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Commonsense Contracting Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1444
Sponsor: Rep. Hanna, Richard L. [R-NY-22]
Introduced: 2015-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Building construction
Competition and antitrust
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: 

Commonsense Contracting Act of 2015

 
This bill expresses the sense of Congress that, when used appropriately, with respect to federal agency procurement, an auction between a group of offerors who compete against each other by submitting offers for a contract or task or delivery order with the ability to submit revised offers with lower prices throughout the course of the auction (reverse auction) may improve the federal government's procurement of commercially available commodities by increasing competition, reducing prices, and improving opportunities for small businesses.
 
The Small Business Act is amended to prohibit the use of reverse auction methods for certain Small Business Administration federal procurement contracts for:
 
 
design and construction services;
 
goods purchased to protect federal employees, members of the Armed Forces, or civilians from bodily harm; or
 
goods or services other than these: (1) to be awarded based on factors other than price and technical responsibility, or (2) if awarding the contract requires the contracting officer to conduct discussions with the offerors about their offer.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
LAND Act

Bill: 114-hr-1445
Sponsor: Rep. Hardy, Cresent [R-NV-4]
Introduced: 2015-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Forests, forestry, trees
General public lands matters
Land transfers
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: 

Land Acquisition to cut National Debt Act or LAND Act

 
 Bars the Department of the Interior from using federal funding to purchase land resulting in a net increase of land acreage being under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Bureau of Land Management unless the federal budget is balanced for the year in which such land would be purchased. 
 
Makes such prohibition inapplicable to: (1) lands purchased with funding made available through the sale of Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps, and (2) easements acquired by Interior to facilitate the management of federal lands. 
 
Bars the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from using federal funding to purchase land resulting in a net increase of land acreage included in the National Forest System unless the federal budget is balanced for the year in which that land would be purchased. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to easements acquired by the USDA to facilitate the management of federal lands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2015-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2015-03-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1727-1728)
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1446
Sponsor: Rep. Hurt, Robert [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2015-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: 

Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2015

 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that individuals who enter personal information on a health exchange website can remove their information from the website if they decide not to apply for health care coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Perkins Modernization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1447
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Joseph P., III [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2015-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: 

Perkins Modernization Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to revise its purposes, which are to develop more fully the academic and career and technical skills of secondary education students and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in career and technical education programs (as under current law), by: 
 
 
preparing those students for employment in current or emerging in-demand industry sectors or occupations; 
 
aligning the skills, certifications, and credentials of the students with those needed by employers in the labor markets served by educational institutions; and 
 
ensuring that the selection of skills, certifications, and credentials acquired by such students is guided by timely labor market information.
 
 
 An &quot;in-demand industry sector or occupation&quot; is: 
 
 
an industry sector that has a substantial current or potential impact on the state, regional, or local economy, and that contributes to the growth or stability of other supporting businesses, or the growth of other industry sectors; or 
 
an occupation that currently has or is projected to have a number of positions in an industry sector so as to have a significant impact on the state, regional, or local economy. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Transit Accessibility Innovation Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1448
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2015-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Disability and paralysis
Public participation and lobbying
Public transit
Regional and metropolitan planning
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: 

Transit Accessibility Innovation Act of 2015

 
 Directs the Secretary of Transportation to implement a transit accessibility innovation program by distributing competitive discretionary grants to public transit agencies for eligible projects in order to encourage public transit systems to take action to address deficiencies in service for individuals with disabilities.
 
Directs the Secretary, for each fiscal year, to use 2% of funds made available under this Act to carry out activities to ensure that innovative practices, program models, and new service delivery options are collected, reviewed, and disseminated to other public transit agencies for replication in other communities.
 
Directs the Secretary, for each fiscal year, also to use certain funds to carry out a transportation promotion pilot program to ensure that: (1) public transit agencies fulfill their requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), and (2) individuals with disabilities have advocates to ensure greater opportunities for integration and access into transit systems.
 
Requires the Secretary to make grants to: (1) agencies implementing a system established under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 that have demonstrated histories of transportation expertise or advocacy, and (2) nonprofit organizations that have also demonstrated such histories.
 
Increases from 10% to 15% the limitation on the use of a recipient's annual formula apportionment for provision of nonfixed route paratransit transportation services in accordance with the ADA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Tiahrt Restrictions Repeal Act

Bill: 114-hr-1449
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2015-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Appropriations
Business records
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Firearms and explosives
Freedom of information
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: 

Tiahrt Restrictions Repeal Act

 
 Amends the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012, to repeal prohibitions on using appropriated funds: (1) to disclose contents of the Firearms Trace System database maintained by the National Trace Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or any information required to be kept by firearms dealers except as specified in such Act; (2) to promulgate or implement any rule requiring a physical inventory of any firearms business; or (3) for any background check system that does not require the destruction of identifying information submitted for a transferee within 24 hours after the system advises a federal firearms licensee that the transferee's receipt of a firearm is not prohibited. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the land exchange involving Navy Outlying Landing Field Site 8 in Escambia County, Florida.

Bill: 114-hr-1451
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2015-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Florida
Land transfers
Military facilities and property

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: 
Authorizes the Navy to convey to Escambia County, Florida, a parcel of real property containing Navy Outlying Landing Field Site 8 associated with Naval Air Station, Whiting Field, Milton, Florida, in exchange for land in Santa Rosa County, Florida, that is suitable for use as a Navy outlying landing field to replace Field Site 8.
 
Requires Escambia County to reimburse the Navy for surveys, environmental documentation, and other administrative costs related to the land exchange, as well as for costs associated with relocation of activities and facilities to the replacement location.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1453
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2015-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Home and outpatient care
Medicare
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: 

Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2015

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require alignment of updates for ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services under a revised prospective payment system (PPS) with updates for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services. 
 
Revises requirements for the reporting and applying of quality measure data by ASCs and hospital OPDs.
 
Revises requirements for the composition of the expert outside advisory panel the Secretary of Health and Human Services is required to consult during the annual review of the clinical integrity of the groups and payment weights in the PPS for OPD services. Requires the panel to include suppliers subject to the PPS as well as at least one ASC representative.
 
Requires the Secretary, when excluding from a final rule updating ASC lists a procedure whose inclusion was requested during the public comment period, to cite in the final rule specific criteria based on which the procedure was excluded. Requires the Secretary also to identify the peer reviewed research or the evidence upon which the exclusion is based if certain of those criteria are cited for it. Prohibits the Secretary from using or citing as a criterion or a basis for an exclusion that the procedure can only be reported using a Current Procedural Terminology unlisted surgical procedure code. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-18
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: 2015-03-18
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: 2015-03-18
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: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Modernized Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1454
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2015-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Justice
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: 

Modernized Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act of 2015

 
Amends the federal criminal code to expand the definition of "armor piercing ammunition" to include a projectile that may be used in a handgun and that is determined by the Attorney General to be capable of penetrating body armor.
 
Requires the Attorney General to: (1) promulgate standards for the uniform testing of projectiles against the Body Armor Exemplar (body armor that the Attorney General determines meets minimum standards for the protection of law enforcement officers), taking into account variations in performance related to the type of handgun used, the length of the barrel, the amount and kind of powder used, and the projectile's design; and (2) assess and, as appropriate, modify the standards every three years or more frequently if warranted by technological advances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Speeding Access to Already Approved Pharmaceuticals Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1455
Sponsor: Rep. Stivers, Steve [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2015-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Europe
European Union
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: 

Speeding Access to Already Approved Pharmaceuticals Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Food and Drug Administration to facilitate the development and expedite the review of a new drug, biological product, or device that has been approved in the European Union.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-18
text: Introduced in House
AMP Act

Bill: 114-hr-1457
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Intellectual property
Music
Sound recording

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Allocation for Music Producers Act or the AMP Act

 
Amends federal copyright law to require a collective designated by the Copyright Royalty Judges to implement a policy providing for the acceptance of instructions (referred to as a "letter of direction") from a person who owns the exclusive right to publicly perform a sound recording by means of a digital audio transmission, or from a recording artist of a such a sound recording, to distribute a portion of royalty payments to a producer, mixer, or sound engineer who was part of the creative process behind the sound recording.
 
Requires the collective to adopt special procedures for a producer, mixer, or sound engineer to receive a portion of royalties for recordings fixed before November 1, 1995, by certifying that a reasonable effort has been made to obtain a letter of direction from an artist who owns the right to receipts payable with respect to the sound recording.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
BACPAC Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1458
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Bundling and Coordinating Post-Acute Care Act of 2015 or the BACPAC Act of 2015

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require a single bundled payment for post-acute care services under Medicare parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance).
 
Defines "PAC physician" as the physician with primary responsibility for supervising delivery to an individual of a post-acute care (PAC) bundle of services between a qualifying discharge and the earlier of: (1) 90 days later, or (2) the date on which the individual is admitted to a hospital to receive services for a condition unrelated to the one for which he or she received the acute care inpatient hospital services. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study the feasibility of integrating (&quot;bundling&quot;) all payments under the Medicare program for post acute care services with payments for acute care inpatient hospital services in a subsection (d) hospital. (Generally, a subsection [d] hospital is an acute care hospital, particularly one that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system [IPPS] when providing covered inpatient services to eligible beneficiaries.)
 
Places a moratorium on the IPPS payment rate in certain cases.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a new Transitional Care Management (TCM) code, with respect to geographic adjustments to the physicians' fee schedule, to pay for care management by a PAC physician; or (2) revise and expand the use of existing TCM codes 99495 and 99494.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-19
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: 2015-03-19
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: 2015-03-19
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: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House