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BRAVE Act

Bill: 114-hr-1382
Sponsor: Rep. Rice, Kathleen M. [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2015-03-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: 

Boosting Rates of American Veteran Employment Act or the BRAVE Act

 
Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in awarding a contract for the procurement of goods or services, to give preference to offerors based on the percentage of the offeror's employees who are veterans.
 
Requires the debarment from contracting with the VA for not less than five years of any offeror determined to have willfully and intentionally misrepresented the veteran status of its employees. 

action_date: 2015-05-18
text: 

Boosting Rates of American Veteran Employment Act or the BRAVE Act

 
(Sec. 2) Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in awarding a contract or task order for the procurement of goods or services, to give preference to offerors based on the percentage of the offeror's full-time employees who are veterans.
 
Requires the debarment from contracting with the VA for not less than five years of any offeror determined to have willfully and intentionally misrepresented the veteran status of its employees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-19
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 404 - 0 (Roll no. 242). (text: CR H3261-3262)
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 404 - 0 (Roll no. 242).(text: CR H3261-3262)
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3294-3295)
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1382.
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3261-3263)
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Mr. Wenstrup moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2015-04-16
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2015-04-16
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-03-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Adult Day Services Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1383
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2015-03-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adult day care
Health care coverage and access
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: 

Medicare Adult Day Services Act of 2015 

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) cover certified adult day services furnished in a certified adult day services center and meeting specified requirements, and (2) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to increase by 3% the payment amount otherwise effective for such services furnished in a rural area on or after January 1, 2016, and before January 1, 2018. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2015-03-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Introduced in House
SESO Act

Bill: 114-hr-1386
Sponsor: Rep. Curbelo, Carlos [R-FL-26]
Introduced: 2015-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Public contracts and procurement
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: 

Small Entrepreneur Subcontracting Opportunities Act of 2015 or the SESO Act

 
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 is amended with respect to the requirement that federal agency heads ensure that senior executive personnel responsible for acquisition assume responsibility for that agency's success in achieving small business contracting goals and percentages.
 
Such personnel are also responsible for the agency's success in achieving small business prime contracting and subcontracting goals and percentages.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Fairness for Farmers Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1387
Sponsor: Rep. Ellmers, Renee L. [R-NC-2]
Introduced: 2015-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Foreign labor
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: 

Fairness for Farmers Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude nonimmigrant agricultural seasonal workers from the definition of "full-time employee" for purposes of the employer mandate to provide employees with minimum essential health care coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Clean Air, Strong Economies Act

Bill: 114-hr-1388
Sponsor: Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2015-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: 
 
Clean Air, Strong Economies Act

 
This bill prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from lowering its national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ozone until at least 85% of counties that are in nonattainment areas (counties that are exceeding the limit) have attained the standard.
 
In promulgating a primary or secondary NAAQS for ozone, the EPA must: 
 
 
 only consider a county to be a nonattainment area on the basis of direct air quality monitoring (rather than modeling); 
 
 take into consideration feasibility and cost; and 
 
 include in the regulatory impact analysis for the proposed and final rule at least one analysis that does not include any calculation of benefits resulting from reducing emissions of any pollutant other than ozone.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1773)
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Joint Venturing Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1390
Sponsor: Rep. Knight, Stephen [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2015-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: 

Small Business Joint Venturing Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Small Business Act to revise requirements with respect to solicitation of offers for bundled contracts issued by the head of a federal agency that allows a small business to submit an offer (bid) that provides for the use of a particular team of subcontractors for the performance of the contract.
 
The small business is also permitted to bid on a bundled or consolidated contract that provides for the use of a joint venture of small businesses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Social Security 2100 Act

Bill: 114-hr-1391
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2015-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aging
Disability assistance
Employment taxes
Government trust funds
Inflation and prices
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Self-employed
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: 

Social Security 2100 Act

 
 Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSAct) to:
 
 
increase the primary insurance amount formula factor from 90% to 93% for all eligible beneficiaries, beginning in 2016;
 
revise computation of cost-of-living adjustments to use the Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers;
 
increase the special minimum primary insurance amount for lifetime low earners based on years in the workforce.
 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to increase the gross income threshold for taxation of Social Security benefits from $25,000 to $50,000 for single taxpayers and from $32,000 to $100,000 for married taxpayers filing joint returns, beginning in 2016.
 
Amends the IRC and SSAct title II to impose the employment tax on all wage income above $400,000, effective in 2016. Requires incremental increases, up to 15.3% in 2084, in the employment and self-employment taxes.
 
Amends SSAct title II to include 2% of an individual's excess average indexed monthly earnings (over $400,000 per annum) in the formula for determining primary insurance amounts.
 
Amends IRC to increase the Social Security tax rate on employees and employers and with respect to self-employment income.
 
Requires reallocation of a portion of employment tax revenues from the OASDI Trust Fund to the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for wages paid after 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-03-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2029-2031)
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
FOCUS Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1392
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Robert A. [D-PA-1]
Introduced: 2015-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
Motor vehicles
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: 

Fighting Occupied Cell Use So Everyone Drives More Safely Act of 2015 or the FOCUS Act of 2015

 
This bill directs the Secretary of Transportation to withhold 25% of a state's apportionment of certain federal-aid highway funds for a fiscal year if the state has not enacted and is not enforcing a law that:
 
 
prohibits an operator of a moving motor vehicle from using a communication device, except in the event of an emergency, if the operator is under age 21, and using a hand-held communication device if that operator is 21 or older; and
 
requires, upon conviction of a violation of such prohibition, the imposition of penalties similar to those for conviction of the offense of driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence.
 
 
&quot;Communication device&quot; means a mobile telephone or other portable electronic communication device with which a user engages in a call or writes, sends, or reads a message, or plays a game or watches a video.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Innovation in Surface Transportation Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1393
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2015-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air quality
Economic development
Government information and archives
Pedestrians and bicycling
Public transit
Railroads
Roads and highways
Rural conditions and development
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: 

Innovation in Surface Transportation Act of 2015

 
 Directs the Secretary of Transportation , in coordination with state transportation departments, to establish an innovation in surface transportation program.
 
Requires states to make competitive grants for innovative surface transportation projects to eligible entities, including local governments, metropolitan planning organizations, regional transportation authorities, transit agencies, tribal governments, private providers of public transportation, nonprofit transportation organizations, port authorities, joint power authorities, and local rail authorities.
 
Requires each state to establish an innovation in surface transportation selection panel to formulate criteria for selecting projects.
 
Requires a state to reserve certain percentages of federal funds apportioned for the national highway performance, the highway safety improvement, the congestion mitigation and air quality improvement, surface transportation, and transportation alternatives programs in order to fund related projects under state innovative surface transportation grants.
 
Authorizes states to reserve a certain percentage of such funds for a fiscal year to meet specific requests for project application support from eligible rural local governments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Border Commerce and Travel Act

Bill: 114-hr-1394
Sponsor: Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2015-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Canada
Government studies and investigations
Latin America
Mexico
Motor vehicles
Pedestrians and bicycling
Travel and tourism
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: 

Promoting Border Commerce and Travel Act 

 
Prohibits the Secretary of Homeland Security from: (1) establishing, collecting, or otherwise imposing a border crossing fee for pedestrians or passenger vehicles at land ports of entry along the southern or northern border of the United States; or (2) conducting any study relating to imposition of such a fee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Let Seniors Work Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1395
Sponsor: Rep. DeSantis, Ron [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2015-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Employment taxes
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: 

Let Seniors Work Act of 2015 

 
 Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to: (1) eliminate the payroll tax for individuals who have attained retirement age, and (2) remove the limitation on the amount of outside income which a beneficiary may earn (earnings test) without incurring a reduction in benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Federal Communications Commission Collaboration Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1396
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2015-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Lawyers and legal services
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: 

Federal Communications Commission Collaboration Act of 2015

 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow a bipartisan majority of Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), notwithstanding a specified open meeting provision, to hold a meeting that is closed to the public to discuss official business if: (1) no agency action is taken, (2) each person present is an FCC Commissioner or employee or a member or person on the staff of a joint board or conference to which the FCC has referred a matter, and (3) an attorney from the FCC's Office of General Counsel is present. 
 
Defines &quot;bipartisan majority&quot; as a group of at least three Commissioners that includes: (1) for each political party of which any Commissioner is a member, at least one Commissioner who is a member of such political party; and (2) if any Commissioner has no political party affiliation, at least one unaffiliated Commissioner. 
 
Requires public disclosure of the meeting, attendees, and matters discussed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1397
Sponsor: Rep. Fleming, John [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2015-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: 

Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2015 

 
This bill directs the Internal Revenue Service to make available to taxpayers who have turned age 65 at the close of the taxable year a new federal income tax Form 1040SR (similar to the existing Form 1040EZ). Such taxpayers can use this new form even if their income includes: (1) social security benefits; (2) distributions from qualified retirement plans, annuities, or other such deferred payment arrangements; (3) interest and dividends; or (4) capital gains and losses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-17
text: Introduced in House