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Coastal Fellowships Act

Bill: 118-s-1552
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

Coastal Fellowships Act

 
This bill establishes the Coastal Management Fellowship and the Digital Coast Fellowship programs to be administered by the Department of Commerce. The fellowships aim to provide on-the-job training and to encourage public service that supports U.S. coastal resource management. In addition, the Digital Coast Fellowship will support the Digital Coast program, which is a platform that integrates geospatial data, training, and other tools in order to address coastal management issues.
 
The bill specifies that selected fellows must have completed a related graduate-level degree before the fellowship begins and have a demonstrated interest in a career in coastal or marine science, management, policy, or law. Commerce must award the fellowships in a manner that is geographically balanced. Each fellow may be selected for a term of up to two years, must receive an annual stipend of at least $47,000, and may be directly hired by a federal agency upon successful completion of a fellowship. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Resiliency for Ranching and Natural Conservation Health Act

Bill: 118-s-1553
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Atmospheric science and weather
Civil actions and liability
Disaster relief and insurance
Ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Government trust funds
Hunting and fishing
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Livestock
Natural disasters
Outdoor recreation
Water use and supply
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

Resiliency for Ranching and Natural Conservation Health Act

 
This bill makes vacant grazing allotments temporarily available to holders of grazing permits or leases after a natural disaster.

The Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) shall make available to the holder of a grazing permit or lease issued by either Interior or USDA the temporary use of a vacant grazing allotment if one or more grazing allotments covered by the grazing permit or lease of the holder are temporarily unusable because of resource conditions from unforeseen natural events or disasters (including an extreme weather event, drought, wildfire, infestation, or blight).
 
The bill allows investment of amounts in the Land and Water Conservation Fund. The bill allocates income generated by that investment to rangeland improvement projects and enhancing, expanding, or improving access to public lands or National Forest System land to benefit hunting and recreation activities.
 
The bill increases the maximum duration of grazing permits and leases from 10 years to 20 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-24
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2024-12-24
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2024-12-23
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2024-12-20
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7276; text: CR S7276)
action_date: 2024-12-20
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 581.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-11-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
National American Indian Veterans Charter Act

Bill: 118-s-1554
Sponsor: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

National American Indian Veterans Charter Act

 
This bill grants a federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans Inc., which is a nonprofit corporation organized in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Pollinator Power Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1555
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

Pollinator Power Act of 2023

 
This bill expands the Rural Energy for America Program to direct the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide loan guarantees and grants to agriculture producers, rural small businesses, and farmer-owned cooperatives to carry out solar projects that include the creation of pollinator habitat. The bill also requires USDA to give priority to these projects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Seaman Xavier Sandor Support for Sailors Act

Bill: 118-s-1556
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

Seaman Xavier Sandor Support for Sailors Act

 
This bill addresses housing allowance and mental health care for certain members of the uniformed services. Specifically, the bill allows the military department concerned to authorize payment of a basic allowance for housing to a member of a uniformed service without dependents who is serving in pay grades E-1 through E-5 and has orders to a naval vessel that is undergoing maintenance.
 
The bill also authorizes the Department of Defense to appoint and retain two licensed clinicians to serve as Navy deployed resiliency counselors for each nuclear-powered aircraft carrier or large-deck amphibious ship/landing helicopter assault ship in the Naval Vessel Register.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1557
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Business investment and capital
Census and government statistics
Crime victims
Disability and paralysis
Domestic violence and child abuse
Energy efficiency and conservation
Higher education
Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Human trafficking
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Indian social and development programs
Inflation and prices
Landlord and tenant
Lighting, heating, cooling
Low- and moderate-income housing
Marriage and family status
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Rural conditions and development
Securities
Sex offenses
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2023

 
This bill revises provisions of the low-income housing tax credit and renames it as the 
affordable housing tax credit
. 
 
The bill increases the per capita dollar amount of the credit and its minimum ceiling amount beginning in 2023 and extends the inflation adjustment for such amounts.
 
The bill modifies tenant income eligibility requirements and the average income formula for determining such income. It also revises rules for student occupancy of rental units and tenant voucher payments, and prohibits any refusal to rent to victims of domestic abuse. 
 
The bill further modifies the credit to 
 
 
increase state allocations of the credit; 
 
repeal the qualified census tract population cap;
 
prohibit consideration of local approval and local government contribution requirements for housing projects;
 
increase the credit for certain projects designated to serve extremely low-income households; 
 
increase the credit for certain bond-financed projects designated by state agencies;
 
eliminate the basis reduction for properties that receive certain energy-related tax benefits; and 
 
increase the population cap for difficult development areas (i.e., areas with high construction, land, and utility costs relative to area median gross income). 
 
 
The bill also includes Indian and rural areas as difficult development areas and modifies other requirements relating to casualty losses, tax-exempt bond financing, and foreclosures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-04-16
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development. Hearings held.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
WWII Nurses Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 118-s-1558
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

WWII Nurses Congressional Gold Medal Act

 
This bill provides for the award of a Congressional Gold Medal to World War II Army and Navy Nurse Corps members in recognition of their critical military service and devotion to duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Book Minimum Tax Repeal Act

Bill: 118-s-1559
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 
 
Book Minimum Tax Repeal Act 

 
This bill repeals the 15% alternative tax on the financial statement (i.e., book) income of certain corporations. The tax applies to companies that report over $1 billion in profits to their shareholders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Hospital Cybersecurity Enhancement Act

Bill: 118-s-1560
Sponsor: Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Health facilities and institutions
Higher education
Rural conditions and development
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

Rural Hospital Cybersecurity Enhancement Act

 
This bill requires the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to develop and annually report to Congress about a workforce development strategy to address the unmet need for cybersecurity professionals in rural hospitals. Additionally, CISA must disseminate materials that rural hospitals may use to train staff about cybersecurity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-05-09
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 381.
action_date: 2024-05-09
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. 118-170.
action_date: 2024-05-09
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. 118-170.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Aviation Workforce Development Act

Bill: 118-s-1561
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 
 
Aviation Workforce Development Act 

 
This bill expands the qualified tuition program (commonly referred to as 529 plans) to allow distributions to pay education-related expenses required for participation in certain aviation maintenance and commercial pilot courses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Tribal Police Department Parity Act

Bill: 118-s-1562
Sponsor: Sen. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

Tribal Police Department Parity Act

 
This bill treats tribal law enforcement agencies in the same manner as federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies for purposes of accessing firearms.
 
The National Firearms Act (NFA) generally imposes a tax on the transfer of an NFA firearm; however, specified governmental entities (e.g., federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies) are exempt from this transfer tax. This bill extends this exemption to Indian tribes (and consequently, to tribal law enforcement agencies).
 
The Gun Control Act (GCA) generally prohibits the interstate shipment of firearms to unlicensed persons, but exempts specified governmental entities from this prohibition. This bill makes Indian tribes (and consequently, tribal law enforcement agencies) eligible to receive firearms interstate.
 
The GCA also prohibits the transfer or possession of machine guns manufactured after 1986, but exempts specified governmental entities from this prohibition. This bill makes Indian tribes (and consequently, tribal law enforcement agencies) eligible to transfer or possess these machine guns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Maximize Americans' Retirement Security Act

Bill: 118-s-1563
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

Maximize Americans' Retirement Security Act

 
This bill revises the fiduciary duties for a retirement or employee benefit plan that is regulated under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
 
The bill generally requires a fiduciary to select and maintain investments for a plan based solely on pecuniary factors. Under the bill, a 
pecuniary factor 
is a factor that is expected to have a material effect on the risk or return of an investment based on appropriate investment horizons that are consistent with the plan's investment objectives and funding policy.
 
A fiduciary may only use nonpecuniary factors if the fiduciary is unable to distinguish between investment alternatives on the basis of pecuniary factors alone. In such a case, the fiduciary must provide specified documentation to the plan's participants and beneficiaries, including an explanation of how the chosen nonpecuniary factors are consistent with their interests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
AI Leadership Training Act

Bill: 118-s-1564
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Employment and training programs
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

Artificial Intelligence Leadership Training Act or the AI Leadership Training Act

 
This bill requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to develop and implement an annual training program on artificial intelligence (AI) for federal managers, supervisors, and other employees designated to participate in the program.
 
The program shall, at a minimum, include information relating to
 
 
what AI is and how it works,
 
the benefits offered and risks posed by AI,
 
ways to mitigate the risks of AI, 
 
organizational considerations for the development and deployment of AI, and
 
other specified topics.
 
 
The program must be updated at least every two years. OPM must establish a means by which to (1) understand and measure the participation of employees in the program, and (2) receive and consider feedback from participants.
 
The bill terminates 10 years after its enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-11-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 234.
action_date: 2023-11-02
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. 118-109.
action_date: 2023-11-02
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. 118-109.
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: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
SHOW UP Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1565
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

Stopping Home Office Work's Unproductive Problems Act of 2023 or the SHOW UP Act of 2023

This bill reinstates the telework policies that were in place at all executive agencies on December 31, 2019, and requires each agency to submit a certified telework plan to Congress before such policies can be expanded.

The bill requires each agency to conduct a study analyzing the impacts of telework policies implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the study must analyze any adverse impacts on the agency, real estate and locality costs, agency failures to provide adequate network and data access to employees, and any degree to which the expansion facilitated the dispersal of personnel around the United States.

Each agency must submit a certified telework plan to Congress before expanding its telework policies. A plan must include a certification by the Office of Personnel Management that the plan will have a substantial positive effect on the agency, including by increasing the dispersal of personnel throughout the country and reversing any adverse impacts detailed in the agency's study. The certification must also provide that the plan will (1) substantially lower the agency's real property and locality pay costs; and (2) ensure that teleworking employees have adequate network capacity, communications tools, and related equipment to be fully productive without substantially increasing the agency's overall costs for these.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Deterring Chinese Preemptive Strikes Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1566
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

Deterring Chinese Preemptive Strikes Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to conduct a classified survey to identify each U.S. aircraft shelter in the Indo-Pacific region that is responsible for responding to aggression by China against Taiwan and has not been improved to mitigate damage to aircraft in the event of a missile, aerial drone, or other attack by China.
 
DOD must submit a classified plan to implement improvements to the shelters as necessary to increase aircraft survivability in the event of attack by China.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
RETAIN Act

Bill: 118-s-1567
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S1626-1627)
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Universal School Meals Program Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1568
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Census and government statistics
Child care and development
Child health
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Debt collection
Detention of persons
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Food assistance and relief
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Fruit and vegetables
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Inflation and prices
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Military personnel and dependents
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
Right of privacy
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Back the Blue Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1569
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2023-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: 

Back the Blue Act of 2023

 
This bill establishes new criminal offenses for killing, assaulting, and fleeing to avoid prosecution for killing a judge, law enforcement officer, or public safety officer.
 
Additionally, the bill
 
 
expands the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include the killing or attempted killing of a law enforcement officer, judge, prosecutor, or firefighter or other first responder; 
 
broadens the authority of federal law enforcement officers to carry firearms; and
 
limits federal court review of challenges to state court convictions for killing a public safety officer or judge.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate