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Weekly Legislative Update: April 15, 2024

Congressional Schedule: April 15-19, 2024 

Floor Action: The House and Senate are in session.

Mark-Ups

International– On Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to consider a number of bills, including S. Res. 505, a resolution that condemns the use of sexual violence and rape as a weapon of war by the terrorist group Hamas against the people of Israel. 

Reproductive Health– On Tuesday, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs will mark up a number of bills, including H.R. 3303, the Maternal Health for Veterans Act. 


Bills Introduced: April 8-12, 2024 

Child Protection 

H.R. 7890–Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI)/Energy and Commerce (4/9/2024)–A bill to strengthen protections relating to the online collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of children and teens. 

H.R. 7891–Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL)/Energy and Commerce; Education and the Workforce (4/9/2024)–A bill to protect the safety of children on the Internet. 

H.R.7949–Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX)/Judiciary; Energy and Commerce (4/11/2024)–A bill to combat the sexual exploitation of children by supporting victims and promoting accountability and transparency by the tech industry. 

H.R.7955–Rep. Anna Luna (R-FL)/Judiciary (4/11/2024)–A bill to increase penalties for child pornography. 

H.R.7956– Rep. Anna Luna (R-FL)/Judiciary (4/11/2024)–A bill to require mandatory minimums for sexual abuse. 

H.R.7957–Rep. Anna Luna (R-FL)/Judiciary (4/11/2024)–A bill to increase penalties for crimes against children. 

Health 

S.Res.632– Sen. Ben Lujan (D-NM)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (4/10/2024)–A resolution to support the goals and ideals of National Public Health Week. 

International 

H. Res. 1142–Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL)/Foreign Affairs (4/12/2024)–A resolution to recognize the Tenth Anniversary of the Chibok Girls Kidnapping by the Boko Haram Terrorist Organization and calling on the Government of Nigeria to redouble efforts to bring an end to the conflict in northeast and central Nigeria and to provide assistance to the victims. 

Reproductive Health 

S. 4079–Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (4/9/2024)–A bill to improve obstetric emergency care. 

H.R. 7905–Rep. Al Green (D-TX)/Judiciary (4/9/2024)–A bill to prohibit states from imposing a tax on the retail sale of menstrual products.  

Women’s History 

S. 4076–Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA)/Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (4/8/2024)–A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1077 River Road, Suite 1, in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, as the “Susan C. Barnhart Post Office”. 

S. 4077–Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA)/Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (4/8/2024)–A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 180 Steuart Street in San Francisco, California, as the “Dianne Feinstein Post Office”. 

S. Res. 627–Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL)/Judiciary (4/8/2024)–A resolution to honor the memory of Jereima “Jeri” Bustamante on the sixth anniversary of her passing. 

Violence Against Women 

H.R. 7889–Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL/Judiciary (4/9/2024)–A bill to increase grants to combat domestic violence for states that implement domestic violence prevention training in the cosmetologist and barber licensing process. 

H.R. 7909–Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)/Judiciary (4/9/2024)–A bill to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable. 

H.R.7930—Rep. Ann Kuster (D-NH)/Energy and Commerce (4/10/2024)–A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to award grants for providing to or developing for schools and youth-serving organizations educational resources or training on preventing teen dating violence, and for other purposes.