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Coastal State Climate Preparedness Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3541
Sponsor: Rep. Carbajal, Salud O. [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Emergency planning and evacuation
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Great Lakes
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Natural disasters
Seashores and lakeshores
Travel and tourism
Water quality
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Coastal State Climate Preparedness Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Department of Commerce to establish a coastal climate change adaptation preparedness and response program to (1) assist coastal states with voluntarily developing coastal climate change adaptation plans, and (2) provide financial and technical assistance and training for coastal states to implement the adaptation plans.

action_date: 2019-11-15
text: 

Coastal State Climate Preparedness Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Department of Commerce to establish a coastal climate change adaptation preparedness and response program to (1) assist coastal states with voluntarily developing coastal climate change adaptation plans, and (2) provide financial and technical assistance and training for coastal states to implement the adaptation plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-15
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 237.
action_date: 2019-11-15
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 116-294.
action_date: 2019-11-15
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 116-294.
action_date: 2019-09-25
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 20 - 15.
action_date: 2019-09-25
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2019-09-25
text: Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Discharged.
action_date: 2019-07-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2019-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the Indian coal production tax credit, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-3542
Sponsor: Rep. Gianforte, Greg [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Coal
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits
Indian lands and resources rights
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to permanently increase the tax credit for production of electricity from renewable resources by $4.00 per ton in the case of Indian coal, with an updated inflation adjustment to the dollar amount for calendar years after 2018.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Access to Counseling and Training for All Small Businesses Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3543
Sponsor: Rep. Golden, Jared F. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business education
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Ensuring Access to Counseling and Training for All Small Businesses Act of 2019

 
This bill prohibits a small business development center, women's business center, or Veteran Business Outreach Center from declining to provide services to an otherwise eligible small business solely because it is a cannabis-related legitimate business or service provider.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
NO HATE Act

Bill: 116-hr-3545
Sponsor: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Hate crimes
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

National Opposition to Hate, Assault, and Threats to Equality Act of 2019 or the NO HATE Act

 
This bill establishes various grants within the Department of Justice for states and units of local government to improve law enforcement activities to address hate crimes, including by improving the reporting of hate crime data to relevant national systems. It also allows a court to order, as a penalty for a violation of a federal hate crime statute, a defendant to participate in educational classes or community service related to the community harmed by the defendant's offense as part of a supervised release.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
State Cannabis Commerce Act

Bill: 116-hr-3546
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government trust funds
Intergovernmental relations
Retail and wholesale trades
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

State Cannabis Commerce Act

 
This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to prevent a state from implementing a law that authorizes certain marijuana-related activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Students and Young Consumers Empowerment Act

Bill: 116-hr-3547
Sponsor: Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial literacy
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Intergovernmental relations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Students and Young Consumers Empowerment Act 

 
This bill establishes the Office for Students and Young Consumers within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and eliminates the position of Private Education Loan Ombudsman. Currently, the Private Education Loan Ombudsman provides assistance to borrowers of private education loans. The Office for Students and Young Consumers must provide assistance to borrowers of private or federal student loans and enter into an information-sharing agreement with the Department of Education. The office must also report annually regarding campus banking and the student loan marketplace. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Homeowners from Disaster Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3549
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Life, casualty, property insurance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Protecting Homeowners from Disaster Act of 2019

 
This bill repeals the tax rule in effect through 2025 that limits the deduction for personal casualty losses to losses attributable to a federally declared disaster. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
VOW to Hire Heroes Extension Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3550
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: American Samoa
Appropriations
Caribbean area
Congressional oversight
Employee hiring
Employment taxes
Government trust funds
Guam
Income tax credits
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Social security and elderly assistance
Unemployment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Virgin Islands
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

VOW to Hire Heroes Extension Act of 2019 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to (1) make permanent the work opportunity tax credit, including with respect to qualified veterans; (2) revise tax credit eligibility requirements for documenting the status of veterans and their receipt of unemployment compensation; and (3) extend the payroll tax offset for such credit to certain for-profit employers. 
 
The Internal Revenue Service must make annual reports to Congress on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of this bill in increasing the employment of veterans.
 
The bill directs the Department of the Treasury to pay (1) each U.S. possession (i.e., American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) with a mirror code tax system amounts equal to the loss to such possession due to this bill; and (2) each U.S. possession without such a tax system an amount estimated to equal the loss to such possession that would have occurred due to this bill if such a tax system had been in effect in that possession. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Oversight for Members of Congress Act

Bill: 116-hr-3551
Sponsor: Rep. Castro, Joaquin [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Members of Congress
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Restoring Oversight for Members of Congress Act

 
This bill requires agencies or managers that control access to federal facilities to provide immediate access to Members of Congress, excluding the Vice President, unless access is denied for national security reasons with congressional approval.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Unlawful Gun Buyer Alert Act

Bill: 116-hr-3552
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Unlawful Gun Buyer Alert Act

 
This bill establishes a notification requirement following a firearms-related background check that results in a denial. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires the national instant criminal background check system to notify federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies if a firearms-related background check determines that an individual is ineligible to receive or possess a firearm. The notification requirement applies even if more than three business days have elapsed since the background check was initiated, and a firearm has already been transferred to the individual. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Untraceable Firearms Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3553
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Business records
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Licensing and registrations
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Untraceable Firearms Act of 2019

 
This bill generally prohibits and penalizes the manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, or receipt of a ghost gun. A ghost gun is a firearm that lacks a unique serial number.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
End Purchase of Firearms by Dangerous Individuals Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3554
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Health and Human Services
Detention of persons
Firearms and explosives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
State and local government operations
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

End Purchase of Firearms by Dangerous Individuals Act of 2019

 
This bill addresses reporting systems and mental health records for certain individuals who are prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires each state to 
 
 
 establish a reporting system through which mental health professionals may report information about an individual committed to a mental institution who poses a danger or an individual who communicates a serious threat of violence, 
 
provide mental health records to the National Instant Criminal History Background Check System for use in determining whether a person is disqualified from possessing or receiving a firearm, and
 
establish a process related to the temporary involuntary commitment of individuals at mental health facilities. 
 
 
Beginning 10 years after the bill's enactment, the Department of Justice must reduce by 5% funds under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program for a state that fails to comply with these requirements. 
 
The bill expands the categories of persons barred from receiving or possessing a firearm to include persons who communicate a serious threat of violence to a mental health professional.
 
Finally, the bill replaces various statutory references to persons adjudicated as a 
mental defective
 with references to persons adjudicated as 
ineligible due to disqualifying mental status
.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Exposing Discrimination in Higher Education Act

Bill: 116-hr-3555
Sponsor: Rep. Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Higher education
Religion
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Exposing Discrimination in Higher Education Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights to publish prominently on its website the names of the institutions of higher education (IHEs) that request, and the names of the IHEs that receive, religious exemptions from the prohibition on sex discrimination in federally funded education programs and activities.
 
It also requires an IHE that requests, receives, exercises, or intends to exercise such a religious exemption to publish prominently on its website certain information with respect to such exemption. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Fishing Equipment Tax Relief Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3556
Sponsor: Rep. Crist, Charlie [D-FL-13]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Hunting and fishing
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Fishing Equipment Tax Relief Act of 201

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This bill reduces from 10% to 3% the excise tax rate that applies to the sale of portable, electronically-aerated bait containers by the manufacturer, producer, or importer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the imposition of duties on the importation of goods under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

Bill: 116-hr-3557
Sponsor: Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Tariffs
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 
This bill limits the President's authority to use emergency economic powers to impose duties on items entering the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
21st Century Hospitals Act

Bill: 116-hr-3558
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hospital care

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

21st Century Hospitals Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study the infrastructure of hospitals nationwide. HHS must study the (1) barriers to infrastructure funding at hospitals in underserved communities; and (2) condition of information technology in hospitals, among other parameters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Secure E-Waste Export and Recycling Act

Bill: 116-hr-3559
Sponsor: Rep. Espaillat, Adriano [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Government information and archives
Intellectual property
Licensing and registrations
Photography and imaging
Solid waste and recycling
Television and film
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Secure E-Waste Export and Recycling Act

 
This bill prohibits the export or reexport of electronic waste, such as computers, televisions, and consumer electronics, subject to certain exemptions (e.g., items that meet specific criteria designed to ensure they do not become the source of counterfeit products).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
To provide assistance for the operation of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Visitor Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-3560
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2019-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Nebraska
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Public-private cooperation
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 funding to assist with the operations of the historic site, visitor center, and interpretive center for the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in Nebraska City, Nebraska. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Introduced in House