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To prohibit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from issuing certain decisions that will raise costs for ratepayers, and for other purposes.

To prohibit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from issuing certain decisions that will raise costs for ratepayers, and for other purposes. 1. Prohibition against certain FERC decisions that will raise costs for ratepayers (a) Cost-Benefit analysis Prior to issuing a decision described in subsection (b), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall publish a cost-benefit analysis of such decision, including the likely financial impact of such decision on ratepayers. (b) Decisions This section applies to any decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that will— (1) authorize the creation of a new capacity zone; or (2) affect the supply and demand curves or models used to determine prices at points in a capacity zone. (c) Prohibition If the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission determines, through a cost-benefit analysis published under subsection (a), that a decision described in subsection (b) will raise costs for ratepayers, then the Commission may not issue such decision.

Summary: Requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to publish a cost-benefit analysis before issuing any decision that would either: (1) authorize creation of a new capacity zone, or (2) affect the supply and demand curves or models used to determine prices at points in a capacity zone. Prohibits FERC from issuing any such decision if it determines that such analysis shows that costs will be raised for ratepayers.
Business Risk Planning Act

To amend the Commodity Exchange Act to ensure that the treatment of illiquid swaps does not disadvantage certain non-financial end users who use them to manage business risk. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Business Risk Planning Act 2. Treatment of illiquid swaps so as to not disadvantage certain non-financial end users Section 2(a)(13) of the Commodity Exchange Act ( 7 U.S.C. 2(a)(13) (1) in subparagraph (C), by striking The Commission Except as provided in subparagraph (D), the Commission (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) through (G) as subparagraphs (E) through (H), respectively, and inserting after subparagraph (C) the following: (D) Requirements for swap transactions in illiquid markets Notwithstanding subparagraph (C): (i) The Commission shall provide by rule for the public reporting of swap transactions, including price and volume data, in illiquid markets that are not cleared and entered into by a non-financial entity that is hedging or mitigating commercial risk in accordance with subsection (h)(7)(A). (ii) The Commission shall ensure that the swap transaction information referred to in clause (i) of this subparagraph is available to the public no sooner than 30 days after the swap transaction has been executed or at such later date as the Commission determines appropriate to protect the identity of participants and positions in illiquid markets and to prevent the elimination or reduction of market liquidity. (iii) In this subparagraph, the term illiquid markets .

Summary: Business Risk Planning Act - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to direct the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to: (1) prescribe a rule for public reporting of swap transactions (including price and volume data) in illiquid markets that are not cleared and entered into by a non-financial entity that is hedging or mitigating commercial risk, and (2) ensure that such swap transaction information is publicly available no sooner than 30 days after it has been executed or at a later date the CFTC determines appropriate to protect the identity of participants and positions in illiquid markets and to prevent the elimination or reduction of market liquidity. Defines an "illiquid market" as one in which there is relatively little volume and infrequent trading in swaps.
To require a 50 percent reduction in the number of limousines in the Federal fleet.

To require a 50 percent reduction in the number of limousines in the Federal fleet. 1. Reduction in limousines in Federal fleet (a) Requirement Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in subsection (b), for fiscal year 2015 and each fiscal year thereafter, the number of limousines in the Federal fleet shall not exceed 50 percent of the number of limousines in the Federal fleet as of the last day of fiscal year 2014. (b) Exception for national security Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to any limousine determined by the President to be essential for reasons of national security.

Summary: Prohibits the number of limousines in the federal fleet for FY2015 and each fiscal year thereafter from exceeding 50% of the number of such limousines in the fleet as of the last day of FY2014. Excepts any limousine determined to be essential for reasons of national security.
To direct the Secretary of the Treasury to increase the dollar limitation on the de minimis safe harbor from treatment as a capital expenditure for taxpayers without applicable financial statements.

To direct the Secretary of the Treasury to increase the dollar limitation on the de minimis safe harbor from treatment as a capital expenditure for taxpayers without applicable financial statements. 1. Increase in dollar limitation on de minimis safe harbor from treatment as capital expenditures for taxpayers without applicable financial statements (a) In general Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury (or the Secretary’s designee) shall modify Treasury Regulation section 1.263(a)–1(f)(1)(ii)(D) to increase the $500 limitation contained therein with respect to the de minimis safe harbor for taxpayers without applicable financial statements to $1,000. (b) Effective date The revised regulations under this section shall apply to amounts paid or incurred in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2013.

Summary: Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to modify a specified Treasury Regulation to increase from $500 to $1,000 the limitation governing the de minimis safe harbor for taxpayers without applicable financial statements.
Foreclosure Fairness Act of 2014

To allow homeowners facing foreclosure to avoid deficiency judgments, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Foreclosure Fairness Act of 2014 2. Deficiency judgments (a) In general Beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, in the case of any federally related mortgage loan made after that date, a court may not enter deficiency judgment pertaining to that loan after the date of any foreclosure sale of the mortgaged property. (b) Rule of construction Nothing in this Act shall be construed to preempt any more restrictive State or local law pertaining to deficiency judgments. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Deficiency judgment The term deficiency judgment (2) Federally related mortgage loan The term federally related mortgage loan 12 U.S.C. 2602 (3) Mortgaged property The term mortgaged property

Summary: Foreclosure Fairness Act of 2014 - Prohibits a court, in the case of any federally related mortgage loan made after enactment of this Act, from entering a deficiency judgment requiring the mortgagor to pay any balance on the mortgage loan after a foreclosure sale of the mortgaged property.
Local Road Safety Act of 2014

To amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to the highway safety improvement program, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Local Road Safety Act of 2014 2. Highway safety improvement program (a) State strategic highway safety plan Section 148(a)(12) (1) in subparagraph (A)— (A) in clause (ix) by striking and (B) by redesignating clause (x) as clause (xi); and (C) by inserting after clause (ix) the following: (x) private sector experts in the field of roadway safety infrastructure; and ; and (2) in subparagraph (E) by inserting , including the results of any strategic highway safety plan developed by a county or local government entity or regional transportation planning organization processes (b) Special Rules Section 148(g) (3) County and local transportation agencies Each fiscal year, a State shall provide to county and local transportation agencies, from amounts apportioned to that State under section 104(b)(3) in that fiscal year, amounts that the State determines are necessary to assist such agencies to address significant safety needs, and high fatality segments, of non-State-owned public roads and roads on tribal land identified in a State strategic highway safety plan. .

Summary: Local Road Safety Act of 2014 - Revises requirements for a state strategic highway safety plan. Requires a state transportation department to develop a plan after consultation with, among other things, private sector experts in the field of roadway safety infrastructure. Requires the department, in developing such plan, also to consider, among other things, the results of any strategic highway safety plan developed by a county or local government entity or regional transportation planning organization. Prescribes a special rule requiring states to provide each fiscal year, from their apportionment of highway safety improvement program funds, an amount to county and local transportation agencies necessary to assist them to address significant safety needs, and high fatality segments, of non-state-owned public roads and roads on tribal lands identified in a state strategic highway safety plan.
To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to accept a statue depicting Pierre L'Enfant from the District of Columbia and to provide for the permanent display of the statue in the United States Capitol.

To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to accept a statue depicting Pierre L’Enfant from the District of Columbia and to provide for the permanent display of the statue in the United States Capitol. 1. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Pierre L’Enfant was born in France in 1754, and traveled to the United States to serve with the United States in the Revolutionary War. (2) Pierre L’Enfant was an engineer and architect, and in 1791 he developed the unique and exceptional design for the Nation’s capital that laid the framework for the modern-day District of Columbia that is followed and maintained until today. (3) L’Enfant’s remarkable design envisioned a distinguishable federal and residential city with diagonal streets propelling from Congress and the President’s home, beautiful boulevards on local streets and neighborhoods, and open spaces for monuments, memorials, and historical structures, all of which largely remain intact, protected as a historical treasure. (4) The United States Capitol does not currently appropriately recognize the contributions of Pierre L’Enfant. 2. Acceptance of statue of Pierre L’Enfant for placement in United States Capitol (a) Acceptance Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Joint Committee on the Library shall accept from the District of Columbia the donation of a statue depicting Pierre L’Enfant, subject to the terms and conditions that the Joint Committee considers appropriate. (b) Placement The Joint Committee shall place the statue accepted under subsection (a) in a suitable permanent location in the United States Capitol.

Summary: Requires the Joint Committee on the Library to: (1) accept from the District of Columbia the donation of a statue depicting Pierre L'Enfant, subject to appropriate terms and conditions; and (2) place the statue in a suitable permanent location in the U.S.Capitol.
Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act

To make the moratorium on Internet access taxes and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce permanent. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act 2. Permanent moratorium on Internet access taxes and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce (a) In General Section 1101(a) of the Internet Tax Freedom Act (47 U.S.C. 151 note) is amended by striking taxes during the period beginning November 1, 2003, and ending November 1, 2014: taxes: (b) Effective Date The amendment made by this section shall apply to taxes imposed after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Summary: Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.
Safety Through Informed Consumers Act of 2014

To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to passenger motor vehicle crash avoidance information, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Safety Through Informed Consumers Act of 2014 2. Passenger motor vehicle information Section 32302 (c) Crash avoidance Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the Safety Through Informed Consumers Act of 2014, the Secretary shall ensure that crash avoidance information is provided alongside of and in the same format as crashworthiness information each place that crashworthiness information is made available to the public under this section. .

Summary: Safety Through Informed Consumers Act of 2014 - Revises passenger motor vehicle information program requirements. Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to ensure that passenger motor vehicle crash avoidance information is provided alongside of and in the same format as crashworthiness information each place that the latter is made available to the public.
Military Sexual Trauma Claims Administration Reform and Eligibility Act

To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of service connection for mental health conditions related to military sexual trauma. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Military Sexual Trauma Claims Administration Reform and Eligibility Act 2. Presumption of service connection for mental health conditions related to military sexual trauma (a) Presumption (1) In general Subchapter II of chapter 11 1119. Presumption of service connection for mental health conditions related to military sexual trauma (a) In general For purposes of section 1110 of this title, and subject to section 1113 of this title, a mental health condition of a veteran that a veteran certifies to the Secretary as being incurred in or aggravated by military sexual trauma shall be considered to have been incurred in or aggravated by the service of the veteran, notwithstanding that there is no record of evidence of such mental health condition or such military sexual trauma occurring during such service. (b) Military sexual trauma defined In this section, the term military sexual trauma . (2) Clerical amendment The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 11 of such title is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1118 the following new item: 1119. Presumption of service connection for mental health conditions related to military sexual trauma. . (b) Presumption rebuttable Section 1113 or 1118 1118, or 1119 (c) Presumption during peacetime service Section 1137 and 1113 1113, and 1119

Summary: Military Sexual Trauma Claims Administration Reform and Eligibility Act - Establishes a presumption, for the purpose of determining a veteran's eligibility for disability compensation, that a veteran's mental health condition was incurred in or aggravated by military sexual trauma if the veteran so certifies, despite a lack of evidence that such condition or trauma occurred during such service. Makes that presumption rebuttable. Defines "military sexual trauma" as psychological trauma that, in the judgment of a mental health professional, resulted from a physical assault or battery of a sexual nature or sexual harassment that occurred while the veteran was serving on active duty or active duty for training in the Armed Forces.
Alzheimer's Accountability Act of 2014

To amend the National Alzheimer’s Project Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health to prepare and submit, directly to the President for review and transmittal to Congress, an annual budget estimate (including an estimate of the number and type of personnel needs for the Institutes) for the initiatives of the National Institutes of Health pursuant to such Act. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Alzheimer’s Accountability Act of 2014 2. Findings The Congress finds as follows: (1) Alzheimer's disease is the most expensive disease in the United States today. Its costs are set to increase like the costs of no other disease and will be carried in substantial measure through the Medicare and Medicaid programs. (2) Through the unanimous, bipartisan passage of the National Alzheimer's Project Act (Public Law 111–375), the 111th Congress recognized the national imperative to act and instructed the Nation's scientists to develop a plan to change the trajectory of this disease. (3) Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have prepared and presented to Congress a national plan to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer's disease by 2025, including the underlying specification of milestones and timelines to achieve this goal. (4) Capital budgeting is a universally accepted best practice for the successful management of such a multiyear project, but such projections have not been prepared and provided to Congress to achieve the 2025 goal, preventing Congress from exercising truly effective oversight over a venture of profound importance to the Nation. 3. Professional judgment budget for initiatives of NIH under National Alzheimer’s Project Section 2 of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act ( Public Law 111–375 42 U.S.C. 11225 (1) by redesignating subsection (h) as subsection (i); and (2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following: (h) Professional judgment budget For each fiscal year through fiscal year 2025, the Director of the National Institutes of Health shall prepare and submit, directly to the President for review and transmittal to Congress, after reasonable opportunity for comment (but without change) by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Advisory Council, an annual budget estimate (including an estimate of the number and type of personnel needs for the Institutes) for the initiatives of the National Institutes of Health pursuant to this Act. .

Summary: Alzheimer's Accountability Act of 2014 - Amends the National Alzheimer's Project Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for each fiscal year through FY2025, to submit to the President for review and transmittal to Congress, after reasonable opportunity for comment (but without change) by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care, and Services, an annual budget estimate (including regarding personnel needs) for the NIH initiatives under the Act.
Flood Insurance Integrity Act of 2014

To require the Government Accountability Office to conduct periodic reviews of the flood insurance rates and flood insurance rate maps under the national flood insurance program, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Flood Insurance Integrity Act of 2014 2. GAO reviews regarding flood insurance rates and rate maps (a) Periodic review of rate tables During the 6-month period that begins 12 months after the date of the enactment of this Act and every 4 years thereafter, the Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a review of the rate tables established by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for carrying out the national flood insurance program under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4011 et seq.) and in effect at the time of such review, and shall make a determination of whether— (1) the chargeable premium rates for flood insurance coverage determined by such tables are actuarially sound, based on standard actuarial practices used in the private sector; and (2) such chargeable premium rates are sufficient to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of the national flood insurance program. (b) Annual review of mapping process and rate maps During the 6-month period referred to in subsection (a) and annually thereafter, the Comptroller General, in consultation with the United States Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior, shall conduct a review of the process in effect at the time of such review for establishing and updating flood insurance rate maps under the national flood insurance program and shall make a determination of the degree of accuracy of such mapping process. (c) Reports For each review conducted pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), the Comptroller General shall submit to the Congress a report describing the results of the review and the determinations made pursuant to the review.

Summary: Flood Insurance Integrity Act of 2014 - Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to review every four years the rate tables established by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for implementing the national flood insurance program under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (NFIA), and determine whether: (1) the chargeable premium rates for flood insurance coverage determined by those tables are actuarially sound, based on standard actuarial practices used in the private sector; and (2) such chargeable premium rates are sufficient to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of the national flood insurance program. Directs GAO to review annually the process for establishing and updating flood insurance rate maps and determine the degree of accuracy of the mapping process.
Shutdown Windfall Reimbursement Act

To require the Director of the National Park Service to refund to States all State funds that were used to reopen and temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System during the October 2013 shutdown. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Shutdown Windfall Reimbursement Act 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) during the period in October 2013 in which there was a lapse in appropriations (referred to in this section as the Government shutdown (2) pursuant to the agreements described in paragraph (1), the States listed in paragraph (1) advanced approximately $2,000,000 to the National Park Service to pay for park operations during the Government shutdown; (3) the units of the National Park System that were temporarily reopened using State funds also collected gate entry fees; (4) the Government shutdown ended when Congress passed the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 113–46), which retroactively funded Federal agencies and Federal employee salaries for the period of time during which the Government was shut down; (5) by virtue of the retroactive appropriation made by Congress, the National Park Service retained an unintended shutdown windfall from the States listed in paragraph (1) of approximately $2,000,000; and (6) the States listed in paragraph (1) that entered into agreements described in paragraph (1) with the National Park Service should be fully reimbursed for advancing funds to maintain public access to iconic national treasures in the National Park System during the Government shutdown. 3. Refund of funds used by states to operate national parks during shutdown (a) In general The Director of the National Park Service shall refund to each State all funds of the State that were used to reopen and temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System during the period in October 2013 in which there was a lapse in appropriations for the unit. (b) Funding Funds of the National Park Service that are appropriated after the date of enactment of this Act shall be used to carry out this section.

Summary: Shutdown Windfall Reimbursement Act - Requires the Director of the National Park Service to refund to each state all of the funds that it used to reopen and temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System during the period in October 2013 in which there was a lapse in appropriations for that unit.