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Preserving Direct Seller Independence Act

Bill: 116-hr-3522
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2019-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Self-employed

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-26
text: 
 
Preserving Direct Seller Independence Act

 
This bill provides under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 that the term &quot;employee&quot; does not include any direct seller for federal tax purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2019-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-26
text: Introduced in House
POW Priority Care Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3527
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Detention of persons
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

POW Priority Care Act of 2019

 
This bill increases the priority status of former prisoners of war in the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system to the highest priority for hospital care and medical services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
The Opportunity Project Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3528
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Performance measurement
Product development and innovation
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

The Opportunity Project Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Department of Commerce, through collaboration between federal agency personnel, end users, and technology experts, to carry out a program, to be known as the Opportunity Project, to facilitate the development of digital products for the public. 
 
Commerce may enter into agreements with federal agencies and states or political subdivisions of states to (1) provide for participation by their employees in digital product development conducted through the project, or (2) make available employees of Commerce to assist in teaching and implementing the processes of the project for use in digital product development by such agency, state, or political subdivision. 
 
The Government Accountability Office must report on the project's effectiveness. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
ALERTS Act

Bill: 116-hr-3529
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Stephanie N. [D-FL-7]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Achieving Lasting Electoral Reforms on Transparency and Security Act or the ALERTS Act 

 
This bill requires federal agencies and state and local governments to provide notification regarding election cybersecurity incidents. Specifically, federal entities must share information about an election cybersecurity incident with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If there is credible evidence that an unauthorized intrusion into an election system occurred that put voter information or other systems at risk, DHS must, with limited exceptions, share this information with relevant state and local offices and with appropriate members of Congress. State and local election offices must notify individuals possibly affected by this intrusion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Resilient Communities Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3531
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Atmospheric science and weather
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Floods and storm protection
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health facilities and institutions
Infrastructure development
Land use and conservation
Lighting, heating, cooling
Natural disasters
Seashores and lakeshores
Small business
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Resilient Communities Act of 2019

 
This bill permits the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide capitalization grants to states to establish revolving funds to mitigate disaster risks for homeowners, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and communities from multiple hazards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
China Technology Transfer Control Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3532
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark E. [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
Industrial policy and productivity
Intellectual property
Manufacturing
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Religion
Sanctions
Technology transfer and commercialization
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

China Technology Transfer Control Act of 2019

 
This bill controls exports of certain national interest technology and intellectual property to China.
 
Specifically, covered technology or intellectual property includes items that (1) would contribute significantly to the Chinese military to the detriment of U.S. national security, (2) are included in a designated list of product components compiled by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), or (3) are used by China to violate human rights or religious liberties.
 
The bill requires the President to control exports to China of any covered technology or intellectual property. Additionally, the President must sanction (1) any foreign person who sells to, or purchases from, China any covered item; and (2) any Chinese person who knowingly uses a covered item provided to them in violation of U.S. export control law.
 
In addition to a specified list of industries subject to the bill, the USTR must identify products manufactured or produced in, or exported from, China that either receive certain support from China or are used by China to violate human rights or religious liberties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Combat Violent Crime Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3533
Sponsor: Rep. Roby, Martha [R-AL-2]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Combat Violent Crime Act of 2019

 
This bill alters the approach used by courts to determine if a criminal offense constitutes a crime of violence for the purposes of imposing an enhanced sentence on a defendant who uses or possesses a firearm in a crime of violence.
 
Currently, the term
 crime of violence
 means a felony that (1) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force; or (2) by its nature, involves a substantial risk of physical force. To determine if an offense constitutes a crime of violence under the second prong, courts apply a categorical approach to assess whether the nature of the defendant's offense, based on its statutory elements, involves a substantial risk of physical force. 
 
In 2019, the Supreme Court held in 
United States v. Davis 
that the categorical approach (i.e., assessing the nature of the defendant's offense based on its statutory elements) is unconstitutionally vague.
 
This bill revises the second prong of the
 crime of violence
 definition to mean a felony that, based on the facts underlying the offense, involved a substantial risk of physical force. Under the revised definition, courts would apply a conduct-based approach to determine if an offense constitutes a crime of violence. The conduct-based approach assesses whether the defendant's conduct underlying an offense, based on the facts of the case, involved a substantial risk of physical force. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
USPSTF Transparency and Accountability Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3534
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

USPSTF Transparency and Accountability Act of 2019

 
This bill imposes additional requirements on, and otherwise revises provisions related to, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
 
The task force must (1) develop and publish research plans that include specified components to guide its review of scientific evidence relating to the effectiveness of preventive services; (2) publish in the Federal Register a request for comments on research plans, evidence reports, and recommendations; and (3) convene a preventive services stakeholders board to provide feedback and recommend preventive services and scientific evidence for the task force to review. 
 
 The bill also provides statutory authority for the task force's system for grading preventive care (Grades A, B, C, and D and a Grade I for insufficient information). 
 
 In addition, the bill revises the authority of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to modify Medicare coverage of certain preventive services when the modification is based on a task force recommendation. Specifically, the CMS may modify coverage based on a task force grade or recommendation only if it was developed or updated in accordance with this bill and if the CMS agrees with it after consulting with other agencies and stakeholder groups. Certain Medicare quality measures related to a recommendation of the task force may similarly only be applied under these circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
GI Bill Work Study Improvement Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3535
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

GI Bill Work Study Improvement Act of 2019

 
This bill updates provisions related to the work-study allowance benefit available to eligible veterans, including by authorizing educational institutions to make payments directly to veterans for work performed under the program and prescribing the annual amount that the Department of Veterans Affairs must provide to educational institutions for this purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3536
Sponsor: Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Hate crimes
Racial and ethnic relations
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2019

 
This bill establishes a new criminal civil rights violation for lynching.
 
Specifically, a person who conspires to commit certain civil rights offenses (e.g., a hate crime act) is subject to criminal penalties.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Rural Jobs Act

Bill: 116-hr-3538
Sponsor: Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business investment and capital
Department of the Treasury
Economic development
Income tax credits
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Rural Jobs Act 

 
This bill allocates an additional $500 million in 2019 and 2020 for new markets tax credit investments in the Rural Jobs Zone (an area comprised of low-income communities with populations not greater than 50,000 that are not adjacent to an urbanized area). The bill also requires that not less than 25% of such investments be made in areas that are persistent poverty counties, high migration rural counties, or both.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Behavioral Intervention Guidelines Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-3539
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, A. Drew, IV [R-GA-3]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Crime prevention
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Higher education
Mental health
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Behavioral Intervention Guidelines Act of 2019

 
This bill requires the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop best practices for schools to establish behavioral intervention teams (i.e., experts who are responsible for identifying individuals of concern and addressing associated behavioral health issues so as to prevent harm to the individual or others). SAMHSA must also develop a list of providers with threat-assessment training to help school personnel implement the best practices.

action_date: 2020-09-29
text: 

Behavioral Intervention Guidelines Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop best practices for schools to establish behavioral intervention teams (i.e., experts who are responsible for identifying individuals of concern and addressing associated behavioral health issues so as to prevent harm to the individual or others). SAMHSA must also develop a list of providers with threat-assessment training to help school personnel implement the best practices.


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 H5021)
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. 3539.
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5021-5023)
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. 440.
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-540.
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-540.
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: 2019-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Safe Capital Access for All Small Businesses Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3540
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Disaster relief and insurance
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government lending and loan guarantees
Small business
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Ensuring Safe Capital Access for All Small Businesses Act of 2019

 
This bill removes cannabis from the schedule of controlled substances, and it prohibits the Small Business Administration from declining to provide certain small business loans to an eligible entity solely because it is a cannabis-related legitimate business or service provider.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2019-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
action_date: 2019-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and the Judiciary, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and the Judiciary, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and the Judiciary, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and the Judiciary, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, Agriculture, and the Judiciary, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House