| HB175 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises criminal provisions related to the interstate transportation of firearms and ammunition.An individual may transport a firearm between two places (e.g., states) where it is legal to possess, carry, or transport the firearm. During transport, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Withholds the salaries of Members of a chamber of Congress that has not agreed to a budget resolution for FY2020 by April 15, 2019, as required by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Salaries are withheld from April 16, 2019, until the chamber of C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Administration Committee |
| HB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the outstation of the Department of Veterans Affairs in North Ogden, Utah, as the "Major Brent Taylor Vet Center Outstation."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires (1) the reinstatement of the tax-exempt status of a tax-exempt subsidiary organization with fewer than 50 members whose tax-exempt status was revoked due to failure to file required tax returns or notices, and (2) a waiver of any user fee ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB189 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a federal banking agency may not request or order a depository institution to terminate a customer account unless (1) the agency has a valid reason for doing so, and (2) that reason is not based solely on reputation risk. Valid reasons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of any funds that are made available to the National Endowment for the Humanities of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities to carry out the functions, programs, and activities of such endowment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB144 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the flying of any flag other than the U.S. flag over U.S. diplomatic and consular posts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows distributions from tax-favored qualified tuition programs (known as 529 plans) to be used for certain expenses in connection with a homeschool (whether treated as a homeschool or a private school for purposes of state law). The expenses includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB124 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes requirements regarding congressional redistricting, including that redistricting plans must be developed by an independent redistricting commission. A state that has been redistricted after an apportionment of Representatives may not be r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Election Assistance Commission to carry out a pilot program providing funds, during FY2019, to local educational agencies (LEAs) for initiatives that provide 12th graders with voter registration information. LEAs must consult with their s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Administration Committee |
| HB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Internal Revenue Service to disclose and make publicly available tax returns and return information for certain candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. The requirement applies to tax returns and return informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends procedures related to Department of State overseas construction to reduce costs. For any new embassy or consulate compound construction projects, the State Department may use a non-standard design only after consulting Congress. The State Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes various penalties on aliens who overstay a visa or lawful immigration status. An alien who overstays shall be fined or imprisoned for up to six months, or both. Such an individual may not be admitted into the United States for 5 years, and ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes several changes to the National Disaster Medical System, which is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. Among other changes, the bill requires an agency revi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a qualified individual to carry a concealed handgun into or possess a concealed handgun in another state that allows individuals to carry concealed firearms. A qualified individual must (1) be eligible to possess, transport, or receive a firea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB78 | Intro
Sine Die | Divides the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit into two judicial circuits: (1) the Ninth Circuit, and (2) a new Twelfth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit is composed of California, Guam, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and Northern Mariana Islands. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet |
| HB138 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a state from imposing additional conditions or requirements on the eligibility of an individual to cast a vote in federal elections by mail, except to the extent that it imposes a deadline for requesting the ballot and returning it to the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Administration Committee |
| HB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes silencers from the definition of firearms for purposes of the National Firearms Act. It also treats persons acquiring or possessing a firearm silencer as meeting any registration and licensing requirements of such Act. The Department of Justi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state redistricting entities to publish information regarding redistricting plans, both before and after adoption of a redistricting plan, including (1) maps of the congressional districts; (2) the composition of the districts by race, langu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| SB12 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the requirements for health savings accounts (HSAs) to rename high deductible health plans as HSA-qualified health plans; allow spouses who have both attained age 55 to make catch-up contributions to the same HSA; make Medicare Part A (hospi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits giving assistance, such as various types of economic support or military training, to countries that oppose U.S. positions on more than 50 percent of the recorded votes in the most recent United Nations session. A country may be exempted if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB112 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Central Intelligence Agency from using an unmanned aerial vehicle to carry out a weapons strike or other lethal action. The President shall transfer to the Department of Defense all authority to use such a vehicle to conduct such a stri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Intelligence Committee |
| HB181 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts application of the penalty on individuals who refuse or neglect to answer a decennial census question. The penalty shall apply only to individuals who do not answer a question included on the short form regarding household size or citizensh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB167 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it unlawful for a person who is not a licensed gun dealer to transfer a firearm at a gun show. The prohibition does not apply to a transfer to a licensed manufacturer, importer, dealer, or collector. A violator is subject to criminal penaltiesâ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| SB18 | Intro
Sine Die | Alters Medicaid requirements relating to payment for inpatient hospital services that are provided by disproportionate share hospitals (DSHs). (DSHs are hospitals that receive additional payment under Medicaid for treating a large share of low-income...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires states to allow voting in federal elections to be by mail without additional conditions or requirements, except a deadline for returning the ballot. States must mail ballots to individuals registered to vote in a federal election not later t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| HB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands funding and support for small businesses that have their principal office in Puerto Rico. Specifically, the bill increases the total amount of loans outstanding and committed to any microloan intermediary if at least 20% of the intermediary's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Small Business Committee |
| SB3 | Intro
Sine Die | Alters and establishes several programs relating to health insurance and prescription drugs. Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a public health insurance option through health insurance exch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Waives various embargo and immigration restrictions in order to allow Cuban nationals to enter the United States to play organized professional baseball. U.S. embargo authority may not regulate or prohibit various transactions by or on behalf of such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the President and certain candidates for President to disclose federal income tax returns for the three most recent taxable years in reports filed with either the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) or the Federal Election Commission (FEC), in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Rules And Administration Committee |
| HB216 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the tax deduction for qualified business income. (Under current law, the deduction expires after December 31, 2025.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB27 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the assumptions that the Congressional Budget Office uses to calculate the baseline for discretionary spending. (A baseline is a projection of federal spending and receipts during a fiscal year under current law.) The bill changes the assumpt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Budget Committee |
| HB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Small Business Administration to award grants to small business development centers and women's business centers for assisting small businesses with tax compliance issues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB25 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a national sales tax on the use or consumption in the United States of taxable property or services in lieu of the current income taxes, payroll taxes, and estate and gift taxes. The rate of the sales tax will be 23% in 2021, with adjustments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires states with a voter registration requirement to make same-day voter registration available at the polling place on any day voting is permitted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Administration Committee |
| HB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows rehabilitation expenditures for any building which is a qualified public educational facility to qualify for the rehabilitation tax credit. A "qualified public educational facility" is a school facility that is part of a public elementary or s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB9 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts traditional large and premium cigars from regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and from user fees assessed on tobacco products by the FDA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB5 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows individual taxpayers a tax credit for charitable contributions to a scholarship granting organization. The bill allows a maximum credit amount of $4,500 ($2,250 for a married individual filing a separate return). A "scholarship granting organi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB210 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires disbursements by presidential inaugural committees to be reasonable, related to the inaugural ceremony, and reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Currently, there are no restrictions on disbursements and committees must report d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB17 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Housing and Urban Development to require units in public housing and supportive housing for the elderly, as well as dwellings receiving low-income housing choice voucher assistance, to maintain a temperature level ranging fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB77 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits federal courts from issuing injunctive orders that bar enforcement of a federal law or policy against a nonparty, unless the nonparty is represented by a party in a class action lawsuit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| SB16 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a process by which a core seasonal industry may petition for countervailing and antidumping duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB4 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a refundable middle class tax credit of up to $3,000 for individuals and up to $6,000 for married individuals filing joint returns. Taxpayers must be at least 18 years of age to receive the credit and may elect to receive payments of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Cancels the automatic adjustment to the pay of Members of Congress that is based on the employment cost index if the Congressional Budget Office determines that there was a federal budget deficit in the last fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Administration Committee |
| HB50 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Management and Budget, jointly with the executive department that issues the most federal grant awards, to (1) establish government-wide data standards for information reported by grant recipients, (2) issue guidance directing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB191 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes future Members of Congress from the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and requires Members currently enrolled in FERS or the Civil Service Retirement System to opt in to continue their enrollment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Administration Committee |
| HB214 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases from two to three the total number of U.S. district court judgeships for the District of Idaho. The President must appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional judge for that judicial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet |
