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Jon Tester

Jon Tester

D MT · Senate

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Policy Effects

Estimated effects on people, organizations, and industries in bills this legislator sponsored, cosponsored, or voted on. Includes bills they voted against.

These are assessments of legislative text, not measurements of realized outcomes or the legislator’s intent.

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Potential benefits are effects assessed as favorable to the named group. Potential burdens impose costs, restrictions, risks, or lost opportunities on that group.

Mixed effects contain countervailing effects on the same group. Unclear effects have an undetermined direction. A group can have separate benefits and burdens; these are counted separately.

Counts describe the number of identified effects, not their size or public value. Bill and clause counts are distinct within each view. Shared evidence may appear under several groups or policy areas, so their counts should not be added together.

Historical bill versions are included. Clauses analyzed in different versions count separately. A bill’s current status does not establish that every analyzed provision was enacted.

Only direct effects with high or medium confidence in the policy-area assignment are included. Bills are connected through sponsorship, cosponsorship, or Yea/Nay votes; a vote against a bill does not reverse its assessed effects. Vote dates filter recorded votes and vote-linked bills; sponsorship remains included.

Sponsored & Cosponsored Bills

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sres674-118

Cosponsor

Designating May 5, 2024, as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.

1 clause May 2, 2024

s4254-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To limit the closure or consolidation of any United States Postal Service processing and distribution center in States, and for other purposes.

1 clause May 2, 2024

sres668-118

Cosponsor

Honoring the life of Daniel Robert Bob Graham, former Senator for the State of Florida.

0 clauses May 1, 2024

s4176-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To authorize major medical facility projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2024, and for other purposes.

1 clause Apr 18, 2024

sres655-118

Cosponsor

Honoring the life of Joseph Isadore Lieberman, former Senator for the State of Connecticut.

0 clauses Apr 18, 2024

s4101-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the continued designation of hospitals that met mountainous terrain or secondary roads distance requirement as critical access hospitals and to modify distance requirements for ambulance services furnished by critical access hospitals.

2 clauses Apr 10, 2024

sres635-118

Primary Sponsor

Designating the first week of April 2024 as National Asbestos Awareness Week.

0 clauses Apr 10, 2024

s4074-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to approve interstate commerce carrier apprenticeship programs for purposes of veterans educational assistance, and for other purposes.

0 clauses Apr 8, 2024

s4070-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend the Clean Air Act to modify the definition of small refinery for purposes of the Renewable Fuel Program, and for other purposes.

1 clause Mar 22, 2024

s4048-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To reauthorize the North American Wetlands Conservation Act.

0 clauses Mar 21, 2024

s4047-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To increase, effective as of December 1, 2024, the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain disabled veterans, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Mar 21, 2024

s4041-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To support local educational agencies in addressing the student mental health crisis.

4 clauses Mar 21, 2024

s4009-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to offer annual preventative health evaluations to veterans with a spinal cord injury or disorder and increase access to assistive technologies, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Mar 21, 2024

sres604-118

Cosponsor

Designating March 21, 2024, as National Women in Agriculture Day.

1 clause Mar 20, 2024

s3959-118

Cosponsor Reported

To require the Transportation Security Administration to streamline the enrollment processes for individuals applying for a Transportation Security Administration security threat assessment for certain programs, including the Transportation Worker Identification Credential and Hazardous Materials Endorsement Threat Assessment programs of the Administration, and for other purposes.

13 clauses Mar 14, 2024
Government Transportation Administrative Services State & Local Government

s3953-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To make demonstration grants to eligible local educational agencies or consortia of eligible local educational agencies for the purpose of increasing the numbers of school nurses in public elementary schools and secondary schools.

2 clauses Mar 14, 2024

s3958-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To require the Interagency Working Group on Toxic Exposure to conduct research on the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions of descendants of individuals exposed to toxic substances while serving as members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

1 clause Mar 14, 2024

s3961-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to reform certain authorities and to provide greater transparency and oversight.

29 clauses Mar 14, 2024

s3902-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend the National Housing Act to authorize State-licensed appraisers to conduct appraisals in connection with mortgages insured by the FHA and to ensure compliance with the existing appraiser education and competency requirements, and for other purposes.

4 clauses Mar 11, 2024

s3873-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to members of the National Guard who perform certain full-time duty, and for other purposes.

1 clause Mar 5, 2024

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