Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 4/20/24

4/22 - CDC Announces Important Advances in Protecting Americans from Heat (CDC; direct to Heat and Your Health website; see also, NOAA announcement)

4/22 - The Biden-Harris Administration Issues New Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy Under HIPAA (HHS; direct to factsheet; see also, Senate Finance chair statement)

4/22 - Secretary Antony J. Blinken On the 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (State; direct to reports page; see also, Senate Foreign Affairs chair statement)

4/23 - Census Bureau Releases 2022 Congressional Election Voting Report (Census; direct to report)

4/23 - Homeland Security Investigations Launches HSI.gov (DHS; direct to website)

4/23 - Justice Department Reaches Civil Settlement with Victims Abused by Lawrence Nassar (DOJ; see also, 2021 DOJ OIG report)

4/23 - Biden-Harris administration finalizes rule to increase compensation thresholds for overtime eligibility, expanding protections for millions of workers (DOL)

4/23 - EPA Announces Online Collection of Environmental Justice Resources (EPA; direct to website)

4/23 - FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes (FTC; see also, factsheet)

4/23 - HHS Finalizes Rule to Strengthen Services and Protections for Unaccompanied Children in Its Care (HHS)

4/23 - Biden-Harris Administration Releases National Strategy for Suicide Prevention and First-Ever Federal Action Plan (HHS; direct to website)

4/24 - Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Rule Requiring Automatic Refunds of Airline Tickets and Ancillary Service Fees (DOT; see also, Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Rule to Protect Consumers from Surprise Airline Junk Fees | junk fees factsheet | WH factsheet)

4/24 - Biden-Harris Administration Announces New School Meal Standards to Strengthen Child Nutrition (FNS; direct to info page)

4/24 - SEC Staff Publishes New [updated quarterly] Registered Fund Statistics Report (SEC; direct to report page)

4/25 - Largest Year-to-Year Increase in Over 20 Years for Public School Spending Per Pupil (Census; direct to data page)

4/25 - DoD Releases the Calendar Year 2022 Annual Report on Civilian Casualties in Connection With U.S. Military Operations (DOD; direct to report)

4/25 - Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Transmission Permitting Rule and Latest Investments To Accelerate the Build Out of a Resilient, Reliable, Modernized Electric Grid (DOE; see also, WH factsheet)

4/25 - Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Suite of Standards to Reduce Pollution from Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants (EPA)

4/25 - FCC Restores Net Neutrality (FCC; see also, 4/24 Five Facts About Net Neutrality Protections)

4/25 - Transitioning to a Fully Digital Government (NARA)

4/25 - Digest State Dashboard provides state-level data on key education statistics (NCES; direct to website)

4/25 - Making the Greatest Medical Library in America: Cataloging (NLM; direct to exhibit website)

4/25 - USTR Releases 2024 Special 301 Report on Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement (USTR; direct to report)

4/26 - US Department of Labor finalizes farmworker protection rule (DOL)

4/26 - NIDIS Releases 2023 Annual Report (NOAA; direct to report)

4/26 - GSA launches Open Government Federal Advisory Committee to advise on governmentwide transparency efforts (GSA; direct to FR notice)

4/26 - IRS Direct File Pilot Exceeds Usage Goal, Receiving Positive User Ratings and Saving Taxpayers Money (Treas)

4/22 - Review of the Army’s Efforts to Prevent and Respond to Harassment of Soldiers (DOD)

4/23 - Review of DoD Education Activity's Efforts to Report and Respond to Discriminatory Harassment at Schools  (DOD)

4/22 - EMTALA Emergency Abortion Care Litigation Over Idaho’s Abortion Restriction Heads to the Supreme Court (CRS)

4/22 - Biometric Identification Technologies: Considerations to Address Information Gaps and Other Stakeholder Concerns (GAO)

4/23 - TikTok: Proposed Legislation and Implications (CRS)

4/24 - Information Technology Spending in the President’s Budget Submission for FY2025: In Brief (CRS)

4/24 - Financial Literacy: Better Outcome Reporting Could Facilitate Oversight of Programs for Older Adults and People with Disabilities (GAO)

4/22 - American Climate Corps website launched (ACC)

4/22 - Agencies’ headquarters in DC remained ‘nearly empty’ in 2023, real-estate board finds (via Federal News Network, with link to source document)

4/22 - Biden signs extension of controversial spying program into 2026 (via NextGov, with links to source documents)

4/23 - Senate Passes Bill That Could Ban TikTok In The U.S., Sends To Biden (via HuffPost)

4/24 - Senators call on postal board to abandon DeJoy’s USPS reforms (via GovExec, with links to source documents)

4/24 - Arizona Charges Giuliani and Other Trump Allies in Election Interference Case (via NYT, with source document)

4/25 - As bird flu spreads in cows, fractured U.S. response has echoes of early covid (via Washington Post; see also, USDA Actions to Protect Livestock Health From Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza)

4/26 - Planning for potential presidential transition underway as Biden administration kicks it off (via AP; see also, GSA 2024 transition website)

4/26 - Biden Administration Restores Health Protections for Gay and Transgender People (via NYT, with link to source document; see also, HHS news release)

See full weekly list of Congressional hearings on congress.gov.

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None this week

Information below is from congress.gov. Date listed is date signed into law, and the description is an abbreviated version of bill summary available on that website.

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4/20 - H.R.7888, Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act - reauthorizes Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for five years and makes changes to FISA

4/24 - H.R.815, Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes – provides FY2024 supplemental appropriations to several federal agencies for assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Also requires several actions to address the trafficking of fentanyl.