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MediFair Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1012
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2015-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Health care costs and insurance
Health care quality
Medicare
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-17
text: 

MediFair Act of 2015 

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a system for making adjustments to the amount of payment made to entities and individuals for items and services provided under the original Medicare fee-for-service program under Medicare parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance). Requires such adjustments in order to make the state average per beneficiary amount equal to the national average per beneficiary amount.
 
Directs the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to develop recommendations on policies and practices that would encourage: (1) healthy outcomes and quality care under the Medicare program in states with respect to which payments are reduced under such system, and (2) the efficient use of payments made under the Medicare program in such states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-17
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: 2015-02-17
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: 2015-02-17
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: 2015-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Marijuana Tax Revenue Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1014
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Civil actions and liability
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Government studies and investigations
Licensing and registrations
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: 

Marijuana Tax Revenue Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on: (1) the sale of marijuana by producers or importers, and (2) each person who is engaged in a marijuana enterprise. Defines "marijuana enterprise" to mean a producer, importer, manufacturer, distributor, retailer or any person who transports, stores, displays, or otherwise participates in any business activity that handles marijuana or marijuana products.
 
Any person who engages in a marijuana enterprise must obtain a permit to engage in such an enterprise. 
 
The bill imposes civil penalties for failure to comply with the requirements of this Act and criminal penalties for engaging in a marijuana enterprise without a permit, failing to keep or make required records or for making false records, or refusing to pay or evading a tax imposed by this Act and for other offenses related to the sale of marijuana.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E227)
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Business Opportunities for Veterans Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1015
Sponsor: Rep. Huelskamp, Tim [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disability and paralysis
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Public contracts and procurement
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: 

Protecting Business Opportunities for Veterans Act of 2015

 
Extends subcontracting limitations that apply to certain small businesses awarded contracts under various Small Business Administration (SBA) programs to small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans with or without service-connected disabilities who are awarded Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) contracts.
 
Requires, for purposes of applying such subcontracting limitations to veterans with small businesses awarded such VA contracts, that: (1) small businesses owned and controlled by veterans be treated in the same manner as small businesses owned and controlled by veterans with service-connected disabilities, and (2) &quot;similarly situated entities&quot; include subcontractors for small businesses owned and controlled by a veteran with or without a service-connected disability (contract amounts expended by small businesses on subcontractors that are similarly situated entities are not considered toward subcontracting limits).
 
Directs the VA Secretary, before awarding such a contract, to obtain from the offeror a certification: (1) specifying and promising to comply with the subcontracting performance requirements applicable to such offeror, and (2) acknowledging that the certification is subject to criminal laws concerning false or fraudulent statements or representations. Subjects small businesses to fines, imprisonment, or both for not acting in good faith. 
 
Requires the VA's Chief Acquisition Officer and the Director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization to: (1) establish a process to monitor the subcontracting requirement compliance of veterans' small businesses that are awarded VA contracts, and (2) refer violations to the VA's Inspector General. Directs the Inspector General to submit annual reports to Congress regarding such violations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-21
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2015-04-21
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-03-13
text: Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Discharged.
action_date: 2015-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Introduced in House
Patient Access to Disposable Medical Technology Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1018
Sponsor: Rep. Ellmers, Renee L. [R-NC-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: 

Patient Access to Disposable Medical Technology Act of 2015

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover substitute disposable medical technology, subject it to a special payment rule, and exempt it from competitive acquisition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-20
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: 2015-02-20
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: 2015-02-20
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: 2015-02-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Introduced in House
Partner with Korea Act

Bill: 114-hr-1019
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2015-02-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Asia
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Foreign labor
South Korea
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: 

Partner with Korea Act
 
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to create an E-4 treaty trader visa category for up to 15,000 nationals of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) each fiscal year who are coming to the United States solely to perform specialty occupation services and with respect to whom the Secretary of Labor has certified to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State that the intending employer has filed an attestation concerning U.S. worker protections with the Secretary of Labor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Introduced in House
CVE Grants Act

Bill: 114-hr-1022
Sponsor: Rep. Walker, Mark [R-NC-6]
Introduced: 2015-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Homeland security
Law enforcement administration and funding
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: 

Countering Violent Extremism Grants Act or the CVE Grants Act

 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the use of Urban Area Security Initiative and State Homeland Security Grant Program funding to prevent, prepare for, protect against, and respond to acts of terrorism by countering violent extremism, including through: (1) training programs; (2) the development, implementation, or expansion of programs to engage communities that may be targeted by violent extremist radicalization; and (3) the development and implementation of projects to partner with local communities to prevent radicalization to violence.
 
Directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to submit an annual report on the use of such funding to counter violent extremism, including a list of recipients of funds, the types of projects funded, and the amount of grant funding used for each project.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications.
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Investment Company Capital Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1023
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Government lending and loan guarantees
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: 

Small Business Investment Company Capital Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to increase from $225 million to $350 million the maximum amount of outstanding leverage to be made available by the Small Business Administration to two or more commonly controlled small business investment companies not under capital impairment.

action_date: 2015-06-25
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 

Small Business Investment Company Capital Act of 2015

 
 (Sec. 2) Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to increase from $225 million to $350 million the maximum amount of outstanding leverage to be made available by the Small Business Administration to two or more commonly controlled small business investment companies not under capital impairment.

action_date: 2015-07-13
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.)
 

Small Business Investment Company Capital Act of 2015

 
 (Sec. 2) Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to increase from $225 million to $350 million the maximum amount of outstanding leverage to be made available by the Small Business Administration to two or more commonly controlled small business investment companies not under capital impairment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-14
text: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 148.
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5095)
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5095)
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1023.
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5095-5096)
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Mr. Chabot moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 141.
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Reported by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 114-189.
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Reported by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 114-189.
action_date: 2015-06-10
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2015-06-10
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
DHS Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act

Bill: 114-hr-1024
Sponsor: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2015-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Budget process
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: 

DHS Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act

 
This bill requires federal employees furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations when funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires under current law on February 27, 2015, to be compensated after the lapse in appropriations ends. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
SNAP Work Opportunities Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1025
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2015-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: 

SNAP Work Opportunities Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to exempt Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) beneficiaries from work requirements if they are not offered a position in a state job training or workfare program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E239-240)
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
Return of Certain Lands At Fort Wingate to The Original Inhabitants Act

Bill: 114-hr-1028
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Military facilities and property
New Mexico
Pollution liability
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: 

Return of Certain Lands At Fort Wingate to The Original Inhabitants Act

 
 Requires all U.S. interest in and to specified lands of the former Fort Wingate Depot Activity in McKinley County, New Mexico (Activity), transferred to the Department of the Interior to be held in trust for: (1) the Zuni Tribe as part of the Zuni Reservation, unless the Tribe elects to have the parcel conveyed to it in restricted fee status; and (2) the Navajo Nation as part of the Navajo Reservation, unless the Navajo Nation elects to have the parcel conveyed to it in restricted fee status. 
 
Subjects the lands of the Activity held in trust or conveyed in restricted fee status to reservation by the United States of such easements as the Department of the Army determines are reasonably required to permit access to Activity lands for administrative, environmental cleanup, and environmental remediation purposes. 
 
Requires the lands of the Activity identified as parcel 1 to be held in trust subject to a shared easement for cultural and religious purposes only.
 
Requires the access road for the Activity that originates at the frontage road for Interstate 40 and leads to the parcel of the administration area to be held in common by both the Zuni Tribe and the Navajo Nation to provide for equal access to the Activity. 
 
Subjects lands held in trust or conveyed in restricted fee status to easements reasonably required to permit access to the Missile Defense Agency facility as needed by the Department of Defense.
 
Requires the Zuni Tribe or the Navajo Nation, after a parcel of land has been transferred or conveyed, to notify the Secretary of the Army of the existence or discovery of any contamination or hazardous material on it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-15
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
No Homeland Security, No Pay Act

Bill: 114-hr-1032
Sponsor: Rep. Ashford, Brad [D-NE-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: 

No Homeland Security, No Pay Act

 
Requires the appropriate payroll administrator of each house of Congress to withhold a portion of the pay of a Member of Congress during a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) equal to the product of one day's worth of pay under the annual rate and the number of 24-hour periods during which the DHS shutdown is in effect.
 
Requires any amount of pay of a Member of Congress in the 114th Congress that is withheld due to a DHS shutdown to be held in escrow until the last day of the 114th Congress and released for payment to Members at that time. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
John P. Parker House Study Act

Bill: 114-hr-1033
Sponsor: Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Ohio
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: 

John P. Parker House Study Act

 
 Directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the John P. Parker House in Ripley, Ohio, to determine the suitability and feasibility of establishing it as a unit of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
To provide for an accounting of total United States contributions to the United Nations.

Bill: 114-hr-1034
Sponsor: Rep. Brooks, Mo [R-AL-5]
Introduced: 2015-02-24 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Foreign aid and international relief
Government information and archives
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to report annually to Congress regarding all assessed and voluntary U.S. contributions to the United Nations (U.N.) and its affiliated agencies and related bodies during the previous fiscal year. 
 
Requires the report to include the following: (1) the total amount of all assessed and voluntary U.S. contributions to the U.N. and its affiliated agencies and related bodies; (2) the approximate percentage of U.S. contributions to each such agency or body in a fiscal year when compared with all such contributions in that fiscal year; and (3) the amount, description, and purpose of each contribution, the identity of the donating U.S. department or agency, and the identity of the recipient U.N. agency or body.
 
Requires the first report to include information for the previous three fiscal years.
 
Requires OMB to post a version of such report on a publicly available Internet website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-24
text: Introduced in House