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Preserving Teacher Loan Forgiveness for Military Spouses Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-532
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2019-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Military personnel and dependents
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-14
text: 

Preserving Teacher Loan Forgiveness for Military Spouses Act of 2019

 
This bill modifies the qualifying service requirement of the teacher loan forgiveness program for certain military spouses who have student federal loans.
 
Under current law, an otherwise qualified full-time teacher must complete five consecutive years of service to be eligible for the teacher loan forgiveness program. This bill permits a teacher who completes five full-time years of nonconsecutive service to be eligible for loan forgiveness if the teacher's spouse was relocated by the military.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1386-1387)
action_date: 2019-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to consider certain transactions related to precious metals for purposes of identifying jurisdictions of primary money laundering concern, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-533
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2019-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Foreign property
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Metals
Sanctions

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-14
text: 
This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to consider sanctioned transactions involving precious metals when assessing whether a jurisdiction, financial institution, class of transactions, or type of account is of primary money laundering concern for purposes of reporting, recordkeeping, and certain account restrictions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Disaster Relief Funds Act

Bill: 116-s-534
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2019-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Appropriations
Aviation and airports
Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Transportation
Disaster relief and insurance
Executive agency funding and structure
Latin America
Mexico
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Transportation programs funding
War and emergency powers
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-14
text: 

Protecting Disaster Relief Funds Act

 
This bill prohibits transferring certain funds already made available to the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Housing and Urban Development for disaster relief to the planning or construction of new physical barriers along the southwestern U.S. border. The bill also prohibits using national emergency provisions to transfer certain funds already made available to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Protect Federal Workers' Credit Act

Bill: 116-s-535
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2019-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Appropriations
Consumer credit
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Public contracts and procurement
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-14
text: 

Protect Federal Workers' Credit Act 

 
This bill generally restricts the inclusion of certain negative credit information on credit reports upon notification that an individual was affected by a federal government shutdown. Specifically, the bill prohibits (1) an individual from reporting such negative credit information to a consumer reporting agency and (2) the inclusion of such negative credit information on a credit report. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau must maintain a database of affected federal employees and contractors and make the database accessible to consumer reporting agencies. Subsequently, consumer reporting agencies must delete all negative credit information from the relevant time period regarding affected federal employees and contractors. Consumer reporting agencies must also make additional free credit reports available to an affected individual upon request. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Encouraging Public Offerings Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-536
Sponsor: Sen. Tillis, Thomas [R-NC]
Introduced: 2019-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: 

Encouraging Public Offerings Act of 2019

 
This bill allows an issuer of securities to communicate with potential investors to ascertain interest in a contemplated securities offering, either before or after the filing of a registration statement (i.e., "test the waters"). Under current law, only emerging growth companies may engage in such communications. 
 
The bill also allows an issuer to submit a confidential draft registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission for review prior to public filing or within one year after the initial public offering or registration. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Hire Student Veterans Act

Bill: 116-s-537
Sponsor: Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]
Introduced: 2019-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax credits
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: 

Hire Student Veterans Act 

 
This bill allows a work opportunity tax credit for hiring a veteran attending an educational institution using educational assistance provided under certain programs administered by the Department of Defense or the Department of Veterans Affairs. It also modifies the minimum employment period required for veterans who qualify for the credit under this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Investing in American Workers Act

Bill: 116-s-538
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2019-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Employment taxes
Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax rates
Licensing and registrations
Small business
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: 

Investing in American Workers Act 

 
This bill allows a business-related tax credit for employers who increase worker training expenditures.
 
The credit is equal to 20% of the excess of (1) the qualified training expenditures for the year, over (2) the average of the adjusted qualified training expenditures for the three previous years. If the employer had no qualified training expenditures in any one of the three previous years, the credit is equal to 10% of the adjusted qualified training expenditures for the year. 
 
The credit applies to expenditures for the training of non-highly compensated employees (annual compensation does not exceed $82,000). The training must result in the attainment of a recognized postsecondary credential and be provided through
 
 
an apprenticeship program; 
 
 a program of training services that is included on a list of eligible training providers that states are required to maintain under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act; 
 
 a program that is conducted by an area career and technical education school, a community college, or a labor organization; or 
 
 a program that is sponsored and administered by an employer, industry trade association, industry or sector partnership, or labor organization. 
 
 
Certain small businesses and tax-exempt organizations may apply the credit against payroll taxes, subject to specified limits and requirements. Eligible small businesses may also apply the credit against the alternative minimum tax. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Lifelong Learning and Training Account Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-539
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2019-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Education programs funding
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Licensing and registrations
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: 

Lifelong Learning and Training Account Act of 2019

 
This bill establishes tax-preferred savings accounts that may be used to pay for training expenses and will be managed by state programs known as Lifelong Learning and Training Account programs.
 
Tax-exempt distributions from an account may be used for training that results in a recognized postsecondary credential, such as an industry-recognized certificate or certification, a license recognized by the federal government or a state, or an associate or baccalaureate degree. 
 
The bill specifies contribution limits, age restrictions, and income limits that apply to beneficiaries of the accounts. Accounts that meet the requirements are eligible to receive certain federal matching funds for contributions made by the beneficiary or an employer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Self-Employed Mortgage Access Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-540
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2019-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer credit
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: 

Self-Employed Mortgage Access Act of 2019

 
This bill allows creditors to use certain alternative standards when evaluating an applicant's ability to pay for purposes of obtaining a home mortgage. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Portable Benefits for Independent Workers Pilot Program Act

Bill: 116-s-541
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2019-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: 

Portable Benefits for Independent Workers Pilot Program Act 

 
This bill requires the Department of Labor to award grants for FY2020, on a competitive basis, to states, local governments, or nonprofit organizations to support broad innovation and experimentation with respect to portable benefits. 
 
Portable benefits are work-related benefits that are provided to workers who are not traditional full-time employees in a manner that allows the worker to maintain the benefits upon changing jobs. 
 
The grants must be used for (1) the evaluation, or improvement to the design or implementation, of existing models or approaches for providing portable benefits; or (2) the design, implementation, and evaluation of new models or approaches for providing such benefits. The grants may not be used for a model or approach that provides only retirement-related benefits. 
 
The Government Accountability Office must evaluate and report to Congress on the outcome of the grants awarded pursuant to this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Interstate Transport Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-542
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2019-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Detention of persons
Federal preemption
Intergovernmental relations
Legal fees and court costs
State and local government operations
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: 
 

Interstate Transport Act of 2019

 
This bill authorizes a person to transport a knife between two states where it is legal to possess, carry, or transport such knife. It sets forth conditions and limitations with respect to the lawful interstate transport of knives, including secure storage requirements.

action_date: 2019-07-24
text: 

Interstate Transport Act of 2019

 
This bill authorizes a person to transport a knife between two states where it is legal to possess, carry, or transport such knife. It sets forth conditions and limitations with respect to the lawful interstate transport of knives, including secure storage requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-07-24
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 161.
action_date: 2019-07-24
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Wicker without amendment. With written report No. 116-65.
action_date: 2019-07-24
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Wicker without amendment. With written report No. 116-65.
action_date: 2019-04-03
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
PARK IT Act

Bill: 116-s-543
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2019-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Motor vehicles
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: 

Protecting Americans from the Risks of Keyless Ignition Technology Act or the PARK IT Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to finalize regulations relating to automatic shutoff systems for motor vehicles and standards to prevent the movement of vehicles in specific situations.
 
Specifically, DOT must require manufacturers to install technology in each motor vehicle with
 
 
a keyless ignition device and an internal combustion engine to automatically shut off the motor vehicle after the motor vehicle has idled for a period necessary to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning; and
 
a keyless ignition device and automatic transmission to prevent movement (i.e., rollaway) of the motor vehicle if (1) the transmission of the motor vehicle is not in the park setting, (2) the motor vehicle does not exceed the speed determined by DOT, (3) the door for the operator of the motor vehicle is open, (4) the seat belt of the operator of the motor vehicle is unbuckled, and (5) the service brake of the motor vehicle is not engaged.
 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Director of National Intelligence to submit to Congress a report on the death of Jamal Khashoggi, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-544
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2019-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Detention of persons
Europe
Government studies and investigations
Human rights
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Middle East
News media and reporting
Protest and dissent
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: 
This bill directs the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to prepare an unclassified report to identify who was responsible for the death of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The report is due within 30 days of the bill's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Reaching English Learners Act

Bill: 116-s-545
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2019-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government information and archives
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: 

Reaching English Learners Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to establish a grant program for preparing future teachers to effectively instruct English learners to achieve at high levels in early childhood education programs and in elementary schools and secondary schools. Under the program, grants must be given to partnerships between (1) certain institutions of higher education, and (2) high-need local educational agencies or high-need early childhood education programs. Grants may be awarded for up to five years. In awarding the grants, ED must give preference to partnerships that recruit and enroll teachers who are from underrepresented populations or former English learners.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act

Bill: 116-s-546
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2019-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Crime victims
Disability assistance
Employee benefits and pensions
First responders and emergency personnel
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Inflation and prices
New York City
Pennsylvania
Terrorism
Virginia
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: 

Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act

 
This bill funds through FY2090 the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001.
 
Additionally, the bill modifies the Victim Compensation Fund (VCF): 
 
 
to allow claims to be filed until October 2089, 
 
to require VCF policies and procedures to be reassessed at least once every five years (currently, at least once annually), 
 
to require claimants to be paid for the amount by which a claim was reduced on the basis of insufficient funding, 
 
to remove the cap on noneconomic damages in certain circumstances, and 
 
to adjust the annual limit on economic loss compensation for inflation. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
CLEAR Act

Bill: 116-s-547
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2019-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: 

Connecting Lobbyists and Electeds for Accountability and Reform Act or the CLEAR Act

 
This bill requires reports filed by political committees, reports filed by persons making independent expenditures, and reports filed by persons making disbursements for electioneering communications to disclose if individuals identified in the reports are registered lobbyists.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
EMPOWER Care Act

Bill: 116-s-548
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2019-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: 

Ensuring Medicaid Provides Opportunities for Widespread Equity, Resources, and Care Act or the EMPOWER Care Act

 
This bill extends funding through FY2023 for the Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration Program and otherwise revises the program. (Under this program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may award grants to state Medicaid programs to assist states in increasing the use of home and community care for long-term care and decreasing the use of institutional care.) 
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate