| HB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out a pilot program in Arizona, including at the VA's Phoenix health care system, to improve the ability of Members of Congress to assist constituents with VA medical benefits issues. The VA mu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the requirements for calculating taxable income to exclude from gross income civil damages, restitution, or other monetary awards (including compensatory or statutory damages and restitution imposed in a criminal matter) awarded to victims o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB625 | Intro
Sine Die | This allows federal Pell Grants to be utilized at educational programs that consist of vocational or technical training, flight training, apprenticeship, or other on-job training. In addition, the bill modifies the eligibility requirements under the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the availability of federal funds to Planned Parenthood Federation of America or any of its affiliates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits federal funding of Planned Parenthood Federation of America or its affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, or clinics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates statutory authority for certain federal employees to be eligible for unemployment compensation during a lapse in appropriations. With respect to any lapse in appropriations beginning on or around December 22, 2018, a federal employee who is e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB164 | Intro
Sine Die | TRICARE Reserve Improvement Act expands TRICARE Reserve Select eligibility to include members of the Selected Reserve who are enrolled or eligible to enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SB146 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows tax-exempt Move America bonds and Move America tax credits to be used for certain infrastructure projects. A Move America bond is treated as a tax-exempt private facility bond with certain exceptions. At least 95% of the net proceeds from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB605 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to report annually to Congress on the use of official time by federal employees. Official time is paid time off from assigned duties to perform labor-management relations activities. Among other thing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB622 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides continuing appropriations to prevent a government shutdown if any appropriations measure for a fiscal year has not been enacted before the fiscal year begins or a joint resolution making continuing appropriations is not in effect. For an ini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands and makes permanent the Veterans Choice Program. The program allows eligible veterans to receive health care in their communities rather than at a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facility when certain hardships exist (e.g., when a veteran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| SB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows tax-exempt distributions from qualified tuition programs (known as 529 plans) to be used for additional educational expenses in connection with enrollment or attendance at an elementary or secondary school. (Under current law, distributions in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB623 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that an alien authorized for employment under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program shall be deemed a person who owes allegiance to the United States, for the purpose of qualifying for employment in the office of a Member of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Administration Committee |
| HB587 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the posthumous award of a Congressional Gold Medal to commemorate Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, J. Christopher Stevens, and Sean Smith, four ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB148 | 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] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB609 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from securities registration requirements certain merger-and-acquisition brokers that facilitate transfer of ownership in privately held companies with earnings or revenues under a specified threshold.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB167 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail by 1,200 miles from Wood River, Illinois, to the Ohio River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides continuing appropriations to prevent a government shutdown if any appropriations measure for a fiscal year has not been enacted before the fiscal year begins or a joint resolution making continuing appropriations is not in effect. For an ini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the President to determine annually whether telecommunications companies domiciled in China, including Huawei and ZTE, have violated U.S. export controls or sanctions. If a violation is found, the President must impose appropriate penalties. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB172 | Intro
Sine Die | Delays reimposition of the annual fee on health insurers until 2022. Under current law, the annual fee for a health insurer is calculated based on the insurer's share of total premiums from the preceding year. The fee is suspended for 2019 (i.e., the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funding to provide compensation to certain employees of contractors who lost pay or leave due to the lapse in appropriations that began on December 22, 2018. Each agency subject to such lapse shall adjust the price of any contract for wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits funds provided for the official travel expenses of a Member of Congress from being used for airline accommodations that are not coach-class, unless the accommodations are necessary to accommodate a medical disability or other special need.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Administration Committee |
| SB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the federal minimum wage for regular employees over a 7-year period, for tipped employees, and for newly hired employees who are less than 20 years old. The bill sets forth a schedule of annual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB168 | Intro
Sine Die | Renames the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as the Indiana Dunes National Park. The bill redesignates the 1.6-mile Miller-Woods Trail within the park as the Paul H. Douglas Trail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB154 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses oversight of financial processes of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and also requires implementation of systems for maintaining specified records. Among other elements, the bill requires the VA to include specified elements in contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB171 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women to make competitive grants to law enforcement agencies and victim services organizations to implement evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches in responding to and investigating d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB621 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows tax-exempt distributions from qualified tuition programs (known as 529 plans) to be used for additional educational expenses in connection with enrollment or attendance at an elementary or secondary school. (Under current law, distributions in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB597 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends federal employee protections against adverse personnel actions, including the right to appeal such actions to the Merit Systems Protection Board, to additional categories of employees at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Specifically, it extend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB138 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the boundary of Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee and Mississippi to include the following areas: (1) Fallen Timbers Battlefield, (2) Russell House Battlefield, and (3) Davis Bridge Battlefield. The Department of the Interior may ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB145 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands school choice programs for elementary and secondary school students. The bill requires, to qualify for an opportunity scholarship, that a student in the District of Columbia be currently enrolled, or be enrolled for the next school year, in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Congress on the filing requirements for telecommunications carriers or service providers that receive Universal Service Fund program supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB589 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the tax brackets that apply to taxes on capital gains. The bill aligns the thresholds with the brackets for the regular income tax rates enacted in P.L. 115-97 (commonly known as the the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB156 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises ethics requirements and modifies provisions related to conflicts of interest involving certain federal government employees. Specifically, the bill expands restrictions on certain federal government employees' acceptance of compensation from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB610 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a notarized acknowledgement from a service member and the service member's spouse before certain elections or designations can go into effect under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance Program. Specifically, such an acknowledgement is re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HB591 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the tax credit for increasing research activities to allow an increased 25% tax credit rate for amounts paid or incurred to any person (other than an employee of the taxpayer) for research, substantially all of which occurs in the United Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Federal Trade Commission to recommend legislative action and propose regulations to impose privacy requirements on providers of internet services. Such regulations shall restrict a provider from disclosing a user's records, provide a use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB139 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the bridge located in Blount County, Tennessee, on the Foothills Parkway (commonly known as Bridge 2) as the "Dean Stone Bridge."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB593 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies several tax-related requirements that affect small businesses and self-employed individuals. The bill includes provisions that align the deadlines for quarterly estimated tax payments with the calendar year quarters; modify the dollar thresh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB169 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the requirements for calculating taxable income to exclude from gross income civil damages, restitution, or other monetary awards (including compensatory or statutory damages and restitution imposed in a criminal matter) awarded to victims o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB144 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that the mountain at the Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming shall be known and designated as "Devils Tower."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the James K. Polk Home and adjacent property in Columbia, Tennessee. In conducting this study, Interior shall evaluate the national significance of the study area and deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| HB604 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the U.S. Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code applicable to Fairlawn, Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual comes into being. Nothing in this bill shall be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB602 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the President to determine annually whether telecommunications companies domiciled in China, including Huawei and ZTE, have violated U.S. export controls or sanctions. If a violation is found, the President must impose appropriate penalties. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB595 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Small Business Administration from providing aid, counsel, or assistance to a small business concern that (1) is headquartered in China, or (2) has more than 25% of voting stock owned by citizens of China.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To House Small Business Committee |
| SB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Education to award grants, on a competitive basis, to state educational agencies to integrate financial literacy education into public secondary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the tax credits and exclusions that are available for child care expenses. The bill includes provisions that increase the tax credit for employer-provided child care facilities; increase the household and dependent care tax credit and make th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the aggregate amount of a partner's annual tax deductions for qualified conservation contributions of a partnership to 2.5 times the partner's adjusted basis in the partnership. (Under current law, a "qualified conservation contribution" is th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB166 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for protected presence status for certain types of aliens and mandatory appropriations for immigration enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security shall grant provisional protected presence status to a qualified alien who applies for su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the rules for peanuts under the nonrecourse marketing assistance loan program administered by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). (Under a nonrecourse marketing assistance loan, a farmer pledges a commodity as collateral and may deliver the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-15
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
