[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 79 (Wednesday, May 10, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1602-S1603]
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INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS
The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the
first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated:
By Mr. REED (for himself and Mr. Whitehouse):
S. 1508. A bill to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act to add Rhode Island to the
Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, and for other
purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
By Mr. BOOKER:
S. 1509. A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to
extend and reform the conservation reserve program, and for
other purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition,
and Forestry.
By Mr. BRAUN (for himself and Mr. Peters):
S. 1510. A bill to amend provisions relating to the Office
of the Inspector General of the Government Accountability
Office, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs.
By Mr. COTTON (for himself, Mr. McConnell, Mrs. Hyde-
Smith, Mr. Daines, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Braun, Mrs. Britt,
Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Budd, Mr. Rubio, and Mr.
Cramer):
S. 1511. A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965
to ensure that public institutions of higher education eschew
policies that improperly constrain the expressive rights of
students, and to ensure that private institutions of higher
education are transparent about, and responsible for, their
chosen speech policies; to the Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions.
By Mr. MARSHALL (for himself and Mr. Welch):
S. 1512. A bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act
and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to allow for the
interstate internet sales of certain State-inspected meat and
poultry, and for other purposes; to the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
By Mr. RUBIO:
S. 1513. A bill to direct the Secretary of State to seek to
enter into negotiations with the Taipei Economic and Cultural
Representative Office to rename its office the ``Taiwan
Representative Office'', and for other purposes; to the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
By Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Mr. Ossoff, Mr. Brown, Mr.
Warnock, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Cortez Masto, and Mr.
Blumenthal):
S. 1514. A bill to amend the National Housing Act to
establish a mortgage insurance program for first responders,
and for other purposes; to the Committee on Banking, Housing,
and Urban Affairs.
By Mr. TESTER (for himself, Ms. Murkowski, Mr.
Blumenthal, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Cramer, Ms. Hirono,
Mr. Merkley, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Sanders, Mr.
Schumer, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Van Hollen,
Ms. Warren, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Menendez,
Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Baldwin, and Mr. Brown):
S. 1515. A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to
permit retired members of the uniformed services who have a
service-connected disability to receive both disability
compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for
their disability and either retired pay by reason of their
years of military service of Combat-Related Special
Compensation, and for other purposes; to the Committee on
Armed Services.
By Ms. SMITH:
S. 1516. A bill to authorize funding to expand and support
enrollment at institutions of higher education that sponsor
construction and manufacturing-oriented registered
apprenticeship programs, and for other purposes; to the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
By Ms. DUCKWORTH:
S. 1517. A bill to extend and modify a pilot program to
improve cyber cooperation with foreign military partners in
Southeast Asia; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
By Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. Warner, Mr. Moran, Mr.
Wyden, Ms. Collins, Mr. King, Mr. Rounds, Mr.
Heinrich, Mr. Casey, and Mr. Lankford):
S. 1518. A bill to improve the classification and
declassification of national security information, and for
other purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs.
By Mr. RUBIO (for himself and Mr. Cassidy):
S. 1519. A bill to require a United States security
strategy for the Western Hemisphere, and for other purposes;
to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
By Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr.
Marshall, Mr. Daines, and Mr. Braun):
S. 1520. A bill to prohibit the use of Federal funds to
purchase, procure, or distribute pipes or cylindrical objects
intended to be used to smoke or inhale illegal scheduled
substances; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions.
By Mr. DAINES (for himself and Ms. Cantwell):
S. 1521. A bill to amend the Federal Power Act to modernize
and improve the licensing of non-Federal hydropower projects,
and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources.
By Mr. MARSHALL:
S. 1522. A bill to require the Secretary of Health and
Human Services to conduct a study on the designation of
biosimilar biological products as interchangeable; to the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
By Mr. KAINE (for himself and Mr. Warner):
S. 1523. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
to allow rehabilitation expenditures for public school
buildings to qualify for rehabilitation credit; to the
Committee on Finance.
By Mr. PETERS (for himself and Mr. Braun):
S. 1524. A bill to ensure that whistleblowers, including
contractors, are protected from retaliation when a Federal
employee orders a reprisal, and for other purposes; to the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
By Mr. SCHMITT:
S. 1525. A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to
address governmental interference in content moderation
decisions by providers of interactive computer services, and
for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation.
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By Mr. HICKENLOOPER (for himself and Mrs. Capito):
S. 1526. A bill to amend the National Telecommunications
and Information Administration Organization Act to establish
the Office of Policy Development and Cybersecurity, and for
other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
By Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself, Ms. Collins, Ms. Hirono,
Ms. Warren, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Hassan,
Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Tester, Mr.
Blumenthal, Mr. Kelly, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Kaine, Mrs.
Murray, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Brown, Mr. Sanders, Ms.
Smith, and Mr. Wyden):
S. 1527. A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to
ensure that members of the Armed Forces and their families
have access to the contraception they need in order to
promote the health and readiness of all members of the Armed
Forces, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Armed
Services.
By Mr. PETERS (for himself, Mr. Paul, and Mr.
Lankford):
S. 1528. A bill to streamline the sharing of information
among Federal disaster assistance agencies, to expedite the
delivery of life-saving assistance to disaster survivors, to
speed the recovery of communities from disasters, to protect
the security and privacy of information provided by disaster
survivors, and for other purposes; to the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
By Mr. BOOKER:
S. 1529. A bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act to provide
for greater protection of roosters, and for other purposes;
to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
By Mr. GRAHAM (for himself and Ms. Klobuchar):
S. 1530. A bill to permit COPS grants to be used for the
purpose of increasing the compensation and hiring of law
enforcement officers, and for other purposes; to the
Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. WHITEHOUSE (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr.
Booker, Mr. Durbin, Ms. Hassan, Ms. Hirono, Mr.
Markey, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Sanders, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms.
Stabenow, and Ms. Warren):
S. 1531. A bill to designate certain National Forest System
land and certain public land under the jurisdiction of the
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture in
the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming
as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers, wildland recovery
areas, and biological connecting corridors, and for other
purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
By Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina (for himself, Mr.
Graham, Mr. Hagerty, and Mrs. Blackburn):
S. 1532. A bill to suspend the entry of covered aliens in
response to the fentanyl public health crisis; to the
Committee on the Judiciary.
By Mr. BOOKER:
S. 1533. A bill to amend the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974 to authorize grants to assist in
redeveloping abandoned shopping centers, and for other
purposes; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs.
By Mr. SCHATZ (for himself, Ms. Murkowski, Ms. Hirono,
and Mr. Sullivan):
S. 1534. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security
Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services
to make adjustments to payment rates for skilled nursing
facilities under the Medicare program to account for certain
unique circumstances; to the Committee on Finance.
By Mr. KELLY (for himself and Ms. Lummis):
S. 1535. A bill to require the Administrator of the Federal
Aviation Administration to promulgate regulations to allow
the transport of firefighters on board a covered aircraft
operated on a mission to suppress a wildfire, and for other
purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation.
By Mr. HEINRICH (for himself, Mr. Tester, Ms. Smith,
and Mr. Lujan):
S. 1536. A bill to ensure that all federally recognized
Indian Tribes that are eligible for gaming in the United
States are regulated under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act,
and for other purposes; to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
By Mr. HAWLEY:
S. 1537. A bill to require the imposition of additional
duties with respect to articles imported from the People's
Republic of China until trade between the United States and
the People's Republic of China comes into balance; to the
Committee on Finance.
By Mr. HEINRICH:
S. 1538. A bill to authorize the Secretary of Education to
award grants for outdoor learning spaces and to develop
living schoolyards; to the Committee on Health, Education,
Labor, and Pensions.
By Mr. THUNE (for himself and Ms. Klobuchar):
S. 1539. A bill to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act and
the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to
make the native sod provisions applicable to the United
States and to modify those provisions, and for other
purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry.
By Mr. DAINES (for himself, Mr. Risch, and Mr. Crapo):
S. 1540. A bill to amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable
Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the Federal Land Policy
and Management Act of 1976 to provide for circumstances under
which reinitiation of consultation is not required under a
land and resource management plan or land use plan under
those Acts, and for other purposes; to the Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources.
By Mr. WARNER (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Moran, Mr.
Cornyn, Mr. King, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Bennet, Mr.
Casey, and Mr. Rounds):
S. 1541. A bill to provide for a system to classify
information in the interests of national security and a
system to declassify such information, and for other
purposes; to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
By Mr. MARSHALL (for himself, Mr. Tester, Mr. Braun,
Mr. Kaine, and Mrs. Capito):
S. 1542. A bill to improve services provided by pharmacy
benefit managers; to the Committee on Health, Education,
Labor, and Pensions.
By Mr. MARSHALL:
S. 1543. A bill to require regulations concerning the
disclosure of direct and indirect compensation from entities
providing pharmacy benefit management services or third party
administration services; to the Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions.
By Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself and Ms. Baldwin):
S. 1544. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security
Act to ensure equitable payment for, and preserve Medicare
beneficiary access to, diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals under
the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system;
to the Committee on Finance.
By Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Cramer,
and Mr. Tuberville):
S. 1545. A bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
to carry out a pilot program to improve the ability of
veterans to access medical care in medical facilities of the
Department of Veterans Affairs and in the community by
providing veterans the ability to choose health care
providers; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
By Ms. HIRONO (for herself, Mr. Booker, Ms. Cortez
Masto, Mrs. Feinstein, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms.
Klobuchar, Mr. Padilla, Ms. Rosen, Ms. Smith, Ms.
Warren, and Mr. Lujan):
S. 1546. A bill to authorize the Secretary of Education to
award grants to eligible entities to carry out educational
programs that include the history of peoples of Asian, Native
Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander descent in the settling and
founding of America, the social, economic, and political
environments that led to the development of discriminatory
laws targeting Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific
Islanders and their relation to current events, and the
impact and contributions of Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders to the development and
enhancement of American life, United States history,
literature, the economy, politics, body of laws, and culture,
and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions.
By Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. Coons, Mr. Wicker, and
Mr. Durbin):
S. 1547. A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
to implement policies to end preventable maternal, newborn,
and child deaths globally; to the Committee on Foreign
Relations.
By Mr. HICKENLOOPER (for himself, Mr. Bennet, Ms.
Smith, Mr. King, Mr. Heinrich, and Ms. Klobuchar):
S. 1548. A bill to require the Secretary of Energy to
establish a program to encourage deployment of electric
school buses and vehicle-to-grid technologies and
applications, and for other purposes; to the Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources.
By Mr. PETERS (for himself and Ms. Collins):
S. 1549. A bill to provide the Congressional Budget Office
with necessary authorities to expedite the sharing of data
from executive branch agencies, and for other purposes; to
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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