US Congress Representative Christopher Smith [R]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
US	HB1193	Engross 50%	Expands research on valvular heart disease and its treatment. This disease is caused by damage to or disease affecting any valve that controls blood flow in the heart. The National Institutes of Health must consult with the National Heart, Lung, and ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-25 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
US	HB3807	Engross 50%	Addresses support for restaurants, arts and entertainment venues, and small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill provides an additional $42 billion in FY2021 for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund and gives priority to previous appl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-25 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 387.
US	HB8	Engross 50%	Establishes new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties (i.e., unlicensed individuals). Specifically, it prohibits a firearm transfer between private parties unless a licensed gun dealer, manufacturer, or importer ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-24 Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
US	HB7829	Intro 25%	Reauthorizes the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom through FY2024. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-18 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
US	HB4395	Intro 25%	Requires retail businesses to accept cash as a form of payment for sales in amounts less than $2,000, and it prohibits them from charging cash-paying customers a higher price compared to customers not paying with cash. Such businesses are those engag... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-17 Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 32 - 17.
US	HB7787	Intro 25%	To allow Federal personnel stationed abroad to return to the United States with dogs, and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-17 To House Subcommittee on Aviation
US	HB903	Engross 50%	Modifies the workplace rights, protections, and benefits applicable to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel. Specifically, the bill by December 31, 2022, eliminates personnel authorities of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-16 To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee
US	HR1121	Intro 25%	Calling for the immediate release of Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was unjustly detained on April 11, 2022. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-16 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
US	HB7775	Intro 25%	To extend the National Alzheimer's Project. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-13 To House Energy And Commerce Committee
US	HB7773	Intro 25%	To require an annual budget estimate for the initiatives of the National Institutes of Health pursuant to reports and recommendations made under the National Alzheimer's Project Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-13 To House Energy And Commerce Committee
US	HB263	Intro 25%	Revises requirements governing the trade of big cats (i.e., species of lion, tiger, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, or cougar or any hybrid of such species). Specifically, it revises restrictions on the possession and exhibition of big cats, including to r... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-12 Subcommittee Hearings Held.
US	HB2499	Engross 50%	Makes it easier for federally employed firefighters who contract certain illnesses to qualify for federal workers' compensation. Specifically, the bill provides that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, mesothelioma, and specified other cancers of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-12 To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee
US	HB7758	Intro 25%	To improve the intelligence received by the Secretary of State to identify, prevent, and respond to atrocities. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-12 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
US	HB496	Engross 50%	Directs the President, when determining whether Russia is a country of particular concern for religious freedom under certain federal laws, to consider incidents occurring in the parts of Ukraine that Russia (or any Russia-affiliated non-state group)... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-11 Star Print ordered on the bill.
US	HB6015	Engross 50%	Provides for the award of a Congressional Gold Medal to Benjamin Berell Ferencz in recognition of his service to the United States and the international community during the post-World War II Nuremberg trials and his lifelong advocacy for internation... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-11 Received in the Senate.
US	HB3344	Engross 50%	Directs the Department of State and other federal agencies to help certain countries improve the security of their telecommunications networks and addresses related issues. Assistance provided under this bill shall be available to projects in a count... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-11 Star Print ordered on the bill.
US	HB7718	Intro 25%	To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to work through the Codex process to review and update internationally recognized standards for infant formula to ensure that such standards are ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-11 To House Energy And Commerce Committee
US	HB7690	Intro 25%	To prohibit the use of Federal funds to establish or carry out the activities of a Disinformation Governance Board of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-10 To House Homeland Security Committee
US	HB7713	Intro 25%	To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the concealment, removal, or mutilation of a Supreme Court opinion or draft opinion, and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-10 To House Judiciary Committee
US	HR1091	Intro 25%	Calling for the immediate resignation of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-05-06 To House Homeland Security Committee
US	HB3482	Intro 25%	Establishes the National Center for the Advancement of Aviation to serve as a national independent forum to facilitate collaboration and cooperation between aviation and aerospace stakeholders to support and promote civil and military aviation and ae... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-28 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
US	HB6089	Engross 50%	Expands existing provisions requiring sanctions against individuals or entities that provide certain types of weapons to Iran. Specifically, the bill modifies the provisions by adding unmanned combat aerial vehicles to the list of weapons covered by ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-28 [Hearing: May 26 @ 11:00 am] To Senate Foreign Relations Committee
US	HB7075	Intro 25%	To designate Ukrainian Independence Park in Washington, District of Columbia, and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-28 Subcommittee Hearings Held.
US	HB7311	Engross 50%	Requires the Department of State to report to Congress a strategy and implementation plan outlining U.S. efforts to counter Russia's malign influence and activities in Africa. The State Department must also report to Congress annual updates on the st... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-28 To Senate Foreign Relations Committee
US	HB7570	Intro 25%	To establish certain protections for individuals involuntarily separated from the Armed Forces solely on the basis of refusing to receive vaccinations against COVID-19. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-25 To House Armed Services Committee
US	HB7571	Intro 25%	To direct the Administer of the Small Business Administration to consider certain applications under certain EIDL COVID-19 relief programs, and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-25 To House Small Business Committee
US	HB7555	Intro 25%	To direct the Librarian of Congress to carry out activities to support Armenian Genocide education programs, and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-21 To House Administration Committee
US	HB7276	Engross 50%	Requires the President to report to Congress on atrocities committed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine since February 24, 2022. Specifically, the report must describe in detail (1) U.S. government efforts to collect, analyze, and preserve evidence ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-07 [Hearing: May 26 @ 11:00 am] To Senate Foreign Relations Committee
US	HB3076	Pass	Addresses the finances and operations of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). The bill requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish the Postal Service Health Benefits Program within the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program under whi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-06 Became Public Law No: 117-108. (TXT \| PDF)
US	HB1916	Engross 50%	Requires private health insurance plans to cover diagnosis and treatment of congenital anomalies and birth defects, such as reconstructive services and items. Coverage must include services and items that functionally improve, repair, or restore any ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-05 To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
US	HB5577	Engross 50%	Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3900 Crown Road Southwest in Atlanta, Georgia, as the "John R. Lewis Post Office Building." [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-04 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 335.
US	HR1020	Intro 25%	Condemning the Biden administration's plans for seeking to remove sanctions on the oppressive Maduro regime and negotiating with Iran in response to the crisis in Ukraine, and instead calling for Congress and the administration to support the product... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-04 To House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
US	HB7321	Intro 25%	Addresses safety standards related to foreign aircraft repair stations. Among other things, the bill requires that all foreign aircraft repair stations be subject to at least one unannounced safety inspection each year; requires air carriers to submi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-01 To House Subcommittee on Aviation
US	HB7359	Intro 25%	To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide the Secretary of Health and Human Services with the authority to suspend the right to introduce certain persons or property into the United States in the interest of the public health. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-04-01 To House Energy And Commerce Committee
US	HB7332	Intro 25%	To reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-31 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
US	HB7240	Intro 25%	To reauthorize the READ Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-28 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
US	HR1005	Intro 25%	Honoring the life and legacy of the late Congressman Don Young of Alaska. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-28 To House Administration Committee
US	HJR79	Intro 25%	This joint resolution nullifies the rule titled Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Updating Payment Parameters, Section 1332 Waiver Implementing Regulations, and Improving Health Insurance Markets for 2022 and Beyond, which was issued by the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-24 To House Energy And Commerce Committee
US	HB7223	Intro 25%	To provide for the abolition of certain United Nations groups, and for other purposes. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-24 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
US	HB7193	Intro 25%	To withdraw normal trade relations treatment from, and apply certain provisions of title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 to, products of the People's Republic of China, and to expand the eligibility requirements for products of the People's Republic of C... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-21 To House Ways And Means Committee
US	HR998	Intro 25%	Celebrating 200 years of United States diplomatic relations with Colombia. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-18 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
US	HR988	Intro 25%	Calling for justice and accountability for the perpetrators of the bombing of the Embassy of Israel in Buenos Aires on March 17, 1992. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-16 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
US	HJR76	Intro 25%	This joint resolution nullifies the rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services on October 7, 2021, that reverts requirements for federally funded providers of family planning services to those in effect before May 3, 2019, and makes o... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-16 To House Energy And Commerce Committee
US	HB7036	Intro 25%	To prohibit the Federal Government from compiling or maintaining any list or other record of Federal employees who have requested or been granted a religious exemption or accommodation to any Federal requirement for any Federal employee to be vaccina... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-09 To House Oversight and Reform Committee
US	HR881	Intro 25%	This resolution condemns the terrorist attack on Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, on January 15, 2022. It also expresses support for the affected community, commends the actions of law enforcement and emergency responders, and reaffirm... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-08 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
US	HB6951	Intro 25%	Declares that a national emergency exists with respect to the aggression of Russia against Ukraine. During this emergency, the President must prohibit the importation of crude oil, petroleum, petroleum products, liquefied natural gas, and coal in whi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-07 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
US	HR966	Intro 25%	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the need for investigation and prosecution of the crime of aggression and other international crimes committed by officials of the Government of the Russian Federation against the Governm... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-07 To House Foreign Affairs Committee
US	HB4445	Pass	Invalidates arbitration agreements that preclude a party from filing a lawsuit in court involving sexual assault or sexual harassment, at the election of the party alleging such conduct. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-03 Became Public Law No: 117-90. (TXT \| PDF)
US	HR961	Intro 25%	This resolution supports reopening the U.S. Capitol Building and House Office Buildings to visitors. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-03-02 To House Administration Committee
US	HJR67	Intro 25%	This joint resolution nullifies the rule titled Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination, which was issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on November 5, 2021. The rule requires health care provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2022-02-28 Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Duncan. Petition No: 117-10. (Discharge petition text with signatures.)