| HB514 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Transportation to prescribe a motor vehicle safety standard that requires a motor vehicle to be equipped with an ignition interlock device that (1) determines the blood alcohol concentration of the operator of the vehicle, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Consumer Protection and Commerce Committee |
| HB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Nullifies rules issued by the Federal Communications Commission that revoke state and local authority to regulate telecommunications equipment deployment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology |
| HB369 | Intro
Sine Die | Temporarily restricts federal funding for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. Specifically, the bill prohibits, for a one-year period, the availability of federal funds for any purpose to this entity, or any of its affiliates or clinics, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB437 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of tissue from an induced abortion in research conducted or supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Research with human fetal tissue or alternatives to human fetal tissue (e.g., stem cells) conducted or supported by th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB792 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently reauthorizes the Federal Work-Study Program and otherwise revises the program, including by allocating program funds to institutions of higher education based on the amount of Pell Grant funds received by each institution. It also establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| HB380 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Commerce or the Department of the Interior to consider the threat of invasive species before mandating that a new fishway be built. (Fishways are structures placed on or around constructed barriers to give fish the opportun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Energy |
| SB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes advance appropriations for several covered appropriations accounts of (1) the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education within the Department of the Interior, and (2) the Indian Health Service within the Department of Health ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To Senate Budget Committee |
| SR31 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution honors the service, and mourns the death, of Harris L. Wofford, Jr., formerly a Senator from Pennsylvania.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S684; text: CR S682) |
| HB345 | Intro
Sine Die | Reauthorizes for FY2020-FY2024 and revises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant program that supports state mosquito control programs. Among other changes, the bill expands the grant program so that grants may be used to address...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB478 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to promulgate regulations within 180 days permitting individuals to import a prescription drug purchased from an approved Canadian pharmacy if the drug is dispensed by a pharmacist licensed in Canada; i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| SB228 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreases the percentage by which Medicare payments must be reduced in 2019 for nonemergency ambulance transports of end-stage renal disease patients. Beginning in 2020, the bill increases the percentage reduction for certain providers that mostly fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB280 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a series of programs and requirements relating to youth and sports-related concussion research. Among other things, the bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a national system to determine the incidence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HJR28 | Pass | (Sec. 101) This joint resolution provides continuing FY2019 appropriations to several federal agencies through the earlier of February 15, 2019, or the enactment of the applicable appropriations legislation. It is known as a continuing resolution (CR...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
Became Public Law No: 116-5. (TXT | PDF) |
| SR29 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses support for the designation of a Women's Health Research Day. It also supports efforts to (1) recognize the importance of biomedical and clinical research to women's health, (2) increase awareness of the value of sex- and ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| HB427 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a telecommunications company receiving assistance through the Connect America Fund to report its methods of performance testing and to include a speed and latency report listing customer locations tested more than twice annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology |
| HB794 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Commerce, beginning with the 2020 decennial census, to attribute an individual incarcerated in a correctional center to such individual's last place of residence before incarceration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB534 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes newborn screenings for adrenoleukodystrophy (also known as ALD), which is a hereditary condition that damages the insulating membrane of nerve cells in the brain. The bill authorizes hospitals, child care centers, clinics, and similar inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| SR30 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution condemns Hungary's subversion of democratic norms and the rights of asylum seekers under Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB799 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that, upon request by specified employees affected by the federal government shutdown that began on December 22, 2018, individuals are prohibited from reporting certain negative credit information to consumer reporting agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB492 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that an owner or operator of a social media service shall be treated as a publisher or speaker of user-generated content (and, therefore, may potentially be held liable with respect to such content) if the service or its algorithm does any o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology |
| SJR6 | 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] | 2019-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of State to report to Congress on instances where Saudi Arabian diplomats or affiliated individuals may have helped Saudi nationals leave the United States to escape criminal prosecution. The bill also prohibits a foreign count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB791 | 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] | 2019-01-25
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to require a report on foreign nationals who flee from the United States while awaiting trial or sentencing for a criminal offense committed in the United States, to establish a list of countries who have assisted or facilitated with such depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HR78 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the U.S. Postal Service should modernize and maintain a post office network.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-25
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB771 | Intro
Sine Die | Choices in Education Act of 2019 repeals the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and replaces it with a program of block grants to states to carry out an education voucher program. It also limits the authority of the Department of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB222 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires interest to be added to the back pay of federal employees who were not paid during a lapse in appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Appropriations Committee |
| SB201 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the census to tabulate the total number of persons in each state and prohibits the Bureau of the Census from including any question or otherwise eliciting any information regarding U.S. citizenship or immigration status.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| HB700 | Intro
Sine Die | 12 Carrier Act requires the U.S. Navy to have no less than 12 operational aircraft carriers as part of its naval combat forces. Presently, the Navy must have 11 such carriers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces |
| HB740 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies the requirements for tax-exempt Coverdell education savings accounts to permit members of the Armed Forces serving on extended active duty or their spouses to use the accounts for certain education expenses incurred in connection with a home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB754 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes residents of Puerto Rico eligible for the federal earned income tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Defense (DOD) to (1) identify DOD equipment that would be appropriate for farm use and could be used in an equipment sharing program without jeopardizing military readiness, and (2) establish a three-year pilot program to le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| SR28 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution recognizes (1) January 2019 as National Mentoring Month, and (2) the staff and volunteers at quality mentoring programs who help young people reach their full potential. It acknowledges that mentoring is beneficial in that it supports...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S659; text: CR S591-592) |
| HJR34 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment requiring Representatives to be apportioned according to the number of U.S. citizens in each state, rather than the number of persons in each state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| HB780 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the reimbursement of childcare expenses of federal employees who are furloughed or working without pay during the lapse in appropriations that began on or about December 22, 2018. The reimbursements are provided (1) subject to appropriat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Defense to provide chiropractic health care services and benefits through the TRICARE program to uniformed service members who are not on active duty and to uniformed service retirees. (Active duty members of the uniformed s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HCR7 | Intro
Sine Die | This concurrent resolution expresses the sense of Congress that the President should seek the elimination of all subsidies benefiting the production or export of sugar by certain foreign countries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Trade |
| SB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a specified excise tax on certain employers who employ low-wage employees during the year. A "low-wage" employee is an employee who receives wages from the employer that are less than 218% of the federal poverty line. The bill reduces the amo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB781 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes federal student loans eligible for deferment during federal government shutdowns. Specifically, the bill allows affected federal, state, and District of Columbia employees and contractors to apply for deferment on their student loan payments du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB206 | Intro
Sine Die | Hello Girls Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2019 requires the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to make arrangements for the award of a Congressional Gold Medal in honor of the female telephone operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| HB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits full-time positions in the Department of Defense (DOD), in each of FY2025-FY2029, to not more than 85% of the number of such positions at the end of FY2019. Not more than 1,000 of the positions may be career appointees within the Senior Execut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| HB746 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans campaign contributions and expenditures by corporations, limited liability corporations, and partnerships that are controlled, influenced, or owned by foreign nationals. The bill prohibits foreign nationals and such corporations, limited liabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Administration Committee |
| HB259 | Pass | Alters several Medicaid programs and funding mechanisms. (Sec. 2) The bill makes appropriations for FY2019 for, and otherwise revises, the Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration Program. (Under this program, the Centers for Medicare & Med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
Became Public Law No: 116-3. (TXT | PDF) |
| SB223 | 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] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently extends the tax credit for railroad track maintenance. The extension applies to expenditures paid or incurred during tax years beginning after 2017. Assignments of miles of railroad track, including related expenditures, for tax years beg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB761 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes measures to hold institutions of higher education accountable for hate crimes that occur on their campuses, including by conditioning the receipt of certain federal funding on an institution's implementation of a program to prevent and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows tax-exempt distributions from qualified tuition programs (known as 529 plans) to be used for apprenticeship programs, early education expenses for children under the age of 5, career and technical education programs, and industry intermediary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB620 | Intro
Sine Die | Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act revises the calculation of age of eligibility for retired pay for members of the Ready Reserve so that days of active duty or active service after October 7, 2001, (the start of combat operations in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To House Administration Committee |
| SR26 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution designates January 25, 2019, as Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day. The resolution also calls on federal, state, and local agencies; community organizations; nonprofit organizations; employers; and other partners to help increase ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
