hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Flex Fuel Fairness Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2635
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Watersheds, Healthy Communities Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2636
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives
Hydrology and hydrography
Intergovernmental relations
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Law Enforcement Scenario-Based Training for Safety and De-Escalation Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2637
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Break the Cycle of Violence Act

Bill: 118-s-2638
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Health Nursing Act

Bill: 118-s-2639
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Public Health Nursing Act

This bill establishes a grant program within the Department of Health and Human Services to support a public health nursing workforce in state, territorial, and local public health departments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Fugitive Safe Surrender Reauthorization Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2640
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Financing Our Energy Future Act

Bill: 118-s-2641
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Financing Our Energy Future Act

 
This bill expands the types of partnerships that qualify for treatment as publicly traded partnerships instead of as corporations for tax purposes.
 
Under current law, partnerships that meet certain gross income requirements (i.e., at least 90% of the partnership's gross income in a taxable year consists of qualifying income) are excepted from being treated as a corporation for tax purposes. This bill expands the sources of income that are considered qualifying income and make a partnership eligible for such an exception. 
 
Specifically, the bill provides that income derived from the generation of specified alternative energy, alternative fuel projects, or the associated property, storage, or transportation for such projects (e.g., the conversion of renewable biomass into renewable fuel or the storage or transportation of such fuel) is considered qualifying income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act

Bill: 118-s-2642
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act

This bill establishes new requirements for entities responsible for the federal examination of financial intuitions. Specifically, the bill sets deadlines for federal financial regulatory agencies to provide final examination reports and to perform exit interviews of a financial institution. In addition, the agency must list all materials relied upon in support of a material supervisory determination upon the request of the financial institution.

The bill also establishes the Office of Independent Examination Review to adjudicate appeals and investigate complaints from financial institutions concerning examination reports. Under the bill, financial institutions have the right to obtain an independent review of a material supervisory determination contained in a final report of examination. The bill sets forth provisions regarding hearings and final decisions.

The bill also requires the establishment of an independent internal agency appellate process at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for the review of supervisory determinations made at institutions supervised by the CFPB.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Farmers from Drought Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2643
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance
Disaster relief and insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Protecting Farmers from Drought Act of 2023

This bill modifies insurance coverage for prevented planting under the Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP) to create a special rule for counties experiencing extreme drought. (The FCIP provides coverage for prevented planting due to insured causes of loss, such as adverse weather conditions, drought, floods, and other natural events. 
Prevented planting
 is the inability to plant an insured crop by the final planting date or during the late planting period.)

Under this bill, the FCIP must modify eligibility requirements for prevented planting coverage for a county that experienced extreme drought (per the U.S. Drought Monitor) at any time during the normal planting period over the course of three consecutive years. For counties experiencing an extreme drought, the bill requires the planting of a crop once in the five most recent crop years (i.e., the 1 in 5 rule). Currently, in order to be eligible for prevented planting payments, the insured acres must have been planted, insured, and harvested at least once in the previous four crop years (i.e., the 1 in 4 rule). 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
American Law Enforcement SAVER Act

Bill: 118-s-2644
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2023-11-29
text: 

American Law Enforcement Sustaining Aid and Vital Emergency Resources Act or the American Law Enforcement SAVER Act

This bill requires the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) within the Department of Justice to develop and publish performance standards for trauma kits that are eligible to be purchased using funds under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program.

Additionally, the BJA must develop and publish best practices for the use, deployment, and maintenance of trauma kits by law enforcement agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-12-05
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2023-12-05
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2023-12-05
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2023-11-29
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5677; text: CR S5677)
action_date: 2023-11-29
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S5677; text: CR S5677)
action_date: 2023-11-29
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2023-11-29
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-2645
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Air quality
Atmospheric science and weather
Building construction
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy prices
Environmental health
Executive Office of the President
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Forests, forestry, trees
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Lighting, heating, cooling
Medical research
Minority health
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public utilities and utility rates
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Preventing Health Emergencies And Temperature-related Illness and Deaths Act of 2023 or the Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2023

This bill establishes several programs to address the adverse health effects of extreme heat.

For example, the bill establishes an interagency committee in the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy to address the health risks of extreme heat through coordinated research, strategic partnerships, and workforce development. It also requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to (1) establish a heat health information system to improve forecasts of extreme heat, and (2) contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study policy, data, and research gaps relating to extreme heat. 

NOAA may also, in coordination with the interagency committee, award financial assistance to nonprofits, academic institutions, and state, local, and tribal governments to support the ability of communities to mitigate the health effects of extreme heat (e.g., building modifications and educational campaigns).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 720.
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cantwell with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cantwell with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-07-31
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
HEAL for Immigrant Families Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2646
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Immigrant health and welfare
Immigration status and procedures
Income tax credits
Medicaid
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local government operations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
SHINE for Autumn Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2647
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Stillbirth Health Improvement and Education for Autumn Act of 2023 or the SHINE for Autumn Act of 

2023

 
This bill authorizes grants and establishes other programs to improve data collection on stillbirths.
 
Specifically, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may award grants for surveillance and data collection on stillbirths, and HHS must issue guidelines for health departments and vital statistics units concerning the collection of stillbirth data. HHS must also develop educational awareness materials about stillbirths and make them publicly available.
 
Furthermore, HHS must implement a fellowship program to provide training in perinatal autopsy pathology and otherwise support research on stillbirths and fetal autopsies.
 
The bill also requires HHS to issue a report with educational guidelines on stillbirths and stillbirth risk factors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Korean American VALOR Act

Bill: 118-s-2648
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Korean American Vietnam Allies Long Overdue for Relief Act or the Korean American VALOR Act

 
This bill expands eligibility for specified Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits (e.g., medical and dental care) to certain veterans of the armed forces of South Korea who served in Vietnam between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975, or during a time period determined by the VA.
 
The bill authorizes the VA to furnish such benefits under an existing law, which requires (1) a request by South Korea, and (2) a reciprocity agreement that provides for reimbursement of expenses incurred by the VA for the provision of care. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Making Community Care Work for Veterans Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2649
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
PREPARE Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2650
Sponsor: Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Preparing Regulators Effectively for a Post-prohibition Adult-use Regulated Environment Act of 2023 or the PREPARE Act of 2023

 
This bill directs the Department of Justice to establish the Commission on the Federal Regulation of Cannabis to study a plausible and prompt pathway to cannabis regulation.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Jobs Guarantee Development Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2651
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
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: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Ghost Guns and Untraceable Firearms Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2652
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Modernizing Agricultural and Manufacturing Bonds Act

Bill: 118-s-2653
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Modernizing Agricultural and Manufacturing Bonds Act

 
This bill modifies provisions relating to qualified small issue bonds for manufacturing purposes by expanding the definition of 
manufacturing facility
 to include a facility that (1) is used in the creation or production of intangible property; or (2) is functionally related, subordinate to, and located on the same site as a facility used in the manufacturing or production of tangible or intangible personal property. The bill also increases from $10 million to $30 million the maximum bond size limitation. 
 
The bill modifies requirements for private activity bond financing for first-time farmers. The modified provisions (1) increase from $450,000 to $1 million (adjusted annually for inflation) the amount of bond proceeds that may be used by a first-time farmer to acquire land for farming purposes, (2) repeal the separate dollar limitation on the use of bond proceeds for used farm equipment, and (3) revise the definition of 
substantial farmland
 to determine farm size by reference to the average (instead of median) size of a farm in the county in which the farm is located.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Water Efficiency, Conservation, and Sustainability Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2654
Sponsor: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Environmental technology
Housing industry and standards
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Water Efficiency, Conservation, and Sustainability Act of 2023

This bill establishes three grant programs within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address water efficiency and water losses.

First, the EPA must establish a grant program to assist states, local governments, tribal governments, public water systems, and nonprofit organizations in carrying out their water efficiency incentive programs.

Second, the EPA must establish and carry out a program that provides grants and technical assistance for conducting annual audits of public water systems, implementing controls to address losses identified in the audits, and helping public water systems that have conducted and validated audits to establish water loss control programs.

Third, the EPA must establish a grant program to assist states, tribal governments, and local governments in adopting and implementing certain water-efficient plumbing codes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3763)
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Transparency in Banking Act

Bill: 118-s-2655
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Transparency in Banking Act

This bill requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to jointly publish an annual report on their planned participation in the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision. The report must include their goals in attending the committee meeting. The committee is comprised of different national banking supervisory authorities and sets non-binding standards for capital, liquidity, and funding. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Timely Departure Act

Bill: 118-s-2656
Sponsor: Sen. Vance, J. D. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Timely Departure Act

This bill requires certain nonimmigrants to secure a visa with a bond.

Under the bill, an applicant for a covered visa category must provide a bond (or cash payment) of at least $5,000 and no more than $15,000 according to rules to be established by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Covered visa categories include those for visitors for business or pleasure and exclude those for foreign government officials and crime victims. The bill also specifies that a nonimmigrant seeking asylum or withholding of removal while present in the United States must apply for asylum or withholding of removal by the expiration date on their visa to remain eligible for asylum or withholding of removal.

The bill provides that a covered nonimmigrant who overstays the term of their visa forfeits the full bond, is subject to removal, and is ineligible for any lawful immigration status (including adjustment of status) for at least 4 years and up to 12 years. Forfeited amounts may be used solely for detention facilities for non-U.S. nationals (
aliens 
under federal law) and international transportation for non-U.S. nationals ordered removed from the United States.

The bill specifies that DHS, in implementing this bill, may only issue rules regarding (1) the collection and retention of bonds and cash payments, (2) the notification of the Attorney General regarding a nonimmigrant's failure to timely depart, and (3) preventing the circumvention of the bond requirement.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
GREEN Hospitals Act

Bill: 118-s-2657
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate