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Peaceful Learning Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5575
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Business records
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Government studies and investigations
Medical research
Noise pollution
Railroads
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Peaceful Learning Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to study railway noise in the United States.
 
Requires the Secretary, by regulation, to:
 
 
 establish a single system of measuring railway noise that: (1) has a highly reliable relationship between projected railway noise exposure and surveyed reactions of individuals to noise, and (2) is applied uniformly in measuring railway noise near urbanized areas;
 
establish a single system for determining the exposure of individuals to railway noise in urbanized areas; and
 
determine, based on the study findings, minimum standards for railway noise levels on the property of a school located in an urbanized area.
 
 
Requires each rail operator to submit to DOT a noise exposure map showing any areas of nonconforming railway noise levels (based on such standards) that: (1) adversely impact a school located in an urbanized area, and (2) are caused by operations of the rail operator.
 
Authorizes a rail operator that submitted a noise exposure map to DOT also to submit a noise compatibility program.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to incur obligations to make grants to specified entities for up to 80% of the costs of carrying out a project under an approved noise compatibility program.
 
Bars admission of a noise exposure map and related information into evidence, or their use for any other purpose, in a civil action asking for relief for noise resulting from the operation of a fixed rail public transportation facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
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
USAccounts: Investing in America's Future Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5576
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government trust funds
Higher education
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices
Poverty and welfare assistance
Student aid and college costs
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
USAccounts: Investing in America's Future Act of 2014 - Establishes in the Treasury the USAccount Fund to make contributions to accounts known as USAccounts, which are established under this Act for each child of a taxpayer qualifying for the child tax credit who has not attained age 17. Provides for an initial government contribution of $500 to a USAccount, private contributions up to $2,000, and government matching contributions up to $500 in a calendar year. Allows tax-exempt distributions from USAccounts for higher education expenses and for funding individual retirement plans of a qualifying child. 
 
Establishes in the executive branch a USAccount Fund Board to manage investments in the USAccount Fund.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exempt the USAccount Fund and USAccounts from income taxation, and (2) increase the amount of the child tax credit by the applicable USAccount contribution amount. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to eliminate origination fees for Federal Direct Loans.

Bill: 113-hr-5577
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that no origination fees should be charged on any future loans under the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program. (Origination fees are the fees lenders charge for processing new loan applications.)
 
Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to repeal the Secretary of Education's authority to charge an origination fee on a Direct Loan first disbursed, or, in the case of a Direct Consolidation Loan, for which an application is received, on or after July 1, 2015.


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
Employer Participation in Refinancing Act

Bill: 113-hr-5578
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Employer Participation in Refinancing Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an exclusion from gross income for the payment of an employer, either to an employee or a lender, of any indebtedness of an employee under a qualified education refinance loan or any interest relating to such a loan. Defines "qualified education refinance loan" as any indebtedness used solely to refinance a qualified education loan with respect to which the lender offers the borrower protection in the event of unemployment or financial hardship.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
LEAP Act

Bill: 113-hr-5579
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional agencies
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government Publishing Office (GPO)
Government information and archives
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Leveraging and Energizing America's Apprenticeship Programs Act or the LEAP Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business-related tax credit of $1,500 for hiring an apprenticeship employee who has not attained age 25 at the close of the taxable year or $1,000 for an apprenticeship employee who has attained age 25. Allows such credit for no more than two taxable years with respect to any apprenticeship employee. Defines "apprenticeship employee" as an employee who is employed in an officially-recognized apprenticeable occupation pursuant to an apprentice agreement registered with the Office of Apprenticeship of the Employment and Training Administration of the Department of Labor or a state apprenticeship agency. 
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to coordinate with the heads of federal agencies to: (1) determine which government publications could be available on government websites and no longer printed, (2) devise a strategy to reduce overall government printing costs over the 10-year period beginning with FY2015, (3) establish government-wide guidelines on employee printing, and (4) issue guidelines for publicly disclosing information about the publication of government documents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Accelerating Biomedical Research Act

Bill: 113-hr-5580
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Accelerating Biomedical Research Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to require certain adjustments to discretionary spending limits in FY2015-FY2021 to accommodate increases in appropriations to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Naugatuck River Valley National Heritage Area Study Act

Bill: 113-hr-5582
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Connecticut
Government studies and investigations
Historic sites and heritage areas

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Naugatuck River Valley National Heritage Area Study Act - Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a study on the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Naugatuck River Valley National Heritage Area in Connecticut. Requires submission of the study's results to Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-30
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
Layoff Prevention Extension Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5583
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Unemployment
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Layoff Prevention Extension Act of 2014 - Amends the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 with respect to state short-time compensation programs that allow employers to reduce the workweek of their employees in lieu of layoffs.
 
Extends federal financing of the programs for an additional year.
 
Extends through December 31, 2015, the deadline for a state to submit to the Secretary of Labor its application for a short-time compensation program grant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
GO PACC Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5585
Sponsor: Rep. Duffy, Sean P. [R-WI-7]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Competition and antitrust
Consumer affairs
Intellectual property
Licensing and registrations
Television and film
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Granting Our People Access to Channel Choice Act of 2014 or the GO PACC Act of 2014 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require a cable operator or satellite carrier to provide to certain subscribers in specified Wisconsin counties who elect to receive a television network: (1) retransmission of the signal of any local network station that such operator or carrier is otherwise required to retransmit; (2) an in-state, adjacent-market network station retransmission; or (3) both such retransmissions. Subjects satellite carriers to such requirements only to the extent that such retransmissions are technically feasible. 
 
Defines &quot;in-state, adjacent-market network station retransmission&quot; as the secondary transmission by a cable operator or satellite carrier of the primary transmission of any network station whose community of license is located: (1) in a subscriber's state, and (2) in a local market that is adjacent to the subscriber's local market.
 
Provides for this Act to apply, with respect to such an in-state, adjacent-market network station retransmission to a subscriber, to specified Wisconsin counties (Barron, Burnett, Dunn, Pierce, Polk, St. Croix, and Washburn) that are not in the local market of any television broadcast station that is affiliated with the same network and whose community of license is located in the subscriber's state.
 
Exempts in-state, adjacent-market network station retransmissions in such counties from: (1) retransmission consent requirements that prohibit cable operators from retransmitting broadcast stations without the authority of the originating station, and (2) statutory licensing limitations under federal copyright laws concerning satellite retransmissions to unserved households and secondary transmissions of distant signals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 Energy and Commerce, 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
You Own Devices Act

Bill: 113-hr-5586
Sponsor: Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Intellectual property
Lease and rental services
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
You Own Devices Act - Amends federal copyright law to allow the owner of a machine or other product operated in any part by a computer program to transfer an authorized copy of the computer program, or the right to obtain such copy, when the owner sells, leases, or otherwise transfers the machine or product to another person. Prohibits such right to transfer the computer program from being waived by any agreement.
 
Requires any right to receive modifications to such a computer program relating to security or error correction that applied to the owner of the machine or product to apply to the person to whom the machine or product and the copy of the computer program are transferred.
 
Prohibits this Act from being construed to permit the owner to retain an unauthorized copy of the computer program after such a transfer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
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
Opioid Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5587
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Medical ethics
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Prescription drugs
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Opioid Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 2014 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to states to develop a peer review process to identify and investigate questionable or inappropriate prescribing and dispensing patterns of drugs classified as schedule II or III under the Controlled Substances Act, which are drugs with an accepted medical use that have the potential to be abused and addictive.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to establish grant programs to: (1) facilitate training to increase the capacity of health care providers to screen and treat patients to prevent drug abuse, and (2) develop continuing education criteria that allow health profession boards or state agencies to certify appropriate education for safe prescribing of schedule II or III drugs. Requires the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration to award grants to evaluate the prospect of state health professions boards expanding the authority of providers to prescribe drugs to treat drug abuse.
 
Requires the Attorney General to request that practitioners registered to dispense controlled substances screen patients for potential drug abuse before prescribing a schedule II or III drug.
 
Directs the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider whether naloxone (a prescription drug used to rapidly reverse an overdose of heroin or other opioids, which are drugs with effects similar to opium) should be available without a prescription.
 
Requires the Secretary to use an interagency working group to encourage states and local governments to increase opportunities for disposal of opiates (drugs derived from opium) and to reduce opportunities for abuse of opiates.
 Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review federal opioid abuse activities and make recommendations to reduce opioid abuse and overdoses.

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
Payer State Transparency Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5588
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Payer State Transparency Act of 2014 - Directs: (1) the Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce to calculate the federal tax burden of each state for each fiscal year, (2) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to calculate the total amount of federal outlays received by each state in each fiscal year, and (3) the Secretary of Commerce and the OMB Director to jointly report to Congress on the results of such calculations and publish such report on the publicly accessible website of the Bureau of Economic Analysis. 


Legislative actions:
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
Veteran Education Empowerment Act

Bill: 113-hr-5589
Sponsor: Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-22]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Higher education
Military personnel and dependents
School administration
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Veteran Education Empowerment Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award four-year grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) to establish, maintain, and improve a veteran student center.
 
Requires grantees to be IHEs that:
 
 
have a population of at least 15,000 students, of which at least 1% are veterans or members of the Armed Forces;
 
are located in a region or community that has a significant veteran population;
 
carry out programs or activities that assist veterans in the local community; and
 
present a sustainability plan demonstrating that their veteran student center will be maintained and will continue to operate after the grant ends.
 
 
Defines a &quot;veteran student center&quot; as a dedicated space on a campus that provides students who are veterans or members of the Armed Forces with: (1) a lounge or meeting space for such students and veterans in the community, and (2) a centralized office for veteran services that is staffed by trained employees and volunteers. 
 
Requires that office to provide such students with assistance in: 
 
 
transitioning from the military to student life,
 
transitioning from the military to the civilian workforce, 
 
networking with other students, 
 
understanding and obtaining the federal and state benefits for which they may be eligible, and 
 
understanding how to succeed in the IHE.
 


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
Go to High School, Go to College Act

Bill: 113-hr-5590
Sponsor: Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Go to High School, Go to College Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to carry out (from July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2020) a program awarding Early College Federal Pell Grants to students to support their enrollment in, and completion of, postsecondary courses offered through early college high schools.
 
Deems students who would be eligible for a Federal Pell Grant if not for their enrollment in secondary school to be eligible for an Early College Federal Pell Grant upon their completion of a full-time postsecondary semester or its equivalent.
 
Allows students to receive Early College Federal Pell Grants in an amount equal to the cost of not more than four full-time postsecondary semesters or the equivalent while enrolled in postsecondary courses offered by an early college high school.
 
Counts Early College Federal Pell Grants toward the twelve semester, or equivalent, limit on a student's receipt of Federal Pell Grants.


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