| HB3361 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends through FY2036 authorization and eligibility for the program of hydroelectric production incentives and incentive payments to the owners or operators of hydroelectric facilities at existing dams to make capital improvements directly related t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 611. |
| HB1570 | Engross
Sine Die | Modifies cost-sharing requirements for colorectal cancer screening tests, and drug manufacturer reporting requirements, under Medicare medical services. Specifically, the bill waives coinsurance requirements with respect to colorectal cancer screenin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB1426 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to address insufficient compensation of its personnel without regard to civil service laws. FERC must consult with the Office of Personnel Management when making a determination of the approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-10
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 610. |
| HB8235 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to establish a single electronic system for all public court records that is publicly accessible for free. Under the existing Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system, users are ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB8161 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes grants to connect offenders transitioning from prisons or jails to the community with local reentry services. The Department of Justice (DOJ) may award grants to community-based nonprofits for community reentry centers. The centers must pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB4460 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to waive existing eligibility requirements for a veteran to receive per diem payments for domiciliary care at a state home if the veteran has met at least four of such requirements (e.g., can feed himself...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB7572 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Median El-Moustrah.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB4138 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes permanent the Telework Enhancement Act Pilot Program in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The program allows USPTO employees to telework from locations across the United States; USPTO may cover any necessary travel expenses to and f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB7146 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Victoria Galindo Lopez.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3729 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides relief for recipients of financial assistance awards for FY2019 and FY2020 from the Department of Transportation (DOT). The bill expands the period of availability during which grant recipients may spend funds awarded through the (1) motor c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| SB3325 | Engross
Sine Die | A bill to amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow States to use incentive payments available under the child support enforcement program to improve parent-child relationships, increase child support collections, and improve outco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB4225 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Maria Isabel Bueso Barrera, Alberto Bueso Mendoza, and Karla Maria Barrera De Bueso.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1811 | Engross
Sine Die | Addresses water resources infrastructure funding as well as Army Corps of Engineers projects for navigation, flood risk management, and ecosystem restoration. The bill removes from annual discretionary spending limits funds appropriated from the Harb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate bill. |
| HB2477 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes a series of changes to, and requires additional notifications regarding, the Medicare enrollment process. Specifically, the bill changes the Medicare general enrollment period to October 15-December 31, and requires coverage to begin on the fir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1375 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide, in response to an inquiry from certain non-group health plans (e.g., liability insurers), whether an individual was enrolled in Medicare, Medicare Advantage, or the Medicare prescripti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB683 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires professionals employed in debt adjustment cases involving Puerto Rico to file verified statements disclosing their connections with the debtor, creditors, and other interested parties before seeking compensation for their services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB631 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the relief of Arpita Kurdekar, Girish Kurdekar, and Vandana Kurdekar.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB8428 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for temporary protected status (TPS) and refugee status for qualifying Hong Kong residents and contains other immigration-related provisions. Hong Kong shall be treated as a TPS-designated country for 18 months starting from this bill's enac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HCR125 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution makes a correction in the enrollment of H.B. 1830 by referring to the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, Inc. as the National Purple Heart Honor Mission, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB8229 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to authorize its Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) to decide all appeals from formal protest determinations in connection with the status of a HUBZone small business. A HUBZone small business is a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB8199 | Engross
Sine Die | Revises the duties of the Office of Credit Risk Management to include oversight of a certified development company (CDC) that participates in the 504 Loan Program of the Small Business Administration (SBA), and it requires the SBA to issue rules rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB8211 | Engross
Sine Die | Modifies the Small Business Administration (SBA) 504 Loan Program, which provides a small business with SBA financing—through a certified development company (CDC) intermediary—for expansion or modernization. Specifically, the bill adds policy go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| SB4409 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 303 East Mississippi Avenue in Elwood, Illinois, as the "Lawrence M. 'Larry' Walsh Sr. Post Office."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
Held at the desk. |
| HB7903 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes through FY2025 a Community Advantage Loan Program under which the Small Business Administration (SBA) may guarantee loans made by covered institutions to small business concerns in underserved markets. Specifically, the bill provides stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB7045 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Forest Service to conduct a study to identify available land within the islands of Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Oahu and Kauai that could be included in a national forest in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB5517 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes (1) a professional exchange program between the United States and India with a focus on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi, (2) a development training initiative based on principles of nonviolence, and (3) a founda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB4153 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) to enter into arrangements for the sharing of medical facilities and services with urban Indian organizations. The VA and DOD shall reimburse an urban Indian organ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
Received in the Senate. |
| HB3884 | Engross
Sine Die | Decriminalizes marijuana. Specifically, it removes marijuana from the list of scheduled substances under the Controlled Substances Act and eliminates criminal penalties for an individual who manufactures, distributes, or possesses marijuana. The bill...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB3682 | Engross
Sine Die | (Sec. 3) requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior to issue guidance related to certain community land grants in New Mexico made by Spain or Mexico to individuals, groups, and communities to promote the settleme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1819 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the Department of State's rewards program to authorize rewards for providing information leading to the arrest, conviction, or transfer of a foreign national accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide as such crimes as define...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB1380 | Engross
Sine Die | Revises requirements governing the trade of big cats (i.e., species of lion, tiger, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, or cougar or any hybrid of such species). Specifically, it revises restrictions on the possession and exhibition of big cats, including to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB1049 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a National Heritage Areas System to recognize certain areas of the United States that tell nationally significant stories and to conserve, enhance, and interpret the areas' natural, historic, scenic, and cultural resources that illustrate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB306 | Engross
Sine Die | The Department of the Interior shall conduct a reconnaissance survey of the site of the Kettle Creek Battlefield in Wilkes County, Georgia, and adjacent property. In conducting the survey, Interior shall evaluate the likelihood that resources within ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-07
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB7995 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the United States Mint to modify the metallic composition of circulating coins (including by prescribing reasonable manufacturing tolerances with respect to those coins) if a study and analysis conducted by the Mint indicates that the modi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-03
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB2420 | Engross
Sine Die | (Sec. 4) establishes the National Museum of the American Latino in the Smithsonian Institution. The purposes of the museum are to (1) illuminate Latino contributions to the story of the United States; (2) provide for the collection, study, research, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-03
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 600. |
| SB496 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the National Sea Grant Office in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a Young Fishermen's Development Grant Program to provide training, education, outreach, and technical assistance initiatives for young fishermen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-03
Held at the desk. |
| SB434 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of the Interior, after the submission of the President's budget for FY2020, to report to Congress on all federal land holdings under Interior's jurisdiction; and the total costs of maintaining such holdings for FY2017-FY2019, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-03
Held at the desk. |
| HB1044 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the per-country cap on family-based immigrant visas from 7% of the total number of such visas available that year to 15%, and eliminates the 7% cap for employment-based immigrant visas. It also removes an offset that reduced the number of v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-03
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB8438 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the President's authority to impose sanctions related to Belarus to include activities surrounding the disputed 2020 Belarusian presidential election and subsequent government crackdown. The bill also expands authorized assistance to Belarus....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB8405 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of State to distribute specified briefing materials to individuals representing the United States at international athletic competitions. These materials must contain information on human rights concerns and personal privacy a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB8294 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides statutory authority for the registered apprenticeship program within the Department of Labor (DOL), provides for related grant programs, and contains related provisions. The bill provides statutory authority for the Office of Apprenticeship ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-30
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB8259 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of federal funds to support or facilitate Russia's participation in a proceeding of the Group of Seven (a group consisting of the seven largest major advanced economies, as determined by the International Monetary Fund) or to recons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB7990 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates two programs, establishes a reporting requirement, and otherwise modifies provisions to facilitate global cooperation against synthetic drug trafficking. Specifically, the bill requires the Department of State to establish a program to provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB7954 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends through FY2025 authority for debt-for-nature swaps and debt buyback programs that reduce or convert debt obligations from eligible countries to the United States into funding for nature conservation and protection efforts in that country.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB7703 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the allocation of certain funds for purposes related to the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative, requires the Department of State to develop a strategy for prioritizing efforts to increase disaster response and resilience in the Caribbean,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB7276 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the President to establish an interagency working group to (1) coordinate the U.S. response to the ongoing desert locust outbreak in the East Africa region and its impact on food security and political stability, including in the context of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB6334 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the United States to participate in the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), an alliance of countries and private partners whose mission is to finance and coordinate the development of vaccines for high-priority, epidemi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB5586 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Department of State to undertake specific initiatives to prioritize and assess (1) the protection and preservation of human rights in Haiti, (2) the promotion of press and assembly freedoms and the protection of journalists in Haiti, (3) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB5408 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the President, when determining whether Russia is a country of particular concern for religious freedom under certain federal laws, to consider incidents occurring in the parts of Ukraine controlled by Russia or Russia-affiliated non-state gr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB4802 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the Department of State's rewards program to allow rewards for providing information that leads to the identification or location of an entity or individual that knowingly violates U.S. or United Nations sanctions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-11-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
