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Opportunities to Support Mothers and Deliver Children Act

Bill: 118-hr-4930
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: 

Opportunities to Support Mothers and Deliver Children Act

This bill provides funding for, and requires the Department of Health and Human Services to award, grants for demonstration projects to train low-income individuals to work in the field of pregnancy, childbirth, or postpartum care. Grantees must be located in a state that recognizes doulas or midwives as health care providers and that allows payment for their services under public or private insurance plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Work and Welfare.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Pell Grant Flexibility Act

Bill: 118-hr-4931
Sponsor: Rep. Morelle, Joseph D. [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: 

Pell Grant Flexibility Act

This bill changes certain requirements relating to the Federal Pell Grant program for students with disabilities.

Currently, Pell Grant awards are based on enrollment status and a student must attend an institution of higher education (IHE) on a full-time basis in order to receive the maximum award amount. This bill provides an exception for a student with a disability who takes a reduced course load (as determined appropriate by the student's IHE). Specifically, the bill deems such a student as enrolled on a full-time basis for purposes of calculating the amount of the student's Pell Grant. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
End Employer Collusion Act

Bill: 118-hr-4932
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Competition and antitrust
Contracts and agency
Employee hiring
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Labor-management relations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Mental Health Professionals Workforce Shortage Loan Repayment Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4933
Sponsor: Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government lending and loan guarantees
Health personnel
Higher education
Medical education
Mental health
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: 

Mental Health Professionals Workforce Shortage Loan Repayment Act of 2023

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2032 and expands the Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program. Through this program, the Health Resources and Services Administration provides loan repayment assistance to individuals who agree to work for a period of time in the field of substance use disorder treatment.
 
In particular, the bill expands eligibility to include individuals who agree to work in mental health professional shortage areas for a period of time.
 
The bill also allows the use of the loan repayment assistance to repay any loan incurred to obtain a post-graduate degree in a mental health or related field. (Current law limits the loans eligible for repayment to loans for education and training for substance use disorder treatment employment and specified nursing and federal education loans.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a standardized training curriculum for military vehicle operations.

Bill: 118-hr-4934
Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Commodity Exchange Act to adjust the period during which amounts transferred by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to the account for customer education initiatives and non-awards expenses shall remain available, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-hr-4935
Sponsor: Rep. Nunn, Zachary [R-IA-3]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Consumer affairs
Employment discrimination and employee rights

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: 
This bill makes modifications to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Customer Protection Fund. The fund is used for whistleblower awards and customer education initiatives and is financed by monetary sanctions for commodities law violations. 

First, the bill raises the cap on the amount allowed to be deposited into the fund. The bill also permanently extends the availability of amounts set aside in an account for customer education initiatives and administrative expenses of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Office of Customer Education and Outreach and the Whistleblower Program. Currently, any amount remaining in this account as of October 1, 2024, must be returned to the fund. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
NOW Act

Bill: 118-hr-4936
Sponsor: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: 

Nonrestrictive Offshore Wind Act or the NOW Act

This bill repeals certain requirements that the Department of the Interior must meet before issuing a lease for offshore wind development. Under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Interior may not issue a lease unless (1) an offshore oil and gas lease sale has been held in the year prior to issuing the lease, and (2) Interior offers a specified minimum acreage for offshore lease sales in the previous year. The bill repeals those requirements.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Family Farms Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4937
Sponsor: Rep. Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA-19]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: 

Preserving Family Farms Act of 2023

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase to $13 million (currently, $750,000) the limitation on the special use valuation for farmland or other trades or businesses for estate tax purposes. The increased amount is adjusted for inflation for estates of decedents dying after 2023.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Disclosure of Tax Havens and Offshoring Act

Bill: 118-hr-4938
Sponsor: Rep. Pettersen, Brittany [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Foreign and international corporations
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: 

Disclosure of Tax Havens and Offshoring Act

This bill requires certain members of a multinational enterprise group that are also issuers of securities to annually disclose information related to the tax jurisdiction, income, and assets of their constituent entities on a country-by-country basis. (Multinational enterprise groups have two or more entities with different tax jurisdictions.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
To authorize livestock producers and their employees to take crested caracaras in order to prevent the death of or injury or destruction to livestock, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-hr-4939
Sponsor: Rep. Pfluger, August [R-TX-11]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: 
This bill allows livestock producers and their employees to take certain actions against crested caracaras to protect livestock. (Crested caracaras are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.)

Specifically, livestock producers and their employees may (1) take (i.e., capture, kill, disperse, or transport) a crested caracara that they reasonably believe will cause death, injury, or destruction to livestock; or (2) in the course of taking or attempting to take the crested caracara, cause injury to the bird.

Livestock producers and their employees must submit an annual report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) on crested caracaras taken under this bill. The FWS must make this reporting form available on its website.

Currently, the FWS has a special permit process under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for the taking of crested caracaras. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Fishing Industry Credit Enhancement Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4940
Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Credit and credit markets
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-08-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Providing Access to Treatment and Housing Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4941
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Executive agency funding and structure
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: 

Providing Access to Treatment and Housing Act of 2023 or the PATH Act of 2023

This bill establishes a specific office and authorizes grants to support the provision of mental and behavioral health services for unhoused individuals.

Specifically, the bill establishes the Center for Unhoused Individuals in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The center must develop policies and coordinate federal, state, and local action to expand unhoused individuals' access to mental, behavioral health, and housing services. The center may award grants to public and nonprofit entities to support these activities. 

SAMHSA must also award grants to state, local, and tribal governments to improve these services for unhoused individuals, with priority given to areas with high rates of housing instability and above-average housing costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act

Bill: 118-hr-4942
Sponsor: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: 

Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act

 
This bill modifies the Conrad 30 Waiver program, which incentivizes qualified foreign physicians to serve in underserved communities. It also extends statutory authority for the program for three years from this bill's enactment.
 
Aliens coming to the United States under a J-1 nonimmigrant visa to receive medical training typically must leave the country and reside for two years abroad before being eligible to apply for an immigrant visa or permanent residence. The Conrad program waives this requirement for individuals who meet certain qualifications, including serving for a number of years at a health care facility in an underserved area. 
 
The bill increases the number of waivers that a state may obtain each fiscal year from 30 to 35 if a certain number of waivers were used the previous year, and provides for further adjustments depending on demand.
 
An alien physician may be employed at an academic medical center to meet the Conrad program's employment requirements if the alien's work is in the public interest, even if the medical center is not in an underserved area. 
 
Employment contracts for alien physicians under the Conrad program shall contain certain information, such as the maximum number of on-call hours per week the physician shall have to work. 
 
Certain alien physicians (along with the physician's spouse and children) shall be exempt from the direct annual numerical limits on immigration, including those physicians that have met certain requirements related to visas for physicians to serve in underserved areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Enabling Farmers to Benefit from Processing Nutrition Programs Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4943
Sponsor: Rep. Scholten, Hillary J. [D-MI-3]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Congressional oversight
Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: 

Enabling Farmers to Benefit from Processing Nutrition Programs Act of 2023

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a streamlined process for farmers and ranchers to provide benefits under certain federal nutrition programs (i.e., the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program; the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); and the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program).

Specifically, USDA must establish a streamlined application process for farmers and ranchers to apply to be vendors under the nutrition programs, including by developing a single application for the programs or an information sharing system. USDA must also develop a streamlined process for these vendors to use standardized technology to process program benefits (such as a single piece of equipment or a mobile application).

Further, USDA must ensure that the program benefit processing equipment and systems made available by a state agency is appropriate for the entity. For example, this includes ensuring wireless or mobile processing equipment and technology systems are appropriate for farmers markets and other direct-to-consumer markets. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Military Families and Surviving Spouses Benefits Enhancement Act

Bill: 118-hr-4944
Sponsor: Rep. Stefanik, Elise M. [R-NY-21]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Family relationships
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Military personnel and dependents
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-08-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, Oversight and Accountability, 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: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, Oversight and Accountability, 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: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, Oversight and Accountability, 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: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, Oversight and Accountability, 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: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
COTA Act

Bill: 118-hr-4945
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Mental Health Inpatient Equity Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4946
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: 

Medicare Mental Health Inpatient Equity Act of 

2023

This bill removes the 190-day lifetime limit on inpatient psychiatric hospital services under Medicare.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
TRUST for Puerto Rico Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-4947
Sponsor: Rep. Torres, Ritchie [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
College Athlete Economic Freedom Act

Bill: 118-hr-4948
Sponsor: Rep. Trahan, Lori [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Athletes
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Retail and wholesale trades
School athletics
Wages and earnings

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-07-26
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: 2023-07-26
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: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Don Young Veterans Advancing Conservation Act

Bill: 118-hr-4949
Sponsor: Rep. Soto, Darren [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2023-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Employment and training programs
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-08-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Introduced in House