| SB72 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a framework to temporarily suspend certain judicial and administrative proceedings against a federal employee or contractor during a lapse in appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB128 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the primary functions and additional duties of the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to include: (1) examining the role of small businesses in the international economy, and (2) representing the views and interests of sm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
Received in the Senate. |
| HB398 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a National Center of Excellence for the 21st Century Workforce Advisory Board to (1) support and develop training and science education programs, (2) align apprenticeship programs and industry certi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HJR24 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment giving residents of U.S. territories and commonwealths the right to vote in elections for President and Vice President.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes additional security screening requirements for aliens seeking refugee status if they are nationals of Iraq or Syria, are stateless individuals whose last habitual residence was in one of those countries, or have been in either country sin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| HR6 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution adopts the Rules of the House of Representatives for the 116th Congress. The resolution adopts the rules of the 115th Congress with amendments that include allowing Delegates and the Resident Commissioner to vote in the Committee of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB404 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a program to award grants that cover the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition and fees for students who (1) are residents of outlying areas (i.e., American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the Virgin Islands)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-09
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB53 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates $25 billion for the construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. The amount shall remain available until expended. As offsets to the spending, this bill restricts the child tax credit, earned income credits, and lifetime learning cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB350 | 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] | 2019-01-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a federal election day to be treated as a holiday for federal employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits Members of Congress from being paid in a fiscal year until both chambers approve the budget resolution and pass all regular appropriations bills for that fiscal year. Retroactive pay is prohibited for such a period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds Livingston County, the city of Jonesboro in Union County, and the city of Freeport in Stephenson County, all in Illinois, to the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB55 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of the Interior to convey without consideration, to the city of Tucson, Arizona, the reversionary interest of the United States in and to an approximately 172.8-acre parcel of land owned by the city for the purpose of unencumbe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB271 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides appropriations to pay the salaries and expenses of 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the title, number, and date of the map depicting the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Colorado and increases from 6,000 to 6,300 the maximum number of acres that may be made available for inclusion in the monument.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes new restrictions and requirements regarding the sale, transfer, and possession of firearms. Specifically, it does the following: prohibits a licensed gun dealer from transferring a firearm to an unlicensed person prior to the completion o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| SB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties (i.e., unlicensed individuals). Specifically, it prohibits a firearm transfer between private parties unless a licensed gun dealer, manufacturer, or importer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the types of felony convictions that result in the loss of creditable service as a Member of Congress under the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees Retirement System. Currently, certain felony convictions result in the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Administration Committee |
| SR11 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution honors Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma, on its 150th anniversary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| HB324 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any federal agency or federal government contractor from making a monetary payment to any official of a foreign country for the purposes of bribery, coercion, or any illegal activity that undermines the rule of law or corrupts a public offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Intelligence Committee |
| HB290 | Intro
Sine Die | Terminates (1) the taxpayer election to designate $3 of income tax liability for financing of presidential election campaigns, (2) the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, and (3) the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account. The Department of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB332 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises House of Representatives procedures for considering joint resolutions related to weapons and defense services sales to foreign countries, export licenses for such weapons and services, and technical assistance or manufacturing agreements with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HR27 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to Holocaust education. Specifically, it (1) commends Holocaust education activists on their efforts to include Holocaust education in states' public school curricula, (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB342 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to consult with the Department of Defense, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to obtain information relevant to National Flood Insurance Program r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB21 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides FY2019 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 6 of the 12 regular FY2019 appropriations bills: the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019; the Financial Servic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 5. |
| HCR3 | Intro
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution expresses recognition that foreign assistance programs are critically important for promoting U.S. national security, demonstrating the United States' humanitarian spirit, and improving the country's international standing....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB354 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides additional statutory authority for federal agencies to discipline employees.Specifically, agencies may remove or demote (i.e., reduce the grade or pay of) employees for performance or misconduct without proving that the adverse action promot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB322 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the work opportunity tax credit to be used for the hiring of a specified veteran who works in a field of renewable energy. A "specified veteran" means any veteran who is certified as (1) having received a credential or certification from the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB270 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Congressional Budget Office to submit daily reports to Congress when a government shutdown is in effect. The reports must include details regarding the costs and economic effects of the shutdown, including estimates of lost economic outp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of the Interior, after receiving a request from La Paz County, Arizona, to convey to the county 5,935 acres of specified federal land. Interior shall exclude from such conveyance any federal land that contains significant cultu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB300 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires federal agencies to consider the effects of federal regulations on state and local governments. The bill requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), at the request of the chairman or ranking member of a congressional committee, to conduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law |
| SB35 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the site known as Amache, Camp Amache, and Granada Relocation Center, in Granada, Colorado, which was 1 of the 10 relocation centers where Japanese Americans were incarcera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB56 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of the Interior to designate annually at least one city in a state or U.S. territory as an American World War II Heritage City in order to recognize, and ensure the continued preservation and importance of, the history of the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB36 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA), if the Broadmoor Hotel, Inc. (BHI) offers to convey to USDA 320 acres of specified nonfederal land in the Pike National Forest in Teller County, Colorado, and a permanent trail easement for the Barr Trail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to commission a survey to identify the South Bank boundary line with respect to land along a specified 116-mile stretch of the Red River in Oklahoma and Texas (the affected area). The survey shall adhere to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB298 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), upon adoption by a chamber of Congress of a concurrent budget resolution for a fiscal year, to certify to the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President pro tempore of the Senate wheth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Administration Committee |
| HB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the rules for calculating taxable income to make permanent the exclusion from gross income of income attributable to the discharge of qualified principal residence indebtedness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB28 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends through 2022 arrangements that allow certain defense articles to be transferred to Jordan on an expedited basis. The bill also directs the President to submit a report to Congress assessing the costs and benefits of establishing a fund to sup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 4. |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates specified mountain peaks in the Uncompahgre National Forest in Colorado as "Fowler Peak" and "Boskoff Peak."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument in Kentucky as a unit of the National Park System to preserve and interpret the nationally significant historic resources of the Mill Springs Battlefield and its role in the Civil War.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HR26 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution elects specified Members to the House Committee on Rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB301 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides appropriations to pay the salaries and expenses of 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB37 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Agriculture to permit by special use authorization nonmotorized access and use of the Bolts Ditch headgate and the Bolts Ditch within the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado for the diversion of water and use, maintenance, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB305 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that (1) the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human and is a person's most fundamental right; (2) each human life begins with fertilization, cloning, or its equivalent, at which time every human has all the lega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB323 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a new tax credit for a taxpayer's employment-related expenses necessary to care for a dependent who has attained age 50. Employment-related expenses include (1) expenses for household services; and (2) expenses for the care of the dependent, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB325 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the U.S. Postal Service to issue a Peace Corps Semipostal Stamp for 10 years to afford the public with a convenient way to help fund the Peace Corps' Global Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB45 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates specified river segments in the Wood-Pawcatuck watershed in Rhode Island and Connecticut as scenic, recreational, or wild rivers and as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB43 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Forest Service, upon request by Fannin County in Texas, to convey approximately 2,025 acres of National Forest System land to the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjusts the boundary of the Arapaho National Forest in Colorado to incorporate approximately 92.95 acres of land described as lots 3, 4, 8, and 9. A lot may be included in the boundary's adjustment only after the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB284 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently extends the tax deduction for mortgage insurance premiums. (The deduction expired at the end of 2017.)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
