activities

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text:  

Preventing PLA Acquisition of United States Technology Act of 2023

 
This bill prohibits certain types of scientific research or technical exchange between specified U.S. and Chinese entities. 
The bill's prohibition concerns research or exchange that could develop technologies identified by the Chinese Communist Party as priorities for its strategy to mobilize non-military resources and expertise for military application. Examples of such technologies include quantum computing, lasers, robotics, semiconductors, and aerospace technology. 
 
The bill prohibits such research or exchange if it is conducted between (1) federal agencies that engage in research or provide funding for research, institutions of higher education or private research institutes that receive federal financial assistance, or companies headquartered in the United States that receive federal financial assistance; and (2) certain Chinese entities with connections to China's military, such as universities that receive funding from China's military or that host military laboratories. 
 
The bill also requires the Department of Defense to establish and periodically update a website that includes a list of specific areas of research and exchange subject to this prohibition.

 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Access to Small Business Lending Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1369
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 

Fair Access to Small Business Lending Act
 
of 2023

 
This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to carry out an initiative to expand the availability of 7(a) loans to small businesses that are located in low- or moderate-income neighborhoods. (Under the 7(a) Program, the SBA provides business loans and loan guaranties to small business borrowers unable to obtain financing elsewhere.)
 
The SBA must expand authorization for providing 7(a) loans to lenders that meet the criteria to make such loans but have not otherwise been approved to do so. Such lenders must ensure that at least 50% of loans they make that are guaranteed pursuant to the bill are made to small businesses in low- or moderate-income neighborhoods.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
PREPARE Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1370
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: 

Providing Resources for Emergency Preparedness And Resilient Enterprises Act of 2023 or the PREPARE Act
 

of 2023

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 a pre-disaster mitigation program, administered by the Small Business Administration, for disbursing economic injury disaster loans to small businesses for protection of real estate, equipment, inventory, supplies, and materials. The bill also increases the amount for loans to take mitigating actions to protect damaged or destroyed property from possible future disasters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2023-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate