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Showing the text of H.R. 2500, as ordered reported by the Committee on Armed Services.
H. Rept. 116-120 PDF
Report from the Committee on Armed Services to accompany H.R. 2500
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Supplemental Report from the Committee on Armed Services to accompany H.R. 2500
(as reported)
COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY A RECORD VOTE OF 8-4 on Tuesday, July 9, 2019.
FLOOR ACTION ON H. RES. 476:
Agreed to by record vote of 234-197, after agreeing to the amendment offered by Mr. McGovern by record vote of 234-197, after agreeing to the previous question by record vote of 232-197, on Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
MANAGERS: McGovern/Woodall
1. Structured rule.
2. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed Services.
3. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
4. Provides that an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 116-19, modified by the amendment printed in Part A of the report, shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
5. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
6. Makes in order only those further amendments printed in part B of the report and amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the resolution. Each amendment in part B may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, may be withdrawn by the proponent at any time before action thereon, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
7. Waives all points of order against the further amendments printed in part B of the report or amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the resolution.
8. Section 3 provides that the chair of the Committee on Armed Services or his designee may offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments printed in part B of the report not earlier disposed of. Amendments en bloc shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed Services or their designees, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
9. Provides that at the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill, as amended, to the House with such further amendments as may have been adopted. The question of such amendments' adoption shall be put to the House en gros and without division of the question.
10. Provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
11. Provides that clause 7(a)(1) of rule XV (Consensus Calendar) shall not apply with respect to H.R. 553.
12. Provides that it shall be in order at any time on the legislative day of July 11, 2019, or July 12, 2019, for the Speaker to entertain motions that the House suspend the rules relating to the bill (H.R. 1327) to extend authorization for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 through fiscal year 2090, and for other purposes.
# | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
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1 | Version 1 | Pocan (WI) | Democrat | Withdrawn Prohibits DOD use of firefighting foam containing PFAS. | Withdrawn |
2 | Version 2 | Gaetz (FL), Gallego (AZ) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Promotes posthumously LT. Col. Dick Cole to the rank of colonel. | Made in Order |
3 | Version 2 | Biggs (AZ), LaMalfa (CA), Joyce, John (PA), Loudermilk (GA), Palazzo (MS), Reschenthaler (PA), Hice (GA), Meuser (PA), Crawford (AR), Wright (TX), Grothman (WI), Gosar (AZ), Meadows (NC), Gaetz (FL), Hunter (CA), DesJarlais (TN), Fulcher (ID), Norman (SC), Duncan (SC), Gooden (TX), Byrne (AL), Davidson (OH), Schweikert (AZ), Hudson (NC), Harris (MD), Rose, John (TN), Brooks, Mo (AL), Lesko (AZ), Gohmert (TX), Weber (TX), Roy (TX), Steube (FL) | Republican | Revised Strikes section 1046 which prohibits the use of funds for construction of a wall, fence, or other physical barrier along the southern border of the United States. | Revised |
4 | Version 1 | Norton (DC) | Democrat | Gives the District of Columbia the authority to deploy the D.C. National Guard in the same manner states and territories may deploy their National Guards. | Submitted |
5 | Version 3 | Biggs (AZ), Roy (TX) | Republican | Revised Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress on annual defense spending by ally and partner countries. | Made in Order |
6 | Version 2 | Kildee (MI), Speier (CA), Haaland (NM) | Democrat | Revised Requires the DoD certify that it is complying with HUD's regulations to protect service members and their families against lead-based paint in military housing. Would also require the DoD to create regulations to allow independent testing of lead hazards in military housing. | Made in Order |
7 | Version 2 | Kildee (MI), Dean (PA) | Democrat | Revised Authorizes $5 million for the first year of a five year study by the USGS to survey for PFAS contamination across the country. | Made in Order |
8 | Version 2 | Dunn (FL), Rutherford (FL), Waltz (FL), Yoho (FL), Gaetz (FL), Crist (FL), Lawson (FL), Bilirakis (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Grants the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard the ability to negotiate contract modifications for the Offshore Patrol Cutter program due to the impact of Hurricane Michael on project schedule. | Revised |
9 | Version 1 | Dunn (FL) | Republican | Requires the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the head of the Joint Artificial intelligence center, to submit a report to Congress regarding the use and future use of A.I. in DoD. | Made in Order |
10 | Version 1 | Connolly (VA), Norton (DC), Beyer (VA) | Democrat | Prohibits the elimination of the Office of Personnel Management. | Made in Order |
11 | Version 1 | Kuster (NH), Bustos (IL) | Democrat | Requires the Undersecretary for Acquisition and Sustainment submit a report to Congress evaluating service-level best practices for collecting real property data and implement service-wide guidance based off these best practices. | Made in Order |
12 | Version 1 | Meng (NY) | Democrat | Requires the Department of Defense to submit a report on the number of military installations that may have lead service lines, what steps DOD has taken to replace such lines, and whether DOD has established an awareness campaign to inform military service members and their families of these service lines. | Made in Order |
13 | Version 1 | Meng (NY), Porter (CA), Crow (CO) | Democrat | Permits any member of the armed services who gives birth to be exempt from deployment for 12 months after such birth unless they request deployment. Current bill text only covers members who give birth while on active duty. | Made in Order |
14 | Version 1 | Meng (NY), Porter (CA) | Democrat | Permanently authorizes the Suicide Prevention and Resilience Program. | Made in Order |
15 | Version 1 | Kaptur (OH), Young (AK) | Bi-Partisan | Expands DOD’s authority to operate the youth civil-military STEM program, STARBASE, to allow participation and collaboration with the Coast Guard. | Made in Order |
16 | Version 1 | Connolly (VA) | Democrat | Delegates to a single Board member or the agency General Counsel the authority to stay an agency action that the Office of Special Counsel suspects was taken as a result of a prohibit personnel practice in order to better protect whistleblowers when the Merit Systems Protection Board lacks a confirmed member or a quorum. | Made in Order |
17 | Version 1 | Connolly (VA) | Democrat | Prohibits states from coercing military technicians into accepting an offer of realignment or conversion to any other military status. Prohibits retaliation against military technicians who decline to participate in such realignment or conversion. | Made in Order |
18 | Version 1 | Gaetz (FL), Hill, Katie (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Clarifies the definition of Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI) Housing so that phased development of privatized military housing is fully funded because current law provides full rate Basic Allowance for housing reimbursement to MHPI projects started prior to 30 September 2014 but Department of Defense interpretation limits reimbursement rate to 95% for subsequent construction to existing projects after the effective date. | Submitted |
19 | Version 1 | Kelly, Trent (MS) | Republican | Provides authority for the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to plan, design, construct or lease shared medical facilities to save costs and prevent duplicate efforts. | Submitted |
20 | Version 1 | Davis, Rodney (IL), LaHood (IL), Bost (IL), Bustos (IL), Kinzinger (IL) | Bi-Partisan | Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to transition the 183d Wing of the Illinois Air National Guard from a nonflying mission to a flying mission with aircraft. | Submitted |
21 | Version 1 | Connolly (VA), King, Peter (NY) | Bi-Partisan | Codifies a DOD policy to report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) servicemembers who are prohibited from purchasing firearms. Requires DOD to study the feasibility of creating a database of military protective orders issued in response to domestic violence and the feasibility for reporting such MPOs to NICS. | Made in Order |
22 | Version 1 | Crawford (AR) | Republican | Amends the EOD Defense Program to additionally designate the Department of Defense joint program executive officer for armaments and ammunition, as the JPEO for Explosive Ordnance Disposal. | Submitted |
23 | Version 1 | Crawford (AR) | Republican | Directs the Secretary of the Army to proceed on designating the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Corps as a basic branch of the Army. | Submitted |
24 | Version 2 | Mast (FL), Stevens (MI), Posey (FL), Cisneros (CA), Bilirakis (FL), Luria (VA), Spano (FL), Deutch (FL), Soto (FL), Heck (WA), Kuster (NH), Crist (FL), Yoho (FL), Gabbard (HI), Castor (FL), Crenshaw (TX), Lamb (PA), Steube (FL), Diaz-Balart (FL), Hill, Katie (CA), Hartzler (MO) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Expresses the intent of Congress that the passage of time should not bar the prosecution of rape or sexual assault under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice and finds that the House Office of General Counsel can represent the interests of Congress in any cases related to the Mangahas decision. | Revised |
25 | Version 1 | Walorski (IN) | Republican | Recognizes the honorable service of military working dogs and soldier handlers in the Tactical Explosive Detection Dog (TEDD) program and encourages the Army to prioritize adoption of the dogs to former TEDD handlers. | Made in Order |
26 | Version 2 | Hastings (FL) | Democrat | Revised Requires contractors to submit total Independent Research and Development spending to the Defense Technical Information Center, who will provide access to the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, the Director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency, and Director of the Defense Contract Management Agency. Further, it requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering to report to Congress on the cost expended and trends related to Independent Research and Development spending. | Made in Order |
27 | Version 2 | Hastings (FL) | Democrat | Revised Requires contractors to submit total Bid and Proposal spending to the Director of the Defense Contract Audit Agency, who will provide access to the Principal Director for Defense Pricing and Contracting to fulfill DoD reporting requirements. | Made in Order |
28 | Version 1 | Hastings (FL) | Democrat | Repeals the Defense Cost Accounting Standards Board as duplicative of the Cost Accounting Standards Board under the Office of Procurement Policy. | Made in Order |
29 | Version 1 | Stanton (AZ), Gallego (AZ) | Democrat | Directs the Secretary of Defense to modify the pre-separation counseling check-list administered to servicemembers separating from the Armed Forces to provide further information regarding the expedited naturalization resources available to them. | Made in Order |
30 | Version 1 | Stanton (AZ) | Democrat | Allows certain veterans who are enrolled in their respective service’s Wounded Warriors Program to continue their enrollment in the Military Services Adaptive Sports Programs for an additional year after separation. | Made in Order |
31 | Version 2 | Lamborn (CO), Bost (IL), Kim (NJ), Smith, Christopher (NJ) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Modifies the current bill language to prohibit the use of funds to enter into a global household goods contract until after the Comptroller General reports back to congressional defense committees on a comprehensive study analyzing the effects of outsourcing the defense personal property program to a private entity or entities, a cost-benefit analysis, and recommendations for changes to the strategy. | Made in Order |
32 | Version 1 | Velázquez (NY), Sablan (MP), San Nicolas (GU), Radewagen (AS), Plaskett (VI) | Bi-Partisan | Amends subsection 15(x) of the Small Business Act granting small businesses in the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands the contracting credit provided therein. | Made in Order |
33 | Version 1 | Velázquez (NY), Cisneros (CA) | Democrat | Amends subsection 15(x) of the Small Business Act to allow prime contractors the ability to double the value of a subcontract for purposes of the subcontracting goals. | Made in Order |
34 | Version 1 | Finkenauer (IA), Curtis (UT), Velázquez (NY) | Bi-Partisan | Directs Procurement Center Representatives and other acquisition personnel to assist small business in the SBIR and STTR program in terms of researching applicable solicitations for small business concerns and technical assistance when bidding for contracts. | Made in Order |
35 | Version 1 | Lee, Barbara (CA), Lewis (GA), Amash (MI), Schiff (CA), Pocan (WI), Crow (CO), Engel (NY) | Bi-Partisan | Repeals the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243; 50 USC. 1541). | Made in Order |
36 | Version 1 | Lujan (NM) | Democrat | States that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator may enter into a lease agreement or authorize a Management and Operating Contractor of the NNSA to enter into a lease agreement with any person for the accommodation of the Administration in a building (or improvement), to be used by the Administration as offices, warehouses, light laboratory use or other similar use, without regard to whether the building exists or is being constructed by the lessor. | Submitted |
37 | Version 2 | Mast (FL), Bacon (NE), Baird (IN), Taylor (TX), Gaetz (FL), Lamb (PA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Expands eligibility of military MWR housing in order to give financial relief to allow Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) who temporarily lose housing allowance while on mandatory Home Leave status to rent military housing. | Made in Order |
38 | Version 1 | Griffith (VA) | Republican | Withdrawn Amends Section 1021(b) of the FY12 NDAA to add a category where a “knowingly” requirement would apply for detention of American citizens on American soil. | Withdrawn |
39 | Version 1 | Bilirakis (FL), Gabbard (HI) | Bi-Partisan | Allows the receipt of both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation with respect to any service-connected disability (currently, only for a disability rated at 50% or more), and repeals provisions phasing in the full concurrent receipt of such pay through December 31, 2013. Individuals who were retired or separated from military service due to a service-connected disability shall be eligible for the full concurrent receipt of both veterans' disability compensation and either military retired pay or combat-related special pay. | Submitted |
40 | Version 1 | Stauber (MN) | Republican | Holds federal agencies accountable for paying small construction contractors in a timely manner for work performed pursuant to contract modifications (i.e. change orders) made unilaterally by the federal client on a construction project awarded to a small business. The amendment requires federal agencies to make partial payments to the small prime contractor, who will flow down those payments to participating subcontractors, for the change order work performed and correctly invoiced, instead of diverting that financial burden to the small contractor and subcontractors. | Submitted |
41 | Version 3 | Pocan (WI), Pappas (NH), Lowenthal (CA), Lee, Barbara (CA), Foster (IL), Watson Coleman (NJ), Norton (DC), Maloney, Sean (NY), Takano (CA), Moulton (MA), Higgins, Brian (NY), Case (HI), Raskin (MD), Tonko (NY), Heck (WA), Schakowsky (IL), Escobar (TX), Kelly, Robin (IL), Brownley (CA), Schrader (OR), Cohen (TN), Omar (MN), Jackson Lee (TX), DelBene (WA), Brown (MD), Kennedy (MA), Shalala (FL), Bonamici (OR), Porter (CA), Garcia, Jesús (IL) | Democrat | Revised Requires review of the discharge characterizations of former members of the military who were discharged because of their sexual orientation. Requires boards to change discharge characterizations from dishonorable to honorable in such cases. | Made in Order |
42 | Version 1 | Kuster (NH) | Democrat | Requires board for the correction of military records and discharge review boards to consult with a expert in trauma specific to sexual assault, intimate partner violence, or spousal abuse when reviewing applicant claims based on sexual assault, intimate partner violence, or spousal abuse. | Made in Order |
43 | Version 2 | Kuster (NH) | Democrat | Withdrawn Expands the consideration standard given by boards for the correction of military records and discharge review boards to cases in which post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury related to sexual trauma, intimate partner violence, or spousal abuse are part of the justification for a request for relief. | Withdrawn |
44 | Version 1 | Kuster (NH) | Democrat | Requires members of boards for the correction of military records and discharge review boards receive training in sexual trauma, intimate partner violence, spousal abuse, and the various responses of individuals to trauma. | Made in Order |
45 | Version 1 | Kuster (NH), Speier (CA) | Democrat | Requires GAO complete a study on partnerships between military installations and civilian domestic and sexual violence response organizations to improve collaboration and services provided to survivors of sexual and domestic violence. | Made in Order |
46 | Version 1 | Speier (CA), Meadows (NC), Khanna (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Places limitations on the issuance of non-recurring cost waivers to certain Foreign Military Sales customers. Requires Defense and State Department reports on reforms on various aspects of the Foreign Military Sales enterprise. | Made in Order |
47 | Version 1 | Speier (CA), Hudson (NC), Reschenthaler (PA), Mullin (OK), Lieu (CA), Crist (FL), Steube (FL), Mitchell (MI), Raskin (MD) | Bi-Partisan | Allows active duty servicemembers to sue the Department of Defense for injury and death caused by medical malpractice. | Submitted |
48 | Version 1 | Plaskett (VI) | Democrat | Requires a report regarding transition from Overseas Housing Allowance to Basic Allowance for Housing for servicemembers in the U.S. territories. | Made in Order |
49 | Version 1 | Plaskett (VI) | Democrat | Changes Overseas Housing Allowance to Basic Allowance for Housing for servicemembers in the U.S. Virgin Islands. | Submitted |
50 | Version 3 | Panetta (CA) | Democrat | Revised Authorizes the Army to carry out a pilot program to construct new military housing in diverse climate regions in the United States utilizing the All-American Abode design by the United States Military Academy. | Made in Order |
51 | Version 1 | Panetta (CA), Bacon (NE), Baird (IN), Cisneros (CA), Crenshaw (TX), Crow (CO), Gallagher (WI), Golden (ME), Houlahan (PA), Kinzinger (IL), Luria (VA), Mast (FL), Rose, Max (NY), Sherrill (NJ), Steube (FL), Taylor (TX), Waltz (FL), Lamb (PA), Moulton (MA) | Bi-Partisan | Provides a full military honors ceremony - including funeral escort platoon, military band, firing party, and horse-drawn caisson - to Medal of Honor recipients and Prisoners of War eligible for burial at Arlington National Cemetery. | Made in Order |
52 | Version 1 | Panetta (CA) | Democrat | Requires a report on the legal services the Department of Defense may provide to servicemembers harmed by a health or environmental hazard while living in military housing and dissemination of the information at all U.S. installations. | Made in Order |
53 | Version 2 | Panetta (CA), Engel (NY), Bacon (NE), Gallagher (WI), Connolly (VA), Hurd (TX) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Reaffirms strong Congressional support for NATO and prohibits the use of funds to withdraw from the alliance. | Made in Order |
54 | Version 1 | Panetta (CA), Hurd (TX), Langevin (RI) | Bi-Partisan | Improves coordination between the federal government, industry, and academia to ensure global superiority of the United States in quantum information science necessary for meeting national security requirements. | Made in Order |
55 | Version 1 | Case (HI) | Democrat | Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment to provide a report regarding the security risks posed by non-military aircraft overflying military installations inside the United States. | Made in Order |
56 | Version 3 | Case (HI) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Secretary of Defense to report on current and possible expansion of security cooperation and assistance with Pacific island countries, including Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, and Tonga. | Made in Order |
57 | Version 1 | Young (AK), Stefanik (NY) | Republican | Requires the Secretary of the Army to assess cold weather training requirements and develop a plan to increase and expand cold weather training opportunities. | Made in Order |
58 | Version 2 | Young (AK) | Republican | Revised Provides for a strategic Arctic port designation following a comprehensive DoD evaluation and report. | Made in Order |
59 | Version 3 | Waters (CA) | Democrat | Revised Increases funding for assistance to schools with significant numbers of military dependent students by $10,000,000 in order to further support local educational agencies that serve military communities and families. | Made in Order |
60 | Version 1 | Napolitano (CA), McKinley (WV) | Bi-Partisan | Increases funding for the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program by $50 million. This would match the program’s 2020 funding of $200 million in HR 2740, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020. | Made in Order |
61 | Version 1 | Banks (IN) | Republican | Mandates that the General Counsel of the Department of the Army begin a preliminary inquiry to investigate the burial of Jack Edward Dunlap at Arlington Cemetery. | Made in Order |
62 | Version 1 | O'Halleran (AZ) | Democrat | Includes the U.S. Naval Observatory and its associated facilities in the DOD's "Master Plan for Infrastructure Required to Support Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Missions (Title II, Subtitle C, Sec. 232)". | Made in Order |
63 | Version 2 | O'Halleran (AZ), Stefanik (NY) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Requires DOD and the Defense Health Agency (DHA) to submit a report to Congress on the implementation and results of DHA's June 2018 guidance on first fill opioid prescriptions to TRICARE beneficiaries for acute post-operative pain. | Made in Order |
64 | Version 3 | Banks (IN) | Republican | Revised Ensures the transparency and safeguards the integrity of defense-funded academic research and engineering activities at institutions of higher education. | Revised |
65 | Version 1 | Carter, John (TX), Womack (AR), Hudson (NC), Bishop, Sanford (GA), Cuellar (TX), Ruppersberger (MD) | Bi-Partisan | Increases the amount of money earned by military recycling centers that can roll over into the next fiscal year from $2 million to $10 million. This will allow to maximize the revenue to improve installations and Morale, Welfare, and Recreation activities. | Made in Order |
66 | Version 1 | Carter, John (TX), Womack (AR), Hudson (NC), Bishop, Sanford (GA), Cuellar (TX), Ruppersberger (MD) | Bi-Partisan | Allows military recycling centers the authority to accept quality recyclable goods from local communities. | Made in Order |
67 | Version 1 | Langevin (RI), Lieu (CA) | Democrat | Requires the President to provide the congressional defense committees with a copy of all National Security Presidential Memorandums relating to DoD operations in cyberspace. | Made in Order |
68 | Version 1 | Cummings (MD), Moore (WI), Brown (MD) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Defense to carry out activities to improve the ability of the Department of Defense to detect and address racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in the military justice system. | Made in Order |
69 | Version 2 | Cummings (MD), Collins, Doug (GA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Prohibits federal employers and contractors from asking about the criminal history of job applicants until they receive conditional offers of employment. The amendment includes exceptions for positions related to law enforcement and national security, positions requiring access to classified information, and positions for which access to criminal history information is required by law. | Made in Order |
70 | Version 1 | Wittman (VA), Courtney (CT), Ruppersberger (MD), Brown (MD) | Bi-Partisan | Establishes a Cable Security Fleet of United States-documented cable vessels in order to provide installation, maintenance, and repair of submarine cables and related equipment. | Made in Order |
71 | Version 2 | Engel (NY) | Democrat | Revised Preserves Congressional review of arms export licenses by restricting the President’s emergency export authority under the Arms Export Control Act to situations in which defense items are transferred only within 90 days of an emergency determination and to limit use of an emergency determination to approve overseas manufacturing or co-production of defense items to extensions or renewals of existing licenses. | Made in Order |
72 | Version 1 | Schrader (OR) | Democrat | Exempts members of the Armed Forces who voluntarily separated from active duty, are involuntarily recalled, and incur a 100 percent service-connected disability during that time from the requirement to repay voluntary separation pay. | Made in Order |
73 | Version 3 | Rutherford (FL), Waltz (FL), Diaz-Balart (FL), Dunn (FL), Spano (FL), Gaetz (FL), Wasserman Schultz (FL), Crow (CO) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Provides U.S. Special Operations Command procurement authority for Light Attack aircraft in support of the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) Combat Air Advisor (CAA) mission. It also directs the Secretary of the Air Force to obligate, or transfer to USSOCOM, the necessary funds that have been made available for light attack aircraft to procure the required number of aircraft for Air Combat Command’s Air Ground Operations School and AFSOC’s CAA mission. | Made in Order |
74 | Version 1 | Speier (CA) | Democrat | Removes an exemption that would exclude federal civilian employees from representation in negotiations of career path requirements for the defense acquisition workforce. | Made in Order |
75 | Version 2 | Pingree (ME), Crow (CO) | Democrat | Revised Directs DOD to ensure that Sexual Assault Response Coordinators advise servicemembers who report instances of military sexual trauma about the eligibility of such members for health and benefits services at the Department of Veterans Affairs. | Made in Order |
76 | Version 1 | Krishnamoorthi (IL), Kuster (NH), Taylor (TX), Hudson (NC) | Bi-Partisan | Adds “carbon monoxide,” to Section 2815 of the bill on page 1008. | Made in Order |
77 | Version 1 | Thompson, Mike (CA) | Democrat | Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide no more than $250,000 per fiscal year for the maintenance, preservation and operation of the Mare Island Naval Cemetery, in Vallejo, California. The amendment stipulates that the funding can only be provided to a historic preservation foundation, designated by the City of Vallejo, which will administer the funds and manage the cemetery on a day-to-day basis. | Made in Order |
78 | Version 1 | Hollingsworth (IN) | Republican | Expressing a Sense of the House of Representatives that the Defense Health Agency should increase research and development efforts regarding bioprinting and biofabricating of human tissues in austere military environments. | Made in Order |
79 | Version 1 | Escobar (TX), Hurd (TX) | Bi-Partisan | Allows the re-designation of certain opportunity zones with qualified military installations | Submitted |
80 | Version 3 | Jayapal (WA) | Democrat | Revised Increases available funding for the National Guard Suicide Prevention Pilot Program by $5,000,000. | Made in Order |
81 | Version 1 | Sherman (CA) | Democrat | Concurrent with the submission of the budget, this amendment would require the President to certify each year that Saudi Arabia does not have, is not building, and is not trying to acquire uranium enrichment or reprocessing capabilities. A failure to make this certification would prohibit any arms sales to Saudi Arabia. | Submitted |
82 | Version 3 | Sherman (CA), Speier (CA), Schiff (CA), Pallone (NJ) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits funds from being used to transfer defense articles or services to Azerbaijan unless the President certifies to Congress that the articles or services do not threaten civil aviation. | Made in Order |
83 | Version 1 | Sherman (CA) | Democrat | Prevents funds from being spent on the production of a Nonproliferation Assessment Statement with a country that has not signed an Additional Protocol agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency. | Made in Order |
84 | Version 3 | Sherman (CA), Wilson, Joe (SC), Bera (CA), Yoho (FL), Holding (NC), Case (HI), Krishnamoorthi (IL) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Adds a sense of Congress regarding improving U.S.-India defense cooperation and requires a report on cooperation in the Western Indian Ocean. | Made in Order |
85 | Version 1 | Brownley (CA) | Democrat | Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide $1 million for educational programming, outreach, and maintenance of exhibits at certain military memorials and museums. | Submitted |
86 | Version 1 | Brownley (CA) | Democrat | Directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a report comparing out-of-pocket uniform costs for men and women service members in each of the Services of the Armed Forces, as well as past uniform changes that have affected one gender more than the other. | Made in Order |
87 | Version 4 | Young (AK), Stefanik (NY) | Republican | Revised Requires an independent study and report of Chinese Arctic foreign direct investment, with a focus on the effects of Chinese foreign direct investment on U.S. national security and near peer competition in the Arctic. | Made in Order |
88 | Version 1 | Clyburn (SC) | Democrat | Allows all 8th grade students across the country to participate in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. | Made in Order |
89 | Version 2 | Foster (IL) | Democrat | Revised Amends the testing requirement for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense System to include the use of threat-representative countermeasures. | Made in Order |
90 | Version 1 | Turner (OH), Davis, Susan (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Requires the President to prescribe regulations pertaining to the expansion of matters that may be reviewed by military judges and military magistrates prior to the referral of charges in the interest of efficiency in military justice. | Made in Order |
91 | Version 1 | Turner (OH), Davis, Susan (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a policy that preserves the victims preference for a restricted report in the event a sexual assault allegation was inadvertantly disclosed or reported by an unprotected third party. | Made in Order |
92 | Version 1 | Turner (OH) | Republican | Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to establish the offense of sexual harassment, affecting the duties, work, or career of a member of the Armed Forces, as a punitive article within the UCMJ. | Submitted |
93 | Version 1 | Turner (OH), Davis, Susan (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish comprehensive training standards for Commanders on their role as it pertains to all stages of military justice in connection with the sexual assault by servicemembers against servicemembers. | Made in Order |
94 | Version 2 | Turner (OH) | Republican | Revised Requires the Secretary of Defense to enter into agreements with municipalities or municipal drinking water utilities located adjacent to military installations to share monitoring data relating to perfluoroalkyl substances, polyfluoroalkyl substances, and other emerging contaminants collected on military installations. | Made in Order |
95 | Version 1 | Turner (OH) | Republican | Strikes the provision relating to the prohibition on the use of funds for the deployment of low-yield ballistic missile warheads and requires the SECDEF to certify on the availability of proportional response options. | Made in Order |
96 | Version 2 | Turner (OH) | Republican | Revised Requires an evaluation from the SECDEF and JCS regarding anti-air warfare capabilities sourced from the U.S. at the Aegis Ashore sites in Romania and Poland. | Revised |
97 | Version 1 | Turner (OH) | Republican | Requires the Director of the National Reconnaissance Office and the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to submit an unfunded priority list to the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Congressional Defense Committees, annually, in conjunction with the submission of the President's Budget Request to Congress. | Submitted |
98 | Version 1 | Turner (OH), Quigley (IL) | Bi-Partisan | States a sense of Congress supporting the agreement between the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and the Government of Belgium by which the Mardasson Memorial is entered into the ABMC monument maintenance program and the monument trust fund program. The Mardasson Memorial is a monument to Americans who served in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II located in Bastogne, Belgium. | Submitted |
99 | Version 1 | Foster (IL) | Democrat | Requires that the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. | Submitted |
100 | Version 1 | Foster (IL), Langevin (RI) | Democrat | Adds a new section stating that it is the policy of the United States Government to encourage the minimization of the use and accumulation of highly enriched uranium globally. | Submitted |
101 | Version 4 | Torres Small, Xochitl (NM) | Democrat | Revised Requires the DoD to establish a pilot program to provide broadband access to military families and medical facilities on remote or isolated military installations. | Made in Order |
102 | Version 1 | Shalala (FL) | Democrat | Withdrawn Directs the Secretary of Defense to review the discharge characterization of former members of the Armed Forces who were discharged by reason of the sexual orientation of the member. | Withdrawn |
103 | Version 1 | Lee, Susie (NV) | Democrat | Requires DOD to update service branch abuse programs to explicitly include gambling disorder within six months of enactment. | Made in Order |
104 | Version 4 | Connolly (VA) | Democrat | Revised Requires a report on any individuals or security force units who have participated in security cooperation training programs and received security assistance training provided by the United States and were subsequently sanctioned by the United States for human rights violations or terrorist activities. | Made in Order |
105 | Version 2 | Shimkus (IL) | Republican | Revised Expands U.S. funding for the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to $125 million in order to expand their military and cyber-security infrastructure. This will protect them and Europe from Russia’s continuing aggression in the region. | Made in Order |
106 | Version 1 | Jeffries (NY) | Democrat | Adds a requirement to the DOD's annual report on the military and security developments involving People's Republic of China about the nature of China and Russia's strategic cooperation. Specifically, the amendment requires the DOD to include in their annual report an evaluation of what strategic objectives Russia and China share and are acting on and what objectives they misalign on. | Made in Order |
107 | Version 1 | Wild (PA), Fitzpatrick (PA) | Bi-Partisan | Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to establish a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) and partner with Academic Health Centers to focus on the unique challenges wounded servicemembers experience. Emphasis should be placed on research that reduces dependency on opioids, develops novel pain management and mental health strategies, and leverages partnerships with industry and medical device manufacturers to advance promising technologies for wounded servicemembers. | Made in Order |
108 | Version 1 | Moore (WI) | Democrat | Expresses the Sense of Congress about the need for the leadership of the National Capital Consortium Psychiatry Residency program to maintain a workplace free of racial, gender or other forms of discrimination or harassment. | Made in Order |
109 | Version 1 | Kuster (NH) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Defense enact policies and procedures to register civilian protection orders on military bases. | Made in Order |
110 | Version 2 | Lujan (NM) | Democrat | Revised Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Energy should ensure that each laboratory operating contractor or plant or site manager of a National Nuclear Security Administration facility adopt generally accepted and consistent accounting practices for laboratory, plant, or site directed research and development. | Made in Order |
111 | Version 2 | Stefanik (NY) | Republican | Revised Updates the title of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security to match and reflect the OUSD(I)’s existing responsibility for conducting the Department’s security mission over the last several years. | Made in Order |
112 | Version 1 | Tipton (CO) | Republican | Expressing the sense of Congress that military aviation training in Colorado, including the training conducted at the High-Altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site, is critical to the national security of the United States and the readiness of the Armed Forces. | Made in Order |
113 | Version 2 | Tipton (CO) | Republican | Revised Codifies safe transit exception to service level requirements for Department of Defense aircraft flying over wilderness areas. | Revised |
114 | Version 1 | Lesko (AZ) | Republican | Withdrawn Prohibits detainees at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp from being transferred or released to China, the Philippines, and Indonesia. | Withdrawn |
115 | Version 1 | Banks (IN), Roe (TN), Bilirakis (FL), Radewagen (AS), Watkins (KS), Bost (IL), Barr (KY), Meuser (PA), Lee, Susie (NV), Lamb (PA), Brownley (CA), Luria (VA), Allred (TX), Pappas (NH), Cisneros (CA), Roy (TX), Takano (CA), Bergman (MI), Levin, Mike (CA), Rose, Max (NY), Dunn (FL), Sablan (MP) | Bi-Partisan | Requires the Department of Defense, Coast Guard, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop jointly a comprehensive enterprise interoperability strategy, 180 days after enactment, to achieve nine goals, principally interoperability sufficient for seamless health care with TRICARE providers and community care providers under the MISSION Act. Additionally, defines the term “interoperability.” | Made in Order |
116 | Version 1 | Soto (FL) | Democrat | Allows the Secretary of Defense to provide military postal service support to United States citizens living in overseas locations and employed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), if such citizens perform functions in support of the Armed Forces of the United States. | Submitted |
117 | Version 2 | Soto (FL) | Democrat | Revised Increases funding for the manufacturing science and technology program by $5 million for anti-tamper heterogeneous integrated microelectronics. Reduces funding for Army procurement by the same amount. | Made in Order |
118 | Version 3 | Soto (FL) | Democrat | Revised Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish trusted supply chain and operational security standards for the purchase of microelectronics products and services by the Department. | Made in Order |
119 | Version 2 | Soto (FL), Rouda (CA) | Democrat | Revised Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense should consider using emerging technologies, including quantum computing, to address exposure to PFAS, including potential remedial solutions and to develop alternatives to materials containing PFAS. | Revised |
120 | Version 2 | Soto (FL), Schweikert (AZ), Rouda (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Directs the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering to provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on the potential use of distributed ledger technology for defense purposes. | Made in Order |
121 | Version 1 | Tlaib (MI) | Democrat | Withdrawn Redirects 10% of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense-wide procurement budgets to provide additional funding for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the 9/11 Victims Fund. Funding to VA and 9/11 victims fund should be proportional to the size of their FY 2019 budgets. | Withdrawn |
122 | Version 1 | Tlaib (MI) | Democrat | Withdrawn Eliminates funding for the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile—DEM/VAL program. | Withdrawn |
123 | Version 2 | Takano (CA), Calvert (CA), Cook (CA), Hill, Katie (CA), Cartwright (PA), Joyce, John (PA), Thompson, Mike (CA), Matsui (CA), Eshoo (CA), Cárdenas (CA), Sherman (CA), Aguilar (CA), Lieu (CA), Ruiz (CA), Lowenthal (CA), Vargas (CA), Rouda (CA), Napolitano (CA), Porter (CA), Cox (CA), Costa (CA), Garamendi (CA), Gomez (CA), Khanna (CA), Roybal-Allard (CA), Panetta (CA), Schiff (CA), Waters (CA), Lee, Barbara (CA), Brownley (CA), Cisneros (CA), Harder (CA), Lamb (PA), Chu (CA), Levin, Mike (CA), Correa (CA), Swalwell (CA), Torres, Norma (CA), Sánchez (CA), Bass (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on its current and future plans to consolidate Defense Media Activity. Prohibits funding for such consolidation until at least 180 days have elapsed following the day on which the Secretary of Defense submits the required report. | Made in Order |
124 | Version 1 | Takano (CA), Vargas (CA), Davis, Susan (CA), Grijalva (AZ), Barragán (CA) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Defense to provide the Secretary of Homeland Security with a copy of the Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214) for each noncitizen honorably discharged from the military for the purposes of including such record in an I-213 Record of Deportable/Inadmissible Alien. | Made in Order |
125 | Version 1 | Hastings (FL), Case (HI), Sablan (MP), San Nicolas (GU), Radewagen (AS), Gabbard (HI) | Bi-Partisan | Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States has strong and enduring interests in the security and prosperity of Oceania and the Western Pacific region and should expeditiously begin negotiations on the renewal of the Compacts of Free Association (COFA) | Made in Order |
126 | Version 1 | Hastings (FL) | Democrat | Establishes a joint Military Transition Outreach Pilot Program for contacting service-members 30, 60, and 90 days post-separation and/or retirement from active duty, to improve communication between the veteran and DoD related to benefits and other general concerns. | Made in Order |
127 | Version 2 | Hartzler (MO), Gallagher (WI), Speier (CA), Conaway (TX), Schiff (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Makes clear that the federal government is prohibited from purchasing video surveillance equipment and components from Huawei and its subsidiaries. | Revised |
128 | Version 1 | Houlahan (PA) | Democrat | Allows contracting officers the ability to provide unsuccessful offerors of certain task or delivery orders a brief explanation as to why the offeror lost the award. | Made in Order |
129 | Version 2 | Brown (MD), Pappas (NH), Escobar (TX), Lieu (CA) | Democrat | Revised Directs the Secretary of Defense to produce a report on the number of certain waivers received by transgender individuals. | Made in Order |
130 | Version 2 | Morelle (NY) | Democrat | Revised Increases funding for the facility operations and target production within the Inertial Confinement Fusion ignition and High Yield program by $5,000,000 to support laser direct drive. Decreases funding for management, technology, and production within the Stockpile Services by $5,000,000. | Made in Order |
131 | Version 3 | Brindisi (NY) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Comptroller General to report on the implementation and efficacy of Section 701 of FY2015 NDAA, which requires that the Department of Defense provide a person-to-person mental health assessment for each member of the Armed Forces. | Made in Order |
132 | Version 3 | Brindisi (NY) | Democrat | Revised Directs DoD and the Air Force to establish a Quantum Information Science Innovation Center and authorizes $10 million for that purpose. Increases Air Force RDT&E, decreases Defense-Wide O&M. | Made in Order |
133 | Version 2 | Brindisi (NY), McKinley (WV) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Reinstates the Berry Amendment's DoD domestic sourcing requirement for stainless steel flatware, also adding a “dinner ware” domestic sourcing requirement. Provides for a one year phase-in period. | Made in Order |
134 | Version 1 | Brindisi (NY), Carson (IN), Banks (IN) | Bi-Partisan | Makes requirement of mental health assessments every 180 days for deployed servicemembers permanent by removing sunset. | Made in Order |
135 | Version 2 | Shalala (FL), Porter (CA) | Democrat | Revised Requires the DOD Secretary to publish on its website the distribution of DOD Tuition Assistance Funds at institutions of higher education; audit any proprietary institution receiving DOD Tuition Assistance funds that fails to meet the Financial Responsibility Standards in the Higher Education Act of 1965 under Section 498(c) and publish the results of the audit on its website. | Made in Order |
136 | Version 2 | Shalala (FL) | Democrat | Revised Requires that all OC-135B Open Skies Treaty aircraft recapitalization request for proposals (RFP) be open to a full competitive bidding process from a wide variety of contracts, including those that prioritize existing recently manufactured low-hour/low-cycle aircraft. The RFP shall be open to including recently used aircraft, or parts of aircraft, in addition to “new” aircraft from an original equipment manufacturer (OEM). | Made in Order |
137 | Version 1 | Waltz (FL) | Republican | Strikes section 1033 which prevents the transfer of any new detainees to Guantanamo and requires a plan identifying a disposition, other than continued law of war detention at Guantanamo, for all detainees at Guantanamo. | Submitted |
138 | Version 2 | Krishnamoorthi (IL) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Secretary of Defense to provide a report to Congress on the effectiveness of readiness contracts in meeting the military’s prescription drug supply needs and how the contractual approach can be a model for responding to drug shortages in the civilian health care market. | Made in Order |
139 | Version 1 | Lamb (PA), Rogers, Harold (KY), Reschenthaler (PA), Houlahan (PA), Doyle (PA), Palazzo (MS) | Bi-Partisan | Directs the Secretary of Defense, when procuring activated carbon filtration systems to remediate water contaminated by perfluoroalkyl substances and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), to give preference to filtration products made from materials mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States, and filtration materials that may be recycled for extended use and demonstrate long-term useful life. | Submitted |
140 | Version 3 | Lamb (PA) | Democrat | Revised Directs the Secretary of Defense to carry out a program on musculoskeletal injury prevention research to identify risk factors for musculoskeletal injuries among members of the Armed Forces and to create a better understanding for adaptive bone formation during initial entry military training. | Made in Order |
141 | Version 2 | Dingell (MI), Fitzpatrick (PA), Levin, Andy (MI) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Prohibits the Defense Logistics Agency from using any food contact substances to assemble or package meals ready-to-eat (MRE) with PFAS chemicals beginning in FY2021. | Made in Order |
142 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Directs Secretary of Navy to submit report to Congress on the feasibility of applying desalinization technologies to provide drought relief in areas impacted by sharp declines in water availability for both military as well as civilian purposes. | Submitted |
143 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Adds report to be submitted within 220 days following enactment on Capacity to Provide Disaster Survivors with Emergency Short Term Housing. | Made in Order |
144 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Requires report 90 days following enactment on Guard and Reserve Disaster Response Readiness. | Submitted |
145 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Condemns the actions of Boko Haram and directs that the Secretary of Defense submit a report on efforts to combat Boko Haram. | Made in Order |
146 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Provides that graduates of a military academy that are reviewed for a command should receive notice when the assignment is denied and information relating to their rights to appeal the denial. In addition, the officer shall receive a direct response regarding why he or she was denied the position and what positions he or she may pursue. | Submitted |
147 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Requires Secretary of Defense to report to Congress programs and procedures employed to ensure students studying abroad through Department of Defense National Security Education Programs are trained to recognize, resist, and report against recruitment efforts by agents of foreign governments. | Made in Order |
148 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Requires report on Maternity Mortality Rates for military members and their dependents. | Made in Order |
149 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Requires report to be submitted to Congress within 240 days following enactment on the risks posed by debris in low earth orbit and to make recommendations on remediation of risks and outline plans to reduce the incident of space debris. | Made in Order |
150 | Version 1 | Courtney (CT) | Democrat | Requires a report regarding US, Russian, and Chinese nuclear systems. | Made in Order |
151 | Version 1 | Courtney (CT) | Democrat | Adds the United States Coast Guard Academy to the list of military service academies covered by Section 538. | Made in Order |
152 | Version 1 | Hill, Katie (CA) | Democrat | Directs the Office of the Secretary of Defense to strengthen the domestic industrial base for small unmanned aircraft systems. | Made in Order |
153 | Version 1 | Bera (CA) | Democrat | Requires DoD to do a study on extending the parent's level of TRICARE health coverage to their newborn child. | Made in Order |
154 | Version 2 | Bera (CA) | Democrat | Revised Increases DoD funding to partner nations to help them prevent, detect, and respond to biological threats and infectious disease before they come to the U.S. by $20 million to match DoD Approps. | Made in Order |
155 | Version 2 | Bera (CA) | Democrat | Revised Requires report on defense cooperation between U.S. and India in the Western Indian Ocean. | Made in Order |
156 | Version 3 | Bera (CA) | Democrat | Revised Requires a report on the implementation of the Global Health Security Strategy and the National Biodefense Strategy, including follow up actions from pending GAO report on the Biodefense Strategy. | Made in Order |
157 | Version 1 | Duffy (WI), Gabbard (HI), Crenshaw (TX), Diaz-Balart (FL), Harder (CA), Ratcliffe (TX), Bacon (NE) | Bi-Partisan | Expands and renames the Troops to Teachers program to assist troops transition into any role in an education setting. | Made in Order |
158 | Version 1 | Wittman (VA), Davis, Susan (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Establishes the Strategic Seaport Readiness Infrastructure Development Program and Fund within the Department of Defense (DOD) and in coordination with the Maritime Administration (MARAD). | Submitted |
159 | Version 1 | Kildee (MI), Fitzpatrick (PA), Kim (NJ), Rouda (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Requires GAO to conduct a review of DoD’s response to PFAS contamination in and around military bases. | Made in Order |
160 | Version 2 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Revised Requires that a report from the Secretary of Defense 240 days after the date of the enactment to the congressional defense committees that accounts for all of the efforts, programs, initiatives, and investments of the Department of Defense to train elementary, secondary, and postsecondary students in fields related to cybersecurity, cyber defense, and cyber operations. | Made in Order |
161 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Provides authorization for a $10 million increase in funding for increased collaboration with NIH to combat Triple Negative Breast Cancer. | Made in Order |
162 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Provides authorization for $2.5 million increase in funding to combat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). | Made in Order |
163 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Bars the use of funds to conduct offensive military operations against Iran in accordance with any plan recommended by the National Security Council if one or more statutory members of the National Security Council has not been confirmed by the Senate. | Submitted |
164 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Bars the use of funds to implement the Presidential Memorandum entitled, "Military Service By Transgender Individuals," dated August 25, 2017. | Submitted |
165 | Version 1 | Pappas (NH), Kuster (NH), Rouda (CA) | Democrat | Creates an online clearinghouse of information for members of the Armed Services to find information about exposure to PFAS and treatment for associated health conditions. | Made in Order |
166 | Version 1 | Pappas (NH), Kuster (NH) | Democrat | Prohibits DOD from purchasing firefighting foam that contains PFAS after October 1, 2022. It bans the use of existing stocks after October 1, 2023. | Submitted |
167 | Version 2 | Cunningham (SC) | Democrat | Revised Requires the GAO to conduct a review of the DoD’s efforts to implement the recommendations of report GAO-13-646 “DoD Needs to Reassess Options for Permanent Location of U.S. Africa Command”. | Revised |
168 | Version 4 | Cunningham (SC) | Democrat | Revised Makes changes to the Defense Access Roads program to authorize funding towards water management infrastructure; the enhancement or improvement of eligible infrastructure; and infrastructure affected, or projected to be affected, by natural disasters, recurrent flooding, or other environmental conditions. Also expands funding eligibility to roads to air or sea ports that are necessary for the deployment or sustainment of troops, equipment, or supplies. | Made in Order |
169 | Version 1 | Cunningham (SC) | Democrat | Expands eligibility in the My Career Advancement Account Scholarship Program to spouses of members of the Coast Guard and to the spouses of enlisted servicemembers of all grades. | Made in Order |
170 | Version 2 | Ruiz (CA), Malinowski (NJ) | Democrat | Revised Requires a briefing from DOD on coordination efforts to counter illicit maritime smuggling efforts by Iran. | Revised |
171 | Version 1 | Ruiz (CA) | Democrat | Requires DOD to conduct an implementation plan to phase out the use of the 9 burn pits included in the DOD report on burn pits to Congress issued in April 2019. | Made in Order |
172 | Version 2 | Ruiz (CA) | Democrat | Revised Require DOD to provide the VA with a list of all servicemembers exposed to open-air burn pits. | Revised |
173 | Version 2 | Ruiz (CA) | Democrat | Revised Require DOD to provide Congress and the VA with a list of the locations of military bases, posts, forward operating bases, combat outposts, and any other locations at which open-air burn pits have been used. | Made in Order |
174 | Version 1 | Ruiz (CA) | Democrat | States that none of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act may be obligated by DOD for the use of open-air burn pits. | Submitted |
175 | Version 2 | Ruiz (CA), Welch (VT) | Democrat | Revised Requires DOD to provide a detailed report to Congress on the status, methodology, and culmination timeline of all the research and studies being conducted to assess the health effects of burn pits. | Made in Order |
176 | Version 1 | Ruiz (CA), Welch (VT) | Democrat | Requires DOD to implement mandatory training for all medical providers working under DOD on the potential health effects of burn pits and its early detection, as well as other airborne hazards, such as PFAS, mold, or depleted uranium. | Made in Order |
177 | Version 1 | Byrne (AL), Duncan (SC), Wilson, Joe (SC), Norman (SC) | Republican | Prohibits the authorization of funds to transfer or release individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay to the United States. | Submitted |
178 | Version 2 | Pence (IN), Gallego (AZ) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Allows the families of the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing victims in Beirut, Lebanon, to execute on $1.68 billion in Iranian funds. | Revised |
179 | Version 2 | Wexton (VA) | Democrat | Revised Require a GAO report on the feasibility of establishing a program for members of the Armed Forces transitioning to civilian intelligence employment. | Made in Order |
180 | Version 1 | Withdrawn Amendment number not in use due to Committee error. | Withdrawn | ||
181 | Version 1 | Banks (IN), Norman (SC), Roy (TX) | Republican | Prohibits the use of funds to construct or modify facilities in the United States to house detainees transferred from United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | Submitted |
182 | Version 1 | Garamendi (CA), Wittman (VA), Golden (ME) | Bi-Partisan | Ensures departing servicemembers and veterans can more easily credit their military sea service toward earning a Merchant Mariner Credential needed to sail US-flagged vessels. | Made in Order |
183 | Version 2 | Garamendi (CA) | Democrat | Withdrawn Requires additional components for auxiliary ships be manufactured within the National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB). | Withdrawn |
184 | Version 1 | Garamendi (CA) | Democrat | Requires DOD, State, and USAID to develop a Stabilization, Transition and Response Teams framework and include planning for civil-military stabilization activities in CONOPS and OPLANs, as recommended in the 2018 Stabilization Assistance Review. | Submitted |
185 | Version 1 | Garamendi (CA) | Democrat | Extends the authority to carry out the backup Global Positioning System capability demonstration, which is a current expiring directive authority from the FY18 NDAA, by an additional 18 months, and extends the report submission an additional 18 months. | Made in Order |
186 | Version 2 | McKinley (WV), Napolitano (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Requires the Department of Defense to submit a report to Congress regarding the resources and authorities the Secretary determines necessary to identify the effects of the National Guard Youth Challenge Program on graduates of that program during the five years immediately preceding the date of the report. | Made in Order |
187 | Version 2 | Ratcliffe (TX) | Republican | Revised Requires DOD to provide a report looking into the feasibility of establishing a high-level, interagency U.S.-Taiwan working group for coordinating responses to merging issues related to cybersecurity. | Made in Order |
188 | Version 1 | Rutherford (FL), Lawson (FL), Cisneros (CA), Brownley (CA), Bacon (NE), Dunn (FL), Crow (CO), Houlahan (PA) | Bi-Partisan | Amends the recurring report required by the FY 2019 NDAA to include an evaluation on the effectiveness of the Transition Assistance Program for female members of the Armed Forces. | Made in Order |
189 | Version 2 | Case (HI) | Democrat | Revised Requires a report from the Defense Intelligence Agency detailing actions by foreign militaries operating in the Pacific Island countries, gaps in intelligence collection capabilities for these countries, and plans to overcome any current intelligence collection deficiencies. | Made in Order |
190 | Version 1 | Blunt Rochester (DE), Bilirakis (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Amends the Space Available Flights program to make spouses and caregivers of veterans rated as 100% disabled eligible for Space-A travel. Travel is provided to spouses and caregivers if they accompany the veteran. | Submitted |
191 | Version 2 | Brownley (CA) | Democrat | Revised Directs the Department of Defense, as part of the report required under Section 232 of the Committee-reported bill, to provide an update to a 2016 report on necessary military construction updates of real property assets at Major Range and Test Facility Bases (MRTFB). The amendment also requires that the report include an assessment of MRTFBs’ readiness to support advanced testing for future needs. | Made in Order |
192 | Version 2 | Brownley (CA), Hill, Katie (CA) | Democrat | Revised Includes Sense of Congress language underscoring the importance of the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) to fire fighting response efforts and encouraging the Department of Defense to use National Guard and Reserve Equipment Account funding to support development of MAFFS capabilities in the future. | Made in Order |
193 | Version 1 | Fortenberry (NE), Eshoo (CA), Speier (CA), Moolenaar (MI), Bilirakis (FL), Harder (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Provides a Sense of Congress supporting the conditions for security of displaced Christians and other religious minorities in Northern Iraq and to enable their safe return home. | Made in Order |
194 | Version 2 | Bera (CA) | Democrat | Revised Requires DoD and VA to submit a report to Congress evaluating best practices for providing financial literacy education to separating servicemembers and Veterans. | Made in Order |
195 | Version 1 | Delgado (NY) | Democrat | Requires a report within 90 days of enactment on current Defense Logistics Agency and Defense Commissary Agency programs, policies, and practices relating to small farms, farms owned by new and beginning farmers, veteran farmers, and minority farmers, and opportunities and barriers to expanding their use. | Made in Order |
196 | Version 1 | McGovern (MA), Walorski (IN) | Bi-Partisan | Authorizes and increases by $11 million the Wounded Warrior Service Dog Program, decreases Operations and Maintenance Defense-Wise by $11 million. | Made in Order |
197 | Version 1 | Omar (MN) | Democrat | Requires contractors performing DoD contracts in foreign countries to report possible cases of gross violations of human rights. | Made in Order |
198 | Version 1 | Omar (MN) | Democrat | Strikes Title XV, Authorization of Additional Appropriations for Overseas Contingency Operations. | Submitted |
199 | Version 1 | Omar (MN) | Democrat | Restricts funding for airstrikes in the event the civilian casualty assessment required by section 1087 is not completed by the March 1, 2020 deadline. | Submitted |
200 | Version 1 | Cunningham (SC), Clyburn (SC) | Democrat | Authorizes the Coast Guard to establish a Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program at Lucy Garrett Beckham High School in Charleston County, South Carolina. | Made in Order |
201 | Version 3 | Rose, Max (NY), Brindisi (NY), Fitzpatrick (PA), Hill, French (AR), Trone (MD), Lamb (PA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Requires imposition of sanctions on drug manufacturers who knowingly provide synthetic opioids to traffickers, transnational criminal organizations who mix fentanyl with other drugs and traffic them into the U.S., and financial institutions that assist such entities. Authorizes new funding to U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies while establishing a Commission on Synthetic Opioid Trafficking to monitor U.S. efforts. | Made in Order |
202 | Version 1 | Miller (WV), Peterson (MN) | Bi-Partisan | Adds a provision stating that the last surviving World War II Medal of Honor recipient will be permitted to lay in honor in the rotunda of the Capitol upon death. | Made in Order |
203 | Version 1 | Yoho (FL) | Republican | Technical change to counter-UAS provision ensuring Congressional oversight. | Made in Order |
204 | Version 1 | Yoho (FL), Waltz (FL) | Republican | Expedites the approval of small-scale natural gas exports. | Submitted |
205 | Version 1 | Gonzalez, Vicente (TX), Young (AK), Bonamici (OR) | Bi-Partisan | Allows special veterans, as defined by the amendment, to apply for naturalization if specific conditions are met. | Submitted |
206 | Version 3 | Jayapal (WA) | Democrat | Revised Requires studies regarding potential cost savings with respect to the nuclear security enterprise and force structure from the Comptroller General, Federally funded research and development centers, a nongovernmental think tank and the CBO. | See RCP 116-23 |
207 | Version 3 | Jayapal (WA), Meadows (NC) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Prohibits funding from being used by the Department of Justice or Department of Homeland Security to use or purchase face recognition technology, except for pre-existing, authorized pilots and testing programs, and requires the GAO to submit a report on DOJ and DHS's use of face recognition technology. | Revised |
208 | Version 1 | Jayapal (WA) | Democrat | Requires the Defense Department to submit to Congress annual reports on employment or compensation of retired general or flag officers by foreign governments for emoluments clause purposes. | Made in Order |
209 | Version 2 | Jayapal (WA) | Democrat | Revised Directs federal agencies to initiate debarment proceedings for contractors using anticompetitive hiring practices, such as noncompete clauses or “no-poach” agreements. | Revised |
210 | Version 1 | Zeldin (NY), Luria (VA) | Bi-Partisan | Requires a report on the relationship between the Lebanese Armed Forces and Hizballah. | Made in Order |
211 | Version 1 | Zeldin (NY) | Republican | Requires the President to report on the use by the Government of Iran of commercial aircraft and related services for illicit military or other activities. | Submitted |
212 | Version 1 | Mullin (OK), Reschenthaler (PA), Crist (FL), Hudson (NC) | Bi-Partisan | Requires the Department of Defense to report to Congress on the number of its medical providers who were dropped by their medical malpractice insurers prior to being employed by DOD. | Made in Order |
213 | Version 1 | Lawrence (MI) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Defense to share lessons learned and best practices on progress of gender integration implementation in the Armed Forces. | Made in Order |
214 | Version 1 | Lawrence (MI) | Democrat | States that the Secretary of Defense shall require each of the military departments to examine successful strategies in use by foreign military services to recruit and retain women, and to consider potential best practices for implementation in the United States Armed Forces, as recommended by the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. | Made in Order |
215 | Version 1 | Lawrence (MI), Porter (CA) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Defense to review and enhance the content of current transition assistance programs to better meet the unique needs of servicewomen transitioning out of the Armed Forces. | Submitted |
216 | Version 1 | Babin (TX) | Republican | Withdrawn Reforms and transfers the Office of Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs and the Office of Space Commerce to the Department of Commerce thereby advancing U.S. leadership in commercial remote sensing and space commerce. | Withdrawn |
217 | Version 1 | Higgins, Clay (LA) | Republican | Strikes Section 1046 “Prohibition on Use of Funds for Construction of a Wall, Fence, or Other Physical Barrier along the Southern Border of the United States.” | Submitted |
218 | Version 1 | Higgins, Clay (LA) | Republican | Strikes Section 2801 “Prohibition on Use of Military Construction Funds for Construction of a Wall, Fence, or Other Physical Barrier along the Southern Border of the United States.” | Submitted |
219 | Version 1 | Higgins, Clay (LA) | Republican | Strikes section 2802. | Submitted |
220 | Version 1 | Omar (MN) | Democrat | Strikes Title XXIX, relating to Overseas Contingency Operations Military Construction. | Submitted |
221 | Version 1 | Omar (MN) | Democrat | Prohibits the use of funds to establish any permanent military base or installation in Somalia. | Made in Order |
222 | Version 1 | Omar (MN) | Democrat | Specifies that the DoD plan for diversity in hiring, promotion, and retention should include plans for hiring, promoting, and retaining racial minorities, women, religious minorities, immigrants, members of the LGBTI+ community, and people with disabilities. | Made in Order |
223 | Version 2 | Omar (MN) | Democrat | Revised Requires reporting on financial costs and national security benefits for overseas military operations, including permanent military installations and bases. | Made in Order |
224 | Version 1 | Murphy (FL) | Democrat | Adds a new section to Title II (RDT&E), Subtitle C (Reports and Other Matters) requiring the Secretary of Defense to contract with a federally funded research and development center to prepare a report for the congressional defense committees on the development of hypersonic weapons capabilities by foreign nations and the threat posed by such capabilities to United States territory, forces and overseas bases, and allies. | Made in Order |
225 | Version 1 | Murphy (FL), Mucarsel-Powell (FL), Soto (FL) | Democrat | Adds a new section to Title XII (Matters Relating to Foreign Nations), Subtitle G (Other Matters) requiring the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report regarding the political, economic, and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, and its implications for United States national security and regional security and stability. | Submitted |
226 | Version 1 | Schrader (OR) | Democrat | Calls for recently separated servicemembers to receive a notice of their rights under the Servicemember Civil Relief Act 180 days following the end of their military service. | Made in Order |
227 | Version 2 | Schrader (OR), Rooney (FL), Welch (VT) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Requires the DOD Chief Management Officer to release public versions of the mandated cost savings reports submitted to Congress. | Made in Order |
228 | Version 2 | Foster (IL) | Democrat | Revised Extends the congressional notification period to 180 days if the Secretary of Defense chooses to terminate its contract with the JASON scientific advisory group and requires that the Secretary receive congressional approval. The amendment also clarifies that JASON provides scientific and technical advice to multiple Federal agencies, including the Department of Defense. | Made in Order |
229 | Version 1 | Foster (IL) | Democrat | Requires any Department of Defense base, division, or project that has not yet passed an audit to contribute 2 percent of its budget into a fund to provide an independent audit by an accredited audit firm. | Submitted |
230 | Version 1 | Stivers (OH), Speier (CA), Schrier (WA), Kelly, Trent (MS) | Bi-Partisan | Directs the Department of Defense to submit an annual report on findings of the Millennium Cohort Study regarding the gynecological and perinatal health of servicewomen. The report must include completed, ongoing, and proposed research on the gynecological and perinatal health of women servicemembers in addition to areas in need of improvement and what steps the Department of Defense is taking to meet those needs. | Made in Order |
231 | Version 1 | Hartzler (MO), Griffith (VA), Roe (TN), Lamborn (CO), Scott, Austin (GA) | Republican | Ensures that contractors at GOCO Army Ammunition facilities have the authority use CUAS capabilities to mitigate potential threats from nefarious drones, provides a five-year extension of the 10 USC 130i sunset clause, and ensures training facilities with chemical, biological, and radiological defense materials have the authority to interdict drones. | Submitted |
232 | Version 1 | Crenshaw (TX), Cunningham (SC), Brooks, Mo (AL), Trone (MD), Lamb (PA) | Bi-Partisan | Provides for the inclusion of home schooled students in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) units by adding criteria under Title 10 and would in return give the JROTC unit credit toward an existing requirement for the standing of their unit. | Made in Order |
233 | Version 1 | Higgins, Brian (NY) | Democrat | Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to contribute up to $5 million to the National Maritime Heritage Grant Program. A program that offers funding for education and preservation projects designed to preserve historic maritime resources. | Made in Order |
234 | Version 1 | Shalala (FL), Wasserman Schultz (FL), Mucarsel-Powell (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits the export of defense articles and crime control materials from the United States to the security forces of Venezuela. | Submitted |
235 | Version 1 | Burchett (TN) | Republican | Strikes Subtitle F – Industrial Base Matters, Section 872, page 556, line 10: “not later than 90 days” and replaces it with “not later than 30 days” after the date of the enactment of this Act. | Made in Order |
236 | Version 1 | Carson (IN) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary to provide Congress with a report detailing the extent to which waivers are granted for mental health assessments for members of the armed services deployed in support of contingency operations, and it requires the report to also include information about the effectiveness of those health assessments. | Made in Order |
237 | Version 1 | Carson (IN) | Democrat | Revises and narrows language that qualifies an administrative processing issue as an option for the Secretary in granting an exception to required mental health assessments for members of the armed forces deployed in support of contingency operations. The language makes the standard and the burden higher to meet. | Made in Order |
238 | Version 1 | Hagedorn (MN) | Republican | Parrots the language found in OMB memorandums M-11-32 and M-12-16 as closely as possible, directing agencies to accelerate payment of small business prime contractors to the fullest extent possible, with a goal of 15 days after receipt of proper invoice. Furthermore, the amendment extends this accelerated payment objective to other-than-small prime contractors that subcontract with small businesses on the condition that the prime contractors agree to accelerate payments to their small subcontractors. | Made in Order |
239 | Version 1 | Thornberry (TX) | Republican | Withdrawn Requires the Secretary of Defense to issue regulations to prevent construction or alteration of any energy structures taller than 199 feet until the person obtains a finding from SECDEF that the structure, as proposed, would not pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the US. | Withdrawn |
240 | Version 1 | Aguilar (CA), Porter (CA) | Democrat | Codifies existing practice at DOD to debrief veterans during TAP counselling on how to file claims and where to send paperwork when they transition out of the military. | Made in Order |
241 | Version 1 | Aguilar (CA) | Democrat | Expands the types of associate degrees and certifications covered by the Military Spouse Career Advancement Account program. | Made in Order |
242 | Version 1 | Aguilar (CA) | Democrat | Calls for budget officials from the Department of Defense, Office of Management and Budget, and National Nuclear Security Administration to be present at Nuclear Weapons Council and Standing and Safety Committee meetings, thereby ensuring budgetary concerns are taken into account when decisions are made. | Made in Order |
243 | Version 1 | Aguilar (CA) | Democrat | Requires a feasibility study on Department of Defense using two Federal Bureau of Investigation databases to screen potential enlistees for ties to white nationalist organizations. | Made in Order |
244 | Version 1 | Aguilar (CA) | Democrat | Expands the Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program (formerly known as the Information Assurance Scholarship Program) to include students attending certificate programs that span 1 to 2 years. | Made in Order |
245 | Version 1 | Aguilar (CA) | Democrat | Directs DOD to debrief non-citizens on how to apply for naturalization when they transition out of the armed services. | Made in Order |
246 | Version 1 | Aguilar (CA), Garcia, Jesús (IL) | Democrat | Prohibits persons with DACA or TPS from being separated from the Armed Services to be deported. This also applies to DACA or TPS recipients who were honorably discharged. | Made in Order |
247 | Version 1 | Pingree (ME) | Democrat | Withdrawn Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study on interagency agreements between the Department of Defense and other Federal agencies regarding military readiness. | Withdrawn |
248 | Version 1 | Cohen (TN) | Democrat | Directs the Department of Defense to pursue compensation from the contractor for costs of non-RFI spare parts that it failed to deliver since 2015 as described in the June 13, 2019 DoD Inspector General Report No. DODIG-2019-094. DoD received non-RFI spare parts and spent up to $303 million in DoD labor costs since 2015. | Made in Order |
249 | Version 2 | Cohen (TN) | Democrat | Revised Directs the Department of Defense to conduct a study analyzing the cost growth of major defense acquisition programs over the last fifteen years. | Made in Order |
250 | Version 2 | Jayapal (WA) | Democrat | Withdrawn Directs federal agencies to initiate debarment proceedings for contractors that have repeat and willful OSHA violations. | Withdrawn |
251 | Version 2 | Jayapal (WA) | Democrat | Revised Directs federal agencies to initiate debarment proceedings for contractors with repeat and willful wage theft violations. | Made in Order |
252 | Version 1 | Houlahan (PA) | Democrat | Extends death benefits to members of the Armed Forces participating in the Career Intermission Program. | Made in Order |
253 | Version 1 | Carbajal (CA) | Democrat | Requires the National Academies of Sciences to conduct an independent review of plans and capabilities for nuclear verification, detection, and monitoring of nuclear weapons and fissile material. | Made in Order |
254 | Version 1 | Carbajal (CA) | Democrat | Requires the Department of Defense, in consultation with the Department of Veterans Affairs, to develop guidelines regarding the consideration and use of unofficial sources of information in determining benefits and decoration eligibility when a veteran’s service records are incomplete due to damage caused to the records while in the possession of the Department of Defense. | Made in Order |
255 | Version 1 | Carbajal (CA) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Defense to issue an offshore wind assessment before objecting to an offshore energy project filed for review by the Military Aviation and Installation Assurance Clearinghouse. | Made in Order |
256 | Version 1 | Bustos (IL), Wenstrup (OH), Pappas (NH), Fitzpatrick (PA), Porter (CA), Brownley (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Allows Gold Star and military spouses to terminate lease premises and motor vehicles of service members who incur catastrophic injury or illness or die while in military service. | Made in Order |
257 | Version 1 | Bustos (IL), Gianforte (MT), Axne (IA), Balderson (OH), Lowey (NY), Schakowsky (IL), Clark, Katherine (MA), Steil (WI), Haaland (NM), Thompson, Glenn (PA), Kuster (NH), Pappas (NH), Fitzpatrick (PA), Stanton (AZ), Harder (CA), Johnson, Hank (GA), Watkins (KS), McKinley (WV), Underwood (IL), Moulton (MA), Joyce, David (OH), Bacon (NE), Trahan (MA), Courtney (CT), Crow (CO), Houlahan (PA) | Bi-Partisan | Recognizes and honors the service of individuals who served in the United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II. | Made in Order |
258 | Version 1 | Higgins, Clay (LA) | Republican | Amends section 1044 to change the termination date of the authority from September 30, 2023 to the date on which the Secretary certifies that at least 1,512 linear miles of wall or fence has been constructed along the United States-Mexico border. | Submitted |
259 | Version 1 | Higgins, Clay (LA) | Republican | Strikes section 1044 “Modification and Technical Correction of Authority for Deployment of Members of the Armed Forces to the Southern Land Border of the United States.” | Submitted |
260 | Version 2 | Foster (IL) | Democrat | Revised Requires an independent study on the impacts of missile defense development and deployment. | Made in Order |
261 | Version 1 | Clark, Katherine (MA) | Democrat | Ensures that federal employees may enroll in federal employee health benefits program (FEHBP) should they experience a qualifying life event during a lapse in appropriations and prohibits the loss of life insurance coverage, dental, vision, and long-term care benefits for federal employees in the case of a lapse in federal appropriations. | Made in Order |
262 | Version 1 | Waters (CA) | Democrat | Directs the Department of Defense to produce an assessment of the Direct Employment Pilot Program’s minority outreach efforts, participation outcomes, and participation rates for individuals specified under subsection (a). | Made in Order |
263 | Version 2 | Waters (CA) | Democrat | Revised Requires applicable emerging technologies procured and used by the Department of Defense to be tested for algorithmic bias and potential discriminatory outcome. | Made in Order |
264 | Version 1 | Hudson (NC) | Republican | Withdrawn Requires a report examining the recent procurement history and cost-effectiveness of the Enhanced Multi-Mission Parachute System. | Withdrawn |
265 | Version 3 | Schakowsky (IL) | Democrat | Revised Tasks the Inspector General of the Department of Defense to analyze all contracts and task orders that provide private security firms access to U.S. theaters of military operations in order to compile a report that will inform Congress about the size of the contracting force; the total value of the contracts; the number of persons operating on the contracts that have been wounded or killed; and the disciplinary actions that have been taken against individual contractors. | Made in Order |
266 | Version 3 | Schakowsky (IL) | Democrat | Revised Requires defense contractors to submit detailed annual reports to DoD regarding former senior DoD officials who are subsequently employed by contractors, and certify that those employees are in compliance with post-government ethics rules and make these reports and certifications public. | Revised |
267 | Version 3 | DeFazio (OR), Khanna (CA), Cox (CA) | Democrat | Revised Strengthens Congress’s constitutional war powers authority by amending the War Powers Resolution with clearer definitions of “hostilities” and “armed forces”. The intent of this resolution is to prevent the Executive Branch from bypassing the congressional reporting, counseling, time limitations, and related requirements of the War Powers Resolution if it sends U.S. armed forces into hostilities without congressional authorization. | Revised |
268 | Version 1 | Armstrong (ND), Courtney (CT), Meadows (NC), Hice (GA) | Bi-Partisan | Directs the SECDEF to include the names of the seventy-four crew of the USS Frank E. Evans killed on June 3, 1969 on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. | Made in Order |
269 | Version 1 | Heck (WA), Porter (CA) | Democrat | Requires the Services as part of their annual financial literacy education briefing, to include information on free credit monitoring available to servicemembers under the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act. | Made in Order |
270 | Version 1 | Khanna (CA), Gaetz (FL), Brown (MD), Engel (NY), Smith, Adam (WA), McGovern (MA), Levin, Andy (MI), Eshoo (CA), Himes (CT), Slotkin (MI), Lee, Barbara (CA), Crow (CO), Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Garamendi (CA), Biggs (AZ), Gallego (AZ), Moulton (MA), Haaland (NM), Jayapal (WA), Cicilline (RI), Thompson, Mike (CA), Pocan (WI), Blumenauer (OR), Cohen (TN), Cisneros (CA), Buck (CO), Welch (VT), Waters (CA), DeFazio (OR), Omar (MN), Beyer (VA), Escobar (TX), Torres Small, Xochitl (NM), Harder (CA), Norton (DC), Schrier (WA), Porter (CA), Rose, Max (NY), Watson Coleman (NJ), Kilmer (WA), Pressley (MA), Speier (CA), Tonko (NY), DeGette (CO), Larson, John (CT), Schakowsky (IL), Huffman (CA), Lowenthal (CA), Velázquez (NY), Neguse (CO), Serrano (NY), Lieu (CA), Kim (NJ), Wild (PA), Schweikert (AZ), Ruppersberger (MD), Lofgren (CA), Cox (CA), Raskin (MD), Malinowski (NJ), Houlahan (PA), Trahan (MA), Lewis (GA), Brownley (CA), Spanberger (VA), Lujan (NM), Bonamici (OR), Takano (CA), Kildee (MI), Butterfield (NC), Rouda (CA), Carbajal (CA), Napolitano (CA), McCollum (MN), Sherrill (NJ), Espaillat (NY), Tlaib (MI), Grijalva (AZ), Garcia, Jesús (IL), Connolly (VA), Kuster (NH), Hill, Katie (CA), Perlmutter (CO), Meeks (NY), Wexton (VA), Price (NC), Dingell (MI), Cárdenas (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Prohibits unauthorized military force in or against Iran. | Made in Order |
271 | Version 1 | Gaetz (FL) | Republican | Removes the date of expiration to the drilling moratorium in the Military Gulf Test Range. | Submitted |
272 | Version 1 | Frankel (FL) | Democrat | Prohibits funding for missiles noncompliant with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty until the Secretary of Defense meets certain conditions. | Made in Order |
273 | Version 2 | Frankel (FL), Schakowsky (IL) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Director of National Intelligence to submit an intelligence assessment on the relationship between women and violent extremism and terrorism. | Made in Order |
274 | Version 1 | Davidson (OH) | Republican | Provides a Sense of Congress that the legal authority of the 2001 AUMF and Iraq AUMF is uncertain and that Congress should authorize force against the Islamic State. | Submitted |
275 | Version 1 | Davidson (OH) | Republican | Reduces the number of two, three, and four star general billets for each year in which the Department of Defense fails to successfully conduct its required audit. | Submitted |
276 | Version 1 | Davidson (OH), Norton (DC) | Bi-Partisan | Requires an additional Air National Guard unit to be placed in rotation at the Joint Air Defense Operation Center. | Submitted |
277 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct outreach to speech therapists to inform them of the opportunity to provide services through TriCare. | Submitted |
278 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Withdrawn Intends to direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a Battle Buddy program, which pairs military personnel who have deployed to combat zones or who are returning from deployment from a combat zone with other military personnel to provide support and engagement with the goal of reducing military suicides. | Withdrawn |
279 | Version 2 | Crenshaw (TX), Waltz (FL) | Republican | Revised Waives time limitation and authorizes the award of the Medal of Honor to SFC Alwyn Cashe for valor, described within, during combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom. | Made in Order |
280 | Version 1 | Heck (WA) | Democrat | Requires the services to conduct a feasibility study on the tracking of spousal state issued employment licenses and certifications for the purpose of assisting managing personnel assignments. | Submitted |
281 | Version 1 | Wenstrup (OH) | Republican | Expands the Service Secretaries' authority to designate certain individuals as indispensable to include officers to allow service in the Ready Reserve following retirement from active duty, and allows appropriate compensation for such service. | Submitted |
282 | Version 2 | Riggleman (VA), Luria (VA), Wittman (VA), McEachin (VA), Beyer (VA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Directs the Secretary of Defense to Develop a plan, cost estimate, and schedule for a pilot program to train skilled technicians for immediate placement in the defense industrial base, including critical shipbuilding skills such as welding, metrology, quality assurance, machining, and additive manufacturing. | Made in Order |
283 | Version 1 | Kildee (MI), Speier (CA) | Democrat | Allows for a diversity of viewpoints and transparency in order to empower DoD leadership and the military chain of command by requiring the DoD to create a mechanism to allow service members and DoD civilians to privately voice contrary perspectives on DoD and national security policy like the State Department’s successful dissent channel. | Submitted |
284 | Version 2 | Kildee (MI), Speier (CA) | Democrat | Revised Requires the DoD to train service members on the threat posed by foreign misinformation campaigns, including by Russia, that actively target service members and their families. | Made in Order |
285 | Version 2 | Kildee (MI), Speier (CA), Khanna (CA), Malinowski (NJ) | Democrat | Revised Requires the DoD to report to Congress on civilian casualties caused by Saudi airstrikes in Yemen and whether the Saudi strikes would have complied with the DoD’s rules of engagement and interpretation of international law. | Made in Order |
286 | Version 1 | Kildee (MI) | Democrat | Requires the DoD to provide all information and the legal analysis it relied on when denying a wounded warrior’s claim for traumatic injury protection under service members group life insurance. | Submitted |
287 | Version 1 | Gottheimer (NJ) | Democrat | Adds “adversary actions that threaten freedom of navigation on the international waterways, including attacks on foreign ships and crews” to the matters to be studied in the study on Mobility Capability Requirements. | Made in Order |
288 | Version 2 | Gottheimer (NJ) | Democrat | Revised Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to send Congress recommendations to improve the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. | Made in Order |
289 | Version 1 | Gottheimer (NJ) | Democrat | Adds Hamas, Hizballah, Palestine Islamic Jihad, al-Shabaab, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to the organizations prohibited from being provided weapons. | Made in Order |
290 | Version 1 | Wilson, Joe (SC), Allen (GA), Duncan (SC) | Republican | Prohibits the Commander of the Army Corps of Engineers to take any action related to the New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam in North Augusta, South Carolina, that would result in a pool level lower than 114.5 feet, which was the physical level of the pool on the date of enactment of the 2016 WIIN Act, December 16, 2016. | Submitted |
291 | Version 1 | Fitzpatrick (PA) | Republican | Allows amounts appropriated to the Department of Defense to be used for the Coast Guard, during any period during fiscal year 2020 during which interim or full-year appropriations for the Coast Guard are not in effect. | Submitted |
292 | Version 1 | Fitzpatrick (PA) | Republican | Directs the DOD to finalize and implement a policy stating that the Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System (DOEHRS) is the appropriate system for storing all OEHS data, and to ensure that all other department-wide and military-service-specific policies are consistent with the department’s policy to help ensure consistency with the storage of OEHS data. | Submitted |
293 | Version 1 | Fitzpatrick (PA) | Republican | Directs the Secretary of Defense to raise the priority of completing DOD Directive 2310.07E in order to clarify processes and efficiencies in recovering the remains of heroes missing in action, via the POW/MIA Accounting Agency. | Made in Order |
294 | Version 1 | Fitzpatrick (PA) | Republican | Directs DOD to conduct a review of the foreign currency rates used at disbursement to determine whether cost-savings opportunities exist by more consistently selecting cost-effective rates. | Made in Order |
295 | Version 2 | Fitzpatrick (PA) | Republican | Revised Protects and preserves military tuition assistance programs. | Made in Order |
296 | Version 2 | Fitzpatrick (PA) | Republican | Revised Sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense should work to implement a process to coordinate annual research requests between all services and offices under Department of Defense to optimize both the benefits to the Department and the efficiency of the research. | Made in Order |
297 | Version 1 | Fitzpatrick (PA) | Republican | Withdrawn Ensures that DOD procurement of American flags, service flags, military decorations, medals, and coins comply with Buy American Act requirements. | Withdrawn |
298 | Version 1 | Fitzpatrick (PA) | Republican | Ensures that GPS M-code modernization efforts promote interoperability and efficiency while avoiding unnecessary duplication. | Made in Order |
299 | Version 2 | LaMalfa (CA), McClintock (CA) | Republican | Revised Transfers approximately 927 acres of National Forest System land from Modoc National Forest to Modoc County, California, for purposes of economic development, namely renewable energy. | Revised |
300 | Version 1 | Perry (PA) | Republican | Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress on the threat information sharing between the Department and the Defense Industrial Base, including academic institutions. | Made in Order |
301 | Version 3 | Sherman (CA), Waters (CA) | Democrat | Revised Directs the Administration to issue a prohibition against Americans trading in new Russian sovereign debt, subject to review by the Administration and Congress following each national mid-term and presidential election. And includes a mechanism for lifting the prohibition in the absence of Russian interference in the most recent federal U.S. election. | Made in Order |
302 | Version 1 | Sherman (CA) | Democrat | Withdrawn Strengthens authorities to prevent North Korean sanctions evasion, with a particular focus on stopping ship-to-ship transfers. Requires insurance companies and other financial institutions, along with flags of convenience countries to monitor their clients and registrants for sanctions-busting activities. | Withdrawn |
303 | Version 2 | Panetta (CA) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Department of Defense to provide a plan to improve the collection and monitoring of information, both financial and non-financial, regarding intergovernmental support agreements. | Made in Order |
304 | Version 1 | Panetta (CA) | Democrat | Requires a report on the efforts of the Department of Defense to improve innovation investments and management. | Made in Order |
305 | Version 3 | Panetta (CA) | Democrat | Revised Reauthorizes the National Oceanographic Partnership Program to advance national security and economic development through oceanographic research and education projects, supported by public and private resources. | Revised |
306 | Version 1 | Meadows (NC) | Republican | Withdrawn Requires the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to jointly certify and report to Congress that assistance to the Ministry of the Interior of Iraq under the Iraq Train and Equip Fund will not be disbursed to any group that is, or is known to be affiliated with, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps – Quds Force or other state sponsor of terrorism. | Withdrawn |
307 | Version 1 | Meadows (NC) | Republican | Requires a report on the feasibility of revising the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to include requirements relating to “consumption-based solutions” to provide capabilities that are metered and billed based on actual usage, with the ability to scale capacity up or down, in line with defense acquisition system reforms identified by the Section 809 Panel created by the FY2016 NDAA. | Made in Order |
308 | Version 1 | Meadows (NC) | Republican | Makes delinquent or unpaid federal taxes one of the data elements federal contractors are required to disclose and periodically update in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS). | Made in Order |
309 | Version 1 | Meadows (NC) | Republican | Authorizes the service acquisition executive of the relevant military department, in administering software acquisition pathways, to delegate responsibilities under Sec. 801(d) to a program executive officer (or equivalent) to facilitate more rapid acquisition of software applications and software upgrades. | Made in Order |
310 | Version 2 | Lamborn (CO) | Republican | Revised Requires a report and brief from Under Secretary of Defense for R&E on potential need for a multi-object kill vehicle (MOKV) in future architecture of the Ballistic Missile Defense System, including: an assessment of technology readiness level of needed components and operational system; cost and comprehensive development and testing schedule to deploy such system by 2025; an assessment of if MOKV was considered in the Redesigned Kill Vehicle program re-baseline as a replacement for future Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) kill vehicles; a concept of operations of how an MOKV capability could be employed and how it compares to alternative GMD interceptors. | Made in Order |
311 | Version 1 | Lamborn (CO), Clarke, Yvette (NY) | Bi-Partisan | Codifies into law an all-of-government approach to protecting the nation’s electric grid and critical infrastructure. The amendment outlines the duties, responsibilities, and implementation plans for the appropriate agencies throughout the federal government, and establishes timelines and evaluation criteria to provide for congressional oversight. | Submitted |
312 | Version 1 | Garcia, Sylvia (TX), Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Garcia, Jesús (IL), Vargas (CA), Tlaib (MI), Pressley (MA) | Democrat | Prevents DOD facilities from being used to house or detain unaccompanied migrant children. | Made in Order |
313 | Version 2 | Levin, Mike (CA), Torres, Norma (CA) | Democrat | Revised Authorizes an additional $5 million for Naval University Research Initiatives, which improve the quality of defense research at universities and support the education of engineers and scientists in disciplines critical to national defense needs. | Made in Order |
314 | Version 1 | Levin, Mike (CA) | Democrat | Directs a 1-year independent assessment and 5-year longitudinal study of the Transition Assistance Program, as in Sections 6 and 7 of H.R. 2326. | Made in Order |
315 | Version 1 | Kelly, Robin (IL) | Democrat | Requires the Acting Secretary of Defense to testify before Congress alternating every 45 days before the House and Senate Armed Services Committees following 60 days of a vacancy until an individual is confirmed by the Senate. The chair of either committee may waive the Acting Secretary’s appearance. | Submitted |
316 | Version 1 | Kelly, Robin (IL), Foster (IL) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness to submit a report to Congress on military spouse financial literacy efforts. | Made in Order |
317 | Version 1 | Joyce, John (PA) | Republican | Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress describing projects awaiting evaluation from the Realty Governance Board and an assessment of the impact such projects would have on the overall security of the requesting installation. | Made in Order |
318 | Version 1 | Johnson, Eddie Bernice (TX) | Democrat | Requires an annual update of the climate vulnerability and risk assessment tool by the Secretary of Defense in consultation with requisite Federal agencies. | Made in Order |
319 | Version 1 | Johnson, Eddie Bernice (TX) | Democrat | Withdrawn Authorizes the President to award a posthumous Medal of Honor to Doris Miller for his acts of valor as a Member of the Navy during WWII and would waive the time limitations for a posthumous medal designation. | Withdrawn |
320 | Version 1 | Gottheimer (NJ) | Democrat | Adds “anti-Semitism” to the list of questions about workplace experiences on DOD surveys. | Made in Order |
321 | Version 2 | Smith, Christopher (NJ), Harris (MD), Peterson (MN) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Directs the Inspector General of the Department of Defense to initiate an investigation into the Department’s possible involvement in the bioweaponization of ticks and other insects. | Made in Order |
322 | Version 1 | Smith, Christopher (NJ), Peterson (MN) | Bi-Partisan | Directs the Secretary of Defense to work with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a national strategy on Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases infecting members of the Armed Forces and civilians. | Submitted |
323 | Version 2 | Smith, Christopher (NJ) | Republican | Revised Requires a pilot program on a one-stop online application to assist members of the Armed Forces and veterans participating in the Transition Assistance Program. | Made in Order |
324 | Version 1 | Smith, Christopher (NJ), Norcross (NJ) | Bi-Partisan | Requires GAO to conduct a study of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its practices and protocols for identifying misclassification at federal construction projects. | Made in Order |
325 | Version 3 | Kaptur (OH) | Democrat | Revised Improves the State Partnership Program authorization by allowing travel expense payments for civilian expert engagements in allied nation exchanges abroad on emergency and disaster response, in a limited capacity, when expertise is not available from National Guard personnel and an exception is granted by Secretary of Defense. This amendment is budget neutral and does not seek to increase authorized funding for the State Partnership Program. | Revised |
326 | Version 1 | Schneider (IL), Spano (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Authorizes for five years the Boots to Business program which helps transitioning service members and veterans become entrepreneurs and create jobs through a standardized three-step entrepreneurship training track while giving access to resources in their local communities. This program currently runs as a collaboration between the Small Business Administration’s Office of Veterans Business Development and the Department of Defense’s Transition Assistance Program. | Made in Order |
327 | Version 1 | Escobar (TX), Rouda (CA) | Democrat | Requires the Department of Defense to specify climate-related mitigation and recovery costs in its annual budget submission to Congress. | Made in Order |
328 | Version 1 | Escobar (TX) | Democrat | Clarifies that certain standards must be met before DoD may assist HHS in providing housing for unaccompanied migrant children. | Made in Order |
329 | Version 1 | Escobar (TX) | Democrat | Allows installations to use funds derived from energy cost savings for operational energy programs. | Made in Order |
330 | Version 1 | Escobar (TX), Rouda (CA) | Democrat | Requires the Department of Defense to consider climate-related risks in strategic decisions about military installations and to reflect climate assessments in strategic documents. | Submitted |
331 | Version 1 | Cunningham (SC) | Democrat | Authorizes the Department of Defense to give preference to contractors that employ veterans on a full-time basis. | Made in Order |
332 | Version 1 | Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Pressley (MA), Tlaib (MI), Castro (TX) | Democrat | Prohibits the President from deploying troops on the southern border if the purpose of this deployment is to enforce immigration law. | Made in Order |
333 | Version 3 | Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Pressley (MA), Tlaib (MI) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits the President from using the authorized funds to detain undocumented immigrants in Department of Defense facilities. | Made in Order |
334 | Version 2 | Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Velázquez (NY) | Democrat | Revised Allocates $10,000,000 for the purchase, deployment and operation of closed detonation chambers on Vieques, Puerto Rico. | Made in Order |
335 | Version 1 | Krishnamoorthi (IL), Thompson, Glenn (PA) | Bi-Partisan | Allows the Secretary of Defense to coordinate with workforce development organizations in implementing the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) Computer Science and Cybersecurity Program. | Made in Order |
336 | Version 1 | Kinzinger (IL) | Republican | Withdrawn Designates the RC-26B manned intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platform under an Air Force major command. | Withdrawn |
337 | Version 2 | Kinzinger (IL), Cole (OK) | Republican | Revised Prohibits divestiture from the RC-26B manned intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platform, permits the use of resources authorized by the legislation for support of the RC-26B, allows the National Guard to enter into at least one memorandum of agreement with other federal entities for the purposes of mission support, and requires a report detailing how the Air Force intends to provide manned or unmanned ISR mission support in the event the platform is divested. | Made in Order |
338 | Version 2 | Khanna (CA) | Democrat | Revised Authorizes $10M to be available to develop and prepare a monitoring and verification program related to the phased denuclearization of North Korea, in coordination with relevant international partners and organizations. | Made in Order |
339 | Version 1 | Khanna (CA), Schiff (CA), Smith, Adam (WA), Jayapal (WA) | Democrat | Prohibits support to and participation in the Saudi-led coalition’s military operations against the Houthis in Yemen. | Made in Order |
340 | Version 1 | LaMalfa (CA) | Republican | Prohibits funds from being used by the U.S. Air Force for the removal of the Over-the-Horizon-Backscatter Radar (OTHB) station located in Modoc County, CA. | Made in Order |
341 | Version 1 | LaMalfa (CA) | Republican | Allows dependents to join permanently and totally disabled veterans on Space-A flights. | Submitted |
342 | Version 1 | Arrington (TX) | Republican | Inserts text that requires Secretary of the Air Force to make available and conduct military type certifications for light attack experimentation aircraft as needed. | Made in Order |
343 | Version 1 | DesJarlais (TN) | Republican | Amends Section 222a of title 10 by requiring the National Guard Bureau Chief to submit an unfunded priorities list to address critical dual use equipment needs as well as modernization and interoperability challenges. | Submitted |
344 | Version 1 | DesJarlais (TN) | Republican | Strikes section 1649 relating to an independent study on a policy of no-first-use of nuclear weapons. | Submitted |
345 | Version 3 | Larsen, Rick (WA) | Democrat | Revised Increases funding for the Defense Language and National Security Education Office by $13,404,000 for Chinese language and culture studies. | Made in Order |
346 | Version 2 | Larsen, Rick (WA) | Democrat | Revised Amends Section 1089 to require the Interagency Working Group to provide best practices to grantees at the time of agreement and to develop a risk mitigation plan. | Made in Order |
347 | Version 1 | Larsen, Rick (WA) | Democrat | Modifies Section 1091(b) of the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act to require that the Secretary of Defense develop a transition plan for institutions of higher education to develop independent Chinese language programs. | Made in Order |
348 | Version 1 | Beyer (VA), Norton (DC) | Democrat | Withdrawn Requires the FAA Administrator and Secretary of Defense to review and revise helicopter flight paths in the National Capital Region, including those used by DoD, to identify potential of flight paths for helicopters at higher altitudes. | Withdrawn |
349 | Version 2 | Beyer (VA), Norton (DC) | Democrat | Revised Requires DoD to fulfill one of the recommendations of its 2018 report entitled "Report on the Effects of Military Helicopter Noise on National Capital Region Communities" by establishing a noise inquiry website to track and analyze complaints. | Made in Order |
350 | Version 2 | Meadows (NC) | Republican | Revised Requires a briefing from the Secretary of Defense detailing how the Trusted Capital Marketplace pilot program will 1) align with critical defense requirements and 2) become self-sustaining. | Made in Order |
351 | Version 2 | Meadows (NC), Fitzpatrick (PA) | Republican | Revised Establishes that it is the policy of the United States to prevent the financing of al-Shabaab by combatting illicit trafficking and encouraging compliance with international bans on trafficked goods which finance al-Shabaab. Requires a Defense and State Department report on: a) the previous and current engagement of the departments with relevant national and subnational governments, b) recommendations to end trafficking that finances al-Shabaab, and c) the underlying forces leading to continued widespread trafficking. | Made in Order |
352 | Version 1 | Levin, Andy (MI), Khanna (CA) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Defense to ensure that all incineration of materials containing PFAS is conducted in a manner that eliminates PFAS while also ensuring that no PFAS is emitted into the air; that all incineration is conducted in accordance with the requirements of the Clean Air Act; that materials containing PFAS and designated for disposal are stored safely; and that no incineration be conducted at any facility that violated the requirements of the Clean Air Act during the year preceding the date of disposal. | Made in Order |
353 | Version 2 | Levin, Andy (MI), Haaland (NM) | Democrat | Revised Directs GAO to submit a report regarding the number of defense contractors in the last five years who have been found to have committed willful or repeat violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. | Made in Order |
354 | Version 2 | Porter (CA) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment to investigate all reports of reprisals against a member of the Armed Forces for reporting an issue relating to a privatized military housing unit. | Made in Order |
355 | Version 1 | Porter (CA) | Democrat | Repeals the delay in the payday lending rule as it relates to servicemembers, veterans and surviving spouses. | Made in Order |
356 | Version 1 | Porter (CA) | Democrat | Preserves the requirement for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation to produce a public annual report. | Made in Order |
357 | Version 1 | Porter (CA), Torres, Norma (CA) | Democrat | Increases funding for Army University Research Initiatives by $5,000,000. | Made in Order |
358 | Version 1 | Porter (CA) | Democrat | Allows servicemembers to have a private right of action in the event that credit reporting bureaus engage in misconduct related to free credit monitoring. | Made in Order |
359 | Version 1 | Porter (CA) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Defense to develop partnerships with civilian academic medical centers and teaching hospitals to improve combat casualty care for personnel of the Armed Forces. | Made in Order |
360 | Version 2 | Johnson, Eddie Bernice (TX) | Democrat | Revised Adds the inclusion of cultural competence and diversity to the strategy for the recruitment and retention of mental health providers for members of the Armed Forces. | Made in Order |
361 | Version 1 | Johnson, Eddie Bernice (TX) | Democrat | Mandates the installation and maintenance of an appropriate number of carbon monoxide detectors in each unit of military family housing on military posts and bases. | Made in Order |
362 | Version 1 | Hunter (CA), Fitzpatrick (PA) | Republican | Provides the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Navy should name the next available naval vessel after Marine Corps 1st Lieutenant Travis Manion. | Submitted |
363 | Version 2 | Maloney, Carolyn (NY), Smith, Adam (WA), Houlahan (PA), Courtney (CT), Speier (CA), Moore (WI), Frankel (FL), Brown (MD), Cooper (TN), Pingree (ME), Lofgren (CA), Lowenthal (CA), Norton (DC), Rice, Kathleen (NY), Rose, Max (NY), Meng (NY), Lieu (CA), Haaland (NM), Beyer (VA), Kuster (NH), Connolly (VA), Cummings (MD), Watson Coleman (NJ), Gomez (CA), Cox (CA), Wexton (VA), Espaillat (NY), Lee, Barbara (CA), Lynch (MA), Velázquez (NY), Omar (MN), Raskin (MD), Castor (FL), Hastings (FL), Trone (MD), Schakowsky (IL), Sánchez (CA), Grijalva (AZ), Sarbanes (MD), Casten (IL), Cárdenas (CA), Wasserman Schultz (FL), Garcia, Sylvia (TX), Langevin (RI), King, Peter (NY), Lowey (NY) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Provides 12 weeks of paid family leave to federal employees for qualified purposes listed under the Family Medical Leave Act. | Revised |
364 | Version 2 | Peters (CA) | Democrat | Revised Directs the Secretary of Defense to coordinate with oversight entities, such as the HHS Inspector General, to establish a process for military base access in order to perform surprise inspections of facilities used to house, detain, screen, or review migrants, refuges or other persons recently arriving the in United States. | Made in Order |
365 | Version 1 | Peters (CA), Davis, Susan (CA), Banks (IN), Kirkpatrick (AZ) | Bi-Partisan | Establishes a pilot program to provide friends and family of servicemembers a better understanding of the rigors, challenges, and needs associated with military service. | Made in Order |
366 | Version 1 | DeSaulnier (CA), Lee, Barbara (CA) | Democrat | Expresses the sense of Congress that the Port Chicago 50 should be exonerated of any charges brought against them in the aftermath of the deadliest home front explosion in World War II. | Made in Order |
367 | Version 3 | DeSaulnier (CA), Gallego (AZ) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs to conduct a joint study on the impact of the current policy of withholding disability pay from veterans who receive separation pay. | Made in Order |
368 | Version 1 | Lee, Barbara (CA) | Democrat | Expresses the sense of Congress that the 2001 AUMF has been utilized well beyond the scope that Congress intended, that it has served a blank check for any President to wage war at any time and any place, and that any new authorization for the use of military force to replace the 2001 AUMF should include a sunset clause, a clear and specific expression of objectives, targets, and geographic scope, and reporting requirements. | Made in Order |
369 | Version 2 | Cuellar (TX), Carter, John (TX) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Requests an independent assessment of the United States’ funding and resources available to the Department of Defense, the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development, for use in the Western Hemisphere. The assessment will also focus on investments made by China, Iran, and Russia in the Western Hemisphere. | Made in Order |
370 | Version 1 | Khanna (CA), Lee, Barbara (CA), DeFazio (OR), Omar (MN), Pressley (MA) | Democrat | Reduces funding from the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account by $16.8 billion, to prevent a topline DoD spending increase from the FY19 level. The amendment would only reduce OCO funds in the Operations and Maintenance account. | Made in Order |
371 | Version 2 | Khanna (CA), Sherman (CA), Kim (NJ), Lee, Barbara (CA), Norton (DC), Cisneros (CA), Espaillat (NY), Omar (MN), Haaland (NM), Lofgren (CA), Jayapal (WA), Perlmutter (CO) | Democrat | Revised Expresses a Sense of Congress that diplomacy is essential for addressing North Korea's nuclear program as a military confrontation would pose extreme risks, and the US should pursue a sustained and credible diplomatic process to achieve the denuclearization of North Korea and an end to the 69-year-long Korean War. | Made in Order |
372 | Version 1 | Khanna (CA) | Democrat | Requires EPA to prohibit the incineration of firefighting foam containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAs) and other PFAs waste. | Submitted |
373 | Version 2 | Khanna (CA) | Democrat | Revised Increases the renewable energy requirement for DoD facilities from 25% to 50% by 2025. Reduces funding from the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) in the Operations and Maintenance account by $650 million. | Revised |
374 | Version 1 | Gabbard (HI), Haaland (NM), Moulton (MA) | Democrat | Expands access to infertility treatment to all servicemembers. | Made in Order |
375 | Version 1 | Gabbard (HI), Haaland (NM), Moulton (MA) | Democrat | Allows the VA to provide infertility treatment to all veterans and extends newborn access care for all veterans. | Submitted |
376 | Version 1 | Gabbard (HI) | Democrat | Prohibits the testing, development, fielding, and evaluation of missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers or associated launchers, regardless of whether such missiles have nuclear or conventional warheads. | Submitted |
377 | Version 1 | Gabbard (HI) | Democrat | Prohibits funds from the Special Defense Acquisition Fund to aid Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates if such assistance could be used to conduct or continue hostilities in Yemen. | Made in Order |
378 | Version 1 | Gabbard (HI) | Democrat | Includes a sense of Congress that it is a high crime and misdemeanor within the meaning of article II, section 4 of the Constitution to use the Armed Forces offensively against a state or non-state actor unless such force is being used in self-defense or pursuant to a prior congressional declaration of war or specific statutory authorization. | Submitted |
379 | Version 1 | Grijalva (AZ), Schweikert (AZ) | Bi-Partisan | Withdrawn Prohibits the use of funds to conduct domestic surveillance programs by unmanned aerial systems. | Withdrawn |
380 | Version 1 | Beyer (VA), Norton (DC) | Democrat | Requires DoD to submit a report to Congress on the frequency of helicopters used for executive travel in the National Capital Region. | Made in Order |
381 | Version 1 | Stauber (MN), Duffy (WI), Cox (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Requires the Secretary of the Navy to submit a report to the appropriate congressional defense committees a report on the feasibility of doing maintenance work on naval vessels at shipyards other than shipyards in the vessels’ homeport. | Made in Order |
382 | Version 2 | Stauber (MN), Emmer (MN), Gosar (AZ), Peterson (MN) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Codifies the land exchange that occurred on June 28, 2018, netting the U.S. Forest Service an increase of 40 acres. | Revised |
383 | Version 2 | Bacon (NE), Fortenberry (NE) | Republican | Revised Authorizes an increase to Air Force procurement to replace RC-135 training and ground mission equipment destroyed in recent storms. | Made in Order |
384 | Version 2 | Bacon (NE), Taylor (TX), Panetta (CA), Lamb (PA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Authorizes Department of Defense civilian academic faculty at covered institutions to retain copyright for scholarly works completed outside of their assigned instructional duties. | Made in Order |
385 | Version 1 | Bacon (NE), Brown (MD), Cisneros (CA), Lamb (PA), Taylor (TX), Panetta (CA), Conaway (TX), Lamborn (CO) | Bi-Partisan | Authorizes senior officials of the armed forces to endorse and participate in activities of charitable foundations that support the armed forces service academies. | Made in Order |
386 | Version 1 | Langevin (RI), Stefanik (NY), Smith, Adam (WA), Crow (CO), Panetta (CA), Waltz (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Extends Section 1202 of Title 10, support of special operations for irregular warfare, for three years. | Made in Order |
387 | Version 1 | Langevin (RI) | Democrat | Adds cybersecurity metrics as a required component of acquisitions using the new Section 801 authority: "ESTABLISHMENT OF ACQUISITION PATHWAYS FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS AND SOFTWARE UPGRADES." | Made in Order |
388 | Version 1 | Langevin (RI), Stefanik (NY), Smith, Adam (WA), Crow (CO), Panetta (CA), Waltz (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Strengthens current written notifications of Section 127e of Title 10, support of special operations to combat terrorism. | Made in Order |
389 | Version 2 | Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Revised Requires an independent study on options to extend the life of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles and delaying the ground-based strategic deterrent program (GBSD). Prevents 10% of funds for the Secretary of Defense from being distributed until the study is submitted. | Made in Order |
390 | Version 1 | Wasserman Schultz (FL), Shalala (FL), Mucarsel-Powell (FL) | Democrat | Requires the State Department to produce an assessment on Russian-Venezuelan security cooperation and its impact on the U.S. and our allies in the region. Imposes visa bans on individuals working on behalf of the Russian government in direct support of the Venezuelan security forces. | Submitted |
391 | Version 1 | Boyle (PA) | Democrat | Requires DOD to report to Congress with a robust rollout plan for the Army War College report, “The U.S. Army in the Iraq War”. | Submitted |
392 | Version 2 | Boyle (PA) | Democrat | Revised Requires DOD to develop a stabilization and reconstruction plan of Venezuela, following the end of the Maduro administration with our partners that includes a security plan for delivering aid to Venezuela. | Revised |
393 | Version 1 | Speier (CA), Escobar (TX), Hill, Katie (CA), Haaland (NM), Pressley (MA), Chu (CA), Lee, Barbara (CA), Schakowsky (IL), Brownley (CA), Khanna (CA) | Democrat | Clarifies the contraception coverage parity provision in the bill text to ensure all methods of contraception approved by the FDA are covered by TRICARE without copay, including contraceptive counseling, insertion and removal. | Made in Order |
394 | Version 2 | Speier (CA), Phillips (MN) | Democrat | Revised Requires former senior defense officials seeking to work for a defense contractor to seek an ethics opinion for employment within four, and not two, years of leaving DOD. Increases lobbying registration requirements and requires the information to be posted publicly. | Revised |
395 | Version 2 | Speier (CA) | Democrat | Revised Increases funding for the Defense Security Service by $5,206,997 for the purposes of procurement of advanced cyber threat detection sensors, hunt and response mechanisms, and commercial cyber threat intelligence to ensure Defense Industrial Base networks remain protected from nation state adversaries. | Made in Order |
396 | Version 1 | Speier (CA), Escobar (TX), Hill, Katie (CA), Haaland (NM), Pressley (MA), Chu (CA), Lee, Barbara (CA), Schakowsky (IL), Brownley (CA), Khanna (CA) | Democrat | Enhances access to high-quality family planning education by requiring DOD to establish a standardized educational program across all branches of the military to be provided during the first year of service for a member. | Made in Order |
397 | Version 1 | Sherrill (NJ) | Democrat | Withdrawn Prevents the authorization of funding for the elimination, restructuring, or realignment of Army Contracting Command – New Jersey without 30-day prior notification to Congress. | Withdrawn |
398 | Version 1 | Sherrill (NJ) | Democrat | Expresses the Sense of Congress that Army Contracting Command – New Jersey plays a vital role in support of major weapons, armaments, and ammunition systems for the Army and other Department of Defense customers. | Made in Order |
399 | Version 1 | Speier (CA), Kennedy (MA), Brown (MD), Davis, Susan (CA), Wexton (VA), McEachin (VA), Cisneros (CA), Crow (CO), Kildee (MI) | Democrat | Requires that qualifications for eligibility to serve in an armed force account only for the ability of an individual to meet gender-neutral occupational standards and not include any criteria relating to the race, color, national origin, religion, or sex (including gender identity or sexual orientation) of an individual. | Made in Order |
400 | Version 1 | Schrier (WA) | Democrat | Directs the Secretary of the Navy to adhere to competitive procedures to better ensure small and medium defense contractors can compete with respect to any task order or delivery order issued for a dual aircraft carrier contract for CVN-80 and CVN-81. | Made in Order |
401 | Version 1 | Moore (WI) | Democrat | Calls for a report and recommendations from the Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency on the need for and/or benefits of constructing new or maintaining direct fuel pipeline connections at appropriate Air National Guard and Reserve Installations including any barriers that may impede such projects. | Made in Order |
402 | Version 1 | Porter (CA), Cisneros (CA), Takano (CA) | Democrat | Makes spouses and other dependents of active duty members of the Armed Forces eligible for the Direct Employment Pilot Program. | Made in Order |
403 | Version 1 | McBath (GA), Steube (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Exempts from the calculation of monthly income a disabled veteran's disability payments from the VA and DoD during bankruptcy proceedings. | Made in Order |
404 | Version 1 | Hice (GA) | Republican | Reduces a former President’s annual monetary allowance dollar-for-dollar if he or she earns more than $400,000 in a year, sets a former President’s pension at $200,000, and increases the pension for the surviving spouse of a former President from $20,000 to $100,000. | Submitted |
405 | Version 1 | Connolly (VA), Beyer (VA) | Democrat | Requires periodic reporting on security clearance adjudication backlogs. | Made in Order |
406 | Version 1 | McKinley (WV) | Republican | Adds the Secretary of Energy to the list of people the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment should consult when establishing guidance as outlined in Section 807 – Acquisition and Disposal of Certain Rare Earth Materials. | Made in Order |
407 | Version 2 | McKinley (WV) | Republican | Revised Clarifies that the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment should not acquire items simply containing rare earth materials, but should instead focus on acquiring materials with high concentrations of rare earth materials. | Made in Order |
408 | Version 1 | McKinley (WV) | Republican | Clarifies that the guidance for best value contracting methods should consider if and when sole source contracts with universities or other entities are appropriate. | Made in Order |
409 | Version 1 | Walden (OR) | Republican | Allows Air Force reserve component personnel to provide pilot training and instruction to address our nation’s pilot shortage. | Made in Order |
410 | Version 1 | Carter, John (TX) | Republican | Provides for a 4% pay increase for military service members beginning January 1, 2020. | Submitted |
411 | Version 1 | Lucas (OK) | Republican | Expands an already existing Department of Defense reporting requirement on solid rocket motors to include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. | Made in Order |
412 | Version 2 | Amash (MI), Lee, Barbara (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Repeals section 1022 of the FY2012 NDAA and amends Section 1021 of the FY2012 NDAA to eliminate indefinite military detention of any person detained under AUMF authority in the U.S., territories, or possessions by providing immediate transfer to trial and proceedings by a court established under Article III of the Constitution of the United states or by an appropriate State court. | Made in Order |
413 | Version 1 | Green, Mark (TN) | Republican | Assesses the availability and usage of the assistance of chaplains, houses of worship, and other spiritual resources for members of the Armed Forces of all self-identified religious affiliations in order to help counter the tragic rate of military suicides. | Made in Order |
414 | Version 1 | Gallego (AZ), Gallagher (WI) | Bi-Partisan | Adds subsidy funds to the list of funds prohibited to obtain certain telecommunications and video surveillance equipment manufactured or offered by Huawei or ZTE. | Submitted |
415 | Version 1 | Gallego (AZ) | Democrat | Requires a report on the National Guard's capacity to meet Homeland Defense missions. | Made in Order |
416 | Version 2 | Lieu (CA), Jayapal (WA), Cohen (TN), Beyer (VA) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended at properties owned by the President or that bear his name (enumerated in the amendment). A waiver is made available if the President reimburses the Department of the Treasury for the amount associated with the expense. | Made in Order |
417 | Version 1 | Lieu (CA) | Democrat | Withdrawn Requires a legal review of war crimes in Yemen by the General Counsel of the Department of Defense and the Legal Adviser to the Department of State for purposes of compliance with relevant provisions of domestic law. | Withdrawn |
418 | Version 2 | Lieu (CA), Cicilline (RI), Malinowski (NJ) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits in-flight refueling to non-United States aircraft that engage in hostilities in the ongoing civil war in Yemen for two years, or until a specific authorization has been enacted. | Made in Order |
419 | Version 1 | Lieu (CA), Amash (MI), Cicilline (RI), Malinowski (NJ), Engel (NY) | Bi-Partisan | Prohibits funds from being used to transfer any defense articles or services to Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates under the emergency authority of the Arms Export Control Act that circumvents congressional review. | Made in Order |
420 | Version 1 | Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to comply with the FY17 NDAA requirement to disclose the matrices related to the contract award for the B-21 bomber aircraft program. | Submitted |
421 | Version 1 | Blumenauer (OR), Kinzinger (IL), Moulton (MA), Waltz (FL), Welch (VT), Crow (CO), Omar (MN), Bacon (NE), Hurd (TX), Watkins (KS), Lamb (PA), Raskin (MD) | Bi-Partisan | Requires the State Department Inspector General to submit a report to Congress on the obstacles to effective protection of Afghan and Iraqi allies through the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) programs and provide suggestions for improvements to the program. | Made in Order |
422 | Version 1 | Langevin (RI), Courtney (CT), Garamendi (CA), Larsen, Rick (WA), Foster (IL), Smith, Adam (WA), Hill, Katie (CA) | Democrat | Increases by $20,000,000 Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation budget to conduct research and development on low-enriched uranium for naval reactors, decreases the National Nuclear Security Agency federal expenses and other expenditures budget by $20,000,000. | Made in Order |
423 | Version 2 | Blumenauer (OR), Crawford (AR), Hurd (TX) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Directs the Department and the Services to execute the Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) in a manner consistent with their budget requests. | Revised |
424 | Version 2 | Blumenauer (OR), Rouda (CA) | Democrat | Revised Codifies President Obama’s Executive Order 13653 to require the Secretary to identify and seek to remove barriers that discourage investments to increase resiliency to climate change. | Made in Order |
425 | Version 1 | Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Adds an additional function to the Space Corps to monitor, assess, report on, and plan for the impacts of climate change on United States national security priorities. | Submitted |
426 | Version 2 | Blumenauer (OR), Garamendi (CA) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Under Secretary for Nuclear Security to conduct a study on the unexpected cost increases for the W80-4 nuclear warhead life extension program and prevents $185 million from being obligated or expended until the study is completed. | Made in Order |
427 | Version 1 | Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Improves flood risk assessments for military construction projects by incorporating projected current and future mean sea level fluctuations. | Made in Order |
428 | Version 1 | Lynch (MA) | Democrat | Reestablishes the Commission on Wartime Contracting and requires it to to examine federal agency contracting funded by OCO; federal agency contracting for the logistical support of coalition forces operating under the 2001 or 2002 AUMF; and federal agency contracting for the performance of security functions in countries where coalition forces are operating under the 2001 or 2002 AUMF. | Made in Order |
429 | Version 1 | Lynch (MA) | Democrat | Requires the Department of Defense to make publicly available data relating to Afghanistan, including casualty figures of the Afghan security forces and other measurements of programs with respect to the Government of Afghanistan. | Submitted |
430 | Version 2 | Lieu (CA), Wagner (MO), Malinowski (NJ) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Requires a report to Congress detailing the U.S. strategy for Libya. | Made in Order |
431 | Version 1 | Price (NC), Schakowsky (IL), Lee, Barbara (CA), Welch (VT), Blumenauer (OR), Yarmuth (KY), Doggett (TX), Connolly (VA) | Democrat | Requires a report from the President on the status of deconfliction channels with Iran to prevent miscalculation. | Made in Order |
432 | Version 1 | Price (NC), Young (AK), Cisneros (CA), Larsen, Rick (WA), Panetta (CA), Langevin (RI), Moulton (MA) | Bi-Partisan | Enables DOD to award three-year competitive grants to DODEA schools and to local education agencies that host a JROTC program for the establishment, improvement, or expansion of world language programs in elementary and secondary schools. | Made in Order |
433 | Version 1 | Harder (CA), Torres, Norma (CA), Aguilar (CA), Amodei (NV) | Bi-Partisan | Authorizes the enlistment in the Armed Forces of aliens unlawfully present in the United States on December 31, 2012, who: (1) have been continuously present in the United States since such date; (2) were younger than 15 years of age when they initially entered the United States; and (3) are otherwise eligible for original enlistment in a regular component of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard. The Department of Homeland Security shall adjust the status of an alien enlisted under such authority to the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence under provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act applicable to aliens who entered the United States prior to January 1, 1972. | Submitted |
434 | Version 3 | Rice, Kathleen (NY) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, to conduct an assessment of the impact that the construction of any planned or proposed border wall would have on the volume of illegal narcotics entering the United States. | Made in Order |
435 | Version 4 | Rice, Kathleen (NY) | Democrat | Revised Requires GAO to conduct an audit of ongoing and planned future DOD support for DHS operations to secure the southwest border, with a subsequent briefing and report to Congress. | Made in Order |
436 | Version 1 | Rice, Kathleen (NY) | Democrat | Withdrawn Prohibits the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security from limiting the information provided to Congress regarding joint operations between DOD and DHS. | Withdrawn |
437 | Version 3 | Haaland (NM), Speier (CA), Escobar (TX), Pressley (MA), Schakowsky (IL), Crow (CO), Cisneros (CA) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits the Department of Defense from contracting with companies that do not have a sexual harassment policy. | Made in Order |
438 | Version 2 | Haaland (NM), Khanna (CA), Johnson, Hank (GA), Grijalva (AZ), Wild (PA), Lewis (GA), Espaillat (NY), Raskin (MD) | Democrat | Revised Requiring the Secretaries of Defense and State to report on human rights of Brazil's security forces in light of potential increased security cooperation. | Made in Order |
439 | Version 1 | Cicilline (RI), Reschenthaler (PA), Takano (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Requires written consent from all parties involved in a dispute under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act before settling said conflict through arbitration. | Made in Order |
440 | Version 1 | Welch (VT), Cook (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Authorizes assistance for deployment-related support of members of the Armed Forces undergoing deployment and their families beyond the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program. | Made in Order |
441 | Version 2 | Luria (VA), Gallego (AZ), Haaland (NM) | Democrat | Revised Assists employees during the relocation process. | Made in Order |
442 | Version 2 | Connolly (VA) | Democrat | Revised Provides $2,000,000 in funding for the European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, a NATO-EU joint venture to combat threats based on a combination of military and nonmilitary means, including but not limited to cyberattacks, election interference, and disinformation campaigns. | Made in Order |
443 | Version 1 | Luria (VA), Khanna (CA) | Democrat | Directs the Department of Defense to conduct a study on how it could enter into more energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs). | Made in Order |
444 | Version 1 | Loebsack (IA), Bustos (IL) | Democrat | Extends Temporary Installation Reutilization Authority for leasing excess space at Army arsenals, depots, and plants through September 30, 2025. Requires the Secretary of the Army to determine the logistical, information technology, and security requirements to create an internal listing service of Army assets available for lease at Arsenals, depots, and plants. | Made in Order |
445 | Version 1 | Loebsack (IA), Bustos (IL), Porter (CA) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Defense to perform an assessment of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, as well as Maintenance and Manufacturing (STEM) workforce for organizations within the DOD, identify the types and quantities of STEM jobs needed to support future mission work, and identify a plan of action to address the STEM jobs gap. | Made in Order |
446 | Version 1 | Luria (VA) | Democrat | Calls attention to musculoskeletal injuries, one of the top injuries facing warfighters, recognizes the importance of tissue repair innovations for these injuries, and encourages continued research and innovation that is occurring within the Navy’s Wound Care Research program. | Made in Order |
447 | Version 1 | Huffman (CA) | Democrat | Amends Section 2831 to restrict any energy sourced from Russia and repeals another Section from FY19 NDAA dealing with preference for domestic sources at one specific European base. | Made in Order |
448 | Version 1 | Omar (MN), Tlaib (MI), Pressley (MA), Ocasio-Cortez (NY) | Democrat | Expresses the sense of Congress that the Central American Refugee Crisis represents a devastating humanitarian emergency and the U.S. government should engage international aid organizations, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to assist in the delivery of aid to displaced persons. | Submitted |
449 | Version 3 | Barr (KY), Stivers (OH) | Republican | Revised Imposes secondary sanctions to cut off Pyongyang’s ability to finance its weapons programs by requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to prohibit, or impose strict conditions on, correspondent or payable-through accounts held in the U.S. by foreign financial institutions that knowingly deal with persons involved in trade or other support for North Korea. | Made in Order |
450 | Version 2 | Biggs (AZ), Roy (TX), Steube (FL) | Republican | Revised Expresses a sense of Congress about the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship. | Made in Order |
451 | Version 2 | Tonko (NY), Morelle (NY), Delgado (NY), Higgins, Brian (NY) | Democrat | Revised Increases by $2 million the funding limitation for the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor. | Made in Order |
452 | Version 1 | Torres, Norma (CA) | Democrat | Prohibits the President from removing items from Categories 1-3 of the United States Munitions List. | Made in Order |
453 | Version 2 | Torres, Norma (CA), Engel (NY) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits the provision of vehicles to joint task forces including the Ministry of Defense or the Ministry of the Interior of Guatemala, unless the Secretary of Defense has certified to appropriate Congressional committees that such ministries have made a credible commitment to only use such vehicles for their intended purpose. | Made in Order |
454 | Version 1 | Torres, Norma (CA) | Democrat | Directs the National Security Commission on Defense Research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Serving Institutions, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to make available a list identifying eligible institutions. | Made in Order |
455 | Version 4 | Torres, Norma (CA), Gonzalez, Anthony (OH) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Mandates the Department of Defense provide a briefing on its efforts to address manipulated media content, specifically deepfakes, from adversarial sources, and provides a $5 million increase for the Department of Defense’s Media Forensics Program. | Made in Order |
456 | Version 1 | Torres, Norma (CA) | Democrat | Requires the President to impose sanctions on Central American officials previously named in reports to Congress. | Made in Order |
457 | Version 2 | Torres, Norma (CA), Panetta (CA), Cisneros (CA), Stevens (MI) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Department of Defense, in consultation with the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, to develop policies to assist small- and mid-sized manufacturers to meet cybersecurity requirements. | Made in Order |
458 | Version 1 | Norman (SC), Steube (FL) | Republican | Authorizes military construction for a wall, fence, or other barriers along the southern border. | Submitted |
459 | Version 1 | Norman (SC), Duncan (SC), Timmons (SC), Roy (TX) | Republican | Prohibits any funds from being used to transfer prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to any place on U.S. soil. | Submitted |
460 | Version 2 | Cicilline (RI), Bilirakis (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Repeals existing restrictions on the United States from transferring and exporting weapons, and defense articles and services to the Republic of Cyprus. | Made in Order |
461 | Version 1 | Cicilline (RI) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Defense to produce a report analyzing the effects of automation within the Defense Industrial Base over the next ten years. | Made in Order |
462 | Version 1 | Cicilline (RI), Pocan (WI), Jayapal (WA), Lee, Barbara (CA), Khanna (CA), Massie (KY), Norton (DC), Omar (MN) | Bi-Partisan | Prevents funding for unauthorized military force in Venezuela. | Submitted |
463 | Version 1 | Cicilline (RI), Omar (MN) | Democrat | Allows Liberian nationals who have been in the US continuously since November 20, 2014, as well as their spouse and/or unmarried children, to apply for a green card. Allows the Secretary to grant work authorization to such a person who has applied for adjustment of status. | Submitted |
464 | Version 2 | Gohmert (TX) | Republican | Revised Codifies the Rules of Courts Martial 916(e), regarding self-defense into the Uniform Code of Military Justice and clarifies how the self-defense claim is interpreted in combat theaters of operations. | Revised |
465 | Version 1 | Gohmert (TX) | Republican | Enhances protections for whistleblowers by clearly defining punishments for officials who revoke a security clearance without authority or cause. | Submitted |
466 | Version 1 | Gohmert (TX) | Republican | Removes the mandatory minimum life sentence for pre-meditated murder under article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. | Submitted |
467 | Version 1 | Maloney, Sean (NY) | Democrat | Extends through 2019 Department of Veterans Affairs authority for the performance of medical disability evaluations by contract physicians. | Submitted |
468 | Version 1 | Maloney, Sean (NY) | Democrat | Improves the ability of separating or retiring members of the Armed Forces to seek state veterans services by enabling them to elect to have their DD-214 shared with county veterans service officers. | Made in Order |
469 | Version 1 | Maloney, Sean (NY) | Democrat | Provides recognition of the entire period service members in the Korean War spent as POWs for the receipt of combat pay. | Submitted |
470 | Version 3 | Keating (MA) | Democrat | Revised Authorizes funds for a pilot program to support nonprofits operating on bases to providing food, clothing, and related assistance to active duty personnel. | Made in Order |
471 | Version 1 | Keating (MA) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, to ensure the meaningful inclusion of Afghan women in peace negotiations. | Made in Order |
472 | Version 3 | Keating (MA) | Democrat | Revised Establishes a coordinator for ISIS detainee issues. | Made in Order |
473 | Version 2 | Malinowski (NJ), Cicilline (RI), Lieu (CA), Khanna (CA), Omar (MN), Trone (MD), Engel (NY), Smith, Adam (WA) | Democrat | Revised Provides for a one-year prohibition on the sale of air-to-ground munitions used in the conflict in Yemen to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, while providing an exemption for any export or license suspensions that would incur a cost to the United States Government. | Made in Order |
474 | Version 2 | Malinowski (NJ), Gallagher (WI), Spanberger (VA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Provides for a study and reporting by the President on the ability of the United States government to monitor exports of surveillance-related capabilities and their potential for abuse by foreign governments. This includes a review of current procedures and policies, as well as reporting on applications for license to export digital surveillance capabilities. | Revised |
475 | Version 3 | Malinowski (NJ), Engel (NY), Lowenthal (CA), Cohen (TN), Espaillat (NY), Trone (MD), Wagner (MO), Raskin (MD), Cicilline (RI), Sires (NJ), Wild (PA), Sherman (CA), Fitzpatrick (PA), Wasserman Schultz (FL), Khanna (CA), Porter (CA), Curtis (UT) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Requires an ODNI determination of parties responsible for the premeditated murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, imposes visa sanctions with a national security waiver, and requires a report on human rights in Saudi Arabia. | Made in Order |
476 | Version 1 | Lamb (PA), Takano (CA), Lee, Susie (NV), Brownley (CA), Luria (VA), Allred (TX), Pappas (NH), Cisneros (CA), Sablan (MP), Levin, Mike (CA), Banks (IN), Roe (TN), Bilirakis (FL), Radewagen (AS), Watkins (KS), Bost (IL), Barr (KY), Meuser (PA), Rose, Max (NY), Porter (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Requires the Interagency Program Office of the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs to demonstrate that it has achieved interoperability in the implementation of electronic health records. Requires the Office to manage the configuration of the electronic health records, consult with clinicians, and survey clinicians and patients; defines “interoperability” and “seamless health care”. | Made in Order |
477 | Version 1 | Lee, Susie (NV), Takano (CA), Brownley (CA), Luria (VA), Allred (TX), Pappas (NH), Cisneros (CA), Sablan (MP), Levin, Mike (CA), Banks (IN), Roe (TN), Bilirakis (FL), Radewagen (AS), Watkins (KS), Bost (IL), Barr (KY), Meuser (PA), Lamb (PA), Rose, Max (NY) | Bi-Partisan | Clarifies the purpose of the interagency program office to include decision-making on functional, technical, and programmatic activities to promote interoperability of electronic health records and requires the Secretaries of the Departments to allocate sufficient resources and authorities for management of the activities of the office, including budget and staffing. Mandates reports to Congress and the public on the activities of the office. | Made in Order |
478 | Version 1 | Kilmer (WA), Case (HI), Scott, Bobby (VA), Pappas (NH), Pingree (ME), Golden (ME), Kuster (NH) | Democrat | of the Navy to enter into an agreement with a Federally funded research and development center with relevant expertise to conduct an assessment of the impacts resulting from the Navy’s suspension in 2016 of the Accelerated Promotion Program. The Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the results of the evaluation by not later than June 1, 2020, and shall provide interim briefings upon request. | Made in Order |
479 | Version 2 | Scott, Bobby (VA), Lee, Barbara (CA) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress on the status of each of the 91 priority recommendations that the Secretary has not implemented in report GAO-19-366SP. If the reasoning for not implementing a recommendation is funding, then the Secretary must provide the estimated cost for such implementation. | Made in Order |
480 | Version 1 | Maloney, Sean (NY) | Democrat | Authorizes $121,300,000 for environmental restoration related to perfluorinated chemicals to also be used for reimbursement of state and local government costs associated with exposure. | Submitted |
481 | Version 1 | Maloney, Sean (NY) | Democrat | Ensures the availability of certain medical services at U.S. Service Academies, including emergency room services, orthopedic services, general surgery services and gynecological services. | Made in Order |
482 | Version 1 | Wagner (MO) | Republican | Withdrawn Prohibits the United States from providing security assistance to the military forces of Burma until these forces have demonstrated significant progress in abiding by international human rights standards and undertaken meaningful and significant security sector reform. | Withdrawn |
483 | Version 2 | Wagner (MO), Castro (TX), Malinowski (NJ) | Bi-Partisan | Withdrawn Instructs the Administration to develop a coherent Southeast Asian engagement strategy to deepen and expand all aspects of the relationship, from trade and humanitarian goals to diplomatic and security arrangements. | Withdrawn |
484 | Version 1 | Wagner (MO), Lieu (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Requires that all foreign persons receiving training in IMET professional military education programs participate in human rights training. | Made in Order |
485 | Version 2 | Wagner (MO) | Republican | Revised Instructs the Secretary of Defense to brief the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate on the utility and feasibility of establishing a multinational regional security education center based in Southeast Asia to offer year-round training and educational courses for Indo-Pacific civilian and military security personnel, including English-language training, rule of law and legal studies, security, governance and institution-building courses, and budget and procurement training. | Made in Order |
486 | Version 1 | Wagner (MO), Steube (FL) | Republican | Prohibits amounts made available through this Act to an entity that provides abortions if, in the case of an abortion or attempted abortion that results in a child born alive, a health care practitioner present at the birth does not exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of such child as would be rendered to any other child born alive at the same age. | Submitted |
487 | Version 1 | Crist (FL), Pingree (ME) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary to account for sea level rise projections and future flood risk when creating guidelines for energy and climate resiliency at military facilities. | Made in Order |
488 | Version 1 | Crist (FL) | Democrat | Authorizes $50,000,000 for defense access road projects on and around military installations impacted by past flooding and sea level rise. | Submitted |
489 | Version 1 | Schiff (CA) | Democrat | Authorizes inclusion on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial of the names of seventy-four crew members of the USS Frank E. Evans killed on June 3, 1969. | Made in Order |
490 | Version 1 | Norman (SC), Duncan (SC), Timmons (SC) | Republican | Withdrawn Strikes sections 1032 and 1033 related to Guantanamo Bay. | Withdrawn |
491 | Version 1 | Norman (SC), Roy (TX) | Republican | Authorizes a public-private pilot program to train and place veterans as cybersecurity personnel with the DoD. | Made in Order |
492 | Version 1 | Horn (OK) | Democrat | Allows all retired air traffic controllers who are FERS employees and working as instructors or supervisors to keep the annuity they paid into during their careers as air traffic controllers regardless of how many hours a week they work training the next generation of air traffic controllers for the FAA. | Made in Order |
493 | Version 1 | Horn (OK), Vela (TX), Conaway (TX) | Bi-Partisan | Requires DoD to treat disclosures of disciplinary matters from audit firms confidentially and makes statutory the DoD’s interim guidance issued in March of 2019 which preserves the confidentiality of these proceedings. | Made in Order |
494 | Version 1 | Castor (FL), Rooney (FL), Wasserman Schultz (FL), Rutherford (FL), Deutch (FL), Soto (FL), Murphy (FL), Frankel (FL), Buchanan (FL), Mast (FL), Gaetz (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Prohibits oil and gas preleasing, leasing and any relevant activities off the coast of Florida to maintain military readiness. | Submitted |
495 | Version 1 | Doggett (TX) | Democrat | Ensures an assessment of the policy and operational necessity, risks, benefits and costs of establishing military-to-military discussions with Iran. | Made in Order |
496 | Version 2 | Graves, Garret (LA) | Republican | Revised Extends the expiration of the exemption from enhanced competition requirements for no-cost contracts for the purchase of property and services by executive agencies. | Made in Order |
497 | Version 1 | Graves, Garret (LA) | Republican | Authorizes the service secretaries to award the Vietnam Service medal to veterans who participated in Operation End Sweep. | Made in Order |
498 | Version 1 | Graves, Garret (LA) | Republican | Requires a report regarding management of military commissaries and exchanges to the congressional defense committees. | Made in Order |
499 | Version 3 | Graves, Garret (LA), Thompson, Mike (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Allows the National Guard to be reimbursed in a timely manner in response to an emergency declared under the Stafford Act. | Made in Order |
500 | Version 1 | Keating (MA) | Democrat | Withdrawn Establishes a comprehensive framework to reduce illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. | Withdrawn |
501 | Version 1 | González-Colón, Jenniffer (PR) | Republican | Requires the Secretary of Defense to review the effects on preparedness to provide support to States and territories in connection with natural disasters, threats, and emergencies prior to inactivating any Army watercraft unit. | Made in Order |
502 | Version 1 | González-Colón, Jenniffer (PR) | Republican | Modifies geographical areas for TRICARE Prime by allowing equal access to the program in Puerto Rico. | Submitted |
503 | Version 2 | Engel (NY) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State to report on the implications of Russian military or private military corporation involvement in the U.S. Africa Command Area of Responsibility, provide an analysis of the implications of such activity for U.S. interests, and develop a plan to counteract destabilizing Russian activity in Africa. | Made in Order |
504 | Version 2 | Engel (NY) | Democrat | Revised Improves current law related to policies and planning to ensure civilian protection, including procedures for incidents involving civilian casualties. | Made in Order |
505 | Version 2 | Engel (NY) | Democrat | Revised Requires Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to improve the efforts of the Nigerian military to prevent, mitigate, and respond to civilian harm in the operation of the Super Tucano aircraft and associated weapons acquired from the United States. | Made in Order |
506 | Version 2 | Engel (NY) | Democrat | Revised Expresses that the U.S. should seek to extend the New START Treaty (set to expire in 2021), unless Russia is in material breach of the Treaty, or the US and Russia have entered into a new agreement that has equal or greater constraints, transparency, and verification measures on Russia’s nuclear forces. Prohibits use of funds to withdraw from New START. Requires DNI, SecState, and SecDef reports detailing the consequences of the Treaty’s lapse and impact on US nuclear modernization plan. Also requires Presidential certification regarding future of the Treaty before its potential expiration. | Made in Order |
507 | Version 1 | Engel (NY) | Democrat | Ensures reporting to Congress when U.S. forces are involved in hostilities if the President has not determined that the involvement is authorized by Congress and has not reported it pursuant to the War Powers Resolution. | Made in Order |
508 | Version 2 | Engel (NY) | Democrat | Revised Requires the development of common standards for implementing human right vetting and integrating civilian protection into the assessment, monitoring, and evaluation of security cooperation. | Made in Order |
509 | Version 1 | Engel (NY) | Democrat | Improves congressional oversight of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) by requiring the President to submit reports and provide briefings on actions related to that authority. | Made in Order |
510 | Version 1 | Schiff (CA) | Democrat | Authorizes military judges in any proceeding of a military commission at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to order arrangements for remote public viewing of the proceedings via internet. | Made in Order |
511 | Version 1 | Schiff (CA) | Democrat | Authorizes Article III Judges to take certain actions via video teleconference for detainees at Guantanamo, including plea agreements for purposes of detainees serving the term of their sentence in an agreed upon other nation. | Submitted |
512 | Version 2 | Dean (PA), Pappas (NH), Kildee (MI) | Democrat | Revised Directs the Secretary of the Navy to publish a military specification for a fluorine-free fire fighting agent by 2023 to ensure it can be used by 2025. It prohibits usage on or after September 30th, 2025. It also limits the ability for the Secretary of Defense to use a waiver for a period that exceeds one year – current waiver period is up to 6 years. | Made in Order |
513 | Version 1 | Gallagher (WI), Hartzler (MO), Malinowski (NJ) | Bi-Partisan | Directs the President to submit to Congress a report on ZTE’s compliance with the settlement agreement it reached with the Department of Commerce on June 8, 2018. | Made in Order |
514 | Version 1 | Gallagher (WI), Malinowski (NJ) | Bi-Partisan | Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from removing Huawei from the Entity List maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security until the Secretary certifies that Huawei and its officers have not engaged in sanctions violations or IP theft in the preceding five years, and that Huawei does not pose an ongoing threat to US or allied telecommunications and infrastructure. | Made in Order |
515 | Version 2 | Gallagher (WI) | Republican | Revised Restores $75 million for National Security Innovation Capital to fund the commercialization and scaling of dual use, hardware-based critical to the military but currently underserved by the private venture capital and often funded by strategic and persistent capital from China. | Made in Order |
516 | Version 1 | Gallagher (WI), Gallego (AZ), Cook (CA), Hartzler (MO) | Bi-Partisan | Directs the President to impose a denial order on any telecommunications company domiciled in the People’s Republic of China found by the President to have violated U.S. sanctions or export controls. | Submitted |
517 | Version 1 | Fortenberry (NE), Foster (IL), Fleischmann (TN), Bacon (NE), Banks (IN), Olson (TX) | Bi-Partisan | Authorizes the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to dispose of certain transuranic sealed sources, including those that contain americium, that meet the WIPP Waste Acceptance Criteria at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico in support of its nuclear security and nonproliferation mission. | Submitted |
518 | Version 1 | Dean (PA), Kildee (MI), Upton (MI), Pappas (NH), Boyle (PA), Fitzpatrick (PA), Rouda (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Authorizes an additional $5 million for the nationwide CDC ATSDR PFAS health study. | Made in Order |
519 | Version 1 | Gosar (AZ), Roy (TX) | Republican | Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out a military construction project to construct a wall along the international border between the United States and Mexico, including on federally owned land. | Submitted |
520 | Version 1 | Spanberger (VA) | Democrat | Withdrawn Clarifies that the support provided by the Department of Defense to other agencies for counterdrug and counter transnational organized crime activities includes counter-threat finance. | Withdrawn |
521 | Version 3 | Spanberger (VA) | Democrat | Revised Requires the President's report under Sec. 1264 of the NDAA for FY18 include a list of foreign forces, groups, and individuals for which a determination has been made that force could legally be used under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, including the legal and factual basis, whether force has been used, and the criteria for designating an individual as lawfully targetable. | Made in Order |
522 | Version 2 | Spanberger (VA) | Democrat | Revised Authorizes an expansion of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) programs in FY2020 to establish 100 additional units. | Revised |
523 | Version 2 | Spanberger (VA), Rooney (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Requires the Secretary of Defense to develop a strategy for engagement with allies and partners on threats and vulnerabilities to 5G technology, and cooperation on mitigating those risks; and to consider potential economic and policy incentives to mitigate risk of foreign interference or disruption to 5G in the U.S. defense industrial base. | Revised |
524 | Version 1 | Spanberger (VA), Cox (CA), Eshoo (CA), Meadows (NC) | Bi-Partisan | Requires that the Secretary of Defense upgrade the capacity of military criminal investigative organizations in order to confront the misuse of DoD computer networks to access and trade child pornography. Also requires DoD to enter into collaborative agreements with appropriate government and child protection and other organizations. | Made in Order |
525 | Version 1 | Rouzer (NC) | Republican | Allows a terminally ill individual to change the beneficiary of their Survivor Benefit Plan instead of waiting for an Open Season. | Submitted |
526 | Version 2 | Correa (CA) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Secretary of Defense to provide the congressional defense committees a report on cyber-attacks and intrusions against the Department of Defense systems in the previous 12 months by agents or associates of the Governments of the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. | Made in Order |
527 | Version 2 | Correa (CA), Porter (CA) | Democrat | Revised Requires the “National Security Commission on Defense Research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other Minority Institutions,” to evaluate the effectiveness of the Department of Defense in attracting and retaining STEM students from covered institutions for the Department’s programs on emerging capabilities and technologies. | Made in Order |
528 | Version 1 | Correa (CA) | Democrat | Provides automatic citizenship for noncitizens servicemembers who have been honorably discharged from the Armed Forces and who have paid all Federal State taxes owed, with the option for individuals to decline naturalization. | Submitted |
529 | Version 1 | Correa (CA) | Democrat | Withdrawn Requires the Department of Defense to update its cyber strategy; to require the President to develop a strategy for the offensive use of cyber capabilities; and to allow for technical assistance to North Atlantic Treaty Organization members. | Withdrawn |
530 | Version 1 | Ryan (OH), Johnson, Bill (OH), Lamborn (CO), Palazzo (MS), Costa (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Maintains safety and increase mission readiness and interoperability of the weather reconnaissance, aerial spray, and firefighting system specialty mission capabilities of the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard, requires special mission units to maintain no less than 12 primary aircraft to meet mission requirements. | Submitted |
531 | Version 1 | Ryan (OH) | Democrat | Institutes a reporting requirement for certain information technology contracts that include limits on place of performance. | Submitted |
532 | Version 2 | Ryan (OH), Cole (OK) | Bi-Partisan | Revised Amends “Commercial products” to require that qualifying items are in fact sold to the general public. This closes a loophole that exempts items merely “offered for sale, lease, or license” from cost and pricing data disclosure. | Revised |
533 | Version 1 | Ryan (OH), Armstrong (ND), Palazzo (MS), Welch (VT) | Bi-Partisan | Provides parity with active-duty servicemembers by allowing Reservists to use their Montgomery GI Bill-Selected Reserve benefits to supplement Tuition Assistance. | Submitted |
534 | Version 1 | Soto (FL) | Democrat | Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct, and submit to Congress, an assessment to determine the required size and composition of its operational medical and dental personnel who support the wartime mission. | Made in Order |
535 | Version 1 | Soto (FL) | Democrat | Withdrawn Requires the Defense Science Board to conduct a study and report on the feasibility and advisability of creating a defense microelectronics agency. | Withdrawn |
536 | Version 1 | Lowenthal (CA), Woodall (GA) | Bi-Partisan | Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Department of Defense may continue to consider and select heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems that utilize variable refrigerant flow as an option for use in Department of Defense facilities. | Made in Order |
537 | Version 1 | Dingell (MI), Kildee (MI) | Democrat | Requires the EPA to list PFAS chemicals has hazardous substances under CERCLA within one year. | See RCP 116-23 |
538 | Version 1 | Dingell (MI), Upton (MI), Fitzpatrick (PA) | Bi-Partisan | Requires the Department of Defense to enter into cooperative agreements with states to mitigate PFAS contamination resulting from their facilities. | Made in Order |
539 | Version 1 | Lujan (NM), Haaland (NM) | Democrat | Amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include a Congressional apology to the states of New Mexico, Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nevada, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. | Made in Order |
540 | Version 2 | Gosar (AZ), Amodei (NV), Hice (GA), Stauber (MN), Tipton (CO), Hartzler (MO), Bishop, Rob (UT) | Republican | Revised Ensures that the United States will eliminate dependency on rare earth materials from China by fiscal year 2035. | Made in Order |
541 | Version 1 | Gosar (AZ), Gohmert (TX) | Republican | Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to assert that any prosecutor in a judicial proceeding held within the Uniform Code of Military Justice that willfully and corruptly withholds exculpatory evidence from the accused, is guilty of prosecutorial misconduct and shall be punished as court-martial may direct. | Submitted |
542 | Version 1 | Gosar (AZ), Titus (NV), Lee, Susie (NV) | Bi-Partisan | Expands eligibility for restitution that is provided to certain individuals who were exposed to atmospheric nuclear testing and developed specified cancers. | Submitted |
543 | Version 1 | Pocan (WI) | Democrat | Withdrawn Duplicate amendment (Committee error). See Amendment #41 (revision). | Withdrawn |
544 | Version 1 | Smith, Adam (WA) | Democrat | Authorizes the Department of Energy to impose civil penalties on contractors who retaliate against nuclear safety whistleblowers. | Made in Order |
545 | Version 2 | Smith, Adam (WA) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits the use of funds by the Department of Energy for applying its interpretation of high-level radioactive waste with respect to waste located in the State of Washington. | Made in Order |
546 | Version 1 | Smith, Adam (WA), Gabbard (HI), Schiff (CA), Speier (CA), Cisneros (CA), Crow (CO), Engel (NY), Panetta (CA), Khanna (CA) | Democrat | Increases oversight and transparency of civilian casualties. | Made in Order |
547 | Version 1 | Thompson, Mike (CA), Ferguson (GA), Thompson, Bennie (MS) | Bi-Partisan | Includes the text of H.R. 2371, the Health Equity and Access for Returning Troops and Servicemembers (HEARTS) Act. The amendment permits wounded veterans who return to work to maintain TRICARE for Life coverage without being forced to enroll in Medicare Part B. The amendment also includes language providing for Medicare coverage of DNA specimen provenance assay tests, related to prostate cancer screenings. | Submitted |
548 | Version 1 | Gaetz (FL) | Republican | Requires a report to Congress on contracts being forcibly terminated based on foreign governments' actions that impeded the ability of the contractor to perform their contract. | Made in Order |
549 | Version 1 | Yarmuth (KY), Wilson, Joe (SC) | Bi-Partisan | Repeals the Survivor Benefit Plan/Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Offset (also known as the Widow's Tax). | Submitted |
550 | Version 2 | Lujan (NM), Haaland (NM) | Democrat | Revised Amends Section 6(b) of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (Public Law 101–426; 42U.S.C. 2210 note) to require the Attorney General to accept written affidavits meeting specified requirements regarding employment history, physical presence in an affected area, or participation at a nuclear testing site in determining the eligibility of claimants; allowing affected individuals to apply for compensation if they worked for companies who are no longer in business or who’s employment records are not available. Additionally, it expands the proof of residency requirements to be consistent with Native American law, custom, and tradition. Authorizes $500,000 from Defense-Wide O&M for these purposes. | Revised |
551 | Version 1 | Suozzi (NY) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of the Navy to conduct a third-party quality review of all radium testing conducted by contractors at locations where the Navy is undertaking projects and activities relating to environmental cleanup. | Made in Order |
552 | Version 1 | Phillips (MN) | Democrat | Instructs the Defense Intelligence Agency to provide a report to the Committee on Armed Services and other committees, describing the detailed military capabilities of China and Russia. The report must include a survey of any national training centers and an evaluation of the respective nation’s military and logistical readiness relative to those of the United States. The Defense Intelligence Agency may make use of or add to any existing reports completed by the Agency in order to respond to the reporting requirement. | Made in Order |
553 | Version 2 | Phillips (MN) | Democrat | Revised Instructs SECDEF to author a report that prioritizes the list of agencies and/or programs in need of funds under Section 385 to Title 10 of U.S. Code, as well as a justification as to why the money is necessary/beneficial. | Made in Order |
554 | Version 1 | Phillips (MN) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of the Army to submit a report to congress, listing any areas, such as Nike missile sites, that were once used by the military and that have since been reassigned to local governments, as well as the nature of any pollutants that remain on these lands as a result of the military’s activities. | Made in Order |
555 | Version 2 | Phillips (MN) | Democrat | Revised Requires that each contractor with the Department of Defense certify, under penalty of perjury, that any covered DOD official receiving compensation from such contractor as an employee, officer, director, or consultant is in compliance with all post-employment ethics restrictions. This amendment also requires the Secretary of Defense to revise the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to implement this section as well as to make the certification publicly available online. | Revised |
556 | Version 3 | Phillips (MN), Speier (CA) | Democrat | Revised Prohibits senior officials in Executive, Treasury, Defense, and State offices from gaining employment by foreign nations without explicit permission from the Department of State for a period of four years after terminating government employment. Requires the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress that details each approval. | Revised |
557 | Version 1 | LaMalfa (CA), Carbajal (CA), Gallego (AZ), Haaland (NM), Napolitano (CA), Cárdenas (CA), Cook (CA), Davis, Rodney (IL), Young (AK), Brownley (CA), McClintock (CA), Torres, Norma (CA), Gomez (CA), Moore (WI), Porter (CA), Calvert (CA), Correa (CA), Ruiz (CA), Cox (CA), Levin, Mike (CA), Davids (KS) | Bi-Partisan | Reaffirms the action of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for the benefit of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians. | Made in Order |
558 | Version 2 | Levin, Mike (CA) | Democrat | Revised Directs the Secretary of Defense to report on the Department's Combating Trafficking Persons Initiative. | Made in Order |
559 | Version 1 | Cunningham (SC), Cox (CA) | Democrat | Requires the Secretary of the Navy to issue a report on plans to support and maintain aircraft assigned to Marine Corps air stations that will be transitioning from F-18s to F-35s. | Made in Order |
560 | Version 1 | Engel (NY), Sherman (CA), Chabot (OH), Deutch (FL), Wagner (MO), Cicilline (RI), Spanberger (VA), Meadows (NC), Castro (TX), Omar (MN) | Bi-Partisan | Limits military to military cooperation between the US military and the Burma Army, applies sanctions to perpetrators of human rights abuses including against the Rohingya, encourages reform in the military-dominated Burmese gemstone sector, and calls for a determination of crimes perpetrated against the Rohingya, and authorizes support for preservation of evidence and transitional justice efforts. | Made in Order |
561 | Version 1 | Engel (NY) | Democrat | Improves oversight of policy issues related to U.S. support for foreign forces that support special operations to combat terrorism. | Submitted |
562 | Version 1 | Delgado (NY) | Democrat | Requires the next appropriate naval vessel to be named in honor of Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent, a mother, wife, and Navy cryptologist who was killed in a suicide bombing in Manbij, Syria, while supporting Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve. | Submitted |
563 | Version 3 | King, Steve (IA) | Republican | Revised Requires an additional requirement in “Matters to be Included” under Section 1246 to require an assessment of China’s expansion of its surveillance state; any correlation of such expansion with its oppression of its citizens and its threat to United States national security interests around the world; and an overview of the extent to which such surveillance corresponds to the overall respect for, or lack thereof, human rights within its own borders. | Made in Order |
564 | Version 1 | King, Steve (IA) | Republican | Prohibits funds from being used to implement, administer, enforce, or otherwise carry out Executive Order No. 13672 of July 21, 2014 (“Further Amendments to Executive order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity”). | Submitted |
565 | Version 1 | Schiff (CA) | Democrat | Sunsets the 2002 AUMF immediately; Sunsets the 2001 AUMF on the 20th anniversary of its passage, Clarifies that 2001 AUMF does not apply to Iran; and creates a procedure to provide for expedited consideration of a replacement AUMF, if required. | Submitted |
566 | Version 1 | Lipinski (IL) | Democrat | Adds an alternative qualifications for NATO allies to enter the Visa Waiver Program. Countries must meet support obligations under the Wales Summit Declaration, maintain a low visa overstay rate, and not be subject of a travel advisory by the Department of State. | Submitted |
567 | Version 1 | King, Steve (IA) | Republican | Strikes language that would prohibit funds from being used to build a wall. | Submitted |
568 | Version 1 | King, Steve (IA) | Republican | Strikes language that would prohibit funds from being used to build a wall. | Submitted |
569 | Version 1 | King, Steve (IA) | Republican | Stipulates an additional requirement to the exception under Section 1255 to require Turkey to provide credible assurances that it has ceased persecuting Christians. | Submitted |
570 | Version 1 | Velázquez (NY) | Democrat | Requires a report as to the number of contracts awarded to program participants under the Small Business Program prescribed in 15 USC 637(a). | Made in Order |
571 | Version 2 | Velázquez (NY) | Democrat | Revised Provides permanent authorization to the Department of Defense Mentor Protegé Program and requires annual submission of reports regarding the Program. | Made in Order |
572 | Version 1 | Cooper (TN) | Democrat | Directs DOD, CIA, and the State Department to each generate a report detailing progress towards reducing the backlog in legally required historical declassification obligations, offer solutions, and consider new approaches (both technology and policy) to return to productivity. | Made in Order |
573 | Version 1 | Sablan (MP) | Democrat | Allows community college students holding or expecting to receive an associate degree to apply for the new Technology and National Security Fellowship program authorized in Section 239 of the bill. Currently the bill limits eligibility to individuals holding or expecting to receive an undergraduate or graduate degree. | Made in Order |
574 | Version 1 | King, Steve (IA), Norman (SC), Roy (TX) | Republican | Ensures that no funds are used by the DOD to force servicemen and women to undergo transgender sensitivity courses or screen service members regarding gender reassignment surgery. | Submitted |
575 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Withdrawn Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct outreach to speech therapists for the purpose of informing such individuals of the opportunity to enroll in the TRICARE program (as that term is defined in section 1072 of title 10, United States Code) to provide speech therapy services to persons with health insurance under such program. | Withdrawn |
576 | Version 1 | Smith, Adam (WA) | Democrat | Withdrawn Requires a SecDef certification that the acquisition strategy for the Ground-based Strategic Deterrent program provides best value to the US government and ensures competition, and fences funding until 60 days after such certification is submitted to Congress. | Withdrawn |
577 | Version 2 | Yoho (FL) | Republican | Revised Ensures that during a government shutdown, all members of the Armed Forces are paid. | Revised |
578 | Version 2 | Houlahan (PA) | Democrat | Revised Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress assessing the potential military, intelligence, and logistical threats facing U.S. military infrastructure due to Chinese military assets in Djbouti. | Made in Order |
579 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Requires that graduates of a military academy who are reviewed for a command shall receive notice when the assignment is denied and information relating to their rights to appeal the denial. In addition, the officer shall receive a direct response regarding why he or she was denied the position and what positions he or she may pursue. | Submitted |
580 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a Battle Buddy program, which pairs military personnel who have deployed to combat zones or who are returning from deployment from a combat zone with other military personnel to provide support and engagement with the goal of reducing military suicides. | Submitted |
581 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Directs the Secretary of Defense to promulgate regulations to ensure that candidates granted admission to attend a military academy undergo screening for speech disorders and be provided the results of the screening test and a list of warfare unrestricted line (URL) Officer positions and occupation specialists that require successful performance on the speech test. Academy students shall have the option of undergoing speech therapy to reduce speech disorders or impediments. | Made in Order |
582 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Expresses Sense of the Congress that it is incumbent upon the Armed Forces to make good on the investment in cadets and midshipmen by affirmatively presuming that a graduate of the military service academy who meets all requirements to serve and has no disciplinary mark on their record should be able to serve. | Submitted |
583 | Version 1 | Welch (VT) | Democrat | Requires the Department of Defense to semi-annually report on monitoring and evaluation measures of direct government-to-government assistance provided to the government of Afghanistan. | Made in Order |
584 | Version 1 | Welch (VT) | Democrat | Requires the Department of Defense to annually report on direct government-to-government assistance provided to the government of Afghanistan. | Made in Order |
585 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Ensures that candidates granted admission to attend a military academy undergo screening for speech disorders and be provided the results of the screening test and a list of warfare unrestricted line (URL) Officer positions and occupation specialists that require successful performance on the speech test. | Submitted |
586 | Version 1 | Davidson (OH) | Republican | Late Eliminates the Selective Service and requires that a draft may only be established for conflicts authorized by Congress and for which the DOD has certified to Congress that involuntary inductions are necessary for such conflicts. | Submitted |
587 | Version 1 | Davidson (OH) | Republican | Late Cuts funding authorized for U.S. operations in Afghanistan in half. | Submitted |
588 | Version 1 | Thompson, Bennie (MS), Thompson, Mike (CA), Brown (MD), Ferguson (GA) | Bi-Partisan | Late Extends TRICARE eligibility to disabled veterans under 65 without the current requirement to enroll in Medicare Part B or pay a financial penalty. Furthermore, it authorizes Medicare to pay for DSPA test which will substantially reduce prostate cancer misdiagnoses. | Submitted |
589 | Version 1 | González-Colón, Jenniffer (PR) | Republican | Late Restores budget request for Puerto Rico Air National Guard projects at Luis Munoz-Marin International Airport, Puerto Rico, authorized in the table in 12 section 2604 and specifies the funding offset. Authorizes $37,500,000 for a maintenance hangar, $12,500,000 for a communications facility. | Submitted |
590 | Version 1 | McNerney (CA) | Democrat | Late States that a pay raise for military personnel shall take effect on January 1, 2020, even if the president attempts to change it. | Made in Order |
591 | Version 1 | McNerney (CA) | Democrat | Late Requires the Department of Defense to submit a plan to reduce facility water consumption intensity by 2 percent annually through the end of fiscal year 2025. | Made in Order |
592 | Version 1 | Scott, Austin (GA) | Republican | Late Requires all military chaplains receive their religious endorsement badge or insignia upon their commissioning. | Made in Order |
593 | Version 1 | Mitchell (MI) | Republican | Late Applies the FY18 NDAA’s increase of the micro-purchase threshold to acquisitions conducted through the issuance of task and delivery orders under multiple award contracts. | Made in Order |
594 | Version 3 | Perlmutter (CO) | Democrat | Late Revised Makes technical changes to the Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health within the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act and extends the authorization for the Office of the Ombudsman. | Made in Order |
595 | Version 1 | Speier (CA) | Democrat | Allows the Secretary of Defense to refer military members for mental health services within the TRICARE network if services cannot be provided at a military medical facility within 15 days. | Made in Order |
596 | Version 1 | Lesko (AZ), Gallego (AZ) | Bi-Partisan | Late Expresses a sense of the House of Representatives that it's critical for the Air Force to have the capability to train against advanced air adversary and that the Air Force's use of F-35As as aggressor aircraft reflects a recognition of the need to field a modernized aggressor fleet. Requires a report from the Air Force on strategy for modernizing the organic aggressor fleet. | Made in Order |
597 | Version 1 | Stefanik (NY), Crow (CO) | Bi-Partisan | Late Provides a technical correction to the Catch a Serial Offender Program and preserves the nature of a restricted report of military sexual assault. | Made in Order |
598 | Version 1 | Stefanik (NY), Crow (CO) | Bi-Partisan | Late Requires the Secretary of Defense to provide a report on the feasibility and advisability of expanding the Safe to Report program across all Services and components. Safe to Report is a current Air Force policy under which a sexual assault victim may report an assault without fear of reprisal for minor collateral misconduct. | Submitted |
599 | Version 2 | Allred (TX) | Democrat | Late Revised Directs the Secretary of Defense to increase Basic Operational Medical Research Science by $5 million for the purpose of partnering with universities to study brain injuries. | Made in Order |
600 | Version 2 | Allred (TX) | Democrat | Late Revised Directs the Secretary of Defense to increase University Research Initiatives by $5 million for the purpose of studying ways to increase the longevity and resilience of infrastructure on military bases. | Made in Order |
601 | Version 1 | Olson (TX), Crenshaw (TX), Yoho (FL), Brady (TX), Roe (TN), Weber (TX), Fletcher (TX) | Bi-Partisan | Late Adds “disaster-related emergency preparedness" to the current list of purposes that law enforcement agencies may acquire excess High-Water capable vehicles for use during and after natural disasters. | Submitted |
602 | Version 1 | Olson (TX) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Allows NNSA the authority to collect all Type C nuclear waste and dispose of it properly. | Withdrawn |
603 | Version 2 | Lamborn (CO) | Republican | Late Revised Provides $88,500,000 to build an updated High Value Detainee (HVD) Complex on Guantanamo Bay; a Communications Facility and Detention Legal Office and Communications Center in the PB were funded but not the HVD Complex. | Revised |
604 | Version 1 | Crist (FL) | Democrat | Late Establishes the Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) Pilot Program at Pinellas Park High School in Pinellas County, Florida. | Submitted |
605 | Version 2 | Gallego (AZ) | Democrat | Late Revised Changes eligibility of telecommunications goods and services to be provided to DoD installations in U.S. Territories in the Pacific Ocean to restrict ownership by or significant components from U.S. adversaries. | Made in Order |
606 | Version 2 | Cisneros (CA), Torres, Norma (CA) | Democrat | Late Revised Increases Navy university basic research by $5,000,000 in order to support innovative scientific research to help the U.S. military maintain technical superiority. | Made in Order |
607 | Version 2 | Horsford (NV), Torres, Norma (CA) | Democrat | Late Revised Increases funding for Air Force University Research Initiatives by $5,000,000. | Made in Order |
608 | Version 1 | Panetta (CA) | Democrat | Late Expresses sense of Congress that the Army should continue to invest in research, development, test, and evaluation programs to mature future vertical lift technologies. | Made in Order |
609 | Version 1 | Young (AK) | Republican | Late Withdrawn Requires a report on the projected plan and timeline for strategic basing of the KC–46A aircraft outside the continental United States and limits funds for the Management Headquarters Program until the Secretary of the Air Force submits the report. | Withdrawn |
610 | Version 1 | Bishop, Rob (UT), Stewart (UT), Cole (OK) | Republican | Late Removes the requirement for retiring or separating military members from having to submit a waiver to begin work within 180 days of their retirement/separation date. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 was signed into law on 23 December 2016 and Section 1111 modified the 5 United States Code (U.S.C.) 3326 to eliminate the Department of Defense (DoD) flexibility of paragraph (b)(3). | Submitted |
611 | Version 1 | Delgado (NY), Torres, Norma (CA) | Democrat | Late Increases funding for the University and Industry Research Centers by $5 million. | Made in Order |
612 | Version 2 | Heck (WA), Smith, Adam (WA), McMorris Rodgers (WA) | Bi-Partisan | Late Revised Improves emergency response, this amendment requires the DoD Fire and Emergency Services Working Group to implement a plan to address any deficiencies with interoperability caused by incompatibility between the DoD communications system and that of and civilian agencies. | Made in Order |
613 | Version 1 | Yoho (FL) | Republican | Late Reports on the cost of the US drone shot down by the Iranians on June 20, 2019 and begins the process of using frozen Iranian funds to pay for the downed drone. | Submitted |
614 | Version 2 | Meadows (NC), Young (AK), Chabot (OH), Yoho (FL), Cohen (TN), Price (NC), Titus (NV) | Bi-Partisan | Late Revised Expresses the sense of Congress that the ability of Mongolia, a consistent troop contributor to United States combat operations and partner of NATO, to protect its sovereignty, democracy, and ability to pursue an independent foreign policy is relevant to the national security interests of the United States. | Made in Order |
615 | Version 1 | Norman (SC) | Republican | Late Revises the effective date of a DoD pilot program on bid protests to ensure DoD has audited business systems in place prior to initiating the pilot program. | Made in Order |
616 | Version 1 | Norman (SC) | Republican | Late Requires the Secretary of Defense to include in the budget materials submitted to Congress a justification of funding within the operation and maintenance accounts required to sustain major weapon systems. | Submitted |
617 | Version 1 | Babin (TX) | Republican | Late Establishes a pilot program to create regional secure computing enclaves for storing sensitive federally funded research data. | Submitted |
618 | Version 2 | Garamendi (CA) | Democrat | Late Revised Requires DOD to reimburse the Coast Guard for all expenses related to the Coast Guard’s coordination, training, and execution of defense readiness mission activities acting in its capacity as an armed force in support of Department of Defense national security operations and activities. | Revised |
619 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Late Provides a report to Congress within 180 days of enactment that reports on the demographic composition including race, gender, national origin, and family social economic status that documents the disposition of military officers who have graduated from one of the military service academies. | Submitted |
620 | Version 1 | Jackson Lee (TX) | Democrat | Late Adds to the objectives of the Artificial Intelligence Education Strategy to include instruction on the "opportunities and risks" posed by advancements in AI. | Made in Order |
621 | Version 3 | Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Late Revised Requires the Secretary to submit a quarterly report regarding ex gratia payments or lack of ex gratia payments. | Made in Order |
622 | Version 3 | Quigley (IL), Kelly, Trent (MS) | Bi-Partisan | Late Revised Establishes a pilot program on partnerships with civilian organizations for specialized medical skills training program and advanced orthopedic skills training. | Made in Order |
623 | Version 1 | Dingell (MI) | Democrat | Late Allows DOD to send the DD-2648 form for retiring, discharged or released veterans to state veterans affairs agencies, subject to veteran opt-in, which would allow state VA agencies to better connect veterans to benefits and services that they offer. | Submitted |
624 | Version 2 | Roby (AL), Davis, Susan (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Late Revised Provides clarity that the authority in section 1521 can be used for the specific purposes enumerated in (H) and (I) in order to give more flexibility for CSTC-A to pursue some of the programs they believe will be helpful. | Made in Order |
625 | Version 2 | Foxx (NC) | Republican | Late Revised Expresses the Sense of Congress that 1) NATO is central to U.S.-European defense matters and 2) military cooperation in Europe by NATO member countries should complement NATO efforts and should not hinder military system interoperability and burden sharing among NATO allies. | Made in Order |
626 | Version 1 | Horn (OK), Cole (OK) | Bi-Partisan | Late Direct the Department of Defense IG to conduct an audit of each of the military services and DoD agencies as applicable to determine if there has been any excess profit or excessive cost escalation in sole source, commercial depot maintenance contracts, including parts, supplies, equipment and maintenance services. | Made in Order |
627 | Version 2 | Riggleman (VA) | Republican | Late Revised Provides technical correction to ensure availability of information necessary for industrial supply chain security. | Revised |
628 | Version 2 | Meeks (NY), Beatty (OH) | Democrat | Late Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from naming a DOD asset after a person who served or held a leadership position in the Confederacy, a city or battlefield made significant by a confederate victory. | Made in Order |
629 | Version 1 | González-Colón, Jenniffer (PR) | Republican | Late Directs GAO to complete a study and submit a report to the congressional defense committees on the status of the Federal cleanup and decontamination process in the former military training sites located on the island-municipalities of Vieques and Culebra, Puerto Rico. The study shall include an analysis of the pace of ongoing environmental restoration efforts and potential challenges and alternatives to accelerate the completion of such process. | Made in Order |
630 | Version 2 | González-Colón, Jenniffer (PR) | Republican | Late Revised Expresses the sense of Congress that combating transnational criminal organizations and illicit narcotics trafficking across the transit zone and the Caribbean basin is critical to the national security of the United States and that the Department of Defense (DoD) should work with the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, and other relevant Federal, State, local, and international partners to improve surveillance capabilities and maximize the effectiveness of counterdrug operations in the region. | Made in Order |
631 | Version 1 | Murphy (FL), Kilmer (WA) | Democrat | Late Makes a technical correction to Section 1108 of the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 115-232) to enable federal agencies to use expedited hiring authority for post-secondary students in the manner intended by Section 1108. | Made in Order |
632 | Version 1 | Speier (CA) | Democrat | Late Clarifies policies affecting career paths for military service academy graduates. | Made in Order |
633 | Version 1 | Chabot (OH) | Republican | Late Corrects a disparity in the treatment of surviving spouses of service-disabled veteran small business owners (SDVOSBs) in the Small Business Act with the Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 2006 (the VA Act). Rectifies a procedural oversight in which the National Defense Authorization Act of 2017 accidentally abolished Sec. 501 of H.R. 6416 (Pub. L. No. 114-315), concerning the treatment of surviving spouses of SDVOSBs in the VA Act. Amends the Small Business Act to align with Pub. L. No. 114-315 in that the surviving spouses of veterans who died with a 100 percent disability rating can maintain their SDVOSB status for up to ten years, and clarifies that the surviving spouse of veterans who died with less than a 100 percent disability rating can maintain their SDVOSB status until one of the following instances occurs: three years after the veterans death, when the spouse remarries, or when the surviving spouse relinquishes ownership of the small business. | Submitted |
634 | Version 1 | Brown (MD) | Democrat | Late Gives the President the authority to issue an honorary commissioning, promoting to brigadier general in the Air Force, COL Charles E. McGee, a distinguished Tuskegee Airman. | Made in Order |
635 | Version 1 | Kildee (MI), Kim (NJ) | Democrat | Late Clarifies that civilian volunteers and medical providers who assist the DoD with humanitarian and disaster relief missions may travel on DoD assets if space is available. | Submitted |
636 | Version 2 | Craig (MN) | Democrat | Late Revised Adds $30 Million to the Army Community Services account to provide family assistance, victim advocacy, financial counseling, employment readiness, and other similar support services at installations where 500 or more military members are assigned. | Made in Order |
637 | Version 1 | Stefanik (NY) | Republican | Late Makes a technical change to a provision in last year’s NDAA that requires a consolidated budget display for small business research grants; the clarification adds Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). | Made in Order |
638 | Version 1 | Chu (CA), Pallone (NJ), Schiff (CA) | Democrat | Late Supports the measures to continue the cease fire in Nagorno Karabakh, including the non-deployment of snipers, heavy arms, and new weaponry. It also encourages the deployment of gun-fire locator systems and an increase in OSCE observers along the line-of-contact. | Made in Order |
639 | Version 1 | Speier (CA) | Democrat | Late Renames the Lejeune High School at Camp Lejeune for recently deceased Congressman and member of the House Armed Services Committee, Walter B. Jones. | Made in Order |
640 | Version 1 | Lujan (NM) | Democrat | Late Withdrawn Instructs the Secretary of Defense to facilitate a multiyear entrepreneurial fellowship program which places fellows in National Laboratories with access to research facilities and lab expertise. | Withdrawn |
641 | Version 2 | Brown (MD) | Democrat | Late Revised Prohibits the transfer of aliens arriving at the Southern Border to Guantanamo Bay. | Revised |
642 | Version 1 | Carbajal (CA) | Democrat | Late Following a notification from the Inspector General, the amendment directs DoD to establish a 1.5% goal for AbilityOne contracts each fiscal year. | Submitted |
643 | Version 1 | Kilmer (WA) | Democrat | Late Directs the Secretary of the Defense to conduct a study on the status of the transition from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to the National Reconnaissance Office of the leadership role in acquiring commercial satellite remote sensing data on behalf of the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. | Made in Order |
644 | Version 1 | Huffman (CA) | Democrat | Late Takes land into trust as part of the reservation of the Lytton Rancheria. | Made in Order |
645 | Version 1 | Kildee (MI) | Democrat | Late Increases the number of PFAS chemicals tested in the EPA's UCMR 5 Rule. All PFAS tested for would not count against the 30 contaminant limit. | Submitted |
646 | Version 2 | Lujan (NM) | Democrat | Late Revised Directs Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and the Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Office to write a report on the feasibility and benefits of a multiyear entrepreneurial fellowship program. The report will include information on the program’s costs, benefits, and plan for implementation. | Made in Order |
647 | Version 1 | Reschenthaler (PA) | Republican | Late Creates a new category of leave for use with rest and recuperation breaks from combat zones and high risk/high threat locations, in an amount that is equal to the current Department of Defense authority for use of administrative leave during rest and recuperation breaks. As well as a new category of leave for up to 10 days of paid leave for local holidays observed in foreign areas. | Submitted |
648 | Version 2 | McCarthy (CA) | Republican | Late Revised Requires the federal government to identify minerals that are critical to the United States and ensures a domestic supply of those minerals through geological surveying, permitting reforms, R&D into alternatives and substitutes, and workforce development. | Revised |
649 | Version 1 | Porter (CA) | Democrat | Late Requires DOD to ensure that non-operational fleet vehicles are replaced with zero emissions vehicles, such as electric charging or hydrogen fueling cars. Allows for waivers for function and location. | Submitted |
650 | Version 1 | Porter (CA) | Democrat | Late Requires a study on the feasibility and effectiveness of routine neuroimaging modalities in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of brain injury among servicemembers due to blast pressure exposure during combat and training. | Made in Order |
651 | Version 1 | Torres Small, Xochitl (NM), Thompson, Bennie (MS) | Democrat | Late Authorizes additional investigators for the Office of Professional Responsibility within U.S. Customs and Border Protection and directs that not later than Sept. 30 2020, there be no less than 450 full time investigators. | Submitted |
652 | Version 2 | Thompson, Bennie (MS), Rice, Kathleen (NY), Clarke, Yvette (NY) | Democrat | Late Revised Prohibits DoD funding to house any foreign nationals who are in the custody of and detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. | Made in Order |
653 | Version 2 | Raskin (MD) | Democrat | Late Revised Prohibits military parades and exhibitions for political purposes. | Made in Order |
654 | Version 1 | Porter (CA) | Democrat | Late Requires a GAO report on defense business processes including analyzing the DOD’s development of a culture that recognizes the important of business processes and reengineering initiatives necessary to achieve improved financial management. | Made in Order |
655 | Version 1 | Porter (CA) | Democrat | Late Restores limitations and requirements in connection with separations of members of the Armed Forces who suffer from mental health conditions in connection with a sex-related, intimate partner violence-related, or spousal-abuse offense. | Submitted |
656 | Version 1 | Clark, Katherine (MA) | Democrat | Late Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from using the fact that a veteran’s income derives from a State legalized marijuana industry as a factor in determining whether to issue a VA home loan. | Made in Order |
657 | Version 1 | Clark, Katherine (MA) | Democrat | Late Amends the current statutory prohibition on members of Congress contracting with the federal government to include the President, Vice President, and any Cabinet member. | Made in Order |
658 | Version 1 | Torres, Norma (CA), Fitzpatrick (PA) | Bi-Partisan | Late Directs the Office of Management and Budget to categorize public safety telecommunicators as a protective service occupation under the Standard Occupational Classification System. | Made in Order |
659 | Version 1 | Panetta (CA) | Democrat | Late Requires the Secretary of Defense to ensure members of the Armed Forces under his jurisdiction receives notice of the MilTax program and other DOD tax preparation assistance programs, and provide a report to Congress on participation rates in these programs. | Submitted |
660 | Version 1 | Takano (CA) | Democrat | Late Any member of the Armed Forces and their respective spouse, widow, widower, parent, son or daughter is eligible for parole in place under the Immigration and Nationality Act. | Made in Order |
661 | Version 1 | Fitzpatrick (PA), Boyle (PA), Upton (MI), McKinley (WV), Rouda (CA), Blunt Rochester (DE) | Bi-Partisan | Late Sets a national primary drinking water regulation for PFAS based at a minimum on PFOA and PFOS under the Safe Drinking Water Act, provides financial assistance to rural systems to reduce PFAS in drinking water, and ensures EPA continues to monitor for and decide whether to regulate additional PFAS chemicals, among other provisions. | Submitted |
662 | Version 1 | Collins, Doug (GA) | Republican | Late Ensures convicted terrorists, and others who have levied war against the United States, are not eligible to receive Good Conduct Time credit while incarcerated. | Submitted |
663 | Version 1 | Cartwright (PA) | Democrat | Late Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit an annual report describing testing for lead paint hazards in military housing and the Department of Defense progress in eliminating such hazards. | Submitted |
664 | Version 1 | Cartwright (PA) | Democrat | Late Requires that all entities that enter into a contract with the Secretary of Defense to provide privatized military family housing publicly disclose all rental income derived from the renting of these housing units and the expenditures made on maintenance and repair of the housing units. | Submitted |
665 | Version 1 | Pappas (NH) | Democrat | Late Requires the EPA to revise the list of toxic pollutants under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to include per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and publish effluent and pretreatment standards. | Made in Order |
666 | Version 1 | Boyle (PA) | Democrat | Late Requires the EPA publish a maximum contaminant level goal and promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for total PFAS. | Submitted |
667 | Version 2 | Larsen, Rick (WA) | Democrat | Late Revised Expresses the Sense of Congress that the U.S. should do more to encourage foreign students to study emerging technologies, participate in research projects and continue contributing to the U.S. economy. | Revised |
668 | Version 3 | McCarthy (CA), Cook (CA) | Republican | Late Revised Authorizes funding to assist military installations recovering from earthquakes and other natural disasters in 2019 and requires an earthquake damaged infrastructure restoration master plan be submitted to Congress. | Made in Order |
669 | Version 1 | Delgado (NY) | Democrat | Late Requires that per-and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAS) be listed on the Toxic Release Inventory at the Environmental Protection Agency, to give the public a better understanding of where PFAS chemicals are being released into the environment. | Submitted |
670 | Version 2 | Wilson, Joe (SC) | Republican | Late Revised Amends the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to ensure that the CFPB and the other bank regulators have clear authority and a mandate to examine for MLA compliance. | Revised |
671 | Version 2 | Langevin (RI) | Democrat | Late Revised Clarifies Section 830 of P.L. 114-328 to apply the requirement of firm, fixed price type vehicles exclusively to production contracts for foreign military sales cases, as opposed to all foreign military sales contracts. | Revised |
672 | Version 1 | Gallego (AZ), Cook (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Late Requires DOD to provide Congress a report on how each service branch is improving efforts to provide transitioning servicemembers with information on employment and educational opportunities. | Submitted |
673 | Version 2 | Blumenauer (OR) | Democrat | Late Revised Requires a study on the number of nuclear warheads in the U.S. nuclear stockpile and the number of nuclear warheads that have been dismantled to be completed each fiscal year through fiscal year 2025. | Revised |
674 | Version 1 | Crist (FL) | Democrat | Late Requires installation commanders to notify the Secretary when sea level rise and future flood risk impact access to a military installation. The Secretary may consult with relevant federal agencies, including NOAA, to mitigate flood risk. | Submitted |
675 | Version 1 | Palazzo (MS) | Republican | Late Prohibits the naming of Naval vessels after any member of Congress, unless that member of Congress served in the Armed Forces or Served as President of the United States. Has no effect on ships previously named. | Submitted |
676 | Version 1 | Roy (TX) | Republican | Late To posthumously promote lieutenant colonel Richard E. Cole, United States Air Force (Retired), to a colonel on the retired list. | Submitted |
677 | Version 1 | Roy (TX) | Republican | Late Provides a definition for what is and is not a Military Humanitarian Operation and designate requirement for congressional authorization for a military humanitarian operation. | Submitted |
678 | Version 1 | Roy (TX) | Republican | Late Creates a report on the contributions of partner countries of the global coalition to defeat ISIS relating to the repatriation and prosecution of ISIS detainees no later that 180 days after the enactment of the act. | Submitted |
679 | Version 1 | Roy (TX) | Republican | Late Allows the head of an agency to temporarily waive the requirements of subsection including the requirement to satisfy section 12103 if the person requesting the waiver can reasonably demonstrate certain things to the head of an agency. | Submitted |
680 | Version 3 | Smith, Adam (WA) | Democrat | Late Revised Increases basic pay for members of the uniformed services by 3.1%. Provides 12 weeks of paid family leave to federal employees for qualified purposes listed under the Family Medical Leave Act. Repeals the existing law requiring military surviving spouses to forfeit all or part of their military Survivor Benefit Plan annuity when military service causes the members death (also known as the SBP/DIC offset). Allows active duty servicemembers to seek compensation for injury and death caused by medical malpractice. Provides for additional Afghan Special Immigrant Visas. | Considered as Adopted |
681 | Version 1 | Sherrill (NJ) | Democrat | Late Increases the authorized funding in the Defense Health Program for TRICARE lead level screening and testing for children by $5 million. | Made in Order |
682 | Version 1 | Luria (VA) | Democrat | Late Requires that federal agencies make their electronic and information technology available and accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities. | Submitted |
683 | Version 1 | Yoho (FL) | Republican | Late Establishes a pilot program for the Navy to experiment with the use of Liquified Natural Gas for fueling their ships | Submitted |
Motion by Mr. Cole to report an open rule for H.R. 2500. Defeated: 4–8
Motion by Mr. Cole to add a section to the rule that provides for consideration of H.R. 1372, to clarify that it is United States policy to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights authored by Rep. Gallagher (WI), as a standalone measure under an open rule. Defeated: 4–8
Motion by Mr. Woodall to amend the rule to H.R. 2500 to make in order amendment #177, offered by Rep. Byrne (AL), which prohibits the authorization of funds to transfer or release individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay to the United States. Defeated: 4–8
Motion by Mr. Burgess to amend the rule to H.R. 2500 to make in order amendment #322, offered by Rep. Smith (NJ), which directs the Secretary of Defense to work with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a national strategy on Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases infecting members of the Armed Forces and civilians. Defeated: 4–8
Motion by Mr. Burgess to amend the rule to H.R. 2500 to make in order amendment #375, offered by Rep. Gabbard (HI), which allows the VA to provide infertility treatment to all veterans and extends newborn access care for all veterans. Defeated: 4–8
Motion by Mrs. Lesko to amend the rule to H.R. 2500 to make in order amendment #3, offered by Rep. Biggs (AZ), which strikes section 1046 which prohibits the use of funds for construction of a wall, fence, or other physical barrier along the southern border of the United States. Defeated: 4–8
Motion by Ms. Scanlon to report the rule. Adopted: 8-4