1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Venezuela TPS Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Venezuela is enduring an unprecedented economic, humanitarian, security, and refugee crisis, consisting of extreme food and medicine shortages, severe infant and child malnutrition, rampant crime, and government-sponsored repression. (2) Venezuela’s economic crisis continues unabated and the International Monetary Fund projects that inflation in Venezuela could reach an annual rate of 10,000,000 percent in 2019. (3) In 2017, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights reported the deaths of 124 persons that could be attributed to violations of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly. (4) From September 2017 through April 2018, a review of pharmacies in five major cities shows a shortage of nearly 85 percent of medicine essential to treat four of the most recurrent causes of morbidity in the country, diarrhea, respiratory tract infections, diabetes, and high blood pressure. (5) As evidence of the significant effect that Venezuela’s economic crisis has on public health, Venezuela’s Health Ministry reported that in 2016— (A) there was a 30-percent increase in the infant mortality rate