Edward J. Markey

To implement reforms relating to foreign intelligence surveillance authorities, and for other purposes.

Expressing the sense of the Senate that paraprofessionals and education support staff should have fair compensation, benefits, and working conditions.

To enable the people of Puerto Rico to choose a permanent, nonterritorial, fully self-governing political status for Puerto Rico and to provide for a transition to and the implementation of that permanent, nonterritorial, fully self-governing political status, and for other purposes.

To divert Federal funding away from supporting the presence of police in schools and toward evidence-based and trauma informed services that address the needs of marginalized students and improve academic outcomes, and for other purposes.

To conduct or support further comprehensive research for the creation of a universal influenza vaccine or preventative.

To prohibit drilling in the Arctic Ocean.

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

To strengthen protections against child labor violations, and for other purposes.

To help persons in the United States experiencing homelessness and significant behavioral health issues, including substance use disorder, by authorizing a grant program within the Department of Health and Human Services to assist State and local governments, continuums of care, community-based organizations that administer both health and homelessness services, and providers of services to people experiencing homelessness, better coordinate health care and homelessness services, and for other purposes.

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require that annual State report cards reflect the same race groups as the decennial census of population.

Recognizing the month of October 2023 as National Women's Small Business Month.

To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to reduce the production and use of certain single-use plastic products and packaging, to improve the responsibility of producers in the design, collection, reuse, recycling, and disposal of consumer products and packaging, to prevent pollution from consumer products and packaging from entering into animal and human food chains and waterways, and for other purposes.

Designating November 4, 2023, as National Bison Day.

To require the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Commissioner of Social Security to review and simplify the processes, procedures, forms, and communications for family caregivers to assist individuals in establishing eligibility for, enrolling in, and maintaining and utilizing coverage and benefits under the Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and Social Security programs respectively, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a Reducing Youth Use of E–Cigarettes Initiative.

To provide that chapter 1 of title 9 of the United States Code, relating to the enforcement of arbitration agreements, shall not apply to enrollment agreements made between students and certain institutions of higher education, and to prohibit limitations on the ability of students to pursue claims against certain institutions of higher education.

To provide for an emergency increase in Federal funding to State Medicaid programs for expenditures on home and community-based services.

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

To amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, to expand the replacement of stolen EBT benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Designating Betty K. Koed as Historian Emerita of the United States Senate.