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DHS Private Sector Office Engagement Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5712
Sponsor: Rep. Clawson, Curt [R-FL-19]
Introduced: 2014-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Department of Homeland Security
Economic performance and conditions
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government studies and investigations
Homeland security
Industrial facilities
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: 
DHS Private Sector Office Engagement Act of 2014 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to replace provisions directing the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to appoint a Special Assistant responsible for private sector matters with provisions establishing within DHS a Private Sector Office, to be headed by an Assistant Secretary for Private Sector Coordination.
 
Establishes as the Office's mission to: (1) create and foster strategic engagement with the private sector to enhance the primary mission of DHS to protect the United States; and (2) conduct ongoing economic impact analysis to reduce the burden of DHS decisions, regulations, and initiatives on the private sector and the U.S. economy.
 
Includes among the Assistant Secretary's responsibilities:
 
 
 to create a strategic plan for the Office;
 
to advise the Secretary regarding the impact of DHS's policies, regulations, processes, and actions on the private sector;
 
to analyze the economic impact of changes in homeland security policy; 
 
to determine actions needed to reduce associated homeland security burdens on the private sector;
 
to foster strategic engagement with the private sector to improve homeland security;
 
to promote to the private sector best practices regarding cyber security and critical infrastructure protection;
 
to promote and develop public-private partnerships to provide for collaboration and mutual support to address homeland security challenges; and 
 
to collaborate with the Chief Human Capital Officer to facilitate the DHS Loaned Executive Program.
 
 
Terminates the Office on December 31, 2018. Directs the Secretary to conduct an assessment of the Office concurrently with the next Quadrennial Homeland Security Review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency.
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Assessment Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5713
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2014-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Archaeology and anthropology
Congressional oversight
Economic development
Government studies and investigations
Great Lakes
Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: 
Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Assessment Act of 2014 - Requires the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere to assess and report on the cultural and historic resources in the waters of the Great Lakes. Directs the Under Secretary to make recommendations in the report on whether: (1) underwater geographic areas in the Great Lakes should be designated as national marine sanctuaries to protect resources of historical and archeological significance; and (2) the designation of a network of underwater Great Lakes areas that protect those resources could bring significant educational opportunities, economic development, jobs, and tourism to the Great Lakes region.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1580)
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Pest Management Records Modernization Act

Bill: 113-hr-5714
Sponsor: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2014-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Business records
Computers and information technology
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Pest management

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: 
Pest Management Records Modernization Act - Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to authorize commercial applicators of pesticides to create, retain, submit, and convey a pesticide application-related record, report, data, or other information in electronic form to satisfy any federal, state, or local law.

action_date: 2014-12-02
text: 

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

 
Pest Management Records Modernization Act - Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to authorize commercial applicators of pesticides to create, retain, submit, and convey a pesticide application-related record, report, data, or other information in electronic form to satisfy any federal, state, or local law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2014-12-02
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2014-12-02
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8231)
action_date: 2014-12-02
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8231)
action_date: 2014-12-02
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5714.
action_date: 2014-12-02
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8231-8232)
action_date: 2014-12-02
text: Mr. Thompson (PA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Child's Insurance Benefits Improvement Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5715
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2014-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: 
Child's Insurance Benefits Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA), with respect to child insurance benefits based on disability, to raise from 22 to 26 the cut-off age for entitlement and re-entitlement to such benefits.
 
Raises from 22 to 26 the cut-off age before which the suspension of disability benefits, based on evidence that the disability has ceased, shall not apply to a full-time student.
 
Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to raise from 22 to 26 the cut-off age at which individuals receiving SSI benefits based on blindness or disability cease to be entitled to SSI benefits and become entitled to child's OASDI benefits based on disability.
 
Amends SSA title II to adjust related age limits for calculation of recent work for disability determinations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2014-11-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Sandy Reinvestment Extension Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5716
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2014-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Capital gains tax
Connecticut
Delaware
Disaster relief and insurance
District of Columbia
Income tax exclusion
Maryland
Massachusetts
Natural disasters
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York City
New York State
Rhode Island
Virginia
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: 
Sandy Reinvestment Extension Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the nonrecognition of gain from property involuntarily converted, to extend from two years to five years the replacement period for property involuntarily converted in the Hurricane Sandy Disaster Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1592)
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Report the Costs Act

Bill: 113-hr-5717
Sponsor: Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2014-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government information and archives
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: 
Report the Costs Act - Requires the annual reports of federal agency chief financial officers to include the cost of multilingual services provided or performed by federal agencies, including the cost of hiring interpreters and producing materials in a language other than English. 
 
Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) include in its financial status management reports a Multilingual Services Expense Report, and (2) issue guidance for agency chief financial officers in compiling reports on the cost of multilingual services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Stockman Effect Act

Bill: 113-hr-5718
Sponsor: Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2014-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Atmospheric science and weather
Earth sciences

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: 
Stockman Effect Act - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the impact that a shift in the Earth's magnetic field could have on the weather. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
action_date: 2014-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Civil Rights Voting Restoration Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5719
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2014-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Law enforcement administration and funding
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: 
Civil Rights Voting Restoration Act of 2014 - Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for federal office shall not be denied or abridged because the individual has been convicted of a non-violent criminal offense, unless, at the time of the election, the individual is serving a sentence in a correctional facility or a term of probation. 
 
Restores the right to vote of an individual on probation: (1) on the date the term of probation ends, if such term is less than one year; or (2) one year after the date the individual begins serving the term of probation, if such term is one year or longer.
 
Directs the Attorney General to determine and establish a list of the criminal offenses under federal and state law that are non-violent criminal offenses.
 
Provides for enforcement of, and remedies for violations of, this Act.
 
Sets forth requirements for state and federal notification of individuals of their voting rights pursuant to this Act.
 
Prohibits a state, local government, or other person from receiving or using federal grant amounts to construct or improve a place of incarceration unless that person has in effect a program under which each incarcerated individual is notified, upon release, of his or her rights under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
LEAP Act

Bill: 113-hr-5720
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2014-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional agencies
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government Publishing Office (GPO)
Government information and archives
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: 
Leveraging and Energizing America's Apprenticeship Programs Act or the LEAP Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business-related tax credit of $1,500 for hiring an apprenticeship employee who has not attained age 25 at the close of the taxable year or $1,000 for an apprenticeship employee who has attained age 25. Allows such credit for no more than two taxable years with respect to any apprenticeship employee. Defines "apprenticeship employee" as an employee who is employed in an officially-recognized apprenticeable occupation pursuant to an apprentice agreement registered with the Office of Apprenticeship of the Employment and Training Administration of the Department of Labor or a state apprenticeship agency. 
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to coordinate with the heads of federal agencies to: (1) determine which government publications could be available on government websites and no longer printed, (2) devise a strategy to reduce overall government printing costs over the 10-year period beginning with FY2015, (3) establish government-wide guidelines on employee printing, and (4) issue guidelines for publicly disclosing information about the publication of government documents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2014-11-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Overseas Security Personnel Fairness Act

Bill: 113-hr-5721
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2014-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Employee benefits and pensions
Military facilities and property
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: 
Overseas Security Personnel Fairness Act - Amends the Defense Base Act with respect to payment of death benefits otherwise due a widow, widower, or surviving child of an individual employed at a military, air, or naval base outside of the United States who dies as a result of a war-risk hazard or act of terrorism occurring on or after September 11, 2001, when there is no person eligible for a death benefit under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act.
 
Requires payment in such a case to:
 
 
 a beneficiary designated by the deceased, or
 
the next of kin or the estate of the deceased under applicable state law if there is no designated beneficiary.
 
 
Requires benefits to be paid from the Employees' Compensation Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Introduced in House
POWER Act

Bill: 113-hr-5722
Sponsor: Rep. Benishek, Dan [R-MI-1]
Introduced: 2014-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Contracts and agency
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Government studies and investigations
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: 
Providing Opportunities to Work for Energy Reliability Act or the POWER Act - Amends the Federal Power Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to review any decision by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NAERC) to approve a new balancing authority that would alter cost allocations under an existing system support resources agreement. 
 
Precludes such new balancing authority from taking effect until approved by FERC.
 
Requires FERC to publish a cost-benefit analysis of the proposed NAERC decision, including its likely financial impact upon ratepayers, before issuing a decision to approve, disapprove, or modify the NAERC decision.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Access to Primary Care for Women & Children Act

Bill: 113-hr-5723
Sponsor: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-14]
Introduced: 2014-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health personnel
Health promotion and preventive care
Hospital care
Medicaid
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: 
Ensuring Access to Primary Care for Women and Children Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require that the primary care services furnished in 2015 and 2016 by a physician with a primary specialty designation of family medicine, general internal medicine, or pediatric medicine be paid at a rate that is not less than 100% of the payment rate that applies to such services and physician under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance).
 
Extends this 100% of Medicare payment floor under certain conditions to the following providers, who are self-attested as Board-certified and at least 60% of whose services billed for under Medicaid must be for primary care services: (1) physicians with a primary specialty designation of obstetrics and gynecology; (2) advanced practice clinicians; (3) rural health clinics, federally-qualified health centers, or other specified health clinics; and (4) nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or certified nurse-midwives. 
 
Excludes from coverage of primary care services any such services provided in an emergency department of a hospital.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Permanent Investment in Health Research Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5724
Sponsor: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-14]
Introduced: 2014-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Economic performance and conditions
Executive agency funding and structure
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: 
Permanent Investment in Health Research Act of 2014 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to replace the current authorization of appropriations for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with specified actual appropriations for FY2015-FY2024. 
 
Appropriates $32 billion for FY2015, and for each of FY2016-FY2024 the amount for the preceding fiscal year adjusted by the percentage increase in nominal gross domestic product during the preceding calendar year. 
 
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to add NIH to the list of programs and activities that are exempt from a sequestration. (A sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently canceled to enforce specific budget policy goals.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and 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: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and 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: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and 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: 2014-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Patient Freedom Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5725
Sponsor: Rep. Jolly, David [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2014-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: 
Patient Freedom Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal, after 2013, the requirement that individuals maintain minimum essential health care coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8036)
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Introduced in House
Freedom From Foreign Influence Act

Bill: 113-hr-5726
Sponsor: Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2014-11-17 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alaska
Arctic and polar regions
Licensing and registrations
Oil and gas
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: 
Freedom From Foreign Influence Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to issue promptly permits allowing energy resources exploration and extraction in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Introduced in House