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Douglas County Economic Development and Conservation Act

Bill: 116-s-2890
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2019-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Floods and storm protection
Forests, forestry, trees
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Nevada
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Water use and supply
Watersheds
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-18
text: 

Douglas County Economic Development and Conservation Act

 
This bill provides for the conveyance, sale, or management of specified federal lands in Nevada.
 
The bill conveys 67 acres of Forest Service land in the Lake Tahoe area for the conservation of wildlife or natural resources or for a public park. 
 
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) shall implement a cooperative management agreement for the Tahoe Rim Trail North Parcel to (1) improve the quality of recreational access for such land, and (2) conserve the land's natural resource values.
 
The Forest Service and the Department of the Interior shall convey 7,777 acres of specified federal land to Douglas County, Nevada, for flood control or any other public purpose. 
 
The Forest Service and Interior shall select jointly with the county federal land to be sold to qualified bidders or for the county to obtain for public purposes.
 
USDA shall convey 1,084 acres of specified federal land to the county for recreation and any other public purpose. 
 
U.S. interest in 2,669 acres of certain federal land shall be held in trust for the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. 
The bill designates 12,392 acres of Bureau of Land Management land as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System to be known as the Burbank Canyons Wilderness. 
USDA may transfer to Nevada or the county certain Forest Service land or interest in such land that is unsuitable for Forest Service administration or is necessary for a public purpose. The recipient of the land must protect its environmental quality and use the land for recreation or other public purposes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-380.
action_date: 2019-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Opioid Workforce Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2892
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2019-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Hospital care
Medical education
Medicare
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: 

Opioid Workforce Act of 

2019

 
This bill increases the number of residency positions eligible for graduate medical education payments under Medicare for hospitals that have addiction or pain medicine programs, with an aggregate increase of 1,000 positions over a five-year period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Preparing Superfund for Climate Change Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2893
Sponsor: Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA]
Introduced: 2019-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Atmospheric science and weather
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Natural disasters
Pollution liability

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: 

Preparing Superfund for Climate Change Act of 2019

 
This bill requires the consideration of factors related to climate change when selecting remedial actions for the cleanup of Superfund sites (sites contaminated with hazardous substances). Specifically, the potential threat to human health and the environment associated with local natural disasters and extreme weather hazards, including those exacerbated by climate change, must be taken into account when selecting remedial actions. 
 
Under current law, some remedial actions result in hazardous substances remaining at the site, so there must be a review every five years to assure that human health and the environment are being protected. The bill requires such review to include an assessment of whether the selected remedial action remains protective after taking into account local natural disasters and extreme weather hazards, including those exacerbated by climate change.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Maritime Commission National Shipper Advisory Committee Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2894
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2019-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Federal Maritime Commission
Marine and inland water transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: 

Federal Maritime Commission National Shipper Advisory Committee Act of 2019

 
This bill establishes the National Shipper Advisory Committee to advise the Federal Maritime Commission on policies relating to the competitiveness, reliability, integrity, and fairness of the international ocean freight delivery system.

action_date: 2020-11-17
text: 

Federal Maritime Commission National Shipper Advisory Committee Act of 2019

 
This bill establishes the National Shipper Advisory Committee to advise the Federal Maritime Commission on policies relating to the competitiveness, reliability, integrity, and fairness of the international ocean freight delivery system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-11-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 592.
action_date: 2020-11-17
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Wicker with amendments. With written report No. 116-299.
action_date: 2020-11-17
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Wicker with amendments. With written report No. 116-299.
action_date: 2020-05-20
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
SARMs Control Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2895
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2019-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Food supply, safety, and labeling

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: 

Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators Control Act of 2019 or the SARMs Control Act of 2019

 
This bill expands the federal regulatory framework for drugs that are deemed to pose a risk of abuse and dependence to address selective androgen receptor modulators. These are synthetic drugs or substances that have effects similar to testosterone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Pullman National Historical Park Act

Bill: 116-s-2896
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2019-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Architecture
Commemorative events and holidays
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Illinois
Labor-management relations
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: 

Pullman National Historical Park Act

 
This bill establishes the Pullman National Historical Park in Illinois as a unit of the National Park System. 
 
The park shall preserve and interpret 
 
 
the significant labor, industrial, civil rights, and social history of the park; 
 
the significant architectural structures in the park; and 
 
the role of the Pullman community in the creation of the first national Labor Day holiday.
 
 
Also, the park shall coordinate
 
 
the preservation, protection, and interpretation efforts of the park by the federal government, Illinois, units of local government, and private and nonprofit organizations; and 
 
the management options necessary to ensure these efforts toward the many significant aspects of the park. 
 
 
The park's boundary shall be established by the Department of the Interior, but must not exceed the boundary of the approximately 300-acre Pullman Historic District in Chicago. 
 
Upon conveyance by Illinois to Interior, the park shall include
 
 
the Pullman Factory Complex, including the Clock Tower Building and rear erecting shops; and 
 
the approximately 13 acres of land on which those structures are located. 
 
 
Interior must complete a general management plan for the park. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S6672-6673)
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Reauthorization Act

Bill: 116-s-2897
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]
Introduced: 2019-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Employee benefits and pensions
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Insurance industry and regulation
Medical research
Medicare
Research administration and funding
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: 

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Reauthorization Act

 
This bill reauthorizes, and extends funding for, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) through FY2029. The bill also makes other changes related to the institute, such as (1) requiring health insurance plans to cover routine costs for items and services furnished in connection with certain PCORI-funded clinical trials, and (2) directing the Government Accountability Office to review barriers experienced by PCORI researchers when conducting studies or clinical trials. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
CONTRACT Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2898
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2019-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: 

Continuity for Operators with Necessary Training Required for ATC Contract Towers Act of 2019 or the CONTRACT Act of 2019

 
This bill exempts certain air traffic controllers from a required reduction in their retirement annuity payment on account of earnings from certain work performed while entitled to such annuity.
 
Under current law, retired Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers receive an annuity payment during the period between the mandatory retirement age of 56 and the social security minimum age of 62. Such annuity payment is required to be reduced by a certain percentage of any excess earnings during this period.
 
The bill exempts from such reduction in annuity payments an air traffic controller who participates in the Air Traffic Control Contract Program (a public-private partnership for air traffic control services) following mandatory retirement. 

action_date: 2020-09-08
text: 

Continuity for Operators with Necessary Training Required for ATC Contract Towers Act of 2019 or the CONTRACT Act of 2019

 
This bill exempts certain air traffic controllers from a required reduction in their retirement annuity payment on account of earnings from certain work performed while entitled to such annuity.
 
Under current law, retired Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers receive an annuity payment during the period between the mandatory retirement age of 56 and the social security minimum age of 62. Such annuity payment is required to be reduced by a certain percentage of any excess earnings during this period.
 
The bill exempts from such reduction in annuity payments an air traffic controller who participates in the Air Traffic Control Contract Program (a public-private partnership for air traffic control services) following mandatory retirement. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-09-08
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 526.
action_date: 2020-09-08
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Wicker without amendment. With written report No. 116-263.
action_date: 2020-09-08
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Wicker without amendment. With written report No. 116-263.
action_date: 2019-12-11
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Apprenticeship Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2899
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2019-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Disability and paralysis
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Minority education
Minority employment
Performance measurement
Student aid and college costs
Student records
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Temporary and part-time employment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings
Women's education
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: 

Student Apprenticeship Act of 2019

 
This bill requires the Department of Education to award grants to certain partnerships to enable the development and implementation of a postsecondary apprenticeship program.
 
An eligible partnership must consist of (1) at least one institution of higher education, (2) at least one individual employer, and (3) a workforce intermediary (an entity that demonstrates expertise in fostering partnerships in order to support postsecondary apprenticeship programs). Such partnership may also include other entities such as a state agency responsible for administering career and technical education, a labor organization, or an economic development agency.
 
A partnership that receives a grant must use the funds to develop and implement a postsecondary apprenticeship program in a high-skill, high-wage, and in-demand industry sector or occupation. Additionally, an apprenticeship shall qualify as a work-study program through which a student apprentice is eligible for federal financial assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Play by the Rules Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2900
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2019-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: 

Play by the Rules Act of 2019

 
This bill subjects certain merchandise from a nonmarket economy country (a foreign country that does not operate on market principles of cost or pricing structures) to existing antidumping or countervailing duty orders.
 
The Department of Commerce shall include any merchandise from a nonmarket economy country that is only slightly altered in form or appearance within the class or kind of merchandise that is already subject to (1) an investigation, (2) an antidumping duty order, (3) a finding under the Antidumping Act of 1921, or (4) a countervailing duty order.
 
Additionally, Commerce may include within the scope of an investigation, order, or finding any merchandise from a nonmarket economy country that is (1) slightly altered in form or appearance but was not previously included within the scope of such investigation, order, or finding; or (2) interchangeable with imports that are already subject to such investigation, order, or finding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Medicare Beneficiary Access to Innovative Diabetes Technologies Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2901
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2019-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical research
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: 

Improving Medicare Beneficiary Access to Innovative Diabetes Technologies Act of 2019

 
This bill establishes the Task Force on Innovative Diabetes Technologies and Services to address the accessibility of innovative diabetes technologies and services to Medicare beneficiaries. The bill defines 
innovative diabetes technologies and services
 as medical technologies and services for diabetes treatment that are not covered under Medicare.
 
Among other activities, the task force must (1) recommend ways to improve access to innovative diabetes technologies and services through new or alternative payment models and existing policies, and (2) propose changes to foster collaboration between the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to streamline approval and coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6673)
action_date: 2019-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening Our Rural Health Workforce Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2902
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2019-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Aging
Dental care
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Medical education
Mental health
Minority education
Minority employment
Minority health
Rural conditions and development
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-20
text: 

Strengthening Our Rural Health Workforce Act of 2019

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2024 the Primary Care Training and Enhancement program and the Area Health Education Centers program; it also establishes a National Rural Health Care Workforce Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Climate Change Financial Risk Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2903
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2019-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Air quality
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Farmland
Federal Reserve System
Financial Stability Oversight Council
Financial crises and stabilization
Fires
Floods and storm protection
Foreign and international banking
International organizations and cooperation
Land use and conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-20
text: 

Climate Change Financial Risk Act of 2019 

 
This bill addresses climate change risk and its potential impact on the financial system. 
 
The Federal Reserve Board must develop financial risk analyses relating to climate change for specified large nonbank financial companies and bank holding companies. Specifically, these entities will be evaluated every two years on whether they have the capital necessary to absorb financial losses that would arise under several different climate change risk scenarios. 
 
The bill also establishes the Climate Risk Scenario Technical Development Group to provide recommendations to the board regarding such climate change risk scenarios, and determine the financial and economic risks of these scenarios. 
 
The Financial Stability Oversight Council of the Department of the Treasury must establish a subcommittee to assist it in identifying risks and responding to threats to the financial system as a result of climate change. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Preventing Diabetes in Medicare Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2905
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2019-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health care coverage and access
Medicare
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-20
text: 

Preventing Diabetes in Medicare Act of 

2019

 
This bill extends Medicare coverage for medical nutrition therapy services to beneficiaries with pre-diabetes or risk factors for developing type-2 diabetes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Giving Big Oil Free Money Act

Bill: 116-s-2906
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2019-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy prices
Energy revenues and royalties
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-20
text: 

Stop Giving Big Oil Free Money Act 

 
This bill prohibits the Department of the Interior from issuing new oil or natural gas production leases in the Gulf of Mexico to any person who does not renegotiate certain existing leases to require royalty payments if the price of oil and natural gas is greater than or equal to specified price thresholds.
 
Interior must also, upon request, agree to amend any lease issued for any Central and Western Gulf of Mexico tract during the period of January 1, 1996, through November 28, 2000, to incorporate specified price thresholds. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate