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Coast Guard Acquisition Improvement Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6258
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Coast Guard Acquisition Improvement Act of 2016

 
This bill authorizes the U.S. Coast Guard to enter into certain agreements for the acquisition of at least three heavy polar icebreakers, three medium polar icebreakers, four offshore patrol cutters, and five fast response cutters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Our Kids' Medicine Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6259
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Protecting Our Kids' Medicine Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the sale of liquid formulations of over-the-counter drugs that are not packaged with a dosage delivery device, such as a calibrated cup or spoon, and that do not have measurements on the label and on the dosage delivery device exclusively in metric units. The Food and Drug Administration may waive the requirement for metric units if that requirement would not benefit public health.
 Over-the-counter liquid drugs labeled for pediatric use may not be sold without a flow restrictor or another mechanism to reduce accidental ingestion.

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

Bill: 114-hr-6260
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Credit and credit markets
Farmland
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Enhancing Credit Opportunities in Rural America Act of 2016 or the ECORA Act of 2016 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income interest received by a lender from real estate loans secured by agricultural real estate or by a leasehold mortgage (with a status as a lien) on agricultural real estate.
 
Agricultural real estate includes real property that is substantially used for the production of one or more agricultural products. It also includes any single family residence that is: (1) the principal residence of its occupant, (2) located in a rural area which is not within a Metropolitan Statistical Area and has a population of 2,500 or less; and (3) is purchased or improved with the proceeds of a loan secured by property used for the production of one or more agricultural products. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
ACO Assignment Improvement Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6261
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

ACO Assignment Improvement Act of 2016

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish additional requirements for assigning Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries to accountable care organizations (ACOs) under the Medicare shared savings program. (The program enables ACOs to receive payments for savings stemming from care coordination and management.)
 
Specifically, the bill requires the basis for assignment to reflect beneficiaries' utilization of not only primary care services provided by ACO physicians, but also those provided by other ACO practitioners. Other ACO practitioners include physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, certified nurse-midwives, clinical social workers, clinical psychologists, and registered dieticians or nutrition professionals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Addiction Recovery through Family Health Accounts Act

Bill: 114-hr-6262
Sponsor: Rep. MacArthur, Thomas [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Addiction Recovery through Family Health Accounts Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit taxpayers to use tax-favored health reimbursement arrangements, health flexible spending arrangements, health savings accounts, and Archer medical savings accounts to pay for alcohol and drug addiction treatments for specified family members as if the expenses were incurred for a dependent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Addiction Recovery through Family Deductions Act

Bill: 114-hr-6263
Sponsor: Rep. MacArthur, Thomas [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Indian social and development programs
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Addiction Recovery through Family Deductions Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand certain deductions and exclusions to include expenses related to alcohol and drug addiction treatments for specified family members who are not dependents. 
 
The bill allows the expenses to be treated as: (1) medical care for the purpose of the deduction for medical care, and (2) qualified Indian health care benefits for the purpose of the exclusion from gross income of the value of any qualified Indian health care benefit. 
 
The bill also allows insurance covering alcohol and drug addiction treatment for the non-dependent family members to be treated as insurance that constitutes medical care for the purpose of the deduction for health-insurance costs of self-employed individuals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Prepare All Kids Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6264
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Prepare All Kids Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Department of Education to establish a Prekindergarten Incentive Fund from which matching grants shall be awarded to states and, through them, subgrants to qualified prekindergarten providers for the establishment, expansion, or enhancement of voluntary, high-quality, full-day prekindergarten programs serving children ages three through five.
 
State grantees shall set aside specified portions of grant funds: (1) for quality early childhood development programs for children from birth through age three, and (2) to extend the hours of early childhood development programs to create extended day and year programs.
 
Prekindergarten subgrantees must: (1) maintain a maximum class size of 20 children, with at least 1 prekindergarten teacher per classroom; and (2) ensure that the ratio of children to prekindergarten teachers and teacher aides does not exceed 10 to 1.
 
Program funds may not be used for assessments of children in prekindergarten or early childhood development programs if: (1) the assessments are used to reward or sanction individual children, teachers, programs, or schools; or (2) a single assessment is used as the primary or sole method for assessing program effectiveness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Medigap Consumer Protection Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6265
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Insurance industry and regulation
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Medigap Consumer Protection Act of 2016

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) expand guaranteed issue rights with respect to Medigap policies (Medicare supplemental health insurance policies), (2) eliminate certain limitations on Medigap policies for newly eligible Medicare beneficiaries, and (3) modify other provisions related to Medigap policies. ("Guaranteed issue" rights require that a policy be offered to any eligible applicant without regard to health status.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to clarify the definition of a deposit broker, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-6266
Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Consumer credit
Corporate finance and management
Employee benefits and pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 
This bill amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to exclude from the definition of &quot;deposit broker&quot; an affiliate of an insured depository institution, with respect to funds of an individual retirement account, pension, retirement, profit-sharing, bonus, thrift savings, incentive, or other similar benefit plan for which the depository institution acts as custodian or directed trustee, to the extent the affiliate provides brokerage, advisory, or agency services to participants or beneficiaries of the benefit plan and the services result in the investment of its assets as deposits of the depository institution.
 
(Generally, an insured depository institution that is not well capitalized may not accept funds obtained by or through any deposit broker for deposit into one or more deposit accounts.)
 
Consumer credit Information regarding deposit accounts shared by an insured depository institution with its affiliates that is a communication among persons related by common ownership or affiliated by corporate control shall not be a factor in determining whether: (1) an affiliate is considered a deposit broker, or (2) deposits resulting from referrals of customers to an affiliate are subject to the brokered deposit restrictions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Preserving America's Downtowns and Heritage Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6267
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Income tax credits
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Preserving America's Downtowns and Heritage Act of 201

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This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rate of the rehabilitation tax credit for commercial buildings and for certified historic structures, and (2) allow a new 20% rehabilitation tax credit for certified historic buildings used by a taxpayer as a principal residence. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Reducing Gangs and Recidivism Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6268
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Reducing Gangs and Recidivism Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require the Department of Justice's (DOJ's) Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to report to Congress on recidivism.
 
Additionally, the bill directs the BJS to provide technical assistance for states to implement best practices to combat gangs. 
 
DOJ must establish a definition for the term &quot;gang.&quot; DOJ must also evaluate and report to Congress on the effectiveness of DOJ programs in combating gangs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Ban Poisonous Additives Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6269
Sponsor: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Ban Poisonous Additives Act of 2016

 
This bill bans food containers composed, in whole or in part, of bisphenol A (BPA). 
 
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may grant waivers to a facility for a particular product if the facility: (1) demonstrates that it is not technologically feasible to replace BPA in the container or to use a BPA-free container, and (2) submits to the FDA a plan and time line for removing BPA from the container. Products granted a waiver must include a warning on the label.
 
The FDA must promote and facilitate the use of BPA replacements. BPA may not be replaced with substances that: (1) are known or likely human carcinogens; (2) have been found by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; (3) cause reproductive or developmental toxicity; or (4) are endocrine disrupting chemicals.
 
The FDA must review substances that may be found in food, including food additives and food contact substances, and take remedial action if it does not determine that there is a reasonable certainty that no harm will result from aggregate exposure, taking into consideration potential adverse effects from low-dose exposure and the effects on vulnerable populations and populations with high exposure. 
 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the manufacturer or supplier of a food contact substance to notify the FDA of the identity and intended use of the substance prior to its introduction into interstate commerce and that: (1) no adverse health effects result from low-dose exposures to the substance, and (2) the substance has not been shown to cause reproductive or developmental toxicity in humans or animals.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the avoidance of tax by insurance companies through reinsurance with non-taxed affiliates.

Bill: 114-hr-6270
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-1]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the taxable income of a life insurance company or other insurance company: (1) any non-taxed reinsurance premium; (2) any additional amount paid by an insurance company with respect to the reinsurance for which such non-taxed reinsurance premium is paid; and (3) any return premium, ceding commission, reinsurance recovered, or other amount received by an insurance company with respect to the reinsurance for which such non-taxed reinsurance premium is paid. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
VA Provider Pay Modernization Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6272
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

VA Provider Pay Modernization Act of 2016

 
This bill provides that market pay (one of the three salary components of Veterans Health Administration [VHA] physicians and dentists) shall be the same for each physician or dentist with the same specialty or assignment in the same Integrated Service Network (VISN). 
 
The market pay of a physician or dentist may exceed the market pay generally available to a physician or dentist with the same specialty or assignment in the same VISN by up to 5%.
 
Such amount shall take into account the pay in the relevant health service area, as designated by the Department of Health and Human Services. 
 
Market pay in a health professional shortage area for a physician's or dentist's specialty may exceed by up to 25% the market pay for a physician or dentist in a health service area with a specialty or assignment not relevant to the health professional shortage area.
 
The VA shall: (1) evaluate the market pay of a physician or dentist every 12 months; and (2) in implementing a promotion system, create parity between the grades and annual rates of basic pay for VHA employees performing similar duties in the same facility, regardless of service time.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
VA Health Care Provider Education Debt Relief Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6273
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Medical education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

VA Health Care Provider Education Debt Relief Act of 2016

 
This bill increases the annual and five-year caps on the amount of education debt reduction available to Veterans Health Administration health care professionals under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) education debt reduction program. 
 
The VA may waive such caps for a participant working in a geographical area designated by the Department of Health and Human Services as a health professional shortage area with respect to such participant's specialty or assignment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Hospital Outcomes Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6274
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care quality
Hospital care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Hospital Outcomes Act of 2016

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to replace the existing methodology for calculating Medicare payment adjustments for subsection (d) hospitals based on outcomes in readmissions and complications with a new methodology based on potentially avoidable outcomes in those areas. (In general, a "subsection (d) hospital" is an acute care hospital that receives payments under Medicare's inpatient prospective payment system.)
 
The bill: (1) establishes a methodology for determining a hospital's financial impact attributable to potentially avoidable outcomes performance with regard to complications and readmissions, and (2) requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to select methodologies for identifying potentially avoidable outcomes in these categories. Subject to both a ceiling and a floor, a hospital's payment adjustment factor for an applicable prospective period shall be based on the ratio of the hospital's financial impact to the aggregate amount of standardized payments made to the hospital with respect to that period. 
 
CMS must ensure budget neutrality with respect to application of the payment adjustment factor across all subsection (d) hospitals.
 
CMS shall regularly report to hospitals and to the public on each hospital's performance with regard to potentially avoidable outcomes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House