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Protect Our Military Families' 2nd Amendment Rights Act

Bill: 114-hr-2259
Sponsor: Rep. Rigell, E. Scott [R-VA-2]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: 

Protect Our Military Families' 2nd Amendment Rights Act

 
Amends the federal criminal code to authorize a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer of firearms to ship to the spouse of a member of the U.S. Armed Forces on active duty outside the United States or to clubs composed of such members and spouses, and authorizes such a spouse or club to receive, a firearm or ammunition generally recognized as particularly suitable for sporting purposes and intended for the personal use of such spouse or club.
 
Describes a member of the Armed Forces on active duty or a spouse of such member, for purposes of federal firearms provisions, as a resident of the state in which: (1) the member or spouse maintains legal residence, (2) the permanent duty station of the member is located, or (3) the member maintains a place of abode from which the member commutes each day to the member's permanent duty station. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Sarah Grace-Farley-Kluger Act

Bill: 114-hr-2260
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Employee leave
Family relationships
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text:  
 

Parental Bereavement Act of 2015 or the Sarah Grace-Farley-Kluger Act

 
Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to entitle an eligible employee to up to 12 workweeks of leave during any 12-month period because of the death of a son or daughter.
 
Allows such an employee to substitute any available paid leave for any leave without pay.
 
Applies the same leave entitlement to federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Commercial Remote Sensing Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2261
Sponsor: Rep. Bridenstine, Jim [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Licensing and registrations
Spacecraft and satellites

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: 

Commercial Remote Sensing Act of 2015

 
This bill directs the Department of Commerce to report annually to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on: (1) the implementation of its authority to license private entities to operate private remote sensing space systems; (2) all notifications and information provided to Commerce by licensees; and (3) all administrative actions taken to adjust penalties for violations of licensing requirements, issue subpoenas, and seize by warrant material necessary to investigate violations of licensing requirements. 
 
Commerce must also report to such Committees on statutory updates necessary to protect national security, protect the U.S. industrial base, and reflect the current state of the art of remote sensing systems, instruments, or technologies. 

action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Commercial Remote Sensing Act of 2015

 
(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Commerce to report annually to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on: (1) the implementation of its authority to license private entities to operate private remote sensing space systems; (2) all notifications and information provided to Commerce by licensees; and (3) all administrative actions taken to adjust penalties for violations of licensing requirements, issue subpoenas, and seize by warrant material necessary to investigate violations of licensing requirements. 
 
(Sec. 3) Commerce must also report to such Committees on statutory updates necessary to protect national security, privacy (which is not to be taken as altering any condition or standards for licensing), and the U.S. industrial base, and to reflect the current state of the art of remote sensing systems, instruments, or technologies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 619.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. H. Rept. 114-796.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. H. Rept. 114-796.
action_date: 2015-05-13
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2015-05-13
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Office of Space Commerce Act

Bill: 114-hr-2263
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Department of Commerce
Executive agency funding and structure
Space flight and exploration
Technology transfer and commercialization
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: 

Office of Space Commerce Act

 
This bill renames the Office of Space Commercialization as the Office of Space Commerce. 
 
The Office of Space Commerce shall:
 
 
 foster the conditions for the economic growth and technological advancement of the U.S. space commerce industry;
 
 coordinate space commerce policy issues and actions within the Department of Commerce;
 
 represent Commerce in the development of U.S. policies and in negotiations with foreign countries to promote U.S. space commerce;
 
 promote the advancement of U.S. geospatial technologies related to space commerce in cooperation with relevant interagency working groups; and 
 
 support federal government organizations working on Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing policy. 
 

action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 

Office of Space Commerce Act

 
(Sec. 2) This bill renames the Office of Space Commercialization as the Office of Space Commerce. 
 
(Sec. 3) The Office of Space Commerce shall:
 
 
 foster the conditions for the economic growth and technological advancement of the U.S. space commerce industry;
 
 coordinate space commerce policy issues and actions within the Department of Commerce;
 
 represent Commerce in the development of U.S. policies and in negotiations with foreign countries to promote U.S. space commerce;
 
 promote the advancement of U.S. geospatial technologies related to space commerce in cooperation with relevant interagency working groups; and 
 
 support federal government organizations working on Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing policy. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 620.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Reported by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. H. Rept. 114-797.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Reported by the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. H. Rept. 114-797.
action_date: 2015-05-13
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2015-05-13
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to establish a space-available transportation priority for veterans of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total.

Bill: 114-hr-2264
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: 
Directs the Department of Defense to provide transportation on scheduled and unscheduled military flights within the United States and on scheduled overseas flights on a space-available basis for veterans with a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total on the same basis as such transportation is provided to members of the Armed Forces entitled to retired or retainer pay.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
VOW to Hire Heroes Extension Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2265
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: American Samoa
Appropriations
Caribbean area
Congressional oversight
Employee hiring
Employment taxes
Government trust funds
Guam
Income tax credits
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Social security and elderly assistance
Unemployment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Virgin Islands
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: 

VOW to Hire Heroes Extension Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2018 the work opportunity tax credit for hiring a qualified veteran (defined as an unemployed veteran who is certified as being a member of a family receiving food stamp assistance and who is entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability), (2) revise tax credit eligibility requirements for documenting the status of veterans and their receipt of unemployment compensation, and (3) extend the payroll tax offset for such credit to certain for-profit employers.
 
Directs the Internal Revenue Service, in consultation with the Department of Labor, to make annual reports on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of this Act in increasing the employment of veterans.
 
Requires the Department of the Treasury to pay: (1) each U.S. possession (i.e., American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) with a mirror code tax system amounts equal to the loss to such possession due to this Act; and (2) each U.S. possession without such a tax system an amount estimated to equal the loss to such possession that would have occurred due to this Act if such a tax system had been in effect in that possession.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
CREED Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2266
Sponsor: Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: 

Commercial Real Estate and Economic Development Act of 2015 or the CREED Act of 2015

 
 Reinstates for a five-year period beginning after enactment of this Act the authority for Small Business Administration (SBA) low-interest refinancing of small business debt not involving business expansion under the SBA's local development business loan program.
 
Repeals a provision of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 that terminated such authority as of September 26, 2012. Restores and revives any provision of law struck by the provision, and any regulations promulgated pursuant to it as they were in effect on that date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
PACT (Protecting All College Tuition) Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2267
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Chris [R-NY-27]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: 

 PACT (Protecting All College Tuition) Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the federal bankruptcy code, with respect to transfers of interests that may be avoided by a bankruptcy trustee, to except tuition payments by a parent to an institution of higher education for the education of that parent's child. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2268
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government studies and investigations
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: 

Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act of 2015

 
Amends the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit the Department of Education (ED) from providing education funding to any educational agency or institution that allows school personnel to inflict corporal punishment upon a student as a form of punishment or to modify undesirable behavior.
 
Requires each state to submit a plan to ED, within 18 months of this Act's enactment and every third year thereafter, that describes how the state eliminates the use of corporal punishment in schools and makes school personnel and parents aware of its policies and procedures for doing so.
 
Authorizes ED to award three-year grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to assist them in improving school climate and culture by implementing school-wide positive behavior supports. 
 
Requires grant and subgrant funds to be used for professional training, technical assistance, research, and outreach regarding positive behavior supports. Requires LEAs to ensure that private school personnel can participate, on an equitable basis, in activities supported by such funds.
 
Authorizes ED to allocate funds to the Department of the Interior to carry out such activities with regard to schools operated or funded by such Department.
 
Directs ED to conduct a national assessment to determine compliance with this Act's requirements and identify best practices regarding positive behavior support professional training programs. 
 
Gives Protection and Advocacy Systems the authority provided under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 to investigate, monitor, and enforce this Act's protections for students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E673)
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Intelligence Budget Transparency Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2272
Sponsor: Rep. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: 

Intelligence Budget Transparency Act of 2015 

 
This bill requires the President's annual budget to include the total amount proposed for intelligence or intelligence related activities of each element of the government engaged in these activities in the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted. The budget must also include the estimated appropriation required for these activities for each of the next four fiscal years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-2274
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: District of Columbia
Emergency medical services and trauma care
First responders and emergency personnel
Monuments and memorials
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: 
Authorizes the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work on federal land in the District of Columbia and its environs to commemorate the commitment and service represented by emergency medical services.
 
Prohibits the use of federal funds to pay any expense of the establishment of such work. Makes the Foundation solely responsible for acceptance of contributions for, and payment of the expenses of, the establishment of such work. Provides for the deposit of excess funds received for such work into a National Park Foundation account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Seismic Moratorium Act

Bill: 114-hr-2276
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick [D-FL-18]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fishes
Florida
Mammals
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas
Reptiles
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: 

Seismic Moratorium Act

 
This bill prohibits conducting geological or geophysical activities in support of oil or gas exploration and development in any area located within a specified exclusive economic zone located off the coastline of Florida. 
 
This moratorium shall only be terminated if the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (of the Department of Commerce) determines that the reasonably foreseeable impacts of such activities are minimal to individuals or populations of marine mammals, sea turtles, or fish.
 
These geological or geophysical activities are described in the final programmatic environmental impact statement of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (of the Department of the Interior) entitled &quot;Atlantic OCS Proposed Geological and Geophysical Activities, Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic Planning Areas,&quot; completed February 2014.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2015-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Password Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2277
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: 

Password Protection Act of 2015
 
 
Amends the federal criminal code to subject to a fine any employer who knowingly and intentionally: 
 
 
compels or coerces any person to provide the employer with a password or similar information to access a protected computer not owned by such employer; or 
 
 discharges, disciplines, discriminates, or threatens to take such actions, against any person who fails to authorize access to such computer, has filed a complaint or instituted a proceeding regarding such action, or testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding. 
 
 
Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the authority of a court of competent jurisdiction to grant equitable relief in a civil action, if the court believes that the information sought to be obtained is relevant to protecting the intellectual property, a trade secret, or confidential business information of the party seeking relief.
 
Exempts an employer's actions from such prohibition if: 
 
 
 the employer discharges or disciplines an individual for good cause; 
 
 the employer complies with federal or state laws or regulations governing brokers, dealers, and investment advisers; 
 
 a state enacts a law that specifically waives such prohibition with respect to a particular class of state or agency employees and the employer's action relates to an employee in such class; or 
 
 an executive agency, military department, or other executive branch entity specifically waives the prohibition with respect to a particular class of employees who may have access to classified information.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
SAFE for America Act

Bill: 114-hr-2278
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2015-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of State
Immigration status and procedures
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: 

Security and Fairness Enhancement for America Act of 2015 or the SAFE for America Act

 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-12
text: Introduced in House