Carson Legislation Signed Into Law

Last update: October 2022

117^th – Pending:

• Duck Boat Safety (passed House twice, NDAA & Coast Guard Reauthorization (Sec.305) [Would implement long-overdue recommendations by National Transportation Safety Board to improve duck boat safety and save lives.]
• National Center for Advancing Aviation (NCAA) passed House [Would improve the diversity and quality of the aviation workforce across military, passenger, general and drone aviation sectors.]
• Prayer Room Appropriations Amendment – pending FY23 Appropriations (passed House) [Would provide the first-ever dedicated interfaith prayer space for Congressional staff and visitors to the Capitol complex.]
• Congressionally Directed Funding Projects - pending* FY23 Appropriations (passed House) [Community Funding Projects for IN-07.]
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1. 117^th – Omnibus Appropriations – Congressionally Directed Funding for IN-07, FY'22. Includes 9 of 10 Community Funding Projects (CFPs) approved & signed into law totaling $3,171,000 – PL 117-103 (3/15/22)

• $1,000,000 City of Indianapolis Mental Health Diversion Program
• $96,000 to Marion County Prosecutors Office for Second Chance Workshops
• $500,000 for the Global Village Welcome Center
• $500,000 for City of Indianapolis mental health and substance use treatment services for people in need of permanent supportive housing
• $75,000 for Community Action of Greater Indianapolis for behavioral health treatment and supportive services
• $300,000 to Ivy Tech Community College for mobile unit offering training and other services
• $600,000 to the United Northeast Community Development Corporation for job training and supportive services
• $100,000 to Eclectic Soul VOICES Corporation for job training, stipends and supportive services

2. 117^th - Pancreatic Cancer Research Funding – Appropriations FY'22, PL 117-103 (3/15/22). [Rept pg 143c/114] [Appropriated funding for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, specifically for early detection research of pancreatic cancer.]

3. 117^th - Pancreatic Cancer Research Authorization – NDAA FY'22 PL 117-81 [Rept pg 1066/1110] [Authorized increase research funding by $5 million for early detection research of pancreatic cancer.]

4. 117^th - Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,FY2022 IAA (enacted hereat p. 929, 136 Stat. 977) (in FY22 Consolidated Appropriations FY22) (3/15/22). [Publicly identifies Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) as national security risk; requires a thorough analysis of UAP reports from intelligence and military sources.]

5. 117^th - Intelligence Assessment on Foreign White Supremacists, FY2022 IAA (Press Release here; enacted hereat p. 974, 136 Stat. 1022) (3/15/22) [Requires a comprehensive intelligence assessment on threats to the U.S. associated with transnational violent or extremist white supremacist organizations and recommendations on how to stop this growing global movement.]

6. 116^th – Pancreatic Cancer Research Funding – Appropriations FY'21, PL 116-93 (12/3/21) [Rpt pg H8256/378] [Increased funding by $4 million for Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, specifically for early detection research of pancreatic cancer.]

7. 116^th - Pancreatic Cancer Research Authorization - NDAA FY'21, PL 116-283 [Amdt #66, Adding Subtitle D to Title VII]

[Authorized increase research funding by $5 million for early detection research of pancreatic cancer.]

8. 116^th – HBCU Funding Increase – Appropriations FY'20, PL-116-93 [Report p.83A]

(12/3/21) [Increased funds by $4 million to expand educational opportunities for Hoosiers and all students.]

9. 116^th - Supply Chain Intelligence, FY2020 IAA (floor speech here; enacted hereat p. 969, 133 Stat. 2165) (12/20/19) [Required improvements to the U.S. supply chain infrastructure to prevent adversaries from stealing sensitive defense information from the U.S.; and required the issuing of warnings of threats to supply chains or supply chain activities.]

10. 116^th - Strategic Intelligence Assessment of Domestic Terrorism, FY2020 IAA (floor speech here; enacted hereat 958 133 Stat. 2154) (12/20/19) [Required annual reports on domestic terrorism, with standard definitions and data for domestic terrorism acts/incidents, groups, ideologies, and root causes, and recommendations to fully address the threat of domestic terrorism and its root causes.]

11. 115^th – Carson's Secondary Cockpit Barriers FAA Reauthorization 2018

(Saracini Aviation Safety Act). P.L. 115-254 [Sec. 336] (10/5/18) [Required installation of secondary cockpit barriers on new passenger aircraft to keep the flight deck, passengers and crew safe from long-known security risks.]

12. 115^th – Carson's Kennedy-King National Commemorative Site (NPS)

HR 4851, PL 115-612 (4/4/18) [Added the Indianapolis Kennedy-King park location as a Commemorative Site in the National Park Service.]

13. 114^th - Requirement to Publish Terrorist Insignia, FY2017 IAA(Press Release crediting Carson here; Enacted hereat p. 686, 131 Stat. 820). (5/5/17) [Required publishing of insignia commonly associated with terrorist organizations to assist public and private entities in swiftly removing terrorist content online.]

14. 114^th - Report on Effects of Foreign Investment in the United States, FY2017 IAA (Press Release crediting Carson here; Enacted hereat p. 686, 131 Stat. 820). (5/5/17) [Required an assessment of the effects of foreign investments into companies with ties to the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense, identifying the operational impact and the mitigation strategy.]

14. 114^th – Carson's Ariel Rios Federal Building (ATF HQ)

HR 4957, PL 114-534 (5/20/16) [Renamed the ATF HQ building after Ariel Rios the ATF Agent who was killed in the line of duty.]

16. 112^th – Military Families Financial Preparedness Act (HR 535) included in Sec. 529 of the NDAA FY'12, PL 112-81. [Requires pre-separation financial counseling for service members to prevent vulnerability to predatory financial schemes and improve the financial security of service members when they leave active duty.]

17. 112^th - Service Member Mental Health Assessments During Deployments

(Amendment 306 [Sec. 702] to NDAA FY'12, HR 1540), PL 112-81 [Suicide Prevention by directing in theater mental health assessments for service members during deployment and not waiting until post-deployment.]

18. 111^th – HR 1105, Omnibus Appropriations Act FY ‘2009, PL 111-814 Congressionally Directed Projects IN-07 approved and signed into law totaling $6,784,514

• $100,000 to John Boner Community Center After School programs
• $300,000 to City of Indianapolis Liberty Hall II
• $190,000 to The Mind Trust Entrepreneur Fellowship
• $475,000 Ivy Tech Multi Modal Facility
• $475,000 City of Indianapolis for Downtown Transportation Improvements
• $381,000 to Riley Children's Cancer Center Expansion
• $143,000 Raphael Health Center Health information technology system
• $500,000 to City of Indianapolis for IMPD Technology
• $438,000 to The Jewish Federation of Indianapolis for IndyNORC
• $712,500 IndyGo Fleet Expansions
• $196,514 Boner Center Job and Home Ownership Programs
• $237,500 to City of Beech Grove for Community Center addition
• $2,536,000 to City of Indianapolis for Indy North Flood Control
• $100,000 City of Beech Grove for BGPD Technology

Appropriations Reports (3/11/09):

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CPRT-111JPRT47494/pdf/CPRT-111JPRT47494-Book1.pdf (pages 409,441,464, 519, 737, 1022)

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CPRT-111JPRT47494/pdf/CPRT-111JPRT47494-Book2.pdf (pages 1515, 1569, 1595, 1641, 2171, 2172, 2217, 2241).

19. 110^th - H.R.5501 - Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 PL 110-293 (7/30/08)

Carson Amendment 976 (Roll Call 156) adopted into this bill. [Expands plan for strengthening health systems of host countries by allowing for postsecondary educational institutions, particularly in Africa, to collaborate with United States postsecondary educational institutions and specifically historically black colleges and universities.]

https://www.congress.gov/amendment/110th-congress/house-amendment/976

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