hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
SCREENS for Cancer Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1840
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

Screening for Communities to Receive Early and Equitable Needed Services for Cancer Act of 2023 or the SCREENS for Cancer Act of 2023

This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 and makes changes to the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. This program provides funding to states for breast and cervical cancer screening, diagnostic, and treatment services for individuals who have low incomes, are uninsured, or otherwise lack access to such services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-01
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 317.
action_date: 2024-02-01
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Sanders with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-02-01
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Sanders with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2023-12-12
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Service Promotion Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1841
Sponsor: Sen. Romney, Mitt [R-UT]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Innovative FEED Act

Bill: 118-s-1842
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Animal and plant health
Animal protection and human-animal relationships

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

Innovative Feed Enhancement and Economic Development Act of 2023 or the Innovative FEED Act

This bill provides for the regulation of zootechnical animal food substances as food additives.

The bill defines 
zootechnical animal food substance 
as a substance that is added to the food or drinking water of animals and that affects only the animal's gastrointestinal tract, with the intended purpose of affecting the byproducts of the animal's digestion, reducing foodborne pathogens, or altering the animal's gastrointestinal biome.

The definition does not include substances that are used to treat or prevent diseases in animals, hormones, or active ingredients of animal drugs. Labels for zootechnical animal food substances must include a disclaimer that the substance may not be used to treat or prevent diseases in animals. 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
End Child Trafficking Now Act

Bill: 118-s-1843
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

End Child Trafficking Now Act

 
This bill imposes restrictions related to adult non-U.S. nationals (

aliens
 under federal law) being admitted into the United States with a minor. 
 
Such an adult may not be admitted with a minor unless the adult (1) presents documents and witness testimony proving that the adult is a relative or guardian of the minor, or (2) submits to a DNA test that proves such a relationship. The Department of Homeland Security may request a DNA test only if the required relationship cannot be established by the presented documents and witness testimony. An adult who does not consent to a requested DNA test shall be inadmissible. 
If the required relationship cannot be established and the immigration officer believes the adult is guilty of a felony offense, the officer may arrest the adult.
 
The bill makes it a crime for an adult to knowingly use a minor to whom the adult is not a relative or guardian to enter the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Expanding Access to Palliative Care Act

Bill: 118-s-1845
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

Expanding Access to Palliative Care Act

 
This bill requires the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to test a model that provides community-based palliative care and care coordination for high-risk Medicare beneficiaries and that may replace the Medicare Care Choices Model (which ended on December 31, 2021). 
 
Under the new model, multi-disciplinary teams must provide coordinated, palliative care that is available 24-7 for Medicare beneficiaries with serious illnesses or injuries, such as cancer. The CMMI must evaluate the model by comparing patients participating in the model with those outside of the model in relation to specified metrics, including the election and duration of hospice care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
MAPLE SYRUP Act

Bill: 118-s-1846
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

Market Access, Promotion, and Landowner Education Support for Your Regionally Underserved Producers Act or the MAPLE SYRUP Act

 
This bill reauthorizes the Acer Access and Development Program (Acer) at the Department of Agriculture through FY2028. The bill also changes the name of Acer to the Maple Research and Market Promotion Program. 
 
The Acer competitive grant program promotes the domestic maple syrup industry through activities associated with research and education related to maple syrup production, natural resource sustainability in the maple syrup industry, and the marketing of maple syrup and maple sap products. Acer also provides grants to encourage owners and operators of privately held land containing species of trees in the genus Acer to initiate or expand maple sugaring activities, or to voluntarily make the land publicly accessible for maple sugaring activities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
General Aviation Airport Access Act

Bill: 118-s-1847
Sponsor: Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Lease and rental services
Service industries

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

General Aviation Airport Access Act

 
This bill requires public use airports that have received certain federal grants or property conveyances to provide transient general aviation aircraft parking on or near the existing apron in specific circumstances. A
 transient general aviation aircraft
 is an aircraft that is not owned or operated by an air carrier and is seeking to park temporarily at an airport. 
 
Specifically, transient general aviation aircraft parking must be provided on or near the existing apron when a pilot or owner of the aircraft does not need or request fuel or use other related services from the airport or a fixed-base operator at the airport. A 
fixed-base operator
 is a business that is operating on an airport or heliport and provides aeronautical services, such as fueling, rentals, and parking.
 
A public use airport may assess a fee on a transient general aviation aircraft for using the transient apron; the fee must be fair, reasonable, transparent, and publicly available. It must also exclude any extraneous or hidden costs. A controlled access airport or a fixed-base operator at the airport may not charge a fee for a pilot or passenger to transit between their transient general aviation aircraft parked on the transient apron and a place outside the airport's perimeter fence, whether or not the individual must pass through a building.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Debt-Free College Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1848
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

Debt-Free College Act
 
of 

2023

 
This bill establishes measures to cover the unmet financial need of students who are enrolled at certain institutions of higher education (IHEs). 
Unmet financial need
 refers to the difference between a student's cost of attendance and the student's student aid index, plus any federal, state, and local sources of grant aid. In addition, the bill makes certain Dreamer students (i.e., students who have been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status) eligible for federal financial aid.
 
First, the bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to award grants for state-federal partnerships with a goal of providing debt-free college for all eligible students at in-state public IHEs. 
Eligible student
 refers to an individual who (1) is enrolled or is eligible to enroll in an in-state public IHE, and (2) completes a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or demonstrates eligibility for a Federal Pell Grant through institutional financial-aid eligibility forms.
 
Next, the bill requires ED to award grants to historically Black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions to cover the unmet financial need of enrolled students. 
 
ED must establish an office to administer grants and provide oversight.
 
In addition, the bill makes Dreamer students who entered the United States before the age of 16 and who meet certain educational criteria eligible for federal student aid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act

Bill: 118-s-1849
Sponsor: Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Act

 
This bill allows for payment under the Medicare prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services of certain items and services that are furnished at off-campus outpatient departments. Specifically, the bill allows for payment of items and services for which payments to physician specialists (under the Medicare physician fee schedule) did not exceed $2 million during the previous year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
APEX Act

Bill: 118-s-1850
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

Aluminum Pricing Examination Act or the APEX Act 

 
This bill extends the jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to include the markets for aluminum premiums. Specifically, the CFTC has jurisdiction over (1) the process and manner in which reference prices for such premiums are set or reported, and (2) whether the mechanism for setting such reference prices is fair and transparent. 
 
Additionally, the CFTC must consult with the Department of Justice regarding relevant information, including allegations of anticompetitive conduct. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Midwives for MOMS Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1851
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Higher education
Medical education
Minority education
Minority employment
Nursing
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

Midwives for Maximizing Optimal Maternity Services Act of 2023 or the Midwives for MOMS Act of 2023

 
This bill establishes grants within the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for establishing or expanding midwifery programs at institutions of higher education and nursing schools. In awarding grants, HRSA must give special consideration to institutions that focus on increasing the number of midwife professionals from underrepresented groups and promote practicing in areas with limited access to professional health care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Sickle Cell Disease and Other Heritable Blood Disorders Research, Surveillance, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1852
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Blood and blood diseases
Genetics
Health promotion and preventive care
Hereditary and development disorders
Medical research
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text:  

Sickle Cell Disease and Other Heritable Blood Disorders Research, Surveillance, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2023

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 the Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Demonstration Program, which supports efforts to improve treatment and prevention of sickle cell disease and complications from that disease. (Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that can lead to pain, anemia, infections, and stroke.)

 
action_date: 2023-09-06
text: 

Sickle Cell Disease and Other Heritable Blood Disorders Research, Surveillance, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2023

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 the Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Demonstration Program, which supports efforts to improve treatment and prevention of sickle cell disease and complications from that disease. (Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that can lead to pain, anemia, infections, and stroke.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-06
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 201.
action_date: 2023-09-06
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Sanders without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2023-09-06
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Sanders without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2023-06-15
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Headwaters Protection Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1853
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Emergency planning and evacuation
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Public-private cooperation
Water quality
Water use and supply
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Enhancement Act

Bill: 118-s-1854
Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Special Diabetes Program Reauthorization Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1855
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Indian social and development programs
Medical research
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

Special Diabetes Program Reauthorization Act of 2023

 
This bill reauthorizes and funds through calendar year 2025 the Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians. The Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes supports research on the prevention and cure of Type I diabetes, and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians supports diabetes treatment and prevention for tribal populations.

action_date: 2023-07-27
text: 

Special Diabetes Program Reauthorization Act of 2023

 
This bill reauthorizes and funds through calendar year 2025 the Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians. The Special Diabetes Program for Type I Diabetes supports research on the prevention and cure of Type I diabetes, and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians supports diabetes treatment and prevention for tribal populations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 184.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Sanders without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Sanders without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2023-06-15
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2008-2009)
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Leveling the Playing Field 2.0 Act

Bill: 118-s-1856
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Canada
Civil actions and liability
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Currency
Customs enforcement
Foreign and international corporations
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Free trade and trade barriers
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
International monetary system and foreign exchange
Mexico
North America
Tariffs
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

Leveling the Playing Field 2.0 Act

 
This bill addresses unfair trade practices by making various changes to U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty law. Antidumping provides relief to U.S industries and workers that are materially injured or threatened with injury due to imports of like products sold in the U.S. market at less than fair value, while countervailing duty provides such relief from imports of products subsidized by a foreign government or public entity.
 
Specifically, the bill establishes a process for successive antidumping and countervailing duty investigations. Successive investigations may be concurrent (an ongoing investigation of the same product) or recently completed (not more than two years before the date of the initiation of the successive investigation). Further, the bill establishes a time line for the Department of Commerce to issue determinations in successive investigations.
 
Among other provisions, the bill authorizes Commerce to
 
 
apply countervailing duty law to subsidies provided by a foreign government or public entity to a company operating in a third country,
 
use another method for calculating the cost of production in specific circumstances, and
 
require importers to provide a certification that the imported merchandise is not subject to an antidumping or countervailing duty order. 
 
 
 Additionally, the bill statutorily establishes procedures for Commerce to conduct circumvention inquiries, including by specifying the deadlines for preliminary and final determinations.
 
The bill also provides statutory authority for Commerce to investigate currency undervaluation as a countervailable subsidy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
ANTI-Drugs Act

Bill: 118-s-1857
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

Assisting Narcotics and Trafficking officers in Interdicting Drugs Act or the ANTI-Drugs Act 

 
This bill provides statutory authorization for the Operation Stonegarden grant program within the Department of Homeland Security. Through the program, the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall provide grants for enhancing border security to law enforcement agencies that are (1) in a state with an international land or maritime border, and (2) involved in an active U.S. Customs and Border Protection operation coordinated through the Border Patrol.
 
The bill also reauthorizes through FY2028 (1) the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program, which provides federal assistance to state and local enforcement agencies in areas deemed as critical drug trafficking regions; and (2) the Community Oriented Policing Services program within the Department of Justice, which provides grants for various law enforcement-related purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Save Our Gas Stoves Act

Bill: 118-s-1859
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2023-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: 

Save Our Gas Stoves Act

This bill places limits on energy conservation standards for kitchen ranges or ovens under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.

The Department of the Energy (DOE) may not prescribe or amend energy conservation standards for kitchen ranges or ovens if they would result in the unavailability of a product on account of the type of fuel the range or oven uses.

In addition, DOE may not finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule titled 
Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Conventional Cooking Products
 issued on February 1, 2023, or any substantially similar rule. The proposed rule prescribes energy conservation standards for consumer conventional cooking products, including electric cooking tops, gas cooking tops, electric ovens, and gas ovens. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate