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Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument Correction Act

Bill: 114-hr-2467
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2015-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Border security and unlawful immigration
Land use and conservation
Law enforcement administration and funding
Military education and training
Monuments and memorials
Motor vehicles
New Mexico
Terrorism
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: 

Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument Correction Act

 
 Prohibits construing either the national monument designation or any management plan in furtherance of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, New Mexico (designated on May 21, 2014) as:
 
 
preventing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from undertaking law enforcement and border security activities within the areas designated as the Monument, including the ability to use motorized vehicles within it;
 
limiting the 2006 Memorandum of Understanding among DHS, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Agriculture regarding cooperative national security and counterterrorism efforts on federal land along U.S. borders;
 
preventing DHS from conducting low-level overflights over the Monument for law enforcement and border security purposes; or
 
preventing Interior from allowing within the Monument the installation and maintenance of communication or surveillance infrastructure necessary for law enforcement or border security activities.
 
 
Makes the route excluded from the Potrillo Mountains, identified as "Restricted--Administrative Access" on the map entitled "Potrillo Mountains Complex," dated December 10, 2013, available for administrative and law enforcement uses, including border security activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Minority Inclusion in Clinical Trials Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2468
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2015-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Disability and health-based discrimination
Education programs funding
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Medical research
Minority education
Minority health
Performance measurement
Racial and ethnic relations
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: 

Minority Inclusion in Clinical Trials Act of 2015

 
This bill expresses the sense of Congress that the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities shall include within its strategic plan ways to increase representation of underrepresented communities in clinical trials.
 
The bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants for expanding existing opportunities for scientists and researchers, and for promoting the inclusion of underrepresented minorities in the health professions, to eligible entities that demonstrate a commitment to health workforce development in underrepresented communities. To be eligible to receive a grant, an entity must be an educational institution or entity that historically produces or trains meaningful numbers of underrepresented minority health professionals.
 
Grants shall be used to implement, expand, or evaluate workforce diversity programs that shall enhance diversity by considering minority status as part of an individualized consideration of qualifications.
 
HHS must carry out the following activities to eliminate disparities in maternal health outcomes:
 
 
conduct research into the determinants and the distribution of disparities in maternal care, health risks, and health outcomes and improve the capacity of the performance measurement infrastructure to measure such disparities;
 
expand access to services that have been demonstrated to improve the quality and outcomes of maternity care for vulnerable populations; and
 
establish a demonstration project in up to eight states to compare the effectiveness of interventions to reduce disparities in maternity services and outcomes and implement and assess effective interventions. 
 
 
HHS must establish and coordinate a health and health care disparities education program to support, develop, and implement educational initiatives and outreach strategies that inform health care professionals and the public about the existence of, and methods to reduce, racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Private Prison Information Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2470
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2015-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Detention of persons
Freedom of information
Intergovernmental relations
Public contracts and procurement
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: 

Private Prison Information Act of 2015

 
 Subjects records relating to the operation of and prisoners in a prison or other correctional or detention facility that is owned or operated by a nongovernmental entity, state, or local government and that incarcerates or detains federal prisoners pursuant to a contract or agreement with a federal agency to the Freedom of Information Act in the same manner as records maintained by a federal agency operating a federal prison or detention facility.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Maximizing America's Prosperity Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2471
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2015-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Economic performance and conditions

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: 

Maximizing America's Prosperity Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to limit total noninterest federal spending to a specified percentage of potential gross domestic product (GDP). 
 
The cap begins at 19% of potential GDP for FY2016 and decreases each fiscal year until it reaches 16% of potential GDP for FY2024 and subsequent fiscal years. The total cap for each year fiscal year must be reduced by an amount equal to the unfunded direct costs of federal mandates for the year. 
 
The bill revises the existing sequestration process to establish a new process to enforce the limits established by this bill. To enforce the caps, the bill's sequestration process would impose automatic cuts to discretionary spending. No discretionary budget account is permitted to be reduced by more than 5% of its budgetary resources. 
 
The bill eliminates adjustments to spending limits that are currently permitted for emergency spending. The President's budget must include an allowance for emergency spending that is no less than 1% of discretionary spending for the year. The appropriations committees must set aside for emergencies 1% of the funding allocation provided to the committees by the budget resolution. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2472
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2015-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: 

Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Health Resources and Services Administration to establish a National Organ and Tissue Donor Registry Resource Center.
 
The Center must: (1) advance the development, expansion, and evaluation of state organ donor registries; (2) facilitate timely exchange of donor information between state registries; and (3) maintain a clearinghouse for information on registry best practices.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services must award grants to states in order to develop, expand, or maintain state organ donor registries and establish benchmarks for improvement in organ donation. A state registry that receives a grant must be accessible to individual donors and the Center.
 
A person taking an individual's organs is not civilly liable as long as the person verified the individual's consent with a state organ donor registry.
 The Government Accountability Office must study the feasibility of establishing a database to track the health effects of living organ donation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Capital Access and Mortgage Liquidity Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2473
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2015-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: 

Preserving Capital Access and Mortgage Liquidity Act of 2015 

 
This bill amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to redefine &quot;community financial institution&quot; to include either a federal or state credit union.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-10-21
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Wall Street Accountability through Sustainable Funding Act

Bill: 114-hr-2474
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2015-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Appropriations
Commodities markets
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Computers and information technology
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Government trust funds
Securities
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: 

Wall Street Accountability Through Sustainable Funding Act

 
This bill amends the Commodity Exchange Act to require the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to impose fees to recover the cost of the appropriation to the CFTC for the fiscal year. 
 
 The fees must be imposed on each agreement, contract, or transaction that is a contract of sale of a commodity for future delivery, an option, or a swap. The CFTC may exempt contracts, agreements, or transactions from the fee if the exemption is consistent with: (1) the public interest; (2) the equal treatment of contract markets, derivatives clearing organizations, and market participants; and (3) the operation of a nationwide market system. 
 
The bill also establishes the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Reserve Fund in the Treasury and requires the CFTC to impose and collect an additional fee to be deposited into the Fund. The CFTC may obligate amounts in the Fund for long-term investments in information technology and unexpected expenses. The balance in the fund is limited to $50 million. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Stability for Service Members Act

Bill: 114-hr-2475
Sponsor: Rep. Fincher, Stephen Lee [R-TN-8]
Introduced: 2015-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: 

Stability for Service Members Act

 
Amends the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 to extend through calendar year 2016 the one-year period after a service member's military service during which: (1) a court may stay proceedings to enforce an obligation on real or personal property owned by the service member before such military service; and (2) any sale, foreclosure, or seizure of such property shall be invalid without a court order or waiver agreement signed by the service member. (Currently, the extended one-year period is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2015, and return to a nine-month period under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.) 
 
Revives, effective January 1, 2017 (currently, January 1, 2016), the old nine-month period in place of the one-year period granted by such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E761)
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Seniors' Health Care Choice Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2476
Sponsor: Rep. Heck, Joseph J. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2015-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: 

Seniors' Health Care Choice Act of 2015 

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish: (1) a special enrollment period under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) for an individual enrolled in COBRA (health insurance continuation benefits) continuation coverage who elected not to enroll under part B during the individual's initial enrollment period, and (2) a three-month open enrollment period starting with 2015 and recurring in the first three months of each subsequent year in which a Medicare Advantage (MA)-eligible individual under Medicare part C (Medicare+Choice) may change his or her Medicare enrollment election.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
ITIN Reform Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2478
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2015-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: 

ITIN Reform Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Department of the Treasury to issue an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN) to an individual only if such individual: (1) submits an application for an ITIN in person at an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) taxpayer assistance center with required documentation, or (2) submits an application in person outside of the United States to an IRS employee or a designee of Treasury at a U.S. diplomatic mission or consular post with required documentation. Exempts from such requirements: (1) the spouse, or the dependents, without a social security number of a taxpayer who is a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, and (2) nonresident aliens claiming tax treaty benefits. 
 
Requires the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration to audit, on a biennial basis, the IRS program for issuance of ITINs pursuant to this Act and report to Congress on such audit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3400)
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the issuance of up-to-date regulations and guidance applying to the dissemination by means of the Internet of information about medical products.

Bill: 114-hr-2479
Sponsor: Rep. Long, Billy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2015-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review each regulation and guidance that applies to the dissemination by means of the Internet of information about medical products and to propose revisions to such regulations and guidance that:
 
 
 facilitate meaningful use of the Internet by product sponsors for dissemination of truthful, non-misleading information about medical products;
 
recognize that such sponsors may use the Internet to disseminate, in character-limited applications, truthful, introductory information about medical products and to provide additional information about the safety and effectiveness of the medical products using information that is hyperlinked to such introductory information; and 
 
treat such hyperlinked information as if it appeared in such introductory information, for regulatory purposes.
 
 
HHS is required, after providing notice and an opportunity for public comment, to: (1) publish final regulations and guidance addressing such matters within 18 months after publication of proposed regulations and guidance; and (2) review and update such regulations and guidance periodically.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Cerebral Cavernous Malformations Clinical Awareness, Research, and Education Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2480
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2015-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical research
Neurological disorders
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: 

Cerebral Cavernous Malformations Clinical Awareness, Research, and Education Act of 2015 or the CCM-CARE Act

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to strengthen and coordinate its efforts concerning cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM). (CCM is a condition in which blood vessels in the brain and spinal cord become enlarged, which can lead to seizures, paralysis, hearing or vision loss, or bleeding in the brain.) The NIH may award grants and enter into cooperative agreements for CCM research.
 
The NIH must: (1) award grants and contracts to plan and provide support for a network of CCM Clinical Research Centers; (2) identify and support additional centers to facilitate medical research to develop a cure for CCM and enhance medical care for CCM; and (3) convene a Cerebral Cavernous Malformations Research Consortium to develop programs for clinicians, scientists, and patients.
 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may award grants and enter into cooperative agreements for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on CCM.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services must award grants and enter into cooperative agreements for epidemiological activities related to CCM and must provide for a national CCM surveillance program.
 
The Food and Drug Administration must: (1) coordinate with clinical centers, investigators, and advocates to support investigational new drug applications in order to hasten clinical trials for CCM, and (2) support appropriate requests for designation of drugs for use in rare subpopulations of CCM patients as orphan drugs. (Orphan drugs are drugs developed to treat rare medical conditions and are eligible for certain incentives.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Domestic Research Enhancement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2481
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Patrick [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2015-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Public contracts and procurement
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: 

Domestic Research Enhancement Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a research tax credit for 35% of in-house research expenses (contracted research expenses), including any research funded by any grant or contract or by another person or governmental entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-20
text: Introduced in House