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Untraceable Firearms Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3300
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Business records
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Licensing and registrations
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 

Untraceable Firearms Act of 2018

 
This bill generally prohibits and penalizes the manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, or receipt of a ghost gun. A ghost gun is a firearm that lacks a unique serial number.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to implement recommendations related to the safety of amphibious passenger vessels, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-s-3301
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 
 This bill directs the Coast Guard to prescribe regulations to require operators of amphibious passenger vessels to provide reserve buoyancy for such vessels through passive means, including watertight compartmentalization, built-in flotation, or other means, to ensure that such vessels remain afloat and upright in the event of flooding, including when carrying a full complement of passengers and crew. The bill sets forth interim requirements for vessels that are not in compliance with the regulations. 
 
The bill prohibits vessels whose configuration or operation does not comply with the regulations or interim requirements from operating on U.S. waterways.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
VA Hiring Enhancement Act

Bill: 115-s-3302
Sponsor: Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Medical education
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 

VA Hiring Enhancement Act

 
This bill negates enforcement of a noncompete agreement that an applicant for a physician's position in the Veterans Health Administration has entered into with a non-Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facility, entity, or individual. 
 
The bill requires a physician to have completed residency training prior to being appointed to a VA position but authorizes the VA to offer contingent appointments to physicians in training for up to two years prior to completion of such training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Water Quality Certification Improvement Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3303
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 

Water Quality Certification Improvement Act of 2018
 
 
This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to limit the authority of states with respect to water quality certifications. Specifically, the bill limits the authority of states to review federally permitted activities that may result in discharges into navigable waters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-08-16
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-344.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
3D Printed Gun Safety Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3304
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Digital media
Firearms and explosives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Manufacturing

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 

3D Printed Gun Safety Act of 2018

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to make it unlawful to intentionally publish digital instructions for programming a three-dimensional printer to make a firearm. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Supporting Graduate Medical Education at Community Hospitals Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3305
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 

Supporting Graduate Medical Education at Community Hospitals Act of 2018

 
This bill revises payment rules under Medicare for graduate medical education (GME) costs with respect to a hospital that establishes a new medical residency training program. 
 
If a hospital has not entered into a GME affiliation agreement, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must establish the hospital's full-time equivalent (FTE) resident amount only after determining that the hospital's medical residency training program trains more than 1.0 FTE resident in a cost reporting period. If a hospital has an approved FTE resident amount that is based on other specified thresholds, the CMS must give the hospital the opportunity to have the amount reestablished when the hospital begins training FTE residents in excess of the applicable threshold. 
 
The bill also establishes similar thresholds for new determinations of certain adjustments to hospital payment limitations regarding FTE residents in allopathic and osteopathic medicine; a hospital that has an adjustment has the opportunity to have it redetermined once the applicable threshold is exceeded. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Combat Online Predators Act

Bill: 115-s-3306
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 
 
Combat Online Predators Act

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to increase the maximum prison term for a stalking offense, if the victim is under 18 years of age.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3307
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Libraries and archives
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 

Summer Meals and Learning Act of 2018

 
This bill directs the Department of Education to award grants to state library administrative agencies to enable them to award subgrants to eligible local educational agencies for summer early reading programs held at schools with a summer lunch site. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
PREP Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3308
Sponsor: Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
Performance measurement
Preschool education
School administration
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 

Preparing and Retaining Education Professionals Act of 2018 or the PREP Act of 2018

 
This bill addresses the shortages of teachers and school leaders in elementary and secondary schools, including to provide professional development activities for teachers and leaders in high-need schools. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S5520)
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
DHS Cyber Incident Response Teams Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3309
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Department of Homeland Security
Government studies and investigations
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 

DHS Cyber Incident Response Teams Act of 2018

 
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) national cybersecurity and communications integration center to maintain cyber hunt and incident response teams to provide, upon request, assistance including: (1) assisting asset owners and operators in restoring services following a cyber incident; (2) identifying cybersecurity risk and unauthorized cyber activity; and (3) mitigation strategies to prevent, deter, and protect against cybersecurity risks.
 
DHS may include private sector cybersecurity specialists on such teams, and must continually assess and evaluate the teams and their operations and report specified metrics to Congress.
 
No additional funds are authorized to carry out this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-12-04
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 716.
action_date: 2018-12-04
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 115-412.
action_date: 2018-12-04
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 115-412.
action_date: 2018-09-26
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of Labor to award grants to organizations for the provision of transition assistance to members of the Armed Forces who are separated, retired, or discharged from the Armed Forces, and spouses of such members, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-s-3310
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 
This bill directs the Department of Labor to award grants to eligible organizations to assist former members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their spouses. The grants shall be used for services to help such individuals transition to civilian life, including (1) job-recruitment training, (2) behavioral-health services, (3) financial services, and (4) legal assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Defending the Integrity of Voting Systems Act

Bill: 115-s-3311
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 

Defending the Integrity of Voting Systems Act

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to broaden the definition of &quot; protected computer,&quot; for purposes of computer fraud and abuse offenses, to include a computer that is part of a voting system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
EPA Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3312
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Federal officials
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 

Ensuring Scott Pruitt is Accountable Act of 2018 or the EPA Act of 2018

 
This bill prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from finalizing or implementing a rule signed by former Administrator Scott Pruitt until the EPA publishes a report on certain investigations of Scott Pruitt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Dental Care Eligibility Expansion and Enhancement Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3313
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 

Veterans Dental Care Eligibility Expansion and Enhancement Act of 2018

 
This bill expands the kinds of dental services and treatment that the Department of Veterans Affairs may provide to certain veterans, including veterans who were exposed to toxic substances, radiation, or other conditions. The VA must (1) carry out a pilot program to furnish dental services and treatments to all veterans; (2) construct or lease dental clinics in states that do not have VA facilities that offer onsite dental services, (3) carry out an education program to promote dental health for all veterans; and (4) expand the dental insurance pilot program by requiring private sector dental care providers to forward information on the care of their patients in the program for inclusion in the VA's medical records. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Census Equality Act

Bill: 115-s-3314
Sponsor: Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 

Census Equality Act

 
This bill requires the Bureau of the Census to collect data concerning sexual orientation and gender identity as part of the decennial census and the American Community Survey.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Predation Reduction of Salmon Act

Bill: 115-s-3315
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2018-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals

Summary:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: 

Predation Reduction of Salmon Act

 
 This bill amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to authorize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to issue permits allowing Washington, Oregon, and Idaho to kill sea lions in a portion of the Columbia River and certain tributaries in order to protect specified fish from sea lion predation. Specifically, the permits may be issued to protect: (1) endangered or threatened species of salmon, steelhead, or eulachon; and (2) species of lamprey or sturgeon that are listed as a species of concern. Those states may enter into memoranda of understanding with Indian tribes with legal or historic interests in the protection of the species in such area for deterrence and removal of sea lions.
 
Permits may be issued to kill sea lions only if the sea lions are part of a population that is not categorized as depleted or strategic. 
 
The cumulative annual taking of sea lions each year under all such permits is limited to 10% of the annual potential biological removal level. In addition, the takings must be humane.
 
NOAA must suspend the issuance of the permits if, after five years, lethal removal authority is no longer necessary to protect fish from sea lion predation.
 
The Department of the Interior must study the effectiveness of the permits on the recovery of salmon and steelhead stocks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2018-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Helping Seniors Afford Medicare Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3316
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2018-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: 

Helping Seniors Afford Medicare Act of 2018

 
This bill makes a series of changes relating to Medicare enrollment, eligibility, and cost-sharing, such as by establishing an annual out-of-pocket limit for enrollees and reducing cost-sharing for certain low-income individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Protect Charities and Houses of Worship Act

Bill: 115-s-3317
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2018-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax rates
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: 

Protect Charities and Houses of Worship Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the requirements for determining the unrelated business taxable income of tax-exempt organizations. The bill repeals provisions that: (1) require organizations with more than one unrelated trade or business to compute unrelated business taxable income separately for each trade or business; and (2) increase unrelated business taxable income by the amount of expenses paid or incurred by an organization for certain fringe benefits for which a tax deduction is not allowed, including benefits relating to transportation, parking, or an on-premises athletic facility. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Learning for Credit Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3318
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2018-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: 

Military Learning for Credit Act of 2018

 
This bill allows individuals entitled to veterans educational assistance to use it to cover the costs of taking examinations to receive credit toward degrees awarded by institutions of higher learning for approved education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
SAFE Kids Act

Bill: 115-s-3319
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2018-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Summary:
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: 

Stopping Appealing Flavors in E-Cigarettes for Kids Act or the
 
SAFE Kids Act

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the use of flavored products in an electronic nicotine delivery system (e.g., e-cigarettes, e-hookah, e-cigars, vape pens, advanced refillable personal vaporizers, and electronic pipes), except for in specified circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5585)
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Seniors with Student Loans Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-3320
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2018-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Debt collection
Government lending and loan guarantees
Social security and elderly assistance
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: 

Protecting Seniors with Student Loans Act of 2018

 
 This bill protects low-income seniors from losing social security benefits due to defaulted student loan debt by increasing the amount of benefits that may be exempted from garnishment by the Department of Education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 115-s-3321
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2018-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Congressional tributes
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Racial and ethnic relations
Smithsonian Institution
Space flight and exploration
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: 

Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act

 
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 recognition of her service to the United States as a mathematician;
 
one Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Christine Darden, for her service to the United States as an aeronautical engineer; and 
 
two Congressional Gold Medals in commemoration of the lives of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, in recognition of their service to the United States during the Space Race. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2018-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2018-11-20
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2018-11-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2018-11-15
text: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2018-11-15
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2018-11-15
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S7064-7065)
action_date: 2018-11-15
text: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2018-11-15
text: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2018-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate