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A bill to amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to provide consumers with a free annual disclosure of information the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection maintains on them, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-s-96
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 
Amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to: (1) disclose to a consumer all information (and their sources) held by the CFPB with respect to that consumer, including any person or other federal department or agency to which the CFPB disclosed the information; and (2) truncate in the disclosure the first five digits of the consumer's Social Security number (or similar identification number), if the consumer so requests and the CFPB has received appropriate proof of the requester's identity. 
 
Permits consumers to request such a disclosure: (1) online, with a link prominently displayed on the CFPB website; (2) via U.S. mail; and (3) via a toll-free telephone number.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
No Obamacare Kickbacks Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-97
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

No Obamacare Kickbacks Act of 2015

 
Applies prohibitions against, and criminal penalties for, false statements and kickbacks in part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to plans and programs established or funded under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including qualified health plans, catastrophic plans, health benefit exchanges, reinsurance programs, the risk corridor program, patient navigators, and contracts with individuals or entities to facilitate enrollment in exchanges.
 
Directs the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Government Accountability Office to jointly study and report to Congress on the effect of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Notch Fairness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-99
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Inflation and prices
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Notch Fairness Act of 2015 

 
 Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to revise the formula for the computation of minimum Old Age Insurance benefits for individuals who reached age 65 in or after 1979, and to whom applies the 15-year transition period for the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977.
 
("Notch" refers to birth in the United States between 1917 and 1921, as a result of which a retiree born between those years received lower cost-of-living increases in Social Security than others after Congress readjusted Social Security benefits in 1977.)
 
Sets forth a schedule of additional benefit increases for such beneficiaries (and related beneficiaries), with percentages declining from 55% to 5% and keyed to the year an individual became eligible for such benefits between 1979 and 1988. 
 
Allows such beneficiaries, in the alternative, to receive lump sum payments over four years totaling $5,000. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Home School Opportunities Make Education Sound Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-100
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Income tax deductions
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Home School Opportunities Make Education Sound Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow all taxpayers, including taxpayers who do not itemize their deductions, a tax deduction for expenses relating to the home schooling of their children at the elementary or secondary school level.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the Coverdell education savings accounts to allow home school education expenses, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-s-101
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) payment of home school expenses from Coverdell education savings accounts, and (2) an annual inflation adjustment after 2014 to the contribution limit amount for such accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
21st Century Charter School Act

Bill: 114-s-102
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Credit and credit markets
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Licensing and registrations
School administration
Special education
State and local finance
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

21st Century Charter School Act

 
Amends the Charter School program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. 
 
Makes public and private nonprofit entities eligible for program grants. (Currently, state educational entities are eligible for such grants.) 
 
Allows grantees to award subgrants to charter school developers or nonprofit charter support organizations and award them multiple grants to support multiple campuses of a public charter school.
 
Sets forth additional factors that are to work in favor of grant applicants, including that their state gives public charter schools funding commensurate with that provided to other public schools, has no cap on such schools, and gives the schools a high degree of autonomy.
 
Authorizes the use of subgrants to plan and implement, or expand existing, public charter schools.
 
Authorizes grantees to use a portion of the grant funds reserved for administrative expenses to improve public charter school authorizing policies and practices in their area.
 
Expands the portion of funds grantees may use in establishing revolving loan funds for loans to subgrantees for planning and operating a public charter school.
 
Requires each public charter school participating in the program to have an independent governing board that enters into a performance-based agreement with an authorized public chartering agency that describes: (1) how student performance will be measured pursuant to the state assessments required of other schools, and (2) the criteria for renewal or revocation of their charter. Prohibits such schools from giving admissions preference to any student on the basis of prior academic achievement.
 
Establishes two new grant programs awarding grants to: (1) public charter schools, public and private nonprofit entities, charter school developers, and nonprofit charter support organizations to disseminate charter school innovations to other schools and states; and (2) public and private nonprofit entities to demonstrate innovative credit enhancement initiatives that assist public charter schools in covering the cost of acquiring, constructing, and renovating facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act

Bill: 114-s-103
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Coast guard
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military personnel and dependents
Military procurement, research, weapons development
National Guard and reserves
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act

 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, during a funding gap impacting the Armed Forces, to make available to the Secretary of Defense (the Secretary), and the Secretary of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard, out of any amounts in the general fund of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as necessary to continue to provide pay and allowances to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components, who perform active service during the funding gap. Allows for the provision of such pay and allowances, at the discretion of the Secretary, to: (1) Department of Defense (DOD) civilian personnel providing support to such members, and (2) DOD contractor personnel providing direct support to such members.
 
 Defines &quot;funding gap&quot; as any period after the beginning of a fiscal year for which interim or full-year appropriations for the personnel accounts of the Armed Forces for that fiscal year have not been enacted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Natural Disaster Fairness in Contracting Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-104
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disaster relief and insurance
Government information and archives
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Natural Disaster Fairness in Contracting Act of 2015
 
 
Requires agencies, in entering into a contract to procure property or services in connection with natural disaster reconstruction efforts, to use specified competitive procedures.
 
Allows agencies to enter into a contract to procure property or services in connection with such reconstruction efforts using other than full and open competition only upon the written approval of the President or the President's designee. Requires congressional notification when procedures other than full and open competitive procedures are to be used.
 
Instructs agencies that enter into a contract for the procurement of property or services in connection with such reconstruction efforts through the use of other than full and open competitive procedures to publish in the Federal Register or Federal Business Opportunities and otherwise make available to the public specified information concerning the contract seven days before it is finalized.
 
Permits the use of noncompetitive procedures by agencies when: (1) a contract will be performed within a six-month period, and (2) the need for the property or services is of such an unusual and compelling urgency that the government would otherwise be seriously injured.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Red Snapper Management Improvement Act

Bill: 114-s-105
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Fishes
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Intergovernmental relations
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mississippi
State and local government operations
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Red Snapper Management Improvement Act

 
This bill gives Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas (Gulf coastal states) exclusive authority to manage and conserve the red snapper in both the waters of each Gulf coastal state and the exclusive economic zone in the Gulf of Mexico if each of those states agree to a fishery management plan for the stainability of the red snapper and the economic and community benefits of the Gulf coastal states.
 
If each of those states agrees to a fishery management plan, Department of Commerce must provide appropriate funding to them for stock assessments and data collection related to the red snapper fishery.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Ending Legacy Lawsuit Abuse Act

Bill: 114-s-106
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Federal district courts
Jurisdiction and venue
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Ending Legacy Lawsuit Abuse Act

 
This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to allow a defendant to remove from a state court to the U.S. district court a civil action involving a claim of environmental contamination that impacts or threatens to impact waters of the United States subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Terminating the Expansion of Too-Big-To-Fail Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-107
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Bankruptcy
Commodities markets
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Congressional oversight
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Insurance industry and regulation
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Terminating the Expansion of Too-Big-To-Fail Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Financial Stability Act of 2010, title I of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and the Federal Reserve Act to eliminate all supervision by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) of domestic and foreign nonbank financial companies, including new or heightened standards and safeguards and minimum leverage capital requirements.
 
Eliminates the duty of the Financial Stability Oversight Council to identify systemically important financial market utilities and payment, clearing, and settlement activities.
 
Repeals the authority of the Council, acting through the Office of Financial Research, to: (1) require the submission of periodic and other reports from any domestic or foreign nonbank financial company, or (2) request the Board to examine a U.S. nonbank financial company for the sole purpose of determining whether it should be Board-supervised.
 
Repeals specified additional Board authority to supervise certain nonbank financial companies, including the prohibition against management interlocks between such companies and certain other financial companies.
 
Repeals the requirement that the Board study and report to Congress on: (1) specified issues with respect to the resolution of financial companies under chapter 7 (Liquidation) or 11 (Reorganization) of the Bankruptcy Code, and (2) international coordination relating to the resolution of systemic financial companies under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and applicable foreign law.
 
Repeals the authority of the Council to recommend to the Board: (1) prudential standards and reporting and disclosure requirements for Board-supervised nonbank financial companies, and (2) any requirement that each nonbank financial company report periodically the company's credit exposure as well as its plan for rapid and orderly resolution in the event of material financial distress or failure.
 
Repeals the requirement that the Council study the feasibility, benefits, costs, and structure of a contingent capital requirement for Board-supervised nonbank financial companies.
 
Eliminates reporting requirements for such companies.
 
Repeals the Payment, Clearing, and Settlement Supervision Act of 2010 (title VIII of Dodd-Frank).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Enumerated Powers Act

Bill: 114-s-109
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Enumerated Powers Act

 
 Requires each Act of Congress, bill, resolution, conference report, or amendment to contain a concise explanation of the specific constitutional authority relied upon as the basis for enacting each portion of the measure.
 
Permits a statement of constitutionality, to the extent that a measure limits or abolishes any federal activity, spending, or power overall, to cite the 9th or the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
 
Declares that invoking one or more specified parts of the following clauses in a statement of constitutionality is not sufficient to satisfy the requirements of this Act: (1) the enumerated spending clause; (2) the necessary and proper clause; or (3) the commerce clause for any purpose other than the regulation of the buying and selling of goods or services, or their transportation, across boundaries with foreign nations, across state lines, or with the Indian tribes.
 
Declares that failure to comply with this requirement shall give rise to a point of order in either chamber.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Environmental Protection Agency Accountability Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-110
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Environmental Protection Agency Accountability Act of 2015

 
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to satisfy within 30 days regulatory requirements concerning: 
 
 
improving planning and regulator review under Executive Order 13563, Executive Order 12866, or any successor executive order establishing requirements applicable to the uniform reporting of regulatory and deregulatory agendas; 
 
publishing in the Federal Register its regulatory flexibility agendas;
 
certifying compliance with Executive Order 13132 when transmitting any draft final regulation or proposed legislation that has federalism implication to the Office of Management and Budget; and
 
preparing statements to accompany significant regulatory actions.
 
If the EPA fails to satisfy these requirements, financial penalties in the form of funding rescissions will be imposed on the EPA each week until all the requirements are satisfied. In any year in which funds are rescinded, the EPA Inspector General must conduct an audit to assess the EPA's compliance with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Protect America's Cities from Government Blacklist Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-111
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Public contracts and procurement
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Protect America's Cities from Government Blacklist Act of 2015

 
 Prohibits a federal agency from establishing or implementing a policy that discourages or prohibits the selection of a location for travel, an event, a meeting, or a conference because the location is perceived to be a resort or vacation destination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Common Sense in Species Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-112
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Commerce
Department of the Interior
Economic performance and conditions
Endangered and threatened species
Land use and conservation
State and local finance
Unemployment
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Common Sense in Species Protection Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the Department of the Interior or the Department of Commerce to exclude an area from designation as a critical habitat to conserve an endangered or threatened species if the benefits of exclusion outweigh the benefits of including the area, unless the failure to designate the area as critical habitat will result in the extinction of the species. 
 
At the time a proposed rule to designate a critical habitat is published, the appropriate department must make available for public comment a draft analysis that: (1) examines the incremental and cumulative economic effects of all actions to protect the species and its habitat upon each state and locality that is affected by the proposed designation; (2) includes consideration of economic effects on possible uses of land and property values, employment, revenues available for state and local governments, and the provision of water, power, or other public services; and (3) assesses those effects on a quantitative and qualitative basis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-06
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Land Job Creation Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-113
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2015-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: 

Public Land Job Creation Act of 2015

 
This bill gives the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 45 days to review a state BLM notice for submission to the Federal Register. If the review has not been completed: (1) the notice shall consider to be approved, and (2) the state BLM office shall immediately forward the notice to the Federal Register for publication. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate