hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
American Opportunity Accounts Act

Bill: 118-s-441
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Higher education
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices
Securities
Student aid and college costs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

American Opportunity Accounts Act

 
This bill establishes tax-exempt American Opportunity Accounts to provide children at birth with a $1,000 savings account with annual contributions up to $2,000 depending on family income. The accounts are available to children at age 18 for specified purposes, including educational expenses, home ownership, and investment that provides long-term returns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Cutting Off Communist Profiteers Act

Bill: 118-s-442
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Asia
China
Federal officials
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Cutting Off Communist Profiteers Act

 
This bill establishes postemployment lobbying restrictions on former presidential appointees who knowingly represent, aid, or advise certain Chinese entities, including Chinese government entities, the Chinese Communist Party, and Chinese military companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Supply Chain Disruptions Relief Act

Bill: 118-s-443
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Income tax deferral
Motor vehicles
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Supply Chain Disruptions Relief Act

 
This bill modifies the treatment of liquidations of new motor vehicle inventory as qualified LIFO (last in first out accounting method) inventory. It allows new motor vehicle dealers to elect to wait until the end of 2025 to replace their inventory for purposes of determining income attributable to the sale of such inventory during 2020 and 2021.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act

Bill: 118-s-444
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
International law and treaties
International organizations and cooperation
Senate
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act

 
This bill establishes that any convention or agreement on pandemic-related issues reached by the World Health Assembly (WHA) pursuant to a specified negotiating body shall be deemed to be a treaty requiring the advice and consent of the Senate. 
 
Specifically, this bill applies to any international instrument negotiated by the intergovernmental negotiating body established by the WHA in December 2021 to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-445
Sponsor: Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Endangered and threatened species
Idaho
Judicial review and appeals
Mammals
Montana
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to remove the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem population of grizzly bears from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Trading System Preservation Act

Bill: 118-s-446
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Congressional-executive branch relations
Free trade and trade barriers
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Trading System Preservation Act

 
This bill authorizes the President to enter into covered plurilateral trade agreements. 
Covered plurilateral trade agreement
 refers to a sector-specific agreement within the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO) involving foreign countries or foreign territories that form a subset of the members of the WTO that does not extend benefits on a most-favored-nation basis.
 
Specifically, the bill requires the U.S. Trade Representative to provide a classified briefing to specified congressional committees on the feasibility and advisability of pursuing and adopting covered plurilateral trade agreements.
 
After the congressional briefing, the bill directs the President to initiate negotiations for a covered plurilateral trade agreement when the President determines it is in the national interest to do so. 
 
The bill authorizes the President to enter into these agreements in specified sectors of the economy (e.g., digital services and pharmaceuticals), with such authority expiring on July 1, 2028. Further, the President may proclaim a modification or continuance of any existing duty or continuance of existing excise or duty-free treatment to carry out an agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Outdoors for All Act

Bill: 118-s-448
Sponsor: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Outdoors for All Act
 
 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to establish an outdoor recreation legacy partnership grant program under which Interior may award grants to states, certain political subdivisions of a state, special purpose districts, Indian tribes, or Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian communities or organizations. 
 
Funds must be used for projects to (1) acquire land and water for parks and other outdoor recreation purposes in qualifying areas, and (2) develop new or renovate existing outdoor recreation facilities that provide outdoor recreation opportunities to the public in qualifying areas.
 

Qualifying area
 means
 
 
an urbanized area or urban cluster that has a population of 25,000 or more in the most recent census,
 
two or more adjacent urban clusters with a combined population of 25,000 or more in the most recent census, or 
 
an area that is administered by an Indian tribe or an Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian community organization.
 
 
Interior shall give priority to projects that 
 
 
create or significantly enhance access to park and recreational opportunities in an urban neighborhood or community,
 
engage and empower underserved communities and youth,
 
provide opportunities for employment or job training for youth or underserved communities,
 
establish or expand public-private partnerships, and
 
take advantage of coordination among various levels of government.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S428)
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Patient Advocacy Act

Bill: 118-s-449
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Veterans Patient Advocacy Act

 
This bill requires the Office of Patient Advocacy within the Veterans Health Administration to ensure (1) there is not fewer than one patient advocate for every 13,500 veterans enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system, and (2) highly rural veterans may access the services of patient advocates. The bill also requires the Government Accountability Office to report on the implementation of such policies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-12
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 118-217.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
STOP Iran Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-450
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Sanctioning Transfers and Outbound Products to Iran Act of 2023 or the STOP Iran Act of 2023

 
This bill mandates that the Department of Commerce require a license for the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of emerging and foundational technologies to certain Iranian persons. (Generally, such technologies are those identified by a federal interagency process to be essential to U.S. national security.) 
 
The Iranian persons subject to this bill are Iranian individuals or entities that are subject to U.S. sanctions and provide support to certain organizations, including (1) the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Armed Forces of Iran, (2) any organization designated as a foreign terrorist organization, and (3) any entity engaged in hostilities with a partner or ally of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
DISRUPT Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-451
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Deterring Iranian Support for Russia in Ukraine and Pre-empting Terrorism Act of 2023 or the DISRUPT Act of 2023

 
This bill imposes new sanctions and new conditions on the termination of existing sanctions applicable to Iranian persons and institutions that support Russian military activities, including activities against Ukraine. Specifically, the bill requires the President to impose sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act upon (1) Iranian persons who provide material, tactical, or operational support for Russian activities against Ukraine, and (2) Iranian financial institutions that facilitate transactions with Russian persons who provide material, tactical, or operational support for Russian activities against Ukraine.
 
The bill also requires the President to certify to Congress, before removing an Iranian person from the Department of the Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, that the person did not sell defense articles to Russia for one year prior to certification. The President must also certify that Iran is no longer providing material or financial support to Russia before revoking Iran's designation as a jurisdiction of primary money laundering concern.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Prohibiting IRS Financial Surveillance Act

Bill: 118-s-453
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Prohibiting IRS Financial Surveillance Act 

 
This bill prohibits the Department of the Treasury from requiring a financial institution to report on an account's balance, transactions, transfers, or similar information. This prohibition does not apply to laws or regulations in effect on the date of enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Youth Workforce Readiness Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-454
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Youth Workforce Readiness Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of Labor to award grants to certain national youth-serving organizations for comprehensive workforce readiness programs that are provided to youth and take place before or after school, during summer vacation or a holiday, or on the weekend (i.e., out-of-school-time programs).
 
Such grants must be used to develop and implement nationwide youth workforce readiness programs, including for activities such as on-the-job training and leadership development opportunities, internships, and other supportive services.
 
The bill also requires local workforce development boards to establish youth councils as subgroups of the boards. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Travel Freedom Act

Bill: 118-s-455
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Department of Homeland Security
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Travel Freedom Act

 
This bill nullifies certain orders issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that restrict noncitizens from entering the United States if they are not full vaccinated against COVID-19.
 
Specifically, the bill nullifies the CDC order titled 
Amended Order Implementing Presidential Proclamation on Advancing the Safe Resumption of Global Travel During the COVID-19 Pandemic
 and published on April 7, 2022. (The order restricts the entry of noncitizens who are not immigrants into the United States by air travel unless they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or otherwise attest that they will take public health measures to prevent the spread of the disease.)
 
Additionally, the bill nullifies the DHS order titled 
Notification of Temporary Travel Restrictions Applicable to Land Ports of Entry and Ferries Services Between the United States and Canada
 and published on April 22, 2022. (The order restricts the entry of noncitizens who are not immigrants along the United States-Canada border, including at ferry terminals, unless they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can provide proof upon request.)
 
The bill also nullifies any successor or subsequent orders that require proof of a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of entry into the United States and prohibits the use of federal funds to administer or enforce such requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
COMFORT Act

Bill: 118-s-456
Sponsor: Sen. Sinema, Kyrsten [I-AZ]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Comforting Our Military Families through On-base or Remote Treatment Act or the COMFORT Act

 
This bill authorizes mental health professionals to provide nonmedical counseling services to military families regardless of where the provider or recipient is located, so long as the provision of services is (1) in the United States or a U.S. territory or possession, and (2) within the scope of the authorized duties of the provider. 
 
For purposes of the bill, mental health professionals include individuals who are licensed or certified mental health providers and are members of the uniformed services, civilian Department of Defense (DOD) employees, or DOD contractors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act

Bill: 118-s-457
Sponsor: Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Civil actions and liability
Drug therapy
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Higher education
Prescription drugs
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act

 
This bill retroactively makes certain health care facilities and medical practitioners liable for any physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological harms caused by performing a gender-transition procedure on an individual who is younger than 18. The liability extends for 30 years after the individual who received the procedure turns 18, and it applies to procedures that occurred prior to the enactment of the bill.
 
Specifically, the liability applies to
 
 
pediatric gender clinics (medical facilities specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of gender discordance and dysphoria in minors) that provide gender-transition procedures;
 
institutions of higher education and hospitals affiliated with those clinics, and
 
medical practitioners who perform gender-transition procedures and those who administer health care related to the procedures at pediatric gender clinics. 
 
 
Medical practitioners and health care facilities may defend against a liability claim if they neither knew nor had reason to know the individual was a minor. 
Additionally, the bill prohibits federal funding for (1) gender-transition procedures performed on minors, (2) pediatric gender clinics, and (3) institutions of higher education or hospitals affiliated with those clinics.
 
Under the bill, gender-transition procedures generally include surgeries or hormone therapies that change the body of an individual to correspond to a sex that is different than the individual's biological sex. They exclude, however, specified types of interventions, including those that address (1) ambiguous external biological sex characteristics or abnormal sex chromosome structure or hormones; or (2) infections or other harms that result from a gender-transition procedure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
North American Transatlantic Resource Security Partnership Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-458
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

North American Transatlantic Resource Security Partnership Act of 2023

 
This bill requires or authorizes actions to reduce the reliance of U.S. partners and allies on Russian energy and minerals. 
 
The bill requires the Departments of Energy (DOE) and the Interior to establish a program to reduce such reliance by specified allied and partner nations (including Japan, Korea, Ukraine, and NATO members). Under the program, the departments shall develop and provide to such nations domestic resources, materials, or equipment, along with financial and technical assistance. 
 
The departments must also establish a program to promote cooperation with Mexico and Canada on energy issues. DOE must seek to establish an energy center with these countries to develop academic cooperation on energy-related topics, such as energy innovation technology and engineering. 
 
These departments must also establish a supply chain reliability assurance program to (1) prioritize domestic activities, such as energy production and mining, that ensure secure supply chains; and (2) facilitate collaboration with Mexico, Canada, industry, and other federal agencies to develop a reliable domestic supplier base of critical energy materials and technologies (for example, those related to high-performance computing, energy storage, and nuclear energy). 
 
The bill requires the Export-Import Bank to establish a portfolio to provide financing to certain energy infrastructure and critical minerals projects. 
 
The bill also statutorily authorizes the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation to provide financing and other types of support for projects related to any type of energy (including fossil fuels, renewables, and nuclear energy). The corporation may not prohibit support for a project due to the type of energy involved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Thin Blue Line Act

Bill: 118-s-459
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2023-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime victims
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Health personnel
Law enforcement officers
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: 

Thin Blue Line Act

 
This bill expands the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responder.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S428)
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to make certain irrigation districts eligible for Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program pumping power, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-s-461
Sponsor: Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]
Introduced: 2023-02-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Dams and canals
Electric power generation and transmission
Missouri River
North Dakota
Public contracts and procurement
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2023-02-16
text: 
This bill makes certain irrigation districts in North Dakota eligible to receive pumping power (i.e., hydropower) from the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, subject to the terms and rates established by the Bureau of Reclamation. Under this bill, an irrigation district must enter into a contract with Reclamation to receive such pumping power.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-07-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-287.
action_date: 2023-02-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-02-16
text: Introduced in Senate