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To enhance Financial Stability Oversight Council transparency.

Bill: 118-hr-3466
Sponsor: Rep. Barr, Andy [R-KY-6]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 
This bill makes several changes to the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), including by requiring congressional approval before certain activities, eliminating certain duties, and by capping FSOC assessments. The FSOC monitors threats to U.S. financial stability through cross-agency information sharing, regulatory coordination, and the designation of certain companies and activities as significant. 
 
The bill requires congressional approval before subjecting a nonbank financial company to enhanced prudential supervision. Currently, the FSOC makes this determination upon an evaluation and vote that requires two-thirds of the council's approval. The bill also eliminates the emergency exception to this authority that allows the FSOC to waive or modify certain requirements.
 
The bill eliminates several of the FSOC's duties and activities, including its duty to make recommendations to the Federal Reserve Board to establish certain heightened prudential standards for nonbank financial companies and large bank holding companies supervised by the Federal Reserve Board.
 
FSOC assessments are capped at current levels. 
 
The bill requires that the FSOC notify Congress before performing several actions, including gathering information from bank holding companies and nonbank financial companies. In addition, the bill adds an independent member to the FSOC that serves for six years and who must be from a different political party than the President. 
 
The Government Accountability Office must audit the FSOC annually.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
To enhance Federal Reserve transparency.

Bill: 118-hr-3467
Sponsor: Rep. Barr, Andy [R-KY-6]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 
This bill requires the Federal Reserve Board to disclose on a more frequent basis information about emergency credit facilities, discount window lending programs, and open market operations. It also moves up the termination date of board-authorized credit facilities. The bill requires certain nonpublic data related to credit facilities be made available, with some limitations, to the appropriate congressional committees. 
 
The bill revises the definition of a liquidity event. Currently, a liquidity event is defined as (1) an exceptional and broad reduction in the ability of financial market participants to sell financial assets without an unusual and significant discount or to borrow using financial assets as collateral without an unusual and significant increase in margin, or (2) an unusual and significant reduction in the ability of financial market participants to obtain unsecured credit. The bill eliminates this definition and instead requires the board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Department of the Treasury to define the term through a joint rulemaking. 
 
Under the bill, Congress must be notified when the board or the FDIC makes a determination as to whether a liquidity event exists that warrants the use of a guarantee program (a program to guarantee obligations of insured depository institutions or holding companies during times of severe economic distress). The bill also requires congressional notification of the cost to the taxpayer of such guarantee program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, 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: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, 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: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
EVs for All Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3468
Sponsor: Rep. Barragan, Nanette Diaz [D-CA-44]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Low- and moderate-income housing
National and community service
Public housing
Service industries
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Electric Vehicles for All Act of 2023 or the EVs for All Act
 
of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of Energy to carry out a program that awards grants to eligible entities (i.e., public housing agencies, local governments, and certain nonprofit organizations) to facilitate electric vehicle sharing services operated at public housing projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security.
action_date: 2023-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Mathe Avenue in Interlachen, Florida, as the "Pamela Jane Rock Post Office Building".

Bill: 118-hr-3469
Sponsor: Rep. Bean, Aaron [R-FL-4]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Florida
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Mathe Avenue in Interlachen, Florida, as the "Pamela Jane Rock Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Keeping All Students Safe Act

Bill: 118-hr-3470
Sponsor: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Keeping All Students Safe Act

 
This bill prohibits the use of seclusion and limits the use of physical restraint in schools and Head Start programs that receive federal funding.
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits the use of seclusion, which is the involuntary confinement of a student alone in a room or area from which the student is physically prevented from leaving. The term does not include a time out, which may involve separating the student from others in a non-locked setting.
 
The bill prohibits the use of mechanical or chemical restraints or physical restraints that restrict breathing or are life threatening.
 
The bill outlines the requirements for the use of physical restraint, including that the student's behavior must pose an imminent danger of serious physical injury to the student or other individual. Each state must ensure that a sufficient number of program personnel are trained and certified by a state-approved crisis intervention training program. Additionally, each program must establish procedures to follow after an incident involving physical restraint.
 
Further, the bill establishes enforcement provisions, including a private right of action for a student who has been subjected to unlawful seclusion or restraint. The Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services must withhold payments from a program for unlawful seclusion or restraint.
 
Finally, the bill requires each state educational agency (SEA) to establish, implement, and enforce policies and procedures required by the bill. It also creates a grant program to assist SEAs with these activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Access to Safe Contraception Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3471
Sponsor: Rep. Bice, Stephanie I. [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Family planning and birth control
Federal preemption
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Access to Safe Contraception Act of 

2023

 
This bill prohibits states from banning any form of contraception that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The bill does not preempt state laws that protect the right of any entity to opt out of providing contraception due to the entity's religious or moral beliefs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Smarter Approaches to Nuclear Expenditures Act

Bill: 118-hr-3472
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Smarter Approaches to Nuclear Expenditures Act

This bill imposes prohibitions and limitations on funding for various Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Energy (DOE) weapons programs.

Weapons subjected to prohibitions or limitations under this bill include Columbia-class submarines, intercontinental ballistic missiles, low-yield nuclear warheads, and space-based missile defense systems.

The bill also requires various reports to Congress, including a joint report from DOD and DOE outlining the estimated cost savings resulting from this bill.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E464)
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Bicycle Commuter Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3473
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 
 
Bicycle Commuter Act of 2023 

 
This bill reinstates and expands the tax exclusion for employer-provided fringe benefits for bicycle commuting. It allows employees a bicycle commuting benefit equal to 30% of parking fringe benefits. 
 
The bill repeals the suspension period (2018-2025) applicable to such tax exclusion and revises definitions applicable to bicycle commuting benefits to make electric bicycles and certain scooters eligible for the tax exclusion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E466)
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Senior Hunger Prevention Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3474
Sponsor: Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Aging
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Computers and information technology
Disability and paralysis
Family relationships
Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Health care costs and insurance
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Inflation and prices
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public-private cooperation
Retail and wholesale trades
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Senior Hunger Prevention Act of 2023

 
This bill modifies and expands nutrition programs for older adults and adults with disabilities, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP).
 
Under the bill, a household's eligibility for SNAP benefits may be certified for 36 months if all adult household members are elderly or disabled, an increase from 24 months. The bill also expands the SNAP medical expense deduction. 
 
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) must establish an elderly simplified application program (ESAP). Under ESAP, a state may implement a streamlined SNAP application and certification process for households where all adult household members are elderly or disabled and have no earned income.
 
The bill also directs USDA to authorize public-private partnerships between USDA, retail food stores participating in SNAP, and community-based organizations to provide free or low-cost food delivery under SNAP, including through the use of private funds.
 
Further, the bill reauthorizes CSFP, provides additional funding for the program, and expands eligibility to include low-income adults with disabilities. CSFP benefits may also be certified for 36 months. Currently, benefits may be certified for not less than one year, but not more than three years. 
 
The bill also expands eligibility for the Seniors Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) to include adults with disabilities, provide a 36-month certification period, and include minimum and maximum benefit amounts. 
 
Under the bill, USDA must also establish various grant programs; for example, USDA must establish grant programs to modernize SFMNP operations and establish new farmers' markets. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2382-2383)
SAFE Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3475
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Mammals
Meat
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Save America's Forgotten Equines Act of 2023 or the SAFE Act of 2023

 
This bill permanently prohibits the slaughter of equines (e.g., horses and mules) for human consumption. (Current law prohibits the slaughter of dogs and cats for human consumption. This bill extends the prohibition to equines.) 
 
Specifically, this bill prohibits a person from knowingly 
 
 
slaughtering an equine for human consumption; or 
 
shipping, transporting, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donating an equine to be slaughtered for human consumption or equine parts for human consumption.
 
 
The bill subjects a violator to a fine.
 
The bill applies to conduct in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States. However, it does not apply to an activity carried out by an Indian for a religious ceremony.
 
In recent years, appropriations acts have prohibited the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from using federal funds to inspect horses before they are slaughtered for human consumption. Therefore, there are currently no USDA-inspected horse slaughter facilities in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Easy Access to Mail Act

Bill: 118-hr-3476
Sponsor: Rep. Burchett, Tim [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Easy Access to Mail Act

 
This bill establishes procedures for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) regarding the use of centralized delivery of the mail with respect to residential housing units.
 
Specifically, the bill
 
 
provides that, for any housing development with respect to which the primary mode of mail delivery is any such mode except for centralized delivery on the date of this bill's enactment, the USPS may not change such mode of delivery to centralized delivery; and
 
 prohibits the USPS from requiring centralized delivery with respect to any housing development constructed after this bill's enactment without prior approval from the local legislative body, or, in the absence of a local legislative body, the legislature of the state with jurisdiction over the affected property.
 
 
If approval for centralized delivery is granted, at least 60 days before commencing such delivery the local postmaster shall provide (1) written notice to any other units of local government and any planning commissions located within the applicable county; and (2) a period of 60 days for public comment from residents, property owners, and home builders within such county regarding the use of centralized delivery at the applicable housing development.
 
The Postal Regulatory Commission shall ensure that the USPS does not change any USPS policy in effect on the date of enactment that would result in a disproportionate negative affect on rural, lower income, elderly, disabled, or predominately minority communities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
To require a report on the death of Shireen Abu Akleh.

Bill: 118-hr-3477
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 
This bill requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of State to report to Congress on the death of Shireen Abu Akleh. The report shall also be made available to the public on the State Department's website. 
 
(Abu Akleh was a U.S. citizen and journalist who was shot and killed in the city of Jenin in the West Bank in May 2022. At the time of her shooting, Israeli security forces and Palestinians were trading fire in the area.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E464)
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
COVER Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3478
Sponsor: Rep. Casten, Sean [D-IL-6]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural insurance
Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Congressional oversight
Farmland
Government information and archives
Soil pollution

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.
action_date: 2023-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
RESTORE Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3479
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Family services
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Re-Entry Support Through Opportunities for Resources and Essentials Act of 2023 or the RESTORE Act of 2023

This bill repeals a prohibition barring an individual with certain felony drug convictions from participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Under current law, a state may opt out of enforcing the ban on participation.

The bill also allows an individual who is incarcerated to apply for SNAP benefits before their release date. Specifically, the bill amends the definition of household to include incarcerated individuals who are scheduled to be released from an institution within 30 days. Currently, a state agency may apply to the Food and Nutrition Service for an administrative waiver in order to allow individuals to apply for SNAP benefits up to 30 days prior to release. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Restore the Partnership Act

Bill: 118-hr-3480
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Restore the Partnership Act

 
This bill establishes in the executive branch the Commission on Intergovernmental Relations of the United States.
 
The commission shall, among other things (1) provide a forum for discussing ways to improve the administration and coordination of federal grant-in-aid, regulatory, tax, and other programs requiring intergovernmental cooperation; and (2) identify the intergovernmental impacts of rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court on federal, state, tribal, and local governments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
FAMILY Act

Bill: 118-hr-3481
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Work and Welfare.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House