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Open Government Technology Work to More Businesses Act

Bill: 113-hr-5154
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-52]
Introduced: 2014-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
General Services Administration
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Licensing and registrations
Public contracts and procurement
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: 
Open Government Technology Work to More Businesses Act - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to jointly make rules to: (1) streamline and simplify the registration system used by small businesses to be considered for an award of any federal contract, (2) establish procedures by which a small business may self-certify its eligibility for a federal contract under the Small Business Act, and (3) establish procedures by which a majority of small businesses may complete the registration process within four weeks after beginning it.
 
Requires both Administrators to make the registration system available in a unified electronic format accessible through the Internet.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide funds to carry out the Popular Romance Project or any similar project relating to love or romance.

Bill: 113-hr-5155
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2014-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
Physical fitness and lifestyle

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: 
Prohibits the National Endowment for the Humanities from providing funds to carry out the Popular Romance Project or any similar project relating to love or romance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Wildlife Disease Emergency Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5156
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2014-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Animal and plant health
Endangered and threatened species
Government trust funds
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Veterinary medicine and animal diseases
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: 
 Wildlife Disease Emergency Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with governors of potentially affected states, to declare a wildlife disease emergency for any wildlife disease occurring within the United States or, if outside the United States, with the potential to enter the United States.
 
Defines &quot;wildlife disease emergency&quot; as the occurrence of a non-zoonotic pathological condition in a wildlife population that:
 
 
is infectious and caused by a newly discovered pathogen or is a known infectious wildlife disease that is expanding in range or other impacts, or
 
poses significant threats to the sustainability of wildlife or to the overall health of a functioning ecosystem. 
 
 
Directs the Secretary, upon making such a declaration, to lead a coordinated response to the emergency. 
 
 Directs the Secretary to implement a grant program to provide funding to state wildlife agencies and Indian tribes to address wildlife disease emergencies. 
 
 Establishes in the Treasury a Wildlife Disease Emergency Fund.
 
 Allows the Secretary to establish a Wildlife Disease Committee to assist the Secretary in increasing the level of preparedness needed to address emerging wildlife diseases. 
 
 Authorizes the Secretary to convene rapid response teams to address any particular wildlife disease emergency. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit.
action_date: 2014-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and 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: 2014-07-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and 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: 2014-07-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and 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: 2014-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to waive certain requirements relating to the approval of programs of education for purposes of the educational assistance programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 113-hr-5157
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2014-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
School administration
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to waive certain institutional continuity requirements that would block the Secretary's approval of a veteran's enrollment in a program of education offered by a proprietary school that does not lead to a standard college degree, provided: (1) the school has been operating the program of education in another location for at least two years, and (2) that program of education is approved under the veterans' educational benefits program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-17
text: Introduced in House
To prevent the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unlawfully created by Executive memorandum on August 15, 2012.

Bill: 113-hr-5160
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2014-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Child safety and welfare
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Prohibits any federal agency or instrumentality from using federal funding or resources to: (1) consider or adjudicate any new or previously denied application of any alien requesting consideration of deferred action for childhood arrivals, as authorized by Executive memorandum on August 15, 2012; or (2) authorize any alien to work in the United States who was not lawfully admitted into the United States and who is not in lawful status in the United States on the date of enactment of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6984-6985)
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to allow a certain parcel of land in Rockingham County, Virginia, to be used for a child care center" to remove the use restriction, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-5162
Sponsor: Rep. Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2014-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Child care and development
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: 
Amends federal law authorizing Rockingham County, Virginia, to use specified land transferred by the United States for a child care center to remove that use restriction.

action_date: 2014-11-17
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends federal law authorizing Rockingham County, Virginia, to use specified land transferred by the United States for a child care center to remove that use restriction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-18
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 378 - 1 (Roll no. 520). (text: CR H8003)
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 378 - 1 (Roll no. 520).(text: CR H8003)
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H8014-8015)
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5162.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8003-8004)
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Mr. Fleming moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 465.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-624.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-624.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Discharged.
action_date: 2014-09-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1206)
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument Correction Act

Bill: 113-hr-5164
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2014-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Border security and unlawful immigration
Land use and conservation
Law enforcement administration and funding
Military education and training
Monuments and memorials
Motor vehicles
New Mexico
Terrorism
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: 
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument Correction Act - Prohibits construing either the national monument designation or any management plan in furtherance of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, New Mexico (designated on May 21, 2014) as: (1) preventing the Secretary of Homeland Security from undertaking law enforcement and border security activities within the areas designated as the Monument, including the ability to use motorized vehicles within it; (2) limiting the 2006 Memorandum of Understanding among the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) regarding cooperative national security and counterterrorism efforts on federal land along U.S. borders; (3) preventing the DHS Secretary from conducting low-level overflights over the Monument for law enforcement and border security purposes; or (4) preventing the Secretary of the Interior from allowing within the Monument the installation and maintenance of communication or surveillance infrastructure necessary for law enforcement or border security activities.
 
Makes the route excluded from the Potrillo Mountains, identified as "Restricted--Administrative Access" on the map entitled "Potrillo Mountains Complex," dated December 10, 2013, available for administrative and law enforcement uses, including border security activities.
 
Specifies that nothing in the national monument designation or any management plan in furtherance of the Monument shall restrict or preclude low-level overflights of military aircraft, the designation of new units of special airspace, or the use or establishment of military flight training routes, over the Monument.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Advancing Girls in STEM Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5165
Sponsor: Rep. Rigell, E. Scott [R-VA-2]
Introduced: 2014-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Science and engineering education
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: 
Advancing Girls in STEM Act of 2014 - Directs the Department of Education to award grants to states to carry out programs that promote the involvement of elementary and secondary female students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields.
 
 Transfers $20 million of unobligated funds made available to the Office of Nuclear Warhead Protection in the National Nuclear Security Administration to the Department of Education to carry out this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2014-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2014-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Full-Service Community Schools Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5168
Sponsor: Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5]
Introduced: 2014-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Adult education and literacy
Advisory bodies
Child care and development
Child health
Community life and organization
Crime prevention
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Family relationships
Health care coverage and access
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Mental health
Nutrition and diet
Performance measurement
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Preschool education
Public-private cooperation
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: 
Full-Service Community Schools Act of 2014 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to: (1) consortia composed of one or more local educational agencies (LEAs) and one or more community-based, nonprofit, or other public or private entities to assist public elementary or secondary schools to function as full-service community schools; and (2) state collaboratives to support the development of full-service community school programs. 
 
Requires such schools to: (1) participate in community-based efforts to coordinate and integrate educational, developmental, family, health, and other comprehensive services through community-based organizations and public and private partnerships; and (2) provide access to such services to students, families, and the community.
 
Gives local grant priority to: (1) entities that will serve at least two full-service community schools eligible for a schoolwide program under the Act or that include an LEA serving only small or rural schools; and (2) entities that will be connected to a consortium that is comprised of a broad representation of stakeholders or that demonstrates a history of effectiveness.
 
Establishes a Full-Service Community Schools Advisory Committee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6659-6660)
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Introduced in House
POW Accountability Act

Bill: 113-hr-5172
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Bill [R-OH-6]
Introduced: 2014-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Detention of persons
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Military personnel and dependents
Personnel records
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: 
POW Accountability Act - Requires: (1) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to review the list maintained by the Secretary of veterans the Secretary determines are former prisoners of war (VA POW list) and the list maintained by the Secretary of Defense (DOD), acting through the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office, of members of the Armed Forces who were prisoners of war (DOD POW list) to identify any discrepancies in such lists; and (2) the VA's Inspector General to review the process by which the Secretary determines that a veteran is a former prisoner of war.
 
Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the VA POW list, including information on such discrepancies and the results of the Inspector General's review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Introduced in House
Strong Families Act

Bill: 113-hr-5173
Sponsor: Rep. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2014-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Employee leave
Income tax credits
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: 
Strong Families Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain employers a business-related tax credit for up to 25% of the amount of wages paid to their employees during any period (not exceeding 12 weeks) in which such employees are on family and medical leave. Limits the allowable amount of such credit to $4,000 per employee for any taxable year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Introduced in House
Competitive Service Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5174
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2014-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee hiring
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: 
Competitive Service Act of 2014 - Authorizes an appointing authority (i.e., a federal agency appointing an individual to a position in the competitive service) other than the appointing authority that requested the certificate of eligibles for filling a position in the competitive service to select an individual from that certificate for appointment to a position that is: (1) in the same occupational series as the position for which the certification of eligibles was issued, and (2) at a similar grade level as the original position. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Americans from Illegal Bailouts Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5175
Sponsor: Rep. Lance, Leonard [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2014-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: 
Protecting Americans from Illegal Bailouts Act of 2014 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal the risk corridor program for health plans offered in the individual and small group markets, thus eliminating payments to plans that experience higher than expected health care costs and collections from plans that experience lower than expected health care costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Introduced in House
Members Play By the Same Rules Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5177
Sponsor: Rep. Maffei, Daniel B. [D-NY-24]
Introduced: 2014-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: 
Members Play By the Same Rules Act of 2014 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to eliminate Federal Employee Health Benefits Program premium subsidies for Members of Congress. Provides that the only way Members of Congress can satisfy the minimum essential coverage requirement through individual coverage is to enroll in a health plan offered by the health insurance exchange to residents of the congressional district or state they represent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2014-07-23
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2014-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-07-23
text: Introduced in House