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Disaster Relief Medicaid Act

Bill: 116-s-1754
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Emergency planning and evacuation
Government information and archives
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Medicaid
Medicare
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

Disaster Relief Medicaid Act

 
This bill establishes a series of programs and requirements relating to Medicaid coverage of individuals affected by a federally declared major disaster.
 
In particular, the bill provides for specific disaster relief coverage under Medicaid for individuals who meet specified income eligibility standards and, during the seven-day period preceding the disaster, were either residents of the impacted area or were employed in the impacted area (and subsequently lost employment). Coverage is effective for two years after the date of the disaster declaration.
 
State Medicaid programs must provide disaster relief coverage that is at least as comprehensive as the state's Medicaid coverage and the Medicaid coverage of the individual's home state, as applicable. The bill applies a 100% Federal Medical Assistance Percentage to such coverage and related administrative expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
REAADI for Disasters Act

Bill: 116-s-1755
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Age discrimination
Aging
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Congressional oversight
Contracts and agency
Disability and health-based discrimination
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency communications systems
Emergency planning and evacuation
Evidence and witnesses
Floods and storm protection
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Life, casualty, property insurance
Natural disasters
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Technology transfer and commercialization
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

Real Emergency Access for Aging and Disability Inclusion for Disasters Act or the REAADI for Disasters Act

 
This bill establishes programs and requirements to assist individuals with disabilities and the elderly with disaster preparedness. 
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shall award disaster response grants to eligible entities to carry out projects to create opportunities for disabled individuals and older adults to contribute to disaster response and mitigation.
 
The bill also establishes the National Commission on Disability and Aging Rights and Disasters to address the rights of disabled individuals and older adults throughout the period of preparation for and response to disasters. 
 
The Government Accountability Office must study the compliance of federal agencies with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 in expending funds to support disabled individuals and older adults in responding to and mitigating disasters. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
No President is Above the Law Act

Bill: 116-s-1756
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

No President is Above the Law Act

 
This bill tolls (i.e., pauses) the statute of limitations for federal criminal offenses that are committed by the President prior to or during their term of office. (Currently, most federal criminal offenses have a five-year statute of limitations.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
United States Army Rangers Veterans of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 116-s-1757
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Military history
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Smithsonian Institution
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

United States Army Rangers Veterans of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act

 
This bill directs the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to arrange for the award of a single gold medal to the U.S. Army Ranger veterans of World War II in recognition of their dedicated wartime service. 
 
 Following its award, the gold medal shall be given to the Smithsonian Institution where it shall be available for display and research. 

action_date: 2020-03-05
text: 

United States Army Rangers Veterans of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act

 
This bill directs the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to arrange for the award of a single gold medal to the U.S. Army Ranger veterans of World War II in recognition of their dedicated wartime service. 
 
 Following its award, the gold medal shall be given to the Smithsonian Institution where it shall be available for display and research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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 Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: Received in the House.
action_date: 2020-03-09
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S1609-1610)
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S1609-1610)
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S1611)
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend a repayment contract relating to the Purgatoire River Water Conservancy District and to authorize the District to develop an excess capacity contract to offset repayment costs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-1758
Sponsor: Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Colorado
Dams and canals
Water resources funding
Water storage
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 
This bill allows the Bureau of Reclamation to extend the repayment contract with the Purgatoire River Water Conservancy District relating to the Purgatoire project for the Trinidad Dam on Purgatoire River in Colorado. The bill also allows Reclamation to enter into excess capacity contracts with respect to the project; revenues from such contracts must be first credited toward the district's outstanding payment obligation under its repayment contract.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-26
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-310.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 456 North Meridian Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, as the "Richard G. Lugar Post Office Building".

Bill: 116-s-1759
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Indiana
Members of Congress
Postal service
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 456 North Meridian Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, as the "Richard G. Lugar Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-08-02
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2019-08-02
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2019-07-31
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2019-07-30
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5204-5205; text: CR S5205)
action_date: 2019-07-30
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S5204-5205; text: CR S5205)
action_date: 2019-06-19
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 122.
action_date: 2019-06-19
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2019-06-19
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2019-06-19
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
UPDATE PURPA Act

Bill: 116-s-1760
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Contracts and agency
Electric power generation and transmission
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Intergovernmental relations
Lighting, heating, cooling
Public utilities and utility rates
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

Updating Purchase Obligations to Deploy Affordable Resources to Energy Markets Under PURPA Act or the
 
UPDATE PURPA Act

 
This bill modifies (1) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) rules related to cogeneration and small power production facilities, (2) the mandatory purchase obligation for electric utility companies to purchase energy from certain facilities, and (3) the one-mile rule of FERC. 
 
FERC must modify its rules regarding certain cogeneration and small power production facilities, including to require that such facilities are responsible for the costs of any facility or network upgrades associated with delivering power to its electric customers.
 
The bill authorizes electric utility companies to waive the mandatory purchase obligation if additional power is not required to meet customers' electricity needs.
 
The bill directs FERC to publish a final rule that allows any person or entity a rebuttable presumption to the one-mile rule. Under the one-mile rule, facilities are considered to be located at the same site as the facility for which qualification is sought if they are located within one mile of such facility. Specified factors must be taken into consideration by FERC when it determines whether two facilities are located at the same site.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of Defense to modernize certain forms and surveys of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-1761
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 
This bill directs the Department of Defense to modernize its forms and surveys that contain terms or classifications that may be considered racially or ethnically insensitive.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Agents Disclosure and Registration Enhancement Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1762
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Licensing and registrations
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

Foreign Agents Disclosure and Registration Enhancement Act of 2019

 
This bill provides the Department of Justice (DOJ) with a mechanism to demand evidence for investigating compliance with foreign-agent disclosure requirements and increases penalties relating to such requirements. 
 
DOJ may issue civil investigative demands to a person who may have information relevant to an investigation related to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA). Such demands may be for documents, written answers to questions, or oral testimony. The bill prescribes various procedures and requirements, such as minimum notice periods when seeking oral testimony. Investigative demands may be enforced or challenged in district court. 
 
Such investigative demands may not require the production of information that would be protected from disclosure under (1) the rules governing grand jury subpoenas, or (2) the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to the extent the rules are consistent with this bill. 
 
The bill increases the maximum criminal fine for certain FARA violations from $10,000 to $200,000. It shall be unlawful for an agent of a foreign principal to willfully fail to disclose being a FARA-registered agent before or during a meeting with a Member of Congress (or with staff of a Member or congressional committee). 
 
The bill provides for various civil penalties for failing to meet agent registration requirements. The foreign principal of a penalized agent may not pay the imposed fines.
 
The Government Accountability Office shall (1) analyze the effectiveness of FARA enforcement, and (2) audit the exemption to the Lobbying Disclosure Act for FARA-registered agents. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Carbon Capture Improvement Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1763
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Income tax exclusion
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing
Oil and gas
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

Carbon Capture Improvement Act of 2019

 
This bill authorizes the issuance of tax-exempt facility bonds for the financing of qualified carbon dioxide capture facilities.
 
A "qualified carbon dioxide capture facility" is any equipment installed in an industrial carbon dioxide facility that satisfies specified capture and storage requirements and (1) is used for the capture, treatment and purification, compression, transportation, or on-site storage of carbon dioxide produced by the industrial carbon dioxide facility; or (2) is integral or functionally related and subordinate to a gasification process that converts a product from coal, petroleum residue, biomass, or other materials which are recovered for their energy or feedstock value into a synthesis gas composed primarily of carbon dioxide and hydrogen for direct use or subsequent chemical or physical conversion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1764
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2019 

 
This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission to ensure charges for payphone services, including those in correctional institutions, are just and reasonable. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act

Bill: 116-s-1765
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
Montana
Motor vehicles
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Watersheds
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to complete a landscape assessment of the Seeley Lake Ranger District of the Lolo National Forest in Montana, designates areas in the forest for recreation and as wildnerness, and otherwise revises provisions related to the forest.
 
A collaboratively developed restoration project within the district may be carried out in accordance with certain hazardous fuel reduction projects.
 
USDA shall, if, a local collaborative group submits a proposal to improve motorized and nonmotorized recreational trail opportunities within the district, analyze the environmental effects of the proposal. It may also provide for the construction of any of the routes included in such proposal.
 
The bill designates specified federal land in the forest as (1) the Otatsy Recreation Management Area, and (2) the Spread Mountain Recreation Area. 
 
The bill designates specified wilderness additions in the forest as wilderness areas and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-380.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Reach Every Mother and Child Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1766
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Foreign aid and international relief
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Nutrition and diet
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

Reach Every Mother and Child Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the President to establish and implement a five-year strategy to contribute toward ending preventable child and maternal deaths globally by 2030. 
 
The President shall designate a current U.S. Agency for International Development employee to serve as the Child and Maternal Survival Coordinator. The coordinator shall oversee (1) the five-year strategy, and (2) international maternal and child health and nutrition programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3288)
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Safe Sleep Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1767
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child safety and welfare
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer affairs
Product safety and quality
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

Safe Sleep Act of 2019

This bill makes it unlawful to manufacture, sell, or distribute inclined sleepers for infants. Specifically, inclined sleepers for infants are those that are designed for an infant up to one year old and have an inclined sleep surface of greater than 10 degrees. The bill also requires that any rules promulgated by the Consumer Product Saftey Commission with respect to infant sleepers are consistent with prevailing safe sleep best practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Native Species Protection Act

Bill: 116-s-1768
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Endangered and threatened species

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

Native Species Protection Act

 
This bill prohibits an intrastate species from being subject to (1) regulation governing the protection of endangered or threatened species, or (2) provisions of law under which regulatory authority is based on the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce under the Commerce Clause.
 
An intrastate species is any species of plant or fish or wildlife that is found entirely within the borders of a single state and is not part of a national market for any commodity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate