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Ending Qualified Immunity Act

Bill: 118-hr-2847
Sponsor: Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Ending Qualified Immunity Act

This bill eliminates the defense of qualified immunity in certain civil actions for deprivation of rights. 
Qualified immunity
 is a judicially created doctrine that protects government officials from being held personally liable for constitutional violations.

The bill provides that, under the statute allowing a civil action alleging deprivation of rights under color of state law, it shall not be a defense or immunity to any such action that (1) the defendant was acting in good faith or believed that his or her conduct was lawful at the time it was committed; (2) the rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution or federal laws were not clearly established at the time of their deprivation; or (3) the state of the law was such that the defendant could not reasonably have been expected to know whether his or her conduct was lawful.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Freedom to Move Act

Bill: 118-hr-2848
Sponsor: Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Freedom to Move Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to award competitive five-year grants (i.e., Freedom to Move Grants) to states, local governments, transit agencies, and nonprofit organizations in both rural and urban areas to cover the lost fare revenue for fare-free public transportation and improve public transportation.
 
Grants must be used to support (1) implementing a fare-free transit program; and (2) efforts to improve public transportation, particularly in underserved communities, such as costs associated with efforts to provide more safe, frequent, and reliable bus service, including bus stop safety and accessibility improvements, and pedestrian and bike shelters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Rare Earth Magnet Manufacturing Production Tax Credit Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2849
Sponsor: Rep. Reschenthaler, Guy [R-PA-14]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Manufacturing
Materials
Metals
Strategic materials and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 
 
Rare Earth Magnet Manufacturing Production Tax Credit Act of 2023 

 
This bill allows a new tax credit for the domestic production of rare earth magnets. The magnets must be manufactured or produced in the ordinary course of the taxpayer's trade or business. The credit is disallowed if any component rare earth material used to produce such magnets is produced in a non-allied foreign nation.
 
The bill defines 
rare earth magnet
 as a permanent magnet comprised of an alloy of neodymium, iron, and boron, or an alloy of samarium and cobalt, which may also include other material.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act to address the hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-hr-2850
Sponsor: Rep. Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 
This bill provides a process by which the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and Oregon may negotiate to amend or replace the existing agreement defining the tribe's hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights.
 
The current agreement, which was made effective by a January 12, 1987, consent decree by the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, serves as the exclusive and final determination of the tribe's hunting, fishing, trapping, and gathering rights. This bill instead allows a December 2, 1986, agreement between the United States, Oregon, and the tribe (known as the Grand Ronde Hunting and Fishing Agreement) to define the tribe's rights until and unless it is amended or replaced upon mutual agreement of the tribe and Oregon.
 
The bill allows the tribe and Oregon to return to the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon to request the modification or termination of the January 12, 1987, consent decree.
 
The bill prohibits a new or amended agreement from (1) affecting the other rights of the tribe or any other Indian tribe, (2) limiting Oregon from entering into separate agreements with other tribes to address the authority to take species within the geographic scope of the agreement, or (3) being used in a civil or criminal action to modify any treaty or other right of a tribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
National Apprenticeship Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2851
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Department of Labor
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Higher education
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Performance measurement
State and local government operations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Federal Firefighter Cancer Detection and Prevention Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2852
Sponsor: Rep. Slotkin, Elissa [D-MI-7]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Federal Firefighter Cancer Detection and Prevention Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to provide its firefighters with medical testing and related services to detect, document, and prevent certain cancers. DOD firefighters may opt out of such testing or services.
 
DOD must document certain information related to the offered testing and services, but must ensure personally identifiable information is removed prior to analyzing the information. 
 
DOD may share data with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to increase the knowledge and understanding of cancer occurrences among firefighters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Care in the Home Act

Bill: 118-hr-2853
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Disability and paralysis
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
First responders and emergency personnel
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Minority health
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Expanding Care in the Home Act

 
This bill establishes programs and requirements to support certain at-home services for Medicare beneficiaries.
 
For example, the bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to allow Medicare primary care providers to opt to receive a monthly capitated payment for up to five years for certain services instead of on a fee-for-service basis. Covered services include home services and wellness visits. 
 
The CMS must also establish payments under Medicare for (1) home infusion services and equipment, including 24/7 nursing services; (2) staff-assisted home dialysis; and (3) travel and mailing costs associated with collecting specimens from at-home clinical laboratory tests.
 
The bill also authorizes the Health Resources and Services Administration to award grants to nonprofit health care entities and state and local health agencies to develop the home-based care workforce through training, recruitment, and placement in home-care models.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Work and Welfare.
action_date: 2023-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
To require the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development to submit a report on progress relating to malaria reduction, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-hr-2854
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 
 This bill requires the U.S. Agency for International Development to submit a report to Congress on the cumulative progress towards a 90% reduction in malaria by 2030.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2855
Sponsor: Rep. Soto, Darren [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Emergency planning and evacuation
Geography and mapping
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Natural disasters
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Sinkhole Mapping Act of 2023

 
This bill directs the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to establish a program to
 
 
study the short-term and long-term mechanisms that cause sinkholes, including extreme storm events, prolonged droughts causing shifts in water management practices, aquifer depletion, and other major changes in water use; and 
 
develop maps depicting the zones that are at greater risk of forming sinkholes. 

 
The USGS must establish a public website that displays such maps and other relevant information critical for use by community planners and emergency managers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-10-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held
action_date: 2023-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Combatting Hospital Monopolies Act

Bill: 118-hr-2856
Sponsor: Rep. Spartz, Victoria [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Hospital care
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Combatting Hospital Monopolies Act

 
This bill provides the Federal Trade Commission with enforcement authority over certain tax-exempt, hospital or cooperative hospital service organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Measuring State Healthcare Freedom Act

Bill: 118-hr-2857
Sponsor: Rep. Spartz, Victoria [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Measuring State Healthcare Freedom Act

 
This bill temporarily requires studies on licensing of health care professionals, mergers and acquisitions of health care entities (e.g., hospitals and health insurance companies), and other matters affecting health care competition and consolidation at the state level.
 
For 10 years following the bill's enactment, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation within the Department of Health and Human Services must annually carry out the studies. The office must consult with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission on the studies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Rights of Medical Residents Act

Bill: 118-hr-2858
Sponsor: Rep. Spartz, Victoria [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Restoring Rights of Medical Residents Act

 
This bill repeals the antitrust exemption for graduate medical resident matching programs.
 
Currently, the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), a private, nonprofit organization, generally matches graduate medical students with residency positions. In 2002, a lawsuit alleged that the NRMP violated federal antitrust laws. The Pension Funding Equity Act of 2004 established the antitrust exemption for such programs and the lawsuit was subsequently dismissed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Holding Nonprofit Hospitals Accountable Act

Bill: 118-hr-2859
Sponsor: Rep. Spartz, Victoria [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 
 
Holding Nonprofit Hospitals Accountable Act

 
The bill imposes additional community benefit standards for tax-exempt hospital organizations. A hospital organization must have a board of directors drawn from the community in which it is located and must provide medical care for patients who pay their bills through public programs, including Medicare and Medicaid.
 
The organization may not limit the number of patients served at any clinical site it owns or controls and must spend specified amounts on (1) training, education, or research designed to improve patient care; (2) improvements to facilities and equipment; and (3) free or discounted care. 
 
The Inspector General for Tax Administration of the Department of the Treasury must conduct a review of the financial assistance policies of tax-exempt hospital organizations. 
 
The Government Accountability Office must review and report on the effectiveness of the Internal Revenue Service in enforcing compliance of tax-exempt hospitals with the new community benefit standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Rights of Physicians to Own Hospitals Act

Bill: 118-hr-2860
Sponsor: Rep. Spartz, Victoria [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Restoring Rights of Physicians to Own Hospitals Act

 
This bill repeals provisions under the Stark law (i.e., the Physician Self-Referral Law) that require rural providers and physician-owned hospitals to meet certain additional criteria in order to be excepted under the Stark law.
 
Specifically, the bill repeals provisions that require hospitals to meet the following criteria: 
 
 
the hospital had physician ownership or investment and a Medicare provider agreement as of December 31, 2010;
 
the hospital does not expand the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds beyond the number in existence as of March 23, 2010, with limited exceptions; 
 
the hospital discloses certain information regarding physician ownership and investments to patients, the public, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services;
 
the hospital does not offer certain financial opportunities, and the percentage of ownership or investments does not exceed that in effect as of March 23, 2010; 
 
the hospital discloses certain information to patients relating to the availability of physicians and makes alternative arrangements when necessary; and
 
the hospital was not converted from an ambulatory surgical center on or after March 23, 2010.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Addressing Anti-Competitive Health Care Contract Clauses Act

Bill: 118-hr-2861
Sponsor: Rep. Spartz, Victoria [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Addressing Anti-Competitive Health Care Contract Clauses Act 

 
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to study and report on the effect of certain anticompetitive contract clauses in contracts between health insurers and health care providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Empowering Patient Choice of Medical Care Act

Bill: 118-hr-2862
Sponsor: Rep. Spartz, Victoria [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Home and outpatient care

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Empowering Patient Choice of Medical Care Act

 
This bill prohibits the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from refusing to designate a service as a covered hospital outpatient service under Medicare based solely on its determination that the service can only be furnished in an inpatient setting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Hospital Overbilling of Medicare Act

Bill: 118-hr-2863
Sponsor: Rep. Spartz, Victoria [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Preventing Hospital Overbilling of Medicare Act

 
This bill repeals certain exceptions to site-neutral payments with respect to Medicare payments to an off-campus outpatient department of a health care provider. It also requires providers to use separate, unique health identifiers when submitting a claim to a health insurance issuer for services provided at an off-campus outpatient department.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in House