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Wildland Firefighter Fairness Act

Bill: 116-s-1683
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Department of Homeland Security
Department of the Interior
Disability and paralysis
Disaster relief and insurance
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Forests, forestry, trees
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
National and community service
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Temporary and part-time employment
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Wildland Firefighter Fairness Act

 
 This bill requires the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture to work with states and the Workforce Development Committee of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group to merge the Incident Qualification System and the Incident Qualification and Certification System into a single system by September 30, 2027.
 
The Office of Personnel Management shall establish a pilot program to expand, when necessary, a service year limitation for seasonal or temporary federal employees whose duties primarily involve being a firefighter. 
The bill allows wildland firefighters of the Forest Service or Interior who sustained injuries in the performance of their duties that prevent them from performing the physical duties of a firefighter, but who commence an equivalent federal position after receiving compensation for their work injuries, to retain the same retirement benefits they would have received in their former position had they not been injured or disabled, without requiring them to complete any more years of service.
 
Compensation for disability or death of Forest Service and Interior wildland firefighters must include overtime pay received for wildfire suppression activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
No Leniency for Terrorists Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1684
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Detention of persons
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

No Leniency for Terrorists Act of 2019

 
This bill makes certain federal prisoners ineligible to receive good time credit. 
 
Specifically, it prohibits good time credit for a federal prisoner who is serving time for a terrorism offense. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Launching Energy Advancement and Development through Innovations for Natural Gas Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1685
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy research
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental technology
Oil and gas
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Launching Energy Advancement and Development through Innovations for Natural Gas Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a program for the capture of carbon dioxide produced during the generation of natural gas-generated power.
 
Specifically, DOE must
 
 
identify opportunities to accelerate the development of commercially viable carbon capture technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions;
 
 enter into cooperative agreements with certain entities to license, permit, construct, and operate at least three facilities to capture carbon dioxide from natural gas generating power facilities; and
 
identify any barriers to the commercial development of carbon capture technologies.
 

action_date: 2019-09-25
text: 

Launching Energy Advancement and Development through Innovations for Natural Gas Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a program for the capture of carbon dioxide produced during the generation of natural gas-generated power.
 
Specifically, DOE must
 
 
identify opportunities to accelerate the development of commercially viable carbon capture technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions;
 
 enter into cooperative agreements with certain entities to license, permit, construct, and operate at least three facilities to capture carbon dioxide from natural gas generating power facilities; and
 
identify any barriers to the commercial development of carbon capture technologies.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-09-25
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 221.
action_date: 2019-09-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 116-118.
action_date: 2019-09-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 116-118.
action_date: 2019-07-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2019-07-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-327.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Know Conflicts Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1686
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Family relationships
Financial services and investments
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Know Conflicts Act of 2019

 
This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that its publicly accessible website on federal awards includes information indicating whether an award has resulted in the existence of one or more active financial conflicts of interest with respect to the President, Vice President, spouse, or dependent children.
 
 The Bureau of the Fiscal Service of the Department of the Treasury must annually submit to Congress a report that includes a comprehensive accounting of all new or ongoing active conflicts of interest. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Forest Recovery Act

Bill: 116-s-1687
Sponsor: Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Forests, forestry, trees
Income tax deductions
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Forest Recovery Act 

 
This bill modifies the tax deduction for casualty losses to establish special rules for losses of uncut timber. 
 
In the case of the loss of uncut timber from fire, storm, other casualty, or theft, the basis used for determining the amount of the deduction may not be less than the excess of (1) the fair market value of the uncut timber determined immediately before the loss was sustained, over (2) the salvage value of the timber. 
 
The rule applies only if (1) the timber was held for the purpose of being cut and sold, and (2) the uncut timber subject to the loss is reforested within five years of the loss. 
 
The bill also exempts casualty losses from uncut timber from the rule restricting the deduction for personal casualty losses to losses attributable to a federally declared disaster. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the full disclosure of billing and service information to patients.

Bill: 116-s-1688
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 
This bill establishes certain requirements relating to health care billing practices. 
 
Specifically, the bill requires health care facilities and practitioners to (1) provide patients with a list of rendered services upon discharge, and (2) send all bills to patients within 30 business days. Further, patients may not be required to pay a bill earlier than 30 business days from the date of receipt. 
 
Facilities and practitioners must report any bills that are sent outside of the authorized time period to the Department of Health and Human Services and must also issue refunds to the patients billed; repeated violations are subject to civil penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Modernizing America’s Missile Defense Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1690
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alaska
Arms control and nonproliferation
Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Military facilities and property
Military operations and strategy
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Nuclear weapons
Public contracts and procurement
Russia
Spacecraft and satellites

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Modernizing America's Missile Defense Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Department of Defense to generally incorporate non-ballistic systems (e.g., hypersonic and cruise missiles) into its missile defense strategies and to test and report on specified space-based and ground-based missile defense technology.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Wildfire Resilient Communities Act

Bill: 116-s-1691
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Department of Agriculture
Executive agency funding and structure
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Wildfire-Resilient Communities Act
 
 
This bill provides funding and sets forth provisions to address wildland fire management in certain at-risk communities that are within the vicinity of federal lands that are at high risk from wildfire.
 
The bill provides funding for the Forest Service to carry out hazardous fuels reduction projects. The Forest Service shall prioritize projects that (1) are conducted in areas that are within or adjacent to at-risk communities or high value watersheds, have very high wildfire hazard potential, or are in fire regime I, II, or III; or (2) are designed to integrate and advance two or more of the goals established in a specified wildland fire management report to create fire-adapted communities, to restore and maintain resilient landscapes, and to achieve safe, effective fire response.
 
 The Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior shall furnish financial and technical assistance to at-risk communities that are adjacent to federal land, including through states, to assist such communities in planning and preparing for wildfire.
 
The bill makes permanent the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program. The bill removes the limits on the number of proposals that may be funded for ecological restoration treatments for priority forest landscapes under the program. The Forest Service may continue to select the number of proposals that are determined likely to receive adequate funding. 
 
The bill establishes the County Stewardship Fund for making payments to counties that have a contract for a stewardship contracting project on federal land within their boundaries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Invest in Our Democracy Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1692
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Education programs funding
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Higher education
State and local government operations
Subversive activities

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Invest in Our Democracy Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to provide grants to institutions of higher education to reduce tuition for state or local election officials, employees of such election officials, and employees of the EAC who are enrolled in accredited certificate programs in election administration or cybersecurity at such institutions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1693
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Floods and storm protection

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2019

 
This bill reauthorizes the National Flood Insurance Program through June 14, 2019. 
 
The bill shall take effect as if it had been enacted on May 31, 2019.

action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2019

 
This bill reauthorizes the National Flood Insurance Program through June 14, 2019. 
 
The bill shall take effect as if it had been enacted on May 31, 2019.

action_date: 2019-05-30
text: 

National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2019

 
This bill reauthorizes the National Flood Insurance Program through June 14, 2019. 
 
The bill shall take effect as if it had been enacted on May 31, 2019.

action_date: 2019-05-31
text: 

National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2019

 
This bill reauthorizes the National Flood Insurance Program through June 14, 2019. 
 
The bill shall take effect as if it had been enacted on May 31, 2019.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-31
text: Became Public Law No: 116-19.
action_date: 2019-05-31
text: Became Public Law No: 116-19.
action_date: 2019-05-31
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2019-05-31
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2019-05-31
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2019-05-31
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2019-05-30
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2019-05-30
text: On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H4178)
action_date: 2019-05-30
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H4178)
action_date: 2019-05-30
text: Mr. Evans asked unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table and consider.
action_date: 2019-05-30
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H4178)
action_date: 2019-05-28
text: Mr. Bishop (GA) asked unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table and pass the bill, S. 1693. Mr. Massie objected to the consideration of the Senate bill.
action_date: 2019-05-28
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2019-05-28
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2019-05-28
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S3128; text: CR S3128)
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Voice Vote.(consideration: CR S3128; text: CR S3128)
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate

Enacted as: number: 116-19
Human-Powered Travel in Wilderness Areas Act

Bill: 116-s-1695
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2019-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: 

Human-Powered Travel in Wilderness Areas Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior to authorize their respective local offices to determine all permissible forms of nonmotorized travel over routes within wilderness areas.
 
Local offices must seek to accommodate all forms of nonmotorized travel to the maximum extent practicable. If a local office fails to make such a determination about a route within two years after this bill's enactment, then any form of nonmotorized travel shall be allowable on that route. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-11-18
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-382.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Loan Tax Elimination Act

Bill: 116-s-1696
Sponsor: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2019-06-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: 

Student Loan Tax Elimination Act

 
This bill eliminates the origination fee on federal student loans. Origination fees are the fees lenders charge for processing new loan applications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Immediate Coverage for Former Foster Youth Act

Bill: 116-s-1697
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2019-06-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Adoption and foster care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: 

Immediate Coverage for Former 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: 2019-06-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Expanded Coverage for Former Foster Youth Act

Bill: 116-s-1698
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2019-06-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Medicaid
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: 

Expanded Coverage for Former Foster Youth Act

 
This bill modifies 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 requires state Medicaid programs to also cover former foster youth who were placed in a legal guardianship with a kinship caregiver or were emancipated from foster care before the age of 18. The bill also repeals the provision that requires former foster youth to have been enrolled in a state Medicaid program while in foster care in order to qualify for Medicaid coverage until the age of 26. States must also establish Medicaid outreach and enrollment programs for former foster youth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: Introduced in Senate
STREAMLINE Small Cell Deployment Act

Bill: 116-s-1699
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2019-06-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Infrastructure development
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations
Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: 

Streamlining The Rapid Evolution And Modernization of Leading-edge Infrastructure Necessary to Enhance Small Cell Deployment Act or the STREAMLINE Small Cell Deployment Act

 
This bill establishes standards for reviewing broadband infrastructure siting applications, taking into account inherent challenges to smaller municipalities.
 
Specifically, the bill requires that regulation of the placement, construction, or modification of small personal wireless service facilities by any state or local government not be unreasonably discriminatory among providers of the same service using comparable equipment. Accordingly, a state or local government must base its permitting decision on publicly-available criteria that are reasonable, objective, and non-discriminatory.
 
Additionally, the bill requires action be taken on applications within a specific time frame based on the type of request, provides time frame flexibility for small municipalities, and allows the Federal Communications Commission to grant a waiver of such time frames. A state or local government may also charge a fee to consider an application if the fee is (1) competitively neutral, technology neutral, and nondiscriminatory; (2) publicly disclosed; and (3) based on actual and direct costs.
 
The Government Accountability Office shall study and report on deployment of broadband infrastructure on tribal land or near trust land.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text: CR S3167-3168)
action_date: 2019-06-03
text: Introduced in Senate