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To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to prescribe the technical qualifications for licensed hearing aid specialists of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-6612
Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]
Introduced: 2020-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Health personnel
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Licensing and registrations
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-23
text: 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to prescribe specified technical qualifications necessary for appointment as a licensed hearing aid specialist in the Veterans Health Administration. Under the bill, at least one licensed hearing aid specialist must be appointed at each VA medical center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2020-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2020-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-23
text: Introduced in House
TSP Act

Bill: 116-hr-6614
Sponsor: Rep. Waltz, Michael [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2020-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Corporate finance and management
Employee benefits and pensions
Financial services and investments
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-23
text: 

Taxpayers and Savers Protection Act or the TSP Act

 
This bill prohibits any sums in the Thrift Savings Fund from being invested in a security that is listed on an exchange in a jurisdiction in which the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (1) has never conducted the mandatory inspection or investigation of a registered public accounting firm, and (2) is prevented from conducting such inspection or investigation because of a position taken by an authority in that jurisdiction. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2020-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1934)
action_date: 2020-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-23
text: Introduced in House
COVID–19 Oral History Project Act

Bill: 116-hr-6615
Sponsor: Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2020-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Charitable contributions
Congressional agencies
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Historical and cultural resources
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Library of Congress
Sound recording
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: 

COVID-19 Oral History Project Act

 
This bill directs the Library of Congress to establish an oral history program in the American Folklife Center for the collection and public availability of individual stories of events and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The bill includes a requirement to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of those who were affected by the pandemic.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Stronger Medicaid Response to the COVID–19 Pandemic Act

Bill: 116-hr-6616
Sponsor: Rep. Cárdenas, Tony [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2020-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health care coverage and access
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: 

Stronger Medicaid Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Act

 
This bill allows COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) vaccines and treatment, as well as treatment for conditions that may complicate COVID-19 treatment, for uninsured individuals to be covered under Medicaid during the public health emergency. (Currently, state Medicaid programs have the option to cover COVID-19 testing for uninsured individuals.)
 
The bill also specifically allows COVID-19 testing, vaccines, and treatment, as well as treatment for complicating conditions, for certain unlawful aliens to be covered under Medicaid during the public health emergency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Western Water Storage Infrastructure Act

Bill: 116-hr-6617
Sponsor: Rep. Cox, TJ [D-CA-21]
Introduced: 2020-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Indian lands and resources rights
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
Water resources funding
Water storage

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: 

Western Water Storage Infrastructure Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to provide grants to support qualifying water storage projects in western states. For such grants, Interior may enter into agreements for the design, study, construction, upgrade, or capital repair of qualifying federal and nonfederal water storage projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
TRIAGE Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6618
Sponsor: Rep. Crow, Jason [D-CO-6]
Introduced: 2020-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local finance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: 

Temporary Responders for Immediate Aid in Grave Emergencies Act of 2020 or the TRIAGE Act of 2020

 
This bill (1) directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a database to facilitate the provision of health care services by volunteers during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency, and (2) authorizes HHS to award grants to states to expedite the reactivation of expired health care licenses of health care professionals who volunteer during the emergency. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Restore America’s Main Street Act

Bill: 116-hr-6619
Sponsor: Rep. Dean, Madeleine [D-PA-4]
Introduced: 2020-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: 

Restore America's Main Street Act

 
This bill provides a small business with $1.5 million or less in gross receipts and not more than 50 full-time employees a refundable tax credit (rebate) equal to the lesser of 30% of its gross receipts for the first taxable year beginning in 2019, or $120,000. The credit is also available to certain charitable organizations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
To authorize grants to address substance use during COVID-19.

Bill: 116-hr-6620
Sponsor: Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2020-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Emergency medical services and trauma care
HIV/AIDS
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: 
This bill requires the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to award grants to eligible jurisdictions and community-based organizations to address the harms of substance misuse, including by encouraging actions to reduce health impacts of substance use during national disasters and emergencies. SAMHSA shall prioritize grants by accounting for such factors as drug overdose death rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Open Technology Fund Authorization Act

Bill: 116-hr-6621
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2020-04-24 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Business records
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Digital media
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
International exchange and broadcasting
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
News media and reporting
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: 

Open Technology Fund Authorization Act

 
This bill authorizes the existing Open Technology Fund (OTF) as an independent grantee within the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
 
The OTF is an independent nonprofit organization within the purview of the USAGM that supports the development of internet freedom technologies that create ways to counter censorship efforts.
 
As an independent grantee authorized by this bill, the OTF shall seek to advance freedom of the press and unrestricted internet access in repressive environments through functions such as
 
 
researching, developing, implementing, and maintaining secure communications tools and technologies that circumvent censorship techniques used to limit or block access to the internet;
 
advancing internet freedom by supporting private and public sector efforts to provide secure and uncensored access to the internet; and
 
developing, acquiring, and distributing internet freedom technologies and techniques to fully enable the creation and distribution of digital content between and to all users and audiences.
 
 
To advance freedom of the press and unrestricted internet access, the OTF shall use methods that include
 
 
supporting fully open-source tools, code, and components that are as secure, transparent, and accessible as possible;
 
supporting technologies that undergo comprehensive security audits; and
 
establishing safeguards to mitigate the use of supported technologies for illicit purposes.
 
 
The Department of State must report on the effectiveness of the OTF and the extent to which U.S. interests are being served by its work, and the Government Accountability Office shall have access to all information pertaining to financial transactions as may be necessary to facilitate an audit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Assuring Quality Water Infrastructure Act

Bill: 116-hr-6622
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2020-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Geography and mapping
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water storage
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: 

Assuring Quality Water Infrastructure Act

 
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a grant program to improve drinking water infrastructure. Under the program, the EPA must improve the operational sustainability for at least one small public water system through the identification and prevention of potable water loss due to metering or infrastructure failures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
COVID–19 Language Access Act

Bill: 116-hr-6623
Sponsor: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2020-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government information and archives
Infectious and parasitic diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: 

COVID-19 Language Access Act

 
This bill requires each federal agency that receives federal assistance related to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic to translate any English language written material prepared for the general public relating to the pandemic into specified languages not later than seven days after such material is made available in English. 
 
Such languages shall include, at a minimum, the following: Spanish, Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Haitian Creole, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese, Greek, Polish, Thai, and Portuguese. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E403)
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Girls LEAD Act

Bill: 116-hr-6626
Sponsor: Rep. Trone, David J. [D-MD-6]
Introduced: 2020-04-24 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Crimes against women
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
Marriage and family status
Nutrition and diet
Performance measurement
Rule of law and government transparency
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: 

Girls' Leadership, Engagement, Agency, and Development Act of 2019 or the Girls LEAD Act

 
This bill directs the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to jointly report to Congress a strategy to strengthen the participation of adolescents, particularly girls, in democracy, human rights, and governance.
 
The State Department and the USAID shall (1) implement activities to achieve this goal, including activities to increase adolescent girls' civic and political knowledge and skills and address barriers to political participation; and (2) prioritize foreign assistance funding for democracy, human rights, and governance programs toward achieving the goals in this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Enforcing Accountability and Transparency in International Trade Act

Bill: 116-hr-6627
Sponsor: Rep. Yoho, Ted S. [R-FL-3]
Introduced: 2020-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Free trade and trade barriers
Government studies and investigations
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: 

Enforcing Accountability and Transparency in International Trade Act

 
This bill requires the U.S. Trade Representative to report on its plans to pursue a U.S. strategy regarding the World Trade Organization (WTO).
 
Such plans must (1) facilitate the full implementation of WTO agreements, (2) enable the maximum benefits from trade to accrue to those members of the WTO that face the greatest difficulty integrating into the multilateral trading system, and (3) ensure that certain members of the WTO do not receive special and differential treatment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Patriot Bonus Tax Credit Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6629
Sponsor: Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2020-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Disability assistance
Employment taxes
Government trust funds
Income tax credits
Social security and elderly assistance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: 

Patriot Bonus Tax Credit Act of 2020

 
This bill allows employers a employment tax credit for qualified bonuses paid to their employees after March 12, 2020, and before January 1, 2021. The credit is equal to 50% of such bonuses paid in a calendar quarter taking into account not more than $25,000 for any employee for all calendar quarters.
 
The bill defines 
qualified bonus
 as wages paid to an employee that include overtime or hazardous pay, supplemental payments made for the convenience of the employer, payments to retain staff at essential facilities, or other payments made to employees due to extraordinary businesses and economic conditions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Introduced in House
Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Chain Act

Bill: 116-hr-6630
Sponsor: Rep. Stauber, Pete [R-MN-8]
Introduced: 2020-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Income tax deductions
Metals
Mining
Strategic materials and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: 

Securing America's Critical Minerals Supply Chain Act

 
This bill allows a new tax deduction for 10% of the cost of specified domestically-produced materials if such materials are acquired directly from the domestic smelter or processor of the materials. The bill defines 
specified domestically-produced materials
 as materials that are smelted or processed in the United States by direct smelting of ore, from a mine product, by a taxpayer in the trade or business of smelting or processing such materials. 
 
The term 
specified material 
includes minerals necessary for national defense and security, for U.S. energy infrastructure, for community resiliency, to support domestic manufacturing, agriculture, housing, telecommunications, healthcare, and transportation infrastructure, or for U.S. economic security and balance of trade. The term does not include fuel minerals, water, ice, or snow, or sand, stone, gravel, pumice, pumicite, cinders, or clay. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Introduced in House
Essential Worker Protection Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6631
Sponsor: Rep. Stevens, Haley M. [D-MI-11]
Introduced: 2020-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Department of Labor
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health promotion and preventive care
Immunology and vaccination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: 

Essential Worker Protection Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Department of Labor to convene an interagency task force to issue guidance on the development and implementation of a comprehensive infectious disease exposure control plan to protect employees identified as having an elevated risk from occupational exposure to the coronavirus (i.e., the virus that causes COVID-19).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the CARES Act to provide for repayment terms for mortgages in forbearance, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-6632
Sponsor: Rep. Soto, Darren [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2020-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: 
This bill establishes repayment terms for federally-related mortgages in forbearance as part of existing COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) economic aid programs. Specifically, the term of such a mortgage must be extended for the same length of time as the length of the forbearance. Additionally, the payments due during the forbearance must be evenly distributed across future payments with no additional interest or fees beyond amounts otherwise due had the borrower made such payments on time and in full.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Introduced in House
Domestic Violence Public Health Emergency Guidance Act

Bill: 116-hr-6633
Sponsor: Rep. Wexton, Jennifer [D-VA-10]
Introduced: 2020-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Domestic violence and child abuse
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Law enforcement officers
Separation, divorce, custody, support
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: 

Domestic Violence Public Health Emergency Guidance Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Justice to issue guidance to law enforcement agencies on best practices for addressing domestic violence and protecting the safety of law enforcement officers during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-04-28
text: Introduced in House