hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
AIR Security Act

Bill: 118-s-1965
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps Safety Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1966
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
PBM Act

Bill: 118-s-1967
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

Patients Before Middlemen Act or the PBM Act 

This bill prohibits pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) under the Medicare prescription drug benefit or Medicare Advantage from receiving any income for their services other than bona fide service fees.

Specifically, PBMs may not receive any income other than flat, bona fide service fees that are specified in their contracts with prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsors. Such fees may not be based on drug prices, discounts, rebates, or any other remuneration. PBMs must turn over any excess amounts they receive to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. PDP sponsors and PBMs must annually certify their compliance with these requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Graduate Opportunity and Affordable Loans Act

Bill: 118-s-1968
Sponsor: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

Graduate Opportunity and Affordable Loans Act

 
This bill limits federal student loan borrowing for graduate and professional students.
 
Specifically, the bill terminates the ability of a graduate or professional student to receive a Direct PLUS Loan. Institutions of higher education (IHEs) must notify their prospective and enrolled graduate and professional students that Direct PLUS Loans terminate on June 30, 2024.
 
Additionally, the bill establishes the aggregate loan limit for Direct Unsubsidized Loans as $65,000 for a graduate student (in addition to the amount borrowed for undergraduate education) and $130,000 for a professional student (in addition to the amount borrowed for undergraduate education).
 
The bill allows IHEs to set lower loan limits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
De Minimis Reciprocity Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1969
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

De Minimis Reciprocity Act of 2023

This bill makes various changes to 
de minimis
 treatment of U.S. imports. (Current law allows for imports under a 
de minimis 
threshold to enter the United States free of tariffs and taxes with minimal inspection. In 2016, Congress raised this threshold from $200 to $800.)

Specifically, the Department of the Treasury must prescribe regulations to establish dollar amount thresholds (which may not exceed $800) for 
de minimis 
entries. Treasury must establish a threshold for each country that takes into consideration (1) the dollar amount threshold of that country for 
de minimis
 entries from the United States; and (2) any related thresholds of that country, such as a threshold relating to a value-added tax on imports.

The bill establishes in the Treasury the Re-shoring and Near-shoring Account. Amounts in this account must be available for facilitating the movement of manufacturing from China to the United States.

Treasury must annually publish a list of countries that are not eligible for 
de minimis
 treatment. Treasury must establish the conditions for including a country on this list, with specified considerations. Further, the bill requires China and Russia to be included on this list.

The bill requires that imports eligible for 
de minimis
 treatment must be transported into the United States by a contract carrier. The contract carrier must (1) collect additional data related to these imports, and (2) collect duties and taxes owed on these imports and remit those duties and taxes to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Informed Student Borrowing Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1970
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

Informed Student Borrowing Act of 2023

 
This bill revises and expands loan counseling for borrowers of federal student loans.
 
Specifically, the bill requires an institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in federal student aid programs to provide loan counseling to a student borrower of a federal student loan at the first disbursement of a loan in each award year. Currently, an IHE must provide one-time entrance counseling to a student who is a first-time federal student loan borrower.
 
The bill also revises and expands required elements of loan counseling. For example, required elements of loan counseling must include (1) an explanation that the borrower must affirmatively determine and manually enter the federal loan amount that the borrower will borrow for each award year, and (2) sample monthly repayment amounts based on the standard repayment plan and the most commonly used income-driven repayment plan.
 
Each IHE must ensure that student borrowers and parent borrowers manually enter the exact dollar amount of the loan that they wish to borrow for the year.
 
If an IHE provides a student or prospective student with a financial aid award notification that includes funds under the Federal Work-Study Program, then the IHE must ensure that the notification includes an explanation that these funds are not directly awarded to the student or IHE and that such amounts must be earned through the student's completion of work over time.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Streamlining Accountability and Value in Education for Students Act

Bill: 118-s-1971
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

Streamlining Accountability and Value in Education for Students Act

 
This bill addresses options for student loan repayment and access to federal student loans.
 
Specifically, the bill reduces the number of repayment options for federal student loans. Currently, a borrower may choose among nine plans for student loan repayment. This bill reduces those options to two: a standard 10-year repayment plan and an income-driven repayment plan.
 
The bill also requires an institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in federal student aid programs to certify that no federal student aid funds may be used by students for certain educational programs offered by the IHE. In particular, these funds may not be used by (1) an undergraduate student for enrollment in an educational program in which half of the graduates do not earn more than the median high school graduate, and (2) a graduate student for enrollment in an educational program in which half of the graduates do not earn more than the median bachelor's degree recipient.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act

Bill: 118-s-1972
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act

This bill makes various changes to the federal student loan system, including by addressing options for student loan repayment.

First, the bill requires the National Center for Education Statistics to establish a secure and privacy-protected data system that contains information about postsecondary students.

Second, the bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to develop standard terminology and a format for financial aid offer forms based on recommendations from representatives of certain groups. Each institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in federal student aid programs must (1) use the standard form when offering financial aid to students, and (2) use the standard terminology and definitions developed by ED for all communications related to financial aid offers.

The bill revises and expands loan counseling for borrowers of federal student loans. For example, the bill requires an IHE that participates in federal student aid programs to provide loan counseling to a student borrower of a federal student loan at the first disbursement of a loan in each award year.

Additionally, the bill addresses options for student loan repayment and access to federal student loans. For example, the bill consolidates existing repayment plans into two options: a standard 10-year repayment plan and an income-driven repayment plan.

The bill limits federal student loan borrowing for graduate and professional students by (1) terminating the ability of a graduate or professional student to receive a Direct PLUS Loan, and (2) reducing the aggregate loan limits for Direct Unsubsidized Loans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Americans' Data From Foreign Surveillance Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1974
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

Protecting Americans' Data From Foreign Surveillance Act of 

2023

 
This bill establishes certain export controls on personal data of U.S. nationals and individuals living in the United States. 
 
Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Commerce (in coordination with specified federal agencies) to identify categories of personal data that could be exploited by foreign governments or foreign adversaries and harm U.S. national security if exported, reexported, or in-country transferred in a quantity that exceeds the threshold established by Commerce.
 
The bill outlines the requirements for establishing this threshold. Commerce must seek to balance the need to protect personal data from exploitation by foreign governments and foreign adversaries against the likelihood of (1) impacting legitimate business activities, research activities, and other activities that do not harm the national security of the United States; or (2) chilling speech protected by the First Amendment.
 
The bill also requires Commerce to impose appropriate controls on the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of covered personal data, including through interim controls (e.g., informing a person that a license is required). Commerce may not impose a requirement for a license or other authorization pursuant to specified transactions, such as those in which the personal data is encrypted with technology that is certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
 
The bill applies certain export control penalties to officers or employees of an organization who knew or should have known that another employee was directed to illegally export covered personal data in violation of this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Discharge Review Board Accountability Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1975
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Preserving Patient Access to Home Infusion Act

Bill: 118-s-1976
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

Preserving Patient Access to Home Infusion Act 

This bill specifically includes pharmacy services as part of covered home infusion therapy under Medicare. The bill also allows nurses and physician assistants to establish and review the plan of care for home infusion therapy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Junior Enlisted Housing Affordability Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1977
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Tenant Advocacy Improvement Act

Bill: 118-s-1978
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Older Americans Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1979
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Age discrimination
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Employment discrimination and employee rights

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

Protecting Older Americans Act of 2023

This bill prohibits a predispute arbitration agreement or predispute joint-action waiver from being valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of a dispute involving age discrimination.

action_date: 2024-05-16
text: 

Protecting Older Americans Act of 2023

This bill prohibits a predispute arbitration agreement or predispute joint-action waiver from being valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of a dispute involving age discrimination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-05-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 396.
action_date: 2024-05-16
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Durbin without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-05-16
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Durbin without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-05-09
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Housing Wait Times Accountability Act

Bill: 118-s-1980
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Iranian Enrichment Monitoring Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1981
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

Iranian Enrichment Monitoring Act of 2023

This bill specifies that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) must notify Congress within 48 hours of determining that Iran has produced or possesses any amount of uranium-235 enriched to more than 60% purity. Subsequent to such notification, ODNI must also notify Congress within 48 hours if Iran has engaged in significant enrichment activity (such as enriching more than 10 kilograms of uranium-235). 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
SPACEPORT Act

Bill: 118-s-1982
Sponsor: Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

Spaceport Project Opportunities for Resilient Transportation Act or the SPACEPORT Act

This bill modifies requirements of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) Space Transportation Infrastructure Matching Grants Program. The program supported the development of spaceports (e.g., testing and launching stations for spacecraft) and other space-related infrastructure.

Under current law, a grant may cover a maximum of 50% of the total cost of a project; at least 10% must be paid for by the private sector. The bill removes the requirement of private sector contributions and increases the maximum amount that the grant may cover to 90% of a project's total cost. The bill also allows the FAA to waive the maximum cost limitations if it deems it to be in the national interest.

Additionally, under the bill, in selecting grant recipients, the FAA may consider a project's contribution towards meeting the civil, national security, and commercial space transportation needs of the United States (rather than only the needs of the U.S. government).

The bill also limits funding for the grant program to congressional appropriations; other funding sources, such as user fees, may not be used.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Private Prison Information Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1983
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

Private Prison Information Act of 2023

This bill specifies that a record related to a nonfederal prison, correctional, or detention facility must be considered a federal agency record for purposes of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

A nonfederal prison, correctional, or detention facility must disclose information under FOIA unless the information is exempt from disclosure or the disclosure is prohibited by law.

The term 
nonfederal prison, correctional, or detention facility
 means (1) a private prison, correctional, or detention facility; or (2) a state or local prison, jail, or other correctional or detention facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Payment Choice Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1984
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

Payment Choice Act of 202

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This bill requires retail businesses to accept cash as a form of payment for on-site sales of $500 or less, and it prohibits them from charging cash-paying customers a higher price compared to customers not paying with cash. Businesses covered by this bill are those engaged in the business of selling or offering goods or services at retail to the public that accept in-person payments at a physical location.
 
The bill provides for enforcement through preventative relief, damages, and civil penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
One Flag for All Act

Bill: 118-s-1985
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
National symbols

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

One Flag for All Act

 
This bill prohibits the display of flags other than the flag of the United States in public buildings, military installations, and U.S. embassies or consulates. Excepted flags include:
 
 
the National League of Families POW/MIA flag;
 
 flags representing the nation of a visiting diplomat;
 
 the state flag of a Member of Congress, outside or within the Member's office;
 
 flags representing a unit or branch of the Armed Forces, on military installations;
 
 any flag representing an Indian tribe; and
 
 any flag representing the state, territory, county, city, or local jurisdiction where the public building is located.

 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson Memorial VA Clinic Act

Bill: 118-s-1986
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: 

U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson Memorial VA Clinic Act

 
This bill designates the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Plano, Texas, as the U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson Memorial Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic or the U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson Memorial VA Clinic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Volunteer First Responder Housing Act

Bill: 118-s-1988
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: First responders and emergency personnel
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Low- and moderate-income housing
Rural conditions and development
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require training for State and regional employees of the Department of Agriculture on the rural housing and development programs of the Department.

Bill: 118-s-1989
Sponsor: Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA]
Introduced: 2023-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Department of Agriculture
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing and community development funding
Low- and moderate-income housing
Rural conditions and development

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate