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Access to Infertility Treatment and Care Act [HB-2803]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Veterans ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Military ]
Requires private health insurance plans to cover (1) specified infertility treatments (e.g., in vitro fertilization), if the plan also covers obstetrical services; and (2) fertility preservation services for individuals who undergo medically necessary treatment that may cause impairment of fertility. Private health insurance plans must apply cost sharing for such services that does not exceed the amount for similar services covered by the plan. Further, plans are prohibited from (1) providing incentives for plan holders to forego infertility treatment,
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Healthy MOM Act Healthy Maternity and Obstetric Medicine Act [HB-2778]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Expands health insurance coverage availability for pregnant individuals. It requires health insurers, health insurance exchanges, and group health plans to offer a special enrollment period to pregnant individuals. The special enrollment period offered by an insurer or exchange must begin when the pregnancy is reported to the insurer or exchange. The special enrollment period offered by a group health plan must begin when the pregnancy is reported to the plan or is confirmed by a health care provider. The bill also makes pregnancy a qualifying life
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Justice for Servicemembers Act [HB-2750]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Military ]
[Veterans ]
Prohibits a predispute arbitration agreement from being valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of a dispute related to the employment or reemployment rights of a uniformed service member.
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Healthy MOM Act Healthy Maternity and Obstetric Medicine Act [S.1481]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Expands health insurance coverage availability for pregnant individuals. It requires health insurers, health insurance exchanges, and group health plans to offer a special enrollment period to pregnant individuals. The special enrollment period offered by an insurer or exchange must begin when the pregnancy is reported to the insurer or exchange. The special enrollment period offered by a group health plan must begin when the pregnancy is reported to the plan or is confirmed by a health care provider. The bill also makes pregnancy a qualifying life
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RISE Act of 2019 Retirement Investments for a Sustainable Economy Act of 2019 [S.1460]
[Energy ]
[Investments ]
[Retirement ]
[Climate Change ]
Establishes a new fund—the Climate Choice Stock Index Fund—as an investment option under the Thrift Savings Plan. The Climate Choice Stock Index Fund must be invested in a portfolio that is designed to replicate the performance of a commonly recognized index comprised of common stock and to ensure that no investment in the portfolio is an investment in a fossil fuel entity.
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Agency Accountability Act of 2019 [S.1456]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
Requires any agency that receives a fee, fine, penalty, or proceeds from a settlement to deposit the amount in the general fund of the Treasury. The bill also prohibits the funds from being used unless the funding is provided in advance in an appropriations bill. The bill includes exceptions for funds to be paid to a whistle-blower, loan guarantee programs, and insurance programs. The requirements do not apply to the U.S. Postal Service or the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Department of Commerce and the USPTO must report annually
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Pregnant Workers Fairness Act [HB-2694]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Rights ]
[Disabilities ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Prohibits employment practices that discriminate against making reasonable accommodations for qualified employees affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. A qualified employee is an employee or applicant who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the position, with specified exceptions. Specifically, the bill declares that it is an unlawful employment practice to, among other things fail to make reasonable accommodations to known limitations of such employees unless the accommodation
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A bill to repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. [S.1444]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Ethics ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Eliminates automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress, beginning with the 117th Congress.
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Access to Infertility Treatment and Care Act [S.1461]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Veterans ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Military ]
Requires private health insurance plans to cover (1) specified infertility treatments (e.g., in vitro fertilization), if the plan also covers obstetrical services; and (2) fertility preservation services for individuals who undergo medically necessary treatment that may cause impairment of fertility. Private health insurance plans must apply cost sharing for such services that does not exceed the amount for similar services covered by the plan. Further, plans are prohibited from (1) providing incentives for plan holders to forego infertility treatment,
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A bill to make technical corrections to the computation of average pay under Public Law 110-279. [S.1436]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Retirement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Addresses retirement benefits for certain Senate Restaurants employees who were Architect of the Capitol (AOC) employees and who became employees of a contractor under a food services contract. A provision that deems their rate of basic pay the same as such rate when AOC entered into the contract no longer applies to their retirement benefits.
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Representative Payee Fraud Prevention Act of 2019 [S.1430]
[Crime ]
[Retirement ]
[Social Security ]
[Pensions ]
[Public Safety ]
Prohibits a representative payee (i.e., a person designated to receive payments on behalf of a minor, a mentally incompetent individual, or an individual under other legal disability) from embezzling or converting the amounts received from certain retirement funds. If the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) determines that a representative payee has embezzled or converted payments from the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees Retirement System for a use other than the benefit of the individual on whose behalf such payments were
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Unsubscribe Act of 2019 [HB-2683]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
Prohibits negative option agreements online unless the terms provide the consumer with a way to cancel the agreement before incurring further or increased charges. For example, under free-to-pay conversion contracts, where a consumer is initially charged a nominal introductory rate and an increased rate after the introductory period ends, the provider of the good or service must require the consumer to perform an additional action, like clicking a confirmation button, before the increased rate takes effect.The bill also requires that certain notifications
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Gun Theft Prevention Act [HB-2674]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
To enhance safety and security at federally licensed gun shops, and for other purposes.
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Election Security Act of 2019 [HB-2660]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Elections ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Science ]
[Grants ]
[Funding ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
[Disabilities ]
Addresses election security through grant programs and requirements for voting systems and paper ballots. The bill establishes requirements for voting systems, including that systems (1) use individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballots; (2) make a voter's marked ballot available for inspection and verification by the voter before the vote is cast; (3) ensure that individuals with disabilities are given an equivalent opportunity to vote, including with privacy and independence, in a manner that produces a voter-verified paper ballot; and (4)
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An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2020 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2021 through 2024. [SCR-12]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Social Security ]
[Healthcare ]
[Housing ]
[Finance ]
[Agriculture ]
This concurrent resolution establishes the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2020 and sets forth budgetary levels for FY2021-FY2024. The resolution recommends levels and amounts for FY2020-FY2024 for federal revenues, new budget authority, budget outlays, deficits, public debt, debt held by the public, and the major functional categories of spending. It also recommends levels and amounts for FY2020-FY2024 in the Senate for Social Security and Postal Service discretionary administrative expenses. The resolution includes reconciliation
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Support for Suicide Prevention Coordinators Act [S.1392]
[Veterans ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Funding ]
Requires the Government Accountability Office to report on the responsibilities, workload, training, and vacancy rates of suicide prevention coordinators at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act [S.1394]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
Addresses the rights of public safety officers or employees to form and join a labor organization and to participate in certain organized job actions. The bill requires the Federal Labor Relations Authority (NLRA) to determine whether a state substantially provides public safety officers or employees the right to form and join a labor organization; recognition by public safety employers of the employees' labor organization, agreement to bargain with the organization, and reduction of any agreements to writing in a contract or memorandum of understanding;
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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives supporting the Federal workforce. [HR-369]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that federal employees should be applauded for their work and that their salaries and benefits should not be uniquely targeted for deficit reduction.
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DHS Acquisition Review Board Act of 2019 [HB-2609]
[Cybersecurity ]
[National Security ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish an Acquisition Review Board to (1) strengthen accountability and uniformity within the DHS acquisition review process, (2) review major acquisition programs (programs estimated to require a total expenditure of at least $300 million over their life cycle cost), and (3) review the use of best practices.
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Federal Employee Disclosure (FED) Transparency Act [HB-2612]
[Pensions ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
To require the disclosure of pension records under the Freedom of Information Act, and for other purposes.