| HB467 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the requirements regarding trafficking victim services grants. Specifically, it creates a preference for applicants who use the grant funds to investigate and prosecute individuals who solicit or purchase commercial sex.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB472 | Intro
Sine Die | The bill requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish standards for the development of alternative flood insurance rate maps by local and state governments. FEMA must consider recommendations made by the Technical Mapping Advi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic Trail to extend it to the Appalachian Trail in Vermont and to modify the route in northeastern Minnesota.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides continuing appropriations for the pay and allowances of certain employees of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) who are required to work without pay during a lapse in appropriations for FY2019. The ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) to establish a five-year pilot program to make grants to local educational agencies for the hiring of school resource officers in elementary and secondary schools. DOJ may give preferential consideration to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-10
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| SB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the federal budget process to require biennial congressional budget resolutions, instead of the annual budget resolutions required under current law. The bill retains the existing annual process for budget reconciliation and appropriations b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Budget Committee |
| SR13 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution designates the minority party's membership on specified Senate committees for the 116th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S87; text: CR S106) |
| SB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi, as a unit of the National Park System to preserve, protect, and interpret the home and history of the pivotal role of Medgar and Myrlie Evers in the civil rights ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB372 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends public safety officers' death benefits to Transportation Security Administration employees performing official duties related to protecting the nation's transportation systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that in making the appointment of a president, a Federal Reserve Bank must interview at least one individual reflective of gender diversity and one reflective of racial or ethnic diversity. The bill amends numerous banking-, finance-, and tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to initiate proceedings against parties to any agreement resolving or settling a patent infringement claim in connection with the sale of a drug or biological product. Such an agreement is presumed to hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB227 | Engross
Sine Die | Modifies provisions regarding the credit given to small business prime contractors for the use of certain lower-tier subcontractors in order to attain the percentage goals specified in their subcontracting plans. Such credit may be given if the goals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB394 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Commission on Voting to report to Congress proposed legislation that would make specified changes to voting policy, including (1) making Election Day a national holiday, (2) making voter registration automatic and permanent, and (3) r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Administration Committee |
| HB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the District of Columbia and each U.S. territory to furnish up to two statues honoring deceased residents for placement in the U.S. Capitol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Administration Committee |
| HB400 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Postal Regulatory Commission to establish rates of postage for packages shipped by priority mail from the United States to a foreign Army Post Office, Fleet Post Office, or Diplomatic Post Office address that limit the charge for distance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB388 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the threshold dollar amounts above which financial institutions are required to file currency-transaction and suspicious-activity reports with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB374 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides FY2019 continuing appropriations to the U.S. Coast Guard for any period during which interim or full-year appropriations for the Coast Guard are not in effect. The appropriations are provided to the Coast Guard for pay and allowances for mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB371 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides appropriations to pay the salaries and expenses of certain federal employees who are working during the lapse in appropriations that began on or about December 22, 2018, and resulted in a partial government shutdown. The bill applies to empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a visa waiver program for nationals of certain countries to enter the U.S. Virgin Islands. Countries that are member or associate members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), such as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| HB412 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the residence and income source rules that apply with respect to the taxation of income from U.S. possessions (Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands). The bill specifies that a bona fide resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SR12 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution designates the majority party's membership on specified Senate committees for the 116th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S87; text: CR S105-106) |
| HB408 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study and report on the pension system for the employees of the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands (known as the Government Employees Retirement System). The GAO study must analyze (1) the ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB71 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies certain Department of Justice (DOJ) regulations that govern the appointment, oversight, and removal of a special counsel. Additionally, the bill provides new statutory limitations and requirements with respect to the removal from office of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Payment and Access Commission to publish annually a report regarding the effects of Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The report must include ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB406 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that, in determining the meaning of any federal statute or any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various U.S. administrative bureaus and agencies, the term state shall include any U.S. territory, unless the statute, rule, regulati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| SB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a qualified individual to carry a concealed handgun into or possess a concealed handgun in another state that allows its residents to carry concealed firearms. A qualified individual must (1) be eligible to possess, transport, or receive a fir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HR31 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Ethics, and (2) House Administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB413 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows small businesses a work opportunity tax credit for hiring a member of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard. The bill also makes permanent the provisions of the credit that apply to the hiring of qualified veterans and members of the Ready R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB411 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the income source rules that apply with respect to the taxation of income from U.S. possessions (Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands). Under current law, income is not possession source inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB416 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs certain amounts from the Department of Justice (DOJ) Assets Forfeiture Fund to the deployment of additional border security measures. Specifically, the bill requires DOJ to report annually on the amount of total deposits into the fund that ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HR34 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses support for the designation of a National Animal Rescue Day to create awareness for animal rescue programs throughout the year and address the challenge of overpopulation through continued spaying and neutering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the U.S. Postal Service, by 270 days after its enactment, to designate a single, unique ZIP code for each of Miami Lakes, Florida; Flanders, Northampton, and Riverside in the Town of Southampton, New York; Ocoee, Florida; Oakland, Florida; Gl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes continuing appropriations for the Federal Aviation Administration for FY2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB423 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Robert Feiss.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB384 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a mandatory minimum five-year prison term (not more than six years) upon removed aliens who unlawfully reenter the United States. The bill also imposes mandatory minimum prison terms upon removed aliens convicted of certain serious crimes, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| HR28 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.B. 264) making appropriations for financial services and general government for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.B. 265)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB399 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Labor to provide grants to eligible entities to develop pre-apprenticeship programs in the building and construction trades that serve underrepresented populations, including individuals from low income and rural census trac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB61 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to promulgate regulations within 180 days permitting individuals to import a prescription drug purchased from an approved Canadian pharmacy if the drug is dispensed by a pharmacist licensed in Canada; i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HR33 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should ensure that the U.S. Postal Service is not privatized and remains an independent establishment of the federal government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | Withdraws specified National Forest System land in the Custer Gallatin National Forest in Park County, Montana, identified on the map titled "Emigrant Crevice Proposed Withdrawal Area," dated November 10, 2016, from (1) location, entry, and patent un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB410 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of the Treasury to pay to U.S.possessions for taxable years beginning after 2018 the cost of the earned tax credit and the child tax credit paid to residents of such possessions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB66 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it a crime to knowingly import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD). The prohibition does not apply to a firearm that is (1) manually operated by bolt,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HR32 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Ethics, and (2) House Administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HJR23 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional Amendment This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment to lower the minimum age for the right to vote from 18 to 16.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| SB62 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to (1) negotiate drug prices under the Medicare prescription drug benefit, and (2) institute a price structure for the reimbursement of drugs covered under the benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the authority of a state to require a remote seller to collect (1) a tax or fee owed by a purchaser located in the state incident to a purchase of a good or service from the seller, and (2) information incident to the purchase. A remote seller...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law |
| SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for conservation, additional recreational opportunities, and renewable energy development in the California Desert Conservation Area. Specifically, the bill, among other things establishes or designates wilderness areas, a special management...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB395 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires agencies to (1) provide at least a 60-day period for the public to comment on proposed rules, and (2) respond within 10 days to certain congressional inquiries submitted during that period about a proposed rule.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law |
| HB363 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes (1) the assignment to states of federal environmental review responsibilities under relevant federal environmental laws for projects funded by, carried out by, or subject to approval by federal agencies; and (2) states to assume all or par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the limitation on the amount of distilled spirits excise taxes covered over (paid) to the treasuries of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
