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Fair Housing for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1963
Sponsor: Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Domestic violence and child abuse
Housing discrimination
Housing finance and home ownership
Real estate business
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Fair Housing for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination against or regarding survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault in:
 
 
the sale or rental of housing and related activities, 
residential real estate-related transactions, and 
the provision of real estate brokerage services. 
 
 
This bill declares that nothing in the Act shall prohibit federal, state, or local government or other assistance or a preference program designed to assist or benefit domestic violence or sexual assault survivors in seeking, securing, or maintaining dwellings, shelters or any other form of housing.
 
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 is amended to prohibit intimidation in fair housing tranactions regarding survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in House
Community Mortgage Lender Regulatory Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1964
Sponsor: Rep. Williams, Roger [R-TX-25]
Introduced: 2017-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Government studies and investigations
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: 

Community Mortgage Lender Regulatory Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to specify that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) may audit, investigate, or take an enforcement action against a responsible community mortgage lender other than a depository institution or credit union, but only if requested to do so by one of several specified regulators or agencies. A "responsible community mortgage lender" is one that: (1) meets certain restrictions with respect to number and volume of mortgage loan originations and amount of either assets or net worth; and (2) has not, with respect to its mortgage loan originations and within a specified time frame, been subject to a cease and desist order or found by a court to have violated the law. 
 
Furthermore, the CFPB and other federal banking agencies are prohibited from requiring such a lender to audit one of its vendors or third-party contractors unless the CFPB or other agency has reasonable cause to believe that the vendor or contractor is causing the lender to violate the law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Introduced in House
LAND Act

Bill: 115-hr-1965
Sponsor: Rep. Tipton, Scott  R. [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
General public lands matters
Government information and archives
Land transfers
Property rights

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Land Adjacency Notification and Disclosure Act or LAND Act

 
 This bill amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to instruct the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide advance written notification to each owner of land that is adjacent to a parcel to be acquired to become public lands or National Forest System (NFS) lands. 
 
Interior or USDA must provide advance written notification to each owner of land that is adjacent to a parcel of public lands or NFS lands to be conveyed by sale, exchange, or other disposal method. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2017-04-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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 Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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 Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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
REAL Protection Act

Bill: 115-hr-1966
Sponsor: Rep. Tipton, Scott  R. [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: General public lands matters
Government information and archives
Land transfers
Property rights

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Resurveys Entitle Adjacent Landowners to Protection Act or the REAL Protection Act

 
 This bill directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to notify all property owners with land abutting or adjacent to federal land being resurveyed of the pending resurvey. A resurvey is an official rerunning and remarking intended to supersede the records of the original survey.
 
 The BLM shall notify affected landowners within 30 days of completion of the resurvey if it extends the boundaries of federal land. 
 
If a resurvey results in private land being reclassified as federal land, the affected landowners shall be given the right of first refusal to purchase the land for fair market value minus the value of any significant improvements made to such lands, or be reimbursed for the fair market value of any such improvements. Affected landowners may not be charged with willful trespass onto the land unless they used such lands with the knowledge that they should be classified as federal land. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-17
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
Military Asset Protection Act

Bill: 115-hr-1968
Sponsor: Rep. Dunn, Neal P. [R-FL-2]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Homeland security
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Military command and structure
Military facilities and property
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Military Asset Protection Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Defense (DOD), in order to mitigate the threat of an unmanned aircraft system or unmanned aircraft to the safety or security of a covered facility or asset or to classified information, to take actions or authorize the Armed Forces or DOD contractors to take actions to: (1) disrupt, seize control of, or confiscate the system or aircraft; (2) use reasonable force to disable or destroy the system or aircraft; or (3) disrupt, alter, or intercept any communications to or from the system or aircraft. DOD may provide exceptions to such provisions.
 
The bill provides that: (1) DOD shall develop such actions with Department of Transportation assistance, consistent with the protection of sensitive defense information; and (2) any such system or aircraft shall be subject to U.S. seizure and forfeiture.
 
&quot;Covered facility, asset, or classified information&quot; means any facility, asset, or classified information that is: (1) so identified by DOD; (2) located in the United States or its territories and possessions; and (3) relating to DOD's missions of nuclear deterrence, missile defense, national space security, or homeland defense or other DOD missions involving vital security or infrastructure assets or information. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces.
action_date: 2017-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 Transportation and Infrastructure, 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
Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1969
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Oil and gas
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require states, in order to obtain primary enforcement responsibility for a state underground injection control program, to prohibit the underground injection of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities unless the person proposing to conduct the hydraulic fracturing operations agrees to conduct testing and report data in accordance with this bill. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the geological formation.
 
Regulations under the Act for state underground injection control programs must require any person conducting such hydraulic fracturing operations to: (1) conduct testing of underground sources of drinking water in accordance with sampling and testing requirements described in this bill, and (2) report to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the testing results.
 
Hydraulic fracturing operations are exempted from those testing and reporting requirements if there is no accessible underground source of drinking water within a radius of one mile of the site where the operations occur.
 
The EPA must establish and maintain a publicly accessible and searchable database of testing results.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
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
Kerrie Orozco Act

Bill: 115-hr-1970
Sponsor: Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Citizenship and naturalization
First responders and emergency personnel
Immigration status and procedures
Marriage and family status
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Kerrie Orozco Act

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to declare that the following persons may be naturalized upon compliance with all naturalization requirements, except that no prior residence or specified physical presence within the United States shall be required:
 
 
a person who is the surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen who died as a result of injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by employment as a first responder; and
 
in the case of such a surviving spouse, the person was living in marital union with the citizen spouse at the time of the citizen spouse's death. 
 
 
The Department of Homeland Security shall provide for the granting of posthumous citizenship at the time of death to a person who, while an alien or a noncitizen national of the United States, died as a result of injury or disease incurred or aggravated while serving as a first responder.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
National Opportunity for Lead Exposure Accountability and Deterrence Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1974
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Daniel T. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government information and archives
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Metals
Public utilities and utility rates
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

National Opportunity for Lead Exposure Accountability and Deterrence Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revise the national primary drinking water regulations for lead and copper. The rule must direct:
 
 
public water systems (the systems) to meet certain reporting requirements;
 
 the EPA to develop a sampling protocol and develop instructions for compliance with the protocol;
 
 the EPA, or the state exercising primary enforcement responsibility, to require on-site investigations for identifying the source of lead in all residential or nonresidential facilities when their individual samples have concentrations of lead or copper contamination exceeding specified levels;
 
the systems to meet certain notification and reporting requirements when lead or copper concentration levels are exceeded;
 
the systems to develop and make publicly available an inventory of the material composition of the service lines at residential and nonresidential facilities;
 
the systems to collect and make publicly available information about the ownership of those service lines; and 
 
the systems to replace an entire lead service line (instead of partially replacing them) when they are replaced.
 
 
The EPA must also revise the rule to lower the allowable level of lead that may be contained in drinking water.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
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
Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1975
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Arms control and nonproliferation
Defense spending
International law and treaties
Licensing and registrations
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military operations and strategy
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2017

 
This bill prohibits federal agency funds from being obligated or expended to purchase, transfer, export, or use any cluster munitions unless: (1) the submunitions of such munitions, after arming, do not result in more than 1% unexploded ordnance across the range of intended operational environments; and (2) the policy applicable to the export or transfer of such munitions specifies that they will be used only against clearly defined military targets and not in areas normally inhabited by civilians or where civilians are known to be present.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that:
 
 
the Department of Defense should ensure that the July 2008 Gates policy on cluster munitions is being fully implemented and that the United States will no longer use such munitions by the end of 2018 except in compliance with the 1% unexploded ordnance limit;
 
 the U.S. government should adopt a policy and develop a strategy to phase out the transfer, export, and use of such munitions; 
 
 any alternatives that the government develops to replace cluster munitions should be compliant with the Convention on Cluster Munitions; and 
 
 the United States should take all steps necessary to accede to such convention. 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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 Foreign Affairs, 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 Foreign Affairs, 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
Protecting the Second Amendment Act

Bill: 115-hr-1976
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Evan H. [R-WV-3]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Protecting the Second Amendment Act

 
This bill prohibits subjecting a licensed gun dealer to a reporting requirement based on the geographic location of the gun dealer's business or the sale of multiple rifles or shotguns to the same person.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-01
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: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Veterans PARC Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1977
Sponsor: Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health facilities and institutions
Motor vehicles
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Veterans Priority Access to Reliable Care Act of 2017 or the Veterans PARC Act of 2017

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to use a passenger carrier to transport an individual employed at a VA medical facility between a parking facility and the medical facility.


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 Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
My Sister's Keeper Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1978
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Crime victims
Domestic violence and child abuse
Family relationships
Law enforcement administration and funding
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Domestic Violence Safety Plan Grant Program Act of 2017
 
or
 
My Sister's Keeper Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the Department of Justice to award grants to eligible state and local governments, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations to develop, promote, and teach the importance of the critical role played by relatives, friends, and co-workers in combating domestic violence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-01
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: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1979
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Evidence and witnesses
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Racial and ethnic relations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 201
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This bill prohibits a state from receiving for a fiscal year any drug control and system improvement (Byrne) grant funds under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, or any amount from any other federal law enforcement assistance program, unless the state does not fund any antidrug task forces for that fiscal year or it has in effect laws that ensure that: (1) a person is not convicted of a drug offense unless the fact that a drug offense was committed and the person's commission of the offense are supported by evidence other than the eyewitness testimony of a law enforcement officer or those acting on an officer's behalf, and (2) an officer may participate in an antidrug task force only if that officer's honesty and integrity are evaluated and found to be at an appropriately high level. 
 
 States receiving federal funds under this bill are directed to collect data on the racial distribution of drug charges, the nature of the criminal law specified in the charges, and the jurisdictions in which such charges are made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-01
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: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House