hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
REGIME Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-869
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 

Revoking Entry Granted to Iranian Mullahs and Elites Act of 2023 or the REGIME Act of 2023

 
The bill requires the Department of State to conduct a review of certain Iranian officials and government employees, as well as their immediate family members, who currently have visas or who have applied for visas. If such individuals are determined to be ineligible for entry into the United States under specified laws, the State Department must revoke their visas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
ELON Act

Bill: 118-hr-870
Sponsor: Rep. Boebert, Lauren [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 

Exposing Lewd Outlays for social Networking companies Act or the ELON Act

 
This bill requires a report on Department of Justice (DOJ) payments to certain companies (i.e., Twitter, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Apple) and imposes a one-year moratorium on payments to these companies.
 
Specifically, the bill requires the Government Accountability Office to submit a report to specified congressional committees on all payments made by DOJ to these companies since January 1, 2015. 
 
Additionally, the bill imposes a one-year moratorium on DOJ that temporarily prohibits the use of federal funds to make payments to these companies, unless such funds are lawfully owed to any such company.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act

Bill: 118-hr-871
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement officers
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 

Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act

 
This bill extends public safety officers' death benefits to Transportation Security Administration employees performing official duties related to protecting the nation's transportation systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
FISH Act

Bill: 118-hr-872
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-41]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Commerce
Department of the Interior
Endangered and threatened species
Fishes
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 

Federally Integrated Species Health Act or the FISH Act

 
This bill gives the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) the sole authority to protect endangered or threatened species that are anadromous species (species of fish that spawn in fresh or estuarine waters and that migrate to ocean waters) or catadromous species (species of fish that spawn in ocean waters and migrate to fresh or estuarine waters). Currently, the FWS shares this authority with the National Marine Fisheries Service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held
action_date: 2023-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Water Quality and Environmental Innovation Act

Bill: 118-hr-873
Sponsor: Rep. Donalds, Byron [R-FL-19]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 

Water Quality and Environmental Innovation Act

 
This bill establishes and transfers funds to the Water Quality and Environmental Innovation Fund. Until September 30, 2028, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may use the fund to award grants and contracts to carry out projects (1) that use emerging technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence or quantum information science) to address threats to water quality; or (2) for the research, development, or design of such technologies. Threats to water quality that may be addressed under a project carried out using a grant or contract may include 
 
 
acidification; 
 
 the accumulation of plastics, trash, and microplastics; 
 
 hydrologic alterations, such as restricting tidal flow; 
 
 nutrient release and eutrophication, including harmful algal blooms; 
 
 sea-level rise; 
 
 waste carbon dioxide accumulations; 
 
 adverse soil health conditions; 
 
 erosion and sedimentation; and 
 
 karst, sinkholes, and land subsidence.
 
 
At the start of each fiscal year from FY2024 through FY2028, an amount of funding must be transferred to the fund that is equal to the amount that the EPA determines will be collected in such fiscal year from fees and charges under the Motor Vehicle and Engine Compliance Program of the EPA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Federal Ship Financing Improvement Act

Bill: 118-hr-874
Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-8]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Government lending and loan guarantees
Marine and inland water transportation
Navigation, waterways, harbors

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 

Federal Ship Financing Improvement Act

 
This bill allows the Maritime Administration to guarantee financing (including reimbursement for expenditures previously made) for reconstruction, repair, or similar work in a shipyard located in the United States for, among other things, to change an existing vessel to a vessel of the United States.
 
The bill also requires that certain shipyard modernization and improvement projects financed by the Maritime Administration use American products and materials (i.e., goods mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E106)
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Social Security and Medicare Act

Bill: 118-hr-875
Sponsor: Rep. James, John [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 

Protecting Social Security and Medicare Act

 
This bill authorizes Medicare and Social Security payments to be made in full even if the federal debt limit is reached. Such payments do not count against the debt limit until after the debt limit has been raised by authorizing legislation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Border Crisis Prevention Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-876
Sponsor: Rep. Lesko, Debbie [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 

Border Crisis Prevention Act of 2023 

 
This bill imposes additional requirements on asylum seekers, increases certain time limits related to detained non-U.S. nationals (
aliens
 under federal law), and addresses other immigration-related issues.
 
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must detain certain aliens, such as an individual convicted of an aggravated felony or believed to be a trafficker of controlled substances, beyond certain time limits for immigration-related detention. 
 
The bill also provides for additional instances when DHS may extend the 90-day removal period (generally the window in which DHS has to remove an alien after a final order of removal). An alien choosing to appeal mandatory detention or detention as part of a removal period extension may do so only by filing for a writ of habeas corpus.
 
DHS must establish a process to determine whether an alien not subject to mandatory detention and who has tried to comply with a removal order should be detained or released with conditions.
 
Furthermore, under this bill, an asylum applicant's credible fear of persecution must be more probable than not in order to be eligible for asylum. 
 
DHS may also deny asylum to an applicant and remove the applicant to a country that is not the applicant's country of nationality, if the applicant would be safe and able to apply for asylum from that country. (Currently, an asylum applicant may be removed to a third country only if that country is party to an agreement allowing for such removal.)
 
The Department of Justice may appoint 100 additional immigration judges. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Improper Payments Act

Bill: 118-hr-877
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Blake D. [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 

Preventing Improper Payments Act

 
This bill designates any program or activity making more than $100 million in payments in a fiscal year as susceptible to significant improper payments. Under current law, programs designated as susceptible to significant improper payments are subject to additional assessments and reporting requirements.
 
The bill requires each agency to submit to Congress, as part of the annual financial report of the agency, a report on
 
 
 implementing financial and administrative controls and certain other practices with respect to fraud risk;
 
 identifying risks and vulnerabilities to fraud; and 
 
establishing strategies, procedures, and other steps to curb fraud.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to appoint an Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety Technology, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-hr-878
Sponsor: Rep. Nehls, Troy E. [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Aviation and airports
Consumer affairs
Federal officials
Product safety and quality
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 
This bill requires the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to appoint an Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety Technology and establish a rulemaking committee on aviation safety technologies. Under the bill, aviation safety technology is airborne or ground-based equipment that is meant to reduce the occurrence of aviation accidents (e.g., auto take-off, navigation, and taxi technology; navigation technology; and remote piloting technology).
 
Specifically, the new associate administrator's responsibilities include coordinating, developing, and implementing a variety of processes and measures for FAA certification and operational approval of aviation safety technologies. 
 
Further, the aviation rulemaking committee must make recommendations for the development of a detailed roadmap for the certification and operational approval of aviation safety technologies by the FAA, with a focus on technologies, software, and automation to enhance operational safety. The committee must also issue a notice of proposed rulemaking based on any consensus recommendations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Andrew Jackson Statue Removal Act

Bill: 118-hr-879
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 

Andrew Jackson Statue Removal Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to remove the Andrew Jackson statue and marble base from Lafayette Square in the District of Columbia.
 
Interior shall donate the Andrew Jackson statue and marble base to a museum or other similar entity. The recipient of the statue and base may not store, display, or exhibit the statue outside, but if the statue is stored, displayed, or exhibited outside, ownership of the statue and marble base will revert back to the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E106)
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Heart Health Enhancement through Access to Research and Training Act

Bill: 118-hr-880
Sponsor: Rep. Sherrill, Mikie [D-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 

Heart Health Enhancement through Access to Research and Training Act

 
This bill authorizes grants for continuing medical education programs for physicians on preventing, identifying, and treating cardiovascular disease in women. The Department of Health and Human Services may award the grants to hospitals, public health departments, medical or other health professional schools, or other eligible entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Safeguarding the U.S. Armed Forces and Service Academies Act

Bill: 118-hr-881
Sponsor: Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 

Safeguarding the U.S. Armed Forces and Service Academies Act

 
This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to enforce or establish a mandate requiring a member of the Armed Forces, or a cadet or midshipman at a federal service academy, to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. Additionally, no such individuals may be subject to adverse action solely on the basis of a refusal to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
 
At the request of an individual who was involuntarily separated from an Armed Force or federal service academy solely because of a refusal to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, the military department concerned must
 
 
reinstate the individual as a member of the Armed Force in the same rank and grade the individual held at the time of separation, or reinstate the individual as a cadet or midshipman with the credits the individual had completed at the time of separation;
 
expunge from the individual's military service record any reference to adverse action related to the refusal to receive a COVID-19 vaccination; and
 
include the period between the involuntary separation and reinstatement in the computation of retired or retainer pay of the individual.
 
 
Such individuals must be entitled to back pay for the period between the separation and the reinstatement.
 
The bill requires that the discharge of members due to the failure to obey a lawful order to receive a COVID-19 vaccination must be categorized as an honorable discharge, including for individuals who were discharged prior to the enactment of this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
American Teacher Act

Bill: 118-hr-882
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2023-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: 

American Teacher Act

 
This bill establishes grants to increase the minimum salary of public elementary and secondary school teachers. It also authorizes a national campaign regarding the value of the teaching profession.
 
First, the bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to award four-year grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies to establish a minimum annual salary of $60,000 (to be adjusted annually for inflation) for these teachers.
 
Second, the bill directs ED to award grants to eligible state educational agencies to provide cost-of-living adjustments to the annual base salary of teachers.
 
Finally, the bill authorizes ED to carry out a national campaign to (1) increase awareness about the importance of teachers and the value of the teaching profession, (2) encourage secondary school and college students to consider teaching as a professional career, and (3) diversify the pool of individuals who enter the teaching profession.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Stop the Wait Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-883
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-37]
Introduced: 2023-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: 

Stop the Wait Act of 2023

 
This bill allows individuals with disabilities to begin receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits in the month they become eligible for the benefits. It also allows these individuals to immediately enroll in Medicare if they cannot afford minimum essential coverage. (Under current law, an individual must generally wait 5 months after the onset of disability to begin receiving SSDI benefits and an additional 24 months to become eligible for Medicare.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2023-02-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2023-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Introduced in House
No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act

Bill: 118-hr-884
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-37]
Introduced: 2023-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: 

No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act 

 
This bill modifies the tax treatment of the foreign source income of domestic corporations. The bill includes provisions that
 
 
modify calculations of the gross income of U.S. shareholders to include net controlled foreign corporation (CFC) tested income in the current taxable year;
 
apply limitations on the foreign tax credit on a country-by-country basis;
 
 limit the tax deduction for the interest expense of a U.S. corporation that is a member of an international financial reporting group (i.e., a group that prepares consolidated financial statements according to generally accepted accounting principles or international financial reporting standards);
 
 modify the rules for the taxation of inverted corporations (i.e., U.S. corporations that acquire foreign companies to reincorporate in a foreign jurisdiction with income tax rates lower than the United States); and 
 
 treat certain foreign corporations managed and controlled primarily in the United States as domestic corporations for tax purposes.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Introduced in House
Securing Our Students Act

Bill: 118-hr-887
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Burgess [R-UT-4]
Introduced: 2023-02-09 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: 

Securing Our Students Act

 
This bill authorizes local educational agencies and nonpublic schools to use certain COVID-19 emergency relief funds, services, or assistance for school safety uses, that is improving school conditions for student learning by planning and designing school buildings and facilities, installing infrastructure, providing safety education, and implementing technology or other measures that strengthen security on school premises.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Introduced in House