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Metro Safety, Accountability, and Investment Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1663
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Assault and harassment offenses
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
District of Columbia
Emergency communications systems
Government studies and investigations
Maryland
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement
Public transit
Telephone and wireless communication
Transportation employees
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security
Virginia
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Metro Safety, Accountability, and Investment Act of 2019

 
This bill reauthorizes funding to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) contingent on certain changes to its governance and operations. 
 
The bill reauthorizes capital and preventive maintence grants to WMATA for FY2020-2029 as well as additional funding for capital and preventive maintence projects and the WMATA Inspector General (IG).
 
The Department of Transportation (DOT) may not provide any amounts to WMATA until certain conditions are met, including that DOT (1) certifies that the WMATA Board of Directors has passed a resolution that reaffirms the IG as an independent and objective unit, (2) establishes and maintains the Jeanice McMillan Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Track Safety Task Force, (3) establishes and maintains a Keith Dodson Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Bus Safety Task Force, and (4) certifies that the WMATA General Manager has implemented procedures that establish documented policies and procedures for the capital planning process and require WMATA to improve the transit asset management planning process. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Prescription Drug Price Reporting Act

Bill: 116-s-1664
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business records
Federal preemption
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Inflation and prices
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Prescription Drug Price Reporting Act

This bill requires that all prescription drug manufacturers submit certain information for every drug marketed in the United States to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Specifically, manufacturers must provide information about cost, pricing, and rebates. Manufacturers are also required to submit any price changes to a prescription drug at least 30 days in advance.

HHS must make this information available through a public database that enables consumers to subscribe to price change notifications for different types of prescriptions drugs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
SOAR Act

Bill: 116-s-1665
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
Government liability
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
User charges and fees
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Simplifying Outdoor Access for Recreation Act or the SOAR Act

 
 This bill sets forth and revises provisions regarding special recreation permits for use by individuals and groups to engage in recreational activities on federal recreational lands and waters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-31
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 116-342.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
WORK Act

Bill: 116-s-1666
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Department of Labor
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Worker Ownership, Readiness, and Knowledge Act or the WORK Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Labor to (1) establish within the Employment and Training Administration an Employee Ownership and Participation Initiative to promote employee ownership and participation in business decisionmaking; and (2) establish a program that may include grants for outreach, technical assistance, and training, to encourage new and existing state programs to foster employee ownership and participation in business decisionmaking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Relief for Student Success Act

Bill: 116-s-1667
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax rates
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Tax treatment of families
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Tax Relief for Student Success Act

 
This bill treats certain scholarship or fellowship grants received by children as earned income of the child for the purposes of the kiddie tax (the tax on the unearned income of children). This has the effect of exempting the grants from such tax. The bill applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Defending Access to Mental Health Care Act

Bill: 116-s-1668
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Defending Access to Mental Health Care Act

 
This bill expands the National Health Service Corps Program to include service in pediatric inpatient mental health facilities (such facilities may qualify as health professional shortage areas under the program).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
CURD Act

Bill: 116-s-1669
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food supply, safety, and labeling

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Codifying Useful Regulatory Definitions Act or the
 
CURD Act

 
This bill provides statutory authority for a definition of natural cheese. Under the bill, natural cheese is defined as cheese that is produced from animal milk or certain dairy ingredients and is produced in accordance with established cheese-making standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Care Across Generations Act

Bill: 116-s-1670
Sponsor: Sen. Jones, Doug [D-AL]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aging
Child care and development
Congressional oversight
Family relationships
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Care Across Generations Act

 
This bill establishes a grant program within the Administration on Aging for long-term care facilities to operate qualified child care facilities on-site and provide opportunities for interaction between individuals of different generations in those facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Aging Together Act

Bill: 116-s-1671
Sponsor: Sen. Jones, Doug [D-AL]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Aging
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Family relationships
Family services
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Aging Together Act

 
This bill changes requirements and preferences for certain grants and contracts that support multigenerational and civil engagement projects and other activities for older individuals, such as by expressly expanding eligibility for the grants and contracts to include states and area agencies on aging.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
POWER Act

Bill: 116-s-1672
Sponsor: Sen. Jones, Doug [D-AL]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aging
Consumer affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial literacy
Government information and archives
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Promoting Opportunity for Women Entering Retirement Act of 2019 or the POWER Act

 
This bill provides statutory authority for the National Resource Center on Women and Retirement Planning, which conducts research on, and disseminates information about, women and retirement security. Specifically, the Administration on Aging shall award a grant or contract to an entity to carry out the center's activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Gold Star Families National Monument Extension Act

Bill: 116-s-1673
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Monuments and memorials

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Gold Star Families National Monument Extension Act

 
This bill extends through January 2, 2027, the authority of the Gold Star Mothers National Monument Foundation to establish a commemorative work in honor of Gold Star families.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
HOME Meals Act

Bill: 116-s-1674
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aging
Food assistance and relief
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Helping Our Most Elderly secure Meals Act or the HOME Meals Act

 
This bill establishes a competitive grant program to enable states to purchase or repair vehicles for delivering meals to older individuals. The vehicles must be capable of safely storing hot and cold foods.
 
In awarding these grants, the Administration on Aging shall give preference to states with a high percentage of older individuals and states with high rates of individuals at or below the poverty line.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
PRRADA

Bill: 116-s-1675
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Bankruptcy
Caribbean area
Debt collection
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Lawyers and legal services
Legal fees and court costs
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Puerto Rico Recovery Accuracy in Disclosures Act of 2019 or PRRADA

 
This bill requires professionals employed in debt adjustment cases involving Puerto Rico to file verified statements disclosing their connections with the debtor, creditors, and other interested parties before seeking compensation for their services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Chronic Kidney Disease Improvement in Research and Treatment Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1676
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Drug therapy
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hospital care
Medical education
Medical research
Medicare
Minority health
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Chronic Kidney Disease Improvement in Research and Treatment Act of 2019

 
This bill addresses Medicare coverage for and access to treatment for chronic kidney disease. Specifically, the bill modifies provisions related to coverage by (1) allowing certain Medicare beneficiaries who have End Stage Renal Disease to enroll in Medicare supplemental policies, and (2) establishing new Medicare payment structures for renal dialysis services. Among other changes, the bill (1) provides for alternative payment methodologies for certain new drugs, biologics, and devices that are renal dialysis services; (2) revises quality measures; (3) establishes an incentive payment methodology; and (4) increases access to kidney disease education services.
 
In addition, the bill requires information sharing between hospitals and renal dialysis centers in some circumstances as well as federal studies on issues related to kidney disease, including the use of palliative care and ways to increase transplantation rates. 
 
The Department of Health and Human Services may also award National Health Services Corps scholarships and loan repayment to nephrology health professionals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act

Bill: 116-s-1677
Sponsor: Sen. Perdue, David [R-GA]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Natural disasters
State and local government operations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act

 
This bill authorizes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to postpone federal tax deadlines due to an emergency or disaster that has been declared under state law. The IRS may postpone the deadlines upon the request of the governor of the state (or the mayor, in the case of the District of Columbia) in which the emergency or disaster has been declared. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
SEA FUEL Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1679
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental technology
Government studies and investigations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Motor fuels
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 
 
Securing Energy for our Armed Forces Using Engineering Leadership Act of 2019 or the SEA FUEL Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Department of Defense to carry out a program of research, development, testing, evaluation, study, and demonstration of technologies related to blue carbon capture and direct air capture, with the goals of developing technologies to turn carbon dioxide into clean fuels, creating products for military uses, and using the technologies at military facilities and in military transportation. The bill defines &quot;blue carbon capture&quot; as the removal of dissolved carbon dioxide from seawater through engineered or inorganic processes and &quot;direct air capture&quot; as the use of equipment to capture carbon dioxide directly from the air. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
OATH Act

Bill: 116-s-1680
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Air quality
Asia
Congressional oversight
Environmental health
Fires
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Iraq
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Middle East
Military medicine
Military operations and strategy
Solid waste and recycling
Veterans' medical care
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Service Member's Occupational and Environmental Transparency Health Act or the OATH Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to (1) record service members' exposure to occupational and environmental health hazards while deployed overseas, and (2) make such information available for post-deployment medical examinations and health reassessments.
 
DOD and the Department of Veterans Affairs must update electronic health records with information from the Burn Pit Registry (i.e., a registry designed to track certain airborne hazards).
 
The Government Accountability Office must submit a report evaluating implementation of the above requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Advancing Education on Biosimilars Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-1681
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government information and archives
Health personnel
Immunology and vaccination
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Medical education
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Advancing Education on Biosimilars Act of 2019

 
This bill addresses education for the public and for health care providers regarding biosimilars. (Biosimilars are biological products approved by the Food and Drug Administration based on their similarity to an already approved biological product.)
 
The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a website for educational materials on the meaning and use of biosimilars and interchangeable biological products.
 
HHS must also develop or improve continuing medical education programs for health care providers regarding biosimilars.

action_date: 2020-12-17
text: 

Advancing Education on Biosimilars Act of 20

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This bill requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to advance education and awareness among health care providers about biological products as appropriate, including by developing or improving continuing education programs that address the prescribing of biological products and biosimilars. (A biosimilar is a biological product that is highly similar to an FDA-approved reference biological product and has no clinically meaningful differences from that reference product.)
 
 The FDA may also maintain and operate a website to provide educational materials about biological products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-12-18
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2020-12-18
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2020-12-18
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7643)
action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S7642-7643)
action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Wildland Firefighter Recognition Act

Bill: 116-s-1682
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Forests, forestry, trees
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Wildland Firefighter Recognition Act

 
This bill requires the Office of Personnel Management to develop a distinct wildland firefighter occupational series. The series must apply to the following positions
 
 
forestry technician;
 
range technician; 
 
other positions related to significant prevention, preparedness, control, suppression, or management activities for wildland firefighters; and 
 
other positions conducting activities necessary to meet any other emergency incident. 
 
 
The Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture must use the series in the advertising and hiring of a wildland firefighter. 
 
The bill requires an employee in a wildland firefighter occupational series to receive a pay differential based on the unusual physical hardship or hazardous nature of the position. 
 
An individual employed as a wildland firefighter on the date on which the occupational series takes effect may (1) remain in the occupational series in which the individual is working, or (2) be included in the wildland firefighter occupational series. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate