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Highway Trust Fund Reform Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1483
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Public contracts and procurement
Public transit
Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Highway Trust Fund Reform Act of 2015

 
 Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to laborers and mechanics working on federal-aid highway construction projects and public transportation construction projects).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Honor the Nevada Enabling Act of 1864 Act

Bill: 114-hr-1484
Sponsor: Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Energy revenues and royalties
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Nevada
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Honor the Nevada Enabling Act of 1864 Act

 
Directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior to convey, in phases and without consideration, to the state of Nevada all interest of the United States in federal lands owned, managed, or controlled by the federal government through the USDA or Interior for the purpose of permitting the state to use them to support select beneficiaries. Specifies exceptions, including components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, National Park System, and National Wildlife System, and federally recognized Indian reservations and lands.
 
Defines &quot;select beneficiaries&quot; as 
 
 
public elementary and secondary education;
 
public higher education;
 
public specialized education;
 
public mental and medical health services;
 
social, senior, and veterans services;
 
public programs for recovery plan development and implementation for candidate and threatened or endangered species; and
 
political subdivisions of the state, but only with respect to payment for services and infrastructure on conveyed identified federal lands that would otherwise be financed through property taxes or other revenues available to a political subdivision of the state. 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-11-15
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2015-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Federal Lands Invasive Species Control, Prevention, and Management Act

Bill: 114-hr-1485
Sponsor: Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animal and plant health
Aquatic ecology
Ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
General public lands matters
Intergovernmental relations
Pest management
Public-private cooperation
State and local government operations
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Federal Lands Invasive Species Control, Prevention, and Management Act

 
Directs the Department of the Interior (respecting federal lands administered through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service, or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) (respecting federal lands administered through the U.S. Forest Service) to plan and carry out activities on lands directly managed by the department concerned to control and manage invasive species in order to inhibit or reduce their populations and to effectuate restoration or reclamation efforts. 
 
Requires the department concerned to develop a strategic plan for the implementation of an invasive species program that endeavors to achieve an annual 5% net reduction of invasive species populations on lands managed by that department. 
 
 
Requires USDA and Interior to require the use of the least costly options necessary to perform effectively, based on sound scientific data and other commonly used cost-effective benchmarks in the area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indians, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2015-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2015-03-19
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: 2015-03-19
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: 2015-03-19
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: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
TABS Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-1486
Sponsor: Rep. Barr, Andy [R-KY-6]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Appropriations
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Taking Account of Bureaucrats' Spending Act of 2015 or the TABS Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to eliminate provisions that fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) using transfers from the earnings of the Federal Reserve System. The transfers under current law permit the CFPB to be funded outside of the annual appropriations process, and this bill brings the CFPB into the regular process. 

action_date: 2016-05-06
text: 

Taking Account of Bureaucrats' Spending Act of 2016 or the TABS Act of 
 
2016

 
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to eliminate provisions that fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) using transfers from the earnings of the Federal Reserve System. The transfers under current law permit the CFPB to be funded outside of the annual appropriations process, and this bill brings the CFPB into the regular process. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 414.
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 114-538.
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 114-538.
action_date: 2016-04-13
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 33 - 20.
action_date: 2016-04-13
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Gun Owners in Bankruptcy Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1488
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Chris [R-NY-27]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Firearms and explosives

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Protecting Gun Owners in Bankruptcy Act of 2015

 
 Amends federal bankruptcy law to permit an individual debtor to exempt from the property of the estate in bankruptcy the debtor's aggregate interest, not to exceed $3,000, in a single firearm or firearms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Authorization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1489
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Advisory bodies
Arab-Israeli relations
Economic development
Foreign aid and international relief
International organizations and cooperation
Israel
Middle East
Multilateral development programs
Palestinians
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace Authorization Act of 2015

 
 Urges the President to make every effort, in conjunction with the government of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and the international community to establish an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. 
 
Authorizes appropriations for U.S. contributions to the Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
SOS Campus Act

Bill: 114-hr-1490
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Education programs funding
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Evidence and witnesses
Higher education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Right of privacy
School administration
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Survivor Outreach and Support Campus Act or the SOS Campus Act

 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in any program under title IV (Student Assistance) to designate an independent advocate for campus sexual assault prevention and response (Advocate) with experience in providing sexual assault victim services.
 
Requires each Advocate to: (1) report to an individual outside the body responsible for investigating and adjudicating sexual assault complaints at the IHE, (2) submit to such individual an annual report summarizing how the resources supplied to the Advocate were used, (3) represent the interests of each student victim without regard to whether they conflict with the IHE's interests, and (4) be appointed in such manner as the Secretary of Education deems appropriate. 
 
Directs each Advocate to:
 
 
ensure that sexual assault victims at the IHE are able to receive, at their election, specified information and services;
 
guide sexual assault victims who request assistance through the reporting, counseling, administrative, medical and health, academic accommodations, or legal processes of the IHE or local law enforcement;
 
attend, at the request of a sexual assault victim, any administrative or IHE-based adjudication proceeding related to such assault as an advocate for the victim;
 
maintain the privacy and confidentiality of the victim and any witness to such sexual assault and to not notify the IHE or any other person of the identity of the victim or of any such witness or the alleged circumstances surrounding the reported sexual assault except as otherwise required by state law or, with respect to the identity of the victim or witness, with the consent of such victim or witness; and
 
conduct a public information campaign to inform the students enrolled at the IHE of the existence of, contact information for, and services provided by the Advocate.
 
 
Prohibits IHEs from retaliating against: (1) Advocates for representing the interests of a student victims, or (2) student victims for reporting sexual assaults to Advocates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Child CARE Act

Bill: 114-hr-1492
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Donna F. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child care and development
Income tax credits
Inflation and prices
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Child Care Access and Refundability Expansion Act or the Child CARE Act
 
 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for employment-related expenses incurred for the care of a taxpayer's dependent, to: (1) make such credit refundable, (2) deny such credit for services provided outside the United States, (3) increase the dollar limit on the allowable amount of such credit and the percentage rate for qualified expenses, (4) deny such credit for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income exceeds $200,000 in a taxable year; and (5) allow an annual inflation adjustment to the threshold amount for reducing such credit and the maximum allowable credit amount, beginning after 2015. 
 
The bill also allows a new tax credit for 50% of the child care educational expenses, up to a maximum of $1,000 in any taxable year, paid with respect to the operation of a qualified child care center. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Retirement Health Savings Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1494
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Retirement Health Savings Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, distributions from certain tax-exempt retirement plans to a heath savings account in which an individual who is covered by a high deductible health care plan is participating (qualified HSA funding distribution). The bill also exempts such distributions from the 10% penalty for premature retirement plan distributions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Confidence Through Smarter Campaigns Act

Bill: 114-hr-1495
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
House of Representatives
Inflation and prices
Lawyers and legal services

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Restoring Confidence Through Smarter Campaigns Act 

 
 Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to limit expenditures by candidates for the House of Representatives to $500,000 during the election cycle ($250,000 for a primary election and $250,000 for a general election). Sets at $250,000 the maximum amount of expenditures which may be made for a runoff election ($125,000 for a primary runoff election and $125,000 for a general runoff election). Excludes from such limits expenditures for legal services. Provides for indexing such amounts for inflation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the access to child care for certain veterans receiving health care at a facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 114-hr-1496
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child care and development
Health care coverage and access
Mental health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 
Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), beginning January 1, 2016, to provide assistance to qualified veterans to obtain child care so that such veterans can receive health care services at a VA health care facility during the time such a veteran requires travel to and return from such facility.
 
Defines &quot;qualified veteran&quot; as a veteran who is the primary caretaker of a child and is: (1) receiving from the VA regular mental health care services, intensive mental health care services, or other intensive health care services such that the VA determines that providing assistance to the veteran to obtain child care would improve the veteran's access to such services, or (2) in need of regular or intensive mental health care services from the VA and, but for lack of child care services, would receive such health care services from the VA.
 
Includes among child care assistance under this Act:
 
 
stipends for the payment of child care offered by licensed child care centers which shall be modeled after the VA's Child Care Subsidy Program;
 
direct provision of child care at an on-site VA facility;
 
payments to private child care agencies; and 
 
collaboration with facilities or programs of other federal departments or agencies. 
 
 
Directs the VA to carry out this Act using funds made available to the VA facility that provides the health care services for which the child care assistance is provided. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 31, United States Code, to require reporting by the Secretary of the Treasury of reduction measures being used to avoid defaulting on Government obligations in the event that the debt limit is reached, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-1497
Sponsor: Rep. Huelskamp, Tim [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
International monetary system and foreign exchange
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 
 This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to notify Congress when the debt of the U.S. government has reached the statutory limit and if Treasury has begun using reduction measures to avoid default. Treasury must also specify which reduction measures are currently being used. 
 
Reduction measures include the issuance of debt by the Federal Financing Bank to exchange debt that is subject to the limit; suspending investments in the Government Securities Investment Fund of the Thrift Savings Fund; suspending investments in the Exchange Stabilization Fund; suspending, redeeming, or selling investments in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund or the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund; and other measures Treasury determines to be appropriate. 
 
For each day the debt is at the statutory limit, Treasury must publicly disclose reduction measures currently being used, the amounts that have been used and remain available for each measure, and the date on which Treasury estimates that all measures will be exhausted and the government will begin defaulting. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Hostage Recovery Improvement Act

Bill: 114-hr-1498
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Federal officials
North Korea
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Hostage Recovery Improvement Act

 
This bill directs the President to designate an existing federal officer as the Interagency Hostage Recovery Coordinator who shall coordinate efforts to secure the release of U.S. citizens who are hostages of hostile groups or state sponsors of terrorism. 
 
The Coordinator shall establish a federal task force with respect to each hostage situation, and report quarterly on each one.
 
It is the sense of Congress that the Coordinator should develop and pursue an entire range of options with respect to each hostage situation, including kinetic and non-kinetic options.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
Physical Activities Recommendations for Americans Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1499
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2015-03-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives
Health promotion and preventive care
Physical fitness and lifestyle

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: 

Physical Activities Recommendations for Americans Act of 2015

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to publish a report at least every 10 years that contains physical activity recommendations for the general public based on the most current scientific and medical knowledge, including information for population subgroups, as needed.
 
HHS must publish updated reports that detail evidence-based practices and highlight continuing physical activity issues between the publications of full reports. Updated reports may focus on particular population subgroups or issues relating to physical activity.
 A federal agency that proposes to issue physical activity recommendations that differ from the recommendations in the most recent full report must submit the proposed recommendations to HHS for review.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-19
text: Introduced in House