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SMOKE Act

Bill: 114-hr-1517
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Federal preemption
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Marketing and advertising
Medical research
Retail and wholesale trades
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Stop Selling and Marketing to Our Kids E-Cigarettes Act or the SMOKE Act

 
Amends the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define &quot;electronic nicotine delivery system&quot; (e-cigarette) and &quot;e-liquid&quot; (solution used in an e-cigarette). Gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate e-cigarettes and e-liquids as tobacco products.
 
Amends the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to include e-cigarettes and e-liquids in the definition of cigarettes, thereby: (1) requiring warning labels to appear on packaging and advertising, and (2) prohibiting advertising in electronic media regulated by the Federal Communications Commission.
 
Requires the FDA to study the effects of flavorings added to e-cigarettes and e-liquids, including whether flavorings appeal to children or help adults quit smoking. Requires, upon completion of the study, the FDA to consider restricting the use of flavorings.
 
Directs the FDA to require child-proof packaging for e-cigarettes and e-liquids.
 
Directs the FDA to set nicotine dosage and concentration limits for e-cigarettes and e-liquids, respectively, and allows for exceptions.
 
Prohibits advertisement, promotion, or marketing of e-cigarettes and e-liquids in a manner that increases their use by minors. Sets forth authority for: (1) the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to enforce violations as an unfair or deceptive act or practice, and (2) states to bring civil actions on behalf of residents threatened or adversely affected by a violation. Allows the FTC to intervene and appeal in state actions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Let It Go Act

Bill: 114-hr-1518
Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Political parties and affiliation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Let It Go Act

 
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to allow the use of contributions or donations only for the six years following the most recent federal election for a six-year office (i.e., election to the Senate) in which an individual was a candidate for the office if that individual is not a candidate for that office during those ensuing six years.
 
Requires contributions or donations remaining available to to such an individual after such six-year period ends to be disposed of within 30 days, as follows: (1) to pay any debts or obligations owed in connection with the campaign for that office; (2) to return those contributions or donations to the individuals, entities, or both, who made them; (3) to make contributions to a charitable organization; and (4) to make transfers to a national, state or local committee of a political party.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Recognizing Achievement in Classified School Employees Act

Bill: 114-hr-1519
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Higher education
Preschool education
School administration
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Recognizing Achievement in Classified School Employees Act

 
Directs the Secretary of Education to award National Classified School Employee of the Year Awards to classified public school employees within certain occupational specialties who provide exemplary service to students in prekindergarten through higher education.
 
Requires the Secretary to choose an awardee each year, out of nominations received from each state, from one of the following occupational specialties: (1) paraprofessional services, (2) clerical and administrative services, (3) transportation services, (4) food and nutrition services, (5) custodial and maintenance services, (6) security services, (7) health and student services, (8) technical services, and (9) skilled trades.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Social Security and Medicare Lock-Box Act

Bill: 114-hr-1520
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Medicare
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Social Security and Medicare Lock-Box Act 

 
 Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to establish in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund a Social Security Surplus Protection Account to hold the Social Security surplus for the fiscal year of the sum of Social Security taxes collected, as well as the aggregate increase in certain tax liabilities, over the sum of benefits paid.
 
Establishes in the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund a Medicare Surplus Protection Account to hold amounts equivalent to the Medicare part A surplus for the fiscal year of the sum of hospital insurance taxes collected over the sum of Medicare part A benefits paid.
 
Denies the availability of the balance in either Account for investment by the Managing Trustee.
 
Establishes in the executive branch a Social Security and Medicare Part A Investment Commission to study the most effective vehicles for investment of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (other than investment in the form of U.S. obligations).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
To rename the Captain William Wylie Galt Great Falls Armed Forces Readiness Center in honor of Captain John E. Moran, a recipient of the Medal of Honor.

Bill: 114-hr-1521
Sponsor: Rep. Zinke, Ryan K. [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents
Montana
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 
Redesignates the Captain William Wylie Galt Great Falls Armed Forces Readiness Center in Great Falls, Montana, as the &quot;Captain John E. Moran and Captain William Wylie Galt Armed Forces Reserve Center.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and improve the Indian coal production tax credit.

Bill: 114-hr-1522
Sponsor: Rep. Zinke, Ryan K. [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coal
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits
Indian lands and resources rights

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for producing electricity from an Indian coal production facility, to eliminate: (1) the requirement that such a facility be placed in service before January 1, 2009, and (2) the limitation on the period during which such coal is required to be produced and sold. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Community Bank Access to Capital Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1523
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2015-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: 

Community Bank Access to Capital Act of 2015

 
This bill directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to increase the asset threshold under the Small Bank Holding Company Policy Statement on Assessment of Financial and Managerial Factors from less than $1 billion to less than $5 billion. 
 
The Comptroller of the Currency, the Board, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) shall exempt community banks from regulations implementing the International Regulatory Framework for Banks (Basel III), and, as they determine appropriate, to adjust the related capital requirements. 
 
 A community bank is defined as one whose consolidated assets are $50 billion or less. 
 
The bill also exempts from the internal control attestation requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 both an insured depository institution and a depository institution holding company with consolidated assets of less than $1 billion.
 
Savings and loan associations meeting specified asset and equity security holder criteria shall be subject to security registration requirements.
 
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is prohibited from adjusting under Regulation D the $1 million net worth threshold and $200,000 and $300,000 income thresholds that define a natural person as an accredited investor.
 
The SEC shall increase from 35 to 70 the number of purchasers of securities in transactions deemed not to involve a public offering and so are exempt from regulation under the Securities Exchange Act of 1933. 
 
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is amended to: (1) subject a savings and loan holding company to registration requirements for securities whose issuer has total assets exceeding $10 million and a class of non-exempt equity security held of record by 2,000 or more persons; and (2) apply the automatic termination of registration, and suspension of the duty to file supplementary and periodic information, to a savings and loan holding company whose securities are found to be held by less than 1,200 persons. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Walter Hammond Place in Waldwick, New Jersey, as the "Staff Sergeant Joseph D'Augustine Post Office Building".

Bill: 114-hr-1524
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2015-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
New Jersey
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Walter Hammond Place in Waldwick, New Jersey, as the "Staff Sergeant Joseph D'Augustine Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-19
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2015-03-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2023)
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House
End Discriminatory State Taxes for Automobile Renters Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1528
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2015-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Lease and rental services
Motor vehicles
Property tax
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: 

End Discriminatory State Taxes for Automobile Renters Act of 2015

 
This bill prohibits a state or locality from levying or collecting a discriminatory tax on the rental of motor vehicles, the business of renting motor vehicles, or motor vehicle rental property, except where such tax is imposed as of the enactment date of this Act, the tax does not lapse, the tax rate does not increase, and the tax base for such tax does not change. 
 
A tax is considered discriminatory if it is applicable to the rental of motor vehicles or to motor vehicle businesses or property, but not to the majority of other rentals of tangible personal property or businesses within a state or locality.
 
The bill allows a person who is aggrieved by a discriminatory tax to bring a civil action in a U.S. district court for damages, injunctive relief, other legal or equitable relief, or declaratory relief. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Community Institution Mortgage Relief Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1529
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2015-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer credit
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: 

Community Institution Mortgage Relief Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Truth in Lending Act to create a safe harbor from requirements for an escrow or impound account for the payment of taxes and hazard insurance in the case of mortgage loans made by a creditor with consolidated assets of $10 billion or less that holds the loan on its balance sheet for three years after its origination.
 
A creditor shall be deemed to have complied with the three-year balance sheet requirement if it transfers a loan by reason of its bankruptcy or failure, the purchase of it by another, or by a supervisory act or recommendation from a state or federal regulator.
 
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is required to exempt mortgage servicers that service 20,000 or fewer mortgage loans from requirements of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 pertaining to the servicing of mortgage loans and administration of escrow accounts.

action_date: 2015-04-06
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 

Community Institution Mortgage Relief Act of 2015

 
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Truth in Lending Act to create a safe harbor from requirements for an escrow or impound account for the payment of taxes and hazard insurance in the case of mortgage loans made by a creditor with consolidated assets of $10 billion or less that holds the loan on its balance sheet for three years after its origination.
 
A creditor shall be deemed to have complied with the three-year balance sheet requirement if it transfers a loan by reason of its bankruptcy or failure, the purchase of it by another, or by a supervisory act or recommendation from a state or federal regulator.
 
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is required to exempt mortgage servicers that service 20,000 or fewer mortgage loans from requirements of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 pertaining to the servicing of mortgage loans and administration of escrow accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-06
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 38.
action_date: 2015-04-06
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 114-57.
action_date: 2015-04-06
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 114-57.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 48 - 10.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-03-25
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Keeping our Promises to Veterans Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1532
Sponsor: Rep. Emmer, Tom [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2015-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Health care coverage and access
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: 

Keeping our Promises to Veterans Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 regarding the veterans choice program to: 
 
 
reduce the 40-mile radius requirement to 20 miles, and require that the closest medical facility is able to provide a veteran with the care and services needed; 
 
reduce the 30-day wait-time goal to 15 days; and 
 
require the Veterans Administration (VA) to implement the prompt payment system by the earlier of February 1, 2016, or 180 days after the Comptroller General submits a certain report on the timeliness of VA payments for hospital care, medical services, and other health care furnished by non-VA health care providers.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Medical Device Tax Elimination Act

Bill: 114-hr-1533
Sponsor: Rep. Adams, Alma S. [D-NC-12]
Introduced: 2015-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Health technology, devices, supplies
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: 

Medical Device Tax Elimination Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on medical devices and offsets the cost of such repeal by: (1) eliminating the tax deduction for income attributable to oil, natural gas, or primary products thereof for major integrated oil companies (companies that have an average daily worldwide annual production of crude oil of at least 500,000 barrels and annual gross receipts in excess of $1 billion); (2) prohibiting the use of the last-in, first-out (LIFO) accounting method by major integrated oil companies; and (3) denying the foreign tax credit to major integrated oil companies that are dual taxpayers (companies that receive an economic benefit from a foreign country or a possession of the United States that does not impose a generally applicable income tax).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures Act

Bill: 114-hr-1534
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2015-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Congressional oversight
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Nuclear power
Nuclear weapons
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: 

Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures Act

 
Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY2015-FY2024: (1) for the research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) or procurement of a long-range penetrating bomber aircraft; (2) to procure an SSBN-X submarine (and prohibits the use of such funds for FY2025 and thereafter to procure more than eight such submarines); or (3) for the RDT&E or procurement of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
 
Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds authorized to be appropriated for FY2015 or thereafter for DOD or the Department of Energy: (1) to make the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons; (2) until the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Energy jointly certify that the total cost of the B61 life extension program has been reduced to not more than $4 billion; (3) for the W78 life extension program; (4) for the mixed oxide fuel fabrication facility project; (5) for the uranium processing facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; or (6) for RDT&E of a new air-launched cruise missile or for the W80 warhead life extension program.
 
Prohibits Navy forces, beginning in FY2021, from including more than eight operational ballistic-missile submarines available for deployment.
 
Requires initial and annual reports from the Secretaries of Defense and Energy outlining their respective plans to carry out the requirements of this Act.
 
Directs the President to submit to Congress an annual report containing a comprehensive accounting by the Office of Management and Budget of the amounts obligated or expended by the federal government for each nuclear weapon and related nuclear program during the fiscal year covered by the report for the life cycle of such weapon or program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
action_date: 2015-03-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1852-1853)
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E379-380)
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-23
text: Introduced in House