hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
STEM Education in Accounting Act

Bill: 118-s-1705
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

STEM Education in Accounting Act

 
This bill authorizes states and local educational agencies (LEAs) to use grant funds provided through the Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program for accounting education. In particular, LEAs may use these grant funds to implement programs to teach accounting, including by increasing access to high-quality accounting courses through 12th grade for students who are members of underrepresented groups.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1749)
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Main Street Tax Certainty Act

Bill: 118-s-1706
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Main Street Tax Certainty Act 

 
This bill makes permanent the tax deduction for qualified business income. (Under current law, the deduction expires after December 31, 2025.)
 

Qualified business income
 is defined as the net amount of qualified items of income, gain, deduction and loss with respect to any trade or business, excluding capital gains or losses, dividends, interest income, or income earned outside the U.S.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
BAN Fossil Fuel Exports Act

Bill: 118-s-1707
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Block All New Fossil Fuel Exports Act or the BAN Fossil Fuel Exports Act

This bill requires the President to ban the exportation of crude oil and natural gas produced in the United States. The President may provide an exemption to the ban in specified circumstances. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Extinction Prevention Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1708
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Extinction Prevention Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to provide financial assistance for the conservation of 
 
 
 butterflies and moths in North America;
 
plant species in Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands;
 
freshwater mussels in the United States; and 
 
bony fish found in desert ecosystems in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah.
 
 
Among other things, the bill establishes the North America Butterfly Conservation Fund, the Pacific Islands Plant Conservation Fund, the Freshwater Mussel Conservation Fund, and the Southwest Desert Fish Conservation Fund. In selecting projects for assistance, Interior must prioritize projects that conserve threatened and endangered species.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Empower Parents to Protect Their Kids Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1709
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Empower Parents to Protect Their Kids Act of 

2023

 
This bill prohibits an elementary or secondary school from receiving federal funds unless the school complies with specified requirements related to parental consent and student gender identity.
 
Among other requirements, school employees may not withhold information from parents about a minor student's gender transition or gender identity. The Department of Justice or a parent or guardian may bring a civil action against a school for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Perinatal Workforce Act

Bill: 118-s-1710
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disability and health-based discrimination
Education programs funding
Employee hiring
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Mental health
Minority education
Minority employment
Minority health
Nursing
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
Racial and ethnic relations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings
Women's education
Women's employment
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Perinatal Workforce Act

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


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
UPDATED USPS Act

Bill: 118-s-1711
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Uniform Postal Data Acquisition for Transparency and Early Detection within the United States Postal Service Act or the UPDATED USPS Act

 
This bill modifies requirements relating to advance electronic information for cargo.
 
Specifically, the bill eliminates
 
 
a restriction on the use of advance electronic information for commercial enforcement, and
 
waivers of the requirement to transmit advance electronic information for countries.
 
 
 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) must refuse entry for any international mail shipments for which advance electronic information is not transmitted for shipments received after December 31, 2023.
 
By December 31, 2023, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) must arrange for the transmission to CBP of information for all international mail shipments. The USPS, at least every 30 days, must publish the number of such shipments for which the information was not transmitted to CBP during the preceding 30-day period.
 
The bill requires monthly reports of specified information, including the volume of international mail shipments and other cargo received by the USPS and private sector importers for which advance electronic information is submitted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Reciprocity Ensures Streamlined Use of Lifesaving Treatments Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1712
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Reciprocity Ensures Streamlined Use of Lifesaving Treatments Act of 

2023

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


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Housing Accessibility Act

Bill: 118-s-1713
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Rural Housing Accessibility Act

This bill requires a public housing agency (PHA) that uses less than 95% of its budget authority in a given year to accept a housing choice voucher from a family that received the voucher from an agency in a different jurisdiction. The PHA that accepts the voucher (1) must make assistance payments to the family under an annual contributions contract, and (2) may not bill the initial PHA for the assistance payments for more than 12 months. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
FAMILY Act

Bill: 118-s-1714
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Wildfire Emergency Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1715
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Aquatic ecology
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Disaster relief and insurance
Ecology
Economic development
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational guidance
Electric power generation and transmission
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental education
Executive agency funding and structure
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Forests, forestry, trees
Government information and archives
Health facilities and institutions
Infrastructure development
Land use and conservation
Military facilities and property
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public contracts and procurement
Public utilities and utility rates
Public-private cooperation
State and local government operations
Technology transfer and commercialization
Vocational and technical education
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Wildfire Emergency Act of 2023

 
This bill provides for programs and activities in support of forest restoration, wildfire mitigation, and energy resilience. 
 
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) shall establish a pilot program under which it may enter into conservation finance agreements with public or private persons to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration and land management projects across the National Forest System. 
 
The bill provides for an increased federal cost share for conservation finance projects that would primarily benefit one or more low-income communities and for which the nonfederal entities involved cannot meet a specified cost share requirement.
 
The Department of Energy shall establish a program to support critical facilities (e.g., hospitals), including by improving the energy resilience and power needs of critical facilities through the development and use of microgrids, renewable energy, energy efficiency, reduced electricity demand, and on-site storage.
 
The bill expands the weatherization assistance program to support the use of fire-resistant materials.
 
The bill directs USDA and the Department of the Interior to take actions to improve the detection and monitoring of wildfires.
 
 USDA and Interior shall establish one or more centers in western states to train individuals in methods relevant to the mitigation of wildfire risk. 
 
 USDA shall establish a competitive grant program to support workforce development in forestry and fire management.
 
USDA may issue grants to increase community capacity for land stewardship activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Chemical and Biological Defense Program Improvement Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1716
Sponsor: Sen. Romney, Mitt [R-UT]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Chemical and Biological Defense Program Improvement Act of 2023

This bill allows the Department of Defense to include funding requests for the chemical and biological defense program within the budget accounts of the military departments. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Supporting American Independence in Innovation Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1717
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Supporting American Independence in Innovation Act of 2023

This bill prohibits the Department of Energy from disbursing any financial award, such as a grant, to any entity that (1) is in a joint venture with a state-owned enterprise owned by China, or (2) has a board of directors that includes an individual who has participated in a foreign talent recruitment program administered by China. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Primacy Certainty Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1718
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Environmental technology
State and local government operations
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Primacy Certainty Act of 2023

 
This bill modifies provisions of the underground injection control program established under the Safe Drinking Water Act related to the review of state applications to obtain responsibility for regulating Class VI wells, which are used to store captured carbon. The bill sets forth a process to give states primary enforcement responsibility for such wells if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fails to meet specified deadlines.
 
In addition, the bill prohibits the EPA from conditioning the approval of state applications on the inclusion of provisions that are not included in the applications or not explicitly required by the Safe Drinking Water Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
FIRESHEDS Act

Bill: 118-s-1719
Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

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

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


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-10-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-311.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Indo-Pacific Strategic Energy Initiative Act

Bill: 118-s-1720
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Facilities Upgrades Act

Bill: 118-s-1721
Sponsor: Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
AIR PUMP Act

Bill: 118-s-1722
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Nutrition and diet
Transportation employees
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

AIR PUMP Act

This bill gives an air carrier crewmember the right to break time and a private space to express breast milk at work. Exceptions to this right apply during a critical phase of flight, if it impacts the safety of an aircraft, or if it would impose a significant expense. An employer may not discriminate or retaliate against an employee who testifies in a proceeding or files a complaint related to this bill. The bill provides for enforcement by the Department of Labor or in a private lawsuit. The Federal Aviation Administration must issue regulations.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-1723
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Advisory bodies
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Child care and development
Child safety and welfare
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
Federal-Indian relations
Hawaii
Historical and cultural resources
Human rights
Indian social and development programs
Language arts
Minority education
Public participation and lobbying
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: 

Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act

 
This bill establishes the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States and sets forth its powers, duties, and membership.
 
Among other duties, the commission must investigate the impacts and ongoing effects of the Indian Boarding School Policies (federal policies under which American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children were forcibly removed from their family homes and placed in boarding schools).
 
Further, the commission must develop recommendations on ways to (1) protect unmarked graves and accompanying land protections; (2) support repatriation and identify the tribal nations from which children were taken; and (3) discontinue the removal of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children from their families and tribal communities by state social service departments, foster care agencies, and adoption agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-12-24
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2024-12-24
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2024-12-23
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2024-12-20
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7255-7267)
action_date: 2024-12-20
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2024-12-20
text: The committee substitute withdrawn by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2024-12-20
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S7254-7267)
action_date: 2024-07-08
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 432.
action_date: 2024-07-08
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Schatz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-187.
action_date: 2024-07-08
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Schatz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-187.
action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2023-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate