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Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment Pollinator Protection Act

Bill: 114-hr-2738
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2015-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Horticulture and plants
Insects
Mammals
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: 

Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment Pollinator Protection Act

 
 This bill authorizes as an eligible project cost for the construction of a federal-aid highway the cost of improving habitat and forage for pollinators (i.e., bees, birds, bats, Monarch and other butterflies) on rights-of-way adjacent to such highways.
 
The Department of Transportation, in conjunction with willing states, shall carry out programs that encourage: 
 
 
 integrated vegetation management practices on roadsides and other transportation rights-of-way, including reduced mowing; 
 
 the development of habitat and forage for pollinators through planting of native forbs and grasses, including noninvasive, native milkweed species; 
 
 research and demonstration projects on economic and environmental benefits and best practices for integrated vegetation management, reduced mowing, and planting of native forbs and grasses for pollinator habitat, forage, and migratory way stations for Monarch butterflies and other migrating pollinators; and
 
participation in such activities by representatives of transportation landscape management, pollinator health, agriculture, horticulture, and other affected communities.
 
 
Federal funds may be used for the provision of habitat, forage, and migratory way stations for Monarch butterflies, other native pollinators, and honey bees that is related to a federally-funded highway project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Cancer Drug Coverage Parity Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2739
Sponsor: Rep. Lance, Leonard [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2015-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Drug therapy
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: 

Cancer Drug Coverage Parity Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require a group or individual health plan that covers anticancer medications administered by a health care provider to provide no less favorable coverage for anticancer medications administered by a patient. A plan may apply to patient-administered anticancer medications only the cost-sharing and limitations that apply to anticancer medications administered by a health care provider.
 
These requirements apply to medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration that is prescribed based on a finding by the treating physician that the medication is medically necessary for cancer treatment and is clinically appropriate in terms of type, frequency, extent site, and duration.
 To comply with these requirements, health plans may not, for anticancer medications: (1) change or replace benefits to increase out-of-pocket costs; (2) reclassify benefits to increase costs; or (3) apply more restrictive limitations to orally administered medications than to intravenously administered or injected medications. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Global Democracy Promotion Act

Bill: 114-hr-2740
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2015-06-11 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Foreign aid and international relief
Health promotion and preventive care
International organizations and cooperation
Public participation and lobbying
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: 

Global Democracy Promotion Act

 
States that, with respect to eligibility for assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, foreign nongovernmental organizations shall not be ineligible for such assistance solely on the basis of health or medical services provided by such organizations with non-U.S. government funds if such services do not violate the laws of the country in which they are being provided and would not violate U.S. federal law if provided in the United States.
 
Declares in addition that foreign nongovernmental organizations shall not be subject to requirements relating to the use of non-U.S. government funds for advocacy and lobbying activities other than those that apply to U.S. nongovernmental organizations receiving assistance under part I of such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employee Short-Term Disability Insurance Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2741
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Disability assistance
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: 

Federal Employee Short-Term Disability Insurance Act of 2015

 
Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish and administer a program for short-term (i.e., up to 12 months) disability insurance coverage for federal employees for: (1) an injury or disability that is not work related, (2) leave to care for a family member, and (3) leave to make arrangements to become a foster parent or to adopt a child. Disqualifies an employee for such insurance if an injury or disability is caused by willful misconduct, a self-inflicted injury, or intoxication. 
 
Requires the Director to contract with one or more insurance carriers for disability insurance coverage plans, without regard to competitive bidding requirements. Requires such plans to contain a detailed statement of benefits offered, the premiums charged, and the duration of the enrollment period.
 
Authorizes the Director to prescribe reasonable minimum standards for benefits offered by such plans, including a prohibition against excluding or penalizing an employee for a preexisting condition. 
 
Requires individuals eligible for coverage under a disability insurance plan to be responsible for 100% of the premiums for the coverage offered. 
 
Establishes in the Employees' Life Insurance Fund a Non-Work Related Disability Insurance Administrative Account, which shall be available to OPM to defray reasonable expenses incurred in administering this Act and to which contracted carriers shall make contributions necessary to cover such expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E885-886)
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to require that military working dogs be retired in the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-2742
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2015-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Mammals
Service animals

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: 
This bill requires that a military working dog be retired in the United States, except when a U.S. citizen living abroad adopts the dog at the time of retirement.
 
Amounts available to the military department concerned shall be available for such dog's transport to the United States for retirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4246)
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2743
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arctic Ocean
Arctic and polar regions
Congressional oversight
Department of Commerce
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Hydrology and hydrography
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Navigation, waterways, harbors

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: 

Hydrographic Services Improvement Amendments Act of 2015

 
 This bill reauthorizes the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 through FY2019. 
 
 The Governmental Accountability Office must compare the unit costs of hydrographic surveys conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the unit costs of procuring the surveys.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act Amendments of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2744
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Appropriations
Atmospheric science and weather
Department of Commerce
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Executive agency funding and structure
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: 

Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act Amendments of 2015

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2019 and revises the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
action_date: 2015-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2015-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2015-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-11
text: Introduced in House
SHELTER Act

Bill: 114-hr-2746
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2015-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Natural disasters
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: 
 
Strengthening Homes and Eliminating Liabilities Through Encouraging Readiness Act or the SHELTER Act

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual and business taxpayers a tax credit for 25% of their qualified hurricane and tornado mitigation property expenditures up to $5,000 for any taxable year. Defines such expenditures as expenditures in a dwelling unit or place of business for property to improve the strength of a roof deck attachment, create a secondary water barrier, improve the durability of a roof covering, brace gable-end walls, reinforce the connections between a roof and supporting wall, protect against windborne debris, or protect exterior doors and garages.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Atomic Veterans Service Medal Act

Bill: 114-hr-2747
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2015-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Nuclear weapons
Radiation
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: 

Atomic Veterans Service Medal Act 

 
This bill directs the Secretary of Defense to design and produce an Atomic Veterans Service Medal to honor retired and former members of the Armed Forces who are radiation-exposed veterans.
 
The Secretary may provide for issuance of the Medal to the next-of-kin of a deceased radiation-exposed veteran.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Help Extend Auditory Relief (HEAR) Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2748
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2015-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: 

Help Extend Auditory Relief (HEAR) Act of 2015 

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover aural rehabilitation services, hearing aids as durable medical equipment, audiology rehabilitation services, and related hearing services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Dams Accountability, Maintenance, and Safety Act

Bill: 114-hr-2749
Sponsor: Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2015-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Dams and canals
Government studies and investigations
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: 

Dams Accountability, Maintenance, and Safety Act

 
Amends the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 to authorize the Department of the Interior, subject to a feasibility study, to develop additional project benefits (including additional conservation storage capacity) through the construction of new or supplementary works when it exercises its authority to modify Bureau of Reclamation dams and related facilities to preserve their structural safety, provided that: (1) the additional project benefits will promote more efficient management of water and water-related facilities, (2) the feasibility study is authorized under the Federal Water Project Recreation Act of 1965, and (3) the costs are allocated to the authorized purposes of the structure and repaid consistent with federal reclamation law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act

Bill: 114-hr-2751
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2015-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Adoption and foster care
Advisory bodies
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Census and government statistics
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crime prevention
Department of Justice
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Medicaid
Mental health
Minority education
Minority health
Nutrition and diet
Preschool education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Solid waste and recycling
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: 

Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act

 
 Establishes the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children in the Office of Tribal Justice of the Department of Justice. 
 
Requires the President and Congress to appoint to the Commission individuals who have significant experience and expertise in Indian affairs and matters to be studied by the Commission.
 
Requires the Commission to establish a Native Advisory Committee consisting of representatives of Indian tribes from each region of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and a native Hawaiian. 
 
Directs the Commission to study federal, state, local, and tribal programs that serve Native children and use the results of the study and analyses of existing federal data to: 
 
develop recommendations for goals and plans for federal policy relating to Native children informed by the development of accurate child well-being measures;
 
recommend modifications and improvements to programs that serve Native children; 
 
recommend improvements to the collection of data regarding Native children and the programs that serve them; and
 
identify models of successful federal, state, and tribal programs in the areas studied by the Commission.
 
 
Requires the Commission to submit a report to the President, Congress, and the White House Council on Native American Affairs on its findings, conclusions, and recommendations for legislative and administrative action. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Volunteer Responder Incentive Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2752
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2015-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Health personnel
Income tax exclusion
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: 

Volunteer Responder Incentive Protection Act of 2015 

 
Amends Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax exclusion for benefits paid to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical providers by states and local governments, to: (1) increase the amount of benefits excludible; and (2) make such tax exclusion available for taxable years beginning in 2016, 2017, or 2018. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Firearm Testing Act

Bill: 114-hr-2753
Sponsor: Rep. Hice, Jody B. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2015-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Evidence and witnesses
Firearms and explosives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: 

Fairness in Firearm Testing Act

 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to make a video recording of the entire process of its examination and testing of an item for the purpose of determining whether the item is a firearm (and if so, the type of firearm) or ammunition. Bars the ATF from editing or erasing any such recording.
 
Directs the ATF to make available a digital video disc that contains a copy of the recording: (1) at the request of a person who claims an ownership interest in such item, and (2) to a defendant in a criminal proceeding involving such item. Provides that an item which the ATF has determined is a firearm or ammunition shall not be admissible as evidence unless: (1) the ATF has complied with the requirements of this Act to make its digital video disc available, or (2) such compliance has been waived in writing by the person against whom the item is offered as evidence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the work opportunity credit permanent.

Bill: 114-hr-2754
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2015-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the termination date for the work opportunity tax credit, thus making such credit permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-12
text: Introduced in House