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AI/AN CAPTA

Bill: 116-s-1329
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2019-05-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Crimes against children
Domestic violence and child abuse
Government studies and investigations
Health programs administration and funding
Indian social and development programs
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: 

American Indian and Alaska Native Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act or AI/AN CAPTA

 
This bill implements requirements concerning child abuse and neglect in Indian tribal communities. Specifically, the bill requires the Government Accountability Office to report on child abuse and neglect in tribal communities for the purpose of making recommendations regarding these issues.
 
Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services must include Indian tribes and tribal organizations in its equitable distribution of assistance for programs and projects related to child abuse prevention and treatment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Whistleblower Protection Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1330
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2019-05-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Department of Energy
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: 

Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Whistleblower Protection Act of 2019

 
This bill provides statutory authority for employees of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy to have whistle-blower rights and protections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans’ Second Amendment Rights Restoration Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1331
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2019-05-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Veterans Affairs
Evidence and witnesses
Firearms and explosives
Health information and medical records
Judicial review and appeals
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Personnel records
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: 

Veterans' Second Amendment Rights Restoration Act of 2019

 
This bill sets forth procedures and conditions for the adjudication of veterans as mentally incompetent for purposes of firearms possession or ownership. Specifically, the bill requires the federal government to prove by clear and convincing evidence that a person is a danger to himself, herself, or others in order for a person to be adjudicated as mentally defective. Veterans must be provided certain notice, including written notice of the effect the ruling may have on their ability to own and possess firearms. 
 
For an administrative competency proceeding to be initiated, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) must determine (1) that a veteran requires the assignment of a fiduciary due to a finding of mental incompetency; and (2) the VA has a reasonable basis to believe that the person may be a danger to himself, herself, or others.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act

Bill: 116-s-1333
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2019-05-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Debt collection
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Intergovernmental relations
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local government operations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: 

Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act 

 
This bill requires the Social Security Administration (SSA) to pay to states their reasonable costs for compiling and sharing records of deaths with the SSA. Under current law, the SSA is not required to pay the states but may choose to do so.
 
The SSA may share the death data with federal and state agencies for various purposes. Such purposes include ensuring proper payments of benefits and tax administration duties.
 
The Office of Management and Budget shall develop guidance for federal agencies that collect death data, and the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Health and Human Services shall jointly develop a plan to assist and states, local agencies, and Indian tribes in providing the data. 

action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act 

 
This bill requires the Social Security Administration (SSA) to pay to states their reasonable costs for compiling and sharing records of deaths with the SSA. Under current law, the SSA is not required to pay the states but may choose to do so.
 
The SSA may share the death data with federal and state agencies for various purposes. Such purposes include ensuring proper payments of benefits and tax administration duties.
 
The Office of Management and Budget shall develop guidance for federal agencies that collect death data, and the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Health and Human Services shall jointly develop a plan to assist and states, local agencies, and Indian tribes in providing the data. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 126.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. With written report No. 116-49.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. With written report No. 116-49.
action_date: 2019-05-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department

Bill: 116-s-1334
Sponsor: Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]
Introduced: 2019-05-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: 

Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department Act 

 
This bill authorizes the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to award grants to qualifying emergency departments for the purpose of supporting mental-health services. Specifically, grant recipients must use funds to support the provision of follow-up services for individuals who present for care of acute mental-health episodes, such as placement in appropriate facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Repeal CFPB Act

Bill: 116-s-1335
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2019-05-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: 

Repeal CFPB Act

 
This bill repeals the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010, which established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Data Breach Prevention and Compensation Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1336
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2019-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: 

Data Breach Prevention and Compensation Act of 2019

 
 This bill establishes an Office of Cybersecurity within the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The office must supervise the data security of credit reporting agencies, including through annual examinations. The office must also investigate and enforce suspected violations by credit reporting agencies. 
 
The bill also requires notification to the FTC, relevant law enforcement and intelligence agencies, consumers, and the public of a data breach affecting a credit reporting agency. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
PREP Act

Bill: 116-s-1337
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2019-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Adult education and literacy
Census and government statistics
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Department of Justice
Detention of persons
Educational guidance
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Higher education
Intergovernmental relations
Performance measurement
State and local government operations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: 

Promoting Reentry Through Education in Prisons Act of 2019 or the PREP Act

 
This bill establishes, within the Bureau of Prisons, an Office of Correctional Education. The office must provide educational services to incarcerated individuals in federal prisons and correctional institutions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Beyond the Box for Higher Education Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1338
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2019-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Right of privacy
Student records

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: 

Beyond the Box for Higher Education Act of 
 
2019

 
This bill removes drug conviction questions from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). 
 
It also requires the Department of Education to issue guidance and recommendations for institutions of higher education to remove criminal and juvenile justice questions from their admission applications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Prove It Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1339
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2019-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Economic performance and conditions
Government information and archives
Judicial review and appeals
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: 

Prove It Act of 2019

 
This bill authorizes the Small Business Administration (SBA) to request a review of any federal agency certification that a proposed rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. The request must explain why the SBA disagreed with the certification and provide a factual basis for the statement. If it is determined, after agency review and reconsideration, that the proposed rule will have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, the agency shall then perform an initial regulatory flexibility analysis for the rule.
 
An initial regulatory flexibility analysis is prepared to ensure the agency has considered all reasonable regulatory alternatives that would minimize the rule's economic burdens or increase its benefits for the affected small entities, while achieving the objectives of the rule or statute.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-22
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management. Hearings held.
action_date: 2019-05-22
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Ebola Eradication Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1340
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2019-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Africa
Congressional oversight
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Foreign aid and international relief
Infectious and parasitic diseases
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: 

Ebola Eradication Act of 2019

 
This bill authorizes the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to assist in efforts to combat the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DPRC). The bill also directs the USAID to report to Congress on its efforts in the eastern part of the DPRC and on proposed additional legal authorities needed to improve such efforts.

action_date: 2019-06-03
text: 

Ebola Eradication Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to immediately assist in efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DPRC) and other vulnerable countries to combat the Ebola outbreak that began in August 2018. The bill also directs the USAID to report to Congress on its efforts in the eastern part of the DPRC and on proposed additional legal authorities needed to improve such efforts. 

action_date: 2019-09-23
text: 

Ebola Eradication Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to immediately assist in efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DPRC), South Sudan, and Burundi to combat the Ebola outbreak that began in August 2018. The bill also directs the USAID to report to Congress on its efforts in the eastern part of the DPRC and on proposed additional legal authorities needed to improve such efforts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2019-09-24
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2019-09-24
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2019-09-23
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S5633)
action_date: 2019-09-23
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S5633)
action_date: 2019-09-23
text: The committee substitute as amended agreed to by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2019-09-23
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S5632-5633)
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 102.
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Risch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2019-05-22
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
SOFFA Act

Bill: 116-s-1341
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2019-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
California
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Federal preemption
Fires
Product safety and quality
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: 

Safer Occupancy Furniture Flammability Act or the SOFFA Act

 
This bill adopts the California flammability standard as the federal standard for upholstered furniture. To meet the standard, the upholstered furniture must past a specific test of the materials' ability to resist smoldering when a heat source is applied.

action_date: 2020-12-15
text: 

Safer Occupancy Furniture Flammability Act or the SOFFA Act

 
This bill adopts the California flammability standard as the federal standard for upholstered furniture. To meet the standard, the upholstered furniture must past a specific test of the materials' ability to resist smoldering when a heat source is applied.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-12-15
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 630.
action_date: 2020-12-15
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Wicker with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2020-12-15
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Wicker with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2019-07-24
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
MOMMIES Act

Bill: 116-s-1343
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2019-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Dental care
Department of Health and Human Services
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Family planning and birth control
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Medicaid
Minority health
Racial and ethnic relations
Sex and reproductive health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: 

Maximizing Outcomes for Moms through Medicaid Improvement and Enhancement of Services Act or the MOMMIES Act

 
This bill establishes a series of programs and requirements under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) relating to maternal health. 
 
For example, the bill expands eligibility for coverage under Medicaid and CHIP from 60 days to one year after the last day of pregnancy and requires such coverage to include oral health services.
 
The bill also establishes a demonstration program in which states receive grants to implement or expand models for maternity care homes that provide services to Medicaid or CHIP beneficiaries.
 
The Government Accountability Office must report on (1) gaps in coverage under Medicaid and CHIP for pregnant and postpartum women, and (2) the use of telemedicine by state Medicaid programs to increase access to maternity care. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to collect data and issue a report on the opportunity zone tax incentives enacted by the 2017 tax reform legislation, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-1344
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2019-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Business records
Congressional oversight
Department of the Treasury
Economic development
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Right of privacy
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: 
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to collect data and report to Congress on investments held by qualified opportunity funds. Treasury must also make certain information regarding the investments publicly available. Qualified opportunity funds are investment vehicles that are organized as either a partnership or a corporation and receive tax benefits for investing in certain low-income communities that have been designated as opportunity zones.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate