| HB8973 | Intro
Sine Die | To require the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain interests in land in the State of Alaska, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB5018 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a grant program supporting trauma center violence intervention and violence prevention programs, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR802 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution commending the United States African Development Foundation on the occasion of its 40th anniversary for creating pathways to prosperity for underserved communities on the African continent through community-led development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| HB8967 | Intro
Sine Die | To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award a contract to an eligible nonprofit entity to establish and maintain a health care claims database for purposes of lowering Americans' health care costs, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HJR105 | Intro
Sine Die | This joint resolution redesignates the memorial to Robert. E. Lee in Arlington National Cemetery as the Arlington House.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| SB5021 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to require the Federal Communications Commission to make amendments to the E-rate program of the Commission, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB5023 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to suspend and reform the authority under the Higher Education Act of 1965 for the Secretary of Education to carry out an administrative wage garnishment program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| SR801 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution authorizes the use of the atrium in the Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building for a piano performance by Senator Lamar Alexander.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7507; text: CR S7504) |
| HB8971 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the President to (1) provide assistance, including through international organizations, national governments, and international and local nongovernmental organizations, to address the social, structural, health, and human rights issues tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| HR1264 | Intro
Sine Die | This resolution honors the legacy of Indigenous peoples who inhabited the land before the establishment of the United States. It also calls on state and local governments to encourage formal land acknowledgements before public or ceremonial events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| SB5017 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to modify the definition of hemp, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee |
| SB5015 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to establish an Outdoor Restoration Fund for restoration and resilience projects, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee |
| SB5020 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to repeal section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| SB5019 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to limit the charitable deduction for certain qualified conservation contributions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB8969 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the low-income housing tax credit for buildings in transit-oriented development areas. The bill defines a transit-oriented development area as a designated area located within 1/4 mile from a rail, bus, harbor, or waterway station and zoned...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| SB4884 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to report, and make available to the public, information about injuries and deaths from consumer products during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency. The report must be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 642. |
| SB4719 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Commerce to use amounts appropriated for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership program for FY2021 to provide more than 50% of the capital and annual operating and maintenance funds to establish and support a ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 641. |
| SB4472 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Secure and Trusted Communications Network Reimbursement Program to include eligible telecommunications carriers and providers of educational broadband service, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 640. |
| SB4286 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, the Interior, and Health and Human Services and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation, and Environmental Protection Agenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 639. |
| SB4159 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act to accommodate emerging technologies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 638. |
| SB3958 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes incentive payments incurred for expedited completion of certain federally financed airport development projects an allowable project cost standard.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 637. |
| HB7099 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs, if the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR), on behalf of the University of Arizona Experiment Station, offers to convey to the United States all its interest in 7.5 acres of identified nonfederal land, the Department of Agriculture, in exchange,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 534. |
| SB3734 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to provide for a coordinated Federal research initiative to ensure continued United States leadership in engineering biology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 636. |
| SB3303 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Transportation to establish and administer a transportation workforce outreach program to (1) increase awareness of transportation career opportunities; and (2) increase diversity such as race, gender, ethnicity, and socioec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 635. |
| HB5330 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts the inclusion of medical debt on a consumer credit report. A consumer reporting agency is prohibited from including on a consumer credit report, and a person is prohibited from reporting to such agency (1) medical debt arising from a medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 537. |
| SB2979 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to improve drug testing for transportation-related activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 634. |
| SB2757 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an agency from imposing a civil fine on a small business for a first-time paperwork violation, with the exceptions that the agency may levy a fine for a violation that (1) interferes with the detection of criminal activity; (2) contravenes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 628. |
| SB2765 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes several modifications to the federal budget process, including the procedures for considering congressional budget resolutions and adjusting the debt limit. Among other modifications, the bill includes provisions that require biennial congressi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
By Senator Enzi from Committee on the Budget filed written report. Report No. 116-325. Additional views filed. |
| HB4840 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of the Interior to acquire specified private or state lands or interests in land from willing sellers in order to expand the boundaries of the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. As consideration for the acquisition of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 536. |
| SB2597 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make certain operational models available to the public and periodically review innovations and improvements made to such models in order to improve the accuracy and timeliness of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Held at the desk. |
| SB2535 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Commerce to conduct an assessment and analysis of the reasons underlying the decreasing rate of formation of new businesses (i.e., startups) in the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 633. |
| HB4444 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) to establish a pilot project to provide increased transparency for its customers. WAPA must publicly display on its website a database of specific information dating back to FY2008, including rates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 533. |
| HB4403 | Intro
Sine Die | Applies certain consumer protections regarding debt collection to debt owed to a federal agency and to debt buyers. A federal agency that is a creditor may not sell or transfer a debt to a debt collector until 90 days after the obligation becomes del...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 538. |
| HB3977 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands Native American tribal criminal jurisdiction over crimes of domestic violence to include sex trafficking, sexual violence, stalking, and related conduct. The bill also authorizes a tribe to exercise jurisdiction over a non-Native American def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 532. |
| HB3436 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates cost-sharing for chronic care management services under Medicare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 116-646, Part I. |
| SB1858 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the Chief Information Officer of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) must participate in the CPSC's planning, budgeting, management, and personnel practices with respect to information technology. The bill further requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 632. |
| SB1730 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to award grants to state or local governments, Indian tribes, or nonprofit organizations to (1) implement climate-resilient living shoreline projects; and (2) encourage innovation in the use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 631. |
| SB1636 | Engross
Sine Die | A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the scope of new chemical exclusivity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Held at the desk. |
| SB1341 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the California flammability standard as the federal standard for upholstered furniture. To meet the standard, the upholstered furniture must past a specific test of the materials' ability to resist smoldering when a heat source is applied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 630. |
| SB1166 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a grant program for the establishment and expansion of facilities through which internet service providers and content delivery networks exchange internet traffic (internet exchange facilities) in unserved or underserved areas. Further, the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 629. |
| HB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Bureau of Reclamation to convey to Kennewick Irrigation District certain canals, laterals, and appurtenant works and lands, which begin at the district's head gate and extend 40 miles east to the Columbia River. The irrigation district is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-15
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 531. |
| HB8956 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Government Accountability Office to report on certain regulations promulgated during the period leading up to the inauguration of a new President, including major rules that may be subject to nullification under the Congressional Review ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB8965 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifies provisions of the new markets tax credit (NMTC). Specifically, it increases and extends the NMTC limitation through 2022 and allows a carryback of the credit for five years. The bill also exempts the NMTC from the 75% general business credit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-14
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HR1262 | Intro
Sine Die | Thanking all election officials and workers for the tireless energy and sacrifice they made to ensure that the November 2020 election ran smoothly amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-14
To House Administration Committee |
| HB8952 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the permissible uses of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Customer Protection Fund to include education initiatives and administrative expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-14
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB8953 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants for graduate medical education partnerships in States with a low ratio of medical residents relative to the general population.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-14
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB8960 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to require large asset managers to establish Sustainable Investment Policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-14
To House Financial Services Committee |
| HB8955 | Intro
Sine Die | To prohibit the use of reverse auctions for design and construction services procurements, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-14
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| HB8966 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to award grants to state, tribal, territorial, and local health departments or nonprofits to disseminate information about COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), including regarding the safe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-14
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| HB8957 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to establish a grant program for training wind technicians, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-14
To House Education and Labor Committee |
