| SB2482 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to prohibit the use of Federal funds to carry out the final rule of the Department of Homeland Security entitled "Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2483 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes requirements related to U.S. cooperation with International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) communications. No U.S. agency or department may arrest an individual based solely on an INTERPOL notice without (1) prior validation of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB2485 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits federal agencies from using U.S. government funds to pay for expenses at lodging establishments that are owned by or employ certain public officials or their relatives, including by providing travel reimbursement or a per diem allowance for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB4343 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education (ED) to publish certain requirements for financial aid offers. ED must conduct consumer testing to serve as the basis for determining such requirements for financial aid offers, and a financial aid offer must cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB4342 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to recommend how to create a single, electronic form whereby a teacher who makes use of specified financial assistance programs may provide certification that they have completed the requirements to benefit from s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB2492 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide best practices on student suicide awareness and prevention training and condition State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and tribal educational agencies receiving funds under s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB2487 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Defense (DOD) to consolidate distribution center infrastructure. DOD must submit a plan including (1) cost-savings estimates, (2) a list of facilities subject to closure or disposal, and (3) a certification that supply chain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| HB4349 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the limit on the tax deduction for business interest to include the financing of certain trailers and campers in the definition of "floor plan financing indebtedness." (Interest on floor plan financing indebtedness is exempt from the limit.)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR560 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution directs the House Committee on the Judiciary to inquire whether the House of Representatives should impeach Associate Justice Kavanaugh.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To House Rules Committee |
| HB4366 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of the Treasury to report every 180 days on licenses issued by Treasury that authorize financial services benefiting persons covered by sanctions with respect to North Korea.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB4352 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants for developing, enhancing, or evaluating kinship navigator programs. Such programs help grandparents and other relative caregivers find and use services to meet the needs of the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To House Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support |
| SB2484 | Intro
Sine Die | Reauthorizes the operation of the Department of Veterans Affairs regional office in the Philippines through September 30, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB2481 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands programs to address neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which are infections caused by pathogens, including viruses, microbes, and helminths (parasitic worms), that disproportionately impact individuals living in extreme poverty, especially i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB4365 | 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] | 2019-09-17
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB2490 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent changes to the child tax credit enacted by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (P.L. 115-97), including increasing the amount of such credit from $1,000 to $2,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2493 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Malign Foreign Influence Response Center within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The center shall (1) serve as the primary government organization for analyzing intelligence relating to malign foreign influe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To Senate Select Intelligence Committee |
| HB4367 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of the Treasury to support increasing the use of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) administrative budget for technical assistance to help IMF members fight money laundering and funding for terrorism. The National Advisory C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB4362 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to reporting requirements that apply to foreign financial institutions and individuals with foreign financial assets, to create exceptions for the foreign accounts of certain U.S. residents or citizens l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB2491 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to terminate certain rules issued by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce relating to endangered and threatened species, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2488 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain issuers of securities to create policies reasonably designed to prevent executive officers and directors from trading their securities after a significant corporate event but before disclosing that event through a public filing. Cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB2489 | Intro
Sine Die | The bill extends through FY2021 the authorization for funding financial assistance for supportive services for very low-income veteran families in permanent housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SR314 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution acknowledges 2019 as the centennial for the Aerospace Industries Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5512; text: CR S5542) |
| SB2486 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a grant program, administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), for states, local governments, tribal governments, and other public or nonprofit entities to establish or administer landlord-tenant mediation programs in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HR430 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution authorizes the House Committee on the Judiciary to initiate or intervene in federal judicial proceedings to enforce compliance with certain subpoenas issued to Attorney General William Barr and former White House Counsel Donald McGahn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
COMMUNICATION TO THE HOUSE - The House received a communication from Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. Chairman Nadler notified the House of the initiation by the Committee on the Judiciary of the following judicial proceedings pursuant to H. Res. 430: 1. In Re: Application of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, for an Order Authorizing the Release of Certain Grand Jury Materials, Misc. no. 1:19-gj-00048-BAH filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on July 26, 2019. 2. Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives v. McGahn, No. 1:19-cv-2379 filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on August 7, 2019. |
| SB2480 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the payment in lieu of taxes program through FY2029. "Payments in Lieu of Taxes" (PILT) are federal payments to local governments that help offset losses in property taxes due to the existence of nontaxable federal lands within their boundari...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2479 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to provide clarification regarding the common or usual name for bison and compliance with section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB4269 | Intro
Sine Die | To provide incentives for agricultural producers to carry out climate stewardship practices, to provide for increased reforestation across the United States, to establish the Coastal and Estuary Resilience Grant Program, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
To House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States |
| HB4294 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses offshore and onshore oil and gas resources, and the use of renewable energy resources on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and other federal lands. Among other things, the bill allows states with an established permitting and regulatory pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-16
To House Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife |
| HB4296 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend title VI of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure the safe use of cosmetics, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB4321 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses the reduction of lead-based hazards. It also modifies the tax treatment of carried interest (i.e., compensation that is typically received by a partner of a private equity or hedge fund and is based on a share of the fund's profits) and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
To House Environment and Climate Change Committee |
| HB4306 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to conduct an evaluation of the safety, security, and environmental risks of transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) by rail. Among other things, the FRA must perform physical testing of rail tank ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
To House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials |
| HB4295 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Defense to carry out a pilot program providing blood testing to children of certain members of the Armed Forces. Such members are those who served on a military installation in the continental United States that was exposed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB4307 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises requirements for the fixed guideway capital investment grant program. Specifically, the bill requires capital investment grant applicants to conduct a housing feasibility assessment along proposed transit routes prior to a project advancing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
To House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials |
| HB4309 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish a program to facilitate the installation of evidence-based suicide deterrents on bridges, including suicide prevention nets and barriers. DOT may award competitive grants to states and loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
To House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials |
| HB3170 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it unlawful to manufacture, sell, or otherwise distribute crib bumpers. Crib bumpers are generally padded materials inserted around the inside of a crib and intended to prevent the crib occupant from becoming trapped in any part of the crib's o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 162. |
| HR557 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution supports designating National Dystonia Awareness Month to raise public awareness and understanding of the condition and recognizes the need for additional research to find a cure. (Dystonia is a neurological disorder that is character...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB4332 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue $5 gold coins, $1 silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins in recognition and celebration of Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the first influential African-American poets in American literature and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-13
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB4298 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores a student's Pell Grant eligibility for any period of time during which the student qualified for, or would have qualified for, federal student loan forgiveness due to school closure, assertion of a defense against repayment, or institutional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB4310 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the definition of a public service job to include working at any nonprofit organization, regardless of the organization's mission, for the purposes of student loan repayment and public service student loan forgiveness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB4327 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to encourage institutions of higher education to develop and implement comprehensive campus mental health and suicide prevention plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB2473 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to extend certain provisions of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act until September 30, 2030, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB4316 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a Department of Education program to provide temporary emergency impact aid payments to states for assisting local educational agencies and Indian schools in responding to increases in the enrollment of immigrant children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB4304 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends through 2029 and revises the authority of the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) to lease its non-excess real property and related personal property. The bill expands the purposes for which NASA may enter such leases for in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
To House Science, Space, And Technology Committee |
| SB2470 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides FY2020 appropriations for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works projects, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Energy (DOE), and independent agencies such as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 204. |
| SB2469 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires operators of distribution pipelines to use advanced leak detection technology to detect and repair leaking pipelines, including high sensitivity methane detectors mounted on a vehicle or aircraft that is equipped with global positioning syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB3356 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes certain veterans eligible for the Transportation Security Administration PreCheck Program at no cost if they meet the program's background check and security requirements. Veterans who are eligible for this fee waiver are those who have been de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 160. |
| SB2474 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides FY2020 appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for military activities. The bill excludes military construction, military family housing, civil works projects of the Army Corps of Engineers, and nuclear warheads, which are all cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 205. |
| HB4315 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a candidate for Congress from (1) accepting a campaign contribution from any political committee other than an authorized committee of the candidate, and (2) establishing a leadership political action committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
To House Administration Committee |
| SR311 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution (1) supports the designation of the week of September 11-September 17 as Patriot Week; and (2) recognizes that each generation should renew the spirit of the nation based on the first principles, historical figures, founding documents...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5482; text: CR S5477) |
| HB1146 | Engross
Sine Die | (Sec. 2) prohibits the Bureau of Land Management from administering an oil and gas leasing, development, production, and transportation program in and from the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. (Sec. 3) The bill establis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
