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To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Lynchburg, Virginia, as the "Private First Class Desmond T. Doss VA Clinic".

Bill: 118-hr-3696
Sponsor: Rep. Good, Bob [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' organizations and recognition
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 
This bill designates the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lynchburg, Virginia, as the Private First Class Desmond T. Doss VA Clinic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2562)
Preemption of Real Property Discrimination Act

Bill: 118-hr-3697
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Federal preemption
Foreign property
Real estate business
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Preemption of Real Property Discrimination Act 

 
This bill preempts any state law that prohibits or restricts the purchase of real property by an individual based on the individual's citizenship. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Feed Hungry Veterans Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3698
Sponsor: Rep. Hayes, Jahana [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Food assistance and relief
Military personnel and dependents
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Feed Hungry Veterans Act of 2023 

 
This bill expands eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for certain disabled veterans, including those determined to be catastrophically disabled.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
WORKER Act

Bill: 118-hr-3699
Sponsor: Rep. Hudson, Richard [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Coal
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Higher education
Intergovernmental relations
Manufacturing
Mining
Minority education
Minority employment
Nuclear power
Oil and gas
Performance measurement
Pipelines
Public-private cooperation
Unemployment
Vocational and technical education
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Widening Opportunities to Recapture Key Energy Roles Act or the WORKER Act

This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE), when considering awards for existing grant programs, to prioritize education and training for energy and manufacturing-related jobs. Further, DOE must prioritize the education and training of underrepresented groups in such jobs.

In carrying out the bill, DOE must establish a clearinghouse to (1) maintain and update information and resources on training and workforce development programs for such jobs; and (2) provide technical assistance for states, schools, and other specified entities. DOE must also conduct outreach to minority-serving institutions of higher education and dislocated energy and manufacturing workers.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Northwest California Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act

Bill: 118-hr-3700
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Air quality
California
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Ecology
Economic development
Emergency planning and evacuation
Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Fishes
Floods and storm protection
Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Historical and cultural resources
Hunting and fishing
Indian lands and resources rights
Insects
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Livestock
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Motor vehicles
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Pedestrians and bicycling
Public-private cooperation
Research and development
Roads and highways
Water quality
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Northwest California Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act

This bill addresses issues involving the management of federal lands in northern California. The bill designates various wilderness areas, potential wilderness areas, and wild and scenic rivers. The bill establishes the South Fork Trinity-Mad River Restoration Area, the Horse Mountain Special Management Area, and the Sanhedrin Special Conservation Management Area.

The Department of the Interior may carry out initiatives to restore degraded redwood forest ecosystems in Redwood National and State Parks in partnership with California, local agencies, and nongovernmental organizations.

The bill establishes the California Public Land Remediation Partnership to support coordination of activities among federal, state, tribal, and local authorities and the private sector in the remediation of federal land in the state affected by illegal marijuana cultivation or other illegal activity.

The bill authorizes construction of visitor centers in Weaverville and Del Norte County.

Interior must study the feasibility and suitability of establishing overnight accommodations near Redwood National and State Parks.

Interior, in revising the certain fire management plans, must (1) develop spatial fire management plans in accordance with specified guidance and other appropriate policies; and (2) ensure that such plans consider how prescribed or managed fire can be used to achieve ecological management objectives of wilderness and other natural or primitive areas.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Foster Youth Dental Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3701
Sponsor: Rep. Kamlager-Dove, Sydney [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child health
Dental care
Health care costs and insurance
Health promotion and preventive care
Inflation and prices
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Foster Youth Dental Act of 

2023

 
This bill expands Medicaid coverage of current and former foster youth, particularly with respect to dental services.
 
Specifically, the bill requires state Medicaid programs to cover early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment services, including dental services, for current and former foster youth under the age of 26. States must set a special payment rate, based on rates in the private sector, for dental services provided to such individuals; the bill provides an enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (i.e., federal matching rate) for excess expenses that result from such payments. The bill's requirements take effect 80 days after the date of enactment of the bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Access Technology Affordability Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3702
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Access Technology Affordability Act of 202

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This bill allows a refundable tax credit equal to the amounts paid for qualified access technology for use by a blind individual who is the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, or a dependent of the taxpayer. 
Qualified access technology
 is hardware, software, or other information technology with the primary function of converting or adapting information that is visually represented into forms or formats usable by blind individuals. 
 
The credit is limited to (1) costs that are not compensated by insurance or otherwise, and (2) an aggregate amount of $2,000 per blind individual in any period of three consecutive taxable years. The credit must be adjusted for inflation after 2024 and terminates after 2028.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
HEALING Response Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3703
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health technology, devices, supplies
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Helping Evaluate Appropriate Logistical Infrastructure for National Government Response Act of 2023 or the HEALING Response Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to review efforts undertaken by the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that the United States has the capacity to rapidly produce medical countermeasures. (Medical countermeasures are certain medical products that may be used to diagnose, prevent, or treat conditions associated with chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear threats or emerging infectious diseases during public health emergencies.)
 
The review must address, among other topics, efforts to transition to new initiatives for facilitating the development and manufacturing of countermeasures (e.g., transitioning from the Centers for Innovation and Advanced Drug Manufacturing program to Industrial Base Expansion Connect).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
One Vote One Choice Act

Bill: 118-hr-3704
Sponsor: Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

One Vote One Choice Act

 
This bill prohibits states from using ranked-choice voting in federal elections. Ranked-choice voting is a system that allows voters to rank candidates on a ballot in order of preference.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
HOWIE Act

Bill: 118-hr-3705
Sponsor: Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Railroads
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text:  

Helping Oversee and Ward off Infrastructure Emergencies Act or the HOWIE Act

 
This bill requires the Federal Railroad Administration to issue regulations to require a railroad to report a train accident that results in damage if the railroad has a reasonable suspicion that an action carried out by the railroad caused the damage. An accident includes any incident that causes a fire, including a brush fire, alongside a railroad track.
 
Specifically, a railroad must report (1) a train accident resulting in damage (based on a preliminary gross estimate) of $150,000 or more to railroad and nonrailroad property; or (2) a train accident resulting in damage of $25,000 or more to a passenger train, including railroad and nonrailroad property. 

 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Adult Day Center Enhancement Act

Bill: 118-hr-3706
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adult day care
Disability and paralysis
Health programs administration and funding
Neurological disorders
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Adult Day Center Enhancement Act

This bill requires the Administration for Community Living (ACL) to carry out various activities related to adult day programs. These programs provide care to individuals living with neurological diseases or conditions (e.g., Parkinson's disease or traumatic brain injury).

Specifically, the ACL must

conduct a survey that identifies successful programs, programs that serve young adults, and financial support that the ACL provides to programs;

develop best practices for establishing adult day programs; and

award grants to programs that support younger people.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for expenses for household and elder care services necessary for gainful employment.

Bill: 118-hr-3707
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 
This bill allows a new tax credit for a taxpayer's employment-related expenses necessary to care for a dependent who has attained age 50. 
 
Employment-related expenses include (1) expenses for household services; and (2) expenses for the care of the dependent, including respite care and hospice care. The expenses must be incurred to enable the taxpayer to be gainfully employed for any period for which there are one or more dependents that qualify for the credit. 
 
The bill limits the amount of such credit to $3,000 for the care of one dependent and $6,000 for the care of two or more dependents of the taxpayer in a taxable year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Tax Deadline Simplification Act

Bill: 118-hr-3708
Sponsor: Rep. Lesko, Debbie [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Tax Deadline Simplification Act

 
This bill requires individual estimated income tax installments to be paid on a quarterly basis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Pets and Families Together Act

Bill: 118-hr-3709
Sponsor: Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Mammals

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text:  

Keeping Pets and Families Together Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a program to support microchipping of dogs and cats in the care of pounds or shelters. Under the program, USDA must enter into cooperative agreements with state and local governments to support the capability of pounds or shelters to provide for microchipping of dogs and cats in their care before allowing them to be recovered by their owners, adopted by other individuals, or transferred to another shelter or rescue organization.

 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Fighting Fertility Fraud Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3710
Sponsor: Rep. McClain, Lisa C. [R-MI-9]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Fighting Fertility Fraud Act of 2023

This bill establishes federal criminal offenses for a person, health professional, or health facility that provides materially false or misleading information related to assisted reproduction.

The bill subjects a violator to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to 10 years, or both.

It also authorizes civil remedies, including damages and injunctive relief.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Schools Not Shelters Act

Bill: 118-hr-3711
Sponsor: Rep. Molinaro, Marcus J. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Detention of persons
Educational facilities and institutions
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Schools Not Shelters Act

 
This bill prohibits schools that receive certain federal financial assistance from using their facilities to shelter certain non-U.S. nationals (
aliens
 under federal law) unless the individual pays for such shelter.
 
Specifically, this prohibition shall apply to sheltering individuals who are (1) unlawfully present, or (2) subject to removal proceedings or a removal order and are not being detained by the Department of Homeland Security.
 
Under this bill, if an elementary school, secondary school, or institution of higher education receives financial assistance from a program administered by the Department of Education, that school or institution may not use its facilities to provide shelter to such individuals unless the individual is housed in a dormitory and pays the amount normally assessed to residents of that dormitory.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Digital Dollar Pilot Prevention Act

Bill: 118-hr-3712
Sponsor: Rep. Mooney, Alexander X. [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Digital Dollar Pilot Prevention Act 

 
This bill prohibits the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve banks from establishing, carrying out, or approving a program to test the feasibility of issuing a central bank digital currency. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Mental Health Services for Students Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3713
Sponsor: Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Mental health
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Mental Health Services for Students Act of 

2023

 
This bill provides specific statutory authority for the Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) State Educational Agency Grant Program that is administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The program supports school-based mental health services, including screening, treatment, and outreach programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Corporal Fernando Ruiz Baltazar Posthumous Citizenship Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3714
Sponsor: Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Corporal Fernando Ruiz Baltazar Posthumous Citizenship Act of 2023

 
This bill extends posthumous citizenship to an otherwise qualified noncitizen who enlisted, reenlisted, extended enlistment, or was inducted into the U.S. Armed Forces in the Philippines and died as a result of such active duty service during the period beginning September 1, 1939, and ending December 31, 1946.
 
The executive department under which an individual served must determine whether the individual satisfied the requirements for posthumous citizenship under this bill.
 
Specified naturalization and other posthumous benefit provisions shall not apply to the surviving spouse, child, or parent of such an individual.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Affordability and Fairness for Mountain Communities Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3715
Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Arizona
Colorado
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Housing supply and affordability
Idaho
Low- and moderate-income housing
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Postal service
Rural conditions and development
State and local government operations
Utah
Wyoming

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
SPUR Act

Bill: 118-hr-3716
Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2023-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: 

Small-business Procurement Utilization Reform Act or the SPUR Act

 
This bill raises from 23% to 25% the government-wide goal for participation by small businesses in procurement contracts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Introduced in House