| HB735 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates congressional review of newly-passed District of Columbia laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB328 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of State to design, establish, and make publicly known a Vulnerability Disclosure Process to improve cybersecurity. In establishing the process, the State Department must identify which information technology should be include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB498 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals specified sections of the federal criminal code, including provisions that prohibit the following: interstate transport of alligator grass, water chestnut plants, or water hyacinth plants; fraudulent use of the 4-H club emblem (i.e., the gree...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HR64 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution supports the establishment of a national day of recognition to honor Juan Pablo Duarte, the founding father of the Dominican Republic, and urges people to observe a national day of recognition for Dominican Americans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB710 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that excepted federal and District of Columbia public employees who must perform work during a lapse in appropriations (i.e., a government shutdown) be paid, at their standard rate of pay, on scheduled pay dates. Under current law, such empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HJR32 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment authorizing states to repeal, in whole or in part, federal executive orders, regulations, regulatory actions, or administrative rulings if the legislatures of two-thirds of the states approve ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB701 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the President to transfer the TARAWA-class amphibious ship USS NASSAU (LHA-4) to Japan on a sale or grant basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB707 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Bureau of Economic Analysis to include estimates pertaining to various income groups in its gross domestic product analyses. Such analyses shall include estimates pertaining to each of the 10 deciles of income as discreet groups and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to prevent disclosing information from applications to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or U.S. Customs and Border Protection...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 40 Fulton Street in Middletown, New York, as the "Benjamin A. Gilman Post Office Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides continuing appropriations to certain federal agencies to prevent a government shutdown if an appropriations bill for the agency has not been enacted before the fiscal year begins and continuing appropriations are not in effect. The bill excl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB699 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to (1) on a monthly basis, review the capital ratio of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund; and (2) upon determining whether the fund's capital ratio exceeds a specified limit, either issu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HR63 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses support for the renaming of Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights, and Inwood, New York, as "Quisqueya Heights"; the engagement with Google, Wikipedia, Global Positioning System (GPS) applications, post offices, Metropolitan Transportation A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides continuing appropriations to prevent a government shutdown if any appropriations measure for a fiscal year has not been enacted before a fiscal year begins or a joint resolution making continuing appropriations is not in effect. The bill pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HR66 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution reaffirms the following on behalf of the House of Representatives: the original intent of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to broadly prohibit all forms of discrimination by providing public and private rights of action against disparate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| SR25 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution (1) designates the week of January 20-January 26, 2019, as National School Choice Week; (2) acknowledges the 15th anniversary of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program; and (2) encourages all parents to learn more about the educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-19
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S311-312; text: CR S315) |
| SB194 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes new criminal offenses related to the transportation of a minor across state lines for an abortion. Specifically, the bill makes it a crime to knowingly transport a minor across a state line to obtain an abortion without satisfying a paren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB192 | Intro
Sine Die | Reauthorizes several health care, research, and workforce programs through FY2024. Specifically, the bill reauthorizes the Community Health Center Fund, which provides enhanced funding for community health centers and the National Health Service Corp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-18
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB251 | Pass | Extends by 15 months the Department of Homeland Security's Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-18
Became Public Law No: 116-2. (TXT | PDF) |
| HB675 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a tax credit equal to 10% of the costs of making changes to a fuel system in an emergency medical rotorcraft to comply with certain requirements for fuel system crash resistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB109 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies provisions relating to federal funding for, and health insurance coverage of, abortions. Specifically, the bill prohibits the use of federal funds for abortions or for health coverage that includes abortions. Such restrictions extend to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 48 - 47. Record Vote Number: 7. (CR S288) |
| HB643 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits U.S. security assistance and arms sales to Saudi Arabia's government. The Department of Defense shall not provide security assistance, intelligence, training, equipment, or specified technical services to Saudi Arabia or any of its agents o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HCR5 | Intro
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution expresses support for granting temporary protected status to Haitian nationals residing in the United States, and supports the Haitian people and government's efforts to rebuild from years of natural disasters, economic har...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| SB187 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the authority of the Federal Reserve Board to appoint the Inspector General of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB Inspector General shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB636 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue commemorative coins that emblemize the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali. Surcharges received from the sale of these coins shall be paid to (1) the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky; (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HR57 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Agriculture, (2) Financial Services, (3) Foreign Affairs, (4) Transportation and Infrastructure, and (5) Veterans Affairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SB191 | Intro
Sine Die | Burn Pits Accountability Act requires the Department of Defense (DOD) and the military departments to evaluate whether each member of the Armed Forces has been (1) based or stationed where an open air burn pit was used to dispose of waste, or (2) exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| HB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the compensation of congressional employees who have been issued employment authorization documents under the Department of Homeland Security Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program. The program enables many unlawfully present aliens w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Administration Committee |
| HB672 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes federally owned student loans of federal employees eligible for deferment during governmental shutdowns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB186 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a recess or adjournment of Congress for more than eight hours (1) on and after April 15 of each year, if Congress has not adopted a concurrent resolution on the budget for the next fiscal year; and (2) on and after August 1 of each year, if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the rate for the tax on estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers to 20%. (Under current law, the highest rate is 40%.) The bill also exempts the budgetary effects of the tax reduction from the Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) rules established ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB678 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funding to provide compensation to certain employees of contractors who lost pay or leave due to the lapse in appropriations that began on December 22, 2018. Each agency subject to such lapse shall adjust the price of any contract for wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SR10 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution (1) extends heartfelt sympathy to the family of Richard Arvin Overton, who was the oldest surviving veteran, on the occasion of his death; and (2) honors his life and his service to the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR 1/8/2019 S70) |
| SB175 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a program for alien agricultural workers to obtain temporary resident status ("blue card status") and procedures to obtain permanent resident status. An alien shall qualify for the status if he or she performed the required amount of qual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB679 | Intro
Sine Die | Political Accountability and Transparency Act restricts the use of certain political funds and revises requirements for political communications. Specifically, the bill prohibits the personal use of political committee funds; treats coordinated expen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Administration Committee |
| HB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 24930 Washington Avenue in Murrieta, California, as the "Riverside County Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Memorial Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands tax incentives and federal assistance for employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) that are sponsored by S corporations. The bill extends to all domestic corporations, including S corporations, provisions allowing deferral of tax on gain from t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB654 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a business-related tax credit for employers who increase spending on worker training programs compared to their average training expenses for the three previous years. The tax credit is equal to the sum of (1) 40% of the increase for high-dema...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB651 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the requirements for calculating taxable income to allow a deduction from gross income (above-the-line deduction) for charitable contributions that are allowed as an itemized deduction under current law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB640 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to disclose certain tax return information to the Department of Education (ED) for the purpose of administering financial aid and loan programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965. (Under current law, st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB662 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses hazing incidents that involve students attending an institution of higher education (IHE). Hazing means an intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a student, or a former student, of an IHE against another student, that (1) is con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB190 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the inclusion of option years in the award price for certain sole source contracts (i.e., contracts awarded without a competitive process). Under current law, option years in the award price for such contracts limit their dollar award thre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB653 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Education to provide grants to eligible entities (i.e., a state, or one or more local educational agencies, public institutions of higher education, or private sector entities) to establish, expand, or support dual or concur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct a clinical trial of the effects of medical-grade cannabis on the health outcomes of covered veterans diagnosed with chronic pain, and also those diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SR20 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should expeditiously consider codifying into law the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy, which prohibits U.S. foreign assistance funds from going to organizations that pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB688 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the U.S. Postal Service to issue a PFC Garfield M. Langhorn Memorial Semipostal Stamp to Benefit our Veterans, with all proceeds benefitting the Supportive Services for Veteran Families program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SR24 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution (1) recognizes that land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) have certain strategic characteristics, and (2) opposes efforts to unilaterally reduce the size of the ICBM force of the United States or delay the implementat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| HB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits an individual required to present identification as a condition of voting in a federal election to meet the requirement by presenting a sworn written statement attesting to the individual's identification and that he or she is registered to v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Administration Committee |
| HB682 | Intro
Sine Die | T requires an individual who filed a financial disclosure report as a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, or Member of Congress to file a financial disclosure report by May 15 of the year in which the individual assumed the positio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-17
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
