[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 206 (Thursday, December 14, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5995-S5997]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              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. VANCE:
       S. 3514. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to increase the excise tax on net investment income of 
     certain private colleges and universities; to the Committee 
     on Finance.
           By Mr. CRAPO (for himself and Mr. Risch):
       S. 3515. A bill to improve communication between the United 
     States Postal Service and local communities relating to the 
     relocation and establishment of Postal Service retail service 
     facilities, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. VANCE:
       S. 3516. A bill to impose a fee on certain remittance 
     transfers to fund border security; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Mr. Merkley):
       S. 3517. A bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 
     to ensure that voters in elections for Federal office do not 
     wait in long lines in order to vote, and for other purposes; 
     to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
           By Mr. BOOKER:
       S. 3518. A bill to authorize the Secretary of Labor, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of Education, to make grants 
     to eligible entities to assist certain individuals in 
     reentering a secondary school or a high school equivalency 
     program, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. MANCHIN (for himself and Mr. Braun):
       S. 3519. A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services to issue guidance on whether hospital emergency 
     departments should implement fentanyl testing as a routine 
     procedure for patients experiencing an overdose, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
     and Pensions.

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           By Mr. LEE (for himself and Mr. Scott of South 
             Carolina):
       S. 3520. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide incentives for education; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Ms. CORTEZ MASTO (for herself and Mr. Mullin):
       S. 3521. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to establish a credit for the domestic production of rare 
     earth magnets, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Tillis, 
             Ms. Hassan, and Mr. Cassidy):
       S. 3522. A bill to require the Attorney General to develop 
     reports relating to violent attacks against law enforcement 
     officers, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
           By Ms. ERNST (for herself, Mr. Tester, and Mr. Braun):
       S. 3523. A bill to end unemployment payments to jobless 
     millionaires; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. MANCHIN (for himself and Mr. Braun):
       S. 3524. A bill to establish an interactive online 
     dashboard to improve public access to information about 
     student loan forgiveness programs, repayment programs, and 
     repayment plans; to the Committee on Health, Education, 
     Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. CASEY (for himself and Mr. Brown):
       S. 3525. A bill to require the Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services to maintain a peer-to-peer support line to 
     provide emotional support, information, brief intervention, 
     and mental health resources to youth who are experiencing 
     stress or who are at risk of, or affected by, mental health 
     disorders, and to establish a grant program for local 
     educational agencies to employ school-based mental health 
     coordinators; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
     and Pensions.
           By Ms. ROSEN (for herself and Ms. Murkowski):
       S. 3526. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     require a lactation space in each medical center of the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs; to the Committee on Veterans' 
     Affairs.
           By Mr. SCOTT of Florida (for himself and Mr. Manchin):
       S. 3527. A bill to prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury 
     from engaging in transactions involving the exchange of 
     Special Drawing Rights issued by the International Monetary 
     Fund that are held by the Islamic Republic of Iran, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
           By Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself and Mr. Braun):
       S. 3528. A bill to amend the Small Business Act to 
     establish the position of Coordinator for Disabled Small 
     Business Concerns within the Office of Diversity, Inclusion 
     and Civil Rights of the Small Business Administration, and 
     for other purposes; to the Committee on Small Business and 
     Entrepreneurship.
           By Mr. BRAUN (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Cramer, 
             Mr. Crapo, Mr. Daines, Mr. Hawley, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, 
             Mr. Lankford, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Risch, 
             Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Lee, Mr. Hoeven, and Mr. 
             Mullin):
       S. 3529. A bill to provide procedures for appealing certain 
     Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives rulings 
     or determinations, and for other purposes; to the Committee 
     on the Judiciary.
           By Ms. MURKOWSKI (for herself, Mr. Moran, Ms. 
             Duckworth, and Ms. Rosen):
       S. 3530. A bill to retain Federal employees who are spouses 
     of a member of the Armed Forces or the Foreign Service when 
     relocating due to an involuntary transfer, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. LEE (for himself, Mr. Braun, Mr. Cotton, Mr. 
             Daines, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Scott of Florida, and Mr. 
             Thune):
       S. 3531. A bill to prohibit actions to carry out the 
     Department of Commerce's pause in the issuance of new export 
     licenses for certain exports under the Commerce Control List; 
     to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. CASEY (for himself, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Booker):
       S. 3532. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     provide for the establishment of a Task Force on Youth Mental 
     Health Data Integration; to the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. KENNEDY:
       S. 3533. A bill to appropriate, with an offset, $36,000,000 
     for the Seafood Import Monitoring Program of the National 
     Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to increase audits of 
     imported shrimp and red snapper; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mrs. GILLIBRAND:
       S. 3534. A bill to authorize the Pines Foundation to 
     establish the Fire Island AIDS Memorial, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself and Ms. Murkowski):
       S. 3535. A bill to support empowerment, economic security, 
     and educational opportunities for adolescent girls around the 
     world, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations.
           By Mr. BRAUN:
       S. 3536. A bill to amend the Individuals with Disabilities 
     Education Act to require notification with respect to 
     individualized education program teams, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
     Pensions.
           By Mr. BRAUN (for himself and Mr. Brown):
       S. 3537. A bill to require the Secretary of Education to 
     disclose information about career and technical education and 
     funding under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical 
     Education Act of 2006, and require FAFSA applications to 
     include a career and technical education acknowledgment; to 
     the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. BROWN (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Casey, Mr. 
             Van Hollen, Mr. Braun, and Mr. Wicker):
       S. 3538. A bill to address applications for deposit 
     insurance submitted by industrial banks to the Federal 
     Deposit Insurance Corporation, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. OSSOFF:
       S. 3539. A bill to amend the Infrastructure Investment and 
     Jobs Act to remove the exclusion of certain small business 
     concerns from the disadvantaged business enterprise program, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Environment and 
     Public Works.
           By Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself and Ms. Duckworth):
       S. 3540. A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
     Streets Act of 1968 to increase grants to combat domestic 
     violence for States that implement domestic violence 
     prevention training in the cosmetologist and barber licensing 
     process, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
           By Mr. MORAN (for himself, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Hagerty, 
             and Mr. Tillis):
       S. 3541. A bill to amend the Federal Financial Institutions 
     Examination Council Act of 1978 to improve the examination of 
     depository institutions, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. CASSIDY (for himself and Mr. Kennedy):
       S. 3542. A bill to amend the Atchafalaya National Heritage 
     Area Act to modify the boundary of the Atchafalaya National 
     Heritage Area, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Mr. LANKFORD (for himself and Mr. Booker):
       S. 3543. A bill to establish the Historic Greenwood 
     District-Black Wall Street National Monument in the State of 
     Oklahoma, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy 
     and Natural Resources.
           By Mr. CARDIN (for himself and Mr. Van Hollen):
       S. 3544. A bill to designate the visitor and education 
     center at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine 
     as the ``Paul S. Sarbanes Visitor and Education Center''; to 
     the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Mr. KAINE (for himself, Mr. Murphy, and Ms. Smith):
       S. 3545. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act with 
     respect to public health data accessibility, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
     Pensions.
           By Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Bennet, and 
             Mr. Tillis):
       S. 3546. A bill to require a study on the quality of care 
     difference between mental health and addiction therapy care 
     provided by health care providers of the Department of 
     Veterans Affairs compared to non-Department providers, and 
     for other purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
           By Ms. ERNST (for herself, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Kaine, Mr. 
             Rubio, and Mr. Van Hollen):
       S. 3547. A bill to require the United States Government to 
     assist in the establishment of national security councils in 
     specified countries; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
           By Mr. BRAUN (for himself, Mr. Sanders, Ms. Smith, and 
             Mr. Hickenlooper):
       S. 3548. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     provide for hospital and insurer price transparency; to the 
     Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. REED (for himself, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Brown, Ms. 
             Smith, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Warnock, Mr. 
             Whitehouse, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Booker, Mr. 
             Lujan, Mr. Fetterman, Mr. Welch, Mr. Padilla, and Ms. 
             Butler):
       S. 3549. A bill to amend the Truth in Lending Act to extend 
     the consumer credit protections provided to members of the 
     Armed Forces and their dependents under title 10, United 
     States Code, to all consumers; to the Committee on Banking, 
     Housing, and Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. BENNET (for himself and Ms. Collins):
       S. 3550. A bill to clarify training requirements for 
     prescribers of controlled substances; to the Committee on 
     Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. WICKER (for himself and Ms. Klobuchar):
       S. 3551. A bill to modify the Intercountry Adoption Act of 
     2000 to provide a limited accreditation option for performing 
     certain adoption services; to the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations.

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           By Mr. KENNEDY:
       S. 3552. A bill to amend the Taxpayer Certainty and 
     Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020 to allow qualified tax-exempt 
     organizations to claim the employee retention credit for 
     employers affected by qualified disasters against Medicare 
     hospital insurance taxes; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. ROUNDS (for himself, Mr. Manchin, Mr. King, Ms. 
             Ernst, Mr. Tuberville, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. 
             Blumenthal, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Budd, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. 
             Ricketts, Ms. Collins, Mr. Graham, Mr. Barrasso, Mrs. 
             Capito, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Lankford, Ms. Lummis, Mr. 
             Schmitt, Mr. Lee, Mr. Romney, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Cotton, 
             Mr. Boozman, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Sullivan, 
             Mr. Daines, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Scott of 
             Florida, Mr. Padilla, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Brown, Ms. 
             Rosen, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Fetterman, Ms. Cortez 
             Masto, Mr. Cornyn, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Sinema, Ms. 
             Smith, Mr. Warner, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Ossoff, Mr. 
             Heinrich, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Warnock, Mr. 
             Kelly, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Schatz, and Mr. Merkley):
       S. 3553. A bill to provide a retroactive effective date for 
     the promotions of senior officers of the Armed Forces whose 
     military promotions were delayed as a result of the 
     suspension of Senate confirmation of such promotions; 
     considered and passed.

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