| 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 |
| HR15 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses support for the intelligence community's assessment that Russian agents acting under the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered with the 2016 presidential election. It also expresses strong disapproval of t...
[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 |
| SR7 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution makes the President pro tempore's appointment of Patricia Mack Bryan as Senate Legal Counsel effective January 3, 2019, for a term of service to expire at the end of the 117th Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6; text: CR S6) |
| HJR6 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting total outlays for a fiscal year from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year unless Congress authorizes the excess by a three-fifths roll call vote of each chamber. The prohi...
[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 |
| SR1 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution provides for appointment of a Senate committee joined with a House of Representatives committee to notify the President that a quorum of each chamber has assembled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5; text: CR S5) |
| 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 |
| HJR3 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution supports the designation of Gospel Music Heritage Month, which would recognize the contributions to U.S. culture derived from the rich heritage of gospel music and gospel music artists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HR21 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes the 60th anniversary of Alaska becoming a state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SR2 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution informs the House of Representatives that a quorum of the Senate is assembled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6; text: CR S6) |
| HR14 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution authorizes the Speaker, on behalf of the House of Representatives, to intervene in the case of Texas v. United States, any appellate proceedings arising from such case, and any other cases involving the Patient Protection and Affordab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment limiting Members of the House of Representatives to six terms and Members of the Senate to two terms. This article shall not apply to any person who served as a Representative or as a Senator ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HR11 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the House should not adjourn until all of the annual appropriations bills for the current fiscal year have been enacted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Appropriations 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 |
| HR3 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution provides for appointment of a House of Representatives committee joined with a Senate committee to notify the President that a quorum of each chamber has assembled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HJR13 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment denying the President the power to grant himself a reprieve or pardon for an offense against the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| 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 |
