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Shiloh National Military Park Boundary Adjustment and Parker's Crossroads Battlefield Designation Act

Bill: 114-s-1943
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Land transfers
Military history
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 

Shiloh National Military Park Boundary Adjustment and Parker's Crossroads Battlefield Designation Act

 
 Modifies the boundary of Shiloh National Military Park to include the following areas : (1) Fallen Timbers Battlefield, (2) Russell House Battlefield, and (3) Davis Bridge Battlefield. Authorizes the Department of the Interior to acquire lands by donation, purchase from willing sellers, or exchange.
 
Establishes Parker's Crossroads Battlefield in Tennessee as an affiliated area of the National Park System.

action_date: 2016-09-06
text: 

Shiloh National Military Park Boundary Adjustment and Parker's Crossroads Battlefield Designation Act

 
 (Sec. 3) This bill modifies the boundary of Shiloh National Military Park, located in Tennessee and Mississippi, to include the following areas: (1) Fallen Timbers Battlefield, (2) Russell House Battlefield, and (3) Davis Bridge Battlefield. The Department of the Interior may acquire lands by donation, purchase from willing sellers, or exchange.
 
(Sec. 4) The bill establishes Parker's Crossroads Battlefield in Tennessee as an affiliated area of the National Park System.
 
The city of Parkers Crossroads and the Tennessee Historical Commission shall jointly be the management entity for the affiliated area.
 
Interior may furnish technical assistance and enter into cooperative agreements with the management entity for financial assistance with marketing, interpretation, and preservation of the affiliated area. 
 
Interior shall develop a general management plan for the affiliated area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-06
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 594.
action_date: 2016-09-06
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with amendments. With written report No. 114-321.
action_date: 2016-09-06
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with amendments. With written report No. 114-321.
action_date: 2016-07-13
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2016-03-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 114-496.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
RED Tape Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-1944
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Economic performance and conditions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 

Regulations Endanger Democracy Act of 2015 or the RED Tape Act of 2015

 
Prohibits a federal agency from issuing a covered rule (a rule that causes a new financial or administrative burden on businesses or people in the United States) that either amends or modifies an existing agency rule or does not amend or modify an existing rule unless the agency has repealed one or more existing covered rules and the cost of the rule to be issued is less than or equal to that of the covered rules repealed. Exempts a covered rule that: (1) relates to the internal policy or practice of, or procurement by, the agency; or (2) is being revised to be less burdensome by decreasing requirements imposed by, or compliance costs of, the rule.
 
Prohibits any statutory pay adjustment from taking effect for any employee of an agency during any period during which the agency is not in compliance with such requirement. 
 
Directs an agency, in determining whether to repeal a covered rule, to consider: (1) whether the rule has achieved its purpose, has become obsolete, or overlaps with a covered rule to be issued; (2) any adverse effects that could materialize if the rule is repealed; and (3) whether the costs of the rule outweigh it benefits.
 
Requires each agency, semiannually, to submit to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for publication in the Unified Agenda a list containing each covered rule the agency intends to issue, repeal, or amend during the following six months and the cost of each such rule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6384-6385)
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Mental Health Reform Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-1945
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Child health
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Hospital care
Housing and community development funding
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Mental health
Minority education
Minority health
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding
Right of privacy
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 

Mental Health Reform Act of 2015

 
This bill creates the position of Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders to oversee the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Mental health programs are extended and training regarding mental health is expanded.
 
SAMHSA must establish the National Mental Health Policy Laboratory and the Interagency Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee.
 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the National Institute of Mental Health to translate evidence-based interventions and the best available science into systems of care.
 
The Health Resources and Services Administration must support the creation and expansion of child psychiatry access programs. 
 
Certain mental health care professional volunteers are provided liability protection.
 
Pediatric mental health subspecialists are eligible for National Health Service Corps programs.
 
An underserved population of children or a site for training in child psychiatry can be designated as a health professional shortage area.
 
SAMHSA must award primary care and behavioral health care integration grants to state entities to fund improvements in settings with integrated care.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services must develop a model program and materials for training health care providers regarding the disclosure of the protected health information of patients with a mental illness.
 This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to conditionally expand coverage of mental health services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Income-Based Repayment Debt Forgiveness Act

Bill: 114-s-1947
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 

Income-Based Repayment Debt Forgiveness Act

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, income imputed from the discharge of student loan indebtedness pursuant to a federal program that provides for income contingent or income-based repayment of such loan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
AFFORD Act

Bill: 114-s-1948
Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Higher education
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 

Access to Fair Financial Options for Repaying Debt Act of 2015 or the AFFORD Act

 
This bill terminates existing federal student loan repayment plan options for borrowers of federal Direct Loan (DL) program loans issued on or after July 1, 2016.
 
It amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish two new repayment plan options.
 
First, the bill creates a new version of the income-based repayment (IBR) plan that includes capping monthly payments at 10% of discretionary income, setting a 20-year maximum repayment period, broadening eligible borrowers to include borrowers without a partial financial hardship, and expanding qualifying loans to include parent PLUS loans and consolidation loans that repay parent PLUS loans. 
 
Second, it establishes a fixed repayment plan in which an enrolled borrower makes fixed monthly payments over a maximum repayment period of 10, 15, 20, or 25 years depending on the total federal loan balance at repayment.
 
A borrower of a DL program loan issued on or after July 1, 2016, must enroll in the new IBR or fixed repayment plan. A borrower repaying a DL or Federal Family Education Loan program loan issued before July 1, 2016, may retain enrollment in the existing repayment plan or elect to enroll in the new IBR or fixed repayment plan. 
 
This bill requires an institution of higher education that participates in federal student aid programs to: (1) provide, as part of entrance counseling, information on the new IBR and fixed repayment plan options; (2) offer voluntary annual loan counseling to each enrolled student who is known to have one or more student loans; and (3) explain, during exit counseling, a borrower's options to prepay a loan, accelerate a payment schedule, and change a repayment plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Mobile Device Theft Deterrence Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-1949
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 

Mobile Device Theft Deterrence Act of 2015

 
Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly: (1) removing, obliterating, tampering with, or altering a mobile device identification number; or (2) using, producing, trafficking in, having control or custody of, or possessing hardware or software, knowing it has been configured to engage in such conduct. 
 
Exempts the manufacturer of a mobile device, a person that engineers, tests, repairs, or refurbishes a mobile device, or a person that implements technologies for the purpose of protecting the security and privacy of mobile device end users while allowing the transmission of the mobile device identification number to service providers, unless such manufacturer or person knows that the mobile device or part involved is stolen.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to provide for online voter registration and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-s-1950
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Postal service
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 
This bill amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to direct the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to: (1) develop an online voter registration application platform; and (2) forward automatically completed online voter registration application forms and cancellation requests to the appropriate chief state election officials and, acting through such officials, to appropriate state and local election officials in the state.
 
The EAC shall automatically connect registration applicants to the state platform in lieu of the federal platform in any state that has developed one meeting the requirements of this Act.
 
A state may require a first-time voter registered online to vote in person.
 
The Postmaster General shall ensure that the U.S. Postal Service Online Change of Address process incorporates the online voter registration platform and allows individuals to register to vote during the process.
 
The Act is amended with respect to administration of voter registration to change the voter registration application deadline from the lesser of 30 days or the period provided by state law before the date of election to the lesser of 28 days or the period provided by state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require the availability of early voting or no-excuse absentee voting.

Bill: 114-s-1951
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
Postal service
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 
This bill amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require each state to: (1) allow individuals to vote in a federal election before the date of the election through early voting or voting by mail, and (2) publicize the details of such voting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to modify the procedures for change of address.

Bill: 114-s-1952
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 
This bill amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to revise requirements for notifying a voting registrar of a change of address before the date of an election.
 
If a registrant has failed to notify the registrar of a change of address within a state before an election day, the registrant shall nevertheless, upon an oral or written affirmation before an election official, be permitted to vote at either the polling place of the registrant's current address or a central location within the same registrar's jurisdiction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
TRASH Act

Bill: 114-s-1953
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
Solid waste and recycling
State and local government operations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 

Trash Reduction and Sensible Handling Act of 2015 or the TRASH Act

 
This bill amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize state solid waste management plans to restrict the importation of out-of-state waste at the state and local level by requiring out-of-state waste to be from states with waste handling and reduction standards that are equivalent or higher than the standards of the state receiving the waste.
 
Those plans may impose a community benefit fee on out-of-state waste, which may be higher than the fees for in-state waste. States may provide those fees to affected communities and may differentiate community benefit fees based on whether the imported waste was disposed of at a landfill, an incinerator, a resource recovery facility, a waste-to-energy facility, or other waste handling facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
I Teach Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-1954
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Income tax credits
Indian social and development programs
Minority education
Rural conditions and development
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 

Incentives to Educate American Children Act of 2015 or the I Teach Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a refundable tax credit of $1,000 for: (1) teachers in public kindergartens or elementary or secondary schools or elementary or secondary schools operated or funded by the Bureau of Indian Education in rural areas or areas with high poverty, and (2) teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Increases such credit to $2,000 for a teacher meeting both requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act

Bill: 114-s-1955
Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 

Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act

 
 Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) to declare that any allotment application pending before the Department of the Interior on December 18, 1971, that was closed by the Department pursuant to the civil action 
Shields v. United States
 shall be reopened and considered to be approved.
 
Revises requirements for the eligibility of Alaska Native Vietnam veterans for an allotment. Extends eligibility for allotments to veterans who served between August 5, 1964, and May 7, 1975.
 
Allows eligible persons to file for allotments of up to two parcels of federal land (as under current law) totaling up to 160 acres. 
 
Eliminates the limitation of these allotments to lands that were vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved on the date when the person eligible for the allotment first used and occupied them. 
 
Allows allotments to be selected from vacant federal lands or lands that have been selected or conveyed to the state of Alaska or a Native Corporation, if the state or Corporation voluntarily relinquishes or conveys the land to the United States for allotment. 
 
Limits the exclusions from lands that may be selected for allotments to: (1) lands in the right-of-way of the TransAlaska Pipeline; (2) the inner or outer corridor of such a right-of-way; or (3) a unit of the National Park System, a National Preserve, or a National Monument. 
 
 Allows an heir of a deceased eligible veteran, regardless of the cause of death, to apply for and receive the allotment.
 
Permits any person who made an allotment selection under ANCSA before this Act's enactment to withdraw it and reselect lands if those originally selected were not conveyed to that person before this Act's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-10-08
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 114-490.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Assessment Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-1956
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Archaeology and anthropology
Congressional oversight
Economic development
Government studies and investigations
Great Lakes
Historic sites and heritage areas
Historical and cultural resources
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 

Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Assessment Act of 2015

 
 This bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to assess and report on the cultural and historic resources in the waters of the Great Lakes. NOAA must make recommendations in the report on whether: (1) underwater geographic areas in the Great Lakes should be designated as national marine sanctuaries to protect resources of historical and archeological significance; and (2) the designation of a network of underwater Great Lakes areas that protect those resources could bring significant educational opportunities, economic development, jobs, and tourism to the Great Lakes region.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate
State Licensing Efficiency Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-1957
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2015-08-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Financial services and investments
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: 

State Licensing Efficiency Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 to direct the Attorney General to provide appropriate state officials responsible for regulating financial service providers (in addition to state officials responsible for regulating state-licensed loan originators) with access to criminal history information to the extent that criminal history background checks are required under state law for the licensing of such parties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6385-6386)
action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Introduced in Senate