hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Nurse Corps Tax Parity Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1446
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 
 
Nurse Corps Tax Parity Act of 2023 

 
This bill excludes from taxpayer gross income, for income tax purposes, amounts attributable to Nurse Corps scholarships and loan repayment programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1447
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act of 2023

 
This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a grant program for specified trauma centers and nonprofits to establish or expand intervention or prevention programs related to intentional violent trauma, excluding intimate partner violence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Grandfamily Housing Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1448
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Family relationships
Family services
Housing and community development funding
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Grandfamily Housing Act of 2023

 
This bill establishes grants through the Department of Housing and Urban Development for owners of intergenerational dwellings. Grants must be used to (1) provide services such as tutoring, health care services, and after-school care; (2) perform outreach to intergenerational families in the surrounding community; and (3) maintain spaces within the property to be used for programs and services for intergenerational families.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
RESTART Act

Bill: 118-s-1449
Sponsor: Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Revitalizing the Economy by Simplifying Timelines and Assuring Regulatory Transparency Act or the RESTART Act

 
This bill limits, accelerates timelines under, or otherwise modifies several environmental laws.
 
Specifically, it accelerates, coordinates, and limits the environmental review of federal actions under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. For example, it (1) establishes deadlines for completing any Environmental Assessment or Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), (2) directs agencies to prepare a single environmental document (e.g., EIS), and (3) limits judicial review.
 
The bill also prohibits agencies from using estimates for the social cost of greenhouse gases when taking agency actions if such use may increase the cost of energy or prolong the timeline for taking actions.
 
It also revises the Clean Air Act, including to allow existing facilities to make certain modifications without obtaining new permits under the New Source Review program.
 
The bill also revises the Clean Water Act, including to (1) provide statutory authority for the definition of 
waters of the United States
 in the 2020 navigable waters protection rule, and (2) limit the scope of water quality certifications.
 
It also modifies the underground injection control program to accelerate the review of state applications to obtain responsibility under the Safe Drinking Water Act for regulating Class VI wells, which are used to store captured carbon.
 
In addition, the bill accelerates the timelines for the consultation process under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
 
Finally, the bill establishes requirements to expedite the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Cutting Medicare Prescription Drug Prices in Half Act

Bill: 118-s-1450
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
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: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Competition for Better Care Act

Bill: 118-s-1451
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Competition and antitrust
Contracts and agency
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1452
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Mental health
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to award competitive grants for planning and implementing community mental wellness and resilience programs through networks of schools, businesses, health and human services providers, and other community groups. These programs take a public health approach to build the capacity of the community to detect, prevent, and heal mental health, behavioral health, and psychosocial conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
LOCAL Infrastructure Act

Bill: 118-s-1453
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Lifting Our Communities through Advance Liquidity for Infrastructure Act or the LOCAL Infrastructure Act

 
This bill reinstates tax provisions relating to advance refunding bonds. An
 advance refunding bond 
is a tax-exempt bond issued by a state or municipality to refinance or consolidate existing bond obligations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Athlete Opportunity and Taxpayer Integrity Act

Bill: 118-s-1454
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 
 
Athlete Opportunity and Taxpayer Integrity Act 

 
This bill denies a tax deduction for contributions (except contributions made directly to certain institutions of higher education) used to compensate one or more secondary or post-secondary school athletes for the use of their names, images, or likenesses by reason of their status as athletes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S1536)
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Jobs Act

Bill: 118-s-1455
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Rural Jobs Act 

 
This bill allocates an additional $500 million in 2023 and another $500 million in 2024 for new markets tax credit investments in the Rural Jobs Zone (an area comprised of low-income communities with populations not greater than 50,000 that are not adjacent to an urbanized area). The bill also requires that at least 25% of such investments be made in areas that are persistent poverty counties, high migration rural counties, or both.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
SPUR Act

Bill: 118-s-1456
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Spur Permitting of Underdeveloped Resources Act or the SPUR Act

 
This bill (1) accelerates the environmental review of certain federal actions related to energy; (2) modifies various laws pertaining to energy and mineral development; (3) establishes requirements related to the supply and delivery of electricity and natural gas; and (4) makes requirements concerning other natural resources.
 
Specifically, the bill sets forth provisions to expedite the environmental review of certain federal actions that involve energy and mineral development, energy supply, or natural resources, such as issuing permits to export liquefied natural gas.
 
It also establishes requirements about leasing onshore and offshore federal land for oil and gas development, including by directing the Department of the Interior to immediately resume onshore quarterly lease sales. By September 30, 2023, Interior must also approve a final 2023-2028 offshore leasing program.
 
The bill also sets forth provisions to prevent or remove certain limitations on mining federal land and make related requirements.
 
In addition, the bill directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to adopt tariff provisions, rate treatments, and other changes that are necessary to protect the adequacy, affordability, reliability, and security of the supply and delivery of electricity and natural gas by interstate pipelines. The bill also modifies FERC's responsibilities under a variety of laws.
 
Finally, the bill modifies other laws governing natural resources, such as by extending the renewal term for grazing permits and directing the Bureau of Land Management to withdraw a proposed rule titled 
Conservation and Landscape Health
.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
SECURE Small Business Act

Bill: 118-s-1458
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Strengthening and Enhancing Cybersecurity Usage to Reach Every Small Business Act or the SECURE Small Business Act

 
This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to help small businesses purchase cybersecurity products and services.
 
Specifically, the SBA must establish a website that provides a marketplace for facilitating agreements under which small businesses may cooperatively purchase cybersecurity products and services. Such website shall be free to use for small businesses and cybersecurity vendors. The SBA must also take steps to educate small businesses about the types of cybersecurity products and services that are specific to each industry sector and provide outreach to encourage use of the cooperative marketplace.
 
The Government Accountability Office must study and report on potential improvements to existing federal initiatives that train small businesses on how to avoid cybersecurity threats. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
MOBILE Act

Bill: 118-s-1459
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Mobility Aids On Board Improve Lives and Empower All Act or the MOBILE Act

This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to issue regulations related to the accommodations that air carriers and foreign air carriers make for passengers with wheelchairs (including power wheelchairs, manual wheelchairs, and scooters); DOT must also develop a road map and study the issue.

Specifically, air carriers must publish the dimensions of aircraft cargo holds. An air carrier must offer a full refund to an individual with a disability who is traveling with a wheelchair and cannot fly on the existing aircraft because the cargo hold cannot physically accommodate the wheelchair.

DOT must also

evaluate data on the mishandling of wheelchairs on aircraft (e.g., damages, delays, or loss) and submit a publicly available report to Congress, which must include DOT's plans to address issues in the report;

submit a strategic road map to Congress describing how DOT and the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (the Access Board) will establish a research program on the feasibility of main cabin wheelchair restraint systems; and

study, if DOT first determines doing so would be technically feasible, the economic and financial feasibility of air carriers accommodating passengers with wheelchairs in the main cabin during flight.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Firearm Safety Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1460
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Firearms and explosives
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Firearm Safety Act of 2023

 
This bill allows the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue safety standards for firearms and firearm components. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Human Trafficking of Unaccompanied Migrant Children Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1461
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Stop Human Trafficking of Unaccompanied Migrant Children Act of 2023

 
This bill imposes additional requirements relating to placing unaccompanied alien children with sponsors. (Under federal law, an 
unaccompanied alien child
 is a minor with no lawful immigration status and no parent or legal guardian in the United States to provide care and physical custody.)
 
Before the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may release such a child to a sponsor, the sponsor must complete a fingerprint background check and vetting that includes (1) a public records check, (2) a National Sex Offender Registry check, (3) a Federal Bureau of Investigation National Criminal History Check, (4) a child abuse and neglect check, and (5) state and local criminal history checks. Each adult in the sponsor's household must also undergo such vetting before the placement. 
 
Currently, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within HHS conducts background checks of potential sponsors, which includes fingerprinting and checks of criminal public records and sex offender registries. ORR also vets adults in the sponsor's household in certain cases, such as if the sponsor is unrelated to the child, but this vetting may be waived or relaxed.
 
The bill also requires HHS to visit the home of a proposed sponsor before the placement and to conduct periodic home visits after. 
 
A child may not be placed with a sponsor who is unlawfully present in the United States unless the sponsor is the child's parent, relative, or legal guardian. 
 
HHS must retroactively apply these vetting standards to all sponsors for placements made since January 20, 2021. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
LEOSA Reform Act

Bill: 118-s-1462
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

LEOSA Reform Act

 
This bill broadens the authority for certain individuals to carry concealed firearms in school zones and across state lines. 
 
Specifically, the bill exempts the following categories of individuals from the federal prohibition on possessing (or discharging) a firearm in a school zone:
 
 
certain active and retired law enforcement officers who are authorized to carry concealed firearms under federal law, and
 
individuals who are allowed to carry concealed firearms under the law of a state. 
 
 
Additionally, the bill allows qualified active and retired law enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms and ammunition (including magazines) in national parks; on state, local, or private property that is open to the public; and in certain federal facilities that are open to the public.
 
Finally, the bill permits states to reduce the frequency with which retired law enforcement officers must meet certain qualification standards. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish a defense industrial base advanced capabilities pilot program.

Bill: 118-s-1463
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 
This bill requires the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment within the Department of Defense to implement a five-year pilot program to create a robust and resilient defense industrial base. The program must be implemented through public-private partnerships to accelerate the scaling, production, and acquisition of advanced capabilities for national security by creating incentives (e.g., loan guarantees) for investment in domestic small business or nontraditional businesses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Enhancing DHS Drug Seizures Act

Bill: 118-s-1464
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Crimes against property
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Enhancing DHS Drug Seizures Act

 
This bill addresses various issues related to border security and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
 
Under this bill, DHS employees may receive danger pay while stationed in a foreign area while that area is experiencing certain conditions, such as civil war, that threaten physical harm or imminent danger to the employee. The danger pay may be for up to 35% of the employee's basic pay. 
 
Furthermore, DHS may waive reimbursement for the salaries of DHS employees providing training to foreign-vetted law enforcement or national security units under an agreement with the Department of Defense. 
 
The bill also authorizes U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide air and marine support to foreign governments for certain operations, such as an operation to deter illegal drugs from entering the United States. 
 
The bill also makes it a crime to destroy or significantly damage physical or electronic devices (e.g., fences or cameras) used by the federal government to control a U.S. international border with the intent to achieve certain goals relating to securing financial gain and breaking federal laws. Similarly, it shall be a crime to knowingly track, monitor, or transmit the activities of federal, state, or local law enforcement officers with the intent to achieve such goals.
 
The crimes established by this bill shall be punishable by fines, imprisonment of up to five years, or both. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-10-03
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 220.
action_date: 2023-10-03
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-104.
action_date: 2023-10-03
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-104.
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Baltic Security Initiative Act

Bill: 118-s-1465
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2023-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Baltic Security Initiative Act

This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to carry out an initiative to deepen security cooperation with Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. 

The goals of this initiative include (1) achieving U.S. national security objectives by deterring Russian aggression; (2) enhancing regional planning and cooperation among these countries, particularly with respect to long-term regional capabilities such as long-range precision fire systems and integrated air and missile defense; and (3) improving these countries' cyber defenses.

DOD must also submit to Congress a strategy for accomplishing these goals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text: CR S1536)
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate