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Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1299
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Poverty and welfare assistance
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2015

 
Prohibits the federal government, and any state that receives federal funding for any program that provides child welfare services under part B (Child and Family Services) or part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSAct), from discriminating or taking an adverse action against a child welfare service provider that declines to provide, facilitate, or refer for a child welfare service that conflicts with the provider's sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions.
 
Bars such prohibition from applying to SSAct requirements that forbid state entities from denying or delaying adoption or foster care placements on the basis of an adoptive parent's or a child's race, color, or national origin. 
 
Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to withhold 15% of the federal funds that a state receives for such programs if the state violates this Act. 
 
Allows an aggrieved child welfare service provider to assert such an adverse action violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and to obtain all appropriate relief (including declaratory relief, injunctive relief, compensatory damages, and reasonable attorney's fees and costs).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
VA Appeals Backlog Relief Act

Bill: 114-hr-1302
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

VA Appeals Backlog Relief Act

 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that a Department of Veterans Affairs regional office certifies a VA Form 9, Appeal to Board of Veterans' Appeals, submitted by a veteran to appeal a decision relating to a claim, within one year after receiving such form.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee 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: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Repeal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force

Bill: 114-hr-1303
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Terrorism
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Repeal of the Authorization for Use of Military Force

 
States that the Authorization for Use of Military Force (P.L. 107-40) has been used to justify an open-ended authorization for the use of military force and such an interpretation is inconsistent with the authority of Congress to declare war and make all laws for executing powers vested by the Constitution in the U.S. government.
 
Repeals the Authorization for Use of Military Force, effective 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.

Bill: 114-hr-1304
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Iraq
Middle East
Military operations and strategy
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 
Repeals the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Income Equity Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1305
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business records
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deductions
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Income Equity Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) deny employers a tax deduction for payments of excessive compensation to any full-time employee (i.e., compensation for services exceeding the greater of 25 times the median compensation paid to full-time employees during such taxable year or $500,000); and (2) require such employers to file a report with the Secretary of the Treasury on excessive compensation (as defined by this Act) paid to their employees. Defines "compensation" to include wages, salary, deferred compensation, retirement contributions, options, bonuses, property, and any other form of compensation that the Secretary determines is appropriate. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
ZZZ's to A's Act

Bill: 114-hr-1306
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-19]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Child health
Congressional oversight
Elementary and secondary education
Government studies and investigations
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

ZZZ's to A's Act

 
Directs the Secretary of Education to conduct a study examining the relationship between school start times and adolescent health, well-being, and performance that:
 
 
comprehensively reviews the scientific evidence relating to that relationship;
 
compares adolescent health, well-being, and performance among local educational agencies with different school start times; and
 
evaluates factors that contribute to or affect school start times.
 
 
Requires the Secretary to report the study's findings to Congress, including any recommendations the Secretary has that are based on those findings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Human Trafficking Fraud Enforcement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1311
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Crime victims
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of the Treasury
Executive agency funding and structure
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Human trafficking
Law enforcement administration and funding
Sex offenses
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Human Trafficking Fraud Enforcement Act of 2015
 
 
 Directs the Department of the Treasury to establish within the Internal Revenue Service an office to investigate and prosecute violations of internal revenue laws by persons that appear to be engaged in violations of specified federal laws prohibiting forced labor, trafficking of individuals, and transportation of minors or aliens for immoral purposes and of state or territorial laws prohibiting the promotion of prostitution or of any commercial sex act. Directs such office to cooperate with the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the Department of Justice and the Innocence Lost National Initiative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
 
Allows victims of human trafficking crimes to claim awards allowed for whistleblowing. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase civil and criminal penalties for tax evasion attributable to income derived from human trafficking and commercial sex acts. Makes it a felony to fail to file a tax return including income derived from human trafficking or commercial sex acts. Appropriates to the Crime Victims Fund additional funds equal to the increase in receipts from increased civil and criminal penalties provided by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E309)
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1312
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education programs funding
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Medical education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to include optometry services in primary health services for purposes of the National Health Service Corps.
 
Optometrists are eligible for the fellowship program for the delivery of primary health services in health professional shortage areas, the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program, and the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, to require that annual budget submissions of the President to Congress provide an estimate of the cost per taxpayer of the deficit, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-1315
Sponsor: Rep. Messer, Luke [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Government information and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 
Requires the President's annual buget submission to Congress to provide an estimate of the pro rata cost to individuals who file an income tax return of any projected deficit for the fiscal year.

action_date: 2015-10-20
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
Requires the President's annual buget submission to Congress to provide an estimate of the pro rata cost to individuals who file an income tax return of any projected deficit for the fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-10-21
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2015-10-20
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2015-10-20
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7005)
action_date: 2015-10-20
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7005)
action_date: 2015-10-20
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1315.
action_date: 2015-10-20
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7005-7007)
action_date: 2015-10-20
text: Mr. Messer moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Ask Veterans Act

Bill: 114-hr-1319
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Ask Veterans Act

 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to contract with an experienced non-government entity to conduct an annual survey, over a five-year period, to determine the experiences of veterans in obtaining hospital care and medical services at each VA medical facility.
 
Requires those surveys to include questions relating to:
 
 
a veteran's ability to obtain hospital care and medical services at the facility in a timely manner,
 
the time between the date the veteran requests an appointment and the date the appointment is scheduled,
 
the frequency with which scheduled appointments are cancelled, and
 
the quality of hospital care or medical services received.
 
 
Directs the Secretary to make the results of the surveys publicly available on the VA's Internet website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Commonsense Legislative Exceptional Events Reforms Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1320
Sponsor: Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Atmospheric science and weather
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Commonsense Legislative Exceptional Events Reforms Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Clean Air Act to revise the requirements for regulations that govern the review and handling of air quality monitoring data influenced by exceptional events. (The Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] may exclude monitored exceedances of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards from consideration when designating an area as nonattainment, redesignating an area as nonattainment, or reclassifying an existing nonattainment area to a higher classification if a state demonstrates that an exceptional event caused the exceedances.)
 
 The criteria used to determine if an exceptional event was demonstrated must be specific in order to minimize the discretion of the EPA in approving or disapproving the demonstration.
 
 The EPA must make a determination within 90 days after the submission of a petition by a state of an exceptional event demonstration. The demonstration is approved if the EPA does not make a determination by that deadline.
 
 A determination must be based on a preponderance of the evidence and give substantial deference to the findings of the state exceptional event demonstration. An appeal process for reviewing a disapproval of a demonstration is established.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Stop Hiding Congressional Farm Subsidies Act

Bill: 114-hr-1322
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-52]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Federal officials
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Stop Hiding Congressional Farm Subsidies Act 

 
This bill amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to publicly disclose crop insurance premium subsidies paid on behalf of Members of Congress and their immediate families, Cabinet Secretaries and their immediate families, or entities of which any of these individuals is a majority shareholder. 
 
 USDA must publicly disclose for private insurance providers: (1) underwriting gains earned through participation in the federal crop insurance program; and (2) amounts paid for administrative and operating expenses, any federal portion of indemnities and reinsurance, and any other purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Grant Return for Deficit Reduction Act

Bill: 114-hr-1325
Sponsor: Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Intergovernmental relations
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Grant Return for Deficit Reduction Act 

 
This bill permits states and localities to return unused federal grant funds to the general fund of the Treasury for the purpose of deficit reduction. The Office of Management and Budget is required to submit to Congress a report detailing funds returned under this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Ozone Regulatory Delay and Extension of Assessment Length Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1327
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Ozone Regulatory Delay and Extension of Assessment Length Act of 2015 or the ORDEAL Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Clean Air Act to lengthen from 5 years to 10 years the intervals at which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to review and revise air quality criteria and primary and secondary national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). This bill eliminates the EPA's authority to review and revise criteria or promulgate new standards for ozone concentrations earlier or more frequently than required. The EPA may not review and revise NAAQS for ozone concentrations before February 1, 2019. The EPA must complete a thorough review of the NAAQS for ozone concentrations and make revisions no later December 31, 2019.
 
The intervals at which an independent scientific review committee is required to review air quality criteria and NAAQS and recommend any new standards or revisions to existing criteria and standards are lengthened from 5 years to 10 years. The bill delays the review by an independent scientific review committee of NAAQS for ozone concentrations until February 1, 2019. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
Denying Amnesty Bonuses Act

Bill: 114-hr-1328
Sponsor: Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2015-03-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Income tax credits
Poverty and welfare assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: 

Denying Amnesty Bonuses Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the earned income tax credit to a taxpayer or a taxpayer's spouse who, in any taxable year, received temporary deportation relief and work authorization in accordance with any program not specifically established by Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-04
text: Introduced in House