| HJR9 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that: (1) requires the President and Vice President to be elected by the citizens of the United States, (2) prohibits infringing on the right to vote by imposing any undue burden of proof of i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| SB15 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development to establish standards to ensure the safety and security of federally assisted housing in high-crime areas. Public housing agencies serving high-crime areas must establish anonymous hotlines fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HR2 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution informs the Senate that Nancy Pelosi has been elected Speaker of the House and that Karen L. Haas has been elected Clerk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB196 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses the voting rights of persons convicted of a criminal offense and the restoration of their voting rights. The bill declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for federal office shall not be denied or abridged because t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits birthright citizenship by redefining what it means to be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. Currently, a person born in the United States and subject to U.S. jurisdiction is entitled to citizenship. Under the bill, a person is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship |
| HJR2 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment authorizing Congress and the states to set reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to influence elections. The amendment grants Congress and the states ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB49 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to report to Congress on the number of firearm transfers where (1) a licensed gun dealer submits a background check through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), (2) NICS fail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB166 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies provisions related to prohibited credit discrimination. The bill adds sexual orientation, gender identity, and an applicant's location based on zip code or census tract as classes protected against discrimination with respect to credit trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes taxes on state and local bonds that are used to provide a facility owned or used (for any purpose) by an abortion provider for more than 30 days during a year in which interest is paid on the bond. An entity is not considered an abortion prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HJR21 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment giving Congress and states the power to regulate (1) donations to candidates for public office, or (2) media advertisements intended to influence the outcome of a vote. The amendment prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the institutional eligibility criteria for a foreign graduate medical school to participate in federal student aid programs. Specifically, this bill requires all foreign graduate medical schools to meet the same minimum requirements to partic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to collect, compile, and submit data to the Department of Justice's (DOJ's) Bureau of Justice Statistics on the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers. DOJ must reduce by 10% the al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HR8 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution elects specified Members to the following House Committees: (1) Appropriations, (2) the Budget, (3) Energy and Commerce, (4) Financial Services, (5) Rules, and (6) Ways and Means.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SB25 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the forfeited profits of Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera (El Chapo) from his illicit drug trafficking enterprise to be reserved for border security measures between the United States and Mexico, including the completion of a wall. Additional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB215 | 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, and Northern Mariana Islands. The new Twelfth Circuit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet |
| HB235 | 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 House Financial Services Committee |
| HJR16 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment limiting the total period an individual may serve as a Member of Congress to 12 years. Periods of service occurring before the ratification of this article do not count towards term limits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB204 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the President to terminate U.S. membership in the United Nations (U.N.) and all affiliated bodies. It also ends U.S. participation in all U.N. conventions and agreements. Funds may be appropriated to facilitate U.S. withdrawal from the U.N. N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB151 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminating Foreign Intervention in Elections Act prohibits federal funds from being used to make payments to local governments that permit noncitizens to vote in state or local elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the authority of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to issue semipostal stamps (stamps sold at a premium to raise funds for causes of national public interest) except as provided by an Act of Congress. (Currently, the USPS issues semipostals usin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB8 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide case management support to local housing authorities under the VA-supported housing program. The program assists veterans who are homeless and their families in finding and sustaining perman...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies requirements related to federal education funding for disadvantaged children. Specifically, the bill (1) eliminates the standards, assessments, and academic accountability requirements for state and local educational agencies that receive fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HR20 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order for the House to consider a concurrent resolution for its adjournment during any day in August of any calendar year u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR14 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment limiting Members of the House of Representatives to four terms and Members of the Senate to two terms. Terms beginning before ratification of this article do not count towards term limits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires loan disclosure forms for federal student loans to be written in plain language, thus enabling borrowers to understand loan terms, total costs of loans, and estimated monthly repayments. Borrowers must acknowledge in writing that they have r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the chief election official of each state, in the regularly scheduled general election for federal office in 2020, to place on the ballot a nonbinding referendum on term limits for Members of Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Administration Committee |
| HJR5 | 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 two-thirds vote of each chamber. The prohibition exclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| SJR1 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment limiting Members of the House of Representatives to three terms and Members of the Senate to two terms. Terms beginning before the ratification of this article do not count towards term limits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Sets forth requirements and limitations with respect to the removal from office of a special counsel appointed by the Attorney General, or of another official appointed by the Attorney General who exercises a similar degree of independence from the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| SR8 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution makes the President pro tempore's appointment of Morgan J. Frankel as Deputy 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 S6-7; text: CR S7) |
| SB27 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers certain funds to provide pension and health benefits for retired coal miners who have been affected by issues such as coal company bankruptcies. The Department of the Treasury must transfer additional funds to the 1974 United Mine Workers o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HJR12 | 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 |
| HB24 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes requirements regarding audits of certain financial agencies performed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Specifically, the bill directs the GAO to complete, within 12 months, an audit of the Federal Reserve Board and Federal R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes Pakistan's designation as a major non-NATO ally, a status that allows for various benefits such as access to excess U.S. defense supplies and participation in cooperative defense research and development projects. The President may not redesi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HR10 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution sets the daily meeting time for the House of Representatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HJR18 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting Members of Congress from receiving compensation for any period a government shutdown is in effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB186 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a new business-related tax credit for the start-up expenses of a veteran-owned small business in an underserved community. The allowable amount of such credit is 15% of start-up expenditures that do not exceed $80,000. To be eligible for the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB222 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a National Commission on the Federal Response to Natural Disasters in Puerto Rico to examine the federal preparedness, response, and recovery activities with respect to the 2017 natural disasters in Puerto Rico. The commission shall take ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB175 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises criminal provisions related to the interstate transportation of firearms and ammunition.An individual may transport a firearm between two places (e.g., states) where it is legal to possess, carry, or transport the firearm. During transport, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Withholds the salaries of Members of a chamber of Congress that has not agreed to a budget resolution for FY2020 by April 15, 2019, as required by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Salaries are withheld from April 16, 2019, until the chamber of C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Administration Committee |
| HB54 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the outstation of the Department of Veterans Affairs in North Ogden, Utah, as the "Major Brent Taylor Vet Center Outstation."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires (1) the reinstatement of the tax-exempt status of a tax-exempt subsidiary organization with fewer than 50 members whose tax-exempt status was revoked due to failure to file required tax returns or notices, and (2) a waiver of any user fee ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR5 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution sets forth the rule for consideration of H.Res. 6 (adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the 116th Congress), H.B. 21 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019), and H.J.Res. 1 (FY2019 Department of Homeland Security app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB189 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a federal banking agency may not request or order a depository institution to terminate a customer account unless (1) the agency has a valid reason for doing so, and (2) that reason is not based solely on reputation risk. Valid reasons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HJR15 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment requiring (1) each bill, order, resolution, or vote that must be submitted to the President to embrace no more than one subject; and (2) such subject to be clearly and descriptively expressed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of any funds that are made available to the National Endowment for the Humanities of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities to carry out the functions, programs, and activities of such endowment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB144 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the flying of any flag other than the U.S. flag over U.S. diplomatic and consular posts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows distributions from tax-favored qualified tuition programs (known as 529 plans) to be used for certain expenses in connection with a homeschool (whether treated as a homeschool or a private school for purposes of state law). The expenses includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB124 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes requirements regarding congressional redistricting, including that redistricting plans must be developed by an independent redistricting commission. A state that has been redistricted after an apportionment of Representatives may not be r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-03
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
