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DEA Enforcement and Authority Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-424
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

DEA Enforcement and Authority Act of 2019

 
This bill modifies enforcement authorities of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
 
It modifies the required elements of an order to show cause issued by the DEA before it denies, revokes, or suspends a registration for a CSA violation. Specifically, the bill eliminates the requirement for an order to show cause to notify the registrant of the opportunity to submit a corrective action plan.
 
Additionally, the bill modifies the standard of review for an immediate suspension order. Currently, the DEA may immediately suspend the registration of a controlled substances manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser to prevent imminent danger to the public health and safety. This bill lowers the standard for determining imminent danger to the public health and safety&#8212;from substantial likelihood of an immediate threat of harm to probable cause that harm will occur.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act

Bill: 116-s-425
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Congressional oversight
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Prescription drugs
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act 

 
This bill imposes a one cent per milligram fee on the sale of active opioids by the manufacturer, producer, or importer. The fee excludes prescription drugs used exclusively for the treatment of opioid addiction as part of a medically assisted treatment effort. 
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must establish a program to provide rebates or discounts to cancer and hospice patients to ensure that they do not pay the fee. 
 
 Any increase in federal revenues from the fee after rebates and discounts are subtracted must be distributed to states under the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant program. The states must use the funds exclusively for substance abuse (including opioid abuse) efforts in the states, including (1) specified treatment programs, and (2) the recruitment and training of substance use disorder professionals to work in rural and medically underserved communities.
 
HHS must report to Congress on the impact of this bill on the retail cost of opioids and patient access to opioid medication, the effectiveness of the discount or rebate for cancer and hospice patients, how the funds are being used to improve substance abuse treatment efforts, and suggestions for improving access to opioids for cancer and hospice patients and substance abuse treatment efforts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
FAIR Act

Bill: 116-s-426
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Federal Adjustment of Income Rates Act of 2019 or the FAIR Act

 
This bill increases by 3.6% in FY2020 the rates of basic pay for federal employees under the statutory pay systems (i.e., the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, and various schedules related to the Veterans Health Administration) and for prevailing rate employees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Autism CARES Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-427
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability and paralysis
Education programs funding
Executive agency funding and structure
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Home and outpatient care
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Minority health
Neurological disorders
Research administration and funding
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support Act of 2019 or the Autism CARES Act of 2019

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2024 and revises several programs and activities relating to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Among other things, the bill reauthorizes provisions relating to (1) expanded ASD research at the National Institutes of Health; (2) ASD education, early detection, and intervention activities supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration; and (3) the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee.
 
The bill also generally revises the scope of such programs and activities to encompass ASD individuals of all ages, rather than only youth. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Freedom to Export to Cuba Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-428
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural trade
Caribbean area
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Cuba
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign loans and debt
Human rights
International organizations and cooperation
Latin America
Marine and inland water transportation
Multilateral development programs
News media and reporting
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Sanctions
Terrorism
Trade restrictions
Travel and tourism
U.S. and foreign investments
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Freedom to Export to Cuba Act of 2019

 
This bill repeals both the President's statutory authority to impose an embargo on Cuba and various prohibitions against providing assistance to Cuba. It also repeals provisions related to (1) the President's authority to impose sanctions on countries that provide assistance to Cuba, (2) the prohibition against U.S. investment in domestic telecommunications networks within Cuba, (3) restrictions on vessels that have departed from a port in Cuba within 180 days of loading or unloading freight in the United States, and (4) restrictions on remittances to Cuba.
 
The President is authorized to impose export controls with respect to Cuba and exercise certain emergency economic powers in relation to unusual and extraordinary threats to the United States.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Cyber Security Exchange Act

Bill: 116-s-429
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Cyber Security Exchange Act

 
This bill provides for the establishment of voluntary employee exchange programs relating to cybersecurity positions between the private sector and certain federal agencies.
 
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Justice must each submit to Congress a plan for implementing an exchange program at the agency and an evaluation of the benefits.
 
 If an agency determines that it is unable to establish the program, it shall submit a notification describing the legal basis for that inability and any other specific factor that prevents its establishment.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000.

Bill: 116-s-430
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2019-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Property tax
Public contracts and procurement
State and local finance
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: 
This bill extends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 through FY2020, including provisions concerning secure payments to eligible states, territories, and counties containing federal land. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2019-11-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 116-348.
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
PARTNERS Act

Bill: 116-s-431
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2019-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Government trust funds
Licensing and registrations
Performance measurement
Public-private cooperation
Small business
Teaching, teachers, curricula
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: 

Promoting Apprenticeships through Regional Training Networks for Employers' Required Skills Act of 2019 or the PARTNERS Act

 
This bill establishes a grant program to promote registered apprenticeships and on-the-job training programs for small and medium-sized businesses within in-demand industry sectors, through the establishment and support of eligible partnerships.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-432
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2019-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: 

Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2019

 
This bill establishes a new criminal offense for knowingly engaging in a scheme to defraud an individual of veterans' benefits, or in connection with obtaining veteran's benefits for an individual. A violator is subject to criminal penalties&#8212;a fine, a prison term of up to five years, or both.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-433
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2019-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: 

Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 

2019

 
This bill makes a series of changes relating to payment and coverage of home health services under Medicare and Medicare Advantage (MA).
 
Specifically, the bill allows the home-confinement requirement (also known as the homebound requirement) for home health services to be waived under Medicare and MA. Currently, as a condition of eligibility for such services, a physician must certify that an individual has difficulty leaving home without assistance (e.g., a wheelchair, special transportation, or help from another person) due to an illness or injury.
 
The bill also alters the payment methodology under the Medicare prospective payment system for home health services, including by eliminating the requirement that such methodology include certain behavioral assumptions regarding the implementation of specified changes to units of payment and case-mix adjustment factors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1167)
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the collection of certain data relating to Bureau of Land Management land acquisitions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-434
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2019-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: 
This bill requires the Department of the Interior, after the submission of the President's budget for FY2020, to report to Congress on 
 
 
all federal land holdings under Interior's jurisdiction; and 
 
the total costs of maintaining such holdings for FY2017-FY2019, including an accounting of the holdings of, and expenditures made by, each federal agency. 


action_date: 2019-12-17
text: 
This bill directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to
 
 
collect centralized data on land acquired for administration by the BLM using amounts from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and 
 
annually submit to Congress a report that describes the information collected. 
 

action_date: 2020-12-02
text: 
This bill requires the Bureau of Land Management to report certain data on its land acquisitions and to develop guidance to ensure that this data is properly entered and coded in its data system. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-12-03
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2020-12-03
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2020-12-03
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2020-12-02
text: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7187; text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7187)
action_date: 2020-12-02
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7187; text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7187)
action_date: 2019-12-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 349.
action_date: 2019-12-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. Without written report.
action_date: 2019-12-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. Without written report.
action_date: 2019-12-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2019-05-14
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-323.
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
CASES Act

Bill: 116-s-435
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2019-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional operations and organization
Government information and archives
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: 

Creating Advanced Streamlined Electronic Services for Constituents Act of 2019 or the CASES Act

 
This bill directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to require each federal agency to accept electronic identity proofing and authentication processes that allow an individual, under the Privacy Act, to access the individual's records or to provide prior written consent for the disclosure of the individual's records.
 
OMB must (1) create a template for electronic consent and access forms, and (2) require each agency to accept such forms from any individual properly identity proofed and authenticated.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Transit Worker and Pedestrian Protection Act

Bill: 116-s-436
Sponsor: Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
Introduced: 2019-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Accidents
Assault and harassment offenses
Criminal justice information and records
Public transit
Railroads
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: 

Transit Worker and Pedestrian Protection Act

 
This bill requires grant recipients under the public transportation safety program who operate a fixed route bus service to (1) develop a risk reduction program for bus operations to improve safety by reducing the number and rates of accidents, injuries, assaults on bus operators, and fatalities; (2) submit the program to the Department of Transportation (DOT) for review and approval; and (3) implement the approved program. 
 
DOT shall require grant recipients who operates a rail fixed guideway public transportation system that is not subject to regulation by the Federal Railroad Administration to (1) develop a risk reduction program for assaults on rail workers to improve safety by reducing the number and severity of assaults on such workers; (2) submit the program to DOT for review and approval; and (3) implement the approved program.
 
A grant recipient shall report to DOT any information on each assault on a transit worker for inclusion in the National Transit Database.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-25
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
SALT Act

Bill: 116-s-437
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2019-02-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Inflation and prices
Property tax
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: 

Stop the Attack on Local Taxpayers Act or the SALT Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to (1) repeal the $10,000 limitation on individual income tax deductions for certain state and local taxes, and (2) increase the top individual income tax rate to 39.6% (currently 37%). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-02-11
text: Introduced in Senate
EPIC Act

Bill: 116-s-438
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2019-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-12
text: 

End Pensions in Congress Act or the EPIC Act

 
This bill excludes future Members of Congress from the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and requires Members currently enrolled in FERS or the Civil Service Retirement System to opt in to continue their enrollment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
PACED Act

Bill: 116-s-440
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2019-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Federal-Indian relations
Government liability
Intellectual property
Jurisdiction and venue
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-12
text: 

Preserving Access to Cost Effective Drugs Act or the PACED Act

 
This bill prohibits patent owners from asserting tribal sovereign immunity as a defense in certain proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including patent validity challenge proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The prohibition also applies to court actions and proceedings before the International Trade Commission. 
 
Sovereign immunity for foreign states shall apply in the PTAB as it applies in federal court. 

action_date: 2019-06-28
text: 

Preserving Access to Cost Effective Drugs Act or the PACED Act

 
This bill prohibits patent owners from asserting tribal sovereign immunity as a defense in certain proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including patent validity challenge proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The prohibition also applies to court actions and proceedings before the International Trade Commission. 
 
Sovereign immunity for foreign states shall apply in the PTAB as it applies in federal court. The abrogation of sovereign immunity shall not apply to states or institutions of higher education (i.e., public state universities and institutions).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 129.
action_date: 2019-06-28
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Graham with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2019-06-28
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Graham with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2019-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
RED Tape Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-441
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2019-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Economic performance and conditions
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-12
text: 

Regulations Endanger Democracy Act of 2019 or the RED Tape Act of 20

19

 
This bill prohibits, with certain exceptions, a federal agency from issuing a rule that causes a new financial or administrative burden on businesses or people in the United States unless the agency has repealed or amended two or more existing rules causing such a burden and the cost of the rule to be issued is less than or equal to that of the rules repealed or amended.
 
In determining whether to repeal such a rule, an agency must consider (1) whether the rule has achieved its purpose, has become obsolete, or overlaps with a rule to be issued; (2) any adverse effects that could materialize if the rule is repealed; and (3) whether the costs of the rule outweigh its benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate