[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 73 (Wednesday, April 28, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2294-S2296]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION

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      By Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Markey, Mr. Blumenthal, and Ms. 
        Hirono):

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  S. 1423. A bill to amend the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act 
of 1998 to give Americans the option to delete personal information 
collected by internet operators as a result of the person's internet 
activity prior to age 13; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation.
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of 
the bill be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be 
printed in the Record, as follows:

                                S. 1423

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Clean Slate for Kids Online 
     Act of 2021''.

     SEC. 2. ENHANCING THE CHILDREN'S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION 
                   ACT OF 1998.

       (a) Definitions.--Section 1302 of the Children's Online 
     Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 6501) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(13) Delete.--The term `delete' means to remove personal 
     information such that the information is not maintained in 
     retrievable form and cannot be retrieved in the normal course 
     of business.''.
       (b) Regulation of Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices 
     in Connection With the Collection and Use of Personal 
     Information From and About Children on the Internet.--Section 
     1303 of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 
     (15 U.S.C. 6502) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following:
       ``(3) Failure to delete.--It is unlawful for an operator of 
     a website or online service directed to children, or any 
     operator that has actual knowledge that it is collecting 
     personal information from a child, to fail to delete personal 
     information collected from or about a child if a request for 
     deletion is made pursuant to regulations prescribed under 
     subsection (e).''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(e) Right of an Individual To Delete Personal Information 
     Collected When the Person Was a Child.--
       ``(1) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     enactment of this subsection, the Commission shall promulgate 
     under section 553 of title 5, United States Code, regulations 
     that require the operator of any website or online service 
     directed to children, or any operator that has actual 
     knowledge that it has collected personal information from a 
     child or maintains such personal information--
       ``(A) to provide notice in a prominent place on the website 
     of how an individual over the age of 13, or a legal guardian 
     of an individual over the age of 13 acting with the knowledge 
     and consent of the individual, can request that the operator 
     delete all personal information in the possession of the 
     operator that was collected from or about the individual when 
     the individual was a child notwithstanding any parental 
     consent that may have been provided when the individual was a 
     child;
       ``(B) to promptly delete all personal information in the 
     possession of the operator that was collected from or about 
     an individual when the individual was a child when such 
     deletion is requested by an individual over the age of 13 or 
     by the legal guardian of such individual acting with the 
     knowledge and consent of the individual, notwithstanding any 
     parental consent that may have been provided when the 
     individual was a child;
       ``(C) to provide written confirmation of deletion, after 
     the deletion has occurred, to an individual or legal guardian 
     of such individual who has requested such deletion pursuant 
     to this subsection; and
       ``(D) to except from deletion personal information 
     collected from or about a child--
       ``(i) only to the extent that the personal information is 
     necessary--

       ``(I) to respond to judicial process; or
       ``(II) to the extent permitted under any other provision of 
     law, to provide information to law enforcement agencies or 
     for an investigation on a matter related to public safety; 
     and

       ``(ii) if the operator retain such excepted personal 
     information for only as long as reasonably necessary to 
     fulfill the purpose for which the information has been 
     excepted and that the excepted information not be used, 
     disseminated or maintained in a form retrievable to anyone 
     except for the purposes specified in this subparagraph.''.
       (c) Safe Harbors.--Section 1304 of the Children's Online 
     Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 6503) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``section 1303(b)'' and 
     inserting ``subsections (b) and (e) of section 1303''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``subsection (b)'' 
     and inserting ``subsections (b) and (e)''.
       (d) Actions by States.--Section 1305(a)(1) of the 
     Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (15 U.S.C. 
     6504(a)(1)) is amended by striking ``1303(b)'' and inserting 
     ``subsection (b) or (e) of section 1303''.
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      By Mr. THUNE (for himself and Mr. Carper):
  S. 1424. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit 
high deductible health plans to provide chronic disease prevention 
services to plan enrollees prior to satisfying their plan deductible; 
to the Committee on Finance.
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of 
the bill be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be 
printed in the Record, as follows:

                                S. 1424

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Chronic Disease Management 
     Act of 2021''.

     SEC. 2. CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION.

       (a) In General.--Section 223(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue 
     Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(F) Preventive care services and items for chronic 
     conditions.--For purposes of subparagraph (C)--
       ``(i) preventive care shall include any service or item 
     used to treat an individual with a chronic condition if--

       ``(I) such service or item is low-cost,
       ``(II) in regards to such service or item, there is medical 
     evidence supporting high cost efficiency of preventing 
     exacerbation of the chronic condition or the development of a 
     secondary condition, and
       ``(III) there is a strong likelihood, documented by 
     clinical evidence, that with respect to the class of 
     individuals utilizing such service or item, the specific 
     service or use of the item will prevent the exacerbation of 
     the chronic condition or the development of a secondary 
     condition that requires significantly higher cost treatments, 
     and

       ``(ii) an individual who has been prescribed preventive 
     care for any chronic condition may be presumed to have been 
     diagnosed with such condition if such preventive care is 
     customarily prescribed for such condition.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall apply to coverage for months beginning after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act.
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      By Ms. COLLINS:
  S. 1429. A bill to provide compensation for United States victims of 
Libyan state-sponsored terrorism, and for other purposes; to the 
Committee on the Judiciary.
  Mrs. COLLINS. Mr. President, I rise today to reintroduce the Justice 
for the Living victims of Lockerbie Act. This bill would create a 
process to seek justice for a group Pan American World Airways pilots 
who lost their careers and pensions following the bombing of Pan Am 
Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the subsequent bankruptcy and 
closure of Pan Am.
  On December 21, 1988, the State of Libya committed an infamous act of 
terror by bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 
270 innocent civilians. Despite Pan Am's greatly improved financial 
position in 1988, the media coverage of the terrorist attack wreaked 
havoc on Pan Am sales leading to its bankruptcy in 1991.
  In 2008, the U.S. entered into the U.S.-Libya Humanitarian Settlement 
Agreement, in which Libya paid $ 1.5 billion to settle claims by U.S. 
citizens for Libyan-sponsored terrorism. After payments by the State 
Department to families of death victims from Lockerbie and the La Belle 
Disco bombing in Germany, compensation to other victims was to be 
determined by the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission. The Commission 
could only consider further claims referred to it by the State 
Department.
  One of these claimants was a group of senior Pan Am pilots, most of 
whom were veterans, who were over the age of 50 and lost and 
livelihoods when Pan Am went bankrupt and closed. Due to the federally 
required retirement age of 60 at that time, and the airline industry's 
seniority system, they were unable to get new pilot jobs with other 
airlines. Two of these pilots reside in Maine--Ron Fitch of Poland 
Spring and Schafer Bean of Diamond Cove--and I have heard their stories 
and their pleas for justice on behalf of their own families and the 
others who suffered as a result of Libya's acts of terrorism.
  Mr. Fitch served nearly ten years in the Air Force and flew rescue 
helicopters during the Vietnam War. Mr. Bean served in the Navy where 
he was stationed at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station during the 
1960's. Both of these veterans told me that lost their jobs, pensions, 
health care, and savings as a result of the Pan Am bombing.
  This group's initial lawsuit against Libya, which had been joined 
with the families of those who died at

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Lockerbie, was dismissed by the courts due to sovereign immunity. 
Following the 2008 settlement agreement with Libya, the group of pilots 
approached the State Department in 2009 seeking the necessary referral 
to have their claims heard by the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission. 
For more than four years the State Department failed to refer the 
group's claims to the Commission, but following bipartisan letters to 
then-Secretaries Clinton and Kerry signed by myself and more than 60 
other members of Congress, the State Department finally referred the 
claims in 2013.
  After an initial denial of claims in a preliminary ruling by the 
Commission in July 2016, the group of pilots was granted a hearing in 
December 2016. So many of the pilots and their families attended the 
hearing that it was moved to a U.S. District Court courtroom in 
Washington, D.C. Three senior Pan Am executives testified at the 
hearing, including the former Pan Am CEO, Thomas Plaskett; former Pan 
Am Senior Vice President for Finance, Ramesh Punwani; and former Pan Am 
Vice President of Strategic Planning, Peter Pappas. Each explained why 
the Lockerbie bombing and the subsequent media coverage directly caused 
the airline's collapse.
  In January 2018, more than a year following that hearing, the 
Commission ruled against the pilots. Using an undefined standard of 
proof and applying international law, the Commission argued that Pan 
Am's demise was not caused by the Lockerbie bombing, contrary to the 
testimony of the former Pan Am executives themselves. The pilots' 
referred claim was the very last of the Libya claims adjudicated by the 
Commission, and the Libya settlement fund is now exhausted from the 
claims it approved prior to the final adjudication of the pilots' 
claims.
  Mr. President, these terrorism victims were denied an opportunity to 
even make their case for four years by the Department of State, and 
when finally referred to the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, they 
were forced to wait another three years for a preliminary ruling and 
another two years for a final decision, by which point the Commission 
had already awarded claims that essentially exhausted the settlement 
funds provided by Libya. That simply is not fair, and I believe these 
Mainers and other Americans deserve a quick and fair process to 
compensate them for their losses.
  I urge my colleagues to join me in working toward justice for all of 
the victims of the Lockerbie bombing perpetrated by Libya.
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      By Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. Padilla):
  S. 1432. A bill to require the Secretary of Energy to establish an 
electric grid resilience grant program and an electric grid resilience 
research and development program; to the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources.
  Mr. PADILLA. Mr. President, I rise to join Senator Cornyn in 
introducing the ``Preventing Outages With Enhanced Resilience and 
Operations Nationwide (POWER ON) Act of 2021''.
  This legislation would authorize the Federal government to offer 
grants to States and Tribal governments to modernize the electrical 
grid and better withstand extreme weather events and natural disasters.
  It would also serve as a catalyst for our Nation's research and 
development and deployment of new technologies that will ensure our 
Nation's grid can meet the challenges of climate change and continue to 
provide reliable electricity to our citizens.
  The ``POWER ON Act'' is a bipartisan step-forward to combating the 
devastating impact of climate change and keep the lights on for 
everyone.
  This legislation would help protect America's electric grid and make 
it more resilient.
  Climate change is real and nowhere is that fact more clear than in my 
State of California. As the State continues to experience historic 
wildfires, droughts, dangerous mudslides, prolonged heatwaves, and 
extreme wind events that prompt sustained power shutoffs, the Federal 
government can and must help. We must work with States to invest in our 
electrical infrastructure and make our grids more reliable.
  This legislation would establish a grant program through the 
Department of Energy for States and Tribal governments to award funds 
to eligible entities to deploy projects that enhance the resilience of 
the electric grid.
  This legislation specifically includes natural disasters, such as 
wildfires, and extreme weather such as heatwaves, drought, and high 
winds as threats to the resiliency of the electrical grid. 
Additionally, it explicitly includes Public Safety Power Shutoffs, 
which have become all too routine in California in recent years, as 
eligible events.
  To protect ratepayers, this legislation ensures that a utility may 
not seek any cost recovery for any grant awarded through this new 
program.
  Lastly, this legislation would establish a grant program through the 
Department of Energy for research, development, demonstration, and 
commercial application of innovations to enhance resilience and 
strengthen emergency response and management of the electric grid.
  California has always been a leader in research and development, and 
this new program would allow universities, national laboratories and 
others to make our grid smarter and more resilient. This legislation 
will not only work to harden our grid but it will allow our world-
renowned institutions to usher in new technologies that will keep our 
grid and our citizens safe.
  I thank my colleague Senator Cornyn and our House partners, 
Representatives Doris Matsui, Jared Huffman, Doug LaMalfa, Eddie 
Bernice Johnson, Kevin Brady, and Michael Burgess for championing this 
bill.
  I look forward to working with my colleagues to pass the ``POWER ON 
Act'' as quickly as possible.
  Thank you, Mr. President, I yield the floor.

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