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Joseph Ainsworth Act

Bill: 116-hr-5785
Sponsor: Rep. Gaetz, Matt [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: 

Joseph Ainsworth Act

 
This bill exempts veterans who are over 99 years old from a net worth limitation related to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) pension payments. Specifically, the bill allows veterans who are over 99 years old and receive pensions from the VA as a result of serving during periods of war to continue receiving such pensions regardless of their net worth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
VA Quality Health Care Accountability and Transparency Act

Bill: 116-hr-5786
Sponsor: Rep. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: 

VA Quality Health Care Accountability and Transparency Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to make certain staffing and quality of care data publicly available on a specified VA website. Among other elements, the information published on the website should include statistics related to patient wait times, effectiveness of care, and staffing and vacancy information.
 
The website must be (1) directly accessible from the main VA website and the main websites of each VA medical center, and (2) understandable and usable by the general public.
 
The VA must implement a self-auditing process to assess the accuracy and completeness of the data available on the website and must enter an agreement for the Inspector General of the VA (or other entity) to validate the audits. Additionally, the Government Accountability Office shall review the website to assess the VA's compliance and to provide recommendations on how to improve the website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
action_date: 2020-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Whistleblower Protection Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5787
Sponsor: Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Department of Energy
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: 

Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Whistleblower Protection Act of 2020

 
This bill provides statutory authority for employees of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy to have whistle-blower rights and protections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Sexual Harassment in Public Housing Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5788
Sponsor: Rep. Katko, John [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Housing discrimination
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: 

Preventing Sexual Harassment in Public Housing Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to take actions related to reporting and investigating housing-related discrimination and harassment, particularly sexual harassment.
 
Specifically, HUD must include in its annual report to Congress tabulations of complaints of discriminatory housing practices filed with HUD or a fair housing assistance program in the preceding year. These tabulations must identify whether a complaint alleged discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, handicap, or familial status. HUD must consider a complaint of sexual harassment under the category of discrimination based on sex and must include a separate tabulation of the total number of sexual harassment complaints filed.
 
Additionally, DOJ must establish an initiative to investigate and prosecute allegations of housing-related sexual harassment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Child Care Investment Act

Bill: 116-hr-5789
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Susie [D-NV-3]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Child care and development
Elementary and secondary education
Government lending and loan guarantees
Preschool education
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: 

Small Business Child Care Investment Act

 
This bill deems certain nonprofit child care providers to be small business concerns so that they may participate in loan programs administered by the Small Business Administration. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act

Bill: 116-hr-5790
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Birth defects
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Elementary and secondary education
Family services
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Hereditary and development disorders
Higher education
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Indian social and development programs
Judicial procedure and administration
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Research administration and funding
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Special education
State and local government operations
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: 

Advancing FASD Research, Prevention, and Services Act

 
This bill reestablishes and expands programs for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). The Department of Health and Human Services must establish a research agenda on FASD, facilitate and disseminate findings on public health surveillance and research to prevent FASD, and establish multiple grant programs. 
 
Depending on the specific grant program, eligible grantees may include states, tribes and tribal organizations, public and private nonprofits, and educational institutions. Among other purposes, the grants support research on the diagnosis, intervention, and prevention of FASD; expand and coordinate surveillance; and foster collaboration to provide integrated services to individuals with FASD. 
 
The bill also directs the Department of Education and the Department of Justice to develop and disseminate trainings and best practices related to FASD. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Special Envoy for Refugees Act

Bill: 116-hr-5791
Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Immigration status and procedures
Interagency Council on Homelessness
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: 

Special Envoy for Refugees Act

 
This bill requires the President to appoint a Special Envoy for Refugees whose duties shall include (1) representing the United States in diplomacy related to global displacement, migration, refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced and stateless individuals; and (2) leading interagency coordination to oversee research related to the global refugee crisis and the U.S. refugee program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
SECURE Fix Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5792
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deferral
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: 

SECURE Fix Act of 2020

 
This bill repeals restrictions on required distributions from defined contribution pension plans to specified beneficiaries designated by an employee plan participant that such beneficiaries may receive over their lifetimes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Border Visibility and Security Act

Bill: 116-hr-5793
Sponsor: Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Lakes and rivers
Latin America
Mexico
New Mexico
Organized crime
Photography and imaging
Roads and highways
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: 

Border Visibility and Security Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to install surveillance technology and take other actions with respect to the U.S.-Mexico border.
 
DHS shall deploy the most practical and effective technology available to achieve situational awareness and operational control of the border. Such technology may include radar surveillance systems, tunnel detection technology, and unmanned aerial vehicles.
 
DHS is authorized to waive legal requirements as necessary in order to implement the necessary surveillance technology along the border. 
 
DHS shall also (1) construct a navigable road along at least 700 miles of the southwest border, (2) permanently eradicate certain foliage that grows along the Rio Grande river, and (3) report to Congress a comprehensive strategy about the barriers and technologies needed to secure operational control along the border. 
 
Drug cartel funds that have been criminally forfeited to the U.S. government shall be reserved for security measures along the U.S.-Mexico border.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2020-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Endometrial Cancer Research and Education Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5794
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, David [D-GA-13]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Disability and health-based discrimination
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical research
Racial and ethnic relations
Research and development
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: 

Endometrial Cancer Research and Education Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand research and develop certain educational materials on endometrial cancer, respectively. Among other issues, the materials must address certain endometrial cancer disparities and risk factors that affect minority women. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Moving H–2A to United States Department of Agriculture Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5795
Sponsor: Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Department of Agriculture
Department of Labor
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Temporary and part-time employment
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: 

Moving H-2A to United States Department of Agriculture Act of 2020

 
This bill moves administration of the H-2A (temporary agricultural workers) program from the Department of Labor to the Department of Agriculture. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
E–Access Act

Bill: 116-hr-5796
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Energy
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy prices

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: 

Access to Consumer Energy Information Act or the
 
E-Access Act

 
This bill revises federal guidelines for state energy conservation plans.
 
The bill authorizes state energy conservation plans to include programs that (1) enhance consumer access to, and understanding of, electric energy and natural gas usage and cost information, including consumers' own residential and commercial retail electric energy and natural gas information; and (2) facilitate the development and adoption of innovative products and services to assist consumers in managing energy consumption and expenditures.
 
The Department of Energy (DOE) must issue guidelines that establish model data sharing standards and policies for states to provide electric and gas consumers with access to retail electric energy information and retail natural gas information. States may submit to DOE a description of their data sharing standards and policies for certification that they meet such guidelines.
 
DOE must periodically review and revise the guidelines to reflect changes in technology, privacy needs, and the market for electric energy and natural gas and related services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
RTP Full Funding Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5797
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Motor fuels
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Roads and highways
Sales and excise taxes
State and local finance
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: 

RTP Full Funding Act of 2020

 
This bill addresses provisions regarding the recreational trails program.
 
Specifically, the bill requires
 
 
the Department of Transportation (DOT) to carry out an assessment of the best available estimate of the total amount of nonhighway recreational fuel taxes received by the Department of the Treasury and transferred to the Highway Trust Fund for the period covered by the assessment;
 
the Federal Highway Administration to establish financial management information system codes for certain motorized and non-motorized use projects, including single and diverse use projects;
 
DOT to reserve certain amounts of the state apportionment of funds each fiscal year for administrative, research, technical assistance, and training expenses to carry out the recreational trails program; and
 
states to obligate a specific amount of reserved funds each fiscal year for the recreational trails program. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Cesar Carlos Silva Rodriguez.

Bill: 116-hr-5798
Sponsor: Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4]
Introduced: 2020-02-06 in the House
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Provides for the relief of Cesar Carlos Silva Rodriguez.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Bridging Responsible Agricultural Conservation Efforts Act

Bill: 116-hr-5799
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2020-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural practices and innovations
Army Corps of Engineers
Civil actions and liability
Department of Agriculture
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Farmland
Judicial review and appeals
Land use and conservation
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-07
text: 

Bridging Responsible Agricultural Conservation Efforts Act

 
This bill revises requirements to protect wetlands under the Clean Water Act, including to add specifics regarding agricultural practices that are excluded from wetland protections and to exclude certain land converted into cropland from protection under the act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2020-02-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1057)
action_date: 2020-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2020-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Removal Jurisdiction Clarification Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5801
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2020-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Federal district courts
Jurisdiction and venue
State and local courts

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-07
text: 

Removal Jurisdiction Clarification Act of 2020 

 
This bill requires federal courts to remand to state court, upon motion, civil actions that are removed to federal court solely on the basis of diversity jurisdiction, if a citizen of the state where the action has been brought has joined as a defendant but has not yet been served. Such actions must be remanded if such a defendant is served within the eligible time period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2020-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-07
text: Introduced in House