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A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt certain employees engaged in outdoor recreational outfitting or guiding services from maximum hours requirements.

Bill: 118-s-2914
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: 
This bill expands the exemptions from the federal maximum hour requirements for employees to include certain employees of outdoor recreational outfitting or guiding services.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Enhancing Electric Grid Resilience Act

Bill: 118-s-2915
Sponsor: Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Prescription Information Modernization Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2916
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: 

Prescription Information Modernization Act of 

2023

 
This bill allows health care providers to receive prescribing information for drugs electronically rather than in paper form from manufacturers. Manufacturers must still give providers the option to continue to receive or request the information in paper form. 
 
Additionally, the Food and Drug Administration must hold a public workshop to discuss with stakeholders how to optimize the format, accessibility, and usability of prescribing information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Water System Disaster Preparedness and Assistance Act

Bill: 118-s-2917
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reauthorize the program of surveillance and education regarding infections associated with illicit drug use and other risk factors.

Bill: 118-s-2918
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
ALERT Communities Act

Bill: 118-s-2919
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax-Free Pell Grant Act

Bill: 118-s-2920
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: 

Tax-Free Pell Grant Act
 

This bill expands the tax exclusion for qualified scholarships to include an exclusion from gross income for amounts received by an individual taxpayer as a Federal Pell Grant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
American Workforce Empowerment Act

Bill: 118-s-2921
Sponsor: Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: 

American Workforce Empowerment Act 

This bill expands the types of programs that tax-preferred college savings plans (i.e., 529 plans) may fund with distributions, including preapprenticeship and registered apprenticeship programs, a program of high school career and technical education, and a recognized postsecondary credential. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Advancing Research for Chronic Pain Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2922
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act

Bill: 118-s-2923
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: 

Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act

This bill requires states to recoup any overpayments of benefits made to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients and adjusts the formula for determining a state's liability rate for overpayments.

As background, the SNAP quality control system measures how accurately SNAP state agencies determine a household’s eligibility and benefit amount and determines overpayments of benefits and underpayments. States that have comparatively high payment error rates for two consecutive years are assessed a penalty (i.e., liability amount). The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) must use a statutory formula to determine the liability amount.

Under current law, FNS must set a tolerance level for excluding small payment errors (e.g., $54 or less in FY2023). This bill reduces the tolerance level for excluding small errors to $0 for FY2024 and each succeeding fiscal year.

The bill also requires state agencies to recoup any overpayments of benefits made to SNAP beneficiaries.

The bill adjusts the liability rate formula to reduce the state payment error rate based on the percentage of overpayments recouped by the state. Further, the bill increases the multiplier used in the formula to 25% (from 10%). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
STEP Act

Bill: 118-s-2924
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-12
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 694.
action_date: 2024-12-12
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 118-288.
action_date: 2024-12-12
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Peters with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 118-288.
action_date: 2024-09-25
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
CFPB Pay Fairness Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2925
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: 

CFPB Pay Fairness Act of 

2023

 
This bill requires employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be compensated according to the General Schedule pay scale for federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Arming Cartels Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2926
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S4680-4682)
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
WaterSMART Access for Tribes Act

Bill: 118-s-2927
Sponsor: Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 593.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-11-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-11-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2024-09-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Water Infrastructure Subcontractor and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2928
Sponsor: Sen. Kelly, Mark [D-AZ]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2929
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: 

Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2023

 
This bill increases the excise tax on cigarettes and cigars and equalizes tax rates among all other tobacco products. It also imposes a tax on nicotine for use in vaping.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Reinforcing American-Made Products Act

Bill: 118-s-2930
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Future Farmland Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2931
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Housing ACCESS Act

Bill: 118-s-2932
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Safe Response Act

Bill: 118-s-2933
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy
First responders and emergency personnel
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
SHOP SAFE Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2934
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2023-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Computers and information technology
Consumer affairs
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Marketing and advertising
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-10-03
text: Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-576.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2935
Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish as a permanent program the organic market development grant program of the Department of Agriculture.

Bill: 118-s-2936
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural practices and innovations
Building construction
Farmland
Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Fruit and vegetables
Livestock
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 
This bill provides statutory authority for the Organic Market Development Grant (OMDG) Program within the Agricultural Marketing Service. The bill also provides specified funds for the program for FY2024 and each fiscal year thereafter. 

The OMDG Program supports the development of new and expanded organic markets. Eligible applicants include business entities that produce or handle organic products; nonprofit organizations; trade associations; and tribal, state, territorial, and local government entities.

Grant funds may be used to carry out projects that are for (1) market development and promotion of certified organic products; (2) certified organic product storage (including cold storage), aggregation, processing, and distribution capacity expansion; and (3) equipment-only.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Increasing American Ferrosilicon Production Act

Bill: 118-s-2937
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

Increasing American Ferrosilicon Production Act

This bill requires certain actions related to trade with Russia and Belarus, including by requiring an increase in the rate of duty for certain types of ferrosilicon. (Ferrosilicon is an alloy of iron and silicon.)

Specifically, the bill directs the President to proclaim an increase in the rate of duty applicable to ferrosilicon that is (1) classified under subheading 7202.21.50 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, and (2) produced in Russia or Belarus. This rate of duty shall be 35% ad valorem.

Additionally, the bill extends through January 1, 2025, the authority of the President to proclaim increased rates of duty for all products of Russia or Belarus. (Currently, this authority terminates on January 1, 2024.)

The bill requires the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to carry out a public comment period regarding which products of Russia or Belarus are also produced in the United States and, for each product, the ability of U.S. producers to increase production in order to meet U.S. demand. If the USTR determines that U.S. producers have the ability to increase production to meet U.S. demand for a product, then the USTR must notify Congress and indicate whether the President will proclaim an increase in the rate of duty applicable to products of Russia or Belarus. If the President will not proclaim such an increase, then the USTR must explain the reasoning for the decision.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Head Start for Our Future Act

Bill: 118-s-2938
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

Head Start for Our Future Act

This bill adds child development and early learning to the list of community services in which undergraduate, graduate, and professional students may participate under a federal work-study program. Students in work-study programs who serve in Early Head Start or Head Start programs must comply with specified requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Pharmacy Access Oversight and Reporting Act

Bill: 118-s-2939
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Define the Mission Act

Bill: 118-s-2940
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

Define the Mission Act

This bill requires the President to submit to Congress a comprehensive strategy for U.S. involvement in Ukraine. The report must define U.S. national interests at stake in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and identify specific objectives the President believes must be achieved to protect such national interests. The strategy must be designed to achieve a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine and must not be contingent on U.S. funding of Ukrainian reconstruction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Preventive Home Visit Act

Bill: 118-s-2941
Sponsor: Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
WELL Seniors Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2942
Sponsor: Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Addressing Digestive Distress in Stomachs of Our Youth Act

Bill: 118-s-2943
Sponsor: Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

Addressing Digestive Distress in Stomachs of Our Youth Act or the ADD SOY Act

 
This bill requires schools to substitute a nondairy beverage for fluid milk in the National School Lunch Program upon the request of a student or their parent or guardian. Under current law, schools participating in the program may provide a substitute at the request of a medical authority or the student's parent or guardian. 
 
The bill also removes current requirements that (1) the substitute request be based on an identified medical or other special dietary need that restricts the student's diet, and (2) the school food authority pay for any additional expenses resulting from providing the substitute that exceed the covered reimbursement amounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Puerto Rico Status Act

Bill: 118-s-2944
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act

Bill: 118-s-2945
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act 

This bill expands special education and related services for children and youth who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, blind, visually impaired, or deafblind.

The bill establishes additional requirements for states to identify and evaluate children who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, blind, visually impaired, or deafblind.

A state's closure of a specialized school serving children who are blind or deaf shall count as a reduction of its financial support for special education and related services.

The bill also authorizes support, including grants for training special education personnel, to be used in preparing individuals to become qualified teachers and early intervention specialists for children who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafdisabled, or deafblind.

The bill establishes within the Department of Education the Anne Sullivan Macy Center on Visual Disability and Educational Excellence to better support students with visual disabilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
School Access to Naloxone Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2946
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

School Access to Naloxone Act of 2023

 
This bill authorizes grants for expanding access to drugs or devices to treat opioid overdoses (e.g., naloxone) in elementary and secondary schools.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services may award the grants to states, Indian tribes, and localities. To receive a grant, recipients must certify that schools in their jurisdictions will stock the drugs and devices and have trained staff on premises during operating hours to administer them.
 
Additionally, the attorney general of the recipient's state must certify that trained staff are covered by state civil liability protections for individuals who administer aid in an emergency (commonly known as Good Samaritan laws).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Sensitive Personal Data Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2947
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

Protecting Sensitive Personal Data Act of 

2023

 
This bill expands the covered transactions that are subject to the review of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which analyzes the national security implications of foreign investment in the United States. Specifically, CFIUS may require declarations for foreign investments in U.S. businesses that maintain or collect sensitive personal data of U.S. citizens that may be exploited to threaten national security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate