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Private Corrado Piccoli Purple Heart Preservation Act

Bill: 115-s-765
Sponsor: Sen. Perdue, David [R-GA]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Conflicts and wars
Marketing and advertising
Military personnel and dependents
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Private Corrado Piccoli Purple Heart Preservation Act

 
This bill provides that regulations restricting the purchase, production, sale, or exchange of military medals or decorations may not authorize the sale of a Purple Heart awarded to a member of the Armed Forces, unless the sale is conducted by the member to whom the Purple Heart was awarded.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-08-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-08-04
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2017-08-03
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2017-08-03
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2017-08-03
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2017-08-03
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S4806)
action_date: 2017-08-03
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2017-08-03
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend titles 10 and 32, United States Code, to improve and enhance authorities relating to the employment, use, status, and benefits of military technicians (dual status), and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-s-766
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 
This bill revises provisions concerning military technicians (dual status), including by: (1) transferring authority to issue regulations regarding the employment, use, and status of such technicians from the Departments of the Army and the Air Force to the Department of Defense (DOD); and (2) requiring that such individuals be outside the competitive service and be appointed and administered by an adjutant general.
 
An individual who becomes employed as such a technician while already a member of a reserve component of the armed forces shall not have to repay any enlistment, reenlistment, or affiliation bonus provided before such employment.
 
The bill: (1) makes such technicians eligible for TRICARE, and (2) sets forth FY2018 end strengths for the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard.
 
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 is amended to reduce from 20% to 4.8% the percentage of technician positions filled in administration, clerical, finance, and office service occupations as of October 1, 2017, that DOD must convert to civilian positions.
 
 A governor or the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard may order a member of the National Guard to perform active Guard and Reserve duty in support of state missions.
 
The bill modifies personnel management authorities of the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, including by requiring adjutants general to exercise the Chief's authority to employ, administer, and assign certain persons within their jurisdictions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Air, Healthy Kids Act

Bill: 115-s-767
Sponsor: Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Executive agency funding and structure
Nuclear power
Oil and gas
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Clean Air, Healthy Kids Act

 
This bill nullifies the Executive Order entitled "Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth" that was signed on March 28, 2017. No federal funds may be used to implement or enforce the order. 
 
This bill may not be construed to impair any authority granted to the President.
 
The bill takes effect on March 28, 2017.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2101-2102)
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Smart Manufacturing Leadership Act

Bill: 115-s-768
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Computers and information technology
Energy efficiency and conservation
Government studies and investigations
Industrial facilities
Industrial policy and productivity
Manufacturing
Materials
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Smart Manufacturing Leadership Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to complete a national plan for smart manufacturing technology (certain advanced technologies in information, automation, monitoring, computation, sensing, modeling, and networking) development and deployment to improve the productivity and energy efficiency of the U.S. manufacturing sector.
 
DOE must expand the scope of technologies covered by Industrial Assessment Centers to include smart manufacturing technologies and practices and to equip the centers' directors with the training and tools necessary to provide technical assistance in smart manufacturing technologies and practices.
 
 DOE must: (1) study how it can increase access to existing high-performance computing resources in the National Laboratories, and (2) facilitate access to the laboratories by small and medium manufacturers.
 
DOE may make grants to states for supporting the implementation of smart manufacturing technologies. States must use those grants to: (1) provide access to shared supercomputing facilities to small and medium manufacturers, (2) fund research and development of transformational manufacturing processes and materials technology that advance smart manufacturing, and (3) provide tools and training to aid the adoption of energy management systems and implement smart manufacturing technologies in the manufacturers' facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-769
Sponsor: Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Licensing and registrations
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Radiation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act of 2017

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise physician supervision requirements under the Medicare program for radiology services performed by advanced level radiographers. Specifically, with respect to a state that has established such requirements for those services, the bill aligns Medicare's requirements with state requirements.
 
An "advanced level radiographer" is a radiographer who has obtained specified certification from either the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists or the Certification Board for Radiology Practitioner Assistants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Modernizing American Manufacturing Bonds Act

Bill: 115-s-773
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Modernizing American Manufacturing Bonds Act

 
 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to qualified small issue bonds for manufacturing purposes, to expand the definition of &quot;manufacturing facility&quot; to include a facility that: (1) is used in the creation or production of intangible property; or (2) is functionally related, subordinate to, and located on the same site as a facility used in the manufacturing or production of tangible personal property or in the creation or production of intangible property. The bill also increases from $10 million to $30 million the maximum bond limitation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-774
Sponsor: Sen. Heitkamp, Heidi [D-ND]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Advisory bodies
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Food assistance and relief
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Indian social and development programs
Judicial procedure and administration
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Minority education
Preschool education
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families Act of 2017

 
This bill establishes: (1) the Interagency Task Force on Trauma-Informed Care; (2) the National Law Enforcement Child and Youth Trauma Coordinating Center; (3) the Native American Technical Assistance Resource Center to provide trauma-informed technical assistance; and (4) Medicaid demonstration projects to test innovative, trauma-informed approaches for delivering early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment services to eligible children. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must encourage states to collect and report data on adverse childhood experiences.
 
The bill amends the Public Health Service Act, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, and other laws to revise or establish provisions related to trauma, including provisions regarding the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, Performance Partnership Pilots, health professional shortage areas, and training of school personnel, court personnel, and health care providers. The Department of Education may award grants for the improvement of trauma support services and mental health care for children in educational settings. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Religious Worker Visa Improvement Act

Bill: 115-s-775
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2017-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Religion
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: 

Religious Worker Visa Improvement Act

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit a consular officer from issuing a nonimmigrant R-visa (for a religious worker and accompanying or joining spouse or child), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from granting such status, to an alien until DHS has approved a petition filed on the alien's behalf. 
 
An eligible petitioner may file a blanket petition, in lieu of individual petitions, on behalf of aliens meeting 
 specified requirements for blanket petition inclusion. 
 
DHS may only include in approval of a blanket petition missionary service locations for which DHS has previously conducted a site inspection in connection with an individual petition for a religious worker. 
 
A petitioner may file a petition at any time to amend the list of previously authorized missionary service locations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Marijuana Revenue and Regulation Act

Bill: 115-s-776
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2017-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Department of Justice
Department of the Treasury
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Executive agency funding and structure
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government studies and investigations
Judicial review and appeals
Licensing and registrations
Marketing and advertising
Retail and wholesale trades
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: 

Marijuana Revenue and Regulation Act 

 
This bill removes marijuana from the list of controlled substances and establishes requirements for the taxation and regulation of marijuana products. 
 
The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose: (1) an excise tax on any marijuana product produced in or imported into the United States, and (2) an occupational tax on marijuana production facilities and export warehouses. 
 
The term "marijuana product" does not include: (1) any article containing marijuana which has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for sale for therapeutic purposes and is marketed and sold solely for such purpose, or (2) industrial hemp
 
The excise tax includes exemptions for: (1) products that are used for research or by government entities for nonconsumption purposes; and (2) the transfer of products between production, import, and export facilities. A credit or refund of the tax must be issued for products that are withdrawn from the market, lost, or destroyed.
 
The Department of Justice must remove marijuana from all schedules of controlled substances under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The bill amends the CSA to require penalties for shipping or transporting marijuana into any state or jurisdiction where it is illegal. 
 
The bill requires producers, importers, and exporters of marijuana products to: 
 
 
 obtain a permit and a bond covering tax liability from the Department of the Treasury prior to beginning operations; 
 
 meet recordkeeping requirements; and 
 
comply with certain policies and restrictions regarding packaging, labeling, and advertising.
 
 
The bill also:
 
 
establishes penalties for violations of marijuana laws; 
 
prohibits the sale of more than one ounce of marijuana in any single retail transaction; and 
 
provides specified authorities to the Food and Drug Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives with respect to marijuana. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Tax Equity Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-777
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2017-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Business investment and capital
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: 

Small Business Tax Equity Act of 201

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This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a trade or business that conducts marijuana sales in compliance with state law from the prohibition against allowing business-related tax credits or deductions for expenditures in connection with trafficking in controlled substances. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Prescription Drug Monitoring Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-778
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2017-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Intergovernmental relations
Prescription drugs
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: 

Prescription Drug Monitoring Act of 

2017

 
This bill requires a state that receives grant funds under the prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) or the controlled substance monitoring program to comply with specified requirements, including a requirement to share its PDMP data with other states. The Department of Justice (DOJ) or Department of Health and Human Services may withhold grant funds from a state that fails to comply.
 
 To facilitate data sharing among states, the bill directs DOJ to award a grant under the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Grant Program to establish and maintain a data-sharing hub.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Stronger Enforcement of Civil Penalties Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-779
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2017-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Financial services and investments
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: 

Stronger Enforcement of Civil Penalties Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to increase civil and administrative monetary penalties for securities laws violations.
 
The bill also adds a fourth tier of monetary penalties for violations by a person that, within the five-year period preceding the violation: (1) was criminally convicted for securities fraud; or (2) became subject to a judgment or order imposing monetary, equitable, or administrative relief in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) action alleging fraud.
 
In addition, the bill expands penalties for violations of certain federal court injunctions or SEC orders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2153-2154)
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Responsibly Addressing the Marijuana Policy Gap Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-780
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2017-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Bankruptcy
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Business expenses
Business records
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Veterans Affairs
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Federal-Indian relations
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Higher education
Housing and community development funding
Immigration status and procedures
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
Marketing and advertising
Medical research
Minority health
Personnel records
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: 

Responsibly Addressing the Marijuana Policy Gap Act of 2017

 
This bill amends various provisions of law and sets forth new provisions: 
 
 
to eliminate regulatory controls and administrative, civil, and criminal penalties under the Controlled Substances Act for marijuana-related activities authorized by state or tribal law (i.e., state-authorized); 
 
 to allow businesses that sell marijuana in compliance with state or tribal law to claim certain federal tax credits and deductions; 
 
to eliminate restrictions on print and broadcast advertising of state-authorized marijuana-related activities; 
 
to create protections for depository institutions that provide financial services to marijuana-related businesses; 
 
 to specify that a marijuana-related business is entitled to federal bankruptcy protections; 
 
to establish a process to expunge criminal records related to certain marijuana-related convictions; 
 
 to reestablish federal student aid eligibility for certain students convicted of a misdemeanor offense for marijuana possession; 
 
 to exempt real property from civil forfeiture due to state-authorized marijuana-related conduct; 
 
to prohibit the inadmissibility or deportability of aliens for state-authorized marijuana-related conduct; 
 
 to specify that drug-related criminal activity, which is prohibited in federally assisted housing, does not include state-authorized marijuana-related conduct; 
 
to establish a new, separate registration process to facilitate medical marijuana research; 
 
 to authorize health care providers employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs to recommend participation in state marijuana programs; and 
 
to authorize medical providers through an Indian health program to make medical recommendations regarding marijuana. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-781
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2017-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Evidence and witnesses
Federal preemption
Health care quality
Health personnel
Licensing and registrations
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: 

Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to shield a health care professional from liability under federal or state law for harm caused by any act or omission if: (1) the professional is serving as a volunteer in response to a disaster; and (2) the act or omission occurs during the period of the disaster, in the professional's capacity as a volunteer, and in a good faith belief that the individual being treated is in need of health care services.
 
This protection from liability does not apply if: (1) the harm was caused by an act or omission constituting willful or criminal misconduct, gross negligence, reckless misconduct, or a conscious flagrant indifference to the rights or safety of the individual harmed; or (2) the professional rendered the health care services under the influence of alcohol or an intoxicating drug.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate