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Federal Employee Pension Fairness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-785
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Donna F. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Foreign and international corporations
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Income tax rates
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Federal Employee Pension Fairness Act of 2015

 
Repeals provisions requiring federal employees, including foreign service employees, who began service after 2012 to pay an increased contribution (4.4%) for funding their annuities under the Federal Employees Retirement System.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) treat certain foreign corporations managed and controlled primarily in the United States as domestic corporations for U.S. tax purposes; and (2) revise rules for the taxation of inverted corporations (i.e., U.S. corporations that acquire foreign companies to reincorporate in a foreign jurisdiction with lower income tax rates than the United States).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Foreign Affairs, 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: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Foreign Affairs, 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: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Foreign Affairs, 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: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Foreign Affairs, 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: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Payer State Transparency Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-787
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Payer State Transparency Act of 2015

 
 Directs: (1) the Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce to calculate the federal tax burden of each state for each calendar year, (2) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to calculate the total amount of federal outlays received by each state in each fiscal year, and (3) the Secretary of Commerce and the OMB Director to jointly report to Congress on the results of such calculations and publish such report on the publicly accessible website of the Bureau of Economic Analysis. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Foreign Earnings Reinvestment Act

Bill: 114-hr-788
Sponsor: Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Taxation of foreign income
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Foreign Earnings Reinvestment Act 

 
 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the election allowed to a domestic corporation to deduct current and accumulated dividends received from a controlled foreign corporation to the corporation's last taxable year beginning before the enactment of this Act or the first taxable year which begins during the one-year period beginning on such enactment date, (2) reduce tax rates on foreign earnings of domestic corporations that reinvest such earnings in the United States and that expand their payrolls over 2014 levels, and (3) increase the taxable income of domestic corporations that fail to maintain employment levels in the 23-month period after receiving a reduction in tax rates under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Tick-Borne Disease Research Accountability and Transparency Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-789
Sponsor: Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health programs administration and funding
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Insects
Medical research
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Tick-Borne Disease Research Accountability and Transparency Act of 2015

 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct or support epidemiological, basic, translational, and clinical research regarding Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases.
 
Directs HHS to establish the Interagency Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Working Group to review all HHS efforts concerning tick-borne diseases to ensure interagency coordination and examine research priorities. Requires the Working Group to: (1) provide a summary of tick-borne disease research, advances, and scientific viewpoints every two years; (2) make recommendations to HHS regarding tick-borne disease activities; and (3) hold annual public meetings.
Requires HHS to submit a strategic plan for tick-borne disease research within three years of enactment and every five years thereafter that includes: (1) budgetary requirements; (2) benchmarks for improving tick-borne disease diagnosis, treatment, outcomes, and prevention; and (3) a plan to disseminate Working Group summaries and other relevant information on tick-borne disease to health professionals and the public.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Compassionate Freedom of Choice Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-790
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business records
Civil actions and liability
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
Health technology, devices, supplies
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Compassionate Freedom of Choice Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to declare that nothing in it or in the Public Health Service Act prevents or restricts, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must not prevent or restrict, the manufacture, importation, distribution, or sale of investigational drugs or devices for terminally ill patients.
 
The FDA is prohibited from requiring the disclosure, collection, or reporting of certain information concerning such drugs or devices, except that the sponsor of a clinical trial may voluntarily disclose, collect, or report such information to the FDA.
 
Except in cases of gross negligence or willful misconduct, any person who manufactures, imports, distributes, prescribes, or administers an investigational drug or device is not liable under state or federal law for loss, damage, or injury from: (1) the development, testing, production, acquisition, or use of such drugs or devices; or (2) their safety or effectiveness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Cell Phone Freedom Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-791
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Cell Phone Freedom Act of 2015

 
 Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit any government official or employee from knowingly causing a mobile device phone to be shut down without the consent of the owner or account holder of that phone or without a court order authorizing such shutdown. Prescribes penalties for violating such prohibition, including removal from employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Acre In, Acre Out Act

Bill: 114-hr-792
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
General public lands matters
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Acre In, Acre Out Act

 
 Prescribes a new requirement for any acquisition of land by the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture that would result in a net increase of total land acreage under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, or the Forest Service. Requires the department concerned to offer for sale an equal number of acres of federal land that is under the same jurisdictional status.
 
Exempts from this requirement any easements acquired to facilitate management of federal lands.
 
Requires land sold pursuant to this Act to be offered for sale at fair market value (based on local comparable sales), with monthly price reductions if the land is not sold in six months.
 
 
Requires all net proceeds from the sale of federal lands pursuant to this Act to be deposited directly into the Treasury for reduction of the public debt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-793
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Medicare
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015 

 
 Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct any prescription drug plan that has in its network one or more pharmacies located in a health professional shortage area, in a medically underserved area, or among a medically underserved population, and that provides a reduction in coinsurance or copayments for covered part D drugs, to extend to any pharmacy located in that area, or among that population, the option to be an in-network pharmacy under terms and conditions comparable to those the plan has agreed upon with other in-network pharmacies located in the area or among that population. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
STEM Master Teacher Corps Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-794
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Performance measurement
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

STEM Master Teacher Corps Act of 2015 

 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive matching grants to consortia of local educational agencies (LEAs) or states, acting in partnership with institutions of higher education or nonprofit organizations to establish a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Master Teacher Corps program.
 
Requires grantees to:
 
 
select exemplary elementary and secondary school STEM teachers for membership in the STEM Master Teacher Corps;
 
provide those teachers with compensation that supplements their base salaries, with higher compensation going to those teaching at high-need public schools;
 
provide, and track the effectiveness of, research-based training for Corps members;
 
provide discretionary resources for Corps members at high-need schools to use;
 
help coordinate instructional leadership and mentoring roles for Corps members; and
 
facilitate efforts by Corps members to inform STEM education policy at the national, state, and local levels.
 
 
Gives grant priority to applicants that intend to include: (1) large numbers of teachers in the STEM Master Teacher Corps; and (2) rural schools, particularly high-need rural schools, in the area they serve.
 
Requires grantees to ensure that at least 75% of their STEM Master Teacher Corps are teachers at high-need schools.
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences, to: (1) evaluate the STEM Master Teacher Corps program; (2) identify optimal strategies for designing and advancing such program; and (3) identify best practices for developing, supporting, and retaining STEM teachers based on lessons learned from the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Payment Rate Disclosure Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-795
Sponsor: Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health information and medical records
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Medicare Payment Rate Disclosure Act of 2015

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make publicly available on the official Medicare Internet site during a specified initial period: (1) Medicare payment rates for frequently reimbursed hospital inpatient and outpatient procedures and services, as well as for physicians' services; and (2) the period for which payment rates are applicable. Requires posting also after the initial period of an expanded selection of such items.
 
Directs the Secretary to select at least 30 procedures and services for the basic posting and at least 100 procedures and services for the expanded posting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
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: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of the South Sacramento County Agriculture and Habitat Lands Water Recycling Project in Sacramento County, California.

Bill: 114-hr-796
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 
Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Department of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of, and land acquisition for, a project to reclaim and reuse wastewater in Sacramento County, California. 
 
Requires the project to consist of three phases, the first of which shall include the planning, design, and construction of water conveyance and related infrastructure to provide recycled water to irrigate approximately 4,500 acres of land in southern Sacramento County.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Disaster Assistance Recoupment Fairness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-797
Sponsor: Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Debt collection
Disaster relief and insurance
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Disaster Assistance Recoupment Fairness Act of 2015

 
Authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to waive a debt owed to the United States related to federal assistance provided under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to individuals and households in relation to a major disaster declared by the President on or after January 1, 2011, if such assistance was distributed based on an error by FEMA, there was no fault on behalf of the debtor, and the collection of the debt would be against equity and good conscience, unless the debt that involves fraud, the presentation of a false claim, or misrepresentation by the debtor or any party having an interest in the claim.
 
Requires FEMA, in determining whether to waive such a debt, to presume that the debtor should be required to make at least a partial payment if the adjusted gross income of the debtor's household for the last taxable year exceeds $100,000.
 
Directs the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security: (1) to report, every six months, on the cost-effectiveness of FEMA's efforts to recoup improper payments of such assistance; (2) to monitor the distribution of such assistance to determine the amount distributed based on a FEMA error; and (3) upon determining that such amount exceeds 4% of the total amount distributed, to notify FEMA and publish the determination in the Federal Register. Cancels FEMA's authority to waive debt with respect to any major disaster declared by the President after the date of such a determination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Responsible Skies Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-798
Sponsor: Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2015-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Department of Transportation
Outdoor recreation
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: 

Responsible Skies Act of 2015

 
 Amends the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 to require the Secretary of Transportation to prohibit the operator of an unmanned recreational aircraft (drone) from flying it:
 
 
above 400 feet and within 5 miles of the perimeter of a commercial airport, or
 
where it may be seen from the airport's perimeter.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation.
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-05
text: Introduced in House