hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6774
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Contracts and agency
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicaid
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 

Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act of 2020

 
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to establish a demonstration program to allow hospitals to provide medically tailored, home-delivered meals to Medicare beneficiaries who have a diet-impacted disease (e.g., kidney disease) and have daily living limitations.
 
Participating hospitals must (1) retain a physician, registered dietitian or nutrition professional, or clinical social worker to screen, monitor, and coordinate services for individuals who receive meals through the program; and (2) contract with experienced organizations for meal delivery. Hospitals may choose to also provide meals to an individual's primary caregiver or to a dependent under the age of 18 who resides in the same household.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Community Impact Financial Institutions Inclusion Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6775
Sponsor: Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Federal Reserve System
Financial crises and stabilization
Financial services and investments
Government lending and loan guarantees
Infectious and parasitic diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 

Community Impact Financial Institutions Inclusion Act of 2020 

 
This bill allocates a certain portion of specified COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) economic aid to finance loans originated by small financial institutions. Specifically, 20% of this aid must be allocated to community lenders, insured depository institutions, and credit unions with less than $10 billion in assets and 5% of this aid must be allocated to minority depository institutions and community development financial institutions with less than $10 billion in assets. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
JOBS Credit Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6776
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Stephanie N. [D-FL-7]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax credits
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Small business
State and local government operations
Tax-exempt organizations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 

Jumpstarting Our Businesses' Success Credit Act of 2020 or the JOBS Credit Act of 2020

 
This bill increases the employer tax credit for the retention of employees and coordinates such credit with the Payroll Protection Program. Specifically, it increases the rate of the employee retention credit to 80% of up to $15,000 in employee wages per calendar quarter with an increased annual wage cap of $45,000 for all calendar quarters. The bill increases the maximum credit amount to $36,000. 
 
The bill expands the definition of
 large employer,
 for credit eligibility purposes, to include employers with more than 1,500 employees and more than $41.5 million in gross receipts in 2019, and requires employers to show a significant decline in gross receipts. It also extends eligibility for the credit to state governmental agencies and Indian tribal governments. 
 
The bill also coordinates the credit with the Paycheck Protection Program to allow employers to claim both programs subject to certain restrictions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Secure Our Elections Act

Bill: 116-hr-6777
Sponsor: Rep. Neguse, Joe [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Election Assistance Commission
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Executive agency funding and structure
Infectious and parasitic diseases
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 

Secure Our Elections Act

 
This bill waives matching funds requirements for states that receive election security grants from the Election Assistance Commission. Such grants are available to states to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus (i.e., the virus that causes COVID-19) for the 2020 federal election cycle.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
_______ Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6778
Sponsor: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Corporate finance and management
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Government lending and loan guarantees
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Labor-management relations
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Small business
Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 
This bill prohibits corporations that receive specified federal aid related to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic from making certain changes to their workforce. Specifically, corporations receiving such aid must not
 
 
reduce workforce levels, employee benefits, or wages; or
 
alter any collective bargaining agreements.
 
 
These prohibitions apply beginning on the date a corporation first receives such aid and end one year after the date on which the later of either the termination of the COVID-19 public health emergency or the aid has been repaid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
To specify the ineligibility requirements based on illegal activity or criminal record applicable to the Paycheck Protection Program and certain emergency relief programs under the CARES Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-6779
Sponsor: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business expenses
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Criminal justice information and records
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government lending and loan guarantees
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Small Business Administration
Small business
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 
This bill extends to specified loan applicants certain eligibility requirements for participation in SBA programs that currently apply only to intermediaries (entities that borrow funds from the Small Business Administration to make loans to small businesses).
 
Specifically, the bill applies eligibility requirements for intermediaries that are based on illegal activity to any applicant for a loan under the Paycheck Protection Program established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Toll Credit Marketplace Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6780
Sponsor: Rep. Pappas, Chris [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Public-private cooperation
Roads and highways
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 

Toll Credit Marketplace Act of 2020

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish and implement a toll credit exchange pilot program to
 
 
identify the extent of the demand to purchase toll credits,
 
identify the cash price of toll credits through bilateral transactions between states,
 
analyze the impact of the purchase or sale of toll credits on transportation expenditures,
 
test the feasibility of expanding the pilot program to allow all states to participate on a permanent basis, and
 
identify any other repercussions of the toll credit exchange.
 
 
In carrying out the pilot program, DOT must provide that an originating state may transfer or sell to a recipient state a credit not previously used by the originating state. DOT must also make available a public website on which originating states must post the amount of toll credits that are available for sale or transfer to a recipient state.
 
DOT may terminate the pilot program or the participation of any state in the pilot program if the program is not serving a public benefit or it is not cost effective.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Paycheck Protection Program Improved Coordination Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6781
Sponsor: Rep. Pappas, Chris [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business expenses
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employment taxes
Government lending and loan guarantees
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Small business
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 

Paycheck Protection Program Improved Coordination Act of 2020 

 
This bill coordinates the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), established to support small businesses in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019), with the employee retention tax credit for employers subject to closure due to COVID-19, by allowing loan amounts not forgiven under the PPP to be taken into account for purposes of the retention tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
TRUTH Act

Bill: 116-hr-6782
Sponsor: Rep. Phillips, Dean [D-MN-3]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Appropriations
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business expenses
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Credit and credit markets
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Wages and earnings
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 

Small Business Transparency and Reporting for the Underbanked and Taxpayers at Home Act or the TRUTH Act

 
This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make information regarding economic relief measures implemented in response to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) publicly available.
 
Specifically, with respect to the Paycheck Protection Program and economic injury disaster loans and emergency grants, the SBA must publish (1) the identity of each recipient of assistance and an explanation of the decision-making process underlying such disbursal; (2) the number of employees of each recipient and the date on which such assistance was disbursed; (3) an identification of each lender or intermediary through which assistance was disbursed; and (4) the amount of assistance disbursed to small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, women, and veterans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-28
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 269 - 147 (Roll no. 113).
action_date: 2020-05-28
text: Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 269 - 147 (Roll no. 113).
action_date: 2020-05-28
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2339-2340)
action_date: 2020-05-28
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2020-05-28
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6782.
action_date: 2020-05-28
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2330-2332; text: CR H2330-2331)
action_date: 2020-05-28
text: Ms. Velazquez moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
American Space Commerce Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6783
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Space flight and exploration
Spacecraft and satellites

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 

American Space Commerce Act of 2020

 
This bill allows a special allowance for bonus depreciation for qualified domestic space launch property and extends the termination of such allowance until the end of 2032. The bill defines 
qualified domestic space launch property
 as property placed in service before January 1, 2033, that is (1) a space transportation vehicle or payload that is launched from the United States, or (2) other property or equipment placed in service to facilitate a space launch from the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
TRAP Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-6784
Sponsor: Rep. Reschenthaler, Guy [R-PA-14]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 

Time to Repeal an Archaic Policy Act of 2020 or the TRAP Act of 2020

 
This bill repeals criminal provisions commonly known as the Logan Act. The provisions generally prohibit an unauthorized U.S. citizen from negotiating with a foreign government regarding a dispute or controversy with the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
FEMA Tribal Coordinator Act

Bill: 116-hr-6785
Sponsor: Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Indian social and development programs
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 

FEMA Tribal Coordinator Act

 
This bill requires the President to appoint a tribal response coordinating officer immediately following the declaration of a multi-state major disaster or emergency.
 
The duties of such officer shall include
 
 
conducting an assessment of relief most urgently needed in consultation with all affected Indian tribal governments;
 
 in the case of a public health emergency, working with the Indian Health Service to conduct outreach to tribally operated health programs to assess needs;
 
establishing a liaison within each Bureau of Indian Affairs Regional Office and each Indian Health Service Area Office;
 
coordinating administration of relief to Indian tribal governments and tribal healthcare providers (including, in the event of a public health emergency, distributions from the Strategic National Stockpile, and establishing a single point of contact for tribal requests for assistance); and 
 
coordinating assistance with submission of reimbursement requests and grant applications.
 
 
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) shall consider a request from an Indian tribal government in the same manner as a request from a state.
 

 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to include the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa in the definition of "State" for purposes of the Department of Defense STARBASE Program.

Bill: 116-hr-6786
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: American Samoa
Elementary and secondary education
Northern Mariana Islands
Science and engineering education
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 
This bill includes the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa in the Department of Defense's STARBASE Program (an educational program conducted on military bases).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E433)
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Providing Essentials for Frontline Workers Act

Bill: 116-hr-6787
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Appropriations
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Department of Homeland Security
Department of the Treasury
Disability assistance
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment taxes
Government trust funds
Income tax exclusion
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Social security and elderly assistance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 

Providing Essentials for Frontline Workers Act

 
This bill allows an employer a payroll tax credit for certain pandemic-related employee benefit expenses paid by such employer after March 12, 2020, and before January 1, 2021. The amount of such credit is 50% of the pandemic-related expenses of essential employees and 30% for other employees. The amount of expenses taken into account for purposes of the credit for any employee may not exceed $5,000 in any calendar quarter. 
 
The bill defines 
qualified pandemic-related employee benefit expenses
 as amounts paid to an employee that are excludible from gross income as disaster relief payments related to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) and that the employee has elected to treat as a pandemic-related expense. 
 
The credit is not allowed to the federal government or its agencies, except for tax-exempt organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act

Bill: 116-hr-6788
Sponsor: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10]
Introduced: 2020-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Department of Homeland Security
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee hiring
Foreign labor
Health personnel
Immigration status and procedures
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Nursing
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: 

Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act

 
This bill makes previously unused immigrant visas available to nurses and physicians who petition for such a visa before the date that is 90 days after the end of the declared national emergency relating to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak. 
 
The number of visas available shall be the total number of unused employment-based immigrant visas from FY1992-FY2020, up to 40,000. Of such visas, 25,000 shall be reserved for nurses and 15,000 for physicians. Certain family members may accompany the principal beneficiary of a visa provided under this bill, and visas for such family members shall (1) be made available from the unused visas from FY1992-FY2020, and (2) not be counted against the 40,000 cap. 
 
Visas provided under this bill shall be exempt from per-country limitations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-05-08
text: Introduced in House