HR1276, the VA Vaccine Act of 2021, introduced by Rep. Mark Takano (CA-41) and co-sponsored by Congressional Future Caucus members Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-7), Rep. Jim Banks (IN-3), Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA-6), Rep. Lee Zeldin (NY-1), Rep. Peter Meijer (MI-3) and Rep. Brendan Boyle (PA-2) passed the House of Representatives unanimously without objection on March 9th, 2021, passed the Senate on March 17th, and was signed into law by President Biden on March 24th.
On January 27, 2020, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4704, the Advancing Research to Prevent Suicide Act, on a 385-8 roll call vote. It has since been read twice in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. This bipartisan bill was introduced by Congressional Future Caucus (CFC) member Rep. Ben McAdams (D-UT-4) and was cosponsored by CFC co-chairs Reps. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH-16) and Haley Stevens (D-MI-11), among other
Rep. Gonzalez introduced the Identifying Outputs of Generative Adversarial Networks (IOGAN) Act in September alongside new CFC co-chair Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI-11). The bill provides for increased funding to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to examine the United States’ ability to identify and combat deepfakes and better understand the technology.
For the third congressional session in a row, two Congressional Future Caucus members and emeritus co-chairs, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI-2) and Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX-32), moved to promote a culture of service and giving through H.Res 709.
