Mental Health Justice Act of 2023

SUPPORT FOR BANNING MEDICAL DEBT CREDIT REPORTING: Letter of support to Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Bureau is moving to ban medical debt from appearing on credit reports used for credit underwriting. The burden of medical debt is difficult for many who suffer from medical challenges even with insurance but is crushing to those who are either uninsured or who have limited income. Black and Latino communities are disproportionately impacted by medical debt on their credit reports. STAND UP FOR COMMUNITY SAFETY (COMMUNITY SAFETY AGENDA: Letter to Congress advocating for a Community Safety Agenda that prioritizes prevention, compassion, and evidence-based solutions, not punitive approaches that take effect long after harm has occurred. The Community Safety Agenda includes: 1. The Peoples Response Act (H.R. 4699): This act proposes the establishment of a Division on Community Safety within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Its primary goal is to allocate flexible funding for local initiatives aimed at interrupting violence, responding to civilian crises, preventing abuse, and other related efforts. 2. The Mental Health Justice Act (H.R. 6451): This legislation advocates for redirecting interventions for mental health crises away from law enforcement agencies. Instead, it suggests deploying trained social workers and professionals to handle such situations, thereby promoting more effective and compassionate responses to individuals in crisis. 3. The Break the Cycle of Violence Act (H.R. 5003): This act focuses on investing in community-based violence intervention programs. By addressing the underlying root causes of violence, such as socioeconomic disparities and lack of access to resources, this legislation aims to provide targeted interventions and support services within communities to mitigate and prevent violence. These acts collectively aim to foster safer, healthier communities by prioritizing prevention, addressing systemic issues, and promoting compassionate responses to crises. MEDICARE ACCESS FOR PEROPLE REENTERING THE COMMUNITY AFTER INCARCERATION: Letter encouraging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to finalize the rule to improve access to Medicare for people on parole, probation, and other statuses. This is part of (CMS) Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule. PATENT LAW THAT NEGATIVELY IMPACTS ABILITY TO GET LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES: (S.2220) PREVAIL ACT AND (S.2140) PERA (PATENT ELIGIBILITY RESTORATION ACT: Group letter urging Congress to address the high cost of prescription drugs, which increases costs for patients, employers, and insurers, as well as our state and federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid. One in four people in the United States have difficulty affording medication. Congress has made some good strides in addressing drug prices over the past few years, but more can and should be done. The sign-on urges members of the Senate to vote NO on PREVAIL and PERA. PREVAIL: This bill curtails an important mechanism that allows interested parties an opportunity to challenge patents that they have evidence that should never have been granted in the first place. It offers a swifter, less expensive way to challenge a drug patent before a panel of patent experts in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) through the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Although a wrongly granted patent can be challenged in federal courts, these challenges take years and come with a median cost of $3.5 million per case. Meanwhile we all are deprived of access to a lower-priced generic or biosimilar competitor medication. Additionally, the bill seriously undermines citizens ability to promote competition by challenging patents. Members of the public have no standing in regular courts to challenge drug patents. The PTAB is our only recourse to asking the PTO to reconsider a patents validity. Yet, it is the public who bear the brunt of drug costs in co-pays, deductibles, and insurance premiums when an invalid patent continues to block generic and biosimilar competition. PRERA: The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act expands patent eligibility far beyond what weve ever had since the U.S. patent law was created. PERA would allow patents on natural phenomena, laws of nature, and abstract ideas. Patents and monopoly pricing that goes with it, should be reserved for true novel human innovation as patent law originally intended. Aspects of nature and general concepts are not inventions but merely the elements used when creating something new that can then be submitted in a patent application. PERA opens the door to allow an individual or corporation to acquire exclusive rights to aspects of nature and information about our own bodies. This is a radical departure from historical and international norms and the implications are far-reaching and untested. At a minimum, by expanding patent eligibility beyond the limits we have today, pharmaceutical companies would have increased ability to create dense patent thickets and more opportunities to obtain a patent which could be abused with product-hopping tactics. Rather than expanding the subject matter for patents so broadly, Congress should ensure the patent applications that are filed are not being used simply to game the system. MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: Two sign-on letters addressing private insurance companies systemic delays and denials of health care to the people on their Medicare Advantage plans. The letters call on Congress and the Administration to continue to rein in overbilling in the Medicare Advantage program and use the costs savings to improve traditional Medicare by adding a low out of pocket cap and expanding benefits to dental, vision and hearing. You can use this form to sign-on to both of them. The main difference in the letters is that the Congressional letter includes only legislative recommendations and the letter to President Biden includes both legislative and administrative policy recommendations.

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Government targets: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, President of the U.S., SENATE

Legislation: S.1409-Kids Online Safety Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy, civil liberties, civil rights. S.1080-Cooper Davis Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy. S.1199-Strengthening Transparency and Obligations to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy. S.1291-Protecting Kids on Social Media Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy. S.1939-FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, womens rights. S.1418-Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. S.2892-Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Algorithmic justice. S.5-Equality Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. S.4445-Right to IVF Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights. S.3565-Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Equitable access to broadband, broadband subsidies. S.2033-American Innovation and Choice Online Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech. S.4-John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights. S.1-Freedom to Vote Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights. S.441-American Opportunity Accounts Act-Issues Lobbied: Economic justice, baby bonds. S.1541-Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022-Issues Lobbied: Prison profiteering. S.1306-COPS Reauthorization Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Policing, policing reform, community safety, justice. S.516-Fair Wages for Incarcerated Workers Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Prison labor exploitation. S.518-Correctional Facilities Occupational Safety and Health Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Prison labor exploitation. S.508-Ensuring Work Opportunities in Correctional Facilities Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Prison labor exploitation. S.517-Combating Workplace Discrimination in Correctional Facilities Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Prison labor exploitation. S.4361-Border Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, asylum. S.4554-Reproductive Freedom for Women Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights. S.2770-Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech. S.4207-Spectrum and National Security Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Equitable access to broadband. S.1677-Democracy Restoration Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights. S.4217-Next Step Home Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights. S.4213-Kids Off Social Media Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy. S.4136-A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the tax-exempt status of terrorist supporting organizations-Issues Lobbied: Nonprofit tax status, material support for terrorism. S.4443-Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025-Issues Lobbied: Expansion of ECSP definition. S.3388-Mental Health Justice Act of 2023 -Issues Lobbied: Community safety, justice. S.140-Combatting Organized Retail Crime Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Sentencing reform, criminalization. S.738-Police Training and Independent Review Act of 2021-Issues Lobbied: Policing. S.4226-Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act-Issues Lobbied: Marijuana decriminalization. S.1401-Federal Prison Oversight Act-Issues Lobbied: Prison conditions, oversight. S.993-Combatting Illicit Xylazine Act-Issues Lobbied: Drug policy reform. S.3522-Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act-Issues Lobbied: Policing reform. S.3548- CARES Act-Issues Lobbied: Sentencing reform, re-entry. H.R.2-Secure the Border Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, border policies, transit ban, credible fear standard, border expulsion authority, expedited removal, mandatory detention, parole. H.R.9027-Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025-Issues Lobbied: Disability rights. H.R.15-Equality Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.5636-Protect Childrens Innocence Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.4734-MORE Act-Issues Lobbied: Marijuana decriminalization. H.R.815-Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, immigrant detention, interior enforcement, deportation, border enforcement, asylum, transit ban, credible fear standard, border expulsion authority, expedited removal, mandatory detention, parole. H.R.5798-Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Policing, policing reform, community safety, justice. H.R.1525-Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Policing, policing for profit. H.R.7521-Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech. H.R.6943-No Artificial Intelligence Fake Replicas and Unauthorized Duplications Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Free speech. H.R.6881-AI Foundation Model Transparency Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Algorithmic justice. H.R.6886-Transparent Automated Governance Act-Issues Lobbied: Algorithmic justice. H.R.7520-Protecting Americans Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R.7534-Verifying Kids Online Privacy Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R.1041-American Opportunity Accounts Act-Issues Lobbied: Economic justice, baby bonds. H.R.6451-Mental Health Justice Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Community safety, justice, mobile crisis response alternatives to policing. H.R.6985-BOP Release Card ID Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Re-entry. H.R.7530-D.C. Criminal Reforms to Immediately Make Everyone Safe Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Policing. H.R.3686-Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Policing, policing reform, community safety, justice. H.R.7187-Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.7573-Stop Unfair Medicaid Recoveries Act-Issues Lobbied: Disability rights. H.R.4639-Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R.8752-Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2025-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, asylum, border wall, reproductive rights, voting rights, anti-rider vote recommendations, LGBTQ+ rights, civil liberties, civil rights. H.R.8774-Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights, voting rights, anti-rider vote recommendations, LGBTQ+ rights, civil liberties, civil rights. H.R.8771-Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2025-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights, voting rights, anti-rider vote recommendations, LGBTQ+ rights, civil liberties, civil rights. H.R.8070-Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights, anti-rider vote recommendations, LGBTQ+ rights, religious liberty, immigration, civil liberties, civil rights. H.R.8580-Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights, anti-rider vote recommendations, LGBTQ+ rights, civil liberties, civil rights. H.R.8772-Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2025-Issues Lobbied: Anti-rider vote recommendations, civil liberties, civil rights. H.R.8773-Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2025-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights, anti-rider vote recommendations, religious liberty, civil liberties, civil rights. H.R.8818-American Privacy Rights Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights, privacy. H.R.8038-21st Century Peace Through Strength Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy. H.R.4250-Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, journalists rights. H.R.4987-Democracy Restoration Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights. H.R.7890-Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R.8152-Remote Access Security Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R.8315-Enhancing National Frameworks for Overseas Restriction of Critical Exports Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R.7888-Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act-Issues Lobbied: Section 702 reauthorization. H.R.6408-To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the tax-exempt status of terrorist supporting organizations-Issues Lobbied: Nonprofit tax status, material support for terrorism. H.R.8282-Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act-Issues Lobbied: ICC sanctions. H.R.9029-Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025-Issues Lobbied: Womens rights, hidden foster care data collection, alternatives to policing, re-entry. H.R.2952-Restoring Artistic Protection Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Criminalization of free speech, due process. H.R.5266-Interdiction of Fentanyl in Postal Mail at Federal Prisons Act-Issues Lobbied: Prison profiteering. H.R.6185-Bivens Act of 2021-Issues Lobbied: Policing reform. H.R.8525-George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Policing reform. H.R.743-Protect and Serve Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Policing reform. H.R.6929-Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Equitable access to broadband, broadband subsidies. H.R.8867-To amend the REAL ID Act of 2005 to allow States to determine whether to require licenses and other identification to list a gender or sex, and for other purposes-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.14-John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights. H.R.8152-American Data Privacy and Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Consumer privacy, civil rights. H.R.9026-Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025-Issues Lobbied: Civil rights, use-of-force limitations, community-oriented policing. H.R.9028-Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025-Issues Lobbied: Community investments, supportive services. H.R.2203-Homeland Security Improvement Act-Issues Lobbied: Family separation, immigration. H.R.3852-Border Zone Reasonableness Restoration Act-Issues Lobbied: Border policies, checkpoints. Legislation with No Bill Number: Communications Decency Act of 1996-Issues Lobbied: Section 230, free speech, maintaining Internet integrity. Stop Comstock Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive rights. Additional legislation not yet introduced-Creation of National Human Rights Institution, patenting of genes, gene research, free speech, speech on campuses, student surveillance, defining antisemitism in education programs, First Amendment protections, artificial intelligence, nondiscrimination issues relating to artificial intelligence, watchlists, immigration, immigration reform, abortion, reproductive freedom, reproductive rights, affirming and protecting the right to emergency care, TikTok ban, national security, privacy, affordable connectivity program, broadband subsidies, community safety and justice, hidden foster care data collection, womens rights, family policing, voting rights, democracy, surveillance, national security, terrorism oversight over counterterrorism policy and practices, torture, detention, drones, war authority, Guantanamo Bay, data privacy, consumer privacy. Agencies: Agency-Homeland Security-Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 14010-Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework to Address the Causes of Migration, to Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and to Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the U.S. Border, Interim Final Rule 89 FR 48710-Securing the Border, asylum, border policies, asylum reform, restoration of asylum processing at southern border, complete termination of MPP, rebuilding a more humane asylum system, immigration, CBP policing policies and practices, migrant property dispossession, freedom of religious expression for migrants, immigrant detention, migrant deaths while in ICE detention, Office of Intelligence Analysis practices; Customs and Border Protection-Migrant property dispossession, freedom of religious expression for migrants. Agency-Justice-Issues Lobbied: Interim Final Rule 89 FR 48710-Securing the Border, asylum, border policies; Bureau of Justice Assistance-Pre-trial, re-entry; Office of Justice Programs-Policing reform, re-entry. Agency-EOP-Issues Lobbied: White House Office- Executive Order 14010-Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework to Address the Causes of Migration, to Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and to Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the U.S. Border, asylum, asylum reform, restoration of asylum processing at southern border, complete termination of MPP, rebuilding a more humane asylum system, immigration, presidential proclamation to suspend and limit entry, executive order to provide relief to long-term undocumented immigrants, migrant deaths while in ICE detention, TikTok ban, national security, free speech, privacy, Kids Online Safety Act, civil liberties, civil rights, Affordable Connectivity Act, continued funding for broadband subsidies, oversight over counterterrorism policy and practices, torture, detention, drones, war authority, Guantanamo Bay, artificial intelligence, effects of AI on civil rights and civil liberties, speech, privacy, nondiscrimination, deep fakes, revenge porn, broadband, Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024; Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives-Migrant property dispossession, freedom of religious expression for migrants; Office of Science and Technology Policy-Use of AI in hiring, healthcare, and other protected areas, algorithmic justice. Agency-FTC-Issues Lobbied: U.S. commitments to World Trade Organization, artificial intelligence, effects of AI on civil rights and civil liberties, speech, privacy, nondiscrimination. Agency-HHS-Issues Lobbied: Community safety and justice, hidden foster care data collection, womens rights, family policing, LGBTQ+ rights, privacy and technology, Draft USCDI, Version Five: U.S. Core Data for Interoperability, Section 1557 regulation. Agency-FCC-Issues Lobbied: Prison profiteering, Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022, continued funding for broadband subsidies, broadband, net neutrality, Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024, digital discrimination. Agency-CMS-Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 14019-Promoting Access to Voting, voting rights. Agency-VA-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights, comprehensive care for transgender veterans. Agency-Education-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights, Title IX regulation, definition of antisemitism in education programs, First Amendment protections. Agency-HUD-Issues Lobbied: Womens rights, FR-6287-P-01: 30-Day Notification Requirement Prior to Termination of Lease for Nonpayment of Rent. Agency-Labor-Issues Lobbied: Use of AI in hiring, healthcare, and other protected areas, algorithmic justice, community safety and justice. Agency-NIST-Issues Lobbied: Use of AI in hiring, healthcare, and other protected areas, algorithmic justice. Agency-TSA-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights, customer experience roadmap. Agency-FBI-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights, FBI PSA on terrorist organizations during Pride Month. Agency-USCIS-Issues Lobbied: Language access for migrants in ICE detention. Agency-BOP-Issues Lobbied: Prison conditions, criminalization of free speech, BOP Docket No. BOP-1171-P Comments to Proposed Rule: Inmate Discipline Program: Disciplinary Segregation and Prohibited Act Code Changes. Agency-Census-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights, privacy and technology, 89-FR-15119: Current Population Survey Basic Demographic Items.

Legislation: S.3663-Kids Online Safety Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy, civil rights, civil liberties. S.1207-Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2023 or the EARN IT Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy. S.1080-Cooper Davis Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy. S.1199-Strengthening Transparency and Obligations to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy. S.1291-Protecting Kids on Social Media Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, privacy. S.1939-FAA Reauthorization Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, womens rights. S.1418-Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. S.2892-Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Algorithmic justice. S.701-Womens Health Protection Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. S.5-Equality Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. S.2624-Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. S.1999-Right to Contraception Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. S.3351-FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023-FISA Section 702 reauthorization. S.3234-Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: FISA Section 702 reauthorization. S.3565-Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Equitable access to broadband. S.2033-American Innovation and Choice Online Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech. S.4-John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights. S.1-Freedom to Vote Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights, democracy. S.3361-Traveler Privacy Protection Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. S.441-American Opportunity Accounts Act-Issues Lobbied: Racial justice. S.3961-Security and Freedom Enhancement (SAFE) Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: FISA Section 702 reauthorization. S.1541-Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022-Issues Lobbied: Prison profiteering. S.3409- End Solitary Confinement Act-Issues Lobbied: Solitary confinement. S.3900-Justice for Breonna Taylor Act-Issues Lobbied: Policing. S.2313-Driving for Opportunity Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Traffic decriminalization. S.1306-COPS Reauthorization Act 2023-Issues Lobbied: Policing. S.516-Fair Wages for Incarcerated Workers Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Prison labor exploitation. S.518-Correctional Facilities Occupational Safety and Health Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Prison labor exploitation. S.508-Ensuring Work Opportunities in Correctional Facilities Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Prison labor exploitation. S.517-Combating Workplace Discrimination in Correctional Facilities Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Prison labor exploitation. S.2646-HEAL for Immigrant Families Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. S.3196-Ensuring Medicaid Continuity for Children in Foster Care Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Disability rights. S.2625-Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, interior enforcement, removals, military neutralization. H.R.1325-Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Asylum, immigration, employment authorization for asylum seekers. H.R.4365-Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.2-Secure the Border Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, border policies, transit ban, credible fear standard, border expulsion authority, expedited removal, mandatory detention, parole. H.R.4367-Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.4665-Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.4368-Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.12-Womens Health Protection Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. H.R.4366-Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights, fentanyl provisions, immigration, racial justice, reproductive rights. H.R.15-Equality Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.1399-Protect Childrens Innocence Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.5894-Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.5601-MORE Act-Issues Lobbied: Marijuana decriminalization. H.R.4394-Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.4664-Making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.4821-Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.4820-Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.5893-Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.6570-Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: FISA Section 702 reauthorization. H.R.4454-To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to ensure that politically derived information is not used in an application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for an order under title I or III of such Act-Issues Lobbied: FISA Section 702 reauthorization. H.R.6262-Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: FISA Section 702 reauthorization. H.R.815-National Security and Border Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, immigrant detention, interior enforcement, deportation, border enforcement, asylum, transit ban, credible fear standard, border expulsion authority, expedited removal, mandatory detention, parole. H.R.5798-Protecting Our Nations Capital Emergency Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Policing. H.R.4972-End Solitary Confinement Act-Issues Lobbied: Solitary confinement. H.R.1525-Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Policing, civil asset forfeiture. H.R.7511-Laken Riley Act-Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement, immigration, detention. H.R.2882-Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement, immigration, detention, fentanyl provisions, racial justice, LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive rights. H.Res.957-Denouncing the Biden administrations open-borders policies, condemning the national security and public safety crisis along the southwest border, and urging President Biden to end his administrations open-borders policies-Issues Lobbied: Border enforcement. H.R.7521-Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R.6592-Fight Book Bans Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech. H.R.6943-No AI FRAUD Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech, artificial intelligence. H.R.6881-AI Foundation Model Transparency Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Algorithmic justice. H.R.6886-Transparent Automated Governance Act-Issues Lobbied: Algorithmic justice. H.R.7520-Protecting Americans Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R.7534-Verifying Kids Online Privacy Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy. H.R.1041-American Opportunity Accounts Act-Issues Lobbied: Racial justice. H.R.6451-Mental Health Justice Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Federal appropriations. H.R.895-Combating Organized Retail Crime Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Combatting criminalization. H.R.6985-BOP Release Card ID Act of 2024-Issues Lobbied: Banking access for justice-impacted individuals. H.R.1062-EQUAL Act-Issues Lobbied: Sentencing reform. H.R.459-SAFER Health Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Combatting criminalization. H.R.7530-DC CRIMES Act-Issues Lobbied: Policing. H.R.3686-SHIELD Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Policing. H.R.7187-Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.4364-Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2024-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights. H.R.6918-Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. H.R.6914-Pregnant Students Rights Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. H.R.4121-Right to Contraception Act-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. H.R.561-EACH Act of 2023-Issues Lobbied: Reproductive freedom. H.R.7573-Stop Unfair Medicaid Recoveries Act-Issues Lobbied: Disability rights. H.R.4734-MORE Act-Issues Lobbied: Marijuana decriminalization. Legislation with No Bill Number: Senate bill version-MORE Act-Issues Lobbied: Marijuana decriminalization. Communications Decency Act of 1996-Issues Lobbied: Section 230, free speech, maintaining Internet integrity. GUARD Act-Issues Lobbied: Freedom of speech, privacy. High School Voter Empowerment Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights. Next Step Home Act-Issues Lobbied: Voting rights. Environmental Health in Prisons Act-Issues Lobbied: Criminal justice reform, prison conditions. Reproductive Data Privacy and Protection Act-Issues Lobbied: Privacy, reproductive freedom. National Defense Authorization Act, 2025-Issues Lobbied: Immigration, military naturalizations, civil rights, civil liberties. Additional legislation not yet introduced-Creation of National Human Rights Institution, FISA Section 702 reauthorization, fiscal year 2025 appropriations, omnibus appropriations, consumer privacy, patenting of genes, gene research, net neutrality, broadband access, deep fakes, revenge porn, equity online, digital discrimination, elections funding, federal funding for elections, free speech, defining antisemitism in education programs, artificial intelligence, use of artificial intelligence in hiring and healthcare, algorithmic justice, watchlists, border enforcement, immigration, detention, CBP medical care and oversight, migrant property dispossession, freedom of religious expression for migrants, insular cases, self-determination of U.S. territories, criminal justice reform, clemency, community safety, prison conditions, prisoners rights for pregnant people, abortion, reproductive freedom, medication abortion, reproductive healthcare, TikTok ban, national security, free speech, privacy, foster care data collection, family policing, womens rights, civil rights, civil liberties. Agencies: Agency-Homeland Security-Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 14010-Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework to Address the Causes of Migration, to Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and to Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the U.S. Border, asylum, asylum reform, restoration of asylum processing at southern border, complete termination of MPP, rebuilding a more humane asylum system, immigration, CBP policing policies and practices, migrant property dispossession, language access for migrants, CBP One mobile application, Office of Intelligence Analysis practices, clemency, Immigrant Military Members and Veterans Initiatives recipients, freedom of religious expression for migrants; Customs and Border Protection-Migrant property dispossession, freedom of religious expression for migrants; Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Immigrant detention, detention of Mauritanian asylum-seekers. Agency-Justice-Issues Lobbied: Clemency, sentencing reform, clemency for federal death row prisoners; Office of the Pardon Attorney-Clemency, Immigrant Military Members and Veterans Initiative recipients. Agency-EOP-Issues Lobbied: White House Office-Clemency, executive clemency, Proclamation 10467, clemency for federal death row prisoners, Executive Order 14010-Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework to Address the Causes of Migration, to Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and to Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the U.S. Border, asylum, asylum reform, National Security and Border Act, protecting asylum and immigrant rights in funding negotiations, restoration of asylum processing at southern border, complete termination of MPP, rebuilding a more humane asylum system, temporary protected status, immigration, TikTok ban, national security, free speech, privacy, Kids Online Safety Act, civil liberties, civil rights, Affordable Connectivity Act, continued funding for broadband subsidies, oversight over counterterrorism policy and practices, torture, detention, drones, war authority, Guantanamo Bay, artificial intelligence, effects of AI on civil rights and civil liberties, speech, privacy, nondiscrimination, deep fakes, revenge porn, broadband, Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024; Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives-migrant property dispossession, freedom of religious expression for migrants; Domestic Policy Counsel-Criminal justice reform; Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs-Pregnant Workers Fairness Act notice of proposed rulemaking. Agency-Office of the Vice President-Issues Lobbied: Clemency. Agency-FTC-Issues Lobbied: Artificial intelligence, effects of AI on civil rights and civil liberties, speech, privacy, nondiscrimination. Agency-HHS-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights, Section 1557 regulation, electric shock therapy, disability rights. Agency-FCC-Issues Lobbied: Prison profiteering, continued funding for broadband subsidies, broadband, net neutrality, Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024, digital discrimination, equity. Agency-CMS-Issues Lobbied: Executive Order 14019-Promoting Access to Voting, voting rights. Agency-Treasury-Issues Lobbied: Banking access for justice-impacted individuals. Agency-VA-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights, comprehensive care for transgender veterans. Agency-Education-Issues Lobbied: LGBTQ+ rights, Title IX regulation, definition of antisemitism in education programs, First Amendment protections. Agency-HUD-Issues Lobbied: Womens rights, 30-Day notification requirement prior to termination of lease for nonpayment of rent notice of proposed rulemaking. Agency-FAA-Issues Lobbied: Flight crew pumping breast milk, womens rights, workplace discrimination.

Draft Legislation Child Suicide Prevention and Lethal Means Safety Act HR 6451 Mental Health Justice Act Draft Legislation - AVERT Future Acts of Violence Act

Client expense: $330,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice, Dept of (DOJ)