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Keeping Our Children Safe Act

Bill: 116-hr-4893
Sponsor: Rep. Wild, Susan [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2019-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Crime prevention
Domestic violence and child abuse

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-28
text: 
This bill extends funding through FY2024 for child-abuse prevention and treatment programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2019-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-28
text: Introduced in House
AID in Appalachia Act

Bill: 116-hr-4896
Sponsor: Rep. Mooney, Alexander X. [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alabama
Georgia
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Infrastructure development
Intergovernmental relations
Kentucky
Maryland
Mississippi
New York State
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Roads and highways
Rural conditions and development
South Carolina
State and local government operations
Tennessee
Transportation programs funding
Virginia
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

Advancing Infrastructure Development in Appalachia Act or the
 
AID in Appalachia Act 

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish the Balance Exchanges for Infrastructure Program to improve highway infrastructure development in the Appalachian region of the United States.
 
DOT must incentivize certain states within the Appalachian region to use unobligated balances of funding to improve highway infrastructure in the region.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act

Bill: 116-hr-4897
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
First responders and emergency personnel
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax exclusion
Law enforcement officers
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

Public Safety Retirees Healthcare Protection Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $3,000 to $6,000 the amount excludible from the gross income of public safety officers for distributions from governmental retirement plans for health and long-term care insurance. 
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Rural Health Innovation Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-4898
Sponsor: Rep. Kustoff, David [R-TN-8]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Building construction
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

Rural Health Innovation Act of 2019

 
 This bill establishes two grant programs to increase access to emergency care in remote rural areas where the nearest emergency department is at least 30 minutes away or inaccessible by road.
 
 First, the bill requires the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to provide grants to establish or maintain federally-qualified health centers or rural health clinics located remote rural areas. Eligible health centers or clinics must (1) employ physicians and professional clinical and support staff; (2) have laboratories, x-ray machines, and cardiac monitors on site; and (3) provide walk-in urgent care, and staging for transport to an emergency department.
 
 Further, the bill requires HRSA to provide grants to rural health departments that are located in remote rural areas to support the provision of emergency services, triage and transport to emergency departments, primary care services, or other similar services. Eligible rural health departments must (1) have a nursing staff and medical equipment, (2) agree to provide such emergency or similar services, and (3) submit an estimated cost for the first year of staffing and equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Rural America Health Corps Act

Bill: 116-hr-4899
Sponsor: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Rural conditions and development
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

Rural America Health Corps Act

 
 This bill requires the Health Resources and Services Administration to establish a demonstration project under the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program to increase the number of health care providers in rural areas. Specifically, eligible participants who agree to serve for 5 years in such a rural area may receive up to $25,000 in loan repayments for each year of service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Telehealth Across State Lines Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-4900
Sponsor: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Rural conditions and development
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

Telehealth Across State Lines Act of 2019

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services, in consultation with a range of stakeholders, to issue guidance for uniform best practices for the delivery of telehealth services. The bill also establishes a grant program to expand access to telehealth services in rural areas and revises the duties of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to incentivize the adoption of telehealth services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act

Bill: 116-hr-4901
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Caribbean area
Congressional districts and representation
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Puerto Rico
State and local government operations
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act

 
This bill (1) declares that Congress commits to deeming Puerto Rico to be a state of the United States if it chooses statehood; and (2) requires Puerto Rico to conduct a plebiscite, a vote of the people, on statehood in conjunction with the November 2020 election.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
ARPA–Terra Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-4902
Sponsor: Rep. Axne, Cynthia [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Agricultural research
Agricultural trade
Atmospheric science and weather
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Economic performance and conditions
Education programs funding
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government trust funds
Higher education
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Intergovernmental relations
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Rural conditions and development
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

ARPA-Terra Act of 2019

 
This bill establishes within the Department of Agriculture the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Terra (ARPA-Terra) to (1) overcome the long-term and high-risk technological barriers in the development of agricultural technologies that enhance export competitiveness, environmental sustainability, and resilience to extreme weather and infectious disease; and (2) ensure that the United States maintains a technological lead in developing and deploying advanced agricultural technologies that increase economic opportunities for farmers, ranchers, and rural communities.
 
 ARPA-Terra must award grants to institutions of higher education and other entities to achieve its goals, including to accelerate early-stage research on agricultural technologies. 
 
 ARPA-Terra must also implement agriculture technology projects that
 
 
 identify and promote revolutionary advances in fundamental sciences;
 
 translate scientific discoveries and cutting-edge inventions into technological innovations; and
 
 accelerate transformational technological advances in areas that, due to technical and financial uncertainty, industry is not likely to undertake without federal assistance.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Down Syndrome Discrimination by Abortion Prohibition Act

Bill: 116-hr-4903
Sponsor: Rep. Estes, Ron [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Birth defects
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Disability and health-based discrimination
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

Down Syndrome Discrimination by Abortion Prohibition Act

 
 This bill creates new federal crimes related to the performance of an abortion on an unborn child who has Down syndrome.
 
It subjects a violator to criminal penalties&#8212;a fine, a prison term of up to five years, or both.
 
It also authorizes civil remedies, including damages and injunctive relief.
 
A woman who undergoes such an abortion may not be prosecuted or held civilly liable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Smarter Approaches to Nuclear Expenditures Act

Bill: 116-hr-4904
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
New Mexico
Nuclear weapons
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Spacecraft and satellites
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

Smarter Approaches to Nuclear Expenditures Act

 
This bill prohibits or reduces spending for several nuclear weapons programs within the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Investing in Energy Systems for the Transport of CO2 Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-4905
Sponsor: Rep. Bustos, Cheri [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air quality
Buy American requirements
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Government lending and loan guarantees
Metals
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Property tax
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

Investing in Energy Systems for the Transport of CO2 Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to provide secured loans or loan guarantees to private entities for the construction of common carrier pipelines that transport anthropogenic carbon dioxide as a supercritical fluid.
 
The bill prohibits DOT from providing loans to finance more than one common carrier trunk pipeline project of which the majority of the pipeline will be constructed in a single census region.
 
DOT must give priority to projects that propose construction of a common carrier trunk pipeline project in an area where pipelines or other linear infrastructure already exist.
 
DOT may provide loans only if all of the iron, steel, and manufactured goods used in the project are produced in the United States, with specified exceptions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2019-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2019-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2019-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Insulin Price Reduction Act

Bill: 116-hr-4906
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business records
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Health care costs and insurance
Health programs administration and funding
Inflation and prices
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

Insulin Price Reduction Act

 
 This bill prohibits health insurance plan issuers and pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) from receiving rebates or discounts for insulin from manufacturers who certify that its current insulin list price has been reduced to an amount no greater than what the list price was for the same insulin on July 1, 2006. This restriction does not apply to discounts provided to insurance plan holders at retail sale or to flat-rate fees for service paid to PBMs. Further, insurance plans are prohibited from applying a deductible to insulin that has received such price certification.
 
A manufacturer may certify insulin prices by submitting to the Department of Health and Human Services data about the list price of any insulin the manufacturer has produced since January 1, 2000, and by setting the current list price for an insulin product at the 2006 rate. To remain certified, a manufacturer may not increase the list price of insulin by more than the annual increase in the medical care consumer price index. A manufacturer may certify the price of an insulin product for which it did not have a list price in 2006 by reducing the list price of such insulin to the weighted average list price in 2006 of specified insulin categories. 
 
This bill also applies to Medicare prescription drug benefits. The bill sets the rebate for insulin under Medicaid based on the average manufacturer price of insulin during the last fiscal quarter of 2019, increasing by the medical care consumer price index thereafter.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
TRUST Act

Bill: 116-hr-4907
Sponsor: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget process
Congressional oversight
Government trust funds
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

Time to Rescue United States Trusts Act or the TRUST Act 

 
This bill establishes congressional rescue committees to develop recommendations and legislation to improve critical social contract programs. 
 
A 
critical social contract program
 is a federal program 
 
 
 for which a federal trust fund is established (e.g., Social Security, Medicare, and federal highway programs), 
 
 with outlays of at least $20 billion during the year preceding the year in which this bill is enacted, and 
 
 for which the amount of dedicated federal funds and federal trust fund balances will be inadequate to meet the total amount of outlays of the program that would otherwise be made. 
 
 
Each rescue committee may develop recommendations and legislation to improve the program for which it was established, including by (1) increasing the duration of positive balances of the federal trust fund established for the program, and (2) providing for the solvency of the federal trust fund established for the program during a 75-year period. 
 
Congress must use specified expedited legislative procedures to consider legislation that is approved and submitted by the rescue committees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and the Budget, 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: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and the Budget, 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: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and the Budget, 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: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Native American PACT Act

Bill: 116-hr-4908
Sponsor: Rep. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Health care costs and insurance
Minority health
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

Native American Veteran Parity in Access to Care Today Act or the Native American PACT Act

 
This bill prohibits the Department of Veterans Affairs from collecting copayments from American Indian or Alaska Native veterans for hospital care or medical services.

action_date: 2020-09-22
text: 

Native American Veteran Parity in Access to Care Today Act or the Native American PACT Act

 
This bill prohibits the Department of Veterans Affairs from collecting copayments from American Indian or Alaska Native veterans for hospital care or medical services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-09-23
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2020-09-22
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2020-09-22
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4678)
action_date: 2020-09-22
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2020-09-22
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4908.
action_date: 2020-09-22
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4678-4679)
action_date: 2020-09-22
text: Mr. Takano moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2020-07-23
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2019-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
CFTC Cost-Benefit Analysis Improvement Act

Bill: 116-hr-4909
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2019-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Commodities markets
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Judicial review and appeals

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: 

CFTC Cost-Benefit Analysis Improvement Act 

 
This bill generally revises the cost-benefit analysis requirements for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). 
 
It establishes in the CFTC the Office of the Chief Economist. The office must perform the cost-benefit analyses of proposed CFTC regulations and orders. Additionally, such cost-benefit analyses must consider, among other things, the impact of market liquidity on relevant markets, available alternatives to direct regulation, and the cost of compliance for all regulated entities. 
 
A court must affirm such cost-benefit analyses, unless it finds an abuse of discretion. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-29
text: Introduced in House