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A bill to prohibit the transfer of any individual detained at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Bill: 114-s-2999
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Caribbean area
Cuba
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Detention of persons
Executive agency funding and structure
Latin America
Military facilities and property
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 
This bill prohibits U.S. agency funds from being used until the earlier of the enactment date of an Act authorizing FY2017 appropriations for military activities of the Department of Defense (DOD) or January 1, 2017, for the transfer or release to or within the United States, its territories, or possessions or to any foreign country or entity of an individual detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
 
&quot;Individual detained at Guantanamo&quot; means an individual located at Guantanamo as of October 1, 2009, who: (1) is not a U.S. national or a member of the Armed Forces, and (2) is in the custody or under the control of DOD or otherwise detained at Guantanamo.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act

Bill: 114-s-3002
Sponsor: Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Commemorative events and holidays
Conflicts and wars
National symbols
Veterans' organizations and recognition
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act

 
This bill includes National Vietnam War Veterans Day, March 29, among those days on which the flag should especially be displayed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Filipino Veterans Fairness Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3003
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Philippines
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Filipino Veterans Fairness Act of 2016

 
 This bill deems certain service performed before July 1, 1946, in the organized military forces of the Philippines and the Philippine Scouts to be active military service for purposes of eligibility for veterans' benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
 
 The VA shall, in determining eligibility under this Act, take into account any relevant service documentation, including documentation other than the Missouri List (the list of all discharged and deceased veterans from the 20th century).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3004
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Cemeteries and funerals
Federal-Indian relations
Forests, forestry, trees
Government trust funds
Historical and cultural resources
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Mining
Monuments and memorials
Oil and gas
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act of 2016 

 
This bill amends the Barrow Gas Field Transfer Act of 1984 to require the Department of the Interior to convey to the Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation, an Alaska Native village corporation, sand and gravel deposits underlying a surface estate owned by the corporation.
 
Interior must grant the Shishmaref Native Corporation, a village corporation, an easement between Shishmaref, Alaska, and the area of Ear Mountain, Alaska. 
 
Shee Atika Incorporated, an urban Native corporation, may opt to receive credits from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the sale of Cube Cove in Admiralty Island, Alaska, that may be used to acquire federal property sold at public sales. 
 
The bill authorizes a land exchange between the USDA and the Sealaska Corporation, an Alaska Native regional corporation. 
 
Cook Inlet Region, Inc., a regional corporation, may satisfy its claim land under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). 
 
The bill amends ANCSA to require Interior to convey: (1) a surface estate to Kian Tr'ee Corporation, a village corporation, for the Native village of Canyon Village; and (2) a subsurface estate to Doyon Limited, a regional corporation. 
 
Upon application by the village of Kaktovik or Nagamut, Interior must convey land within the National Wildlife Refuge System to the village. 
 
The bill makes land held by Alaska Native corporations subject to the National Historic Preservation Act, the Tribal Forest Protection Act, and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. 
 
Native residents of the villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, may organize as urban corporations. Upon incorporation, Interior must offer each corporation 23,040 acres of land. 
 
Alaska Native veterans who served during the Vietnam War may receive an allotment of federal land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Alaska Land Use Council Act

Bill: 114-s-3005
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Federal-Indian relations
Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
Monuments and memorials
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Public participation and lobbying
State and local government operations
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Alaska Land Use Council Act

 
This bill establishes the Alaska Land Use Council for improving coordination, efficiency, and cooperation among federal, state, and Alaska Native corporations and Tribal land managers in addressing land and resource issues. 
 
The council must be comprised of specific members and shall meetat least four times a year.In addition, the council may appoint advisory members to assist the council with specific matters on an ad hoc basis.
 
The council must study and advise certain governmental agencies, Alaska Native tribes and corporations of any: (1)ongoing and proposed land and resource uses in the state, and (2)matters submitted by council members for advice.A committee of land use advisors may be established by the council to assist the council in implementing programs.
 
The council shall terminate 15 years after the enactment of this bill, unless Congress grants an extension.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Exchange Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3006
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Forests, forestry, trees
Health programs administration and funding
Land transfers
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Exchange Act of 2016

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA), if the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority offers to convey to it certain nonfederal land, to convey certain federal land to the Trust Authority in exchange.
 
Before carrying out the land exchange, USDA shall complete any necessary land surveys and required pre-exchange clearances, mitigation activities, and approvals related to:
 
 
threatened and endangered species,
 
cultural and historic resources,
 
wetland and floodplains, and 
 
hazardous materials. 
 
 
USDA and the Trust Authority shall select an appraiser to conduct appraisals of the federal and nonfederal lands in accordance with nationally recognized standards. 
 
The Trust Authority shall agree to pay, without compensation, all costs associated with the exchange.
 
Upon acquisition by USDA, the nonfederal land shall become part of Tongass National Forest, and shall be withdrawn from:
 
 
entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws;
 
location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and 
 
disposition under the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Open Skies Treaty Compliance Assurance Act

Bill: 114-s-3007
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Congressional oversight
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
International law and treaties
Russia

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Open Skies Treaty Compliance Assurance Act

 
This bill prohibits funds from being obligated or expended to aid the certification or approval of any new sensor, including to carry out an initial or exhibition observation flight of an observation aircraft, for use by the Russian Federation on observation flights under the Treaty on Open Skies unless the President certifies to Congress that: 
 
 
the new sensor's capabilities do not exceed capabilities imposed by the treaty and safeguards are in place to prevent the sensor or any information obtained from being used in any way not permitted by the treaty; 
 
 mitigation measures are in place regarding collection by such sensor of high-value U.S. assets and critical infrastructure; 
 
each covered state party has been briefed on intelligence concerns regarding upgraded sensors used under the treaty, Russian Federation war fighting doctrine, and related intelligence collection; and 
 
 the Russian Federation is in compliance with all of its treaty obligations, including the obligation to permit properly notified covered state party observation flights over all of Moscow, Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Kaliningrad.
 
 
Certification is required for each sensor and platform for which the Russian Federation has requested approval under the treaty.
 
The President may waive the requirement of Russian compliance with treaty obligations by certifying that sensor certification or approval is in U.S. national security interests. Such certification must include the date such compliance is expected and a description of U.S. efforts to achieve it.
 
&quot;Covered state party&quot; means a foreign country that is a state party to the treaty and a U.S. ally.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Tax Relief Act

Bill: 114-s-3008
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Student Tax Relief Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income the discharge of student loan debt after June 12, 2014, due to: (1) borrower defenses asserted pursuant to the Higher Education Act of 1965, or (2) an agreement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or any other federal agency in connection with the closure or other agency action relating to an educational institution. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Engagement at FERC Act

Bill: 114-s-3012
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Advisory bodies
Consumer affairs
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Legal fees and court costs
Oil and gas
Public participation and lobbying
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Public Engagement at FERC Act

 
This bill amends the Federal Power Act to revise and expand the Office of Public Participation in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)and rename it as the Office of Public Participation and Consumer Advocacy.
 
The office may participate in FERC proceedings on rates, service, and infrastructure siting to represent the interests of the public and issue guidance for potential improvements to industry and FERC practices.
 
Additionally, the office must establish a Public and Consumer Advocacy Advisory Committee to review rates, services, and disputes and make recommendations to the office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Salish and Kootenai Water Rights Settlement Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3013
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Dams and canals
Economic development
Electric power generation and transmission
Federal-Indian relations
Forests, forestry, trees
Government trust funds
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Intergovernmental relations
Land transfers
Montana
Water storage
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Salish and Kootenai Water Rights Settlement Act of 2016

 
This bill authorizes, ratifies, and confirms a specified water rights settlement entered into by the United States, Montana, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation of Montana. Specified claims of the tribes against the United States are waived and released.
 
The Department of the Interior shall allocate specified amounts of storage water in Hungry Horse Reservoir for use by the tribes.
 
In addition, the bill: (1) establishes provisions related to the development of hydroelectric power within the reservation; (2) requires the Bureau of Reclamation to carry out specified activities related to the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project; (3) establishes, for purposes of carrying out the bill, the Selis-Qlispe Ksanka Settlement Trust Fund and the Salish and Kootenai Compact Fund; and (4) confirms certain instream flow water rights of the tribes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-29
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-401.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Tribal Forestry Participation and Protection Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3014
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Forests, forestry, trees
Indian lands and resources rights
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Tribal Forestry Participation and Protection Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 and the National Indian Forest Resources Management Act to establish:
 
 
a timeframe for consideration of tribal requests to protect Indian forest land or rangeland;
 
a tribal forest management demonstration project; and
 
pilot authority for the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service to, upon request of an Indian tribe, treat certain federal forest land as Indian land for purposes of specified land management activities.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-22
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2016-06-08
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-361.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3295-3296)
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
John Thomas Decker Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3015
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Athletes
Child health
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Elementary and secondary education
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Prescription drugs
School athletics

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

John Thomas Decker Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to report on the availability of information regarding prescription of opioids after youth sports injury, including information on opioid use and misuse, injury treatments that do not involve opioids, and treatment for opioid addiction. (Opioids are drugs with effects similar to opium, such as heroin and certain pain medications.) The report must determine the extent this information is available to teenagers and adolescents who play youth sports, their families, youth sports groups, and health care providers.
 Taking into consideration the findings of the report, HHS must develop and disseminate such information.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Recovering Missing Children Act

Bill: 114-s-3016
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Recovering Missing Children Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit federal law enforcement officials to seek an ex parte order in federal court for the disclosure of tax returns or return information for criminal investigations pertaining to missing or exploited children.
 
 If the order is granted, the information may be disclosed to federal officers and employees who are personally and directly engaged in judicial or administrative proceedings, investigations, or federal grand jury proceedings to enforce a federal criminal statute pertaining to a missing or exploited child. 
 
A federal agency may disclose to state and local law enforcement agencies information obtained under the authority provided by this bill if: 
 
 
 the state or local agency is part of a team with the federal agency in the investigation, and 
 
the information is disclosed only to officers and employees who are personally and directly engaged in the investigation. 
 
 
The state or local agency may only use the disclosed information in locating the missing child, in a grand jury proceeding, or in any preparation for, or investigation which may result in, a judicial or administrative proceeding. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Securing Energy Infrastructure Act

Bill: 114-s-3018
Sponsor: Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]
Introduced: 2016-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Computer security and identity theft
Department of Energy
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Industrial facilities
Research administration and funding
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-06
text: 

Securing Energy Infrastructure Act

 
This bill establishes a two-year pilot program within the Department of Energy's (DOE)national laboratories to identify thesecurity vulnerabilities of certain entities in the energy sector, and research and test technology that can be used to isolate the most critical systems of such entities from cyber-attacks.
 
In addition,DOE must establish a working group to evaluate the technology solutions proposed by the national laboratories and to develop a national cyber strategy to isolate the energy grid from attacks.
 
DOE must also submit a report to Congress describing the results of the pilot program, assessing the feasibility of the techniques considered, and outlining the results of the working group's evaluation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 114-505.
action_date: 2016-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
TRICARE Expedited Evaluation and Treatment for Prenatal Surgery Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3019
Sponsor: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2016-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Military medicine
Surgery and anesthesia
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-06
text: 

TRICARE Expedited Evaluation and Treatment for Prenatal Surgery Act of 2016

 
This bill directs the Department of Defense to implement processes and procedures to ensure that a covered TRICARE program beneficiary whose pregnancy is complicated with a fetal anomaly or suspected of being so complicated receives, at the beneficiary's discretion, expedited evaluation and treatment from a perinatal or pediatric specialist capable of providing surgical management and intervention in utero.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2016-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate