hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Trump Assassination Attempt Transparency Act

Bill: 118-s-4790
Sponsor: Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Continuity in Veterans Health Act

Bill: 118-s-4791
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Countering CCP Drones and Supporting Drones for Law Enforcement Act

Bill: 118-s-4792
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: 

Countering CCP Drones and Supporting Drones for Law Enforcement Act

This bill prohibits the sale or operation in the United States of certain drone models manufactured in China, and authorizes funding for state and local law enforcement to purchase and use approved drones. 

Specifically, the bill requires the inclusion of certain equipment and software produced by the Chinese drone makers Shenzhen Da-Jiang Innovations Sciences and Technologies Company Limited (DJI Technologies) and Autel Robotics on a list of equipment determined by the Federal Communications Commission to pose an unacceptable risk to U.S. national security. Current law prohibits the sale or operation in the U.S. of any new equipment on the list. Under the bill, DJI Technologies and Autel Robotics would be prohibited from marketing or selling any drone model released after the addition of the companies to the list. 

The bill also temporarily authorizes the Department of Transportation to award grants to state and local law enforcement for the purchase and use of drones not manufactured or assembled in, or containing software or critical components from, specified foreign countries of concern. 

Finally, the bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) to consider, through annual review of its list of Chinese military companies, whether any company that manufactures drones should be included in that list. Under current law, DOD is required to publish and annually update a list of companies that are owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, the Chinese military. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
United States-India Defense Cooperation Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-4793
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Claiming Age Clarity Act

Bill: 118-s-4794
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Combat Action Recognition and Evaluation (CARE) for Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Crews Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-4798
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Discount Window Enhancement Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-4799
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Waterfront Community Revitalization and Resiliency Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-4800
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Relief for Coerced Debt Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-4801
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: 

Tax Relief for Coerced Debt Act of 2024

This bill excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, income resulting from the discharge of coerced indebtedness. Under the bill, indebtedness of an individual is treated as coerced indebtedness if it was incurred as the result of the unknowing and unauthorized use of the individual's personal indentifying information, or by reason of economic abuse, intimidation, force, fraud, or deception, and the individual debtor was relieved of personal liability for the debt by a court judgment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 31143 State Highway 65 in Pengilly, Minnesota, as the "First Lieutenant Richard Arne Koski Post Office".

Bill: 118-s-4803
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Minnesota
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2024-12-19
text: 
This bill designates the facility of the U.S. Postal Service located at 31143 State Highway 65 in Pengilly, Minnesota, as the First Lieutenant Richard Arne Koski Post Office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-20
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2024-12-20
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2024-12-20
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2024-12-19
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7199; text: CR S7199)
action_date: 2024-12-19
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2024-09-25
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 534.
action_date: 2024-09-25
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-09-25
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-09-25
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Over Wealth Act

Bill: 118-s-4804
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: 

Health Over Wealth Act

This bill establishes a series of restrictions and requirements regarding for-profit corporations that own health care entities.

Specifically, the bill requires for-profit corporations that are controlled by private equity funds to obtain a license from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) before purchasing or investing in a health care entity. Additionally, for-profit corporations that own or are affiliated with health care entities must report certain ownership and financial information to HHS, such as the corporation's debts, assets, and political spending. The bill establishes civil penalties for violations.

HHS must require for-profit corporations that are controlled by private equity funds to take certain actions to mitigate the risk of health care disruptions (e.g., escrow accounts to cover closures). In addition, as a condition of Medicare participation, hospitals must notify HHS about expected closures or discontinuations of services at least 90 days in advance.

The bill also prohibits transactions between for-profit corporations or their affiliated health care entities and real estate investment trusts (REITs) if the transaction would weaken the health care entity's financial status; HHS may collect civil penalties and bring civil actions for violations. The bill additionally excludes rent from health care entities from factoring into whether a corporation may be considered a REIT for tax purposes.

Finally, the bill prohibits investment companies from stripping assets from health care entities, and it requires bankruptcy courts to give substantial weight to how a bankruptcy plan involving health care entities would preserve health care quality and access. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
FREE Act

Bill: 118-s-4805
Sponsor: Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Wildfire Victim Tax Relief and Recovery Act

Bill: 118-s-4806
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: 

Wildfire Victim Tax Relief and Recovery Act

This bill allows farmers to defer taxes on gain from the sale or exchange of livestock because of a fire. (Conditions apply.) The bill also allows individuals to exclude from gross income (for tax purposes) certain disaster relief payments received in connection with specific Texas wildfires.

Currently, farmers may defer gain on the sale or exchange of livestock (other than poultry) held for draft, breeding, or dairy purposes due to drought, flood, or other weather-related conditions for two years (four years if attributable to a federally-declared disaster). Otherwise, under current law, gain on the sale of livestock (including poultry) due to such weather-related conditions attributable to a federally-declared disaster may be deferred for one year. (Conditions apply.)

The bill adds fire to the list of circumstances for which the gain on the sale or exchange of livestock may be deferred, thus allowing farmers to defer such gains for up to four years (depending on the type of livestock and whether the sale is attributable to a federally-declared disaster).

The bill also allows individuals to exclude from gross income payments received from federal, state, or local government agencies or Xcel Energy (or any subsidiary, insurer, or agent of Xcel Energy) as compensation for unreimbursed losses, damages, and certain expenses attributable to the

Smokehouse Creek, 687 Reamer, and Roughneck Fires (Hutchinson County, Texas, February and March 2024);

Windy Deuce Fire (Moore County, Texas, February 2024); and

Grape Vine Creek Fire (Gray County, Texas, February 2024).



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Workforce Opportunities for Communities in Recovery Act

Bill: 118-s-4807
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act

Bill: 118-s-4808
Sponsor: Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Angel Tax Credit Act

Bill: 118-s-4809
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: 

Angel Tax Credit Act

This bill allows a new business-related tax credit for 25% of equity investments of $25,000 or more in a domestic corporation or partnership that (1) has its headquarters in the United States, (2) has gross revenue for the taxable year of less than $1 million, (3) employs fewer than 25 full-time employees, (4) has been in existence for less than 7 years as of the date of the investment, (5) has more than 50% of its employees performing substantially all of their services in the United States, and (6) is engaged in a high technology trade or business. The bill limits the allowable amount of such credit to $250,000 in any taxable year and imposes an overall limitation on such credit of $500 million for each of calendar years 2025-2029. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
OCTOPUS Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-4810
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Prevention Services for Youth Act

Bill: 118-s-4811
Sponsor: Sen. Butler, Laphonza R. [D-CA]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening Supports for Youth Act

Bill: 118-s-4812
Sponsor: Sen. Butler, Laphonza R. [D-CA]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Cyber Ready Workforce Act

Bill: 118-s-4813
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Transportation Assistance for Olympic and World Cup Cities Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-4814
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Loan Accountability Act

Bill: 118-s-4815
Sponsor: Sen. Romney, Mitt [R-UT]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: 

Student Loan Accountability Act

This bill generally prohibits the Departments of Education, Justice, or the Treasury from taking any action to cancel or forgive the outstanding balances, or portion of balances, of covered loans. 
Covered loans
 refer to Federal Family Education Loans, Federal Direct Loans, Federal Perkins Loans, and loans under the Health Education Assistance Loan Program.

The prohibition does not apply to targeted federal student loan forgiveness, cancellation, or repayment programs that are in effect by final regulation on May 11, 2022, and carried out under the Higher Education Act of 1965.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Alabama Underwater Forest National Marine Sanctuary and Protection Act

Bill: 118-s-4816
Sponsor: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-4817
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Safeguarding Americans From Extremist Risk (SAFER) at the Border Act

Bill: 118-s-4818
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2024-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2024-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Fully Funding our National Security Priorities Act

Bill: 118-s-4819
Sponsor: Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2024-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
HIRRE Prosecutors Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-4820
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2024-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Accelerating Broadband Permits Act

Bill: 118-s-4821
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2024-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act

Bill: 118-s-4822
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2024-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
School administration
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: 

Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act

This bill requires each local educational agency (LEA), as a condition of receiving federal elementary and secondary education funds, to ensure that each elementary and secondary school served by the LEA notifies parents of their rights to request and receive information regarding foreign influence (e.g., influence by China) in schools.

These rights include the right to

review (and make copies of at no cost) any curricular or professional development material used at the school that was obtained using funds received from a foreign government or a foreign entity of concern;

know, by written response, how many school personnel are compensated using funds received from a foreign government or a foreign entity of concern; and

know, by written response, information about funding from or agreements (e.g., contracts) with a foreign country or a foreign entity of concern.

Parents must submit a written request for this information.

Each school must post on a publicly accessible website (or otherwise widely disseminate to the public) a summary notice of parental rights under the bill. 

The bill requires the Department of Education to notify state educational agencies (SEAs) about the bill's requirements. Each SEA must, as a condition of receiving federal elementary and secondary education funds, notify LEAs about the bill's requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Businesses before Bureaucrats Act

Bill: 118-s-4823
Sponsor: Sen. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK]
Introduced: 2024-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-4824
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2024-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
SHUSH Act

Bill: 118-s-4825
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2024-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Audit the IRS Act

Bill: 118-s-4826
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2024-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: 

Audit the IRS Act 

This bill prohibits an individual who has a seriously delinquent tax debt from being appointed, or continue serving, as an officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service.

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Dietary Supplement Listing Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-4827
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2024-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S5552-5553)
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Bahsahwahbee National Monument Act

Bill: 118-s-4828
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2024-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Hearing Device Coverage Clarification Act

Bill: 118-s-4829
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2024-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Combatting Money Laundering in Cyber Crime Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-4830
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2024-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Families Care Act

Bill: 118-s-4831
Sponsor: Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC]
Introduced: 2024-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2024-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Lulu’s Law

Bill: 118-s-4832
Sponsor: Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL]
Introduced: 2024-07-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2024-07-30
text: 

Lulu’s Law

This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission to amend the rules governing wireless emergency alerts to explicitly permit authorized governments to transmit alerts to mobile phones in the event of a shark attack. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2024-07-30
text: Introduced in Senate