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Elder Justice Reauthorization Act

Bill: 113-hr-5515
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-2]
Introduced: 2014-09-17 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Aging
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Health facilities and institutions
Law enforcement administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: 
Elder Justice Reauthorization Act - Reauthorizes the Elder Justice Act of 2009 and funding for its programs through FY2019.
 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to reauthorize through FY2019: (1) the National Training Institute for Federal and State Surveyors, and (2) grants by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to state agencies that perform surveys of skilled nursing facilities or nursing facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Our Great Lakes Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5516
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2014-09-17 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Great Lakes
Licensing and registrations
Marine pollution
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: 
Protecting Our Great Lakes Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit any discharge of dredged material into waters within Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, and Lake Superior lakeward from a line drawn across the mouth of tributaries to the Lakes. Includes within the area protected from discharges all waters enclosed by constructed breakwaters (barriers built in a body of water to break the force of waves and protect surrounding land). Excludes connecting channels from the protected area.
 
Requires any dredged material resulting from activity in the Great Lakes System to be reused in beneficial ways on land or disposed of in a confined land- or water-based disposal area determined to be economically and environmentally viable by the Army Corps of Engineers in consultation with concerned states.
 
Treats violators of the prohibition as having violated a condition or limitation set forth in a permit to discharge dredged or fill material into waters of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5517
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2014-09-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Georgia
Historic sites and heritage areas
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: 
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park Act of 2014 - Redesignates the Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site in the state of Georgia as the &quot;Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.&quot; Replaces the current boundary map with an updated map dated April 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
Assuring Quality Care for Veterans Act

Bill: 113-hr-5518
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2014-09-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: 
Assuring Quality Care for Veterans Act - Authorizes (current law requires) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to reimburse any full-time board-certified health professional (under current law, physician or dentist) appointed to the VA for continuing professional education expenses incurred, up to $1,600 per year (under current law, $1,000).
 
Directs that the expenses incurred be expenses required to maintain licensure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
SAFE for America Act

Bill: 113-hr-5520
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2014-09-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of State
Immigration status and procedures
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: 
Security and Fairness Enhancement for America Act of 2014 or the SAFE for America Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
ATF Elimination Act

Bill: 113-hr-5522
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2014-09-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Alcoholic beverages
Crimes against property
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Firearms and explosives
Smuggling and trafficking
Terrorism
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: 
ATF Elimination Act - Rescinds the hiring authority of the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
 
Requires the Director, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to jointly develop and submit a plan for winding up the affairs of ATF that, without compromising core functions, eliminates and reduces duplicative, unnecessary functions or waste.
 
Requires the Director of the FBI to transmit to the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) a report that specifies the property to be transferred to the FBI pursuant to this Act that the Director has determined will not be needed by the FBI.
 
Abolishes ATF.
 
Transfers ATF functions relating to the investigation and enforcement of: (1) criminal and regulatory violations of the federal firearms, explosives, and arson laws, and the investigation of violent crime and domestic terrorism to the Attorney General, who shall delegate them to the FBI; and (2) criminal and regulatory violations of the federal alcohol and tobacco smuggling laws to the Attorney General, who shall delegate them to the DEA.
 
Transfers: (1) the contracts, liabilities, records, property, and other assets and interests associated with such transferred functions to the Attorney General for appropriate allocation; and (2) personnel employed in connection with the transferred functions to the Attorney General.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
Employee Benefits Protection Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5523
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2014-09-17 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Employee benefits and pensions
Evidence and witnesses
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Judicial procedure and administration
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: 
Employee Benefits Protection Act of 2014 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require the mandatory summary description of a group health plan to declare: (1) whether the plan permits either the plan sponsor or any participating employer to unilaterally modify or terminate plan benefits affecting employees, retirees, and beneficiaries; and (2) when and to what extent plan benefits are fully vested with respect to these individuals.
 
Presumes that retiree health benefits cannot be modified or terminated as of the date an employee retires or completes 20 years of service with the employer. Allows this presumption to be overcome only upon a showing, by clear and convincing evidence, that the employee, before becoming a plan participant, was made aware, in clear and unambiguous terms, that the plan allowed for such a modification or termination of benefits.
 
Amends the National Labor Relations Act to make it an unfair labor practice for a labor organization and employer to enter into a contract or agreement to modify a previous agreement in a manner that results in a reduction or termination of retiree health insurance benefits, if the modification occurs after the retiree's retirement date. 
 
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to report to Congress on strategies used by corporations to avoid obligations to pay promised employee and retiree benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5524
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2014-09-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Family planning and birth control
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
Sex offenses
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: 
Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2014 - Expands the TRICARE health care program managed by the Department of Defense (DOD) to entitle additional female beneficiaries and dependents to care related to the prevention of pregnancy. (Currently, such care is limited to certain female members of the uniformed service or a reserve component performing active duty or certain servicewomen performing inactive-duty training.) Prohibits cost-sharing from being imposed or collected for such pregnancy prevention care, including for any method of contraception provided through a facility of the uniformed services, the TRICARE retail pharmacy program, or the national mail-order pharmacy program.
 
Provides for such pregnancy prevention care to include all methods of contraception approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling.
 
Directs the DOD Secretary to: (1) ensure that every military treatment facility has a sufficient stock of a broad range of FDA-approved methods of contraception to dispense to any women members of the Armed Forces and female covered beneficiaries who receive care through such facility; (2) disseminate clinical practice guidelines and decision support tools to DOD-employed health care providers; (3) ensure that women members of the Armed Forces have access to contraception counseling during health care visits; and (4) establish an education program for all members of the Armed Forces, including both men and women members, consisting of a uniform standard curriculum on family planning.
 
Requires questions regarding family planning services and counseling to be incorporated into DOD health surveys.
 
Requires every military treatment facility, upon request, to provide emergency contraception, or information about FDA-approved methods of emergency contraception, to any woman who: (1) states to personnel that she is a victim of sexual assault or is accompanied by another individual who states that the woman is a victim of sexual assault, or (2) is reasonably believed to be a survivor of sexual assault.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-17
text: Introduced in House
Political Intelligence Transparency Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5525
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commodities markets
Congressional operations and organization
Federal officials
Financial services and investments
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Licensing and registrations
Members of Congress
Public participation and lobbying
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Political Intelligence Transparency Act of 2014 - Amends the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA) to require the disclosure of political intelligence activities, particularly relating to information useful for analyzing securities or commodities markets.
 
Requires political intelligence consultants or their employing organizations to register with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and make quarterly reports on political intelligence activities.
 
Requires any person or entity that makes an oral or written political intelligence contact with a covered legislative branch or executive branch official on the official's request to: (1) state whether such person or entity is registered under the LDA, (2) identify the client on behalf of whom the contact is made, and (3) state whether such client is a foreign entity, and make any related disclosures.
 
Amends the federal criminal code to subject to a fine or imprisonment, or both, certain former officers, employees, and elected officials of the executive and legislative branches who knowingly make any communication to or appearance before any officer or employee of a federal or District of Columbia agency or court in violation of certain permanent or temporary restrictions, and with the intent to gain information for use in analyzing securities or commodities markets, or in informing investment decisions in these markets.
 
Excludes from such prohibition any communication made by a representative of a media organization to gather and disseminate news and information to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
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
Manufacturing Universities Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5526
Sponsor: Rep. Esty, Elizabeth H. [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Higher education
Manufacturing
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Science and engineering education
Small business
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Manufacturing Universities Act of 2014 - Authorizes the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish a program to designate up to 25 institutions of higher education as U.S. manufacturing universities that are to be awarded funds over a four-year period.
 
Requires an institution applying for such program to submit a plan describing its engineering programs, its relationship to manufacturing industries, and its ability to positively impact local and regional economic development. 
 
Requires NIST to recommend adaptations to certain Small Business Act programs to assist small businesses that collaborate with such universities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act

Bill: 113-hr-5527
Sponsor: Rep. Esty, Elizabeth H. [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Science and engineering education
Small business
Technology transfer and commercialization
Women in business
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act - Amends the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act to authorize the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support entrepreneurial programs that recruit and support women to extend their focus beyond the laboratory and into the commercial world. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Introduced in House
Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5528
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: General taxation matters
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2014 - Makes technical and clerical amendments to:
 
 
the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012; 
 
the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012;
 
the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012; 
 
the Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2010;
 
the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010; 
 
the Creating Small Business Jobs Act of 2010; 
 
the Hiring Incentives To Restore Employment Act;
 
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009;
 
the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008;
 
the Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008;
 
the Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008;
 
the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008;
 
the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008;
 
the Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2007;
 
the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006;
 
the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2005: A Legacy for Users;
 
the Energy Tax Incentives Act of 2005; and
 
the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004. 
 
 
Eliminates provisions in the Internal Revenue Code that are not used in computing current tax liabilities (referred to as deadwood provisions).


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 require that hunting activities be a land use in all management plans for Federal land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture to the extent that such use is not clearly incompatible with the purposes for which the Federal land is managed, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-5530
Sponsor: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2014-09-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Hunting and fishing
Land use and conservation
Outdoor recreation
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: 
Requires an agency: (1) when developing or considering approval of a management plan for federal land, to ensure that hunting activities are allowed as a use of such land to the extent that such use is not clearly incompatible with the purposes for which the land is managed; and (2) to set forth in a management plan the specific reason that hunting activities are not allowed or are restricted. 
 
Provides that: (1) allowing contract or quota thinning of wildlife shall not constitute allowing unrestricted hunting, and (2) charging a fee related to hunting activities on federal land that exceeds what is needed to recoup costs of managing such land shall be deemed to be a restriction on hunting.
 
Requires fees charged related to hunting activities on federal land to be: (1) retained by the state or local authority tasked with managing the land (or, where such a state or local authority doesn't exist, by the head of the agency with jurisdiction over such land); and (2) limited to what the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) reasonably estimates to be necessary to offset the costs directly related to management of hunting on such land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
action_date: 2014-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2014-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
action_date: 2014-09-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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 Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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