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Expedited Delivery of Airport Infrastructure Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5912
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2020-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Public contracts and procurement
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: 

Expedited Delivery of Airport Infrastructure Act of 2020

 
This bill makes incentive payments incurred for expedited completion of certain federally financed airport development projects an allowable project cost standard.

action_date: 2020-07-29
text: 

Expedited Delivery of Airport Infrastructure Act of 2020

 
This bill makes incentive payments incurred for expedited completion of certain federally financed airport development projects an allowable project cost standard.

action_date: 2020-10-01
text: 

Expedited Delivery of Airport Infrastructure Act of 2020

 
This bill makes incentive payments incurred for expedited completion of certain federally financed airport development projects an allowable project cost standard.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-10-19
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5190-5191)
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5912.
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5190-5191)
action_date: 2020-10-01
text: Mr. Carbajal moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 372.
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 116-464.
action_date: 2020-07-29
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 116-464.
action_date: 2020-02-26
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2020-02-26
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2020-02-26
text: Subcommittee on Aviation Discharged.
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Donna M. Doss Memorial Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5913
Sponsor: Rep. Arrington, Jodey C. [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2020-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional tributes
Department of Homeland Security
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Law enforcement officers
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: 

Donna M. Doss Memorial Act of 2020

 
This bill designates the Rocksprings station of the U.S. Border Patrol located on West Main Street in Rocksprings, Texas, as the 
Donna M. Doss Border Patrol Station
.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Tar Sands Tax Loophole Elimination Act

Bill: 116-hr-5914
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2020-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: 

Tar Sands Tax Loophole Elimination Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the definition of "crude oil" for purposes of the excise tax on petroleum and petroleum products to include any bitumen or bituminous mixture, any oil derived from a bitumen or bituminous mixture (tar sands), and any oil derived from kerogen-bearing sources (oil shale).
 
The bill also authorizes the Department of the Treasury to classify as crude oil or as a petroleum product subject to such tax any fuel feedstock or finished fuel product transported by pipeline, vessel, railcar, or tanker truck if such classification is consistent with the definition of oil under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and such fuel feedstock or finished fuel product is produced in sufficient commercial quantities as to pose a significant risk of hazard in the event of a discharge. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Making Essentials Available and Lawful (MEAL) Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5915
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2020-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: 

Making Essentials Available and Lawful (MEAL) Act of 2020

 
This bill repeals a lifetime ban that prohibits individuals convicted of certain offenses related to the possession, use, or distribution of controlled substances from receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits or assistance under programs funded by Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grants. In addition, individuals who are incarcerated and scheduled to be released within 30 days shall qualify as individual households for purposes of SNAP eligibility. Under current law, unless specifically excepted, individuals residing in institutions do not constitute a household. 
 
Existing state laws that removed or modified the federal ban at the state level shall have no force or effect.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Transparent Health Care Pricing Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5916
Sponsor: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2020-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: 

Transparent Health Care Pricing Act of 2020

 
 This bill requires health care providers to publicly disclose, on the internet and in print, the purchase price of offered products and services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act

Bill: 116-hr-5917
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2020-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Appropriations
Business records
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Firearms and explosives
Freedom of information
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: 

Gun Records Restoration and Preservation Act

 
This bill amends several appropriations laws to remove limitations on the authority of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to conduct activities related to the administration of federal firearms laws.
 
Specifically, the bill removes provisions that
 
 
limit the use of firearms tracing data, 
 
prohibit the imposition of a requirement that firearms dealers conduct a physical inventory, and
 
require national instant criminal background check records to be destroyed within 24 hours. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
MONARCH Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5920
Sponsor: Rep. Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2020-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Arizona
California
Government trust funds
Idaho
Insects
Nevada
Oregon
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Utah
Washington State
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: 

Monarch Action, Recovery, and Conservation of Habitat Act of 2020 or the MONARCH Act of 2020

 
This bill provides support for the conservation of western monarch butterflies (the monarch butterfly population that overwinters along the coast of California and breeds across California, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah).
 
Specifically, the bill establishes the Western Monarch Butterfly Rescue Fund. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) must use amounts in the fund to provide grants for the conservation of such butterflies.
 
In addition, USDA must transfer amounts from the fund to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to implement the Western Monarch Butterfly Conservation Plan, which was prepared by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-03-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2020-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 305 Highway 15 North in Pontotoc, Mississippi, as the "Lance Corporal Marc Lucas Tucker Post Office Building".

Bill: 116-hr-5921
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Trent [R-MS-1]
Introduced: 2020-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Mississippi
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 305 Highway 15 North in Pontotoc, Mississippi, as the "Lance Corporal Marc Lucas Tucker Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Ronald V. Dellums Memorial Fellowship for Women of Color in STEAM and National Security Act

Bill: 116-hr-5922
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2020-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Higher education
Minority education
Science and engineering education
Student aid and college costs
Student records
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: 

Ronald V. Dellums Memorial Fellowship for Women of Color in STEAM and National Security Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to establish a fellowship program that provides scholarships and internships to underrepresented students who have high potential talent in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) in exchange for those students working in the federal government or in a STEAM field upon graduation.
 
DOD must award at least 50% of the number of fellowships under the program to students who attend historically black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2020-02-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Fair Access to Co-ops for Veterans Act

Bill: 116-hr-5923
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2020-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Cooperative and condominium housing
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: 

Fair Access to Co-ops for Veterans Act

 
This bill reauthorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to guarantee a loan for a veteran's purchase of stock or membership in a cooperative housing corporation for the purpose of entitling the veteran to occupy a single family residential unit. The VA must ensure a loan for the purchase of stock or membership in a cooperative housing corporation is not denied if it has been reviewed and approved by a lender approved by Fannie Mae. 
 
The bill also requires the VA to advertise the availability of loan guarantees for housing cooperative share loans to notify eligible veterans, participating lenders, and interested realtors of the availability of such loan guarantees and the procedures and requirements that apply to the obtaining of such guarantees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize a loan repayment program to encourage specialty medicine physicians to serve in rural communities experiencing a shortage of specialty medicine physicians, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-5924
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2020-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Higher education
Medical education
Rural conditions and development
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: 
This bill directs the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to carry out a loan repayment program for certain specialty medicine physicians who provide care in rural communities with shortages of such physicians. Physicians must agree to a period of obligated service and, for each year of such service, HRSA must pay one-sixth of the principal payment and interest on eligible loans up to a maximum cap of $250,000. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia Courts and Public Defender Service Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments Act

Bill: 116-hr-5925
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2020-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: District of Columbia
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Lawyers and legal services
State and local courts

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: 

District of Columbia Courts and Public Defender Service Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments Act 

 
This bill authorizes the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration in the District of Columbia to establish a voluntary separation incentive payments program for nonjudicial employees of the District's courts substantially similar to that for certain federal employees and members of the uniformed services, except that the maximum payment amount to any individual may not exceed $25,000.
 
Additionally, the District's Public Defender Service may establish such a program for its employees, again limiting the maximum payment amount to any individual to $25,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House
Safe Medicine Act

Bill: 116-hr-5927
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2020-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Manufacturing
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: 

Safe Medicine Act

 
This bill authorizes the Food and Drug Administration to temporarily ban the sale of a drug if (1) the drug (or an active ingredient of the drug) is manufactured in a country that, because of systemic problems of supervision, may be producing contaminated drugs; and (2) the drug's labeling does not have certain warnings about potential contamination. 
 
The bill also requires the Department of Health and Human Services to report to Congress on vulnerabilities in the U.S. medicine supply chain, including vulnerabilities related to reliance on production from other countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House
FIRST RESPONDER Act of 2020

Bill: 116-hr-5928
Sponsor: Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2020-02-18 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Emergency communications systems
Government studies and investigations
Radio spectrum allocation
State and local finance
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: 

Fee Integrity and Responsibilities and To Regain Essential Spectrum for Public-safety Operators Needed to Deploy Equipment Reliably Act of 2020 or the FIRST RESPONDER Act of 2020

 
This bill repeals a provision requiring the reallocation of spectrum currently used by public safety entities and otherwise addresses 9&#8211;1&#8211;1 fees and charges collected for the purpose of supporting 9&#8211;1&#8211;1 services.
 
Specifically, the bill repeals the requirement for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reallocate and auction the 470-512 MHz band (referred to as the 
T-Band spectrum
). The T-Band spectrum is a frequency range currently utilized by public safety entities in certain urban areas. 
 
The bill also requires the FCC to issue rules designating acceptable purposes and functions for the obligation or expenditure of 9&#8211;1&#8211;1 fees or charges. Such purposes and functions shall be limited to the support and implementation of 9&#8211;1&#8211;1 services and the operational expenses of public safety answering points (i.e., the points where emergency calls are routed).
 
In addition, the bill establishes the Ending 9&#8211;1&#8211;1 Fee Diversion Now Strike Force, to which the FCC must submit any evidence it obtains that a state or taxing jurisdiction is diverting 9&#8211;1&#8211;1 fees or charges. The strike force must (1) study how the federal government can end such diversion through a determination of the effectiveness of laws and other constraints, and (2) consider whether criminal penalties should be implemented to prevent further diversion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2020-02-27
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2020-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2020-02-18
text: Introduced in House