| HB3830 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Management and Budget to expand the information it publishes in its inventory of agency programs. The inventory must include information such as links to program performance reviews and details regarding financial assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Received in the Senate. |
| HB2474 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands various labor protections related to employees' rights to organize and collectively bargain in the workplace. Specifically, it revises the definition of employee, supervisor, and employer to broaden the scope of individuals covered by the fai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB2382 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that the U.S. Postal Service annually prepay future retirement health benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Received in the Senate. |
| HB2247 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides support for the restoration and protection of the Puget Sound, an estuary in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Washington. Specifically, the bill establishes (1) a Puget Sound Recovery National Program Office within the Environmental Protec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB1620 | Engross
Sine Die | Reauthorizes the Chesapeake Bay Program through FY2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| HB1132 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides support for the protection and restoration of the San Francisco Bay estuary and the recovery of certain species in the estuary. Specifically, it establishes a San Francisco Bay Program Office in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
Received in the Senate. |
| HR755 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution impeaches President Donald J. Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors. The resolution sets forth two articles of impeachment of the President: (1) abuse of power by soliciting the interference of Ukraine in the 2020 U.S. presidential e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-05
The Senate adjudges that Donald John Trump, President of the United States, is not guilty as charged in the second Article of Impeachment by Yea-Nay Vote. 47 - 53. Record Vote Number: 34. |
| HB495 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Office for State and Local Law Enforcement within the Department of Homeland Security to report annually on its activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 411. |
| HCR86 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution provides for a joint session of Congress on February 4, 2020, to receive a message from the President.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-31
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HB5338 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of State to work with the private sector, the United Nations, and other relevant multilateral organizations to address childhood cancer globally.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB4331 | Engross
Sine Die | Modifies and reauthorizes various programs and provisions related to Tibet and China. The President shall provide funds to nongovernmental organizations for projects supporting Tibetan communities in Tibet in areas such as sustainable economic develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB3621 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for additional consumer credit protections, sets forth requirements for credit reporting agencies, and prohibits the inclusion of specified information on credit reports. TITLE I—IMPROVEMENTS TO THE DISPUTE PROCESS The dispute process for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Received in the Senate. |
| HB2153 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to enter into acquisition, assistance, or financing agreements to address societal, cultural, health, and other barriers that adolescent girls face in accessing quality secondary educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB1029 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes federal courts to allow a certified facility dog to accompany a witness testifying in a criminal proceeding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| HB550 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of federal funds for any use of military force in or against Iran unless Congress has either declared war or enacted specific statutory authorization for such use. An exception is made for a presidential exerci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-30
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate amendment. |
| HB1230 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to establish an unlawful employment practice when the complaining party demonstrates that age or participation in investigations, proceedings, or litigation under such Act was a motivating facto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-16
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HR798 | Engross
Sine Die | This resolution (1) appoints Representatives Schiff, Nadler, Lofgren, Jeffries, Demings, Crow, and Garcia of Texas as managers to conduct the impeachment trial against the President; (2) requires the Senate to be informed of the appointment; and (3) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
Received in the Senate. |
| SB2547 | Engross
Sine Die | States that it is U.S. policy to (1) expand alliances and partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region and Europe to develop a unified approach to addressing the diplomatic, economic, and military challenges posed by China; and (2) promote democracy and h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-15
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB5315 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Financial Agent Mentor-Protégé Program within the Department of the Treasury. The program provides participating minority deposit institutions and small financial institutions with mentorship regarding becoming a financial agent for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB4841 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the National Credit Union Administration to report semiannually and testify annually on their supervisory and regulatory...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB2629 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows for the deployment of the Ready Reserve Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (Commissioned Corps) to serve in public health emergencies. Certain provisions related to compensation and leave without authority that apply to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB4458 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the National Credit Union Administration to each annually report on efforts to strengthen cybersecurity measures with re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB4335 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires certain issuers of securities to create policies reasonably designed to prevent executive officers and directors from trading their securities after a significant corporate event but before disclosing that event through a public filing. Cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB4302 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes public housing agencies to disclose to certain entities information regarding individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Such disclosure is limited to the confidential use of the information to facilitate, identi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB2096 | Engross
Sine Die | A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize States and tribal organizations that receive grants from the National Cemetery Administration for establishment, expansion, or improvement of a veterans' cemeteries to use amounts of such gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB2398 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands eligibility for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Veterans Affairs-Supported Housing (VASH) rental voucher assistance to homeless veterans honorably discharged or released from active military, naval, or air service regard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB221 | Engross
Sine Die | The bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to transmit specified information to the National Practitioner Data Bank and the applicable state licensing board when the VA brings a major adverse action against certain appointed VA medical...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-14
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HCR83 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution directs the President to terminate the use of U.S. Armed Forces in hostilities against Iran unless (1) Congress has declared war or specifically authorized such use in statute, or (2) such use is necessary and appropriate t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB5078 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Small Business Administration, in coordination with the Bureau of Prisons, to require women's business centers and small-business development centers to provide entrepreneurship counseling and training services to individuals incarcerated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB535 | Engross
Sine Die | Revises several environmental laws and requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly referred to as PFAS. These substances are man-made and may have adverse human health effects...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-13
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB1611 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Commerce to convene a working group of federal stakeholders to provide recommendations regarding the Internet of Things (IoT), and it establishes a steering committee composed of stakeholders outside the federal government ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-10
To House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology |
| HB5146 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the past performance of a small business concern to be taken into account in certain situations. Specifically, when a small business previously participated in a joint venture, an agency's contracting officer must consider the past performan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB5130 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends from 12 months to 24 months the time period to which an agency must refer when categorizing a manufacturer as a small business based on its average employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB5065 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Small Business Administration, in coordination with the Bureau of Prisons, to require the Service Corps of Retired Executives to provide entrepreneurship counseling and training services to formerly incarcerated individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Small Business And Entrepreneurship Committee |
| HB4500 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Commerce to assist trusted companies (i.e., companies determined to pose no national security threat) and relevant stakeholders with participation in organizations that set standards for telecommunications, wireless devices...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB3763 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the President to establish an interagency working group to provide assistance and technical expertise to enhance U.S. leadership in international bodies that set standards for 5th and future generations of mobile telecommunications (5G) techn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB2881 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the President, in consultation with relevant federal agencies, to develop (1) a strategy to secure and protect U.S. fifth and future generations (5G) systems and infrastructure, and (2) an implementation plan for the strategy. Such strategy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 403. |
| SB1228 | Engross
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for enhanced penalties for pirate radio, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-09
Held at the desk. |
| SB3076 | Engross
Sine Die | Releases certain reversionary interest in land to Tennessee and adds additional lands to the Rough Mountain Wilderness and the Rich Hole Wilderness in Virginia. (Sec. 1) Upon the transfer of ownership of the approximately 0.90-acre parcel of land ide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-07
Held at the desk. |
| HB317 | Engross
Sine Die | Ratifies and confirms the actions of the Department of the Interior to take approximately 1,427 acres of land in Santa Barbara County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. The bill also ratifies the action...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-06
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 400. |
| HB5377 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the tax deduction for state and local taxes in 2019 to $20,000 for persons filing a joint tax return if the adjusted gross income of the taxpayer does not exceed $100 million. It eliminates the current $10,000 cap on the deduction in 2020 a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1608 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to publish a report at least every 10 years that contains physical-activity recommendations for the general public based on the most current scientific and medical knowledge, including inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-24
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| SB1434 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of reverse auctions for awarding federal contracts for construction and design services. Generally, a reverse auction is one in which there are multiple sellers lowering their bids to win a supply or service contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-23
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB1309 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of State to develop a program to combat corruption in countries that receive U.S. aid. The State Department shall annually report to Congress a tiered list of all countries that receive certain U.S. foreign assistance. The fir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-23
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| SB439 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows future Members of the House of Representatives to opt out of the Federal Employees Retirement System, an option currently available to Members of the House who began serving before September 30, 2003, and all Senators. In addition, it permits ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-23
To House Administration Committee |
| SCR31 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress that (1) it is the civic duty of the people of the United States to help ensure that the 2020 Census is as accurate as possible; (2) the federal government, state and local governments, civil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-19
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HCR82 | Engross
Sine Die | Directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of H.B. 1865.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-19
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| HCR81 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of H.B. 1158 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020) to amend the title of the bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-19
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| SB2774 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Justice to establish a Veterans Treatment Court Program to provide grants and technical assistance for state, local, and tribal governments to develop and maintain veterans treatment courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-19
Held at the desk. |
| HB4018 | Engross
Sine Die | Modifies the eligibility criteria for an elderly offender to qualify for early release from prison and placement in home detention. Specifically, it reduces the amount of a prison term an elderly offender must serve by the amount of good time credits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-19
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 392. |
