hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
MADE in America Act

Bill: 118-hr-2707
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: 

Manufacturing API, Drugs, and Excipients in America Act or the MADE in America Act

 
This bill establishes a tax credit for certain manufacturers of pharmaceuticals or medical products.
 
Specifically, the bill establishes a tax credit for manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, active pharmaceutical ingredients, excipients (i.e., inactive ingredients), medical diagnostic devices, or personal protective equipment, if they are located in a designated distressed zone. The tax credit is equal to 25% of the manufacturer's production expenditures; the credit increases to 30% of expenditures if a substantial portion of the manufacturer's employees reside in a distressed zone. 
 
The bill defines 
distressed zone 
as an area that has been designated as a qualified opportunity zone by the Internal Revenue Service (i.e., an economically distressed community in which certain new investments may be eligible for preferential tax treatment) and that has a poverty rate of over 30%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Latonya Reeves Freedom Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2708
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Appropriations
Civil actions and liability
Community life and organization
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Justice
Disability and health-based discrimination
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Housing supply and affordability
Intergovernmental relations
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Low- and moderate-income housing
Medicaid
State and local government operations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
BBB Act

Bill: 118-hr-2709
Sponsor: Rep. Donalds, Byron [R-FL-19]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: 

Big Biden Blunder Act or the BBB Act

 
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to conduct a study on the economic effects of withdrawing U.S. Armed Forces from Afghanistan, including whether destroying, surrendering, or abandoning equipment in Afghanistan had any inflationary effect in the United States. 
 
The bill also requests that the President transmit a written statement to Congress on the extent to which destroying, surrendering, or abandoning equipment in Afghanistan had any inflationary effect in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Ocean Shipping Competition Enforcement Act

Bill: 118-hr-2710
Sponsor: Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-8]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: 

Ocean Shipping Competition Enforcement Act

This bill establishes procedures for the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) to enjoin, without obtaining a court order, the operation of any ocean shipping agreement it determines is likely to have certain anticompetitive effects. 

The FMC monitors agreements by ocean common carriers and marine terminal operators and otherwise regulates the U.S. international ocean transportation system. 

Under current law, the FMC must obtain a court order to enjoin the operation of an agreement it determines is likely, by a reduction in competition, to (1) produce an unreasonable reduction in transportation service, (2) cause an unreasonable increase in transportation cost, or (3) substantially lessen competition in the purchasing of certain covered services. 

The bill authorizes the FMC to issue such an injunction without a court order. For such an injunction, the FMC must provide the person filing the agreement with notice and an opportunity to be heard under expedited procedures established by the FMC. The FMC may allow a third party to intervene in a proceeding relating to such an injunction.

An injunction issued under this bill shall constitute a final order of the FMC.

 

 

 

 

 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2023-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E329-330)
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
SAYFE Act

Bill: 118-hr-2711
Sponsor: Rep. Garcia, Sylvia R. [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: 

Shielding America's Youth From Exploitation Act or the SAYFE Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense to establish an annual training for students who are enrolled in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) regarding the prevention of sexual abuse. Such training must be provided by an entity other than a JROTC administrator or instructor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Work Not Woke Act

Bill: 118-hr-2712
Sponsor: Rep. Hern, Kevin [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: 

Work Not Woke Act

 
This bill prohibits certain training that includes race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating.
 
Specifically, the uniformed services shall not teach, instruct, or train any member of the services to believe any concepts that include race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating.
 
Government contracting agencies must include in each government contract provisions stating that the contractor shall not use any workplace training that inculcates any form of race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating. The Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs must establish a hotline and investigate complaints alleging that a federal contractor is utilizing such training programs in violation of the contractor's obligations.
 
All federal agencies must review their grant programs and identify programs for which the agency may, as a condition of receiving a grant, require the recipient to certify that it will not use federal funds to promote certain concepts that include race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating.
 
The bill requires the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget to take specified actions regarding review of agency training.
 
The Department of Justice should continue to assess the extent to which workplace training that teaches race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating may contribute to a hostile work environment and give rise to potential liability under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
 
The bill prohibits obligating or expending federal funds to carry out specified executive orders related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and 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: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and 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: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and 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: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
I CAN Act

Bill: 118-hr-2713
Sponsor: Rep. Joyce, David P. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Blood and blood diseases
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Civil actions and liability
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug therapy
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare
Nutrition and diet
Sex and reproductive health
Surgery and anesthesia
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: 

Improving Care and Access to Nurses Act or the I CAN Act

 
This bill allows other health care providers besides physicians (e.g., nurses) to provide certain services under Medicare and Medicaid. 
 
Among other changes, the bill (1) allows a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to fulfill documentation requirements for Medicare coverage of special shoes for diabetic individuals; (2) expedites the ability of physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists to supervise Medicare cardiac, intensive cardiac, and pulmonary rehabilitation programs; and (3) allows nurse practitioners to certify the need for inpatient hospital services under Medicare and Medicaid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2714
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: 

Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2023

 
This bill generally separates the activities of commercial banks and investment banks. 
Specifically, the bill prohibits an insured depository institution from affiliating with any person or firm engaged principally in, among other things, issuing or selling stocks, bonds, notes, or other securities. 
Officers, directors and employees of securities firms are prohibited from simultaneously serving as an officer, director, or employee of a depository institution, except in specified circumstances.
 
No entity issuing or selling stocks, bonds, or other securities may engage in the business of receiving deposits, which includes the establishment and maintenance of transaction accounts.
 
The bill declares that Congress ratifies the interpretation by the Supreme Court in 
Investment Company Institute v. Camp 
(ICI) of specified statutory language regarding permissible activities of banks and securities firms. It further declares that the reasoning of the Court in that case shall continue to apply to the limitations placed upon security affiliations as enacted by this bill. No federal banking agency or federal court shall issue an interpretation regarding such security affiliations that is narrower than that of the Court in ICI.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1875)
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Keep Our PACT Act

Bill: 118-hr-2715
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Susie [D-NV-3]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: 

Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers Act or the Keep Our PACT Act 

 
This bill provides funding through FY2033 for grant programs operated by local educational agencies to provide supplementary educational and related services to low-achieving students and other students who attend elementary and secondary schools with relatively high concentrations of students from low-income families. Additionally, the bill permanently reauthorizes the grant program to assist states and outlying areas in providing special education and related services to children with disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
OWNER Act

Bill: 118-hr-2716
Sponsor: Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: 

Offshore Wind for Northeastern Energy Revenue Act or the OWNER Act 

 
 This bill requires revenues from offshore wind projects on the Outer Continental Shelf within the New York Bight Area to be shared with adjacent coastal states and their political subdivisions. The New York Bight Area is the area extending generally northeast from Cape May in New Jersey to Montauk Point on the eastern tip of Long Island, New York.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Conservation and Innovative Climate Partnership Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2719
Sponsor: Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: 

Conservation and Innovative Climate Partnership Act of 2023

This bill requires the Department of Agriculture to award competitive grants to land-grant colleges or universities to increase agricultural producers' voluntary adoption of conservation practices (e.g., alley cropping) and innovative climate practices (e.g., carbon sequestration). Projects may be carried out through public awareness campaigns, workshops, and specialized technical assistance. 
 
Grantees must carry out activities in partnership with at least one other entity, such as the Natural Resources Conservation Service, a land-grant college or university, a state entity, or a nonprofit organization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Strengthening Organic Agricultural Research (SOAR) Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2720
Sponsor: Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: 

Strengthening Organic Agricultural Research (SOAR) Act of 2023

This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to expand organic research, including through grant opportunities and the collection of data.

Specifically, the bill reauthorizes and increases funding for the Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative, a grant program which funds projects to enhance the ability of producers and processors who have already adopted organic standards to grow and market organic high quality agricultural products.

USDA may also provide competitive grants for research, education, and extension activities regarding the transition from nonorganic production systems into organic production. The grants may be offered for the purposes of

overcoming social, economic, and management barriers to organic transition;

documenting and understanding the effects of organic practices on ecosystem services (e.g., soil health and fertility); and

developing improved technologies, methods, models, and metrics for transitioning to organic management.

USDA may prioritize grants for proposals that actively involve certain historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges or universities, and Hispanic-serving agricultural colleges and universities. 

The bill also provides additional funding for the Organic Production and Market Data Initiatives to collect data and report on the production and marketing of organic agricultural products.

Further, USDA's Economic Research Service must conduct an economic impact analysis of organic agriculture and submit a report to Congress. The report must include an analysis of farming and ranching operations and the economic impacts, both direct and indirect, of organic agriculture on rural and urban communities.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
action_date: 2023-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Ukraine Lend-Lease Accountability Act

Bill: 118-hr-2721
Sponsor: Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: 

Ukraine Lend-Lease Accountability Act

 
This bill imposes certain requirements on the President's authority to lend or lease defense articles to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries affected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
 
Specifically, the bill removes two exemptions from the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022. (The act, which authorizes lending or leasing of defense articles to Ukraine and other countries affected by the invasion, exempts from such transactions certain requirements that typically apply to lend-lease transactions.) 
 
By removing these exemptions, the bill subjects the act's lend-lease authority to certain statutory requirements including that (1) the loan period be of a fixed duration not exceeding five years, during which the defense article may be recalled for any reason; and (2) the recipient country agrees to pay all costs incurred in leasing such defense articles, including costs associated with replacing lost or destroyed articles. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1850-1851)
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Providing Child Care for Police Officers Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-2722
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-50]
Introduced: 2023-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Families

Summary:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: 

Providing Child Care for Police Officers Act of 2023 

 
This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a grant pilot program for child care services for the children of law enforcement officers. Grants are provided to eligible states to provide assistance to a law enforcement agency or a group of entities to establish and operate child care programs for the minor children of law enforcement officers during shift work and abnormal work hours. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2023-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-04-19
text: Introduced in House