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Transportation Connections to Opportunity Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5591
Sponsor: Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Department of Transportation
Government information and archives
Infrastructure development
Motor carriers
Pedestrians and bicycling
Performance measurement
Public participation and lobbying
Public transit
Regional and metropolitan planning
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Transportation Connections to Opportunity Act of 2014 - Requires the metropolitan transportation planning process to offer interested parties a reasonable opportunity to participate in the development and consideration of transportation scenarios in a metropolitan planning area. Includes as a national transportation goal an interconnected transportation system which connects people to jobs, schools, and other essential services through a multimodal network. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to establish a performance measure for use by metropolitan planning organizations in assessing the degree to which a transportation system provides multimodal connections to opportunity, particularly for transportation-disadvantaged populations.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a pilot program in which not more than 10 metropolitan planning organizations develop and deploy measures and targets to improve multimodal connectivity and increase connections for populations with limited transportation options; (2) create and maintain data sets and analysis tools to assist metropolitan planning organizations, states, and the Department of Transportation (DOT) in carrying out performance management analyses; and (3) carry out a broadband infrastructure initiative to expand right-of-way use to accommodate broadband infrastructure (buried or aerial facilities that provide wired or wireless connections to enable users to send and receive data) and improve broadband access in unserved and underserved areas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to include certain areas within the frontier and remote area levels designations.

Bill: 113-hr-5592
Sponsor: Rep. Gabbard, Tulsi [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alaska
Department of Health and Human Services
Hawaii
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), in developing methodology for designating areas with limited access to goods and services generally only found in urban areas (e.g., advanced medical care) as frontier and remote (FAR) areas, to: (1) designate as a FAR area any area in Hawaii or Alaska that the state designates as rural for a federal program, and (2) include, in addition to otherwise defined levels of remoteness for FAR areas, a level for areas with unique characteristics that should qualify those areas to be designated as FAR areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
To suspend from the visa waiver program any country that has identified passport holders fighting with an Islamist extremist organization, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-5594
Sponsor: Rep. Gabbard, Tulsi [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Immigration status and procedures
Iraq
Middle East
Syria
Terrorism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to: 
 
 
suspend from the visa waiver program any country that has identified passport holders fighting with Islamic extremist organizations, including such groups as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Qaeda affiliated organizations; and 
 
restore a suspended country's program participation upon a determination by the Secretary of State, the Secretary of DHS, and the Director of National Intelligence of the ability of both the suspended country and the United States to identify, track, and negate the risk of any individual entering the United States from such country under the program. 
 
 
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: 
 
 
the Comptroller General (GAO) should review the national security risks associated with the visa waiver program and report the results to Congress; 
 
the Secretary of DHS should strengthen the electronic travel authorization system (ESTA), identify any individual fighting with an Islamic extremist organization, and deny that individual the ability to enter the United States by means of ESTA; and 
 
the Secretary DHS should expeditiously complete the biometric entry and exit data system.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2014-09-18
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: 2014-09-18
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: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Student Loan Repayment Act

Bill: 113-hr-5596
Sponsor: Rep. Garcia, Joe [D-FL-26]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Military personnel and dependents
Student aid and college costs
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Fairness in Student Loan Repayment Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to make available to borrowers of Federal Family Education Loans (FFELs) the following loan repayment options and benefits that are made available to borrowers of William D. Ford Federal Direct Loans (DLs):
 
 
standard repayment plans, graduated repayment plans, extended repayment plans, income contingent repayment plans, income-based repayment plans, or alternative repayment plans that the Secretary deems appropriate;
 
the loan deferments that are made available to certain borrowers who are still in school, unemployed, performing specified military service, or facing an economic hardship;
 
 payments of interest on behalf of military personnel;
 
the repayment plan for public service employees; and
 
the non-accrual of interest on the loans of active duty military personnel.
 
 
Directs the Secretary to pay to FFEL holders the principal, interest, or special allowance payments needed to apply these options and benefits to FFEL borrowers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
EDIBLE Act

Bill: 113-hr-5597
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Agriculture
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Eliminate Dogmatic Interference by Bureaucratic Lunch Extremists Act or the EDIBLE Act - Prohibits the federal government from issuing or enforcing requirements for elementary or secondary schools with respect to food for which there is or will be a cost not covered by the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Travel and Resource Access Including Local Stakeholders Act

Bill: 113-hr-5598
Sponsor: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
General public lands matters
Intergovernmental relations
Mining
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Travel and Resource Access Including Local Stakeholders Act - Requires the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), as a condition on the preparation of an environmental impact statement or environmental assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) for a proposed access travel management action, to consult with affected counties for the purpose of incorporating their needs, uses, and input. Prohibits the Secretary from implementing such an action until the Secretary: (1) complies with such consultation requirement, and (2) obtains the concurrence of each affected county.
 
Defines an &quot;access travel management action&quot; as a BLM action that will alter public access to public lands, including any change in access to mining claims or access using motorized vehicles or nonmotorized means resulting from the decommissioning of a road or trail, a change in the status of a road as open or closed, or a change in road densities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Loan Simplification Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5599
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Government lending and loan guarantees
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Small Business Loan Simplification Act of 2014 - Amends the Small Business Act to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to: (1) amend regulations and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to authorize the SBA and participants in specified lending programs to use electronic signatures and records for the programs, and (2) accept such electronic signatures and records associated with SBA management and closing processes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Franchise Financing Improvement Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5600
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Corporate finance and management
Government lending and loan guarantees
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Franchise Financing Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make financial assistance available to franchisees under the Act or the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 if the franchisee is not affiliated with the franchisor.
 
Declares that a franchisee shall not be considered affiliated with the franchisor if:
 
 
 the franchisor has filed a disclosure document pursuant to specified federal regulations; and
 
 the franchisee, upon default on a loan (whether guaranteed by the SBA or not), has no ability to obtain financial assistance from the franchisor to repay the loan.
 
 
Declares further that a franchisor's authority to repurchase the franchise for noncompliance with its terms and conditions, or to have the right of first refusal to purchase it from the franchisee, shall not be considered financial assistance to repay loans issued to the franchisee. 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Foreclosure Restitution Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5601
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Civil actions and liability
Financial services and investments
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Foreclosure Restitution Act of 2014 - Appropriates specified funds from any amounts received by the Treasury as a civil monetary penalty from the recent settlement agreement between the United States, together with specified individual states, and the Bank of America, together with current and former subsidiaries and affiliates, to remain available until expended.
 
Limits the use of the funds to providing assistance, under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), to states and local governments for redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes.
 
Permits the use of the funds to assist in providing affordable housing or to mitigate indirect costs relating to foreclosures on residential mortgages.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 21350 Avalon Boulevard in Carson, California, as the "Juanita Millender-McDonald Post Office".

Bill: 113-hr-5602
Sponsor: Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-44]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: California
Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 21350 Avalon Boulevard in Carson, California, as the "Juanita Millender-McDonald Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1497)
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the conveyance of the Lake Fannin Tract of the Caddo National Grasslands in Fannin County, Texas, to the County, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-5603
Sponsor: Rep. Hall, Ralph M. [R-TX-4]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historical and cultural resources
Land transfers
Outdoor recreation
Texas
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey a 2,025-acre parcel of real property known as the Lake Fannin Tract of the Caddo National Grasslands in Fannin County, Texas, to Fannin County, without consideration, for the purpose of permitting the County to protect and restore the historic structures on the property and to use the property for recreational purposes.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) require the County to cover costs incurred by the Secretary to carry out the conveyance, and (2) adjust the boundaries of the Caddo National Grasslands to reflect the conveyance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Army to revise the management plan for the conservation pool in Lake Texoma, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-5604
Sponsor: Rep. Hall, Ralph M. [R-TX-4]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Lakes and rivers
Oklahoma
Texas
Water storage
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
 Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to revise the management plan for the conservation pool in Lake Texoma (Oklahoma and Texas) to ensure that: (1) the water surface elevation is maintained between 619 and 614 mean sea level; (2) if the water surface elevation is at or below 614 mean sea level, hydroelectric power generation is only conducted upon a determination by the Secretary, in consultation with the Lake Texoma Advisory Committee, that there are emergency power needs, including needs resulting from a natural disaster; and (3) additional water capacity resulting from the revised mean surface elevation may be made available for allocation and, if allocated, district water suppliers will be prioritized.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Public Safety and Federal Resources Act

Bill: 113-hr-5605
Sponsor: Rep. Holding, George [R-NC-13]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
U.S. Sentencing Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Protecting Public Safety and Federal Resources Act - Disapproves amendment number 3 of the Amendments to the Sentencing Guidelines submitted by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to Congress on April 30, 2014, relating to statutory mandatory minimum penalties for drug trafficking offenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Homemade Firearms Accountability Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5606
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Licensing and registrations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Homemade Firearms Accountability Act of 2014 - Amends the federal criminal code to authorize a person who has attained age 18 and desires to make a handgun, or to obtain a unique serial number or other identifying mark for a handgun made by the person after 1968, to request a licensed firearms dealer to issue such serial number or identifying mark for such handgun. Treats such request as a proposed transfer of the firearm from the dealer to the applicant for purposes of National Instant Criminal Background Check System provisions.
 
Allows a licensed dealer to: (1) issue such serial number and identifying mark if federal firearms provisions would not prohibit the dealer from transferring the firearm to the applicant, and (2) charge an applicant a fee for the costs of issuing each serial number and identifying mark and contacting the System.
 
Prohibits a person from: (1) making a firearm unless the person has obtained a serial number and identifying mark under this Act, or (2) possessing or transferring a firearm made by the person after 1968 (with exceptions) unless a serial number and identifying mark have been issued under this Act and are stamped on or otherwise permanently affixed to the firearm within 10 days after issuance. Requires any such firearm that is made from polymer plastic to be imbedded with 3.7 ounces of material type 17-4 PH stainless steel on which the serial number or identifying mark is permanently affixed.
 
Directs the Attorney General to maintain, and make available on request, information on: (1) the number of serial numbers and identifying marks issued under this Act, and (2) the number of arrests for violations of this Act.
 
Sets penalties for violating this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Voices of Human Trafficking Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5607
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Human trafficking
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Voices of Human Trafficking Act of 2014 - Establishes the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, which shall provide advice and recommendations to the Senior Policy Operating Group and the President's Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
 
Directs the Council to: (1) meet at least annually or at the request of the Group to review federal, state, and local government policy and programs intended to combat human trafficking, (2) formulate assessments and recommendations to ensure that U.S. policy and programming efforts conform to best practices in the field of human trafficking prevention, (3) meet with the Group at least annually to formally present the Council's findings and recommendations, and (4) submit annual reports to the Task Force.
 
Sunsets this Act on September 30, 2020.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House