CRIST, CHARLIE (a Representative from Florida)

Amendments

Dept. of State: ban foreigners who have committed gross violations of internationally recognized human rights against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals from entering U.S. (H.R. 3485), H1084 [9FE]

Appointments

Committee to escort Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis into House Chamber, H5011 [17MY]

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Abortion: prohibit interference, under color of State law, with provision of interstate abortion services (see H.R. 8297), H5976 [12JY]

Animals: allow for adoption or non-laboratory placement of certain animals used in Federal research (see H.R. 5244), H5935 [5JY]

——— mint coins in commemoration of invaluable service that working dogs provide to society (see H.R. 5232), H5098 [17MY]

——— recognize contributions of service animals and their human handlers for bravery in both war and peace and support creation of process to nominate animals for Medal of Bravery and Distinguished Service Medal (see H. Res. 935), H1132 [18FE]

BIA: secure existing Tribal contract support cost reimbursements (see H.R. 7455), H7546 [2AU]

Black History Month: observance (see H. Res. 942), H1147 [25FE]

Brand USA, Inc.: make available certain amounts from Travel Promotion Fund for Corp. for Travel Promotion (see H.R. 4594), H1125 [15FE]

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation: provide comprehensive dementia care management services, eliminate patient cost-sharing, support caregivers, and provide outreach to underrepresented populations (see H.R. 2517), H1148 [25FE]

Collective bargaining: provide collective bargaining rights for firefighters and emergency medical services personnel employed by States or political subdivisions (see H.R. 2586), H1125 [15FE]

Colleges and universities: condemn threats of violence against historically Black colleges and universities and reaffirm support for historically Black colleges and universities and their students (see H. Con. Res. 70), H1331 [7MR]

Colleyville, TX: commend first responders and honor victims of hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue and reaffirm commitment to combat hate, bigotry, anti-Semitism, and violence against Jewish Americans (see H. Res. 881), H1135 [18FE]

Colombia: commemorate anniversary of U.S. diplomatic relations and recognize vital strategic alliance (see H. Res. 998), H3853 [18MR]

Congressional Accountability Act: approve certain regulations implementing labor-management provisions granting congressional employees legal protection to organize and bargain collectively (see H. Res. 915), H1114 [9FE] (see H. Res. 1096), H4797 [10MY]

Contraceptives: establish certain duties for pharmacies to ensure provision of FDA-approved contraception (see H.R. 6005), H290 [20JA]

——— protect ability to access contraceptives and engage in contraception and protect health care provider ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and related information (see H.R. 8373), H6707 [18JY]

Cosmetics: substantially restrict use of animal testing for cosmetics (see H.R. 6207), H195 [13JA]

Courts: authorize notaries public to perform, and establish minimum standards for, certain electronic and remote notarizations and require Federal and State courts to recognize such notarizations performed by notary public (see H.R. 3962), H3776 [16MR]

CPSC: prevent accidental ingestion of button cell or coin batteries through promulgation of consumer product safety standard to require child resistant closures on consumer products that use such batteries (see H.R. 5313), H5931 [1JY]

Crime: extend to private or commercial interstate carriers the same protections enjoyed by letter and mail carriers (see H.R. 6852), H5175 [18MY]

Dept. of Agriculture: improve Child and Adult Care Food Program (see H.R. 5919), H4007 [30MR]

Dept. of Defense: allow military medical treatment facilities to provide abortion services and for military to cover associated costs (see H.R. 7945), H7068 [21JY]

Dept. of Education: ensure availability of Federal work-study funding for students enrolled in residency programs for teachers, principals, or school leaders (see H.R. 3244), H3897 [28MR]

——— remove all adverse credit history relative to student loan from borrower who has rehabilitated loan (see H.R. 6466), H332 [1FE]

Dept. of HHS: authorize grants for youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies to be used for school personnel and students to receive student suicide awareness and prevention training (see H.R. 5750), H1376 [8MR]

——— authorize grants to children’s hospitals for increasing their capacity to provide pediatric behavioral health services (see H.R. 4943), H332 [1FE]

——— authorize grants to health care providers to enhance physical and cyber security of their facilities, personnel, and patients (see H.R. 7814), H5173 [18MY]

——— designate LGBTQ older population as vulnerable, provide parity for certain resources, collect data on State programs, and prioritize grants for organizations that meet LGBTQ long-term care needs (see H.R. 7993), H5444 [9JN]

Dept. of Homeland Security: reinstate processing of applications for parole under Cuban family reunification parole program (see H.R. 6907), H1274 [2MR]

Dept. of Justice: create Active Shooter Alert Communications Network (see H.R. 6538), H5647 [16JN]

——— direct Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program to carry out grant program to provide assistance to police departments with fewer than 200 law enforcement officers (see H.R. 6448), H4862 [11MY]

——— establish grant program to encourage schools to conduct independent facility security risk assessments and make hard security improvements (see H.R. 2717), H10 [10JA]

——— establish grant program to establish, create, and administer violent incident clearance and technology investigative method (see H.R. 5768), H5234 [3JN]

Dept. of Labor: list employers that relocate call centers overseas, make such companies ineligible for Federal grants and loans, and require call center employees to disclose their physical location (see H.R. 4603), H5976 [12JY]

Dept. of the Interior: establish Working Waterfront Task Force and Working Waterfront Grant Program (see H.R. 3160), H7708 [12AU]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: establish pilot program to build tiny homes for homeless veterans (see H.R. 6307), H198 [14JA]

——— increase amount paid to veterans for improvements and structural alterations furnished as part of home health services (see H.R. 5819), H7546 [2AU]

——— reauthorize and improve grant program to assist institutions of higher education in establishing, maintaining, improving, and operating Student Veteran Centers (see H.R. 3586), H1075 [8FE]

Disabled: clarify and strengthen integration mandate for individuals with disabilities who need long-term services and supports (see H.R. 6860), H5215 [24MY]

Drugs: provide assistance to States and localities affected by substance use epidemic and improve delivery of essential services to individuals with substance use disorders and their families (see H.R. 6311), H303 [25JA]

Elections: constitutional amendment on contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections (see H.J. Res. 1), H3972 [29MR]

Families and domestic relations: prohibit discrimination in adoption or foster care placements based on sexual orientation, gender identification, or marital status of any prospective parent or child involved (see H.R. 3488), H303 [25JA]

——— repeal Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for State regulation of marriage (see H.R. 8404), H6705 [18JY]

FDA: allow drug manufacturers and sponsors to use alternative testing methods to animal testing to investigate drug safety and effectiveness (see H.R. 2565), H7732 [30AU]

Federal employees: allow Federal personnel stationed abroad to return to U.S. with dogs (see H.R. 7787), H5215 [24MY]

FHA: establish mortgage insurance and home loan assistance program for first responders (see H.R. 3172), H918 [2FE]

Firearms: increase age limit on purchase of certain firearms, prevent gun trafficking, modernize prohibition on untraceable firearms, and encourage safe storage of firearms (see H.R. 7910), H5234 [3JN]

——— modernize business of selling firearms and address gun trafficking through regulation of Federal firearms licensees (see H.R. 6225), H918 [2FE]

——— provide victims of gun violence access to same civil remedies available to those injured through other means and ensure gun industry is not shielded from liability when negligent (see H.R. 2814), H1376 [8MR]

Fish and fishing: address seafood slavery and combat illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing and human rights abuses in seafood supply chain (see H.R. 3075), H79 [12JA]

Food: modify minimum required weight of orange juice soluble solids (see H.R. 8054), H5546 [14JN]

FTC: prohibit unfair and deceptive practice of commercial sexual orientation or gender identity conversion therapy (see H.R. 4146), H7727 [26AU]

LGBTQIA+ Pride Month: observance (see H. Res. 1198), H5823 [22JN]

Medicare: establish floor in Medicare Advantage benchmark rates for regions with low Medicare fee-for-service penetration and make Medicare Savings Program available in all jurisdictions (see H.R. 7997), H5445 [9JN]

——— improve Medicare Advantage prior authorization process through common-sense transparency, electronic adoption, and analysis of items and services subject to prior authorization (see H.R. 3173), H918 [2FE]

Members of Congress: require Members, spouses, and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts (see H.R. 336), H303 [25JA]

Motor vehicles: promote increased awareness of issue of motorcyclist profiling and encourage collaboration and communication with motorcycle community and law enforcement officials to prevent instances of profiling (see H. Res. 366), H1116 [9FE]

National Hurricane Preparedness Week: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 1092), H4722 [6MY]

Native Americans: protect voting rights by increasing access and boosting registration, education, and election participation in Tribal communities and eliminating discriminatory barriers (see H.R. 5008), H4799 [10MY]

PCOS Awareness Month: support goals and ideals (see H. Res. 878), H252 [19JA]

Public lands: designate certain lands in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers, wildland recovery areas, and biological connecting corridors (see H.R. 1755), H5221 [27MY]

Puerto Rico: modify conditions for termination of financial oversight board (see H.R. 7409), H4445 [14AP]

Sicknick, Brian D.: award Congressional Gold Medal posthumously (see H.R. 622), H10 [10JA]

Social Security: eliminate waiting periods for disability insurance benefits and Medicare coverage for individuals with metastatic breast cancer (see H.R. 3183), H5448 [9JN]

SSA: eliminate waiting period for disability benefits under Medicare and Social Security Disability Insurance program (see H.R. 6583), H946 [3FE]

Supreme Court: promulgate code of ethics for Justices (see H.R. 4766), H4799 [10MY]

Surfside, FL: express condolences for victims of, and commend first responders for efforts in response to, residential building collapse (see H. Res. 1207), H5919 [24JN]

Taxation: make employers of spouses of military personnel eligible for work opportunity credit (see H.R. 2974), H7732 [30AU]

——— provide gasoline tax holiday (see H.R. 6787), H3714 [11MR]

Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the U.S.: establish (see H.R. 5444), H5234 [3JN]

U.S. Marine Corporal Ronald R. Payne Jr. Post Office, Lakeland, FL: designate (see H.R. 7638), H4724 [6MY]

Veterans: expand eligibility for concurrent receipt of military retired pay or combat-related compensation with service-connected disability benefits and eliminate phase-in period for such benefits (see H.R. 1282), H5647 [16JN]

Women: clarify that constitutional amendment to ensure equal rights has met requirements of Constitution and is valid to all intents and purposes as part of Constitution (see H. Res. 891), H308 [28JA]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Dept. of Education: establish notification and reporting requirements relative to unlawful acts and significant emergencies faced by students in public elementary and secondary schools (see H.R. 7491), H4438 [11AP]

Dept. of HHS: authorize scholarship and loan repayment program to incentivize physicians to enter into field of sickle cell disease research and treatment (see H.R. 7177), H3858 [21MR]

Dept. of Homeland Security: require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to remove personally identifiable information from vessel manifests (see H.R. 6881), H1207 [1MR]

Dept. of HUD: authorize certain loans to be made to low-income families residing in condominium units to cover costs of special assessments imposed for repair or replacement of common areas, systems, and features (see H.R. 7532), H4448 [18AP]

——— insure loans made to condominium associations to finance repair or replacement of common areas, systems, and features (see H.R. 8304), H5939 [7JY]

Dept. of State: establish Venezuela Restoration Fund to use funds seized for corruption to strengthen democracy, defend human rights, support independent media, combat corruption, and improve transparency and accountability (see H.R. 6539), H329 [1FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: carry out program for recruitment, retention, and training of providers of specialty care for women veterans (see H.R. 7508), H4442 [14AP]

Natural Disaster Risk Reinsurance Program: establish (see H.R. 7643), H4713 [3MY]

Social Security: enter into agreements with States to share data relative to individuals subject to guardianship (see H.R. 6358), H8 [10JA]

Taxation: assist homeowners in making safety, security, and accessibility improvements to their homes (see H.R. 7676), H4721 [6MY]

Constitutional authority statements

Dept. of Education: establish notification and reporting requirements relative to unlawful acts and significant emergencies faced by students in public elementary and secondary schools (H.R. 7491), H4438 [11AP]

Dept. of HHS: authorize scholarship and loan repayment program to incentivize physicians to enter into field of sickle cell disease research and treatment (H.R. 7177), H3858 [21MR]

Dept. of Homeland Security: require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to remove personally identifiable information from vessel manifests (H.R. 6881), H1207 [1MR]

Dept. of HUD: authorize certain loans to be made to low-income families residing in condominium units to cover costs of special assessments imposed for repair or replacement of common areas, systems, and features (H.R. 7532), H4448 [18AP]

——— insure loans made to condominium associations to finance repair or replacement of common areas, systems, and features (H.R. 8304), H5941 [7JY]

Dept. of State: establish Venezuela Restoration Fund to use funds seized for corruption to strengthen democracy, defend human rights, support independent media, combat corruption, and improve transparency and accountability (H.R. 6539), H331 [1FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: carry out program for recruitment, retention, and training of providers of specialty care for women veterans (H.R. 7508), H4444 [14AP]

Natural Disaster Risk Reinsurance Program: establish (H.R. 7643), H4714 [3MY]

Social Security: enter into agreements with States to share data relative to individuals subject to guardianship (H.R. 6358), H9 [10JA]

Taxation: assist homeowners in making safety, security, and accessibility improvements to their homes (H.R. 7676), H4723 [6MY]

Remarks

Fayson, Rashonda: 13th Congressional District of Florida Congressional App Challenge winner, E86• [1FE]

Kwok, Trudy: 13th Congressional District of Florida Congressional App Challenge winner, E86• [1FE]

Moreno, Gabriel: 13th Congressional District of Florida Congressional App Challenge winner, E86• [1FE]

Nguyen, Jenna: 13th Congressional District of Florida Congressional App Challenge winner, E86• [1FE]

Pinellas County, FL: anniversary of Juvenile Welfare Board, E405• [26AP]

Tampa, FL: tribute to Lambda Theta Phi Fraternity, Inc., national convention, E740• [15JY]