hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Defend Our Networks Act

Bill: 118-s-1245
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2023-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: 

Defend Our Networks Act

This bill requires certain unobligated funds that were provided to address COVID-19 to be transferred to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for carrying out the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program. (Under the program, the FCC reimburses certain providers of advanced communications services for reasonable expenses incurred in the removal, replacement, and disposal of communications equipment and services produced or provided by Huawei Technologies Company or ZTE Corporation.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
SMART Prices Act

Bill: 118-s-1246
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2023-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: 

Strengthening Medicare And Reducing Taxpayer Prices Act or the SMART Prices Act

 
This bill modifies requirements of the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program and makes other changes with respect to the prices of prescription drugs under Medicare.
 
Current law requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to negotiate maximum prices for brand-name drugs that do not have other generic equivalents and that account for the greatest Medicare spending. The CMS must negotiate the prices of 10 drugs that are covered under the Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2026, 15 drugs that are covered under the Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2027, 15 drugs that are covered under the Medicare prescription drug benefit or under Medicare medical services in 2028, and 20 drugs that are covered under the Medicare prescription drug benefit or under Medicare medical services in 2029 and each year thereafter. 
 
The bill requires the CMS to negotiate the prices of 20 drugs under the Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2026 and 40 drugs under the Medicare prescription drug benefit or under Medicare medical services in 2027 and each year thereafter. It also (1) shortens the required period of market approval from 7 years and 11 years for drugs and biologics, respectively, to 3 years; and (2) modifies the ceiling for the maximum fair price for short-, extended-, and long-monopoly drugs.
 
The bill also repeals provisions that prohibit the CMS from interfering in negotiations between drug manufacturers, pharmacies, and PDP sponsors (i.e., noninterference clause). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Terry Technical Correction Act

Bill: 118-s-1247
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2023-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: 

Terry Technical Correction Act

 
This bill broadens the scope of crack cocaine offenders who are eligible for a retroactive sentencing reduction under the First Step Act of 2018.
 
The First Step Act made the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 retroactive and authorized sentencing reductions for certain crack cocaine offenders convicted and sentenced before the Fair Sentencing Act became effective. Under current law, crack cocaine offenders whose conduct triggered a mandatory minimum sentence are eligible for a retroactive sentencing reduction under the First Step Act. However, in 2021, the Supreme Court held in 
Terry v. United States
 that low-level crack cocaine offenders whose conduct did not trigger a mandatory minimum sentence are not eligible for a retroactive sentencing reduction under the First Step Act.
 
This bill extends eligibility for a retroactive sentencing reduction under the First Step Act to all crack cocaine offenders convicted and sentenced before the Fair Sentencing Act became effective, including low-level offenders whose conduct did not trigger a mandatory minimum sentence. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S1296)
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Safer Detention Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1248
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2023-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: 

Safer Detention Act of 2023

 
This bill expands statutory authority for federal prisoners to be released before completing their sentences or to be placed in the community to serve the final portion of their sentences.
 
First, the bill makes changes to the early release pilot program. The early release pilot program authorizes the Bureau of Prisons to release early and place on home confinement elderly offenders and terminally ill offenders who meet eligibility criteria. This bill 
 
 
expands eligibility to offenders serving time for an offense under the laws of the District of Columbia, 
 
expands eligibility to offenders who have served at least one-half (currently, two-thirds) of their prison term, 
 
reduces the amount of time an offender must serve by the good time credits earned by the offender, and 
 
creates a judicial review process for prisoners. 
 
 
Second, the bill expands eligibility for the compassionate release process to prisoners sentenced before November 1, 1987. The compassionate release process authorizes federal courts to reduce a prisoner's sentence and impose a term of probation or supervised released in certain circumstances. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S1296-1297)
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
IRS Accountability and Taxpayer Protection Act

Bill: 118-s-1249
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2023-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: 
 
IRS Accountability and Taxpayer Protection Act 

 
This bill modifies procedural rules for the imposition of tax penalties by requiring, among other things, the approval of such penalties to be given in the pre-assessment process when a supervisor or higher level official has the discretion to give or withhold such approval.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Drug-price Transparency for Consumers Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1250
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2023-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance
Marketing and advertising
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: 

Drug-price Transparency for Consumers Act of 2023 or the DTC Act of 202

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 This bill requires consumer advertisements for drugs and biologicals to include certain price information if the drug or biological is (1) covered under Medicare or Medicaid, and (2) required to include a risk summary under current law. The requirement does not apply to advertisements for drugs or biologicals with a wholesale cost of less than $35 for a one-month supply.
 
 Each violation of this requirement is subject to a civil penalty of not more than $100,000.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1297; text: CR S1297-1298)
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
First Step Implementation Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1251
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2023-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: 

First Step Implementation Act of 2023

 
This bill makes various changes related to federal sentencing law and requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to establish procedures to ensure the prompt release and accuracy of employment-related background check records. 
 
The bill
 
 
allows certain reduced mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses to be applied retroactively to offenders who committed their offenses on or before December 21, 2018; 
 
permits a court, in certain circumstances, to grant safety valve relief (i.e., impose a sentence without regard to the statutory mandatory minimum penalty for certain drug offenses) for an otherwise eligible defendant who does not meet the requirement pertaining to criminal history; 
 
permits a court to reduce a sentence imposed on a defendant convicted as an adult for an offense committed as a juvenile if the defendant has served at least 20 years of the sentence; 
 
establishes a process to seal and expunge certain records of juvenile nonviolent offenses; and 
 
requires DOJ to establish and enforce procedures to ensure that records exchanged for employment-related background checks are promptly released and accurate. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Uyghur Policy Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1252
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Albania
Asia
Canada
China
Congressional oversight
Congressional tributes
Department of State
Detention of persons
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Europe
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Germany
Government information and archives
Human rights
International exchange and broadcasting
International organizations and cooperation
Protest and dissent
Racial and ethnic relations
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Religion
Turkey
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: 

Uyghur Policy Act of 2023

 
This bill addresses human rights issues concerning the Uyghurs and other persecuted minority groups in China, particularly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
 
Specifically, the bill requires the Department of State to
 
 
support human rights advocates representing these groups to speak at public diplomacy forums, including in Muslim-majority countries;
 
ensure that Uyghur language training is available to Foreign Service officers; 
 
make every effort to ensure a Uyghur-speaking member of the Foreign Service is assigned to U.S. diplomatic and consular missions in China, Turkey (T&uuml;rkiye), and other nations with Uyghur populations; and
 
submit to Congress a strategy to secure the release of political prisoners in China.
 
 
The bill also requires the State Department and the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations (U.N.) to
 
 
support the appointment of a U.N. special rapporteur or working group to monitor and report on human rights violations and abuses in the XUAR, 
 
oppose any efforts to prevent consideration of issues related to the XUAR at the United Nations, and 
 
oppose any efforts to prevent Uyghur human rights advocates from participating in certain U.N. events. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Securing America's Ports of Entry Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1253
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2023-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Customs enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Employee hiring
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Law enforcement officers
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: 

Securing America's Ports of Entry Act of 2023

 
This bill requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to increase the number of CBP officers to specified levels. If CBP does not adequately increase personnel, the Government Accountability Office must report on CBP hiring practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 696.
action_date: 2024-12-16
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 118-290.
action_date: 2024-12-16
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 118-290.
action_date: 2023-07-19
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

Bill: 118-s-1254
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2023-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Lakes and rivers
Washington State
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: 

Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

 
This bill designates (1) certain federal land in the Olympic National Forest in the state of Washington as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System; and (2) certain other land, identified on the same map as such proposed areas, as potential wilderness. 
 
The bill designates as wild, scenic, or recreational rivers specified segments of the following rivers in the state of Washington
 
 
Elwha River,
 
Dungeness River,
 
Big Quilcene River,
 
Dosewallips River,
 
Duckabush River,
 
Hamma Hamma River,
 
South Fork Skokomish River,
 
Middle Fork Satsop River,
 
West Fork Satsop River,
 
Wynoochee River,
 
East Fork Humptulips River,
 
West Fork Humptulips River,
 
Quinault River,
 
Queets River,
 
Hoh River,
 
Bogachiel River,
 
South Fork Calawah River,
 
Sol Duc River, and
 
Lyre River.
 
 
 The Department of Agriculture may take necessary measures to control fire, insects, and diseases in the wilderness areas designated by this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-06-18
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 421.
action_date: 2024-06-18
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment. With written report No. 118-184.
action_date: 2024-06-18
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment. With written report No. 118-184.
action_date: 2023-12-14
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an 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: 2023-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to include a public airport in use by an air reserve station as a primary airport.

Bill: 118-s-1255
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2023-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: 
This bill designates any public airport in use by an air reserve station as a primary airport for purposes of additional funding through the Airport Improvement Program, which funds airport infrastructure projects. Under current law, a 
primary airport
 is generally a commercial service airport that has more than 10,000 passenger boardings each year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Global Aircraft Maintenance Safety Improvement Act

Bill: 118-s-1256
Sponsor: Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Global Aircraft Maintenance Safety Improvement Act 

 
This bill addresses safety standards related to foreign aircraft repair stations.
 
Specifically, the bill requires that all foreign aircraft repair stations be subject to at least one unannounced safety inspection each year. 
 
Further, mechanics and others working on U.S. registered aircraft at foreign repair stations are required to meet certain minimum certification or licensing standards. 
 
Air carriers must submit annual reports to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with respect to heavy maintenance work on aircraft (including on-wing aircraft engines) performed outside the United States.
 
The bill also prohibits FAA officials from traveling internationally if a previously mandated final rule on drug and alcohol testing of employees at repair stations has not been published, with specified exceptions. In addition, the bill requires the FAA to initiate rulemaking to require certain employees of foreign repair stations to undergo security threat assessments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1257
Sponsor: Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Child care and development
Child safety and welfare
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Low- and moderate-income housing
Poverty and welfare assistance
Preschool education
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act of 2023

This bill establishes a voucher program through which public housing agencies (PHAs) shall offer support services to help families who have children and are unstably housed, live in an area of concentrated poverty, or are at risk of being displaced from an opportunity area for children move to areas with access to high-performing schools or high-quality childcare and early education. The Department of Housing and Urban Development must provide assistance to PHAs on a competitive basis to implement the program. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Put the Brakes on Boondoggles Act

Bill: 118-s-1259
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Put the Brakes on Boondoggles Act

 
This bill prohibits the Department of Transportation from awarding additional financial assistance for a transit or rail project if (1) the overall projected cost to complete the project exceeds the original cost projection by at least $1 billion, and (2) the operational and administrative costs to provide the service are projected to exceed the revenues generated from ridership over the next decade.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
University of Utah Research Park Act

Bill: 118-s-1260
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Educational facilities and institutions
Land transfers
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

University of Utah Research Park Act

 
This bill releases to the University of Utah, without consideration, the revisionary interest of the United States in approximately 593 acres of specified nonfederal land.

action_date: 2023-07-25
text: 

University of Utah Research Park Act

 
This bill confirms the use by the University of Utah of approximately 593 acres of specified nonfederal land in Salt Lake City, Utah, as a university research park and for related university purposes (including development of student housing and a transit hub), as valid public purposes. The United States has a reversionary interest in the land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-25
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 159.
action_date: 2023-07-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 118-75.
action_date: 2023-07-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 118-75.
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Save Local Business Act

Bill: 118-s-1261
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor standards
Labor-management relations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Save Local Business
 

Act

 
This bill provides that a person may be considered a joint employer in relation to an employee under federal labor law only if such person directly, actually, and immediately (and not in a limited and routine manner) exercises significant control over the essential terms and conditions of employment. Such control may by demonstrated by hiring and discharging employees, determining individual employee rates of pay and benefits, day-to-day supervision of employees, assigning individual work schedules, positions, and tasks, and administering employee discipline.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Family Building FEHB Fairness Act

Bill: 118-s-1262
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2023-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: 

Family Building FEHB Fairness Act

This bill requires health insurance plans offered to federal employees under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to include assisted reproductive treatment benefits. Covered treatments are those facilitating reproduction, such as insemination, in vitro fertilization, and preservation of embryos. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate