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To repeal the Military Selective Service Act, and thereby terminate the registration requirements of such Act and eliminate civilian local boards, civilian appeal boards, and similar local agencies of the Selective Service System.

Bill: 114-hr-4523
Sponsor: Rep. Coffman, Mike [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2016-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Military personnel and dependents
Selective Service System

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: 
This bill repeals the Military Selective Service Act.
 
No person may be denied a right, privilege, benefit, or employment position under federal law on the grounds that the person failed to present himself for and submit to registration under the Military Selective Service Act before its repeal by this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Public Health Emergency Preparedness Act

Bill: 114-hr-4525
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2016-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Department of Health and Human Services
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Strategic materials and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: 

Public Health Emergency Preparedness Act 

 
This bill provides $5 billion in supplemental appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Public Health Emergency Fund. 
 
The bill designates the funds as an emergency requirement, and provides that the funds are only available if the President subsequently designates the funds. (Emergency spending is exempt from discretionary spending limits and other budget enforcement rules.) 
 
HHS may use the funds provided by this bill to acquire products such as drugs, vaccines and other biological products, and medical devices for deposit into the Strategic National Stockpile. 
 
The bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to exempt the Public Health Emergency Fund from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Stop Online Booking Scams Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4526
Sponsor: Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-22]
Introduced: 2016-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: 

Stop Online Booking Scams Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act (ROSCA) to prohibit a third party online hotel reservation seller (an online seller that is not affiliated with the person who owns the hotel or provides the hotel services or accommodations) from charging a consumer's credit card, debit card, bank account, or other financial account for any good or service sold in an Internet transaction, unless the seller discloses all material terms of the transaction.
 
Before the conclusion of the transaction, the seller must describe, and disclose the cost of, the offered good or service.
 
The seller must also disclose, in a manner that is continuously visible to the consumer throughout the transaction process, the fact that it is not affiliated with the person who: (1) owns the hotel, or (2) provides the hotel services or accommodations.
 
States may bring actions in federal courts to obtain damages, restitution, compensation, or other relief for ROSCA violations. (Currently, states may bring such actions for only injunctive relief.)
 
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) must publish on its website an assessment of: (1) consumers' capacity to understand which company they are transacting with during online hotel reservation shopping, (2) consumer harm from such uncertainty, and (3) whether any practice by a third party online hotel reservation seller violates ROSCA.
 
The bill expresses the sense of Congress that the FTC should revise its website to make it easier for consumers and businesses to report complaints of deceptive practices with online booking of hotel reservations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Military Retiree Employment Act

Bill: 114-hr-4527
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2016-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Employee hiring
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: 

Military Retiree Employment Act

 
This bill permits, for a specified five-year period, retired members of the Armed Forces to be appointed to civil service positions in or under the Department of Defense (DOD) during the first 180 days after retirement without meeting current requirements regarding: (1) appointment authorization, (2) basic pay increase, or (3) existence of a state of national emergency. 
 
The Office of Personnel Management shall establish an oversight plan to monitor such appointments. 
 
DOD shall ensure that every DOD employee is informed, within one calendar day, of the publication of a vacancy within that employee's office that requires qualifications related to the employee's current duties. 
 
DOD shall ensure for 10 years that each employee who is a veteran and who is newly hired or appointed to a DOD position shall be informed of the effect of certain DOD guidelines for reduction in force protection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
ENCRYPT Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4528
Sponsor: Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2016-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Consumer affairs
Federal preemption
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Right of privacy
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: 

Ensuring National Constitutional Rights for Your Private Telecommunications Act of 2016 or the ENCRYPT Act of 2016

 
This bill prohibits a state from requiring a manufacturer, developer, seller, or provider of a technology product or service to: (1) alter the security functions of its product or service to allow a government agency to conduct a physical search or user surveillance, or (2) use its product or service to decrypt encrypted information.
 
A technology product or service includes a commercial computer product, electronic device, or online service that is publicly available.
 
Additionally, it bars a state from prohibiting the manufacture, sale or lease, or provision of a technology product or service because it uses encryption or similar security functions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Parent Penalty Repeal Act

Bill: 114-hr-4529
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick [D-FL-18]
Introduced: 2016-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child care and development
Government information and archives
Social Security Administration
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: 

Social Security Parent Penalty Repeal Act 

 
 This bill amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to direct the Social Security Administration to determine and publish in the Federal Register on or before November 1 of each year a revised contribution and benefit base, which shall be effective with respect to remuneration paid in subsequent calendar and taxable years. The bill also revises the formula for determining that base.
 
The number of an individual's benefit computation years, for the purpose of determining the individual's primary OASDI insurance amount, shall be further reduced (after a specified initial reduction) by the number of the individual's childcare years (not exceeding five), except that not more than two years may be determined to be a childcare year on the basis of the individual's status as a primary caregiver for the same child.
 
"Childcare year" means an elapsed year of the individual: 
 
 
during which the individual is the primary caregiver for a child under age 6, and
 
for which the total of the individual's wages and self-employment income is $0. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
To approve an agreement between the United States and the Republic of Palau, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-4531
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2016-02-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Government trust funds
Infrastructure development
International law and treaties
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Palau
Postal service
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: 
This bill approves, with specified exceptions, the agreement and appendices signed by the United States and the Republic of Palau on September 3, 2010, in connection with the Compact of Free Association between the United States and Palau.
 
If Palau withdraws more than $5 million from the trust fund set up by the Compact in FY2015, certain amounts will be withheld from Palau until it reimburses the fund for the total amounts withdrawn that exceeded $5 million in FY2015. Certain funds may be released to replenish that trust fund, however, if the United States and Palau have arranged to advance funds during FY2015 from the trust fund for specified allowable purposes.
 
 The bill authorizes appropriations to: (1) subsidize postal services to Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia for FY2016-FY2024; and (2) carry out specified federal responsibilities under the Compact.
 
The bill also repeals specified offset requirements.
 
 FY2016 funding is provided to reduce government arrears of Palau.
 
 FY2016-FY2023 additional economic assistance, and FY2016 funding for infrastructure projects, are provided.
 
Specified passport requirements are revised.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2016-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2016-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2016-02-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E159)
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Safe Harbor for Reporting Violent Behavior Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4532
Sponsor: Rep. Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2016-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Civil actions and liability
Employee performance
Personnel records
Violent crime
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: 

Safe Harbor for Reporting Violent Behavior Act of 2016

 
This bill makes an employer immune from civil liability for reporting to a potential future employer an employee or former employee&rsquo;s violent or threatening behavior. The report must be made in good faith and based on objectively reasonable suspicion.
 
Additionally, the bill makes a potential employer immune from civil liability for taking a reasonable action in good faith to respond to a report of violent or threatening behavior of an employee or potential employee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Net Price Calculator Improvement Act

Bill: 114-hr-4533
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2016-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Government information and archives
Higher education
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: 

Net Price Calculator Improvement Act

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish the minimum requirements for the net price calculator that each institution of higher education (IHE) receiving federal funds under title IV (Student Assistance) of the Act must include on its website. (An IHE's "net price" is the average yearly price actually charged to first-time, full-time undergraduate students receiving student aid at the school after deducting such aid.)
 
It requires the link for the calculator to be clearly labeled and conspicuously posted on an IHE's website.
 
It requires each calculator's results page to include:
 
 
the net price of attending the IHE;
 
the cost of attending the IHE;
 
the estimated total need- and merit-based grant aid, from federal, state, and institutional sources, that may be available to first-time, full-time undergraduate students enrolled at the IHE;
 
the percentage of such students enrolled at the school who receive any of that grant aid; and
 
a notice that an estimate of an individual's net price is non-binding and subject to change.
 
 
It requires calculators that estimate a user's eligibility for veterans' education benefits or educational benefits for active duty service members to clearly distinguish those benefits from other grant-aid. Requires calculators that do not make such estimates to provide users with notice of, and a link to information concerning, those benefits.
 
The bill directs IHEs to populate their calculators with data from not later than two academic years prior to the most recent academic year.
 
Calculators must: (1) clearly indicate which questions need to be completed for a net price estimate, (2) clearly mark requests for contact information as optional, and (3) prohibit personally identifiable information from being sold or made available to third parties.
 
It authorizes the Department of Education to develop a universal net price calculator that enables users to answer one set of questions and receive net prices for any IHE that is required to have a net price calculator.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Introduced in House
POSTURE Act

Bill: 114-hr-4534
Sponsor: Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2016-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Military personnel and dependents
Military readiness
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: 

Protecting Our Security Through Utilizing Right-Sized End-Strength Act of 2016 or the POSTURE Act

 
This bill expresses the sense of Congress that given the uncertain world and the need for trained and ready U.S. land force, the planned drawdown of land forces should be stopped.
 
The bill sets forth:
 
 
FY2016 Army, Marine Corps, and Selected Reserve strength levels; and
 
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force permanent active duty end strength minimum levels.
 
 
Any proposal to lower the end strength levels established by this Act must first be approved by Congress through enactment of a law to that effect.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Keep It in the Ground Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4535
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2016-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Arctic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Gulf of Mexico
Land use and conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas
Pacific Ocean

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: 

Keep It in the Ground Act of 

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This bill amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) from issuing, renewing, reinstating, or extending any nonproducing lease, or issuing any authorization for the exploration or production of oil, natural gas, or any other fossil fuel in the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, or any other area of the Outer Continental Shelf. BOEM shall also cancel within 60 days any lease issued in the Beaufort Sea, Cook Inlet, or Chukchi Sea (three of the five bodies of water that encompass the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf). 
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) must not issue, renew, reinstate, or extend any nonproducing lease for the exploration or production of any onshore fossil fuels, including coal, oil, tar sands, oil shale, and gas, on land subject to the Mineral Leasing Act.
 
The bill provides for exceptions if there is an imminent national security threat that would be significantly reduced by granting an exception. 
 
In addition, BOEM and the BLM may allow a nonproducing lease to be renewed or extended if the lease contract was signed before this bill, and giving effect to any provision of this bill is likely to lead to a material breach of contract.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Protecting the Dignity of Unborn Children Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4536
Sponsor: Rep. Tiberi, Patrick J. [R-OH-12]
Introduced: 2016-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: 

Protecting the Dignity of Unborn Children Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime to recklessly dispose of or abandon fetal remains in a landfill or in any navigable waters of the United States. 
 
The term "fetal remains" means any part (except a cremated part) of a deceased human fetus following an abortion. 

 
A violator is subject to a fine, up to three years in prison, or both. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-02-11
text: Introduced in House