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BREAK PAY for Veterans Act

Bill: 116-hr-1913
Sponsor: Rep. Cisneros, Gilbert Ray, Jr. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 

Break Relief for Every Academic Kind of Period in an Academic Year for Veterans Act or the BREAK PAY for Veterans Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to continue paying educational assistance or subsistence allowances during periods between school terms in certain circumstances. Specifically, the bill authorizes the payment of educational assistance or subsistence allowances during periods between school terms where the educational institution certifies the enrollment of the eligible veteran or eligible person if (1) the period between those terms does not exceed eight weeks, and (2) the terms preceding and immediately following such a break period are not shorter in length than the period itself.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
DUI Reporting Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1914
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government information and archives
Motor vehicles
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 

DUI Reporting Act of 2019

 
This bill revises reporting requirements related to driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
 
The Department of Justice (DOJ) must provide a list to the Department of Transportation (DOT) identifying each state that is appropriately reporting to a federal repository arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
 
The bill requires DOT to withhold national priority safety program grant funds for impaired driving countermeasures from a state that does not appear on the most recent list provided to DOT by DOJ.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E357-358)
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Net Price Calculator Improvement Act

Bill: 116-hr-1915
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Government information and archives
Higher education
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 

Net Price Calculator Improvement Act

 
This bill establishes requirements concerning the information that must be provided to prospective students about the cost of an institution of higher education (IHE). Specifically, the bill establishes the minimum requirements for the net price calculator that an IHE must include on its website. An IHE's net price is the average yearly price actually charged to first-time, full-time undergraduate students receiving student aid at the school after deducting such aid.
 
It authorizes the Department of Education to develop a universal net price calculator that enables users to answer one set of questions and receive net prices for several IHEs and compare those prices.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-14
text: ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mrs. Trahan asked unanimous consent that she may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 1915, a bill originally introduced by Representative Cummings, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Save Community Newspaper Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1916
Sponsor: Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
News media and reporting

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 

Save Community Newspaper Act of 2019

 
This bill allows community newspapers to elect to apply certain alternative minimum funding standards for single-employer defined benefit pension plans that meet specified requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1917
Sponsor: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Budget process
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Inflation and prices
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 

Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act of 2019 

 
This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to submit annual reports to Congress that include specified details regarding certain federally funded projects that are (1) more than five years behind schedule, or (2) have expenditures that are at least $1 billion more than the original cost estimate for the project. The reports must also be posted on the OMB website and included with the President's budget. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
To designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Bozeman, Montana, as the "Travis W. Atkins Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic".

Bill: 116-hr-1918
Sponsor: Rep. Gianforte, Greg [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Department of Veterans Affairs
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Montana
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 
This bill designates the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Bozeman, Montana, as the &ldquo;Travis W. Atkins Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic&rdquo; or the &ldquo;Travis W. Atkins VA Clinic.&rdquo;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Detection, Enhanced Education, and Response Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1919
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Trent [R-MS-1]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Agricultural research
Animal and plant health
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Education programs funding
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Mammals
Medical research
Neurological disorders
Research administration and funding
State and local government operations
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 

Detection, Enhanced Education, and Response Act of 2019 or the DEER Act

 
This bill addresses chronic wasting disease, which is a transmissible disease that afflicts deer, elk, and moose populations.
 
Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support state efforts to develop and implement chronic wasting disease surveillance, testing, management, and response activities.
 
In addition, USDA must (1) establish a multiagency task force to respond to the disease, and (2) award a grant to a land-grant college or university to establish a policy research center for wildlife diseases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-08-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Bump Act

Bill: 116-hr-1920
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Joseph P., III [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
Mental health
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 

Medicaid Bump Act 

 
This bill increases the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage to 90% with respect to increased state Medicaid program expenditures for mental and behavioral health services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Access to Medication Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1922
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health technology, devices, supplies
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 

Restoring Access to Medication Act of 2019

 
This bill repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, as added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, that limit payments for medications from health savings accounts, medical savings accounts, health flexible spending arrangements, and health reimbursement arrangements to only prescription drugs or insulin (thus allowing distributions from such accounts for over-the-counter drugs). The bill also allows the accounts to pay for menstrual care products.

action_date: 2020-12-18
text: 

Restoring Access to Medication Act of 2019

 
This bill repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, as added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, that limit payments for medications from health savings accounts, medical savings accounts, health flexible spending arrangements, and health reimbursement arrangements to only prescription drugs or insulin (thus allowing distributions from such accounts for over-the-counter drugs). The bill also allows the accounts to pay for menstrual care products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-12-18
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 559.
action_date: 2020-12-18
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 116-675.
action_date: 2020-12-18
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 116-675.
action_date: 2019-10-23
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2019-10-23
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Vet Center Childcare Parity Act

Bill: 116-hr-1924
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Susie [D-NV-3]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child care and development
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 

Vet Center Childcare Parity Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide child care to veterans at Vet Centers in the same manner as it provides child care to veterans at other VA facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Protect Our Liberian Community Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1926
Sponsor: Rep. Phillips, Dean [D-MN-3]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Africa
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Liberia

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 

Protect Our Liberian Community Act of 2019

 
This bill establishes that a national of Liberia shall be deemed to have registered for temporary protected status as of April 1, 2019, for three years, if the national registered for such status at any time and was present in the United States on March 30, 2019, under deferred enforced departure. 
 
Temporary protected status is available to nationals of certain designated countries, and such aliens shall have work authorization not be removed from the United States while the status is in effect. Liberia's designation was terminated as of May 21, 2017. The President has granted deferred enforced departure status to Liberian nationals, which prevents their removal from the country and provides work authorization, until March 30, 2020.
 
Individuals with temporary protected status under this bill shall have employment authorization for the three-year period, and any lapse of authorization between April 1, 2019, and the enactment date of this bill shall not affect the validity of such an individual's employment authorization document.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Separation of Powers Restoration Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1927
Sponsor: Rep. Ratcliffe, John [R-TX-4]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Judicial review and appeals

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 

Separation of Powers Restoration Act
 
of 2019

 
This bill modifies the scope of judicial review of agency actions to authorize courts reviewing agency actions to decide de novo (i.e., without giving deference to the agency's interpretation) all relevant questions of law, including the interpretation of (1) constitutional and statutory provisions, and (2) rules made by agencies. 
 
No law may exempt a civil action from the standard of review required by this bill except by specific reference to such provision.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
No Sanctuary for Criminals Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1928
Sponsor: Rep. Reschenthaler, Guy [R-PA-14]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Citizenship and naturalization
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Detention of persons
Government liability
Immigration status and procedures
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Motor vehicles
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 

No Sanctuary for Criminals Act of 2019

 
This bill bars any government entity or individual from prohibiting or restricting a government entity, official, or other personnel from (1) complying with immigration laws, (2) cooperating with immigration enforcement, (3) making inquiries to an individual to obtain immigration-related information, or (4) complying with immigration-related informational inquiries from federal law enforcement entities. States or local entities that fail to comply with such a bar shall be ineligible for certain federal funds and grants for at least one year. (Such provisions expand on current provisions barring a government entity or official from prohibiting or restricting a government entity or official from exchanging certain information with federal immigration officials.)
 
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may issue a detainer as to an individual in federal or state custody if DHS has probable cause to believe the individual is an inadmissible or deportable alien. (Currently, the statute allows immigration officials to issue a detainer for an individual who has been arrested for violating a controlled substance-related law if such officials have reason to believe the individual is violating immigration laws. Current DHS policy allows for the issuance of detainers in other situations as well, though this policy has been called into question by a federal district court, and this bill would provide statutory authority for the current policy.)
 
A victim of a felony (or certain close relatives) for which an alien has been convicted and sentenced for at least one year may sue each state or local government entity or official if the defendant (1) refused to honor an immigration-law related detainer and released the alien from custody prior to the crime, or (2) has a policy of not complying certain immigration enforcement-related laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the qualified fuel cell motor vehicles credit.

Bill: 116-hr-1929
Sponsor: Rep. Rouda, Harley [D-CA-48]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Income tax deductions
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 
This bill permanently extends the tax credit for new qualified fuel cell motor vehicles. (Under current law, the tax credit expired at the end of 2017.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
States’ Education Reclamation Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1930
Sponsor: Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7]
Introduced: 2019-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Appropriations
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Labor
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
District of Columbia
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Minority education
Special education
State and local finance
Student aid and college costs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: 

States' Education Reclamation Act of 2019

 
This bill abolishes the Department of Education (ED) and repeals any program for which it has administrative responsibility.
 
The Department of the Treasury shall provide grants to states, for FY2019-FY2027, for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education purposes permitted by state law. The level of funding is set at the amount provided to states for federal elementary and secondary education programs and the amount provided for federal postsecondary education programs, respectively, for FY2012, minus the funding provided for education programs that this Act transfers to other federal agencies. 
 
States must contract for an annual audit of their expenditures or transfers of grant funds.
 
Program administrative responsibility and delegation of authority are transferred as follows:
 
 
ED's job training programs to the Department of Labor,
 
each special education grant program under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
 
ED's Indian Education programs to the Department of the Interior,
 
each Impact Aid program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to the Department of Defense,
 
the Federal Pell Grant program and each federal student loan program to Treasury, and 
 
programs under the jurisdiction of the Institute of Education Sciences or the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program to HHS. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Introduced in House