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To authorize the award of the Medal of Honor to Henry Johnson.

Bill: 113-hr-5459
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2014-09-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Europe
France
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-11
text: 
Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Henry Johnson for acts of valor during World War I for which he was previously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-09-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-11
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention, and Reform Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5460
Sponsor: Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2014-09-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records
Medicare
Motor vehicles
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-11
text: 
Medicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention, and Reform Act of 2014 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance Benefits) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the ambulance fee schedule to: (1) increase the conversion factor for ground ambulance services in the formula for determining the appropriate fee, and (2) increase the mileage rate for such services.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study how the conversion factor should be modified, if at all, to take into account the cost of providing ambulance services in urban, rural, and super-rural areas.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a process to determine, in advance of furnishing end stage renal disease (ESRD) ambulance services, whether payment for them may not be made because they are not covered or because they are excluded from coverage. Prohibits any payment unless the Secretary determines, pursuant to this process, that the service meets coverage requirements.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop a data collection system for providers and suppliers of ambulance services to collect cost, revenue, utilization, and other appropriate information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-09-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2014-09-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2014-09-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-11
text: Introduced in House
End Financing to ISIL Act

Bill: 113-hr-5463
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Doug [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2014-09-15 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Foreign aid and international relief
Iraq
Middle East
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Sanctions
Terrorism
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: 
End Financing to ISIL Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of State to jointly submit to Congress an annual report that: 
 
 
identifies each person that provides material or financial support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, as well as any successor organization (ISIL), including purchasing oil or other materials that fund ISIL or other terrorist organizations in the region; 
 
 identifies the country in which such person is located and describes actions taken by the Secretaries to notify the government of such country of these activities; and 
 
 describes actions taken by the government of such country to restrict these activities.
 
 
Directs the President to suspend foreign military sales and financing under the Arms Export Control Act to a listed country that has not taken actions to restrict persons in that country from providing material or financial support to ISIL. 
 
Amends the Arms Export Control Act to apply the same transaction prohibitions provided for by that Act against countries supporting acts of international terrorism to a country whose government has knowledge of persons within its territory that provide material support for terrorist organizations, including selling materials that produce income for such organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
Middle Class Family Savings Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5465
Sponsor: Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2014-09-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: 
Middle Class Family Savings Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to health savings accounts (HSAs), to: (1) increase the maximum deductible amount for such accounts, and (2) allow payments from such accounts for the medical expenses of children of the account holder who have not attained age 27. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4500 Sunny Isle Shopping Center in Christiansted, St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, as the "Florence Louise Thomas Post Office".

Bill: 113-hr-5466
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-09-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4500 Sunny Isle Shopping Center in Christiansted, St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, as the "Florence Louise Thomas Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1103 USPS Building 1103 in Camp Pendleton, California, as the "Camp Pendleton Medal of Honor Post Office".

Bill: 113-hr-5468
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2014-09-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: California
Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1103 USPS Building 1103 in Camp Pendleton, California, as the "Camp Pendleton Medal of Honor Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-18
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8005)
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8005)
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5468.
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8004-8005)
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Mr. Issa moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
Visa Waiver Program Improvement Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5470
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2014-09-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Terrorism
Travel and tourism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: 
Visa Waiver Program Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include terrorism risk as a factor the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) shall consider under the electronic system for travel authorization (ESTA) in determining the eligibility of an alien to travel to the United States. 
 
Directs the Secretary to report to Congress regarding: (1) the number of individuals, identified by their countries of citizenship or nationality, who were denied eligibility to travel, or whose eligibility was revoked, under ESTA because the individual was determined to be a U.S. security threat; (2) steps to strengthen ESTA; and (3) foreign government compliance with information sharing agreements concerning passport theft or loss and whether a country's citizens or nationals traveling to the United States pose a U.S. security threat.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to suspend a country from the visa waiver program without prior notice if the country fails to comply with an agreement to share information regarding whether its citizens and nationals traveling to the United States pose a U.S. security threat.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2014-09-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service currently located at 16281 U.S. Highway 59 in Moscow, Texas, as the "Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya Memorial Post Office".

Bill: 113-hr-5472
Sponsor: Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2014-09-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Human rights
News media and reporting
Postal service
Russia

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: 
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 16281 U.S. Highway 59 in Moscow, Texas, as the "Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya Memorial Post Office."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
James Boulet National Language Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5473
Sponsor: Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2014-09-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Citizenship and naturalization
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government information and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: 
James Boulet National Language Act of 2014 - Amends federal law to: (1) make English the official language of the United States, (2) require that official U.S. government functions be conducted in English, and (3) require the U.S. government to preserve and enhance the role of English as the official language of the United States.
 
Declares that, unless specifically stated in applicable law, no person has a right, entitlement, or claim to have the U.S. government or any of its officials or representatives act, communicate, perform or provide services, or materials in any language other than English.
 
Makes exceptions to these requirements the use of a language other than English for: (1) religious purposes, (2) language training for international communication, or (3) school programs designed to encourage students to learn foreign languages.
 
Amends the the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to repeal bilingual voting and related voting qualification requirements. 
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require that all public naturalization ceremonies in which the oath of allegiance is administered be conducted solely in the English language.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2014-09-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
Concrete Pump Tax Fairness Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5474
Sponsor: Rep. Williams, Roger [R-TX-25]
Introduced: 2014-09-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government trust funds
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
Sales and excise taxes
Transportation costs
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: 
Concrete Pump Tax Fairness Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a vehicle mileage tax on owners of mobile mounted concrete boom pump vehicles. Defines "mobile mounted concrete boom pump vehicle" as a vehicle which is mobile machinery and on which the mounted machinery consists of a concrete boom pump and related subordinate parts. Directs that revenues from such tax be deposited into the Highway Trust Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the care provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to newborn children.

Bill: 113-hr-5475
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Doug [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2014-09-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Veterans' medical care
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: 
Allows the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide the newborn child of a woman veteran who is receiving VA maternity care with post-delivery care services for 14 days after the child's birth if the veteran delivered the child in a VA facility or another facility with which the VA has a contract for such services. (Currently, such care may not be provided for more than 7 days.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Introduced in House
Enhancing Educational Opportunities for all Students Act

Bill: 113-hr-5477
Sponsor: Rep. Messer, Luke [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2014-09-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Poverty and welfare assistance
Preschool education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: 
Enhancing Educational Opportunities for all Students Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow a state educational agency to allocate grant funds among local educational agencies based on the number of eligible children (children age 5 to 17 from a family with an income below the poverty level) enrolled in the public schools and the state-accredited private schools within each local agency's geographic jurisdiction.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow payment of home school expenses from Coverdell education savings accounts; (2) remove the dollar limitation on contributions to Coverdell education savings accounts and require such accounts to provide adequate safeguards to prevent contributions from exceeding the amount necessary to provide for the qualified education expenses of the account beneficiary; and (3) allow tax-exempt qualified tuition programs (529 tuition programs) to pay qualified pre-kindergarten, elementary, and secondary education expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2014-09-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2014-09-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7540)
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require public disclosure of the method used to calculate consumer credit scores and inclusion of debt settlement agreements in consumer reports.

Bill: 113-hr-5479
Sponsor: Rep. Bentivolio, Kerry L. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2014-09-16 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer credit
Debt collection

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: 
Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to require any person (any individual, partnership, corporation, trust, estate, cooperative, association, government or governmental agency, or other entity) who develops a tool or system for deriving a credit score to make such tool or system available to the public, including on such person's website.
 
Removes provisions that prohibit FCRA from being construed to require: (1) a consumer reporting agency to disclose to a consumer any information concerning credit scores or any other risk scores or predictors relating to the consumer, or (2) a consumer reporting agency that distributes credit scores developed by another person or entity to provide a further explanation of such scores or to process a dispute regarding the accuracy of a consumer's file. 
 
Requires a person or entity who furnishes information to a consumer reporting agency with respect to a debt of a consumer to notify the consumer reporting agency of any settlement agreement that the person or entity has entered into with the consumer regarding such debt within 30 days of any such agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Introduced in House
Empowering Our Veterans Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5480
Sponsor: Rep. Weber, Randy K., Sr. [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2014-09-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Electric power generation and transmission
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: 
Empowering Our Veterans Act of 2014 - Prohibits the appropriation of funds, or the obligation or expenditure of funds by Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), for any VA alternative energy generation project unless the funds for such project have been specifically authorized by law.
 
Directs the Secretary to transfer all unobligated funds that were appropriated to the VA before this Act's enactment for an alternative energy generation project to the VA's account funding veterans' medical care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2014-09-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2014-09-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Introduced in House
To continue the use of a 3-month quarter EHR reporting period for health care providers to demonstrate meaningful use for 2015 under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive payment programs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-5481
Sponsor: Rep. Ellmers, Renee L. [R-NC-2]
Introduced: 2014-09-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in specifying the electronic health record (EHR) reporting period under EHR electronic health record technology incentive payment programs under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, to continue through 2015 (in the case of eligible professionals) and FY2015 (in the case of eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals) to permit the use of a three-month quarter EHR reporting period to demonstrate meaningful use without regard to the payment year or the stage of meaningful use criteria involved. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2014-09-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2014-09-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-16
text: Introduced in House