hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Appraisal Industry Improvement Act

Bill: 118-s-3902
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2024-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2024-03-11
text: 

Appraisal Industry Improvement Act

This bill revises the federal regulation of real estate appraisers by expanding eligibility criteria to perform appraisals, specifying training requirements, and providing for grants. The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s Appraisal Subcommittee oversees state licensing and certification of appraisers and maintains a registry of appraisers eligible to perform appraisals tied to mortgages involving federally backed programs, federally insured banks, or government sponsored enterprises.

The bill allows federal employees who are certified or licensed as an appraiser to perform appraisals in states and territories other than the state or territory in which they are certified or licensed. The bill also provides requirements for qualifying education for appraisers.

The bill expands the national appraiser registry to include trainees with state credentials.

The bill allows the Appraisal Subcommittee to make grants to state appraiser certifying and licensing agencies for the purpose of addressing appraiser workforce needs. The bill also adds representation on the subcommittee from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Rural Housing Service of the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Ukraine Aid Transparency Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3903
Sponsor: Sen. Vance, J. D. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2024-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2024-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Helping More Families Save Act

Bill: 118-s-3904
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2024-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Housing and community development funding
Landlord and tenant
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2024-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2347-2348)
action_date: 2024-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Property Improvement and Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3905
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2024-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Tribal Rural Housing Access Act

Bill: 118-s-3906
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Literacy Improvement for Transformation Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3907
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Funding Global Terrorists Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3908
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Spectrum Pipeline Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3909
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Yes in God's Backyard Act

Bill: 118-s-3910
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Isakson-Roe Education Oversight Expansion Act

Bill: 118-s-3911
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: 

Isakson-Roe Education Oversight Expansion Act

 
This bill requires educational institutions to notify state approving agencies or the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) within 30 days of becoming subject to certain unfavorable actions as a condition of approval for VA educational assistance purposes. For example, a reportable event would include punitive action taken against an educational institution by a state or federal agency.
 
Institutions that are applying to have nonaccredited courses of education approved for purposes of VA educational assistance must also agree to notify the state approving agency or the VA within 30 days of the institution becoming subject to an unfavorable action.
 
The state approving agency or the VA must take specified disciplinary action (e.g., revocation of the approval of courses and programs by an institution) if an institution does not comply with the notification requirements prescribed by this bill.
 
The VA must establish a database within 180 days of the enactment of this bill for risk-based surveys, which deal with the oversight of educational institutions with courses and programs of education approved for purposes of VA educational assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Election Worker and Polling Place Protection Act

Bill: 118-s-3912
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Sanctions Recovery Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3913
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Housing and Area Median Income Fairness Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3914
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
No Community Development Block Grants for Sanctuary Cities Act

Bill: 118-s-3915
Sponsor: Sen. Vance, J. D. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Right to Vote Act

Bill: 118-s-3916
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: 

Right to Vote Act

This bill addresses the right to vote in federal elections.

Specifically, the bill declares that every citizen of legal voting age shall have the fundamental right to vote in federal elections.

In addition, the bill prohibits federal, state, and local governments from substantially impairing the ability to vote in federal elections unless the government action furthers an important and particularized governmental interest. Further, the bill specifies that a government may not diminish the ability to vote in federal elections unless the action uses the least restrictive means to achieve such an interest.

A violation of rights created by the bill may be challenged in district court, and a prevailing plaintiff may receive attorney fees. The bill outlines judicial review standards for challenges to voting practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Mexico’s Steel Surge Act

Bill: 118-s-3917
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Advancing GETs Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3918
Sponsor: Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Keep Violent Criminals Off Our Streets Act

Bill: 118-s-3919
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Spouse Job Continuity Act

Bill: 118-s-3920
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicaid Bump Act

Bill: 118-s-3921
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: 

Medicaid Bump Act

 
This bill increases the Medicaid federal matching rate, also known as the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), for behavioral health expenses that exceed prior levels (i.e., as of March 31, 2019). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must specify which services are eligible for the increased FMAP. States must use funds to supplement state funding for programs in effect as of April 1, 2021, and to increase the capacity, efficiency, and quality of services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
RESPOND Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3922
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Immigration Detainer Enforcement Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3923
Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Bus Rolling Stock Modernization Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3924
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Motor vehicles
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: 

Bus Rolling Stock Modernization Act of 2024

This bill allows a state or local authority (e.g., a transit authority) to use public transportation grants to make a partial advance payment for bus rolling stock (e.g., transit buses).

Specifically, a public transportation grant recipient may use grant funds to make an advance payment of not more than 20% of the total purchase order value of a bus rolling stock vehicle without obtaining preapproval or requiring the vehicle manufacturer to provide a performance bond (or other form of security). In order to make an advance payment, the recipient must meet certain requirements. For example, the recipient must have a signed purchase order and an executed contract with a vehicle manufacturer that includes advance payment provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Boosting Tax Credits for Accessible Housing Act

Bill: 118-s-3925
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: 

Boosting Tax Credits for Accessible Housing Act 
 
 
This bill increases the low-income housing tax credit for units designated for occupancy by persons with disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Secret Spending Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3926
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 707.
action_date: 2024-12-17
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. 118-301.
action_date: 2024-12-17
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. 118-301.
action_date: 2024-09-25
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Justice for Victims of Sanctuary Cities Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3927
Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Law

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Housing Supply Fund Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3928
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from taking certain proposed actions relating to a land management plan direction for old-growth forest conditions across the National Forest System.

Bill: 118-s-3929
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3930
Sponsor: Sen. Warnock, Raphael G. [D-GA]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: 

Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2024 

This bill establishes a grant program through the Department of Housing and Urban Development for states and other entities to provide qualifying assistance to low-income, first-time, first-generation home buyers in purchasing their first homes. Qualifying assistance includes assistance for mortgage down payments, mortgage closing costs, reduction of mortgage interest rates, subsidies for shared equity homes, or for certain modifications to a home to accommodate persons with disabilities.

The bill also establishes grant requirements regarding home buyer income, types of housing, homeowner occupancy, types of mortgages, and home buyer counseling.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Housing Preservation and Protection Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3931
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Patient's Choice Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3932
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Laken Riley Act

Bill: 118-s-3933
Sponsor: Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL]
Introduced: 2024-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Civil actions and liability
Crimes against property
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Detention of persons
Immigration status and procedures
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement officers
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
State and local government operations
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: 

Laken Riley Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain certain non-U. S. nationals (
aliens
 under federal law) who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. The bill also authorizes states to sue the federal government for decisions or alleged failures related to immigration enforcement.
 
Under this bill, DHS must detain an individual who (1) is unlawfully present in the United States or did not possess the necessary documents when applying for admission; and (2) has been charged with, arrested for, convicted for, or admits to having committed acts that constitute the essential elements of burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. 
 
The bill also authorizes state governments to sue for injunctive relief over certain immigration-related decisions or alleged failures by the federal government if the decision or failure caused the state or its residents harm, including financial harm of more than $100. Specifically, the state government may sue the federal government over a
 
 
decision to release a non-U. S. national from custody;
 
failure to fulfill requirements relating to inspecting individuals seeking admission into the United States, including requirements related to asylum interviews;
 
failure to fulfill a requirement to stop issuing visas to nationals of a country that unreasonably denies or delays acceptance of nationals of that country;
 
violation of limitations on immigration parole, such as the requirement that parole be granted only on a case-by-case basis; or 
 
failure to detain an individual who has been ordered removed from the United States.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2024-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Increasing Access to Biosimilars Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-3934
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2024-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2024-03-14
text: 

Increasing Access to Biosimilars Act of 

2023 

This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to establish a demonstration project to evaluate the benefits of providing additional payments to providers of biosimilars under Medicare. Specifically, under the demonstration project, participating providers receive an additional payment based on the difference between the costs to the provider of furnishing the biosimilar and the cost if the provider had furnished the underlying reference biological product instead.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Religious Freedom for Foster Families Act

Bill: 118-s-3935
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2024-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Families

Summary:
action_date: 2024-03-14
text: 

Protecting Religious Freedom for Foster Families Act

This bill prohibits the Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families from finalizing or implementing the proposed rule titled 
Safe and Appropriate Foster Care Placement Requirements for Titles IV-E and IV-B
 and published on September 28, 2023.

The rule establishes procedures that state and tribal agencies must follow when implementing case plans and case review requirements for children in foster care who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, or intersex, as well as children who are non-binary, or have non-conforming gender identity or expression.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Taiwan and American Space Assistance Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3936
Sponsor: Sen. Schmitt, Eric [R-MO]
Introduced: 2024-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2024-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Promoting Access to Capital in Underbanked Communities Act

Bill: 118-s-3937
Sponsor: Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS]
Introduced: 2024-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2024-03-14
text: 

Promoting Access to Capital in Underbanked Communities Act

This bill eliminates and reduces certain requirements applicable to new financial institutions, certain rural community banks, and federal savings associations.

Under the bill, federal banking agencies must issue rules allowing new financial institutions three years to meet capital requirements. During this period, a financial institution may request to deviate from an approved business plan and the appropriate agency has 30 days to approve or deny the request.

In addition, the community bank leverage ratio—a way of evaluating debt levels—is reduced for certain rural community banks. Specifically, new rural community banks must have a ratio of 8%, with a three-year phase-in of the rate. Currently, the ratio is 9%.

Finally, the bill removes certain restrictions to allow federal savings associations to invest in, sell, or otherwise deal in agricultural loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate