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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and improve the Indian coal production tax credit.

Bill: 113-hr-4785
Sponsor: Rep. Daines, Steve [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coal
Income tax credits
Indian lands and resources rights

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for producing electricity from an Indian coal production facility, to eliminate: (1) the requirement that such a facility be placed in service before January 1, 2009, and (2) the limitation on the period during which such coal is required to be produced and sold. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Commission Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4786
Sponsor: Rep. Delaney, John K. [D-MD-6]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congressional agencies
Congressional operations and organization
Congressional oversight
Government trust funds
Legislative rules and procedure
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Social Security Commission Act of 2014 - Establishes in the legislative branch the Commission on Long Term Social Security Solvency to make recommendations to Congress, including proposed legislation, for achieving solvency in the Social Security trust funds for a period of at least 75 years.
 
Requires expedited consideration of any proposed legislation approving Commission recommendations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Regional Financial Relief Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4787
Sponsor: Rep. Duffy, Sean P. [R-WI-7]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
 Regional Financial Relief Act of 2014 - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 regarding prohibitions on proprietary trading by banking entities and certain relationships with hedge funds and private equity funds.
 
Directs the appropriate federal banking agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to promulgate, for banking entities with less than $50 billion in trading assets and liabilities, regulations regarding internal controls and recordkeeping whose requirements are less burdensome than those governing banking entities with $50 billion or more in trading assets and liabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Relief for America's Main Street Lenders Act

Bill: 113-hr-4788
Sponsor: Rep. Duffy, Sean P. [R-WI-7]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Commodities markets
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Relief for America's Main Street Lenders Act - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to exclude from the definition of financial entity, solely with respect to an interest rate swap or interest rate security-based swap, financial institutions whose total assets are $50 billion or less.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the deduction for State and local general sales taxes permanent.

Bill: 113-hr-4789
Sponsor: Rep. Fincher, Stephen Lee [R-TN-8]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E884)
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment Pollinator Protection Act

Bill: 113-hr-4790
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Horticulture and plants
Insects
Mammals
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment Pollinator Protection Act - Authorizes as an eligible project cost for the construction of a federal-aid highway the cost of improving habitat and forage for pollinators (i.e. bees, birds, bats, Monarch butterflies, and other butterflies) on rights-of-way adjacent to such highways.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT), in conjunction with willing states, to carry out programs that encourage: (1) integrated vegetation management practices on roadsides and other transportation rights-of-ways, including reduced mowing; (2) the development of habitat and forage for pollinators through planting of native forbs and grasses, including noninvasive, native milkweed species; and (3) research and demonstration projects on economic and environmental benefits and best practices for integrated vegetation management, reduced mowing, and planting of native forbs and grasses for pollinator habitat, forage, and migratory way stations for Monarch butterflies and other migrating pollinators.
 
Authorizes the use of federal funds for the provision of habitat, forage, and migratory way stations for Monarch butterflies, other native pollinators, and honey bees that is related to a federally-funded transportation project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E895)
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Responsible GSE Affordable Housing Investment Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4791
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Responsible GSE Affordable Housing Investment Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 to revise requirements for determination of compliance with the multifamily special affordable housing goal.
 
Requires the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to establish standards for the multifamily special affordable housing goal that proportionately reduce the number of units receiving credit for any mortgage purchase by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) (government-sponsored enterprises or GSEs) that facilitates the conversion of dwelling units available at rental rates affordable to low-income families to dwelling units such families could not afford.
 
Requires such standards to provide no credit toward achievement of the goal for any mortgage purchase for multifamily housing that involves an aggregate amount of project debt that is not reasonable. Requires the Director to require the GSE to apply this same standard to any mortgages backing any GSE-purchased security to determine whether the units financed by such mortgages are eligible for credit toward achievement of the housing goal.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E882-883)
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Empower Employees Act

Bill: 113-hr-4792
Sponsor: Rep. Meadows, Mark [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Labor-management relations
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Empower Employees Act - Prohibits federal agencies, including executive, legislative, and judicial agencies, the United States Postal Service (USPO), the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), and the government of the District of Columbia, from deducting labor organization fees from the salaries of their employees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Reducing Barriers for Veterans Education Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4793
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick [D-FL-18]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Reducing Barriers for Veterans Education Act of 2014 - Makes an individual who is eligible for educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance program eligible for assistance with the fees for applying to institutions of higher education (IHEs).
 
Sets the amount of such assistance payable to an individual at the lesser of: (1) the total application fees charged to the individual by the IHEs, or (2) $750.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the National Science Foundation from providing financial support for travel to Antarctica by writers and artists.

Bill: 113-hr-4794
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2014-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Arctic and polar regions
Art, artists, authorship
Humanities programs funding
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: 
Prohibits the National Science Foundation (NSF) from providing financial support for writers and artists to travel to Antarctica. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Well by Using Your Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Plan

Bill: 113-hr-4796
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2014-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Comprehensive health care
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Medicaid

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: 
Keeping Well by Using Your Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Plan- Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct outreach efforts to provide specified health information to: (1) individuals enrolled in qualified health plans offered through an Exchange established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and (2) individuals enrolled in state plans (or under a waiver of such a plan) under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act.
 
Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on: (1) the median cost-sharing responsibility of health services under qualified health plans offered through an Exchange in each state, and (2) the best method for making such information public. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: Introduced in House
CLEAN Energy Producers Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4797
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, Jeff [R-SC-3]
Introduced: 2014-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Birds
Civil actions and liability
Electric power generation and transmission
Endangered and threatened species
Licensing and registrations
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: 
Clarification of Legal Enforcement Against Non-criminal Energy Producers Act of 2014 or the CLEAN Energy Producers Act of 2014 - Amends the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act to require the Secretary of the Interior to issue or deny an eagle permit that authorizes the taking of a bald eagle or golden eagle that is incidental to, but not the purpose of, an otherwise lawful activity. Deems the permit as issued if the Secretary fails to act within a reasonable time (not exceeding one year).
 
Amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to add an intent element to criminal liability for the taking, killing, or other harm to a migratory bird that is accidental or incidental to the presence or operation of an otherwise lawful activity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: Introduced in House
United States-Israel Alzheimer's Disease Cooperation Act

Bill: 113-hr-4798
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2014-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Health programs administration and funding
International organizations and cooperation
Israel
Medical research
Middle East
Neurological disorders
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: 
United States-Israel Alzheimer's Disease Cooperation Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a program of grants to support research on the development and commercialization of tools, treatments, and cures for Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
 
Requires eligible projects to be joint ventures between U.S. and Israeli non-governmental entities or the U.S. and Israeli governments.
 
Establishes an advisory board to monitor the method by which grants are awarded and to provide performance reviews of actions taken to carry out this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Clean Air Fairness Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4799
Sponsor: Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2014-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: 
Clean Air Fairness Act of 2014 - Amends the Clean Air Act to revise provisions concerning implementation plans for national primary and secondary ambient air quality standards.
 
Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from promulgating a federal implementation plan for a state related to national ambient air quality standards until the EPA: (1) promulgates a final rule identifying the emission reductions necessary to meet interstate transport of air emissions requirements, and (2) provides states at least two years to revise their state implementation plans (SIPs). (A federal implementation plan is created due to the failure of an SIP to contain adequate provisions prohibiting emissions activity which will contribute significantly to nonattainment in, or interfere with maintenance by, another state with any national ambient air quality standard.) Prohibits a state from being subjected to penalties for an inadequate SIP until these conditions are met. 
 
Prohibits the EPA from promulgating, implementing, or enforcing a federal implementation plan due to the failure of an SIP to comply with the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule unless the EPA: (1) takes into consideration the Supreme Court's decision in 
Environmental Protection Agency et al. v. EME Homer City Generation, L.P., et al.
, (2) publishes a final notice indicating the EPA's intent to enforce the rule

, and (3) provides states with at least two years from the publication date to revise their SIPs. Prohibits a state from being subject to penalties for the failure of a SIP to comply with the rule until these conditions are met. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Bureau Examination Fairness Act

Bill: 113-hr-4804
Sponsor: Rep. Mulvaney, Mick [R-SC-5]
Introduced: 2014-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer credit
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-05
text: 
Bureau Examination Fairness Act - Amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to prohibit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from including enforcement attorneys when examining entities under its jurisdiction.
 
Requires the CFPB, when requesting data from such entities, to: (1) ensure that the different divisions of the CFPB coordinate with each other before the data is requested, (2) accompany each request with a written statement of its intended use, and (3) use peer-reviewed data sampling based upon limited data sets rather than requesting full data sets (unless the Director determines, in writing, that requesting full data sets is necessary).
 
Directs the CFPB also, with respect to a data request whose cost of compliance is anticipated to exceed $50,000 per company, to give the entity the Director's written approval for the request.
 
Requires the CFPB to: (1) complete examination field work and conduct an exit interview with the entity being examined within 60 days after the examination begins, and (2) produce a report of examination or supervisory letter within 120 days after the examination is completed.
 
Restricts the CFPB to performing only one limited-scope examination of an entity at any one time.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 33 - 26.
action_date: 2014-06-11
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-05-21
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Prior to Introduction and Referral.