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Kalief's Law

Bill: 114-hr-3155
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child health
Child safety and welfare
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Detention of persons
Due process and equal protection
Evidence and witnesses
Government studies and investigations
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Lawyers and legal services
Mental health
Sound recording
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Effective and Humane Treatment of Youth Act of 2015 or Kalief's Law

 
This legislation amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant (JABG) program for FY2016-FY2020.
 
 It requires a state or local government that receives JABG funding to implement policies that, with respect to youth: (1) provide a right to speedy trial; (2) provide a right to timely bail consideration; and (3) restrict solitary confinement. The term "youth" means an individual who is 21 years of age or younger. 
 
 Additionally, it requires a state or local government that receives funding under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program or the Community Oriented Policing Services program to implement policies and training on police-youth interaction. 
 
 The legislation amends the federal criminal code to: (1) require youth custodial interrogations to be recorded; (2) prohibit youth solitary confinement, except as a temporary response to serious and harmful behavior; and (3) prohibit youth restraints during courtroom proceedings, except in certain circumstances. 
 
DOJ must report to Congress on youth solitary confinement, including: (1) types and conditions; and (2) number of instances broken down by age, race, ethnicity, gender, and unique circumstances.

 
 The bill directs DOJ to award grants to states and local governments to record youth custodial interrogations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Fair Chance for Youth Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3156
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Evidence and witnesses
Federal district courts
Government information and archives
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Personnel records

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Fair Chance for Youth Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to establish a process to expunge and seal certain youth criminal records. A youth is an individual who was arrested, prosecuted, or sentenced for a criminal offense committed at age 21 or younger. 
 
A youth may petition to expunge records related to: (1) a misdemeanor conviction, (2) a nonviolent felony drug conviction, (3) a conviction for any nonviolent offense committed prior to attaining age 18, or (4) an arrest or prosecution for a nonviolent offense that is disposed of.
 
A youth may petition to seal records related to: (1) a nonviolent conviction, (2) a conviction for any offense committed prior to attaining age 18, and (3) an arrest or prosecution for a nonviolent offense that is disposed of. 
 
Each federal district court must establish a Youth Offense Expungement and Sealing Review Board to review, evaluate on the merits, and make recommendations to grant or deny expungement and sealing petitions. The Court must consider and decide each petition for which it receives a Review Board recommendation.
 
The Department of Justice must report on the number of: (1) expungement and sealing petitions granted and denied, and (2) times a U.S. attorney supported or opposed an expungement or sealing petition.
 
 This bill's provisions apply to youth regardless of whether such youth became involved in the federal criminal justice system before, on, or after enactment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
RAISE Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3158
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crime victims
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Employment and training programs
Human trafficking
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Mental health
National and community service
Sex offenses
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
U.S. Sentencing Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Reforming Alternatives to Incarceration and Sentencing to Establish a Better Path for Youth Act of 2015 or the RAISE Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to permit a court to impose a sentence below the mandatory minimum for certain nonviolent youth offenses if the mandatory minimum is unjust to the youth and not necessary to protect public safety.
 
The term "youth" means an individual prosecuted or sentenced for a criminal offense committed at age 21 or younger. 
 
The bill requires the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to release early, subject to a period of pre-release custody, a nonviolent youth offender who has: (1) completed one half or more of his or her prison term, and (2) received no disciplinary violations for violent conduct in the last two years. 
 
A court may reduce the prison term of a youth who has completed 20 years of such prison term if: (1) compelling evidence warrants a sentence reduction, and (2) the youth poses no public safety danger. Additionally, a court must treat as discretionary a mandatory life prison term for a youth offender and impose an appropriate sentence after considering the youth's age. 
 
It limits to 30, 60, or 90 days the maximum prison term imposed on a defendant who commits a first, second, or third technical violation of a probation condition.
 
The BOP must separately designate youth correctional facilities, minimize contact between youth and other offenders, and establish youth education, skills training, reentry, and mental and emotional health programs. 
 
The Department of Justice must establish pilot programs for diversion of high-risk, victimized, and primary caretaker youth. The BOP must establish pilot programs on youth mentorship, government service, and service to abandoned, rescued, or vulnerable animals. 
 
This bill's provisions apply to youth involved in the federal criminal justice system before, on, or after enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Kerrie Orozco Act

Bill: 114-hr-3159
Sponsor: Rep. Ashford, Brad [D-NE-2]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Citizenship and naturalization
First responders and emergency personnel
Immigration status and procedures
Marriage and family status
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Kerrie Orozco Act

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to declare that the following persons may be naturalized upon compliance with all naturalization requirements, except that no prior residence or specified physical presence within the United States shall be required:
 
 
a person who is the surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen who died as a result of injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by employment as a first responder; and
 
in the case of such a surviving spouse, the person was living in marital union with the citizen spouse at the time of the citizen spouse's death. 
 
 
The Department of Homeland Security shall provide for the granting of posthumous citizenship at the time of death to a person who, while an alien or a noncitizen national of the United States, died as a result of injury or disease incurred or aggravated while serving as a first responder.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Foster Youth Independence Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3160
Sponsor: Rep. Bass, Karen [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Foster Youth Independence Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow the chief executive officer of a state to certify that the state will provide assistance and services under the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program to youths who have aged out of foster care and have not attained age 23 if:
 
 
the state has elected to extend the eligibility for foster care to all children up to age 21, or 
 
the responsible state agency uses state or other funds not provided under the Program to provide assistance and services comparable to those such youths would receive if the state had made such an election 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Timber Revitalization and Economic Enhancement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3161
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Forests, forestry, trees
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Timber Revitalization and Economic Enhancement Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the reduced tax rate on the net timber gains of corporations, to: (1) adjust the formula for calculating such rate, and (2) make such reduced rate permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Endangered Species Recovery Transparency Act

Bill: 114-hr-3162
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Doug [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Endangered and threatened species
Government information and archives
Legal fees and court costs
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Endangered Species Recovery Transparency Act

 
This bill amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the Department of the Interior to make available online a searchable database detailing federal expenditures for civil actions brought under the Act containing claims that are based on the actions of Interior, the Forest Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service, the Bonneville Power Administration, the Western Area Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration, or the Southeastern Power Administration. Interior must submit an annual report to Congress including this information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Affordability Is Access Act

Bill: 114-hr-3163
Sponsor: Rep. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Family planning and birth control
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical research
Research and development
Retail and wholesale trades
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Affordability Is Access Act

 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require health insurance and group health plans to cover, as preventive care for women, over-the-counter oral contraceptives for daily use, regardless of whether an enrollee has a prescription for the contraceptive. (Insurers and plans cannot impose cost sharing for preventive care.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Pay Workers a Living Wage Act

Bill: 114-hr-3164
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Government information and archives
Labor standards
Wages and earnings
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Pay Workers a Living Wage Act

 This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to: (1) $9.00 an hour on January 1, 2016, or, if later, on the first day of the third month after enactment of this Act; (2) $10.50 an hour after one year; (3) $12.00 an hour after two years; (4) $13.50 an hour after three years; (5) $15.00 an hour after four years; and (6) the amount the Department of Labor determines (based on increases in the median hourly wage of all employees) after five years, and annually thereafter. 
The federal minimum wage for tipped employees shall increase to $3.15 an hour for one year on January 1, 2016, or the first day of the third month after enactment of this Act, whichever is later. Subsequent annual adjustments of the wage increase, according to a specified formula, shall ensure that it remains equal to the wage in effect under FLSA for other employees.
 
Employers must notify their employees of the right to retain any received tips.
 
The separate minimum wage requirements for tipped employees shall end, effective one day after the hourly wage established for them under this Act takes effect. 
 
Any employer may pay any newly hired employee under age 20, during the first 90 consecutive days after initial employment, a wage at a rate (currently $4.25 per hour) that is not less than the standard minimum rate, reduced by $3.00 per hour. 
 
The Secretary must publish the amount of any upwardly adjusted required wage in the Federal Register and on the Department of Labor's website 60 days before it takes effect.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Native American Suicide Prevention Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3166
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Indian social and development programs
Mental health
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Native American Suicide Prevention Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require a state or state-designated entity, as a condition of receiving a grant or cooperative agreement for development or implementation of a statewide youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategy, to agree to consult with each federally recognized Indian tribe and tribal organization and each urban Indian organization regarding the development or implementation of the strategy.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Tax Administration Integrity Act

Bill: 114-hr-3167
Sponsor: Rep. Katko, John [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business records
Evidence and witnesses
Public contracts and procurement
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Tax Administration Integrity Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from hiring any contractors or designating other non-IRS employees to receive summoned books, papers, records, or other data and to take summoned testimony under oath. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Safe Bridges Investment Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3168
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Sean Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Safe Bridges Investment Act of 2015

 
This bill includes as a project eligible for funds apportioned to a state to carry out the National Highway Performance Program the construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, and preservation of, or operational improvements for, a bridge not on the National Highway System if such bridge is on the Federal-aid Highway System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Smithsonian Modernization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3169
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Federal officials
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Smithsonian Institution

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Smithsonian Modernization Act of 2015

 
 Revises requirements for the composition of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Requires the Board to be composed of 21 members appointed by the President from among lists of nominees submitted by the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate. 
 
Increases from 8 to 17 the number of Regents constituting a quorum to do business. 
 
 Revises requirements for the terms of office for Regents. Permits Regents to be reappointed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1103-1104)
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Student Debt Repayment Fairness Act

Bill: 114-hr-3170
Sponsor: Rep. Nugent, Richard B. [R-FL-11]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Student Debt Repayment Fairness Act 

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow penalty-free distributions from qualified tuition programs (i.e., 529 plans) to pay student loan indebtedness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit certain research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue obtained pursuant to an abortion.

Bill: 114-hr-3171
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Medical research
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the use of tissue from a spontaneous or induced abortion in research conducted or supported by the National Institutes of Health on the transplantation of fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes. (A spontaneous abortion is the death of a fetus before the age of viability, also known as a miscarriage.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Wild Horse Oversight Act

Bill: 114-hr-3172
Sponsor: Rep. Stewart, Chris [R-UT-2]
Introduced: 2015-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Intergovernmental relations
Mammals
State and local government operations
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: 

Wild Horse Oversight Act

 
 Amends the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act to direct the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, upon request, to allow a state or an Indian tribe to assume all management and protection functions under the Act with regard to wild free-roaming horses and burros on land within the boundaries of the state or the tribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Introduced in House