Mazie K. Hirono

Expressing concern about the spreading problem of book banning and the proliferation of threats to freedom of expression in the United States.

To prohibit the importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of .50 caliber rifles, and for other purposes.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax rate parity among all tobacco products, and for other purposes.

To amend the Small Business Act to define the term State for the purposes of the microloan program carried out under that Act, and for other purposes.

To direct the Federal Trade Commission to require impact assessments of automated decision systems and augmented critical decision processes, and for other purposes.

To amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to extend education grant programs for Alaska Native serving institutions and Native Hawaiian serving institutions, and for other purposes.

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

To reauthorize the program of grants for innovative programs to address dental workforce needs.

To defer student loan payments for survivors of sex-based harassment.

Expressing support for the designation of the week of September 16 through September 23, 2023, as National Estuaries Week.

To create protections for financial institutions that provide financial services to State-sanctioned marijuana businesses and service providers for such businesses, and for other purposes.

To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to clarify that a State may not use an individual’s failure to vote as the basis for initiating the procedures provided under such Act for the removal of the individual from the official list of registered voters in the State on the grounds that the individual has changed residence, and for other purposes.

Designating September 2023 as National Voting Rights Month.

To improve voter access to the ballot box through automatic voter registration, and for other purposes.

To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to provide for same day voter registration.

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 increase child care options for working families and support child care providers.

To provide Federal-local community partnership construction funding to local educational agencies eligible to receive payments under the Impact Aid program.

To prevent a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime, or received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor because of hate or bias in its commission, from obtaining a firearm.

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.