Jack Reed

To amend the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to strengthen adult education.

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

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 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 provide for the long-term improvement of public school facilities, and for other purposes.

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Small Business Act to expand the availability of employee stock ownership plans in S corporations, and for other purposes.

To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes.

To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes.

To amend the Federal Reserve Act to add additional demographic reporting requirements, to modify the goals of the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes.

To amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the number of permanent faculty in palliative care at accredited allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools and other programs, including social work, physician assistant, and chaplaincy education programs, to promote education and research in palliative care and hospice, and to support the development of faculty careers in academic palliative and hospice care.

To amend part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide full Federal funding of such part.

To authorize a study on educator workforce data to advance teaching and learning and a program to support increasing access to well-prepared and diverse educators.

To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the earned income and child tax credits, and for other purposes.

To provide paid family and medical leave benefits to certain individuals, and for other purposes.

To allow Americans to earn paid sick time so that they can address their own health needs and the health needs of their families.

To reauthorize title II of the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.

To amend title 9 of the United States Code with respect to arbitration.

Designating April 2023 as Financial Literacy Month.