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RESTRICT Act

Bill: 118-s-686
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2023-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Asia
China
Civil actions and liability
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Crime prevention
Cuba
Department of Commerce
Europe
Federal appellate courts
Government information and archives
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Internet, web applications, social media
Iran
Judicial procedure and administration
Judicial review and appeals
Latin America
Legislative rules and procedure
Licensing and registrations
Middle East
North Korea
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Russia
Securities
Subversive activities
U.S. and foreign investments
Venezuela

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: 

Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act or the RESTRICT Act

 
This bill requires federal actions to identify and mitigate foreign threats to information and communications technology (ICT) products and services (e.g., social media applications). It also establishes civil and criminal penalties for violations under the bill.
 
Specifically, the Department of Commerce must identify, deter, disrupt, prevent, prohibit, investigate, and mitigate transactions involving ICT products and services (1) in which any foreign adversary (such as China) has any interest, and (2) that pose an undue or unacceptable risk to U.S. national security or the safety of U.S. persons. 
 
Additionally, Commerce must identify and refer to the President any covered holding (e.g., stock or security) that poses an undue or unacceptable risk to U.S. national security or the security and safety of U.S. persons. If the President determines that the holding poses such a risk, the President may compel divestment of or otherwise mitigate the risk associated with the holding.
 
Commerce may (1) designate any foreign government or regime as a foreign adversary upon a determination that the foreign government or regime is engaged in a long-term pattern or serious instances of conduct significantly adverse to U.S. national security or the security and safety of U.S. persons, and (2) remove such a designation. Commerce must notify Congress before making or removing a designation; these actions are subject to congressional disapproval.
 
The bill outlines (1) enforcement mechanisms, including actions by the Department of Justice; and (2) civil and criminal penalties for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Safe Social Media Act

Bill: 118-s-687
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: 

Safe Social Media Act

 
This bill requires a study on the use of social media platforms among individuals under age 18. A 
social media platform
 is a public-facing website, internet application, or mobile internet application (e.g., social network, search engine, or email service) with at least 30 million active monthly users in the United States.
 
The Federal Trade Commission must coordinate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to carry out the study, and the study must address matters such as frequency of usage, mental health effects linked to such usage, and policy recommendations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
DATA Act

Bill: 118-s-688
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: 

Data and Algorithm Transparency Agreement Act or the DATA Act

 
This bill requires certain internet platforms (e.g., large websites and social networks) that use algorithms for suggesting content to obtain express consent from their users before collecting or sharing their personal data. These platforms must notify users of this requirement. The notice must include specified information, including the type of data collected and the names of any third parties with which the data is shared.
 
The bill provides for enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission and a private right of action against a violator of the bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act to define currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-s-689
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: 
This bill provides for the classification of drugs or other substances that are part of approved breakthrough therapies as schedule II controlled substances under the Controlled Substances Act. (Schedule II controlled substances are substances that have a high potential for abuse but have a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
NET Act

Bill: 118-s-690
Sponsor: Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2023-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: 

Network Equipment Transparency Act or the NET Act

 
This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to determine (subject to available data) whether the lack of network equipment significantly impacted the deployment of broadband and other advanced telecommunications capability. The FCC must include this determination in its biennial report on the state of the communications marketplace. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 717.
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: 2023-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Taylor Force Martyr Payment Prevention Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-691
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2023-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: 

Taylor Force Martyr Payment Prevention Act of 2023 

 
This bill expands the institutional factors the Department of the Treasury must consider when making a finding that a foreign financial institution is of primary money laundering concern and is therefore subject to special measures, including the prohibition of opening or maintaining correspondent accounts in U.S financial institutions. Specifically, Treasury must consider (1) the extent to which an institution knowingly provides financial services to Hamas, or to an agent of Hamas; and (2) the extent to which an institution, transaction, or type of account is used to facilitate or promote payments for certain acts of terrorism against U.S. and Israeli citizens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S671-672)
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Social Security Administration to make changes to the social security terminology used in the rules, regulation, guidance, or other materials of the Administration.

Bill: 118-s-692
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2023-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: 
This bill changes certain terms that are used by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to describe the ages at which a worker may claim Social Security retirement benefits.
 
First, the SSA must use 
minimum benefit age
 instead of 
early eligibility age
. This refers to the earliest age (62 under current law) at which a worker may claim benefits. (Currently, the benefit amount of a worker who claims benefits early is reduced to account for the longer period during which the worker is expected to receive benefits.)
 
Second, the SSA must use 
standard benefit age 
instead of 
full retirement age
 and 
normal retirement age
. These terms refer to the age at which a worker may claim benefits without a reduction in the benefit amount. (Currently, this age ranges from 65 to 67, depending on the worker's year of birth.)
 
Last, the SSA must use the term 
maximum benefit age
 for any reference to age 70 as the maximum age at which a worker may receive delayed retirement credits. The SSA may not use the term 
delayed retirement credit. 
These terms refer to the mechanism that increases the benefit amount of a worker who delays claiming benefits after reaching the full retirement age. (Currently, a worker receives a credit for each month between the full retirement age and age 70 that the worker delays claiming benefits. Each credit increases the benefit amount that the worker will receive after claiming benefits by a specified percentage.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Eliminating Executive Branch Insider Trading Act

Bill: 118-s-693
Sponsor: Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]
Introduced: 2023-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: 

Eliminating Executive Branch Insider Trading Act

 
This bill prohibits specified executive branch officials and others from holding or trading certain investments (e.g., individual stocks and related financial instruments other than diversified investment funds or U.S. Treasury securities).
 
Covered individuals include the President, the Vice President, each executive branch officer or employee at or above a specified pay grade, each member of a uniformed service at or above a specified pay grade, each officer or employee in any other position determined by the Office of Government Ethics to be of equal classification to such positions, and the spouse of any such individual.
 
The prohibition does not apply to assets held in a qualified blind trust. Any profit made in violation of the prohibition must be disgorged to the Treasury and may subject the individual to a civil fine.
 
The Department of Justice may bring a civil action in U.S. district court against any covered individual who violates this bill's prohibition.
 
The Government Accountability Office, at specified intervals, must (1) audit compliance by a representative sample of covered individuals with this bill's requirements, and (2) report the results to the supervising ethics committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Modern, Clean, and Safe Trucks Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-694
Sponsor: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2023-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: 

 Modern, Clean, and Safe Trucks Act of 202

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This bill repeals the 12% excise tax on the retail sale of heavy trucks and trailers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal the provisions of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that impose new information reporting requirements with respect to digital asset transfers.

Bill: 118-s-695
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2023-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: 
This bill repeals provisions of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act with respect to the definition of
 broker 
and reporting requirements for digital assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Border Safety and Security Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-696
Sponsor: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
Introduced: 2023-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Detention of persons
Government liability
Immigration status and procedures
Intergovernmental relations
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: 

Border Safety and Security Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to suspend the entry of certain non-U.S. nationals (
aliens
 under federal law) during any period when DHS cannot detain such an individual or return the individual to a foreign country contiguous to the United States. Specifically, DHS must suspend the entry of non-U.S. nationals who (1) are unlawfully present, (2) arrive in the United States at a time or place other than as designated by DHS, or (3) do not possess valid entry documents.
 
A state may sue DHS to enforce this requirement. 
 
The bill also authorizes DHS to suspend the entry of such non-U.S. nationals if DHS determines that such a suspension is necessary to achieve operational control over such a border. 
 
(Under current law, such non-U.S. nationals who arrive at the border are generally subject to expedited removal. However, if such an individual is found to have a credible fear of persecution, they are typically subject to detention while their asylum claim is being considered.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Treating Tribes and Counties as Good Neighbors Act

Bill: 118-s-697
Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2023-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Forests, forestry, trees
Indian lands and resources rights
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: 

Treating Tribes and Counties as Good Neighbors Act 

 
This bill revises the Good Neighbor Authority program to modify the treatment of revenue from timber sale contracts under good neighbor agreements with the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior. (The Good Neighbor Authority permits USDA and Interior to enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with states, counties, and Indian tribes to perform forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration services on federal land managed by the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management.)
 
Specifically, the bill (1) requires Indian tribes and counties to retain revenue generated from timber sales under a good neighbor agreement; and (2) allows states, counties, and Indian tribes to use such revenue for authorized restoration projects on nonfederal lands under a good neighbor agreement. (Under current law, only a state is permitted to retain the revenues, and the revenues must be used for restoration projects on federal land.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act

Bill: 118-s-698
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2023-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: 

Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act

 
This bill requires the Department of State to designate four specified Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. (Among other things, such a designation allows the Department of the Treasury to require financial institutions to block transactions involving the organization.) 
 
The bill also requires the State Department to designate other Mexican drug cartels, or factions of such cartels, as foreign terrorist organizations if they meet certain criteria. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Foster Youth and Driving Act

Bill: 118-s-699
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2023-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Indian social and development programs
Licensing and registrations
Motor vehicles
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: 

Foster Youth and Driving Act

 
 This bill expands state foster care and adoption assistance programs to provide driving preparation assistance to foster youth and related training for foster parents. The bill further directs assistance to states and tribal organizations for age-appropriate foster youth to, among other things, obtain automobile insurance, complete driver's education, obtain a driver's license, and purchase a vehicle.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Vote at Home Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-700
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2023-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Licensing and registrations
Motor vehicles
Postal service
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: 

Vote at Home Act of 2023

 
This bill expands voting by mail in federal elections and provides for automatic voter registration through state motor vehicle authorities. 
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits states from imposing additional conditions or requirements on the eligibility of individuals to cast ballots by mail in federal elections, except states may impose a deadline for returning a ballot.
 
Further, states must mail ballots to individuals registered to vote in a federal election not later than two weeks before the election.
 
In addition, the U.S. Postal Service must carry ballots for federal elections expeditiously and free of postage.
 
Finally, the bill provides for automatic voter registration of individuals through state motor vehicle authorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Women’s Health Protection Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-701
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2023-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Federal preemption
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Prescription drugs
Sex and reproductive health
State and local government operations
Travel and tourism
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: 

Women's Health Protection Act of 2023

 
This bill prohibits governmental restrictions on the provision of, and access to, abortion services.
 
Before fetal viability, governments may not restrict providers from 
 
using particular abortion procedures or drugs,
 
offering abortion services via telemedicine, or
 
immediately providing abortion services if delaying risks the patient's health. 
 
 
Furthermore, governments may not require providers to 
 
 
perform unnecessary medical procedures,
 
provide medically inaccurate information, or
 
comply with credentialing or other conditions that do not apply to providers who offer medically comparable services to abortions. 
 
 
Additionally, governments may not require patients to make medically unnecessary in-person visits before receiving abortion services or disclose their reasons for obtaining services.
 
After fetal viability, governments may not restrict providers from performing abortions when necessary to protect a patient's life and health. The same provisions that apply to abortions before viability also apply to necessary abortions after viability. Additionally, states may authorize post-viability abortions in circumstances beyond those that the bill considers necessary.
 
Further, the bill recognizes an individual's right to interstate travel, including for abortion services.
 
The bill also prohibits governments from implementing measures that are similar to those restricted by the bill or that otherwise single out and impede access to abortion services, unless the measure significantly advances the safety of abortion services or health of patients and cannot be achieved through less restrictive means.
 
The Department of Justice, individuals, or providers may sue states or government officials to enforce this bill, regardless of certain immunity that would otherwise apply.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 26.
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Urban Waters Federal Partnership Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-702
Sponsor: Sen. Sinema, Kyrsten [I-AZ]
Introduced: 2023-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Community life and organization
Higher education
Intergovernmental relations
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
Low- and moderate-income housing
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: 

Urban Waters Federal Partnership Act of 2023

 
This bill provides statutory authority for the Urban Waters Federal Partnership Program. Under the program, the Environmental Protection Agency and other specified agencies must reconnect urban communities, particularly urban communities that are overburdened or economically distressed, with their waterways by improving coordination among federal agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2023-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate