hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Transit to Trails Act

Bill: 118-hr-3092
Sponsor: Rep. Gomez, Jimmy [D-CA-34]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

Transit to Trails Act 

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish the Transit to Trails Grant Program to award grants to certain entities (e.g., states, local governments, and metropolitan planning organizations) for projects that increase transportation access and mobility to public lands, waters, parkland, monuments, or recreational opportunities for critically underserved communities.
 
A 
critically underserved community
 is (1) a community that can demonstrate it has inadequate, insufficient, or no park space or recreation facilities; (2) a community in which at least 50% of the population is not located within 1/2 mile of park space; or (3) an environmental justice community (i.e., a community with significant representation of communities of color, low-income communities, or at-risk tribal and Indigenous communities that experiences, or is at risk of experiencing, a disproportionate burden of adverse human health or environmental effects).
 
Among other things, DOT must (1) prioritize the approval of certain projects, such as projects that use low-or no-emission vehicles and those that provide free or discounted rates for low-income riders; (2) develop transportation planning procedures for projects conducted under the program that are consistent with metropolitan and statewide planning processes; and (3) ensure that all new transportation connectors and routes developed under the program are accessible to people with disabilities.
 
The bill requires grant awards to be at least $25,000 and not more than $500,000.
 
Further, the bill requires publication of all schedules and routes for transportation systems that are developed with funds from a grant under the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Affordable Pricing for Taxpayer-Funded Prescription Drugs Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3093
Sponsor: Rep. Hoyle, Val T. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

Affordable Pricing for Taxpayer-Funded Prescription Drugs Act of 202

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This bill requires companies that receive federal funding for research (or a license of the rights to a patent or regulatory test data) for a biomedical product or service to agree to set reasonable prices for the resulting biomedical product or service.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must determine a reasonable price based on a formula that ensures the U.S. price for the product or service is not more than the median price for the product or service in Canada and six other reference countries with, based on specified criteria, large economies and high incomes.
 
Companies entering these agreements also must report to HHS certain financial information related to the biomedical product or service involved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
To terminate the requirement imposed by the Secretary of Homeland Security for proof of COVID-19 vaccination for foreign travelers, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-hr-3094
Sponsor: Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Health information and medical records
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Travel and tourism
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 
This bill nullifies a requirement for certain foreign travelers to show proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before being admitted into the United States.
 
Specifically, this bill nullifies a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) rule that imposed this requirement for each traveler who is neither a U.S. national nor a lawful permanent resident arriving at land port of entry or ferry on the U.S.-Canada border. The bill also nullifies another CBP rule that applied this restriction to the U.S.-Mexico border.
 
The bill also nullifies any subsequent decision by CBP or the Department of Homeland Security that imposes such a requirement. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Firearm Safety Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3096
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Firearms and explosives
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

Firearm Safety Act of 2023

 
This bill allows the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue safety standards for firearms and firearm components. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Bridgeport Indian Colony Land Trust, Health, and Economic Development Act of 2012 to remove the restriction on class II gaming on certain land in California.

Bill: 118-hr-3097
Sponsor: Rep. Kiley, Kevin [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 
This bill allows Class II gaming (i.e., bingo and related games) on the approximately 39.36 acres of federal land in Mono County, California, that is held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Bridgeport Indian Colony.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
SALT Fairness and Deficit Reduction Act

Bill: 118-hr-3098
Sponsor: Rep. LaLota, Nick [R-NY-1]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

SALT Fairness and Deficit Reduction Act 
 
 
This bill increases the limitation on the tax deduction for state and local taxes to $60,000 (the limit is currently $10,000 for individual taxpayers). The bill also requires an annual inflation adjustment to the increased amount beginning after 2023, and extends through 2032 the period during which the limitation is in effect.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Sickle Cell Care Expansion Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3100
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Blood and blood diseases
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Health personnel
Hereditary and development disorders
Higher education
Medical education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

Sickle Cell Care Expansion Act of 2023

 
This bill establishes programs to increase treatment and other services for populations with sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that can lead to pain, anemia, infections, and stroke.
 
Specifically, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must award grants to federally qualified health centers, community-based organizations, or other nonprofits that treat or otherwise support populations with sickle cell disease for education and advocacy programs concerning the disease. HHS must also award grants to nonprofits, including hospitals or institutions of higher education, that provide comprehensive care to populations with sickle cell disease for programs to support the transition from pediatric to adult care for patients with the disease.
 
Additionally, the Health Resources and Services Administration must establish a program to provide scholarships or student loan repayment awards to individuals who commit to engage in clinical practice or research related to sickle cell disease for a period of obligated service as physicians.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
TPA Act

Bill: 118-hr-3101
Sponsor: Rep. Lesko, Debbie [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

Traditional Passport Act or the TPA Act

 
This bill requires the Department of State to only permit passport applicants to select a gender designation that matches their biological gender. In addition, the gender designation may only be either 
male 
or
 female
.
 
The bill defines 
biological gender
 as the biological classification of the applicant as of the male or female sex in the context of reproductive potential or capacity as indicated by sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
TSA Act

Bill: 118-hr-3102
Sponsor: Rep. Lesko, Debbie [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

Traditional Screening Application Act or the
 
TSA Act

 
This bill prohibits the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from using the 
X
 gender designation in the TSA PreCheck advanced security program and instead authorizes the TSA to allow program applicants and participants to select from only 
Male 
or
 Female
. The bill defines the terms 
male
 and 
female
 as the biological classification of male and female sex in the context of reproductive potential or capacity, as indicated by sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act

Bill: 118-hr-3103
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text:  

Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act

 
This bill limits U.S. assistance to Israel and establishes reporting requirements related to Israel's activities in the West Bank and its expenditures for offshore procurement. (Offshore procurement involves spending U.S. security assistance from the Foreign Military Financing program on Israeli-origin rather than U.S.-origin defense articles.)
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits the use of any funds that are made available for assistance to Israel to support (1) military detention, interrogation, abuse, or ill treatment of Palestinian children; (2) seizure, appropriation, or destruction of Palestinian property and forcible transfer of civilians in the Israeli-controlled West Bank; or (3) certain activities to facilitate unilateral annexation by Israel of West Bank territory. The Department of State must report on the nature and extent of such activities carried out by Israel.
 
Further, the Government Accountability Office must submit to Congress a report on related topics, such as (1) identifying specific programs and items to which funds for offshore procurement in Israel have been allocated, (2) identifying all end-use monitoring to which Israel is subject with respect to U.S.-origin defense articles, and (3) assessing the extent to which offshore procurement funds have supported illegal Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank. 

 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Helping Our Heroes Act

Bill: 118-hr-3104
Sponsor: Rep. Molinaro, Marcus J. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 
 
Helping Our Heroes Act 

 
This bill allows a charitable tax deduction for the service of bona fide volunteer firefighters and emergency medical and rescue personnel. The amount of the deduction is $20 for each hour of service provided by such personnel, limited to 300 hours with respect to any individual in a taxable year. The deduction is available to taxpayers who do not otherwise itemize their deductions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for purposes of determining if financial guaranty insurance companies are qualifying insurance corporations under the passive foreign investment company rules.

Bill: 118-hr-3105
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 
This bill sets forth special tax rules for determining whether financial guaranty insurance companies are qualifying insurance corporations under the passive foreign investment company rules.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act

Bill: 118-hr-3106
Sponsor: Rep. Morelle, Joseph D. [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act

 
This bill makes it a crime to intentionally disclose (or threaten to disclose) a digital depiction that has been altered using digital manipulation of an individual engaging in sexually explicit conduct. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Improving Outdoor Recreation Coordination Act

Bill: 118-hr-3107
Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Intergovernmental relations
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

Improving Outdoor Recreation Coordination Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to establish the Federal Interagency Council on Outdoor Recreation.
 
The council shall meet as frequently as appropriate for purposes of coordinating specified policies and activities, including
 
 
recreation management policies across federal agencies;
 
the response by federal land management agencies to public health or other emergencies that result in disruptions to, or closures of, federal recreational lands and waters;
 
the adoption and expansion of emerging technologies on federal recreational lands and waters; and 
 
the dissemination to the public of recreation-related information in a manner that ensures that the information is easily accessible with modern communications devices.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-19
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held
action_date: 2023-09-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2023-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
AIR Act

Bill: 118-hr-3109
Sponsor: Rep. Nehls, Troy E. [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

Airlines Independent of Restrictions Act or the
 
AIR Act

This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to rescind no fly zone restrictions over Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and Disneyland in Anaheim, California, imposed under Federal Aviation Administration Notices to Air Missions (NOTAMs) and stop maintaining the restrictions imposed under such notices.

DOT may not issue a regulation or a NOTAM to impose a no fly zone over Disney World or Disneyland for a period longer than 30 days, with specified exceptions for national security concerns.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Bring Our Heroes Home Act

Bill: 118-hr-3110
Sponsor: Rep. Pappas, Chris [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Asia
China
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Libraries and archives
Military personnel and dependents
Missing persons
National Archives and Records Administration
North Korea
Personnel records
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Russia

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

Bring Our Heroes Home Act

 
This bill establishes at the National Archives a collection of records that relate to the fate or status of missing Armed Forces personnel. 
 
Each government office must identify and locate such records in its possession and transmit them to the Archives, in accordance with the criteria and acceptable formats established by the Archives.
 
The bill establishes a temporary board to ensure and facilitate the review, transmission, and public disclosure of such records.
 
The bill generally makes such records public, with specified exceptions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Words Matter Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3111
Sponsor: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

Words Matter Act of 2023

 
This bill removes outdated terminology in specified statutes by replacing references to
 mentally retarded
 and 
mental retardation
 with 
intellectual disability
.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
No Hungry Kids in Schools Act

Bill: 118-hr-3112
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Katie [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

No Hungry Kids in Schools Act

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish an option for states to utilize a statewide Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) for USDA school meal programs. (The CEP allows eligible schools, groups of schools, and school districts the option to offer free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students without collecting household applications.)

Specifically, USDA must establish a statewide CEP option that may be used by a state agency. The state agency must provide state (nonfederal) funding to local educational agencies to reimburse applicable schools at the free reimbursement rate for 100% of the meals served.

Eligibility for the statewide CEP must be based on a statewide calculation of the percentage of identified enrolled students, regardless of a school's local educational agency. Further, the bill lowers the CEP participation threshold for a statewide CEP to an identified student percentage (ISP) of zero, from 40%. The ISP is the percentage of students who are eligible for free school meals without a household application, primarily those who are directly certified through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

In addition, the bill specifies that the reimbursement multiplier for school meals remains at the current level of 1.6. The reimbursement multiplier is used to calculate how many meals will be reimbursed at the free meal rate.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Access to School Meals Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3113
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Katie [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Town Halls for Veterans Act

Bill: 118-hr-3114
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health personnel
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: 

Town Halls for Veterans Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide for quarterly town hall meetings for veterans at each of its medical centers. The meetings must include (1) the director (or director's designee) of the medical center, (2) the director (or director's designee) of the Veterans Integrated Service Network the medical center is located in, and (3) other VA employees the VA determines are appropriate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Public Service Reform Act

Bill: 118-hr-3115
Sponsor: Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2023-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-05
text: Introduced in House