Federal Employees Civil Relief Act
Latest action · Mar 1, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 16, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Federal Employees Civil Relief Act
This bill establishes a framework to temporarily suspend certain judicial and administrative proceedings against a federal employee or contractor during a lapse in appropriations.
Cosponsors 28
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 16, 2019 to Dec 12, 2019; 15 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NH | Ann M. Kuster | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-PA | Brendan F. Boyle | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-IL | Cheri Bustos | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-NH | Chris Pappas | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-MI | Daniel T. Kildee | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-MI | Debbie Dingell | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-VA | Gerald E. Connolly | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-CT | Joe Courtney | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-SC | Joe Cunningham | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-MA | Katherine M. Clark | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-NY | Kathleen M. Rice | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-NY | Sean Patrick Maloney | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-NV | Susie Lee | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-FL | Val Butler Demings | Original | Jan 16, 2019 |
| D-MA | Ayanna Pressley | Jan 25, 2019 | |
| D-RI | David N. Cicilline | Jan 25, 2019 | |
| D-WA | Kim Schrier | Jan 25, 2019 | |
| D-DE | Lisa Blunt Rochester | Jan 25, 2019 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Jan 25, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Pete Aguilar | Jan 25, 2019 | |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Jan 25, 2019 | |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Jan 25, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Raul Ruiz | Jan 25, 2019 | |
| D-NV | Steven Horsford | Jan 25, 2019 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Feb 4, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Scott H. Peters | Feb 13, 2019 | |
| D-WA | Denny Heck | Dec 12, 2019 |
Committees 6
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jan 16, 2019 |
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Jan 16, 2019 |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jan 16, 2019 |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jan 16, 2019 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Mar 1, 2019 | |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jan 16, 2019 |
| Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet Subcommittee | Referred Feb 25, 2019 | |
| House | Committee on House Administration | Referred Jan 16, 2019 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 1, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Feb 25, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
- Jan 16, 2019Introduced in House
- Jan 16, 2019Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Education and Labor, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 9, January 16, 2019, page H676.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 72 | Federal Employees Civil Relief Act | Related bill | Jan 9, 2019 |
| HR 5456 | Federal Employees Civil Relief Act | Reintroduced Bill | Nov 1, 2022 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To suspend the enforcement of certain civil liabilities of Federal employees and contractors during a lapse in appropriations, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Federal Employees Civil Relief Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- Appropriations
- Civil actions and liability
- Consumer credit
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health care costs and insurance
- Higher education
- Housing finance and home ownership
- Income tax deferral
- Legal fees and court costs
- Life, casualty, property insurance
- Student aid and college costs
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 16, 2019Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
