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Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1972
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Emergency planning and evacuation
Licensing and registrations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Nuclear power
Radioactive wastes and releases
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require, for a commercial license for an atomic power production or utilization facility, that: (1) the facility does not pose an unreasonable threat to persons or the environment because of safety or security vulnerabilities (including vulnerability to terrorist attacks), and (2) there exist adequate evacuation plans for emergency events which have been approved by the relevant federal agencies and states within 50 miles of the facility.
 
Conditions renewal of any such license on the same criteria and requirements applicable to an original application for initial construction.
 
Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to ensure that any changes in the size or distribution of the surrounding population, or seismic or other scientific data not available at the time of original licensing, have not resulted in the facility's being located at a site at which a new facility would not be allowed to be built.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
To require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to retain and redistribute certain amounts collected as fines.

Bill: 114-hr-1973
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
Intergovernmental relations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Nuclear power
Radioactive wastes and releases
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 
Requires the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to retain amounts collected for safety-related fines and to distribute them to counties for maintaining radiological emergency preparedness plans required in connection with the nuclear facility with respect to which the fines were collected. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
HEAL for Immigrant Women and Families Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1974
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan Grisham, Michelle [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
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: 2015-04-22
text: 

Health Equity and Access under the Law for Immigrant Women and Families Act of 2015 or the HEAL Immigrant Women and Families Act of 2015

 
This bill 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. 
 
 Individuals granted deferred action are eligible for: (1) health insurance 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: 2015-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-04-22
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: 2015-04-22
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: 2015-04-22
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: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Securities and Exchange Commission Overpayment Credit Act

Bill: 114-hr-1975
Sponsor: Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Securities and Exchange Commission Overpayment Credit Act 

 
This bill amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to offset future fees and assessments otherwise due from a national securities exchange or national securities association if it is informed within 10 years that the entity has overpaid past fees and assessments.
 
This requirement applies to any fees and assessments paid before, on, or after the enactment of this Act.

action_date: 2016-04-19
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 

Securities and Exchange Commission Overpayment Credit Act 

 
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to offset future fees and assessments otherwise due from a national securities exchange or national securities association if it is informed within 10 years that the entity has overpaid past fees and assessments.
 
This requirement applies to any fees and assessments paid before, on, or after the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-19
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 385.
action_date: 2016-04-19
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 114-505.
action_date: 2016-04-19
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 114-505.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 57 - 0.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1976
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Arms control and nonproliferation
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
International law and treaties
Military operations and strategy
Nuclear weapons
Radioactive wastes and releases

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act of 2015

 
 Requires the government: (1) to provide leadership to negotiate and enter into a multilateral treaty or other international agreement that provides for the dismantlement and elimination of all nuclear weapons in every country by 2022; (2) once the President certifies that all countries have eliminated such weapons or begun such elimination under established legal requirements, to redirect resources that are being used for nuclear weapons programs to addressing human and infrastructure needs and to converting nuclear weapons industry employees, processes, plants, and programs to constructive, ecologically beneficial peacetime activities; (3) to undertake efforts to eliminate war, armed conflict, and all military operations; and (4) to promote policies to induce all other countries to join in such commitments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2015-04-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E559)
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
COAST Anti-Drilling Act

Bill: 114-hr-1977
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
Atlantic Ocean
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mining
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-Drilling Act or the COAST Anti-Drilling Act

 
 Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease or other authorization for the exploration, development, or production of oil, natural gas, or any other mineral in either the Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, or the North Atlantic planning areas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayer Economic Hardship Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1979
Sponsor: Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Debt collection
Department of the Treasury
Employee performance
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Performance measurement
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Taxpayer Economic Hardship Protection Act of 2015 

 
This bill requires the Internal Revenue Service to take certain actions to protect taxpayers in economic hardship from a tax levy, including the adoption of procedures and guidelines that consider the possibility that a taxpayer is in economic hardship before issuing a levy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
E-Access Act

Bill: 114-hr-1980
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Energy
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy prices

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Access to Consumer Energy Information Act or the E-Access Act
 
 
 Directs the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to encourage and support the adoption of policies that allow electricity consumers access to their own electricity data.
 
 Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to authorize state energy conservation plans to include programs that: (1) enhance consumer access to, and understanding of, energy usage and price information, including consumers' own residential and commercial electricity information; and (2) allow for development and adoption of innovative products and services to assist consumers in managing energy consumption and expenditures. 
 
Directs the Secretary to issue voluntary guidelines, meeting specified criteria, which establish model standards to implement retail electric energy information access in states.
 
Authorizes states to submit to the Secretary a description of their data sharing policies regarding consumer access to electric energy information for DOE certification that they meet such voluntary guidelines. 
 
Directs the Secretary, subject to appropriations, to make federal funds available to assist any DOE-certified state to implement its energy conservation plan. 
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Employee Bonus Protection Act

Bill: 114-hr-1981
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2015-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor standards
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: 

Employee Bonus Protection Act

 
This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude from the regular rate at which an employee is employed (and at which overtime compensation is calculated) any sums paid in recognition of services performed during a given period if the payments are made to reward an employee or group of employees for meeting or exceeding the productivity, quality, efficiency, or sales goals specified in writing in a gainsharing plan, incentive bonus plan, commission plan, or performance contingent bonus plan and made available to the employees.
 
The amount of the payments made under the plan (and excluded from calculation of overtime compensation) must be:
 
 
based upon a formula stated in the plan, and
 
established and maintained in good faith for the purpose of distributing to employees additional remuneration over and above the wages and salaries that are not dependent upon the existence of the plan or payments made pursuant to it.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Protection and Truth in Budgeting Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1983
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2015-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Employment taxes
Financial services and investments
Government trust funds
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: 

Social Security Protection and Truth in Budgeting Act of 2015

 
 Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the receipts and disbursements of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund (Social Security trust funds) from being included in the federal budget baseline for any fiscal year and from being counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for purposes of offsetting any tax decrease or spending increase. Excludes Social Security trust fund receipts and disbursements totals from official Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Budget Office budget pronouncements.
 
Makes proceeds to the Social Security trust funds from Social Security taxes available solely for OASDI purposes. Prohibits their availability for the establishment or funding of private accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2015-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2015-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2015-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Introduced in House
FAIR Social Security Act

Bill: 114-hr-1984
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2015-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Employment taxes
Government trust funds
Inflation and prices
Medicare
Self-employed
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: 

Fair Adjustment and Income Revenue for Social Security Act or the FAIR Social Security Act 

 
This bill repeals the cap on the amount of income ($118,500 in 2015) that is subject to the employment or self-employment tax for funding social security benefits. The bill also reallocates employment and self-employment tax revenues to increase Social Security Trust Fund solvency.
 
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor must prepare and publish an index for each calendar month to be known as the Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers that indicates changes in expenditures for consumption that are typical for individuals who are 62 years of age or older. This Index will be used to adjust benefit amounts under the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program and Medicare. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2015-04-23
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: 2015-04-23
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: 2015-04-23
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: 2015-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Pacific Northwest Gray Wolf Management Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1985
Sponsor: Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2015-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Endangered and threatened species
Intergovernmental relations
Mammals
Oregon
State and local government operations
Utah
Washington State
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: 

Pacific Northwest Gray Wolf Management Act of 2015 

 
This bill prohibits any wolf species, subspecies, or population segment of Canis lupus in Washington, Oregon, and Utah (covered states) from being treated under any status of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, including as an endangered species, a threatened species, an essential experimental population, or a nonessential experimental population.
 
The covered states shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the management of wolves within their borders.
 
A covered state may not provide protections to wolves that are greater than the protections that would be provided under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E581)
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Stop EPA Overregulation of Rural Americans

Bill: 114-hr-1986
Sponsor: Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7]
Introduced: 2015-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: 

Stop EPA Overregulation of Rural Americans

 
This bill nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency rule entitled, &quot;Standards of Performance for New Residential Wood Heaters, New Residential Hydronic Heaters and Forced-Air Furnaces,&quot; published on March 16, 2015. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Breaking Addiction Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1988
Sponsor: Rep. Fudge, Marcia L. [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2015-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Hospital care
Medicaid
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: 

Breaking Addiction Act of 2015

 
This bill directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for waiver of the limitation on medical assistance to certain patients in an institution for mental diseases (IMD limitation) in order to permit medical assistance under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act for the treatment of a substance use condition for a qualified individual in a community-based institution for mental diseases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Introduced in House