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Safeguarding Classrooms Hurt by ObamaCare's Obligatory Levies

Bill: 114-hr-769
Sponsor: Rep. Messer, Luke [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Comprehensive health care
Congressional oversight
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefits and pensions
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Sales and excise taxes
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Safeguarding Classrooms Hurt by ObamaCare's Obligatory Levies
 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude any elementary or secondary school, state or local educational agency, and institution of higher education from the definition of "applicable large employer" for purposes of the employer mandate to provide health care coverage for employees.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to study and report on the impact of the employer health insurance mandate on educational agencies and institutions before and after the enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Impact Aid Fairness and Equity Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-770
Sponsor: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building construction
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Indian lands and resources rights
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
State and local finance
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Impact Aid Fairness and Equity Act of 2015

 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 to make permanent amendments that Act made to the Impact Aid program (which compensates local educational agencies [LEAs] for the financial burden of federal activities affecting their school districts) that: 
 
 
 require the valuation of the federal property located within the boundaries of an LEA by calculating the valuation, for property tax purposes, of all property within the LEA's boundaries and then multiplying that value by the proportion of that property that is federal property; and
 
 alter the formula for determining the foundation payments due LEAs for federal ownership of property when appropriations for a fiscal year are insufficient to provide them with full compensation. 
 
Amends the Impact Aid program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to alter the formulae for determining the payments due LEAs for eligible federally-connected children. Includes not only children in average daily attendance but also those enrolled pursuant to a state open enrollment policy. 
 Continues a heavily impacted LEA's eligibility for such payments while activities associated with military base closures and realignments or force structure changes or relocations are ongoing.
 
Alters the formulae for determining the construction payments due LEAs that are eligible for other Impact Aid payments. Requires the Secretary of Education to use all Impact Aid construction appropriations to award: (1) emergency construction grants to LEAs that have no practical capacity, or minimal capacity, to issue bonds or that are otherwise eligible for Impact Aid and have a school facility emergency; and (2) modernization grants to LEAs that are eligible for other Impact Aid payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Access to Diabetes Supplies Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-771
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Protecting Access to Diabetes Supplies Act of 2015

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the special competitive acquisition program rule applied to diabetic testing strips to require the volume for such types of products to be determined through the use of multiple sources of data that measure consumption and utilization of such strips among individuals in the United States. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reject any bid submitted by an entity under the competitive acquisition program that does not demonstrate that it can furnish the types of strips included in its bid.
 
Requires an entity to furnish to an individual the brand of strips compatible with the individual's home blood glucose monitor.
 
Prohibits an entity from attempting to influence or incentivize an individual to switch the brand of glucose monitor or testing strips selected.
 
Prohibits an entity from communicating directly to such an individual until it has given the individual verbally standardized information about the individual's rights with respect to the entity.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a process under which an individual furnished with diabetic testing strips under a competitive acquisition program may reject them by notifying the supplier and the Secretary. Permits the individual to obtain different strips from another supplier and have a new claim processed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-772
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act of 2015

 
 Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to require all commercial passenger aircraft ordered by an air carrier on or after January 1, 2017, to be equipped with a deployable recorder system as the second combination FDR/CVR recorder system installed under International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) flight recorder standards.
 
Defines: (1) &quot;commercial passenger aircraft&quot; to mean a jet aircraft with a maximum certificated take-off mass over 15,000 kilograms that is required to be equipped with two combination recorder systems in accordance with ICAO requirements; and (2) &quot;deployable recorder system&quot; to mean a flight data recorder, cockpit voice recorder, and emergency locator transmitter housed in one crash protected, floatable unit that meets the performance specifications under specified standards of the FAA and the European Organization for Civil Aviation Equipment.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-775
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2015

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the caps on Medicare outpatient rehabilitation physical therapy services and speech-language pathology services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Stark Administrative Simplification Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-776
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Competition and antitrust
Health personnel
Medical ethics
Medicare
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Stark Administrative Simplification Act of 2015 

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prescribe a single civil monetary penalty as an alternative sanction to those already established for compensation arrangements between a physician (or an immediate family member) and a person or entity that is in violation of the limitation on certain physician referrals (Stark Law) solely due to technical noncompliance.
 
(The Stark law, or Stark Rule, prohibits physician referrals of certain health services for Medicare and Medicaid patients to a specified entity if the physician, or an immediate family member, has a financial relationship with that entity.)
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to accept the voluntary disclosure of a technically noncomplaint compensation arrangement by a person or entity in violation of the Stark Law under certain circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Permanent Investment in Health Research Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-777
Sponsor: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-14]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Economic performance and conditions
Executive agency funding and structure
Health programs administration and funding
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Permanent Investment in Health Research Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to make appropriations to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for FY2016-FY2025:
 
 
for FY2016, $32 billion; and
 
for each fiscal year from FY2017-FY2025, the amount appropriated for the preceding fiscal year, adjusted by any percentage increase in nominal gross domestic product during the preceding calendar year. 
 
 
The bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to add NIH to the list of programs and activities exempt from sequestration. Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Appropriations, 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: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Appropriations, 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: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Appropriations, 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: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Appropriations, 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: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Expansion Incentive Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-778
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Medicaid Expansion Incentive Act of 2015 

 
 Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to entitle to an increase (bonus) in payments under its state medical assistance plan any state electing to meet Medicaid expansion requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Requires such bonuses to be in amounts made available from a net reduction in federal payments to other states not electing to meet those requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Northern Virginia Metrorail Extension Act

Bill: 114-hr-779
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Public transit
Railroads
Transportation programs funding
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Northern Virginia Metrorail Extension Act

 
 Authorizes project development for specified Metrorail new fixed guideway capital projects in Virginia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for offsetting certain past-due local tax debts against income tax overpayments.

Bill: 114-hr-780
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Intergovernmental relations
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a state, on behalf of a local government, to submit to the Secretary of the Treasury notice of a past-due, legally enforceable local tax obligation for offset against a taxpayer's tax refund. Defines "past-due, legally enforceable local tax obligation" as any debt which: (1) resulted from a judgment determining an amount of tax due to a local government; (2) is no longer subject to judicial review; or (3) resulted from a tax imposed by a local government which has been assessed but not collected, the time for redetermination of which has expired, and which has not been delinquent for more than 10 years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Complete America's Great Trails Act

Bill: 114-hr-781
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Government studies and investigations
Income tax credits
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Complete America's Great Trails Act

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for the fair market value of any National Scenic Trail conservation contribution. Requires the Department of the Interior to study and report on the efficacy of such tax credit in completing, extending, and increasing the number of National Scenic Trails and the feasibility and cost of making such credit refundable and transferable. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Cancel the Sequester Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-782
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Cancel the Sequester Act of 2015 

 
This bill repeals provisions of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 that authorize sequestration to enforce specified deficit reduction goals. Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Zero Tolerance for FGM Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-783
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Health information and medical records
Sex and reproductive health
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Women's health
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Zero Tolerance for FGM Act of 2015

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to report on the development and implementation of a strategy that:
 
 
ensures individuals who encounter minors at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) are fully prepared to take action to prevent the practice;
 
ensures individuals subjected to FGM can seek necessary services;
 
provides for updating Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates of the prevalence of FGM or female circumcision; and
 
provides for a public awareness campaign, so that the public understands how to help individuals at risk of FGM and address the needs of individuals subjected to FGM.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Protect Overnight Delivery Act

Bill: 114-hr-784
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Protect Overnight Delivery Act

 
Repeals the service standards for market-dominant products implemented by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on January 5, 2015, and directs USPS to reinstate the service standards that were in effect on December 31, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House