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Advancing Youth Enrollment Act

Bill: 115-s-2529
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2018-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Income tax credits
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-08
text: 

Advancing Youth Enrollment Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the premium assistance tax credits that are available to taxpayers with household members who are 18-34 years old. (The credit is available to eligible individuals and families to subsidize the purchase of health insurance plans on an exchange established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.)
 
The bill allows increased tax credits for the taxpayers by reducing the maximum percentage of income that the taxpayers are required to pay for health insurance premiums. This percentage is used to calculate the amount of the credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2018-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Safe Equitable Campus Resources and Education Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-2530
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2018-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Domestic violence and child abuse
Government information and archives
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Higher education
Law enforcement officers
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-08
text: 

Safe Equitable Campus Resources and Education Act of 2018

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to address the needs of individuals with disabilities, such as their needs if a campus is evacuated or their needs if they are victims of sex offenses, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking incidents. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2018-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Red Cliffs Desert Reserve Completion Act

Bill: 115-s-2531
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2018-03-08 in the Senate
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-08
text: Provides for the relief of James Doyle, doing business as Rocky Mountain Ventures and Environmental Land Technologies, Ltd.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2018-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
NURSE Act

Bill: 115-s-2532
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2018-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: 

Nurses for Under-Resourced Schools Everywhere Act or the NURSE Act

 
This bill establishes a competitive demonstration grant program through which the Department of Education (ED) shall award matching funds to increase the number of school nurses in public elementary and secondary schools served by an eligible entity. An eligible entity is a state educational agency or local educational agency (LEA) in which at least 20% of students are eligible to participate in the school lunch program. 
 
In awarding grant funds, ED shall give priority to high-need LEAs that demonstrate the greatest need for new or additional nursing services. A high-need LEA is one in which at least 40% and no fewer than 15,000 students are eligible to participate in the school lunch program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Access to Mental Health Services Act

Bill: 115-s-2533
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2018-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Mental health
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: 

Improving Access to Mental Health Services Act

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to allow National Health Service Corps (NHSC) personnel who are assigned to provide health services in a health professional shortage area to provide services as behavioral and mental health professionals at schools or other community-based settings and at the homes of patients. Services provided pursuant to this bill may count toward completion of obligated service requirements under the NHSC scholarship or loan repayment programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
CERTIFY Heroes Act

Bill: 115-s-2534
Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2018-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: 

Credentialing, Educating, and Relevant Training Initiative For Your Heroes Act or the CERTIFY Heroes Act

 
This bill allows tuition assistance provided under the Department of Defense's educational assistance program to be used for licensing and certification programs offered by entities other than institutions of higher education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Opioid Quota Reform Act

Bill: 115-s-2535
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2018-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Justice
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health information and medical records

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: 

Opioid Quota Reform Act

 
This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to require the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to consider additional factors&#8212;the impact on overall public health and rates of diversion, abuse, and overdose deaths&#8212;in setting and adjusting production and manufacturing quotas for fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, oxymorphone, and hydromorphone. 
 
Additionally, if the DEA increases the production quota of fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, oxymorphone, or hydromorphone, then it must explain why the public health benefits of increasing the quota outweigh the consequences of potential diversion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-06-19
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 473.
action_date: 2018-06-19
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2018-06-19
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2018-05-24
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1632)
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Sunshine State Act

Bill: 115-s-2536
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2018-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Florida
State and local government operations
Time and calendar

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: 

Sunshine State Act

 
This bill amends the Calder Act to provide that the standard time for Florida shall be Coordinated Universal Time retarded by four hours (i.e., Daylight Saving Time for the Eastern time zone). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Sunshine Protection Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-2537
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2018-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: State and local government operations
Time and calendar

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: 

Sunshine Protection Act of 2018

 
The bill amends the Uniform Time Act of 1966 to make daylight savings time the new, permanent standard time.
 
States with areas exempt from daylight savings time may choose the standard time for those areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit an increase in duties on imports of steel and aluminum.

Bill: 115-s-2538
Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2018-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Metals
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: 
This bill reinstates the rates of duty as of March 22, 2018, on certain steel and aluminum imports. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1632-1633)
action_date: 2018-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015, to reauthorize certain projects to increase Colorado River System water.

Bill: 115-s-2539
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2018-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Arizona
California
Colorado
Lakes and rivers
Nevada
Utah
Water resources funding
Water storage
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: 
This bill amends the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 to reauthorize through FY2022 the authority of the Department of the Interior to fund pilot projects to increase Colorado River System water in Lake Mead and the initial units of Colorado River Storage Project reservoirs to address the effects of historic drought conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-511.
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act

Bill: 115-s-2540
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2018-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Motor vehicles
Sports and recreation facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: 

Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the classification, for depreciation purposes, of any motorsports entertainment complex as seven-year property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Support Our Military Spouses Act

Bill: 115-s-2541
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2018-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: 

Support Our Military Spouses Act

 
This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to permit the spouse of a servicemember to elect to use the same residence as the servicemember for purposes of taxation and voting, regardless of the date on which the marriage of the spouse and the servicemember occurred.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
IDEA Full Funding Act

Bill: 115-s-2542
Sponsor: Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD]
Introduced: 2018-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: 

IDEA Full Funding Act

 
This bill amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to reauthorize and make appropriations for the grant program to assist states and outlying areas in providing special education and related services to children with disabilities.
 
The bill sets the amount to be appropriated for each fiscal year from FY2018-FY2026 as the greater of: (1) a specified amount, or (2) a specified percentage of an amount determined pursuant to a formula that multiplies the number of children receiving special education services by the average per-pupil expenditure in public elementary and secondary schools. The bill appropriates funds for FY2027 and each subsequent fiscal year equal to the greater of a specified amount or 40% of the amount determined using such formula. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Supporting Kinship Connections Act

Bill: 115-s-2543
Sponsor: Sen. Heitkamp, Heidi [D-ND]
Introduced: 2018-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
American Samoa
Child care and development
Child safety and welfare
Family relationships
Family services
Government information and archives
Guam
Indian social and development programs
Lawyers and legal services
Northern Mariana Islands
Oceania
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public-private cooperation
State and local government operations
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: 

Supporting Kinship Connections Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants for developing, enhancing, or evaluating kinship navigator programs; such programs help grandparents and other relative caregivers find and use services to meet the needs of the caregivers and the children they are raising.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2018-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Ending Too Big to Jail Act

Bill: 115-s-2544
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2018-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial crises and stabilization
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: 

Ending Too Big to Jail Act 

 
This bill amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to (1) replace the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program with the Office of the Special Inspector General for Financial Institution Crime, (2) task the office with investigating crimes within financial institutions and with conducting material-loss reviews when such institutions fail, and (3) otherwise revise provisions related to crime and fraud in financial institutions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Native Behavioral Health Access Improvement Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-2545
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
Introduced: 2018-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Indian social and development programs
Mental health
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: 

Native Behavioral Health Access Improvement Act of 2018

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Indian Health Service (IHS) to award grants to Indian health facilities for the prevention and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders. The IHS must establish a technical assistance center for grantees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
MASS Act

Bill: 115-s-2546
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2018-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: 

Making America Safe and Secure Act of 2018 or the MASS Act

 
This bill authorizes grants for states to implement or maintain firearms licensing requirements. 
 
A state's requirements must incorporate certain elements, including the following:
 
 
all firearms owners must have a firearms license; and 
 
any person who sells ammunition or sells, rents, or leases a minimum number of firearms must obtain a firearms dealer license. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
CLASS Act

Bill: 115-s-2547
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]
Introduced: 2018-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: 

Consolidating Losses Associated to Severe Storms Act of 2018 or the CLASS Act

 
This bill treats state educational facilities on a campus damaged by a major disaster in 2016 and 2017 as a single facility for purposes of the reduction of assistance provisions of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Veteran Urgent Access to Mental Healthcare Act

Bill: 115-s-2548
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2018-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: 

Veteran Urgent Access to Mental Healthcare Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to furnish to former members of the Armed Forces or the reserve components: (1) an initial mental health assessment; and (2) the mental health care services required to treat the member's urgent mental health care needs, including risk of suicide or harming others. 
 
 A former member of the Armed Forces is an individual who: 
 
 
served in the active military, naval, or air service, was discharged or released under a condition that is not honorable (except a dishonorable or bad conduct discharge), has applied for a character of service determination that has not yet been made, and is not otherwise eligible to enroll in the VA health care system by reason of such discharge or release; or 
 
while serving in the Armed Forces, was deployed in a theater of combat operations or an area at a time during which hostilities occurred in that area, participated in or experienced such combat operations or hostilities, or was the victim of a physical assault of a sexual nature, battery of a sexual nature, or sexual harassment.
 
 
The VA may provide such mental health care services at a non-VA facility under specifed circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1234 Saint Johns Place in Brooklyn, New York, as the "Major Robert Odell Owens Post Office".

Bill: 115-s-2549
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2018-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
New York City
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1234 Saint Johns Place in Brooklyn, New York, as the "Major Robert Odell Owens Post Office."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-03
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2018-07-03
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2018-06-29
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2018-06-28
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4807; text: CR S4807)
action_date: 2018-06-28
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4807; text: CR S4807)
action_date: 2018-06-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 453.
action_date: 2018-06-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2018-06-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2018-06-13
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 99 Macombs Place in New York, New York, as the "Tuskegee Airman Post Office Building".

Bill: 115-s-2550
Sponsor: Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2018-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
New York City
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 99 Macombs Place in New York, New York, as the "Tuskegee Airman Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Food for Peace Modernization Act

Bill: 115-s-2551
Sponsor: Sen. Corker, Bob [R-TN]
Introduced: 2018-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Africa
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Caribbean area
Congressional oversight
Food assistance and relief
Foreign aid and international relief
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: 

Food for Peace Modernization Act

 
This bill amends various provisions related to the Food for Peace Program administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development, including by (1) repealing provisions mandating funding for certain eligible organizations, (2) removing required minimum levels of spending on nonemergency assistance, and (3) extending authorities for micronutrient fortification programs and the John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate