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Eastern North Carolina Gateway Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6105
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2016-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: 

Eastern North Carolina Gateway Act of 2016
 
 
This bill amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, as amended, to declare as high priority corridors on the National Highway System as well as segments of the Interstate System: 
 
 
U.S. Route 264 from its intersection with U.S. Route 64 (High Priority Corridor 13) near Zebulon, North Carolina, to Greenville, North Carolina; and 
 
the Eastern North Carolina Gateway Corridor from U.S. Route 70 (High Priority Corridor 82) in the vicinity of Kinston, North Carolina, passing in the vicinity of Greenville, North Carolina, to U.S. 64 (High Priority Corridor 13) in the vicinity of Bethel, North Carolina, and generally along the routes of U.S. Route 13 and North Carolina Highway 11.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Export Promotion Act

Bill: 114-hr-6106
Sponsor: Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2016-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agricultural trade
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of State
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Performance measurement
Small Business Administration
Small business
Trade and Development Agency

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: 

Export Promotion Act

 
This bill establishes the Export Promotion Agency in the Department of Commerce, to be headed by an Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Promotion.
 
There are transferred to the Agency the functions of each of the following:
 
 
the International Trade Administration,
 
the Office of International Trade of the Small Business Administration,
 
the Trade and Development Agency,
 
the Export Credit Guarantee Program and the Facilities Guarantee Program of the Department of Agriculture, and
 
the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs of the Department of State.
 
 
The Under Secretary shall develop:
 
 
an organizational structure for the Agency that consolidates programs and eliminates duplicative programs; and
 
 metrics to measure performance with respect to the total U.S. exports and number of U.S. businesses exporting (including exports assisted by the Agency), as well as number of businesses present in key foreign markets.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Legal Services for Homeless Veterans Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6107
Sponsor: Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2016-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing finance and home ownership
Lawyers and legal services
Public-private cooperation
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: 

Legal Services for Homeless Veterans Act of 2016

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to enter into agreements with public or private entities to fund, through the award of a grant or the use of a contract, a portion of the pro bono legal services such entities provide to homeless veterans or veterans at risk of homelessness related to housing, family law, income support, and criminal defense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Never Again Act

Bill: 114-hr-6108
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2016-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Mental health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: 
 
Never Again Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), upon the request of a veteran who is enrolled in the VA health care system and entitled to in-patient psychiatric care, to furnish such veteran with in-patient psychiatric care at: (1) the VA facility that is closest to where the veteran resides and that has the capacity and capability to provide such care, or (2) at a non-VA facility if the VA facility lacks such capacity or capability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Affordability and Enrollment Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6109
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2016-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Caribbean area
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Health care costs and insurance
Health programs administration and funding
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: 

Medicare Affordability and Enrollment Act of 2016

 
This bill amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to:
 
 
establish an annual limit on out-of-pocket expenditures for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries;
 
expand income-eligibility for cost-sharing and, with respect to beneficiaries consequently eligible for cost-sharing, establish a federal medical assistance percentage of 100% under Medicaid;
 
limit the amount of coinsurance or copayment required of low-income beneficiaries;
 
eliminate the two-year waiting period for Medicare coverage with respect to individuals with disabilities;
 
allow beneficiaries residing in U.S. territories to be eligible for certain premium and cost-sharing subsidies available to other beneficiaries under the Medicare prescription drug benefit; and
 
modify other provisions related to special rules for beneficiaries in Puerto Rico, income and resource determinations, and enrollment procedures.

 
The bill also amends the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 to extend funding for specified beneficiary outreach and education activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Allow State Sovereignty Upon Refugee Entry (ASSURE) Act

Bill: 114-hr-6110
Sponsor: Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-4]
Introduced: 2016-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Citizenship and naturalization
Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Immigration status and procedures
Intergovernmental relations
Public contracts and procurement
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
State and local government operations
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: 

Allow State Sovereignty Upon Refugee Entry (ASSURE) Act

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to set forth requirements for programs for domestic resettlement of, and assistance to, refugees.
 
Before initial placement or resettlement of a refugee in a state, and before any assistance under such Act is provided to a refugee in a state, the Office of Refugee Resettlement must submit to the state legislature, and the state must enact, a plan covering that refugee, which includes:
 
 
the costs to the state for housing, providing benefits to, and education of, the refugee;
 
vaccination and health records, and the criminal history, of the refugee;
 
any ties to a terrorist organization;
 
whether the refugee is affiliated with groups listed as unindicted co-conspirators in the case of 
United States of America v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
;
 
records of the refugee found in the Department of State's Consular Lookout and Support System; and 
 
records from the refugee interview conducted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. 
 
 
If such plan is signed into law, the state may enter contracts to carry out programs for domestic resettlement of, and assistance to, covered refugees. The state shall be reimbursed by the federal government for expenses incurred.
 
The Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shall ensure that every Identity History Summary provided by the FBI includes: (1) the subject's immigration or citizenship status, and (2) any violation of federal immigration laws that has been adjudicated regarding the subject.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Natural Gas Truck Tax Parity Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6111
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2016-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: 

Natural Gas Truck Tax Parity Act of 2016 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the excise tax rate on the retail sale of heavy trucks and trailers by 35% for any automobile truck chassis, automobile truck body, or tractor that is fueled wholly or partially by an alternative fuel. 
 
The term &quot;alternative fuel&quot; means compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, renewable natural gas, hydrogen, and any liquid whose volume is at least 85% methanol. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
CLEAR SBA Act

Bill: 114-hr-6112
Sponsor: Rep. Torres, Norma J. [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2016-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: 

Communicating Lender Activity Reports from the Small Business Administration Act or the CLEAR SBA Act

 
This bill amends the Small Business Act to define &quot;covered loan&quot; as a loan made or debenture issued under the Act or the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 by a private individual or entity.
 
The bill requires the Small Business Administration to make publicly available on its website a Lender Activity Index (i.e., a user-friendly database of specified information relating to lenders making covered loans).
 
The SBA shall: (1) include in the database information relating to covered loans made during FY2009-FY2015, and (2) incorporate information related to such loans on an ongoing basis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
End For-Profit Prisons Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6113
Sponsor: Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2016-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: 

End For-Profit Prisons Act of 2016

 
This bill requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to phase out existing contracts with private prison companies and private community confinement facilities.
 
It amends the federal criminal code to require federal employees to perform the core correctional services&#8212;housing, safeguarding, protecting, and disciplining of offenders&#8212;at correctional facilities used by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) or the U.S. Marshals Service.
 
The bill also prohibits the BOP from entering into or maintaining contracts with private companies to manage community confinement facilities (e.g., halfway houses).
 
DOJ must evaluate the effectiveness of and develop guidelines for recidivism reduction programs at community confinement facilities.
 
The Marshals Service must annually inspect each correctional facility it uses for confinement. 
 
The BOP must provide to prisoners, as part of prerelease procedures, information and counseling about: criminal record expungement; educational, employment, and treatment programs; and applications for public assistance programs. The BOP must also provide prisoners with post-release information about fines, assessments, surcharges, restitution, and other penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Charles Duncan Buried with Honor Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6114
Sponsor: Rep. Wenstrup, Brad R. [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2016-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: 

Charles Duncan Buried with Honor Act of 2016

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), if it is unable to identify a deceased veteran's next of kin and if it determines that sufficient resources for the furnishing of a casket or urn for the burial of such veteran are not otherwise available, to furnish a casket or urn for the burial of such veteran in a national cemetery (current law) or in a veterans cemetery of a state or tribal organization for which the VA has provided a grant for the establishment, expansion, and improvement of veterans' cemeteries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Canyon Village Land Conveyance Act

Bill: 114-hr-6115
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2016-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: 

Canyon Village Land Conveyance Act

 
This bill amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to require the Department of the Interior to convey to Kian Tr'ee Corporation, an Alaska Native village corporation, for the Native village of Canyon Village, the surface estate of up to 6,400 acres of public land selected by the corporation.
 Interior must convey an equal acreage of subsurface estate to Doyon Limited, an Alaska Native regional corporation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Opening Doors for Youth Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6117
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2016-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: 

Opening Doors for Youth Act of 2016

 
This bill requires the Department of Labor to administer summer and year-round youth employment programs that: (1) match youth participants with appropriate employers for high-quality employment opportunities; (2) subsidize participants' wages; (3) provide specified coaching and mentoring; (4) provide participants with supportive services to enable program participation, if applicable; (5) develop plans to increase unsubsidized employment opportunities; and (6) connect participants with literacy services.
 
In addition, Labor shall award competitive grants to assist community partnerships in improving high school graduation and youth employment rates. Grantees shall use funds to: (1) make appropriate use of existing data collection systems to target youths; (2) develop comprehensive pathways to higher education and employment; (3) provide comprehensive support systems; and (4) provide comprehensive systems aimed at preventing youths from disconnecting from education, training, and employment.
 
The bill establishes labor standards, performance accountability measures, and reporting requirements with respect to each of these new programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Financial Services Innovation Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-6118
Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2016-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: 

Financial Services Innovation Act of 2016

 
This bill requires specified federal departments and agencies (agencies) to periodically publish in the Federal Register a nonexclusive list identifying three or more areas of existing regulation:
 
 
that apply or may apply to a financial innovation offered or intended to be offered by a covered person, and 
 
that the agency would consider modifying or waiving if it were to receive a petition from the covered person in accordance with this bill relating to that regulation. 
 
 
The bill defines &quot;a covered person&quot; as a person that offers or intends to offer a financial innovation by submitting a petition to a Financial Services Innovation Office (FSIO) at one or more agencies.
 
Each agency shall establish its own FSIO to:
 
 
 promote financial innovations, and
 
 assist covered persons whose petitions have been approved pursuant to this bill. 
 
 
Each agency, through its FSIO, shall:
 
 
support the development of financial innovations;
 
coordinate with FSIOs at other agencies to share information and data; and
 
establish procedures to reduce the time and cost of offering a financial innovation to the public and enable greater access to financial innovations. 
 
 
The agencies shall create a FSIO Liaison Committee which shall consult on the administration, coordination, and oversight of each agency's FSIO. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To distribute Federal funds for elementary and secondary education in the form of vouchers for eligible students and to repeal a certain rule relating to nutrition standards in schools.

Bill: 114-hr-6119
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2016-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Fruit and vegetables
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: 

Choices in Education Act of 2016

 
This bill repeals the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and limits the authority of the Department of Education (ED) such that ED is authorized only to award block grants to qualified states.
 
The bill establishes an education voucher program, through which each state shall distribute block grant funds among local educational agencies (LEAs) based on the number of eligible children within each LEA's geographical area. From these amounts, each LEA shall: (1) distribute a portion of funds to parents who elect to enroll their child in a private school or to home-school their child, and (2) do so in a manner that ensures that such payments will be used for appropriate educational expenses.
 
To be eligible to receive a block grant, a state must: (1) comply with education voucher program requirements, and (2) make it lawful for parents of an eligible child to elect to enroll their child in any public or private elementary or secondary school in the state or to home-school their child.
 

No Hungry Kids Act

 
The bill repeals a specified rule that established certain nutrition standards for the national school lunch and breakfast programs. (In general, the rule requires schools to increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat or fat free milk in school meals; reduce the levels of sodium, saturated fat, and trans fat in school meals; and meet children's nutritional needs within their caloric requirements.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-09-22
text: Introduced in House