| HB908 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows Medicare-eligible individuals who are age 65 or older to contribute to health savings accounts if their entitlement to Medicare benefits is limited to hospital insurance benefits under Medicare Part A.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB888 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a state to exclude from participation in the state's Medicaid program a provider that performs an abortion, unless (1) the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, or (2) the woman suffers from a physical issue that would place her in danger...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB907 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from the definition of "deposit broker" an entity that is an exclusive agent of an insurance company and an affiliated depository institution. Deposit brokers place, or facilitate the placement of, deposits in a depository institution. Gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the market name of genetically engineered (commonly called genetically modified or GMO) salmon to include Genetically Engineered or GE in front of the existing market name.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HCR11 | Intro
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress that the Supreme Court misinterpreted the First Amendment when rendering its decision in Buckley v. Valeo (which held limits on election spending to be unconstitutional).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB863 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prevent the abuse of dextromethorphan, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB910 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits obligating or expending federal funds to provide in-flight refueling for aircraft belonging to Saudi Arabia or the Saudi-led coalition as part of the ongoing military intervention in Yemen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HB873 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses employment standards for individuals with disabilities. The bill directs the Department of Labor to award grants to states and certain eligible entities to assist them in transforming their business and program models to support individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HJR39 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional Amendment This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that states that the First Amendment to the Constitution does not apply to the political speech of any corporation, partnership, business trust, association, or other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB900 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes additional requirements for assigning Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries to accountable care organizations (ACOs) under the Medicare shared savings program. Under current law, the program enables ACOs to receive payments for savings s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB929 | Intro
Sine Die | Orders the posthumous award of a Congressional Gold Medal to Rabbi Michoel Ber Weissmandl, in recognition of his acts of valor during World War II. The U.S. Mint may strike and sell duplicates in bronze.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB899 | Intro
Sine Die | Terminates the Department of Education on December 31, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB913 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state Medicaid programs to cover routine patient costs for items and services that are provided in connection with a qualifying clinical trial regarding cancer or other life-threatening conditions. The bill defines "routine patient costs" to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB897 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination or adverse action against a child welfare provider that declines to provide services due to the provider's sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions. The prohibition applies to the federal government and any state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support |
| HB912 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises a grant program administered by the Administration for Native Americans at the Department of Health and Human Services to preserve Native American languages. The minimum number of enrollees in educational programs funded by grants is reduced ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB906 | Intro
Sine Die | Merrill's Marauders Congressional Gold Medal Act directs Congress to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), commonly known as Merrill's Marauders, in recognition of their bravery and outstanding service in the ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB284 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires biennial budget resolutions, appropriations bills, and government strategic and performance plans, instead of the annual budget process required under current law. The bill specifies that budget biennium is the two consecutive fiscal years b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To Senate Budget Committee |
| HB918 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revenue procedure (Rev. Proc. 2018-38) that exempts certain tax-exempt organizations that are not 501(c)(3) organizations from the requirement to report the names and addresses of substantial contributors (pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HJR38 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution eliminates the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibits discrimination based on sex. The amendment was proposed to the states in House Joint Resolution 208 of the 92nd Congress, as agreed to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| SB274 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination or adverse action against a child welfare provider that declines to provide services due to the provider's sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions. The prohibition applies to the federal government and any state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB281 | 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 and continuing appropriations are not in effect. The bill provides appropriations a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-30
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| HB449 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Homeland Security's Office for State and Local Law Enforcement to produce and disseminate an annual catalog of training opportunities, programs, and services that are available to state, local, and tribal law enforcement ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB428 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis to assess the threat posed by individuals using virtual currencies to support terrorism. The assessment shall be shared with state, local, and tribal law enforcement of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB56 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the investigation of new financial technologies (e.g., digital currencies) and their use in terrorism and other illicit activities. The bill establishes the Independent Financial Technology Task Force to Combat Terrorism and Illicit Fina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| SB207 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) approval process for tribal transportation safety projects to categorically exclude qualifying projects from requirements to conduct environmental assessments and environmental impact statements. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. |
| HB852 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to (1) test for lead in drinking water at schools and day care facilities, and (2) create a grant program for lead testing and remediation efforts in schools and day care facilities. Specifically, th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| SB250 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the exclusion of individuals from jury service on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB261 | Intro
Sine Die | Reauthorizes the North American Wetlands Conservation Act through FY2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it unlawful to knowingly influence (or attempt or conspire to influence) a major international sports competition by use of a prohibited substance or prohibited method. A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB263 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the federal government to compensate land owners the full fair market value for land seized for the construction of any barrier or related infrastructure at the U.S.-Mexico border. The government shall not take possession of such land before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB856 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a tax deduction for direct primary care physicians who provide charity care. The care must be provided without expectation of reimbursement and to an individual enrolled in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). A "direct ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB847 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides interim appropriations for the Coast Guard Retired Serviceman's Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plans if a bill providing appropriations for the plans has not been enacted before the fiscal year begins. The bill provides the appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB266 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides financial assistance in FY2020-FY2029 for long-term improvements to public school facilities by allocating funds to states for school improvements, awarding need-based grants to local education agencies, and restoring school infrastructure t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HJR35 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment declaring that women shall have equal rights in the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction. The amendment prohibits the United States or any state from denying or abridging ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides FY2019 continuing appropriations for the salaries and expenses of air traffic controllers. The bill provides the appropriations for any period during FY2019 in which interim or full-year appropriations for the Federal Aviation Administration...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB848 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that only U.S. citizens or nationals shall receive certain federal assistance benefits. To establish eligibility, an individual shall provide evidence of citizenship or nationality status and attest to that status when applying for assist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| SB262 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases by 2.6% the rates of basic pay for most federal civilian employees for 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB830 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies coverage requirements under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The bill allows certain local variances from compliance with elevation and flood-proofing requirements for agricultural structures located in special flood hazard zones...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Financial Services Committee |
| SB254 | Intro
Sine Die | Revokes the Department of Homeland Security's authority to waive federal law to facilitate the construction of border barriers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HR85 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution elects specified Members to the House Committee on Administration and ranks specified Members on the House Committee on the Budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of the Treasury to provide a capital increase for the North American Development Bank, a financial institution the United States and Mexico created to develop infrastructure that protect the environment along their shared bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB834 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide for automatic continuing appropriations, to prohibit the use of funds for the official travel of Members of Congress and executive branch employees and other activities during any period in which such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB265 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a Joint Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Task Force, which shall provide recommendations to Congress and DHS on the development and implementation of a national strategy for pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of any federal funds for the design or construction of any levee wall, steel-bollard fence, or other wall within or on a unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System; a unit of the National Wilderness Preservation System; a wildlife ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB255 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands tax credits and deductions that are available for employers who hire and retain employees with disabilities. The bill expands the work opportunity tax credit to include the hiring of employees who receive Social Security Disability Insurance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB845 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for withholding or eliminating the pay of Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President during a government shutdown. For the 116th Congress, the bill requires the salaries of Members of Congress to be held in escrow during a go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB849 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to prioritize innovative civics learning and teaching and to provide additional funding in FY2020 for civics education programs. The bill expands the allowable uses of grant funds for civics e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB826 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands programs to address neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which are infections caused by pathogens, including viruses, microbes, and helminths (parasitic worms), that disproportionately impact individuals living in extreme poverty, especially i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB842 | Intro
Sine Die | Connecting Lobbyists and Electeds for Accountability and Reform Act or the CLEAR Act requires reports filed by political committees, reports filed by persons making independent expenditures, and reports filed by persons making disbursements for elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Administration Committee |
| HB833 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires federally funded entities to certify that they will not perform, and will not provide funds to any other entity that performs, an abortion, except in cases of rape or incest or where a physical condition endangers the woman's life unless an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
