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Improving the Federal Response to Organized Retail Crime Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-316
Sponsor: Rep. Kim, Young [R-CA-40]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Organized crime
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Improving the Federal Response to Organized Retail Crime Act of 2023

 
This bill requires various federal agencies to develop a strategy to improve coordination with state and local law enforcement entities to address organized retail crime.
 
Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Postal Service, and other relevant agencies to 
 
 
improve federal information sharing about organized retail crime networks;
 
assist state and local law enforcement in compiling materials and evidence necessary to prosecute organized retail crime; and 
 
increase cooperation and information sharing between federal agencies, the retail industry, and retail crime task forces. 
 
 
The bill also requires the Government Accountability Office to report on coordination between the private sector and law enforcement to deter and investigate organized retail crime. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
SEC Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-317
Sponsor: Rep. Bice, Stephanie I. [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Stop Environmental Calculations Act of 2023 or the SEC Act of 2023 

 
This bill prohibits the Securities and Exchange Commission from requiring climate-related disclosures that are not material to investors. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Homeowners from Disaster Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-318
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 
 
Protecting Homeowners from Disaster Act of 2023 

 
This bill repeals the current limitation on tax deductions for personal casualty losses. Under current law, such losses are deductible in taxable years 2018-2025 only to the extent that they are attributable to a federally declared disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Safer Streets Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-320
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Community life and organization
Crime prevention
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Safer Streets Act of 2023

 
This bill directs the Department of Justice to award grants to units of local governments and neighborhood or community-based organizations in jurisdictions with high rates of violent crime. Grants may be used to support law enforcement purposes or community violence prevention purposes, such as hiring additional officers, acquiring surveillance equipment, and promoting prevention programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Capitol Remembrance Act

Bill: 118-hr-321
Sponsor: Rep. Crow, Jason [D-CO-6]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Assault and harassment offenses
Civil disturbances
Congressional agencies
Congressional officers and employees
Congressional tributes
Crimes against property
District of Columbia
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Historical and cultural resources
Law enforcement officers
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Photography and imaging
Protest and dissent
Subversive activities
Terrorism
U.S. Capitol
U.S. history
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Capitol Remembrance Act

 
This bill requires the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) to design and install in a prominent location in the U.S. Capitol a permanent exhibit that depicts the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
 
To the extent possible, the AOC must preserve property that was damaged during the attack and include it in the exhibit. The AOC must also include (1) existing photographic records relating to the attack; and (2) a plaque to honor the U.S. Capitol Police and other law enforcement agencies that protected the Capitol, the individuals who died or sustained injuries to protect the Capitol, and the staff who helped restore the Capitol complex after the attack.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Educational Opportunity and Success Act of 2023

Bill: 118-hr-322
Sponsor: Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Adult education and literacy
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Educational Opportunity and Success Act of 

2023

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2029 and otherwise revises TRIO programs. (These outreach and student-services programs identify and provide services to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.)
 
Among other revisions to the programs, the bill
 
 
prohibits the Department of Education (ED) from rejecting TRIO grant applications based on certain errors;
 
requires ED to provide additional technical assistance to interested grant applicants;
 
revises the outcome criteria for measuring the quality and effectiveness of the programs, including those programs specifically designed for veterans;
 
allows program administrators to use a student's most recent Free Application for Federal Student Aid to determine TRIO program eligibility; and
 
increases the maximum stipend for students participating in the Upward Bound Program or the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act

Bill: 118-hr-324
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-37]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business expenses
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Income tax deductions
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act

 
This bill extends the $1 million limit on the deductibility of executive compensation to all employees of publicly traded corporations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Harmful Algal Bloom Essential Forecasting Act

Bill: 118-hr-325
Sponsor: Rep. Donalds, Byron [R-FL-19]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Department of Commerce
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Marine pollution
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Harmful Algal Bloom Essential Forecasting Act

 
This bill requires the Harmful Algal Bloom Operational Forecast System to continue to operate during a government shutdown by designating certain services related to the system as excepted services under the Anti-Deficiency Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
No Subsidies for Government Purchases of Electric Vehicles Act

Bill: 118-hr-326
Sponsor: Rep. Estes, Ron [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Motor vehicles
Public contracts and procurement
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

No Subsidies for Government Purchases of Electric Vehicles Act

 
This bill disallows a tax credit for qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles that are sold to the federal government or a state government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Close the Double Subsidy Loophole for Electric Vehicles Act

Bill: 118-hr-327
Sponsor: Rep. Estes, Ron [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Motor vehicles
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Close the Double Subsidy Loophole for Electric Vehicles Act

 
This bill reduces the allowable amount of the tax credit for a new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicle by any subsidy made available by the state in which the vehicle is registered and was placed in service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 130 North Main Street in Blue Earth, Minnesota, as the "Jim Hagedorn Memorial Post Office".

Bill: 118-hr-328
Sponsor: Rep. Finstad, Brad [R-MN-1]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Members of Congress
Minnesota
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 130 North Main Street in Blue Earth, Minnesota, as the "Jim Hagedorn Memorial Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
American Workforce Empowerment Act

Bill: 118-hr-329
Sponsor: Rep. Finstad, Brad [R-MN-1]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

American Workforce Empowerment Act

 
This bill allows tax-preferred college savings plans (529 plans) to fund certain postsecondary certificate programs and apprenticeship programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act

Bill: 118-hr-330
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Congressional oversight
Family planning and birth control
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act

 
This bill prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from awarding family planning grants to entities that perform abortions or provide funding to other entities that perform abortions. To receive a grant, an entity must certify it will refrain from those activities during the grant period.
 
The bill provides exceptions for abortions (1) in cases of rape or incest; or (2) when the life of the woman is in danger due to a physical disorder, injury, or illness. It also exempts hospitals unless they provide funds to non-hospital entities that provide abortions.
 
HHS must report annually on this prohibition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Illicit Arms Trafficking Security Enforcement Act

Bill: 118-hr-331
Sponsor: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mexico
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Illicit Arms Trafficking Security Enforcement Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security to establish a new unit&#8212;a Border Enforcement Security Task Force unit&#8212;to investigate transnational criminal organization arms smuggling across the international border between the United States and Mexico.
 
The purposes of the new unit include, among other things, reducing arms smuggling from the United States to Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Supporting Mexico Against Corruption Act

Bill: 118-hr-332
Sponsor: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign property
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Human rights
Latin America
Mexico
Sanctions
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Supporting Mexico Against Corruption Act

 
This bill directs the President to impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons who are current or former officials of the Mexican government and who are responsible for acts of significant corruption. These sanctions shall also apply to foreign persons acting on behalf of such a government official.
 
The sanctions shall not apply to acts related to U.S. intelligence activities. The President may waive application of the sanctions for U.S. national security interests or to prevent undue economic harm to the people of Mexico. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-12
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: 2023-01-12
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: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act

Bill: 118-hr-333
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [D-GA-2]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act

 
This bill modifies provisions related to military retired pay. Specifically, the bill authorizes veterans with a service-connected disability of less than 50% to concurrently receive both retired pay and disability compensation. The bill also makes qualified disability retirees with less than 20 years of retirement-creditable service eligible for concurrent receipt, subject to specified reductions in retired pay.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
Significant Transnational Criminal Organization Designation Act

Bill: 118-hr-334
Sponsor: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Evidence and witnesses
Foreign property
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Judicial procedure and administration
Judicial review and appeals
Organized crime
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Significant Transnational Criminal Organization Designation Act

 
This bill makes membership in a significant transnational criminal organization a ground for inadmissibility into the United States and provides for criminal penalties against those that provide material support to such an organization. 
 
The bar against admission applies to a non-U.S. national (
alien
 under federal law) who is a member of such an organization and such an individual's non-U.S. national spouse or child. The bar shall not apply to a spouse or child who (1) did not know, or should not reasonably have known, that the individual was a member of such an organization; or (2) has renounced the organization in question. 
 
The bill establishes statutory authority and procedures for the Department of Justice to designate an organization a significant transnational criminal organization. The Department of the Treasury may require U.S. financial institutions to block transactions involving assets belonging to such an organization. 
 
An individual who knowingly provides material support or resources to a significant transnational criminal organization (or attempts or conspires to do so) shall be fined, imprisoned for up to 20 years, or both. If the death of any person is the result, the offending individual may be imprisoned for any term of years or for life. A financial institution that becomes aware that it possesses or controls funds belonging to such an organization shall retain such funds and notify Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Rules, 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: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Rules, 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: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Rules, 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: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
STOP Fentanyl Act

Bill: 118-hr-335
Sponsor: Rep. Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2023-01-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Latin America
Mexico
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: 

Standardizing Thresholds Of Penalties for Fentanyl Act or the STOP Fentanyl Act

 
 This bill reduces the drug quantity thresholds that trigger a mandatory minimum prison term for a defendant who manufactures, distributes, imports, exports, or possesses with intent to distribute fentanyl. The bill also creates enhanced criminal penalties for certain violations involving fentanyl that was imported along the U.S.-Mexico border. 
 
Specifically, the bill reduces from 400 to 5 grams the fentanyl quantity and from 100 to 0.05 grams the fentanyl analogue quantity that trigger a mandatory minimum prison term for high-level first-time or repeat offenders. It also reduces from 40 to 0.5 grams the fentanyl quantity and from 10 to 0.005 grams the fentanyl analogue quantity that trigger a mandatory minimum prison term for low-level first-time or repeat offenders.
 
Additionally, the bill creates enhanced mandatory minimum prison terms for importing or exporting fentanyl that was imported along the U.S.-Mexico border.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2023-01-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2023-01-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2023-01-12
text: Introduced in House