| SR799 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution designates December 2020 as National Impaired Driving Prevention Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7430; text: CR S7424) |
| HB8940 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a congressional office from appointing an intern who is a citizen of a specified foreign country (e.g., Russia, Iran, North Korea, or China).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
To House Administration Committee |
| HB8932 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it a violation of federal law for a recipient of federal funds who operates, sponsors, or facilitates athletic programs or activities to permit a person whose biological sex at birth is male to participate in an athletic program or activity tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB5009 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), to include certain entities that meet an alternative size standard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB8915 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the consideration of factors related to climate change when selecting remedial actions for the cleanup of Superfund sites (sites contaminated with hazardous substances). Specifically, the potential threat to human health and the environment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
To House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment |
| HB8926 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend chapter 261 of title 49, United States Code, to provide for high-speed rail corridor development, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
To House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials |
| HR1253 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution designates room H-150 of the U.S. Capitol as The Joseph H. Rainey Room in honor of Representative Rainey's life, career, and legacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SB4818 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides economic support to small business affected by COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) by extending and expanding existing initiatives such as the Paycheck Protection Program, establishing a new lifeline grant program, and providing dedica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. |
| HR1181 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes the work of former First Lady Rosalynn Smith Carter on behalf of those affected by mental health disorders and substance use disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SB4227 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to improve access to economic injury disaster loans and emergency advances under the CARES Act, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. |
| SB3814 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), for certain businesses, and it establishes a loan program whereby the Small Business Administration (SBA) shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. |
| HB5828 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to annually report to Congress on its operations to identify and remediate illicit cross-border tunnels. CBP shall also develop and report to Congress a strategic plan to improve such operations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
Supplemental report filed by the Committee on Homeland Security, H. Rept. 116-471, Part II. |
| HB5001 | Intro
Sine Die | Applies requirements for debt collectors to businesses engaged in nonjudicial foreclosures (i.e., the enforcement of security interests). These requirements include debt verification and prohibitions on the means of debt collection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 523. |
| SB2610 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to reauthorize certain programs under the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs of the Department of Energy, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 612. |
| SB4984 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to report data on COVID-19 immigration detention facilities and local correctional facilities that contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HR1254 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution establishes a task force in the House of Representatives to recommend an appropriate recognition for the life and career of Representative Joseph Rainey, the first African American to serve as a Member of the House of Representatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Administration Committee |
| SB4995 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the permissible uses of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Customer Protection Fund to include education initiatives and administrative expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| HB8907 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of State to establish the Unit to Audit US Contributions to Multilateral and International Organizations to audit and report on the contributions to those organizations during the preceding fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB8927 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows states to levy a sales tax on purchases made from any gift shop located on federal property or made online through the gift shop.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HR1255 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution celebrates the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SR798 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses disapproval of the escalation of political tensions between the government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People's Liberation Front into armed conflict, and it urges all parties to the conflict to (1) cease all violence; (2) eng...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB8923 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend title 18, United States Code, to ensure a health care practitioner exercises the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB8916 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Act to extend the authorization of the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB4985 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to establish forestry policies that facilitate reforestation, conservation, international cooperation, and other ecologically sound management practices that reduce atmospheric carbon, to support United States efforts in partnership with the O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| HB8913 | Intro
Sine Die | To report data on COVID-19 immigration detention facilities and local correctional facilities that contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB8919 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a strategy to improve its printing and mailing operations (excluding the mailing of prescription and over-the-counter drugs).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB8911 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide public benefits to citizens of the freely associated states, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB8929 | Intro
Sine Die | To improve the procedures of the national instant criminal background check system in the case of firearm transfers by federally licensed firearms importers, manufacturers, and dealers before the completion of the related criminal background check, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB8922 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to limit interactive computer service immunity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| SB4988 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to provide for the modernization of electronic case management systems, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB8920 | Intro
Sine Die | To establish a program to develop antimicrobial innovations targeting the most challenging pathogens and most threatening infections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB8921 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to reimburse health care providers for costs to obtain and operate certain equipment capable of maintaining cold storage of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) vaccines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| SB4993 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in coordination with the Administration for Children and Families, to award grants to nonprofits, institutions of higher education, or consortia of these entities to promote healthy eating and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB8930 | Intro
Sine Die | Energy Efficient Qualified Improvement Property Act of 2020 or the E-QUIP Act allow straight line depreciation over a 10-year period of energy efficient qualified improvement property. The bill defines energy efficient qualified improvement property ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB4983 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend chapter 77 of title 18, United States Code, to combat human trafficking and to strengthen civil remedies for survivors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB8924 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to treat the lease for a dwelling unit under certain federally assisted housing programs as a simultaneous application for voter registration in elections for Federal office, to designate owners of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Administration Committee |
| HB8917 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to extend the authorization of the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB4990 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office for Civil Rights within the Department of Health and Human Services to study the validity and effectiveness of current methods used to determine if health information is not individually identifiable for purposes of federal privac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HCR126 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses the sense of Congress that the commercial and power coordination provisions of the Columbia River Treaty between the United States and Canada be terminated. The Columbia River Treaty is an agreement between the United States...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SB4994 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to provide civil relief for victims of the disclosure of certain intimate images, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB8908 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Justice to collect and make publicly available certain information from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies about allegations of misconduct by law enforcement officers, including the amounts of any relevant s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB8914 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to permit certain non-designated clearinghouses access to a deposit account at a Federal reserve bank, to apply certain risk management standards to non-designated clearinghouses ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB8928 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to establish safety standards for portable generators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB8912 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the role of Chief Diversity Officer in the Department of State, modifies promotion, training, and mentorship at the State Department, and authorizes the submission of gap memos prior to a performance evaluation. A gap memo is a written re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SB4987 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Justice to award grants to nonprofit disability organizations to develop training programs for law enforcement officers who may encounter individuals with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB4986 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to prevent an unintended drop in Social Security benefits due to COVID-19 and the application of the National Average Wage Index, and improve Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits on an emergency basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB8909 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the Department of Agriculture to review the national conservation practice standards, taking into consideration the climate benefits of such standards. Climate benefit is defined as a reduction i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB8925 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires states to count all ballots cast or received by early voting (e.g., early in-person voting or mail voting) prior to the date of the federal election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To House Administration Committee |
| SB4991 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, to add a bankruptcy chapter relating to the debt of individuals, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB4989 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to allot funding to states and territories to improve 2-1-1 call systems. These systems connect callers seeking non-emergency assistance with appropriate local human services, such as homelessness ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
