More bills passed by the pragmatic progressive, Amy Klobuchar...
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Fairness for Homeowners Act: Protects homeowners by prohibiting a creditor or mortgage broker from arranging a consumer credit transaction without verifying the consumer’s reasonable ability to make the scheduled payments.
Agriculture Equipment and Machinery Depreciation Act: Amends the tax code to set five-year depreciation schedule for certain agricultural equipment.
Secure and Responsible Drug Disposal Act: Provides consumers with more safe and responsible ways to dispose of unused prescription medications and controlled substances.
Combatting Foreign Influence Act: Combats foreign election interference campaigns by establishing a new Malign Foreign Influence Response Center.
Veterans to Paramedics Transition Act: Makes it easier for veterans to secure jobs as paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and nurses and helps reduce the shortage of much-needed emergency medical personnel in rural communities across the country.
Accuracy for Adoptees Act: Cuts red tape for adoptive families and ensures that corrections made to adoptees’ birth certificates by state courts would be recognized by the federal government.
Career and Technical Education Research and Outreach Act: Promotes research into best ways to promote career and technical education.
A bill to ensure funding for the National Human Trafficking Hotline: Strengthens the National Human Trafficking Hotline by ensuring it’s backed by the full force of law.
Innovate America Act: Improves students’ access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education by allowing school districts to award funding to create a STEM-focused specialty school or enhance an existing STEM program within a school.
Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Act: Reauthorizes a program that encourages physicians to practice in rural or medically underserved communities.
Stop Trafficking on Planes (STOP) Act: Requires airlines to train flight attendants and pilots to understand the common indicators of human trafficking and the best practices for reporting suspected human trafficking to law enforcement.
Nat'l Guard and Reserve Access to Counsel Act: Gets survivors of sexual assault receive support services if there is any connection between the crime & their service; req's service secretary to provide Special Victims Counsel to the member regardless of when the assault occurred.
Adoption Tax Relief Guarantee Act: Eliminates the sunset provision regarding the adoption tax credit.
Kevin and Avonte’s Law: Helps locate missing people with Alzheimer’s, autism, and related conditions by allowing the use of grants for locative tracking technology, local education and training.
Breast Cancer Education and Awareness Requires Learning Young Act: Creates an education and outreach campaign administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to highlight the breast cancer risks & empower young women with the tools they need to fight this disease.
Family Farmer Relief Act: Helps farmers keep their farms during bankruptcy so they can repay their debts and reorganize their businesses.
Faster Care for Veterans Act: Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to initiate a pilot program under which veterans can use the internet to schedule and confirm appointments for health care at VA medical facilities.
HHEATT Act: Helps prevent shortages and interruptions in the availability of propane and home heating fuels.
Farm-to-Fuel Investment Act: Encourages farmers to use renewable energy systems, including wind energy systems and anaerobic digesters, by providing $115 million over five years for low-interest loans, loan guarantees, and grants.
SALTS Act: Makes it easier to prosecute the sale and distribution of dangerous “analogue” drugs.
Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research and Education Amendments: Expands the forms of muscular dystrophy included in the muscular dystrophy program of the Nat'l Institutes of Health;
Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research and Education Amendments (continued): Also requires the research conducted through Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers to include cardiac and pulmonary function research.
Formaldehyde Standards for Composite Wood Act: Establishes national health standards for formaldehyde emissions to protect consumers from potentially hazardous levels of formaldehyde in composite wood products.
Whew, out of room again! Still more bills Amy's passed--find them at medium.com/@AmyforAmerica…
