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For the relief of Enrique Soriano and Areli Soriano.

Bill: 114-hr-2122
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2015-04-29 in the House
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Provides for the relief of Enrique Soriano and Areli Soriano.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Enhancing Veterans' Access to Treatment Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2123
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Tim [R-PA-18]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Mental health
Military medicine
Prescription drugs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Enhancing Veterans' Access to Treatment Act of 2015

 
Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to furnish to a veteran enrolled in the VA's patient enrollment system a drug or medicine that a duly licensed physician has determined such veteran is taking or has taken during the preceding 90 days and that has been effective in treating a mental health disorder with which the veteran has been diagnosed, if the prescription is ordered by a duly licensed physician, regardless of whether such drug or medicine is available under the formulary in use by the VA.
 
Directs the VA to revise its prescription medication formulary to ensure that all medications within the classes of antipsychotics and antidepressants that are prescribed by DOD physicians, including such medications prescribed for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder, are available at all VA pharmacies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2670)
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Our Campaigns Honest Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2125
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Keeping Our Campaigns Honest Act of 2015

 
Directs the Federal Communications Commission to revise its sponsorship identification rules to require the disclosure announcements required for broadcast matter or origination cablecasting matter that is political or that involves the discussion of a controversial issue of public importance to include the names of significant donors to the person whose identity is required to be disclosed in such an announcement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2126
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2015

 
This bill prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from implementing, administering, or enforcing regulations that would replace ICD-9 (International Classification of Diseases) with ICD-10 as a code set for financial and administrative transactions involving the electronic exchange of health information. ICD is a system of diagnostic codes for classifying diseases.
 
The Government Accountability Office must recommend steps to mitigate the disruption to health care providers that would result from replacement of ICD-9.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-04-30
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: 2015-04-30
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: 2015-04-30
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: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Real Estate Investment and Jobs Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2128
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Financial services and investments
Real estate business
Securities
Taxation of foreign income
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Real Estate Investment and Jobs Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from 5% to 10% the stock ownership threshold in a real estate investment trust for purposes of exempting proceeds from dispositions of such stock from withholding requirements under the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act of 1980 (FIRPTA). Exempts from FIRPTA withholding requirements U.S. real property interests held by: (1) a qualified foreign pension fund created or organized outside the United States, or (2) any entity all of the interests of which are held by a qualified foreign pension fund. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Online Credit Card Disclosure Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2129
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Online Credit Card Disclosure Act of 2015

 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require the billing statement of a consumer's account under an open end online credit plan to make specified disclosures in a conspicuous and prominent location on its webpage with each billing cycle.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Energy to establish an energy efficiency retrofit pilot program.

Bill: 114-hr-2132
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Building construction
Energy efficiency and conservation
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 
This bill directs the Department of Energy to establish a pilot program to award grants, through FY2020, to nonprofit organizations for retrofitting their buildings with energy-efficiency improvements.
 
This bill amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to offset the costs of the grants by decreasing the amount of appropriations authorized for the Zero Net Energy Commercial Buildings Initiative in FY2016.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Servicemembers' Choice in Transition Act

Bill: 114-hr-2133
Sponsor: Rep. Flores, Bill [R-TX-17]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Business education
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Servicemembers' Choice in Transition Act

 
Directs the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to permit members of the Armed Forces who are being separated from active duty and their spouses to elect to receive the following types of additional training under the Department of Labor's transition assistance program:
 
 
preparation for higher education or training,
 
preparation for career or technical training, and
 
preparation for entrepreneurship.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2015-06-02
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Listing Reform Act

Bill: 114-hr-2134
Sponsor: Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Commerce
Department of the Interior
Economic performance and conditions
Endangered and threatened species
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Listing Reform Act

 
This bill amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to allow the Department of the Interior or the Department of Commerce, as appropriate, to prioritize the consideration of petitions to list a species as endangered or threatened other than in the order in which the petitions are received. The appropriate department may not give general priority to petitions to add species to the list of endangered or threatened species over petitions to remove a species from the list.
 
The deadline for the appropriate department to decide on whether or not a petition to list or remove a species should be granted is changed from within 12 months to as expeditiously as possible. 
 
The appropriate department is given the authority to preclude the listing of a species as threatened due to the likelihood of significant, cumulative economic effects that would result from such listing or from the likely resulting designation of critical habitat of the species. Once a petition is precluded due to those economic effects, the appropriate department may not reconsider that finding unless the department: (1) determines there is endangerment of extinction of the species; or (2) receives a new petition to add the species to the list that includes an analyses concluding that alternative actions are possible other than those resulting in significant, cumulative economic effects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Opportunity for Disability Benefit Applicants Act

Bill: 114-hr-2135
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Government information and archives
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Promoting Opportunity for Disability Benefit Applicants Act 

 
This bill amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to authorize the Commissioner of Social Security to give individuals denied OASDI and SSI benefits based on an adverse determination of disability any information on appropriate public or private entities that provide employment services, vocational rehabilitation services, or other support services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Improving the Quality of Disability Decisions Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2136
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Disability assistance
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social Security Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Improving the Quality of Disability Decisions Act of 2015

 
This bill amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to direct the Social Security Administration (SSA) to conduct pre-effectuation and post-effectuation quality reviews of hearing dispositions with respect to decisions in connection with applications for OASDI or SSI benefits, in a sufficient number to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and other guidance.
 
The SSA shall report annually Congress on: (1) the total number of cases selected for quality review, (2) the number in which a decision is remanded, and (3) the number in which a decision is modified or reversed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2138
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Medicare
Rural conditions and development
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act of 2015

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide payment under Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance) on a reasonable cost basis for anesthesia services furnished by a physician who is an anesthesiologist in certain rural hospitals in the same manner as payment is made for anesthesia services furnished by a certified registered nurse anesthetist in such hospitals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Veteran's Benefits Claims Faster Filing Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2139
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability assistance
Government information and archives
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Veteran's Benefits Claims Faster Filing Act of 2015

 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to post notices of average times for the processing of compensation claims, as well as the percentage of claims approved, in a conspicuous place in each VA regional office and claims intake facility and on the VA website.
 
Requires the Secretary to notify each person submitting a claim of the above information, as well as the person's eligibility to receive up to an extra year of benefit payments upon filing a claim that is fully developed.
 
Requires the notice information to be updated at least quarterly.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
International Insurance Standards Transparency and Policyholder Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2141
Sponsor: Rep. Duffy, Sean P. [R-WI-7]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Congressional oversight
Insurance industry and regulation
International organizations and cooperation
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

International Insurance Standards Transparency and Policyholder Protection Act of 2015 

 
This bill prescribes negotiating objectives for international insurance regulatory frameworks, including: (1) standards, requirements, and rules focused solely upon protection of policy holders, as reflected in the U.S. solvency regime; and (2) a negotiated international insurance regulatory framework that recognizes U.S. prudential measures as equivalent to foreign measures. 
 
U.S. representatives are prohibited from agreeing to, accepting or establishing , any international standard applicable to:
 
 
insurers, capital standards, and rules designed for banks;
 
any insurer that has not been designated a systemically important financial institution under U.S. law or a global systemically important insurer by the Financial Stability Oversight Council, capital standards and rules designed for systemically important bank or non-bank financial institutions, and
 
any capital standard or rule governing U.S. insurance entities (except entities designated under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act) unless it is designed solely to help ensure that sufficient funds are available to pay claims to an insurer's policyholders in the event of the entity's liquidation.
 
 
The President must fulfill specified congressional consultation and public notice requirements with respect to any international insurance regulatory framework. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Capitalizing on American Methane Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2142
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-5]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Income tax credits
Motor fuels
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Capitalizing on American Methane Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) include in the tax credit for investment in a qualifying gasification project any qualified methane conversion technology, and (2) allow an alternative fuel excise tax credit for liquid fuel produced through qualified methane conversion technology at a facility the construction of which begins before October 1, 2025. Defines &quot;qualified methane conversion technology&quot; as a process for the molecular conversion of a fuel consisting principally of methane into hydrocarbons and the use of such hydrocarbons to replace or reduce the quantity of petroleum present in motor vehicle fuel and for the production of chemicals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
EMPOWER Act

Bill: 114-hr-2143
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Inflation and prices
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Public participation and lobbying
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Empowering Mass Participation to Offset the Wealthy's Electoral Role Act or the EMPOWER Act

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to revise the system of public financing for presidential primary and general elections occurring after January 1, 2016.
 
Increases the amount of matching funds for presidential primaries from a one-to-one match to a six-to-one match for contributions of $250 or less from individuals, with a limit on aggregate individual contributions of $1,000. Limits the total amount of payments to a presidential primary candidate to $300 million. Provides for an inflation adjustment to matching contributions beginning after 2015.
 
Requires presidential primary candidates who opt to participate in the public financing system to certify to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that they have raised $25,000 (currently, $5,000) in each of 20 states, with individual contributions limited to $250. Requires such candidates to commit to accept public financing in both the primary and general elections.
 
Prohibits presidential primary candidates or their authorized committees from accepting contributions or bundled contributions (i.e., combining small contributions into one large contribution) from lobbyists or political action committees (PACs).
 
Eliminates expenditure limitations for presidential primary and general elections.
 
Changes the period for payment of matching funds to presidential primary candidates from January 1 of the election year to six months prior to the date of the earliest state primary election.
 
Revises financing provisions for general elections to: (1) limit individual contributions to participating candidates to $1,000; and (2) extend matching payments to general elections at a six-to-one rate for contributions of $250 or less, to a maximum amount of $300 million in total matching payments to a publicly-financed general election candidate. 
 
Increases to $100 million the limit on coordinated spending by a national party and its presidential candidate in a general election campaign. 
 
Establishes a uniform date for the release of payments to eligible general election candidates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House