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To increase the number of operational aircraft carriers.

Bill: 114-hr-3329
Sponsor: Rep. Conaway, K. Michael [R-TX-11]
Introduced: 2015-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military operations and strategy
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Military readiness

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: 
This bill increases from 11 to 12 the number of operational aircraft carriers in the Navy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Earmark Elimination Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3330
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2015-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Government lending and loan guarantees
House of Representatives
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Legislative rules and procedure
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: 

Earmark Elimination Act of 2015

 
Makes it out of order in the House of Representatives to consider a bill, joint resolution, or any other measure that includes a congressional earmark or limited tax or tariff benefit.
 
Makes a conforming amendment to Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to include bullying and harassment prevention programs.

Bill: 114-hr-3331
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2015-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime prevention
Crimes against children
Disability and health-based discrimination
Elementary and secondary education
Performance measurement
Racial and ethnic relations
Religion
School administration
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: 
This bill amends the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to require: (1) states to use grants for safe and drug-free schools to collect and report information on the incidence of bullying and harassment, and (2) local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools to use subgrants to prevent and respond to incidents of bullying and harassment.
 
Such LEAs or schools must: (1) notify parents and students annually of conduct prohibited in their school discipline policies, which must include policies regarding bullying and harassment; and (2) establish complaint procedures for students and parents to register complaints regarding such conduct.
 
The bill also expands the Act's definition of violence to include bullying and harassment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Law Enforcement Torture Prevention Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3332
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2015-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Law enforcement officers
Sex offenses
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: 

Law Enforcement Torture Prevention Act of 2015

 
 This bill amends the federal criminal code to impose a prison term of up to 10 years on any person who, acting under color of law, commits, or attempts or conspires to commit, torture. If death results from such torture, the offender shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life. 
 
&quot;Torture&quot; is defined to mean intentionally inflicting severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, on a person for such purposes as obtaining from that person or another person information or a confession, punishing that person, or intimidating or coercing that person or another person, or for any reason based on discrimination, but does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in, or incidental to lawful sanctions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Federal Prison Work Incentive Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3333
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2015-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment and training programs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: 

Federal Prison Work Incentive Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to entitle each prisoner confined in a penal or correctional institution for a definite term other than for life, whose record of conduct shows that the prisoner has substantially observed all Bureau of Prisons regulations and has not been subjected to punishment, to a deduction from his or her sentence of between 5 days and 10 days for each month of such sentence, depending on the sentence length.
 
The bill also authorizes a sentence reduction, in addition to any commutation of time for good conduct, of up to three days for each month of actual employment in an industry or camp for any part or the first year and up to five days for each month of any part of a succeeding year. The Bureau may also allow such reduction for a prisoner performing exceptionally meritorious service or duties of outstanding importance in connection with institutional operations. 
 
If, during the term of imprisonment, a prisoner commits any offense or violates Bureau regulations, all or any part of his or her earned good time may be forfeited. The Bureau shall provide the criteria and means for restoration of any forfeited or lost good time.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Families Flying Together Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3334
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2015-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Consumer affairs
Department of Transportation
Family relationships
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: 

Families Flying Together Act of 2015

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to issue regulations directing each air carrier to: (1) establish a policy to ensure that a family that purchases tickets for a flight is seated together during that flight, and (2) make the policy available to the public on the air carrier's website. The bill defines "family" to mean a grouping of individuals that includes, at a minimum: (1) a child age 12 years or younger, and (2) an individual age 18 years or older who is responsible for accompanying that child.
 
The bill makes it an unfair or deceptive practice for any ticket agent, air carrier, foreign air carrier, or other person offering to sell tickets for air transportation to fail to disclose, prior to an individual's purchase of more than one ticket for a covered flight that includes a ticket for a minor, a notification that: (1) it is not possible to assign two or more seats together on at least one of the flights selected, and (2) the individual may not be able to sit next to other members of his or her travel party even if he or she is traveling with a minor. The term "covered flight" is defined as a flight for which: (1) a purchaser of a ticket may specify an advance seat assignment, with or without the assessment of any charge or fee; and (2) two or more laterally adjacent seats are not available for advance assignment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Access to Veterans Benefits Improvement Act

Bill: 114-hr-3335
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2015-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Right of privacy
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: 

Access to Veterans Benefits Improvement Act 

 
Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide veterans' case-tracking information access to employees of a Member of Congress or of a state or local governmental agency assisting veterans with benefit claims. 
 
Directs the VA to ensure that such access does not: (1) allow the employee to modify the data in the case-tracking system, and (2) include access to medical records. Requires such employees to complete a certification course on privacy issues before receiving such access.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Colorado Wilderness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3336
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2015-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Land transfers
Water use and supply
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: 

Colorado Wilderness Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 to add specified lands in Colorado managed by the Bureau of Land Management (proposed as the Powderhorn Wilderness Addition) of the Department of the Interior to the Powderhorn Wilderness. 
 
Designates specified lands in Colorado managed by the BLM or the U.S. Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
 
Designates specified lands in Colorado administered by the BLM, Forest Service, and Bureau of Reclamation as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Incorporates such lands into the West Elk Wilderness. 
 
Allows Interior to continue authorizing competitive running events currently permitted in the Redcloud Peak Wilderness and Handies Peak Wilderness Areas. 
 
Authorizes the Colorado Army National Guard, through the High-Altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site, to conduct aerial navigation training maneuver exercises over the wilderness areas designated by this Act. 
 
Designates specified lands managed by the BLM as: (1) potential wilderness areas, and (2) as the Deep Creek Wilderness and the Pisgah Mountain Wilderness upon publication by Interior of a notice in the Federal Register that all nonconforming uses of such lands authorized by this Act for the conduct of such exercises and overflights of military helicopters in violation of the Wilderness Act have ceased. 
 
Provides for the securing, adjudication, and use of U.S. water rights for certain of the wilderness areas designated by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-08-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Access to Lifesaving Screenings Act (PALS Act)

Bill: 114-hr-3339
Sponsor: Rep. Ellmers, Renee L. [R-NC-2]
Introduced: 2015-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: 

Protecting Access to Lifesaving Screenings Act (PALS Act)

 
This bill requires that any provision of law referring to current recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) with respect to breast cancer screening, mammography, and prevention be administered as if: (1) the provision referred to USPSTF recommendations last issued before 2009; and (2) those recommendations applied to any screening mammography modality, including any digital modality of such a procedure. (In 2009, the USPSTF updated its guidelines to recommend against routine screening mammography for women between 40 to 49 years of age and to recommend biennial, instead of annual, screening mammography for most women between 50 to 74 years of age.)
 
In addition, the bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to preserve Medicare coverage for screening mammography, without a requirement for coinsurance, and expand the definition of screening mammography to include any digital modality of such a procedure.
 
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may not decrease the frequency with which screening mammography may be paid by Medicare for a woman over 39 years of age.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To designate the portion of Moffett Federal Airfield, California, containing the 129th Rescue Wing of the California Air National Guard as Moffett Air National Guard Base.

Bill: 114-hr-3341
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2015-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: California
Military facilities and property
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: 
This bill designates the portion of Moffett Federal Airfield, California, containing the 129th Rescue Wing of the California Air National Guard, as Moffett Air National Guard Base. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To provide for stability of title to certain lands in the State of Louisiana, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-3342
Sponsor: Rep. Fleming, John [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2015-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Louisiana

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: 
The document titled &quot;Dependent Re-Survey, Extension Survey and Survey of Two Islands, Sections 17, 29, and 30&quot; (completed on November 24, 1967; approved on January 15, 1969; and filed in the Federal Register), relating to a plat of a survey of such sections of land, including Peggys and Hog Islands, surrounding Lake Bistineau in Louisiana, shall be void and have no legal force or effect. 
 
No future survey or re-survey of the lands that were the subject of such document undertaken by the federal government shall have any legal effect as to their title and boundaries. 

action_date: 2016-09-06
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 
(Sec. 2) The document titled &quot;Dependent Re-Survey, Extension Survey and Survey of Two Islands, Sections 17, 29, and 30&quot; (completed on November 24, 1967; approved on January 15, 1969; and filed in the Federal Register), relating to a plat of a survey of such sections of land, including Peggys and Hog Islands, surrounding Lake Bistineau in Louisiana, shall be void and have no legal force or effect. 
 
No future survey or re-survey of the lands that were the subject of such document undertaken by the federal government shall have any legal effect as to their title and boundaries. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-06
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 555.
action_date: 2016-09-06
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-716.
action_date: 2016-09-06
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-716.
action_date: 2016-02-03
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 24 - 17.
action_date: 2016-02-03
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-02-02
text: Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2016-02-02
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-11-04
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-08-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act

Bill: 114-hr-3343
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2015-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Detention of persons
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Lawyers and legal services
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: 

Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act 

 
Directs the Department of Justice to: 
 
 
establish within the Executive Office for Immigration Review an Office of Legal Access Programs to administer a system of legal orientation programs to make immigration proceedings more efficient by educating aliens regarding administrative procedures and legal rights under U.S. immigration law, and to establish other programs to assist in providing aliens access to legal information; and 
 
submit a plan to Congress that includes a schedule to develop and deploy legal orientation programs for all detainees. 
 
 
Requires the legal orientation programs to: 
 
 
provide programs to assist detained aliens in making decisions regarding their removal and eligibility for relief from removal in order to increase efficiency s in immigration proceedings and federal custody processes and to improve access to legal services; 
 
ensure that programs and written notice of rights are available in English and the five most common native languages spoken by the detainees held in custody at that location during the preceding fiscal year; and 
 
identify unaccompanied alien children, aliens with a serious mental disability, and other particularly vulnerable aliens for right to counsel considerations.
 
 
Authorizes such programs to provide services to detained aliens in specified immigration (detention and removal) and asylum proceedings.
 
Directs the Department of Homeland Security to establish procedures: (1) that ensure that legal orientation programs are available for all detained aliens within five days of arrival into custody; and (2) to inform such aliens of the basic procedures of immigration hearings, their rights relating to those hearings, information that may deter such aliens from filing frivolous legal claims, and a contact list of potential legal resources and providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Downwinders Compensation Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3345
Sponsor: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2015-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Arizona
Cancer
Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Charitable contributions
Civil actions and liability
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Higher education
Income tax deductions
Nevada
Nuclear weapons
Radiation
School athletics

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: 

Downwinders Compensation Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to expand eligibility for restitution relating to atmospheric nuclear testing to individuals who were present, during the periods of testing, in any part of Clark County, Nevada, or any part of any county in Arizona that has a part north of the Grand Canyon.
 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the tax deduction for charitable contributions that are required to purchase a ticket to a college sporting event.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-29
text: Introduced in House