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Article I Regulatory Budget Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-2982
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2016-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Economic performance and conditions
Government studies and investigations
Legislative rules and procedure
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: 

Article I Regulatory Budget Act 

 
This bill amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and other laws to establish and enforce a federal regulatory budget. 
 
The President's annual budget submission must include an analysis of the cost of compliance with current and proposed federal regulations and proposals for complying with the levels and allocations established pursuant to this bill. 
 
The bill amends the Regulatory Flexibility Act to require agencies to provide additional analysis of the private sector costs for compliance with new regulations.
 
An agency may not issue certain guidance documents setting forth policies or interpretations regarding statutory, regulatory, or technical issues unless it has provided notice and an opportunity for comment. 
 
A concurrent resolution on the budget must include levels for the federal regulatory cost for at least five years. The bill establishes a process for allocating the totals among congressional committees, agencies, programs, and major functional categories.
 
The bill establishes procedures for enforcing the requirements, including: 
 
 
points of order which may be raised against legislation to enforce the allocations, subject to a waiver by Congress;
 
private rights of action in federal court; and
 
a requirement for appropriations legislation to include enforcement provisions. 
 
 
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) must submit: (1) a baseline projecting the federal regulatory cost over at least five years, (2) analysis of the federal regulatory cost of legislation reported by congressional committees, and (3) look-back reviews comparing CBO estimates with actual costs. 
 
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the CBO must submit jointly to the President and Congress an analysis of the cost and economic effects of federal regulations, including recommendations for improvements to the regulatory budgeting process. 
 
Federal agencies and the Government Accountability Office must provide reports and cost estimates for specified regulations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
CRIB Act

Bill: 114-s-2983
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2016-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Medicaid
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: 

Caring Recovery for Infants and Babies Act or the CRIB Act

 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow a state Medicaid program to cover inpatient or outpatient services at a residential pediatric recovery center for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome (a postnatal drug withdrawal syndrome) and their families.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
No Impunity for Iranian Aggression at Sea Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-2984
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2016-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Detention of persons
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign property
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
International law and treaties
Iran
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
Persian Gulf
Sanctions
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: 

No Impunity for Iranian Aggression at Sea Act of 2016

 
This bill requires the President to submit a report that includes: 
 
 
a determination of whether, during the June 2016 incident when Iranian forces boarded two U.S. Navy combat vessels and detained the crews at gunpoint, any of the Iranian actions violated the Geneva Convention or the international right to conduct innocent passage; and 
 
a certification of whether or not federal funds were paid to Iran to effect the release of the detained crew members or other U.S. citizens.
 
 
The bill prescribes specified Iranian actions that the President shall consider, including: (1) the stopping, boarding, search, and seizure of the U.S. Navy vessels and the removal and detention of the crews; and (2) the display, videotaping, or photographing of U.S. service members and the subsequent use of those photographs or videos. 
 
The President shall: (1) upon a determination that such a violation occurred, submit and make public a list of Iranian government officials or persons acting on behalf of the Iranian government who are responsible for or complicit in any such violation; and (2) prohibit U.S. entry or admission and block property transactions of listed persons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3173-3174)
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
World's Greatest Healthcare Plan Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-2985
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2016-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Bankruptcy
Business ethics
Civil actions and liability
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Federal preemption
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Insurance industry and regulation
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
Medicaid
Medical ethics
Medicare
Sales and excise taxes
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: 

World's Greatest Healthcare Plan Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the requirements for individuals to maintain minimum essential coverage and for large employers to offer affordable coverage to full time employees.
 
Health insurance is no longer required to cover preventive care at no cost or include the essential health benefits.
 
Individuals enrolling in health insurance who have not maintained continuous coverage over the previous 12 months are charged an extra 20% on premiums for each consecutive year without coverage, unless the individual is subject to similar state incentives to maintain coverage.
 
States may enroll uninsured residents in high deductible health plans. Individuals must be permitted to opt-out of this coverage.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must develop a risk adjustment mechanism for health insurance in the individual market.
 
For residents of a state to qualify for premium subsidies or the health insurance tax credit in this bill, the state must permit health insurance with an annual limit on benefits to be sold on its exchange.
 
The bill establishes an advanceable, refundable health insurance tax credit for taxpayers enrolled in health coverage.
 
States may: (1) apply to HHS to use unclaimed health insurance tax credits for indigent health care; and (2) enroll Medicaid-eligible individuals in health insurance that qualifies for the tax credit instead of in Medicaid, at the individual's option.
 
The bill establishes Roth HSAs (health savings accounts) for paying certain medical expenses and health insurance premiums.
 
The tax deduction for medical expenses is eliminated.
 This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) and title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, including to turn federal Medicaid payments into block grants.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
International Communications Privacy Act

Bill: 114-s-2986
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2016-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
International law and treaties
International organizations and cooperation
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Right of privacy
Telephone and wireless communication
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: 

International Communications Privacy Act

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code by allowing a governmental entity to require providers of electronic communication services or remote computing services to disclose the contents of communications in electronic storage (e.g., the cloud), regardless of where those communications are located. Thus, a governmental entity may obtain a warrant for electronic communications stored outside of the United States if certain conditions for obtaining the warrant are met.
 
The bill allows a governmental entity to obtain those communications only if a court finds that the governmental entity has taken all reasonable steps to establish the nationality and location of the subscriber or customer whose communications are sought and that there are reasonable grounds to believe that such subscriber or customer is a U.S. person, a person physically located within the United States, or a national of a foreign country that has a law enforcement cooperation agreement with the United States.
 
The Department of Justice must: (1) establish a process for foreign governments to file mutual legal assistance treaty requests for obtaining access to electronic communications, and (2) publish annually information concerning those requests.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
SCREEN FAST Act

Bill: 114-s-2987
Sponsor: Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO]
Introduced: 2016-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Aviation and airports
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: 

Safe, Convenient, Reliable, Efficient, Effective, Next-Generation, Functional, and Secure TSA Act of 2016 or the SCREEN FAST Act

 
This bill directs the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of the Department of Homeland Security to establish a pilot program at three category X airports to reconfigure and install security systems that increase efficiency and reduce vulnerabilities in airport terminals, particularly those that have large open areas where screening occurs.
 
The TSA shall also establish a pilot program at those airports to develop and test prototypes of screening security systems and security checkpoint configurations to expedite the movement of passengers by deploying an array of technologies including passive and active systems, new types of security baggage and passenger screening systems, and new systems to address passenger and baggage anomalies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the sunset of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 in order to effectuate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in guaranteeing that all nuclear material in Iran remains in peaceful activities.

Bill: 114-s-2988
Sponsor: Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2016-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Congressional oversight
Iran
Middle East
Nuclear weapons
Sanctions
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: 
This bill amends the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 to provide that such Act shall cease to be effective on the date the President certifies to Congress that the International Atomic Energy Agency has reached a broader conclusion that all nuclear material in Iran remains in peaceful activities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3174)
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Merchant Mariners of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-2989
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2016-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Marine and inland water transportation
Military history
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: 

Merchant Mariners of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2016

 

This bill directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the U.S. merchant mariners of World War II in recognition of their dedicated and vital service during World War II.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the American Merchant Marine Museum should make the medal available for display elsewhere, particularly at appropriate locations associated with the U.S. Merchant Marine, giving preference to locations affiliated with it. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the President from preventing foreign air carriers traveling to or from Cuba from making transit stops in the United States for refueling and other technical services based on the Cuban Assets Control Regulations.

Bill: 114-s-2990
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2016-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Caribbean area
Cuba
Latin America
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: 
This bill prohibits the President from prohibiting the provision of technical services permitted under an international air transportation agreement in the United States for an aircraft of a foreign air carrier that is en route to or from Cuba based on the restrictions set forth in the Cuban Assets Control Regulations.
 
This prohibition shall not apply: 
 
 
if the United States is at war with Cuba, armed hostilities between the United States and Cuba are in progress, or there is imminent danger to the public health or physical safety of U.S. citizens; or 
 
to foreign air carriers that are owned by the government of Cuba or based in Cuba.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3174-3175)
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Methow Headwaters Protection Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-2991
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2016-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Lakes and rivers
Land transfers
Mining
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: 

Methow Headwaters Protection Act of 2016

 
This bill withdraws approximately 340,079 acres of federal land and interests in land located within the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in the state of Washington from: 
 
 
entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws;
 
location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and 
 
disposition under the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws. 
 
 
Any land or interest in land within the Proposed Withdrawal area acquired by the United States shall, upon acquisition, be immediately withdrawn in accordance with this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-509.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
FUELS Act

Bill: 114-s-2993
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Oil and gas
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act or the FUELS Act 

 
This bill directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ease the application of the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule on certain farms. 
 
The rule requires certain non-transportation-related facilities to prevent, prepare, and respond to oil discharges that may reach navigable waters or adjoining shorelines. Among other requirements, the rule requires those facilities to: (1) certify compliance with their SPCC plans; and (2) based on the plan, construct containment facilities that would hold the contents of aboveground oil storage tanks if they should spill. 
 
The bill increases the oil storage thresholds that necessitate compliance with those requirements by raising the aggregate aboveground oil storage capacity thresholds for: (1) farms required to have an SPCC plan, (2) farms that self-certify their SPCC plan, and (3) farms that require a certification of their SPCC plan from a professional engineer.
 
The bill also raises the aboveground oil storage capacity of containers that must be included in calculating the aggregate aboveground storage capacity. The calculations of the aggregate aboveground oil storage capacity of a farm and the aboveground storage capacity of an individual oil tank on a farm must not include containers holding animal feed ingredients that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in livestock feed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
DXM Abuse Prevention Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-2994
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Civil actions and liability
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Licensing and registrations
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

DXM Abuse Prevention Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the sale of a drug containing dextromethorphan (DXM) to an individual under age 18 unless the individual has a prescription or is actively enrolled in the military. Civil monetary penalties that escalate upon repeated violation are imposed. 

To possess or receive unfinished DXM, a person must be registered with the Department of Health and Human Services as a producer of a drug or medical device or otherwise allowed to engage in the practice of pharmacy, pharmaceutical production, or manufacture or distribution of drug ingredients. Unfinished DXM may be distributed only to these authorized persons. Common carriers distributing unfinished DXM between authorized persons are exempted. Civil monetary penalties are imposed for possession and distribution violations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Portfolio Lending and Mortgage Access Act

Bill: 114-s-2995
Sponsor: Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Civil actions and liability
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Portfolio Lending and Mortgage Access Act

 
This bill amends the Truth in Lending Act to create a safe harbor from lawsuit for creditors that are depository institutions for any failure to comply with certain requirements with respect to a residential mortgage loan, and the banking regulators are required to treat such a loan as a qualified mortgage, if the creditor has, since the loan's origination, held it on its balance sheet and all prepayment penalties with respect to the loan comply with specified limitations.
 
A safe harbor from lawsuit is also created for mortgage originators for steering a consumer to a residential mortgage loan if:
 
 
the creditor is a depository institution and has informed the mortgage originator that it intends to hold the loan on its balance sheet for the life of the loan, and 
the mortgage originator informs the consumer that the creditor intends to do so. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
FAIR Energy Policy Act

Bill: 114-s-2996
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Coal
Earth sciences
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Manufacturing
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Fossil Aid is Inefficient and Regressive Energy Policy Act or the FAIR Energy Policy Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to phase out certain tax provisions that apply to fossil fuels. The bill establishes a schedule for decreasing the benefits of the provisions for major integrated oil companies by specified percentages that reach 100% after December 31, 2019. The affected provisions include: 
 
 
 the deduction for intangible drilling costs, 
 
the deduction for the percentage of depletion of oil and natural gas wells, 
 
 the deduction for oil related qualified production activities income, 
 
 the deduction for the amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures, 
 
 the deduction for the percentage of depletion of oil shale, 
 
 the deduction for exploration and development costs for oil shale, 
 
 the capital gains treatment for royalties of coal, 
 
 the deduction for tertiary injectants, 
 
 the exception to the passive loss limitation for working interests in oil and natural gas properties, and 
 
 the marginal wells tax credit. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring Patient Access to Critical Breakthrough Products Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-2998
Sponsor: Sen. Coats, Daniel [R-IN]
Introduced: 2016-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: 

Ensuring Patient Access to Critical Breakthrough Products Act of 2016

 
This bill amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to modify provisions related to coverage and payment for certain breakthrough medical devices under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Specifically, with respect to such devices, the bill: (1) provides for transitional coverage; (2) establishes accelerated processes for determining regular coverage and payment; and (3) modifies provisions related to specified payment adjustments, cost thresholds, and classification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate