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Grid Cybersecurity Research and Development Act

Bill: 114-hr-6227
Sponsor: Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy research
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Industrial facilities
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Technology assessment
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Grid Cybersecurity Research and Development Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE)to develop an initiative to mitigate the consequences on the electric grid from the results of cyberattacks by increasing cybersecurity capabilities of the electricity sector.
 
Additionally, DOE must collaborate with other federal agencies, state agencies, and the private sector to develop guidance for research and demonstration activities to improve cybersecurity capabilities of the electricity sector.
 
The National Institute of Standards and Technology must develop voluntary cybersecurity training standards that minimize duplication and maintain a public database of cybersecurity training programs.
 
The Energy Sector Government Coordinating Council must develop a coordinated interagency strategic plan to advance cybersecurity capabilities in the electricity sector.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and 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 Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and 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 Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and 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 Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and 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 Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the alternative fuel and alternative fuel mixture credits.

Bill: 114-hr-6228
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Land use and conservation
Motor fuels
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2021: (1) the excise tax credit for alternative fuel, (2) the excise tax credit for alternative fuel mixtures, and (3) the payments that are equivalent to the alternative fuel excise tax credit. 
 
The bill also allows the alternative fuel excise tax credit to be used for fuel sold by the taxpayer for use as fuel in qualified landscaping equipment. Qualifying landscaping equipment is: (1) used in landscaping or similar activities, (2) powered by an engine capable of running only on alternative fuel, and (3) is not designed primarily for carrying or towing persons or loads from one place to another.


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
MISSION ZERO Act

Bill: 114-hr-6229
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Medical research
Military education and training
Military medicine
Military operations and strategy
Military readiness

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Military Injury Surgical Systems Integrated Operationally Nationwide to Achieve ZERO Preventable Deaths Act or the MISSION ZERO Act

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response to award grants to certain trauma centers to enable military trauma care providers and trauma teams to provide trauma care and related acute care at those trauma centers. Funds may be used to train and incorporate military trauma care providers into the trauma center, including expenditures for malpractice insurance, office space, information technology, specialty education and supervision, trauma programs, and state license fees. Grantees must allow the military trauma care providers to be deployed for military operations, training, or response to a mass casualty incident.


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
Social Security Safety Dividend Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6230
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Employee benefits and pensions
Inflation and prices
Poverty and welfare assistance
Railroads
Social security and elderly assistance
Transportation employees
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Social Security Safety Dividend Act of 2016

 
 This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to disburse a $250 cash payment for a particular year to recipients of Social Security benefits, Supplemental Security Income benefits (under title XVI of the Social Security Act), railroad retirement benefits, or veterans disability compensation or pension benefits if no cost-of-living adjustment is payable for any month in such a year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2016-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Veterans' Affairs, 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 Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Veterans' Affairs, 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 Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Veterans' Affairs, 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 Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Veterans' Affairs, 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
Making College More Affordable Act

Bill: 114-hr-6231
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Making College More Affordable Act

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 by creating federal interest-free education loans for undergraduate students. The loans must have the same terms and conditions and benefits to borrowers as federal direct Stafford Loans. Interest on these loans may only accrue during periods when a borrower is not earning taxable income due to professional negligence, professional incompetence, or malicious action on the part of the borrower.
 
The Department of Education (ED) must carry out a repayment plan program for the interest-free loans under which loans payments are automatically withheld from the pre-tax income of the borrower.
 
ED must cancel any outstanding balance of principal or interest due on those interest-free loans made to a borrower who has made 300 monthly payments. The borrower must be taxed on the amount canceled. Those taxes must be applied to carry out the federal direct loan program.


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
SEEED Commission Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6232
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Economic development
Government studies and investigations
Policy sciences
Public-private cooperation
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Social Enterprise Ecosystem and Economic Development Commission Act of 2016 or the SEEED Commission Act of 2016

 
This bill establishes the Commission on the Advancement of Social Enterprise to examine and make recommendations on ways the federal government can support and utilize social enterprises. The Commission must: (1) establish criteria for identifying social enterprises for purposes of federal programs, and (2) identify opportunities for the federal government to engage social enterprises in creating jobs and strengthening local economies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
George W. Bush Childhood Home Study Act

Bill: 114-hr-6233
Sponsor: Rep. Conaway, K. Michael [R-TX-11]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

George W. Bush Childhood Home Study Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the childhood home of former President George W. Bush, which is located at 1412 West Ohio Avenue in Midland, Texas.
 
Interior shall: (1) evaluate the national significance of such site, and (2) determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Private Corrado Piccoli Purple Heart Preservation Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6234
Sponsor: Rep. Cook, Paul [R-CA-8]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Marketing and advertising
Military personnel and dependents
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Private Corrado Piccoli Purple Heart Preservation Act of 2016

 
This bill provides that regulations restricting the purchase, production, sale, or exchange of military medals or decorations may not authorize the sale of a Purple Heart awarded to a member of the Armed Forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-18
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
A bill to transfer certain land from the Secretary of the Army, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-6235
Sponsor: Rep. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 
This bill requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to transfer certain property within the exterior boundaries of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation within North Dakota that was acquired by the United States for the Oahe Dam and Reservoir Project to the Department of the Interior to be held in trust for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota.
 
The Corps of Engineers shall convey to North Dakota all right of the United States to certain property in Burleigh County, Emmons County, or Morton County in North Dakota that was acquired by the United States for such project and and that is located above the top of the exclusive flood pool of the project.
 
The transfer of such land shall not interfere with any of the authorized purposes of such project, any project of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program, or any applicable law. The Corps of Engineers shall retain: (1) the right to inundate with water or cause erosion to the transferred lands as necessary for the operation of such projects; and (2) any land, structures, easements or other property interests necessary to carry out such projects.
 
 The Tribe and North Dakota shall be responsible for the payment of costs and administrative expenses associated with the transfers and for any coordination necessary with respect to requirements related to endangered species, cultural resources, and clean air.


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
Innovations to Recruit and Retain Excellent Teachers Act

Bill: 114-hr-6236
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Government studies and investigations
Licensing and registrations
Minority employment
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Innovations to Recruit and Retain Excellent Teachers Act

 
This bill establishes a teacher support grant program through which the Department of Education (ED) shall award grants to educational agencies on a competitive basis. If funds for the program are authorized above a specified amount with respect to a given fiscal year, ED shall also award grants on a formula basis.
 
A grantee that is a state education agency (SEA) shall use the grant funds to: (1) make subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs), (2) provide technical assistance, (3) reduce bureaucratic barriers, and (4) conduct program evaluation. 
 
In awarding subgrants, an SEA must give priority to LEAs that: (1) serve a high proportion of low-income students, (2) have either a teacher shortage or a high proportion of schools identified for support and improvement, and (3) demonstrate the capacity to carry out program activities.
 
An LEA shall use grant or subgrant funds to carry out a teacher support program in the elementary and secondary schools that it serves. The program must strengthen teaching careers by: (1) collaboratively reforming and improving compensation structures, (2) creating opportunities for personalized professional learning and enhancement for teachers, (3) creating leadership pathways, (4) using strategies such as innovative scheduling to support teacher improvement, and (5) implementing teacher-led initiatives. In addition, the program must carry out specified activities to strengthen teacher selection or induction.
 
The bill establishes requirements for grant applications, program evaluation, and reporting.


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
American Opportunity Tax Credit Reform Act

Bill: 114-hr-6237
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

American Opportunity Tax Credit Reform Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the American Opportunity Tax Credit, to provide that any credit amount which is attributable to a federal Pell Grant under the Higher Education Act of 1965 shall be reduced by the amount of expenses (other than qualified tuition and related expenses) which are taken into account in determining the cost of attendance at an institution of higher education for the academic period for which the credit amount is being determined. 
 
The bill also modifies the definition of "qualified scholarship," for purposes of the tax exclusion for such scholarships, to include a federal Pell Grant as a qualified scholarship.


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
To direct the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for issuing identity protection personal identification numbers (IP PINs) to adopted children for purposes of tax administration.

Bill: 114-hr-6238
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 
This bill requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to establish a program under which the legal guardian of an adopted child may obtain an identity protection personal identification number (IP PIN) for the child to prevent an individual from improperly claiming tax benefits with respect to the child. The IRS may require a child's IP PIN to be included in a tax return as a condition of receiving any tax benefit with respect to the child. 


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
HIGHER ED Act

Bill: 114-hr-6239
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2016-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: 

Helping Improve Grants for Higher Education & Repayment of Expensive Debt Act or the HIGHER ED Act

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to:
 
 
 modify the Federal Pell Grant program to increase the maximum award and restore year-round grants, 
 
make graduate and professional students eligible to receive subsidized Stafford Loans under the Federal Direct Loan program, 
 
direct the Department of Education to refinance outstanding federal student loans for Direct Loan and Federal Family Education Loan program borrowers, 
 
include a part-time job as a faculty member within the definition of &quot;public service job&quot; for purposes of the public service loan forgiveness program, and 
 
establish additional terms and conditions applicable to the income-based and income-contingent repayment plans. 
 
 
Additionally, the bill amends the federal bankruptcy code to permit a borrower to discharge in bankruptcy a nonprofit, government, or private student loan, or an obligation to repay an educational benefit, scholarship, or stipend.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Introduced in House