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Offshore Wind Jobs and Opportunity Act

Bill: 116-s-1769
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Economic development
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
National Guard and reserves
Nuclear power
Oil and gas
Unemployment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

Offshore Wind Jobs and Opportunity Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Energy to award offshore wind career training grants to institutions of higher education or labor organizations to develop, offer, or improve educational or career training programs that provide individuals currently enrolled in those programs with skills necessary for employment in the offshore wind industry.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
RISE from Trauma Act

Bill: 116-s-1770
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2019-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Crimes against children
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Family services
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Hospital care
Humanities programs funding
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health
Minority education
National and community service
Performance measurement
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: 

Resilience Investment, Support, and Expansion from Trauma Act or the RISE from Trauma Act

 
 This bill establishes and extends various programs to coordinate and support services for infants, children, youth, and families who have experienced, or may experience, trauma. These programs include 
 
 
grants to establish coordinating bodies to create strategic plans to address trauma based on community needs;
 
extending through FY2024 the performance partnership pilot program for children who have experienced trauma; 
 
recruiting individuals from communities that have high levels of trauma into the AmeriCorps and the National Health Service Corps programs;
 
grants providing comprehensive services and long-term case management to individuals who have been admitted to hospitals for drug overdoses, suicide attempts, or violent injury;
 
grants to states to ensure that health insurance plans comply with mental health parity rules; 
 
grants providing arts programming for children who have experienced trauma; and
 
reporting and guidance-issuing requirements for various agencies relating to how federal programs are addressing trauma. 
 
 
Additionally, the bill establishes (1) clinical and early childhood workforce development programs, (2) training and support programs, and (3) toolkits for front-line service providers. The bill also (1) provides grants for clinical training in institutions of higher education, (2) expands the Teacher Quality Partnership grants program, (3) provides grants to support and prevent childhood exposure to substance abuse and violence, and (4) establishes the National Law Enforcement Child and Youth Trauma Coordinating Center to assist local juvenile justice agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S3288-3292)
action_date: 2019-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to establish the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-1771
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement
Spacecraft and satellites

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 
This bill establishes the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Task Force on the Impact of the Affordable Housing Crisis Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1772
Sponsor: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Community life and organization
Economic development
Education of the disadvantaged
Health care coverage and access
Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Low- and moderate-income housing
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public housing
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 

Task Force on the Impact of the Affordable Housing Crisis Act of 2019

 
This bill establishes the Task Force on the Impact of the Affordable Housing Crisis and requires the task force to make recommendations on how to use affordable housing to improve the effectiveness of federal programs and improve life outcomes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Territories Health Equity Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1773
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: American Samoa
Caribbean area
Child health
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Guam
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hospital care
Income tax credits
Medicaid
Medicare
Northern Mariana Islands
Poverty and welfare assistance
Prescription drugs
Puerto Rico
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
U.S. territories and protectorates
User charges and fees
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 

Territories Health Equity Act of 2019

 
This bill alters provisions under Medicaid, Medicare, and Medicare Advantage relating to U.S. territories, and generally modifies and establishes programs to expand health insurance coverage for residents.
 
Among other things, the bill
 
 
eliminates Medicaid funding limitations for U.S. territories beginning in FY2020, 
 
repeals provisions that exclude residents of Puerto Rico from a certain automatic enrollment process for Medicare medical services, 
 
establishes minimum criteria for certain elements used in Medicare Advantage payment calculations for areas within U.S. territories, and 
 
allows residents of U.S. territories who are unable to obtain health insurance through their employer or a health insurance exchange to instead obtain coverage that is at least as broad as the coverage available to Members of Congress and their staff through the District of Columbia exchange. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Waterway LNG Parity Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1774
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government trust funds
Marine and inland water transportation
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 

Waterway LNG Parity Act of 2019

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an energy equivalent for a gallon of diesel, in the case of liquefied natural gas (LNG), for the purposes of the 29 cents per gallon Inland Waterways Trust Fund financing rate. (The rate is used for the excise tax on fuel used in commercial transportation on inland waterways.) The bill specifies that the energy equivalent of a gallon of diesel is 6.06 pounds of LNG.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
POST Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1775
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 

Protecting Our Students and Taxpayers Act of 2019 or the POST Act of 2019
 
 
This bill modifies requirements for a proprietary (i.e., for-profit) institution of higher education (IHE) to participate in federal student aid programs. 
 
Current law requires a proprietary IHE to derive at least 10% of its revenue from sources other than federal student aid. This bill requires a proprietary IHE to derive at least 15% of its revenue from sources other than federal funds (i.e., it replaces the so-called 90/10 rule with an 85/15 rule).
 
Additionally, the bill limits what a proprietary institution may treat as revenue to the school in calculating whether it derives at least 15% of its revenue from sources other than federal funds. 
 
Finally, the bill makes compliance with the 85/15 rule a condition of institutional eligibility to participate in federal student aid programs (i.e., failure to comply results in immediate loss of institutional eligibility). Currently, a proprietary IHE must violate the rule for two consecutive years before losing eligibility.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S3322-3323)
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Budget Act

Bill: 116-s-1776
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health programs administration and funding
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 

Children's Budget Act 

 
This bill requires the President's annual budget submission to include a detailed and separate analysis of existing and requested levels of spending for children and children's programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Accountability for Sexual and Gender-based Violence as a Tool in Conflict Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1777
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign property
Human rights
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Sanctions
Sex offenses
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Violent crime
Visas and passports
War and emergency powers
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 

Accountability for Sexual and Gender-based Violence as a Tool in Conflict Act of 2019

 
This bill provides for sanctions against foreign persons responsible for conflict-related acts of sexual and gender-based violence. 
 
The President may impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions on foreign persons responsible for sexual and gender-based violence against individuals seeking human rights or attempting to expose illegal activity by government officials. 
 
Foreign government officials and their immediate family members who have been involved in significant corruption involving sexual or gender-based violence shall be ineligible to enter the United States. 
 
The bill also expands existing foreign-assistance-related reporting requirements to include information on conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Terror Intelligence Improvement Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1778
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Detention of persons
Firearms and explosives
Government studies and investigations
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 

Terror Intelligence Improvement Act of 2019

 
This bill requires each federal department or agency to provide to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) information about a person who is or has been under a federal terrorism investigation.
 
The FBI and its Joint Terrorism Task Forces must immediately be notified of a request to transfer a firearm or explosive to a person who is, or was within the previous 10 years, under a federal terrorism investigation.
 
The Inspector General of the Intelligence Community must audit the terrorism-related screening and watch list procedures of the federal government.
 
The bill directs the Department of Justice to establish a process to delay and prevent the transfer of a firearm or explosive to a person who is, or was within the previous 10 years, under a federal terrorism investigation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act

Bill: 116-s-1779
Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Firearms and explosives
Manufacturing
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 

Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act

 
This bill removes limitations on the civil liability of gun manufacturers.
 
 Specifically, the bill repeals the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which prohibits civil actions against a firearm or ammunition manufacturer, seller, importer, dealer, or trade association for damages resulting from the criminal or unlawful misuse of a firearm.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Focus on Children Act

Bill: 116-s-1780
Sponsor: Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health programs administration and funding
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 

Focus on Children Act 

 
This bill requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to produce studies and reports regarding federal spending on children.
 
The CBO must provide
 
 
studies of legislation containing changes in spending on children, upon the request of a congressional committee; 
 
an annual report regarding spending on children; and
 
an annual report on the President's budget request for spending on children. 
 
 
The CBO may provide a warning report to Congress regarding a fiscal year in which outlays for interest on the public debt will exceed spending on children. 
 
The CBO must also develop and maintain a public website that includes 
 
 
 the reports and studies required by this bill, 
 
 a dashboard containing key indicators and visualization tools to assist the public in understanding trends in spending on children, and 
 
 an open data portal that contains quantitative data on federal spending on children. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Central American Women and Children Protection Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1781
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
El Salvador
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign aid and international relief
Guatemala
Honduras
Judicial procedure and administration
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Latin America
Law enforcement administration and funding
Lawyers and legal services
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Sex offenses
Violent crime
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 

Central American Women and Children Protection Act of 2019

 
This bill authorizes the Department of State to enter into bilateral agreements with the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to assist such countries in addressing violence against women and children. 
 
Such agreements shall establish a plan to achieve certain objectives, such as (1) identifying areas of the highest incidence of violence against women and children, (2) evaluating victims' access to justice and the ability of the justice system to hold perpetrators accountable, and (3) identifying measurable goals to deter crimes against women and children.
 
The State Department may assist the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras if such a government enters into an agreement with the United States, but no funds provided under this bill may be given directly to such a government. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Mental Health Access for Students Act

Bill: 116-s-1782
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Emergency communications systems
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 

Improving Mental Health Access for Students Act

 
This bill requires institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in federal student-aid programs to share contact information for suicide prevention resources with students. 
 
If IHEs distribute student identification cards, then they must include on the cards phone numbers for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line, and a campus mental-health center or program.
 
If IHEs do not create such cards, then they must publish the numbers on their websites.

action_date: 2020-12-17
text: 

Improving Mental Health Access for Students Act

 
This bill requires institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in federal student-aid programs to share contact information for suicide prevention resources with students. 
 
If IHEs distribute student identification cards, then they must include on the cards phone numbers for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line, and a campus mental-health center or program.
 
If IHEs do not create such cards, then they must publish the numbers on their websites.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-12-18
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2020-12-18
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2020-12-18
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote. (text: CR S7580-7581)
action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7580-7581)
action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Nogales Wastewater Fairness Act

Bill: 116-s-1783
Sponsor: Sen. McSally, Martha [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Arizona
Latin America
Mexico
Pipelines
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 

Nogales Wastewater Fairness Act

 
This bill directs the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission to charge Nogales, Arizona, no more than an equitable proportion of the costs for operating and maintaining the Nogales sanitation project. The sanitation project includes (1) the International Outfall Interceptor and the trunkline, which is a sewer line that carries wastewater along the U.S. and Mexico border; and (2) the Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Plant. 
 
Nogales is not obligated to pay the capital costs of repairing or upgrading the project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Stamp Out Elder Abuse Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1784
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2019-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Aging
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: 

Stamp Out Elder Abuse Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the U.S. Postal Service to issue a Stamp Out Elder Abuse Semipostal Stamp, with the proceeds from the sale of the stamp transferred to (1) the Department of Justice for specified purposes, including prevention and education regarding elder abuse, data collection, and victim services; and (2) the Department of Health and Human Services for purposes of elder justice activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3323-3324)
action_date: 2019-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate