S2116-118

Passed Senate

To require the Secretary of Commerce to produce a report that provides recommendations to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and impact of Department of Commerce programs related to supply chain resilience and manufacturing and industrial innovation, and for other purposes.

118th Congress Introduced Jun 22, 2023

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

To require the Secretary of Commerce to produce a report that provides recommendations to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and impact of Department of Commerce programs related to supply chain resilience and manufacturing and industrial innovation, and for other purposes.. The local Codex analysis identifies the main policy area as Transportation, Technology, Health, Energy and uses the stored bill text to provide context for clause-level classification.

Who Benefits and How

Program beneficiaries and regulated parties receiving clearer authority, Federal, state, local, or tribal implementers named in the bill may benefit where the bill creates funding, authority, exemptions, eligibility, or procedural clarity.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Agencies responsible for implementation and reporting, Regulated entities subject to new or modified requirements may bear new administrative, reporting, compliance, or implementation responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Establishes or modifies federal legal authority described in the bill text.
  • Directs agencies, regulated parties, or program participants to follow the updated statutory framework.
  • Provides bill-level context for downstream clause analysis.

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

To require the Secretary of Commerce to produce a report that provides recommendations to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and impact of Department of Commerce programs related to supply chain resilience and manufacturing and industrial innovation, and for other purposes..

Key Policy Areas

Transportation, Technology, Health, Energy

Primary Purpose

To require the Secretary of Commerce to produce a report that provides recommendations to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and impact of Department of Commerce programs related to supply chain resilience and manufacturing and industrial innovation, and for other purposes..

Policy Domains

Transportation Technology Health Energy

Billwide scope

Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
  • Program beneficiaries and regulated parties receiving clearer authority
  • Federal, state, local, or tribal implementers named in the bill
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: es

Contextual inference, no direct clause citation

Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
  • Agencies responsible for implementation and reporting
  • Regulated entities subject to new or modified requirements
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: es

Contextual inference, no direct clause citation

Legislative Progress

Passed Senate
Introduced Committee Passed
Dec 13, 2023

Reported by Ms. Cantwell, with an amendment

Jun 22, 2023

Mr. Peters (for himself and Mrs. Blackburn) introduced the following …

Jun 22, 2023 (inferred)

Passed Senate (inferred from es version)

Stakeholder Effects

cui bono?

How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.

Government
4 mentions across 4 clauses
+1 positive -3 negative

Department of Commerce, Federal agencies and affected program participants

Positive-direction: Federal agencies and affected program participants

Negative-direction: Department of Commerce

Telecommunications
1 mention across 1 clause
+1 positive

Communications providers and spectrum users

3/6
sections analyzed
Full impact breakdown

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Transportation Technology Health Energy
Actor Mappings
"the_secretary"
→ Secretary of Commerce

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

4 terms
"covered offices and bureaus" §definition_1

offices and bureaus of the Department of Commerce identified under section 3(a)(1)

"critical supply chain" §definition_2

an end-to-end system that converts raw materials into finished products in critical sectors, including in— the defense industrial base

"critical supply chain resilience" §definition_3

mitigating gaps and vulnerabilities in critical supply chains, including by— reducing risk of malicious sabotage or external or internal manipulation

"Secretary" §definition_4

the Secretary of Commerce

We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.

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