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Reducing Unexpected Deaths in Infants and Children Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4571
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2016-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child health
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Genetics
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Law enforcement administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Sex and reproductive health
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: 

Reducing Unexpected Deaths in Infants and Children Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to award grants for: (1) improving state comprehensive death scene investigations for sudden unexplained infant death (SUID) and sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC), (2) death scene investigation training specific to such deaths, (3) increasing the rate of comprehensive and standardized autopsies for such deaths, and (4) surveillance efforts on stillbirths.
 
The CDC must: (1) develop guidelines for a standard autopsy protocol for SUID and SUDC, (2) conduct a needs assessment for investigations and determinations of such deaths, and (3) support public education and prevention programs to reduce stillbirths and address the racial and ethnic disparities in occurrence.
 
The Health Resources and Services Administration must award grants for: (1) infant and child death review programs and prevention strategies; and (2) support services for families who have experienced SUID, SUDC, or stillbirth.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services must establish a task force to develop a national research plan to determine the causes of, and how to prevent, stillbirths.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Workforce Training Enhancement Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4572
Sponsor: Rep. Nolan, Richard M. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2016-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment and training programs
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Trade adjustment assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: 

Workforce Training Enhancement Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Trade Act of 1974, with respect to trade adjustment assistance (TAA) for training to adversely affected workers, to authorize a state to use certain funds distributed by the Department of Labor to reimburse the costs of providing training to an adversely affected worker before the worker is approved for training under the Act if those costs have been paid by:
 
 
the state from state funds,
 
the state or local workforce development areas within the state from funds available for workforce investment activities and providers under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, or
 
another entity eligible in the state under the national dislocated worker grants program from funds available for that program.
 
 
The use of funds under this Act shall be conditioned, however, on the worker's coverage by a certification for TAA eligibility for training meeting approval requirements which commenced after the date on which the total or partial separations of the group of workers covered by the certification for eligibility began or threatened to begin.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Lap Children Safety Research Act

Bill: 114-hr-4573
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2016-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Aviation and airports
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Department of Transportation
Research administration and funding
Technology assessment
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: 

Lap Children Safety Research Act

 
This bill requires the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to ensure that research on child restraint devices for use during critical phases of flight on commercial passenger aircraft encourages the assessment and development of new and innovative technologies and devices that improve safety for children, parents, and other passengers.
 
The FAA shall require the Civil Aeromedical Institute to initiate a research program focused on improving the safety of such devices and report to Congress on the results, including recommended changes to federal laws and regulations to allow additional devices to be used to keep children, their parents, and other passengers safe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Helicopter Fuel System Safety Act

Bill: 114-hr-4574
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2016-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Motor fuels
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: 

Helicopter Fuel System Safety Act

 
This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration, in accordance with the safety recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board (A-15-12), to issue regulations to ensure that certain fuel system crash resistance requirements are met by requiring that all newly manufactured helicopters, regardless of the design's original certification date, have fuel systems that meet such crash-worthiness requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to provide investment authority to support rural infrastructure development, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-4575
Sponsor: Rep. Poliquin, Bruce [R-ME-2]
Introduced: 2016-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Credit and credit markets
Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing and community development funding
Infrastructure development
Rural conditions and development
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: 
This bill amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to authorize Federal Home Loan Banks to make investments related to rural infrastructure development. Federal Home Loan Banks may purchase investment-grade securities from nonmember lenders that are organized as cooperatives, have received financing from the Federal Financing Bank, and have experience providing loans to cooperatives eligible to receive loans from the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Employee Ownership Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4577
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2016-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: 

Expanding Employee Ownership Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee: (1) shares of employer securities received in a qualified employee stock distribution as compensation for services that do not exceed the lowest number of employer securities received by any employee in such distribution; (2) any gain on such securities if held by an employee for not less than 10 years; and (3) in the case of any qualified disposition of an employer security that meets such 10-year holding requirement, any gain on so much stock acquired during the 60-day period beginning on the date of such disposition as does not exceed the fair market value of the employer security so disposed.
 
Employers may claim a tax deduction for the fair market value of securities transferred in a stock distribution. Employees must recapture in gross income the amount of employer securities excluded from gross income if such securities are disposed of within five years after receipt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E178)
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Underground Gas Storage Safety Act

Bill: 114-hr-4578
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2016-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Transportation safety and security
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: 

Underground Gas Storage Safety Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to prescribe minimum safety standards, meeting specified requirements, for underground gas storage facilities. 
 
A state authority may, however, adopt additional or more stringent safety standards for intrastate underground gas storage facilities.
 
Until final standards are prescribed, all underground natural gas storage facilities shall comply with certain minimum requirements, including those in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs and aquifer reservoirs and those in solution-mined salt caverns. 
 
DOT shall make grants for research and development activities relating to: (1) improved underground gas storage safety, or (2) an odorant additive for gas that is both detectable and nontoxic. 
 
A user fee shall be imposed on each operator of an underground gas storage facility to which specified safety requirements apply.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2016-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2016-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2016-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Terrorist Release Transparency Act

Bill: 114-hr-4580
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-39]
Introduced: 2016-02-23 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Caribbean area
Congressional oversight
Cuba
Detention of persons
Latin America
Military facilities and property
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: 

Terrorist Release Transparency Act

 
This bill expresses the sense of Congress that the people of the United States: (1) deserve to know who is being released from the detention facilities at U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, their countries of origin, their destinations, and the ability of the host nation to prevent recidivism; and (2) deserve transparency in the manner in which the Obama Administration complies with Executive Order 13492.
 
Not less than 15 days before a detained individual's transfer to the custody or control of the individual's country of origin, any other foreign country, or any other foreign entity, the Department of State shall submit to Congress an unclassified notice that includes: 
 
 
the name, country of origin, and country of destination of the individual; 
 
the number of individuals detained at Guantanamo previously transferred to the country to which the individual is proposed to be transferred; and 
 
the number of such individuals who have re-engaged in terrorist activity after being transferred to that country.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Stop Corporate Earnings Stripping Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4581
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-9]
Introduced: 2016-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: 

Stop Corporate Earnings Stripping Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit the tax deduction available to certain foreign-controlled U.S. multinational corporations for excess interest on debt incurred by such corporation (i.e., earnings stripping) by: (1) repealing the debt-to-equity ratio threshold required for such deduction, (2) reducing the permitted net interest expense threshold from 50% to 25% of the corporation's adjusted taxable income, (3) repealing the carryforward of excess amounts of interest, and (4) limiting to five years the carryforward of disallowed interest expense. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
POLICE Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4584
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2016-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Terrorism
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: 

POLICE Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the allowable use of grant funds under the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program to include participation in active shooter training programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
FAIR Act

Bill: 114-hr-4585
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2016-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: 

Federal Adjustment of Income Rates Act or the FAIR Act

 
 This bill increases the rates of basic pay for federal employees under the statutory pay systems (relating to the General Schedule, the U.S. Foreign Service, and the Veterans Health Administration) and for prevailing rate employees by 3.9% for FY2017. 
 
The percentage adjustment for locality-based comparability payments for calendar year 2017 shall be an increase of 1.4%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Broadband and Emerging Information Technology Enhancement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4587
Sponsor: Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2016-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business education
Business investment and capital
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Science, Technology, Communications
Small Business Administration
Small business
Telecommunication rates and fees
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: 

Small Business Broadband and Emerging Information Technology Enhancement Act of 2015

 
 This bill amends the Small Business Act to direct the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Investment and Innovation to designate a senior employee to serve as the broadband and emerging information technology (BEIT) coordinator.
 
The Office must also provide SBA employees BEIT training to assist small businesses in the use of such technologies.
 
The SBA Chief Counsel for Advocacy shall evaluate the impact of broadband speed and price on small businesses.
 
Services provided by a small business development center shall include accessing and using BEIT as an authorized activity of small business development centers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Incentivizing Medicaid Expansion Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4588
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2016-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: 

Incentivizing Medicaid Expansion Act of 2016

 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide the enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) to every state that expands Medicaid coverage for individuals who are newly eligible under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, regardless of when such expansion takes place. 
 
Under current law, the enhanced FMAP is equivalent to 100% in 2014 through 2016, 95% in 2017, 94% in 2018, 93% in 2019, and 90% thereafter. The bill retains this enhanced FMAP, but bases it on a term of years rather than on specific dates.
 
The bill applies retroactively.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
Excellence in Medicare Act

Bill: 114-hr-4589
Sponsor: Rep. MacArthur, Thomas [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2016-02-23 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: 

Excellence in Medicare Act 

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare)of the Social Security Act to require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid to disregard the application of certain percentage quality increases when calculating the maximum payment that may be made to a Medicare Advantage organization.
 

Medical Malpractice Reform Act of 2015

 
The bill sets conditions for lawsuits arising from health care liability claims regarding health care goods or services or any medical product affecting interstate commerce.Additionally, the bill sets a statute of limitations of three years after the date of manifestation of injury or one-year after the claimant discovers the injury, with certain exceptions.
 
The bill revises other provisions related to health care lawsuits including: (1)limiting noneconomic damages, (2)mandating joint and several liability, (3)limiting attorney contingency fees, (4) limiting punitive damages, and (5)denying punitive damages in the case of products approved by the Food and Drug Administration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2016-02-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-23
text: Introduced in House