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A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3519 East Walnut Street in Pearland, Texas, as the "Tom Reid Post Office Building".

Bill: 116-s-4853
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2020-10-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3519 East Walnut Street in Pearland, Texas, as the "Tom Reid Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Introduced in Senate
HEAT Act

Bill: 116-s-4854
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2020-10-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Medicare
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: 

Home health Emergency Access to Telehealth Act or the HEAT Act

 
This bill provides for Medicare coverage of home health services that are furnished via telehealth during a public health emergency, in accordance with specified requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6415-6416)
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1305 U.S. Highway 90 West in Castroville, Texas, as the "Lance Corporal Rhonald Dain Rairdan Post Office".

Bill: 116-s-4855
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2020-10-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1305 U.S. Highway 90 West in Castroville, Texas, as the "Lance Corporal Rhonald Dain Rairdan Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the construction of a major medical facility for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-4856
Sponsor: Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO]
Introduced: 2020-10-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Colorado
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government studies and investigations
Health facilities and institutions
Military medicine
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out a major medical facility project starting in FY2021 for the construction of a VA medical center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
 
The bill requires the VA and the Department of Defense to jointly submit a report assessing the feasibility and advisability of providing health care services to both veterans and active duty service members at the new Colorado facility.
 
After appropriations are provided for the project, the VA must enter into an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to procure services to carry out the major medical facility project to completion as the construction agent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 275 Penn Avenue in Salem, Ohio, as the "Howard Arthur Tibbs Post Office".

Bill: 116-s-4857
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2020-10-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Ohio
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 275 Penn Avenue in Salem, Ohio, as the "Howard Arthur Tibbs Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-12-18
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2020-12-18
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2020-12-18
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S7644)
action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7643-7644)
action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Reducing Veteran Homelessness Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4858
Sponsor: Sen. Loeffler, Kelly [R-GA]
Introduced: 2020-10-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Public contracts and procurement
User charges and fees
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: 

Reducing Veteran Homelessness Act of 2020

 
This bill modifies certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) programs and services for homeless veterans, including by authorizing the VA to increase the per diem rate for grant recipients that provide services to homeless veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Connected MOM Act

Bill: 116-s-4859
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2020-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicaid
Rural conditions and development
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: 

Connected Maternal Online Monitoring Act or the Connected MOM Act

 
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to recommend, and provide resources for states on, ways to expand coverage of remote physiologic devices and related services (e.g., blood glucose monitors) under Medicaid, so as to improve maternal and child health outcomes for pregnant and postpartum women, health care for underserved and rural populations, and chronic disease management.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate
REEF Act

Bill: 116-s-4860
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2020-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: 

Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness Act or the
 
REEF Act

 
This bill provides that payments made from the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account shall not be subject to reduction with respect to unemployment compensation programs for qualified railroad employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate
DUE PROCESS Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4861
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2020-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: 

Deterring Undue Enforcement by Protecting Rights Of Citizens from Excessive Searches and Seizures Act of 2020 or the DUE PROCESS Act of 2020

 
This bill makes various changes to procedures governing federal civil forfeiture cases, including by raising the evidentiary standard that applies to them. It also requires the Department of Justice to create a database of and annually audit federal civil forfeiture cases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate
UNSHACKLE Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4862
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2020-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Civil actions and liability
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal district courts
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial procedure and administration
Judicial review and appeals
Jurisdiction and venue
Legal fees and court costs
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: 

Undoing NEPA&rsquo;s Substantial Harm by Advancing Concepts that Kickstart the Liberation of the Economy Act of 2020 or the UNSHACKLE Act of 2020

 
This bill revises the environmental review process required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), including by
 
 
establishing deadlines for federal agencies to complete reviews of the environmental effects of proposed major federal actions;
 
establishing penalties for agencies that do not comply with these deadlines;
 
limiting the number of assessment documents required for proposed major federal actions, requiring agencies to reuse certain research or documents, and allowing agencies to adopt environmental documents prepared by states or third parties;
 
requiring agencies to only consider alternatives to proposed actions that are technically and economically feasible;
 
prohibiting agencies from considering whether proposed actions or alternatives to those actions will have an effect on climate change; and
 
establishing requirements concerning the judicial review of NEPA cases.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate
HEALTH for MOM Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4863
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2020-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Family services
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicaid
Mental health
Sex and reproductive health
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: 

Harnessing Effective and Appropriate Long Term Health for Moms On Medicaid Act of 2020 or the HEALTH for MOM Act of 2020

 
This bill allows state Medicaid programs to cover services that are provided by pregnancy medical homes (designated providers or health teams that provide high-risk pregnancy and postpartum coordinated care services).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate
HAPI Act

Bill: 116-s-4864
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2020-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Immunology and vaccination
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: 

Helping Adults Protect Immunity Act or the HAPI Act

 
This bill requires state Medicaid programs to cover, without cost-sharing, vaccines for adults that are recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Full-Service Community School Expansion Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4865
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2020-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Disability and paralysis
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Family relationships
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Lawyers and legal services
Mental health
Nutrition and diet
Performance measurement
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Preschool education
School administration
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Special education
State and local government operations
Student records
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: 

Full-Service Community School Expansion Act of 2020

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2025 and expands the Full-Service Community Schools program. The program provides support for full-service community schools that serve children and their families, particularly for children who attend high-poverty elementary and secondary schools.
 
Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to award grants to eligible entities to plan, implement, expand, and support full-service community schools. An eligible entity is a consortium of (1) one or more local educational agencies or the Bureau of Indian Education; and (2) one or more community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, or other entities.
 
A 
community school
 refers to a public elementary or secondary school that incorporates the four pillars of community schools. These four pillars are defined by the bill as (1) integrated student supports that address out-of-school barriers to learning (e.g., medical care and assistance with housing, transportation, or nutrition); (2) expanded and enriched learning time and opportunities (e.g., before- and after-school programs); (3) family and community engagement (e.g., adult education); and (4) collaborative leadership and practices, which must include a school-based leadership team, a community school coordinator, and a community-wide leadership team.
 
Further, the bill directs ED to award grants to states to plan, implement, and expand community schools. A state educational agency that receives a grant must meet certain requirements, such as providing subgrants to local educational agencies, establishing a state-level steering committee, and establishing goals for the implementation and expansion of community schools throughout the state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Nursing Home Reform Modernization Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4866
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2020-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare
Nursing
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: 

Nursing Home Reform Modernization Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to establish a ranking system and related programs for Medicare skilled nursing facilities and Medicaid nursing facilities, taking into account the findings and recommendations of a specified advisory council established under the bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act

Bill: 116-s-4867
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2020-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Neurological disorders
Public contracts and procurement
Research administration and funding
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: 

Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act

 
This bill establishes grant programs to address neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease), and contains other related provisions.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shall award grants to eligible entities to support research on and facilitate access to investigational drugs that diagnose or treat ALS. The Food and Drug Administration shall award grants to public and private entities to cover the costs of research and development of drugs that diagnose or treat ALS and other severely debilitating neurodegenerative diseases.
 
HHS shall also establish the Collaborative for Neurodegenerative Diseases, which shall support the development and regulatory approval of drugs that address ALS and other rare neurodegenerative diseases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate
21st Century Community Learning Centers Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020

Bill: 116-s-4868
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2020-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Appropriations
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Child care and development
Child health
Community life and organization
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: 

21st Century Community Learning Centers Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020

 
This bill expands the allowable uses for subgrants provided under the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency. Additionally, the bill provides funds to subgrant recipients for specified activities and supplies.
 
Specifically, the bill allows eligible entities (e.g., local educational agencies and community-based organizations) that are awarded program subgrants for community learning centers to use these subgrants to carry out activities that advance student academic achievement and support student success during the regular school day when full-time in-person instruction is not available to students. Further, eligible entities may carry out these activities regardless of whether such activities are conducted in person or virtually. (Currently, the program only supports academic enrichment opportunities for children during non-school hours or periods when school is not in session.)
 
Subgrant recipients must comply with all applicable health and safety requirements.
 
Finally, the bill provides funds for subgrant recipients to provide additional hours of service, hire additional staff to maintain social distancing, and purchase cleaning supplies and personal protective equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate
APP Act

Bill: 116-s-4869
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2020-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Africa
Asia
Business records
Caribbean area
China
Civil actions and liability
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Cuba
Evidence and witnesses
Federal preemption
Foreign and international corporations
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Iran
Latin America
Middle East
North Korea
Right of privacy
Russia
State and local government operations
Sudan
Syria
Telephone and wireless communication
Terrorism
Venezuela

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: 

Adversarial Platform Prevention Act of 2020 or the APP Act

 
 This bill establishes requirements for owners and operators of certain software (e.g., TikTok) from specified countries who make their software available to consumers in the United States.
 
 Specifically, before making such software available for download, the software must provide users with a warning that includes the name of the owner and the owner's country of principal operation. Further, owners of such software must annually disclose to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice certain information about the consumer data of U.S. users, including any data protection measures in place and any internal content moderation practices. Such owners may not collect or store data from U.S. users if they comply with any requests from specified foreign governments to disclose consumer data about U.S. users or any requests from such governments to censor U.S. users.
 
 The protections from liability for third-party publishers of content are not applicable to owners of foreign software who are subject to the requirements of this bill.
 
 Such software owners in violation of these requirements are subject to civil penalties enforced by the Federal Trade Commission and may be subject to criminal penalties for intentional violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to rename the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.

Bill: 116-s-4870
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2020-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Great Lakes
Marine and inland water transportation
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Saint Lawrence Seaway

Summary:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: 
This bill renames the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation as the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2020-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate