| HB4429 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the share of federal funds for cancer research that is allocated to pediatric cancer research to equal the percentage of the U.S. population that is under the age of 18.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-23
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB4434 | Intro
Sine Die | Reauthorizes the Appalachian Regional Commission through FY2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-23
To House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management |
| HB4453 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General to report annually to Congress and the public on health care fraud that targets seniors. Specifically, the report must include (1) the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-23
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB4455 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases Medicare payments for biosimilars for five years. The bill applies to biosimilars for which the average sales price or wholesale acquisition cost is less than that of the reference biological product, as specified.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-23
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB3625 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a whistleblower protection program at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). Specifically, individuals reporting information to the PCAOB regarding securities law violations relating to audits (1) are protected from retali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-23
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB3619 | Engross
Sine Die | Revises provisions related to real estate appraisals. Specifically, the bill adds trainee appraisers to the National Registry of Appraisers, allows the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's Appraisal Subcommittee to adjust annual regis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-23
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB2529 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands whistleblower protections with regard to commodities and securities law violations. Specifically, the bill extends protections from retaliation to individuals who (1) assist in a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) or in a Securities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-23
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SR323 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution designates September 2019 as National Kinship Care Month and encourages community stakeholders to work together to improve well-being for vulnerable children and families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-23
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5633; text: CR S5631-5632) |
| SB2530 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a School Safety Clearinghouse as a central resource for evidence-based practices and other information on school-safety topics. DHS shall develop tiers for determining evidence-based prac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-23
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB2183 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Government Accountability Office to analyze legislation reported by a congressional committee in order to prevent duplication of and overlap with existing federal programs, offices, and initiatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-23
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 216. |
| HB2613 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to report on emerging financial technologies—including artificial intelligence, digital identity, and blockchain technologies—and their use in law enforcement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-23
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB2290 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs financial regulators—including the Federal Reserve Board, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the National Credit Union Administration—to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-23
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB831 | Pass | Reviving America's Scenic Byways Act of 2019 requires the Department of Transportation to issue a request for nominations with respect to roads to be designated under the national scenic byways program and make publicly available a list specifying th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-22
Became Public Law No: 116-57. (TXT | PDF) |
| HB4427 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to identify a portion of federal land within the Durango disposal site that is suitable for conveyance to Colorado to be used as a storage site for residual radioactive materials as part of remediation activitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Environment and Climate Change Committee |
| HR565 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution supports the designation of National Clean Energy Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB4410 | Intro
Sine Die | To provide for the establishment of the Thorium-Bearing Rare Earth Refinery Cooperative, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Energy |
| HB4399 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the approval of new abortion drugs, to prohibit investigational use exemptions for abortion drugs, and to impose additional regulatory requirements with respect to previously approved abor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HR567 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution supports the designation of National Concussion Awareness Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB4401 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a broadcast radio or television licensee to provide reasonable opportunity for discussion of conflicting views on matters of public importance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology |
| HCR65 | Intro
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution supports existing regulations with the goals of (1) reducing greenhouse gas emissions and oil usage, and (2) protecting national security and human health and welfare. The concurrent resolution also supports policies that w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Environment and Climate Change Committee |
| HB4404 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that the label of drugs with an increased risk of suicide or depression present such increased risk prominently, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB4430 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to assign a unique numeric identifier to each campus of each institution of higher education for the purposes of reporting and disaggregating data such as tuition costs and graduation rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HR573 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes the cultural and historical significance of the Hmong New Year and wishes Hmong Americans and all individuals who observe this holiday a happy new year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB4443 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for a Federal, cost-of-living based minimum wage, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB4448 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that processed dried garlic and dried garlic mixed with minimal amounts of other vegetables are subject to the higher duty imposed on dried garlic instead of the lower duties imposed on further processed vegetables and other mixed vegetable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Trade |
| HB4454 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each executive agency to submit a quarterly report to the Office of Government Ethics listing each instance that the agency obligated or expended federal funds with any privately held company that is owned by the President. With respect to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB4436 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants to institutions of higher education for National Poverty Research Centers. In addition to conducting poverty policy research, such centers must coordinate nationwide research networ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HR572 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Forensic Science Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Science, Space, And Technology Committee |
| HB4456 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Labor to train relevant personnel on how to effectively detect and assist law enforcement in preventing human trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB4438 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on the net investment income of certain private colleges and universities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB4437 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the pooling of tips among employees who (1) customarily and regularly receive tips (as under current law), (2) customarily and regularly receive tips and receive a cash wage paid by the employer that is not less than the effective minimum wage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB4445 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to provide for a uniform 60-day period for Congress to review laws of the District of Columbia before such laws may take effect, to permit Congress to use the authorities and procedures available under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HR571 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution supports the designation of National Voter Registration Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Administration Committee |
| HB4450 | Intro
Sine Die | To authorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States to use 3 percent of its profits for administrative expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB4452 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and federal civil service law to entitle to leave an eligible employee, including a federal employee, to care for an adult child, grandparent, or grandchild (as well as for a spouse, child, or parent), ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HR574 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution supports teaching climate change in schools and programs to increase public knowledge on the impacts that humans have on the climate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of the Treasury to provide a capital increase for the North American Development Bank, a financial institution the United States and Mexico created to develop infrastructure that protect the environment along their shared bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 32 - 23. |
| HB4204 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands eligibility for internment in national cemeteries to include certain individuals who the Department of Veterans Affairs determines served honorably with a special guerilla unit or irregular forces in Laos in support of the U.S. Armed Forces b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB4290 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to designate one week per year as Battle Buddy Check Week for the purposes of organizing outreach events and educating veterans on how to conduct peer wellness checks. The VA shall ensure that the Vete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB4293 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the United States Commission on an Open Society with Security to study how the government may provide for both security in, and public access to, federal buildings and other federal property and sites. The commission shall examine (1) gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations |
| HB4282 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop (1) a suicide prevention and lethal means training session, and (2) a suicide prevention and lethal means counseling session tailored to veterans who served in the Armed Forces any time after Sep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB463 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the United States to forgive any overpayment of military retired or retainer pay for any period after the death of the recipient through the last day of the month in which such death occurs, if such payment is electronically deposited to a j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Garamendi asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 463, a bill originally introduced by Representative Jones, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection. |
| HB4413 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the U.S. Coast Guard to establish and maintain a Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program in cooperation with Pinellas Park High School in Pinellas County, Florida.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation |
| HB4425 | Intro
Sine Die | To increase the taxes on certain tobacco products, to prohibit the flavoring of certain tobacco products, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HR566 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses support for the designation of a National Dance Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HJR75 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution terminates the national emergency related to the U.S.-Mexico border, declared by the President on February 15, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management |
| HB4400 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to maintain a website and undertake other activities to educate health care providers, patients, and caregivers about biological products, biosimilar biological products, and interchangeable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB4397 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Labor to award grants to recruit, retain, or provide advancement opportunities to direct care workers. The term "direct care worker" includes home health aides, psychiatric aides, nursing assistants, and personal care aides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB1312 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses the management of Yurok Reservation lands. The Department of the Interior must enter into a cooperative agreement with the Yurok Tribe for protecting the natural resources of Redwood National Park. The bill confirms the 2006 Cooperative Agr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-19
Subcommittee Hearings Held. |
| SB2519 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to protect the public health by prohibiting non-tobacco e-cigarette flavors and ensuring electronic nicotine delivery systems are tamper-proof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
