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        "number": "752",
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        "title": "A resolution commemorating the 48th anniversary of the signing into law of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, recognizing the importance the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 plays in protecting the interests of participants in employee benefit plans and their beneficiaries, and recognizing the need to encourage more workers to participate in such plans to save for their retirement.",
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      "text": " <p>This resolution recognizes the importance the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 plays in protecting the interests of participants in employee benefit plans and their beneficiaries.</p>",
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        "number": "8769",
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        "title": "IRS Reduction Act",
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      "text": " <p> <strong>IRS Reduction Act </strong></p> <p>This bill rescinds all unobligated amounts appropriated by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 for the improvement of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). </p> <p>The Department of the Treasury must report on how the IRS plans to improve the efficiency of its services, including the processing of tax returns.</p>",
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        "number": "4573",
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        "title": "Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022",
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      "text": " <p><strong>Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022</strong></p> <p>This bill revises the process of casting and counting electoral votes for presidential elections. The bill also revises provisions related to the presidential transition process.</p> <p>The bill specifies that the choice of electors must occur in accordance with the laws of the state enacted prior to election day. </p> <p>Additionally, the bill identifies each state's governor (unless otherwise identified in the laws or constitution of a state in effect on election day) as responsible for submitting the certificate of ascertainment identifying the state's electors. Further, the bill provides for expedited judicial review for any action brought by an aggrieved presidential or vice-presidential candidate arising under the U.S. Constitution or U.S. laws with respect to the issuance or transmission of such a certificate.</p> <p>The bill revises the framework for the joint session of Congress to count electoral votes and make a formal declaration of which candidates have been elected President and Vice President. Among other changes, the bill (1) specifies that the role of the Vice President during the joint session shall be ministerial in nature, and (2) raises the objection threshold in Congress to at least one-fifth of the duly chosen and sworn members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.</p> <p>The bill also revises the presidential transition process, including to (1) allow more than one candidate to receive federal transition resources under certain circumstances, and (2) require additional reporting by the General Services Administration.</p>",
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      "actionDate": "2022-07-13",
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        "title": "FDASLA Act of 2022",
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      "text": " <p><strong>Food and Drug Administration Safety and Landmark Advancements Act of 2022 or the FDASLA Act of 2022</strong></p> <p>This bill modifies Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to collect certain fees. It also expands FDA authority to regulate certain products, including cosmetics.</p> <p>Among other provisions, the bill</p> <ul> <li>reauthorizes FDA authority to collect certain fees related to drugs, medical devices, and biosimilar biological products and modifies such fees, including the base fee amounts;</li> <li>establishes that certain requirements related to obtaining market approval for a new drug or a biosimilar may be satisfied using alternatives to animal testing, such as in vitro tests;</li> <li>authorizes the FDA to require that certain drugs be dispensed with a safe disposal system even if the system does not render a drug nonretrievable (current law requires such a system to render the drug nonretrievable); </li> <li>establishes time lines for the FDA to respond to requests to determine whether a drug is a therapeutic equivalent to an approved drug;</li> <li>modifies the accelerated process for approving products for a serious or life-threatening disease or condition and establishes an intra-agency coordinating council to ensure consistent and appropriate use of the process;</li> <li>requires additional regulation of cosmetics, including by requiring manufacturers to register manufacturing facilities and each cosmetic product with the FDA;</li> <li>requires dietary supplement manufacturers to provide to the FDA certain information, including a list of all ingredients, about each dietary supplement that it markets; </li> <li>requires an in vitro clinical test to receive FDA premarket approval or a technology certification (or be otherwise exempted) before being introduced into interstate commerce; and</li> <li>requires the FDA to temporarily relax certain premarket requirements for a manufacturer that intends to market a new infant formula. </li> </ul>",
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        "number": "4424",
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        "title": "Recreation and Public Purposes Tribal Parity Act",
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      "text": " <p><strong>Recreation and Public Purposes Tribal Parity Act</strong></p> <p>This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to sell or lease public lands to federally recognized Indian tribes for recreational or public purposes, subject to annual acreage limitations.</p>",
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      "actionDate": "2022-04-05",
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        "title": "Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act of 2022",
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      "text": " <p><strong>Restoring Benefits to Defrauded Veterans Act</strong> <strong>of 2022</strong><strong></strong></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to pay certain reissued benefits (i.e., benefits that were misused by a fiduciary) to a beneficiary's estate in situations where a beneficiary predeceases a payment.</p> <p>The VA must pay such benefits to an individual or entity in the following order: the estate of the beneficiary, a successor fiduciary serving the beneficiary when the beneficiary died, or the next inheritor determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.</p>",
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        "title": "Stop Flood Insurance Rate Hikes Act",
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      "text": " <p><strong>Stop Flood Insurance Rate Hikes Act</strong></p> <p>This bill allows National Flood Insurance Program policyholders to elect to pay premiums at the rate in effect prior to the implementation of Risk Rating 2.0 and to receive refunds for previously paid premiums. Risk Rating 2.0 bases premium rates on an individual property's specific flood risk instead of the flood risk of a general location and property type. </p> <p>Policyholders may elect to pay the previous rate until the Federal Emergency Management Agency performs several actions regarding Risk Rating 2.0, including </p> <ul> <li>publishing all data and methods used to calculate premium rates under Risk Rating 2.0, </li> <li>creating an online database where policyholders can see premium rates for their property using specified calculations, and</li> <li>publishing an assessment of the economic, social, and environmental impacts of Risk Rating 2.0.</li> </ul>",
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        "number": "8775",
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        "originChamberCode": "H",
        "title": "BASIC Act",
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      "text": " <p><b>Budgetary Accuracy in Scoring Interest Costs Act of 2022 or the BASIC Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires cost estimates prepared by the Congressional Budget Office or the Joint Committee on Taxation to include the costs of servicing the public debt. </p>",
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        "number": "1332",
        "originChamber": "House",
        "originChamberCode": "H",
        "title": "Expressing support for the designation of September 2022 as National Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month.",
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      "lastSummaryUpdateDate": "2022-09-09T09:51:35Z",
      "text": " <p>This resolution supports the designation of National Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month.</p>",
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      "actionDate": "2022-08-30",
      "actionDesc": "Introduced in House",
      "bill": {
        "congress": 117,
        "number": "8762",
        "originChamber": "House",
        "originChamberCode": "H",
        "title": "To restrict the possession, use, and acquisition of firearms and ammunition by the Internal Revenue Service.",
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      "lastSummaryUpdateDate": "2022-09-09T15:34:25Z",
      "text": " <p>This bill prohibits any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) hired after the bill's enactment, from possessing a firearm while performing official duties and receiving training in the use of a firearm in connection with such duties.</p> <p>The bill further prohibits the IRS from acquiring any firearm or ammunition after the bill's enactment.</p>",
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      "actionDate": "2022-06-23",
      "actionDesc": "Introduced in Senate",
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        "congress": 117,
        "number": "4487",
        "originChamber": "Senate",
        "originChamberCode": "S",
        "title": "Election Mail Act",
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      "lastSummaryUpdateDate": "2022-09-09T17:49:04Z",
      "text": " <p><strong>Election Mail Act</strong></p> <p>This bill addresses the delivery and processing of election mail. Among other provisions, the bill requires same-day processing of mail-in ballots by the U.S. Postal Service, establishes certain standards for mail-in ballots, and requires states to count mail-in ballots that are postmarked by election day and arrive within seven days after the election.</p>",
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      "actionDate": "2022-06-23",
      "actionDesc": "Introduced in House",
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        "number": "8220",
        "originChamber": "House",
        "originChamberCode": "H",
        "title": "One School, One Nurse Act of 2022",
        "type": "HR",
        "updateDateIncludingText": "2022-09-09T23:46:26Z",
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      "currentChamberCode": "H",
      "lastSummaryUpdateDate": "2022-09-09T20:18:24Z",
      "text": " <p><strong>One School, One Nurse Act of 2022</strong></p> <p>This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to award competitive grants to eligible entities for recruiting, hiring, and retaining school nurses. An eligible entity is a local educational agency (LEA) or a partnership between a state educational agency and a consortium of LEAs in the state.</p> <p>Further, ED must specify in regulation the recommended nurse-to-student ratios for elementary and secondary schools.</p>",
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      "actionDate": "2022-06-22",
      "actionDesc": "Introduced in Senate",
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        "congress": 117,
        "number": "4448",
        "originChamber": "Senate",
        "originChamberCode": "S",
        "title": "Suicide Prevention Act",
        "type": "S",
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      "currentChamberCode": "S",
      "lastSummaryUpdateDate": "2022-09-09T14:03:44Z",
      "text": " <p><b>Suicide Prevention Act</b></p> <p>This bill establishes two grant programs to prevent self-harm and suicide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must award grants to state, local, and&nbsp;tribal health departments to expand surveillance of self-harm, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration must award grants to hospital emergency departments for programs to prevent suicide attempts among patients after discharge.</p>",
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      "actionDate": "2022-06-22",
      "actionDesc": "Introduced in House",
      "bill": {
        "congress": 117,
        "number": "8171",
        "originChamber": "House",
        "originChamberCode": "H",
        "title": "Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022",
        "type": "HR",
        "updateDateIncludingText": "2022-09-09T23:46:26Z",
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      "text": " <p><strong>Protect Minors from Medical Malpractice Act of 2022</strong></p> <p>This bill makes a medical practitioner who performs a gender-transition procedure on an individual who is less than 18 years of age liable for any physical, psychological, emotional, or physiological harms from the procedure for 30 years after the individual turns 18.</p> <p>Additionally, if a state requires medical practitioners to perform gender-transition procedures, that state shall be ineligible for federal funding from the Department of Health and Human Services.</p> <p>Gender-transition procedures generally include certain surgeries or hormone therapies that change the body of an individual to correspond to a sex that is discordant with the individual's biological sex. They exclude, however, interventions to treat (1) individuals who either have ambiguous external biological sex characteristics or lack a normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action; (2) infections, injuries, diseases, or disorders caused by a gender-transition procedure; or (3) a physical disorder, injury, or illness that places an individual in imminent danger of death or impairment of a major bodily function.</p>  ",
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      "actionDate": "2022-06-22",
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        "number": "8185",
        "originChamber": "House",
        "originChamberCode": "H",
        "title": "Screening for Communities to Receive Early and Equitable Needed Services for Cancer Act",
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        "updateDateIncludingText": "2022-09-09T23:46:26Z",
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      "lastSummaryUpdateDate": "2022-09-09T16:29:55Z",
      "text": " <p><strong>Screening for Communities to Receive Early and Equitable Needed Services for Cancer Act or the SCREENS for Cancer Act of 2022</strong></p> <p>This bill reauthorizes through FY2027 and makes changes to the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. This program provides funding to states for breast and cervical cancer screening, diagnostic, and treatment services for individuals who have low incomes, are uninsured, or otherwise lack access to such services.</p>",
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      "actionDate": "2022-06-22",
      "actionDesc": "Introduced in Senate",
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        "congress": 117,
        "number": "4450",
        "originChamber": "Senate",
        "originChamberCode": "S",
        "title": "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP Act",
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      "lastSummaryUpdateDate": "2022-09-09T19:51:45Z",
      "text": " <p><strong>Securing Privileged Economic, Commercial, Investment, And Legal Rights to Ensure Longstanding Atlantic Trade and Investment Opportunities and Nurture Security, Happiness, Innovation, and Prosperity Act or the SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP Act</strong></p> <p>This bill grants certain authorities to the President for entering into a comprehensive trade agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom (UK).</p> <p>Specifically, the bill directs the President to initiate negotiations with the UK regarding tariff and nontariff barriers affecting any industry, product, or service sector.</p> <p>The bill authorizes the President to enter into a comprehensive trade agreement with the UK, with such authority expiring on July 1, 2027. Further, the President may proclaim a modification or continuance of any existing duty or continuance of existing excise or duty-free treatment to carry out an agreement, with certain limitations.</p> <p>The bill also requires the President to consult with and notify Congress regarding the intention of the President to enter into an agreement or make a proclamation.</p>",
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      "actionDate": "2022-06-21",
      "actionDesc": "Introduced in House",
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        "number": "8162",
        "originChamber": "House",
        "originChamberCode": "H",
        "title": "Forest Service Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2022",
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        "updateDateIncludingText": "2022-09-09T23:46:26Z",
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      "lastSummaryUpdateDate": "2022-09-09T13:55:08Z",
      "text": " <p><strong>Forest Service Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2022</strong></p> <p>This bill directs the Forest Service to (1) fill all vacancies in the Forest Service Law Enforcement and Investigations organization; and (2) upon filling such vacancies, increase the number of positions available in such organization. </p> <p>The Forest Service must prioritize filling vacancies and increasing the number of positions that (1) are at high or very high risk of wildfires, and (2) are areas of substantial public use.</p>",
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      "actionDate": "2022-06-16",
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        "number": "4423",
        "originChamber": "Senate",
        "originChamberCode": "S",
        "title": "Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act",
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      "lastSummaryUpdateDate": "2022-09-09T13:56:44Z",
      "text": " <p><strong>Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act</strong></p> <p>This bill provides for the preservation of tribal cultural sites on public land, including by establishing the Tribal Cultural Areas System, setting forth requirements related to land management, and authorizing certain actions by tribes.</p>",
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      "actionDate": "2022-04-27",
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        "congress": 117,
        "number": "4097",
        "originChamber": "Senate",
        "originChamberCode": "S",
        "title": "Too Narrow to Succeed Act",
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      "text": " <p><strong>Too Narrow to Succeed Act </strong></p> <p>This bill requires federal institutional investors to report on their use of diverse-owned asset management firms. Additionally, the Department of Labor must conduct a survey of public- and private-sector pension plans regarding best practices for increasing the utilization and capacity of diverse-owned asset management firms.</p>",
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      "actionDate": "2022-04-04",
      "actionDesc": "Reported to Senate",
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        "number": "3492",
        "originChamber": "Senate",
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        "title": "A bill to address the importance of foreign affairs training in national security, and for other purposes.",
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      "currentChamberCode": "S",
      "lastSummaryUpdateDate": "2022-09-09T14:03:07Z",
      "text": " <p>This bill makes changes to the Foreign Service Institute and addresses other issues related to training Foreign Service and Department of State Civil Service personnel.</p> <p>The bill establishes within the institute (1) the Board of Visitors, which shall provide the State Department with advice and recommendations pertaining to the institute; and (2) the position of provost, which shall have duties such as overseeing and coordinating the institute's academic curriculum.</p> <p>The State Department may establish and implement an incentive program to encourage Foreign Service members with critical foreign language skills to maintain such skills. </p> <p>The bill also requires the State Department to expand its professional development and training, including by increasing offerings at partner organizations and offering courses using computer-based or computer-assisted simulations. </p> <p>The Foreign Service must (1) establish new fellowship programs for Foreign Service and Civil Service officers that include opportunities in certain organizations, such as think tanks and industry entities; and (2) report to Congress on how to expand certain existing fellowship programs to allow fellows in those programs to undertake follow-on State Department opportunities that will benefit from practical knowledge of the people and processes of Congress.</p> <p>The State Department must report to Congress on (1) offering certain training and professional development opportunities to congressional staff at State Department facilities, (2) a strategy for adapting and evolving training requirements to better meet current and future needs for 21st century diplomacy, and (3) a strategy for broadening and deepening training at the State Department. </p>",
      "updateDate": "2022-09-09T23:46:26Z",
      "versionCode": "25"
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