Chris Van Hollen

Designating November 2023 as National Homeless Children and Youth Awareness Month.

Designating October 2023 as National Principals Month.

Expressing support for the goals of National Adoption Day and National Adoption Month by promoting national awareness of adoption and the children awaiting families, celebrating children and families involved in adoption, and encouraging the people of the United States to secure safety, permanency, and well-being for all children.

Designating November 16th, 2023, as National Rural Health Day.

Calling upon the United States Senate to give its advice and consent to the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect more victims of domestic violence by preventing their abusers from possessing or receiving firearms, and for other purposes.

Supporting the United States dollar as the reserve currency of the world and combating the economic influence of the People’s Republic of China.

To promote equity in advanced coursework and programs at elementary and secondary schools.

To safeguard the humane treatment of pregnant women by ensuring the presumption of release and prohibiting shackling, restraining, and other inhumane treatment of pregnant detained noncitizens, and for other purposes.

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

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

To amend title 5, United States Code, to achieve parity between the cost-of-living adjustment with respect to an annuity under the Federal Employees Retirement System and an annuity under the Civil Service Retirement System, and for other purposes.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the denial of deduction for certain excessive employee remuneration, and for other purposes.

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.

To provide Medicaid assistance to individuals and families affected by a disaster or emergency, and for other purposes.

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

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

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