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Smithsonian and National Gallery of Art Collections Space Authorization Act

Bill: 116-hr-8590
Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40]
Introduced: 2020-10-13 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Maryland
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Smithsonian Institution

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: 

Smithsonian and National Gallery of Art Collections Space Authorization Act

 
This bill authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution and the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art to construct and use a collections storage space at the museum support facility of the Smithsonian Institution in Suitland, Maryland, to accommodate the care, preservation, conservation, storage, and study of national collections held in trust by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2020-10-13
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2020-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Introduced in House
Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-8591
Sponsor: Rep. Sherrill, Mikie [D-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2020-10-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Family relationships
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Judges
Personnel records
Protection of officials
Right of privacy
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: 

Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2020 

 
This bill addresses the security of active and retired federal judges and their immediate families, including by limiting the release of these protected individuals' personally identifiable information.
 
Specifically, federal agencies may not publicly post a protected individual's personally identifiable information. Furthermore, upon receiving a written request from a protected individual, an agency must within 72 hours remove any such information relating to the individual that has already been posted.
 
The Department of Justice must award grants to state and local governments to help prevent the release of protected individuals' personally identifiable information.
 
Additionally, data brokers may not sell the personally identifiable information of a protected individual. Upon receiving a written request from a protected individual, a private party (1) shall not publicly disclose personally identifiable information relating to the individual, and (2) must remove any such information already posted on the internet. 
 
A protected individual may sue to enforce the bill's provisions.
 The bill also authorizes additional security for protected individuals, including by providing home intrusion detection systems and expanding the availability of U.S. Marshals Service protection.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Introduced in House
EMS Counts Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-8592
Sponsor: Rep. Wild, Susan [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2020-10-13 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Government information and archives
Health personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: 

EMS Counts Act
 
of 2020

 
This bill requires the Department of Labor to revise the broad description under the occupational series 
33-2011 Firefighters 
of the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification System of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to include the following detailed occupations:
 
 
Firefighters;
 
 Firefighter/EMTs;
 
 Firefighter/Paramedics; and
 
 Firefighters, All Other.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Lucio Enrique Perez Ortiz, Dora Gonzalez Santizo, and Edvin Oriany Perez Gonzalez.

Bill: 116-hr-8593
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2020-10-13 in the House
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Provides for the relief of Lucio Enrique Perez Ortiz, Dora Gonzalez Santizo, and Edvin Oriany Perez Gonzalez.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Irida Kakhtiranova.

Bill: 116-hr-8594
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2020-10-13 in the House
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Provides for the relief of Irida Kakhtiranova.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-13
text: Introduced in House
To nullify the effect of Executive Order 13950 relating to combating race and sex stereotyping.

Bill: 116-hr-8595
Sponsor: Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3]
Introduced: 2020-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military personnel and dependents
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: 
This bill nullifies a September 22, 2020, executive order prohibiting government contractors and other entities from conducting specified workplace training related to race or sex.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Armed 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: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Armed 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: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Armed 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: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act

Bill: 116-hr-8596
Sponsor: Rep. Budd, Ted [R-NC-13]
Introduced: 2020-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Legal fees and court costs
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: 

Limiting Section 230 Immunity to Good Samaritans Act

 
This bill requires an edge provider of an interactive computer service (e.g., social media website) to adopt and maintain written terms of service binding itself to a contractual duty of good faith in order to qualify for the statutory protection against being treated as the publisher of information distributed through the service by a third party.
 
An 
edge provider
 is a provider of an interactive computer service through which information published by other content providers is distributed and that has more than (1) $1.5 billion in annual global revenue, and (2) 30 million monthly users in the United States or 300 million monthly users worldwide. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Policing Transparency Act

Bill: 116-hr-8597
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2020-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Personnel records
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: 

Policing Transparency Act

 
This bill requires states and local governments, in order to receive certain federal funds, to (1) report annually to the National Use-of-Force Data Collection of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on use-of-force events by law enforcement officers resulting in fatalities, serious bodily injuries, and firearm discharges; and (2) maintain a system for sharing disciplinary records of law enforcement officers.
 
The bill also requires the Department of Justice to award a one-time grant to each state for establishing the systems for sharing disciplinary records. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Social Security COLA for 2021 Act

Bill: 116-hr-8598
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2020-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Government trust funds
Inflation and prices
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: 

Emergency Social Security COLA for 2021 Act

 
This bill applies a 3% cost-of-living increase to Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income payable in calendar year 2021. The bill also disregards this increase for purposes of determining an individual's eligibility for federally funded, means-tested programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Binational Health Strategies Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-8599
Sponsor: Rep. Escobar, Veronica [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2020-10-16 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arizona
California
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Health promotion and preventive care
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Latin America
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mexico
New Mexico
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: 

Binational Health Strategies Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission to (1) report on the border area's response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) in both the United States and Mexico, (2) submit a binational strategic plan with respect to COVID-19, and (3) submit a plan to prepare and respond to future infectious diseases within the border area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
COVID–19 Emergency Social Security Cost of Living Increase Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-8600
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2020-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aging
Government information and archives
Inflation and prices
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: 

COVID-19 Emergency Social Security Cost of Living Increase Act of 2020

 
This bill changes the methods used to determine annual increases to Social Security benefits and provides an emergency cost-of-living increase of at least 3% to beneficiaries beginning in November 2020.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Payer State Transparency Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-8601
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2020-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: 

Payer State Transparency Act of 2020
 
 
This bill requires the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce to calculate the federal tax burden of each state for each calendar year. It also requires the Office of Management and Budget to calculate the total amount of federal outlays received by each state in each fiscal year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1233 North Cedar Street in Owasso, Oklahoma, as the "Staff Sergeant Marshal Roberts Post Office Building".

Bill: 116-hr-8602
Sponsor: Rep. Hern, Kevin [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2020-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Oklahoma
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1233 North Cedar Street in Owasso, Oklahoma, as the "Staff Sergeant Marshal Roberts Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Developing and Empowering our Aspiring Leaders Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-8603
Sponsor: Rep. Hollingsworth, Trey [R-IN-9]
Introduced: 2020-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Financial services and investments
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: 

Developing and Empowering our Aspiring Leaders Act
 
of 2020

 
This bill directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to revise venture capital investment regulations. Specifically, the bill allows investments acquired through secondary transactions to be considered as qualifying investments for venture capital funds. However, for a private fund to qualify as a venture capital fund, the investments predominately must be acquired directly. Under current law, non-qualifying investments&#8212;which include secondary transactions&#8212;may comprise up to 20% of a venture capital fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Essential Workers Act

Bill: 116-hr-8604
Sponsor: Rep. Kim, Andy [D-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2020-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business records
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Competition and antitrust
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Health facilities and institutions
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Indian social and development programs
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Inflation and prices
Manufacturing
Minority health
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: 

Protecting Essential Workers Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish within two months a publicly accessible clearinghouse of information about personal protective equipment used to prevent the spread of COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) or other pathogens that trigger public health emergency declarations.
 
The clearinghouse must identify sources of available equipment, verify product prices, and provide other information to facilitate the procurement of these products. Participation in this clearinghouse by suppliers of personal protective equipment must be voluntary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Community Readiness Act

Bill: 116-hr-8605
Sponsor: Rep. Kim, Andy [D-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2020-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medical research
Research administration and funding
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality
Water resources funding

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: 

Community Readiness Act

 
This bill allows the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants for research institutions or state or local governments to research or establish wastewater surveillance systems or other early-warning systems for detecting infectious diseases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
To defer the tax of certain sales of employer stock and reduce certain retirement-related excise taxes, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-8606
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2020-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business records
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deferral
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Sales and excise taxes
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: 
This bill extends to all domestic corporations (including S corporations) the deferral of tax on certain sales of employer stock to employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and reduces certain retirement-related excise taxes. 
 
Specifically, the bill reduces excise tax rates of certain excess accumulations in tax-exempt retirement plans and on failures to take required minimum distributions from such plans. It also allows employers who establish a tax-exempt 403(b) pension plan to participate in a multiple employer plan.
 
The bill extends the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs to employers that join an existing plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
U.S. Postal Service Accountability and Voting Rights Act

Bill: 116-hr-8607
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2020-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Department of Defense
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Employee hiring
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military education and training
Military personnel and dependents
Performance measurement
Postal service
State and local government operations
Subversive activities
Telephone and wireless communication
Terrorism
U.S. Postal Service
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: 

U.S. Postal Service Accountability and Voting Rights Act

 
This bill prohibits the U.S. Postal Service from making changes to operations or levels of service from those that were in effect on January 1, 2020, requires states to carry out programs to track federal absentee ballots and voter registration application forms, and requires states to accept the federal write-in absentee ballot from absent uniformed services and overseas voters. It also requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to provide annual training to members of the Armed Forces and civilian employees of DOD related to cyberspace information threats. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, and Armed 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: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, and Armed 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: 2020-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, and Armed 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: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-10-16
text: Introduced in House