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Doctors Helping Heroes Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4951
Sponsor: Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2014-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Immigration status and procedures
Medical education
Rural conditions and development
Veterans' medical care
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: 
Doctors Helping Heroes Act of 2014 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 to make permanent the J-1 visa waiver program (Conrad state 30/medical services in underserved areas).
 
Excludes from numerical immigration limitations alien physicians who have completed national interest waiver requirements by working in a health care shortage area (including alien physicians who completed such service before enactment of this Act and any of their spouses or children).
 
Sets forth specified employment protections and contract requirements for alien physicians working in underserved areas.
 
Increases the number of alien physicians that a state may be allocated from 30 to 35 per fiscal year in specified circumstances. Provides for additional increases or decreases based upon demand.
 
Provides up to three visa waivers per fiscal year per state for physicians in academic medical centers. 
 
Permits dual intent for an alien coming to the United States to receive graduate medical education or training, or to take examinations required for graduate medical education or training. 
 
Exempts from specified entry limitations H-1B nonimmigrant aliens seeking to enter the United States to pursue graduate medical education or training.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize waiver of the two-year foreign residency requirement for an alien who has received graduate medical eduction or training in the United States and seeks to apply for an immigrant visa or permanent resident status if: 
 
 
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) determines that VA facilities are not capable of furnishing covered health services to eligible veterans because they lack the required personnel or cannot provide timely and reasonable access; and 
 
the head of the appropriate state agency determines that the alien will practice medicine in a Veterans Health Administration facility, the alien physician's work is in the public interest, and such waiver would not cause the number of waivers allotted for that state for that fiscal year to exceed five. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Cell Phone Freedom Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4952
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2014-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: 
Cell Phone Freedom Act of 2014 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit any government official or employee from knowingly causing a mobile device phone to be shut down without the consent of the owner or account holder of that phone or without a court order authorizing such shutdown. Prescribes penalties for violating such prohibition, including removal from employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To grant a Federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated.

Bill: 113-hr-4953
Sponsor: Rep. Noem, Kristi L. [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Disability assistance
Federally chartered organizations
Indian social and development programs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: 
Grants a federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated (a nonprofit corporation organized in the United States). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Our Children Act

Bill: 113-hr-4954
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Dennis A. [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2014-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child care and development
Child safety and welfare
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Employee hiring
Employment discrimination and employee rights

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: 
Protecting Our Children Act - Amends the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 to exempt from its prohibition against lie detector use the employers of prospective employees who care for or supervise or interact with unsupervised children on a frequent basis.
 
Requires such prospective employees to be given reasonable written notice of the date, time, and location of the polygraph test and of their right to consult with legal counsel or an employee representative before each phase of the test.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the tariff preference level on imports of certain cotton and man-made fiber, fabric, apparel, and made-up goods from Bahrain under the United States-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement.

Bill: 113-hr-4955
Sponsor: Rep. Southerland, Steve II [R-FL-2]
Introduced: 2014-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Bahrain
Middle East
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through December 31, 2025, the duty-free treatment on a specified quantity of certain cotton and man-made fiber, fabric, apparel, and made-up goods imported into the United States from Bahrain under the United States-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Commonsense Legislative Exceptional Events Reforms Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4957
Sponsor: Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Atmospheric science and weather
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
Commonsense Legislative Exceptional Events Reforms Act of 2014 - Amends the Clean Air Act to revise the requirements for regulations that govern the review and handling of air quality monitoring data influenced by exceptional events. (The Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] may exclude monitored exceedances of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards from consideration when designating an area as nonattainment, redesignating an area as nonattainment, or reclassifying an existing nonattainment area to a higher classification if a state demonstrates that an exceptional event caused the exceedances.)
 
 Requires the criteria used to determine if an exceptional event was demonstrated to be specific in order to minimize the discretion of the EPA in approving or disapproving the demonstration.
 
 Requires the EPA to make a determination within 90 days after the submission of a petition by a state of an exceptional event demonstration. Considers the demonstration approved if the EPA does not make a determination by that deadline.
 
 Requires a determination to be based on a preponderance of the evidence and to accord substantial deference to the findings of the state exceptional event demonstration. Establishes an appeal process for reviewing a disapproval of a demonstration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Identify and Recover Sent E-Mails Act

Bill: 113-hr-4958
Sponsor: Rep. Flores, Bill [R-TX-17]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Evidence and witnesses
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
Identify and Recover Sent E-Mails Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) pay a cash award of $1 million to any individual or group who retrieves and submits to Congress the electronic communications sent by Lois Lerner during her employment with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and (2) pay a cash award of $500,000 to any individual or group who provides pertinent information sufficient for the prosecution of individuals involved in any illegal activities with respect to the destruction of the electronic communications sent by Lois Lerner during her employment with IRS. Directs payment of such awards from the IRS Taxpayer Services Account.
 
Limits the amount of funds that may be obligated for IRS employee salaries in 2014 until the electronic communications sent by Lois Lerner have been recovered and submitted to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
EEOC Transparency and Accountability Act

Bill: 113-hr-4959
Sponsor: Rep. Hudson, Richard [R-NC-8]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Age discrimination
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Disability and health-based discrimination
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government information and archives
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Judicial review and appeals
Legal fees and court costs
Performance measurement
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
EEOC Transparency and Accountability Act - Directs the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to provide information on its public website regarding each case brought in court by the EEOC after a judgment is made with respect to any cause of action.
 
Requires such information to include: (1) instances in which the EEOC was ordered to pay fees and costs; (2) cases in which a sanction was imposed on the EEOC; (3) the total number of charges of an alleged unlawful employment practice filed under specified provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; and (4) cases of systemic discrimination, including pattern or practice discrimination.
 
Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit the EEOC from bringing a suit unless it exhausts its obligation to engage in an informal conciliation and certifies that conciliation is at impasse.
 
Makes the determination as to whether the EEOC has engaged in a bona fide conciliation subject to judicial review.
 
Directs the EEOC Inspector General to notify Congress of any sanctions, fees, or costs imposed on the EEOC by a court. Requires the Inspector General to investigate such cases and the EEOC to report to Congress regarding the steps being taken to reduce such instances. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
CARS Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4960
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Todd [R-IN-9]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Income tax deductions
Motor vehicles
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
Charitable Automobile Red-Tape Simplification Act of 2014 or the CARS Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax deduction for charitable contributions, to modify the substantiation rules for donations of qualified vehicles (i.e., motor vehicles manufactured primarily for use on public streets, roads, and highways and boats or airplanes) to require: (1) a statement with respect to such qualified vehicles and a good faith estimate of their value at the time of donation; and (2) a contemporaneous written acknowledgement of the contribution by the donee organization, with information about the donor and the qualified vehicle.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
National Homeowners Bill of Rights Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4963
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan Grisham, Michelle [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government information and archives
Housing finance and home ownership
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Lawyers and legal services
Real estate business
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
National Homeowners Bill of Rights Act of 2014 - Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to require servicers of federally related mortgage loans to: (1) establish for each borrower's account a single electronic record accessible throughout the servicer, including its agents, and all its affordable loan modification staff, foreclosure staff, and bankruptcy staff; and (2) maintain a free, publicly accessible website where borrowers may check their estimated net present value. 
 
Requires servicers to provide free oral interpretation services, as well as translated documents, upon borrower request, which may be provided by contracting with housing counseling agencies approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
 
Prescribes requirements for the affordable loan modification process, including: (1) evaluation of borrowers facing imminent default, (2) assistance in applying for affordable loan modification, (3) treatment of successors in interest, (4) loan transfers, and (5) restrictions upon foreclosure proceedings.
 
Bars sale of the property securing the mortgage if the servicer of the mortgage does not file a certification with the appropriate land records office where the property securing the mortgage is located, stating that the servicer has determined the eligibility of the mortgagor for an affordable loan modification. 
 
Prescribes criteria governing: (1) mortgagor's eligibility to participate in an affordable loan modification, (2) earned principal forgiveness, (3) principal reduction, and (4) treatment of junior liens.
 
Subjects a servicer who violates this Act to a civil penalty, and to liability to the borrower. Limits to $1 million the maximum penalty for all violations committed by any particular servicer during any one-year period. 
 
Directs the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to appoint a Mortgage Servicer Ombudsman.
 
Subjects to a maximum fine of $7,500 per loan a servicer who records or files with a land records office or a court more than one document with material deficiencies (robo-signing) with respect to a mortgage loan.
 
Extends indefinitely the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009 by repealing its termination date. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Seniors' Access to Social Security Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4964
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Government information and archives
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
Seniors' Access to Social Security Act of 2014 - Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to continue to make available at Social Security Administration field offices Social Security number printouts through at least July 31, 2015, and benefit verification letters through at least September 30, 2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Pre-K for USA Act

Bill: 113-hr-4965
Sponsor: Rep. Castro, Joaquin [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Performance measurement
Preschool education
School administration
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
Pre-K for USA Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting jointly in accordance with an interagency agreement, to award competitive grants to local educational agencies or local governmental entities to develop, enhance, or expand high-quality preschool programs.
 
Requires each of those programs to include structural elements that are evidence-based and nationally recognized as important for ensuring program quality, including, at a minimum:
 
 
high staff qualifications, including having a teacher with a bachelor's degree in early childhood education or in any field with a state-approved alternate pathway to teaching preschool children and having teaching assistants with appropriate credentials;
 
high-quality professional development for all staff;
 
 at least 1 staff member for every 10 children;
 
a class size that does not exceed 20 children;
 
a full-day program;
 
the full inclusion of disabled children;
 
developmentally appropriate curricula and learning environments, that are aligned with state early learning and development standards, for at least the year preceding kindergarten;
 
individualized accommodations and supports so that all children can participate fully in learning activities;
 
instructional staff salaries that are comparable to the salaries of kindergarten through grade 12 teaching staff;
 
program evaluation to ensure continuous improvement;
 
onsite or accessible comprehensive services for children; and
 
 health and safety standards. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5736)
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Pathogen Reduction and Testing Reform Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4966
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Agriculture
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Meat

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
Pathogen Reduction and Testing Reform Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act to revise the definition of &quot;adulterated&quot; to make explicit the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) authority to issue a recall of meat, poultry, and egg products that contain microbial pathogens associated with serious illness or death or are resistant to two or more antibiotics critically important for human medicine. 
 
Requires the USDA to establish sampling protocols and testing procedures necessary to determine if meat, poultry, and egg products are adulterated under this Act and to prevent the entry, flow, or movement of those products into commerce. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-08-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development, and Credit.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Iran Nuclear Agreement Accountablity Act

Bill: 113-hr-4967
Sponsor: Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2014-06-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Congressional oversight
International law and treaties
Iran
Legislative rules and procedure
Middle East
Nuclear weapons
Sanctions

Summary:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: 
Iran Nuclear Agreement Accountability Act - Directs the President, within three days of the conclusion of any agreement between the United States, any other party, and the Islamic Republic of Iran related to Iran's nuclear program, to submit such agreement to Congress. 
 
Sets forth expedited procedures for a joint congressional resolution of approval or disapproval of any such agreement.
 
States that nothing in this Act shall be construed as approval of sanctions relief in connection with any agreement regarding Iran's nuclear program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-06-25
text: Introduced in House