| HJR41 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution requires either the advice and consent of the Senate or an act of Congress before the President may suspend, or withdraw the United States from, the North Atlantic Treaty. No funds shall be authorized or appropriated to support ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB480 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis to assess the terrorist threat to the homeland for each of the next five fiscal years. Each assessment shall include: empirical data assessing terrorist activities and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To House Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism |
| HR13 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution impeaches President Donald John Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors. The resolution sets forth an article of impeachment stating that President Trump prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice during a federal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to report to Congress on the feasibility of establishing a DHS Civilian Cyber Defense National Resource.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation |
| HB548 | Intro
Sine Die | Gives the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) the sole authority to protect endangered or threatened species that are anadromous species (species of fish that spawn in fresh or estuarine waters and that migrate to ocean waters) or catadromous species (sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To House Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife |
| HB43 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Homeland Security to submit a report describing the policies and procedures developed to coordinate the disclosure of cyber vulnerabilities. The report shall describe instances when such policies and procedures were used to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation |
| HB527 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA), if the PolyMet Mining Corporation, Inc., offers to convey 6,690 acres of non-federal land within the Superior National Forest in St. Louis County and Lake County in Minnesota, to accept the offer and, in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands |
| HB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from constructing, or obligating or expending any funds for the construction of, any new border barriers, including walls or fences, on federal lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To House Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations |
| HB326 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of State, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide assistance to people in Vietnam in relation to Agent Orange exposure. Specifically, the State Department must ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-01
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB566 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands eligibility for a presumption of service-connection for veterans exposed to certain herbicide agents (e.g., Agent Orange) during military service in Vietnam. Specifically, the bill removes the manifestation period required for the presumption...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-01
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB333 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies provisions related to military retired pay. Specifically, the bill authorizes veterans with a service-connected disability of less than 50% to concurrently receive both retired pay and disability compensation. The bill also makes qualified d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-01
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB127 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes restrictions on, and creates new protections for, conduct and activities related to medical marijuana that are authorized by state law. Among other things, the bill does the following: eliminates regulatory controls and administrative, civil,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-01
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses certain health benefit and home loan programs for veterans. Specifically, the bill extends the presumption of service-connection for certain diseases associated with herbicide (e.g., Agent Orange) exposure to veterans who served (1) offshor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-01
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| HB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores the veterans retraining assistance program, which expired in March 2014. Under the bill, the program offers assistance for eligible veterans to pursue a program of education on a full-time basis. Assistance is only available for training tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-01
To House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity |
| HB303 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the receipt of both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation with respect to any service-connected disability. Under current law, only service-connected disabilities rated at 50% or more receive both without offset. Individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-01
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| SB301 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to enforce work authorization requirements for immigrants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SR37 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution designates the week beginning on February 3, 2019, as National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S815; text: CR S811) |
| HB790 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases by 2.6% the rates of basic pay for federal civilian employees for 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
Received in the Senate. |
| HB937 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires drug manufacturers with Medicaid rebate agreements for covered outpatient drugs to disclose drug product information. Manufacturers are subject to civil penalties for knowingly misclassifying drugs. Manufacturers are also required to compens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| SB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Alters funding provisions, and establishes additional reporting requirements, relating to the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program, which is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The program sup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR39 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution commemorates the 100th anniversary of the American Farm Bureau Federation and recognizes its efforts to promote and advocate for U.S. farm and ranch interests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S815; text: CR S812) |
| SB305 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows Indian tribal governments to determine whether a child has special needs for the purposes of the adoption tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a process by which a core seasonal industry may petition for countervailing and antidumping duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Subcommittee on Trade |
| SB314 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs various agencies to report on, and devise plans to improve, systems for handling security clearances and background checks. The Security, Suitability, and Credentialing Performance Accountability Council shall provide Congress with a plan to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Select Intelligence Committee |
| SB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States and has been charged with a crime that resulted in the death or serious bodily injury of another person. ICE shall make reasonabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB940 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires congressional approval for a presidential import adjustment due to a national security threat from an import related to military equipment, energy resources, or critical infrastructure essential to national security. Specifically, the bill r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Subcommittee on Trade |
| HB53 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes additional requirements that certain hospitals must meet in order to participate in Medicare. Specifically, as a condition of Medicare participation, hospitals and critical access hospitals that provide neonatal or infant care must have a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals provisions that reduce Social Security benefits for individuals who receive other benefits, such as a pension from a state or local government job. The bill eliminates the government pension offset, which in various instances reduces Social S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Subcommittee on Social Security |
| HCR2 | Intro
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution establishes (1) a Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Trade Responsibilities to develop a plan under which the functions and responsibilities of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) shall be moved to the legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Subcommittee on Trade |
| HB194 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the President to impose sanctions on those responsible for human rights violations related to Iran's government. The President shall impose sanctions on Iranian persons responsible for or complicit in politically-motivated harassment, abuse, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Subcommittee on Trade |
| HB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Reauthorizes and revises several Medicaid programs and funding mechanisms, as well as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Specifically, the bill makes appropriations for FY2019 for, and otherwise revises, the Money Follows the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support |
| HB217 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the modifications to the child tax credit that were included in P.L. 115-97 (commonly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act). (The provisions increased the amounts of the credit and created a nonrefundable credit for a taxpayer's depende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support |
| SB309 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes increased tax rates on decedent estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers. Estates with a value of over $1 billion are taxed at a 77% tax rate. The basic exclusion amount is reduced to $3.5 million. The bill increases (1) to $3 millio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB286 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under Medicare. It also excludes such services from the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system, and authorizes marriage and family thera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows an individual diagnosed with a terminal illness to receive disability payments under the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program during the waiting period for such payments (which typically lasts five months). It also establishes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Subcommittee on Social Security |
| SB307 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Clayton Act to revise merger requirements. Specifically, the bill prohibits a merger that materially (currently, substantially) lessens competition in more than a de minimis amount or tends to create a monopsony (a market situation in whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB297 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the statutory requirements for federal court jurisdiction in cases involving diversity of citizenship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB296 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows Medicare payment for home health services ordered by a nurse practitioner, a clinical nurse specialist, a certified nurse-midwife, or a physician assistant. Currently, coverage is provided only for services ordered by a physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB300 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Energy to implement a program to ensure the security, resiliency, and survivability of natural gas pipelines, hazardous liquid pipelines, and liquefied natural gas facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| HB942 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the rate of the research tax credit from 20% to 30% for research expenses to develop smart gun technologies. The bill also modifies the excise tax on the sale of firearms to exempt the portion of the sale price that is attributable to smart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB299 | Intro
Sine Die | Reauthorizes through FY2024 and revises several programs relating to geriatric-care training and workforce development, including a Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program to support the development of a health care workforce that integrates geriatri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB208 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program to Guam. (When Congress created the SSI program in 1972, it excluded Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam.) The Social Security Administration may waive or modify statutory requirements rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support |
| HB944 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Payment and Access Commission to publish annually a report regarding the effects of Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The report must include ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| SB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes various ways for funding border security enhancements, and increases the government's burden of proof in civil forfeiture cases. The bill establishes the Secure America Financing Corporation, which shall be authorized to issue Secure Amer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB313 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires national activities supported by American History and Civics Education grants to include programs that educate students about the history and principles of the U.S. Constitution, including the Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR38 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution designates February 4-February 8, 2019, as National School Counseling Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S815; text: CR S811-812) |
| SB295 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Rural Export Center for the purpose of assisting rural businesses seeking to export their products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts the appropriation of funds for the procurement, flight testing, or deployment of missiles banned by the Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB936 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an issuer of securities, in order to make a disbursement for a political purpose, to assess the preferences of shareholders in the year before the disbursement. If a majority of shareholders are prohibited from expressing partisan or politic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB291 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to implement a mobility demonstration program to enable public housing agencies (PHAs) to administer housing-choice rental-assistance vouchers in a manner designed to (1) encourage low-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
