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Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2380
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2015-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Justice
Firearms and explosives
Licensing and registrations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: 

Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2015

 
 Amends the federal criminal code to make it unlawful for any person to operate a gun show unless such person: (1) has attained 21 years of age; (2) is not prohibited from transporting, shipping, or receiving firearms and has not violated any federal firearms requirements; (3) has registered with the Attorney General as a gun show operator and has provided a photograph and fingerprints; (4) has not concealed material information nor made false statements in connection with a gun show operator registration; and (5) notifies the Attorney General of the date, time, and duration of a gun show not later than 30 days before the commencement of such show and verifies the identity of each vendor at the gun show.
 
Imposes recordkeeping requirements on gun show operators and criminal penalties for failure to register as a gun show operator and maintain required records.

Grants the Attorney General authority to enter the business premises of any gun show operator, without a showing of reasonable cause or a warrant, to examine records and inventory to determine compliance with this Act. 

Increases criminal penalties for serious recordkeeping violations and violations of criminal background check requirements. 
 
Authorizes the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to hire additional investigators to carry out inspections of gun shows.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E722)
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Racial Profiling Prevention Act

Bill: 114-hr-2381
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Freedom of information
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Racial and ethnic relations
Roads and highways
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: 

Racial Profiling Prevention Act

 
Directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to make a grant to a state that: (1) has enacted and is enforcing a law that prohibits a state or local law enforcement officer from using the race or ethnicity (racial profiling) of the driver or passengers in making routine or spontaneous law enforcement decisions, such as ordinary traffic stops on federal-aid highways; and (2) allows and maintains public inspection statistical information for each motor vehicle stop made by a law enforcement officer on a federal-aid highway regarding the race and ethnicity of the driver and any passengers. Requires grant-receiving states to provide assurances to DOT that they are undertaking activities to comply with such requirements.
 
Requires a state to use such grants for the costs of: (1) collecting, maintaining, and evaluating the results of data on traffic stops; and (2) activities to comply with the requirements of this Act.
 
Declares that nothing in this Act shall alter the manner in which a state or local law enforcement officer considers race or ethnicity whenever there is trustworthy information that links persons of a particular race or ethnicity to an identified criminal incident, scheme, or organization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E723)
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Enable More Parents to Opt-Out Without Endangering Resources Act

Bill: 114-hr-2382
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2015-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: 

Enable More Parents to Opt-Out Without Endangering Resources Act

 
This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states to allow a student to opt out, for any reason stated by the student's parent and without any penalty or other consequence, of yearly academic assessments used as the primary means of determining the performance of the state and of each local educational agency and school in enabling all children to meet the state's academic achievement standards. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Nutritious Options for Meals Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2383
Sponsor: Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7]
Introduced: 2015-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: 

Nutritious Options for Meals Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to apply nutritional standards for the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to foods purchased for USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program), with the addition of lean meat and poultry. 
 
Foods purchased for SNAP must be of the kind prescribed by USDA in implementing WIC requirements that: (1) food contain nutrients determined by nutritional research to be lacking in the diets of pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, or children; or (2) food promote the health of the population served by the program. Examples of foods acceptable under the bill include vegetables, fruits, milk, juice, breakfast cereal, cheese, eggs, yogurt, peanut butter, legumes, whole grain bread, and lean meat or poultry. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit any appropriation of funds for the National Labor Relations Board.

Bill: 114-hr-2384
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2015-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Labor-management relations
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: 
Denies the authorization of any appropriations for the National Labor Relations Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Stop Blood Tomatoes Act

Bill: 114-hr-2385
Sponsor: Rep. Vargas, Juan [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2015-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Agricultural trade
Business ethics
Food industry and services
Fruit and vegetables
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Labor standards
Manufacturing
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: 

Stop Blood Tomatoes Act

 
This bill requires each public or private company that produces or sells products in interstate commerce and has gross annual revenues exceeding $1 million to submit to annual audits of its supply chains by an independent auditor to determine if the chains are free of child labor and forced labor.
 
The independent auditor shall determine in each audit either that:
 
 
the company's products are produced without the use of child labor or forced labor; or
 
if the auditor cannot be certain that child labor or forced labor was used, that the company's products may have been produced with the use of such labor.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act

Bill: 114-hr-2386
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: 

Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act

 
Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to permit the Native residents of each of the Native Villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, to organize as Urban Corporations and to receive certain settlement land pursuant to this Act. 
 
Authorizes those Urban Corporations to establish a settlement trust to promote the health, education, and welfare of the trust beneficiaries, and preserve the Native heritage and culture of their communities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Subsistence Access Management Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2388
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Land use and conservation
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: 

Subsistence Access Management Act of 2015

 
Prohibits the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, with respect to a community or area designated as rural on or before May 6, 2007, from:
 
 
redesignating the community or area as nonrural, or
 
adjusting the boundaries of a community or area to render some or all of it as nonrural. 
 
 
Reinstates the list of communities and areas designated as rural (including their boundaries) as in effect on May 6, 2007, and as if the final rule issued May 7, 2007, and entitled &quot;Subsistence Management Regulations for Public Lands in Alaska, Subpart C: Nonrural Determinations,&quot; had not been issued. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-22
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a limitation on certain aliens from claiming the earned income tax credit.

Bill: 114-hr-2389
Sponsor: Rep. Young, David [R-IA-3]
Introduced: 2015-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Foreign labor
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Income tax credits
Marriage and family status
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social security and elderly assistance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax treatment of families
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the earned income tax credit to an alien who has been granted deferred action from removal in any taxable year in which such alien was not lawfully present in the United States or not authorized to work. The bill requires the Commissioner of Social Security to provide the Internal Revenue Service with information on social security account numbers granted to aliens under the deferred action from removal program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Generic Drug Price Fairness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2391
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2015-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: 

Medicaid Generic Drug Price Fairness Act of 2015

 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to increase the amount of rebate with respect to each generic drug in the manner that the rebate for a dosage form and strength of a single source drug or an innovator multiple source drug is increased, except as provided in special application rules, including a special rule for certain noninnovator multiple source drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Important Voter Eligibility Requirements to States Act of 2014

Bill: 114-hr-2392
Sponsor: Rep. Culberson, John Abney [R-TX-7]
Introduced: 2015-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: 

Restoring Important Voter Eligibility Requirements to States Act of 2014 [
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 Amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require an applicant for voter registration for federal elections to state affirmatively in the application form provided along with an application for a motor vehicle driver's license (as well as in other voter registration forms) that the applicant meets the eligibility requirements for voting in such elections as a condition of the application's acceptance.
 
Requires all such forms to include a statement specifying the penalty for perjury in an application for voter registration.
 
Prohibits states from registering an individual to vote in federal elections unless they verify that the information provided in the individual's application is correct.
 
Requires the head of an office of the federal government, upon request, to enter into an agreement with the chief state election official to enable the official to verify the eligibility of such an applicant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2015-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2015-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2015-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Introduced in House
National Forest Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2394
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-5]
Introduced: 2015-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Federally chartered organizations
Forests, forestry, trees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: 

National Forest Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends the National Forest Foundation Act to authorize the Department of Agriculture to provide during FY2016-FY2018 matching funds for certain administrative and project expenses incurred by the National Forest Foundation. 

action_date: 2015-06-04
text: 

National Forest Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends the National Forest Foundation Act to authorize the Department of Agriculture to provide during FY2016-FY2018 matching funds for certain administrative and project expenses incurred by the National Forest Foundation. 
 

action_date: 2015-06-09
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on June 4, 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 

National Forest Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends the National Forest Foundation Act to authorize the Department of Agriculture to provide during FY2016-FY2018 matching funds for certain administrative and project expenses incurred by the National Forest Foundation. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-10
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2015-06-09
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2015-06-09
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3931)
action_date: 2015-06-09
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H3931)
action_date: 2015-06-09
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2394.
action_date: 2015-06-09
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3931-3932)
action_date: 2015-06-09
text: Mr. Thompson (PA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2015-06-04
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 98.
action_date: 2015-06-04
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 114-138.
action_date: 2015-06-04
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 114-138.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Sensible Oversight for Technology which Advances Regulatory Efficiency Act

Bill: 114-hr-2396
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2015-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Computers and information technology
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: 

Sensible Oversight for Technology which Advances Regulatory Efficiency Act or the SOFTWARE Act

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define health software as software that does not acquire, process, or analyze data from an in vitro diagnostic device or signal acquisition system, is not an accessory or part of a medical device, is not used to prevent disease in the transfusion of blood and blood components, and is for:
 
 
administrative or operational support or the processing and maintenance of financial records;
 
use in clinical, laboratory, or administrative workflow and recordkeeping;
 
managing data but not for active patient monitoring or controlling the functions of a connected medical device;
 
organizing and presenting information for health or wellness education or maintaining a healthy lifestyle; or
 
analyzing information to provide general health information or patient-specific recommendations.
 
 
The FDA must classify an accessory of a medical device independently from the medical device with which it is used.
 
Health software is exempted from regulation by the FDA (including as a medical device), except for software that provides patient-specific recommendations and poses a significant risk to patient safety.
 The FDA must review existing regulations and guidance regarding the regulation of health software.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Introduced in House
Tornado Family Safety Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2397
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2015-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Atmospheric science and weather
Building construction
Disaster relief and insurance
Government lending and loan guarantees
Natural disasters
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: 

Tornado Family Safety Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Small Business Act to allow Small Business Administration physical disaster loans to be used for the construction of safe rooms or similar storm shelters designed to protect property and occupants from tornadoes or other natural disasters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Introduced in House