S. 344: Major Richard Star Act
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S. 344: Major Richard Star Act
118th Congress · introduced 2023-02-09 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2023-02-09 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Major Richard Star Act
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Major Richard Star Act
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] · 74 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Mike Crapo (R-ID), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Cory A. Booker (D-NJ), John Hoeven (R-ND), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), James E. Risch (R-ID), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH), John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Patty Murray (D-WA), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Gary C. Peters (D-MI), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Tina Smith (D-MN), Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Steve Daines (R-MT), John Boozman (R-AR), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Peter Welch (D-VT), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), John Barrasso (R-WY), John Fetterman (D-PA), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Rick Scott (R-FL), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan M. Collins (R-ME) and 14 more.
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Sources
- Official summary
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-118s344.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/118/s>
Record fed-us-cong118-s344 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong118 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong118