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Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education Act

Bill: 114-hr-2197
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Higher education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Teenage pregnancy
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 

Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education Act or the Youth PROMISE Act
 
 
Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to establish a PROMISE Advisory Panel to assist the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in: (1) assessing and developing standards and evidence-based and promising practices to prevent juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity, and (2) collecting data in designated geographic areas to assess the needs and existing resources for juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention.
 
Authorizes the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants to local governments and Indian tribes to: (1) plan and assess evidence-based and promising practices for juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity prevention and intervention, especially for at-risk youth; and (2) implement PROMISE plans, developed by local PROMISE Coordinating Councils (PCCs), for coordinating and supporting the delivery of juvenile delinquency and gang prevention and intervention programs in local communities and Indian tribes. 
 
Establishes a National Research Center for Proven Juvenile Justice Practices to provide PCCs and the public with research and other information about evidence-based practices related to juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang prevention or intervention. 
 
Directs the Office to award grants to institutions of higher education to serve as regional research partners with PCCs that are located in the same geographic region as the educational institution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Tax Pollution, Not Profits Act

Bill: 114-hr-2202
Sponsor: Rep. Delaney, John K. [D-MD-6]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Energy assistance for the poor and aged
Energy prices
Income tax rates
Mining
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
Sales and excise taxes
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 

Tax Pollution, Not Profits Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel products and from any facility which is required to report emissions or to which emissions are attributed. The tax is equal to $30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide or carbon dioxide equivalent in 2016, increasing each subsequent year at 4% above inflation. 
 
The bill amends the Social Security Act to establish a Low-Income Cost Mitigation Program to provide an energy refund amount to certain low and middle-income households to compensate such households for increases in energy costs due to this bill.
 
The Department of Labor may use revenues generated by this bill to implement a program to assist displaced workers in the coal industry.
 
The bill also provides for a gradual reduction in the corporate income tax rate from 32% in taxable years beginning in 2016 to 28% in taxable years beginning after 2019. 
 
The bill requires the Department of the Treasury to establish a website to make information regarding the amount and sources of revenue attributable to this bill publicly available. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To remove the Kosovo Liberation Army from treatment as a terrorist organization, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-2203
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Europe
Immigration status and procedures
Kosovo
Political movements and philosophies
Political parties and affiliation
Terrorism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 
Declares that the Kosovo Liberation Army shall not be considered a terrorist organization under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), unless the Secretary of State decides otherwise in the Secretary's sole and unreviewable discretion.
 
 Amends INA to make terrorist activity-related inadmissibility criteria inapplicable to an alien's activities undertaken in association with the Kosovo Liberation Army if the alien: 
 
 
is applying for a nonimmigrant visa, unless a consular officer knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the alien poses a threat to U.S. security, or believes that the visa should not be issued; or 
 
presents himself or herself for inspection and admission as a nonimmigrant to an immigration officer at a port of entry or is applying in the United States for nonimmigrant status, unless the Secretary of Homeland Security knows, or has reasonable grounds to believe, that the alien poses a threat to U.S. security, or otherwise believes that the alien should not be admitted to the United States or granted nonimmigrant status.
 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of State to suspend such prohibition on a case-by-case basis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Safe Communities Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2204
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Oil and gas
Railroads
Surface Transportation Board

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 

Safe Communities Act of 2015

 
This bill declares that the Surface Transportation Board shall not have the authority to regulate liquefied petroleum gas rail transload facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
FSA Act

Bill: 114-hr-2207
Sponsor: Rep. Walters, Mimi [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 

Flexible Spending Account Act or the FSA Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal after 2015 the $2,500 limitation on salary reduction contributions to a health flexible spending arrangement under a cafeteria plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Hospice CARE

Bill: 114-hr-2208
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 

Hospice Commitment to Accurate and Relevant Encounters Act or the Hospice CARE
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 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the face-to-face encounter framework in hospice care. A clinical nurse specialist, physician assistant, or other health professional (in addition to a hospice physician or a nurse practitioner, as under current law) is allowed to conduct the face-to-face encounter with the individual to determine continued eligibility for hospice care before the first 60-day (currently 180-day) recertification period and each subsequent recertification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Coach-Only Airfare for Capitol Hill Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2210
Sponsor: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Aviation and airports
Congressional officers and employees
Members of Congress
Transportation costs
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 

Coach-Only Airfare for Capitol Hill Act of 2015

 
Prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available for the official travel of a Member of Congress or other officer or employee of the legislative branch for airline accommodations which are not coach-class accommodations. 
 
Makes an exception to this prohibition for an individual if the use would be permitted for an employee of an agency subject to specified federal regulations for temporary duty travel allowances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
ROAD Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2211
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: North Carolina
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 

Route to Opportunity And Development Act of 2015 or the ROAD Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, as amended, to revise the high priority Raleigh-Norfolk Corridor of the National Highway System between Raleigh, North Carolina, and Norfolk, Virginia, to include Rocky Mount, Williamston, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To provide for a temporary safe harbor from the enforcement of integrated disclosure requirements for mortgage loan transactions under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 and the Truth in Lending Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-2213
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Housing finance and home ownership
Real estate business

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 
This bill prohibits until January 1, 2016, enforcement against any person of integrated disclosure requirements for mortgage loan transactions under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974, the Truth in Lending Act, and regulations issued under such Acts.
 
No suit may be filed against any person for a violation of such requirements occurring before that date, as long as the person has made a good faith effort to comply with them.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veterans' Access to Medical Exams Improvement Act

Bill: 114-hr-2214
Sponsor: Rep. Abraham, Ralph Lee [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Health personnel
Licensing and registrations
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 

Disabled Veterans' Access to Medical Exams Improvement Act

 
Amends the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 to extend until December 31, 2017, the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide for persons other than VA employees (i.e., contract physicians) to conduct medical disability examinations of applicants for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. 
 
Permits licensed, VA-contracted physicians to conduct such examinations at any location in any state, the District of Columbia, or a Commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States, so long as the examination is authorized under the contract and the physician is not barred from conducting such an examination in the location in which it occurs.
 
Amends the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1996 to provide similar authorities with respect to permissible examination locations to licensed physicians under the pilot program authorizing the VA to use contract physicians to perform medical disability examinations of applicants for benefits under laws carried out through the Under Secretary for Benefits. Expands from 10 to 15 the maximum number of VA regional offices through which the Secretary is authorized to carry out such pilot program. 
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct an annual data analysis (including an analysis of backlogged claims, pending workloads, and the timeliness of completed cases) to determine the regional offices requiring support.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Outdoor Recreation Enhancement Act

Bill: 114-hr-2215
Sponsor: Rep. Stewart, Chris [R-UT-2]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Labor standards
Licensing and registrations
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Public contracts and procurement
Sports and recreation facilities
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 

Outdoor Recreation Enhancement Act

 
This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to extend the exemption from minimum wage and maximum hours requirements to an employee of a recreational establishment engaged in providing services or facilities directly related to outfitting and guiding or similar outdoor recreation activities, or rental of outdoor recreational equipment.
 
And federal agency shall notify the holder of any contract, permit, license, or other agreement with the agency of this exemption for these employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act

Bill: 114-hr-2216
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Domestic violence and child abuse
Evidence and witnesses
Firearms and explosives

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 

Protecting Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims Act

 
 Amends federal firearms provisions to expand the definition of: (1) &quot;intimate partner&quot; to include a dating partner or former dating partner; and (2) &quot;misdemeanor crime of domestic violence&quot; to include a misdemeanor offense that has, as an element, the use or attempted use of force, or the threatened use of a deadly weapon by a dating partner or former dating partner against the victim.
 
Prohibits the sale or other disposition of a firearm or ammunition to, or the possession or receipt of a firearm by, a person who: (1) is subject to a court order, or an ex parte order, that restrains such person from harassing, stalking, threatening, or engaging in other conduct that would put an individual in reasonable fear of bodily injury, including an order issued at the request of an employer on behalf of its employee or at the request of an institution of higher education on behalf of its student, or from intimidating or dissuading a witness from testifying in court; or (2) has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of stalking under federal, state, territorial, or tribal law or of a crime that involves conduct that would be proscribed by prohibitions against stalking if committed within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Caring Start Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2217
Sponsor: Rep. Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child care and development
Child safety and welfare
Domestic violence and child abuse
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Mental health
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 

Caring Start Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Head Start Act to require that in providing and allocating resources for training and technical assistance, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) give priority consideration to activities that:
 
 
support the implementation of evidence-based trauma-informed practices, age-appropriate positive behavioral interventions and supports, early childhood mental health consultation, and prevention of suspension and expulsion; and
 
increase coordination between Head Start agencies and other programs that serve very young children.
 
 
Such assistance must also, to the maximum extent practicable, assist Head Start agencies in adopting evidence-based approaches to best identify and serve children whose experiences have elicited a toxic stress response. (Toxic stress response can result from strong or prolonged adversity without adequate adult support.)
 
HHS shall fund personnel training in:
 
 
evidence-based trauma-informed practices, as well as early childhood mental health consultation and age-appropriate positive behavioral interventions and supports; and
 
helping children who are victims of trauma or toxic stress.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
REVAMP Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2218
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Chris [R-NY-27]
Introduced: 2015-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Computers and information technology
Housing and Community Development
Housing and community development funding
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: 

Renovate and Enhance Veterans' Meeting Halls and Posts Act of 2015 or REVAMP Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to require the Department of Housing and Urban Development to make competitive grants to eligible veterans service organizations for: (1) repairs or rehabilitation of their existing facilities, and (2) acquiring or upgrading computers and technology for such facilities.
 
Defines &quot;eligible veterans service organization&quot; as: (1) a tax-exempt entity organized on a local or area basis; and (2) a tax-exempt local or area chapter, post, or other unit of a national, regional, statewide, or other larger entity of which local or area chapters, posts, or units are members (but not any such national, regional, statewide, or other larger entity itself).
 
 Prohibits an eligible veterans service organization from receiving such grant amounts, for any single fiscal year, in an amount exceeding the lesser of: (1) the aggregate cost of the proposed activities and uses for which the grant amounts will be used, or (2) $200,000.
 
Makes a grant recipient ineligible to receive another such grant for any of the five succeeding fiscal years.
 
Prohibits the use of such grants for construction or acquisition of a new facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Introduced in House