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Keeping Guns from High Risk Individuals Act

Bill: 114-hr-226
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Firearms and explosives
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Keeping Guns from High Risk Individuals Act

 
Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit the sale or other disposition of a firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person: (1) has been convicted of a crime of violence in the previous 10 years; (2) is under age 25 and has been adjudicated as having committed an offense that would have been a crime of violence if committed by an adult; (3) has been convicted on 2 separate occasions in any period of 3 consecutive years in the last 10 of an offense that has the possession or distribution of alcohol or a controlled substance as an element; or (4) has been convicted of stalking. 
 
Prohibits any such person from: (1) shipping or transporting in interstate or foreign commerce, or possessing in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or (2) receiving any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the use of funds for certain immigration-related policies, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-227
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Appropriations
Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional-executive branch relations
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
User charges and fees
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 
This bill 
 prohibits the use of funds for certain immigration-related policies, including executive orders or any other executive policy issued after March 11, 2011, that provides for parole, employment authorization, deferred action, or any other immigration benefit or relief for individuals who are unlawfully present in the United States (with exceptions for asylum, temporary protected status, or cancellation of removal by an immigration judge).
 
The Immigration and Nationality Act is amended to: (1) exclude from the definition of &quot;unauthorized alien,&quot; with respect to the unlawful employment of aliens, any alien otherwise admitted to and lawfully present in the United States; and (2) consider an alien without lawful status to be an unauthorized alien whose employment is unlawful.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-228
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend through FY2018 the grant program for armor vests for law enforcement officers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Biometric Exit Improvement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-229
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Border security and unlawful immigration
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Homeland security
Marine and inland water transportation
Terrorism
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Biometric Exit Improvement Act of 2015

 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) submit an implementation plan to establish a biometric exit data system to complete the integrated biometric entry and exit data system required under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004; (2) establish such a system, within two years after enactment of this Act, at the 10 U.S. airports, 10 U.S. seaports, and 10 land ports of entry that support the highest volume of international air travel, international sea travel, and pedestrian crossings, respectively; and (3) submit a report that analyzes the effectiveness of such system.
 
Directs the Secretary: (1) within 18 months after enactment of this Act, in collaboration with industry stakeholders and the head of a university-based center with prior expertise in border security and counterterrorism, to establish a 6-month pilot program to test such system on non-pedestrian outbound traffic at not fewer than three land ports of entry with significant cross-border traffic; (2) after receiving a Government Accounting Office review of such program and acting through the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to submit a plan with an integrated master schedule to implement such a system at all land ports of entry for non-pedestrian outbound traffic; (3) within three years after submitting such master schedule, to expand the system to all land ports of entry for non-pedestrian outbound traffic; and (4) within five years after enactment of this Act, to expand the system to all air and sea ports of entry and to all land ports of entry for pedestrian traffic.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) ensure that the collection of biometric data under such system causes the least possible disruption to the movement of people or cargo in air, sea, or land transportation; (2) terminate the proceeding entitled &quot;Collection of Alien Biometric Data Upon Exit From the United States at Air and Sea Ports of Departure,&quot; issued on April 24, 2008; and (3) make every every effort to collect biometric data using additional modes of biometric technology. 
 
Prohibits the Secretary from requiring any non-federal person to collect biometric data under the system, except through a contractual agreement.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to authorize the Central Everglades Planning Project, Florida.

Bill: 114-hr-230
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick [D-FL-18]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Everglades
Florida
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to authorize the Secretary of the Army to carry out the project for environmental restoration, CERP, Central Everglades Planning Project, Florida, in accordance with the plans and subject to the conditions recommended in the final report of the Chief of Engineers signed on December 23, 2014. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to deauthorize the Ten Mile Creek Water Preserve Area Critical Restoration Project.

Bill: 114-hr-231
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick [D-FL-18]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Florida
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water storage

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to deauthorize the Ten Mile Creek Water Preserve Area Critical Restoration Project upon execution of a transfer agreement between the Secretary of the Army and the South Florida Water Management District, under which the District shall operate the transferred project as an environmental restoration project to provide water storage and water treatment options.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Small BREW Act

Bill: 114-hr-232
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcoholic beverages
Food industry and services
Sales and excise taxes
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Small Brewer Reinvestment and Expanding Workforce Act or the Small BREW Act

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the rate of the excise tax on beer produced within or imported into the United States for brewers who produce not more than 6 million barrels of beer a year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Tenant Income Verification Relief Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-233
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Tenant Income Verification Relief Act of 2015

 
 Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 with respect to annual review of low-income families' income for eligibility requirements for certain federal assisted housing programs.
 
Prohibits, after the initial review of any family's fix income, the public housing agency (PHA) or owner from being required to review its income for any year for which the family certifies, in accordance with specified requirements as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall establish.
 
 Requires the PHA or owner to review each such family's income at least once every three years.
 
Requires PHAs to also review a family's income receiving Section 8 (rental assistance voucher program) at least once every three years (currently, at least annually).

action_date: 2015-03-23
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 

Tenant Income Verification Relief Act of 2015

 
 Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 with respect to annual review of low-income families' income for eligibility requirements for certain federal assisted housing programs.
 
Prohibits, after the initial review of any family's fix income, the public housing agency (PHA) or owner from being required to review its income for any year for which the family certifies, in accordance with specified requirements as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall establish.
 
 Requires the PHA or owner to review each such family's income at least once every three years.
 
Requires PHAs to also review a family's income receiving Section 8 (rental assistance voucher program) at least once every three years (currently, at least annually).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-24
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1812)
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H1812)
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 233.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1812-1814)
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Mr. Stivers moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act

Bill: 114-hr-235
Sponsor: Rep. Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2015-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: 

Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act

 
Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce. 

action_date: 2015-06-09
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 

Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act

 
Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-10
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2015-06-09
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2015-06-09
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3952)
action_date: 2015-06-09
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H3952)
action_date: 2015-06-09
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 235.
action_date: 2015-06-09
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3952-3956)
action_date: 2015-06-09
text: Mr. Goodlatte moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2015-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Introduced in House
FTO Passport Revocation Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-237
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2015-01-09 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Immigration status and procedures
Terrorism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: 

FTO Passport Revocation Act of 2015

 
Amends the Passport Act of 1926 to prohibit, with a discretionary exception for emergency or humanitarian reasons, the Secretary of State from issuing a passport or passport card to an individual who is a member of, affiliated with, or is otherwise helping a foreign terrorist organization. 
 
Directs the Secretary to revoke a passport or passport card previously issued to any such individual. Authorizes the Secretary, before revocation, to: (1) limit a previously issued passport or passport card only for return travel to the United States, or (2) issue a limited passport or passport card that only permits return travel to the United States.

action_date: 2015-07-21
text: 

FTO Passport Revocation Act of 2015

 
(Sec. 2) Amends the Passport Act of 1926 to authorize the Department of State to refuse to issue a passport to an individual who has aided, assisted or otherwise helped a foreign terrorist organization.
 
 Authorizes the Department to revoke a passport previously issued to any such individual. 
 
 Directs the Department to report to Congress regarding any such refusal or revocation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5312)
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5312)
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 237.
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5312-5314)
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Mr. Royce moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2015-04-23
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-03-25
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent .
action_date: 2015-03-25
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
action_date: 2015-01-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H192-193)
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Copyright and Marriage Equality Act

Bill: 114-hr-238
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2015-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Intellectual property
Intergovernmental relations
Marriage and family status
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: 

Copyright and Marriage Equality Act 

 
Amends federal copyright law to revise the definition of "widow" or "widower" for purposes of provisions concerning the transfer of a copyright to an author's spouse or other next of kin following the author's death. Declares that an individual is the widow or widower of an author if the courts of the state in which the individual and the author were married (or, if the individual and the author were not married in any state but were validly married in another jurisdiction, the courts of any state) would find that the individual and the author were validly married at the time of the author's death. (Currently, only the author's surviving spouse under the law of the author's domicile at the time of death is considered a widow.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Introduced in House
Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act

Bill: 114-hr-239
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2015-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Arctic and polar regions
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: 

Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act

 
 
 Designates approximately 1,559,538 acres of land within Alaska in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Introduced in House
ACCESS (ADA Compliance for Customer Entry to Stores and Services) Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-241
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2015-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Disability and health-based discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: 

ACCESS (ADA Compliance for Customer Entry to Stores and Services) Act of 2015

 
Amends the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to prohibit an aggrieved person from commencing a civil action for discrimination based on the failure to remove a structural barrier to entry into an existing public accommodation unless the owner or operator of such accommodation: (1) is provided a written notice specific enough to identify such barrier; and (2) has, within specified time periods, either failed to provide the aggrieved person with a written description outlining improvements that will be made to remove such barrier or provided such description and failed to remove such barrier.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Introduced in House
All-Year ACCESS Act

Bill: 114-hr-242
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-46]
Introduced: 2015-01-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: 

Affordability for Constant and Continual Education to Enhance Student Success Act or the All-Year ACCESS Act

 
Directs the Secretary of Education to award an additional Pell Grant to an eligible student who: (1) has received a Pell Grant for an award year, and (2) is enrolled in a program of study for one or more additional payment periods during the same award year that are not otherwise covered by the Pell Grant.
 
Requires such a student to be enrolled on at least a half-time basis for a period of more than one academic year, or more than the equivalent of two semesters, during a single award year.
 
Limits the total amount of the Pell Grants awarded to such student for the award year to 150% of the maximum Pell Grant for such award year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Introduced in House