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Pharmaceutical Information Exchange Act

Bill: 115-hr-2026
Sponsor: Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Health information and medical records
Medical research

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Pharmaceutical Information Exchange Act

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow information about a new investigational medication or the investigational use of a medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration to be provided to health care entities if the information is based on reliable scientific evidence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-17
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 14 .
action_date: 2018-01-17
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 40, United States Code, to include as part of the buildings and grounds of the National Gallery of Art any buildings and other areas within the boundaries of any real estate or other property interests acquired by the National Gallery of Art.

Bill: 115-hr-2027
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
District of Columbia
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 
This bill includes as part of the National Gallery of Art all buildings, service roads, walks, and other areas within the exterior boundaries of any real estate or interest in land that the Gallery acquires and that its director determines to be necessary for the adequate protection of individuals or property in the Gallery and suitable for administration as a part of it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Relationships Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2028
Sponsor: Rep. Hultgren, Randy [R-IL-14]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Marriage and family status
Pornography
Poverty and welfare assistance
Sex and reproductive health
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Healthy Relationships Act of 2017

 
This bill authorizes the Administration for Children & Families of the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants to public and private entities for the exclusive purpose of providing qualified sexual risk avoidance education to youth and their parents. 
 
Such education must address specified topics, including:
 
 
benefits associated with personal responsibility and healthy decisionmaking; 
the advantage of reserving sexual activity for marriage; 
the skills needed to resist the harms associated with pornography and pervasive, sex-saturated culture; 
 
the foundational components of healthy relationships; and 
how to resist and avoid sexual coercion and dating violence.
 
 
Priority in awarding grants must be given to applicants who propose sexual risk avoidance education programs that will regularly reinforce the sexual risk avoidance message in both the middle and high school grades and will promote parent-child communication on the benefits of avoiding all sexual risk.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
SIGN Act

Bill: 115-hr-2029
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Government information and archives
Roads and highways
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Safe Innovative Guide signs for the Nation Act or the SIGN Act

 
This bill directs the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) of the Department of Transportation (DOT) to issue a final rule that approves the use of Clearview font on positive contrast legends on guide signs. 
 
The rule shall:
 
 
 be reflected in the FHWA's Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, and
 
allow a jurisdiction to use the Clearview font or any other DOT-approved font.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Savings Enhancement by Alleviating Leakage in 401(k) Savings Act

Bill: 115-hr-2030
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer credit
Department of the Treasury
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Savings Enhancement by Alleviating Leakage in 401(k) Savings Act
 
 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to loans made from a qualified employer plan, to extend the period for repayment of loans if a plan terminates or a plan participant becomes unemployed.
 
The bill also requires the Department of the Treasury to modify regulations governing hardship distributions from qualified employer plans to allow participants to make additional contributions to a plan during the six-month period following a hardship distribution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Disability Insurance and Unemployment Benefits Double Dip Elimination Act

Bill: 115-hr-2031
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability assistance
Social security and elderly assistance
Trade adjustment assistance
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Social Security Disability Insurance and Unemployment Benefits Double Dip Elimination Act

 
This bill amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to disqualify an individual from receiving disability insurance benefits with respect to any month for which the individual receives unemployment insurance benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Corolla Wild Horses Protection Act

Bill: 115-hr-2032
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Endangered and threatened species
Mammals
North Carolina
Seashores and lakeshores
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Corolla Wild Horses Protection Act
 
 
 This bill directs the Department of the Interior to enter into an agreement within 180 days with the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, Currituck County, North Carolina, and the state of North Carolina to provide for the management of free-roaming wild horses in and around the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act

Bill: 115-hr-2033
Sponsor: Rep. Kihuen, Ruben J. [D-NV-4]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Firearms and explosives
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act

 
 This bill amends the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 to revise what are prohibited firearms to include any firearm: (1) that, after removal of all parts other than major components is not as detectable by walk-through metal detectors as the Security Exemplar (an object fabricated for the testing and calibration of metal detectors); or (2) any major component of which, if subjected to inspection by the types of detection devices commonly used at airports for security screening, would not generate an image that accurately depicts the shape of the component.
 
The bill modifies the definition of: (1) "major component" to include the barrel of a firearm only in the case of a rifle or shotgun, and (2) "Security Exemplar" to repeal the requirement that it be fabricated within 12 months after enactment of such Act.
 
The bill exempts from undetectable firearms provisions: (1) a prototype firearm for detectability testing; (2) any firearm received by, in the possession of, or under the control of the United States; or (3) the manufacture, importation, possession, transfer, receipt, shipment, or delivery of a firearm by a licensed manufacturer or licensed importer pursuant to an existing contract with the United States. (This replaces the exemption of any firearm that has been certified by the Department of Defense or the Central Intelligence Agency as necessary for military or intelligence applications or that is manufactured and sold exclusively to U.S. military or intelligence agencies.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2769)
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Integrity to America's Elections Act

Bill: 115-hr-2034
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional officers and employees
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Federal officials
Political parties and affiliation
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Restoring Integrity to America's Elections Act

 
This bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 with respect to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to: (1) reduce the number of members of the FEC from eight to five, (2) remove the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House as ex officio members, and (3) permit no more than two members to be affiliated with the same political party. A majority of the FEC members serving at the time shall constitute a quorum, except that three shall constitute a quorum if there are only four members serving.
 
A Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel shall recommend to the President individuals for nomination to the FEC.
 
The President shall appoint the FEC Chair, subject to Senate confirmation as a member of the FEC.
 
The powers of the FEC are revised and distributed between the chair and the other FEC members.
 
Persons who submit written comments regarding requests for advisory opinions must be given an opportunity to appear at FEC hearings on such requests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Tribal Adoption Parity Act

Bill: 115-hr-2035
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Disability and paralysis
Income tax credits
Indian social and development programs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

 Tribal Adoption Parity Act
 
 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow Indian tribal governments to determine whether a child has special needs for the purposes of the adoption tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit any reduction in the amount of the per diem allowance to which members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps or civilian employees of the Department of Defense are entitled based on the duration of temporary duty assignments or official travel, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-2036
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Defense
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military personnel and dependents
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 
 This bill prohibits uniformed service agencies or the Department of Defense (DOD) from altering the amount of the locality-based travel and transportation per diem allowances or reimbursements to which certain uniformed service members or civilian DOD employees are entitled based on the duration of temporary duty assignments or official travel in a locality.
 
 The bill nullifies the DOD policy implemented on November 1, 2014, regarding reductions in per diem allowances based on the duration of temporary duty assignments or civilian travel.
 
 The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 is amended to repeal the modifications to the flat rate per diem requirements for DOD military and civilian personnel on long-term temporary duty assignments. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Health Care Freedom Act

Bill: 115-hr-2037
Sponsor: Rep. Lance, Leonard [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Hospital care
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Veterans Health Care Freedom Act

 
This bill amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to make the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Choice Program permanent. 
 
Eligibility requirements under the program are revised. 
 
The VA shall submit an annual report to Congress that includes: (1) any increase or decrease in the number of veterans seeking hospital care or medical services at each VA medical facility, and (2) facility budget recommendations based upon such increase or decrease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act

Bill: 115-hr-2038
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Congressional oversight
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Prescription drugs
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Budgeting for Opioid Addiction Treatment Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to excise taxes on manufacturers, to impose a one cent per milligram fee on the sale of active opioids by the manufacturer, producer, or importer. The fee excludes prescription drugs used exclusively for the treatment of opioid addiction as part of a medically assisted treatment effort. 
 
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must establish a program to provide rebates or discounts to cancer and hospice patients to ensure that they do not pay the fee. 
 
The bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require any increase in federal revenues from the fee after rebates and discounts are subtracted to be distributed to states under the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant program. The states must use the funds exclusively for substance abuse (including opioid abuse) efforts in the states, including: (1) specified treatment programs, and (2) the recruitment and training of substance use disorder professionals to work in rural and medically underserved communities.
 
HHS must report to Congress on the impact of this bill on the retail cost of opioids and patient access to opioid medication, the effectiveness of the discount or rebate for cancer and hospice patients, how the funds are being used to improve substance abuse treatment efforts, and suggestions for improving access to opioids for cancer and hospice patients and substance abuse treatment efforts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-04-06
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: 2017-04-06
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: 2017-04-06
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: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act

Bill: 115-hr-2039
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-9]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Canada
Currency
International monetary system and foreign exchange
Latin America
Mexico
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act 

 
 This bill amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to include as a &quot;countervailable subsidy&quot; requiring action under a countervailing duty or antidumping duty proceeding the benefit conferred on merchandise imported into the United States from foreign countries with fundamentally undervalued currency.
 
A &quot;benefit conferred,&quot; in cases where the currency of a foreign country is exchanged for foreign currency (i.e., U.S. dollars) obtained from export transactions, is defined as the difference between: (1) the amount of currency provided by a foreign country in which the subject merchandise is produced, and (2) the amount of currency such country would have provided if the real effective exchange rate of its currency were not fundamentally undervalued.
 
The fact that such a subsidy is also provided in circumstances not involving export shall not, for that reason alone, mean it cannot be considered export contingent and actionable under a countervailing duty and antidumping duty proceeding.
 
The administering authority shall determine that the currency of a foreign country is fundamentally undervalued if for an 18-month period: (1) the government of the country engages in protracted, large-scale intervention in one or more foreign exchange markets; (2) the country's real effective exchange rate is undervalued by at least 5%; (3) the country has experienced significant and persistent global current account surpluses; and (4) the country's government has foreign asset reserves exceeding the amount necessary to repay all its debt obligations falling due within the coming 12 months, 20% percent of the country's money supply, and the value of the country's imports during the previous 4 months.
 
The bill requires the use, for calculating a country's &quot;real effective exchange rate undervaluation,&quot; of certain guidelines of the Consultative Group on Exchange Rate Issues of the International Monetary Fund or, if those guidelines are not available, generally accepted economic and econometric techniques and methodologies. Requires the use, also, of inflation-adjusted, trade-weighted exchange rates.
 
The amendments made by this Act shall apply to goods from Canada and Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Defense Spending Accountability Act

Bill: 115-hr-2040
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Jason [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Defense spending
Department of Defense
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Defense Spending Accountability Act

 
This bill imposes on the Deputy Secretary of Defense (Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense [DOD]), the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), and the Chief Management Officer of each of the military departments: (1) a 5% pay cut if certain financial statements are not validated as ready for audit by September 30, 2017, and (2) a 10% pay cut if such statements for FY2018 are not ready for audit by March 31, 2019.
 
The bill prescribes the following due process protections for such officials: (1) notice and opportunity to respond, and (2) appeal rights.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House