| HB4228 | Intro
Sine Die | The bill reauthorizes through FY2024 the National Institutes of Health Rare Disease Regional Centers of Excellence and expands activities to facilitate research and increase awareness of rare diseases and conditions. (Rare diseases and conditions are... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB4232 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure the ability to enforce State and local law relating to leasing and renting of real property, and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 To House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology |
| SB1207 | Intro
Sine Die | Ratifies and modifies the Navajo Utah Water Rights Settlement Agreement negotiated between the Navajo Nation, the United States, and Utah. The agreement gives the Navajo Nation the right to use water from sources located within Utah and adjacent to o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 182. |
| HB4245 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the application process for a Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Specifically, the Department of Education (ED) shall not require an applicant to provide income or asset information if the applicant indicates they received a federal be... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB2448 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to control the export of electronic waste in order to ensure that such waste does not become the source of counterfeit goods that may reenter military and civilian electronics supply chains in the United States, and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB2445 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes an additional tax on the income of corporations that have gross revenues in excess of $1 billion and a wage disparity level in excess of 3,000%. A "wage disparity level" is defined as the ratio of the annual salary of the highest compensated ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2444 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets a minimum number of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers that must be deployed along the border between the United States and Canada. The minimum number of officers is the maximum number of officers that were deployed along that border at... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB4254 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a depository institution from engaging in unfair or deceptive acts in connection with overdraft coverage. Each depository institution that offers overdraft coverage for accounts must disclose overdraft coverage fees. It must also disclose t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB4260 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Gualterio Lazaro Santos Santos. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4253 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes universities to use certain grant funds to partner with local child care providers in offering child care services to their student-parent population. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB2447 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a process for expediting and standardizing the permitting process for certain distributed energy systems. The bill defines such systems as equipment or materials installed in, on, or near a building to support onsite or local energy use, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB2446 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for Medicare coverage of certain audiologist services. Specifically, the bill expands coverage to include diagnostic and treatment services that are furnished by audiologists and that would otherwise be covered if provided by a physician, in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB2443 | Intro
Sine Die | Reauthorizes and revises the pediatric specialty loan repayment program. The program provides qualified pediatric medical specialists or child and adolescent mental, behavioral, and psychiatric health specialists up to three years of loan repayment i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB4259 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands automatic eligibility for the National School Lunch Program to foster children who have been placed with a relative or family friend with the involvement of the state child welfare agency. To enroll in the program, a family must document the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-09 To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB3154 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits federal mortgage providers from limiting insurance eligibility on the basis of the mortgagor's participation in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 155. |
| HB2763 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from implementing, administering, enforcing, or in any manner making effective the proposed rule titled Housing and Community Development Act of 1980: Verification of Eligible Status, is... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 154. |
| HB4240 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes adjustments to the process of filing a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Specifically, a student who submits a FAFSA and learns they are eligible for a Pell Grant will not be required to refile the FAFSA. The Department of Educa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06 To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB4239 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows nonrecognition of gain, for income tax purposes, from the sale of property to public housing agencies for use as affordable housing. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06 To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB4233 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to jointly issue a final rule addressing the method of calculating the risk, for purposes of satisfying capital rules appl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06 To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB4238 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows employers a business-related tax credit of $1,500 for hiring an apprenticeship employee who has not attained age 25 at the close of the taxable year or $1,000 for hiring an apprenticeship employee who has attained age 25. The credit is availab... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06 To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB4231 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows for the reporting of certain positive consumer-credit information to consumer reporting agencies. Specifically, a person or the Department of Housing and Urban Development may report information related to a consumer's performance in making pa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06 To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB4241 | Intro
Sine Die | Renames a master promissory note that is made for certain student loans a student loan contract. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06 To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB4235 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that independent contractors be treated as employees under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06 To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HR547 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution congratulates the Eastbank All-Stars from River Ridge, Louisiana, on winning the 73rd Little League Baseball World Series Championship. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06 To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB4217 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the Department of Homeland Security to develop a resource guide for use by state, local, and tribal officials, including law enforcement officers, to help such officials prepare f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-06 To House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation |
| HB4211 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the licensing process of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for animal dealers and exhibitors to expand USDA's oversight and enforcement of animal welfare requirements. The bill also authorizes citizen suits to enforce the Animal Welfare Ac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-04 To House Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture |
| HB4033 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses affordable access to clean water by establishing, expanding, or extending various programs or requirements related to drinking water infrastructure, water pollution control, water supply, water recycling, water efficiency, or conservation p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-04 To House Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Committee |
| HB4205 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to make retroactive payments to states and local governments under the emergency watershed protection program for work that is done after a project is approved, but before funds are dispersed. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-04 To House Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Committee |
| HB4226 | Intro
Sine Die | To provide that certain guidance related to the citizenship of children of Federal employees and members of the Armed Forces shall have no force or effect, and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-03 To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4221 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the National Institutes of Health to carry out a five-year study on reducing teacher stress and increasing teacher retention and well-being by implementing and analyzing the results of any of several types of programs, including (1) teacher s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-03 To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB4215 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish specified grant programs to support positive maternal health care outcomes for pregnant and postpartum women and their infants. Specifically, grants must be used to (1) develop b... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-03 To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB4208 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises endangered or threatened species requirements with respect to hoofstock born within the borders of the United States. Under this bill, hoofstock means barasingha, red lechwe, Arabian oryx, Eld's deer, Grevy's zebra, gaur, or banteng. The bill... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-30 To House Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife |
| HB4216 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the income protection allowance levels used to calculate a working student's expected family contribution and need for financial assistance. An income protection allowance is an amount for basic living expenses that is protected from being ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-30 To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB4219 | Intro
Sine Die | Gives the U.S. Supreme Court exclusive jurisdiction to hear appeals from a nationwide injunction issued by a U.S. district court. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-30 To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4222 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the grant program for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs that benefit Native American students. Under current law, this program only applies to programs that benefit Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. The bill... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-30 To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB4220 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows local educational agencies to use specified federal funds for mentoring programs and other activities that address chronically absent students (i.e., students who miss 10% or more of school days). Such activities may include, among other thing... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-30 To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HR544 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses support for members of the Islamic community and recognizes Islam as one of the world's great religions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-30 To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB3952 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to waive the matching requirement for certain grants under the specialty crop research initiative. Specifically, USDA may waive the requirement if (1) the research conducted using grant funds will benef... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-29 To House Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research Committee |
| HB4149 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits funds made available for any fiscal year from being used to close, consolidate, or eliminate an office of the Environmental Protection Agency, including a regional or program office. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-29 To House Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research Committee |
| HB4057 | Intro
Sine Die | To restore employment and educational opportunities in, and improve the economic stability of, counties containing National Forest System land, while also reducing Forest Service management costs, by ensuring that such counties have a dependable sour... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-29 To House Conservation and Forestry Committee |
| HB3987 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts certain financial companies not primarily regulated by either a federal banking agency or the Federal Housing Finance Agency from requirements to conduct stress tests. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading C... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-29 To House Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Committee |
| HB4134 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the goals of the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AGARDA). Specifically, the bill expands the goals to require AGARDA to enhance the role of agriculture in innovative voluntary resilience solutions in the United States... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-29 To House Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research Committee |
| HB4133 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to (1) direct a study on the state of soil health on federal lands that determines impacts such as grazing, wildfire, recreation, and invasive species; and (2) create a database of the information collected duri... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-29 To House Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research Committee |
| HB4037 | Intro
Sine Die | To promote uniformity and reciprocity among States that license insurance claims adjusters and to facilitate prompt and efficient adjusting of insurance claims, and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-29 To House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management |
| HB3969 | Intro
Sine Die | To improve efforts to combat marine debris, and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-29 To House Conservation and Forestry Committee |
| HB4151 | Intro
Sine Die | To improve agricultural job opportunities, benefits, and security for aliens in the United States and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-28 To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| HB4141 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows states to cover inmates of public institutions under Medicaid. The Government Accountability Office must report on specified information relating to the health of inmates and the effects of Medicaid coverage. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-28 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB4140 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it a crime for foreign officials to demand or accept bribes to influence an official act or violate an official duty. An individual who violates this provision is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to two years, or both... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-28 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB4150 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadens the prohibition on importation or transportation of obscene materials. Specifically, the bill makes it a crime to import, or knowingly use a common carrier or interactive computer service to transport, a child sex doll. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-28 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB3980 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies procedures with respect to capital sentencing hearings. If a jury at a capital sentencing hearing does not reach a unanimous recommendation on the defendant's sentence, then the court must order a new special sentencing hearing and impanel a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-28 To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |