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FISH SAFE Act

Bill: 116-s-1410
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Research administration and funding
Transportation employees
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Funding Instruction for Safety, Health, and Security Avoids Fishing Emergencies Act or the
 
FISH SAFE Act

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2021 and expands the Department of Health and Human Services fishing safety training and research grant programs.
 
The federal share of the costs of any activity that may be carried out using grants under the programs is increased to 75%. Currently, the federal share must not exceed 50%.
 
The bill is retroactively effective.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
AMICUS Act

Bill: 116-s-1411
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Federal appellate courts
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government studies and investigations
Judges
Judicial procedure and administration
Judicial review and appeals
Lawyers and legal services
Licensing and registrations
Supreme Court
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Assessing Monetary Influence in the Courts of the United States Act or the AMICUS Act

 
This bill requires certain disclosures from a person that files three or more amicus briefs in a calendar year in the Supreme Court or a U.S. court of appeals. Specifically, such a person must disclose the name of anyone who (1) contributed to the preparation or submission of the amicus brief, or (2) made certain monetary contributions to the person. 
 
Persons that are subject to these requirements must register with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, which must make the registration information publicly available. 

 
Such persons are also prohibited from making gifts or providing travel to any U.S. court of appeals judge or Supreme Court justice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
RAISE VET FUND Act

Bill: 116-s-1412
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Charitable contributions
Commemorative events and holidays
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Restoring Access, Improving Service to Enable Veterans Engaging To Fundraise Act of 2019 or the RAISE VET FUND Act

 
This bill authorizes certain veterans organizations to solicit donations at U.S. Postal Service (USPS) locations in the days around holidays. Specifically, the USPS must allow veterans service organizations that are recognized by the Department of Veterans Affairs to solicit donations by distributing items that are veterans symbols at a post office on the two business days before and after a federal holiday or Flag Day.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
END Network Abuse Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1413
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child health
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Domestic violence and child abuse
Evidence and witnesses
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Mental health
Military facilities and property
Military law
Sex offenses
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

End National Defense Network Abuse Act of 2019 or the END Network Abuse Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Department of Defense to establish (1) an initiative to improve the capacity of military criminal-investigative organizations to prevent child sexual exploitation, and (2) partnerships with various governmental and outside entities to improve practices and outcomes related to the prevention of child sexual exploitation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Borrower Bankruptcy Relief Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1414
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Student Borrower Bankruptcy Relief Act of 2019

 
This bill permits a borrower to discharge in bankruptcy a nonprofit, government, or private student loan, or an obligation to repay an educational benefit, scholarship, or stipend.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Bipartisan Disaster Recovery Funding Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1415
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Housing and community development funding

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Bipartisan Disaster Recovery Funding Act of 2019

 
This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, within 60 days, to release certain funding awarded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for mitigation activities under the Community Development Block Grant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Maritime Administration Authorization and Enhancement Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1417
Sponsor: Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Coast guard
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Customs enforcement
Department of Commerce
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Transportation
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Education programs funding
Emergency planning and evacuation
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Executive agency funding and structure
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Genetics
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Gulf of Mexico
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Higher education
Human trafficking
Infrastructure development
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
International organizations and cooperation
Labor standards
Law enforcement administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
Military readiness
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation
Rule of law and government transparency
Seafood
Small business
Smuggling and trafficking
Solid waste and recycling
Student aid and college costs
Trade agreements and negotiations
Trade restrictions
Transportation employees
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security
User charges and fees
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Violent crime
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Maritime Administration Authorization and Enhancement Act of 2019

 
This bill addresses (1) several aspects of the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD); (2) illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU fishing); and (3) maritime security.
 
Among other things, the bill
 
 
reauthorizes MARAD programs, including programs associated with maintaining the U.S. Merchant Marine;
 
promotes transparency and traceability in the seafood supply chain;
 
promotes the use of technology to combat IUU fishing;
 
establishes an interagency working group on maritime security, IUU fishing, and seafood fraud; and
 
establishes a sub-working group to address IUU fishing within the U.S. exclusive economic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Strength in Diversity Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1418
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2019-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Minority education
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Racial and ethnic relations
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: 

Strength in Diversity Act of 2019

 
This bill directs the Department of Education to award grants to specified educational agencies to develop or implement plans to improve diversity and reduce or eliminate racial or socioeconomic isolation in publicly funded early childhood education programs, public elementary schools, or public secondary schools.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
SMART Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1420
Sponsor: Sen. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ]
Introduced: 2019-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Competition and antitrust
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Economic performance and conditions
Inflation and prices
Judicial review and appeals

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: 

Setting Manageable Analysis Requirements in Text Act of 2019 or the SMART Act of 2019

 
This bill requires agencies, when publishing a proposed or final major rule, to include a framework for assessing whether the rule achieves its regulatory objective. An agency must assess a rule in the time frame included in the framework. The assessment must compare the rule's anticipated and actual benefits and costs.
 
The bill defines a major rule as a rule likely to cause (1) an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more; (2) a major increase in costs or prices; or (3) significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation, health, safety, the environment, or the ability of U.S.-based enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises.

action_date: 2019-07-15
text: 

Setting Manageable Analysis Requirements in Text Act of 2019 or the SMART Act of 2019

 
This bill requires agencies, when publishing a proposed or final major rule, to include a framework for assessing whether the rule achieves its regulatory objective. An agency must assess a rule in the time frame included in the framework. The assessment must compare the rule's anticipated and actual benefits and costs.
 
The bill defines a major rule as a rule likely to cause (1) an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more; (2) a major increase in costs or prices; or (3) significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation, health, safety, the environment, or the ability of U.S.-based enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-07-15
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 147.
action_date: 2019-07-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. With written report No. 116-55.
action_date: 2019-07-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. With written report No. 116-55.
action_date: 2019-05-22
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management. Hearings held.
action_date: 2019-05-22
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held.
action_date: 2019-05-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Ghost Army Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 116-s-1421
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2019-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Military history
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Smithsonian Institution

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: 

Ghost Army Congressional Gold Medal Act

 
This bill directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops and the 3133d Signal Services Company in recognition of their service during World War II. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening the Medicare Trust Fund Act

Bill: 116-s-1422
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2019-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Government trust funds
Health programs administration and funding
Hospital care
Income tax rates
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: 

Strengthening the Medicare Trust Fund Act

 
This bill requires net investment income tax revenues to be transferred to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, which funds Medicare hospital services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare and Medicaid Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1423
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2019-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Dental care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Medicaid
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: 

Medicare and Medicaid Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act of
 
2019

 
This bill provides for Medicare coverage of dental, vision, and hearing care. Coverage includes (1) routine dental cleanings and exams, basic and major dental services, emergency dental care, and dentures; (2) routine eye exams, eyeglasses, and contact lenses; and (3) routine hearing exams, hearing aids, and exams for hearing aids. With respect to such care, the bill establishes special payment rules, limitations, and coinsurance requirements. 
 
The bill also increases the Medicaid Federal Medical Assistance Percentage for dental, vision, and hearing services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
MORE Savings Act

Bill: 116-s-1424
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2019-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid
Medicare
Mental health
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Prescription drugs
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: 

Maximizing Opioid Recovery Emergency Savings Act or the MORE Savings Act

 
This bill modifies coverage of opioid treatments and recovery support services under Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance.
 
Specifically, the bill requires the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test a model in which specified opioid treatments and recovery support services are provided under Medicare without cost-sharing (e.g., coinsurance, copayments, and deductibles). 
 
The bill also allows state Medicaid programs to cover recovery support services as part of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and increases the applicable Federal Medical Assistance Percentage for MAT.
 
Private health insurers must also cover specified opioid treatments and MAT-associated recovery support services without cost-sharing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the deduction for interest on education loans, to extend and expand the deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses, and eliminate the limitation on contributions to Coverdell education savings accounts.

Bill: 116-s-1425
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2019-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: 
This bill expands several tax deductions for education expenses. Specifically, the bill includes provisions that (1) allow an unlimited tax deduction for student loan interest, (2) repeal the dollar limitation on the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses and make such deduction permanent, (3) allow carryovers to succeeding taxable years of amounts of the deductions for student loan interest and qualified tuition and related expenses that exceed a taxpayer's taxable income, and (4) repeal the dollar limitation on contributions to a Coverdell Education Savings Account. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to establish a procedure for approval of certain settlements.

Bill: 116-s-1426
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2019-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Civil actions and liability
Endangered and threatened species
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: 
This bill revises provisions governing citizen suits against the Department of the Interior or the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration that allege a failure of the relevant department to perform its duties related to an endangered species or threatened species. Interior must publish the complaint in a citizen suit within 30 days of being served. Affected parties must be given a reasonable opportunity to intervene in the suit. If affected parties intervene, the court must refer the action to a mediation program or magistrate judge to facilitate settlement discussions.
 
The court is prohibited from awarding litigation costs in such citizen suits that are settled. 
 
Interior must provide notice of a proposed settlement to each affected state or county. A settlement may not be approved if states or counties object. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Retirement Parity for Student Loans Act

Bill: 116-s-1428
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2019-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Employee benefits and pensions
Higher education
Income tax deferral
Student aid and college costs
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: 

Retirement Parity for Student Loans Act 

 
This bill allows certain employer-sponsored retirement plans to make matching contributions for an employee's student loan payments as if the loan payments were salary reduction contributions to the retirement plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2790; text: CR S2790)
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act

Bill: 116-s-1429
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2019-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Endangered and threatened species
Government information and archives
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: 

21st Century Endangered Species Transparency Act

 
This bill requires the Department of the Interior or the Department of Commerce to publish online, subject to privacy limitations, the best scientific and commercial data available that are the bases for the determination of whether a species is an endangered species or a threatened species, including each proposed regulation for the listing of a species.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Retirement Security and Savings Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-1431
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2019-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Employee benefits and pensions
Government information and archives
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax deferral
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Sales and excise taxes
Small business
Student aid and college costs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Temporary and part-time employment

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: 

Retirement Security and Savings Act of 2019

 
This bill modifies various tax policies, credits, and requirements that apply to employer-provided retirement plans and Individual Retirement Accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Improve Data on Sexual Violence Act

Bill: 116-s-1432
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI]
Introduced: 2019-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Sex offenses
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: 

Improve Data on Sexual Violence Act

 
This bill directs the Office of Management and Budget to establish an interagency working group to study and make recommendations to harmonize federal efforts to collect data on sexual violence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate