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Lytton Rancheria Homelands Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2538
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: California
Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 

Lytton Rancheria Homelands Act of 2015

 
This bill takes into trust for the benefit of the Lytton Rancheria of California (the Tribe), subject to valid existing rights, contracts, and management agreements related to easements and rights-of-way, certain land owned by the Tribe which is generally depicted on the map entitled &quot;Lytton Fee Owned Property to be Taken into Trust,&quot; dated May 1, 2015. 
 
Lands taken into trust shall become part of the Tribe's reservation. 
 
Gaming is prohibited on such land.

action_date: 2016-06-21
text: 

Lytton Rancheria Homelands Act of 2015

 
(Sec. 4) This bill takes into trust for the benefit of the Lytton Rancheria of California certain land owned by the tribe in Sonoma County, California. Land taken into trust is made a part of the tribe's reservation. Gaming is prohibited on this land and in a specified area of Sonoma County.
 
(Sec. 5) Gaming is prohibited until March 16, 2037, on land taken into trust for the benefit of the tribe after enactment of this bill.
 
(Sec. 6) The memorandum of agreement entered into by the tribe and the county that was approved by the county on March 10, 2015, is not subject to review and approval by the Department of the Interior.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 492.
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-633.
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-633.
action_date: 2016-02-03
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2016-02-03
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-02-02
text: Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs Discharged.
action_date: 2016-02-02
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Surviving Spouses' Benefit Improvement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2539
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Joseph P., III [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 

Surviving Spouses' Benefit Improvement Act of 2015 

 
 This bill increases monthly rates for veterans' dependency and indemnity compensation payable to surviving spouses through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
 
Benefits under any other law (other than duplication of benefits) shall not be reduced or offset because the surviving spouse is eligible for dependency and indemnity compensation.
 
 Six months after enactment of this Act, the VA shall pay to an individual who is eligible for dependency and indemnity compensation predicated on the death of a veteran before January 1, 1993, monthly dependency and indemnity compensation that is the greater of the amount in effect either before or after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Breast Cancer Patient Education Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2540
Sponsor: Rep. Lance, Leonard [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health promotion and preventive care
Minority health
Rural conditions and development
Surgery and anesthesia
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 

Breast Cancer Patient Education Act of 2015

 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Department of Health and Human Services to provide for the planning and implementation of an education campaign to inform breast cancer patients anticipating surgery about the availability and coverage of breast reconstruction, prostheses, and other options, with a focus on informing patients who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Rhode Island Fishermen's Fairness Act

Bill: 114-hr-2541
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Rhode Island

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 

Rhode Island Fishermen's Fairness Act 

 
This bill amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to add Rhode Island to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council and increase Council membership from 21 to 23 members. The Council is not given authority over the fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean seaward of Rhode Island.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Bereaved Borrowers' Bill of Rights Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2542
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 

Bereaved Borrowers' Bill of Rights Act of 2015 

 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require a private educational lender to include in a private education loan for which the cosigner is jointly liable a process for releasing the cosigner from obligations on the loan.
 
 Requires a lender who receives notification of the death or bankruptcy of a cosigner who is jointly liable for the loan to notify the borrower about the borrower's rights under the loan agreement regarding: (1) release of the cosigner, and (2) identification of a new cosigner or refinancing of the loan. 
 
 Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit: (1) consumer reporting agencies from containing in any consumer report default on a private education loan that results from accelerated repayment terms of the loan after the death or bankruptcy of a jointly liable cosigner, and (2) the lender or servicer of a private educational loan from furnishing loan information to a consumer reporting agency if the consumer defaulted on the loan due to accelerated repayment terms after the death or bankruptcy of such a cosigner.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
STEP UP for American Small Businesses Act

Bill: 114-hr-2543
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Marketing and advertising
Rural conditions and development
Small business
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 

State Trade and Export Promotion Utilization Program for American Small Businesses Act or the STEP UP for American Small Businesses Act

 
 Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Associate Administrator for International Trade within the Small Business Administration to establish a State Trade and Export Promotion Grant Program.
 
Authorizes the Associate Administrator to make competitive grants to states to carry out export promotion programs to increase: (1) the number of eligible small businesses that export (including rural small businesses and small businesses owned and controlled by women and socially and economically disadvantaged individuals), as well as (2) the value of their exports.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Excess Uranium Transparency and Accountability Act

Bill: 114-hr-2544
Sponsor: Rep. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Energy
Government studies and investigations
Mining
Nuclear power
Strategic materials and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 

Excess Uranium Transparency and Accountability Act 

 
This bill amends the USEC Privatization Act governing uranium transfers and sales to require the Department of Energy (DOE) to issue, beginning January 1, 2017, and at least once every 10 years afterwards, a long-term excess uranium inventory management plan that details how all forms of excess DOE uranium inventories will be managed for a minimum period of 10 years. 
 
This management plan must outline DOE steps that will: (1) minimize the impact of DOE's transferring, selling, or otherwise providing uranium upon the domestic uranium mining, conversion, and enrichment industries; and (2) ensure that the federal government maximizes for itself the potential value of uranium. 
 
DOE may provide from its stockpile up to 2100 and up to 2700 metric tons of uranium in any form (currently, only natural and low-enriched uranium) for the periods calendar 2016-2023 and beginning January 1, 2024, respectively.
 
 Before making any determination that the sale of the material will not have an adverse material impact on the domestic uranium mining, conversion, or enrichment industry, DOE shall publish the proposed determination in the Federal Register pursuant to a rulemaking. 
 
Any market analysis prepared by or for DOE as part of the determination process shall be subject to a peer review process consistent with Office of Management and Budget guidelines.
 
Beginning on January 1, 2021, the requirement for a DOE determination of no adverse material impact on the domestic uranium industry shall be waived for transferring, selling, or otherwise providing uranium if it has been identified in an updated long-term federal excess uranium inventory management plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education Assistance Act

Bill: 114-hr-2545
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Religion
War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
World history

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 

Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education Assistance Act

 
This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Department of Education to award competitive grants to educational organizations to carry out proposed or existing Holocaust education programs.
 
Grants may not be used to supplant nonfederal funds the grantees would otherwise have used for Holocaust education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E786-787)
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2546
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Life, casualty, property insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 

Firearm Risk Protection Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to: (1) prohibit the purchase or sale of a firearm unless the purchaser presents proof to the seller and the seller verifies that the purchaser is covered by a qualified liability insurance policy, and (2) require any person who purchases a firearm on or after this Act's effective date to be covered by such a policy. Exempts the purchase or sale of a firearm for use by a federal, state, or local agency. 
 
Defines &quot;qualified liability insurance policy&quot; to mean a policy that: (1) provides liability insurance covering the purchaser specifically for losses resulting from use of the firearm while it is owned by the purchaser, and (2) is issued by an insurer licensed or authorized to provide the coverage by the state in which the purchaser resides. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E775)
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Surrogate Endpoint Improvement and Utilization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2547
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 

Surrogate Endpoint Improvement and Utilization Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow the sponsor of a drug that is eligible for accelerated approval to request that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agree to an accelerated approval development plan that includes a surrogate endpoint for the study of the drug and a magnitude of drug effect that is sufficient to claim the drug is effective. (Accelerated approval is an FDA process for approving a new drug for a serious medical condition at a point in the study of the drug that is reasonably likely to predict a clinical benefit instead of at a later point when a clinical benefit can be confirmed.)
 The FDA may require the sponsor to modify or terminate an agreed upon plan if additional information indicates that the plan is no longer sufficient to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of the drug or the drug is no longer eligible for accelerated approval.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Pediatric Research Improvement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2548
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health information and medical records
Medical research
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 

Pediatric Research Improvement Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the Pediatric Research Initiative to require collaboration with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and require establishment of a National Pediatric Research Network comprised of pediatric research consortia.
 The National Institutes of Health must award funding to entities supporting pediatric research consortia. Supported consortia must, upon request, provide assistance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for patient registries and other surveillance systems.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the HITECH Act with respect to accessing, sharing, and using health data for research purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-2549
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 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
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 
This bill amends the HITECH Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to revise or clarify the privacy rule established under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to allow the use and disclosure of protected health information for research purposes without the individual's authorization, approval from an Institutional Review Board or Privacy Board, or representations from the researcher regarding limited use of the information.
 
These disclosures may only be made to entities subject to HIPAA for health care operations or to business associates that are complying with the privacy rule for health care operations or data aggregation.
 
There is no limitation on payments for these disclosures. Currently, payment is limited to the cost to prepare and transmit the information.
 
An individual's protected health information may be disclosed without the authorization or agreement of the individual for research related to a product or activity that is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
 
 A researcher is allowed remote access to protected health information if security and privacy safeguards are maintained and the researcher does not retain the information.
 An individual's authorization to use protected health information for future research is sufficient for a research purpose if the authorization reasonably describes the research and provides instruction to the individual on how to revoke the authorization.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Medical Imaging Modernization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2550
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health technology, devices, supplies
Hospital care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Radiation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 

Medical Imaging Modernization Act of 2015

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to make a special rule reducing by 20% the payment under the physician fee schedule and the hospital outpatient prospective payment system for the technical component of imaging services that are x-rays taken using film.
 
Imaging services that are x-rays taken using computed radiography technology shall have the technical component payment: (1) for services furnished from 2018 through 2022 reduced by 7%; and (2) for services furnished during 2023 or a subsequent year reduced by 10%.
 
Reduced expenditures attributable to incentives to transition to digital radiography under the physician fee schedule are exempt from budget-neutrality calculation.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services may not apply a multiple procedure payment reduction to the professional component of imaging services furnished before it publishes, as part of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule for a year, a empirical analysis of the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (commonly known as the &quot;RBRVS&quot;) Data Manager information used to determine what, if any, efficiencies exist within the professional component of imaging services when two or more studies are performed on the same patient on the same day.
 
These payment reductions under the hospital outpatient prospective payment system for the transition from traditional x-ray imaging to digital radiography shall apply without regard to budget neutrality.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-05-21
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: 2015-05-21
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: 2015-05-21
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: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Entry to Apprenticeship Act

Bill: 114-hr-2551
Sponsor: Rep. McSally, Martha [R-AZ-2]
Introduced: 2015-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: 

Veterans' Entry to Apprenticeship Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to treat a pre-apprenticeship program as a program of apprenticeship, for purposes of providing educational assistance: (1) if such pre-apprenticeship program is recognized under or compliant with relevant state standards for a postsecondary pre-apprenticeship program, or (2) in the case of a program for which a state does not require any such standards, if the curriculum of the pre-apprenticeship program is approved by a sponsor who certifies that the program will prepare an individual with skills and competencies needed to enroll in a registered apprenticeship program and the pre-apprenticeship program maintains conduct and attendance policies in accordance with such sponsor.
 
A covered individual enrolled in a pre-apprenticeship program must receive the same amount and kind of educational assistance the individual would receive if the individual were enrolled in a program of apprenticeship, with an exception of specified housing assistance if the individual is not paid as part of such pre-apprenticeship program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-05-21
text: Introduced in House