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State Housing Relief Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6368
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, David [D-GA-13]
Introduced: 2020-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Appropriations
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Public utilities and utility rates
State and local finance
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: 

State Housing Relief Act of 2020

 
This bill provides funds for assistance to homeowners to prevent mortgage defaults, foreclosures, and displacements of individuals and families experiencing financial hardship after January 21, 2020. The Department of the Treasury must disburse the funds to state housing finance agencies for the provision of such assistance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To waive certain requirements with respect to in-person appraisals, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-6369
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2020-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Housing finance and home ownership
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Photography and imaging

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: 
This bill allows interior inspection appraisal requirements with respect to certain loans to be waived through the end of the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency period if specified requirements are met. An interior inspection may be waived if (1) an exterior inspection is performed in conjunction with certain contemporaneous verifications, such as video or photographs by the borrower; and (2) an interior inspection may be ordered at a later date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Disaster Protection for Workers’ Credit Act

Bill: 116-hr-6370
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2020-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Consumer credit
Disaster relief and insurance
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Infectious and parasitic diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: 

Disaster Protection for Workers' Credit Act 

 
This bill provides credit protections to consumers during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and other major disasters. The bill generally prohibits furnishers of credit information from reporting adverse credit information that is the result of any inaction or action that occurred during the COVID-19 outbreak. It also prohibits any such reporting regarding a consumer who resides in an area covered by a major disaster declaration. Additionally, medical debt related to the COVID-19 outbreak or a major disaster may not be reported to a consumer reporting agency regardless of when the expenses were incurred. 
 
Credit reporting agencies are prohibited from including in a credit report any such adverse credit information. 
 
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau must create a website that allows consumers to report economic hardship as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak or a major disaster. Consumers may request the deletion of adverse credit information and request an extension of certain credit protections. 
 
Credit reporting agencies must provide unlimited free credit reports and free credit scores upon request (1) during the COVID-19 outbreak or a major disaster, and (2) for a year afterwards. 
 
The bill places restrictions on new credit scoring models created or implemented during the COVID-19 outbreak or a major disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require issuers to disclose risks related to global pandemics, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-6371
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2020-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Business records
Corporate finance and management
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee leave
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Securities
Wages and earnings
Worker safety and health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: 
This bill requires certain issuers of securities to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), during a global pandemic, information related to risks faced by the issuer. Specifically, if the World Health Organization declares a pandemic, an issuer must disclose to the SEC 
 
 
risks faced by the issuer, including risks to health and safety faced by employees and independent contractors; 
 
mitigation measures, including those taken to protect the workforce's wages, health care, and leave; and 
 
the effect the pandemic may have on the issuer's business, solvency, and workforce. 

 
The SEC must make such reports publicly available on its website. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
REAL ID Extension Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6372
Sponsor: Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2020-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
Motor vehicles
Photography and imaging
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: 

REAL ID Extension Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to grant to states an extension of the deadline by which they are required to meet requirements under the Real ID Act of 2005 until September 30, 2021. (Currently, travelers must obtain REAL ID-compliant driver's licenses by October 1, 2020, in order to board domestic flights.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To increase the amount available under the Defense Production Act of 1950 to respond to the coronavirus epidemic, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-6373
Sponsor: Rep. Vargas, Juan [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2020-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government information and archives
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: 
This bill authorizes additional funds for FY2020 and FY2021 for expenditures under the Defense Production Act of 1950 for medical ventilators, personal protection equipment, and other medical supplies to respond to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).
 
The Department of Commerce must report every three months on such expenditures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Affordable Housing Security During the Coronavirus Emergency Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6374
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2020-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Civil actions and liability
Consumer credit
Debt collection
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Housing and community development funding
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Landlord and tenant
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: 

Ensuring Affordable Housing Security During the Coronavirus Emergency Act of 2020

 
This bill provides for housing assistance during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency.
 
Specifically, tenants in certain federally assisted housing shall not be required to make rent payments from the date of the bill's enactment until six months after the end of the COVID-19 emergency declaration.
 
The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Agriculture must reimburse public housing agencies (PHAs) and owners of federally assisted housing for these suspended rent payments, including any increase in low-income housing choice voucher assistance payments made by PHAs to compensate for the suspended rent payments.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require issuers to make disclosures related to supply chain disruption risk, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-6375
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2020-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Atmospheric science and weather
Business records
Conflicts and wars
Corporate finance and management
Government information and archives
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Manufacturing
Natural disasters
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Retail and wholesale trades
Securities
Wages and earnings
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: 
This bill requires certain issuers of securities to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission on the risks faced by the issuer regarding supply-chain disruption and the issuer's continuity or contingency plans to mitigate these risks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to exempt the reimbursement for certain travel to return to the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-6376
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2020-03-23 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Government lending and loan guarantees
Transportation costs
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: 
This bill waives certain requirements related to Department of State travel reimbursement and loan programs in the event that the federal government has issued a travel alert or warning related to a communicable disease. 
 
Specifically, the bill waives (1) a limitation specifying that the amount of reimbursement for the evacuation of a private individual may not be greater than the amount that the evacuee would have paid for reasonable commercial airfare immediately prior to the events giving rise to the evacuation; and (2) various requirements related to State Department repatriation loans, such as those requiring the borrower to provide a verifiable address and Social Security number when applying.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Retirement Protection Act

Bill: 116-hr-6377
Sponsor: Rep. Wexton, Jennifer [D-VA-10]
Introduced: 2020-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Employee benefits and pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: 

Retirement Protection Act 

 
This bill permits a waiver in 2020 of required minimum distribution rules for retirement plans and accounts, including defined contribution plans and individual retirement accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Interagency Pandemic Guidance for Consumers Act

Bill: 116-hr-6378
Sponsor: Rep. Wexton, Jennifer [D-VA-10]
Introduced: 2020-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Congressional oversight
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer credit
Debt collection
Department of Agriculture
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Federal Reserve System
Financial crises and stabilization
Government information and archives
Infectious and parasitic diseases
National Credit Union Administration
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: 

Interagency Pandemic Guidance for Consumers Act 

 
This bill directs financial regulators to issue interagency guidance regarding consumer debt relief options (e.g., deferment, forbearance, and affordable payment plans) in the event of a major disaster or pandemic. Financial regulators must also test financial institutions' response to a pandemic or major disaster every five years and report the results to Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2020-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To temporarily provide for Federal insurance of transaction accounts during the COVID-19 emergency.

Bill: 116-hr-6380
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2020-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: 
This bill temporarily removes deposit insurance limits for transaction accounts at depository institutions and credit unions. The limits are reinstated January 1, 2022.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Introduced in House
To require the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to provide zero-interest loans to minority depository institutions and community development financial institutions to combat COVID-19, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-6381
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2020-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government lending and loan guarantees
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: 
This bill requires the Federal Reserve Board to provide interest-free loans to small minority depository institutions and small community development financial institutions during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency period. The board must charge interest on these loans beginning 18 months after the end of the emergency period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Fair Housing Enforcement Emergency Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6382
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2020-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Disability and paralysis
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee hiring
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Housing and community development funding
Housing discrimination
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Landlord and tenant
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: 

Fair Housing Enforcement Emergency Act of 2020

 
This bill provides support for fair housing enforcement during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public-health emergency. Specifically, the bill
 
 
authorizes additional grants under the Fair Housing Initiatives Program and the Fair Housing Assistance Program, both administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); 
 
authorizes additional staffing for the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity to respond to fair housing complaints arising out of the emergency; 
 
authorizes the office to carry out a national media campaign to inform the public of expanded housing rights during the emergency; and 
 
requires HUD to prohibit owners of federally assisted dwellings from showing occupied units to prospective tenants during the emergency. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2020-03-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2020-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Uterine Fibroid Research and Education Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6383
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2020-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicaid
Medical research
Minority health
Prescription drugs
Research administration and funding
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: 

Uterine Fibroid Research and Education Act of 2020

 
This bill directs specified components of the Department of Health and Human Services to take certain actions to address uterine fibroids (i.e., muscular tumors that grow in the wall of the uterus and may cause pain, heavy menstrual bleeding, and reproductive issues).
 
Specifically, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), working through the Office of Research on Women's Health, must undertake research activities on uterine fibroids. In carrying out this research, the office must coordinate with specified components of the NIH and other federal agencies.
 
In addition, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must (1) collect data from Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program about treatment and services related to uterine fibroids, and (2) develop a report in coordination with federal partners on federal and state expenditures for these treatments and services.
 
Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) must disseminate information about uterine fibroids, including the elevated risk for minority women and information regarding available treatments. Specifically, the CDC shall disseminate the information to the public, while HRSA and AHRQ shall disseminate it to health care providers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Community Meals Fund

Bill: 116-hr-6384
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2020-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disaster relief and insurance
Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
Rural conditions and development
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: 

Community Meals Fund

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Agriculture to award grants to community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger groups to partner with small and mid-sized restaurants or food contractors to expand meal access and food security to meet the needs of children, families, and vulnerable populations during a pandemic such as COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).
 
Grants awarded may not exceed $500,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Small Business-Community Banker COVID–19 Relief Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6385
Sponsor: Rep. Curtis, John R. [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2020-03-25 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Credit and credit markets
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Financial crises and stabilization
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Retail and wholesale trades
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2020-03-25
text: 

Small Business-Community Banker COVID-19 Relief Act of 2020 

 
This bill allows a depository institution to delay compliance with specified accounting standards when modifying a loan for a small business affected by COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) in a troubled debt restructuring. A depository institution is not required to comply with certain accounting standards applicable to credit losses (i.e., current expected credit losses standards, also known as CECL standards) if it has been substantially affected by COVID-19. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2020-03-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2020-03-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-03-25
text: Introduced in House