hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
ALERT Act

Bill: 118-s-2139
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: 

Accountability of Leaders in Education to Report Title IX Investigations Act or the ALERT Act

 
This bill requires institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in federal student-aid programs to certify annually with the Department of Education that they have reviewed reports of misconduct by their employees involving domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. The certification must include a confirmation that the IHE's president and board members involved in the review did not interfere with or influence investigations or dispositions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2140
Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Intellectual property
Judicial procedure and administration
Judicial review and appeals

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: 

Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2023

 
This bill amends the law relating to patent subject matter eligibility to establish that only specified subject matter (e.g., a natural process wholly independent of human activity) is ineligible for patenting. (Currently, subject matter eligibility is determined by examining whether the claimed invention is directed to certain ineligible categories, and if so, whether there is an inventive concept. Subject matter eligibility is one of several requirements that an invention must satisfy in order to receive patent protection.)
 
Under this bill, an invention shall be considered to involve patent-ineligible subject matter only if it falls within specified categories, such as (1) a mathematical formula that is not part of a useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition; (2) a mental process that is performed solely in the human mind; or (3) an unmodified human gene as the gene exists in the human body. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-01-23
text: Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-460.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Increasing Access to Adviser Information Act

Bill: 118-s-2141
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: 

Increasing Access to Adviser Information Act

 
This bill extends for 180 days Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) guidance allowing broker-dealers to receive payments for research services provided to investment managers. Under current law, broker-dealers that receive payments for performing this service must register as investment advisors. However, the SEC through guidance currently waives enforcement against these broker-dealers. This waiver is set to expire on July 3, 2023.
 
The SEC must report on the impact of continuation or expiration of this guidance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 320 South 2nd Avenue in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as the "Staff Sergeant Robb Lura Rolfing Post Office Building".

Bill: 118-s-2143
Sponsor: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service
South Dakota

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 320 South 2nd Avenue in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as the "Staff Sergeant Robb Lura Rolfing Post Office Building."
action_date: 2024-11-25
text: 
This act designates the facility of the U.S. Postal Service located at 320 South 2nd Avenue in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as the Staff Sergeant Robb Lura Rolfing Post Office Building.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-11-25
text: Became Public Law No: 118-132.
action_date: 2024-11-25
text: Became Public Law No: 118-132.
action_date: 2024-11-25
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2024-11-25
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2024-11-19
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2024-11-19
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2024-11-12
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2024-11-12
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5951)
action_date: 2024-11-12
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5951)
action_date: 2024-11-12
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 2143.
action_date: 2024-11-12
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5951-5952)
action_date: 2024-11-12
text: Mr. Higgins (LA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2024-04-26
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2024-04-26
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2024-04-25
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2024-04-23
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2993; text: CR S2993)
action_date: 2024-04-23
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2993; text: CR S2993)
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 320.
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-01-31
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate

Enacted as: number: 118-132
A bill to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to expand eligibility for certain contracts, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-s-2144
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Patsy T. Mink and Louise M. Slaughter Gender Equity in Education Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2145
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Investing in VETS Act

Bill: 118-s-2146
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: 

Investing in Veteran Entrepreneurial Talents Act or the Investing in VETS Act

 
This bill raises from 3% to 5% the federal contracting participation goal for small businesses that are owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
No ESG at TSP Act

Bill: 118-s-2147
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: 

No ESG at TSP Act

 
This bill prohibits investments under the Thrift Savings Plan in mutual funds that are based on environmental criteria (e.g., emissions standards), social criteria (e.g., company diversity), political criteria (e.g., political affiliations), or corporate governance criteria that differ from the standards that currently apply under law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
LIFT Act

Bill: 118-s-2148
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: 

Local Infrastructure Funding & Technical Assistance Act or the LIFT Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Commerce to provide grants under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 for predevelopment projects&#8212;measures required to be completed before construction of resilient climate infrastructure occurs&#8212;and related technical assistance. Grants may be provided to economic development districts, states, Indian tribes, local governments, institutions of higher education, individuals, and other organizations as specified by the bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act

Bill: 118-s-2149
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
Montana
Motor vehicles
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Watersheds
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: 

Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to complete a landscape assessment of the Seeley Lake Ranger District of the Lolo National Forest in Montana, designates areas in the forest for recreation and as wilderness, and otherwise revises provisions related to the forest.
 
A collaboratively developed restoration project within the district may be carried out in accordance with certain hazardous fuel reduction projects.
 
USDA shall, if a local collaborative group submits a proposal to improve motorized and nonmotorized recreational trail opportunities within the district, analyze the environmental effects of the proposal. It may also provide for the construction of any of the routes included in such proposal.
 
The bill designates specified federal land in the forest as (1) the Otatsy Recreation Management Area, and (2) the Spread Mountain Recreation Area. 
 
The bill designates specified wilderness additions in the forest as wilderness areas and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-01-09
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 307.
action_date: 2024-01-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 118-155.
action_date: 2024-01-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 118-155.
action_date: 2023-09-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2023-07-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-285.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Unity through Service Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2150
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Marketing and advertising
Military personnel and dependents
National and community service

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-05-09
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 384.
action_date: 2024-05-09
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-173.
action_date: 2024-05-09
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-173.
action_date: 2023-10-25
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2228-2229)
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2151
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Ecology
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Higher education
Research administration and funding
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: 

Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the establishment of a Southwest Ecological Restoration Institute in Utah. Such institutes currently exist in Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado and promote the use of adaptive ecosystem management to reduce the risk of wildfires and restore the health of forest and woodland ecosystems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-19
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2024-12-19
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2024-12-19
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2024-12-18
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7166; text: CR S7167)
action_date: 2024-12-18
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 584.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-11-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2023-10-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-311.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Reproductive Health Travel Fund Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2152
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Congressional oversight
Federal preemption
Intergovernmental relations
Transportation costs
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: 

Reproductive Health Travel Fund Act of 2023

This bill authorizes a grant program to provide assistance with travel-related expenses for those seeking an abortion.

Specifically, the Department of Treasury may award grants to nonprofit or community-based organizations to provide assistance to those seeking abortions with round-trip travel, lodging, meals, and other travel-related expenses. Priority must be given to organizations that serve individuals who are in jurisdictions that have banned or severely restricted abortion access or who travel to another jurisdiction for an abortion, or organizations that have or plan to have programs in place that help individuals access abortion services.

In order to qualify for a grant, organizations must assist individuals seeking abortions through unbiased and medically and factually accurate programs, services, or activities. Organizations may not discourage individuals from seeking abortions. Additionally, federal entities that implement the grant program may not participate in any state, tribal, or local antiabortion proceedings (e.g., prosecutions) in connection with grant services.

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Defense Support for Cyber Emergencies Response Act

Bill: 118-s-2153
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Kosovo Defense Cooperation Enhancement Act

Bill: 118-s-2154
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Bolts Ditch Act

Bill: 118-s-2156
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Lakes and rivers
Water storage
Water use and supply

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 585.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-11-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2024-06-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Protect Drug Innovation Act

Bill: 118-s-2157
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text:  

Protect Drug Innovation Act

 
This bill repeals several programs and requirements that were enacted under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 relating to the prices of prescription drugs, including (1) the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, (2) provisions that require drug manufacturers to issue rebates for certain drugs under Medicare for which prices increase faster than inflation, and (3) provisions that cap annual out-of-pocket spending under the Medicare prescription drug benefit.

 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Restore VA Accountability Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2158
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
21st Century Worker Act

Bill: 118-s-2159
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Urban Canal Modernization Act

Bill: 118-s-2160
Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Dams and canals
Emergency planning and evacuation
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: 

Urban Canal Modernization Act

This bill expands the Bureau of Reclamation's responsibility under the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to address aging irrigation and water resources infrastructure in western states to include additional work for urban canals of concern.

Specifically, the bill directs Reclamation or the operating entity of a transferred work (i.e., infrastructure owned by Reclamation, but maintained by a nonfederal entity) to carry out any necessary extraordinary operation and maintenance work for urban canals of concern, which are certain transferred works the failure of which would result in loss of life and property in the vicinity of the canal.

Reclamation must also provide federal funds to transferred works on a nonreimbursable basis sufficient to cover 35% of the cost of extraordinary operation and maintenance work for (1) urban canals of concern, and (2) certain project facilities which are in proximity to urbanized areas and which could pose a risk to public safety or property if the facilities failed.

The bill further specifies that any reimbursable funds provided under the bill must be considered a nonfederal source of funds for purposes of federal grant cost-sharing requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-20
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2024-12-20
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2024-12-20
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2024-12-19
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7214; text: CR S7214)
action_date: 2024-12-19
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 586.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-11-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2023-07-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-287.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Canal Conveyance Capacity Restoration Act

Bill: 118-s-2161
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2023-06-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Dams and canals
Earth sciences
Intergovernmental relations
Lakes and rivers
State and local government operations
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-287.
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2229-2230)
action_date: 2023-06-22
text: Introduced in Senate