| SB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Justice to establish a pilot program—the Interdiction for the Protection of Child Victims of Exploitation and Human Trafficking Program—to train law enforcement officers and other professionals to identify and assist vic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB857 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the salaries of Members of Congress to be held in escrow if their chamber has not passed each of the annual appropriations bills before the beginning of the fiscal year, beginning with FY2020. Salaries are released once the bills are passed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Administration Committee |
| HB811 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an institution of higher education to disclose, prior to disbursement, the annual percentage rate applicable to a federal student loan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1250) |
| SB260 | 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] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB814 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a bonus to federal employees who were excepted from furlough and worked without pay during the lapse in FY2019 appropriations that began on December 22, 2018. For each day that an employee worked without pay, the bill provides a bonus equal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB813 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporarily establishes geographic adjustments for certain Medicare Advantage payment formulations, and specifies that a certain percentage of corresponding payment increases must be directed toward compensating providers in Puerto Rico.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB819 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it unlawful for an entity to do any of the following with respect to a person if the person is unable to meet an obligation because government service is unavailable during a lapse in appropriations: (1) debt collection; (2) collection of inter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Consumer Protection and Commerce Committee |
| HB805 | Intro
Sine Die | Robo Calls Off Phones Act or the Robo COP Act directs the Federal Trade Commission to revise the do-not-call registry provisions of the Telemarketing Sales Rule to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to telephone numbers li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Consumer Protection and Commerce Committee |
| HB818 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses design changes and reprocessing of medical devices. Reprocessing of medical devices is the process to clean and sterilize or disinfect devices for reuse. Specifically, medical device manufacturers must notify the Food and Drug Administratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB808 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to fulfill documentation requirements for coverage, under Medicare, of special shoes for diabetic individuals. Under current law, such requirements may be satisfied only by a physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB769 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a board to coordinate and integrate DHS's intelligence, activities, and policy related to its counterterrorism mission and functions. The board shall (1) advise the Secretary of DHS on the issu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB624 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to study and report on possible revisions to regulations regarding Rule 10b5-1 trading plans. (Such plans allow certain employees of publicly traded corporations to sell their shares without violat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB424 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to require that the designation of the sensitivity level of national security positions be conducted in a consistent manner in all DHS components and offices. The bill requires DHS (1) by July 6, 2019...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB502 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report on the use of virtual currencies and online marketplaces in sex and drug trafficking. The GAO must study topics including how illicit proceeds are transferred into the U.S. banking system, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HR77 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses the sense of Congress that financial institutions and other entities should take steps to mitigate the financial hardships faced by customers and tenants as a result of any federal government shutdown, including the shutdown...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-29
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection. |
| HR65 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses support for the establishment of a Dominican Heritage Month to honor the Dominican people and their contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1235) |
| SR32 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes January 27, 2019, as the second anniversary of the executive order suspending the admission of individuals and refugees from specified Muslim-majority countries. It also affirms this Nation's proud history of refugee settle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB244 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Interior to relinquish its reversionary interest in a 16-acre parcel of land that is located in Yavapai County, Arizona, and owned by the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB240 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of the Treasury to establish a program to issue, upon the request of any individual, a number that may be used in connection with a Social Security number (or other identifying information) to assist in verifying the individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes reporting requirements with respect to a special counsel appointed by the Department of Justice (DOJ). Specifically, it requires a special counsel to submit a report, within 30 days, to DOJ and Congress (1) at the conclusion of an investi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Instructs the Department of the Interior to allow for the introduction of a small number of free-roaming wild horses from the Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina as necessary to ensure the genetic diversity of the wild horse population i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB232 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires presidentially appointed executive branch officials to disclose whether they have solicited donations for or contributed funds to political action committees, political non-profits, or industry trade associations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| SB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds specified additional lands in the George Washington National Forest (a part of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky) to the Rough Mountain Wilderness and the Rich Hole Wilderness. The Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB233 | Intro
Sine Die | Revises the special hiring authority given to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to appoint up to 30 personnel for positions without regard to the civil service laws. requires the Administrator to notify Congress within 30 days ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Environment And Public Works Committee |
| SB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses various intelligence issues, including by reauthorizing intelligence-related activities, establishing certain bodies, and directing the intelligence community to report on topics such as election infrastructure security and Russian interfer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Select Intelligence Committee |
| HB824 | 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] | 2019-01-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HR81 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that state legislatures should pass comprehensive sexual assault kit reform legislation that includes certain requirements, such as for the auditing and testing of backlogged sexual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| SB237 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to fulfill documentation requirements for coverage, under Medicare, of special shoes for diabetic individuals. Under current law, such requirements may be satisfied only by a physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HR84 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses the commitment of the House of Representatives to (1) take bipartisan action to amend the U.S Code to prevent lapses in appropriations and permanently end government shutdowns, and (2) ensure that no Americans have to suffer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB246 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits making funds, resources, or fees available to any federal agency to implement or enforce Executive Order 13780 and Presidential Proclamation 9645, which suspended individuals from several countries of concern, including Chad, Iran, and Liby...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB827 | Intro
Sine Die | Expresses the sense of Congress that technology can improve the lives of individuals, but can also disrupt jobs, and for this reason, innovation should be encouraged while training and retraining American workers. The Department of Labor shall prepar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB809 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides continuing appropriations to prevent a government shutdown if any appropriations measure has not been enacted before the beginning of the fiscal year or otherwise expires. The bill provides appropriations at the rate of operations that was p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB807 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits tax-exempt mutual ditch or irrigation companies to earn income from dispositions of certain property and stock interests without affecting their tax-exempt status, but requires that such income be used to pay the costs of operations, maintena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB234 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an institution of higher education to disclose, prior to disbursement, the annual percentage rate applicable to a federal student loan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HR82 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution establishes in the House of Representatives the Congressional Gold Star Fellowship Program under which an eligible individual may serve a 12-month fellowship in the office of a Member of the House of Representatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To House Administration Committee |
| HB815 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides FY2019 continuing appropriations for (1) the pay and allowances of members and employees of the U.S. Coast Guard, and (2) the salaries and expenses of law enforcement and customs and border protection officers within the Department of Homela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB804 | Intro
Sine Die | Reauthorizes educational programs that assist at-risk middle school students. The bill establishes a transition-to-success mentoring program requiring the Department of Education to award grants to local educational agencies or certain community-base...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of the Interior, upon request by Bullhead City, Arizona, to convey to to the city 345.2 acres of specified federal land in exchange for 1,100 acres of city-owned land in the Black Mountain Range. The lands acquired by Interior ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB235 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes grants for the establishment of professional development programs for teachers who remain in the classroom while also carrying out formalized leadership responsibilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB812 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires presidentially appointed executive branch officials to disclose whether they have solicited donations for or contributed funds to political action committees, political non-profits, or industry trade associations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HR80 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution ranks specified Members on the following House Committees: (1) Education and Labor, and (2) Homeland Security.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| HB648 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides FY2019 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 6 of the 12 regular FY2019 appropriations bills: the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-28
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 16. |
| HB802 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a Patriot employer a business-related tax credit equal to 10% of up to $15,000 of wages paid to any employee in a taxable year. The bill sets forth criteria for designation as a Patriot employer, including requirements that the employer mainta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB352 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts health insurers and group health plan sponsors from penalties for offering coverage or plans that fail to comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Coverage and pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB793 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits federal funds from being used to pay for travel by a Member of Congress during any government shutdown, except for travel by a Member to the District of Columbia metropolitan area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Administration Committee |
| HB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support stem cell research. Specifically, the NIH must conduct and support basic and applied research to develop techniques for the isolation, derivation, production, testing, and human clinical use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB327 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an entity from requiring, as part of a customer agreement or other similar agreement, that an individual agree to submit to arbitration a dispute related to a security breach. With respect to this prohibition, the bill establishes a private...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Consumer Protection and Commerce Committee |
| HB797 | 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. The bill p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides additional criteria a federal financial supervisory agency may consider in its evaluation of a financial institution's community investment. Specifically, a financial institution's assistance to certain individuals affected by a federal gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB801 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a tax credit for certain employers of reservists (i.e., members of the National Guard or a reserve component of the Armed Forces). The tax credit is equal to $1,000 for each reservist employed during the year, plus an additional amount that ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Ways And Means Committee |
