Bills Passed by House of Representatives in 2019

Bills introduced in the 116th Congress

116th United States Congress
115th ← → 117th
United States Capitol (2018)
January 3, 2022 – January 3, 2021
Members	100 senators 435 representatives 6 non-voting delegates
Senate Majority	Republican
Senate President	Mike Pence (R)
House Majority	Democratic
House Speaker	Nancy Pelosi (D)
Sessions
1st: January iii, 2022 – January iii, 2020 2nd: January 3, 2020 – January two, 2021

The bills of the 116th United states of america Congress list includes proposed federal laws that were introduced in the 116th United states of america Congress. This Congress began on Jan iii, 2019.

The U.s.a. Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the The states consisting of 2 houses: the lower house known every bit the House of Representatives and the upper house known as the Senate. The Business firm and Senate are equal partners in the legislative process—legislation cannot be enacted without the consent of both chambers.

Once a bill is approved by i firm, it is sent to the other which may pass, pass up, or amend it. For the bill to get law, both houses must agree to identical versions of the bill. After passage by both houses, a bill is enrolled and sent to the president for signature or veto. Bills from the 116th Congress that have successfully completed this process go public laws, listed equally Acts of the 116th United states Congress.

Introduced in the House of Representatives [edit]

Passed by both houses, vetoed by Trump [edit]

H.R. number	Date of introduction	Brusque title	Description
H.J.Res. 46	January 3, 2019	Relating to a national emergency declared past the President on February xv, 2019	This joint resolution terminates the national emergency related to the U.S.-Mexico border, declared by the President on February 15, 2019. (Vetoed March 15, 2019)

Passed by the Business firm, waiting in the Senate [edit]

H.R. number	Date of introduction	Short title	Description
H.R. i	Jan 3, 2019	For the People Act of 2019	This beak addresses voter access, election integrity, election security, political spending, and ethics for the iii branches of government. Specifically, the bill expands voter registration and voting access and limits removing voters from voter rolls. The beak provides for states to establish independent, nonpartisan redistricting commissions.
H.R. ii	June 11, 2020	Moving Forward Act	This nib addresses provisions related to federal-aid highway, transit, highway safety, motor carrier, enquiry, hazardous materials, and runway programs of the Department of Transportation (DOT).
H.R. 3	September xix, 2019	Elijah Eastward. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Deed	This bill establishes several programs and requirements relating to the prices of prescription drugs, health care coverage and costs, and public health.
H.R. 4	February 26, 2019	John Lewis Voting Rights Human action	This pecker establishes new criteria for determining which states and political subdivisions must obtain preclearance before changes to voting practices in these areas may take consequence. (Preclearance is the process of receiving preapproval from the Department of Justice or the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia before making legal changes that would touch voting rights.)
H.R. v	March 13, 2019	Equality Act	This pecker prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in a broad diversity of areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system. Specifically, the bill defines and includes sexual activity, sexual orientation, and gender identity amidst the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation.
H.R. 6	March 12, 2019	American Dream and Promise Act of 2019	This bill cancels and prohibits removal proceedings confronting sure aliens and provides such aliens with a path toward permanent resident status.
H.R. 7	January 20, 2019	Paycheck Fairness Deed	This nib addresses wage discrimination on the ground of sexual practice. It apology equal pay provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Human activity of 1938 to (one) restrict the apply of the bona fide factor defence to wage discrimination claims, (2) heighten nonretaliation prohibitions, (3) make information technology unlawful to require an employee to sign a contract or waiver prohibiting the employee from disclosing information most the employee'due south wages, and (iv) increment civil penalties for violations of equal pay provisions.
H.R. 8	January 8, 2019	Bipartisan Groundwork Checks Act of 2019	This bill establishes new groundwork check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties (i.e., unlicensed individuals). Specifically, information technology prohibits a firearm transfer between private parties unless a licensed gun dealer, manufacturer, or importer first takes possession of the firearm to conduct a background bank check. The prohibition does non apply to certain firearm transfers, such as a souvenir between spouses in skilful religion.
H.R. 9	March 27, 2019	Climate Action Now Act	This pecker requires the President to develop and update annually a plan for the United states to see its nationally determined contribution under the Paris Agreement on climate change.
H.R. 51	January 3, 2019	Washington, D.C. Admission Act	This bill admits sure portions of Washington, DC as the 51st state. The bill defines state as the State of Washington, Douglass Democracy.
H.J.Res. 79	November 8, 2019	Removing the borderline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment	This joint resolution eliminates the borderline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibits discrimination based on sex activity. The amendment was proposed to usa in Firm Joint Resolution 208 of the 92nd Congress, as agreed to in the Senate on March 22, 1972. The amendment shall exist part of the Constitution whenever ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of united states.
H.R. 987	February 6, 2019	Strengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Deed	This nib addresses prescription drugs and the health insurance market place, including (i) revising processes related to federal approval of generic drugs; (2) providing funding for states to establish wellness insurances exchanges; (3) nullifying an agency rule related to brusque-term, express duration coverage; and (4) expanding outreach activities.
H.R. 1585	March 7, 2019	Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019	This bill modifies and reauthorizes through FY2024 programs and activities nether the Violence Against Women Human action that seek to prevent and respond to domestic violence, sexual assail, dating violence, and stalking. Among other things, the bill likewise authorizes new programs, makes changes to federal firearms laws, and establishes new protections to promote housing stability and economical security for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.
H.R. 1595	March vii, 2019	Secure And Off-white Enforcement Banking Act of 2019	This bill mostly prohibits a federal banking regulator from penalizing a depository institution for providing banking services to a legitimate marijuana- or hemp-related business. Specifically, the bill prohibits a federal banking regulator from (1) terminating or limiting the eolith insurance or share insurance of a depository establishment solely because the institution provides financial services to a legitimate marijuana- or hemp-related business; (2) prohibiting or otherwise discouraging a depository institution from offering financial services to such a business; (iii) recommending, incentivizing, or encouraging a depository institution non to offer fiscal services to an account holder solely considering the account holder is affiliated with such a concern; (4) taking any adverse or cosmetic supervisory action on a loan fabricated to a person solely considering the person either owns such a concern or owns existent manor or equipment leased or sold to such a business; or (v) penalizing a depository institution for engaging in a fiscal service for such a business organization.
H.R. 1644	March 8, 2019	Salvage the Net Deed of 2019	To restore the open up internet social club of the Federal Communications Committee.
H.R. 3884	July 23, 2019	Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act (MORE Human activity of 2020)	This bill decriminalizes marijuana. Specifically, it removes marijuana from the list of scheduled substances nether the Controlled Substances Human action and eliminates criminal penalties for an individual who articles, distributes, or possesses marijuana.
H.R. 4617	Oct viii, 2019	Stopping Harmful Interference in Elections for a Lasting Democracy Act	This bill establishes a duty to written report election interference from foreign entities, applies existing campaign advertising requirements to online advertisements, and generally limits political spending and election interference by foreign entities.
H.R. 7120	June viii, 2020	George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020[ane]	This bill addresses a wide range of policies and bug regarding policing practices and police force enforcement accountability. It includes measures to increment accountability for law enforcement misconduct, to enhance transparency and information collection, and to eliminate discriminatory policing practices.

Other legislation [edit]

H.R. number	Date of introduction	Brusque title	Description
H.Res. 109	January 3, 2019	Recognizing the duty of the Federal Authorities to create a Green New Deal
H.R. 133	January 3, 2019	Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (includes COVID-19 relief)[2]	Signed by President Trump December 27, 2020.
H.R. 150	January 3, 2019	Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency Act of 2022 (Bang-up Human activity).[3]	This nib requires the establishment and use of data standards for data reported by recipients of federal grants. The bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, jointly with the executive department that issues the near federal grant awards, to (ane) establish government-wide data standards for information reported by grant recipients, (2) consequence guidance directing federal agencies to utilize those standards, and (3) require the publication of recipient-reported data collected from all agencies on a single public website. Each agency shall ensure its awards use the data standards for time to come information collection requests.
H.Res. 411	May xxx, 2019	No More Presidential Wars Act[4] [5]	This resolution declares that if the President initiates wars without prior congressional declarations, such action shall constitute impeachable "loftier crimes and misdemeanors," which shall cause the House of Representatives to vote articles of impeachment. In addition, the resolution prohibits the President from making the U.s. a co-belligerent in an ongoing war without a congressional declaration.
H.R. 662	January 17, 2019	REACH Act[half dozen]	This beak addresses hazing incidents that involve students attending an establishment of college teaching (IHE). Hazing ways an intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a educatee, or a former student, of an IHE against another student, that (1) is connected with an initiation into, an affiliation with, or the maintenance of membership in, an organization that is affiliated with the IHE; and (2) contributes to a substantial risk of physical injury, mental harm, or degradation or causes physical injury, mental impairment or personal deposition. Specifically, an IHE must disclose hazing incidents that were reported to campus security government or local police agencies in its annual security report. In improver, each IHE must provide students with an educational programme on hazing that includes information on hazing awareness, hazing prevention, and the IHE'due south policies on hazing.
H.Res. 899	January thirty, 2019	Recognizing the contributions of AmeriCorps members and alumni to the lives of the people of the United states of america.[6]	This resolution encourages (1) the people of the United States to join in a national effort to salute AmeriCorps members and alumni and to raise awareness about the importance of national and customs service, and (2) all individuals to consider opportunities to serve in AmeriCorps. The resolution likewise acknowledges the accomplishments of AmeriCorps members, alumni, and community partners, and recognizes their important contributions to the lives of the people of the United States.
H.R. 3151	June half dozen, 2019	Taxpayer Beginning Act of 2019	This bill revises provisions relating to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), its customer service, enforcement procedures, cybersecurity and identity protection, management of information technology, and use of electronic systems. Signed past President Trump July 1, 2019.
H.R. 2107	April iv, 2019	Affordable College Textbook Act[6]	This pecker directs the Section of Educational activity to make grants to institutions of higher didactics or states to support projects that expand the utilize of open up textbooks in order to accomplish savings for students while maintaining or improving instruction and educatee learning outcomes. An open textbook is an educational resource that either resides in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual license that permits its free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others.
H.R. 5049	November 12, 2019	Well-Informed, Scientific, & Efficient Government Act of 2022 (WISE Regime Act)[7]	This nib prohibits an bureau from entering into a contract for a periodical subscription that prohibits disclosure of the cost of the subscription to another agency or the Library of Congress. Each bureau library must make policies and procedures for employee access to library subscriptions hands and clearly available to the agency'south employees, including regional employees, through the intranet. The Full general Services Administration shall submit to Congress and each bureau library a report on increasing agency library access to serials.
H.R. 4901	Oct 29, 2019	Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Human activity	This pecker (one) declares that Congress commits to deeming Puerto Rico to exist a state of the U.s.a. if it chooses statehood; and (ii) requires Puerto Rico to conduct a plebiscite, a vote of the people, on statehood in conjunction with the November 2022 election.
H.R. 7085	June 4, 2020	Catastrophe Qualified Immunity Act	This bill eliminates the defense of qualified amnesty in civil actions for impecuniousness of rights. Qualified immunity is a judicially created doctrine that protects authorities employees or those acting with state potency from being held personally liable for ramble violations. The beak provides that under the statute allowing a civil activeness alleging deprivation of rights nether color of law, it shall not be a defence force or immunity to whatever such action that (1) the defendant was acting in skilful religion or believed that his or her bear was lawful at the time information technology was committed; (2) the rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution or laws were not clearly established at the fourth dimension of their deprivation; or (3) the state of the law was such that the accused could non reasonably have been expected to know whether his or her conduct was lawful.
H.R. 7640	July xvi, 2020	Local Journalism Sustainability Act[8]	This beak allows individual and business organization taxpayers certain revenue enhancement credits for the support of local newspapers and media. Specifically, private taxpayers may claim an income tax credit up to $250 for a local paper subscription. The nib also allows local newspaper employers a payroll tax credit for wages paid to an employee for service as a journalist and sure pocket-sized businesses a tax credit for local newspaper and media advertising expenses.
H.R. 8424	September 29, 2020	Supreme Courtroom Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act of 2020	The pecker requires the President to engage a Supreme Courtroom Justice every two years. If the engagement of a Justice would effect in more than 9 Justices on the Court, then the longest serving Justice, excluding Justices appointed before the enactment of the bill, is deemed retired from regular service and designated as a Senior Justice. Further, any Justice who has served a full of xviii years is deemed retired from regular service and may proceed to serve as a Senior Justice. Senior Justices may continue to perform judicial duties assigned to them past the Principal Justice. However, a Justice who retires from regular service due to a disability may not serve as a Senior Justice. In the event of a vacancy on the Courtroom, the Primary Justice must assign the Justice most recently designated as a Senior Justice to serve on the Court until the appointment of a new Justice. Additionally, the Senate's communication and consent authority is waived if the Senate does not human activity within 120 days of a Justice'due south nomination.

Introduced in the Senate [edit]

Passed both houses, vetoed by Trump [edit]

H.R. number	Date of introduction	Short championship	Clarification
South.J.Res. vii	January 30, 2019	A joint resolution to directly the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Democracy of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress.	This articulation resolution directs the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities in or affecting Yemen within 30 days unless Congress authorizes a subsequently withdrawal date, issues a declaration of state of war, or specifically authorizes the use of the Armed Forces. Prohibited activities include providing in-flying fueling for non-U.S. aircraft conducting missions as part of the conflict in Yemen. This articulation resolution shall not affect any military machine operations directed at Al Qaeda. The President must submit to Congress, within 90 days, reports assessing the risks that would be posed (one) if the United States were to cease supporting operations with respect to the conflict in Yemen, and (2) if Saudi Arabia were to cease sharing Yemen-related intelligence with the The states. Vetoed April 16, 2019[nine]

Other legislation [edit]

H.R. number	Date of introduction	Curt championship	Clarification
Southward. 1	January three, 2019	Combating BDS Act	Nonpreemption of measures by State and local governments to divest from entities that engage in certain boycott, divestment, or sanctions activities targeting State of israel or persons doing business concern in Israel or Israeli-controlled territories.
Southward. 488	January 3, 2019	Justice for Victims of Lynching Act	This pecker establishes a new criminal ceremonious rights violation for lynching. Specifically, a person who conspires to commit certain ceremonious rights offenses (e.chiliad., a hate crime act) is discipline to criminal penalties.
S. 1036	April 4, 2019	Affordable Higher Textbook Deed [6]	This neb directs the Department of Instruction to make grants to institutions of higher education or states to support projects that aggrandize the utilise of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students while maintaining or improving instruction and student learning outcomes. An open textbook is an educational resource that either resides in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual license that permits its free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others.
S. 1829	June xiii, 2019	Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency Deed of 2022 (Groovy Act)[10]	This bill requires the establishment and use of data standards for information reported by recipients of federal grants. The bill requires the Function of Management and Upkeep, jointly with the executive section that issues the nearly federal grant awards, to (1) constitute government-wide information standards for information reported past grant recipients, (2) result guidance directing federal agencies to apply those standards, and (iii) require the publication of recipient-reported data collected from all agencies on a single public website. Each agency shall ensure its awards use the data standards for future information collection requests.

See also [edit]

• List of acts of the 116th United states of america Congress
• Procedures of the U.S. Congress
• List of United States federal legislation

References [edit]

1. ^ "U.s. House passes 'George Floyd' police reform bill". BBC News. June 26, 2020. Retrieved July xix, 2020.
2. ^ Elis, Niv (December 21, 2020). "Congress unveils $2.3 trillion government spending and virus relief package". The Hill.
3. ^ "Congress: Bills: Regime Operations and Politics". GovTrack . Retrieved June 28, 2019.
4. ^ "Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: Stop Trump From Starting State of war With Iran — No More Presidential Wars". June 24, 2019. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
5. ^ "H.Res.411 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Defining Presidential wars not declared by Congress under article I, department 8, clause xi (Declare State of war Clause) as impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors" within the meaning of article II, department 4 of the Constitution and defining the meanings of war and cobelligerency for purposes of the Declare War Clause and Impeachment provisions. - Congress.gov - Library of Congress". Retrieved June 27, 2019.
6. ^ ^{a b c d} "Congress: Bills: Education". GovTrack . Retrieved April 20, 2019.
7. ^ "Foster Introduces Legislation to Improve Government Access to Scientific Data". House.gov. November 12, 2019.
8. ^ Local Journalism Sustainability Act, 16 July 2020, Wikidata Q99305326
9. ^ Sanders, Bernard (2 May 2019). "South.J.Res.seven - 116th Congress (2019-2020): A joint resolution to straight the removal of United States Armed services from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have non been authorized past Congress". world wide web.congress.gov . Retrieved 16 January 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
10. ^ "GREAT Act". Washington DC: Information Coalition. Retrieved June 28, 2019.

External links [edit]

• Congress' Legislation Website
• Govtrack.us – tracks Congressional activities
• Library of Congress' legislation site Archived 2011-12-14 at the Wayback Machine

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