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Supporting Our First Responders Act

Bill: 118-hr-1737
Sponsor: Rep. Kim, Andy [D-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Supporting Our First Responders Act

 
This bill establishes a competitive grant program to support medical transport and emergency medical services (EMS).
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must award the grants to EMS organizations (including for-profit organizations) or state, tribal, territorial, or local governments. Grant-funded activities include (1) providing salaries and stipends for EMS workers; (2) purchasing vehicles, personal protective equipment, and other resources; and (3) establishing community paramedicine or mobile integrated health care initiatives.
 
HHS must also report to Congress about health insurance reimbursement for medical transport and EMS and the feasibility of establishing a federal EMS office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-1738
Sponsor: Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Government trust funds
Idaho
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Nevada
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Technical Correction to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation Water Rights Settlement Act of 

2023

 
This bill authorizes deposit of specified interest payments (and provides for cost indexing of those payments) into the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Water Rights Development Fund. This fund was established in 2009 under the water rights settlement agreement for the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Transparency in College Foreign Payments Act

Bill: 118-hr-1739
Sponsor: Rep. Bice, Stephanie I. [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Transparency in College Foreign Payments Act

 
This bill revises certain disclosure requirements for institutions of higher education (IHEs).
 
Specifically, the bill requires an IHE to disclose to the Department of Education (ED) any gift from or contract with a foreign source, regardless of the amount of the gift or contract. Under current law, an IHE must disclose to ED a gift or contract from a foreign source that is valued at $250,000 or more, considered alone or in combination with all other gifts from or contracts with that foreign source within a calendar year.
 
 An IHE must also report the identity of each foreign source and the name of each foreign government. 
 
Further, an IHE must report additional information when it receives a restricted or conditional gift or contract from a foreign source. Such additional information includes (1) the identity of the foreign source; (2) the identity of the specific department, college, project, or other division of the IHE that is the recipient of the gift or contract, if applicable; and (3) the intended purpose of the gift or contract.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 to establish payment and performance security requirements for projects, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-hr-1740
Sponsor: Rep. Bost, Mike [R-IL-12]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 
This bill establishes bonding requirements for the recipient of a water infrastructure construction loan under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act. A borrower must secure the financed project with payment and performance bonds in minimum amounts set out in the bill.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials.
action_date: 2023-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
More Teaching Less Testing Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-1741
Sponsor: Rep. Bowman, Jamaal [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

More Teaching Less Testing Act of 2023

 
This bill reauthorizes certain programs and revises standardized testing requirements for public elementary and secondary schools.
 
Specifically, the bill removes the requirement for annual summative assessments to be administered to students every year in grades 3-8. The bill allows states to implement grade-span testing, representative sampling, or a combination of grade-span testing with either representative sampling or matrix sampling.
 
Additionally, the bill requires states to carry out a 90-day public comment period in order to set a target limit on the aggregate amount of time devoted to the administration of and preparation for assessments for each grade.
 
The bill establishes a task force within the National Center for Education Research to study and report on, among other things, the impact of standardized testing on student wellness, learning, and postsecondary education success.
 
The bill extends the demonstration period for state educational agencies (SEAs) to establish innovative assessment systems. It also increases the number of SEAs that may participate in these demonstrations.
 
Next, the bill authorizes for an additional 10 years a grant program that provides aid to local educational agencies for the education of disadvantaged children. 
 
The bill also prohibits states from using federal elementary and secondary education funds for certain purposes, such as considering summative assessments as a sole or dominant factor when implementing grade-retention policies or evaluating the performance of teachers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Pell Grant Sustainability Act

Bill: 118-hr-1742
Sponsor: Rep. Casten, Sean [D-IL-6]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Pell Grant Sustainability Act

 
This bill restores the automatic annual inflation adjustment for Pell Grants. (This inflation adjustment expired after the 2017-2018 award year.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
People Over Petroleum Act

Bill: 118-hr-1743
Sponsor: Rep. Casten, Sean [D-IL-6]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

People Over Petroleum Act

 
This bill limits or repeals certain fossil fuel oil and gas subsidies for oil companies and establishes a gas prices rebate for individual taxpayers. 
 
Among other elements, the bill 
 
 
repeals the tax credits for producing oil and gas from marginal wells and for enhanced oil recovery;
 
repeals various tax deductions, including the deduction for the intangible drilling and development costs of oil and gas wells;
 
repeals the passive loss exception for working interests in oil and gas property; 
 
denies the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities for oil and gas activities; 
 
prohibits the use of the last-in, first-out (LIFO) accounting method by major integrated oil companies;
 
limits the foreign tax credit for dual capacity taxpayers (i.e., taxpayers who are subject to a levy of a foreign country or U.S. possession and receive specific economic benefits from such country or possession); and 
 
expands the definition of 
crude oil
 for purposes of the excise tax on petroleum and petroleum products to include any oil derived from a bitumen or bituminous mixture (tar sands), and any oil derived from kerogen-bearing sources (oil shale).
 
 
The bill also allows individual taxpayers a 2022 gas prices rebate for the first taxable year beginning in 2022. The bill defines 2022 gas prices rebate amount as the sum of $500 ($1,000 for joint returns), plus $500 times the number of taxpayer dependents who had attained the age of 16 as of the end of the taxable year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Transparency in Government Contracts Act

Bill: 118-hr-1744
Sponsor: Rep. Castro, Joaquin [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Transparency in Government Contracts Act

 
This bill expands the Small Business Administration's (SBA) reporting requirements to include certain disaggregated demographic data about federal contracts (and subcontracts to the extent practicable) awarded to small businesses owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.
 
The SBA also must include whether such a small business participates in the 8(a) business development program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Fraud Detection and Deterrence Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-1745
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-37]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Medicare Fraud Detection and Deterrence Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to deactivate the standard unique health identifiers of health care providers that are excluded from federal health care programs because of fraud, waste, or abuse. 
 
The bill also requires (1) any data submitted by Medicare Advantage plans with respect to durable medical equipment, prosthetics or orthotics, laboratory tests, imaging tests, or home health services to include the standard unique health identifier of the associated provider or supplier; and (2) health care practitioners who are employed by or contract with telehealth companies to use a specialized claims modifier (developed by CMS) for Medicare telehealth services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Medicare Telefraud Act

Bill: 118-hr-1746
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-37]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Health care costs and insurance
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Preventing Medicare Telefraud Act

 
This bill establishes conditions for payment of certain telehealth services, laboratory tests, and durable medical equipment under Medicare after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. 
 
Specifically, after the emergency ends, the bill conditions payment for certain high-cost laboratory tests and durable medical equipment that are ordered via telehealth on at least one in-person visit during the preceding six-month period. Additionally, practitioners must submit claims for separately billable telehealth services under the practitioner's unique national provider identification number.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act

Bill: 118-hr-1747
Sponsor: Rep. Emmer, Tom [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Computers and information technology
Currency
Financial services and investments
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act 

 
This bill exempts from certain financial reporting and licensing requirements blockchain developers and providers of blockchain services that do not take control of consumer funds. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-05-06
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 403.
action_date: 2024-05-06
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 118-486.
action_date: 2024-05-06
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 118-486.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 29 - 21.
action_date: 2023-07-26
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Quantum in Practice Act

Bill: 118-hr-1748
Sponsor: Rep. Feenstra, Randy [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Quantum in Practice Act

 
This bill includes 
quantum modeling and simulation 
within the definition of 
quantum information science
 for purposes of various federal research and development initiatives, programs, and activities.
 

Quantum information science
 refers to the use of the laws of quantum physics to store, transmit, manipulate, compute, or measure information, and 
quantum modeling and simulation
 refers to the use of quantum computing hardware to determine the properties of quantum systems (e.g., the properties of materials such as high-temperature superconductors and modeling nuclear and particle physics).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Making the CFPB Accountable to Small Businesses Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-1749
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzgerald, Scott [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Making the CFPB Accountable to Small Businesses Act of 2023 

 
This bill requires the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to consider the impact of proposed rules on small entities. In addition, the CFPB must justify its decision to not adopt certain alternatives to regulations applicable to small entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Small Business, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Small Business, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Small Business, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Defending Domestic Orange Juice Production Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-1750
Sponsor: Rep. Franklin, C. Scott [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Defending Domestic Orange Juice Production Act of 2023 

 
This bill requires finished pasteurized orange juice to contain at least 10% by weight of orange juice soluble solids (currently 10.5%), exclusive of the solids of any added optional sweetening ingredients. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Downwinders Parity Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-1751
Sponsor: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Arizona
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Government liability
Nevada
Nuclear weapons
Radiation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Downwinders Parity Act of 2023

 
This bill expands a program that compensates individuals who were exposed to radiation from atmospheric nuclear testing and subsequently developed specified cancers.
 
Under current law, the program compensates, among others, individuals who were present in a designated geographic area during a period of nuclear testing. The bill expands that area to include all parts of Clark County, Nevada, and Mohave County, Arizona. Current law restricts eligibility to certain parts of those counties.
 
The Department of Justice must report on efforts to inform individuals newly eligible for compensation about the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Healthcare Ownership Transparency Act

Bill: 118-hr-1754
Sponsor: Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Healthcare Ownership Transparency Act

 
This bill requires health care corporations that participate in Medicare to disclose private equity interests and related financial information. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires corporations, as part of the Medicare enrollment and revalidation processes for providers and suppliers, to disclose information about debts, assets, financial transactions, and other information. Providers that are controlled by private equity funds (e.g., venture capital funds) must disclose similar information as well as specific information relating to the private equity fund, such as the percentage of equity contributed by the partners of the fund.
 
The Government Accountability Office must use this information to periodically evaluate the extent to which health care consolidation is taking place and the effects of private equity in health care on costs, staffing, and other factors. 
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must also establish a task force to address and limit the role of private equity and consolidation in health care. HHS may prohibit certain mergers or acquisitions until the task force has had sufficient time to assess whether there are abusive practices in specific health care sectors or by health care entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Uzbekistan Normalized Trade Act

Bill: 118-hr-1755
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Trent [R-MS-1]
Introduced: 2023-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment
Uzbekistan

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: 

Uzbekistan Normalized Trade Act

 
This bill authorizes the President to extend nondiscriminatory treatment (i.e., normal trade relations treatment) to products of Uzbekistan. The bill shall take effect on the date on which the President certifies to Congress that Uzbekistan has acceded to the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO) and is a WTO member.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-03-23
text: Introduced in House