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To impose certain requirements on the Secretary of the Treasury relating to transmittals of country-by-country reports for purposes of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Action Plan.

Bill: 114-hr-4297
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2015-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business records
Congressional oversight
Foreign and international corporations
Government information and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income
Trade secrets and economic espionage

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: 
This bill expressly prohibits the Department of the Treasury from collecting from a U.S. person or transmitting to any foreign jurisdiction any country-by-country report (CbCR) information of any U.S. person for taxable years beginning before January 1, 2017. CbCR information is used by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to develop its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action Plan to increase the transparency of transfer pricing practices and other tax transactions of multinational business enterprises. 
 
Treasury must: (1) suspend the transmittal of CbCR information of any U.S. person to a foreign jurisdiction if it determines that such jurisdiction is abusing BEPS master file documentation requirements or failing to safeguard the confidentiality of information required in the master file, and (2) report to the congressional tax committees on allegations or reports received concerning the abuse of master file documentation requirements and any actions taken with respect to such allegations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Patient Opportunity Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4299
Sponsor: Rep. Blum, Rod [R-IA-1]
Introduced: 2015-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Hospital care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: 

Patient Opportunity Protection Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from imposing additional conditions on excepted benefits, which are health benefits that are not subject to requirements applicable to group health plans or individual health insurance.
 
In the individual health insurance market, HHS may not condition the treatment of fixed indemnity insurance as an excepted benefit on the beneficiary satisfying the requirement for minimum essential coverage.
 The amendments made by this bill are retroactively effective as if included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Arm All Pilots Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4300
Sponsor: Rep. Brat, Dave [R-VA-7]
Introduced: 2015-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Department of Homeland Security
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Law enforcement officers
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Personnel records
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: 

Arm All Pilots Act of 2015

 
This bill revises requirements for the federal flight deck officer program.
 
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shall designate additional training facilities for:
 
 
firearms training and recurrent training for federal flight deck officers, and 
 
 initial firearm training and certification of pilots seeking to be deputized as federal flight deck officers.
 
 
DHS (formerly, the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security of the Department of Transportation) shall:
 
 
 require officers, but no less than once every six months, to requalify to carry firearms on domestic flights; and
 
permit officers to requalify at certified private or government-owned gun ranges.
 
 
DHS may require certain limitations on initial and recurrent training for such officers.
 
The bill revises the authority of federal flight deck officers to carry firearms on domestic and foreign flights.
 
DHS may not establish medical or physical standards for a pilot to become a federal flight deck officer inconsistent with or more stringent than Federal Aviation Administration requirements for issuance of a first- or second-class airman medical certificate.
 
A pilot deputized as a federal flight deck officer may move from inactive to active status after completing one recurrent training program.
 
DHS shall allow officers to be screened through the Transportation Security Administration's Known Crew Member program when entering an airport sterile area.
 
Each air carrier certifying to DHS that it has a pilot deputized as a federal flight deck officer on all its flights shall receive a refund of up to 10% of security service fees collected from passengers on flights operated by that air carrier.
 
DHS shall revise certain federal regulations to classify information about deputized pilots as sensitive security information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to search all public records to determine if an alien is inadmissible to the United States.

Bill: 114-hr-4301
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2015-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: 
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to search all public records, including Internet sites and social media profiles, to determine if an alien applying for admission to the United States is inadmissible under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
END OF AN ERA Act

Bill: 114-hr-4302
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Garret [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2015-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Department of the Treasury
Economic performance and conditions
Executive agency funding and structure
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Government lending and loan guarantees
Trade agreements and negotiations
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: 

Entering Negotiations to Dissolve Outdated Financial Agencies Nationalizing Export Related Activities or the END OF AN ERA Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to seek to enter into negotiations with other countries for the mutual elimination of government-backed export credit agencies.
 
Treasury shall submit: (1) annual reports on progress made in arranging such negotiations, on progress made in any such negotiations, and on whether eliminating the Export-Import Bank of the United States at the time of the report would put the United States at a competitive disadvantage; and (2) a certification of any determination that the Bank can be eliminated in a way that would not put the United States at a competitive disadvantage, considering job losses and a decrease in economic activity.
 
After such a determination is submitted, the Bank may not accept an application for, or enter into a contract that would obligate the Bank to provide, a loan, insurance, or a guarantee or to participate in an extension of credit by another entity.
 
 The Bank shall be abolished 180 days after Treasury submits such a certification and its functions transferred to Treasury. All such transferred functions shall terminate on the date all obligations of the Bank, and all obligations of others to the Bank, in effect immediately before the abolishment date have been satisfied.
 
The bill repeals the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 and eliminates related authorizing provisions of various statutes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Worker Residual Contaminations Compensation Act

Bill: 114-hr-4304
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2015-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cancer
Congressional oversight
Government liability
Government studies and investigations
Nuclear weapons
Radiation
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: 

Nuclear Worker Residual Contaminations Compensation Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Labor to oversee an independent study on residual nuclear contamination of workers at certain facilities owned or operated by contractors of the Department of Energy and subsidiaries of those contractors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Ukrainian Warfighter Assistance Act

Bill: 114-hr-4305
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2015-12-18 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Europe
Foreign aid and international relief
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military education and training
Russia
Ukraine

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: 

Ukrainian Warfighter Assistance Act

 
This bill amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 to specify additional security assistance and intelligence support that the Department of Defense (DOD) may provide to the government of Ukraine's military and security forces.
 
It is U.S. policy that DOD, when providing equipment and technical assistance to Ukraine, shall give priority to border protection and monitoring assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4306
Sponsor: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2015-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Department of Veterans Affairs
Minority employment
Racial and ethnic relations
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: 

Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans Act of 2015

 
This bill makes the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act

Bill: 114-hr-4308
Sponsor: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2015-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Art, artists, authorship
Asia
District of Columbia
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: 

Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act

 
This bill establishes a Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture.
 
The Commission must: (1) report recommendations for a plan of action for the establishment and maintenance of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.; (2) develop a fundraising plan to support the establishment, operation, and maintenance of the Museum through public contributions; (3) obtain an independent review of this fundraising plan, including an analysis of the resources necessary to fund the construction of the Museum and its operations and maintenance in perpetuity without reliance on federal funds; and (4) submit a legislative plan of action to establish and construct the Museum.
 
Directs the Commission's recommendations to address issues including the impact of the Museum on regional Asian Pacific American history-related museums, whether it should be part of the Smithsonian Institution, and the cost of constructing, operating, and maintaining the Museum and acquiring its collections.
 
The Commission may convene a national conference relating to the Museum.
 
Prohibits federal funds from being obligated to carry out this Act.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reimburse each possession of the United States for the cost of the earned income tax credit.

Bill: 114-hr-4309
Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caribbean area
Income tax credits
Northern Mariana Islands
Poverty and welfare assistance
Puerto Rico
U.S. territories and protectorates
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Department of the Treasury to pay to the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands amounts of the earned income tax credit paid or payable to residents for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Vet Electronic Trails Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4310
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2015-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Immigration status and procedures
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Terrorism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: 

Vet Electronic Trails Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the Department of Homeland Security, before issuing any immigrant or nonimmigrant visa, to check a person's interactions on and posting of material to the Internet (including social media services) in order to ensure that he or she is not a U.S. security threat.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Charitable Contributions Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4311
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2015-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Charitable contributions
Department of the Treasury
Income tax deductions
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: 

Protecting Charitable Contributions Act of 2015

 
This bill provides that the definitions and regulations in effect on January 1, 2015, relating to the substantiation of deductible charitable contributions in excess of $250, shall apply on and after the enactment date of the bill. The Internal Revenue Service shall not issue, revise, or finalize any regulation, revenue ruling, or other guidance relating to such definitions and regulations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Historic Routes Preservation Act

Bill: 114-hr-4313
Sponsor: Rep. Cook, Paul [R-CA-8]
Introduced: 2016-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Evidence and witnesses
Government information and archives
Judicial review and appeals
Land use and conservation
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2016-01-05
text: 

Historic Routes Preservation Act

 
This bill requires that any person, including a state, local government, company, or individual, that asserts public acceptance of a right-of-way granted for the construction of highways over public lands must file a claim within a 25-year period.
 
The bill sets forth a procedure for conclusively verifying, proving, and establishing the acceptance of such rights-of-way.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-01-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2016-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Mental Health Access and Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4315
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2016-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information and records
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Justice
Executive agency funding and structure
Firearms and explosives
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Law enforcement administration and funding
Mental health
Social Security Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2016-01-05
text: 

Mental Health Access and Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2016

 
This bill authorizes FY2017 appropriations for the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Social Security Administration to: (1) increase access to mental health care treatment and services, and (2) promote reporting of mental health information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-01-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-01-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H167-170)
action_date: 2016-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H20-21)
action_date: 2016-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, 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: 2016-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, 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: 2016-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, 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: 2016-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, 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: 2016-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Gun Violence Reduction Resources Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4316
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2016-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Justice
Firearms and explosives
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2016-01-05
text: 

Gun Violence Reduction Resources Act of 2016

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Justice to hire 200 additional agents and investigators for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H167-170)
action_date: 2016-01-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H20-21)
action_date: 2016-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2016-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-01-05
text: Introduced in House