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To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1305 U.S. Highway 90 West in Castroville, Texas, as the Lance Corporal Rhonald Dain Rairdan Post Office.

Bill: 116-hr-4785
Sponsor: Rep. Hurd, Will [R-TX-23]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
Postal service
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1305 U.S. Highway 90 West in Castroville, Texas, as the "Lance Corporal Rhonald Dain Rairdan Post Office."
action_date: 2020-12-21
text: 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1305 U.S. Highway 90 West in Castroville, Texas, as the "Lance Corporal Rhonald Dain Rairdan Post Office."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-12-21
text: Became Public Law No: 116-240.
action_date: 2020-12-21
text: Became Public Law No: 116-240.
action_date: 2020-12-21
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2020-12-21
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2020-12-11
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2020-12-11
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2020-12-07
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2020-12-03
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2020-12-03
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2020-12-03
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7220-7221)
action_date: 2020-12-03
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7220-7221)
action_date: 2020-09-15
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2020-09-14
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2020-09-14
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4367)
action_date: 2020-09-14
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2020-09-14
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4785.
action_date: 2020-09-14
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4366-4367)
action_date: 2020-09-14
text: Mrs. Maloney, Carolyn B. moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 116-240
Race Horse Cost Recovery Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-4786
Sponsor: Rep. Barr, Andy [R-KY-6]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Mammals
Professional sports

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: 

Race Horse Cost Recovery Act of 2019

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the accelerated depreciation allowance for race horses to allow a three-year recovery period for any race horse. (Current law limits the three-year recovery period to race horses placed in service before January 1, 2018, and race horses placed in service after December 31, 2017, that are more than two years old when placed in service by the purchaser.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Working Students Act

Bill: 116-hr-4787
Sponsor: Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: 

Working Students Act

 
This bill increases the income protection allowance levels used to calculate a working student's expected family contribution and need for financial assistance. An income protection allowance is an amount for basic living expenses that is protected from being considered income available for postsecondary educational expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Investing in Tomorrow's Workforce Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-4788
Sponsor: Rep. Bustos, Cheri [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Child care and development
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee hiring
Employee leave
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles
Labor market
Labor-management relations
Manufacturing
Public-private cooperation
Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: 

Investing in Tomorrow's Workforce Act of 2019

 
This bill (1) directs the Government Accountability Office to study the barriers to providing, and opportunities for improving, training for workers in industries that have, or are likely to have, high rates of job loss due to automation; (2) directs the Department of Labor to award grants to eligible partnerships to support demonstration and pilot projects relating to the training needs of workers who are, or are likely to become, dislocated workers as a result of automation; (3) expands training programs for such workers, including activities that prepare the individuals for occupations in the technology sector; (4) authorizes the award of national dislocated worker grants to provide employment and training assistance to workers affected by advances in automation technology; and (5) expands funding for national dislocated worker grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
To allow Federal law enforcement officers to purchase retired service weapons, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-4789
Sponsor: Rep. Demings, Val Butler [D-FL-10]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: 
This bill generally permits a federal law enforcement officer to purchase a retired handgun from the agency that issued a handgun to the officer.
 
The bill expresses the sense of Congress that amounts received from the sale of handguns should be used for federal gun safety programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility Act

Bill: 116-hr-4790
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ohio
Space flight and exploration
Spacecraft and satellites
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: 

Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility Act

 
This bill redesignates the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Plum Brook Station in Ohio as the &quot;NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1327)
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Neighborhood Noise Barriers Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-4791
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government trust funds
Noise pollution
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: 

Neighborhood Noise Barriers Act of 2019

 
This bill permits the use of funds out of the Highway Trust Fund to construct certain Type II noise barriers along federal-aid highways.
 
The bill also makes the planning, design, or construction of such noise barriers eligible for surface transportation block grant program funding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Cyber Shield Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-4792
Sponsor: Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Business expenses
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: 

Cyber Shield Act of 201

9

 
This bill requires the Department of Commerce to establish the Cyber Shield Program, a voluntary program to identify and certify covered products. These products are consumer-facing physical objects that meet industry-leading cybersecurity and data security benchmarks and that can (1) connect to the internet; and (2) collect, send, or receive data or control the actions of a physical object or system.
 
Commerce must also establish a Cyber Shield Advisory Committee to recommend (1) the format and content of Cyber Shield labels for covered products; and (2) the process to identify, establish, report on, adopt, maintain, and promote compliance with industry-leading cybersecurity and data security benchmarks to enhance cybersecurity and protect data. 
 
On its website, Commerce must make publicly available (1) program information, (2) a database of covered products certified under the program, and (3) contact information for each manufacturer of a covered product certified under the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act

Bill: 116-hr-4793
Sponsor: Rep. Norcross, Donald [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
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: 2019-10-22
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: 2019-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-10-22
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: 2019-10-22
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: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8320 13th Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, as the Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini Post Office Building.

Bill: 116-hr-4794
Sponsor: Rep. Rose, Max [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
New York City
Postal service
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8320 13th Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, as the "Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini Post Office Building."
action_date: 2020-12-03
text: 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8320 13th Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, as the "Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini Post Office Building."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-12-03
text: Became Public Law No: 116-201.
action_date: 2020-12-03
text: Became Public Law No: 116-201.
action_date: 2020-12-03
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2020-12-03
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2020-11-24
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2020-11-24
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2020-11-19
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2020-11-18
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7081)
action_date: 2020-11-18
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7081)
action_date: 2020-03-12
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 449.
action_date: 2020-03-12
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2020-03-12
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2020-03-11
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2020-02-10
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2020-02-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2020-02-05
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H828)
action_date: 2020-02-05
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2020-02-05
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4794.
action_date: 2020-02-05
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H828-829)
action_date: 2020-02-05
text: Mrs. Lawrence moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 116-201
STABLE Act

Bill: 116-hr-4795
Sponsor: Rep. Slotkin, Elissa [D-MI-8]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Employment taxes
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: 

Saving To Achieve a Better Life Experience Act of 2019 or the STABLE Act

 
This bill treats any amount contributed by an employer to an employee's ABLE (Achieving a Better Life Experience) Account as employer-provided coverage for medical expenses under an accident or health plan, subject to certain contribution limits. Such contributions are excluded from an employee's gross income, for income tax purposes. It also imposes a tax on employers who fail to make required contributions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-4796
Sponsor: Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion
Intergovernmental relations
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: 

Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 201

9

 
This bill prohibits the wages or other remuneration earned by an employee who performs employment duties in more than one state from being subject to income tax in any state other than (1) the state of the employee's residence, and (2) the state within which the employee is present and performing employment duties for more than 30 days during the calendar year. 
 
The bill exempts employers from state income tax withholding and information reporting requirements for employees not subject to income tax in the state under this bill. For the purposes of determining penalties related to an employer's state income tax withholding or reporting requirements, an employer may rely on an employee's annual determination of the time expected to be spent working in a state in the absence of fraud or collusion by such employee.
 
For the purposes of this bill, the term &quot;employee&quot; excludes professional athletes; professional entertainers; production employees who perform services in connection with certain film, television, or other commercial video productions; and public figures who are persons of prominence who perform services for wages or other remuneration on a per-event basis. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Access Through Identification Act

Bill: 116-hr-4797
Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Licensing and registrations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: 

Restoring Access Through Identification Act

 
This bill revises an existing requirement for the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to help prisoners obtain identification documents during the prerelease planning process. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires such documents be provided at no cost to prisoners. Additionally, the BOP must notify prisoners if it cannot obtain such documents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Police Protection Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-4798
Sponsor: Rep. Veasey, Marc A. [D-TX-33]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Evidence and witnesses
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: 

Police Protection Act of 2019

 
This bill requires federal law enforcement officers to report information about the injury or death of an individual occurring while in an officer's custody, control, or course of duty to the Department of Justice within 24 hours. Officers who either fail to submit such a report or submit a report containing false or misleading information are subject to criminal penalties. 
 
The bill also reduces certain federal grants to state and local governments that do not require similar reporting by nonfederal law enforcement officers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Preservation of Public Evidence Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-4799
Sponsor: Rep. Veasey, Marc A. [D-TX-33]
Introduced: 2019-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Photography and imaging
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: 

Preservation of Public Evidence Act of 2019

 
This bill reduces certain federal funding for law enforcement activities to jurisdictions that do not require their law enforcement agencies to provide the Department of Justice with relevant records and evidence concerning any investigation of a death or injury of an individual that was caused by a law enforcement officer or occurred in law enforcement custody. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-22
text: Introduced in House