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Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-872
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Land transfers
Property rights
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2015

 
 Extends federal recognition to the following Indian tribes of Virginia and establishes their relationship with the federal government as described below: (1) the Chickahominy Tribe, (2) the Chickahominy Indian Tribe--Eastern Division, (3) the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, (4) the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., (5) the Monacan Indian Nation, and (6) the Nansemond Indian Tribe.
 
Makes the tribes and their members eligible for all services and benefits provided by the federal government to federally recognized Indian tribes. Establishes the service area of each tribe and requirements for each tribe regarding its membership roll, governing documents, and governing body.
 
Requires the Department of the Interior, on request of any of the tribes, to take specified lands into trust for the benefit of that tribe, to be considered part of that tribe's reservation.
 
Prohibits the tribes from conducting gaming activities.
 
Prohibits this Act from affecting the hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, or water rights of the tribes and their members.
 
Prohibits the use of eminent domain to acquire lands in fee or in trust for an Indian tribe recognized under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-09-29
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
To promote energy efficiency, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-873
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Building construction
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Environmental technology
General Services Administration
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Industrial facilities
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Performance measurement
Public contracts and procurement
Public utilities and utility rates
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015

 

Better Buildings Act of 2015

 
 This bill requires the General Services Administration (GSA) to: (1) develop and publish model leasing provisions to encourage building owners and tenants to use greater cost-effective energy efficiency and water efficiency measures in commercial buildings, and (2) develop policies and best practices to implement the measures for the realty services provided by the GSA to federal agencies. 
 
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) to develop a voluntary Tenant Star program within the Energy Star program to recognize tenants of spaces in commercial buildings that voluntarily achieve high levels of energy efficiency. The EPA may develop a voluntary program to recognize commercial building owners and tenants that use high-performance energy efficiency measures in the design and construction of leased spaces.
 

Energy Efficient Government Technology Act 

 
The EISA is amended also to require: (1) each federal agency to coordinate with the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Energy (DOE), and the EPA to develop an implementation strategy for the maintenance, purchase, and use of energy-efficient and energy-saving information technologies; (2) DOE to maintain a data center energy practitioner program that leads to the certification of energy practitioners qualified to evaluate the energy usage and efficiency opportunities in federal data centers; and (3) DOE to establish an open data initiative to make information about federal data center energy usage available and accessible in a manner that encourages data center innovation, optimization, and consolidation. 
 
DOE must maintain, and if necessary create, a database for storing and making available public energy-related information on commercial and multifamily buildings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Authorization Act

Bill: 114-hr-877
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Area studies and international education
Border security and unlawful immigration
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Customs enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Firearms and explosives
Foreign labor
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Human rights
Human trafficking
Intellectual property
International exchange and broadcasting
Law enforcement officers
Organized crime
Pornography
Sex offenses
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Authorization Act

 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 with respect to the establishment in the Department of Homeland Security of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (formerly the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Ax the Tax on Middle Class Americans' Health Plans Act

Bill: 114-hr-879
Sponsor: Rep. Guinta, Frank C. [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Personnel records
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Ax the Tax on Middle Class Americans' Health Plans Act

 
This bill repeals, effective for taxable years beginning after 2017, the excise tax on the excess benefit portion of high-cost employer-sponsored health care plans (known as Cadillac plans). The reporting requirement for such plans is also repealed for calendar years beginning after 2014. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1126)
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Bringing Awareness and Knowledge to Exempt Schools Against Legislative Encroachment Act

Bill: 114-hr-881
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Agriculture
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Food industry and services
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Bringing Awareness and Knowledge to Exempt Schools Against Legislative Encroachment Act

 
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from applying the rule entitled "National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in School as Required by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010&quot; to food sold as a fundraiser that takes place on the grounds of a school, including by limiting the number of such fundraisers by state agencies or the Secretary. (The rule requires the Secretary to set nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools that are not foods sold under the school lunch and breakfast programs.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue final rules relating to listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-884
Sponsor: Rep. Ribble, Reid J. [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Endangered and threatened species
Judicial review and appeals
Mammals
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to reissue: (1) the final rule published on December 28, 2011, that removed the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes Distinct Population Segment from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and that removed the designation of critical habitat for that wolf in Minnesota and Michigan; and (2) the final rule published on September 10, 2012, that removed the gray wolf in Wyoming from the list and removed the Yellowstone Experimental Protection Area that was established to facilitate reintroduction of the wolf.
 
Rules reissued under this Act are not subject to judicial review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
State Flexibility and Workforce Requirement Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-886
Sponsor: Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

State Flexibility and Workforce Requirement Act of 2015

 
 Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit states to impose workforce requirements for nondisabled individuals made eligible for Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Electronic Health Fairness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-887
Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health information and medical records
Home and outpatient care
Medicare
Surgery and anesthesia

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Electronic Health Fairness Act of 2015 

 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit any patient encounter of an eligible professional occurring at an ambulatory surgical center from being treated as such an encounter in determining whether an eligible professional qualifies as a meaningful electronic health record (EHR) user.
 
Terminates this prohibition three years after the Secretary of Health and Human Services certifies EHR technology for the ambulatory surgical center setting.

action_date: 2015-03-13
text: 

Electronic Health Fairness Act of 2015 

 
(Sec. 2) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit for a payment year after 2015 any patient encounter of an eligible professional occurring at an ambulatory surgical center (ASC) from being treated as such a patient encounter in determining whether an eligible professional qualifies as a meaningful electronic health record (EHR) user.
 
Terminates this prohibition three years after the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines, through notice and comment rulemaking, that certified EHR technology is applicable to the ASC setting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-13
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 114-40, Part I.
action_date: 2015-03-13
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 114-40, Part I.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-26
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2015-02-26
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Subsidy Reserve Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-888
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business investment and capital
Business records
Corporate finance and management
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Subsidy Reserve Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to require a nonbank financial company supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and each bank holding company with total consolidated assets of $500 billion or more to establish and maintain a Subsidy Reserve.
 
Instructs the Board to:
 
 
 establish a formula for determining the financial benefit received by such companies as a result of the expectations on the part of their shareholders, creditors, and counterparties that the government will shield them from losses in the event of their failure;
 
 require them to apply the formula annually to their annual financial statement; and
 
 maintain the resulting amount in their Subsidy Reserve, in addition to any such previous amounts.
 
 
Prohibits a decrease in the amount of funds in the Subsidy Reserve unless a company makes a sale of assets, spins off a subsidiary, or makes a similar divestiture. Permits the decrease only in an amount that reflects the amount of such sale, spin off, or similar divestiture, either on a pro-rata basis or according to the risk weighting of the property sold, spun off, or divested.
 
Permits amounts in the Subsidy Reserve to be taken into account when determining the companies' capital for purposes of meeting any regulatory capital requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Harvest Price Subsidy Reduction Act

Bill: 114-hr-892
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Harvest Price Subsidy Reduction Act 

 
This bill amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to prohibit the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation from paying a premium subsidy for a crop insurance policy that is based on the actual market price of an agricultural commodity at the time of harvest. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Regulatory Certainty Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-896
Sponsor: Rep. Gibbs, Bob [R-OH-7]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Army Corps of Engineers
Department of Defense
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Licensing and registrations
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 
Regulatory Certainty Act of 2015 - This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to limit the period during which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may prohibit the specification, or restrict the use, of an area as a disposal site for discharges of dredged or fill materials into waters of the United States to the period that:
 
 
begins on the date that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provides notice to the EPA that the Corps has completed all procedures for processing an application for a permit for dredged or fill material and is ready to determine whether the permit should be issued; and 
 
ends on the date that the Corps issues the permit. 
 
 
The Corps must ensure that the period consists of at least 30 consecutive days.
 
The Corps may issue a permit for dredged or fill material only after the Corps provides notice to the EPA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Energy Production Fairness Act

Bill: 114-hr-898
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Energy Production Fairness Act 

 
This bill equalizes the excise tax on liquefied petroleum gas and liquefied natural gas by establishing a rate of 18.3 cents per energy equivalent of a gallon of gasoline for liquefied petroleum gas and 24.3 cents per energy equivalent of a gallon of diesel for liquefied natural gas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Religious Worker Visa Reciprocity Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-899
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign labor
Human rights
Immigration status and procedures
Religion
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Religious Worker Visa Reciprocity Act of 2015

 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the Secretary of Homeland Security from approving a petition for classification of an alien as a special immigrant religious worker/minister if the Secretary has determined that the alien's country of nationality: 
 
 
is identified as a Country of Particular Concern or a country where religious freedom is of significant interest in the 2013 International Religious Freedom Report, or 
 
does not extend reciprocal immigration treatment to U.S. nationals who are seeking resident status in order to work in a religious vocation or occupation.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-900
Sponsor: Rep. Labrador, Raul R. [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Land use and conservation
Monuments and memorials
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015

 
This bill requires the President, before a national monument can be designated on public land, to obtain congressional approval, certify compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and determine that the state in which the monument is to be located has enacted legislation approving its designation. 
 
The Department of the Interior may not implement restrictions on the public use of a national monument until the expiration of an appropriate review period providing for public input and congressional approval. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House