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Student Debt Repayment Fairness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3450
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2015-09-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Disability and paralysis
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: 

Student Debt Repayment Fairness Act of 2015

 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit a private educational lender from accelerating the repayment terms of the outstanding obligation of a borrower in good standing with respect to a particular private education loan if a cosigner jointly liable on the loan is unable to fulfill any obligations with respect to it by reason of death or disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Introduced in House
Student Loan Bankruptcy Parity Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3451
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2015-09-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: 

Student Loan Bankruptcy Parity Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the federal bankruptcy code to eliminate the provision that makes certain education debts non-dischargeable in bankruptcy unless repayment imposes an undue hardship. 
 
Specifically it permits a borrower to discharge in bankruptcy a nonprofit, government, or private student loan, or an obligation to repay an educational benefit, scholarship, or stipend. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Introduced in House
Scholarship Tax Relief for Students Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3452
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2015-09-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: 

Scholarship Tax Relief for Students Act of 2015

 
The Internal Revenue Code allows an exclusion from gross income for amounts received as a scholarship if such amounts are used to pay for qualified tuition and related expenses. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to include in the definition of &quot;qualified tuition and related expenses&quot; the room and board expenses of a full-time student and expenses payable under a Federal Pell Grant. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Introduced in House
Federal Home Loan Bank Product Act

Bill: 114-hr-3453
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, David [D-GA-13]
Introduced: 2015-09-08 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Commodities markets
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: 

Federal Home Loan Bank Product Act

 
This bill amends the Commodity Exchange Act to make the Federal Housing Finance Agency the appropriate federal banking agency for any Federal Home Loan Bank (thereby exempting any Federal Home Loan Bank loan from regulation as a swap). 
 
The Legal Certainity for Bank Products Act of 2000 is amended to include as a bank any Federal Home Loan Bank.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Introduced in House
Gas Accessibility and Stabilization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3454
Sponsor: Rep. Walorski, Jackie [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2015-09-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Energy prices
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government studies and investigations
Motor fuels
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: 

Gas Accessibility and Stabilization Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Clean Air Act to allow the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to waive fuel mandates if there is a problem with distribution or delivery equipment that is necessary for the transportation or delivery of fuel or fuel additives.
 
The EPA may extend the effectiveness of such waiver for more than 20 days if the problem exists for more than 20 days.
 
If the EPA does not approve or deny a request for such waiver within three days, the waiver must be considered to be approved.
 
The bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to revise requirements for a fuel system requirements harmonization study by: (1) including the consideration of biofuels in the study, and (2) extending the deadline for reporting on the study until June 1, 2016.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-08
text: Introduced in House
Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3455
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2015-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Firearms and explosives
Smuggling and trafficking
U.S. Sentencing Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: 

Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2015
 
 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to make trafficking in firearms a crime. Specifically, it prohibits: 
 
 
purchasing or transferring a firearm with the intent to deliver it to a prohibited person;
 
providing false or misleading material information in connection with a firearm purchase or transfer; and 
 
directing, promoting, or facilitating such prohibited conduct. 
 
 
The prohibition does not apply to a firearm lawfully acquired to give as a gift or lawfully received as a gift. 
 
A person who commits a gun trafficking offense is subject to a prison term of up to 20 years (or 25 years if such person also acted as an organizer). A person who conspires to commit a gun trafficking offense is subject to a prison term of up to 10 years. 
 
The U.S. Sentencing Commission must review and, if appropriate, amend the sentencing guidelines and policy statements that apply to persons convicted of trafficking in firearms. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1240)
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Flood Insurance Mitigation and Policyholder Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3456
Sponsor: Rep. Donovan, Daniel M., Jr. [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2015-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Building construction
Civil actions and liability
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief and insurance
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Floods and storm protection
Judicial review and appeals

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: 

Flood Insurance Mitigation and Policyholder Protection Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to require that any report of an on-site inspection of a property by a claims adjustor or engineer for the purpose of assessing any claim for losses covered by a flood insurance policy under such Act:
 
 
 may not be transmitted to any other person, employer, agency, or entity, before it is transmitted to the insured;
 
may not include alterations by, or at the request of, anyone other than such preparer and shall include the preparer's certification that it does not contain any such alterations; and
 
 shall be transmitted in a manner that gives reasonable assurance that it was transmitted directly to the insured by the preparer.
 
 
A claimant is authorized, in the case of a denial by FEMA or an insurance company of a claim for losses that is appealed to FEMA, to institute an action on such claim against FEMA or such insurance company in U.S. district court within one year after the date of a final determination upon appeal denying such claim. 
 
 FEMA must, within 60 days after enactment of this Act, issue guidelines required under the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014 for alternative mitigation methods, other than building elevation, to reduce flood risk to residential buildings that cannot be elevated due to their structural characteristics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act

Bill: 114-hr-3459
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2015-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: 

Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act

 
T
his bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to allow two or more employers to be considered joint employers for purposes of the Act only if each shares and exercises control over essential terms and conditions of employment and such control over these matters is actual, direct, and immediate.

action_date: 2015-12-01
text: 

Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act

 
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to allow two or more employers to be considered joint employers for purposes of the Act only if each employer shares and exercises control over essential terms and conditions of employment and such control over these matters is actual, direct, and immediate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-01
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 272.
action_date: 2015-12-01
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 114-355.
action_date: 2015-12-01
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 114-355.
action_date: 2015-10-28
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 21 - 15.
action_date: 2015-10-28
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-09-29
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Sport Fish Restoration and Recreational Boating Safety Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3462
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Garret [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2015-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Appropriations
Coast guard
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Department of the Interior
Executive agency funding and structure
Government trust funds
Hunting and fishing
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Outdoor recreation
Transportation programs funding
Transportation safety and security
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: 

Sport Fish Restoration and Recreational Boating Safety Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to reauthorize through FY2020 appropriations from the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund for various fish, boating, and coastal wetlands restoration programs. The bill also revises amounts allocated from the Fund to various programs, including amounts for programs concerning: (1) coastal wetlands, (2) boating safety, and (3) boating infrastructure. A separate amount is set aside each fiscal year through FY2020 for the Coast Guard's administration of the national recreational boating safety program.
 
When the President submits a budget for FY2017 and each fiscal year thereafter, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must submit an assessment of the administrative services it provides under the Act to states and the sportfishing community.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2015-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2015-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Aligning Children's Dental Coverage Act

Bill: 114-hr-3463
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2015-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Dental care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: 

Aligning Children's Dental Coverage Act

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to ease restrictions on health insurance plans without pediatric dental benefits (an essential health benefit) to allow such insurance to be offered in any state where a dental plan in the individual or small group market provides pediatric dental benefits, even in states where the dental plan is not offered on the health insurance exchange.
 This Act is retroactively effective as if included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Defending Quality Postal Delivery for the Future Act

Bill: 114-hr-3464
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2015-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: 

Defending Quality Postal Delivery for the Future Act
 
 
Prohibits the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from closing or consolidating any post office or other postal facility that is located in a ZIP code that has a high rate of population growth.
 
Directs the USPS to determine annually whether a ZIP code has a high rate of population growth using population data available from the Bureau of the Census.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure Investment Act

Bill: 114-hr-3465
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Sean Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2015-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation
State and local government operations
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: 

Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure Investment Act
 
 
This bill requires the senior procurement executive of the Department of Transportation to enhance the services of the Office of Contracts and Procurement by: (1) working with modal agencies, states, and other grant recipients on implementing design-bid-build, design-build, and public-private partnerships (P3) procurement best practices, including model contracts; and (2) developing suggested best practices to encourage standardizing state P3 authorities and practices, including fair and balanced assumptions made in the calculations, consistency on unsolicited bids, non-compete clauses, and other major elements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2015-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2015-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Next Generation Researchers Act

Bill: 114-hr-3466
Sponsor: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2015-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Health personnel
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: 

Next Generation Researchers Act

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the Next Generation of Researchers Initiative in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to coordinate NIH policies and programs aimed at promoting and providing opportunities for new researchers and earlier research independence.
 
The NIH must: (1) promote policies and programs to improve opportunities for new researchers and promote earlier research independence; (2) develop, modify, or accelerate policies, as needed, to promote opportunities for new researchers and earlier research independence, including policies to enhance training opportunities for research-related career options, strengthen mentorship programs, enhance diversity efforts, and help new researchers obtain renewal funding; (3) coordinate with agencies and academic institutions to improve tracking of career progress of biomedical postdoctoral researchers and students; and (4) request the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a comprehensive study and report on policies affecting the next generation of researchers as part of a study on biomedical and behavioral research personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Together We Care Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-3467
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2015-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Aging
Allied health services
Disability and paralysis
Employment and training programs
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Home and outpatient care
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing and community development funding
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Medical education
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: 

Together We Care Act of 2015

 
 This bill amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a pilot program to make grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities for the training of public housing residents as home health aides and providers of home-based health services to enable them to provide covered home-based health services (services for which medical assistance is available under a state Medicaid plan or for which financial assistance is available under this Act) to residents of:
 
 
 public housing who are elderly, disabled, or both; and
 
 federally-assisted rental housing who are elderly, disabled, or both, subject to HUD criteria.
 
 
The grants may be used:
 
 
 to establish a program to train public housing residents to provide covered home-based health care services to elderly and disabled public housing residents and to elderly and disabled residents of federally-assisted rental housing,
 
 for the transportation and child care expenses of public housing residents in training, and
 
 for the administrative expenses of carrying out such a program.
 
 
For any resident of public housing who is trained as a home health aide or as a provider of home-based health services under the program, any income received for providing covered home-based health services shall apply towards eligibility for benefits under federal housing programs as specified in this Act, based on length of time following completion of the training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Beloved Jefeti.

Bill: 114-hr-3469
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2015-09-09 in the House
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Provides for the relief of Beloved Jefeti.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Adjusting Davis-Bacon for Inflation Act

Bill: 114-hr-3472
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, Jeff [R-SC-3]
Introduced: 2015-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Inflation and prices
Labor standards
Public contracts and procurement
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-09-10
text: 

Adjusting Davis-Bacon for Inflation Act

 
 Increases from $2,000 to $50,000 the contract threshold requiring the locally prevailing wage rate to be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics working under federally-financed or federally-assisted contracts for construction, alteration, and repair of public buildings or public works (Davis-Bacon Act).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2015-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-09-10
text: Introduced in House