| 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 | 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 | HB5213 | Intro | NASA Enhanced Use Leasing Extension Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-21
To House Science, Space, And Technology 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 | HB5126 | Intro | DESCEND Act of 2019 Direct Enhancement of Snapper Conservation and the Economy through Novel Devices Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-15
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| US | HB5102 | Intro | Coastal Resilience Research and Education Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-11-14
To House Science, Space, And Technology Committee |
| US | HB4932 | Intro | CONNECT for Health Act of 2019 Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health 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 | HB3942 | Engross | Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-29
Received in the Senate. |
| US | HR653 | Intro | Calling on Congress, schools, and State and local educational agencies to recognize the significant educational implications of dyslexia that must be addressed, and supporting the designation of October 2019 as "National Dyslexia Awareness Month".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-23
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| US | HB95 | Engross | Homeless Veteran Families Act This bill updates the Department of Veterans Affairs per diem payment calculation for entities furnishing services to homeless veterans to include funding for a minor dependent. The rate for per diem payments is the dail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-16
To Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| US | HR630 | Intro | Condemning and censuring Adam Schiff, Representative of California's 28th Congressional District. This resolution censures and condemns Representative Adam Schiff of California for certain misleading conduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-15
To House Ethics Committee |
| US | HB1590 | Pass | Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel Exercise Act of 2019 This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to develop and conduct an exercise related to the detection and prevention of terrorist and foreign fighter travel. The bill requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-10-09
Became Public Law No: 116-64. (TXT | PDF) |
| US | HR604 | Intro | Condemning and censuring Adam Schiff, Representative of California's 28th Congressional District. This resolution censures and condemns Representative Adam Schiff of California for certain misleading conduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-27
To House Ethics Committee |
| US | HB550 | Engross | Merchant Mariners of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2019 This bill provides for a Congressional Gold Medal to be awarded to the U.S. Merchant Mariners of World War II, in recognition of their service during World War II. Following the a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-23
To Senate Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs Committee |
| US | HB4305 | Intro | PAWS for Veterans Therapy Act Puppies Assisting Wounded Servicemembers for Veterans Therapy Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-20
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| US | HB2406 | Intro | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps Amendments Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-18
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 21 - 14. |
| US | HB4304 | Intro | NASA Enhanced Use Lease Authority Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-09-12
To House Science, Space, And Technology Committee |
| US | HB1919 | Intro | DEER Act Detection, Enhanced Education, and Response Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-08-09
To House Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture |
| US | HB1837 | Engross | United States-Israel Cooperation Enhancement and Regional Security Act This bill authorizes various joint research and cooperation programs between the United States and Israel, reauthorizes security assistance to Israel, and establishes reporting re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-24
To Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| US | HB3655 | Intro | Livestock Protection Act of 2019 This bill authorizes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to issue a permit to a livestock farmer for the taking of black vultures during the calving or lambing season if it protects livestock from damage or loss. A per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-24
To House Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife |
| US | HR246 | Intro | Opposing efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel. This resolution opposes the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement and other efforts targeting Israel. The r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-23
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| US | HB748 | Engross | Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2019 (Sec. 2) This bill repeals the excise tax on employer-sponsored health care coverage for which there is an excess benefit (high-cost plans). The repeal applies to taxable years beginning after Decem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-22
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 157. |
| US | HB3758 | Intro | Small Community Transit Improvement Act of 2019 This bill increases the amount of certain public transportation grants to be apportioned to urbanized areas with populations of less than 200,000 that meet or exceed one or more performance categories f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-16
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| US | HB3495 | Intro | Improve Well-Being for Veterans Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-16
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| US | HB553 | Intro | Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act This bill updates the Department of Defense's Survivor Benefit Plan and how it operates in relation to other benefits. The plan currently provides a monthly annuity (based on a percentage of a service member's re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-12
Assigned to the Consensus Calendar, Calendar No. 1. |
| US | HB3424 | Intro | SEA Act of 2019 Streamlining Environmental Approvals Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-02
To House Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife |
| US | HB3270 | Intro | Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act This bill limits the prosecution of computer fraud and abuse offenses where the conduct constituting an offense involves a response to, or defense against, a cyber intrusion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| US | HJR65 | Intro | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States giving Congress power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment to authorize Congress to prohibit t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| US | HB3580 | Intro | Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-27
To House Energy And Commerce Committee |
| US | HR398 | Intro | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Green New Deal is antithetical to the principles of free market capitalism and private property rights, is simply a thinly veiled attempt to usher in policies that create a socialist socie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| US | HB2957 | Intro | No Leniency for Terrorists Act of 2019 This bill makes certain federal prisoners ineligible to receive good time credit. Specifically, it prohibits good time credit for a federal prisoner who is serving time for a terrorism offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| US | HB2805 | Intro | POLICE Act of 2019 Protecting Officers of the Law In Civilian Establishments Act of 2019 This bill modifies federal restrictions on the possession of a firearm or dangerous weapon in a federal facility. Specifically, it permits uniformed law enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-26
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| US | HB299 | Pass | Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Became Public Law No: 116-23. (TXT | PDF) |
| US | HB3287 | Intro | TREAD Act Tax Relief and Expedited Assistance for Disasters Act of 2019 This bill provides tax relief for qualified disaster areas (i.e., an area, excluding a California wildfire disaster area, for which a major disaster was declared on or after Janu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-13
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| US | HB367 | Intro | Pay Our Coast Guard Parity Act of 2019 This bill provides continuing appropriations to the U.S. Coast Guard for any period in which there is a Coast Guard-specific funding lapse. The bill provides appropriations for the pay, allowances, and benefits ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-11
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 116-110, Part I. |
| US | HB3155 | Intro | 75th Anniversary of the End of World War II Commemorative Coin Act This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue up to 50,000 $5 coins, 500,000 $1 coins, and 750,000 half-dollar coins in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-06
To House Financial Services Committee |
| US | HB3107 | Intro | Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act of 2019 This bill establishes several prohibitions, requirements, and standards relating to prior authorization processes under Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Specifically, the bill prohibits MA plans from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-05
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| US | HR383 | Intro | Expressing support for recognizing the week of May 13 through May 19, 2019, as "National Police Week". This resolution expresses support for members of law enforcement and the mission of law enforcement agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-31
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| US | HB2954 | Intro | National Guard and Reserves Retirement Pay Parity Act This bill revises the eligibility of certain reserve members for retired pay. It treats service pursuant to a call to duty, in a preplanned mission, of a unit of the Selected Reserve in support of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| US | HB2953 | Intro | Aviation Incentive Pay Parity Act This bill revises the authority for payment of aviation incentive pay to reserve component officers. It permits the amount of such pay to be equal to that of an officer in the regular component of the particular unif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| US | HB2952 | Intro | Montgomery GI Bill Parity Act of 2019 This bill authorizes the use of educational assistance for members of the Selected Reserve or the Ready Reserve, at the member's election, for payment of tuition under the Department of Defense program of tuition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| US | HB2373 | Intro | PRENDA Act of 2019 Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-20
To House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| US | HB2412 | Intro | Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-20
To House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
| US | HB2770 | Intro | Huntington's Disease Parity Act of 2019 This bill waives, for individuals diagnosed with Huntington's Disease, the 24-month waiting period for Medicare coverage. Current law generally applies this waiting period to individuals deemed eligible for Old...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-15
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| US | HB2573 | Intro | Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| US | HB1979 | Intro | Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act This bill addresses certain driftnet fishing. (Driftnet fishing is a method of fishing in which a gillnet composed of a panel or panels of webbing, or a series of such gillnets, is placed in the water ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
Subcommittee Hearings Held. |
| US | HB2571 | Intro | National Right-to-Work Act This bill repeals those provisions of the National Labor Relations Act of 1938 and the Railway Labor Act that permit employers, pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement that is a union security agreement, to require em...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-08
To House Education and Labor Committee |
| US | HB2453 | Intro | Safe Routes Act of 2019 This bill directs the Department of Transportation to waive vehicle weight limits for covered logging vehicles. The term "covered logging vehicle' means a vehicle that (1) is transporting raw or unfinished forest products, inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02
To House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit |
| US | HB2481 | Intro | Gold Star Family Tax Relief Act This bill treats certain military survivor benefits that are received by children as earned income of the child for the purposes of the kiddie tax (the tax on the unearned income of children). This has the effect of ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02
To House Ways And Means Committee |
