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To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to remove the matching requirement for a territory to use specially allocated Federal funds for Medicare covered part D drugs for low-income individuals.

Bill: 115-hr-797
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner González-Colón, Jenniffer [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid
Medicare
Prescription drugs
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to establish a Federal Medical Assistance Percentage of 100% with respect to a U.S. territory's use of specified federal funds to provide covered drugs to low-income individuals who are eligible for the Medicare prescription drug benefit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Child Tax Credit Equity for Puerto Rico Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-798
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner González-Colón, Jenniffer [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caribbean area
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Puerto Rico
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 

Child Tax Credit Equity for Puerto Rico Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the refundable portion of the child tax credit, to: (1) allow residents of Puerto Rico to claim the refundable portion of the child tax credit on the same basis as U.S. taxpayers, and (2) allow residents of Puerto Rico with one or two children to claim the refundable portion of the credit on the same basis as residents with three or more children. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Shift Back to Society Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-799
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, J. French [R-AR-2]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Education programs funding
Higher education
Law enforcement administration and funding
Minority education

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 

Shift Back to Society Act of 

2017

 
This bill directs the Department of Justice to establish a pilot program that awards matching grants to historically black colleges and universities to provide educational programs for eligible offenders to facilitate re-entry into the community. 
 
An eligible offender is a convicted criminal offender who has been released from incarceration for less than one year or who is scheduled to be released from incarceration within one year.
 
The Government Accountability Office must report to Congress on the results of the pilot program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Route 66 National Historic Trail Designation Act

Bill: 115-hr-801
Sponsor: Rep. LaHood, Darin [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 

Route 66 National Historic Trail Designation Act

 
This bill amends the National Trails System Act to designate a trail of approximately 2,400 miles extending from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, as the Route 66 National Historic Trail. 
 
The trail shall be administered by the National Park Service in a manner that respects and maintains its idiosyncratic nature. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
action_date: 2018-06-06
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2018-06-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2018-06-05
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4754-4755)
action_date: 2018-06-05
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H4754-4755)
action_date: 2018-06-05
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 801.
action_date: 2018-06-05
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4754-4758)
action_date: 2018-06-05
text: Mr. Bishop (UT) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2018-04-13
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 484.
action_date: 2018-04-13
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-633.
action_date: 2018-04-13
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-633.
action_date: 2018-01-10
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2018-01-10
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2018-01-10
text: Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Aid to Allies Act

Bill: 115-hr-802
Sponsor: Rep. Meadows, Mark [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Africa
Arab-Israeli relations
Conflicts and wars
Foreign aid and international relief
Israel
Middle East
Palestinians
Rwanda
Senegal
Uganda
United Nations
West Bank

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 

Aid to Allies Act

 
This bill expresses the sense of Congress that: 
 
 
in periods of constrained resources all budget items deserve scrutiny, especially foreign aid dollars; 
 
rather than assisting governments that undermine our allies, such dollars would be better spent in countries that support the shared interests of the American people; and 
 
the Board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation should not enter into any compact with Senegal until the board reports to Congress regarding Senegal's eligibility to meet specified democratic and economic criteria that consider the impact of Senegal's co-sponsorship of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334 and other governance issues with respect to Senegal. 
 
 
Such resolution characterizes Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as illegal and demands cessation of settlement activities. 
 
The bill prohibits Senegal from receiving certain development assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for two years and makes such assistance available to Rwanda and Uganda.
 
The President's Malaria Initiative, the Feed the Future program, and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief are exempted from such prohibition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To direct the United States Postal Service to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Glendale, New York.

Bill: 115-hr-803
Sponsor: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: New York State
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 
This bill directs the U.S. Postal Service, not later than 180 days after its enactment, to designate a single, unique ZIP code applicable to the area encompassing only Glendale, New York. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Tulare Youth Recreation and Women's History Enhancement Act

Bill: 115-hr-805
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Historic sites and heritage areas
Land transfers
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Railroads

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 

Tulare Youth Recreation and Women's History Enhancement Act

 
This bill declares that, in order to promote recreational opportunities for youth and commemorate women's history in the city of Tulare, California, the United States authorizes the conveyance of, and relinquishes its reversionary interest in, specified Tulare Railroad Proposed Parcels that were retained as a right-of-way for the construction of a railroad and telegraph to the Pacific coast in 1866. 
 
The relinquishment of the U.S. reversionary interest shall be effective when Union Pacific Railroad conveys the parcels to the city of Tulare.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-06-26
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2018-06-25
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2018-06-25
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5593)
action_date: 2018-06-25
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5593)
action_date: 2018-06-25
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 805.
action_date: 2018-06-25
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5593-5594)
action_date: 2018-06-25
text: Mr. Bishop (UT) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2018-02-26
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 440.
action_date: 2018-02-26
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-579.
action_date: 2018-02-26
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-579.
action_date: 2018-01-17
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2018-01-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2018-01-17
text: Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2017-12-07
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-807
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 

Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2017

 
This bill repeals existing caps on Medicare payment for certain outpatient physical-therapy services and speech-language pathology services. Under current law, annual payment for such services is capped at $1,980 in 2017, with specified percentage increases to that limit in subsequent years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-02-01
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: 2017-02-01
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: 2017-02-01
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: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Fighting for Orange-Stricken Territories in the Eastern Region Act

Bill: 115-hr-809
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Dennis A. [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: American Samoa
Asia
Conflicts and wars
Disability and paralysis
Guam
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Northern Mariana Islands
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 

Fighting for Orange-Stricken Territories in the Eastern Region Act

 
This bill provides presumptive service connection to herbicide exposure, for purposes of eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs health benefits, for veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, or American Samoa during the Vietnam War and who show symptoms of medical conditions associated with such exposure. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-810
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Citizenship and naturalization
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Currency
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Firearms and explosives
Immigration status and procedures
Organized crime
Smuggling and trafficking
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 

Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to establish stand-alone criminal offenses for trafficking in firearms and straw purchasing of firearms. 
The bill expands the categories of prohibited persons (i.e., persons barred from receiving or possessing a firearm or ammunition) to include persons who intend: (1) to sell or transfer a firearm or ammunition to a prohibited person, (2) to sell or transfer a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug trafficking offense, or (3) to unlawfully export.
 
It increases the maximum prison term for the sale or transfer of a firearm to or the receipt or possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.
 
The bill revises the existing prohibition on transferring a firearm knowing that it will be used to commit a crime of violence or drug trafficking offense. It broadens the scope of the prohibition and increases the maximum prison term for a violator.
 
The bill also revises the existing prohibition on smuggling a firearm into the United States with the intent to unlawfully import or to promote a crime of violence or drug trafficking offense. It broadens the scope of the prohibition and increases the maximum prison term for a violator.
 
Finally, the bill makes it a crime to smuggle a firearm or ammunition out of the United States, or conspire or attempt to do so, with the intent to unlawfully export or to promote a crime of violence or drug trafficking offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
No Tax Subsidies for Stadiums Act

Bill: 115-hr-811
Sponsor: Rep. Russell, Steve [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion
Professional sports
Securities
Sports and recreation facilities
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 

No Tax Subsidies for Stadiums Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax exemption requirements for state and local bonds, to specify that bonds issued to finance professional sports stadiums meet the private security or payment test. (A state or local bond that satisfies both the private business use test and the private security or payment test is considered a private activity bond that is taxable unless it is used for certain qualified private activities.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Simeon Booker in recognition of his achievements in the field of journalism, including reporting during the Civil Rights movement, as well as social and political commentary.

Bill: 115-hr-812
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Congressional tributes
News media and reporting
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 
This bill directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal to Simeon Saunders Booker, Jr., in recognition of his achievements in the field of journalism, including his reporting during the civil rights movement and his social and political commentary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
All-Year ACCESS Act

Bill: 115-hr-813
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 

Affordability for Constant and Continual Education to Enhance Student Success Act or the All-Year ACCESS Act

 
 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase from one to two the number of Pell Grants an eligible student may receive in a single award year (i.e., it restores year-round Pell Grants). 
 
A student's total amount of Pell Grants must not exceed 150% of the maximum Pell Grant for that award year. Also, any period during which a student receives an additional Pell Grant counts toward that student's lifetime Pell Grant eligibility period. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify that the estate of a deceased veteran may receive certain accrued benefits upon the death of the veteran, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-814
Sponsor: Rep. Zeldin, Lee M. [R-NY-1]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 
 This bill provides for the payment of certain accrued benefits to the estate of a deceased veteran upon the veteran's death.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to adjust certain limits on the guaranteed amount of a home loan under the home loan program of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 115-hr-815
Sponsor: Rep. Zeldin, Lee M. [R-NY-1]
Introduced: 2017-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Housing finance and home ownership
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: 
This bill changes the maximum amount of a veteran's home loan of more than $144,000 that is guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs to 25% of the loan amount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-25
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2017-10-25
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-10-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-01
text: Introduced in House
FACT Act

Bill: 115-hr-816
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2017-02-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Department of Health and Human Services
Environmental health
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2017-02-02
text: 

Federal Accountability in Chemical Testing Act or the FACT Act

 
This bill amends the ICCVAM Authorization Act of 2000 to require the reports of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) to include a description of the progress on the development and use of alternative methods for toxicological testing by participating federal agencies.
 Federal agencies that require or recommend toxicological testing must provide the ICCVAM with the information needed to carry out the Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-02-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-02-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-02-02
text: Introduced in House