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Student Loan Fair Prepayment Act

Bill: 113-hr-4236
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Student Loan Fair Prepayment Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require that when the holder of a borrower's loans under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) or William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (DL) programs receives a prepayment for such loans, it is to be applied first toward any fees due on such loans and then, unless the borrower requests otherwise, toward the principal due on the loan that bears the highest interest rate.
 
Makes that requirement inapplicable to income-based or income contingent repayment plans for FFELs or DLs.
 
Requires an institution of higher education holding a borrower's loans under the Federal Perkins Loan program to first apply any excess payments by the borrower toward any fees due on such loans and then, unless the borrower requests otherwise, toward the principal due on the loan that bears the highest interest rate.
 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require a private education loan holder that holds more than one private education loan for a borrower to apply any prepayments on those loans first toward any fees due on such loans and then, unless the borrower requests otherwise, toward the principal due on the loan that bears the highest interest rate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2014-03-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
Sustainable Water Infrastructure Investment Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4237
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Infrastructure development
Securities
Solid waste and recycling
State and local finance
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Sustainable Water Infrastructure Investment Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from state volume caps private facility bonds for sewage and water supply facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for requirements for employers of H-2B nonimmigrants, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-4238
Sponsor: Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Homeland Security
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Temporary and part-time employment
Transportation costs
Visas and passports
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to a returning H-2B alien (temporary nonagricultural worker) who has already been counted toward the annual numerical limitation. Exempts such an alien from that limitation unless he or she leaves the United States for more than one year and has not been counted toward the limitation in any of the three years before his or her departure.
 
Sets forth H-2B employer requirements regarding: (1) petitions, (2) transportation costs, (3) displacement of U.S. workers, (4) wages, (5) housing, and (6) an incentive for an employer to report absconding H-2B workers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
HEAL Immigrant Women and Families Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4240
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan Grisham, Michelle [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Immigrant health and welfare
Immigration status and procedures
Income tax credits
Medicaid
Poverty and welfare assistance
Sex and reproductive health
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Health Equity and Access under the Law for Immigrant Women and Families Act of 2014 or the HEAL Immigrant Women and Families Act of 2014 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP) of the Social Security Act to extend Medicaid and CHIP coverage to aliens lawfully present in the United States. 
 
Makes individuals granted deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals process eligible for: (1) health care exchanges and reduced cost sharing under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, (2) premium subsidies under the Internal Revenue Code, and (3) Medicaid and CHIP.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-03-13
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: 2014-03-13
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: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
Act to Ban Zohydro

Bill: 113-hr-4241
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Act to Ban Zohydro - Ends the sale and distribution of pure hydrocodone bitartrate extended-release capsules (marketed as Zohydro ER) within 45 days by withdrawing approval for its new drug application. Prohibits the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (FDA) from approving any new drug application for the capsules unless they are formulated to prevent abuse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
Humanitarian Firefighter Relief Act

Bill: 113-hr-4242
Sponsor: Rep. Nolan, Richard M. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Foreign aid and international relief
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Humanitarian Firefighter Relief Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 and the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to grant duty-free treatment of donated fire-fighting and rescue and relief equipment and supplies imported by or on behalf of a qualified tax-exempt nonprofit charitable organization for purposes of the inspection and subsequent donation and export of those items to countries and organizations in need.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 40, United States Code, to permit commercial filmmaking and photography on the United States Capitol grounds, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-4243
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Licensing and registrations
Photography and imaging
Television and film
U.S. Capitol
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Authorizes the Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police to:
 
 
 issue a permit authorizing a person to engage in appropriate commercial filmmaking and photography activity on the Capitol grounds, except for certain Capitol buildings, structures, and areas; and 
 
require the person to whom the permit is issued, under its terms and conditions, to pay an appropriate fee to cover any costs incurred by the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) resulting from the issuance.
 
 
Considers the activity and fee appropriate only if:
 
 
the activity is similar to the types of commercial activity permitted in Union Square before its transfer of jurisdiction and control to the AOC under the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2012; and
 
the fee is similar to the fee collected by the Director of the National Park Service for commercial activity permitted in Union Square before the transfer.
 
 
Requires the Chief to transfer the fees to the Capitol Trust Account established under the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E373-374)
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4244
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax credits
Small business
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the small employer health care insurance tax credit, to: (1) revise the definition of "eligible small employer" to mean an employer with not more than 50 (currently, 25) full-time employees; (2) increase the employee threshold from 10 to 20 employees for purposes of determining the maximum allowable amount of such credit; (3) eliminate the requirement that employers contribute the same percentage of cost of each employee's health insurance and the cap limiting eligible employer contributions to average premiums paid to a health care exchange; and (4) extend from 2 to 3 consecutive taxable years the period during which an employer may claim such credit. Treats health insurance providing essential health benefits as defined by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act through a plan not offered through an exchange as a qualified health plan offered through an exchange.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
Good Samaritan Protection for Construction, Architectural, and Engineering Volunteers Act

Bill: 113-hr-4246
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Building construction
Civil actions and liability
Disaster relief and insurance
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Good Samaritan Protection for Construction, Architectural, and Engineering Volunteers Act - Grants construction companies and architectural and engineering firms and their employees immunity from liability for negligence, except for gross negligence or willful misconduct, when providing emergency assistance on a voluntary basis in response to a declared emergency or disaster, in good faith, and without expectation of compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veterans Jobs Opportunity Act

Bill: 113-hr-4247
Sponsor: Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Disabled Veterans Jobs Opportunity Act - Entitles a veteran who has a service-connected disability or combination of service-connected disabilities rated as not less than 70% disabling by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) and who receives a passing grade in an examination for entrance into the federal competitive service to 15 additional points above his or her earned rating.
 
Requires a hiring agency to notify individuals who received a passing grade on an entrance examination in 2014 before the enactment of this Act to determine whether they are eligible for such additional points.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Education Outcomes Act

Bill: 113-hr-4248
Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Higher education
National Guard and reserves
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Veterans Education Outcomes Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education (IHEs) participating in title IV programs to inform prospective and enrolled students of the percentage of the IHE's full-time students who receive assistance under the All-Volunteer Force or Post 9/11 Educational Assistance programs or the program providing educational assistance for members of the Selected Reserve.
 
Requires those IHEs to disaggregate by the recipients of such assistance information, which they are required to provide to prospective and enrolled students, regarding: 
 
 
 their costs of attendance, 
 
 their completion or graduation rates, 
 
 their graduates' placement in employment and type of employment, 
 
 the types of graduate and professional education their graduating students pursue, and 
 
 their retention rate for undergraduate students.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
Helping Hungry Students Learn Act

Bill: 113-hr-4249
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2014-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: 
Helping Hungry Students Learn Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (Russell Act) to raise the eligibility level for free lunches under the school lunch program to 185% of the poverty level. (Currently it is set at 130%.)
 
Eliminates reduced price lunches, for which eligibility is currently set at 185% of the poverty level.
 
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to require schools participating in the school breakfast program to provide a free breakfast to each student who desires one. Sets the national average payment for each breakfast served to any child at the national average payment for each free breakfast served during the school year.
 
Requires states to provide additional assistance, in the form of higher breakfast reimbursement rates, to schools in which there is an alternative breakfast serving model to increase participation in the school breakfast program, such as by serving breakfast in the classroom or having a school breakfast cart.
 
Amends the Russell Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to award grants to assist states with the initial costs of participating in a summer electronic benefits transfer for children program to improve children's access to food during the summer months.
 
Directs the Secretary to implement a pilot program providing commodities, on a competitive basis, to states to enable nonprofits to serve nutritious food to at-risk school children on weekends and during extended school holidays during the school year. (At-risk school children are those who participate in the school lunch program and reside in an area served by a school in which at least 50% of the students receive free or reduced price meals under the school lunch or breakfast programs.) Includes elementary and secondary schools, school food authorities, food banks or pantries, homeless shelters, and other Secretary-approved emergency feeding agencies as eligible nonprofit program participants. Requires the nonprofits serving such commodities to satisfy safe food storage, handling, and delivery standards established by the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-13
text: Introduced in House
National Traumatic Brain Injury Research and Treatment Improvement Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4251
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2014-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Medical research
Neurological disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-14
text: 
National Traumatic Brain Injury Research and Treatment Improvement Act of 2014 - Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to: (1) evaluate existing surveillance and data collections systems that track the incidence and circumstances of traumatic brain injury, including concussion; (2) establish a statistically sound, scientifically credible, and integrated National Traumatic Brain Injury Surveillance System; and (3) ensure that the System is designed in a manner that facilitates further research on brain injury. 
 
Authorizes the Director to award grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, public or private nonprofit entities to carry out activities under this Act.
 
 Requires the Director to: (1) make information and analysis in the System available to the public, including researchers, and to other federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Departments of Education, Veterans Affairs (VA), and Defense (DOD); and (2) ensure that privacy and security protections applicable to the System are at least as stringent as those under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Vietnam Human Rights Sanctions Act

Bill: 113-hr-4254
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-39]
Introduced: 2014-03-14 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Detention of persons
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign and international banking
Foreign property
Government information and archives
Human rights
Immigration status and procedures
Protest and dissent
Religion
Sanctions
Vietnam
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2014-03-14
text: 
Vietnam Human Rights Sanctions Act - Directs the President to: (1) impose financial and immigration/entry sanctions on listed nationals of Vietnam who are complicit in human rights abuses committed against nationals of Vietnam or their family members, regardless of whether such abuses occurred in Vietnam; and (2) submit to Congress a publicly available list of individuals determined to be complicit in such human rights abuses.
 
Authorizes the President to waive sanctions to comply with international agreements. 
 
Terminates sanctions if the President certifies to Congress that the government of Vietnam has: (1) released all political prisoners; (2) ceased its practices of violence, detention, and abuse of citizens of Vietnam engaging in peaceful political activity; and (3) conducted a transparent investigation into the killings, arrest, and abuse of such political activists and prosecuted those responsible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Financial Services, 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: 2014-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Financial Services, 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: 2014-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Financial Services, 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: 2014-03-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Financial Services, 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: 2014-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-03-14
text: Introduced in House