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To direct the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund to perform an outreach program for the new markets tax credit to underserved communities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-6213
Sponsor: Rep. Heck, Denny [D-WA-10]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Income tax credits
Indian social and development programs
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 
This bill amends the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 to require the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund to provide outreach and training with respect to the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) in low-income communities with a disproportionately low amount of low-income community investments by community development entities. 
 
(The NMTC is a non-refundable tax credit intended to encourage private capital investment in low-income communities. NMTCs are allocated by the CDFI Fund, a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, using a competitive application process.) 
 
The CFDI Fund must also: (1) include in the application for the NMTC questions to determine and consider, as an innovative use or a comparable incentive in evaluating applications, the extent to which the applicant intends to make low-income community investments within Indian country; and (2) to the maximum extent practicable, ensure that at least one community development entity whose primary mission is to fund projects within or that directly benefit Indian country receives an allocation for each allocation round. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Power And Security Systems (PASS) Act

Bill: 114-hr-6214
Sponsor: Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Power And Security Systems (PASS) Act

 
This bill amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to revise energy conservation standards for devices operating in standby mode. Current law exempts the external power supplies of security or life safety systems from those standards until July 1, 2017. This bill makes permanent the exemption.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Gap Relief Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6215
Sponsor: Rep. Veasey, Marc A. [D-TX-33]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Medicaid Gap Relief Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt certain low-income residents of states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) from the ACA's individual mandate to maintain health insurance coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Preservation of Public Evidence Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6216
Sponsor: Rep. Veasey, Marc A. [D-TX-33]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Photography and imaging
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Preservation of Public Evidence Act of 2016

 
This bill requires a state that receives funds under a Department of Justice (DOJ) grant program for law enforcement activities to require state and local law enforcement agencies to submit investigation records pertaining to an individual's injury or death by a law enforcement officer or while in the custody of a law enforcement agency. 
 
DOJ must reduce by 10% the allocation of grant funds for a state or local government that fails to comply.
 
The bill appropriates additional FY2017 funds for Community Oriented Policing Services grants to acquire body-worn cameras.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Police Protection Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6217
Sponsor: Rep. Veasey, Marc A. [D-TX-33]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Police Protection Act of 2016

 
This bill requires federal law enforcement officers to report to the Department of Justice (DOJ) facts and circumstances surrounding an individual's injury or death while in custody. It imposes criminal penalties&#8212;a fine and three-year mandatory minimum prison term&#8212;on a federal law enforcement officer who knowingly fails to submit a report or submits a false report.
 
Additionally, the bill requires a state or local government that receives funds under specified grant programs to enact a law that requires state or local law enforcement officers to submit substantially similar reports. DOJ must reduce by 10% the allocation of specified grant program funds for a state or local government that fails to enact such law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2016-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the boundary of Acadia National Park, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-6218
Sponsor: Rep. Poliquin, Bruce [R-ME-2]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Maine
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 
This bill confirms that the boundary of Acadia National Park in Maine includes approximately 1,441 acres of land and interests in the Schoodic Peninsula. 
 
The bill ratifies and approves:
 
 
retroactive to September 26, 2013, the acquisition or purported acquisition by the United States of the land and interests in the Schoodic Peninsula, and
 
any subsequent or purported alteration of the land or interests held or claimed by the United States in the peninsula (including conversion to fee simple interest) retroactive to whatever point an alteration occurred or may have occurred. 
 
 
 The Department of the Interior may only acquire land or interests in land:
 
 
 within the boundaries of the park in accordance with specified law; and
 
outside the boundaries of the park in Hancock County, Maine, in accordance with such law. 
 
 
Interior shall contribute a specified amount to a regional consortium which was established to improve the management of the disposal and recycling of solid waste and is composed of municipalities on, as well as near, Mount Desert Island. 
 
 Interior shall reestablish and appoint members to the Acadia National Park Advisory Commission. 
 
 Certain land in the park that was conveyed by Interior to the town of Tremont, Maine, shall no longer be used exclusively for school purposes, but for public purposes, subject to the conditions that: (1) use of the property (on such land) shall not degrade or adversely impact the park's resources or values; and (2) such land shall remain in public ownership for recreational, educational, or similar public purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Unsecured Server Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6219
Sponsor: Rep. Roby, Martha [R-AL-2]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Unsecured Server Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to prohibit federal agencies from granting or renewing security clearances to federal officers or employees, military members on active duty or in an active status, or federal contractors if an agency head determines that they have knowingly stored classified information on, or transmitted classified information to or from, an unsecured computer server that is not authorized by federal intelligence agencies. This prohibition applies retroactively to individuals who used an unsecured server during the 10-year period before enactment of this bill. 
 
Agencies may waive security clearance prohibitions to grant clearances to disqualified individuals, but only if the agency notifies Congress 30 days before the proposed waiver. 
 
The use of an unsecured server for classified information shall be grounds for revoking an individual's security clearance. 
 
The bill establishes a criminal penalty of a fine or imprisonment for up to 10 years for anyone who knowingly stores classified information on, or transmits classified information to or from, an unsecured server or who causes such information to be so stored or transmitted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Providing Veterans Overdue Care Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6220
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alabama
California
Colorado
Department of Veterans Affairs
Florida
Georgia
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Indiana
Maine
Massachusetts
Mental health
Michigan
Montana
New York State
North Carolina
South Carolina
Texas
Veterans' medical care
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Providing Veterans Overdue Care Act of 2016

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out major medical facility leases in specified amounts for:
 
 
 outpatient clinics in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Daytona Beach, Gainesville, and Ocala, Florida; Hampton Roads, Virginia; Missoula, Montana; Northern Colorado, Colorado; Oxnard and Santa Rosa, California; Pike County, Georgia; Portland, Maine; and Raleigh, North Carolina;
 
 an outpatient mental health clinic and an outpatient specialty clinic in Birmingham, Alabama;
 
research space in Boston, Massachusetts; Charleston, South Carolina; and Mission Bay, California;
 
Chief Business Office Purchased Care office space in Denver, Colorado; and
 
 replacement outpatient clinics in Corpus Christi, Texas; Jacksonville and Tampa, Florida; Pontiac, Michigan; Rochester, New York (phase II); and Terre Haute, Indiana. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Don Stephens, President and Founder of Mercy Ships, in recognition of his 38 years of service as the leader of a humanitarian relief organization that exemplifies the compassionate character of America.

Bill: 114-hr-6221
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Foreign aid and international relief
Health facilities and institutions
Marine and inland water transportation
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 
This bill directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal to Don Stephens, President and Founder of Mercy Ships.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Regulatory Fingerprints Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6222
Sponsor: Rep. Young, David [R-IA-3]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Regulatory Fingerprints Act of 2016

 
This bill requires a federal agency to include in each publication in the Federal Register pertaining to a rule: (1) the specific legal authority for the rule, and (2) the name and title of each agency officer or employee who participated in the rule making and each person performing any work pertaining to the rule under an agency contract.
 
Each such officer, employee, or person shall, during the the rule making period, file a report (which the agency shall make available online) of each financial transaction required to be reported by a person under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
SAAFE Act

Bill: 114-hr-6223
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Crime victims
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Government liability
Jurisdiction and venue
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Safeguarding America's Armed Forces and Effectiveness Act or the SAAFE Act

 
This bill amends the federal judicial code to limit civil claims against a foreign state for injuries, death, or damage that occurs inside the United States as a result of an act of international terrorism or a tortious act. Specifically, it limits such claims to only those for injuries, death, or damage that occurred on September 11, 2001. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Enhancing Minority and Women Representation in NIH Medical Research Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6224
Sponsor: Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Enhancing Minority and Women Representation in NIH Medical Research Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in assessing research priorities, to publish data on certain clinical research study populations. The NIH must foster collaboration among clinical research projects that use human subjects and that collect similar data to increase the number and diversity of subjects.
 
The strategic plans of the national research institutes must ensure that future activities take into account women and minorities and are focused on reducing health disparities. Advisory council reports must include certain demographic data for clinical research subjects. The results of NIH-funded clinical trials that include women and minorities must be submitted to NIH's clinical trial data bank.
 
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities may foster partnerships among the national research institutes and encourage the funding of collaborative research projects to achieve NIH goals related to minority health and health disparities.
 The NIH must develop policies for NIH-funded basic research projects to assess how differences between male and female cells, tissues, or animals may be examined and analyzed.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Diverse Leadership at the Federal Reserve Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6225
Sponsor: Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Reserve System
Federal officials
Minority employment
Racial and ethnic relations
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Ensuring Diverse Leadership at the Federal Reserve Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Federal Reserve Act to require that in making the appointment of a president, a Federal Reserve Bank must interview at least one individual reflective of gender diversity and one reflective of racial or ethnic diversity.
 
The bill amends numerous banking-, finance-, and trade-related Acts to make references to officials (including those to the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) gender-neutral. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
PUSH Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6226
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Pre-Claims Undermine Seniors' Health Act of 2016 or the PUSH Act of 2016

 
This bill delays the Medicare demonstration for pre-claim review of home health services and requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to report on such pre-claim review. Specifically, CMS shall delay or suspend the demonstration by the later of: (1) one year after either the bill's enactment or the demonstration's scheduled start-date, as applicable; or (2) six months after CMS submits its report. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-09-28
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: 2016-09-28
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: 2016-09-28
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: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House