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Reimbursing Border Communities Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-725
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson, Ronny [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: 

Reimbursing Border Communities Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to make grants to certain border communities for expenses related to security measures along the southern border.
 
Specifically, the local government of a community is eligible for a grant if it is located within 200 miles of the border and is not a sanctuary jurisdiction as defined by the bill.
 
Additionally, no grant may be used to reimburse nonprofit organizations, fund legal representation, or provide educational, housing, food, or health care resources to a non-U.S. national (
alien
 under federal law).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Veterans for Mustangs Act

Bill: 118-hr-726
Sponsor: Rep. McClain, Lisa C. [R-MI-9]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: 

Veterans for Mustangs Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to prioritize use of nonsurgical, medically safe on-range fertility controls to manage populations of wild, free-roaming horses and burros. In implementing such fertility controls, the Bureau of Land Management shall prioritize the recruitment of military veterans to train and become certified in the application of fertility controls, including the certified PZP applicator certification offered by the Science and Conservation Center's Certification Program.
 
Interior shall provide appropriate compensation to military veterans participating in such a certification program.
 
The bill authorizes Interior to contract with military veterans who have completed the training program to carry out fertility control activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
National Council on African American History and Culture Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-727
Sponsor: Rep. Mfume, Kweisi [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: 

National Council on African American History and Culture Act of 2023

 
This bill establishes within the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) a National Council on African American History and Culture.
 
The council shall
 
 
 prepare an annual report to be submitted to NEH on the work of NEH to preserve and celebrate African-American history and culture;
 
 gather timely and authoritative information concerning historical developments and cultural trends in African-American history and culture and take other specified steps;
 
 evaluate the various programs and activities of NEH to determine the extent to which such programs and activities are contributing to the successful preservation and celebration of African-American history and culture and make recommendations to the President;
 
 develop and recommend national policies to foster and promote the understanding and preservation of African-American culture and the celebration of African Americans as contributors to the country's success; and
 
 make and furnish such studies, reports thereon, and recommendations with respect to matters of cultural preservation and African-American history.
 
 
 
 The bill terminates the council 10 years after its enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training to carry out a pilot program on short-term fellowship programs for veterans.

Bill: 118-hr-728
Sponsor: Rep. Moolenaar, John R. [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Temporary and part-time employment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: 

This bill requires the Veterans' Employment and Training Service within the Department of Labor to implement a pilot program under which states may use grants or contracts to carry out a short-term fellowship program. Each fellowship program must run for a period that does not exceed 20 weeks, provide a monthly stipend, and provide veterans an opportunity to be employed on a long-term basis following the fellowship.
 
The Government Accountability Office must report on the pilot program within four years after it commences.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-18
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2023-03-30
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2023-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Emancipation Statue Removal Act

Bill: 118-hr-729
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
District of Columbia
Monuments and memorials
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: 

Emancipation Statue Removal Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to remove the Emancipation Memorial from Lincoln Park in the District of Columbia.
 
 Interior shall donate the Emancipation Memorial to a museum or other similar entity. The recipient of the Emancipation Memorial may not store, display, or exhibit the memorial outside, but if the memorial is stored, displayed, or exhibited outside, ownership of the memorial will revert back to the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E81-82)
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-730
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
Retail and wholesale trades
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: 

Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the National Tracing Center within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to establish and maintain an electronic, searchable database of records related to certain firearms transactions.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Workforce Mobility Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-731
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-50]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Competition and antitrust
Congressional oversight
Contracts and agency
Department of Labor
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
State and local government operations
Trade secrets and economic espionage

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: 

Workforce Mobility Act of 2023

 
This bill prohibits the use of noncompete agreements in the context of commercial enterprises except under certain circumstances. 
 
The first exception is that the seller of a business entity may enter into an agreement to refrain from engaging in a similar business in the geographic area where the business being sold has conducted business prior to the agreement. This exception extends to agreements by senior executive officials who have a severance agreement as part of the conditions of sale (i.e., a buyout provision). Second, a partner of an enterprise may enter into an agreement that, upon dissolution of the partnership or dissociation of the partner from the partnership, the partner will refrain from engaging in a similar business in the geographic areas where the partnership has conducted business prior to the agreement.
 
Commercial enterprises must post notice of the prohibition of noncompete agreements under this bill in a conspicuous area of the workplace and conduct a public awareness campaign to inform the public of the provisions of this bill.
 
The Federal Trade Commission or the Department of Labor shall investigate or enforce the provisions of the bill. Individuals and state attorneys general may also bring civil actions to enforce the provisions of the bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Save Medicare Act

Bill: 118-hr-732
Sponsor: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: 

Save Medicare Act

 
This bill renames Medicare Advantage (MA) as the Alternative Private Health Plan program. It also establishes civil penalties for entities that continue to advertise MA plans with 
Medicare
 in the title.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-02-01
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: 2023-02-01
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: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Vet CENTERS for Mental Health Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-733
Sponsor: Rep. Sherrill, Mikie [D-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: 

Veterans Census-Enabled National Treatment Equitable Resource Supplement for Mental Health Act of 2023 or the Vet CENTERS for Mental Health Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that there is a minimum number of Vet Centers located in each state. Vet Centers are community-based counseling centers that provide social and psychological services to eligible veterans, service members, and their families. The minimum number of Vet Centers required in each state is generally based on the state's geographic size or the number of veterans located in the state.
 
The VA must establish additional Vet Centers as necessary to meet the minimum required number for each state. The VA may establish the additional Vet Centers at facilities made available by a state, local government, or recognized Indian tribe.
 
If a state needs more than one additional Vet Center to meet its minimum requirement, the VA must establish at least one additional Vet Center and may establish Vet Center outstations to cover the difference.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Susan Muffley Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-735
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-10]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: 

Susan Muffley Act of 202

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This bill restores the full vested monthly benefits for eligible participants of certain pension plans that were sponsored by Delphi Corporation and terminated as a result of General Motors' bankruptcy in 2009. 
 
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) must recalculate and adjust each plan participant's monthly benefits payment. The PBGC must also apply the recalculation to previously-made monthly payments and make a lump-sum payment for any additional benefits based on the recalculation.
 
The bill establishes and provides appropriations to a fund for the payment of these benefits and specifies how the lump-sum payments are treated for tax purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
PROTECT Kids Act

Bill: 118-hr-736
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-5]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: 

Parental Rights Over The Education and Care of Their Kids Act or the PROTECT Kids Act

 
This bill requires elementary and middle schools, as a condition of receiving federal funds, to obtain parental consent under specified circumstances.
 
Specifically, an elementary school or a school consisting of only grades 5-8 must obtain parental consent before (1) changing a minor child's gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name on any school form; or (2) allowing a child to change the child's sex-based accommodations, including locker rooms or bathrooms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-10-01
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 599.
action_date: 2024-10-01
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 118-706.
action_date: 2024-10-01
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 118-706.
action_date: 2024-09-11
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 12.
action_date: 2024-09-11
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. National Historic Site Act

Bill: 118-hr-737
Sponsor: Rep. Williams, Nikema [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Georgia
Historic sites and heritage areas
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Protest and dissent
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: 

Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. National Historic Site Act

 
This bill establishes the Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. National Historic Site in Georgia as a unit of the National Park System.
 
The site shall preserve, protect, and interpret the area where the Reverend Dr. Abernathy served as pastor during the height of the modern civil rights movement and his role as an internationally recognized civil rights leader.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Mykhaylo Gnatyuk and Melnik Gnatyuk.

Bill: 118-hr-738
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Provides for the relief of Mykhaylo Gnatyuk and Melnik Gnatyuk.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Tetyana Zvarychuk.

Bill: 118-hr-739
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Provides for the relief of Tetyana Zvarychuk.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Igor Klyuchenko.

Bill: 118-hr-740
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2023-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Provides for the relief of Igor Klyuchenko.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Employee Bonus Protection Act

Bill: 118-hr-741
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-41]
Introduced: 2023-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-02
text: 

Employee Bonus Protection Act

 
This bill excludes from an employee's regular pay rate, for purposes of calculating overtime compensation, payments made to reward an employee or group of employees for meeting or exceeding the productivity, quality, efficiency, or sales goals specified in writing in a gainsharing plan, incentive bonus plan, commission plan, or performance contingent bonus plan.


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

Bill: 118-hr-742
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, Jeff [R-SC-3]
Introduced: 2023-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Asia
China
Civil actions and liability
Computers and information technology
Consumer affairs
Foreign and international corporations
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-02
text: 

Telling Everyone the Location of data Leaving the U.S. Act or the TELL Act

 This bill requires any person that maintains a website or that sells or distributes a mobile application that maintains and stores information in China to conspicuously disclose certain information to individuals who download or otherwise use the website or application. The disclosures must specify (1) that such information is stored and maintained in China, and (2) whether the information is accessible by the Chinese Communist Party or a Chinese state-owned entity. 
 
The bill also provides for enforcement of these requirements by the Federal Trade Commission. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 28 - 22.
action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2023-02-07
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2023-02-07
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2023-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-02-02
text: Introduced in House
Protect and Serve Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-743
Sponsor: Rep. Rutherford, John H. [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2023-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement officers
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-02
text: 

Protect and Serve Act of 2023

 
This bill establishes a new criminal offense for knowingly assaulting a law enforcement officer and causing serious bodily injury (or attempting to do so) in circumstances that affect interstate commerce.
 
It imposes criminal penalties&#8212;a prison term, a fine, or both&#8212;on a violator.


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