| US | HB240 | Intro | Directs the Department of Labor to give homeless veterans with dependents service priority under homeless veterans reintegration programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-17
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed. |
| US | HB1065 | Engross | Prohibits employment practices that discriminate against making reasonable accommodations for qualified employees affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. A qualified employee is an employee or applicant who, with or without ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-17
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| US | HB144 | Intro | Authorizes the National Science Foundation to establish a two-year pilot program to award grants to highly qualified early-career investigators to carry out an independent research program at the institution of higher education chosen by such investi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-17
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed. |
| US | HB721 | Engross | Provides specific statutory authority for the Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) State Educational Agency Grant Program that is administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The program sup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| US | HB1448 | Engross | Implements a program and a policy related to service dog therapy for veterans. Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to implement a five-year pilot program to assess the effectiveness of addressing post-deployment me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| US | HB3224 | Intro | To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve the responses of the Department of Defense to sex-related offenses, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-13
To House Armed Services Committee |
| US | HB239 | Intro | Prohibits the Department of Veterans Affairs from requiring payment from a veteran for any contraceptive item that is required to be covered by health insurance plans without a cost-sharing requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-04
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 6. |
| US | HB1948 | Intro | Repeals provisions excluding any matter or question concerning professional conduct or competence; peer review; or the establishment, determination, or adjustment of employee compensation from the applicability of collective bargaining rights for Vet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-04
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. |
| US | HB903 | Intro | Modifies the workplace rights, protections, and benefits applicable to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel. Specifically, the bill within 180 days, eliminates personnel authorities of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-04
Committee Hearings Held. |
| US | HB2441 | Intro | Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), during FY2022, to establish and maintain three new centers of the Rural Access Network for Growth Enhancement (RANGE) Program in areas with interest from personnel and a need for additional mental hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-04
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 6. |
| US | HB2968 | Intro | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include service as a veteran family caregiver as a public service job for purposes of the public service loan forgiveness program, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-05-04
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| US | HB2925 | Intro | To prohibit the use of funds for the operation or construction of family detention centers, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB1585 | Intro | Includes veterans who participated in the cleanup of Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands between January 1, 1977, and December 31, 1980, as radiation-exposed veterans for purposes of the Department of Veterans Affairs presumption of service-connec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-29
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| US | HB1280 | Engross | Addresses a wide range of policies and issues regarding policing practices and law enforcement accountability. It increases accountability for law enforcement misconduct, restricts the use of certain policing practices, enhances transparency and data...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-28
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| US | HCR19 | Intro | This concurrent resolution (1) affirms, on the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first slave ship, that the nation owes a debt of remembrance not only to those who lived through the injustices of slavery but also to their descendants; and (2) u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-28
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| US | HB1378 | Intro | Prohibits the application of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) to specified federal laws or the implementation of such laws. Currently, RFRA prohibits the government from substantially burdening a person's exercise of religion even...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-28
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| US | HB1470 | Intro | Eliminates the defense of qualified immunity in civil actions for deprivation of rights. Qualified immunity is a judicially created doctrine that protects government employees or those acting with state authority from being held personally liable for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-28
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| US | HB1783 | Intro | To make high-speed broadband internet service accessible and affordable to all Americans, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-28
To House Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Committee |
| US | HB1454 | Intro | Broadens the definition of firearm for purposes of federal firearms laws. Specifically, it includes as a firearm any combination of parts designed or intended to be used to convert a device into a firearm and from which a firearm may be readily assem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-28
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| US | HR304 | Intro | This resolution recognizes the opportunity for Black Maternal Health Week to raise national awareness of the state of Black maternal health in the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-28
To House Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations |
| US | HB2872 | Intro | To establish an integrated national approach to respond to ongoing and expected effects of extreme weather and climate change by protecting, managing, and conserving the fish, wildlife, and plants of the United States, and to maximize Government effi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-28
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| US | HB2840 | Intro | To amend the Animal Welfare Act to provide for the humane treatment of dogs, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| US | HB963 | Intro | Prohibits a predispute arbitration agreement from being valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of an employment, consumer, antitrust, or civil rights dispute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-23
To House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law |
| US | HB959 | Intro | To end preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in the United States and close disparities in maternal health outcomes, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-23
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| US | HB51 | Engross | Provides for admission into the United States of the state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, composed of most of the territory of the District of Columbia. The commonwealth shall be admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the other states....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-22
Received in the Senate. |
| US | HB1333 | Engross | Imposes limitations on the President's authority to suspend or restrict aliens from entering the United States. It also prohibits religious discrimination in various immigration-related decisions, such as whether to issue an immigrant or nonimmigrant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB2766 | Intro | To grant lawful permanent resident status to certain eligible persons who were separated from immediate family members by the Department of Homeland Security.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB7 | Engross | Addresses wage discrimination on the basis of sex, which is defined to include pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics. Specifically, it limits an employer's defense that a pay differential is based on a factor other t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-20
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 46. |
| US | HB1996 | Engross | Generally prohibits a federal banking regulator from penalizing a depository institution for providing banking services to a legitimate cannabis-related business. Prohibited penalties include terminating or limiting the deposit insurance or share ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-20
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | HB2709 | Intro | To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that members of the Armed Forces and their families have access to the contraception they need in order to promote the health and readiness of all members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-20
To House Armed Services Committee |
| US | HB1195 | Engross | Requires the Department of Labor to address workplace violence in health care, social service, and other sectors. Specifically, Labor must issue an interim occupational safety and health standard that requires certain employers to take actions to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-19
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| US | HB2096 | Intro | To prohibit the non-consensual release of claims by States, municipalities, federally recognized Tribes, or the United States against non-debtors, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-16
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1879) |
| US | HB2594 | Intro | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate the coinsurance requirement for certain colorectal cancer screening tests furnished under the Medicare program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-15
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| US | HB40 | Intro | Establishes the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. The commission shall examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies. The...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 17. |
| US | HB707 | Intro | Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops and the 3133d Signal Service Company, known as the Ghost Army, collectively, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-14
Motion to place bill on Consensus Calendar filed by Ms. Kuster. |
| US | HR307 | Intro | This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should continue to support the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft program for national security reasons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
To House Armed Services Committee |
| US | HB2465 | Intro | To allow Americans to earn paid sick time so that they can address their own health needs and the health needs of their families.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| US | HB1282 | Intro | Provides that combat-disabled uniformed services retirees with fewer than 20 years of creditable service may concurrently receive, without reduction, veterans' disability compensation and retired pay or combat-related special compensation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-12
To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs |
| US | HB1442 | Intro | Establishes requirements governing the care of animals by entities, such as zoos, in emergencies or disasters. Specifically, the bill requires each research facility, dealer, exhibitor, intermediate handler, and carrier to develop and follow a contin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-08
To House Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture |
| US | HB1799 | Pass | Extends the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), through June 30, 2021. Currently, the program is set to expire on March 31, 2021. For the final 30 days of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
Became Public Law No: 117-6. (TXT | PDF) |
| US | HB1313 | Intro | Allows tax credits and grants for activities that provide access to healthy food in food deserts, which are communities that have limited or no access to grocery stores and meet income requirements. For entities that are certified by the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-29
To House Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations |
| US | HB2282 | Intro | To repeal certain impediments to the administration of the firearms laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB2269 | Intro | To modify the presumption of service connection for veterans who were exposed to herbicide agents while serving in the Armed Forces in Thailand during the Vietnam era, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-26
To House Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| US | HB2222 | Intro | To provide standards for facilities at which aliens in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security are detained, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| US | HB2244 | Intro | To provide for the adjustment or modification by the Secretary of Agriculture of loans for critical rural utility service providers, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-26
To House Agriculture Committee |
| US | HB2198 | Intro | To direct the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to obtain a statue of Shirley Chisholm for placement in the United States Capitol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-26
To House Administration Committee |
| US | HB256 | Intro | Repeals the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 28 - 19. |
| US | HJR17 | Engross | 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] | 2021-03-23
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 12. |
| US | HCR24 | Intro | This resolution recognizes the disparity between wages paid to men and women, and its impact on women, families, and the nation and reaffirms Congress' commitment to supporting equal pay and to narrowing the gender wage gap.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-23
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| US | HB748 | Intro | To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to require the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-22
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
