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Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Healthcare Services Act

Bill: 115-hr-2566
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2017-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Abortion
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Marketing and advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: 

Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Healthcare Services Act

 
This bill requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate rules to prohibit, as an unfair and deceptive act or practice, a person from advertising with the intent to deceptively create the impression that: (1) such person is a provider of abortion services if such person does not provide such services, or (2) such person is not a provider of abortion services if such person does provide such services.
 
&quot;Abortion services&quot; is defined as providing surgical and non-surgical procedures to terminate a pregnancy, or providing referrals for such procedures.
 
The bill sets forth the enforcement authority of the FTC, including with respect to nonprofit organizations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E679-680)
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Access to Birth Control Act

Bill: 115-hr-2567
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2017-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Family planning and birth control
Health care coverage and access
Health technology, devices, supplies

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: 

Access to Birth Control Act

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require pharmacies to comply with certain rules related to contraceptives, including: (1) providing a customer a contraceptive without delay if it is in stock; (2) immediately informing a customer if the contraceptive is not in stock and either transferring the prescription to a pharmacy that has the contraceptive in stock or ordering the contraceptive and notifying the customer when it arrives, based on customer preference, except for pharmacies that do not ordinarily stock contraceptives; and (3) ensuring that pharmacy employees do not take certain actions relating to a request for contraception, including intimidating, threatening, or harassing customers, interfering with the delivery of services, intentionally deceiving customers about the availability or mechanism of action of contraception, breaching or threatening to breach medical confidentiality, or refusing to return a prescription. 
 
The bill does not prohibit a pharmacy from refusing to provide a contraceptive to a customer if: (1) it is unlawful to dispense the contraceptive to the customer without a prescription and no prescription is presented; (2) the customer is unable to pay for the contraceptive; or (3) the pharmacy employee refuses to provide the contraceptive on the basis of a professional clinical judgment.
 
The bill does not preempt state law or any professional obligation of a state board that provides greater protections for customers.
 
Civil penalties and a private cause of action are established for violations of this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Appalachian Ethane Storage Hub Study Act

Bill: 115-hr-2568
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2017-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Oil and gas
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: 

Appalachian Ethane Storage Hub Study Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Energy and the Department of Commerce to study the feasibility of establishing an ethane storage and distribution hub in the Marcellus, Utica, and Rogersville shale plays located in the Appalachian region of the United States. 
 
The study must include potential locations for the hub, the economic feasibility and benefits of the project, infrastructure needs, and potential benefits of the hub to energy security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Transparency in All Health Care Pricing Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2569
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2017-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Civil actions and liability
Consumer affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Inflation and prices
Medicaid
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: 

Transparency in All Health Care Pricing Act of 2017

 
This bill requires entities that offer or furnish health care related products or services to the public, including health insurers and government agencies, to disclose the price for those products and services at the point of purchase and on the Internet. The entities must disclose all prices, including wholesale, retail, and discounted prices, that are accepted as payment in full for products and services furnished to individual consumers.
 The Department of Health and Human Services may investigate and impose civil penalties on entities that fail to comply with this requirement.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Mortgage Fairness Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2570
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2017-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Consumer credit
Housing finance and home ownership
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: 

Mortgage Fairness Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Truth in Lending Act to revise the definition of "points and fees," for purposes of determining whether a mortgage is a "high-cost mortgage," to: (1) exclude compensation taken into account in setting the interest rate and for which the consumer was not separately charged, and (2) include compensation paid by a consumer or creditor to an individual employed by or contracting with a mortgage originator. (A high-cost mortgage designation restricts the terms of a loan and requires a lender to make certain disclosures to the borrower.) 

action_date: 2018-11-14
text: 

Mortgage Fairness Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Truth in Lending Act to revise the definition of "points and fees," for purposes of determining whether a mortgage is a "high-cost mortgage," to: (1) exclude compensation taken into account in setting the interest rate and for which the consumer was not separately charged, and (2) include compensation paid by a consumer or creditor to an individual employed by or contracting with a mortgage originator. (A high-cost mortgage designation restricts the terms of a loan and requires a lender to make certain disclosures to the borrower.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-11-14
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 801.
action_date: 2018-11-14
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 115-1024.
action_date: 2018-11-14
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 115-1024.
action_date: 2018-07-24
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 34 - 22.
action_date: 2018-07-24
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
STAR Act

Bill: 115-hr-2571
Sponsor: Rep. Posey, Bill [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2017-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Licensing and registrations
Space flight and exploration
Spacecraft and satellites
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: 

Spaceflight Training and Astronaut Reform Act or the STAR Act

 
This bill includes space support vehicles and training among the vehicles and purposes, respectively, for which the Department of Transportation (DOT) may establish safety approval procedures relating to an experimental permit for conducting commercial space launch or reentry activities. 
 
A &quot;space support vehicle&quot; is defined as an aircraft operating at a spaceport licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration that simulates space flight conditions in support of training for space flight participants or crew or testing of space flight hardware. 
 
The bill expands the vehicles for which DOT may issue an experimental permit to include reusable suborbital rockets, reusable launch vehicles, or space support vehicles, that will be launched into a suborbital trajectory, reentered, or flown for training or research purposes, including to simulate launch, reentry, or space flight conditions. 
 
The bill prohibits a space support vehicle from operating under a permit issued pursuant to this bill unless it has a valid letter of deviation authority. DOT shall issue such letter within 60 days after the permit is provided, to the extent consistent with maintaining health and safety. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Protect Family Values at the Border Act

Bill: 115-hr-2572
Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40]
Introduced: 2017-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Family relationships
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Human rights
Immigrant health and welfare
Immigration status and procedures
International law and treaties
Latin America
Lawyers and legal services
Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: 

Protect Family Values at the Border Act 

 
 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shall: (1) consider safety and family concerns in any action related to the repatriation or prosecution of individuals apprehended for immigration violations, and (2) provide related training for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and cooperating entity personnel. 
 
 DHS, with certain exceptions, shall certify every 180 days that it has deported or otherwise removed an apprehended individual from the United States through an entry or exit point on the southern border only during daylight hours. 
 
 DHS shall promulgate regulations establishing short-term custody standards providing for basic minimums of care at all CBP facilities holding individuals in CBP custody.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Accessing Higher Education Opportunities Act

Bill: 115-hr-2573
Sponsor: Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2017-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Health personnel
Higher education
Medical education
Minority education
Minority employment

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: 

Accessing Higher Education Opportunities Act

 
This bill amends title V (Developing Institutions) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand grant activities under the Hispanic Serving Institutions program to include: (1) support programs that facilitate student advancement to doctoral degree programs in health care occupations, and (2) the development of or expanded access to dual or concurrent enrollment programs and early college high school programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Building a Health Care Workforce for the Future Act

Bill: 115-hr-2574
Sponsor: Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2017-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Dental care
Education programs funding
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Mental health
Nursing
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: 

Building a Health Care Workforce for the Future Act

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award matching grants to enable states to implement scholarship programs to ensure an adequate supply of health professionals. Scholarships must cover tuition and educational expenses and provide a cost-of-living stipend. Scholarship recipients must agree to serve as providers in shortage areas in the state for one year for each year they receive the scholarship.
 
HHS may award grants to assist medical schools in developing and strengthening primary care mentorship programs and cultivating leaders in primary care among its students.
 
In order to foster curricular innovations to improve the education and training of health care providers, HHS must award grants to medical and other health professions schools to promote priority competencies that are selected annually by the Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry.
 
The National Academy of Medicine (formerly known as the Institute of Medicine) must study the documentation requirements for cognitive services under Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurers, including whether the requirements are overly burdensome.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
BENES Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2575
Sponsor: Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2017-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government information and archives
Medicare
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: 

Beneficiary Enrollment Notification and Eligibility Simplification Act of 2017 or the BENES Act of 2017

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to:
 
 
establish requirements for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to notify individuals of their potential eligibility for Medicare, 
 
require the Internal Revenue Service to disclose to CMS specified taxpayer information for the purpose of establishing individuals' potential Medicare eligibility, and 
 
restructure Medicare enrollment periods and coverage periods.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Incentivize Growth Now In Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2576
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2017-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Business investment and capital
Income tax exclusion
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: 

Incentivize Growth Now In Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs Act of 201

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This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to create tax-exempt small business start-up savings accounts to pay for the start-up expenses of a business that does not employ more than 50 full-time employees during a taxable year. Cash contributions to such accounts are allowed up to the lesser of $10,000 or the amount of compensation includible in the taxpayer's gross income for the taxable year.
 
(Start-up expenditures are paid or incurred in connection with: (1) investigating the creation or acquisition of an active trade or business; (2) creating an active trade or business; or (3) any activity engaged in for profit and for the production of income before the day on which the active trade or business begins, in anticipation of the activity becoming an active trade or business.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Jobs in America Act

Bill: 115-hr-2577
Sponsor: Rep. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ-9]
Introduced: 2017-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Congressional oversight
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
U.S. and foreign investments
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: 

Jobs in America Act

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish an employment-based, conditional immigrant visa (StartUp visa) for a sponsored alien entrepreneur: (1) with required amounts of financial backing from a qualifying investor or venture capitalist; and (2) whose commercial activities will generate required levels of employment, revenue, or capital investment.
 
The Department of Homeland Security shall terminate the status of a sponsored entrepreneur (and the alien spouse and children of such entrepreneur) if not later than three years after the date on which such permanent resident status was conferred: (1) the sponsoring venture capitalist or investor fails to meet investment requirements; or (2) the entrepreneur fails to meet job creation, capital investment, or revenue requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Introduced in House