Benjamin L. Cardin

To protect individuals who face reprisals for defending human rights and democracy by enhancing the capacity of the United States Government to prevent, mitigate, and respond in such cases, and for other purposes.

To amend chapter 3081 of title 54, United States Code, to enhance the protection and preservation of America’s battlefields.

Reinforcing the United States-Senegal relationship and urging the Government of Senegal to conduct free, fair, transparent, and inclusive elections on February 25, 2024.

To reauthorize the Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to support Holocaust education programs, and for other purposes.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to issue guidance and recommendations for institutions of higher education on removing criminal and juvenile justice questions from their application for admissions process.

To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish an Office of Prison Education, and for other purposes.

To improve the full-service community school program, and for other purposes.

To improve access to opioid use disorder treatment services under the Medicare program.

To require the Secretary of Labor to establish an offshore wind career training grant program, and for other purposes.

To address and take action to prevent bullying and harassment of students.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish grants for tuition-free community colleges, student success grants, and grants for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Minority-Serving Institutions, and for other purposes.

Designating the week beginning on October 8, 2023, as National Wildlife Refuge Week.

Supporting the designation of the week of September 18 through September 22, 2023, as Malnutrition Awareness Week.

To prevent harassment at institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.

To permit employees to request changes to their work schedules without fear of retaliation and to ensure that employers consider these requests, and to require employers to provide more predictable and stable schedules for employees in certain occupations with evidence of unpredictable and unstable scheduling practices that negatively affect employees, and for other purposes.

To direct the President to designate a month as African Diaspora Heritage Month.

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 to prevent wage theft and assist in the recovery of stolen wages, to authorize the Secretary of Labor to administer grants to prevent wage and hour violations, and for other purposes.

To establish the Chesapeake National Recreation Area as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

To provide for the conservation of the Chesapeake Bay, and for other purposes.

To amend the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1992 to reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay Office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and for other purposes.