President Biden signed 50 payments into legislation on Christmas Eve, because the yr and his time in workplace draw to an in depth.
The payments Mr. Biden signed embody socialite and mannequin Paris Hilton’s invoice to guard youngsters residing in residential remedy services, a invoice setting anti-hazing requirements on faculty campuses, and a invoice stopping members of Congress from gathering pensions if convicted of sure crimes.
Hilton is the power behind the Cease Institutional Youngster Abuse Act, which handed the Home and Senate final week. The laws creates a federal work group on youth residential applications to supervise the well being, security, care, remedy and placement of minors in rehab and different services. The brand new legislation is private for Hilton, who has testified earlier than Congress that she confronted abuse in such services as a teen.
One other measure the president signed, S. 932, prohibits members of Congress convicted of crimes associated to public corruption from receiving their retirement funds. Earlier legislation allowed members to proceed to obtain checks solely after the exhaustion of all appeals. The brand new bipartisan legislation comes after Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey was discovered responsible this yr of utilizing his political affect to profit businessmen and international governments in return for bribes.
The Cease Campus Hazing Act requires greater schooling establishments to reveal hazing incidents reported to campus or native police authorities of their annual safety experiences. The brand new legislation additionally requires faculties to show college students concerning the risks of hazing, amongst different issues.
Yet one more new legislation, S. 4610, makes the bald eagle the official fowl of the U.S. The federal authorities had by no means designated an official fowl.
On Monday, the president granted clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates going through demise sentences, commuting their sentences to life in jail with out the potential for parole. The transfer prompted each consternation and reward. Mr. Biden additionally vetoed a invoice on Monday that will have created 66 new federal judgeships, saying the Home had rushed it by with out resolving essential points about how it will be carried out.
