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A bill to establish the Office of Critical Technologies and Security, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-29
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2019-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Executive Office of the President
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Intellectual property
Public contracts and procurement
Technology transfer and commercialization
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-04
text: 
This bill establishes in the Executive Office of the President an Office of Critical Technology and Security, which, among other things, shall
 
 
serve as a centralized focal point within the Executive Office of the President for coordinating policy and actions of the federal government to stop the transfer of critical emerging, foundational, and dual-use technologies to countries that pose a national security risk, and to maintain U.S. technological leadership and ensure supply chain integrity and security for such technologies;
 
lead messaging and outreach efforts by the government on the national security threat posed by the improper acquisition and transfer of such technologies;
 
lead the development of a comprehensive, long-term strategic plan in coordination with U.S. allies and defense partners to protect and enforce intellectual property rights and to develop a strategy to inform the private sector about critical supply chain risks; and
 
use measures developed to monitor and track key trends relating to transfer of such technologies, and relating to U.S. government investments in innovation and competitiveness compared to governments of other countries.
 
 
The bill establishes the Council on Critical Technologies and Security to advise the President on matters relating to challenges posed by foreign powers with respect to technology acquisition and transfer.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Chiropractic Health Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act

Bill: 116-s-30
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Chiropractic Health Parity for Military Beneficiaries Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Defense to provide chiropractic health care services and benefits through the TRICARE program to uniformed service members who are not on active duty and to uniformed service retirees. (Active duty members of the uniformed services are currently eligible for chiropractic services and benefits through the Chiropractic Health Care Program.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Amendment Act

Bill: 116-s-31
Sponsor: Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Illinois
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Amendment Act 

 
This bill adds Livingston County, the city of Jonesboro in Union County, and the city of Freeport in Stephenson County, all in Illinois, to the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument Act

Bill: 116-s-32
Sponsor: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Historic sites and heritage areas
Kentucky
Land transfers
Military history
Monuments and memorials

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument Act

 
This bill establishes the Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument in Kentucky as a unit of the National Park System to preserve and interpret the nationally significant historic resources of the Mill Springs Battlefield and its role in the Civil War. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to update the map of, and modify the maximum acreage available for inclusion in, the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.

Bill: 116-s-33
Sponsor: Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Earth sciences
Land transfers
Monuments and memorials
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 
This bill revises the title, number, and date of the map depicting the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Colorado and increases from 6,000 to 6,300 the maximum number of acres that may be made available for inclusion in the monument. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Cambodia Trade Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-34
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
Cambodia
Congressional oversight
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Cambodia Trade Act of 2019 

 
This bill directs the President to report on Cambodia's classification under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), a U.S. trade preference program that provides duty-free access to imports on products from certain developing countries. (Currently, Cambodia is a beneficiary of the GSP program.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Amache Study Act

Bill: 116-s-35
Sponsor: Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Detention of persons
Government studies and investigations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Japan
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Amache Study Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the site known as Amache, Camp Amache, and Granada Relocation Center, in Granada, Colorado, which was 1 of the 10 relocation centers where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II. 
 
In conducting such study, Interior shall evaluate the national significance of such relocation center and determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Crags, Colorado Land Exchange Act

Bill: 116-s-36
Sponsor: Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Crags, Colorado Land Exchange Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA), if the Broadmoor Hotel, Inc. (BHI) offers to convey to USDA 320 acres of specified nonfederal land in the Pike National Forest in Teller County, Colorado, and a permanent trail easement for the Barr Trail in El Paso County, Colorado, to accept the offer and convey to the BHI 83 acres of specified federal land within the forest, together with a nonexclusive perpetual access easement for the BHI to and from such land on Forest Service Road (FSR) 371. 
 
The nonexclusive perpetual access easement granted to the BHI shall allow: (1) the BHI to fully maintain, at its own expense, and use FSR 371 from its junction with FSR 368 in accordance with historic BHI use and maintenance patterns; and (2) full and continued public and administrative access and use of FSR 371 in accordance with the existing Forest Service travel management plan, or as it may be revised by USDA.
 
USDA shall determine the values of the lands to be exchanged through appraisals following specified requirements. The values shall be equal, or if they are not equal, be equalized as prescribed by this bill.
 
The Barr Trail easement donation shall not be appraised for purposes of this bill.
 
The land acquired by USDA under this bill shall become part of the Pike-San Isabel National Forest. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Bolts Ditch Access and Use Act

Bill: 116-s-37
Sponsor: Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Land use and conservation
Water storage
Water use and supply
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Bolts Ditch Access and Use Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to permit by special use authorization nonmotorized access and use of the Bolts Ditch headgate and the Bolts Ditch within the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado for the diversion of water and use, maintenance, and repair of the ditch and headgate by the town of Minturn, Colorado.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-38
Sponsor: Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Arizona
Colorado
Congressional oversight
Endangered and threatened species
Energy revenues and royalties
Fishes
Lakes and rivers
New Mexico
Utah
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2019

 
This bill extends through FY2023 the authority of the Department of the Interior to use power revenues collected pursuant to the Colorado River Storage Project Act for annual base funding of endangered fish recovery implementation programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins.
 
Additionally, Interior must submit to Congress a report that describes the accomplishments and costs of the recovery implementation programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
No Budget, No Pay Act

Bill: 116-s-39
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

No Budget, No Pay Act

 
This bill prohibits Members of Congress from being paid in a fiscal year until both chambers approve the budget resolution and pass all regular appropriations bills for that fiscal year. Retroactive pay is prohibited for such a period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Bureau of Reclamation Transparency Act

Bill: 116-s-40
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Dams and canals
Department of the Interior
Government information and archives
Infrastructure development
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Bureau of Reclamation Transparency Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to publish, and update every two years, an Asset Management Report. The report must describe the Bureau of Reclamation's efforts to (1) maintain in a reliable manner its reserved works (e.g., buildings, structures, facilities, or equipment); and (2) standardize and streamline data reporting and processes across regions and areas for the purpose of maintaining reserved works. The report must include (1) an assessment of major repair and rehabilitation needs for reserved works, and (2) an itemized and prioritized list of major repair and rehabilitation needs of individual facilities.
 
Interior must coordinate with the nonfederal entities responsible for the operation and maintenance of Reclamation facilities, known as transferred works, in developing reporting requirements for their major repair and rehabilitation needs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act

Bill: 116-s-41
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Lakes and rivers
Oklahoma
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act

 
This bill directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to commission a survey to identify the South Bank boundary line with respect to land along a specified 116-mile stretch of the Red River in Oklahoma and Texas (the affected area).
 
 The survey shall 
 
 
adhere to the gradient boundary survey method;
 
 span the length of the affected area;
 
 be conducted by one or more independent third-party surveyors who are licensed and qualified to conduct official gradient boundary surveys, and selected by the Texas General Land Office and the Oklahoma Commissioners of the Land Office (the offices), and each affected federally recognized Indian tribe; and
 
 be completed within two years of enactment of this bill. 
 
 
The BLM shall only approve the survey, or a portion of it, that has the written approval of the offices and each affected tribe. 
 
Surveys of individual parcels in the affected area shall be conducted according to the requirements for the survey of the South Bank boundary line. 
 
After a survey for an individual parcel has been approved, the offices shall 
 
 
publish a notice of the approval of such survey, and
 
 furnish to any landowner a copy of such survey and any field notes related to the parcel of that landowner.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Background Check Expansion Act

Bill: 116-s-42
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Firearms and explosives
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Background Check Expansion Act

 
This bill establishes new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties (i.e., unlicensed individuals).
 
Specifically, it prohibits a firearm transfer between private parties unless a licensed gun dealer, manufacturer, or importer first takes possession of the firearm to conduct a background check.
 
The prohibition does not apply to certain firearm transfers, such as a gift between spouses in good faith.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Lake Fannin Recreation Area Conveyance Act

Bill: 116-s-43
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Lake Fannin Recreation Area Conveyance Act

 
This bill directs the Forest Service, upon request by Fannin County in Texas, to convey approximately 2,025 acres of National Forest System land to the county.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Balanced Budget Accountability Act

Bill: 116-s-44
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Income tax rates
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Balanced Budget Accountability Act

 
This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), upon adoption by a chamber of Congress of a concurrent budget resolution for a fiscal year, to certify to the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President pro tempore of the Senate whether that chamber has adopted a balanced budget.
 

Balanced budget 
means a concurrent budget resolution providing that for FY2027 and each succeeding fiscal year to which the resolution applies total outlays do not exceed total receipts and are not more than 18% of the projected domestic product for such fiscal year.
 
The bill requires the salary of Members of Congress to be held in escrow if OMB determines a chamber has not adopted a balanced budget for FY2020 before April 16, 2019, and for FY2021 before April 16, 2020. The bill also provides for the release of such funds to the Members. 
 
Beginning in FY2022, if OMB does not certify that a chamber has adopted a balanced budget before April 16 of the prior fiscal year, each Member of that chamber shall be paid at the rate of $1 annually for pay periods after that date in the same calendar year.
 
 This bill requires legislation in either chamber that increases revenue to be agreed upon only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members of that chamber.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Wild and Scenic River Act

Bill: 116-s-45
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Connecticut
Land use and conservation
Public-private cooperation
Rhode Island
Watersheds
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Wild and Scenic River Act

 
This bill designates specified river segments in the Wood-Pawcatuck watershed in Rhode Island and Connecticut as scenic, recreational, or wild rivers and as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S69-70)
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Repeal Act

Bill: 116-s-46
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian claims
Legal fees and court costs
Oregon

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Repeal Act

 
This bill repeals the Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Act, which sets forth how funds credited to the Klamath Tribe must be distributed.
 
The Department of the Interior must disburse to the tribe the balance of funds that were appropriated or deposited into per capita trust accounts and trust accounts for remaining legal fees and administration.

action_date: 2019-03-13
text: 

Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Repeal Act

 
This bill repeals the Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Act, which sets forth how funds credited to the Klamath Tribe must be distributed.
 
The Department of the Interior must disburse to the tribe the balance of funds that were appropriated or deposited into per capita trust accounts and trust accounts for remaining legal fees and administration.

action_date: 2019-06-27
text: 

Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Repeal Act

 
This bill repeals the Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Act, which sets forth how funds credited to the Klamath Tribe must be distributed.
 
The Department of the Interior must disburse to the tribe the balance of funds that were appropriated or deposited into per capita trust accounts and trust accounts for remaining legal fees and administration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-16
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2019-07-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
action_date: 2019-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-06-28
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2019-06-28
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S4652-4664; text: CR S4664)
action_date: 2019-06-27
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.(consideration: CR S4652-4664; text: CR S4664)
action_date: 2019-03-13
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 37.
action_date: 2019-03-13
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Hoeven without amendment. With written report No. 116-6.
action_date: 2019-03-13
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Hoeven without amendment. With written report No. 116-6.
action_date: 2019-01-29
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Cottonwood Land Exchange Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-48
Sponsor: Sen. McSally, Martha [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2019-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Forests, forestry, trees
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: 

Cottonwood Land Exchange Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture, upon request by Yavapai County, Arizona, to convey to the county 80 acres of land within Coconino National Forest in exchange for 369 acres of county land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate