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Rural Outdoor Investment Act

Bill: 118-hr-5052
Sponsor: Rep. Stansbury, Melanie Ann [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Community life and organization
Employment and training programs
Outdoor recreation
Regional and metropolitan planning
Rural conditions and development
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Rural Outdoor Investment Act

This bill establishes programs that support outdoor recreation and economic development in rural communities.

Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Commerce to make grants for outdoor recreation projects to spur economic development, with a focus on rural communities. Economic development districts, Indian tribes, states, local governments, institutions of higher education, or nonprofits may apply for the grants.

Commerce, in consultation with the Small Business Administration and the Department of Agriculture (USDA), must develop a partnership agreement to provide for the development of, among other things, basic training for small businesses and rural communities relating to existing funding opportunities for outdoor recreation.

Additionally, USDA's Rural Development must partner with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Forest Service to carry out a grant program for developing action plans under the Recreation Economy for Rural Communities planning assistance program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
action_date: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Wage Equity Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-5053
Sponsor: Rep. Stefanik, Elise M. [R-NY-21]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Equal and Uniform Treatment in the Military Act

Bill: 118-hr-5054
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Marilyn [D-WA-10]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Office of Technology Assessment Improvement and Enhancement Act

Bill: 118-hr-5055
Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Office of Technology Assessment Improvement and Enhancement Act

 
This bill renames and revises the functions and duties of the Office of Technology Assessment which, composed of a Technology Assessment Board and a director, provides Congress with assessments of probable technology application impacts. (The office has not been funded since FY1996.)
 
Specifically, the bill renames the office the Congressional Office of Technology, and it requires the office to undertake additional duties, such as providing to Members of Congress (1) certain information without the need for board review, (2) certain technical assistance on legislation related to science and technology without the need for board review, and (3) objective policy options on how Members may achieve goals with respect to science and technology policy.
 
The bill authorizes individual Members of Congress to submit to the board a request that the office undertake an assessment activity. Additionally, the bill requires the Congressional Research Service and the Government Accountability Office to coordinate technology assessment activities with the office to avoid duplication or overlapping of research activities.
 
The bill also (1) allows the office to temporarily appoint specified technical and professional personnel to work for the office, (2) requires the office to make the findings of completed analyses publicly available, (3) revises the appointment of board members, (4) requires the board to hold an annual meeting at which Members of Congress may appear and present information regarding technology assessment activities, and (5) requires the board to report annually on the activities of the office. 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Fostering Innovation and Research to Strengthen Tomorrow Act

Bill: 118-hr-5056
Sponsor: Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Fostering Innovation and Research to Strengthen Tomorrow Act

 
This bill doubles the rate of the tax credit for increasing research expenses and the alternative simplified research tax credit. It also increases the credit rate for taxpayers with no research expenses during a specified three-year period and the amount of the credit that certain small businesses may apply against payroll tax liabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Agricultural Emergency Relief Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-5057
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-4]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Disaster relief and insurance
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Natural disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Agricultural Emergency Relief Act of 2023

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish an Emergency Relief Program to provide payments each crop year to producers that experience a qualified loss as a result of a disaster that occurred during the crop year. (Under current law, USDA provides payments under a temporary Emergency Relief Program for losses that occurred following disasters in 2020, 2021, or 2022.)

The bill defines a qualified loss as a loss incurred by a producer in a crop, trees, bushes, or vines as a consequence of a disaster (i.e., a drought, wildfire, hurricane, flood, derecho, excessive heat, excessive moisture, a winter storm, and a freeze event, including a polar vortex). Further, a qualified loss includes a loss incurred as a result of being prevented from planting a crop due to a disaster and a loss in the quality of a crop, trees, bushes, or vines due to a disaster or smoke exposure from a wildfire.

As a condition of receiving a payment under this program, a producer must purchase (for the next two years) Federal Crop Insurance or, if Federal Crop Insurance is not available, coverage under the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program.

An eligible producer under the program is an individual or entity that is eligible to receive assistance under a Farm Service Agency administered disaster assistance program. The bill specifies that a producer does not include a joint venture or a general partnership.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Semiconductor Supply Chain Materials from Authoritarians Act

Bill: 118-hr-5058
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to allow certain States to directly purchase commodities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-hr-5059
Sponsor: Rep. Tokuda, Jill N. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Alaska
American Samoa
Food assistance and relief
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Guam
Hawaii
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Northern Mariana Islands
Nutrition and diet
Palau
Poverty and welfare assistance
Puerto Rico
State and local government operations
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 
This bill allows a state to receive cash funds under The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) to directly purchase agricultural commodities through the private commercial marketplace.

TEFAP is a federal program that helps supplement the diets of people with low income by providing them with emergency food assistance at no cost. Through TEFAP, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) purchases a variety of commodities and makes those food products (e.g., canned, frozen, dried, and fresh fruits and vegetables, eggs, meat, dairy, and whole-grain and enriched grain products) available to state distributing agencies.

Specifically, the bill allows an eligible state agency to elect to receive as cash the dollar amount used by USDA to purchase the commodities to distribute to the state.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Women's Retirement Protection Act

Bill: 118-hr-5060
Sponsor: Rep. Underwood, Lauren [D-IL-14]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and 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: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and 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: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and 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: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Specialty Crop Domestic Market Promotion and Development Program Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-5061
Sponsor: Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Fruit and vegetables
Retail and wholesale trades
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Specialty Crop Domestic Market Promotion and Development Program Act of 2023

This bill directs the Agricultural Marketing Service to establish a grant program to encourage the development, maintenance, and expansion of the commercial domestic market for domestically produced specialty crop commodities (e.g., for advertising or other demand-oriented, generic domestic promotion activities).

Organizations eligible for the grant program include those that promote U.S. produced and grown specialty crop sales and are (1) U.S. agricultural trade organizations or regional state-related organizations that do not profit directly from U.S. specialty crop sales, (2) cooperative organizations or state agencies, or (3) certain private organizations. Specialty crop organizations operating under federal marketing orders are also eligible for the grant program.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program under which the Secretary will award grants to specialty crop producers to acquire certain equipment and provide training with respect to the use of such equipment.

Bill: 118-hr-5062
Sponsor: Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural equipment and machinery
Aviation and airports
Computers and information technology
Employment and training programs
Fruit and vegetables
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 
This bill directs the Agricultural Marketing Service to establish a grant program for commercial specialty crop producers to acquire equipment and provide related training.

Funds must be used for mechanized or automated systems and tools that increase the efficiency of a task or reduce human labor for a specific activity (e.g., low-dust harvesting tools and equipment, sorting machines, and crop monitoring and analytics equipment and tools).

The bill includes a minimum 50% cost-sharing requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Contracting Credit Act

Bill: 118-hr-5063
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Public Housing Fire Safety Act

Bill: 118-hr-5064
Sponsor: Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Building construction
Congressional oversight
Fires
Government studies and investigations
Housing and community development funding
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Public Housing Fire Safety Act

 
This bill creates a grant program, to be administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, for public housing agencies to install automatic sprinkler systems in certain public housing projects.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Federal Jobs Guarantee Development Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-5065
Sponsor: Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Federal Jobs Guarantee Development Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of Labor to establish a pilot program to provide grants to eligible entities (i.e., political subdivisions of states and Tribal entities with a high unemployment rate) for programs to guarantee employment to individuals residing in the areas served by such entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Work and Welfare.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Tech to Save Moms Act

Bill: 118-hr-5066
Sponsor: Rep. Williams, Nikema [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Digital media
Disability and health-based discrimination
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Educational technology and distance education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Food assistance and relief
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Internet, web applications, social media
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Minority health
Poverty and welfare assistance
Racial and ethnic relations
Right of privacy
Technology assessment
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Tech to Save Moms Act

 
This bill supports the use of technology to improve, and address disparities in, maternal health outcomes.
 
Specifically, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation may test telehealth models to screen and treat common pregnancy-related complications for Medicaid enrollees.
 
In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must award grants to
 
 
evaluate and expand the use of technology-enabled collaborative learning models by entities that provide services to pregnant and postpartum individuals in medically underserved areas or from certain populations, and
 
reduce racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes by increasing access to digital tools.
 
 
HHS must also contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study the use of technology in maternal health care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Empowering Electric Grid Reliability Act

Bill: 118-hr-5067
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Economic performance and conditions
Electric power generation and transmission
Employment and training programs
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government studies and investigations
Industrial policy and productivity
Labor market
Manufacturing
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Empowering Electric Grid Reliability Act

This bill directs the Department of Energy to establish a task force to study and report on supply chains for essential components of local electric distribution grids, including substation transformers, equipment, and facilities that deliver retail electric energy to homes and businesses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Serve the People, Not the Swamp Act

Bill: 118-hr-5068
Sponsor: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2023-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Congress

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Rules, Oversight and Accountability, and House Administration, 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: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Rules, Oversight and Accountability, and House Administration, 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: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Rules, Oversight and Accountability, and House Administration, 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: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Rules, Oversight and Accountability, and House Administration, 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: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Rules, Oversight and Accountability, and House Administration, 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: 2023-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-28
text: Introduced in House