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To require the Secretary of Transportation to establish and implement a fatigue management plan, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-5831
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Accidents
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Railroads
Sound recording
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to require all railroad carriers to establish and implement a fatigue management plan that identifies and evaluates any fatigue-related railroad safety hazards on its system and determine the degree of risk associated with each hazard.
 
DOT shall ensure that railroad carriers provide their employees with predictable work and rest schedules that have either a defined start time or a minimum of 10 hours prior notification before being required to report to duty.
 
A compromise of a civil penalty for violations of railroad safety regulations or orders may not reduce the minimum federal penalties set for such violations.
 
DOT shall impose a penalty for a violation at least 30 days after its occurrence without regard to any correction of the violation by the liable party.
 
The bill revises standards for the installation of inward- and outward-facing imaging recording devices in all controlling locomotive cabs and cab car operating compartments of intercity rail passenger and commuter rail passenger trains.
 
An in-cab audio or image recording obtained by a railroad carrier may not be used to discipline or be used in an Federal Railroad Administration enforcement proceeding against a railroad employee.
 
Each freight rail service carrier may voluntarily install DOT-approved inward- or outward-facing image recording devices in their trains.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Flexibility in Family Sentencing Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5832
Sponsor: Rep. Donovan, Daniel M., Jr. [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Flexibility in Family Sentencing Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to authorize pre-judgment probation for a pregnant or postpartum woman who: (1) commits a specified low-level offense, and (2) is an addict.
 
 The conditions of probation must require participation in a court-approved drug treatment program and periodic medical evaluations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-08-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Get the Lead Out of Schools Act

Bill: 114-hr-5833
Sponsor: Rep. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Child care and development
Child health
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Get the Lead Out of Schools Act

 
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act by requiring the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation that addresses lead in drinking water in schools and day care facilities. The EPA must also establish a grant program for: (1) testing such drinking water for lead contamination, and (2) replacing lead pipes and certain plumbing materials with lead-free material.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Cell Phone Theft Prevention Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5834
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Business records
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Crimes against property
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Cell Phone Theft Prevention Act of 2016 

 
This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit commercial mobile or data service providers from providing service on smart phones that: (1) have been reported to such provider as stolen by an authorized user, or (2) are listed as stolen on the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR). When a smart phone is reported stolen to a service provider, the provider must notify the CEIR with information necessary to identify the phone. 
 
Smart phones must be equipped with: (1) preloaded antitheft functionality at no additional cost to purchasers, or be capable of downloading such functionality at no cost; and (2) a mobile device identification number. 
 
A criminal penalty is established for anyone who violates prohibitions against: (1) removing, obliterating, tampering with, or altering a smart phone's mobile device identification number; (2) using, producing, trafficking in, having control or custody of, or possessing hardware or software, knowing it has been configured to engage in such identification number removal or alteration violations; or (3) selling a smart phone for which the identification number is listed as stolen on the CEIR.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Fair Distribution of Affordable Housing Funds Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5835
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Government trust funds
Housing and community development funding
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Low- and moderate-income housing

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Fair Distribution of Affordable Housing Funds Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to eliminate the minimum state allocation requirement with respect to amounts allocated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the Housing Trust Fund to be distributed to each state (including the District of Columbia) to provide affordable housing.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
HEARD Act

Bill: 114-hr-5836
Sponsor: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural education
Agricultural research
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Hunting and fishing
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Outdoor recreation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Hunting, Education, and Recreational Development Act or the HEARD Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to dispose of federal lands under their respective jurisdictions by offering them for sale or exchange to units of local government in accordance with this bill. 
 
Before the offering of lands for sale or exchange, states or the unit of local government in whose jurisdiction the lands are located may elect to obtain any such lands for local public purposes pursuant to the Recreation and Public Purposes Act. Interior or USDA, as appropriate, shall retain the elected lands for conveyance to such states or unit of local government in accordance with that Act. 
 
The bill prescribes requirements for disposition of the gross proceeds of the sales of lands under this bill, including that: 
 
 
 15% be paid to the state where the sale takes place to be used to supplement the education of students in kindergarten through grade 12, to supplement public support of institutions of public higher education, and to supplement state agricultural and natural resource agencies; and 
 
10% of such proceeds be deposited in a special account to be created in the Treasury which may be used for the acquisition of recreational beneficial lands and interests (providing an opportunity for hunting, recreational fishing, recreational shooting, recreational off-highway vehicles, or other recreational purposes, or to achieve better management of public lands through consolidation of federal ownership).
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-08-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2016-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to remove the exclusion from medical assistance under the Medicaid program of items and services furnished in an institution for mental diseases in the case of inpatient, non-hospital substance use disorder treatment facility services furnished for nonelderly adults.

Bill: 114-hr-5837
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Hospital care
Medicaid
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow medical assistance under the Medicaid program to include payment for inpatient, nonhospital, residential substance use disorder treatment for individuals over age 21.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1131-1132)
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Transparency in Student Lending Act

Bill: 114-hr-5838
Sponsor: Rep. Hultgren, Randy [R-IL-14]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Transparency in Student Lending Act

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand disclosure requirements for an institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in the Direct Loan program. Specifically, it requires an IHE to disclose, in federal student loan application materials, the annual percentage rate applicable to a Direct Loan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Public Online Information Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5839
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Civil actions and liability
Freedom of information
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Legal fees and court costs
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Public Online Information Act of 2016

 
This bill establishes a Public Online Information Advisory Committee to: (1) coordinate the government's efforts to make information from all three branches of government available on the Internet, and (2) issue nonbinding guidelines on how the government should make public information available.
 
The government must make public records available on the Internet at no charge, except as imposed by federal law before this bill's enactment. The bill requires: (1) public records to be permanently available on the Internet; (2) current information technology to be applied to the formats and means through which records are made available; and (3) each agency to publish on the Internet a searchable, machine-processable list of all records it makes publicly available.
 
The bill delineates the roles of the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Electronic Government, and the chief information officers of independent regulatory agencies. It allows exceptions to the Internet publication requirement, including a process for an agency's request for an exception to be granted if: (1) there is a clear and convincing reason for the record to not be made available on the Internet, and (2) the harm caused by disclosure significantly outweighs the public's interest in having the record available on the Internet. 
 
Inspectors general must periodically review agency compliance. Private individuals or organizations may file a complaint in federal court if an agency denies a request to place public records on the Internet.
 
The bill expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) judicial and legislative agencies adopt or adapt the advisory committee's recommendations, and (2) the Government Publishing Office make all of its publications permanently available on the Internet in a multiplicity of formats.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Fishing Equipment Tax Relief Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5840
Sponsor: Rep. Jolly, David W. [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Hunting and fishing
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Fishing Equipment Tax Relief Act of 2016 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce from 10% to 3% the excise tax rate that applies to the sale of portable, electronically-aerated bait containers by the manufacturer, producer, or importer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Helping Our Veterans with Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5842
Sponsor: Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Mental health
Prescription drugs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Helping Our Veterans with Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction Act of 2016

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct a three-year pilot program to provide health and social services and coordination of care and case management to covered veterans in need of treatment for opioid addiction and chronic pain through VA facilities and through qualified non-VA health care providers.
 
A "covered veteran" is a veteran who is enrolled in the veterans' health care system and eligible for hospital, nursing home, and domiciliary care under such system. 
 
The pilot program shall be carried out in at least five different states with VA medical facilities that demonstrate: (1) the need for additional resources to provide health care services to veterans for opioid abuse, (2) the highest rates per capita of opioid addiction in the United States, and (3) a lack of sufficient VA capacity to meet the demand for such treatment.
 
Under such program, the VA: (1) may enter into contracts with non-VA providers to provide health care services to veterans, and (2) shall provide for the exchange of medical information between the VA and any such provider.
 
The VA shall conduct concurrent assessments of its capabilities and the capabilities of community providers to provide health care services for the treatment of veterans with opioid dependency abuse or chronic pain.
 
The VA shall: (1) require all appropriate VA health care facilities and all VA facilities providing mental health and social services to veterans to have a supply of naloxone or other medication for reversing opioid overdose, and (2) ensure that all appropriate employees at such facilities receive training on the administration of such medication.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act

Bill: 114-hr-5845
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Congressional oversight
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Prescription drugs
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a one cent per milligram excise tax on the sale of active opioids by the manufacturer, producer, or importer. The tax excludes prescription drugs used exclusively for the treatment of opioid addiction as part of a medically assisted treatment effort. 
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must establish a program to provide rebates or discounts to cancer and hospice patients to ensure that they do not pay the tax. 
 
The bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require any increase in federal revenues from the tax after rebates and discounts are subtracted to be distributed to states under the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant program to be used exclusively for substance abuse (including opioid abuse) efforts in the states, including specified treatment programs. 
 
HHS must report to Congress on the impact of this bill on the retail cost of opioids and patient access to opioid medication, the effectiveness of the discount or rebate for cancer and hospice patients, how the funds are being used to improve substance abuse treatment efforts, and suggestions for improving access to opioids for cancer and hospice patients and substance abuse treatment efforts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-14
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: 2016-07-14
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: 2016-07-14
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: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Securing American Families by Educating and Training You (SAFETY) Through Nonviolence Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5846
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime prevention
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Securing American Families by Educating and Training You (SAFETY) Through Nonviolence Act of 2016

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) to award grants to eligible entities for the purpose of preventing or alleviating the effects of community violence by providing education, mentoring, and counseling related to principles of nonviolence in conflict resolution. "Eligible entities" include state or local government entities, educational institutions, nonprofit communities, and faith-based organizations.
 
In awarding grants under the program, DOJ shall give priority to applicants that agree to use the grant funds in at least one community that can certify: (1) an increased or sustained level of violence or tension in the community; or (2) a lack of resources to adopt innovative, integrated, community-based violence prevention programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House