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To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish dental care in the same manner as any other medical service, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-96
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Dental care
Health care coverage and access
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 
This bill expands eligibility for veterans for dental care provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Specifically, the bill makes all veterans who are enrolled in the VA health care system eligible for VA-provided dental services. Currently, only veterans who have a service-connected dental issue or meet other narrow criteria are eligible for certain dental services.
 
The bill phases in eligibility over four years based upon existing eligibility, degree of service-connected disability or other disability, prisoner of war status, award of a Purple Heart, financial need, or VA health care eligibility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-07-23
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Rescuing Animals With Rewards Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-97
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Endangered and threatened species
Organized crime
Smuggling and trafficking
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 

Rescuing Animals With Rewards Act of 2019 or the RAWR Act

 
This bill modifies the Department of State rewards program to authorize rewards to individuals who furnish information that assists in the prevention or identification of crimes related to wildlife trafficking. 


action_date: 2019-07-15
text: 

Rescuing Animals With Rewards Act of 2019 or the RAWR Act

 
This bill modifies the Department of State rewards program to authorize rewards to individuals who furnish information that assists in the prevention or identification of crimes related to wildlife trafficking. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-07-16
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2019-07-15
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2019-07-15
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5802)
action_date: 2019-07-15
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5802)
action_date: 2019-07-15
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 97.
action_date: 2019-07-15
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5802)
action_date: 2019-07-15
text: Mr. Engel moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2019-04-09
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2019-04-09
text: Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules.
action_date: 2019-04-09
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2019-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy and the Environment.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act

Bill: 116-hr-98
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Evidence and witnesses
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Human trafficking
Immigration status and procedures
Judicial review and appeals
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Organized crime
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Violent crime
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 

Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act

 
This bill makes aliens associated with criminal gangs inadmissible for entry into the United States and deportable, and establishes procedures related to designating groups with criminal gang status.
 
An alien shall be inadmissible if a consular officer, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), or the Department of Justice knows or has reason to believe that the individual is or was a criminal gang member, or has participated or aided such a group's illegal activities. An alien who is or was a member of such a gang, or has participated or aided such a group's illegal activities, shall be deportable. 
 
Such individuals shall be subject to mandatory detention, shall not be eligible for asylum, temporary protected status, or special immigrant juvenile visas and shall not be eligible for parole unless they are assisting the government in a law enforcement matter. 
 
The bill defines a criminal gang as a group of five or more persons (1) where one of its primary purposes is the commission of specified criminal offenses and the members of which engage or have engaged within the past five years in a continuing series of such offenses, or (2) that has been designated as a criminal gang by DHS.
 
The bill establishes procedures for DHS to designate a group such status, including notification to Congress, publication in the Federal Register, and an opportunity for the group to petition for administrative and judicial review. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Thin Blue Line Act

Bill: 116-hr-99
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime victims
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Health personnel
Law enforcement officers
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 

Thin Blue Line Act

 
This bill expands the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include killing or targeting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responder.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Veteran Overmedication and Suicide Prevention Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-100
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Drug therapy
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Family relationships
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Higher education
Hospital care
Marriage and family status
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Neurological disorders
Prescription drugs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 

Veteran Overmedication and Suicide Prevention Act of 2019

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to report on the deaths of covered veterans who died by suicide during the last five years, regardless of whether information relating to such deaths has been reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A covered veteran is any veteran who received VA hospital care or medical services during the five-year period preceding the veteran's death.
 
Among other elements, the report shall include the total number of covered veterans who died by suicide, violent death, or accidental death, as well as certain demographic information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-04-30
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2019-01-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Defending Domestic Produce Production Act

Bill: 116-hr-101
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agricultural trade
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Government studies and investigations
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 

Defending Domestic Produce Production Act

 
This bill establishes a process by which a core seasonal industry may petition for countervailing and antidumping duties.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
No Pay Raise for Congress Act

Bill: 116-hr-102
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Inflation and prices
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 

No Pay Raise for Congress Act

 
This bill cancels the automatic adjustment to the pay of Members of Congress that is based on the employment cost index if the Congressional Budget Office determines that there was a federal budget deficit in the last fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, 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: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-103
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Medical education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 

Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act of 2019
 
This bill revises the institutional eligibility criteria for a foreign graduate medical school to participate in federal student aid programs. Specifically, this bill requires all foreign graduate medical schools to meet the same minimum requirements to participate in the programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
LEVEL Act

Bill: 116-hr-104
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Motor fuels
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 

Leave Ethanol Volumes at Existing Levels Act or the LEVEL Act 

 
This bill revises the renewable fuel program, including the renewable fuel standard (RFS). Under current law, the RFS specifies the minimum volume of renewable fuel, such as ethanol, that must be contained in gasoline sold in the United States, except in noncontiguous states or territories. The RFS annually increases until 2022 when a minimum of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel must be blended into gasoline. This bill decreases the volume of renewable fuel that must be contained in gasoline to 7.5 billion gallons each year. The bill also revises the RFS to eliminate separate volume requirements for the following renewable fuel categories: advanced biofuels, cellulosic biofuel, and biomass-based diesel.
 
Petitions for waivers from requirements under the renewable fuel program may not be brought by a person who is subject to the requirements of the program, nor by the EPA on its own motion. 
 
The EPA may not authorize the sale of gasoline that contains greater than 10% ethanol, unless the gasoline was registered under the program and lawfully sold in the United States before this bill's enactment. 
 
The EPA must study the effects of gasoline that contains greater than 10% ethanol, including the effects on consumer products, such as nonroad vehicles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Energy Efficiency Free Market Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-105
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Energy
Energy efficiency and conservation
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing
Product safety and quality
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 

Energy Efficiency Free Market Act of 2019

 
This bill nullifies federal and state energy efficiency and water conservation standards for certain consumer and commercial appliances. In addition, the bill eliminates the authority of the Department of Energy and states to set the standards for such appliances. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Health and Human Services Hiree Clarification Act

Bill: 116-hr-106
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 

Health and Human Services Hiree Clarification Act

 
This bill alters provisions relating to personnel of the Public Health Service. Specifically, the bill states that provisions authorizing the appointment of special consultants or authorizing individual scientists to receive fellowships for the Public Health Service do not authorize the designation, appointment, or employment of any special consultant, fellow, or other employee by an agency outside of the Department of Health and Human Services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to sunset the limit on the maximum rebate amount for single source drugs and innovator multiple source drugs.

Bill: 116-hr-107
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Medicaid
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 
This bill terminates certain limitations regarding drug rebates under Medicaid. Currently, the maximum rebate that drug manufacturers must pay under Medicaid for single-source and innovator multiple-source drugs is 100% of the average manufacturer price of the drug. The bill specifies that this limitation only applies to rebate periods that begin before January 1, 2020. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Targeting Rogue and Opaque Letters Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-108
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Federal preemption
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Intellectual property
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 

Targeting Rogue and Opaque Letters Act of 2019

 
This bill prohibits sending bad faith patent demand letters.
 
A patent demand letter is a written communication claiming that the recipient may be liable for patent infringement. Bad faith means making knowingly false or misleading statements, making claims with reckless disregard for the truth, or omitting information with the intent to deceive. 
 
Bad faith representations include false or misleading claims about the sender's right to assert a patent and whether lawsuits have been filed. It also includes making written demands for compensation for invalid patents, or to demand compensation without identifying the ultimate parent entity of the letter sender.
 
The sender shall have an affirmative defense that it acted in good faith, by proving its misstatements or omissions were unintentional and it made an error in spite of procedures to avoid such errors. 
 
The bill preempts state laws relating to patent assertion communications. The Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general may bring actions to enforce these provisions.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Equal Protection for American Workers Act

Bill: 116-hr-109
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 

Equal Protection for American Workers Act 

 
 This bill prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from granting work authorization to an alien who has been determined in a valid immigration proceeding to have been at any time unlawfully present in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To provide an exception to certain mandatory minimum sentence requirements for a person employed outside the United States by a Federal agency, who uses, carries, or possesses the firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence committed while on-duty with a firearm required to be carried while on-duty.

Bill: 116-hr-110
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Firearms and explosives
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 
This bill modifies federal criminal penalties. Specifically, it excludes from certain minimum sentencing requirements a federal employee outside the United States who is required to carry a firearm while on duty and who, while on duty, uses, carries, or possesses the a firearm in a crime of violence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Semipostal Stamp Clarification Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-111
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Postal service
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 

Semipostal Stamp Clarification Act of
 
2019

 
This bill removes the authority of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to issue semipostal stamps (stamps sold at a premium to raise funds for causes of national public interest) except as provided by an Act of Congress. (Currently, the USPS issues semipostals using its own discretion to determine the causes it considers to be in the national public interest.)
 
The bill also makes entities (currently, only agencies) eligible to receive amounts that become available from the sale of semipostals. Congress must determine the appropriate agencies or entities that receive such amounts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Central Intelligence Agency from using an unmanned aerial vehicle to carry out a weapons strike or other deliberately lethal action and to transfer the authority to conduct such strikes or lethal action to the Department of Defense.

Bill: 116-hr-112
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2019-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Military operations and strategy

Summary:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: 
This bill prohibits the Central Intelligence Agency from using an unmanned aerial vehicle to carry out a weapons strike or other lethal action.
 
The President shall transfer to the Department of Defense all authority to use such a vehicle to conduct such a strike or lethal action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2019-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-01-03
text: Introduced in House