| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Automatically designates medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as health professional shortage areas for purposes of the National Health Service Corps Program. Individuals may not participate in both the VA's Health Profession...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB457 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the requirements for health savings accounts (HSAs) to (1) increase the maximum contribution limits for HSAs to match the sum of the annual deductible and out-of-pocket expenses permitted under a high deductible health plan, (2) allow indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| SB104 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides continuing appropriations to prevent a government shutdown if any appropriations measure for a fiscal year has not been enacted before the fiscal year begins or a joint resolution making continuing appropriations is not in effect. For an ini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB479 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program, which makes immigrant visas available to individuals from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| SB91 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses funding for care of dependents of homeless veterans. Grant recipients under the Department of Veterans Affairs comprehensive service program for homeless veterans receive per diem payments for services furnished to homeless veterans. The bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB446 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a business-related tax credit of up to $400,000 for 25% of the franchise fees paid or incurred by an eligible veteran for the purchase of a franchise. The bill reduces the amount of such credit if the veteran does not own 100% of the stock or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | (1) modifies the boundary of the Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead Falls Wilderness Study Area in Oregon to exclude approximately 688 acres of public land, and (2) directs the Department of the Interior to manage such land to improve fire resiliency and for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to James Megellas for acts of valor on January 28, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SR16 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution declares that (1) the Senate has heard with profound sorrow and deep regret the announcement of the death of the Honorable John Chester Culver, former Member of the Senate; and (2) when the Senate adjourns on January 10, 2019, it stan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S146; text: CR S145-146) |
| HB476 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases for 2 years tax credits that apply to solar property with a nameplate capacity of less than 20 kilowatts. The increases apply to the investment tax credit and the tax credit for residential energy efficient property expenditures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the annual fee on health insurers. Under current law, the fee is suspended for 2019 and is scheduled to be reimposed in 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB100 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Forest Service, if Custer County in South Dakota offers to acquire approximately 65.7 acres of National Forest System land in the county for market value, to convey such land to the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB470 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the required purchase of flood insurance in certain circumstances to only residential properties (currently, the requirement applies to all types of property).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB75 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Small Business Administration from providing aid, counsel, or assistance to a small business concern that (1) is headquartered in China, or (2) has more than 25% of voting stock owned by citizens of China.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| SB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that the boundary of Acadia National Park in Maine is confirmed to include approximately 1,441 acres of land and interests in the Schoodic Peninsula. The bill ratifies and approves the acquisition by the United States of such land and intere...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB264 | Engross
Sine Die | TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Department of the Treasury Appropriations Act, 2019 This title provides appropriations to the Department of the Treasury for Departmental Offices, including Salaries and Expenses, the Office of Terrorism and Financ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 9. |
| HB269 | Engross
Sine Die | (1) reauthorizes, revises, and establishes several programs and entities relating to public-health emergency preparedness and response; and (2) addresses the approval process for over-the counter (OTC) drugs. Among other programs, the bill reauthoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 10. |
| SB103 | 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] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB76 | Intro
Sine Die | Redesignates the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in New Hampshire as the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SR15 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution commends the Clemson University Tigers for winning the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S146; text: CR S145) |
| SB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes a series of changes relating to the prices of prescription drugs under the Medicare prescription drug benefit and Medicare Advantage (MA) prescription drug plans (PDPs). Under current law, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the conveyance of the Contra Costa Canal and the Rock Slough fish screen facility from the Department of the Interior to the Contra Costa Water District in California.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB88 | Intro
Sine Die | Redesignates the Ocmulgee National Monument in Georgia as the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. The boundary of the park is adjusted to include 2,100 acres of land. The Department of the Interior may acquire lands and interests within the bou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB74 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits Members of Congress from being paid during a government shutdown, beginning with the 117th Congress. For the 116th Congress, the bill requires a Member's pay to be deposited in an escrow account during a government shutdown and to be releas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HR35 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes (1) National Mentoring Month, and (2) the staff and volunteers at quality mentoring programs who help young people reach their full potential. It acknowledges that mentoring is beneficial in that it supports educational ach...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits tax deductions for expenses relating to direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs. "Direct-to-consumer advertising" is any dissemination, by or on behalf of a sponsor of a prescription drug product, of an advertisement that is (1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Reauthorizes for FY2020-FY2024 and makes appropriations for the Community Health Center Fund, which provides enhanced funding for the community health center program and the National Health Service Corps.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides states with the option to extend by two years a child-welfare demonstration project scheduled to end in FY2019. A state extending a demonstration project shall provide a plan to the Department of Health and Human Services specifying how the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB469 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to incorporate the replacement cost value of a structure insured under the National Flood Insurance Program of 1968 in its consideration of chargeable premium rates. FEMA must conduct a study reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a program for certain individuals without lawful immigration status to apply for deferred action status, and also appropriates $25 billion for border security. Deferred action status refe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a series of oversight and disclosure requirements relating to the prices of brand-name drugs. Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review at least annually all brand-name drugs for excessive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the reduction in the adjusted gross income threshold that must be exceeded before a taxpayer is allowed to claim an itemized tax deduction for medical expenses. (In 2017, the threshold was temporarily reduced from 10% to 7.5% for 2017...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB429 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the notification requirement for campaign contributions of $1,000 or more. The bill applies this requirement to (1) any political committee, not just a candidate's principal campaign committee; and (2) cumulative contributions of $1,000 or mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Administration Committee |
| HB471 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to annually transfer a portion of the risk from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to private reinsurance or capital markets. The amount of transferred risk must be based on a probable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | States that the authorization of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, with respect to the Salmon River in Idaho, to maintain or replace facilities or structures for commercial recreation services at Smith Gulch m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HR36 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that congressional redistricting should be reformed to remove political gerrymandering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| SB97 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses the importation of drugs from Canada and other foreign countries. The bill requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to promulgate regulations within 180 days permitting wholesalers, pharmacies, and individuals to import certain presc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB105 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from awarding federal family planning grants to entities that provide, or that financially support the provision of, abortions. Specifically, in order to receive such grants, entities must c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB90 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the President from establishing or extending national monuments in Utah unless: the proposed establishment or extension has been authorized by an Act of Congress, and the President has received a notice from the Governor of Utah that the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SR14 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses the Senate's sense that Cuba is engaging in state-sponsored human trafficking through Mais Medicos, a Brazilian government program that brings doctors from other countries, including Cuba, to serve in Brazil. The resolution ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB89 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the boundary of the Fort Frederica National Monument on St. Simons Island, Georgia, and increases the maximum number of acres that may be included in the monument from 250 to 305 acres.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB455 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an agency's websites that collect or store personally identifiable information (i.e., information that can be used to identify an individual, such as a name, social security number, or date and place of birth) to be certified as fully functi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB454 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the awards program for cost-saving identifications by federal employees of fraud, waste, or mismanagement to include identifications of certain operational expenses that are wasteful. An agency must propose any such identified wasteful expens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB86 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates specified Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Oregon as the Rogue Canyon and Molalla National Recreation Areas. The bill adds specified segments to the Rogue River as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Segment le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB87 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the boundary of the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Georgia to include approximately eight acres of land or interests in land identified as Wallis House and Harriston Hill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB77 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Small Business Administration to provide disaster loans to small business concerns affected by communicable diseases for which the federal government issues a travel alert or travel warning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB226 | Engross
Sine Die | Revises the Small Business Administration's reporting requirements to the President and to Congress on procurement contracts to include spending data in each best in class designation (highest current industry performance level) and the number of and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| SB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates approximately 99,653 acres of Forest Service land in Oregon as the Frank and Jeanne Moore Wild Steelhead Special Management Area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB438 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of federal funds by a state or local subdivision that has in effect a law, policy, or procedure that prevents or impedes (1) a timely response to a request by the Department of Homeland Security for information about an alien in cus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| SB85 | Intro
Sine Die | Reauthorizes the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act through FY2024. The Act provides services and support for victims of family violence, domestic violence, or dating violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
