[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 90 (Thursday, May 23, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3883-S3884]
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. SCHATZ (for himself and Ms. Hirono):
       S. 4395. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security 
     Act to establish a floor on the work geographic index for 
     physicians' services furnished in Hawaii; to the Committee on 
     Finance.
           By Mrs. MURRAY (for herself and Mr. Tillis):
       S. 4396. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     authorize an individual who is awarded the Purple Heart for 
     service in the Armed Forces to transfer unused Post-9/11 
     Educational Assistance to a family member, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
           By Ms. SMITH:
       S. 4397. A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary 
     Education Act of 1965 to provide criteria for use of Federal 
     funds to support trauma-informed practices in schools, and 
     for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, Education, 
     Labor, and Pensions.
           By Ms. HASSAN (for herself and Mr. Budd):
       S. 4398. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     to provide for a microemployer pension plan startup credit; 
     to the Committee on Finance.
           By Ms. HASSAN (for herself and Ms. Collins):
       S. 4399. A bill to amend the Child Abuse Prevention and 
     Treatment Act to provide for better protections for children 
     raised in kinship families outside of the foster care system; 
     to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mrs. BRITT:
       S. 4400. A bill to require the Securities and Exchange 
     Commission to carry out a study and rulemaking on the 
     definition of the term ``small entity'' for purposes of the 
     securities laws, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
           By Mr. MARSHALL (for himself, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Budd, Mr. 
             Braun, and Mr. Scott of Florida):
       S. 4401. A bill to require the Administrator of the Small 
     Business Administration to ensure that the small business 
     regulatory budget for a fiscal year is not greater than zero, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Small Business 
     and Entrepreneurship.
           By Mr. BRAUN:
       S. 4402. A bill to establish the Benjamin Harrison National 
     Recreation Area and Wilderness in the State of Indiana, and 
     for other purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture, 
     Nutrition, and Forestry.
           By Mr. LEE:
       S. 4403. A bill to amend the Radiation Exposure 
     Compensation Act to revise the definition of ``affected 
     area'' and extend the period in which compensation may be 
     provided, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
           By Mr. CRAMER (for himself and Mr. Hoeven):
       S. 4404. A bill to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 840 Front Street in 
     Casselton, North Dakota, as the ``Commander Delbert Austin 
     Olson Post Office''; to the Committee on Homeland Security 
     and Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. CRUZ (for himself, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Lee, Mr. 
             Ricketts, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Hoeven, Mrs. Britt, 
             Mr. Braun, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Vance, Mr. Cotton, and 
             Mr. Barrasso):
       S. 4405. A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to repeal the 
     natural gas tax; to the Committee on Environment and Public 
     Works.
           By Mr. SANDERS (for himself, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Booker, 
             Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Welch, Ms. Warren, and Mr. 
             Markey):
       S. 4406. A bill to eliminate certain subsidies for fossil-
     fuel production; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. MERKLEY (for himself, Mr. Bennet, Mr. 
             Blumenthal, Mr. Booker, Mr. Brown, Ms. Butler, Mr. 
             Casey, Mr. Coons, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Fetterman, Mr. 
             Heinrich, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Kaine, Mr. King, Ms. 
             Klobuchar, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Reed, Mrs. 
             Shaheen, Ms. Smith, Mr. Van Hollen, and Mr. Wyden):
       S. 4407. A bill to effectively staff the high-need public 
     elementary schools and secondary schools of the United States 
     with school-based mental health services providers; to the 
     Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. CRUZ (for himself, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. 
             Hoeven, and Mr. Cornyn):
       S. 4408. A bill to ensure the timely approval of requests 
     to export defense articles and provide defense services to 
     the State of Israel and the fulfillment of each such 
     agreement; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
           By Ms. HASSAN (for herself, Mr. Cornyn, Ms. Butler, and 
             Mr. King):
       S. 4409. A bill to prohibit the disclosure of intimate 
     digital depictions, and for other purposes; to the Committee 
     on the Judiciary.
           By Mr. SULLIVAN:
       S. 4410. A bill to prohibit United States cooperation with 
     the International Criminal Court, the use of the Economic 
     Support Fund to support the Palestinian Authority, and any 
     Federal funding for the ICC; to the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations.
           By Mr. DURBIN:
       S. 4411. A bill to require Transmission Organizations to 
     allow aggregators of retail customers to submit to organized 
     wholesale electric markets bids that aggregate demand 
     flexibility of customers of certain utilities, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Ms. BALDWIN:
       S. 4412. A bill to require pre-merger notification to 
     identify entities subject to a collective bargaining 
     agreement and affected labor organizations, to require post-
     merger monitoring for anticompetitive effects and antitrust 
     violations, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the 
     Judiciary.
           By Mr. YOUNG (for himself and Mr. Padilla):
       S. 4413. A bill to provide for the establishment of a 
     National Synthetic Biology Center, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
           By Mrs. SHAHEEN:
       S. 4414. A bill to improve the State Trade Expansion 
     Program of the Small Business Administration; from the 
     Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship; placed on 
     the calendar.
           By Ms. DUCKWORTH:
       S. 4415. A bill to require the Secretary of Defense to 
     establish a medical readiness program in the Indo-Pacific 
     region, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Armed 
     Services.
           By Mr. BLUMENTHAL:
       S. 4416. A bill to designate the Special Guerilla Unit 
     National Memorial at Veterans Memorial Park in Middletown, 
     Connecticut; to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources.
           By Mr. KENNEDY:
       S. 4417. A bill to amend the Small Business Act to require 
     training on increasing contract awards to small business 
     concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, 
     and for other purposes; to the Committee on Small Business 
     and Entrepreneurship.
           By Mr. RUBIO (for himself and Ms. Baldwin):

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       S. 4418. A bill to require the United States Executive 
     Director at the International Monetary Fund to advocate for 
     increased transparency with respect to exchange rate policies 
     of the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes; to 
     the Committee on Foreign Relations.
           By Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. Ossoff, Ms. Sinema, and 
             Mr. Lankford):
       S. 4419. A bill to require the Science and Technology 
     Directorate in the Department of Homeland Security to develop 
     greater capacity to detect, identify, and disrupt illicit 
     substances in very low concentrations; to the Committee on 
     Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. PADILLA (for himself and Mr. Young):
       S. 4420. A bill to improve connections between the 
     Department of Agriculture and national and homeland security 
     agencies, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
           By Mr. PADILLA (for himself and Mr. Young):
       S. 4421. A bill to establish the Office of Biotechnology 
     Policy in the Department of Agriculture, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
     Forestry.
           By Mr. LUJAN (for himself and Mr. Wyden):
       S. 4422. A bill to require original equipment manufacturers 
     of digital electronic equipment to make available certain 
     documentation, diagnostic, and repair information to 
     independent repair providers, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
           By Ms. HIRONO (for herself and Mr. Schatz):
       S. 4423. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     improve the provision of direct housing loans and medical 
     care from the Department of Veterans Affairs for Native 
     Hawaiians; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
           By Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Mr. Padilla):
       S. 4424. A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior and 
     the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use 
     of prescribed fire on land managed by the Department of the 
     interior or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of 
     the National Forest System in the western United States, to 
     acknowledge and support the longstanding use of cultural 
     burning by Tribes and Indigenous practitioners, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself, Mr. Risch, Mr. Cardin, 
             Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Graham, and Mr. Coons):
       S. 4425. A bill to support democracy and the rule of law in 
     Georgia, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign 
     Relations.
           By Mr. BRAUN (for himself, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Cramer, 
             Mr. Manchin, Mr. Schmitt, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Vance, Mr. 
             Booker, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Welch, and Ms. Murkowski):
       S. 4426. A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and 
     Cosmetic Act to establish a time-limited conditional approval 
     pathway, subject to specific obligations, for certain drugs 
     and biological products, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Mr. KENNEDY:
       S. 4427. A bill to provide for Department of Energy and 
     Small Business Administration joint research and development 
     activities, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Mr. YOUNG (for himself and Mr. Padilla):
       S. 4428. A bill to establish an interagency committee to 
     coordinate activities of the Federal Government relating to 
     biotechnology oversight, and for other purposes; to the 
     Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
           By Mr. BOOKER (for himself, Mr. Braun, and Mr. Markey):
       S. 4429. A bill to require the Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services to provide grants to demonstrate pharmacy-
     based addiction care programs; to the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions.
           By Ms. CANTWELL (for herself and Mr. Cassidy):
       S. 4430. A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security 
     Act to establish a Health Engagement Hub demonstration 
     program to increase access to treatment for opiate use 
     disorder and other drug use treatment, and for other 
     purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
           By Mr. DAINES:
       S. 4431. A bill to reinstate the Bull Mountains Mining Plan 
     Modification, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Energy and Natural Resources.
           By Mr. DAINES:
       S. 4432. A bill to allow certain Federal minerals to be 
     mined consistent with the Bull Mountains Mining Plan 
     Modification; to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources.
           By Mr. RICKETTS (for himself and Mrs. Shaheen):
       S. 4433. A bill to enhance United States cooperation with 
     European countries to improve the security of Taiwan, and for 
     other purposes; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
           By Mr. LEE (for himself and Ms. Lummis):
       S. 4434. A bill to improve retrospective reviews of Federal 
     regulations, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
           By Mr. BOOKER (for himself and Ms. Warren):
       S. 4435. A bill to limit and eliminate excessive, hidden, 
     and unnecessary fees imposed on incarcerated individuals and 
     their families, and for other purposes; to the Committee on 
     Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
           By Mr. CRUZ (for himself, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. 
             Cornyn, Mrs. Blackburn, and Mr. Braun):
       S.J. Res. 89. A joint resolution to direct the termination 
     of the use of United States Armed Forces for the 
     construction, maintenance, and operation of the Joint 
     Logistics Over-the-Shore pier on the coast of the Gaza Strip 
     that has not been authorized by Congress; to the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations.
           By Mr. MARSHALL (for himself, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. 
             Rubio, Mr. Braun, Mr. Lee, Mr. Cramer, and Mrs. 
             Britt):
       S.J. Res. 90. A joint resolution providing for 
     congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United 
     States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of 
     Health and Human Services relating to ``Nondiscrimination in 
     Health Programs and Activities''; to the Committee on Health, 
     Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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