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Banking Transparency for Sanctioned Persons Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1037
Sponsor: Rep. Riggleman, Denver [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Financial services and investments
Foreign and international banking
Foreign property
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Human rights
Licensing and registrations
Russia
Sanctions
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Banking Transparency for Sanctioned Persons Act of 2019 

 
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to report semiannually on financial services provided to benefit a state sponsor of terrorism or specified sanctioned persons. 
 
Treasury may waive these reporting requirements with respect to a foreign financial institution if 
 
 
the institution credibly assures Treasury that it will cease conducting transactions for such persons, or 
 
the waiver is important to the national interest. 
 

action_date: 2019-05-14
text: 

Banking Transparency for Sanctioned Persons Act of 2019 

 
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to report semiannually on financial services provided to benefit a state sponsor of terrorism or specified sanctioned persons. 
 
Treasury may waive these reporting requirements with respect to a foreign financial institution if 
 
 
the institution credibly assures Treasury that it will cease conducting transactions for such persons, or 
 
the waiver is important to the national interest. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-15
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-14
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2019-05-14
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3769)
action_date: 2019-05-14
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H3769)
action_date: 2019-05-14
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1037.
action_date: 2019-05-14
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3769-3770)
action_date: 2019-05-14
text: Ms. Waters moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
To require the Treasury to take a more prominent role in coordinating AML/CFT policy and examinations across the Government, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-1038
Sponsor: Rep. Riggleman, Denver [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Congressional oversight
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to establish anti-money-laundering and counterterrorist-financing policy priorities. Financial institutions must incorporate these priorities into existing anti-money-laundering and counterterrorist-financing programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
To streamline requirements for currency transaction reports and suspicious activity reports, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-1039
Sponsor: Rep. Riggleman, Denver [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Congressional oversight
Currency
Department of the Treasury
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 
This bill directs the Department of Treasury to review requirements regarding currency-transaction reports and suspicious-activity reports, including their usefulness to law enforcement and ways to reduce regulatory burdens on financial institutions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Flat Tax Act

Bill: 116-hr-1040
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Legislative rules and procedure
Tax reform and tax simplification
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Flat Tax Act 

 
This bill authorizes an individual or a person engaged in business activity to make an irrevocable election to be subject to a flat tax (in lieu of the existing income tax provisions) of 19% for the first two years after an election is made, and 17% thereafter. 
 
The bill calculates taxable income for individual taxpayers by subtracting a basic standard deduction and an additional standard deduction for each dependent from the total of wages, retirement distributions, and unemployment compensation. "Business taxable income" is gross active income reduced by certain deductions for the cost of business inputs, wages, and retirement contributions. 
 
The bill imposes an employer tax on the value of excludable compensation provided to employees not engaged in business activity of 19% for the first two years after an election is made under this bill and 17% thereafter. 
 
The bill also repeals the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. 
 
 A two-thirds vote of the House of Representatives and the Senate is required to increase the flat tax rate proposed by this bill or to reduce the amount of the standard deduction or business-related deductions allowed by this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1041
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Critical Access Hospital Relief Act of 

2019

 
This bill repeals the 96-hour physician-certification requirement for inpatient critical access hospital services under Medicare. Under current law, as a condition for Medicare payment for such services, a physician must certify that a patient may reasonably be expected to be discharged or transferred to a hospital within 96 hours after admission to the critical access hospital. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
PREPARED Act

Bill: 116-hr-1042
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Animal and plant health
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Business records
Department of Agriculture
Emergency planning and evacuation
Medical research
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Natural disasters
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Providing Responsible Emergency Plans for Animals at Risk of E

merging Disasters Act or the PREPARED Act

 
This bill establishes requirements governing the care of animals by entities, such as zoos, in emergencies or disasters. Specifically, the bill requires each research facility, dealer, exhibitor, intermediate handler, and carrier to develop and follow a contingency plan to provide for the humane handling, treatment, transportation, housing, and care of their animals in the event of an emergency or disaster. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Employer Participation in Repayment Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1043
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-52]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

 

Employer Participation in Repayment Act of 2019

 
This bill expands the tax exclusion for employer-provided educational assistance to include payments of qualified education loans by an employer to either an employee or a lender.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act

Bill: 116-hr-1045
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Detention of persons
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Lawyers and legal services
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Justice to establish an Office of Legal Access Programs within the Executive Office of Immigration Review. The office shall develop and administer programs to educate detained aliens about their legal rights under U.S. immigration law.
 
The programs shall (1) assist detained aliens in making informed and timely decisions regarding their removal and eligibility for relief from removal; and (2) identify particularly vulnerable aliens, such as unaccompanied children, for right to counsel considerations. The programs may also provide services to detained aliens in specified immigration (detention and removal) and asylum proceedings.
 
The Department of Homeland Security shall establish procedures to ensure that such programs are available to all detained aliens within five days of arrival into custody, and provide such aliens with various information related to immigration hearing procedures and their rights under immigration law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1046
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-35]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Competition and antitrust
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Health care costs and insurance
Inflation and prices
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Product safety and quality
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Medicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act of 2019

 
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies regarding prices for drugs covered under the Medicare prescription drug benefit. (Current law prohibits the CMS from doing so.)
 
The CMS must take certain factors into account during negotiations, including the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of the drug, the financial burden on patients, and unmet patient needs. If the CMS is unable to negotiate the price of a drug, such drug is subject to competitive licensing in order to further its sale under Medicare, notwithstanding existing government-granted exclusivities. 
 
Additionally, for one year after a drug is provided under a competitive license, such drug is also subject to specified price limitations; if the drug is not offered at such prices, the drug is subject to additional licensing that furthers its sale under any federal program (e.g., Medicaid).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-09-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2019-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-02-07
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: 2019-02-07
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: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
To give effect to more accurate maps of units of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System that were produced by digital mapping of such units, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-1047
Sponsor: Rep. Dunn, Neal P. [R-FL-2]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Florida
Geography and mapping
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Seashores and lakeshores

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 
This bill modifies the boundaries of the Cape San Blas Unit P30/P30P of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System, located in Gulf County, Florida.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Phase III Act

Bill: 116-hr-1048
Sponsor: Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Dams and canals
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fishes
Indian lands and resources rights
Lakes and rivers
State and local government operations
Washington State
Water resources funding
Water storage
Water use and supply
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Phase III Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to implement projects under the third phase of the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project in Washington. The bill also addresses various issues related to the project, such as the treatment of certain additional stored water made available by the project.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E146-147)
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
ANTIQUITIES Act

Bill: 116-hr-1050
Sponsor: Rep. Haaland, Debra A. [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Alaska
American Samoa
Arizona
Atlantic Ocean
California
Colorado
District of Columbia
Forests, forestry, trees
Government trust funds
Hawaii
Historical and cultural resources
Illinois
Kentucky
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Maine
Military history
Montana
Monuments and memorials
Nevada
New Mexico
New York City
Northern Mariana Islands
Ohio
Oregon
Pacific Ocean
Parks, recreation areas, trails
South Carolina
Texas
Utah
Virgin Islands
Virginia
Washington State
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

America's Natural Treasures of Immeasurable Quality Unite, Inspire, and Together Improve the Economies of States Act or the ANTIQUITIES Act
 

This bill provides for the administration of certain National Monuments and the designation of certain lands in New Mexico and Nevada as wilderness. 
 
This bill directs the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to administer each specified national monument in accordance with (1) the one or more presidential proclamations that apply to the monument, (2) any Act of Congress enacted before December 4, 2017, that provides for an adjustment to the boundary or administration of such monument, and (3) this bill.
 
The bill establishes the National Monument Enhancement Fund to furnish funding (1) to such federal agencies to develop management plans for their national monuments that were designated under current federal law, (2) for federal acquisition and development of certain land and other areas, and (3) to develop and enhance recreational infrastructure on such designated lands. 
 
The bill designates specified BLM lands within the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks and Rio Grande del Norte National Monuments in New Mexico and in the Gold Butte National Conservation Area in Nevada as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
The Department of the Interior shall manage approximately 100 acres of BLM land in New Mexico identified as Lookout Peak Communication Site in a manner that preserves the character of the land for future inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Back Pay Fairness Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1051
Sponsor: Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Back Pay Fairness Act of 2019 

 
This bill requires interest to be added to the back pay of federal employees who were not paid during a lapse in appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for direct payment to physician assistants under the Medicare program for certain services furnished by such physician assistants.

Bill: 116-hr-1052
Sponsor: Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 
This bill allows direct payment, under the Medicare program, to physician assistants for certain services furnished to enrollees.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-02-07
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: 2019-02-07
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: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Corporate Political Disclosure Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1053
Sponsor: Rep. Carbajal, Salud O. [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2019-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Business records
Corporate finance and management
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Political advertising
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: 

Corporate Political Disclosure Act of 2019

 
This bill requires issuers of securities to, on an annual basis, publicly disclose political activity expenditures made during the previous year. The Securities and Exchange Commission must issue regulations to carry out this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-07
text: Introduced in House