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Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women’s Healthcare Services Act

Bill: 116-hr-2646
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Abortion
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Marketing and advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Healthcare Services Act

 This bill prohibits advertisements that create the false impression that (1) a person or organization provides abortion services when they do not, or (2) they do not provide such services when they do. 
 
Abortion services include (1) surgical and non-surgical procedures to terminate pregnancy, or (2) providing referrals for such procedures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
SOFFA Act

Bill: 116-hr-2647
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
California
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Federal preemption
Fires
Product safety and quality
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Safer Occupancy Furniture Flammability Act or SOFFA

This bill adopts the California flammability standard as the federal standard for upholstered furniture. To meet the standard, the upholstered furniture must past a specific test of the materials' ability to resist smoldering when a heat source is applied. 
 
 


action_date: 2019-12-16
text: 

Safer Occupancy Furniture Flammability Act or the SOFFA Act

This bill adopts the California flammability standard as the federal standard for upholstered furniture. To meet the standard, the upholstered furniture must past a specific test of the materials' ability to resist smoldering when a heat source is applied. 
 
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-17
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2019-12-16
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2019-12-16
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H10292)
action_date: 2019-12-16
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H10292)
action_date: 2019-12-16
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2647.
action_date: 2019-12-16
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H10292-10294)
action_date: 2019-12-16
text: Ms. Schakowsky moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2019-12-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 277.
action_date: 2019-12-16
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-348.
action_date: 2019-12-16
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-348.
action_date: 2019-07-17
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2019-07-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2019-07-10
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2019-07-10
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2019-06-13
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Student Borrower Bankruptcy Relief Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2648
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Student Borrower Bankruptcy Relief Act of 2019

 
This bill permits a borrower to discharge in bankruptcy a nonprofit, government, or private student loan, or an obligation to repay an educational benefit, scholarship, or stipend.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 5.
action_date: 2020-09-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2020-09-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2020-09-14
text: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law Discharged.
action_date: 2019-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Tax Equity and Prosperity for Puerto Rican Families Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2649
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caribbean area
Income tax credits
Inflation and prices
Poverty and welfare assistance
Puerto Rico
State and local finance
U.S. territories and protectorates
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Tax Equity and Prosperity for Puerto Rican Families Act of 2019

 
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to make specified annual federal matching payments to Puerto Rico for expanding its earned income tax credit as specified in the bill.
 
After the tax credit is expanded, Treasury must also provide a one-time grant to Puerto Rico for taxpayer education efforts relating to the earned income tax credit, including education of paid tax preparers.
 
The bill also provides appropriations to carry out the programs established by this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Payment Choice Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2650
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M., Jr. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Currency
Inflation and prices
Lawyers and legal services
Legal fees and court costs
Marketing and advertising
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Payment Choice Act of 2019 

 
This bill makes it unlawful for a person selling goods or services at retail to (1) refuse to accept U.S. cash for the goods or services, (2) post signs or notices stating that cash payment is unaccepted, or (3) charge a higher price to a customer who pays by cash. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Improving Training for School Food Service Workers Act

Bill: 116-hr-2651
Sponsor: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Child health
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Improving Training for School Food Service Workers Act

 
This bill adds requirements regarding the availability of training that the Department of Agriculture provides under current law for local food service personnel in schools. 
 
The training must be scheduled primarily during regular, paid working hours; offered in-person whenever appropriate; and incorporate hands-on training techniques. 
 
If the training is scheduled outside of working hours, food service personnel must be informed about the necessity of scheduling the program and compensated for attending the program. Personnel may not be penalized for failing to attend a program outside of working hours. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Secure American-Made Voting Machines Act

Bill: 116-hr-2652
Sponsor: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Manufacturing
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Secure American-Made Voting Machines Act 

 
This bill requires states, beginning in November 2022, to use voting machines manufactured in the United States for federal elections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Safe Schools Improvement Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2653
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Assault and harassment offenses
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Disability and health-based discrimination
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
School administration
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Safe Schools Improvement Act of 2019

 
This bill requires states to direct their local educational agencies (LEAs) to establish policies that prevent and prohibit conduct, including bullying and harassment, that is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive to (1) limit students' ability to participate in, or benefit from, school programs; or (2) create a hostile or abusive educational environment that adversely affects students' education.
 
LEAs shall also provide (1) students, parents, and educational professionals with annual notice of the conduct prohibited in their disciplinary policies; (2) students and parents with grievance procedures that target such conduct; and (3) the public with annual data on the incidence and frequency of that conduct at the school and LEA level.
 
The Department of Education must conduct, and report on, an independent biennial evaluation of programs and policies to combat bullying and harassment in elementary and secondary schools. The National Center for Education Statistics shall collect state data to determine the incidence and frequency of the conduct prohibited by LEA disciplinary policies. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Strengthening Social Security Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2654
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aging
Census and government statistics
Employment taxes
Inflation and prices
Marriage and family status
Self-employed
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Strengthening Social Security Act of 2019

 
This bill expands benefits, and increases specified taxes, related to the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program. 
 
Changes to benefits include (1) increasing the primary insurance amount for certain beneficiaries, (2) calculating cost-of-living adjustments by using a price index that tracks the spending patterns of older consumers, and (3) establishing an alternative benefit for widows or widowers in two-income households. 
 
Changes to taxes include phasing out the cap on earnings subject to the Social Security payroll tax. Under current law, the maximum amount subject to this tax is $132,900.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Purple Heart Freedom to Work Act

Bill: 116-hr-2655
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Austin [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Military personnel and dependents
Social security and elderly assistance
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' organizations and recognition
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Purple Heart Freedom to Work Act

 
This bill increases the monthly income limit that is used to determine whether certain Purple Heart recipients are eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. Specifically, when making such determinations with respect to Purple Heart recipients who are entitled to SSDI benefits based on combat-related injuries, the Social Security Administration must use the limit that applies to individuals who are blind rather than the lower limit that applies to other SSDI recipients. 
 
In addition, the bill phases out SSDI benefits for these Purple Heart recipients, with benefits reduced by $1 for every $4 of earnings in excess of the limit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
ABLE Accounts for Veterans Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2656
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Austin [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Disability and paralysis
Poverty and welfare assistance
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

ABLE Accounts for Veterans Act of 2019

 
This bill requires the Social Security Administration to exclude contributions made by certain disabled veterans to state-sponsored savings accounts that allow eligible individuals to save for qualified disability expenses when determining whether such veterans have exceeded a specified earnings limit for Social Security Disability Insurance benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2657
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-10]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Congressional oversight
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act of 2019

 
This bill gives the highest preference under certain federally assisted housing programs to youths who are aging out of foster care, provided that the youths comply with specified educational, occupational, or training requirements. The bill provides exceptions to these requirements for certain youths, including those who are caregivers for young children or who have certain medical conditions.
 
Current law already gives preference under certain federally assisted housing programs to youths who are aging out of foster care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Commercial Fishing and Seafood Business Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2658
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Appropriations
Food industry and services
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Seafood
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Commercial Fishing and Seafood Business Act of 2019

 
This bill exempts certain H-2B visas from the annual cap of 66,000 on such visas. The exemption applies to H-2B visas issued to nonimmigrant aliens for employment (1) on a commercial fishing vessel or shrimp trawler; or (2) in the processing of fish, baitfish, or fishery products. (An H-2B visa is for an alien entering the United States to perform nonagricultural temporary labor, where the alien has no intention of abandoning the alien's residence in a foreign country.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in House
To establish a research, development, and technology demonstration program to improve the efficiency of gas turbines used in combined cycle and simple cycle power generation systems.

Bill: 116-hr-2659
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2019-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy research
Oil and gas
Research and development
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: 
This bill requires the Office of Fossil Energy to carry out a research, development, and technology demonstration program to improve the energy efficiency of gas turbines used in electric power generation systems. Specifically, the program must develop technologies that will lead to gas turbine combined cycle efficiency of 67% or simple cycle efficiency of 50%. In addition, the program must include field demonstrations of the developed technologies to demonstrate technical and economic feasibility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Introduced in House
RURAL Broadband Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2661
Sponsor: Rep. Tipton, Scott  R. [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2019-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: 

Reprioritizing Unserved Rural Areas and Locations for Broadband Act of 2019 or the RURAL Broadband Act of 2019

 
This bill restricts the use of broadband-deployment assistance awarded by the Department of Agriculture or the Federal Communications Commission for duplicative broadband-infrastructure projects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Asylum Seeker Protection Act

Bill: 116-hr-2662
Sponsor: Rep. Escobar, Veronica [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2019-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Immigration status and procedures
Latin America
Mexico
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: 

Asylum Seeker Protection Act

 
This bill prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce the Migrant Protection Protocols announced on December 20, 2018. 
 
(The protocol generally requires that aliens who are not clearly admissible arriving by land along the U.S.-Mexico border be returned to Mexico while their immigration proceedings are pending, rather than remain in the United States. The protocol applies to aliens seeking asylum but who have been assessed not to be more likely than not to face persecution or torture in Mexico.)
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Senior Citizens’ Freedom to Work Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2663
Sponsor: Rep. Walorski, Jackie [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2019-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: 

Senior Citizens' Freedom to Work Act of 2019 

 
This bill eliminates provisions that reduce Social Security benefits for certain beneficiaries who have outside income. Currently, benefits are reduced for Social Security beneficiaries who are younger than full retirement age if they earn more than $17,640 in outside income in a year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Introduced in House
All-of-the-Above Federal Building Energy Conservation Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2664
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2019-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Building construction
Congressional oversight
Department of Energy
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government studies and investigations
Performance measurement
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: 

All-of-the-Above Federal Building Energy Conservation Act of 2019

 
This bill revises energy performance requirements for federal buildings, including by requiring agencies to begin installing energy and conservation measures that are life-cycle cost effective.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Introduced in House