KING-HINDS, KIMBERLYN (a Delegate from the Northern Mariana Islands)

Bills and resolutions cosponsored

Armed Forces: increase death gratuity payable upon death of servicemember and provide for annual cost-of-living adjustments to such death gratuity (see H.R. 7932), H2531 [16MR]

Capitol Building and Grounds: permit U.S. territories and commonwealths to provide and furnish statues to National Statuary Hall Collection (see H.R. 7073), H893 [14JA]

Dept. of Agriculture: allow certain States to directly purchase commodities (see H.R. 7455), H2095 [9FE]

Dept. of HHS: establish national plan to coordinate research on epilepsy (see H.R. 1189), H1922 [30JA]

Dept. of Homeland Security: enhance hiring authorities (see H.R. 6998), H2422 [4MR]

Dept. of Transportation: designate portion of Interstate Route 680 in Omaha, NE, as ‘‘Hal Daub Freeway’’ (see H.R. 7090), H918 [15JA]

——— include public information activities as authorized programming under highway safety programs and carry out education campaign on dangers of noncompliant or counterfeit child restraint systems (see H.R. 7679), H2326 [25FE]

——— redefine eligibility for airport-related Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation (TIFIA) Program projects (see H.R. 6168), H2236 [20FE]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: award grants to develop, implement, and evaluate approaches and methodologies for prospective randomized control trials for neurorehabilitation treatments for chronic mild traumatic brain injury (see H.R. 6993), H615 [9JA]

——— reimburse State homes for cost of, or furnish to State homes, certain costly medications provided to veterans who receive nursing home care in such State homes (see H.R. 1970), H2188 [11FE]

Depts. of Defense and Veterans Affairs: improve benefits and services for surviving spouses who remarry (see H.R. 1004), H1949 [2FE]

FAA: require collision mitigation technology for certain aircraft, improve helicopter safety and separation around airports, update air traffic control procedures, and address airspace safety in Dept. of Defense activities (see H.R. 7613), H2233 [20FE]

Family Violence Prevention and Services Act: make improvements (see H.R. 7333), H2422 [4MR]

Medicare: restore State authority to waive mileage rule for designating critical access hospitals for certain facilities (see H.R. 6240), H2297 [24FE]

NOAA: provide for mapping, surveying, monitoring, and mitigation program for migratory whales and other large cetaceans (see H.R. 7332), H1975 [3FE]

SBA: provide for loan guarantees to certain small businesses (see H.R. 7229), H1350 [22JA]

Taxation: exclude enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for Armed Forces members from gross income (see H.R. 2565), H2598 [18MR]

White House Conference on Small Business Authorization Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 6855), H2120 [10FE]

Bills and resolutions introduced

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: establish and maintain database of certified veteran-owned small businesses and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses to assist in meeting subcontracting goals (see H.R. 7795), H2419 [4MR]

Constitutional authority and single subject statements

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: establish and maintain database of certified veteran-owned small businesses and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses to assist in meeting subcontracting goals (H.R. 7795), H2421 [4MR]

Remarks

Northern Mariana Islands: anniversary of covenant establishing political union with U.S., H2638 [24MR]

SBA: amend microloan eligibility for Northern Mariana Islands (H.R. 3496), H930 [20JA]