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Free Tibet Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6948
Sponsor: Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10]
Introduced: 2020-05-19 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
China
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Tibet

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: 

Free Tibet Act of 2020

 
This bill authorizes the President to recognize the Tibet Autonomous Region as a separate and independent country from China.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation.
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Saving Our Street Act

Bill: 116-hr-6949
Sponsor: Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2020-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Appropriations
Business investment and capital
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee hiring
Employee leave
Employment taxes
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Self-employed
Small business
Unemployment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: 

Saving Our Street Act

 
This bill establishes and provides funding for the Microbusiness Assistance Fund through which the Department of the Treasury must provide grants to specified small entities.
 
Specifically, the bill provides $125 billion for grants to entities such as community small businesses and nonprofits that have suffered a drop in revenue of over 20% during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. Such a grant shall not exceed $250,000 and may only be used for certain purposes, including (1) rehiring or hiring furloughed employees; (2) payment of compensation, rent or mortgage, utilities, or insurance; and (3) providing health care and benefits to employees.
 
Treasury is prohibited from denying a grant on the basis of any criminal history or involvement with the criminal legal system. Further, Treasury must give priority to people of color, veterans, women-owned community businesses, and socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, and 75% of appropriated amounts shall be provided to businesses or nonprofits owned or controlled by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
GAINS Act

Bill: 116-hr-6950
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2020-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Homeland security
Intergovernmental relations
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: 

Generating Artificial Intelligence Networking Security Act or the GAINS Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Commerce to study and report on the impact of artificial intelligence, including machine learning, on U.S. businesses conducting interstate commerce.
 
Such study shall involve, among other things, (1) listing industry sectors that develop and use artificial intelligence and public-private partnerships focused on promoting the adoption and use of such technology, (2) establishing a list of federal agencies asserting jurisdiction over such industry sectors and entities and determining how these agencies are reducing barriers to business adoption and use of artificial intelligence, and (3) assessing risks and trends in the marketplace and supply chain of artificial intelligence.
 
Commerce must report to Congress the results of such study and any recommendations to promote the adoption of artificial intelligence. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Foreign Affairs, 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: 2020-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Foreign Affairs, 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: 2020-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Foreign Affairs, 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: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
To direct the President to appoint a Medical Supplies Response Coordinator to coordinate the efforts of the Federal Government regarding the supply and distribution of certain supplies and equipment relating to COVID-19.

Bill: 116-hr-6952
Sponsor: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10]
Introduced: 2020-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Inflation and prices
Intergovernmental relations
Manufacturing
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: 
This bill requires the President to appoint a Medical Supplies Response Coordinator to oversee federal efforts concerning the supply chain of critical medical supplies and equipment related to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2020-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Pandemic Responder Service Award Act

Bill: 116-hr-6953
Sponsor: Rep. Shalala, Donna E. [D-FL-27]
Introduced: 2020-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business investment and capital
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Cemeteries and funerals
Disability and paralysis
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Health personnel
Higher education
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Labor-management relations
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Mental health
Nursing
Student aid and college costs
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: 

Pandemic Responder Service Award Act

 
This bill establishes a monetary award for health care workers who provide eligible services during the COVID-19 (i.e. coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. The award may only be used by the worker or their dependents for specified purposes, such as repaying student loans or starting a business. Eligible services include, among others, emergency medical services, health care or patient care services, and mortuary services in environments that present an elevated risk of contracting COVID-19. 
 
The maximum award amount is $10,000 in 2021, with amounts in subsequent years increased by cost-of-living adjustments. Recipients receive a percentage of that amount based on the number of days they provided eligible services during the pandemic. 
 
The Department of the Treasury must establish application processes and guidelines for the award and maintain savings accounts for eligible health care workers or their dependents to receive distributions of award amounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-19
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: 2020-05-19
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: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
SMART Act

Bill: 116-hr-6954
Sponsor: Rep. Sherrill, Mikie [D-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2020-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Disaster relief and insurance
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Federal-Indian relations
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local finance
State and local government operations
State and local taxation
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: 

State Municipal Assistance for Response and Transition Act or the SMART Act

 
This bill provides $500 billion for a Coronavirus Local Community Stabilization Fund to address the economic effects of the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic on state, local, and tribal budgets. The bill also expands the uses of payments from the Coronavirus Relief Fund.
 
The bill allows a jurisdiction to use funding from the Coronavirus Local Community Stabilization Fund or Coronavirus Relief Fund for (1) necessary expenditures related to COVID-19 that were not accounted for in the jurisdiction's budget, including the nonfederal share contribution requirement for disaster or emergency assistance; or (2) expenditures the jurisdiction would otherwise be unable to make because of decreased or delayed revenues. Funding from the Coronavirus Local Community Stabilization Fund may be used for expenditures through 2022. 
 
The bill (1) reserves specified funds for payments to tribal governments; (2) apportions funds to states based on population, infected population, and revenue lost; (3) provides for payments to counties and municipalities based on lost revenue.
 
The bill conditions funding on each state agreeing to fair and equitable budgeting based on need.
 
The Office of Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury may use amounts appropriated to carry out oversight and recoupment activities under this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Essential Worker Pandemic Compensation Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6955
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2020-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Federal officials
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Hospital care
Income tax exclusion
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Student aid and college costs
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: 

Essential Worker Pandemic Compensation Act of 2020

 
 This bill compensates specified essential workers who die or are hospitalized as a result of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) or related complications. Specifically, the bill provides death benefits to survivors of essential workers equal to the amount available under the public safety officer benefits program. Essential workers include those identified in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency guidance or by a Special Master appointed by the Department of Health and Human Services. Such death benefits include additional payments to a surviving spouse or child enrolled in qualified postsecondary education.
 
 Further, essential workers who are hospitalized as a result of COVID-19 receive one half of the base death benefit amount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-19
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: 2020-05-19
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: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Farming Support to States Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6956
Sponsor: Rep. Torres Small, Xochitl [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2020-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Agricultural research
American Samoa
Appropriations
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Caribbean area
Consumer affairs
Department of Agriculture
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Farmland
Floods and storm protection
Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Government information and archives
Guam
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Intergovernmental relations
Livestock
Marshall Islands
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Puerto Rico
Retail and wholesale trades
Rural conditions and development
Small business
State and local government operations
U.S. territories and protectorates
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
Virgin Islands
Watersheds
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: 

Farming Support to States Act of 2020 

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to establish the Food and Agriculture Emergency Response and Resiliency Program to provide aid for the states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories to carry out activities to respond to urgent and emerging issues in the agriculture economy and food supply chain impacted by COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) and related food system threats. The bill also provides funding for the program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-19
text: Introduced in House
National Guard COVID–19 Earned Benefits Guarantee Act

Bill: 116-hr-6957
Sponsor: Rep. Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2020-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: 

National Guard COVID-19 Earned Benefits Guarantee Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to treat full-time National Guard duty performed in response to the national emergency with respect to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) as a period of not shorter than 90 days (i.e., the threshold usually required for eligibility for certain retirement and education benefits). 
 
Members of Congress are excluded and must deploy for not fewer than 90 days to receive similar benefits eligibility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2020-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2020-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Introduced in House
COVID-19 Dependent Care Flexible Spending Arrangement Rollover Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6958
Sponsor: Rep. Axne, Cynthia [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2020-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Adult day care
Child care and development
Department of the Treasury
Disability and paralysis
Income tax deductions
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: 

COVID-19 Dependent Care Flexible Spending Arrangement Rollover Act of 2020

 
This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to issue regulations or other guidance that permit the unused balance as of the end of plan year 2020 of any dependent care flexible spending arrangement to be rolled over to plan year 2021. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Dosha Joi Immediate Coverage for Foster Youth Act

Bill: 116-hr-6959
Sponsor: Rep. Bass, Karen [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2020-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Adoption and foster care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: 

Dosha Joi Immediate Coverage for Foster Youth Act

 
This bill accelerates the application of certain changes that are scheduled to take effect under the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act relating to the coverage of former foster youth under Medicaid. 
 
Under current law, a state Medicaid program must cover former foster youth until the age of 26 if the youth were in the state's foster care system at the age of 18 and were enrolled in the state's Medicaid program while in foster care; a state may choose to also cover former foster youth from other states. The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act altered these provisions to require a state Medicaid program to cover former foster youth from other states until the age of 26; such changes apply to former foster youth who reach the age of 18 on or after January 1, 2023. 
 
The bill instead applies these changes to former foster youth who reach the age of 18 on or after the date of enactment of this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Introduced in House
MOM-AND-POP Act

Bill: 116-hr-6960
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2020-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Appropriations
Business expenses
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government lending and loan guarantees
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Self-employed
Small business
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: 

Maximizing Our Money and Addressing Novel Disasters by Protecting Our Proprietors Act or the MOM-AND-POP Act

 
This bill reserves assistance under the Paycheck Protection Program, established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), for specified small entities.
 
Specifically, the bill establishes a set-aside of at least 25% of amounts appropriated for paycheck protection loans to guarantee loans of $150,000 or less made to small entities such as a (1) business or nonprofit with 25 employees or fewer, (2) sole proprietor, or (3) self-employed individual.
 
The Small Business Administration must consider implementing a similar set-aside for any future loan programs created in direct response to a major disaster. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the posthumous honorary promotion to general of Lieutenant General Frank Maxwell Andrews, United States Army.

Bill: 116-hr-6961
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2020-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: 
This bill authorizes the President to issue a posthumous honorary commission promoting Lieutenant General Frank Maxwell Andrews, U.S. Army, to the grade of general.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-22
text: Introduced in House