hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Forest Data Modernization Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1743
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
Government information and archives
Scientific communication
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Forest Data Modernization Act of 2023

 
This bill modifies the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service.
 
Specifically, FIA must include forest carbon in its inventory. Further, FIA must carry out, as a data collection method, a timber products output study and a national woodland owner survey.
 
FIA must include a clear definition of 
forest
 when reporting data.
 
FIA's strategic plan must describe in detail the organization and procedures necessary to
 
 
understand and report on changes in land cover and use, and
 
evaluate carbon-related data variables.
 
 
FIA must update the strategic plan not later than 180 days after this bill's enactment to include, among other things
 
 
a plan to implement nationally consistent data collection protocols and procedures to improve the statistical precision of base program estimates;
 
pathways to integrate and report on changes in forest carbon, including below-ground carbon;
 
plans to collaborate with other federal agencies, nonfederal partners, and the private sector to integrate existing nationally available data sets and best available commercial technologies; and 
 
a plan to increase transparency and clarity in reporting.
 
 
FIA (1) must establish an office, a data platform, or both to process and respond to complex data requests submitted by external organizations; and (2) may impose fees on the organizations submitting the requests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
SCORE for Small Business Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1744
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business education
Business records
Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Right of privacy
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

SCORE for Small Business Act of 2023

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2025 the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) program, outlines the duties of the SCORE Association, and requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to cooperate with the association to carry out the program.
 
Specifically, the bill requires the association to manage nationwide chapters of the program to enable volunteers participating in the program to provide personal, cost-free business expertise and facilitate education workshops to small businesses. The association must also offer online counseling through web-based platforms to small businesses.
 
In consultation with the association, the SBA must ensure that the program (1) recruits diverse volunteers for each chapter of the program, and (2) provides services to rural and underserved communities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-11-01
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 118-90.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Veteran Community Care Act

Bill: 118-s-1745
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
STOP NJ CONGESTION Act

Bill: 118-s-1746
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Stop Taxation of Overburdened People from New Jersey by Correcting Obnoxious New Gimmick and Ensuring the Stability of Transportation Infrastructure from Obstinate Neighbors Act or the STOP NJ CONGESTION Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to withhold 50% of National Highway Performance Program funds and Surface Transportation Block Grant program funds from each state that implements a congestion pricing system similar to that described in the environmental assessment titled 
Final Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for Central Business District (CBD) Tolling Program, Manhattan, New York
.
 
The bill also prohibits the implementation of projects under a DOT value pricing pilot program unless the project sponsor receives the consent of each affected state. Value pricing (also called congestion pricing) involves charging drivers on congested roadways during peak periods. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Neighbors Not Enemies Act

Bill: 118-s-1747
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Neighbors Not Enemies Act

 
This bill repeals provisions authorizing the President to apprehend and remove from the United States the citizens of a particular nation, if the United States has declared war against that nation or that nation has threatened an invasion against the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Interregional Transmission Planning Improvement Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1748
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act

Bill: 118-s-1749
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Employee performance
Employment and training programs
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medical education
Medicare
Nursing
Performance measurement
Personnel records
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Ensuring Seniors' Access to Quality Care Act

 
This bill repeals certain restrictions under Medicare and Medicaid that prohibit the approval of nurse-aide training and competency evaluation programs in skilled nursing facilities that have been subject to specified regulatory actions (e.g., civil penalties) for substandard quality of care. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must still disapprove such programs for up to two years; however, the CMS must rescind the disapproval upon completion of corrective action and may require additional oversight of the program for purposes of rescission.
 
The bill also allows Medicaid and Medicare providers (e.g., skilled nursing facilities) to access, through the National Practitioner Data Bank, disciplinary information for affiliated physicians and other health care practitioners, as reported by state licensing authorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Keeping All Students Safe Act

Bill: 118-s-1750
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Keeping All Students Safe Act

 
This bill prohibits the use of seclusion and limits the use of physical restraint in schools and Head Start programs that receive federal funding.
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits the use of seclusion, which is the involuntary confinement of a student alone in a room or area from which the student is physically prevented from leaving. The term does not include a time out, which may involve separating the student from others in a non-locked setting.
 
The bill prohibits the use of mechanical or chemical restraints or physical restraints that restrict breathing or are life threatening.
 
The bill outlines the requirements for the use of physical restraint, including that the student's behavior must pose an imminent danger of serious physical injury to the student or other individual. Each state must ensure that a sufficient number of program personnel are trained and certified by a state-approved crisis intervention training program. Additionally, each program must establish procedures to follow after an incident involving physical restraint.
 
Further, the bill establishes enforcement provisions, including a private right of action for a student who has been subjected to unlawful seclusion or restraint. The Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services must withhold payments from a program for unlawful seclusion or restraint.
 
Finally, the bill requires each state educational agency (SEA) to establish, implement, and enforce policies and procedures required by the bill. It also creates a grant program to assist SEAs with these activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1751
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Arizona
Cancer
Civil actions and liability
Colorado
Department of Justice
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Education programs funding
Environmental health
Government information and archives
Government liability
Government trust funds
Guam
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health care costs and insurance
Higher education
Idaho
Medical research
Military history
Mining
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
North Dakota
Nuclear weapons
Oregon
Personnel records
Public contracts and procurement
Radiation
Research administration and funding
South Dakota
Texas
U.S. territories and protectorates
Utah
Washington State
Worker safety and health
Wyoming

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair and Open Skies Act

Bill: 118-s-1752
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Europe
European Union
Labor standards
Licensing and registrations
Trade agreements and negotiations
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Fair and Open Skies Act

This bill amends the policy considerations the Department of Transportation (DOT) must take into account when issuing a foreign air carrier permit. (This allows foreign air carriers to operate in U.S. air space.) DOT must consider preventing the undermining of labor standards when determining whether the foreign air transportation will be in the public interest.

Further, the bill amends the requirements for the Department of State and DOT in formulating U.S. international air transportation policy. Under current law, the State Department and DOT must develop a negotiating policy emphasizing the greatest degree of competition compatible with a well-functioning international air transportation system and include specific considerations; this is amended to also include preventing the undermining of labor standards. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
RESTORE Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1753
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Family services
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text:  

Re-Entry Support Through Opportunities for Resources and Essentials Act of 2023 or the RESTORE Act of 2023

 
This bill repeals a prohibition barring an individual with certain felony drug convictions from participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Under current law, a state may opt out of enforcing the ban on participation.
 
The bill also allows an individual who is incarcerated to apply for SNAP benefits before their release date. Specifically, the bill amends the definition of household to include incarcerated individuals who are scheduled to be released from an institution within 30 days. Currently, a state agency may apply to the Food and Nutrition Service for an administrative waiver in order to allow individuals to apply for SNAP benefits up to 30 days prior to release.

 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Smarter Approaches to Nuclear Expenditures Act

Bill: 118-s-1754
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-05-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text:  

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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Sergeant First Class Michael Clark TRICARE Reserve Parity Act

Bill: 118-s-1755
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2023-05-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: 

Sergeant First Class Michael Clark TRICARE Reserve Parity Act

 
This bill extends the period of eligibility for health benefits under TRICARE Reserve Select for immediate family members to three years beyond the date of the death of a member of a reserve component. Under current law, the eligibility period continues for six months beyond the date of the death. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Fishing Industry Credit Enhancement Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1756
Sponsor: Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]
Introduced: 2023-05-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Credit and credit markets
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Workforce Development Through Post-Graduation Scholarships Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1757
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2023-05-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: 

Workforce Development Through Post-Graduation Scholarships Act of 2023

This bill excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, post-graduation scholarship grants. The bill defines a 
post-graduation scholarship grant
 as any grant program that is established by a tax-exempt organization that, among other things, repays a portion of a student's education loan. 

To be eligible for these grants, a grant recipient must live and work in a community that has a bachelor's degree attainment rate below the state or national average. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Courts Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1758
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2023-05-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Law

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: 

Fair Courts Act of 2023 

 
This bill prohibits a federal court from granting a form of relief that has nationwide applicability unless the case is heard and determined by a panel of three district court judges. This relief includes granting an injunction that restrains the federal government or federal officers, an order that vacates a federal regulation, or a stay of any such relief. 
 
The bill also requires a district court to ensure that a case does not have greater than a 25% chance to be assigned to particular judge. The chief judge of the circuit is allowed to assign judges from adjacent districts to other districts that do not have enough judges to comply. 
 
District courts must also publish orders regarding the division of business among judges. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 25 Dorchester Avenue, Room 1, in Boston, Massachusetts, as the "Caroline Chang Post Office".

Bill: 118-s-1759
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-05-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Massachusetts
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 25 Dorchester Avenue, Room 1, in Boston, Massachusetts, as the "Caroline Chang Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act Amendments Act

Bill: 118-s-1760
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2023-05-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Building construction
Intergovernmental relations
Land transfers
Licensing and registrations
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: 

Apex Area Technical Corrections Act

This bill makes amendments to the Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act of 1989, which provided Clark County, Nevada, with the option to acquire certain federal land referred to as the Apex Site for use as sites for industries that generate hazardous materials (including the Kerr-McGee site).

The Department of the Interior must grant utility and transportation rights-of-way to the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association for the connection of existing electric power, water, natural gas, telephone, railroad, and highway facilities to the Kerr-McGee site and the other lands conveyed in accordance with this bill.

Interior must also grant to the city of North Las Vegas and the Apex Industrial Owners Association such rights-of-way on public lands as may be necessary to support the development as a heavy use industrial zone of some or all of the lands authorized for sale by Interior within the Apex Site that lie outside the boundaries of the Kerr-McGee site.

Transfers by the United States of any additional lands or interests in lands within the Apex Site or rights-of-way issued pursuant to this bill must be conditioned upon compliance with applicable federal land laws.

The withdrawal of the lands within the Apex Site must continue in perpetuity for all of the transferred lands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-19
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2024-12-19
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2024-12-19
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2024-12-18
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7166; text: CR S7166-7167)
action_date: 2024-12-18
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2023-12-12
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 280.
action_date: 2023-12-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-136.
action_date: 2023-12-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-136.
action_date: 2023-09-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2023-07-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-285.
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Red Tape Reduction Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1761
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2023-05-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: 
 
Red Tape Reduction Act of 2023 

 
This bill modifies the reporting requirements for payments made in settlement of payment card and third party network transactions. Under current law, settlement organizations are not required to report information for transactions that do not exceed $600. This bill increases the reporting threshold so that settlement organizations are exempt from reporting requirements if the applicable transactions do not exceed $10,000, or there are no more that 50 such transactions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting our Students in Schools Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1762
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2023-05-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: 

Protecting our Students in Schools Act of 

2023

 
This bill prohibits the use of corporal punishment in schools that receive federal funding. 
 
Specifically, the bill authorizes the Department of Education (ED) to take specified actions (e.g., withholding funds and issuing cease-and-desist orders) for schools that allow school personnel, law enforcement officers, or school security guards to subject students to corporal punishment.
 
The bill also establishes enforcement provisions, including a private right of action for a student who has been subjected to corporal punishment. 
 
Each state educational agency (SEA) that receives federal funding must submit specified information to ED, including a school climate report that describes the SEA's policies and procedures related to exclusionary and aversive discipline practices in schools.
 
Additionally, the bill authorizes ED to award three-year grants to SEAs and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies to implement positive behavioral interventions and supports to address student behavior and reduce exclusionary and aversive discipline practices.
 
ED must promulgate regulations as necessary to ensure compliance with the bill. The Department of Defense and the Department of the Interior must ensure that the schools they operate or fund also comply with these regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-05-30
text: Introduced in Senate