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Freedom Riders National Historical Park Act

Bill: 114-hr-5882
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike D. [R-AL-3]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Historic sites and heritage areas
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Protest and dissent
Racial and ethnic relations
Travel and tourism
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Freedom Riders National Historical Park Act

 
This bill establishes the Freedom Riders National Historical Park in Anniston, Alabama, for the purposes of: (1) arranging for an internationally significant place for public education focused on the Freedom Riders (civil rights activists who rode a Greyhound bus attacked and burned in Anniston on May 14, 1961), civil rights, and the burning of the Freedom Riders' bus; and (2) preserving such historical site for the heritage of that area and as a tourist destination. 
 
The park shall be located at 1031 Gurnee Avenue in downtown Anniston at the Greyhound Bus Station site where the attack began and includes the site of the original bus station.
 
The Department of the Interior may acquire additional buildings, assets, lands, and interests for addition to the park. 
 
Interior shall complete a general management plan for the park. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Campaign Spending Integrity Act

Bill: 114-hr-5884
Sponsor: Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business ethics
Corporate finance and management
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Campaign Spending Integrity Act

 
This bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit a candidate for election to federal office from using amounts contributed to the candidate's campaign to make payments to vendors owned or controlled by the candidate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Right to Petition Congress Act

Bill: 114-hr-5885
Sponsor: Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Right to Petition Congress Act

 
This bill requires the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate to establish a process under which they shall:
 
 
 develop a national discharge petition for a bill or joint resolution introduced in either the House or the Senate or referred to either chamber after passage by the other chamber during a Congress,
 
 make each petition available for signature by individuals registered to vote in elections for federal office held in their domiciles, and
 
compile such signatures.
 
 
The Clerk or the Secretary may: (1) develop a petition only at the request of the sponsor of the bill or joint resolution; and (2) carry out this bill using such methods as the Clerk and Secretary consider appropriate, including providing for the availability of such petitions and the acceptance of signatures on them exclusively through electronic means.
 
If a discharge petition is certified by the Clerk or the Secretary as having valid signatures of 25% or more of qualified voters, the leadership of the House and Senate shall ensure that a vote on the final passage of the measure takes place within a specified time period.
 
As part of the national discharge petition process, the Clerk and the Secretary shall provide on their public websites a hyperlink through which individuals may obtain information on how to register to vote in federal elections in their domiciles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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 House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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 House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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 the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide assistance to schools to replace drinking water fountains that may contain lead, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-5886
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Child health
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act by requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a grant program that assists local educational agencies in replacing drinking water fountains manufactured prior to 1988 and located in schools. Grant recipients may also use funding for monitoring and reporting lead levels in the drinking water of schools.


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
RCAF/RAF-Americans Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 114-hr-5887
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Canada
Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Military history
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

RCAF/RAF-Americans Congressional Gold Medal Act

 
This bill directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the award of a Congressional Gold Medal in commemoration of all U.S. nationals who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force or the Royal Air Force during World War II.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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 Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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 Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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 section 6 of the Joint Resolution entitled "A Joint Resolution to approve the Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, and for other purposes".

Bill: 114-hr-5888
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Labor
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Foreign labor
Government studies and investigations
Immigration status and procedures
Northern Mariana Islands
Temporary and part-time employment
Unemployment
User charges and fees
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 
This bill amends the &quot;Joint Resolution to approve the Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America&quot; to extend until December 31, 2029, the transition period during which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shall regulate immigration in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) pending full applicability of U.S. immigration laws to the CNMI.
 
The annual supplemental vocational education fee currently charged to the employer of each CNMI transition period nonimmigrant worker shall be charged instead to the employer of each temporary worker. The CNMI shall provide the Department of Labor with an annual plan for the expenditure of such funds for U.S. worker job placement. 
 
DHS is authorized to not reduce the annual transitional nonimmigrant worker visa allocation to zero during the transition period if a reduction in the number of available workers would adversely affect the CNMI's economy.
 
The bill caps the number of transitional nonimmigrant worker visas at 18,000.
 
An employer shall pay a CW-1 transitional worker: (1) wages that are at least the actual wage level paid by the employer to all other similarly qualified individuals; (2) wages that are at least the prevailing wage level for the occupational classification; or (3) for job classifications without a certified prevailing wage, wages equal to or greater than the mean wage of the three lowest wages within the CNMI's prevailing wage system.
 
Labor, by April 30, 2027, shall ascertain the CNMI's current and anticipated labor needs and determine whether a five-year extension of the transition program is necessary to ensure the availability of an adequate number of workers. 
 
The bill provides for, and set forth the criteria under which, long-term CNMI residents may be admitted as CNMI permanent residents. 
 
The bill sets forth specified reporting and data collection requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
Asia-Pacific Maritime Security Initiative Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5890
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alliances
Asia
China
Foreign aid and international relief
Indonesia
Malaysia
Marine and inland water transportation
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military education and training
Philippines
Taiwan
Transportation safety and security
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Asia-Pacific Maritime Security Initiative Act of 2016

 
This bill expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the United States should support the efforts of the Southeast Asian nations to strengthen their maritime security capacity, and (2) the maritime security of U.S. allies and partners bordering the South China Sea would be enhanced by the transfer of an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate to an appropriate regional country.
 
In selecting Asia-Pacific region countries to receive maritime capacity building assistance, the Department of State may prioritize those countries that will contribute to achieving the following regional objectives: 
 
 
retaining access to waterways that are critical to the security and free flow of commerce and U.S. security objectives, 
 
improving maritime domain awareness, 
 
countering piracy, 
 
disrupting maritime trafficking that benefits organizations that are threats to U.S. security, and 
 
enhancing country or regional organization capabilities to respond to emerging maritime security threats. 
 
 
The bill urges the State Department to seek a bilateral memorandum of understanding with each of the governments of the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia to outline the delivery of planned maritime security capabilities through FY2020. 
 
The bill authorizes: (1) international military education/training and foreign military financing for the Asia-Pacific region, and (2) the Southeast Asia Maritime Law Enforcement Initiative.
 
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended to provide priority delivery of excess defense articles to Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia for articles that are used for maritime security-related missions.
 
The President shall ensure that the U.S. government treats proposed arms sales for Taiwan with the same procedures that are accorded to all other countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using funds to carry out the Environmental Justice Small Grants Program.

Bill: 114-hr-5891
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Executive agency funding and structure
Poverty and welfare assistance
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 
This bill prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from using funds to carry out the Environmental Justice Small Grants Program, which helps communities understand and address exposure to multiple environmental harms and risks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2016-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2016-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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 Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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 Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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 II of the Social Security Act to improve social security benefits for widows and widowers in two-income households.

Bill: 114-hr-5892
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 
This bill amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to revise the widow's or widower's insurance benefit for any month to equal the greater of: (1) the primary insurance amount of a deceased individual (as under current law); or (2) in the case of a fully-insured widow or surviving divorced spouse, 75% of the sum of any old-age or disability insurance benefit to which the widow, widower, or surviving divorced spouse is entitled plus the primary insurance amount of the deceased individual.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
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
No Regulation Without Representation Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5893
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

No Regulation Without Representation Act of 2016 

 
This bill prohibits a state from imposing sales and use tax obligations or assessments on a person who is not a purchaser or seller with a physical presence in the state during the calendar quarter for which the obligation or assessment is imposed.
 
The person must be physically present for a state to: (1) impose obligations for collecting a sales, use, or similar tax or for collecting related information; (2) assess such a tax on a person; or (3) treat a person as doing business in the state for the purposes of such a tax.
 
A person is physically present if the person's business activities in the state include:
 
 
 owning or leasing certain property in the state; 
 
 having one or more employees, agents, or independent contractors in the state specifically soliciting product or service orders from customers in the state or who provide on-site design, installation, or repair services on behalf of the remote seller; or 
 
 maintaining an office in the state with at least three employees. 
 
 
Physical presence does not include: (1) certain referral agreements, (2) presence for less than 15 days in a year, (3) delivery and product placement services offered by an interstate or in-state common carrier, or (4) Internet advertising services provided by in-state residents which are not exclusively directed towards or exclusively soliciting in-state customers. 
 
The bill specifies that U.S. district courts have original jurisdiction over civil actions to enforce this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
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
Eliminate So-Called Right-to-Work Legislation Nationwide Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5894
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
Labor-management relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Eliminate So-Called Right-to-Work Legislation Nationwide Act of 2016

 
 This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to repeal the disclaimer that nothing in the law shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment in any state or territory in which such execution or application is prohibited by state or territorial law.
 
(The bill preempts contrary state or territorial law to allow the execution or application of agreements requiring union membership.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
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
Intimate Privacy Protection Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5896
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Photography and imaging
Postal service
Right of privacy
Sex offenses
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Intimate Privacy Protection Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to make it unlawful to knowingly distribute a photograph, film, or video of a person engaging in sexually explicit conduct or of a person's naked genitals or post-pubescent female nipple with reckless disregard for the person's lack of consent if the person is identifiable from the image itself or from information displayed in connection with the image. The bill establishes exceptions to the ban.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-08-10
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
Precision Farming Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5897
Sponsor: Rep. Stefanik, Elise M. [R-NY-21]
Introduced: 2016-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Government lending and loan guarantees
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Telecommunication rates and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: 

Precision Farming Act of 2016 

 
This bill amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to require the Department of Agriculture to give priority to loan applicants that offer to provide broadband service, at better than the minimum acceptable level of broadband service, to agricultural producers in the proposed service territory to improve their ability to conduct precision farming or ranching. (Precision farming is a strategy that uses various technologies to manage production through data analysis and automation.) 
 
The bill also amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide universal service support for the installation of broadband services to improve the ability of an agricultural producer to conduct precision farming or ranching. The bill requires broadband providers to install the services at a discount and makes the providers eligible for a reimbursement of the discount. Agricultural producers are limited to one discount that is the lesser of: (1) the amount that the provider would charge other parties for a similar installation, or (2) $15,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-08-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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 Energy and Commerce, 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 Energy and Commerce, 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