Responsible Legislating Act
Latest action · Dec 17, 2024 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedSep 22, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Responsible Legislating Act
This bill establishes or modifies various federal programs, including programs to increase participation in tax-exempt retirement plans, assist members of the Armed Forces, and increase penalties for human trafficking.
Among other provisions, the bill
- extends through FY2024 livestock mandatory reporting requirements under the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999;
- provides for apprenticeship training for members of the Armed Forces;
- makes various changes to tax-exempt pension plan provisions, including expanding automatic enrollment, increasing the tax credit for retirement savings contributions, and increasing the age for mandatory minimum distributions;
- establishes a Boots to Business Program to assist current and former members of the Armed Forces, including members of the National Guard and Reserves, interested in business ownership;
- increases criminal penalties for human trafficking and coercion and enticement in school zones;
- establishes the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture;
- requires a report on increasing foreign direct investment in semiconductor-related manufacturing and production; and
- directs the Federal Maritime Commission, through a federally-funded research and development center, to evaluate the effect of foreign ownership of marine terminals at the 15 largest U.S. container ports on U.S. economic security.
The bill appropriates funds in FY2024 for programs or divisions of the Departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture, State, Defense, Homeland Security, and Energy.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 21
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 17, 2024Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Sep 22, 2023Introduced in House
- Sep 22, 2023Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, Oversight and Accountability, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Foreign Affairs, Education and the Workforce, Small Business, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, House Administration, Energy and Commerce, Homeland Security, Science, Space, and Technology, Appropriations, Rules, Ethics, Transportation and Infrastructure, the Budget, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Sep 22, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology.
- Sep 22, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.
In the Congressional Record 4
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Discharge petition H2368 | — | Apr 12, 2024 |
| House | Discharge petition H1500 | — | Mar 22, 2024 |
| House | Discharge petition H1190 | — | Mar 15, 2024 |
| House | Amendments H1150 | Rosa L. DeLauro D-CT (amendment) | Mar 12, 2024 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 154, September 22, 2023, page H4463.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 3254 | First Responder Access to Innovative Technologies Act | Related bill | Dec 23, 2024 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To advance responsible policies.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Responsible Legislating Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Advisory bodies
- Agricultural marketing and promotion
- Appropriations
- Bank accounts, deposits, capital
- Banking and financial institutions regulation
- Business records
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Child safety and welfare
- Computers and information technology
- Congressional oversight
- Data collection, sharing, protection
- Department of Defense
- Department of Energy
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Labor
- Department of State
- Department of the Treasury
- Disability assistance
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Financial services and investments
- First responders and emergency personnel
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Higher education
- Historical and cultural resources
- House of Representatives
- Human trafficking
- Income tax credits
- Income tax deferral
- Income tax exclusion
- Inflation and prices
- Interest, dividends, interest rates
- Labor and Employment
- Law enforcement officers
- Life, casualty, property insurance
- Livestock
- Manufacturing
- Military personnel and dependents
- Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
- Navigation, waterways, harbors
- Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
- Sales and excise taxes
- Securities
- Small business
- Student aid and college costs
- Supply chain
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
- U.S. and foreign investments
- Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
- Wages and earnings
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 22, 2023Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
