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To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide for the assessment and management of the risks of drought to drinking water, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-1709
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Government information and archives
Natural disasters
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and submit to Congress a strategic plan for assessing and managing risks associated with drought to drinking water provided by public water systems. 
 
The plan must include steps and time lines to:
 
 
evaluate the risks posed by drought to drinking water provided by public water systems;
 
 establish a comprehensive list of the effects of drought on drinking water that may have an adverse effect on human health;
 
 summarize the known adverse human health effects, factors that cause drought, and factors that exacerbate the effects of drought on drinking water provided by public water systems; 
 
determine whether to establish guidance for quantifying the effects of drought on drinking water and for determining the frequency of monitoring necessary to detect the effects; 
 
recommend feasible treatment options to mitigate such effects, including procedures, equipment, and source water protection practices; and 
 
enter into cooperative agreements with, and provide technical assistance to, affected states and public water systems to manage risks associated with the effects of drought on drinking water. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Drought Resilience Investment Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1710
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 

Drought Resilience Investment Act of 2015

 
Amends the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 to exempt a water resources infrastructure project receiving federal credit assistance under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act, that is carried out in a state during any period in which a state of drought declaration issued by the state's governor is in effect, from the prohibition against being financed with proceeds of any: (1) obligation that is tax exempt; or (2) qualified tax credit bond or a Build America Bond.
 
Specifies that a state of drought declaration shall remain in effect until the date on which the governor rescinds the declaration.
 
Terminates this Act on September 30, 2018.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Federal Transit Modernization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1711
Sponsor: Rep. Meadows, Mark [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Labor standards
Labor-management relations
Public contracts and procurement
Public transit
Transportation employees
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 

Federal Transit Modernization Act of 2015

 
Repeals requirements that condition certain financial assistance for public transportation projects upon employee protective arrangements approved by the Secretary of Labor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Freedom from Internet Tax Act

Bill: 114-hr-1712
Sponsor: Rep. Mooney, Alexander X. [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Telecommunication rates and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 

Freedom from Internet Tax Act

 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to exempt providers of broadband Internet access service (as defined in rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission on February 26, 2015) from requirements to make contributions to the federal universal service fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Student Loan Repayment Assistance Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1713
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-52]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 

Student Loan Repayment Assistance Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee amounts paid by an employer under a student loan payment assistance program. Requires participating employees to pay at least $50 per month on their student loans (in addition to the amount excluded from their gross income under such program). Limits the amount of such exclusion to $6,000 in a taxable year. 
 
Requires an employer student loan payment assistance program to be a separate written plan of an employer to provide employees with student loan payment assistance. Defines &quot;student loan payment assistance&quot; as the payment of principal or interest on any indebtedness incurred by an employee solely to pay qualified higher education expenses that are paid or incurred within a reasonable time before or after such indebtedness was incurred and that are attributable to education furnished during a period in which such employee was a student eligible for federal financial assistance.
 
Allows an employee to take an income tax deduction in an amount equal to the employee's student loan payments that are matched by excludible employer contributions under a student loan payment assistance program. Limits the amount of such deduction to $6,000 in a taxable year and $50,000 over a lifetime.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Sugar Reform Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1714
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Agricultural trade
Alternative and renewable resources
Motor fuels
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 

Sugar Reform Act of 2015 

 
This bill revises the Department of Agriculture (USDA) sugar program to decrease price support levels and make other modifications. 
 
The bill amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to decrease the rate for price support loans to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets. The loan rate is the price level at which processors can take out loans. 
 
The bill amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to require USDA to set the marketing allotments at a level appropriate to maintain adequate domestic supplies at reasonable prices. The allotments limit the amount of sugar that each processor may sell. The allotments may be suspended or modified based on: (1) the interests of consumers, workers, businesses, and agricultural producers; and (2) the relative competitiveness of domestically produced and imported foods containing sugar. 
 
In setting import quotas necessary to comply with trade agreements, USDA must: 
 
 
set the quotas at no less than the minimum level necessary for compliance, 
 
adjust the quotas to provide adequate domestic supplies at reasonable prices,
 
establish and adjust quotas so that the ratio of sugar stocks to total sugar use at the end of the year will be approximately 15.5% or the target necessary to prevent unreasonably high prices or forfeitures, and 
 
permit the temporary transfer of quotas between countries. 
 
 
The bill amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal the Feedstock Flexibility Program for Bioenergy Producers, which requires USDA to purchase sugar from domestic processors and sell it to bioenergy producers for biofuel production. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Executive Amnesty Prevention Act

Bill: 114-hr-1715
Sponsor: Rep. Ratcliffe, John [R-TX-4]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 

Executive Amnesty Prevention Act

 
This bill prohibits the use of funds to implement specified memoranda from the President, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), or other related memoranda. 
 
No deposit in the Immigration Examinations Fee Account may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the policies in such memoranda. 
 
Such memoranda or substantially similar policy changes are declared to have no statutory or constitutional basis and therefore no legal effect. 
 
No funds or fees made available to the Secretary or to any federal official may be used to grant any federal benefit to any alien pursuant to any of such policy changes. 
 
The Immigration and Nationality Act is amended to: (1) exclude from the definition of "unauthorized alien," with respect to employment, any alien otherwise admitted to and lawfully present in the United States; and (2) consider any alien without lawful status to be an unauthorized alien whose employment is unlawful.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1716
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Foreign labor
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 

No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2015

 
 Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to exclude from creditable wages and self-employment income any wages earned for services by aliens performed in the United States, and self-employment income derived from a trade or business conducted in the United States, while the alien was not authorized to be so employed or to perform a function or service in such a trade or business. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
STOP Act

Bill: 114-hr-1717
Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Marketing and advertising
Medical research
Performance measurement
Research administration and funding
Roads and highways
School athletics
State and local government operations
Television and film
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 

Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Reauthorization Act or the STOP Act

 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program to reduce underage drinking for FY2016-FY2020.
 
Revises reporting requirements for state programs on underage drinking.
 
 Specifies additional requirements for the development of the national media campaign to prevent underage drinking.
 
Directs the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to make grants to professional pediatric provider organizations to increase effective practices, including the screening of children and adolescents for alcohol use, to reduce the prevalence of alcohol use among individuals under the age of 21, including college students.
 
Directs the Department of Health and Human Services to collect data and conduct or support new research on underage drinking that carries out and improves public health surveillance of alcohol use and alcohol-related conditions in states among individuals between age 18 and 20 by increasing the use of surveys, such as the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, to monitor binge and excessive drinking and related harms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1718
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Higher education
Housing and community development funding
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 

Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-exempt charitable or educational organizations to make collegiate housing and infrastructure improvement grants to certain tax-exempt social clubs (e.g., college fraternities and sororities) which apply such grants to their collegiate housing property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Geothermal Production Expansion Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1719
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alternative and renewable resources
Department of the Interior
Government information and archives
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 

Geothermal Production Expansion Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to allow the Department of the Interior to award noncompetitive leases on up to 640 acres of federal land for geothermal development if: (1) the land is available for leasing and not already leased or nominated to be leased, (2) the lessee has a legal right to develop geothermal resources on land adjacent to the federal land that will be leased, (3) sufficient data was submitted to Interior to show there is a valid discovery of geothermal resources on the adjacent land and that the thermal feature extends into the adjoining federal land, and (4) the lessee has not previously received a noncompetitive lease for the discovery.
 
Interior must lease the land at fair market value, publish a notice of any lease requests, and provide review of the final determination of fair market value.
 
 Lessees must make annual rental payments equal to those required for lands that are leased competitively.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Child and Dependent Care FSA Enhancement Act

Bill: 114-hr-1720
Sponsor: Rep. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ-9]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Child care and development
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 

Child and Dependent Care FSA Enhancement Act
 
 
 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase to $7,500 the amount of employer-provided dependent care assistance that an employee may exclude from gross income. Allows an annual inflation adjustment to such increased amount after 2016. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
To reauthorize appropriations for the National Women's Rights History Project Act.

Bill: 114-hr-1721
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-25]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Department of the Interior
Executive agency funding and structure
Historic sites and heritage areas
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 
This bill amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to reauthorize the National Women's Rights History Project through FY2019. The Project preserves and promotes historic sites significant to the women's rights movement and will establish a Votes for Women Trail linking women's suffrage movement sites throughout New York. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E444)
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
Keith Nolan Air Force Deaf Demonstration Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1722
Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disability and paralysis
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Military education and training
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 

Keith Nolan Air Force Deaf Demonstration Act of 2015

 
Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to carry out a demonstration program to assess the feasibility and advisability of permitting individuals with auditory impairments (including deafness) access as officers of the Air Force. 
 
Authorizes between 15 and 20 individuals who are deaf or have a range of other auditory impairments, who otherwise meet all essential qualifications for accession as an officer of the Air Force, and who have not previously served as officers to participate in such program.
 
Requires selected participants to undergo the Basic Officer Training course or the Commissioned Officer Training course at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, at the election of the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to designate a special advisor to act as a resource for participants, as well as a liaison between participants and those providing the officer training. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House