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STRONGER Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1947
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Executive agency funding and structure
Free trade and trade barriers
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Human rights
Labor standards
Performance measurement
Tariffs
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Supplemental Trade Review, Oversight, Noncompliance and General Enforcement Resources Act of 2015 or the STRONGER Act of 2015

 
Establishes in the U.S. Treasury the Trade Agreements Enforcement Trust Fund. Directs the Department of the Treasury to transfer to the Trust Fund an amount equal to $15 million of the countervailing duties and antidumping duties received in the Treasury for each fiscal year beginning after enactment of this Act. Limits the total amount of funds in the Trust Fund to $30 million. 
 
Authorizes the President to make sums in the Trust Fund available to: (1) the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to take specified actions relating to enforcement of free trade agreements; and (2) the USTR, the Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of Labor, and other departments and agencies with relevant expertise to take specified actions relating to implementation assistance and local capacity building under such agreements. Prohibits amounts made available in the Trust Fund from being used to negotiate any new free trade agreement.
 
Directs the President to establish a permanent interagency committee to ensure that actions taken under under this Act relating to implementation assistance and local capacity building are effectively prioritized, targeted, coordinated, and implemented. Requires the United States to promote aid effectiveness and accountability through transparency, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and fostering local ownership and implementation of U.S. assistance through such activities by requiring the interagency committee to: (1) publish timely, comprehensive, and detailed information regarding such activities on a quarterly basis, consistent with the U.S. commitment to full compliance with the International Aid Transparency Initiative; (2) conduct evaluations that are independent, methodologically rigorous, made public in their entirety, and transmitted to the International Aid Transparency Initiative Registry; and (3) develop and implement procedures for ensuring that data and evaluation results inform decisionmaking and lead to the revision and promotion of best practices among relevant executive branch agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E552)
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Access to Child Care Act

Bill: 114-hr-1948
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child care and development
Mental health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Veterans' Access to Child Care Act

 
Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide child care assistance to an eligible veteran for any period that the veteran: (1) receives covered health care services at a VA facility, and (2) is required to travel to and return from such facility for the receipt of such services.
 
Defines: (1) &quot;covered health care services&quot; to mean regular mental health care services, intensive mental health care services, or such other intensive health care services to which the VA determines that provision of child care assistance would improve the veteran's access; and (2) &quot;eligible veteran&quot; as a veteran who is the primary caretaker of a child and who is receiving covered health care services from the VA or who is in need of, and who would receive, such services from the VA but for lack of child care.
 
Includes among child care assistance to be provided under this Act:
 
 
a stipend for the payment of the full cost of child care offered by a licensed child care center, which shall be modeled after the VA's Child Care Subsidy Program;
 
direct provision of child care at an on-site VA facility;
 
a payment made directly to a private child care agency; and 
 
collaboration with a facility or program of another federal department or agency. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Sunset Inefficient and Unaccountable Government Act

Bill: 114-hr-1950
Sponsor: Rep. Byrne, Bradley [R-AL-1]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Labor
Department of Transportation
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Sunset Inefficient and Unaccountable Government Act

 
This bill requires the abolishment of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, the Interior, the Treasury, Veterans Affairs, and Transportation on specified dates of between 2 years and 11 years after enactment of this Act or every 10 years thereafter, and of any other agency about which Congress has not passed a concurrent resolution disapproving abolishment during the previous 10 years, unless a disapproval of such abolishment is enacted prior to the date of the agency's scheduled abolishment. 
 
The head of each agency which is scheduled to be abolished must: (1) take necessary actions to dispose of the assets, obligations, and liabilities of the agency during the one-year period that begins on the date of abolishment; and (2) report to Congress on the roles and responsibilities of the agency, detailing the agency's justification for existence, including areas where the duties of the agency may overlap with the duties of other agencies. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Offshore Fracking Transparency and Review Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1951
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of the Interior
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oil and gas
Pacific Ocean

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Offshore Fracking Transparency and Review Act of 2015

 
This bill prohibits both hydraulic fracturing and acid well stimulation treatment in the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Region until the Secretary of the Interior has: (1) reported to Congress on the conduct and impacts of hydraulic fracturing and acid well stimulation treatments in the Region; and (2) issued, in coordination with the Environmental Protection Agency, a final environmental impact statement regarding the impacts upon the marine environment and public health of offshore hydraulic fracturing and acid well stimulation treatments conducted in such Region. 
 
The Secretary must notify all relevant state and local regulatory agencies and publish in the Federal Register within 30 days: (1) receipt of any application for a permit that would allow either offshore hydraulic fracturing or acid well stimulation treatment in the Region; and (2) the conduct of offshore hydraulic fracturing or acid well stimulation treatment in the Region pursuant to a permit or other authorization issued by the Secretary. 
 
The Secretary shall also maintain and publicize a list of all offshore hydraulic fracturing and acid well stimulation treatments that have taken place in the Region or that take place after enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-19
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
California Ocean and Coastal Protection Act

Bill: 114-hr-1952
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: California
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas
Pacific Ocean

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

California Ocean and Coastal Protection Act

 
 Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities in areas of the Outer Continental Shelf located off the coast of California.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-19
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
No Exemption for Washington from Obamacare Act

Bill: 114-hr-1953
Sponsor: Rep. DeSantis, Ron [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional committees
Congressional leadership
Congressional officers and employees
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

No Exemption for Washington from Obamacare Act

 
This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to extend the requirement for participation in a health insurance exchange to the President, Vice President, executive branch political appointees, and employees of congressional committees and leadership offices of Congress. Currently, this requirement applies to Members of Congress and their staff.
 
The government is prohibited from contributing to or subsidizing the health insurance coverage of officials and employees subject to this requirement.
 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-06
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 Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Ways and Means, and 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: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Ways and Means, and 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: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Ways and Means, and 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: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Ways and Means, and 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: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Ways and Means, and 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: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Energize Emerging Opportunities Act

Bill: 114-hr-1954
Sponsor: Rep. Fincher, Stephen Lee [R-TN-8]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Commodities markets
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Energize Emerging Opportunities Act

 
 Directs the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to amend regulations regarding criteria qualifying certain registered commodity pool operators for exemption from requirements for specified risk disclosures, performance disclosures, periodic reporting, annual reporting, and recordkeeping.
 
Alters one criterion for qualification for such exemptions currently granted to: (1) registered commodity pool operators who sell participations in a pool solely to qualified eligible persons in an offering which qualifies for exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, and (2) certain banks registered as commodity pool operators in connection with a pool that is a collective trust fund whose securities are exempt from registration under the Securities Act.
 
Repeals the current additional criterion for such banks that the securities must be offered or sold, without marketing to the public, solely to qualified eligible persons. Replaces such criterion with one stating simply that the securities must be sold solely to qualified eligible persons. (Thus, eliminates the requirement that such securities be offered or sold without marketing to the public, and so allows such marketing.)
 
Repeals the current prerequisite for exemption of interests in a commodity pool from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 that such interests be offered and sold without marketing to the public in the United States. Requires such interests, instead, simply to be offered and sold pursuant to specified requirements for exempted transactions. (Thus, also eliminates the requirement that such interests be offered and sold without marketing to the public in the United States, and so allows such marketing.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Nutrient Removal Assistance Act

Bill: 114-hr-1955
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Environmental technology
Great Lakes
Lakes and rivers
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Great Lakes Nutrient Removal Assistance Act 

 
This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a program to provide grants to states in the Great Lakes System (i.e., Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) and municipalities in those states to install nutrient removal technologies at a municipal wastewater treatment facility that has a permitted design capacity to treat an annual average of at least 500,000 gallons of wastewater per day. 
 
The EPA must give priority to facilities at which nutrient removal technology installations would: (1) produce the greatest nutrient load reductions at points of discharge, (2) result in the greatest environmental benefits to the Great Lakes System, and (3) help meet the objectives related to nutrients outlined in Annex 4 of the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Pell Grant Protection Act

Bill: 114-hr-1956
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Education programs funding
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Pell Grant Protection Act

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to appropriate for each fiscal year beginning with FY2016 the funding necessary to provide each eligible student with the maximum Pell Grant amount, minus the student's expected family contribution. (Currently, funds for the Pell Grant program come from a combination of mandatory and discretionary spending. This bill converts the Pell Grant program into a mandatory spending program.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Pell Grant Cost of Tuition Adjustment Act

Bill: 114-hr-1957
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Higher education
Inflation and prices
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Pell Grant Cost of Tuition Adjustment Act

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to set the maximum Pell Grant at a specified amount, increased for inflation each year, plus any additional amount specified in the last enacted appropriation Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Year-Round Pell Grant Restoration Act

Bill: 114-hr-1958
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

Year-Round Pell Grant Restoration Act

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Department of Education to award an additional Pell Grant to a student who has received a Pell Grant for an award year and is enrolled in a program of study for payment periods during the same award year that are not covered by the Pell Grant. The total amount of the Pell Grants awarded to such a student for the award year may exceed the total maximum Pell Grant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Introduced in House
College Options for DREAMers Act

Bill: 114-hr-1959
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2015-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Border security and unlawful immigration
Department of Education
Higher education
Immigration status and procedures
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: 

College Options for DREAMers Act

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow Dreamer students to receive federal financial aid for higher education.
 
A &quot;Dreamer student&quot; is an individual who was under age 16 upon entering this country, has provided a list of secondary schools the individual attended in this country, and, in this country:
 
 
has earned a high school diploma or the equivalent,
 
is scheduled to complete the requirements for a high school diploma or equivalent before the next academic year begins,
 
has acquired a degree from an institution of higher education,
 
has successfully completed at least two years of a program for a baccalaureate or higher degree,
 
is a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or
 
has served honorably in the uniformed services for at least four years. 
 
 
The Department of Education must provide for a hardship exception to the age and secondary school list requirements.
 
States are allowed to offer unlawful aliens postsecondary benefits on the basis of their residence in the state (e.g., in-state tuition).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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 Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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 Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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