Cindy Hyde-Smith

Laken Riley Act

Designating October 4, 2024, as National Energy Appreciation Day to celebrate the people who work to power the United States and the economy of the United States and to build awareness of the important role that the energy producers of the United States play in reducing poverty, strengthening national security, and improving the quality of life for people around the world.

Designating September 2024 as National Literacy Month.

To reauthorize the national service laws, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit discrimination against health care entities that do not participate in abortion, and to strengthen implementation and enforcement of Federal conscience laws.

To withhold certain United Nations funding until the United Nations Human Rights Council mandates a body to investigate human rights abuses in the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act, and for other purposes.

To impose certain requirements relating to the renegotiation or reentry into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or other agreement relating to Iran’s nuclear program, and for other purposes.

To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend the time period during which licensees are required to commence construction of certain hydropower projects.

To ensure that organizations with religious or moral convictions are allowed to continue to provide services for children.

To ensure religious freedom and rights of conscience for health care workers and other government employees, and to protect health care workers and other government employees from various forms of compelled speech.

To reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program, and for other purposes.

To provide for congressional review of actions to terminate or waive sanctions imposed with respect to Iran.

To establish an Office of Community Financial Institutions within the Small Business Administration that will strengthen the ability of Community Financial Institutions to support the development of small business concerns in underserved communities, and for other purposes.

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand access to telehealth services, and for other purposes.

To amend chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit gender transition procedures on minors, and for other purposes.

To prohibit taxpayer-funded gender transition procedures, and for other purposes.

To protect law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to ensure that public institutions of higher education eschew policies that improperly constrain the expressive rights of students, and to ensure that private institutions of higher education are transparent about, and responsible for, their chosen speech policies.

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under the Medicare program of pharmacist services.