Sheila Jackson Lee

To require that activities carried out by the United States in South Sudan relating to governance, reconstruction and development, and refugee relief and assistance support the basic human rights of women and women’s participation and leadership in these areas.

To establish a grant program for nebulizers in elementary and secondary schools.

Expressing support for designation of September 2023 as Gospel Music Heritage Month and honoring gospel music for its valuable and longstanding contributions to the culture of the United States.

To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to designate a week as Battle Buddy Check Week for the purpose of outreach and education concerning peer wellness checks for veterans, and for other purposes.

To preserve knowledge and promote education about jazz in the United States and abroad.

To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize the residential substance use disorder treatment program, and for other purposes.

To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase the punishment for certain offenses involving children, and for other purposes.

To provide for the hiring of 200 additional Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents and investigators to enforce gun laws.

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of dental, vision, and hearing care under the Medicare program.

To amend title 18, United States Code, to enhance criminal penalties for health related stalking, and for other purposes.

To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for a demonstration project under the Medicaid program for political subdivisions of States to provide medical assistance for the expansion population under such program, and for other purposes.

To provide alternatives to incarceration for youth, and for other purposes.

To enhance Federal enforcement of hate crimes, and for other purposes.

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide an alternate release date for certain nonviolent offenders, and for other purposes.

To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.

To prohibit States from carrying out more than one congressional redistricting after a decennial census and apportionment.

To authorize funding to increase access to mental health care treatment to reduce gun violence.

To amend the First Step Act of 2018 to permit defendants convicted of certain offenses to be eligible for reduced sentences, and for other purposes.

To protect health care providers and people seeking reproductive health care services, and for other purposes.

To require the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report to the Congress semiannually on the number of firearms transfers resulting from the failure to complete a background check within 3 business days, and the procedures followed after it is discovered that a firearm transfer has been made to a transferee who is ineligible to receive a firearm.