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Hometown Heroes Relief Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4390
Sponsor: Rep. Gianforte, Greg [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Educational technology and distance education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
First responders and emergency personnel
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical education
Rural conditions and development
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: 

Hometown Heroes Relief Act of 2017

 
This bill reauthorizes through FY2022 and revises the Rural Emergency Medical Service Training and Equipment Assistance Program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act

Bill: 115-hr-4391
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2017-11-14 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Detention of persons
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign aid and international relief
Human rights
International law and treaties
Israel
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Lawyers and legal services
Middle East
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military facilities and property
Palestinians

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: 

Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children Act

 
This bill prohibits U.S. assistance to Israel from being used to support the military detention, interrogation, or ill-treatment of Palestinian children in violation of international humanitarian law or the use against Palestinian children of: (1) torture, inhumane, or degrading treatment; (2) physical violence or psychological abuse; (3) incommunicado or administrative detention; (4) solitary confinement; (5) denial of parental or legal access during interrogations; or (6) force or coercion to obtain a confession. 
 
The Department of State shall annually submit to Congress: (1) a certification that none of the funds obligated or expended in the previous fiscal year for assistance to Israel have been used to support any of such activities; or (2) if the State Department cannot make such certification, a report describing each activity and the amount of funds used by Israel in violation of this bill.
 
The State Department shall include in each annual report on the barring of development assistance to a country that engages in human rights violations a description of the nature and extent of detention, interrogation, or ill-treatment of Palestinian children by Israeli military forces or police in violation of international humanitarian law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Introduced in House
To provide that the provision of the Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs final regulation relating to changes in the payment amount for certain drugs and biologicals purchased under the 340B drug discount program shall have no force or effect, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-4392
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2017-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Inflation and prices
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: 
This bill nullifies a rule finalized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on November 13, 2017, that modifies payment under Medicare for certain drugs purchased through the 340B discount program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to clarify that employees of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China are to be treated as covered employees for purposes of such Act.

Bill: 115-hr-4393
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2017-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Asia
China
Congressional agencies
Congressional officers and employees
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Europe
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Human rights
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: 
This bill amends the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to specify that it covers employees of the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China and the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (also known as the Helsinki Commission).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Introduced in House
Bare County Buy-in Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4394
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2017-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicaid
Medicare
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: 

Bare County Buy-in Act of 2017

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a public health insurance option for individuals who do not have access to a qualified health plan through a health insurance exchange, in accordance with specified criteria.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-14
text: Introduced in House
ME TOO Congress Act

Bill: 115-hr-4396
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2017-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Assault and harassment offenses
Civil actions and liability
Congressional committees
Congressional officers and employees
Congressional operations and organization
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Employee leave
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Evidence and witnesses
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Lawyers and legal services
Members of Congress
Sex offenses
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: 

Member and Employee Training and Oversight On Congress Act or the ME TOO Congress Act

 
This bill amends the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (CAA) to revise procedures for reporting, investigating, and resolving allegations of legislative branch employees that their rights and protections under the CAA, such as protections against sexual harassment and discrimination, have been violated. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
California Wildfire Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4397
Sponsor: Rep. Walters, Mimi [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2017-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: California
Charitable contributions
Disaster relief and insurance
Employee benefits and pensions
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Poverty and welfare assistance
Tax treatment of families
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: 

California Wildfire Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow various tax credits, deductions, and modifications to existing rules for individuals and businesses affected by wildfires in California.
 
With respect to individuals and businesses in the affected areas, the bill: 
 
 
 waives the 10% additional tax on early distributions from retirement plans for up to $100,000 in distributions made on or after October 8, 2017, and before January 1, 2019; 
 
 permits individuals to recontribute funds to retirement plans if the funds were distributed for a home purchase in a wildfire disaster area that was cancelled on account of the wildfires; 
 
 increases the limit and extends the repayment deadline for loans from retirement plans; 
 
 allows an employee retention tax credit for a portion of the wages paid to an employee whose principal place of employment on specified dates was in a wildfire disaster zone; 
 
 temporarily suspends the limitation on charitable contributions for relief efforts in the wildfire disaster areas; 
 
 modifies the rules for the deduction for personal casualty losses, and 
 
 allows taxpayers to use earned income from the immediately preceding year for the purpose of determining earned income for the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit. 
 
 
The bill is designated as an emergency requirement, which exempts the budgetary effects of the bill from certain budget enforcement rules, such as Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) rules.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2017-11-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
Safe Emergency Response Act

Bill: 115-hr-4398
Sponsor: Rep. Barragan, Nanette Diaz [D-CA-44]
Introduced: 2017-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Detention of persons
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Immigration status and procedures
Intergovernmental relations
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: 

Safe Emergency Response Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to suspend immigration enforcement operations and initiatives, including initiatives associated with evacuations or sheltering and the use of checkpoints within an area for which the President has declared a major disaster or an emergency.
 
State and local immigration enforcement participation, including lawful detentions of non-citizens, shall be suspended except in cases specifically identified by DHS and communicated to the state or locality that pose an urgent and individualized threat to public safety or national security. 
 
With respect to persons in state or local detention during a major disaster or an emergency, DHS is urged to support state and local law enforcement agencies to prioritize the safety needs of their communities and individual detainees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
PSLF Technical Corrections Act

Bill: 115-hr-4399
Sponsor: Rep. Boyle, Brendan F. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2017-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Higher education
Law enforcement officers
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: 

PSLF Technical Corrections Act

 
This bill amends the the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) under the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program. Under current law, the PSLF program forgives the the balance of a borrower's student debt after the borrower makes 120 qualifying loan payments under specified repayment plans while while employed in a public service job. This bill expands the program to include comparable payments under additional repayment plans as payments that qualify borrowers for loan forgiveness under PSLF.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
Farm to Table Safety Act

Bill: 115-hr-4400
Sponsor: Rep. Cárdenas, Tony [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2017-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural education
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: 

Farm to Table Safety Act

 
 This bill amends the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to modify the food safety education program authorized in the Act. The bill requires the Department of Agriculture to: (1) include farm workers in the program; and (2) expand the scope of the program to include practices that prevent bacterial contamination of food, methods of identifying sources of food contamination, and other means of decreasing food contamination. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
Recidivism Reduction Act

Bill: 115-hr-4401
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2017-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Disability assistance
Family relationships
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
Poverty and welfare assistance
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: 

Recidivism Reduction Act

 
This bill requires the reinstatement of Medicaid benefits and Social Security disability benefits that were suspended due to a beneficiary's incarceration. Specifically, the bill requires:
 
 
the post-release reinstatement of a beneficiary's Medicaid benefits without a requirement for the beneficiary to reapply; 
 
the post-release reinstatement of a beneficiary's Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits without a requirement for the beneficiary to reapply, if the beneficiary received SSI benefits on the basis of blindness or disability; and 
 
the establishment of a system for a beneficiary who received Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) benefits on the basis of disability to apply, prior to release, for the resumption of OASDI benefits. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-11-15
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: 2017-11-15
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: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
Streamlining FAFSA Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4402
Sponsor: Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2017-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government information and archives
Higher education
Poverty and welfare assistance
Student aid and college costs
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: 

Streamlining FAFSA Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise the expected family contributions for certain independent students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
Moving Americans Privacy Protection Act

Bill: 115-hr-4403
Sponsor: Rep. Denham, Jeff [R-CA-10]
Introduced: 2017-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Business records
Customs enforcement
Government information and archives
Marine and inland water transportation
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: 

Moving Americans Privacy Protection Act

 
This bill amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to revise requirements regarding the public disclosure of personally identifiable information contained in the manifest of vessels or aircraft entering any U.S. port or place to direct the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to ensure that any such information, including social security numbers, passport numbers, and residential addresses, are removed from any manifest signed and transmitted to the CBP before it is disclosed to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-04-18
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2018-04-17
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2018-04-17
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3359)
action_date: 2018-04-17
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H3359)
action_date: 2018-04-17
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4403.
action_date: 2018-04-17
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3359-3364)
action_date: 2018-04-17
text: Mr. Reichert moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2018-04-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 490.
action_date: 2018-04-16
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 115-639.
action_date: 2018-04-16
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 115-639.
action_date: 2018-04-11
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2018-04-11
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
State CHIP Flexibility Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4404
Sponsor: Rep. Emmer, Tom [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2017-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: 

State CHIP Flexibility Act of 2017

 
This bill establishes an exception to the requirement that unused Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) allotments to states for FY2017 be reduced by one-third. A state shall receive the exception if: (1) the remaining allotment amounts are with respect to expenditures incurred during any quarter of FY2017, (2) the state submitted a claim under its child health plan after September 30, 2017 and before December 31, 2017, and (3) the state could have alternatively submitted a claim for federal funding under its state Medicaid program. 
 

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4558 Broadway in New York, New York, as the "Stanley Michaels Post Office Building".

Bill: 115-hr-4405
Sponsor: Rep. Espaillat, Adriano [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2017-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
New York City
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4558 Broadway in New York, New York, as the "Stanley Michaels Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-06
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2018-02-06
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-11-15
text: Introduced in House