Homeland Security Acquisition Professional Career Program Act

117-hr-6833 — Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023

Continues federal funding into FY2023. It also provides emergency supplemental aid for Ukraine, creates a FEMA claims program for the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon fires, extends many health and veterans authorities, and reauthorizes FDA user fees through mid‑decade. - Households, disaster survivors, and communities: Funds $1.0 billion for Low Income Home Energy Assistance and transfers $2.5 billion to FEMA for Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon claims, while adding crisis services and refugee/entrant assistance. - Veterans and VA users: Extends numerous VA health and benefits authorities, including hospital and nursing home care copayment and service rules through 2024, with other program authorities extended into 2026. - Defense, Ukraine, and oversight: Provides emergency defense and security aid for Ukraine, including $3.0 billion for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and $4.5 billion in direct economic support, and increases reporting, end‑use monitoring, and inspector oversight across transfers and programs.

117-hr-5545 — REMOTE Act

Extends key COVID-era VA education authorities through June 1, 2022. It also clarifies how schools participate, adds a finishing-time or “rounding-out” rule for students near program completion, and tweaks administrative and budget-related items.

117-hr-4693 — Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act of 2021

This law creates a government-wide USAID framework to prevent and treat malnutrition globally. It directs targeted programs, data-driven planning, and coordination with domestic and international partners to scale evidence-based nutrition services in priority countries. - Families and children: Focuses on reducing severe malnutrition among children under age five and pregnant and lactating women by expanding proven nutrition interventions and promoting fortified, nutritious foods. - USAID and health systems: Requires USAID to allocate resources, strengthen health systems, and use rigorous monitoring and evaluation to make nutrition programs more effective and accountable. - Partners and financing: Directs the Administrator to mobilize other federal agencies, multilateral donors, United Nations agencies, civil society, NGOs, the private sector, and the US International Development Finance Corporation to build local capacity, improve supply chains, accelerate research, and broaden finance partnerships.

117-hr-5313 — Reese's Law

Reduce child ingestion of button cell and coin batteries. This law requires strong safety and packaging rules to cut the risk children face from swallowing these small batteries and to put clearer warnings on products and packaging. - Families and children: A performance standard must secure battery compartments to eliminate or meaningfully reduce ingestion risk for children 6 years of age or younger. Warning labels must identify the ingestion hazard and tell consumers to keep new and used batteries out of reach and to seek immediate medical attention if ingestion occurs. - Manufacturers, importers, and retailers: Any button cell or coin battery sold or included with a product must be packaged to child-resistant standards and tested according to the Commission’s rules. Products containing these batteries must include required warnings in packaging, instructions, and on the product when practicable. - Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC): The CPSC must issue a final safety standard within 1 year but may accept a voluntary standard that meets the law within 180 days and treat that voluntary standard as a rule. - Exemptions: Toy products that meet battery accessibility and labeling rules in 16 C.F.R. part 1250 and batteries that comply with the ANSI C18.3M marking and packaging standard are exempt.

117-hr-3076 — Postal Service Reform Act of 2022

Postal Service Health Benefits Program creates a USPS-specific health plan inside the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and pairs that change with Medicare coordination and stronger postal oversight. The law also lets USPS offer new nonpostal services to raise revenue and requires much more public performance and cost transparency. - USPS employees and annuitants get a dedicated FEHB program with standard enrollment choices (self, self plus one, self and family), a transitional open season, and Medicare rules that include a special six-month Part B enrollment window beginning April 1, 2024 with coverage starting January 1, 2025; most Medicare-covered annuitants must have Part A and Part B to enroll, with specific grandfathered exceptions. - State, local, and tribal governments can buy property or nonpostal services from USPS for public, noncommercial purposes if the agreements reimburse at least 100 percent of attributable costs each year and follow new public posting and Governor-approval rules. - Oversight and performance changes require a weekly public dashboard, a PRC review of cost attribution, an Inspector General audit of PRC data, a Flats operations study with a 6-month remediation plan, and specified FY2022 funding: $7.5 million to CMS, $16.0 million to SSA, and $70.5 million to OPM. The law provides $94.0 million in FY2022 to federal agencies and requires USPS to deposit an equal amount into the Treasury, making the FY2022 transactions roughly budget-neutral.

117-hr-3525 — Commission To Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act

This law creates a commission to study and plan a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture in Washington, DC. The Commission will assess feasibility, costs, collections, governance, location options, and produce a fundraising plan and legislative recommendations within 18 months of its first meeting. - Asian Pacific American communities and scholars gain a formal role in museum design and outreach through required guidance on engagement and an optional national conference within 18 months. - Museums and the Smithsonian face a required assessment of impact, collections availability, storage and maintenance needs, and site criteria to inform where and how a new museum could fit. - Congress gets a fundraising plan and an independent review that aim to finance construction and ongoing operations without federal appropriations, plus a legislative action plan for relevant House and Senate committees. The Commission is not funded with federal funds and must cover its expenses through gifts and contributions.

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