hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Protecting Personal Data from Foreign Adversaries Act

Bill: 118-hr-57
Sponsor: Rep. Bergman, Jack [R-MI-1]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
China
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Foreign and international banking
Foreign property
Political parties and affiliation
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Sanctions
Subversive activities
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Protecting Personal Data from Foreign Adversaries Act

 
This bill authorizes sanctions and other prohibitions relating to software that engages in user data theft on behalf of certain foreign countries or entities. 
 
The President may regulate or prohibit transactions using software that engages in the theft or unauthorized transmission of user data and provides access to such data to (1) a communist country, (2) the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), (3) a foreign adversary, or (4) a state sponsor of terrorism. 
 
The President may also impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on developers and owners of software that makes unauthorized transmissions of user data to servers located in China that are accessible by China's government or the CCP.
 
The Department of State shall report to Congress a determination regarding whether WeChat or TikTok fall within certain regulations and prohibitions, including those provided under this bill. (WeChat and TikTok are software programs developed by China-based companies.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
FIRST State and Local Law Enforcement Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-58
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Homeland Security
Federal-Indian relations
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Performance measurement
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Federal Information Resource to Strengthen Ties with State and Local Law Enforcement Act of 2023 or the FIRST State and Local Law Enforcement Act of 2023

 
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security's Office for State and Local Law Enforcement to report annually on its activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
SAVE Act

Bill: 118-hr-59
Sponsor: Rep. Bice, Stephanie I. [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Asia
Belarus
Burma
Caribbean area
China
Cuba
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Europe
Foreign and international corporations
Iran
Latin America
Middle East
North Korea
Oil and gas
Russia
Sanctions
Strategic materials and reserves
Syria
Trade restrictions
Venezuela

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Save America&rsquo;s Valuable Energy Act or the SAVE Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to prohibit the sale of petroleum products (e.g., crude oil) from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to certain entities. Specifically, DOE must prohibit the sale of petroleum products from the SPR to entities headquartered in Russia. Further, DOE must prohibit the sale of petroleum products from the SPR to entities headquartered in countries (Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Venezuela) that are subject to certain prohibitions concerning exports of defense articles and services under the Department of State's International Traffic in Arms Regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-60
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Accidental Firearms Transfers Reporting Act of 2023 

 
This bill requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to report to Congress on the number of firearm transfers where (1) a licensed gun dealer submits a background check through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), (2) NICS fails to respond within three business days, and (3) the licensed gun dealer completes the transfer.
 
The FBI must also report on the procedures followed once the transferee is discovered to be ineligible. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-61
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Justice
Evidence and witnesses
Hate crimes
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023

 
This bill expands federal hate crime offenses to include acts motivated by white supremacy.
 
The bill also establishes a standard for determining whether a person engaged in a white supremacy inspired hate crime, sets forth the elements of related conspiracies, and authorizes the Department of Justice to investigate, prosecute, and maintain records of white supremacy inspired hate crimes and related conspiracies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
SHIELD Act

Bill: 118-hr-62
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Health personnel
Law enforcement administration and funding
Right of privacy
Sex and reproductive health
State and local government operations
Women's health
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Safeguard Healthcare Industry Employees from Litigation and Distress Act or the SHIELD Act

 
This bill establishes a framework to limit interference with persons seeking to provide or access reproductive health services at the state level. 
 
For the purposes of this summary, interference with persons seeking to provide or access reproductive health services includes acts to prevent, restrict, impede, or retaliate against
 
 
a health care provider who provides reproductive health care services,
 
any person or entity who helps health care providers to provide such services, 
 
any person who seeks to access such services, or 
 
any person or entity who helps another person to access such services.
 
 
First, the bill reduces the allocation of funds under certain law enforcement grant programs for a state that has in effect a law authorizing state or local officers or employees to interfere with persons seeking to provide or access reproductive health services.
 
Second, the bill prohibits interference with persons seeking to provide or access reproductive health care services
 
 
by state or local officers or employees acting under color of law in any manner that would have a discriminatory effect on a woman, and 
 
by persons who are not state or local officers or employees and are attempting to implement or enforce a state law in circumstances affecting interstate commerce. 
 
 
The bill authorizes civil remedies for a violation, including damages and injunctive relief. Additionally, it authorizes criminal penalties for a violation involving the use of a deadly or dangerous weapon or the infliction of bodily injury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
GRACE Act

Bill: 118-hr-63
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Family relationships
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Grant Relief for American Children's Elevation Act of 2023 or the GRACE Act

 
This bill establishes that an 
exceptional and extremely unusual hardship
 includes a hardship resulting from a removal (or deportation) that separates the individual subject to removal from a family member who is a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the United States.
 
Under current law, the Department of Homeland Security may cancel the removal of a non-U.S. national (
alien
 under federal law) if the removal would result in an exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to an immediate relative who is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
David’s Law

Bill: 118-hr-64
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Justice
Department of the Treasury
Firearms and explosives
Fires
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Hate crimes
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2022
 
or David&rsquo;s Law

 
This bill adds hate crime offenses and penalties to the criminal civil rights statute that prohibits interference with federally protected activities. Current law already prohibits and penalizes similar offenses under the criminal civil rights statute that prohibits hate crime offenses. 
 
Additionally, the bill authorizes state and local grants to combat hate crimes committed by juveniles. It also authorizes the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Justice to hire additional personnel to prevent and respond to alleged criminal civil rights offenses involving interference with federally protected activities.
 
Finally, the bill directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to study whether it is appropriate to provide a sentencing enhancement for adult defendants who recruit minors to commit hate crime offenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Ending Common Core and Expanding School Choice Act

Bill: 118-hr-65
Sponsor: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Ending Common Core and Expanding School Choice Act

 
This bill revises requirements related to federal education funding for disadvantaged children. Specifically, the bill (1) eliminates the standards, assessments, and academic accountability requirements for state and local educational agencies that receive federal funds for the education of disadvantaged children; (2) requires such funds to be allocated based on the number of children residing in each state who are living in poverty; and (3) allows educational agencies to distribute per-pupil amounts from such funds to parents for qualified elementary and secondary education expenses.
 
The bill prohibits federal officers or employees from mandating academic standards, assessments, curricula, or accountability systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Native American Education Opportunity Act

Bill: 118-hr-66
Sponsor: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Licensing and registrations
Minority education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
User charges and fees
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Native American Education Opportunity Act

 
This bill addresses education savings account programs and charter schools for tribal students. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Education and the Department of the Interior, at the request of federally recognized Indian tribes, to provide funds to tribes for tribal-based education savings account programs. Tribes must use these funds to award grants to education savings accounts for students who (1) attended or will be eligible to attend a school operated by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE); or (2) will not be attending a school operated by the BIE, receiving an education savings account from another tribe, or attending public elementary or secondary school while participating in the program.
 
Funds may be used for items and activities such as costs of attendance at private schools, private tutoring and online learning programs, textbooks, educational software, or examination fees. 
 
The Government Accountability Office must review the implementation of these education savings account programs, including any factors impacting increased participation in such programs.
 
Additionally, the bill authorizes the BIE to approve and fund charter schools at any school that it operates or funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Flexibility Act

Bill: 118-hr-67
Sponsor: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Small Business Flexibility Act

This bill provides statutory authority for the pooling of tips among two pools of employees. The first pool consists of employees who customarily and regularly receive tips (as is permitted under the current statute). The second pool consists of (1) employees who customarily and regularly receive tips and are paid at least minimum wage, and (2) employees who do not customarily and regularly receive tips. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Housing Fairness Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-68
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Disability and health-based discrimination
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Housing and community development funding
Housing discrimination
Housing finance and home ownership
Military personnel and dependents
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Veterans, Women, Families with Children, Race, and Persons with Disabilities Housing Fairness Act of 2023 or the Housing Fairness Act of 2023

 
This bill expands efforts to detect and address housing discrimination.
 
Specifically, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) must conduct a nationwide testing program to (1) detect and document differences in the treatment of prospective renters, homebuyers, or mortgage borrowers; (2) measure patterns of adverse treatment because of the race, color, religion, sex, familial status, disability status, or national origin of a renter, homebuyer, or borrower; and (3) measure the prevalence of such discriminatory practices across housing and mortgage lending markets.
 
The bill also reauthorizes through FY2027 the Fair Housing Initiatives Program, which supports organizations that provide direct assistance to individuals who have been victims of housing discrimination.
 Additionally, HUD must implement a grant program to assist public and private nonprofit organizations in (1) conducting comprehensive studies on the causes or effects of housing discrimination and segregation, and (2) implementing pilot projects that test solutions to help prevent or alleviate housing discrimination and segregation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
NOSHA Act

Bill: 118-hr-69
Sponsor: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Department of Labor
Executive agency funding and structure
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Nullify Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act or the NOSHA Act

 
This bill abolishes the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA, which is part of the Department of Labor, sets and enforces workplace safety and health standards and provides related training, outreach, education, and assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Freedom for Farmers Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-70
Sponsor: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Environmental health
Executive agency funding and structure
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Freedom for Farmers Act of 

2023

 
This bill abolishes the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. This agency, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), investigates and responds to environmental exposures to hazardous substances in communities. HHS must transfer authority regarding certain national disease and toxic exposure registries to another appropriate HHS entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Minerals.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Medical Innovation Acceleration Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-71
Sponsor: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 

Medical Innovation Acceleration Act of 2023

 
This bill exempts noninvasive diagnostic devices from the regulatory authority of the Food and Drug Administration. 
 
The bill defines 
noninvasive diagnostic device
 as one that does not penetrate the skin or any other membrane of the body, is not inserted or implanted into the body, causes no more than ephemeral compression or temperature changes to in situ bodily tissues, and does not subject bodily tissues to ionizing radiation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the use of Federal funds to maintain or collect information that can be used to identify any individual to whom a COVID-19 vaccine is administered, and for other purposes.

Bill: 118-hr-72
Sponsor: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2023-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Department of Health and Human Services
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: 
This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to maintain a database or collect information that can be used to identify an individual's COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) vaccination status.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-09
text: Introduced in House