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Prevention of Escapement of Genetically Altered Salmon in the United States Act

Bill: 116-hr-1105
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Aquaculture
Congressional oversight
Ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fishes
Genetics
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Seafood
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Prevention of Escapement of Genetically Altered Salmon in the United States Act 

 
This bill prohibits a person from 
 
 
shipping, transporting, offering for sale, selling, or purchasing a genetically altered finfish (e.g., salmon), or a food product containing those fish, in commerce; 
 
having custody, control, or possession of those fish or food products with the intent to ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, or purchase them in commerce; 
 
engaging in net-pen aquaculture (pens of fish contained by nets) of those fish; 
 
releasing those fish into a natural environment; or 
 
having custody, control, or possession of those fish with the intent to release them into a natural environment. 
 
 
 Fish, fish parts, or products confined for scientific research or collected to enforce this bill are exempted from the prohibition. An additional exemption is established if the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (1) prepares a finding of no significant impact in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 after reviewing an application requesting a federal agency to permit activity prohibited by this bill, or (2) finds the application to be consistent with an environmental impact statement that includes an environmental risk analysis and specified assessments of costs and potential economic damage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Our Communities from Gang Violence Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1106
Sponsor: Rep. Zeldin, Lee M. [R-NY-1]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Citizenship and naturalization
Congressional oversight
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Detention of persons
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Evidence and witnesses
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Human trafficking
Immigration status and procedures
Judicial review and appeals
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Organized crime
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Smuggling and trafficking
Violent crime
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Protecting Our Communities from Gang Violence Act of 2019

 
This bill makes alien gang members inadmissible to the United States and deportable. It also authorizes revoking the citizenship of certain naturalized individuals who are members of a criminal gang.
 
The Department of Homeland Security may designate a group or association of five or more persons as a criminal gang if one of the group's primary purposes is the commission of certain crimes, and if the group's members have committed such crimes in a continuing series of such offenses within the past five years. 
 
The Department of Justice shall take into custody any individual who is inadmissible or deportable due to an association with a criminal gang. 
 
Individuals associated with a criminal gang shall be ineligible for asylum or temporary protected status. Prohibitions on removing an alien to a country where the alien's life or freedom would be threatened due to factors, such as the alien's membership in a particular social group, shall not apply to individuals associated with an alien criminal gang.
 
An alien affiliated with a criminal gang shall not be regarded as a person of good moral character for immigration purposes.
 
If a naturalized person becomes an associate of a criminal gang or has been convicted for or admits to certain criminal conduct within 10 years of naturalization, such conduct shall be prima facie evidence sufficient to revoke the order admitting the person to citizenship in the absence of countervailing evidence. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Give Judge Venckiene Her Day in Court Act

Bill: 116-hr-1107
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Provides for the relief of Judge Neringa Venckiene, who the Government of Lithuania seeks on charges related to her pursuit of justice against Lithuanian public officials accused of sexually molesting her young niece.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Mental Health Services for Students Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-1109
Sponsor: Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2019-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Assault and harassment offenses
Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Mental health
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: 

Mental Health Services for Students Act of 

2019

 
This bill provides specific statutory authority for the Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) State Educational Agency Grant Program that is administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The program supports school-based mental health services, including screening, treatment, and outreach programs.

action_date: 2020-09-29
text: 

Mental Health Services for Students Act of 

2020

 
This bill provides specific statutory authority for the Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education) State Educational Agency Grant Program that is administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The program supports school-based mental health services, including screening, treatment, and outreach programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-09-30
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5014-5015)
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1109.
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5014-5015)
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Mr. Pallone moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 453.
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-553.
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-553.
action_date: 2020-09-09
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2020-09-09
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2020-06-30
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2019-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Empowering Law Enforcement to Fight Sex Trafficking Demand Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1110
Sponsor: Rep. Hartzler, Vicky [R-MO-4]
Introduced: 2019-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Human trafficking
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: 

Empowering Law Enforcement to Fight Sex Trafficking Demand Act of 2019

 
This bill allows grants under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program to be used for programs to combat human trafficking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1111
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2019-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Arms control and nonproliferation
Assault and harassment offenses
Child health
Commemorative events and holidays
Conflicts and wars
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Crimes against women
Cultural exchanges and relations
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Economic development
Elementary and secondary education
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Executive agency funding and structure
Firearms and explosives
Foreign aid and international relief
Government information and archives
Higher education
Human rights
International organizations and cooperation
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Mental health
News media and reporting
Preschool education
Racial and ethnic relations
Reconstruction and stabilization
Sex offenses
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Teaching, teachers, curricula
United Nations
Violent crime
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: 

Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2019

 
This bill establishes a Department of Peacebuilding in the executive branch, dedicated to peacebuilding, peacemaking, and the study and promotion of conditions conducive to both domestic and international peace and a culture of peace. 
 
The mission of the department includes the cultivation of peace and peacebuilding as a strategic national policy objective and development of policies that promote national and international conflict prevention, nonviolent intervention, mediation, peaceful conflict resolution, and structured conflict mediation.
 
The department shall collaborate with others to promote personal and community security and peace by supporting policies to
 
 
address personal and family violence, including suicide;
 
address crime, punishment, and rehabilitation, including by reducing prison recidivism rates;
 
reduce drug and alcohol abuse; and
 
create, through local community initiatives, peace projects that facilitate conflict resolution and healing of societal wounds.
 
 
A Federal Interagency Committee on Peace is established to coordinate the actions of the department with other federal agencies.
 
The Department of Defense and the Department of State must consult with the department concerning nonviolent means of conflict resolution when a conflict between the United States and any other government or entity is foreseeable, imminent, or occurring.
 
The department shall encourage citizens to observe and celebrate the blessings of peace and endeavor to create peace on Peace Days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Statistical Area Fairness Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1113
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2019-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Commuting
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Labor market
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: 

Statistical Area Fairness Act of 2019

 
This bill prohibits the Office of Management and Budget from including a county with a large federal installation in a core-based statistical area on the basis of employment in that county of residents of the central county or counties of the core-based statistical area. Core-based statistical areas are delineated based on census data and include metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
To require the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to submit to Congress an annual report on the effects of gun violence on public health.

Bill: 116-hr-1114
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2019-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Firearms and explosives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: 
This bill requires the Surgeon General to report annually to Congress on the public health effects of gun violence, as well as on the status of actions taken to address such effects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Firearm Safety Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1115
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2019-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Firearms and explosives
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: 

Firearm Safety Act of 2019

 
This bill allows the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue safety standards for firearms and firearm components. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act

Bill: 116-hr-1116
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2019-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Firearms and explosives
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: 

Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act 
 
 
 
This bill expands the categories of persons who are prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm or ammunition. 
Specifically, it adds the following new categories of prohibited persons: 
 
persons convicted of a crime of violence in the most recent 10-year period;
 
persons under age 25 who have been adjudicated as having committed an offense that would have been a crime of violence if committed by an adult;
 
 persons convicted, during a consecutive 3-year period in the most recent 10-year period, of two separate offenses involving drug or alcohol possession or distribution; and
 
persons convicted of stalking. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Shutdown Fairness Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1117
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Katie [D-CA-25]
Introduced: 2019-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: 

Shutdown Fairness Act of 2019

 
This bill states that with respect to a lapse in appropriations beginning on December 22, 2018, an individual who is excepted from furlough (i.e., required to work without pay during the lapse in appropriations) and paid unemployment compensation on the basis of federal service is deemed eligible for that unemployment compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Tax Equity Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1118
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2019-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Business investment and capital
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: 

Small Business Tax Equity Act of 201

9

 
This bill exempts a trade or business that conducts marijuana sales in compliance with state law from a provision in the Internal Revenue Code that prohibits business-related tax credits or deductions for expenditures in connection with trafficking in controlled substances. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Quality in the Unemployment Insurance Program (EQUIP) Act

Bill: 116-hr-1121
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2019-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: 

Ensuring Quality in the Unemployment Insurance Program (EQUIP) Act 

 
This bill allows states to enact unemployment compensation laws that require an applicant for unemployment compensation, before receiving any such compensation, to (1) complete a substance abuse risk assessment, and (2) test negative for controlled substances within one week after the results of such assessment if determined to be high-risk. It prescribes retesting requirements and payment suspensions for applicants who test positive.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1122
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2019-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: 

Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration Act of 2019

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to implement a mobility demonstration program to enable public housing agencies (PHAs) to administer housing-choice rental-assistance vouchers in a manner designed to (1) encourage low-income families receiving such assistance to move to lower-poverty areas, and (2) expand access to opportunity areas.
 
HUD shall require PHAs applying to participate in the program to submit a specified Regional Housing Mobility Plan.

action_date: 2019-03-11
text: 

Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration Act of 2019

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to implement a mobility demonstration program to enable public housing agencies (PHAs) to administer housing-choice rental-assistance vouchers in a manner designed to (1) encourage low-income families receiving such assistance to move to lower-poverty areas, and (2) expand access to opportunity areas.
 
HUD shall require PHAs applying to participate in the program to submit a specified Regional Housing Mobility Plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-12
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-03-11
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2019-03-11
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 387 - 22 (Roll no. 119). (text: CR H2618-2619)
action_date: 2019-03-11
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 387 - 22 (Roll no. 119).(text: CR H2618-2619)
action_date: 2019-03-11
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2626-2627)
action_date: 2019-03-11
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2019-03-11
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1122.
action_date: 2019-03-11
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2618-2620)
action_date: 2019-03-11
text: Ms. Waters moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Future Shutdowns Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1124
Sponsor: Rep. DesJarlais, Scott [R-TN-4]
Introduced: 2019-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: 

Preventing Future Shutdowns Act of 2019

 
This bill provides continuing appropriations to prevent a government shutdown if any of the regular appropriations bills for a fiscal year have not been enacted before the fiscal year begins or a joint resolution making continuing appropriations is not in effect.
 
If appropriations have not been provided to federal agencies prior to the beginning of a fiscal year, the bill provides specified appropriations to continue programs, projects, and activities for which funds were provided in the preceding fiscal year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Introduced in House