hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Protecting Innovation in Investment Act

Bill: 118-s-3735
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2024-02-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: 

Protecting Innovation in Investment Act

This bill prohibits the Securities and Exchange Commission from finalizing the proposed rule titled 
Conflicts of Interest Associated With the Use of Predictive Data Analytics by Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers
 and published on August 9, 2023. The proposed rule requires broker-dealers and investment advisers to eliminate or neutralize conflicts of interests stemming from the use of technology (e.g., predictive data analytics or artificial intelligence) in communications with investors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening Educator Workforce Data Act

Bill: 118-s-3736
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2024-02-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S423-424)
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Introduced in Senate
AVERT Future Violence Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3737
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2024-02-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Introduced in Senate
GLRI Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3738
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2024-02-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Great Lakes
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Lakes and rivers
Marine pollution
Water quality
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: 

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2024 or the GLRI Act of 2024

This bill reauthorizes through FY2031 the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which carries out programs and projects to protect and restore the Great Lakes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-05
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2024-12-05
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2024-12-05
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2024-12-04
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S6822)
action_date: 2024-12-04
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2024-12-04
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S6822)
action_date: 2024-05-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 366.
action_date: 2024-05-02
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Carper without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-05-02
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Carper without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-05-01
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Introduced in Senate
NCAA Accountability Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3739
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2024-02-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Introduced in Senate
STRONGER Act

Bill: 118-s-3740
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2024-02-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: 

Supporting Treatment and Recovery Over Narcotics for Growth, Empowerment, and Rehabilitation Act or the STRONGER Act

 
This bill revises and reauthorizes through FY2029 grants for residential substance use disorder treatment programs at state and local correctional and detention facilities.
 
Among the revisions, the bill
 
 
replaces statutory references to 
substance abuse
 with 
substance use disorder
,
 
specifies that the term 
residential substance use disorder treatment program
 includes a medication-assisted treatment program, 
 
requires the chief medical officer or other staff overseeing a program to complete training on the science of addiction and the latest research and clinical guidance on treating substance use disorders in criminal justice settings, and
 
allows people who are awaiting trial or in pretrial detention to participate in the programs.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act

Bill: 118-s-3741
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2024-02-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: 

Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act

This bill prohibits the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing (with respect to certain pregnancy centers) a provision of a proposed rule modifying the standard for a state's reasonable use of funds under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

The proposed rule provides that if ACF identifies a TANF expenditure that does not appear to reasonably accomplish a purpose of TANF then the state must show that it used the funds in a manner that a reasonable person would consider to be within one of the purposes.

The bill prohibits ACF from applying this standard to state expenditures for pregnancy centers that (1) support protecting the life of the mother and the unborn child; and (2) offer resources and services to mothers, fathers, and families, including but relationship counseling, prenatal and pregnancy education, pregnancy testing, diapers, baby clothes, or material supports.

Under current law, TANF funds may be used for any of four purposes, including to prevent and reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies. In the supplemental information to the proposed rule, ACF states that TANF expenditures for programs that exclusively or primarily provide pregnancy counseling to women only after they become pregnant have a tenuous or nonexistent connection to this purpose and, therefore, likely do not meet the proposed reasonableness standard.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Introduced in Senate
ACCESS Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3742
Sponsor: Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2024-02-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt organizations the same as transfers of appreciated property to political organizations.

Bill: 118-s-3743
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2024-02-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: 
 

This bill extends the capital gains tax on transfers of appreciated property to certain tax-exempt social organizations (e.g., civics leagues, agricultural organizations, or business leagues). Currently, the tax is imposed only on transfers to political organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-02-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Health ACCESS Act

Bill: 118-s-3744
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
BRIDGE for Workers Act

Bill: 118-s-3745
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: 

Building on Reemployment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment for Workers Act or the BRIDGE for Workers Act

This bill permanently expands the allowable purposes for certain Department of Labor grants to states for reemployment services and eligibility assessments. Specifically, the bill permanently allows these grants to be used to fund reemployment services and eligibility assessments for all claimants for unemployment compensation.

(Under the current statute, the grants may only be used to provide such services to a subset of claimants who have been identified by the state as likely to exhaust unemployment benefits and need job search assistance to become employed. However, in recent years, annual appropriations acts have allowed the grants to be used for all claimants for unemployment compensation. This bill makes this authority permanent.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Gold Star and Surviving Spouse Career Services Act

Bill: 118-s-3746
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2024-12-02
text: 

Gold Star and Surviving Spouse Career Services Act

This bill expands eligibility for the Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Program to the spouses of certain veterans and members of the Armed Forces. Such program is administered by the Department of Labor and generally provides career and employment services to disabled veterans.

The bill expands eligibility for the program to spouses of

persons who died while members of the Armed Forces;

persons who died of a service-connected disability;

members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty who, for more than 90 days, are listed as missing in action, captured by a hostile force, or forcibly detained or interned in the line of duty by a foreign government power;

persons who have a total permanent disability resulting from a service-connected disability; and

persons who died while an evaluated total disability was in existence.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-03
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2024-12-03
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2024-12-03
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2024-12-02
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6759-6760; text: CR S6759-6760)
action_date: 2024-12-02
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2024-12-02
text: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2024-12-02
text: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Removing Access Barriers to Running for Elected Office for People with Disabilities Act

Bill: 118-s-3747
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: 

Removing Access Barriers to Running for Elected Office for People with Disabilities Act

 
This bill excludes income earned and work performed as a candidate for an elected office when determining eligibility for, or the amount of, federally financed benefits or assistance if the candidate is entitled to Social Security Disability Insurance benefits or Supplemental Security Income (a federal assistance program that provides monthly cash payments to aged, blind, or disabled individuals with limited income and resources) due to a disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Accessible Voting Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3748
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text:  

Accessible Voting Act of 

2024

 
This bill expands voting accessibility for individuals with disabilities and older individuals. 
 
The bill establishes the Office of Accessibility within the Election Assistance Commission (EAC). Among other duties, the office must (1) serve as the advocate on behalf of voters with access needs; (2) ensure state and local election officials are obtaining, deploying, and maintaining voting systems that meet Department of Justice accessibility standards; and (3) make payments to states to implement the bill's accessibility requirements.
 
Additionally, the office must establish and operate a National Resource Center on Accessible Voting to provide state and local election officials, poll workers, and volunteers with the information and technical assistance needed to provide accessible voting. The office must also work with state and local election officials to collect data and administer a public national voter accessibility website.
 
The bill requires each state to (1) ensure election websites are accessible and meet specified requirements, (2) designate a single office to provide information on federal elections to individuals with disabilities and older individuals, (3) notify the public of changes to voting practices, (4) expand access to absentee registration procedures and no-excuse mail-in absentee voting in federal elections, and (5) ensure all polling places and voter drop boxes are accessible.
 
The EAC must coordinate with specified agencies to make grants for studying, testing, and developing accessible voting options.
 
The bill also permanently reauthorizes and expands a Department of Health and Human Services grant program for increasing accessibility to polling places.

 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
AID Local Government Leadership Act

Bill: 118-s-3749
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Redistricting Reform Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3750
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: 

Redistricting Reform Act of 2024

This bill outlines criteria for congressional redistricting and generally prohibits mid-decade redistricting.

Specifically, the bill requires congressional districts to comply with the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Further, congressional districts must be drawn to (1) ensure the practical ability of a protected group to participate in the political process, nominate candidates, and elect representatives of choice; and (2) represent communities of interest and neighborhoods.

Additionally, the bill prohibits the use of a redistricting plan that was drawn with the intent (or has the effect of) materially favoring or disfavoring any political party.

The entity responsible for developing and adopting the congressional redistricting plan of a state must solicit and take into consideration comments from the public throughout the process of developing the plan.

The bill creates judicial remedies if a state fails to enact a final congressional redistricting plan. In particular, if a state fails to enact such a final plan by the applicable deadline, then a three-judge district court shall have the exclusive authority to develop and publish the congressional redistricting plan for the state.

The bill also includes a provision to prevent states from redistricting more than once following an apportionment (i.e., mid-decade redistricting). 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Veterans Transportation to Care Act

Bill: 118-s-3751
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Rural conditions and development
Transportation costs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Qualifications for Pilots Act

Bill: 118-s-3752
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving State and Local Government Access to Performance Contracting Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3753
Sponsor: Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
MRRRI Act

Bill: 118-s-3754
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Respect State Housing Laws Act

Bill: 118-s-3755
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
At HOME Services Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3756
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3757
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Research administration and funding

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-06-18
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 429.
action_date: 2024-06-18
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Sanders with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-06-18
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Sanders with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2024-05-23
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
DETECT Act

Bill: 118-s-3758
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
CREATE Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3759
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: 

Comprehensive Resources for Entrepreneurs in the Arts to Transform the Economy Act of 2024 or the CREATE Act of 2024

This bill expands financial assistance for, and establishes measures to support, the creative economy and art entrepreneurs.

Specifically, the bill requires (1) the Small Business Administration to develop loan criteria, evaluation procedures, and technical assistance programs for small business concerns that are owned by artists or support the creative economy; and (2) the Department of Commerce to ensure that traditional economic development tools, such as business incubators and grant programs, support the arts industry and creative economy.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Watershed Protection and Forest Recovery Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3760
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
National Agricultural Crisis Hotline Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-3761
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2024-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Emergency communications systems
Employment and training programs
First responders and emergency personnel
Health care coverage and access
Mental health
Rural conditions and development
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: 

National Agricultural Crisis Hotline Act of 2024

This bill establishes a national agricultural crisis hotline. The bill also reauthorizes the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) Program through FY2028. (The FRSAN Program funds projects that aim to maintain a network connecting individuals engaged in farming, ranching, and other agriculture-related occupations to stress assistance programs.)

Specifically, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) must establish, and maintain directly or by grant or contract, a national agricultural crisis hotline as part of the FRSAN. The crisis hotline must provide emotional support, information, suicide crisis intervention, mental health and substance use disorder, and agricultural support resources to farmers, farm managers, farm workers, and ranchers affected by mental health and substance use disorders and their families or household members.

Under the program, USDA or an entity receiving a grant or contract must (1) form partnerships between the crisis hotline and existing farm telephone helplines and websites; and (2) develop, and periodically update, a directory of organizations to which hotline staff can make referrals.

The bill also includes requirements for

the qualifications and training for the call responders and supervisors operating the hotline,

data collection by the hotline, and

conducting a public awareness campaign for the hotline.

In addition, the bill expands the types of programs eligible for FRSAN grants to include mental health training for agriculture professionals (e.g., farm loan officers, extension agents, and state department of agriculture staff).
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate