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School Food Modernization Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1949
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2019-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Appropriations
Child health
Department of Education
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Government lending and loan guarantees
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
School administration
State and local finance
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-24
text: 

School Food Modernization Act 

of 2019

 
This bill provides for loan guarantees and grants to support healthy meals under the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program.
 
The bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to issue loan guarantees to local educational agencies (LEAs), school food authorities, tribal organizations, and other eligible entities to finance infrastructure improvements or equipment purchases to facilitate their provision of healthy meals through the school meal programs. 
 
USDA must also award competitive matching grants to assist LEAs, school food authorities, tribal organizations, and other eligible entities in purchasing the durable equipment and infrastructure they need to serve healthier meals and improve food safety.
 
USDA must give preference under both programs to applicants that demonstrate a substantial or disproportionate need for food service infrastructure or durable equipment, and shall establish fees for the loan guarantee program.
 
In addition, USDA must award competitive matching grants to experienced third-party training institutions to provide school food service personnel with the training and technical assistance they need to (1) meet or exceed nutrition standards under the school meal programs, and (2) improve the efficacy and efficiency of the school meal programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S4459)
action_date: 2019-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthen Social Security by Taxing Dynastic Wealth Act

Bill: 116-s-1950
Sponsor: Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government trust funds
Social security and elderly assistance
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Strengthen Social Security by Taxing Dynastic Wealth Act
 
 
This bill returns the taxation of estates and gifts to levels that were in effect in 2009. This increases the maximum rate for estates and gifts to 45% and modifies exemptions. 
 
The bill also combines the existing Social Security trust funds into a single Social Security Trust Fund and provides for the deposit of increased estate and gift tax revenue into the consolidated trust fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Designing Accounting Safeguards To Help Broaden Oversight and Regulations on Data

Bill: 116-s-1951
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Financial services and investments
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Designing Accounting Safeguards To Help Broaden Oversight and Regulations on Data 

 
This bill requires commercial data operators (i.e., large consumer online services providers or data brokers) to disclose to users what types of user data are collected, and the usage and value of that data. Commercial data operators must also provide users with a way to delete this data. Violations of these requirements are enforced by the Federal Trade Commission. 
 
Commercial data operators that issue securities must report the value of their user data and the value of any third-party contracts made for the collection of user data. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-24
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Local School Foods Expansion Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1952
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Fruit and vegetables
Nutrition and diet
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Local School Foods Expansion Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to make permanent, and expand to at least 15 states, the program to provide more flexibility for states participating in the National School Lunch Program to purchase domestically grown unprocessed fruits and vegetables. The bill also provides additional mandatory funding for the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
APEX Act

Bill: 116-s-1953
Sponsor: Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Commodities markets
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Competition and antitrust
Department of Justice
Inflation and prices
Metals

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Aluminum Pricing Examination Act or the APEX Act 

 
This bill authorizes the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to set reference prices for aluminum premiums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Integration of Baseball Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 116-s-1954
Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Athletes
Currency
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
New York State
Professional sports
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Integration of Baseball Commemorative Coin Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue $5 gold coins, $1 silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins in recognition and celebration of the 75th anniversary of the integration of the game of baseball. 
 
All sales of such coins shall include specified surcharges. All surcharges received by Treasury shall be distributed to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, with the understanding that the Hall of Fame shall work with the Jackie Robinson Foundation to develop and operate education programs about the integration of the game of baseball and to preserve artifacts related to the integration of the game. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Made in America Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1955
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Building construction
Buy American requirements
Economic development
Educational technology and distance education
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government lending and loan guarantees
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Housing and community development funding
Indian social and development programs
Infrastructure development
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Land use and conservation
Manufacturing
Medical research
Metals
Public contracts and procurement
Public housing
Public transit
Research administration and funding
Roads and highways
Rural conditions and development
Solid waste and recycling
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Made in America Act of 2019

 
This bill requires projects under various federal programs to use materials manufactured in the United States, with exceptions. The bill applies to materials such as steel, plastic, concrete, and glass and applies to programs for broadband infrastructure, water treatment, health centers, and housing, among others.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Save Affordable Housing Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1956
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing supply and affordability
Income tax credits
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Save Affordable Housing Act of 2019 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the low-income housing tax credit, to repeal the qualified contract option for a building that received its allocation of housing credit dollar amount before January 1, 2019, or received before that date, a determination from the bond issuer or housing credit agency of its eligibility to receive an allocation of a housing credit dollar amount. 
 
Under current law, properties subject to the low-income housing tax credit are subject to a 30-year affordability period, during which the value of properties is set at a below market rate. The qualified contract option allows property owners, in some cases, to convert to market rate after 15 years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Offshore WIND Act

Bill: 116-s-1957
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Electric power generation and transmission
Great Lakes
Income tax credits
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 
 
Offshore Wind Incentives for New Development Act or the Offshore WIND Act 

 
This bill allows an energy tax credit for investment in qualified offshore wind property, the construction of which begins before January 1, 2026. The bill defines &quot;qualified offshore wind property&quot; as an offshore facility using wind to produce electricity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
SHELTER Act

Bill: 116-s-1958
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Natural disasters
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

SHELTER Act

 
This bill allows a tax credit to individuals and businesses for disaster mitigation expenditures. The allowable amount of such credit is 25% of the mitigation expenditures, up to $5,000 in any taxable year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Representation for Survivors Act

Bill: 116-s-1959
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Domestic violence and child abuse
Law enforcement administration and funding
Lawyers and legal services
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Ensuring Representation for Survivors Act

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2024 and otherwise revises the Legal Assistance for Victims Grant Program. Specifically, the bill allows states to receive and distribute a certain percentage of total grant funding to implement, expand, and establish efforts to provide legal assistance (e.g., pro bono representation and legal advocacy) to survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act

Bill: 116-s-1960
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Performance measurement
State and local government operations
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act

 
This bill directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take a series of actions relating to the quality of maternal and infant care under Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and other health programs.
 
Specifically, the CMS must
 
 
identify and publish a recommended core set of maternal and infant quality measures for women and children, as specified by the bill; 
 
publish an initial core set of any such measures applicable to mothers and infants eligible under Medicaid or CHIP; 
 
establish a Maternal and Infant Quality Measurement Program; and 
 
establish an online clearinghouse of resources for entities working to improve maternity and infant care quality.

 
The CMS may also make grants to eligible entities (e.g., state Medicaid programs, health departments, and provider organizations) to develop or expand maternity and infant care quality collaboratives or initiatives. 
 

 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Lending Fairness Act

Bill: 116-s-1961
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Business ethics
Consumer credit
Contracts and agency
Lawyers and legal services

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Small Business Lending Fairness Act 

 
This bill prohibits as a condition to a loan or extension of credit a confession of judgment or similar agreement. (A confession of judgment is an agreement to a judgment of liability without notice and opportunity to be heard in court in the event of the default of a borrower.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
PAID AD Act

Bill: 116-s-1962
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Political advertising
Subversive activities
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Preventing Adversaries Internationally from Disbursing Advertising Dollars Act or the PAID AD Act

 
This bill prohibits foreign nationals from making disbursements for political advertising.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
All-American Flag Act

Bill: 116-s-1963
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Buy American requirements
National symbols
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

All-American Flag Act

 
This bill prohibits agencies from using funds to procure a U.S. flag unless such flag has been manufactured in the United States from materials that have been U.S. grown, produced, or manufactured. The bill specifies exceptions to this prohibition, including an exception if flags of satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity cannot be procured as needed at market prices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Patsy T. Mink and Louise M. Slaughter Gender Equity in Education Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1964
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Age discrimination
Assault and harassment offenses
Department of Education
Disability and health-based discrimination
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Minority education
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
Sex offenses
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

 

Patsy T. Mink and Louise M. Slaughter Gender Equity in Education Act of 2019

 
This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to establish an Office for Gender Equity to support state and local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and elementary and secondary schools in fully implementing title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs or activities. The office may provide grants and perform activities to reduce or prevent sex discrimination in all areas of education.
 
The office must provide technical assistance and annual training to title IX coordinators and develop a handbook for conducting self-evaluations of title IX compliance. The training must address discrimination based on multiple characteristics, including race, ethnicity, national origin, disability status, religion, age, actual or perceived sex, sexual orientation, or gender or gender identity.
 
The office may award grants to eligible entities and partnerships that apply to carry out programs and activities designed to implement title IX and prevent and reduce sex discrimination, including programs that increase campus resources.
 
ED must coordinate with the Institute of Education Sciences and other federal entities to investigate, identify, and disseminate best practices to (1) reduce and prevent sex stereotyping, bias, and discrimination in educational materials; (2) address sex-based harassment and violence on campuses; (3) develop counseling and career guidance training; (4) mitigate implicit bias in teaching and discipline; and (5) address the needs of students who face discrimination based on multiple characteristics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S4507-4508)
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Combating the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products Act

Bill: 116-s-1965
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Agricultural trade
Congressional oversight
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Foreign aid and international relief
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Sanctions
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Combating the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products Act

 
This bill directs the Department of State to take various actions to combat the illicit tobacco trade. 
 
The State Department shall determine whether each foreign country is a major source, point of transit, or consumer of illicit tobacco products or their precursors. If a country meets this criteria and its government is actively engaging in or knowingly profiting from the illicit tobacco trade, it shall be designated as a country of concern. If a country meets this criteria but its government is not implicated in the illicit tobacco trade, it shall be designated as a focus country.
 
The State Department may provide focus countries with law-enforcement training and assistance to build customs and border-security capacity. The State Department may not provide development assistance or security assistance to countries of concern, with an exception for U.S. national security interests.
 
The President may impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on foreign persons who are responsible for or have materially assisted in the illicit tobacco trade. The President shall annually report to Congress as to sanctions imposed under this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1966
Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]
Introduced: 2019-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: 

Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act of 

2019

 
This bill requires federally funded entities to certify that they will not perform an abortion, and will not provide funds to any other entity that performs an abortion, except in cases of rape or incest or where a physical condition endangers the woman's life unless an abortion is performed. The bill's requirements do not apply to hospitals, as long as the hospital does not provide funds to any non-hospital entity for abortions that are not otherwise excepted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate