| US | HB4 | Intro | Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019 This bill establishes new criteria for determining which states and political subdivisions must obtain preclearance before changes to voting practices in these areas may take effect. (Preclearance is the process ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-06
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| US | HR326 | Intro | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding United States efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a negotiated two-state solution. This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that only a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-06
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| US | HB3 | Intro | Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019 This bill establishes several programs and requirements relating to the prices of prescription drugs. In particular, the bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to negotiate prices for certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-06
[Hearing: Dec 10 @ 3:00 pm]
House Committee on Education and Labor Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 9, 2019. |
| US | HB5267 | Intro | To prevent international violence against women, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-06
To House Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Committee |
| US | HB5316 | Intro | To provide for the restoration of the original carrying capacity of canals impacted by land subsidence, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-05
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| US | HR743 | Intro | Expressing strong disapproval of the President's formal notification to the United Nations of his intent to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-05
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| US | HB1253 | Enroll | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 13507 Van Nuys Boulevard in Pacoima, California, as the "Ritchie Valens Post Office Building". Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 13507 Van N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-04
Presented to President. |
| US | HB1252 | Enroll | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6531 Van Nuys Boulevard in Van Nuys, California, as the "Marilyn Monroe Post Office". Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6531 Van Nuys Boulev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-04
Presented to President. |
| US | HB2382 | Intro | USPS Fairness Act This bill repeals the requirement that the U.S. Postal Service annually prepay future retirement health benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-04
Motion to place bill on Consensus Calendar filed by Mr. DeFazio. |
| US | HB3144 | Enroll | To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8520 Michigan Avenue in Whittier, California, as the "Jose Ramos Post Office Building". Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8520 Michigan Aven...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-04
Presented to President. |
| US | HR517 | Intro | Supporting the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), malaria, and its Sixth Replenishment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-12-03
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| US | HB724 | Pass | PACT Act Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act This bill revises and expands criminal provisions with respect to animal crushing. It retains existing criminal offenses that prohibit knowingly creating or distributing an animal crush video using i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-25
Became Public Law No: 116-72. |
| US | HB2423 | Pass | Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act (Sec. 3) This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue up to 400,000 $1 silver coins that are emblematic of the women who played a vital role in rallying support for the 19th Ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-25
Became Public Law No: 116-71. (TXT | PDF) |
| US | HB5258 | Intro | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose the alternative minimum tax on certain State regulated electric utilities that have not fully adopted climate-resilient infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-22
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| US | HB5265 | Intro | To provide for the restoration of legal rights for claimants under holocaust-era insurance policies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-22
To House Foreign Affairs Committee |
| US | HB1446 | Engross | Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2019 This bill directs the U.S. Postal Service to sell each copy of the Multinational Species Conservation Fund Semipostal Stamp and notify Congress when all copies have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
To Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee |
| US | HB737 | Engross | Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 2019 This bill makes it illegal to possess, buy, or sell shark fins or any product containing shark fins, except for certain dogfish fins. A person may possess a shark fin that was lawfully taken consistent with a l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
To Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee |
| US | HB925 | Engross | North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act This bill reauthorizes the North American Wetlands Conservation Act through FY2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
Received in the Senate. |
| US | HB1309 | Engross | Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act This bill requires the Department of Labor to address workplace violence in the health care and social service sectors. Specifically, Labor must promulgate an occupational s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| US | HB5221 | Intro | 100% Clean Economy Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| US | HB5216 | Intro | To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to revise minimum nurse staffing requirements for skilled nursing facilities under the Medicare program and for nursing facilities under the Medicaid program, and for other purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| US | HB5038 | Intro | Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 This bill contains provisions related to alien farmworkers, including provisions establishing a certified agricultural worker (CAW) status and changing the H-2A temporary worker program. The Department of Home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
[Hearing: Dec 10 @ 3:00 pm]
Ordered to be Reported (Amended). |
| US | HB1132 | Intro | San Francisco Bay Restoration Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-20
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 245. |
| US | HB2199 | Intro | Central Coast Heritage Protection Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-20
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 20 - 13. |
| US | HB5119 | Intro | Safe Aircraft Maintenance Standards Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-20
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 39 - 19. |
| US | HB5193 | Intro | Buy America for Drinking Water Extension Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-20
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| US | HB1865 | Engross | National Law Enforcement Museum Commemorative Coin Act (Sec. 3) This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue up to 50,000 $5 gold coins, 400,000 $1 silver coins, and 750,000 half-dollar clad coins that are emblematic of the Nati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-19
ORDER OF BUSINESS - Mr. McGovern asked unanimous consent that it be in order at any time to take from the Speaker's table the bill H.R. 1865, with the Senate amendment thereto, and to consider in the House, without intervention of any point of order, a motion offered by the chair of the Committee on Appropriations or her designee that the House concur in the Senate amendment submitted for printing by Representative Lowey of New York in the portion of the Congressional Record designated for that purpose in clause 8 of rule XVIII; that the Senate amendment and the motion be considered as read; that the motion be debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations; that the previous question be considered as ordered on the motion to adoption without intervening motion or demand for division of the question; and that House Resolution 708 be laid on the table. Objection was heard. |
| US | HB4730 | Intro | Advancing Gun Safety Technology Act of 2019 This bill authorizes the National Institute of Justice to establish a pilot program to make grants to small business concerns for the development of gun safety technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-15
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| US | HB1773 | Engross | Rosie the Riveter Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2019 This bill directs the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to make appropriate arrangements for the award of a single Congressional Gold Medal to Ro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-14
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | HB4856 | Intro | READI Act Reliable Emergency Alert Distribution Improvement Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-14
To House Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery |
| US | HB1980 | Intro | Smithsonian Women's History Museum Act This bill establishes in the Smithsonian Institution a comprehensive women's history museum. Such museum shall be named by the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. The bill establishes a council, tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-13
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 230. |
| US | HB2387 | Intro | STOP GAMES Act of 2019 Stop The Overuse of Petitions and Get Affordable Medicines to Enter Soon Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-13
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote . |
| US | HB4044 | Intro | Protect and Restore America's Estuaries Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-13
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 232. |
| US | HJR79 | Intro | Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment. 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-13
Ordered to be Reported (Amended). |
| US | HR689 | Intro | Recognizing the significance of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, to Sikh Americans and Sikhs worldwide. This resolution recognizes the significance of Guru Nanak's 550th birthday to Sikh Americans and Sikhs worldwide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-12
To House Oversight and Reform Committee |
| US | HB1396 | Pass | Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act (Sec. 3) This bill requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives and President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of one Congressional Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in recog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-08
Became Public Law No: 116-68. (TXT | PDF) |
| US | HB3195 | Intro | Land and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Funding Act This bill makes funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) permanent. The President shall annually submit to Congress specified details regarding the allocation of funds to the LWCF....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-08
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 222. |
| US | HB4710 | Intro | Pharmaceutical Independence Long-Term Readiness Reform Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-08
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| US | HB35 | Intro | Emmett Till Antilynching Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-31
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 212. |
| US | HB4674 | Intro | College Affordability Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-31
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 28 - 22. |
| US | HB4919 | Intro | Responsible and Efficient Agriculture Destination Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-31
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| US | HB4709 | Intro | Take Unsafe Limos Off the Road Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-31
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8682) |
| US | HB4708 | Intro | SAFE Limos Act Safety, Accountability, and Federal Enforcement of Limos Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-31
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8682) |
| US | HR189 | Intro | Recognizing the importance of sustained United States leadership to accelerating global progress against maternal and child malnutrition and supporting United States Agency for International Development's commitment to global nutrition through its mu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-30
Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent. |
| US | HB4924 | Intro | Smoke Planning and Research Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-30
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| US | HB647 | Engross | Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-29
To Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee |
| US | HR296 | Intro | Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide. This resolution states that it is U.S. policy to (1) commemorate the Armenian Genocide, the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923; (2) reject efforts to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-29
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| US | HR616 | Intro | Expressing the sense of Congress honoring the life and mourning the loss of Lieutenant Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal of the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-28
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| US | HB2579 | Intro | Hardrock Leasing and Reclamation Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-23
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 21 - 13. |
| US | HB1225 | Intro | Restore Our Parks and Public Lands Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-22
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 199. |
