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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5280 
To establish the Native American Outreach Program of the Small Business 
Administration, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 3, 2019 
Ms. KENDRA S. HORN of Oklahoma (for herself and Mr. COLE) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business 
A BILL 
To establish the Native American Outreach Program of the 
Small Business Administration, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Native American Busi-
ness Outreach Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. NATIVE AMERICAN OUTREACH PROGRAM. 
The Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating section 49 (15 U.S.C. 631 
note) as section 50; and 
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(2) by inserting after section 48 (48 U.S.C. 
657u) the following: 
‘‘SEC. 49. NATIVE AMERICAN OUTREACH PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall estab-
lish and carry out a Native American Outreach Program 
to provide assistance to— 
‘‘(1) Native American communities, including 
Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians; and 
‘‘(2) small business concerns owned by individ-
uals in those communities or Indian tribes. 
‘‘(b) ASSISTANCE.—In carrying out the Native Amer-
ican Outreach Program, the Administrator may— 
‘‘(1) provide training and educational outreach 
through business development workshops and entre-
preneurial classes to small business concerns owned 
by Indian tribes or Native Americans, including 
Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians; 
‘‘(2) hold Tribal consultations to solicit input 
and provide interested parties an opportunity to dis-
cuss potential modifications to programs of the Ad-
ministration, including the program under section 
8(a) and the HUBZone program under section 31; 
and 
‘‘(3) provide such other assistance as the Ad-
ministrator may determine necessary to assist Na-
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tive American communities to implement economic 
and business development strategies and actions to 
improve entrepreneurship and long-term job growth. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$5,000,000 for each of fiscal years.’’. 
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(i) by striking ‘‘as of April 1 of the 
prior school year’’ and inserting ‘‘during 
the period beginning on April 1 of the 
prior school year and ending on the last 
day of that school year’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘as of April 1 of the 
school year prior’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘subparagraph’’ and inserting 
‘‘during the period beginning on April 1 of 
the covered school year and ending on the 
last day of the covered school year’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(III) DEFINITION OF COVERED 
SCHOOL
YEAR.—In this clause, the 
term ‘covered school year’ means the 
school year prior to the first school 
year that a school or local educational 
agency elected to receive special as-
sistance payments under this subpara-
graph.’’; and 
(2) in clause (x)— 
(A) in subclause (I), by striking ‘‘for the 
next school year if, not later than June 30 of 
the current school year,’’ and inserting ‘‘if’’; 
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that has a contract with the State or a man-
aged care entity, shall respond to surveys of re-
tail prices conducted under this subsection. 
‘‘(G) SURVEY INFORMATION.—Information 
on retail community prices obtained under this 
paragraph shall be made publicly available and 
shall include at least the following: 
‘‘(i) The monthly response rate of the 
survey including a list of pharmacies not in 
compliance with subparagraph (F). 
‘‘(ii) The sampling frame and number 
of pharmacies sampled monthly. 
‘‘(iii) 
Characteristics 
of 
reporting 
pharmacies, including type (such as inde-
pendent or chain), geographic or regional 
location, and dispensing volume. 
‘‘(iv) Reporting of a separate national 
average drug acquisition cost for each drug 
for independent retail pharmacies and 
chain operated pharmacies. 
‘‘(v) Information on price concessions 
including on and off invoice discounts, re-
bates, and other price concessions. 
‘‘(vi) Information on average profes-
sional dispensing fees paid. 
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‘‘(H) 
REPORT
ON
SPECIALTY
PHAR-
MACIES.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 
year after the effective date of this sub-
paragraph, the Secretary shall submit a re-
port to Congress examining specialty drug 
coverage and reimbursement under this 
title. 
‘‘(ii) CONTENT OF REPORT.—Such re-
port shall include a description of how 
State Medicaid programs define specialty 
drugs, how much State Medicaid programs 
pay for specialty drugs, how States and 
managed care plans determine payment for 
specialty drugs, the settings in which spe-
cialty drugs are dispensed (such as retail 
community pharmacies or specialty phar-
macies), whether acquisition costs for spe-
cialty drugs are captured in the national 
average drug acquisition cost survey, and 
recommendations as to whether specialty 
pharmacies should be included in the sur-
vey of retail prices to ensure national aver-
age drug acquisition costs capture drugs 
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sold at specialty pharmacies and how such 
specialty pharmacies should be defined.’’; 
(C) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
‘‘, including payments rates under Med-
icaid managed care plans,’’ after ‘‘under 
this title’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by inserting 
‘‘and the basis for such dispensing fees’’ 
before the semicolon; and 
(D) in paragraph (4), by inserting ‘‘, and 
$5,000,000 for fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal 
year thereafter,’’ after ‘‘2010’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 
by this subsection take effect on the first day of the 
first quarter that begins on or after the date that is 
18 months after the date of enactment of this Act. 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—In accordance with the Wil-
derness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the following 
land within the Refuge is designated as wilderness 
and as components of the National Wilderness Pres-
ervation System: 
(A) SHEEP RANGE WILDERNESS.—Certain 
Federal land managed by the Director of the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, com-
prising approximately 433,785 acres, generally 
depicted on the map as ‘‘Sheep Range Wilder-
ness’’, which shall be known as the ‘‘Sheep 
Range Wilderness’’. 
(B) LAS
VEGAS
RANGE
WILDERNESS.— 
Certain Federal land managed by the Director 
of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
comprising approximately 146,826 acres, gen-
erally depicted on the map as ‘‘Las Vegas 
Range Wilderness’’, which shall be known as 
the ‘‘Las Vegas Range Wilderness’’. 
(C) GASS
PEAK
WILDERNESS.—Certain 
Federal land managed by the Director of the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, com-
prising approximately 32,954 acres, generally 
depicted on the map as ‘‘Gass Peak Wilder-
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SEC. 2. SAFE HARBOR FOR NON-CONTROLLING BLOCK-
CHAIN DEVELOPERS AND PROVIDERS OF 
BLOCKCHAIN SERVICES. 
(a) 
PROTECTION
FOR
NON-CONTROLLING 
BLOCKCHAIN SERVICES AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS.— 
No blockchain developer or provider of a blockchain 
service shall be treated as a money transmitter (as defined 
under State licensing laws, section 1960 of title 18, United 
States Code, and section 1010.100 of title 31, Code of 
Federal Regulations), money services business (as defined 
under section 1010.100 of title 31, Code of Federal Regu-
lation), financial institution (as defined under section 
5312 of title 31, United States Code), or any other State 
or Federal legal designation requiring licensing or reg-
istration as a condition to acting as a blockchain developer 
or provider of a blockchain service, unless the developer 
or provider has, in the regular course of business, control 
over digital currency to which a user is entitled under the 
blockchain service or the software created, maintained, or 
disseminated by the blockchain developer. 
(b) EFFECT ON OTHER LAWS.— 
(1) CRIMINAL
LAW.—Nothing in this section 
shall be construed to impair the enforcement of any 
Federal criminal statute that is consistent with this 
section. 
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I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5291 
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services to set forth a method of 
determining annual updates to premium tax credit eligibility and max-
imum out-of-pocket limits. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 3, 2019 
Mr. VAN DREW (for himself, Ms. MATSUI, and Mr. HORSFORD) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
to set forth a method of determining annual updates 
to premium tax credit eligibility and maximum out-of- 
pocket limits. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fair Indexing for 
Health Care Affordability Act’’. 
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I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5293 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow above-the-line deduc-
tions for charitable contributions for individuals not itemizing deductions. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 3, 2019 
Mr. WALKER (for himself, Ms. NORTON, Mr. POSEY, Mr. TIPTON, Mr. MEAD-
OWS, and Mr. MOONEY of West Virginia) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow above- 
the-line deductions for charitable contributions for indi-
viduals not itemizing deductions. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Universal Charitable 
Giving Act of 2019’’. 
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SEC. 2. ALLOWING ABOVE-THE-LINE DEDUCTIONS FOR 
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR INDIVID-
UALS NOT ITEMIZING DEDUCTIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 62(a) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting after para-
graph (21) the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(22) CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR INDI-
VIDUALS NOT ITEMIZING DEDUCTIONS.—In the case 
of an individual who does not elect to itemize his de-
ductions for the taxable year, the deduction allowed 
by section 170, to the extent such deduction does 
not exceed an amount equal to the product of 1⁄3 
and the standard deduction for such individual.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
the date of enactment of this Act. 
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the applicable fraction of such increase for each 
taxable year in the offset period. 
‘‘(B) APPLICABLE
FRACTION.—For pur-
poses of this paragraph, the term ‘applicable 
fraction’ means a fraction— 
‘‘(i) the numerator of which is one, 
and 
‘‘(ii) the denominator of which is the 
total number of years in the offset period. 
‘‘(C) EXCEPTIONS.— 
‘‘(i) DEATH.—Subparagraph (A) shall 
not apply to any taxable year ending after 
the date of the death of— 
‘‘(I) the taxpayer, or 
‘‘(II) the applicable qualifying 
child with respect to the increase. 
‘‘(ii) DEFERMENT.— 
‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—In the case 
of any taxpayer described in subclause 
(II) for the taxable year, no tax shall 
be imposed under subparagraph (A) 
for such taxable year and the number 
of taxable years in the offset period 
shall be increased (other than for pur-
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I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5297 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for a full annuity supplement 
for certain air traffic controllers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 4, 2019 
Ms. BROWNLEY of California (for herself and Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Oversight and Reform 
A BILL 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for a 
full annuity supplement for certain air traffic controllers. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Continuity for Opera-
tors with Necessary Training Required for ATC Contract 
Towers Act of 2019’’ or the ‘‘CONTRACT Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. ANNUITY SUPPLEMENT. 
Section 8421a(c) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended— 
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(1) by striking ‘‘as an air traffic’’ and inserting 
the following: ‘‘as an— 
‘‘(1) air traffic’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1), as so designated, by strik-
ing the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) air traffic controller pursuant to a contract 
made with the Secretary of Transportation under 
section 47124 of title 49.’’. 
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I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 52 
To require a report and assessment regarding Department of Homeland 
Security responses to terrorist threats to Federal elections, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 3, 2019 
Ms. JACKSON LEE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Homeland Security 
A BILL 
To require a report and assessment regarding Department 
of Homeland Security responses to terrorist threats to 
Federal elections, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Security for the Ad-
ministration of Federal Election from Terrorists Interven-
tion Act of 2019’’ or the ‘‘SAFETI Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. REPORT ON DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECU-
RITY RESPONSES TO TERRORIST THREATS 
TO FEDERAL ELECTIONS. 
(a) SECRETARY
OF HOMELAND SECURITY.—Not 
later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit 
to the Comptroller General of the United States and Con-
gress a report on actions taken by the Department of 
Homeland Security relating to terrorist threats to the in-
tegrity of elections for Federal office held in 2016. 
(b) GAO ASSESSMENT.—The Comptroller General of 
the United States shall, upon receipt of the report re-
quired pursuant to subsection (a), conduct an assessment 
of the effectiveness of Department of Homeland Security 
actions described in such report and include recommenda-
tions for improvements as the Comptroller General deter-
mines appropriate. 
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ness’’, which shall be known as the ‘‘Gass Peak 
Wilderness’’. 
(D) PAPOOSE RANGE WILDERNESS.—Cer-
tain Federal land managed by the Secretary of 
the Air Force and the Director of the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service, comprising 
approximately 43,573 acres, generally depicted 
on the map as ‘‘Papoose Range Wilderness’’, 
which shall be known as the ‘‘Papoose Range 
Wilderness’’. 
(E) SOUTH
SPOTTED
RANGE
WILDER-
NESS.—Certain Federal land managed by the 
Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service and the Director of the Bureau of Land 
Management, comprising approximately 51,243 
acres, generally depicted on the map as ‘‘South 
Spotted Range Wilderness’’, which shall be 
known as the ‘‘South Spotted Range Wilder-
ness’’. 
(F) PINTWATER/EAST
DESERT/SPOTTED 
RANGE
WILDERNESS.—Certain Federal land 
managed by the Secretary of the Air Force and 
the Director of the United States Fish and 
Wildlife 
Service, 
comprising 
approximately 
463,585 acres, generally depicted on the map as 
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I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5303 
To establish a moratorium on oil and gas leasing on public land on the 
Central Coast of California. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 4, 2019 
Mr. PANETTA (for himself, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. LEVIN of 
California, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. 
CISNEROS, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. CORREA, Mr. 
VARGAS, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. DESAULNIER, and Mr. PETERS) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Re-
sources 
A BILL 
To establish a moratorium on oil and gas leasing on public 
land on the Central Coast of California. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘California Central 
Coast Conservation Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. MORATORIUM ON OIL AND GAS LEASING ON PUB-
LIC LAND ON THE CENTRAL COAST OF CALI-
FORNIA. 
Section 17(a) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
226(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(q) MORATORIUM ON OIL AND GAS LEASING ON 
PUBLIC LAND
ON
THE CENTRAL COAST
OF CALI-
FORNIA.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of this Act or any other law and except as 
provided in paragraph (2), beginning on the date of 
enactment of this subsection, the Record of Decision 
for the Central Coast Field Office Resource Manage-
ment Plan Amendment for Oil and Gas Leasing and 
Development published on October 7, 2019 (84 Fed. 
Reg. 53470), shall have no force or effect until the 
Bureau of Land Management Central Coast Field 
Office completes and circulates for public comment 
a supplemental environmental impact statement 
under section 102 of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332) and chapter 5 
of title 5, United States Code, that considers the en-
vironmental effects of all oil and gas development 
authorized to occur under the Bureau of Land Man-
agement’s preferred alternative ‘Alternative F’, 
which appears in the final Environmental Impact 
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pill, or in the case of a drug in another 
form, per dose; 
‘‘(iv) the total out-of-pocket spending 
by enrollees on such drug, including en-
rollee spending through copayments, coin-
surance, and deductibles; and 
‘‘(v) for any drug for which gross 
spending of the group health plan or 
health 
insurance 
coverage 
exceeded 
$10,000 during the reporting period— 
‘‘(I) a list of all other available 
drugs in the same therapeutic cat-
egory or class, including brand name 
drugs and biological products and ge-
neric drugs or biosimilar biological 
products that are in the same thera-
peutic category or class; and 
‘‘(II) the rationale for preferred 
formulary placement of a particular 
drug or drugs in that therapeutic cat-
egory or class; 
‘‘(C) a list of each therapeutic category or 
class of drugs that were dispensed under the 
health plan or health insurance coverage during 
the reporting period, and, with respect to each 
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