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NextGen Accountability Act

Bill: 114-s-3502
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2016-12-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Department of Transportation
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Performance measurement
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-05
text: 

NextGen Accountability Act

 
This bill amends the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 to direct the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish annual Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) performance goals for each of the national airspace system performance metrics to meet identified performance metric baselines with respect to NextGen projects.
 
The bill amends the Vision 100--Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act to revise contents of an annual Department of Transportation report to Congress regarding an integrated work plan for the NextGen. The plan shall include, among other things, a description of the progress made in meeting NextGen performance goals relative to the performance metrics.
 
The bill revises requirements for the award of bonuses to the FAA Chief NextGen Officer. The FAA, for purposes of the award of such bonuses, shall also consider any progress made toward meeting the NextGen performance goals. 
 
The bill revises certain performance goals set forth in the annual performance agreement between the FAA and the NextGen Officer to include quantifiable NextGen airspace efficiency, productivity, capacity, and safety performance objectives.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6709; text of measure as introduced in Senate: CR S6709-6710)
action_date: 2016-12-05
text: Introduced in Senate
EMPLEO Act

Bill: 114-s-3503
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2016-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Caribbean area
Employment taxes
Labor standards
Puerto Rico
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
U.S. territories and protectorates
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: 

Economic Mobility for Productive Livelihoods and Expanding Opportunity Act of 2016 or the EMPLEO Act

 
This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to require every employer to pay to each of his or her eligible Puerto Rican employees who in any workweek are engaged in commerce and who receive qualified wage subsidy payments minimum wages of $5.00 an hour, determined without regard to those wage subsidy payments. 
 
The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat certain employers who make qualified wage subsidy payments to eligible Puerto Rico employees as having paid payroll taxes in an amount equal to the wage subsidy payment.
 
 An &ldquo;eligible Puerto Rico employee&rdquo; is any individual who: (1) is a U.S. citizen, (2) has a Social Security number, and (3) certifies to the employer that he or she is a resident of Puerto Rico and intends to remain a resident for at least the next six months. 
 
 A &ldquo;qualified wage subsidy payment&rdquo; is a payment equal to 50% of the excess (if any) of: (1) the median hourly wage for Puerto Rico ($10 for 2017 and 2018), over (2) the hourly wage paid to the eligible Puerto Rico employee.
 
 The bill sets forth reporting requirements for participating employers and requirements for determining the median hourly wage for Puerto Rico after 2018.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3504
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2016-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Congressional oversight
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Disability and paralysis
Drug therapy
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare
Nutrition and diet
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: 

Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2016

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to:
 
 
extend the Independence at Home demonstration program; 
 
modify provisions regarding access to home dialysis therapy under Medicare and special needs plans under Medicare Advantage (MA); 
 
expand testing of the MA Value-Based Insurance Design test model; 
 
allow an MA plan to provide additional telehealth benefits to enrollees and, to chronically ill enrollees, certain supplemental health care benefits;
 
modify other provisions regarding the use of telehealth services;
 
allow prospective, voluntary assignment of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries to accountable care organizations (ACOs); and
 
allow ACOs to operate beneficiary incentive programs.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3505
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2016-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Bankruptcy
Business investment and capital
Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Judges
Judicial procedure and administration
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: 

Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2016 

 
This bill requires the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees, and the Federal Judicial Center to jointly develop and periodically update recommendations regarding the judicial expertise that is required to oversee the bankruptcy process for financial companies and other specified issues related to the bankruptcy process. 
 
After the recommendations are submitted, the U.S. Supreme Court must issue a rule that provides for the orderly appointment of a bankruptcy judge or district court judge with expertise in the resolution of financial companies under the federal bankruptcy code to oversee a bankruptcy case involving a financial company. 
 
The bill amends the federal bankruptcy code to permit specified financial regulators to raise, appear, and be heard on any issues in a bankruptcy case or proceeding in which the debtor is a financial company.
 
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation must nominate five disinterested individuals to serve as trustees for a financial company debtor. The U.S. trustee must appoint one of the nominees as a trustee, and the trustee is exempt from the requirements for residency or an office in the judicial district where the case is pending.
 
The Office of Financial Research must submit to Congress a report summarizing and evaluating various analytical works that examine bankruptcy policies. The report must address the effectiveness of the bankruptcy code, a bridge company study, a financing and liquidity study, and a master netting agreement study. It must also include recommendations regarding any legislative or regulatory changes that could address gaps or vulnerabilities identified. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6760)
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3506
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2016-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: 

Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2016 

 
This bill makes technical and clerical amendments to: 
 
 
 the Protecting Americans From Tax Hikes Act of 2015; 
 
 the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016; 
 
 the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act; 
 
 the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015; 
 
 the Stephen Beck, Jr., ABLE Act of 2014; 
 
 the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012; 
 
 the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act; 
 
the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU); 
 
 the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004;
 
provisions of the Internal Revenue Code related to partnership audit rules; 
 
the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015;
 
the Energy Policy Act of 2005; and
 
other specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. 
 
 
The bill also amends various provisions in the Internal Revenue Code that are not used in computing current tax liabilities (referred to as deadwood provisions). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the waiver of limitations with respect to excluding from gross income amounts received by wrongfully incarcerated individuals.

Bill: 114-s-3507
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2016-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: 
This bill amends the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 to extend the waiver of limitations on credits or refunds related to the exclusion from gross income of certain civil damages, restitution, or other monetary awards received by wrongfully incarcerated individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced in Senate: CR S6761)
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3508
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2016-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congressional oversight
Department of Energy
Economic performance and conditions
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: 

Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act of 2016

 
This bill prohibits the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from considering the social cost of carbon, methane, nitrous oxide, or greenhouse gas as part of any cost benefit analysis, unless a federal law is enacted authorizing such consideration.
 
The EPA must report on the number of proposed and final rulemakings, guidance documents, and agency actions since January 2009 that use those social costs, including as part of any cost benefit analysis required under Executive Order 12866 or other relevant authority.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Attracting and Retaining Entrepreneurs Act

Bill: 114-s-3510
Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2016-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: 

Attracting and Retaining Entrepreneurs Act

 
This bill: (1) amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a three-year nonimmigrant entrepreneur W-visa for an alien meeting specified investment, or job creation and revenue, requirements; and (2) establishes a $1,000 visa fee.
 
Additional three-year periods of admission are allowed if the individual meets specified job creation and revenue or investment requirements. An individual who has not met such admission renewal requirements may be granted up to two one-year renewals if: (1) he or she has made substantial progress in meeting such criteria, and (2) such renewal is economically beneficial to the United States. 
 
The bill establishes an employment-based entrepreneur immigrant visa for an individual who: (1) has a significant ownership interest in a U.S. business entity, (2) is employed in a senior executive position at such entity, (3) submits a business plan to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and (4) had a substantial role in the founding or early-stage growth and development of such entity.
 
The bill sets forth visa criteria, which shall include qualifying: (1) nonimmigrant U.S. residency, (2) job creation, (3) investment and revenue amounts, (4) education levels, and (5) ownership in a U.S. entity.
 
Up to 10,000 entrepreneur immigrant visas shall be made available each fiscal year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes Act

Bill: 114-s-3511
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2016-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Crime victims
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health facilities and institutions
Medical education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Military medicine
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: 

Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to expand eligibility for its Secretarial Designee Program to include the provision of health care at military treatment facilities for: (1) victims of acts of terror that occur in the United States, and (2) U.S. residents who are victims of acts of terror outside the United States.
 
 Individuals who become eligible for the program shall remain eligible on a space available and fully reimbursable basis in accordance with DOD policy governing such program. DOD may provide expedited program eligibility to individuals with severe injuries. 
 
DOD may not release an individual who is receiving care under the program to a health care provider in the private sector until a comprehensive treatment plan is communicated to the individual and such provider.
 
DOD shall establish procedures to implement such program expansion, which shall include procedures for:
 
 
 conducting timely outreach and communication to local medical facilities after an act of terror in the United States;
 
promptly contacting, coordinating, and providing medical expertise to such facilities that are treating serious injuries; and 
 
providing medical evaluations for victims who were exposed to blast and other types of injuries.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reauthorize the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic Preservation Program.

Bill: 114-s-3512
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2016-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Educational facilities and institutions
Higher education
Historic sites and heritage areas
Minority education

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: 
This bill amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to reauthorize for FY2017-FY2023 the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic Preservation Fund Grant Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Border Landowner and Lessee Consultation Act

Bill: 114-s-3513
Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2016-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Border security and unlawful immigration
Customs enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Latin America
Mexico
Property rights

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: 

Border Landowner and Lessee Consultation Act

 
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to consult with owners or lessors of real property along the southern international border between the United States and Mexico concerning CBP operations that affect their property.
 
The bill establishes in CBP a Private Landowner Ombudsman to assist owners of real property along such border in communicating their needs and interests with respect to CBP operations that affect their property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act

Bill: 114-s-3514
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2016-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: 

Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act

 
This bill adjusts the boundary of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in California as depicted on a specified map to include the area known as the Rim of the Valley Unit. 
 
The unit, and any lands or interests acquired by the United States and located within its boundaries, shall be administered as part of the recreation area.
 
The Department of the Interior may acquire only through exchange, donation, or purchase from a willing seller any nonfederal land within the boundaries of the unit. 
 
Nothing in this bill authorizes the use of eminent domain to acquire lands or interests within the boundaries of the unit. 
 
No part of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory shall be considered for inclusion in the unit until specified cleanups of soil at the laboratory have been completed. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Investing in Neighborhood-focused, Vital, Evidence-based Strategies and Trust to Prevent Crime Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3515
Sponsor: Sen. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN]
Introduced: 2016-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: 

Investing in Neighborhood-focused, Vital, Evidence-based Strategies and Trust to Prevent Crime Act of 2016 or the INVEST to Prevent Crime Act

 
This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to establish a grant program for governments, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education to prepare a comprehensive plan and enhance community capacity to address crime through collaborative cross-sector approaches.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
VA Best-Practices Peer Review Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3516
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2016-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: 

VA Best-Practices Peer Review Act of 2016

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide for the conduct by a nongovernmental hospital organization of a best-practices peer review of each VA medical center to evaluate the efficacy of health care delivered at each such center.
 
The VA must give priority for such review to the VA centers with the longest wait times for an appointment or the worst health outcomes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 717.
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Promoting More American Manufacturing Jobs Act

Bill: 114-s-3517
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2016-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: 

Promoting More American Manufacturing Jobs Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify rules for applying the deduction for income from domestic production activities to contract manufacturing or production arrangements. 
 
In a contract manufacturing or production arrangement, a person contracts with one or more unrelated persons for the manufacture, production, growth, or extraction of an item of qualifying production property (tangible personal property, computer software, and sound recordings) or film. The qualifying production property must be manufactured, produced, grown, or extracted in whole or significant part within the United States.
 
In an arrangement in which any person makes a substantial contribution through the activities of its employees within the United States to the manufacture, production, growth, or extraction of qualifying production property: (1) the person shall be treated as engaging in the activity, and (2) the domestic production gross receipts of the person shall include the gross receipts received under the arrangement for the activities.
 
The Internal Revenue Service must prescribe regulations that include specified factors for determining a substantial contribution. 
 
A person with an economic risk of loss of more than 50% of the direct material costs necessary to the manufacture, production, growth, or extraction of the qualifying production is deemed to make a substantial contribution. 
 
The parties to an arrangement may agree in writing to: (1) make only one person eligible for the deduction, or (2) apply the rules retroactively to tax years in which only one person claimed the deduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families Act of 2016

Bill: 114-s-3519
Sponsor: Sen. Heitkamp, Heidi [D-ND]
Introduced: 2016-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: 

Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, and other laws to: 
 
 
establish the Interagency Task Force on Trauma-Informed Care;
 
support the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative;
 
establish the National Law Enforcement Child and Youth Trauma Coordinating Center;
 
authorize the Department of Education to award grants for the improvement of trauma support services and mental health care for children in educational settings;
 
establish Medicaid demonstration projects to test innovative, trauma-informed approaches for delivering early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment services to eligible children;
 
modify and extend the Performance Partnership Pilots; and
 
revise or establish provisions related to best practices, data collection, health professional shortage areas, licensing guidelines for certain community figures, health care workforce training, trauma-related coordinating bodies, and trauma-informed teaching.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate