Bills About Social Welfare Sponsored by Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.)

Rep. DeFazio sponsored 14 bills about social welfare in the 116th Congress (2019-20).

Introduced Number Title Cosponsors Cosponsor Party Latest Action
Oct. 16, 2020 H.R.8598 To provide for a 3 percent cost-of-living adjustment for social security and supplemental security income beneficiaries in calendar year 2021, and for other purposes. 96
Bipartisan
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Feb. 13, 2019 H.R.1170 To enhance Social Security benefits and ensure the long-term solvency of the Social Security program. 26
All Democrats
Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
March 15, 2018 H.R.5302 To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that an individual's entitlement to any benefit thereunder shall continue through the month of his or her death (without affecting any other person's entitlement to benefits for that month) and that such individual's benefit shall be payable for such month only to the extent proportionate to the number of days in such month preceding the date of such individual's death. 8
All Democrats
Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
Feb. 16, 2017 H.R.1113 To amend title II of the Social Security Act to ensure that the receipts and disbursements of the Social Security trust funds are not included in a unified Federal budget and to provide that Social Security contributions are used to protect Social Security solvency by mandating that Trust Fund monies cannot be diverted to create private accounts. 0 Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
Feb. 16, 2017 H.R.1114 To enhance Social Security benefits and ensure the long-term solvency of the Social Security program. 39
All Democrats
Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
April 23, 2015 H.R.1983 To amend title II of the Social Security Act to ensure that the receipts and disbursements of the Social Security trust funds are not included in a unified Federal budget and to provide that Social Security contributions are used to protect Social Security solvency by mandating that Trust Fund monies cannot be diverted to create private accounts. 0 Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
March 7, 2013 H.R.1031 To amend title II of the Social Security Act to ensure that the receipts and disbursements of the Social Security trust funds are not included in a unified Federal budget and to provide that Social Security contributions are used to protect Social Security solvency by mandating that Trust Fund monies cannot be diverted to create private accounts. 0 Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
Feb. 18, 2011 H.R.796 To amend title II of the Social Security Act to ensure that the receipts and disbursements of the Social Security trust funds are not included in a unified Federal budget and to provide that Social Security contributions are used to protect Social Security solvency by mandating that Trust Fund monies cannot be diverted to create private accounts. 0 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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.
Oct. 14, 2009 H.R.3810 To extend certain economic recovery payments, and for other purposes. 37
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
Sept. 17, 2009 H.R.3597 To extend certain economic recovery payments, and for other purposes. 20
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
April 25, 2007 H.R.2032 To require the establishment of a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers to compute cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits under titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act. 79
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
Nov. 16, 2001 H.R.3315 To improve the solvency of the Social Security Program, and for other purposes. 1
All Democrats
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure.
July 29, 1998 H.R.4344 To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to extend the authorizations of appropriations for that Act, and for other purposes. 188
Bipartisan
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
April 28, 1993 H.R.1883 To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for a more gradual period of transition (under a new alternative formula with respect to such transition) to the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977 as such changes apply to workers born in years after 1916 and before 1927 (and related beneficiaries) and to provide for increases in such workers' benefits accordingly, and for other purposes. 125
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
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