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Protecting Air Ambulance Services for Americans Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1803
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2023-06-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-01
text: 

Protecting Air Ambulance Services for Americans Act of 2023

This bill authorizes payment changes under Medicare for air ambulance services based on certain collected data and requires additional reporting from providers of these services.

Current law requires providers of air ambulance services to report certain information regarding general costs and utilization to the Department of Health and Human Services; private health insurers are also required to report information relating to coverage of these services. The bill authorizes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to revise payment rates under Medicare for air ambulance services based on this data, and it requires providers of air ambulance services to specifically report information relating to costs and utilization under Medicare.

The bill also requires the Government Accountability Office to report on the data that is collected under current law requirements and to recommend changes to Medicare payment rates accordingly.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-06-01
text: Introduced in Senate
FASTER Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1804
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2023-06-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Building construction
Economic performance and conditions
Electric power generation and transmission
Employee hiring
Energy revenues and royalties
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government studies and investigations
Inflation and prices
Land transfers
Licensing and registrations
Performance measurement
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Property rights
Public utilities and utility rates
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2023-06-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Housing Bond Enhancement Act

Bill: 118-s-1805
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Income tax credits
Low- and moderate-income housing
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

Affordable Housing Bond Enhancement Act

 
This bill modifies the Mortgage Revenue Bond (MRB) and the Mortgage Credit Certificate (MCC) programs of state housing finance agencies to expand the supply of affordable homes and homeownership for low- and moderate-income homebuyers.
 
The bill requires the Internal Revenue Service to annually report to the congressional banking and tax committees on the use by states of their private activity bond authority for housing investment. It also increases the MRB home improvement loan limit from $15,000 to $50,000.
 
The bill permits states to redesignate their carryforward authority and use it for housing investment and permits MRBs to be used to refinance home loans for borrowers who have incomes below 115% of median family income. 
 
The bill modifies the recapture requirement for homeowners who receive a MRB-financed mortgage or an MCC and sell their residences within the first nine years of ownership and reduces the time in which a recapture tax may be assessed from nine to five years. 
 
The bill revises the MCC benefit calculation to a simple percentage of the original loan balance. It also extends the MCC revocation period from two to four years. 
 
The bill reduces the public notice requirement for MCC issuers from 90 days to 30 days and eliminates certain MCC lendor reporting requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-04-16
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development. Hearings held.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Ocean Regional Opportunity and Innovation Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1806
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Community life and organization
Economic development
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Product development and innovation
Public-private cooperation
Research and development
Seashores and lakeshores
Small business
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

Ocean Regional Opportunity and Innovation Act of 2023 

This bill directs the Department of Commerce to designate at least seven entities as Ocean Innovation Clusters. 
Ocean Innovation Clusters
 are hubs for private, public, and academic stakeholders to collaborate on opportunities to promote and enhance the maritime industry and the Blue Economy.

In designating entities, Commerce shall prioritize entities with a history of supporting cross-sector growth and development of the Blue Economy. (Under the bill, the term 
Blue Economy
 generally refers to the value and impact of sustainable industries related to the Great Lakes, oceans, bays, estuaries, and coasts on the economy of the United States.)

Additionally, Commerce must designate at least one Ocean Innovation Cluster in (1) each of the regions covered by the five regional offices of the National Marine Fisheries Service, (2) the Great Lakes region, and (3) the Gulf of Mexico region.

Commerce may award competitive grants for the establishment, operation, and administration of Ocean Innovation Clusters.
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop the Outlay of Payments Act

Bill: 118-s-1807
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

Stop the Outlay of Payments Act

 
This bill prohibits the award of federal funds to entities that have had prior awards suspended or terminated due to certain legal violations and that have failed to take necessary remedial action.
 
Specifically, the bill requires federal agencies to notify the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) within 120 days of suspending or terminating any portion of a federal award to a recipient for failure to comply with (1) the terms and conditions of the award, (2) a federal law or regulation, or (3) a request by the agency making the award for information or materials relating to that award.
 
The OMB must maintain an up-to-date list of suspended entities on its website.
 
An agency may not make a federal award or disburse funds under an award to a suspended entity until that entity remedies the reason for the suspension or termination, with specified exceptions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1808
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Office of Small Farms Establishment Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1809
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

Office of Small Farms Establishment Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish the Office of Small Farms within the farm production and conservation mission area.
 
The office must coordinate, review, and implement various programs and activities related to small farms, ranches, and forest operations. Under the bill, a 
small 
farm, ranch, or forest operation (1) is less than 180 acres or meets another USDA-determined, acreage-based definition of small; and (2) has an annual gross cash farm income of less than $350,000.
 
Activities of the office related to small farms, ranches, and forest operations must include
 
 
coordinating USDA efforts to improve support for these operators;
 
reviewing and recommending changes to USDA statutory, regulatory, and administrative provisions, guidance, and policies that disadvantage these operators;
 
providing or coordinating technical assistance for these operators for USDA grant, cost-share, and loan programs; and
 
providing grants of not more than $25,000 to these operators directly or through cooperative agreements with other entities for areas including equipment and infrastructure repairs and upgrades, uninsured losses, business planning, and conservation practice adoption. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Supporting Families through Addiction Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1810
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Community life and organization
Disability and health-based discrimination
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Family relationships
Family services
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Mental health
Performance measurement
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text:  

Supporting Families through Addiction Act of 2023

 
This bill directs the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to award grants to certain nonprofits to develop or expand services for individuals with substance use disorders and their families.

 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Merit, Fairness, and Equality Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1811
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

Military Merit, Fairness, and Equality Act of 2023

 
This bill prohibits the Department of Defense (DOD) from directing or otherwise compelling any member of the Armed Forces, military dependent, or civilian DOD employee to personally affirm, adopt, or adhere to the tenet that any sex, race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin is inherently superior or inferior.
 
No organization or institution under DOD authority may provide courses, training, or any other type of instruction that directs, compels, or otherwise suggests that any member of the Armed Forces, military dependent, or civilian DOD employee should affirm, adopt, or adhere to the tenet that any sex, race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin is inherently superior or inferior. Additionally, such organizations or institutions are prohibited from making a distinction or classification of members of the Armed Forces, military dependents, or civilian DOD employees based on race, ethnicity, or national origin.
 
All DOD personnel actions must be based exclusively on individual merit and demonstrated performance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Open and Responsive Government Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1812
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

Open and Responsive Government Act of 202

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This bill limits the extent to which federal agencies may exempt information from requests to disclose agency records under the Freedom of Information Act, including prohibiting the withholding of a portion of an otherwise responsive record on the basis that the portion is nonresponsive.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Disability Access to Transportation Act

Bill: 118-s-1813
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access Board
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aging
Child care and development
Congressional oversight
Department of Transportation
Disability assistance
Employment and training programs
Food industry and services
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Housing supply and affordability
Pedestrians and bicycling
Public transit
Regional and metropolitan planning
Rural conditions and development
Social security and elderly assistance
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

Disability Access to Transportation Act

This bill establishes programs and requirements to expand transportation access for individuals with disabilities.

The Department of Transportation (DOT) must establish a one-stop paratransit pilot program. (Paratransit is often a service for the elderly and disabled using small buses and vans.) This program must develop or expand transit agency paratransit programs carried out pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) to prevent long wait times between multiple trips that unduly limit an individual's ability to complete essential tasks.

In addition, the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) must issue regulations to establish accessibility guidelines that set forth minimum standards for pedestrian facilities in the public right-of-way, including shared use paths.

DOT must also implement procedures that allow an individual who believes that they have been subjected to discrimination on the basis of a disability by a public entity to submit an ADA complaint by phone, by mail-in form, and online. DOT must require each public transit provider and contractor providing paratransit services to post certain information on how an individual can file a disability-related complaint. In addition, DOT must publish yearly reports on the disposition of these accessibility complaints.

Finally, DOT must create an accessibility data pilot program to provide data sets to states and metropolitan or rural planning organizations to improve their transportation planning. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
DEPOSIT Act

Bill: 118-s-1814
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

Delivering Essential Protection, Opportunity, and Security for Tenants Act or DEPOSIT Act

 
This bill provides access to rental security deposit and moving cost assistance for participants in certain low-income housing programs.
 
Specifically, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) must provide public housing agencies (PHAs) funding for rental security deposit assistance for families in Section 8 tenant-based rental assistance (TBRA) programs (i.e., the Housing Choice Voucher Program). Upon tenancy termination, any unused security deposit amounts must be returned to a PHA to remain available for use as security deposits. HUD may also provide funding to PHAs to provide assistance with reasonable moving costs for families moving into an assisted dwelling unit.
 
Under current law, security deposit assistance (i.e., loans or grants) is available in the HOME Investment Partnerships Program for families participating in a TBRA program. This bill expands access to security deposit assistance by allowing participating jurisdictions to provide these loans or grants to very low- and low-income families regardless of participation in a TBRA program.
 
In addition, HUD must study and report on (1) alternatives to rental housing security deposits, including requiring a tenant to pay a monthly insurance premium; and (2) the impact that such alternatives have on the rental housing market and tenants, including how such alternatives affect tenants based on tenant demographics (e.g., race, age, sex, and disability).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act

Bill: 118-s-1815
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act

 
This bill authorizes the Internal Revenue Service to postpone federal tax filing deadlines upon the written request of a governor of a state in which an emergency or disaster has been declared. The bill also extends current mandatory extensions from 60 to 120 days. 
 
For purposes of this bill, a
 state
 includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Mushroom Farmers Act

Bill: 118-s-1816
Sponsor: Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

Protecting Mushroom Farmers Act

 
This bill requires the federal crop insurance program to provide for the research and development of a policy to insure the production of mushrooms or revenue derived from the production of mushrooms. (The term 
policy
 means an insurance policy, plan of insurance, provision of a policy or plan of insurance, and related materials.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grant Act

Bill: 118-s-1817
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Infrastructure development

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grant Act

This bill establishes programs within the Department of Transportation (DOT) to support the use of small, unmanned aircraft systems (commonly known as drones) when inspecting, operating, maintaining, repairing, modernizing, or constructing road infrastructure, electric grid infrastructure, water infrastructure, or other critical infrastructure.

Specifically, DOT must award grants to state, tribal, or local governments; metropolitan planning organizations; or groups of those entities to purchase or otherwise use drones to support the inspection, operation, construction, maintenance, modernization, or repair of critical infrastructure to increase efficiency, reduce costs, improve worker and community safety, or reduce carbon emissions related to critical infrastructure projects. Grant recipients must use domestically manufactured drones that are not made by certain foreign entities, including companies subject to influence or control from China or Russia.

DOT must also award grants to certain institutions of higher education for training students for careers using drones and related technologies. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Safe Routes Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1818
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

Safe Routes Act of 2023

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to waive vehicle weight limits for covered logging vehicles. 
 
The term 
covered logging vehicle
 means a vehicle that (1) is transporting raw or unfinished forest products, including logs, pulpwood, biomass, or wood chips; (2) is traveling a distance of not more than 150 air miles from origin to a storage or processing facility; and (3) meets state legal weight tolerances and vehicle configurations for transporting raw or unfinished forest products within the state boundaries in which the vehicle is operating.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
3D Printed Gun Safety Act of 2023

Bill: 118-s-1819
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Digital media
Firearms and explosives
Internet, web applications, social media
Manufacturing

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

3D Printed Gun Safety Act of 2023

This bill makes it unlawful to intentionally publish digital instructions that can automatically program a three-dimensional printer or similar device to produce or complete a firearm from an unfinished frame or receiver.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Humane Correctional Health Care Act

Bill: 118-s-1820
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Detention of persons
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Medicaid
Mental health
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: 

Humane Correctional Health Care Act

 
This bill allows states to cover inmates of public institutions under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The Government Accountability Office must report on specified information relating to the health of inmates and the effects of Medicaid and CHIP coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Energy Savings Act

Bill: 118-s-1821
Sponsor: Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT]
Introduced: 2023-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy

Summary:

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2023-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate