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Bear Protection Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3518
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Animals

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Bear Protection Act of 2023

 
This bill makes it unlawful for a person to knowingly import, export, sell, purchase, possess, transport, deliver, or receive bear viscera or related products except for limited acts carried out solely to enforce wildlife protection laws. 
Bear viscera
 means a bear's body fluids or internal organs, including the gallbladder and its contents. The term excludes a bear's blood or brains.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2023-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and 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: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and 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: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and 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: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Hot Foods Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3519
Sponsor: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Hot Foods Act of 2023 

 
 This bill expands the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to permit the use of SNAP benefits to purchase hot foods or hot food products ready for immediate consumption.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Veteran Care Improvement Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3520
Sponsor: Rep. Miller-Meeks, Mariannette [R-IA-1]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Mental health
Telephone and wireless communication
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' organizations and recognition
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-18
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2023-07-18
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2023-06-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held
action_date: 2023-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Saving America’s Future by Educating Kids Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3521
Sponsor: Rep. Mooney, Alexander X. [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Saving America's Future by Educating Kids Act of 

2023

 
This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to develop and support implementation of an evidence-based, K-12 curriculum on the dangers of substances of misuse, including opioids, vaping, and synthetic drugs. ED must review and update the curriculum every two years.
 
ED must award grants to state educational agencies to implement the evidence-based curriculum. In awarding these grants, ED must give priority to those states that have experienced the highest drug overdose death rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
FIRESHEDS Act

Bill: 118-hr-3522
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Blake D. [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Forest Improvements through Research and Emergency Stewardship for Healthy Ecosystem Development and Sustainability Act or the FIRESHEDS Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA), with respect to National Forest System lands, and the Department of the Interior, with respect to public lands, no later than 90 days after receiving a request from a state, to enter into an agreement with such state to jointly
 
 
designate one or more fireshed management areas within such state, and 
 
conduct fireshed management projects in such fireshed management areas.
 
 
Not later than 90 days after entering into an agreement, the USDA or Interior, as appropriate, and such state shall jointly conduct a stewardship and fireshed assessment.
 
The USDA and Interior shall carry out fireshed management projects in accordance with the timeline and project size limitations included in the stewardship and fireshed assessment.
 
Fireshed management projects shall be categorically excluded from the preparation of an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement and exempt from the special administrative review process.
 
The bill makes permanent the authority for a state to use revenue from timber sales under a good neighbor agreement for forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
action_date: 2023-05-23
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2023-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Perinatal Workforce Act

Bill: 118-hr-3523
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disability and health-based discrimination
Education programs funding
Employee hiring
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Mental health
Minority education
Minority employment
Minority health
Nursing
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
Racial and ethnic relations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings
Women's education
Women's employment
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Perinatal Workforce Act

 
This bill establishes programs and requires research to diversify the perinatal workforce and advance respectful maternal care delivery models.
 
Specifically, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must award grants to education and training programs to grow and diversify the professions that make up the perinatal workforce. HHS must also disseminate guidance on respectful maternal care delivery. This guidance must cover, among other topics, recruiting and retaining maternity care providers from diverse backgrounds and incorporating trained midwives and other perinatal health workers into maternity care teams.
 
In addition, the National Institutes of Health must study best practices for culturally and linguistically congruent maternity care. This is care that is in agreement with the preferred cultural values, beliefs, languages, worldview, and practices of health care consumers and other stakeholders.
 
The Government Accountability Office must also report on certain aspects of perinatal health care professions. The report must focus on barriers to entering those professions for low-income and minority women.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for payments to certain individuals who dye fuel, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-hr-3524
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Natural Disaster Risk Reinsurance Program Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3525
Sponsor: Rep. Moskowitz, Jared [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Natural Disaster Risk Reinsurance Program Act of 2023

 
This bill establishes the Natural Disaster Risk Reinsurance Program within the Department of the Treasury. States may voluntarily participate in the program. 
 
The program provides payments to states for damages from a natural disaster not covered by the National Flood Insurance Program for amounts in excess of trigger amounts. These trigger amounts are calculated by the National Academy of Sciences. 
 
States must present a plan that ensures the coverage of losses by insurers not exceeding the trigger amount. States must also pledge to repay the full amount provided by the program within 10 years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Extraordinary Measures Transparency Act

Bill: 118-hr-3526
Sponsor: Rep. Nunn, Zachary [R-IA-3]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Extraordinary Measures Transparency Act

This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to report to Congress regarding extraordinary measures used to avoid exceeding the federal debt limit.

(The term 
extraordinary measures
 refers to a series of actions that Treasury may implement to allow the United States to borrow additional funds without exceeding the debt limit. The measures often include suspensions of debt sales and suspensions or redemptions of investments in certain government funds.)

If Treasury determines that the public debt will reach the limit in 30 days, Treasury must submit a report to Congress that includes

a description of the extraordinary measures that Treasury intends to use if the debt limit is not raised,

an estimate of the cost of the measures,

a projection of how long the measures will fund the federal government, and

a projection of the administrative cost of taking the measures.

Treasury must also submit specified daily reports to Congress when the measures are being used. After using the measures, Treasury must report to Congress regarding the measures that were used and the administrative cost of the measures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
MATCH Act

Bill: 118-hr-3527
Sponsor: Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Mandating the Abolition of a Threat to Consumer Happiness Act or the MATCH Act 

 
This bill implements a hiring freeze at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Further, new positions may not be established and employees and officers may not be assigned new duties or transferred to other duty stations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2441)
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
ZIPPO Act

Bill: 118-hr-3528
Sponsor: Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text:  

Zero Increase in Personnel for Propagandistic Outreach Act or the ZIPPO Act 

 
This bill prohibits certain personnel actions within the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
 
Specifically, the bill requires that within the USAGM 
 
 
 no individual may be appointed to any position; 
 
no new position may be established; 
 
no officer or employee may be assigned any new duty; and 
 
no officer or employee may be assigned, detailed, or transferred to a new duty station.
 

 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
FIRE Act

Bill: 118-hr-3529
Sponsor: Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Forbidding the Increase of Rogue Enforcers Act or the FIRE Act

This bill prohibits hiring and related activities within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). 

Specifically, the bill prohibits within the ATF 

new appointments to existing positions,

the establishement of new positions,

new assignments of duties, and

assignments, details, or transfers to new duty stations. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Cut Red Tape For Online Sales Act

Bill: 118-hr-3530
Sponsor: Rep. Pappas, Chris [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Cut Red Tape For Online Sales Act

 
This bill modifies requirements for third party settlement organizations to eliminate their reporting requirement with respect to the transactions of their participating payees unless they have earned $5,000 or more. A 
third party settlement organization
 is the central organization that has the contractual obligation to make payments to participating payees (generally, a merchant or business) in a third party payment network. 
 
The bill also requires entities that report income to to issue a plain-language description of the taxability of income reported on Form 1099-K.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
STOP NJ CONGESTION Act

Bill: 118-hr-3531
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Stop Taxation of Overburdened People from New Jersey by Correcting Obnoxious New Gimmick and Ensuring the Stability of Transportation Infrastructure from Obstinate Neighbors Act or the STOP NJ CONGESTION Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to withhold 50% of National Highway Performance Program funds and Surface Transportation Block Grant program funds from each state that implements a congestion pricing system similar to that described in the environmental assessment titled 
Final Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for Central Business District (CBD) Tolling Program, Manhattan, New York
.
 
The bill also prohibits the implementation of projects under a DOT value pricing pilot program unless the project sponsor receives the consent of each affected state. Value pricing (also called congestion pricing) involves charging drivers on congested roadways during peak periods.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Reciprocity Ensures Streamlined Use of Lifesaving Treatments Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3532
Sponsor: Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Reciprocity Ensures Streamlined Use of Lifesaving Treatments Act of 

2023

 
This bill establishes a reciprocal marketing approval process that allows for the sale of a drug, biological product, or medical device that has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) if the product is approved for sale in another country and there is an unmet need. 
 
Specifically, in order to receive reciprocal approval, the bill requires the product's sponsor to demonstrate, among other things, that (1) the product has been approved in one of the specified countries, (2) neither the FDA nor any of the specified countries have withdrawn approval for the product because of safety or effectiveness concerns, and (3) there is a public health or unmet medical need for the product.
 
The FDA may decline approval if the FDA determines that the product is not safe or effective. The FDA may condition reciprocal approval on the conduct of postmarket studies.
 
The FDA must issue a decision on whether to grant a request for reciprocal marketing approval within 30 days of receiving the request. 
 
Congress may pass a joint resolution to grant reciprocal marketing approval of a product that the FDA declines to approve through the reciprocal process.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Home Advantage for American Families Act

Bill: 118-hr-3533
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, Maria Elvira [R-FL-27]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Home Advantage for American Families Act
 
 
This bill requires any foreign person involved in a transaction related to the sale of residential property located in any of the 15 largest metropolitan statistical areas by population to report to the Department of the Treasury information for identifying the person purchasing the property, the amount and source of the funds received by the seller, the date and nature of the transaction, and other information deemed necessary.
 
The bill also increases (1) from 15% to 30% the rate of withholding on the sales proceeds of U.S. real property interests, and (2) the low-income housing tax credit state ceiling.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Justice is BLIND Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-3534
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Law

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Justice is Beneficial Limitation on Investments and Necessary Disclosure Act of 2023 or the Justice is BLIND Act of 2023

 
This bill requires a federal judge, as well as any spouse or dependent child of a federal judge, to place specified investments into a qualified blind trust (i.e., an arrangement in which certain financial holdings are placed in someone else's control to avoid a possible conflict of interest) until 180 days after the end of their tenure as a federal judge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in House