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Eliminating Corporate Shadow Banking Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2839
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2019-11-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Corporate finance and management
Credit and credit markets
Federal Reserve System
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: 

Eliminating Corporate Shadow Banking Act of 2019

 
This bill provides for the regulation of industrial loan companies by the Federal Reserve. Industrial loan companies must comply with specified reporting, examination, and ownership requirements. (Industrial loan companies may generally provide services similar to depository institutions, but their parent holding company may be a nonfinancial, commercial firm.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-05
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-2840
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2019-11-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Afghanistan
Alliances
Armed Forces Retirement Home
Arms control and nonproliferation
Asia
Aviation and airports
Chemical and biological weapons
Collective security
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Education programs funding
Electric power generation and transmission
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy research
Europe
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Illinois
Iraq
Land transfers
Massachusetts
Middle East
Military command and structure
Military facilities and property
Military medicine
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Military readiness
National Guard and reserves
New Mexico
New York State
Norway
Nuclear weapons
Pakistan
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Special education
Syria
Texas
Transportation costs
Transportation safety and security
United Kingdom
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: 

Essential National Security Authorities Act for Fiscal Year 2020

 
This bill authorizes FY2020 appropriations and sets forth policies for Department of Defense programs and activities. The bill also authorizes appropriations and sets forth policies for Department of Energy national security programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 305.
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2019-11-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Support Our Start-Ups Act

Bill: 116-s-2841
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2019-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business expenses
Business investment and capital
Corporate finance and management
Income tax deductions
Inflation and prices
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: 

Support Our Start-Ups Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the tax deduction for new business expenditures to organizational expenditures, generally defined as expenditures incident to the creation of a corporation or a partnership.
 
The bill also increases the maximum deduction amount for start-up and organizational expenditures from $5,000 to $20,000 and increases from $50,000 to $120,000 the threshold amount after which the maximum deduction amount for such expenditures is reduced. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Increasing Access to Quality Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2842
Sponsor: Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]
Introduced: 2019-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Health personnel
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: 

Increasing Access to Quality Cardiac Rehabilitation Care Act of 2019

 
This bill accelerates and expands certain changes that are scheduled to take effect relating to the coverage of cardiac, intensive cardiac, and pulmonary rehabilitation programs under Medicare.
 
Currently, such programs require physician supervision. Effective January 1, 2024, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and clinical nurse specialists may also supervise these programs. The bill expedites the effective date of these changes to January 1, 2021, and also allows these practitioners to administer programs in their offices, prepare and sign treatment plans, and prescribe exercise.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Accountability for Utility Executives Act

Bill: 116-s-2844
Sponsor: Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA]
Introduced: 2019-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Corporate finance and management
Electric power generation and transmission
Public utilities and utility rates
Wages and earnings
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: 

Accountability for Utility Executives Act 

 
This bill prohibits a publicly traded utility company undergoing bankruptcy proceedings from paying bonuses or any 
golden parachute compensation
 to company executives. The bill defines 
golden parachute compensation
 as compensation based on or related to the acquisition, merger, consolidation, sale, or other disposition of the assets of the company.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
FAIR Leave Act

Bill: 116-s-2845
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2019-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee leave
Marriage and family status
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: 

Fair Access for Individuals to Receive Leave Act or the FAIR Leave Act

 
This bill repeals the limitation on the aggregate number of workweeks of leave husbands and wives employed by the same employer may be entitled to under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Patients Transportation to Care Act

Bill: 116-s-2846
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2019-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid
Transportation costs
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: 

Protecting Patients Transportation to Care Act

 
This bill provides statutory authority for the requirement that state Medicaid programs cover nonemergency transportation to medically necessary items and services. The bill also requires programs, as a condition of federal payment for such services, to have transportation coordination plans and utilization management guidelines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 42 Main Street in Slatersville, Rhode Island, as the "Specialist Matthew R. Turcotte Post Office".

Bill: 116-s-2847
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2019-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
Postal service
Rhode Island

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 42 Main Street in Slatersville, Rhode Island, as the "Specialist Matthew R. Turcotte Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-11-19
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2020-11-19
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2020-11-19
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2020-11-18
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7081; text: CR S7081)
action_date: 2020-11-18
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7081; text: CR S7081)
action_date: 2020-03-12
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 441.
action_date: 2020-03-12
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2020-03-12
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2020-03-11
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
No Wall-Cam Act

Bill: 116-s-2848
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2019-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Digital media
Executive agency funding and structure
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: 

No Wall-Cam Act

 
This bill prohibits federal funds from being expended for livestreaming border wall construction activities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2849
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2019-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Income tax rates
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: 

Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act of 2019
 
 
This bill requires an increase in the corporate income tax rate based upon the ratio of compensation paid to the corporation's highest paid employee to median worker compensation. The pay ratios range from greater than 50 to 1 (0.5% increase) to greater than 500 to 1 (5% increase). The bill exempts corporations whose average annual gross receipts during a three-year period are less than $100 million from the rate increase. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Smarter Sentencing Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2850
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2019-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Government information and archives
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. Sentencing Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: 

Smarter Sentencing Act of 2019

 
This bill modifies mandatory minimum prison terms for defendants who commit certain drug-related offenses.
 
First, the bill reduces the mandatory minimum prison term for defendants who manufacture, distribute, or possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. Specifically, it reduces mandatory minimums
 
 
from 10 years to 5 years for a first-time high-level offense (e.g., one kilogram or more of heroin), 
 
from 15 years to 10 years for a high-level offense after one prior felony drug offense,
 
from 5 years to 2 years for a first-time low-level offense (e.g., 100 to 999 grams of heroin), and 
 
from 10 years to 5 years for a low-level offense after one prior felony drug offense. 
 
 
Additionally, the bill modifies the application of mandatory minimum prison terms for certain defendants who import or export a controlled substance. Specifically, it
 
 
makes existing mandatory minimums inapplicable to a defendant who functions as a courier; and
 
establishes new, shorter mandatory minimum prison terms for a courier.
 
 
The Department of Justice must report on and publish all federal criminal statutory offenses. Specified federal agencies, departments, and entities must report on and publish criminal regulatory offenses that they enforce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend section 442 of title 18, United States Code, to exempt certain interests in mutual funds, unit investment trusts, employee benefit plans, and retirement plans from conflict of interest limitations for the Government Publishing Office.

Bill: 116-s-2851
Sponsor: Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO]
Introduced: 2019-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Books and print media
Congressional agencies
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Federal officials
Government Publishing Office (GPO)
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
News media and reporting
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: 
This bill revises conflict-of-interest limitations for personnel at the Government Publishing Office (GPO). 
 
Current law prohibits GPO personnel from having any printing-related interest. 
 
This bill creates an exemption for certain interests&#8212;interests in diversified mutual funds, diversified unit investment trusts, employee benefit plans, and retirement plans&#8212;that have underlying holdings in printing-related interests. 
 
Additionally, the prohibition applies only to the GPO director&#8212;not to other GPO personnel.

action_date: 2019-11-13
text: 
This bill revises conflict-of-interest limitations applicable to personnel at the Government Publishing Office (GPO). 
 
Current law prohibits GPO personnel from having any printing-related interest. 
 
This bill creates an exemption for certain interests&#8212;interests in diversified mutual funds, diversified unit investment trusts, employee benefit plans, and retirement plans&#8212;that have underlying holdings in printing-related interests. 
 
Additionally, the prohibition applies only to the GPO director&#8212;not to other GPO personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-14
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2019-11-14
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2019-11-14
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6573; text: CR S6573)
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S6573; text: CR S6573)
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Accelerated Payments for Small Businesses Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2852
Sponsor: Sen. McSally, Martha [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2019-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Public contracts and procurement
Small business
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: 

Accelerated Payments for Small Businesses Act of 2019

 
This bill establishes a goal for federal agencies to pay small business invoices within 15 days of receiving a proper invoice if a specific payment date is not established by contract.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Payment for Performance Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2853
Sponsor: Sen. McSally, Martha [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2019-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Building construction
Public contracts and procurement
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: 

Small Business Payment for Performance Act of 2019

 
This bill allows a small business performing a construction contract awarded by a federal agency to request an equitable adjustment if the agency's contracting officer directs a change in the contract's performance without the agreement of the small business.
 
The agency must provide the small business with an interim partial payment to cover additional costs resulting from such a change, and the small business must pay a first tier subcontractor or supplier the portion of the partial payment that is attributable to additional costs incurred due to the change.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Dry Cask Storage Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2854
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2019-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Emergency planning and evacuation
Government trust funds
Licensing and registrations
Nuclear power
Radioactive wastes and releases

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: 

Dry Cask Storage Act of 2019

 
This bill requires each licensee of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to submit a plan for (1) transfer (including on-going additional transfers) to spent nuclear fuel dry casks of any spent nuclear fuel stored by the licensee for at least seven years in spent nuclear fuel pools, and (2) configuration of the remaining spent nuclear fuel in the pool in a manner that minimizes the chance of a fire if there is a loss of water in the pool.
 
Among other requirements, the bill
 
 
requires the NRC to approve or disapprove the plan within 90 days after its submission, 
 
authorizes the NRC to provide grants to any licensee with an approved plan to assist in the cost of transferring spent nuclear fuel to dry casks under the plan,
 
directs the emergency planning zone applicable to each civilian nuclear power reactor to be at least 10 miles in radius until all spent nuclear fuel at the reactor has been transferred to dry casks, and
 
requires the NRC to expand to 50 miles in radius the emergency planning zone applicable to each reactor not in compliance with an approved plan.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2019-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Insulin Affordability Data Collection Act

Bill: 116-s-2855
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2019-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Employee benefits and pensions
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medical research
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-14
text: 

Insulin Affordability Data Collection Act

 
 This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a study evaluating the impact of insulin affordability on the health outcomes of individuals who are reliant on insulin. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2019-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2856
Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]
Introduced: 2019-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Regional and metropolitan planning
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-11-14
text: 

Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act of 2019

 
This bill establishes an Office of Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a grant program to support regional greenhouse gas reduction programs, and an interagency task force.
 
The office must support existing regional greenhouse gas reduction programs and facilitate the establishment of new regional greenhouse gas reduction programs. Such programs use market-based tools to reduce greenhouse gases across states at the regional level.
 
In addition, the office must establish a program that awards grants to a state, local government, or regional consortium of such governments to take preliminary steps towards developing or participating in a regional greenhouse gas reduction program.
 
Finally, the EPA must establish an interagency task force to support new and existing regional programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2019-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate