Sheldon Whitehouse

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.

Designating September 25, 2023, as National Lobster Day.

Designating September 2023 as National Voting Rights Month.

To extend protections to part-time workers in the areas of family and medical leave and to ensure equitable treatment in the workplace.

Designating the week beginning on September 11, 2023, as National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week.

To strengthen and expand the Green Ribbon Schools Program at the Department of Education by boosting the capacity of participating States to expand the number of schools, applicants, and nominees engaged around environmental, environmental literacy, and environmental health goals, and for other purposes.

To support carbon dioxide removal research and development, and for other purposes.

To increase child care options for working families and support child care providers.

To restore protections for Social Security, Railroad retirement, and Black Lung benefits from administrative offset.

To improve the reproductive assistance provided by the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to certain members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and their spouses or partners, and for other purposes.

To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the United States Army Dustoff crews of the Vietnam War, collectively, in recognition of their extraordinary heroism and life-saving actions in Vietnam.

To promote remediation of abandoned hardrock mines, and for other purposes.

To prevent a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime, or received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor because of hate or bias in its commission, from obtaining a firearm.

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.

Designating the week beginning September 10, 2023, as National Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week.

Designating 2024 as the Year of Democracy as a time to reflect on the contributions of the system of Government of the United States to a more free and stable world.

To amend the Truth in Lending Act to establish a national usury rate for consumer credit transactions.

To encourage reduction of disposable plastic products in units of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

To establish standards for trauma kits purchased using funds provided under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program.

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to build safer, thriving communities, and save lives, by investing in effective community-based violence reduction initiatives, and for other purposes.