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Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-5481
Sponsor: Rep. Kinzinger, Adam [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2019-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: 

Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act of 2019

 
This bill allows additional hospitals to qualify as critical access hospitals (CAHs) that receive special payment under Medicare.
 
Currently, in order to qualify as a CAH under Medicare, a hospital must either (1) be located more than 35 miles (or 15 miles in mountainous regions or areas with only secondary roads) from another hospital, or (2) have been certified prior to January 1, 2006, by the state as a necessary provider of services in the area. 
 
The bill allows a hospital to also qualify if the hospital is a small, rural hospital that (1) serves a health professional shortage area, or a high number of low-income individuals or Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries; (2) has experienced financial losses for two consecutive years; and (3) attests to having a strategic plan to address financial solvency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
PREVENT Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5482
Sponsor: Rep. Krishnamoorthi, Raja [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2019-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Child health
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Marketing and advertising
Teaching, teachers, curricula
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: 

Providing Resources to End the Vaping Epidemic Now for Teenagers Act of 2020 or the PREVENT Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a grant program to prevent the use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (e.g., e-cigarettes) among students in middle and high schools. To support the program, the Food and Drug Administration must collect user fees from manufacturers and importers of electronic nicotine delivery systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Signing is Language Act

Bill: 116-hr-5483
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2019-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign language and bilingual programs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: 

Signing is Language Act

 
This bill counts an individual whose native language is sign language in the number of English learners in a state for the purpose of determining the amount of federal funds allotted to a state for English language programs in schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
COLA’s Don’t Count Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-5484
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2019-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Inflation and prices
Medicaid
Medicare
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: 

COLA's Don't Count Act of 2019

 
 This bill revises requirements for determining eligibility and benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) to exclude household income received from certain cost-of-living adjustments and supplementary payments under the Social Security Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Ally’s Act

Bill: 116-hr-5485
Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2019-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: 

Ally's Act
 

 This bill requires private health insurance plans to cover certain hearing devices and systems (e.g., bone-anchored auditory implants) and related items and services. The bill also imposes limits on cost sharing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Broadband Internet for Small Ports Act

Bill: 116-hr-5486
Sponsor: Del. Plaskett, Stacey E. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2019-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Agricultural practices and innovations
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Farmland
Geography and mapping
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Rural conditions and development
Telecommunication rates and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: 

Broadband Internet for Small Ports Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture, when distributing funds for broadband deployment, to give priority to projects for small ports and projects on cropland or ranchland.
 
In addition, a recipient of such rural broadband buildout funding must provide certain geolocation information as a condition of receiving the funds. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Cemetery Grants Improvement Act

Bill: 116-hr-5487
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2019-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: 

Veterans Cemetery Grants Improvement Act

 
This bill increases to $10 million (currently $5 million) the maximum amount the Department of Veterans Affairs may grant in a fiscal year to states and tribal organizations for operating and maintaining veterans' cemeteries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2020-07-30
text: Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Discharged.
action_date: 2020-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1613)
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to ensure that politically derived information is not used in an application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for an order under title I or III of such Act.

Bill: 116-hr-5488
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-10]
Introduced: 2019-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Evidence and witnesses
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Specialized courts
Subversive activities
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: 
This bill requires an application under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 for electronic surveillance or a physical search to include a certification by a designated executive branch official that none of the facts or circumstances included in the application's statement of facts were solely produced by, derived from, or collected using funds of, a political organization for gaining an advantage against an opposing political candidate. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2019-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Polar Bear Conservation and Fairness Act

Bill: 116-hr-5489
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2019-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Canada
Endangered and threatened species
Hunting and fishing
Licensing and registrations
Mammals
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: 

Polar Bear Conservation and Fairness Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to issue a permit for the importation of a polar bear part (other than an internal organ) from a bear taken in a sport hunt in Canada to any permit applicant who has submitted proof that the polar bear was (1) legally harvested by the applicant before the May 15, 2008, listing of the polar bear as threatened, and (2) harvested from an approved polar bear population. Interior must issue these permits without regard to limits on importing marine mammals with depleted populations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, to require that annual budget submissions of the President to Congress provide an estimate of the cost per taxpayer of the deficit and of the public debt.

Bill: 116-hr-5490
Sponsor: Rep. Stewart, Chris [R-UT-2]
Introduced: 2019-12-19 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Government information and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: 
This bill requires the President's annual budget submission to Congress to include estimates of the cost per individual taxpayer for (1) the public debt, and (2) any projected budget deficit for the fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
Body Armor for Females Modernization Act

Bill: 116-hr-5491
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2019-12-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Health information and medical records
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public-private cooperation
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: 

Body Armor for Females Modernization Act

 
This bill requires each department of the U.S. Armed Forces to provide specified data and assessment concerning personal protection equipment. In addition, the Defense Health Agency must track and report on injuries among service members during the use of such equipment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Military Selective Service Act, and thereby terminate the registration requirements of such Act and eliminate civilian local boards, civilian appeal boards, and similar local agencies of the Selective Service System.

Bill: 116-hr-5492
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2019-12-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Military personnel and dependents
Selective Service System

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: 
This bill repeals the requirement for males between the ages of 18 and 26 to register with the Selective Service.
 
The bill provides that an individual shall not be penalized for prior failure to register with the Selective Service. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from awarding grants to entities that fund or support gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-5493
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Rob [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2019-12-19 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: 
This bill prohibits the Fish and Wildlife Service from awarding specified wildlife conservation grants to entities that fund or support certain persons or entities that are credibly alleged to have committed gross human rights violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
Catastrophe Loss Mitigation Incentive and Tax Parity Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-5494
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2019-12-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Income tax exclusion
Natural disasters
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: 

Catastrophe Loss Mitigation Incentive and Tax Parity Act of 2019

 
This bill excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, any qualified catastrophe mitigation payment made under a state-based catastrophe loss mitigation program. A 
qualified catastrophe mitigation payment
 means any amount received for making improvements to an individual's residence for the sole purpose of reducing the damage that would be done to such residence by a windstorm, earthquake, or wildfire.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
Federal Electronic Equipment Donation Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-5495
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2019-12-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Elementary and secondary education
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Higher education
Intergovernmental relations
Public-private cooperation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: 

Federal Electronic Equipment Donation Act of 2019

 
This bill directs federal agencies to transfer excess federal electronic equipment, including computers and related peripheral tools, to educational recipients.
 
Each agency shall identify useful electronic equipment determined to be excess to the needs of the agency (excluding research equipment) and
 
 
report such equipment to the General Services Administration (GSA) for processing for transfer to an educational recipient; 
 
transfer such equipment directly to an educational recipient, through an arrangement made by the GSA; or 
 
report such equipment to the GSA as excess property if such transfers are not practicable. 

 
Each agency shall report to the GSA the availability of useful federal electronic equipment as far as possible in advance. If the equipment is not classroom-usable, the transferring agency shall convey the equipment initially to a nonprofit refurbisher for upgrade before transfer.
 
The transferring agency shall (1) remove data using a means that does not render the equipment or components unusable, and (2) give the highest preference to educational recipients located in a persistent poverty county or other specified areas.
 
A state's plan for distributing donated federal equipment must give the highest preference for electronic equipment to institutions that are located in an enterprise community, an empowerment zone, or specified high poverty areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
ICELAND Act

Bill: 116-hr-5496
Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2019-12-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Europe
Foreign labor
Iceland
Immigration status and procedures
U.S. and foreign investments
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: 

Iceland Commercial and Economic Leadership for Arctic and National Development Act or the ICELAND Act

 
This bill establishes that a national of Iceland shall be eligible for an E visa (for an investor or trader who is a national of a foreign country with a treaty of commerce and navigation with the United States) if Iceland provides a similar nonimmigrant status to U.S. nationals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
Conditional Approval Act

Bill: 116-hr-5497
Sponsor: Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4]
Introduced: 2019-12-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Marketing and advertising
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: 

Conditional Approval Act

This bill authorizes the Food and Drug Administration to conditionally approve certain new drugs intended for diseases that are seriously debilitating, life threatening, or chronic, and for which meaningful treatments do not exist. The bill also limits liability related to these conditionally approved drugs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
Noncontiguous Shipping Relief Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-5498
Sponsor: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2019-12-19 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Foreign and international corporations
Jurisdiction and venue
Licensing and registrations
Marine and inland water transportation
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: 

Noncontiguous Shipping Relief Act of 2019

 
This bill revises coastwise laws, commonly known as the Jones Act, that govern domestic transportation of merchandise or passengers by vessels. The Jones Act requires that vessels transporting merchandise or passengers between Puerto Rico and other U.S. ports be built in the United States, be at least 75% owned by U.S. citizens, and be mostly crewed by U.S. citizens.
 
The bill exempts foreign-flag vessels transporting merchandise on a route in noncontiguous trade from Jones Act requirements.
 
The bill sets forth other requirements, including (1) labor standards, (2) minimum requirements for vessels engaging in the transportation of cargo or merchandise in domestic coastwise trade, (3) environmental standards, and (4) requirements for certain non-citizens that irregularly engage in domestic coastwise trade.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1628-1629)
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
Noncontiguous Shipping Reasonable Rate Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-5499
Sponsor: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2019-12-19 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Marine and inland water transportation
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: 

Noncontiguous Shipping Reasonable Rate Act of 2019

 
This bill provides that a rate for service in noncontiguous domestic trade or water carrier for port-to-port service in that trade is reasonable if such rate is within 10% of a rate set by a comparable international ocean rate index recognized by the Federal Maritime Commission. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1628-1629)
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-12-19
text: Introduced in House