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No Hires for the Delinquent Congress Act

Bill: 114-hr-5005
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2016-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional officers and employees
Debt collection
Employee hiring
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: 

No Hires for the Delinquent Congress Act 

 
This bill prohibits any legislative branch office from extending an offer of employment to any individual until the applicable certifying official (the Speaker of the House and/or the President pro tempore of the Senate) submits to Congress either: (1) a written certification that the office does not employ any individual who has a seriously delinquent tax debt, or (2) a report detailing why the certification cannot be made. 
 
The certifying official's report when such a certification is not made must:
 
 
state that the certification cannot be made,
 
explain why the certification is not possible,
 
outline remedial actions required for the certifying official to be in a position to so certify, and
 
indicate the time required for those actions to be completed. 
 
 
A seriously delinquent tax debt is an outstanding tax debt for which the Internal Revenue Service has filed a notice of lien in public records, excluding a tax debt: (1) that is being paid in a timely manner under an approved installment payment agreement or an offer-in-compromise, (2) for which a collection due process hearing has been requested or is pending, (3) for which a tax levy has been issued, or (4) with respect to which relief has been granted due to economic hardship.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Visa Transparency Anti-Trafficking Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5006
Sponsor: Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-22]
Introduced: 2016-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Cultural exchanges and relations
Foreign labor
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: 

Visa Transparency Anti-Trafficking Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to expand nonimmigrant employer annual data reporting requirements to include all nonimmigrant worker categories and compensated cultural exchange, training, and business classifications.
 
Expanded reporting requirements include information regarding: (1) the age and gender of admitted nonimmigrants; (2) categories and numbers of visas issued; (3) numbers of persons admitted under each visa classification and subclassification; (4) blanket petitions; (5) the occupation and country of origin of beneficiaries; (6) nonimmigrant worker employers; (7) compensation; and (8) citizens of nations with Compacts of Free Association with the United States who are authorized to reside permanently in the United States as nonimmigrants and their ports of U.S. entry.
 
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shall: (1) submit such report and post the information along with the corresponding raw data and a searchable database to a public website, and (2) ensure that such posted information does not include information that would identify a specific person with reasonable certainty. 
 
Any government official who uses such information shall take steps to: (1) protect individual identities, and (2) prevent the information from being disaggregated into its component parts. 
 
 The Department of State or the Department of Labor, if requested by DHS, shall share information necessary for Labor to file its annual report regarding employer petitions for H-, P-, O-, and Q-visa nonimmigrant aliens.
 
&quot;Employment&quot; means employment in the United States and includes cultural exchanges, training, or business activities for which the nonimmigrant receives any form of compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Philanthropic Enterprise Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5007
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2016-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Sales and excise taxes
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: 

Philanthropic Enterprise Act of 
 
2016

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt the holdings of a private foundation in any business enterprise that meet specified requirements relating to exclusive ownership, minimum distribution of net operating income for the charitable purpose (all profits to charity distribution requirement), and independent operation (not controlled by a substantial contributor or family members) from the excise taxes on excess business holdings. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Clarify Workers Misclassification in the Construction Industry Act

Bill: 114-hr-5008
Sponsor: Rep. MacArthur, Thomas [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2016-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Building construction
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of the Treasury
Employment taxes
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government studies and investigations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: 

Clarify Workers Misclassification in the Construction Industry Act 

 
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to initiate an enforcement initiative to increase tax compliance in the construction industry. 
 
The initiative must include: 
 
 
 consultations with industry experts and leaders on its scope and priorities, 
 
targeted tax audits of major construction contractors that may not be in compliance with federal tax laws, 
 
 civil and criminal tax enforcement actions under existing authorities, and
 
 educational efforts aimed at increasing voluntary tax compliance in the construction industry. 
 
 
Treasury must promulgate rules and issue guidance to reclassify individuals who are not currently being treated as employees consistent with the proper classification of employees under common law standards within the construction industry.
 
In implementing this bill, Treasury must: (1) reassign personnel and resources from other activities to carry out this bill, and (2) report to Congress on the implementation and recommendations for further congressional action. 
 
The Government Accountability Office must study the various forms of tax fraud (including employee misclassification) in the construction industry, efforts to combat fraud, and recommendations for further action. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Patient Access to Critical Breakthrough Products Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5009
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2016-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: 

Ensuring Patient Access to Critical Breakthrough Products Act of 2016

 
This bill amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to modify provisions related to coverage and payment for certain breakthrough medical devices under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Specifically, with respect to such devices, the bill: (1) provides for transitional coverage; (2) establishes accelerated processes for determining regular coverage and payment; and (3) modifies provisions related to specified payment adjustments, cost thresholds, and classification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-04-20
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: 2016-04-20
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: 2016-04-20
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: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5010
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2016-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer credit

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: 

Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require certain consumer reporting agencies to disclose, upon request and without charge, as part of a consumer's free annual disclosure, a current credit score generated using the scoring methodology most frequently used to generate scores sold to creditors, including information regarding other risk scores or predictors in the consumer's file. 
 
Those agencies shall also furnish any other consumer information the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau considers appropriate with respect to consumer financial education, including where the consumer's credit score falls with respect to a range of possible credit scores, and the general factors contributing to consumer credit scores.
 
Upon consumer request for a credit score, a consumer reporting agency shall disclose any a credit or risk score in a consumer's file.
 
All consumer reporting agencies shall maintain credit scores or other risk scores or predictors in the consumer's file for at least one year after the data is generated.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 300 Fannin Street in Shreveport, Louisiana, as the "Tom Stagg Federal Building and United States Courthouse".

Bill: 114-hr-5011
Sponsor: Rep. Fleming, John [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2016-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Judges
Louisiana

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: 
 This bill designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 300 Fannin Street in Shreveport, Louisiana, as the "Tom Stagg Federal Building and United States Courthouse.&quot;

action_date: 2016-09-20
text: 
 This bill designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 300 Fannin Street in Shreveport, Louisiana, as the "Tom Stagg United States Court House.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-20
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 146.
action_date: 2016-09-20
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 114-773.
action_date: 2016-09-20
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 114-773.
action_date: 2016-09-14
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2016-09-14
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-09-14
text: Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Discharged.
action_date: 2016-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Respect for Immigrant Service in Uniform Act

Bill: 114-hr-5012
Sponsor: Rep. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2016-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Immigration status and procedures
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: 

Restoring Respect for Immigrant Service in Uniform Act

 
This bill expresses the sense of Congress that the Department of Homeland Security should exercise its discretion (including through the use of exceptions to inadmissibility based upon family reunification, humanitarian, or public benefit grounds, temporary waiver of inadmissibility, or consent to reapply for admission) to admit to the United States an alien who is inadmissible, was previously subject to an order of removal or has been removed, is outside of the United States, and is seeking U.S. admission, if such alien: 
 
 
has been a member of the Armed Forces for at least 180 days and has not received an other-than honorable discharge; 
 
has not been convicted of a felony, a significant misdemeanor, or three or more misdemeanors that are not significant misdemeanors and that each occurred on a different date and arose out of separate conduct; and 
 
is not otherwise a threat to national security or public safety. 
 
 
The Immigration and Nationality Act is amended to exempt from deportation an alien who has been a member of the Armed Forces for at least 180 days and has not received an other-than honorable discharge, except in the case of an alien who: 
 
 
has been convicted of a felony, a significant misdemeanor, or three or more misdemeanors that are not significant misdemeanors and that each occurred on a different date and arose out of separate conduct; and 
 
is otherwise a threat to national security or public safety.
 
 
&quot;Significant misdemeanor&quot; means a misdemeanor: (1) that is a crime of domestic violence, (2) that is a sexual assault, (3) that involved the unlawful possession of a firearm, or (4) for which the alien was sentenced to prison for more than 90 days. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Safe Water and Nutrition Access Act

Bill: 114-hr-5013
Sponsor: Rep. Moolenaar, John R. [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2016-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Food assistance and relief
Government lending and loan guarantees
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Nutrition and diet
Rural conditions and development
Solid waste and recycling
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: 

Safe Water and Nutrition Access Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to take the following actions regarding eligible states (states in which there is a community with respect to which the President has declared an emergency under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act relating to public health threats associated with the presence of lead or other contaminants in a public drinking water supply):
 
 
 guarantee loans to entities to process, distribute, aggregate, store, and market locally or regionally produced food under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (CFRDA) for projects in underserved communities in an eligible state, using specified Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds for FY2016;
 
 provide grants under the CFRDA's emergency and imminent community water assistance grant program to nonprofit entities in an eligible state, notwithstanding maximum population and income requirements or maximum grant limitations under such Act, using specified CCC funds for FY2016;
 
 use specified CCC funds for water and waste disposal technical assistance and training grants, and for the rural water and wastewater circuit rider program, in FY2016-FY2017; and 
 
 use specified CCC funds for eligible projects or partnerships under USDA's healthy food financing initiative, with priority given to eligible projects and partnerships to be carried out in an eligible state.
 
 
The bill allows such amounts to be obligated during the five-year period beginning with the date the amount is first made available, after which the provision under which such amount is provided shall expire. No funds may be used to carry out a provision of this bill unless completely offset by a corresponding reduction in mandatory funds available for another program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Tribal Marijuana Sovereignty Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5014
Sponsor: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2016-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Alternative treatments
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Federal-Indian relations
Health personnel
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: 

Tribal Marijuana Sovereignty Act of 2016

This bill prohibits consideration of an entity's authorization under federal, state, or tribal law to produce, purchase, or possess marijuana when: (1) allocating, distributing, or determining eligibility for, federal benefits; or (2) determining eligibility for or compliance with a contract, grant, or agreement under which such activities would otherwise be disqualifying. The bill applies to an Indian tribe's, a member of a tribe's, or a tribal entity's authorization to conduct such activities on land owned by the tribe, held in trust for the tribe, or conveyed to an Alaska Native Corporation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2016-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2016-04-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2016-04-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Financial Literacy for Financial Aid Act

Bill: 114-hr-5016
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2016-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Consumer credit
Financial literacy
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: 

Financial Literacy for Financial Aid Act

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Department of Education to maintain a consumer-tested online counseling tool that provides required entrance counseling to a student who is a first-time federal student loan borrower. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Port of Benton Restriction Release Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5017
Sponsor: Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2016-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-21
text: 

Port of Benton Restriction Release Act of 2016

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Transportation, acting through the Maritime Administration, to release all remaining right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a certain parcel of real property (including any improvements thereon) in Richland, Washington, to the Port of Benton, Washington.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2016-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2016-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E572)
action_date: 2016-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-21
text: Introduced in House