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Food Worker Pay Standards Act

Bill: 116-hr-6120
Sponsor: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Food industry and services
Meat
Public contracts and procurement
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Food Worker Pay Standards Act

 
 This bill prohibits the federal government from purchasing any meat, meat food product, poultry, poultry food product, or processed food produced by workers in the United States who are compensated at a rate lower than the prevailing rate for wages and fringe benefits for such workers in their locality.
 
The Department of Labor shall determine the prevailing rates and in determining such rates shall take into account any applicable existing collective bargaining agreements in the locality. In no case shall a prevailing rate established pursuant to this bill supersede a worker's wages and benefits agreed to in a collective bargaining agreement. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
End Outsourcing Act

Bill: 116-hr-6121
Sponsor: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business investment and capital
Congressional oversight
Employee hiring
Foreign and international corporations
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Labor-management relations
Licensing and registrations
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Public contracts and procurement
Taxation of foreign income
U.S. territories and protectorates
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

End Outsourcing Act

 
This bill addresses the outsourcing (transfer) of jobs and companies from the United States to low-tax foreign jurisdictions.
 
The bill (1) requires employers to include an outsourcing statement in worker adjustment and retraining notices; (2) denies employers a tax deduction for outsourcing expenses, including license fees and equipment installation costs; (3) allows a tax credit for similar insourcing expenses; (4) denies employers the use of certain favorable accounting methods and a deduction for interest paid on indebtedness; and (5) requires the recapture of certain tax credit amounts allowed to outsourcing employers. 
 
The bill authorizes federal contracting officers to take the outsourcing of jobs from the United States into account in awarding contracts and grants and extending loans and loan guarantees to corporations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Armed Services, and Oversight and Reform, 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: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Armed Services, and Oversight and Reform, 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: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Armed Services, and Oversight and Reform, 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: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Armed Services, and Oversight and Reform, 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: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Tax Relief for Bridge Tolls Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6122
Sponsor: Rep. Rose, Max [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Roads and highways
State and local taxation
Transportation costs
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Tax Relief for Bridge Tolls Act of 2020

 
This bill allows individual taxpayers an income-based tax credit for amounts paid for bridge tolls. It provides for a 50% credit for toll amounts exceeding $1,000 in a taxable year, but disqualifies a toll that is less than $11.00 in regular peak hours.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Northern Mariana Islands Coronavirus Emergency Assistance Act

Bill: 116-hr-6123
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Northern Mariana Islands
Oil and gas
Strategic materials and reserves
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Northern Mariana Islands Coronavirus Emergency Assistance Act

 
This bill provides $100 million in appropriations to the Northern Mariana Islands for general government operations. The bill also requires the Department of Energy to draw down and sell up to $100 million of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for FY2020. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E272-273)
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Assistance for Firms Harmed by Tariffs on Exports Act

Bill: 116-hr-6124
Sponsor: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Tariffs
Trade adjustment assistance
Trade agreements and negotiations
Trade restrictions
Unemployment
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Assistance for Firms Harmed by Tariffs on Exports Act

 
This bill provides financial assistance to companies harmed by retaliatory foreign tariffs. 
 
Specifically, it expands the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms program, which currently provides such assistance to companies adversely affected by competing imported goods and services. 
 
The bill authorizes companies that have seen a significant decrease in sales of exported goods or services, in whole or in part as a result of tariffs imposed by foreign countries in response to U.S. tariff increases, to petition the Department of Commerce for trade adjustment assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Supporting Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6125
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Health information and medical records
Intergovernmental relations
Military medicine
Sex offenses
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Supporting Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma Act of 2020

 
This bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop, implement, and maintain a standard of coordinated care for members of the Armed Forces who are survivors of sexual trauma, including by requiring that information is posted in DOD facilities regarding VA services for such survivors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
End the Normalized Delay of Suppressors Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6126
Sponsor: Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

End the Normalized Delay of Suppressors Act of 2020

 
This bill modifies procedural requirements related to the transfer of a silencer.
 
Specifically, it permits the transfer of a silencer if 90 days have elapsed since the application to transfer the silencer was filed, and the application has not been denied.
 
The bill also establishes reporting requirements on the timeliness of criminal background checks conducted with respect to certain prospective firearm transfers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Risk-Based Credit Examination Act

Bill: 116-hr-6127
Sponsor: Rep. Wagner, Ann [R-MO-2]
Introduced: 2020-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

Risk-Based Credit Examination Act

 
This bill provides the Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Credit Ratings with discretion concerning reviewable matters during its annual examination of nationally recognized statistical rating organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Eliminate Agency Excess Space Act

Bill: 116-hr-6128
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Gregory [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2020-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
General Services Administration
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: 

Eliminate Agency Excess Space Act

 
This bill modifies requirements with respect to the disposal of surplus and excess property by federal agencies.
 
Among other things, the bill repeals provisions that require federal agencies to report excess property to the General Services Administration (GSA). Additionally, the GSA must issue regulations that allow federal agencies to dispose of surplus and excess property without first making the property available to other agencies or state or local governments. 
 
The bill also requires the GSA to survey all unused or underutilized office spaces held by federal agencies, make recommendations to reduce agency real estate assets, and report on costs associated with property disposal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Justice for Incarcerated Moms Act

Bill: 116-hr-6129
Sponsor: Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2020-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Detention of persons
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Domestic violence and child abuse
Employment and training programs
Family services
HIV/AIDS
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Law enforcement administration and funding
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Minority health
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
Nutrition and diet
Sex offenses
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: 

Justice for Incarcerated Moms Act

 
This bill directs specified activities to address maternal health outcomes among incarcerated individuals. Specifically, the bill
 
 
 reduces certain federal funding for criminal justice activities to states without laws restricting the use of restraints on pregnant women who are incarcerated:
 
 establishes programs in federal Bureau of Prisons facilities, and a grant program to be administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance for state and local correctional facilities, to improve maternal health outcomes; and 
 
requires reports from the Government Accountability Office and the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission on specified topics related to pregnant and postpartum women who are incarcerated.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Improving Awareness of Health Coverage Options Act

Bill: 116-hr-6130
Sponsor: Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2020-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Employee benefits and pensions
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: 

Improving Awareness of Health Coverage Options Act

 
 This bill requires the Department of Labor to revise and publish on its website notice about the availability of Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) continuation of health insurance coverage for employees losing job-based coverage. Such notice must explain specified enrollment information with respect to such coverage, such as (1) eligibility for financial assistance, (2) the option to enroll in a qualified plan through a health insurance exchange, (3) minimum coverage requirements of such qualified health plans, and (4) limitations on enrollment in a qualified health plan after terminating COBRA coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Architect of the Capitol to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall to be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-6131
Sponsor: Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5]
Introduced: 2020-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Monuments and memorials
Supreme Court
U.S. Capitol
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: 
This bill requires the Architect of the Capitol to remove the bust of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney from the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the U.S. Capitol to replace it with a bust of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall that must be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library. Chief Justice Taney authored the 1857 
Dred Scott v. Sandford
 decision that declared African Americans were not U.S. citizens and could not sue in federal courts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
VET MED Act

Bill: 116-hr-6134
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2020-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: 

Veterinary Education and Training Minimizes Educational Debt Act or the VET MED Act

 
This bill allows veterinary students who are enrolled in postgraduate training programs or serving in internships or residencies to defer payment on their Federal Direct Loans for up to five years. Loan interest shall not accrue during such deferment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
No More Narrow Networks Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6135
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2020-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: 

No More Narrow Networks Act of 2020

 
 This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish quantitative network adequacy standards for health insurance plans offered through health insurance exchanges.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Consumers from Unreasonable Rates Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6136
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2020-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Disability and health-based discrimination
Health care costs and insurance
Insurance industry and regulation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: 

Protecting Consumers from Unreasonable Rates Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or the relevant state agency to ensure that any excessive, unjustified, or unfairly discriminatory premium rates for health care coverage are corrected before, or as soon as possible after, implementation, including through mechanisms such as denying rates, modifying rates, or requiring rebates to consumers. HHS may apply civil monetary penalties to health insurers that fail to comply with a corrective action taken by HHS and may decertify the plan as a qualified health plan. (Qualified health plans are sold on health insurance exchanges, the only plans eligible for premium subsidies, and meet the requirements for minimum essential coverage.) HHS must determine whether HHS or the state will undertake the corrective actions based on whether the state can adequately undertake the actions.
 
The bill declares that the review by HHS of unreasonable increases in premiums does not prohibit a state from imposing on health insurers additional rate requirements that are more protective of consumers. The HHS review, which currently covers only premium increases, is expanded to include all rate increases.
 

 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
IMPACT to Save Moms Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6137
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2020-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
Minority health
Performance measurement
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local finance
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: 

Innovative Maternal Payment And Coverage To Save Moms Act or the IMPACT to Save Moms Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to establish the Perinatal Care Alternative Payment Model Demonstration Project to allow states to test payment models for maternity care, including postpartum care, under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). 
 
Additionally, the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission must report on specified information relating to the continuity of coverage for pregnant and postpartum women under Medicaid and CHIP. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Introduced in House