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Expanding Care for Veterans Act

Bill: 113-hr-4887
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2014-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical education
Medical research
Mental health
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Research administration and funding
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: 
Expanding Care for Veterans Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop a plan to expand the scope of the VA's research and education on, and delivery and integration of, complementary and alternative medicine services.
 
Requires the Secretary to carry out, through the VA's Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, a three-year program to: (1) assess the feasibility and advisability of integrating the delivery of complementary and alternative medicine services selected by the Secretary with other VA health care services for veterans, and (2) identify and resolve barriers to providing such services and integrating them with other VA health services.
 
Requires such program to be conducted, at not fewer than 15 VA medical centers, by integrating the provision of complementary and alternative medicine services with other VA health care services provided to veterans who have a mental health condition, experience chronic pain, or have a chronic condition. Requires veterans' participation to be voluntary.
 
Directs the Secretary to contract with a qualified independent entity for comprehensive studies of the barriers encountered by veterans in receiving, and by administrators and clinicians in providing, complementary and alternative medicine services through the VA. Provides for the conduct of such studies through surveys of veterans and VA administrators and clinicians.
 
Requires the Secretary to carry out a three-year program awarding grants to public or private nonprofit entities to assess the feasibility and advisability of using wellness programs to complement the provision of mental health care to veterans and family members who are eligible for readjustment counseling from the VA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
CRIB Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4888
Sponsor: Rep. Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2014-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child health
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Hereditary and development disorders
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Sex and reproductive health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: 
Coordinated Recovery Initiative for Babies Act of 2014 or the CRIB Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study the treatment and surveillance of, and available information concerning, neonatal abstinence syndrome (a group of problems occurring in a newborn who was exposed to addictive drugs while in the mother's womb).
 
Requires the Secretary to establish an advisory panel to identify and compile best practices and to disseminate the practices, including through the public HHS website. Requires a review of the best practices at least every two years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5882)
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Clean and Efficient Public Safety Vehicles Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4889
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2014-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air quality
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Hybrid, electric, and advanced technology vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: 
Clean and Efficient Public Safety Vehicles Act of 2014 - Revises requirements for the congestion mitigation and air quality improvement (CMAQ) program.
 
Prescribes a special rule to require a state to obligate 5% of its apportionment of CMAQ program funds for projects to deploy cost-effective technologies that reduce emissions of pollutants from public safety vehicles, including firefighting vehicles, ambulances, law enforcement vehicles, and other emergency response vehicles.
 
Declares that such projects shall not be limited to using technology developed or recommended by the SmartWay program of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or any successor program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Moapa Band of Paiutes Land Conveyance Act

Bill: 113-hr-4890
Sponsor: Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4]
Introduced: 2014-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: 
Moapa Band of Paiutes Land Conveyance Act - Directs that approximately 26,565 acres of land in Nevada administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Bureau of Reclamation be: (1) held in trust for the benefit of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, and (2) made part of the Tribe's reservation. 
 
Restricts gaming on the land. 
 
Requires the Tribe to use the land for traditional and customary uses, stewardship conservation for the benefit of the Tribe, residential or recreational development, or renewable energy development. Requires the Tribe to pay the Secretary fair market value for any portion of the land used for another purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Opportunity Village Conveyance and Expansion Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4891
Sponsor: Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4]
Introduced: 2014-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Employment and training programs
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Housing supply and affordability
Land transfers
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: 
Opportunity Village Conveyance and Expansion Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to accept the relinquishment by the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, of all or part of the Deer Springs/Thom/Rome/North Decatur site for conveyance to Opportunity Village, if Las Vegas prepares a survey and legal description of such site, and the survey conforms to BLM cadastral survey standards and meets the approval of Interior. 
 
Directs Interior to convey the relinquished site to Opportunity Village upon request. Requires the land to be used only for: (1) the development of a nonprofit work center and affordable housing for people with intellectual disabilities, and (2) ancillary use compatible with the mission of Opportunity Village.
 
States that all land conveyed by Interior under this Act shall be at no cost, except that Interior may require the recipient to bear any costs associated with the transfer of title and any necessary land surveys. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Jeremy Sanchez Social Security Disability Insurance Fairness Act

Bill: 113-hr-4893
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan Grisham, Michelle [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2014-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child care and development
Congressional oversight
Disability and paralysis
Employee leave
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Lawyers and legal services
Mental health
Neurological disorders
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: 
Jeremy Sanchez Social Security Disability Insurance Fairness Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to waive the waiting period for disability insurance benefits for a beneficiary under a disability if the individual is terminally ill or the Commissioner of Social Security determines that the application of the waiting period would work an undue hardship. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
United States Commission on an Open Society with Security Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4894
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
First Amendment rights
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government studies and investigations
Homeland security
Public participation and lobbying
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: 
United States Commission on an Open Society with Security Act of 2014 - Establishes the United States Commission on an Open Society with Security to study how the government may provide for both security in, and public access to, federal buildings and other federal property and sites. 
 
Directs the Commission to examine: (1) government and private security practices and proposals, building design, public space management, counterterrorism needs, and refurbishment of existing federal facilities; (2) the effect of access to public facilities and spaces on free speech, the right to petition the government, other constitutional rights and civil liberties, economies of affected jurisdictions, architectural aesthetics, traffic and congestion, and employee job performance; (3) technology to augment or replace traditional modes of security; and (4) methods of assessing the risks posed by terrorism, balanced against the needs and values of open access.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency.
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1011)
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4895
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2014-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Marine pollution
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: 
Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit, beginning January 1, 2018, the distribution of a cosmetic that contains synthetic plastic microbeads.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Do Your Job Act

Bill: 113-hr-4896
Sponsor: Rep. Ribble, Reid J. [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2014-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Congressional operations and organization
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: 
Do Your Job Act - Amends the rules of the Senate and the House of Representatives to prohibit a recess or adjournment longer than 24 hours until Congress agrees to a budget resolution that establishes a balanced budget no later than FY2024.
 
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to create points of order against either chamber adjourning prior to the passage of all of the annual appropriations bills. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, 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.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, 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.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Transparency in Education Act

Bill: 113-hr-4897
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2014-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Education
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Minority education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: 
Transparency in Education Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Education from issuing a final rule or implementing a proposed rule affecting the determination as to whether a postsecondary career education program provides training that leads to gainful employment in a recognized occupation, which is required if it is to participate in a program under title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA), until 90 days after: 
 
 
 the Secretary publishes a complete data analysis on the impact of such proposed rule on all postsecondary education programs and students at all categories of institutions of higher education that participate in a program under title IV of the HEA,
 
that analysis is published in a format similar to the Gainful Employment 2012 Informational Rate Calculations published by the Department of Education, and 
 
 the Comptroller General (GAO) issues a report that reviews such data analysis for accuracy and completeness.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Access to Veteran-Centered Community Care Act

Bill: 113-hr-4898
Sponsor: Rep. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ-9]
Introduced: 2014-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: 
Access to Veteran-Centered Community Care Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) determine that a VA facility is not capable of furnishing the care or services required if a veteran has been waiting for 14 days or longer for an appointment to receive hospital care or medical services, including primary care, in such a facility; and (2) ensure that such care or services are provided to such a veteran at a non-VA facility under contract with the VA.
 
Requires: (1) any referral of a veteran who, in the course of receiving hospital care or medical services in a non-VA facility, is referred to another non-VA facility for specialty care, to be submitted to the Secretary; and (2) the Secretary, if he or she does not reject such referral during the 72-hour period following its submittal, to ensure that such specialty care is provided to the veteran at a non-VA facility under contract with the VA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Helping Veterans Save for Health Care Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4900
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2014-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: 
Helping Veterans Save for Health Care Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that a veteran receiving hospital care or medical services for a service-connected disabililty is not disqualified from participating in or contributing to a tax-preferred health savings account (HSA). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5506)
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Advancing Conservation and Education Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4901
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Rob [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2014-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alaska
Arizona
California
Colorado
Department of the Interior
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Forests, forestry, trees
Idaho
Intergovernmental relations
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Mining
Montana
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oregon
Parks, recreation areas, trails
South Dakota
State and local government operations
Utah
Washington State
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: 
Advancing Conservation and Education Act of 2014 - Allows Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, or Wyoming (western states) to relinquish state land grant parcels wholly or primarily within federal conservation areas and to select, in exchange, unappropriated public land within the state. Defines &quot;federal conservation areas&quot; as lands within the outer boundaries of units of the National Park, National Wilderness Preservation, National Wildlife Refuge, or National Landscape Conservation Systems and certain designated lands within the National Forest System.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to create a process for the relinquishment of such parcels. 
 
Allows a western state to select, and the Secretary to convey, lands that are mineral in character. 
 
Requires the overall value of the state land grant parcels and the unappropriated public land to be conveyed to be equal. 
 
Sets forth requirements regarding records of hazardous materials on land conveyed, water rights, and grazing permits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Middle Class CHANCE Act

Bill: 113-hr-4902
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-46]
Introduced: 2014-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: 
Creating Higher Education Affordability Necessary to Compete Economically Act or the Middle Class CHANCE Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase the maximum Federal Pell Grant for award year 2014-2015 and adjust it each subsequent award year to account for changes in the Consumer Price Index.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to award an additional Pell Grant to an eligible student who: (1) has received a Pell Grant for an award year, and (2) is enrolled in a program of study for one or more additional payment periods during the same award year that are not otherwise covered by the Pell Grant. 
 
Limits the total amount of the Pell Grants awarded to such student for the award year to 150% of the maximum Pell Grant for such award year.
 
Raises, from 12 semesters to 15 semesters, the period during which a student may receive Federal Pell Grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1080)
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Vegetables Are Really Important Eating Tools for You (VARIETY) Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4904
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2014-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Fruit and vegetables
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: 
Vegetables Are Really Important Eating Tools For You (VARIETY) Act of 2014 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide a financial incentive for supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) participants to purchase fruits and vegetables. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, and Nutrition.
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-19
text: Introduced in House