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Medical Controlled Substances Transportation Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3014
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2015-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Health personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: 

Medical Controlled Substances Transportation Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow a physician to transport controlled substances to another practice setting or disaster area if the physician is registered to dispense, or conduct research with, controlled substances listed on schedules II, III, IV, or V, and the physician enters into a specific agreement with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). 
 The agreement must require a physician to provide advance notification to the DEA, limit the duration of transport to 72 hours, and maintain records of the controlled substances dispensed. 
A &ldquo;disaster area&rdquo; is the area covered by a President's major disaster declaration. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-18
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2015-11-18
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-11-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-11-04
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2015-11-04
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-11-03
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2015-07-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2015-07-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2015-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: Introduced in House
EPA Regulatory Domestic Benefit Act of 2014

Bill: 114-hr-3015
Sponsor: Rep. Wagner, Ann [R-MO-2]
Introduced: 2015-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government studies and investigations
Oil and gas
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: 

EPA Regulatory Domestic Benefit Act of 2014 

 
 This bill prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from issuing, implementing, and enforcing any proposed or final rule addressing emissions of carbon dioxide from any new, existing, modified, or reconstructed electric power plant unless the regulatory impact analysis for the rule primarily considers, and separately reports on, the domestic benefits of the rule that are associated with the carbon dioxide emission reductions projected to occur under the rule.
 
The bill also nullifies the following proposed rules: (1) Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units, (2) Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units, and (3) Carbon Pollution Standards for Modified and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: Introduced in House
Invest in America Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3017
Sponsor: Rep. Williams, Roger [R-TX-25]
Introduced: 2015-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: 

Invest in America Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the formula for calculating the tax on the net capital gains of individual taxpayers to provide for a maximum 15% rate on the adjusted net capital gain of such taxpayers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: Introduced in House
Code-FLEX Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3018
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2015-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: 
This bill requires that health care claims submitted with ICD-9 codes (the code set currently used in health care transactions to identify diagnoses and procedures) continue to be paid during the transition from the ICD-9 code set to the ICD-10 code set.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-10
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: 2015-07-10
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: 2015-07-10
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: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Residential Care Choice Act

Bill: 114-hr-3019
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2015-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Adult day care
Disability and paralysis
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: 

Veterans Residential Care Choice Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), at the request of an eligible veteran for whom the VA is required to provide domiciliary, nursing home, adult day health, or hospital care, or who is determined to be in need of such care, to place the veteran (at the expense of the United States) in a state licensed or certified residential care facility that meets VA standards if the cost of providing such care through the facility is less than the cost of providing the care through any other available option.
 
An eligible veteran is a veteran with a service-connected disability rated at 70% or more disabling.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
AIR Survey Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3021
Sponsor: Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2015-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Government information and archives
Oil and gas
Pipelines

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: 

Aerial Infrastructure Route Survey Act of 2015, or the AIR Survey Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Natural Gas Act to accept data collected by aerial survey in lieu of ground survey data for the purposes of completing:
 
 
 any prefiling process established to facilitate the formal application process for obtaining a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a natural gas transportation facility, or 
 
an application associated with a federal authorization concerning a certificate application.
 
 
An agency that accepts an aerial survey may, nevertheless, require as a condition of approval of an application associated with a federal authorization that the aerial survey data be verified through the use of ground survey data before the construction or extension of the pertinent facility. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-24
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To require that Grambling State University be eligible to receive funds under the Act of August 30, 1890.

Bill: 114-hr-3022
Sponsor: Rep. Abraham, Ralph Lee [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Higher education
Louisiana
Minority education

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: 
This bill designates Grambling State University in Louisiana as an 1890 land grant institution. The university becomes eligible for federal formula funds in FY2017. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit review of certain Medicare payment determinations for disproportionate share hospitals, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-3024
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2015-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Judicial review and appeals
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the prohibition against, and so permit, administrative or judicial review of any estimate used and any period selected for determining additional Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments to subsection (d) hospitals.
 
(Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Wildfire Airspace Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3025
Sponsor: Rep. Cook, Paul [R-CA-8]
Introduced: 2015-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Forests, forestry, trees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: 

Wildfire Airspace Protection Act of 2015

 
Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly launching a drone near a wildfire threatening U.S. property that recklessly interferes with fighting the fire.
 
Makes it a defense to a prosecution for such offense that the drone was launched by a firefighter or other public safety officer acting in the course of official duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Tribal TANF Fairness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3026
Sponsor: Rep. Cook, Paul [R-CA-8]
Introduced: 2015-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Family services
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: 

Tribal TANF Fairness Act of 2015

 
This bill amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow a tribal government (including one participating in an intertribal consortium) to lease land held in trust or in fee, at a fair market rate, for the administration of a tribal family assistance grant by the tribal government or the intertribal consortium.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Meers Point Boundary Clarification Act

Bill: 114-hr-3027
Sponsor: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2015-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Land transfers
Travel and tourism
User charges and fees
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: 

Meers Point Boundary Clarification Act

 
 Directs the Department of the Interior, after completing a survey of Meers Point which covers those portions of lots 34, 35, 37, and 38 that are currently within the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge in Yuma County, Arizona, to convey to the current landowner or landowners of certain properties within such lots (property owners) by quitclaim deed that federal land that is within each property owner's lot. 
 
Requires each property owner to pay a percentage of the total administrative costs incurred by the United States. Waives such payment respecting any conveyance of federal land to the state of Arizona. 
 
Requires any proceeds paid to Interior to remain available for visitor services and resource protection at the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Grand Jury Transparency Act

Bill: 114-hr-3028
Sponsor: Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2015-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Evidence and witnesses
Freedom of information
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: 

Grand Jury Transparency Act

 
This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to permit the Department of Justice to give preferential treatment to applications for public safety and community policing grants from jurisdictions that have a law or ordinance to make grand jury transcripts and other records publicly available. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
RECOVER Act

Bill: 114-hr-3029
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Employee hiring
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Personnel records

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: 

Reducing the Effects of the Cyberattack on OPM Victims Emergency Response Act of 2015 or the RECOVER Act

 
Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to provide each individual whose personally identifiable information was compromised during data breaches of personnel records of federal employees in a network maintained by the Department of the Interior or in OPM systems containing federal employee background investigations with comprehensive identity protection coverage that is effective for the life of the individual and that includes not less than $5 million in identity theft insurance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1047)
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1040)
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Baudette Coast Guard Housing Conveyance Act

Bill: 114-hr-3030
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2015-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Housing supply and affordability
Land transfers
Minnesota

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: 

Baudette Coast Guard Housing Conveyance Act

 
This bill directs the Coast Guard to convey specified federal land (including buildings, structures, utilities, and miscellaneous facilities on the land) in Baudette, Minnesota, to the city of Baudette, to be used for affordable housing or for a purpose related to affordable housing or for infrastructure that provides a public benefit approved by the city. 
 
The property must be sold at fair market value. 

action_date: 2016-03-23
text: 

Baudette Coast Guard Housing Conveyance Act

 
(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Coast Guard to convey specified federal land (including buildings, structures, utilities, and miscellaneous facilities) in Baudette, Minnesota, to the city of Baudette, upon payment to the United States of the property's fair market value. 
 
The fair market value of the covered property must be:
 
 
determined by a real estate appraiser selected by the city, and licensed to practice in Minnesota; and
 
subject to the approval of the Coast Guard, considering specified requirements regarding use of the property. 
 
 
Any proceeds received by the United States from a conveyance under this Act shall be deposited in the Coast Guard Housing Fund. 
 
As a condition of any conveyance under this Act, the Coast Guard shall require that all interest in and to the covered property revert to the United States if any part of the property ceases being used for:
 
 
affordable housing or a related purpose, or
 
infrastructure providing a public benefit approved by the city. 
 
 
The authority to convey the covered property shall expire four years after this Act's enactment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 355.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 114-466.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 114-466.
action_date: 2016-03-02
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2016-03-02
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-03-02
text: Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Discharged.
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit funding to the Voice of America.

Bill: 114-hr-3031
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Appropriations
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Department of State
Executive agency funding and structure
International exchange and broadcasting

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: 
This bill prohibits funding for the Voice of America.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of George Henry White.

Bill: 114-hr-3034
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2015-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: House of Representatives
Members of Congress
North Carolina
Postal service
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: 
The Postmaster General must issue a commemorative postage stamp in honor of George Henry White.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Introduced in House
Credit Access and Inclusion Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3035
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer credit
Debt collection
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: 

Credit Access and Inclusion Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to authorize a person or the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to furnish to a consumer reporting agency information relating to the performance of a consumer in making payments: (1) under a lease agreement for a dwelling, including a lease in which HUD provides subsidized payments; or (2) pursuant to a contract for a utility or telecommunications service.
 
Information about a consumer's usage of any utility or telecommunications services may be furnished to a consumer reporting agency only to the extent that such information relates to payment by the consumer for such services or other terms of the provision of such services, including any deposit, discount, or conditions for interruption or termination of service.
 
An energy utility firm may not report payment information to a consumer reporting agency with respect to an outstanding balance of a consumer as late if the firm and the consumer have entered into a payment plan and the consumer is meeting the obligations of such plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Introduced in House