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Justice for Servicemembers Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5426
Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Merit Systems Protection Board
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 

Justice for Servicemembers Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Uniformed Services Employment Rights Act of 1994 to: (1) consider procedural protections or provisions under such Act concerning employment and reemployment rights of members of the uniformed services to be a right or benefit subject to the protection of such Act, and (2) make any agreement to arbitrate a claim under such provisions unenforceable unless all parties consent to arbitration after a complaint on the specific claim has been filed in court or with the Merit Systems Protection Board and all parties knowingly and voluntarily consent to have that particular claim subjected to arbitration.
 
Consent shall not be considered voluntary when a person is required to agree to arbitrate an action, complaint, or claim alleging a violation of such provisions as a condition of future or continued employment, advancement in employment, or receipt of any right or benefit of employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Stand Up For Students Act

Bill: 114-hr-5427
Sponsor: Rep. Dold, Robert J. [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefits and pensions
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 

Stand Up For Students Act

 
This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to limit the use of ESEA funds for contributions to teacher retirement or pension systems in excess of the normal cost of benefits for an applicable plan year.
 
Specifically, the bill prohibits a state from requiring a local educational agency to use ESEA funds to make such excess payments to a teacher retirement or pension system. However, this limitation shall not apply to a system for a given plan year if the system certifies that, with respect to the plan year, the ratio of the value of the system's assets to its accrued liability exceeds 50%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Military Residency Choice Act

Bill: 114-hr-5428
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Marriage and family status
Military personnel and dependents
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 

Military Residency Choice Act

 
This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to permit the spouse of a servicemember to elect to use the same residence as the servicemember for purposes of taxation and voting, regardless of the date on which the marriage of the spouse and the servicemember occurred.

action_date: 2016-11-14
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 

Military Residency Choice Act

 
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to permit the spouse of a servicemember to elect to use the same residence as the servicemember for purposes of taxation and voting, regardless of the date on which the marriage of the spouse and the servicemember occurred.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-11-14
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 640.
action_date: 2016-11-14
text: Reported by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 114-816.
action_date: 2016-11-14
text: Reported by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 114-816.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Public Water Supply Invasive Species Compliance Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5430
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Arkansas
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Louisiana
Texas
Trade restrictions
Water use and supply
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 

Public Water Supply Invasive Species Compliance Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Lacey Act and Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 by exempting certain water transfers between public water supplies located on, along, or across the boundaries of Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana from prohibitions on illegal trade of plants and wildlife. Specifically, the prohibitions do not apply to covered water transfers containing a prohibited species if: (1) the species are present in both public water supplies before the transfer and the water is transferred directly between them; or (2) the water is transferred in a closed conveyance system (a closed system that collects, contains, and transports the flow of water, e.g., pipe systems) and sent directly to treatment facilities where the species will be destroyed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-23
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Care for Female Veterans Act

Bill: 114-hr-5431
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Hospital care
Veterans' medical care
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 

Expanding Care for Female Veterans Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a three-year pilot program to award grants to health care entities to lease, purchase, or build health care facilities for female patients in order to provide hospital care and medical services to female veterans enrolled in the VA's patient enrollment system. 
 
For purposes of providing such care and services, a facility leased, purchased, or built under the program shall be deemed to be: (1) a non-VA entity that may provide veterans hospital care and medical services as specified in the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014; or (2) if the authority to carry out the program is terminated, an entity otherwise authorized to provide hospital care and medical services pursuant to an agreement entered into by the VA. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 to clarify the use of the WMAT Settlement Fund.

Bill: 114-hr-5433
Sponsor: Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Government trust funds
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Rural conditions and development
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 
This bill amends the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 to specify that White Mountain Apache Tribe settlement funds may be used for the completion of the tribe's rural water system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Stop Debt Collection Abuse Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5434
Sponsor: Rep. Love, Mia B. [R-UT-4]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Debt collection
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
State and local government operations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 

Stop Debt Collection Abuse Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to redefine: (1) "debt" to include any obligation or alleged obligation of a consumer to pay a loan, an overpayment, a fine, penalty, a fee, or other money owed currently or originally to a federal agency and that is at least 180 days past due; and (2) "debt collector" to include any person who regularly collects debts currently or originally owed or allegedly owed to a federal agency. 
 
A federal agency that is a creditor may sell or transfer a debt to a debt collector beginning 90 days after the obligation or alleged obligation becomes delinquent or defaults. 
 
The Act is further amended by making the collection of any amount (including any interest, fee, charge, or expense incidental to the principal obligation) an unfair practice unless:
 
 
the amount is expressly authorized by the agreement creating the debt or permitted by law (as under current law); and
 
in the case of a debt owed a federal agency as specified in this bill, the collection charge is reasonable in relation to actual collection costs, is authorized by a contract between the debt collector and the federal agency, and does not exceed 10% of the amount the debt collector collects. 
 
 
The Government Accountability Office shall study the use of debt collectors by federal, state, and local government agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Providing Leadership and Improving Veterans Care Act

Bill: 114-hr-5435
Sponsor: Rep. Luetkemeyer, Blaine [R-MO-3]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Federal officials
Health facilities and institutions
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 

Providing Leadership and Improving Veterans Care Act

 
This bill prohibits any Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) senior executive employee whose responsibilities include participation in the rating, ranking, or selection process to fill VA medical center director positions from being paid a bonus unless the VA determines that no permanent VA medical center director position has been vacant for 18 consecutive months.
 
 Within 30 days after enactment of this bill and every 180 days thereafter, the VA shall report to Congress on the number and length of vacancies in VA medical center director positions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Protecting America's Health Measures Act

Bill: 114-hr-5436
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
General health and health care finance matters
Trade agreements and negotiations
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 

Protecting America's Health Measures Act

 
This bill amends the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 to revise the principal U.S. negotiating objectives regarding foreign investment to require any trade agreement between the United States and a foreign country to include a stipulation that, if the United States elects to deny the benefits of any dispute settlement claim relating to a U.S. law or other measure considered appropriate to ensure that investment activity in its territory is undertaken in a manner sensitive to U.S. human health objectives, then that claim shall be dismissible in any arbitration proceeding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E872)
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Drug-Free Indian Health Service Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5437
Sponsor: Rep. Noem, Kristi L. [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Employee performance
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Health personnel
Indian social and development programs
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Minority health
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 

Drug-Free Indian Health Service Act of 2016

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement mandatory random drug testing for Indian Health Service (IHS) employees who provide health care or administrative services to patients at IHS health care facilities. Officers of the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service are exempt from this drug testing. Each employee must be tested at least once per year for specified drugs.
 
HHS must notify employees of the implementation of this drug testing. Employees selected for drug testing must be notified of their selection on the same day as the testing.
 
Employees found to have engaged in illegal drug use, through testing, direct observation, evidence from a conviction, or voluntary admission, are prohibited from providing services to patients and referred to the HHS Employee Assistance Program (EAP). At the discretion of HHS, an employee may return to duty after obtaining counseling or rehabilitation through the EAP. HHS may initiate an adverse action, including removal, against an employee engaged in illegal drug use unless the employee voluntarily admits to illegal drug use, ceases such activity, and obtains counseling or rehabilitation through the EAP.
 Employees who refuse to submit to drug testing are prohibited from providing services to patients and are subject to adverse action.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2016-06-09
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: 2016-06-09
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: 2016-06-09
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: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Foreign Business Bribery Prohibition Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5438
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business ethics
Civil actions and liability
Corporate finance and management
Foreign and international corporations
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 

Foreign Business Bribery Prohibition Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA) to authorize private rights of action against persons that violate the FCPA's anti-bribery provisions, which prohibit giving things of value to foreign officials or political parties for purposes of obtaining or retaining business. A person that violates the FCPA's anti-bribery provisions shall be liable for up to treble damages to a securities issuer, domestic business concern, or U.S. person damaged by the violation. 
 
A plaintiff must prove an FCPA anti-bribery violation by the defendant that: (1) prevented the plaintiff from obtaining or retaining business, and (2) assisted the defendant in obtaining or retaining such business.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Federal Election Administration Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5439
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 

Federal Election Administration Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to replace the Federal Election Commission with the Federal Election Administration (FEA).
 
The Government Accountability Office shall conduct: (1) a thorough examination of the Attorney General's enforcement of the criminal provisions of FECA and Internal Revenue Code requirements and prohibitions regarding the Presidential Election Campaign Fund and the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account; and (2) an ongoing study on the level of funding that constitutes an adequate level of resources for the FEA to execute competently the responsibilities imposed on the FEA by this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain regulated companies to elect out of the public utility property energy investment tax credit limitation in the case of solar energy property.

Bill: 114-hr-5440
Sponsor: Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Electric power generation and transmission
Income tax credits
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit certain regulated companies to elect out of the limitation on the tax credit for investments in energy property with respect to public utility property that uses solar energy and is placed in service after December 31, 2015. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the National Endowment for the Arts to use funds to make grants for Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects.

Bill: 114-hr-5441
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2016-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Humanities programs funding
Literature

Summary:
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: 
This bill prohibits the use of any funds made available to the National Endowment for the Arts to make grants for Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-06-09
text: Introduced in House