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WORK to Save Lives Act

Bill: 118-s-2948
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

Workplace Overdose Reversal Kits to Save Lives Act or the WORK to Save Lives Act

This bill directs the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to take actions to make opioid overdose reversal medications available in workplaces.

Specifically, OSHA must issue regulations that require federal agencies to acquire and maintain opioid overdose reversal medications and annually train employees on the use of the medications. OSHA must also issue nonmandatory guidance to private employers on the same topics. 


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
Ensuring Military Access to Higher Education Benefits Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2949
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Department of Education
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Military personnel and dependents
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

Ensuring Military Access to Higher Education Benefits Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense to complete a data matching agreement with the Department of Education to ensure that current or former active-duty military service members or civilian employees who are eligible for the public service loan forgiveness program have their periods of employment (beginning on October 1, 2007) automatically certified and counted towards the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-09-17
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to align the fiscal year with the calendar year.

Bill: 118-s-2950
Sponsor: Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S4723-4724)
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Butcher Block Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2951
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

Butcher Block Act of 2023

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide loans, loan guarantees, and grants to assist and expand meat processing and rendering. 

USDA must establish a loan and loan guarantee program for individuals and entities for the construction, expansion, modification, refurbishment, or re-equipping of meat processing facilities (with less than 500 employees) and rendering facilities (with less than 200 employees). 

Those eligible for the program include (1) public, private, or cooperative organizations; (2) Indian tribes; and (3) individual farmers, ranchers, or business owners.

The bill generally prohibits the amount of a loan or loan guarantee from exceeding $50 million. However, USDA may provide a loan or loan guarantee of up to $100 million to public, private, or cooperative organizations for projects that significantly increase meat processing or rendering in a state or region that has insufficient processing or rendering capacity.

USDA must also make grants to establish or support new, innovative, or expanded meat processing or rendering activities, or other activities that will increase the customer base or revenue returns of livestock and poultry producers. Projects may include identifying and analyzing business opportunities, providing technical assistance and training, and incentivizing innovative or mobile enterprises. 

Those eligible for the grants are (1) governmental entities; (2) public, private, or cooperative organizations; (3) Indian tribes; and (4) institutions of higher education. 


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
AGOA Extension Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2952
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

AGOA Extension Act of 2023

This bill extends through September 30, 2045, the duty-free treatment of the products of beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries under the Trade Act of 1974 and the African Growth and Opportunity Act.

The extended period also applies to

the preferential treatment of apparel articles wholly assembled, or components knit-to-shape and wholly assembled, in one or more beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries from yarns originating in the United States or one or more beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries or former beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries, or both; and

the third-country fabric program granting duty-free treatment of apparel articles wholly assembled, or knit-to-shape and wholly assembled, or both, in one or more lesser developed beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries, regardless of the country of origin of the fabric or the yarn used to make such articles.

 

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
Unnecessary Agency Regulations Reduction Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2953
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
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 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Medicaid Beneficiaries Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2954
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
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
Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2955
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Act of 2023

This bill designates July 11 as National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Srebrenica Genocide. The designation pays tribute to victims of violence related to Serbian military actions against the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Middle East Security Coordination Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2956
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

Middle East Security Coordination Act of 2023

This bill requires the Department of State to periodically report to Congress on the activities of the Office of the U.S. Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority (USSC). Specifically, the reports shall be on USSC security coordination and efforts to professionalize Palestinian security forces. The State Department shall also report to Congress on the viability of the inclusion of contributions from additional countries to the USSC, particularly countries party to the Abraham Accords or other Arab or Muslim-majority countries.

The bill also reauthorizes U.S. support for the USSC for the first five fiscal years following enactment of the bill.
 

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
BOSS and SWIFT ACT of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2957
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Competition and antitrust
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government studies and investigations
Internet, web applications, social media
Legal fees and court costs
Music
Performing arts
Professional sports
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2959
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Congressional oversight
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Indian lands and resources rights
Land use and conservation
Rural conditions and development
State and local government operations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 214.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Carper. Without written report.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Carper. Without written report.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Expanding the VOTE Act

Bill: 118-s-2960
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: 

Expanding the Voluntary Opportunities for Translations in Elections Act or the Expanding the VOTE Act

This bill expands access to voting materials for individuals with limited proficiency in the English language.

Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) requires covered states and political subdivisions to provide voting materials and other language assistance to persons who are American Indian, Asian American, Alaskan Natives, or of Spanish heritage and whose ability to speak or understand English limits electoral participation. A state or political subdivision that is subject to Section 203 is prohibited from providing English-only voting materials in an election. Among other requirements, this bill (1) requires the Department of Justice to issue a notice of prohibition, including the trigger threshold at which the prohibition applies, to certain states and political subdivisions; and (2) requires covered states and political subdivisions to provide written translations of all voting materials, with the consent of any applicable tribal government, to election workers.

Additionally, the bill requires the Election Assistance Commission to make incentive grants for states and political subdivisions to provide translated voting materials.

The bill also directs the Government Accountability Office to study and report on the impact of (1) reducing the threshold requirement under Section 203 of the VRA, and (2) expanding the definition of 
language minorities
 to include native speakers of additional languages.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
FEMA Equity Act

Bill: 118-s-2961
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Drive American Act

Bill: 118-s-2962
Sponsor: Sen. Vance, J. D. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Development Investment Tax Credit Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2963
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: 
 
Community Development Investment Tax Credit Act of 2023 

 
This bill allows investors a business-related tax credit for investment in a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). The applicable percentage of such credit is 3% for the first 10 years of investment in a CDFI with a 1% increase after the initial credit allowance date and for investments without a fixed term or duration.
 
The tax credit is available to investors who invest in various CDFIs to provide financial support for increasing wealth in low- and moderate-income communities. The national limitation on the credit is $1 billion for 2022, $1.5 billion for 2023, and $2 billion for 2024 and each year thereafter, with adjustments for inflation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 36, United States Code, to grant a Federal charter to the Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-s-2964
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Business records
Congressional oversight
Federally chartered organizations
Government information and archives
Military personnel and dependents
Real estate business
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: 
This bill grants a federal charter to the Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals, which is a nonprofit organization that provides housing counseling to veterans and active members of the Armed Forces. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish a critical mineral environmental processing and mining cleanup program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-s-2965
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Targeting Emotional and Mental Stability Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2966
Sponsor: Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Athletes
Education programs funding
Health programs administration and funding
Higher education
Mental health
School athletics

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Intelligence Community Workforce Agility Protection Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2967
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: 

Intelligence Community Workforce Agility Protection Act of 2023

 
This bill allows a current tax deduction for the moving and traveling expenses of an employee or new appointee of the intelligence community who moves due to a change in assignment that requires relocation. It also allows a current tax exclusion for such employees or appointees for moving expense reimbursements. Under current law, the tax deduction and exclusion for the moving expenses of other taxpayers are suspended for the period beginning in 2018 through 2025.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
NFIP Extension through 2023 Act

Bill: 118-s-2968
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection
Natural disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: 

NFIP Extension through 2023 Act

This bill reauthorizes the National Flood Insurance Program through December 31, 2023.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-01-25
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to ensure that United States diplomats and officials of the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission are able to advance efforts seeking compliance by the United Mexican States with the 1944 Treaty on Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande.

Bill: 118-s-2969
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: 
This bill requires the Department of State to use the voice, vote, diplomatic capital, and resources of the United States to ensure that the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission is able to (1) advance efforts seeking Mexican compliance with the Treaty on Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande, and (2) establish understandings to provide predictable and reliable future deliveries of water by Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Indigenous Peoples' Day Act

Bill: 118-s-2970
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
General Native American affairs matters
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: 

Indigenous Peoples' Day Act

 
This bill designates Indigenous Peoples' Day as a legal public holiday in lieu of Columbus Day.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Unhoused VOTE Act

Bill: 118-s-2971
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: 

Unhoused Voter Opportunity Through Elections Act or the Unhoused VOTE Act

This bill expands voter registration and voting access for unhoused individuals. 

The bill specifies that no state or political subdivision may deny or abridge the right of any U.S. citizen to vote because the citizen resides at or in a nontraditional abode. 

Additionally, the bill requires jurisdictions that allow for ballot drop boxes to ensure that these drop boxes are available for in-person use and are accessible and clearly labeled.

If a state requires individuals to show proof of residence in order to vote in a federal election, then the state must accept the individual’s written attestation of residence. A state may not prohibit an individual who is residing in a homeless shelter from using the shelter as the individual’s residence for purposes of voting in a federal election.

The bill requires chief state election officials to conduct outreach to unhoused individuals.

The bill directs the Election Assistance Commission to (1) develop best practices for election officials regarding voter registration and voting access for unhoused individuals, and (2) make grants to eligible states and local governments for programs and activities to support access to voting for unhoused individuals. 

The bill also revises the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, including by (1) treating emergency shelters as voter registration agencies, and (2) allowing an unhoused individual to use an unsheltered street location as the individual's place of residence for purposes of a voter registration application.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to repay States for amounts expended by States to operate units of the National Park System during a Government shutdown.

Bill: 118-s-2972
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: 
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to repay states for amounts expended to operate units of the National Park System during a government shutdown.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Modernizing and Ensuring PBM Accountability Act

Bill: 118-s-2973
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Aging
Congressional oversight
Contracts and agency
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medicare
Performance measurement
Prescription drugs
Public participation and lobbying
Retail and wholesale trades
User charges and fees

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-12-07
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 266.
action_date: 2023-12-07
text: Committee on Finance. Reported by Senator Wyden with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-122.
action_date: 2023-12-07
text: Committee on Finance. Reported by Senator Wyden with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-122.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Pregnant Students’ Rights Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2974
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Abortion
Congressional oversight
Family planning and birth control
Higher education
School administration
Sex and reproductive health
Women's education
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: 

Pregnant Students' Rights Act

 of 2023

 
This bill requires a public institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in federal student-aid programs to provide information to admitted and enrolled students on the rights and resources for students who are pregnant or may become pregnant. These rights and resources must exclude abortion services.
 
Additionally, the IHE must establish a protocol to meet with students who believe they were discriminated against based on pregnancy.
 
The IHE must also provide pregnancy-related questions to enrolled students and annually submit compiled responses to the Department of Education. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Road to Access Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-2975
Sponsor: Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]
Introduced: 2023-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2023-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate