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A bill to amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-s-385
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2023-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Federal-Indian relations
Indian social and development programs
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: 
This bill authorizes grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations for activities related to recreational travel and tourism.
 
Specifically, the bill authorizes (1) the Bureau of Indian Affairs to make these grants to and enter into agreements with Indian tribes and tribal organizations; (2) the Office of Native Hawaiian Relations to make these grants to and enter into agreements with Native Hawaiian organizations; and (3) other federal agencies to make these grants to and enter into agreements with tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations.

action_date: 2023-04-18
text: 
This bill authorizes grants to Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations for activities related to recreational travel and tourism.
 
Specifically, the bill authorizes (1) the Bureau of Indian Affairs to make these grants to and enter into agreements with Indian tribes and tribal organizations; (2) the Office of Native Hawaiian Relations to make these grants to and enter into agreements with Native Hawaiian organizations; and (3) other federal agencies to make these grants to and enter into agreements with tribes, tribal organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-11-22
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2024-11-22
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S6705-6707; text: CR S6705-6706)
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2023-04-18
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 34.
action_date: 2023-04-18
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Schatz without amendment. With written report No. 118-9.
action_date: 2023-04-18
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Schatz without amendment. With written report No. 118-9.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
REEF Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-386
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: 

Re-using Equipment for Environmental Fortification Act of 2023 or the REEF Act
 
of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of the Navy to notify Congress when a vessel that is a viable candidate for artificial reefing (intentionally sinking a vessel to promote marine life) is to be stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. Specifically, the Navy must provide such notice not later than 90 days before the viable candidate is to be stricken from the register.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Canadian Snowbirds Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-387
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: 

Canadian Snowbirds Act 

of 2023

 
This bill establishes a nonimmigrant visa for qualified Canadian citizens.
 
The Department of Homeland Security may admit as a visitor a Canadian citizen who (1) is at least 50 years old, (2) maintains a residence in Canada, (3) owns a U.S. residence or has signed a rental agreement for the duration of the stay, (4) is not inadmissible or deportable under various provisions, (5) will not engage in U.S. employment except for services for the visitor's employer in Canada, and (6) will not seek U.S. assistance or benefits. Such visitors may be admitted for up to 240 days out of any single 365-day period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Care for Every Community Act

Bill: 118-s-388
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Adoption and foster care
Adult education and literacy
Advisory bodies
Building construction
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child care and development
Comprehensive health care
Congressional oversight
Disability and paralysis
Domestic violence and child abuse
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Food assistance and relief
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Labor-management relations
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Mental health
Nutrition and diet
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Preschool education
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Right of privacy
School administration
Science and engineering education
Special education
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula
User charges and fees
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: 

Child Care for Every Community Act

 
This bill provides funds to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for an affordable child care and early learning program. Children who are not yet required to attend school may participate in the program regardless of family income, disability status, citizenship status, or employment of a family member.
 
Under the program, HHS must support sponsors (e.g., states, local governments, tribal organizations, and nonprofit community organizations) that provide child care and early learning services for families.
 
Families must pay a subsidized fee, based on their income, for the services. The fees are waived for children from families with incomes below 200% of the poverty line. The fees are capped at 7% of a family's income regardless of the family's income level.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Justice Against Sponsors of Illicit Fentanyl Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-389
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2023-02-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Judicial procedure and administration
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: 

Justice Against Sponsors of Illicit Fentanyl Act of 2023

 
This bill allows foreign states to be sued in a U.S. court for physical injury to a person or property or death occurring in the United States as a result of fentanyl trafficking. (Typically, a foreign state is immune from lawsuits filed against it in a U.S. court.)
 
Specifically, a foreign state is not immune from a lawsuit seeking damages for (1) an act of fentanyl trafficking in or into the United States, or (2) a tortious act or acts regardless where the tortious act or acts occurred.
 
If the United States is in discussions with a foreign state that is seeking to resolve claims related to fentanyl trafficking or tortious acts, the Department of Justice may intervene and seek a stay in a case filed under this bill involving the foreign state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (CR S323-324)
action_date: 2023-02-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Gateway Community and Recreation Enhancement Act

Bill: 118-s-390
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2023-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Community life and organization
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Public-private cooperation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: 

Gateway Community and Recreation Enhancement Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service to carry out activities to enhance recreational opportunities for gateway communities and provides for the establishment of a digital National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass. 
 

Gateway community 
means a community that serves as an entry point or is adjacent to a recreation destination at which there is consistently high seasonal or year-round visitation.
 
Specifically, Interior and the Forest Service must collaborate with state and local governments, Indian tribes, and other relevant stakeholders to identify needs and economic impacts in gateway communities, including
 
 
housing shortages,
 
demands on existing municipal infrastructure, 
 
accommodation and management of sustainable visitation, and
 
the expansion and diversification of visitor experiences by bolstering the visitation at certain nearby underutilized locations or lesser-known recreation sites.
 
 
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service shall provide to businesses in gateway communities assistance to establish, operate, or expand infrastructure to accommodate and manage sustainable visitation.
 
Interior and the Forest Service must (1) establish a single visitation data reporting system to report accurate annual visitation data, and (2) carry out a Real-time Data Pilot Program.
 
The bill provides for the establishment, by January 1, 2024, of a digital version of the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass that is able to be stored on a mobile device.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Protect Farmers from the SEC Act

Bill: 118-s-391
Sponsor: Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR]
Introduced: 2023-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: 

Protect Farmers from the SEC Act 

 
This bill prohibits the Securities and Exchange Commission from requiring the disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions related to agricultural products. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
No Tax Subsidies for Stadiums Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-392
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2023-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: 

No Tax Subsidies for Stadiums Act of 2023

 
This bill denies an exclusion from tax of the interest on professional stadium bonds (i.e., bonds used to finance or refinance capital expenditures for a stadium or arena used for professional sports exhibitions, games, or training).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Social Security Expansion Act

Bill: 118-s-393
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2023-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Congressional oversight
Disability assistance
Elementary and secondary education
Employment taxes
Financial services and investments
Government trust funds
Higher education
Income tax rates
Inflation and prices
Railroads
Self-employed
Social security and elderly assistance
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: 

Social Security Expansion Act

 
This bill increases benefits and certain taxes related to the Social Security program.
 
Changes to benefits include (1) increasing the primary insurance amount for certain beneficiaries; (2) revising the method of calculating cost-of-living adjustments; (3) establishing a new minimum benefit for certain low earners; and (4) allowing certain children of retired, deceased, or disabled workers to receive benefits until age 22 if they are a full-time student.
 
Changes to taxes include (1) increasing the net investment income tax and making active trade or business income subject to this tax; and (2) extending payroll taxes on wages, salaries, and self-employment earnings to income above $250,000 (the maximum amount subject to the Social Security payroll tax is currently $160,200 for 2023).
 
The bill also combines the existing Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund into a single Social Security Trust Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy Act

Bill: 118-s-394
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2023-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: 

Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy Act

 
This bill directs the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to award grants to state and local educational agencies, public libraries, and qualified nonprofit organizations to develop and promote media literacy and digital citizenship education for elementary and secondary school students.
 

Media literacy
 includes the ability to access relevant information, analyze media content, evaluate the accuracy of information, and make educated decisions based on information obtained from media and digital sources.
 

Digital citizenship
 includes the ability to safely, responsibly, and ethically use communication technologies and to participate in the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of life related to technology and the digital world. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Slate for Kids Online Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-395
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2023-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: 

Clean Slate for Kids Online Act of 2023

 
This bill allows individuals over age 13 (or their guardians, if applicable) to request the deletion of information collected from or about them while they were under age 13 by a website or online service that is directed to children. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires an operator of such a website or service to
 
 
provide notice on their website about how an individual over age 13 (or the guardian of an individual over age 13) can request the deletion of all personal information in the operator's possession collected when the individual was under age 13; 
 
promptly delete, upon request, all such personal information; and 
 
provide written confirmation of deletion.

 
The bill allows a limited exception to the deletion requirement if the personal information collected from or about a child is necessary to (1) respond to a judicial process, or (2) to provide information to law enforcement agencies or for an investigation related to public safety. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text: CR S353)
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-396
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Caribbean area
Congressional oversight
Foreign aid and international relief
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Haiti
Human rights
Organized crime
Sanctions
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: 

Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of State to provide an annual report to Congress on ties between criminal gangs and political and economic elites in Haiti. The bill also requires the President to impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on certain individuals identified in the report if appropriate under specified U.S. laws.
 
Among other things, the report must (1) identify prominent criminal gangs in Haiti, (2) list Haitian political and economic elites that have links to criminal gangs, (3) assess how collusion between Haitian political and economic elites and criminal gangs threatens the Haitian people and U.S. national interests, and (4) assess what actions the governments of the United States and Haiti could take to address those threats.
 
The President may waive sanctions in certain circumstances.

action_date: 2023-05-04
text: 

Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of State to provide an annual report to Congress on ties between criminal gangs and political and economic elites in Haiti. The bill also requires the President to impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on certain individuals identified in the report if appropriate under U.S. law.
 
Among other things, the report must (1) identify prominent criminal gangs in Haiti, (2) list Haitian political and economic elites that have links to criminal gangs, (3) assess how collusion between Haitian political and economic elites and criminal gangs threatens the Haitian people and U.S. national interests, and (4) assess what actions the governments of the United States and Haiti could take to address those threats.
 
The President may waive sanctions in certain circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 47.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Menendez with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2023-05-04
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Menendez with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2023-05-03
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Promoting Physical Activity for Americans Act

Bill: 118-s-397
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2023-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives
Health promotion and preventive care
Physical fitness and lifestyle

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: 

Promoting Physical Activity for Americans Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to continue issuing at least every 10 years physical-activity guidelines based on the most current scientific and medical knowledge.
 
HHS must also publish updated reports that detail evidence-based practices and highlight continuing physical-activity issues between iterations of the guidelines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000 in order to protect low- and middle-income earning American taxpayers from an onslaught of audits from an army of new Internal Revenue Service auditors funded by an unprecedented, nearly $80,000,000,000, infusion of new funds.

Bill: 118-s-398
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2023-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-14
text: 
This bill prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from using the additional funding for enforcement activities provided by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to conduct audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Saving the Civil Service Act

Bill: 118-s-399
Sponsor: Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2023-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-14
text: 

Saving the Civil Service Act

 
This bill prohibits executive agency positions in the competitive service from being placed in the excepted service, unless such positions are placed in Schedules A through E as in effect on September 30, 2020. The bill also prohibits positions in the excepted service from being placed in any schedule other than the aforementioned schedules. 
 
Additionally, agencies may not (1) transfer occupied positions from the competitive or excepted service into Schedule C without the consent of the Office of Personnel Management, or (2) transfer employees in the excepted service to another schedule or transfer employees in the competitive service to the excepted service without employee consent. The bill also caps the number of employees that may be transferred from the competitive service to the excepted service during a presidential term to 1% of total employees as of the first day of the term or five employees, whichever is greater.
 
On October 21, 2020, former President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled 
Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service
. The order placed executive agency positions that are of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character, and that are not normally subject to change as a result of a presidential transition, under a new schedule in the excepted service (Schedule F) instead of the competitive service. The order also required any such positions in the excepted service to be reclassified to Schedule F. The order was subsequently revoked by President Joe Biden.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Prioritizing Accountability and Accessibility for Aviation Consumers Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-400
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2023-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-14
text: 

Prioritizing Accountability and Accessibility for Aviation Consumers Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to annually report on aviation consumer complaints related to passengers with a disability. 
 
Each report must include (1) the number and nature of complaints filed with DOT related to passengers with a disability during the previous five years, (2) an overview of DOT's complaint review process and how quickly complaints are addressed, and (3) the number of complaints DOT referred to other departments and agencies for enforcement action.
 
These reports must be publicly available. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate