hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
TRICARE Reserve Improvement Act

Bill: 116-s-164
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2019-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: 

TRICARE Reserve Improvement Act

 
This bill expands TRICARE Reserve Select eligibility to include members of the Selected Reserve who are enrolled or eligible to enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Unemployment Compensation Equality Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-165
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2019-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: 

Federal Unemployment Compensation Equality Act of 2019

 
This bill creates statutory authority for certain federal employees to be eligible for unemployment compensation during a lapse in appropriations.
 
With respect to any lapse in appropriations beginning on or around December 22, 2018, a federal employee who is excepted from furlough (i.e., who continues to work during a lapse in appropriations) is deemed eligible for unemployment compensation benefits for the duration of the lapse in appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide provisional protected presence status for certain aliens and to provide mandatory appropriations relating to border security.

Bill: 116-s-166
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2019-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Border security and unlawful immigration
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Detention of persons
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Judges
Law enforcement officers
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: 
This bill provides for protected presence status for certain types of aliens and mandatory appropriations for immigration enforcement.
 
The Department of Homeland Security shall grant provisional protected presence status to a qualified alien who applies for such status, which prevents removal from the United States and provides employment authorization. Such status shall be effective for three years from the bill's enactment.
 
To qualify for such status, the alien shall be a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient who was born after June 15, 1981, and entered the United States before age 16. The bill imposes other requirements, including enrolling in or having completed various types of schooling or military service.
 
The bill also provides for renewable provisional protected presence status for aliens who had temporary protected status or deferred enforced departure status on or before October 1, 2017. Renewable provisional protected presence status shall be granted for three years upon a successful application and is renewable indefinitely.
 
Both types of protected presence status are limited to aliens who have not been convicted of various crimes, do not pose a threat to national security, and have been physically present in the country for a certain amount of time.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Eastern Legacy Extension Act

Bill: 116-s-167
Sponsor: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2019-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Indiana
Ohio
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Pennsylvania

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: 

Eastern Legacy Extension Act

 
This bill extends the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail by 1,200 miles from Wood River, Illinois, to the Ohio River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Indiana Dunes National Park Act

Bill: 116-s-168
Sponsor: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2019-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Great Lakes
Indiana
Lakes and rivers
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Seashores and lakeshores

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: 

Indiana Dunes National Park Act

 
This bill renames the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as the Indiana Dunes National Park. 
 
The bill redesignates the 1.6-mile Miller-Woods Trail within the park as the Paul H. Douglas Trail. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Human Trafficking Survivor Tax Relief Act

Bill: 116-s-169
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2019-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Crime victims
Human trafficking
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: 

Human Trafficking Survivor Tax Relief Act 

 
This bill modifies the requirements for calculating taxable income to exclude from gross income civil damages, restitution, or other monetary awards (including compensatory or statutory damages and restitution imposed in a criminal matter) awarded to victims of peonage, slavery, or human trafficking. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Charitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-170
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2019-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Income tax deductions
Land use and conservation
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: 

Charitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act of 201

9

 
This bill limits the aggregate amount of a partner's annual tax deductions for qualified conservation contributions of a partnership to 2.5 times the partner's adjusted basis in the partnership. (Under current law, a "qualified conservation contribution" is the contribution of a qualified real property interest to a qualified organization exclusively for conservation purposes.) 
 
The limitation applies for the first three taxable years after the individual becomes a partner in the partnership. It does not apply to certain family partnerships. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Abby Honold Act

Bill: 116-s-171
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2019-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Domestic violence and child abuse
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: 

Abby Honold Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women to make competitive grants to law enforcement agencies and victim services organizations to implement evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches in responding to and investigating domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Insurance Tax Relief Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-172
Sponsor: Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO]
Introduced: 2019-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Insurance industry and regulation
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: 

Health Insurance Tax Relief Act of 2019

 
This bill delays reimposition of the annual fee on health insurers until 2022.
 
Under current law, the annual fee for a health insurer is calculated based on the insurer's share of total premiums from the preceding year. The fee is suspended for 2019 (i.e., there is no fee based on premiums from 2018); reimposition is scheduled for 2020. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Save Oak Flat Act

Bill: 116-s-173
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2019-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
Mining

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: 

Save Oak Flat Act

 
This bill repeals the requirement for the Department of Agriculture to convey 2,422 acres of Forest Service land located in Pinal County, Arizona, to Resolution Copper Mining, LLC, in exchange for various parcels of land owned by Resolution Copper. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Securing Energy Infrastructure Act

Bill: 116-s-174
Sponsor: Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]
Introduced: 2019-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Department of Energy
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Industrial facilities
Research administration and funding
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: 

Securing Energy Infrastructure Act

 
This bill establishes a two-year pilot program within the Department of Energy's (DOE's)national laboratories to (1) identify thesecurity vulnerabilities of certain entities in the energy sector, and (2)evaluate technology that can be used to isolate the most critical systems of such entities from cyberattacks.
 
In addition,DOE must establish a working group to evaluate the technology solutions proposed by the national laboratories and to develop a national strategy to isolate the energy grid from attacks.

action_date: 2019-08-16
text: 

Securing Energy Infrastructure Act

 
This bill establishes a two-year pilot program within the Department of Energy's (DOE's)national laboratories to (1) identify thesecurity vulnerabilities of certain entities in the energy sector, and (2)evaluate technology that can be used to isolate the most critical systems of such entities from cyberattacks.
 
In addition,DOE must establish a working group to evaluate the technology solutions proposed by the national laboratories and to develop a national strategy to isolate the energy grid from attacks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-08-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 173.
action_date: 2019-08-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski under authority of the order of the Senate of 08/01/2019 with an amendment. With written report No. 116-71.
action_date: 2019-08-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski under authority of the order of the Senate of 08/01/2019 with an amendment. With written report No. 116-71.
action_date: 2019-07-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Agricultural Worker Program Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-175
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2019-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Foreign labor
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Immigration status and procedures
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Social security and elderly assistance
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: 

Agricultural Worker Program Act of 2019

 
This bill establishes a program for alien agricultural workers to obtain temporary resident status ("blue card status") and procedures to obtain permanent resident status. 
 
An alien shall qualify for the status if he or she performed the required amount of qualified agricultural work. The Department of Homeland Security may grant blue card status to qualified individuals who pass security checks and are not disqualified for various reasons, such as an aggravated felony conviction. DHS may waive certain disqualifications for humanitarian or public interest reasons.
 
Blue card holders shall be authorized for employment in the United States and travel outside the United States. Such individuals shall be ineligible for various federal benefits, including the healthcare premium assistance tax credit.
 
Individuals going through deportation or removal proceedings shall be given a chance to apply for blue card status if they qualify.
 
Blue card holders may apply for permanent resident status, subject to various requirements, including work requirements over a specified time period and payment of federal taxes. Blue card status shall not last longer than eight years.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S294)
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Estate Tax Rate Reduction Act

Bill: 116-s-176
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2019-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: 

Estate Tax Rate Reduction Act 

 
This bill reduces the rate for the tax on estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers to 20%. (Under current law, the highest rate is 40%.) 
 
The bill also exempts the budgetary effects of the tax reduction from the Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) rules established by the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 and the FY2018 congressional budget resolution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-177
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2019-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Department of the Treasury
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Income tax deferral
Securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: 

Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 201

9

 
This bill expands tax incentives and federal assistance for employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) that are sponsored by S corporations. 
 
The bill extends to all domestic corporations, including S corporations, provisions allowing deferral of tax on gain from the sale of employer securities to an ESOP. 
 
 The Department of the Treasury must establish the S Corporation Employee Ownership Assistance Office to foster increased employee ownership of S corporations.
 
The bill defines an "ESOP business concern" and allows such a concern to continue to qualify as a small business for the purposes of programs under the Small Business Act. An "ESOP business concern" is a business concern that was a small business concern eligible for a loan, preference, or other program under the Small Business Act before more than 49% of the business concern was acquired by an ESOP.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-179
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2019-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Congressional oversight
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Medical research
Mental health
Neurological disorders
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: 

VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2019

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct a clinical trial of the effects of medical-grade cannabis on the health outcomes of covered veterans diagnosed with chronic pain, and also those diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. Covered veterans are those who are enrolled in the VA patient enrollment system for hospital care and medical services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to streamline the oil and gas permitting process and to recognize fee ownership for certain oil and gas drilling or spacing units, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-180
Sponsor: Sen. Hoeven, John [R-ND]
Introduced: 2019-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Licensing and registrations
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: 
This bill states that a Bureau of Land Management drilling permit shall not be required under the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 for an action occurring within an oil and gas drilling or spacing unit, if (1) less than 50% of the minerals within the unit are federally owned, and (2) the federal government neither owns nor leases the surface estate within the unit's boundaries. Drilling and spacing units are one component of a state regulatory framework for oil and gas exploration and production.
 
The bill retains the right of the federal government to receive royalties from the production of federal minerals within the drilling or spacing unit. 


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: 2019-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act

Bill: 116-s-181
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2019-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Air quality
Animal and plant health
Birds
Congressional oversight
Ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fishes
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
International organizations and cooperation
Mammals
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Metals
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Soil pollution
Water quality
Wetlands
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: 

Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act

 
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a national mercury monitoring program. Under the program, the EPA must track and report on long-term changes of mercury concentrations in air, water, soil, and fish and wildlife. In addition, the EPA must establish an online database for mercury data.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
PRENDA

Bill: 116-s-182
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2019-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Right of privacy
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: 

 
 

Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act or PRENDA

 
This bill creates new federal crimes related to the performance of sex-selection abortions (i.e., abortions based on the sex or gender of an unborn child).
 
It subjects a violator to criminal penalties&#8212;a fine, a prison term of up to five years, or both.
 
It also authorizes civil remedies, including damages and injunctive relief.
 
A woman who undergoes a sex-selection abortion may not be prosecuted or held civilly liable.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Conscience Protection Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-183
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2019-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Disability and health-based discrimination
Employee benefits and pensions
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: 

Conscience Protection Act of 

2019

 
This bill provides statutory authority for certain restrictions prohibiting discrimination against health care providers that refuse to perform abortions. 
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits the federal government, as well as state and local governments that receive federal financial assistance for health-related activities, from penalizing or discriminating against a health care provider based on the provider's refusal to be involved in, or provide coverage for, abortions. Currently, similar provider nondiscrimination requirements apply to certain employment or personnel decisions (the Church Amendments), abortion services training (the Coats-Snowe Amendment), and qualified health plans offered through health insurance exchanges. Annual appropriations bills for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other federal agencies have also included similar language (the Weldon Amendment). 
 
The HHS Office for Civil Rights, in coordination with the Department of Justice (DOJ), must investigate complaints alleging discrimination based on an individual's religious belief, moral conviction, or refusal to be involved in an abortion.
 
DOJ or any entity adversely affected by such discrimination may obtain equitable or legal relief in a civil action. Administrative remedies do not need to be sought or exhausted prior to commencing an action or granting relief. Such an action may be brought against a governmental entity and may include money damages against such entity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Gun Violence Prevention Research Act

Bill: 116-s-184
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2019-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accidents
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Crime prevention
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Firearms and explosives
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
Research administration and funding
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: 

Gun Violence Prevention Research Act 

 
This bill authorizes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct or support research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate