| HB1759 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends eligibility for reemployment services to all individuals claiming unemployment compensation. Currently, only unemployment claimants that are identified as likely to exhaust their regular unemployment compensation are eligible for such reemplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-19
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 391. |
| HB397 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Pension Rehabilitation Administration within the Department of the Treasury and a related trust fund to make loans to certain multiemployer defined benefit pension plans. To receive a loan, a plan must be (1) in critical and declining...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-19
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 390. |
| HB4719 | Engross
Sine Die | Reauthorizes through FY2021 and expands the Department of Health and Human Services fishing safety training and research grant programs. The bill increases the maximum federal share of the costs of any activity that may be carried out using grants un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-18
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB3530 | Engross
Sine Die | Addresses licensure and employment requirements for medical providers of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Specifically, for VA medical provider positions that require a person to prescribe controlled substances, the bill prohibits a person fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-18
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB2726 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits smoking on board National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) trains, including smoking electronic cigarettes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-18
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB2548 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands eligibility under a hazard mitigation assistance program to receive such assistance for acquisition or relocation projects already in progress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-18
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1768 | Engross
Sine Die | Reauthorizes through FY2024 a diesel emissions reduction program under which the Environmental Protection Agency provides grants, rebates, or loans for replacing diesel engines or retrofitting the engines with pollution control technologies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-18
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB2824 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Copyright Office to waive various copyright registration-related fees for works that win certain competitions sponsored by the Congressional Institute or established by Congress. To qualify for the fee waiver, the copyright registration a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB4229 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to change the way broadband data is collected, verified, and reported. Specifically, the FCC must collect and disseminate granular broadband service availability data (broadband maps) from wired, f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-17
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 345. |
| HB4227 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes it unlawful to willfully, knowingly, or recklessly submit inaccurate broadband coverage information or data (mapping data) to the Federal Communications Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-17
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB3362 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires small hub airports to maintain a lactation area for nursing mothers and a baby changing table in at least one men's and one women's restroom in each passenger terminal building of the airport. Currently, medium and large hub airports must co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-17
Received in the Senate. |
| HB3172 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes it unlawful to manufacture, sell, or distribute crib bumpers or inclined sleepers for infants. Specifically, inclined sleepers for infants are those designed for an infant up to one year old and have an inclined sleep surface of greater than 10...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-17
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB2647 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts the California flammability standard as the federal standard for upholstered furniture. To meet the standard, the upholstered furniture must past a specific test of the materials' ability to resist smoldering when a heat source is applied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-17
Received in the Senate. |
| HB759 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama-Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act, which restores the federal trust relationship between the United States and the tribe, to prohibit the Act from being construed to preclude or limit the ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-17
To Senate Indian Affairs Committee |
| HB617 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a research program in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing that is focused on the development of tools to (1) solve big data challenges associated with veterans' health care, and (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-17
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 344. |
| HB453 | Engross
Sine Die | Takes specified lands and easements in Monroe County, Tennessee, into trust for the use and benefit of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. These lands include the Sequoyah Museum, the Chota Memorial, the Tanasi Memorial, and land to provide support...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-17
Received in the Senate. |
| HB135 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each federal agency to establish a model Equal Employment Opportunity Program that is independent of the agency's Human Capital or General Counsel office, and it establishes requirements related to complaints of discrimination and retaliatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-16
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 330. |
| SB2740 | Engross
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify the regulatory framework with respect to certain nonprescription drugs that are marketed without an approved new drug application, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-14
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| SCR23 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution commemorates, on December 16, 2019, the 75th anniversary of World War II's Battle of the Bulge. The resolution also recognizes the valiant efforts of the Allied Forces and expresses remembrance of those who made the ultimat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-13
Held at the desk. |
| HB5038 | Engross
Sine Die | Contains provisions related to alien farmworkers, including provisions establishing a certified agricultural worker (CAW) status and changing the H-2A temporary worker program. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may grant CAW status to an appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB729 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Commerce to award grants to Indian tribes to further achievement of any of the following tribal coastal zone objectives: protecting, restoring, or preserving areas in the zone that hold important ecological, cultural, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-12
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB5035 | Engross
Sine Die | Addresses provisions related to the retransmission of television-station signals and applies consumer-rights and transparency requirements to consumers' cable and satellite services. Specifically, the bill makes permanent a provision that allows a mu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-11
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB4402 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to submit to Congress an inland waters threat analysis that includes current and potential terrorism and criminal threats, security challenges and mitigation efforts, vulnerabilities that hinder effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-10
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB4372 | Engross
Sine Die | Supports efforts to increase science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at minority-serving institutions of higher education (IHEs), including by requiring the National Science Foundation to award grants for building the capac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-10
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB4373 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to implement a National Engineering Biology Research and Development Initiative; the OSTP to designate an interagency committee to coordinate the initiative; the OSTP to designate or establis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-10
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB4355 | Engross
Sine Die | (Sec. 3) directs the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to support research on manipulated or synthesized media, including the output of generative adversarial networks. A generative advers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-10
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB3669 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Homeland Security to develop and conduct a collective-response-to-terrorism exercise that includes managing cascading effects on critical infrastructure, such as an extreme cold-weather event caused by a polar vortex.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-10
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB3469 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes standards for the covert testing process that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses to evaluate its aviation security operations. Specifically, the TSA must implement an internal, risk-informed covert testing process for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-10
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB3318 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to establish a task force to conduct an analysis of emerging and potential future threats to transportation security, including threats posed by the release of chemical or biological agents in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-10
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB2051 | Engross
Sine Die | (Sec. 3) directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy to convene an interagency entity under the National Science and Technology Council with the responsibility of coordinating federal programs and activities in support of sustainable chemistr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-10
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB2534 | Engross
Sine Die | Generally provides statutory authority for the prohibition against securities trading, as well as related communications to others, by a person aware of material, nonpublic information. The bill further provides, for purposes of establishing a violat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-09
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB3460 | Engross
Sine Die | States that it is U.S. policy to support a broad range of activities toward finding cost-effective treatment for, and eliminating, neglected tropical diseases in order to improve the economic and social well-being of all people. The bill defines negl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-04
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| SB333 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Homeland Security to work together with a consortium composed of nonprofit entities to develop, update, and deliver cybersecurity training in support of homeland security.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-04
To House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation |
| HB565 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes Portuguese nationals eligible for E-1 and E-2 nonimmigrant visas if the government of Portugal provides similar nonimmigrant status to U.S. nationals. An E-1 visa is for individuals entering the United States to engage in international trade, w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2712 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 430 South Knowles Avenue in New Richmond, Wisconsin, as the "Captain Robert C. Harmon and Private John R. Peirson Post Office Building."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-26
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB1846 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for collaboration between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, as well as corporations, associations, and the general public, regarding cybersecurity. The bill also provides for col...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-26
To House Homeland Security Committee |
| SB1430 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a representative payee (i.e., a person designated to receive payments on behalf of a minor, a mentally incompetent individual, or an individual under other legal disability) from embezzling or converting the amounts received from certain re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-26
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HCR75 | Engross
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of H.B. 3055 (Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020, and Further Health Extenders Act of 2019) to (1) amend the title, and (2) m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| SB2071 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals outdated provisions regarding treatment of Native Americans, including provisions on hostile tribes, alcohol, work requirements, penalties for truancy, and placement of youth in reform school without the consent of a parent or guardian.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
To House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States |
| HB1487 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the coastline and adjacent areas to the Santa Monica Bay from Will Rogers State Beach to Torrance Beach, including the areas in and around Ballona Creek and Baldwin Hills a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB1446 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the U.S. Postal Service to sell each copy of the Multinational Species Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamp and notify Congress when all copies have been sold.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1309 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Labor to address workplace violence in the health care and social service sectors. Specifically, Labor must promulgate an occupational safety and health standard that requires certain employers in the health care and social...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB1088 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Society of the First Infantry Division to modify the First Division Monument located on federal land in President's Park, District of Columbia, to honor members of the First Infantry Division of the U.S. Army who died during U.S. opera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB737 | Engross
Sine Die | Addresses the sale of shark fins and the inclusion of rays and skates in the Seafood Traceability Program. (The Seafood Traceability Program has data reporting and recordkeeping requirements at the time of entry for imported fish or fish products ent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB5084 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires certain issuers of securities to disclose the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of their boards of directors and executive officers, as well as the status of any of those directors and officers as a veteran. It also requires the disclos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-20
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB4634 | Engross
Sine Die | Reauthorizes through 2027 the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program within the Department of the Treasury. The Government Accountability Office must report on insurance coverage of cyberterrorism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-19
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB4344 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides statutory authority for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to seek disgorgement (i.e., repayment) as a remedy for unjust enrichment gained through a securities law violation. It also allows the SEC to seek certain injunctive relief...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-19
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB4300 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires public housing agencies (PHAs) that administer housing choice voucher programs to, in coordination with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, extend tenant-based assistance for youth aging out of foster care under specified circum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-19
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB4029 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows an Indian tribe or tribally designated housing entity to apply for a Homeless Assistance Grant under the Continuum of Care Program administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Under current law, nonprofit and government ent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-19
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB3702 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides statutory authority for certain procedures related to the Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBR-DR) Program and adds new program requirements, including with respect to coordination of benefits, precertification for gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-19
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
