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Post–9/11 Veteran Suicide Prevention Counseling Act

Bill: 116-s-2822
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2019-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Firearms and explosives
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Mental health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: 

Post-9/11 Veteran Suicide Prevention Counseling Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop a suicide risk management and prevention and lethal means training course that is culturally appropriate and addresses the concerns of firearm owners. The VA must make such training course available to members of the public and must update the course at least every two years.
 
Additionally, the VA must provide the most recent training course at least once every five years to each employee of the Veterans Health Administration who regularly interacts with veterans in the course of their employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic Act

Bill: 116-s-2823
Sponsor: Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]
Introduced: 2019-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Department of Veterans Affairs
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
New Mexico
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: 

Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic Act

 
This bill designates the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Las Cruces, New Mexico, as the Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Artistic Recognition for Talented Students Act

Bill: 116-s-2824
Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
Introduced: 2019-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Elementary and secondary education
Intellectual property
Science and engineering education
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: 

Artistic Recognition for Talented Students Act or the ARTS Act

 
This bill directs the Copyright Office to waive various copyright registration-related fees for works that win certain competitions sponsored by the Congressional Institute or established by Congress. To qualify for the fee waiver, the copyright registration application must be filed within a specified time frame, but the Copyright Office may waive fees for a qualifying work even if the application is filed outside the time frame.

action_date: 2019-12-16
text: 

Artistic Recognition for Talented Students Act or the ARTS Act

 
This bill directs the Copyright Office to waive various copyright registration-related fees for works that win certain competitions sponsored by the Congressional Institute or established by Congress. To qualify for the fee waiver, the copyright registration application must be filed within a specified time frame, but the Copyright Office may waive fees for a qualifying work even if the application is filed outside the time frame.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-12-17
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2019-12-17
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2019-12-16
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2019-12-16
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2019-12-16
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7058; text: CR S7058)
action_date: 2019-12-16
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7058; text: CR S7058)
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Veteran Employment and Child Care Access Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2825
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2019-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child care and development
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: 

Veteran Employment and Child Care Access Act of 2019

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide child care assistance to an eligible veteran for any period that the veteran (1) receives VA training or vocational rehabilitation, and (2) is required to travel to and from a facility for the receipt of such training or rehabilitation. Child care assistance may only be provided once for a child and for a period shorter than six months, but the VA is authorized to waive such limitations.
 
The term 
eligible veteran
 is defined as a veteran who is the primary caretaker of a child and (1) who is receiving VA training or vocational rehabilitation on a full-time basis, or needs and would receive such training or rehabilitation from the VA but for the lack of child care; and (2) whose family's adjusted gross income meets certain criteria. 
 
The bill provides for various types of child care assistance, as the VA considers appropriate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Global Economic Security Strategy of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2826
Sponsor: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2019-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Alliances
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental regulatory procedures
Foreign Trade and International Finance
International organizations and cooperation
Manufacturing
Military operations and strategy
Public-private cooperation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: 

Global Economic Security Strategy of 2019

 
This bill requires the President, in support of the national security strategy, to set forth a global economic security strategy for the United States that includes an assessment of
 
 
the global competitiveness of key U.S. economic sectors;
 
the national debt and its implications for U.S. economic and national security; and
 
prioritized economic security interests and objectives, as well as associated threats, challenges, and opportunities and the tools to manage them. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act

Bill: 116-s-2828
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2019-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Horticulture and plants
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Livestock
Oregon
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Railroads
Roads and highways
Water storage
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: 

Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act

 
This bill addresses various public land concerns in Malheur County in Oregon.
 
The bill directs the Department of the Interior to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for certain federal land in the county. Interior shall develop plans for areas that are ecologically degraded or most at risk of being ecologically degraded. Interior shall establish the Malheur Community Empowerment for Owyhee Group, which shall, among other things, use such statement to review projects proposed to the Bureau of Land Management by group members, ranchers holding grazing permits on the federal land, or other members of the public. 
 
The bill also
 
 
establishes a network to monitor such land, 
 
designates 1,133,481 acres of federal lands in the county as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, 
 
designates a 14.7-mile segment of Owyhee River as a recreational river, 
 
 establishes improvements for certain loop roads, 
 
requires separate feasibility studies concerning Owyhee Reservoir, 
 
requires improvements to existing Oregon State Parks and private camps on the shore of the Reservoir,
 
establishes a dude ranch at Birch Creek,
 
requires a feasibility study on a specified rails-to-trails project,
 
requires a feasibility study on marketing communities or portions of the county as the Gateway to the Oregon Owyhee,
 
requires a determination of the use and conditions under which the Jordan Valley Airstrip may be used to support firefighting, and
 
establishes the Native Seed Center as the primary federal native seed repository in the Western States. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-380.
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
WEST Access Act

Bill: 116-s-2829
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2019-11-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Intellectual property
Licensing and registrations
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: 

Western Expanded In-State Television Access Act of 2019 or the WEST Access Act

 
This bill expands the authority of satellite carriers to make secondary transmissions of local television programming to subscribers in certain counties. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2019-11-07
text: Introduced in Senate
GI Bill Planning Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2830
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2019-11-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Higher education
Military personnel and dependents
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: 

GI Bill Planning Act of 2019

 
This bill extends or removes specified deadlines for certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) education benefits.
 
Specifically, the bill updates the Montgomery GI Bill program by extending the period of time under which an election must be made for entitlement to educational assistance under the program. The bill phases the program out to end on September 30, 2029.
 
The bill also removes a deadline that prevents certain veterans from receiving in-state tuition, regardless of their state of residence, using VA education benefits at public institutions of higher education. Currently, a veteran who is discharged or released after at least 90 days of active service must be within three years of their discharge from active duty to receive in-state tuition (regardless of their state of residence).
 
The VA must post on a public VA website a database explaining any requirements established by a public institution of higher learning for an individual to be charged in-state tuition.
 
The VA must disapprove a course of education at a public institution of higher learning that does not provide the VA with an explanation of the requirements (or a timely update of such requirements) for an individual to be charged in-state tuition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Introduced in Senate
21st Century Space Grant Modernization Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2831
Sponsor: Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]
Introduced: 2019-11-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Research administration and funding
Science and engineering education
Space flight and exploration
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: 

21st Century Space Grant Modernization Act of 2019

 
This bill revises provisions relating to the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. 
 
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shall carry out the program with the objective of providing hands-on research, training, and education programs with measurable outcomes in each state.
 
NASA shall carry out the program through a space grant consortium in each state.
 
The bill revises the purposes of the program to support space research programs that promote equally the state and regional STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) interests of each space grant consortium.
 
NASA shall award grants to the lead institution of each state's space grant consortium to carry out at least three of six specified research, training, and education programs.
 
The bill repeals certain provisions relating to the program, including provisions establishing the space grant review panel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Turkey Human Rights Promotion Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2832
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2019-11-12 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Detention of persons
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Europe
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Judges
Judicial procedure and administration
Lawyers and legal services
Licensing and registrations
News media and reporting
Protest and dissent
Racial and ethnic relations
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Terrorism
Turkey

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: 

Turkey Human Rights Promotion Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Department of State to provide assistance to civil society organizations in Turkey that (1) work to secure the release of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners in Turkey, or (2) provide support and post-incarceration assistance for such prisoners. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans and Consumers Fair Credit Act

Bill: 116-s-2833
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2019-11-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Department of Defense
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Military personnel and dependents
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: 

Veterans and Consumers Fair Credit Act 

 
This bill applies certain military consumer credit protections to all consumers. Specifically, the bill caps the interest rate on extensions of consumer credit at 36%. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Members Business Loan Act

Bill: 116-s-2834
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2019-11-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business investment and capital
Credit and credit markets
Small business
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: 

Veterans Members Business Loan Act

 
This bill excludes from credit union aggregate loan limitations member business loans made to veterans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Affordable Housing for Veterans Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2835
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2019-11-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: 

 

Access to Affordable Housing for Veterans Act of 2019 

 
This bill provides additional notifications to service members regarding home loans available through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
 
 The bill requires a Federal Housing Administration mortgage notice to a veteran to contain comparative rate and fee information about VA home loans. 
 
The uniform residential loan application developed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must include a check box to indicate that the applicant is a veteran, the statement &quot;If you are a veteran, you may be eligible for a VA mortgage,&quot; and a place to acknowledge such statement. 
 
Preseparation counseling for a service member prior to discharge from active duty must include information regarding 
 
 
the authority of a member to use an honorable discharge certificate as a certificate of eligibility for a VA guaranteed housing loan or to request a specific certificate of eligibility for such loan, and 
 
counseling on responsible borrowing practices. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Put Patients First Act

Bill: 116-s-2836
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2019-11-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: 

Put Patients First Act

 
 This bill prohibits the application of the rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services on May 21, 2019, that strengthens the enforcement of conscience and anti-discrimination laws related to the rights of covered health care providers to refuse to participate in certain procedures, such as abortions, sterilization, or assisted suicide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Cleaner, Quieter Airplanes Act

Bill: 116-s-2837
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2019-11-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Air quality
Aviation and airports
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Environmental technology
Noise pollution

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: 

Cleaner, Quieter Airplanes Act

 
This bill directs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to establish an initiative to build upon and accelerate previous or ongoing work to develop and demonstrate new technologies in electric aircraft concepts that are capable of reducing both greenhouse gas emissions and noise emissions from aircraft by at least 50%. The goal of the initiative shall be to deploy new technologies developed pursuant to the initiative on (1) regional transport aircraft intended to enter into service by 2030, and (2) single-aisle aircraft designed to accommodate more than 125 passengers intended to enter into service by 2040.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6510)
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act to improve the transparency of the United States Center for Safe Sport, to provide grant accountability, and to protect victims of abuse from retaliation, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-2838
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2019-11-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative remedies
Assault and harassment offenses
Athletes
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Crimes against children
District of Columbia
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Evidence and witnesses
Federal district courts
Government information and archives
Health personnel
Income tax rates
Judicial review and appeals
Olympic games
Sex offenses
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: 
This bill requires the U.S. Center for Safe Sport to provide grant funding accountability and protect victims of abuse from retaliation.
 
Amounts transferred to the center by the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) or a national governing body shall be used primarily for the investigation and resolution of allegations of sexual misconduct, or other misconduct, made by amateur athletes affiliated with the USOC, a national governing body, or a paralympic sports organization.
 
The center shall be audited at least annually and shall report to Congress annually.
 
The Department of Justice (DOJ) may petition in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for removal of officers and directors of the center if the center (1) engages in any act, practice, or policy that is materially inconsistent with its purpose; or (2) refuses, fails, or neglects to discharge the obligations of the center to protect the safety of amateur athletes.
 
DOJ may not award a grant to an entity that supports oversight of the USOC if it holds amounts in an offshore account for the purpose of avoiding payment of tax on unrelated business income of charitable organizations.
 
The USOC, a national governing body, a paralympic sports organization, or any officer, employee, contractor, or agent may not retaliate against any protected individual, including amateur athletes, coaches, or trainers, because of a protected disclosure regarding abuse. National governing bodies must provide protection from retaliation to protected individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Introduced in Senate