All Roll Calls
Yes: 396 • No: 27
Sponsored By: Senator Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Became Law
Creates security parity for the Supreme Court’s leaders and their immediate families. It authorizes the United States Marshals Service to provide protection for the Chief Justice, any Associate Justice, and Supreme Court officers’ immediate family members when the Marshal determines such protection is necessary.
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The law expands security to immediate family members of the Chief Justice, any Associate Justice, and officers of the Supreme Court. The U.S. Marshals Service can protect them when the Marshal decides protection is necessary. This uses the Marshals Service's existing legal authority. The law is in effect now.
Cornyn, John [R-TX]
TX • R
Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
DE • D
Sponsored 5/5/2022
All Roll Calls
Yes: 396 • No: 27
house vote • 6/14/2022
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Yes: 396 • No: 27
117-s-4003, Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training Act of 2022
Creates a federal framework to certify and fund law enforcement de-escalation, crisis-intervention, and mental-health response training. It builds curricula, a national certification and regional training system, grant rules, reporting, and evaluations under the COPS and Byrne/JAG programs. - Law enforcement agencies and officers: Provides grants and regional training to deliver certified courses on de-escalation, alternatives to force, and crisis response. States must track who is trained and share that data. - Covered mental health professionals and crisis teams: Requires training for mental health staff who work with police and backs coordinated crisis intervention teams that connect people to services, housing supports, and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. - States and small agencies: Funds flow to states by officer count and can pay overtime for agencies with fewer than 50 employees. States must allocate remaining funds to local units and report on barriers and training plans. Authorizes roughly $124 million in appropriations for FY2023–FY2026, increasing federal spending by that amount.
117-s-4926, Respect for Child Survivors Act
This law makes multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) mandatory in FBI investigations of child sexual exploitation, child sexual abuse material production, and child trafficking. It also strengthens collaboration with children's advocacy centers and expands federal support for victim-centered, trauma-informed investigations and services. - Victims and families: Every covered FBI investigation must use an MDT and provide victim advocates and access to trained forensic interviewers or CAC-based interviewers when needed, improving coordinated care and referrals. - Investigators and prosecutors: The FBI must adopt MDT procedures, set training and expertise standards, allow information sharing with CAC personnel under defined limits, and report annually to the Attorney General when interviews occur without an MDT or trained interviewer. - Children's Advocacy Centers and states: The law boosts organizational capacity, technical assistance, and statewide maintenance of CAC networks and MDTs and authorizes stable grant funding of $40 million per year through FY2028 to support those efforts. This law increases federal spending by authorizing about $40 million per year through fiscal year 2028 to expand Victims of Child Abuse Act programs and related support.
117-s-3846, Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Reauthorization Act of 2022
Expands mental-health crisis response funding and coordination. This law reauthorizes the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program and broadens how grant funds can be used to support prosecutor diversion training, multidisciplinary crisis teams, suicide-prevention in jails, case management and reentry supports, increased treatment capacity for mental health and substance use services, and integration of the 988 suicide prevention hotline, and it extends required reporting through fiscal years 2023 through 2027. - Communities and callers: Helps states and localities fund coordinated responses to mental health calls and supports integrating and staffing the 988 national hotline to link callers with crisis services. - Law enforcement and prosecutors: Pays for prosecutor training on diversion programs and backs multidisciplinary response models that pair specially trained officers with mental health workers. Those teams are expected, as practicable, to provide a 24/7 response and may be placed partly in 911 call centers to speed responses. - People in jail and people returning home: Authorizes suicide prevention services for incarcerated individuals with ongoing risk assessment, and funds case management and treatment linkages to reduce recidivism and assist reentry.
117-s-3059, Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act
Expands financial reporting and public access for federal judges. The Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act adds periodic transaction reporting requirements and directs the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC) to publish judges' financial disclosure reports in a searchable online database.
117-s-4524, Speak Out Act
Limits judicial enforcement of nondisclosure and nondisparagement clauses in sexual assault and harassment disputes. It empowers survivors to disclose abuse and aims to increase accountability and workplace safety. - Survivors: People alleging sexual assault or harassment can speak publicly about the conduct without courts enforcing pre-dispute nondisclosure or nondisparagement clauses in those disputes. - Employers and workplaces: Employers cannot rely on those clauses to stop disclosure in covered disputes. Employers still may protect trade secrets and proprietary information. - States and tribes: A state or locality may enforce rules that are at least as protective of free speech as this law. The law does not override federal, state, or tribal rules on using pseudonyms in claims. - Scope and limits: The rule applies to claims filed on or after enactment and does not change criminal prosecutions or other civil remedies for sexual misconduct.
117-s-3157, Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act
This law focuses on helping immigrants and refugees with foreign professional credentials find U.S. jobs that match their skills. The Secretary of Labor, working with the Departments of State, Education, Health and Human Services, Commerce, Homeland Security, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Social Security Administration must study factors affecting employment for these individuals. The study will analyze five years of employment history, barriers to using foreign credentials, available public and private resources, and provide policy recommendations. The department must work with nonprofits and State agencies, protect study data, and submit a public report to Congress and post it on the Department of Labor website within 18 months of enactment.
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