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Cap Insulin Prices Act

Bill: 118-s-146
Sponsor: Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]
Introduced: 2023-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Drug therapy
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: 

Cap Insulin Prices Act

 
This bill reduces cost-sharing for insulin under private health insurance and the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
 
Specifically, the bill caps cost-sharing under private health insurance for a month's supply of selected insulin products at $25 or 25% of a plan's negotiated price (after any price concessions), whichever is less, beginning in 2024.
 
The bill caps cost-sharing under the Medicare prescription drug benefit for a month's supply insulin products at $25 beginning in 2024. The current cap on insulin products under Medicare is $35 per month.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-06-12
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
See Something, Say Something Online Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-147
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2023-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: 

See Something, Say Something Online Act of 2023

 
This bill requires a provider of an interactive computer service (e.g., a social media company) to submit an activity report to the Department of Justice if it detects the transmission of any post, message, comment, tag, or other user-generated content or transmission that commits, facilitates, incites, promotes, or otherwise assists the commission of a major crime.
 
The activity report describing the transmission must contain (1) the name, location, and other identification information submitted by the user; (2) the date and nature of the user-generated content or transmission detected for suspicious activity; and (3) any relevant text, information, and metadata related to the suspicious transmission.
 
If a provider fails to report a known suspicious transmission, the bill eliminates federal liability protection (sometimes referred to as Section 230 protection) for claims related to that transmission. (Generally, Section 230 provides federal immunity that prevents providers and users of interactive computer services from being held liable for transmitting or taking down user-generated content.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop STALLING Act

Bill: 118-s-148
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2023-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Business ethics
Civil actions and liability
Competition and antitrust
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Licensing and registrations
Prescription drugs
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: 

Stop Significant and Time-wasting Abuse Limiting Legitimate Innovation of New Generics Act or the
 
Stop STALLING Act

 
This bill makes it an unfair method of competition to submit an objectively baseless petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in an attempt to interfere with a competitor's application for market approval of a drug.
 
The bill authorizes the Federal Trade Commission to sue an individual or entity that submits such a petition to the FDA. A party found liable in such a lawsuit shall be subject to civil penalties, such as a fine of up to $50,000 for each day that the FDA spent reviewing the baseless petition.

action_date: 2023-03-01
text: 

Stop Significant and Time-wasting Abuse Limiting Legitimate Innovation of New Generics Act or the
 
Stop STALLING Act

 
This bill makes it an unfair method of competition to submit an objectively baseless petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in an attempt to interfere with a competitor's application for market approval of a drug.
 
The bill authorizes the Federal Trade Commission to sue an individual or entity that submits such a petition to the FDA. A party found liable in such a lawsuit shall be subject to civil penalties, such as a fine of up to $50,000 for each day that the FDA spent reviewing the baseless petition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-01
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 21.
action_date: 2023-03-01
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Durbin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2023-03-01
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Durbin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
TSP Fiduciary Security Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-149
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Africa
Asia
Caribbean area
China
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Cuba
Department of Labor
Employee benefits and pensions
Europe
Financial services and investments
Foreign and international corporations
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Iran
Latin America
Middle East
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military procurement, research, weapons development
North Korea
Public contracts and procurement
Research and development
Russia
Securities
Sudan
Syria
Terrorism
Venezuela

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: 

TSP Fiduciary Security Act
 
of 2023

 
This bill incorporates national security interests into management of the Thrift Savings Fund. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires fiduciaries that are responsible for managing the fund (i.e., the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board) to prevent fund investments and associated votes that harm the national security of the United States, including investments in entities on certain lists maintained by the Department of Defense and the Department of Commerce (e.g., Chinese military companies). The Department of Labor must issue implementing regulations that include these and other standards for compliance.
 
Beginning January 1, 2025, fiduciaries may be held personally liable for monetary damages and may be assessed civil penalties for failing to meet these requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Countering Corporate Corruption in China Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-151
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: 

Countering Corporate Corruption in China Act of 2023 

 
This bill expands the activity prohibited under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) applicable to issuers of securities, domestic concerns, and others. (The FCPA generally prohibits bribes to foreign officials.) 
 
For example, the bill includes as prohibited corrupt practices 
 
 
certain activity supporting human rights abuses by China against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and members of other predominately Muslim ethnic groups; 
 
certain activity supporting censorship or human rights abuses by China with respect to individuals in Hong Kong; 
 
supporting certain territorial claims by China; 
 
political advocacy in favor of the Chinese Communist Party; and
 
investing in specified Chinese entities. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
American Financial Markets Integrity and Security Act

Bill: 118-s-152
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: 

American Financial Markets Integrity and Security Act 

 
This bill generally prohibits investments in sanctioned entities, certain Chinese military companies, and entities reasonably believed to be involved in activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. These entities may not sell securities to U.S. markets. Investment companies, insurance companies, and retirement plans are prohibited from investing in these entities. The bill also prohibits the use of federal funds to enter into or renew a contract with these entities. 
 
Furthermore, the Department of Commerce and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence&#8212;in addition to the Department of Defense as under current law&#8212;are allowed to add entities to the list of Chinese military companies. 
 
Additionally, the Office of Commercial and Economic Analysis of the Air Force must (1) report on the strategic importance to the Chinese government of inflows of U.S. dollars to China through capital markets, and (2) make recommendations to mitigate any related national security and economic risks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Trade with China Enforcement Act

Bill: 118-s-153
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agricultural equipment and machinery
Alliances
Asia
Aviation and airports
China
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Computers and information technology
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Foreign and international banking
Foreign and international corporations
Free trade and trade barriers
Genetics
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hong Kong
Human rights
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Industrial policy and productivity
Intellectual property
Internet, web applications, social media
Manufacturing
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Motor vehicles
Protest and dissent
Public contracts and procurement
Railroads
Securities
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Tariffs
Taxation of foreign income
Technology transfer and commercialization
Telephone and wireless communication
Trade restrictions
U.S. and foreign investments
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: 

Fair Trade with China Enforcement Act

 
This bill revises trade, finance, and tax provisions with respect to China. 
 
Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Commerce to prohibit the export of certain U.S. technology and intellectual property to China, and it places a shareholder cap on Chinese investments in certain U.S. entities. 
 
The bill prohibits federal agencies from using or procuring telecommunications equipment or services from Huawei Technologies Company, ZTE Corporation, or any other entity reasonably believed to be owned or controlled by China. 
 
Further, the bill requires the U.S. Trade Representative to list certain Chinese products that receive support pursuant to China's Made in China 2025 policy. The bill expedites the countervailing duty process (i.e., the imposition of duties to offset a subsidy by a foreign government) for products on this list. 
 
The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to (1) repeal certain reduced withholding rates for residents of China, and (2) provide for the taxation of income received by China on certain U.S. investments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
PART Act

Bill: 118-s-154
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2023-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Crime prevention
Crimes against property
Law enforcement administration and funding
Metals
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: 

Preventing Auto Recycling Theft Act or the
 
PART Act 

 
This bill establishes requirements for motor vehicles related to catalytic converters and other motor vehicle parts that contain precious metals.
 
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration must revise the motor vehicle theft prevention standard for new motor vehicles to include catalytic converters among the parts that require an inscribed or affixed identifying number. Additionally, the Department of Transportation must establish a grant program through which law enforcement agencies and other entities can stamp vehicle identification numbers onto catalytic converters of existing vehicles.
 
The bill establishes retention requirements for the purchase of motor vehicle parts that contain precious metals. It also sets forth criminal penalties for the theft of catalytic converters or any precious metals removed from a vehicle.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
RETURN Act

Bill: 118-s-155
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2023-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Department of the Treasury
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: 

Require Employees To Uniformly Return Now Act or the RETURN Act

 
This bill prohibits Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees from teleworking during the period beginning five business days after the enactment of this bill and ending on the date on which the IRS certifies that the processing backlog for income tax returns has been eliminated.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act

Bill: 118-s-156
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2023-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: 

Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act

 
This bill expands the E-Verify program by requiring all employers to use it and permanently reauthorizes the program. Currently, E-Verify use is voluntary for most employers, although some states mandate its use.
 
All employers must use E-Verify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all recruited, referred, or hired individuals, including current employees who were never verified under the program. Failure to use E-Verify shall create a rebuttable presumption that the employer is violating immigration law. 
 
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services must generate weekly reports about individuals who have received a final nonconfirmation of employment eligibility. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must use the report to enforce immigration laws.
 
DHS must establish a program to help certain small businesses verify employee eligibility. DHS shall also update E-Verify's design to help prevent and detect fraud and identity theft.
 
The bill increases civil and criminal penalties for hiring non-U.S. nationals (
aliens 
under federal law) who are not authorized to work. DHS must debar repeat offenders and those criminally convicted from holding federal contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements.
 
The Social Security Administration, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury, and DHS must jointly establish a program to share information to help identify non-U.S. nationals who are not authorized to work.
 
The bill establishes the Employer Compliance Inspection Center within Homeland Security Investigations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The center's duties include processing I-9 employment eligibility verification forms and ensuring compliance with employment eligibility laws. 
 
DHS must report to Congress on ways to simplify procedures relating to I-9 forms and on whether the I-9 process should be eliminated.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Drone Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-157
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2023-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Crimes against property
Firearms and explosives
Motor vehicles
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: 

Drone Act of 2023

 
This bill creates a federal statutory framework to criminalize various conduct involving the misuse of drones.
 
Among its provisions, the bill generally prohibits the
 
 
operation of a drone that poses an imminent safety hazard to vessels or motor vehicles; 
 
weaponization of a drone (e.g., attaching a firearm or explosive); and 
 
operation of a drone that interferes with a law enforcement, emergency response, or military operation or activity of the federal government or of a state, local, or tribal government. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Increasing American Jobs Through Greater United States Exports to Africa and Latin America Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-158
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2023-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Africa
Caribbean area
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Employment and training programs
Federal officials
Latin America
Multilateral development programs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: 

Increasing American Jobs Through Greater United States Exports to Africa and Latin America Act of 

2023

 
This bill requires the President to take certain actions to increase U.S. exports to Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
 
Specifically, the bill directs the President to establish and submit to Congress a comprehensive U.S. strategy for public and private investment, trade, and development in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The strategy shall focus on increasing exports of U.S. goods and services to Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean by at least 200% in real dollar value within 10 years.
 
Additionally, the bill directs the President to
 
 
designate a Special Africa Export Strategy Coordinator,
 
designate a Special Latin America and the Caribbean Export Strategy Coordinator, and
 
develop a plan for standardized training of foreign service and economic officers.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Human Trafficking Survivor Tax Relief Act

Bill: 118-s-159
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2023-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Crime victims
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Human trafficking
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: 

Human Trafficking Survivor Tax Relief Act

 
This bill excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, any civil damages, restitution, or other monetary award (including compensatory or statutory damages and restitution imposed in a criminal matter) awarded pursuant to an order of mandatory restitution or in a criminal proceeding for peonage, slavery, or human trafficking.

action_date: 2024-07-11
text: 

Human Trafficking Survivor Tax Relief Act 

This bill excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, any civil damages, restitution, or other monetary award (including compensatory or statutory damages and restitution imposed in a criminal matter) awarded pursuant to an order of mandatory restitution or in a criminal proceeding for peonage, slavery, or human trafficking. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-07-15
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2024-07-15
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2024-07-12
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2024-07-11
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5147; text: CR S5147)
action_date: 2024-07-11
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2024-07-11
text: Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2024-07-11
text: Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Sarah's Law

Bill: 118-s-160
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2023-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: 

Sarah's Law

 
This bill requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain a non-U.S. national (
alien
 under federal law) who is unlawfully present in the United States and has been charged with a crime that resulted in the death or serious bodily injury of another person.
 
 ICE must make reasonable efforts to obtain information about the identity of any victims of the crimes for which the detained individual was charged or convicted. ICE shall provide the victim, or a relative or guardian of a deceased victim, with information about the detained individual, including name, date of birth, nationality, immigration status, criminal history, and a description of any related removal efforts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
JOBS Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-161
Sponsor: Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2023-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Performance measurement
Student aid and college costs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: 
 
Jumpstart Our Businesses by Supporting Students Act of 2023 or the JOBS Act of 2023

 
This bill expands student eligibility for Pell Grants by establishing the Job Training Federal Pell Grant program.
 
Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Education to award a job training Pell Grant to a student who does not have a degree; attends an institution of higher education (IHE); is enrolled in a career and technical education program at an IHE that provides 150 to 600 clock hours of instructional time over a period of 8 to 15 weeks and provides training aligned with high-skill, high-wage, or in-demand industry sectors (i.e., job training programs); and meets all other eligibility requirements for a Pell Grant.
 
Additionally, the bill specifies that any period during which a student receives a job training Pell Grant counts toward that student's Pell Grant eligibility period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate