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Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4197
Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2023-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Ecology
Environmental technology
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Water quality
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: 

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization Act of 2023

 
This bill reauthorizes and expands the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration program, which helps fund collaborative and community-based forest management.
 
To be eligible for support, a collaborative forest landscape restoration proposal must describe plans to prevent, remediate, or control invasions of pathogens.
 
For each proposal nominated for selection by a Forest Service regional office, the office must provide a federal government staffing plan for providing support to collaboratives.
 
In selecting proposals, the Department of Agriculture must give special consideration to proposals that seek to
 
 
 use innovative implementation mechanisms, including conservation finance agreements and good neighbor agreements;
 
reduce the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire or increase ecological restoration activities within areas across land ownerships and within the wildland-urban interface; and
 
enhance watershed health and drinking water sources.
 
 
The bill increases the number of proposals that may be funded during any fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-08-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2023-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Consumers from Abusive Mortgage Leads Act

Bill: 118-hr-4198
Sponsor: Rep. Rose, John W. [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2023-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: 

Protecting Consumers from Abusive Mortgage Leads Act 

 
This bill prohibits a credit reporting agency from providing a consumer's credit report to a third party in connection with a mortgage transaction unless (1) the third party provides documentation certifying that it has the consumer's consent, or (2) the third party has a current financial service relationship with the consumer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to establish and carry out a pilot program to use blockchain technology in food safety and labeling.

Bill: 118-hr-4199
Sponsor: Rep. Soto, Darren [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2023-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Agricultural practices and innovations
Computers and information technology
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Meat

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: 
 This bill directs the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to establish and carry out a pilot program to use blockchain technology in food safety and food labeling. (In general, a blockchain is a digital database containing information that can be simultaneously used and shared within a large decentralized, publicly accessible network.)
 
Specifically, the pilot program must, to the extent practicable, use blockchain technology to (1) trace food that may be adulterated and food that has been subject to a voluntary or mandatory recall; and (2) verify that food labeled as organic has been produced and handled in accordance with specific organic certification standards.
 
The Department of Agriculture must enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Food and Drug Administration to implement the program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-08-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
FAIR Fund Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4200
Sponsor: Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2023-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: 

Fostering Accountability In Remuneration Fund Act of 2023 or the FAIR Fund Act of 2023 

 
This bill requires large financial institutions to defer part of senior employees' compensation and deposit the deferred compensation in a fund established by the institution. This fund must be used to pay civil or criminal fines levied against the institution or, if the institution is a bank or credit union, to make depositors whole in the event of a failure. If sufficient funds exist at the end of a specified period of time, senior employees must receive their deferred compensation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Safe Storage Saves Lives Act

Bill: 118-hr-4201
Sponsor: Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2023-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2997-2998)
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4202
Sponsor: Rep. Torres, Norma J. [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2023-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: 

Multiple Firearm Sales Reporting Modernization Act of 2023

This bill expands reporting requirements with respect to sales or dispositions of multiple firearms.

Currently, a federal firearms licensee (e.g., a gun dealer) must report multiple sales or dispositions of pistols or revolvers to the same person within five business days. This bill requires a federal firearms licensee to report multiple sales or dispositions of any firearms to the same person within five business days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Housing Temperature Safety Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4203
Sponsor: Rep. Torres, Ritchie [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2023-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Housing and community development funding
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Lighting, heating, cooling
Low- and moderate-income housing
Performance measurement
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: 

Housing Temperature Safety Act of 2023

This bill establishes a pilot program through which the Department of Housing and Urban Development must award grants for public housing agencies and owners of certain federally assisted rental housing to install and test temperature sensors in dwelling units (with the written permission of tenants) for purposes of ensuring that units comply with temperature-related requirements.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Shielding Community Banks from Systemic Risk Assessments Act

Bill: 118-hr-4204
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: 

Shielding Community Banks from Systemic Risk Assessments Act 

 
This bill directs the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to exempt small insured depository institutions and depository institution holding companies from special assessments related to the use of FDIC's systemic risk authority. (In the event of a bank failure, FDIC may provide monetary assistance for the purpose of winding up the insured depository institution. FDIC then recovers any resulting loss through a special assessment on insured depository institutions, depository institution holding companies, or both.) 
 
Further, FDIC must graduate the amount of the special assessment so that, of the remaining institutions and companies that must pay the assessment, smaller institutions and companies pay a significantly smaller proportion than the largest. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4205
Sponsor: Rep. Santos, George [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government studies and investigations
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: 

Drain the Intelligence Community Swamp Act of 2023

This bill revokes the security clearances of 51 individuals who signed a statement titled 
Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails
 and dated October 19, 2020. It also (1) specifies that a security clearance may not be granted or renewed for any of them, and (2) requires the Departments of Defense and Justice to investigate these individuals. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-06-12
text: ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Biggs asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 4205, a bill originally introduced by Representative Santos, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Armed Services, 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: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Armed Services, 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: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Armed Services, 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: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Bank Safety Act of 2024

Bill: 118-hr-4206
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: 

Bank Safety Act of 2023 

 
This bill requires additional bank holding companies and insured depository institutions (i.e., those with over $100 billion in assets) to use certain information when calculating capital for purposes of meeting risk-based capital requirements. Specifically, these calculations must include certain unrealized gains and losses (i.e., accumulated other comprehensive income), except for accumulated net gains and losses on cash flow hedges related to items that are not recognized at fair value. Currently, only very large institutions are required to include this type of income in their capital calculations, while other institutions are allowed to opt out.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-11-01
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 612.
action_date: 2024-11-01
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 118-725.
action_date: 2024-11-01
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 118-725.
action_date: 2024-04-17
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2024-04-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Stopping Bonuses for Unsafe and Unsound Banking Act

Bill: 118-hr-4207
Sponsor: Rep. Pettersen, Brittany [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: 

Stopping Bonuses for Unsafe and Unsound Banking Act 

 
This bill prohibits large banking institutions from paying discretionary bonuses to senior executive officers while under a supervisory notice issued by a banking regulator. The bill provides exceptions for the time period before a remediation plan is due and while a remediation plan is being implemented. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Failed Bank Executives Accountability and Consequences Act

Bill: 118-hr-4208
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: 

Failed Bank Executives Accountability and Consequences Act 

 
This bill allows the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to recover compensation from an executive officer or director of a failed financial company that is in receivership. Specifically, any current or former executive officer whose negligence caused financial loss to the company may have their compensation for the preceding two years clawed back by the FDIC. No time limit applies if the financial loss involves fraud. 
 
In addition, federal banking agencies are allowed to prohibit a party from participation in the affairs of any bank if that party negligently caused financial loss to a failed bank. 
 
The bill also establishes civil penalties for executive officers or directors who caused financial loss to a failed bank. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Incentivizing Safe and Sound Banking Act

Bill: 118-hr-4209
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: 

Incentivizing Safe and Sound Banking Act 

 
This bill allows the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to, during cease-and-desist proceedings for unsafe or unsound practices in an institution, prohibit the sale of stock in a bank or holding company by an officer or director of the bank or any bank-affiliated party who received stock as compensation. Further, the bill automatically prohibits the sale of such stocks by senior executive officers or affiliated parties at large banks if the bank receives a certain risk management rating or if the bank is under an unresolved supervisory notice issued by a banking regulator. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Closing the Enhanced Prudential Standards Loophole Act

Bill: 118-hr-4210
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: 

Closing the Enhanced Prudential Standards Loophole Act 

 
This bill expands the application of enhanced supervision and prudential standards to banks without holding companies. These standards include stress testing, liquidity requirements, and specified risk management standards. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Technology Assessment for Air Quality Management Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4211
Sponsor: Rep. Blunt Rochester, Lisa [D-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Air quality
Community life and organization
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Environmental technology
Government information and archives
Spacecraft and satellites
State and local government operations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Middle Class Mortgage Insurance Premium Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4212
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: 

Middle Class Mortgage Insurance Premium Act of 2023

 
This bill increases the adjusted gross income threshold for the phaseout of the mortgage insurance premium tax deduction and makes such deduction permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Improvement Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4213
Sponsor: Rep. Buck, Ken [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Horticulture and plants
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: 

Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Improvement Act of 2023

This bill revises the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP), which is a component of the Farm Service Agency's (FSA's) Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). CREP is a public-private partnership program which allows states, tribal governments, and nonprofit and private entities to partner with FSA to implement CRP practices. CRP is a land conservation program that provides an annual rental payment to farmers in exchange for removing environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and planting species that will improve environmental health and quality. 

The bill specifies that dryland agricultural uses and grazing are included as appropriate practices under CREP.

The bill also allows a land owner or operator to elect to determine the annual payment amount allocated for each year of a CREP agreement, instead of a fixed payment per year for the contract period.

For drought and water conservation agreements that include the permanent retirement of water rights, annual payment rates must be equal to the irrigated acre payment rates determined by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). In the case of an agreement that permits dryland agricultural uses, the annual payment rates must be equal to the difference between the irrigated acre payment rates and the dryland acre payment rates determined by USDA. The payment formula is retroactive for certain existing drought and water conservation agreements. 

Further, the bill exempts CREP payments from the $50,000 annual payment limitation under CRP. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-06-14
text: ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Ms. Caraveo asked unanimous consent that she may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 4213, a bill originally introduced by Representative Buck, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2023-08-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Military Equipment Quality and Safety Reform Act

Bill: 118-hr-4214
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-41]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
To make available certain unobligated balances to carry out a timber block grant program.

Bill: 118-hr-4216
Sponsor: Rep. Dunn, Neal P. [R-FL-2]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief and insurance
Executive agency funding and structure
Florida
Forests, forestry, trees
Natural disasters

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-08-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Secure E-Waste Export and Recycling Act

Bill: 118-hr-4217
Sponsor: Rep. Espaillat, Adriano [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: 

Secure E-Waste Export and Recycling Act

 
This bill prohibits the export or reexport of electronic waste, such as computers, televisions, and consumer electronics, subject to certain exemptions (e.g., items that meet specific criteria designed to ensure they do not become the source of counterfeit products).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico National Scenic Trail Study Act

Bill: 118-hr-4218
Sponsor: Rescom. González-Colón, Jenniffer [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2023-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-06-20
text: Introduced in House