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Equal Protection for American Workers Act

Bill: 114-hr-205
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Equal Protection for American Workers Act 

 
 Prohibits the Secretary of Homeland Security from granting a work authorization to an alien who has been determined, in a valid immigration proceeding during which due process was afforded, to have been at any time unlawfully present in the United States.


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

Bill: 114-hr-206
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Doug [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Appropriations
Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
California
Citizenship and naturalization
Congressional-executive branch relations
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Detention of persons
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign labor
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Homeland security
Immigration status and procedures
Law enforcement administration and funding
Military personnel and dependents
New Mexico
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Texas
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Immigration Accountability Act

 
This bill prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available for any fiscal year to implement or enforce specified immigration-related policies in: 
 
 
the memoranda issued by the Secretary of Homeland Security on November 20, 2014, which includes prosecutorial discretion regarding individuals who came to the United States as children and regarding certain individuals who are the parents of U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and expansion of the provisional waiver program; 
 
the memoranda issued by the President on November 21, 2014, which includes modernizing and streamlining the U.S. immigrant visa system for the 21st century; 
 
 the memorandum issued by the Secretary on June 15, 2012, on exercising prosecutorial discretion with respect to individuals who came to the United States as children; and 
 
any substantially similar memorandum issued after November 21, 2014. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-209
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-35]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid
Medical research
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends the Improving Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2009 to repeal the sunset of, and so extend indefinitely, the exclusion from resources under titles XVI (Supplemental Security Income) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, for eligibility purposes, of compensation in the amount of the first $2,000 per year received by individuals who participate in clinical trials for rare diseases or conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-18
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Student Worker Exemption Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-210
Sponsor: Rep. Meadows, Mark [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Higher education
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Student Worker Exemption Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude students who are employed by an institution of higher education (IHE) and carrying a full-time academic workload at the IHE from being counted as full-time employees in calculating the IHE's shared responsibility regarding health care coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

action_date: 2016-07-05
text: 

Student Worker Exemption Act of 
 
2016

 
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude students who are employed by an institution of higher education (IHE) and carrying a full-time academic workload at the IHE from being counted as full-time employees in calculating the IHE's shared responsibility regarding health care coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-05
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 506.
action_date: 2016-07-05
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 114-655.
action_date: 2016-07-05
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 114-655.
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
REBUILD Act

Bill: 114-hr-211
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Reducing Environmental Barriers to Unified Infrastructure and Land Development Act of 2015 Act or the REBUILD Act 

 
 This bill amends the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to authorize: (1) the assignment to states of federal environmental review responsibilities under NEPA and other relevant federal environmental laws for covered federal projects, and (2) states to assume all or part of those responsibilities. 
 
Each responsible federal official who is authorized to assign such responsibility must promulgate regulations that establish requirements relating to information required to be contained in state applications to assume those responsibilities.
 
 An official may approve an application only if: (1) public notice requirements have been met, (2) the state has the capability to assume the responsibilities, and (3) the head of the state agency having primary jurisdiction over covered projects enters into a written agreement with an official to assume the responsibilities and to maintain the financial resources necessary to carry them out.
 
The officials must audit state compliance with federal laws for which responsibilities are assumed. The officials may terminate the responsibilities assigned to states after providing notice to states of any noncompliance and an opportunity to take corrective action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-213
Sponsor: Rep. Chaffetz, Jason [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2015 

 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) eliminate the per country numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, and (2) increase the per country numerical limitation for family based immigrants from 7% to 15% of the total number of family-sponsored visas. 
 
Amends the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992 to eliminate the provision requiring the reduction of annual Chinese immigrant visas to offset status adjustments under such Act.
 
Sets forth the following transition period for employment-based second and third preference (EB-2 and EB-3) immigrant visas: 
 
 
for FY2015, 15% of such visas allotted to natives of countries other than the two countries with the largest aggregate numbers of natives obtaining such visas in FY2011; 
 
for FY2016, 10% of such visas allotted in each category to natives of countries other than the two with the largest aggregate numbers of natives obtaining such visas in FY2012; and 
 
for FY2017, 10% of such visas allotted in each category to natives of countries other than the two with the largest aggregate numbers of natives obtaining such visas in FY2015.
 
 
Sets forth the following per country distribution rules: (1) for transition period visas, not more than 25% of the total number of EB-2 and EB-3 visas for natives of a single country; and (2) for non-transition period visas, not more than 85% of EB-2 and EB-3 visas for natives of a single country.
 Provides that the amendments made by this Act will take place as if enacted on September 30, 2014, and shall apply beginning in FY2015.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Tar Sands Tax Loophole Elimination Act

Bill: 114-hr-214
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Tar Sands Tax Loophole Elimination Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the definition of "crude oil" for purposes of the excise tax on petroleum and petroleum products to include any bitumen or bituminous mixture, any oil derived from a bitumen or bituminous mixture (tar sands), and any oil derived from kerogen-bearing sources (oil shale). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H160)
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E34-35)
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Defending Veterans from Sequestration Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-215
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-5]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Defending Veterans from Sequestration Act of 2015
 
 
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt administrative expenses of the Department of Veterans Affairs from any presidential sequestration order issued under that Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act

Bill: 114-hr-217
Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Congressional oversight
Family planning and birth control
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act

 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) from providing federal family planning assistance to an entity unless the entity certifies that, during the period of assistance, the entity will not perform, and will not provide funds to any other entity that performs, an abortion. Excludes an abortion where: (1) the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; or (2) a physician certifies that the woman suffered from a physical disorder, injury, or illness that would place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed, including a condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy. Excludes hospitals that do not provide funds to non-hospital entities that perform abortions.
 
Requires HHS to provide Congress annually: (1) information on grantees who performed abortions under the exceptions, and (2) a list of entities to which grant funds are made available. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
CHAMPVA Children's Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-218
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-5]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

CHAMPVA Children's Protection Act of 2015

 
Increases from 23 to 26 the maximum age of eligibility for certain dependent children of veterans for medical care under CHAMPVA (the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs [VA]).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
John Tanner Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act

Bill: 114-hr-219
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional districts and representation
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Government information and archives
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
State and local courts
State and local government operations
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

John Tanner Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act

 
 Prohibits a state that has been redistricted after an apportionment from being redistricted again until after the next apportionment of Representatives, unless the state is ordered by a court to conduct such a subsequent redistricting in order to: (1) comply with the U.S. Constitution, or (2) enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
 
Requires such redistricting to be conducted through a plan developed by the independent redistricting commission established in the state, or if such plan is not enacted into law, the redistricting plan selected by the state's highest court or developed by a U.S. district court.
 
Prescribes requirements for: (1) establishment of a state independent redistricting commission (including provisions for holding each of its meetings in public and maintaining a public Internet site); (2) development of a redistricting plan (including soliciting and considering public comments) and its submission to the state legislature (with public notice of plans at least seven days prior to such submission); (3) selection of a plan, under specified conditions, by the state's highest court or the U.S. district court for the district in which the capital of the state is located; (4) special rules for redistricting conducted under a federal court order; and (5) Election Assistance Commission payments to states for carrying out redistricting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Dependents' Parity Act

Bill: 114-hr-220
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Veterans Dependents' Parity Act

 
Extends the eligibility of a child for medical care under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) until the child's 26th birthday, regardless of the child's marital status or whether the child is pursuing a full-time course of instruction at an educational institution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Obamacare Taxpayer Bailout Prevention Act

Bill: 114-hr-221
Sponsor: Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Obamacare Taxpayer Bailout Prevention Act
 
 
Repeals the provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish and administer a program of risk corridors for calendar years 2014, 2015, and 2016 under which a qualified health plan offered in the individual or small group market is required to participate in a payment adjustment system based on the ratio of the allowable costs of the plan to the plan's aggregate premiums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Export-Import Bank of the United States from providing financial support for certain high carbon intensity energy projects.

Bill: 114-hr-222
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Corporate finance and management
Electric power generation and transmission
Government lending and loan guarantees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 
 Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to prohibit the Export-Import Bank from guaranteeing, insuring, extending credit, or participating in the extension of credit in connection with the purchase or sale of any good or service for a high carbon intensity project that: (1) is designed to generate electricity, and (2) if completed would produce at least 500 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour of electricity generated by the project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To require the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to submit to Congress an annual report on the effects of gun violence on public health.

Bill: 114-hr-224
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Firearms and explosives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 
Requires the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to report annually to Congress on the effects of gun violence on public health and the status of actions taken to address those effects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Firearm Safety Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-225
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2015-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Firearms and explosives
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: 

Firearm Safety Act of 2015

 
Amends the Consumer Product Safety Act to remove from the definition of "consumer product" the exclusion for any article sold by a manufacturer, producer, or importer that would be subject to a firearms sales tax under the Internal Revenue Code for pistols, revolvers, and other firearms, including shells and cartridges, thereby permitting the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue safety standards for such articles. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-01-08
text: Introduced in House