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Hate Crime Victim Assistance Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4065
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2017-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Hate crimes
Health programs administration and funding
Law enforcement administration and funding
Lawyers and legal services
Mental health
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: 

Hate Crime Victim Assistance Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to establish new Department of Justice (DOJ) grant programs: (1) for state and local governments, in partnership with stakeholders, service providers, and nonprofit entities, to establish and operate hate crime information and assistance websites and to establish or expand hate crime hotlines; and (2) for state and local law enforcement entities to establish education and training programs on solving and preventing hate crimes and establishing dialogues with members of at-risk groups.
 
Additionally, the bill directs DOJ to establish, in the Office of Victims of Crime, a grant program to support efforts by local organizations to establish or expand programs and activities that serve victims of hate crimes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Introduced in House
National Historic Vehicle Register Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4066
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2017-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Government information and archives
Historical and cultural resources
Library of Congress
Motor vehicles
Photography and imaging
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: 

National Historic Vehicle Register Act of 2017

 
 This bill directs the National Park Service (NPS) to establish and maintain a National Historic Vehicle Register which shall include: (1) a narrative describing each historic vehicle and its historical significance, (2) a photographic record of the vehicle, and (3) a line drawing or engineering drawing of the vehicle. Such register shall be archived in the Library of Congress.
 
 The NPS shall: (1) coordinate with the Historic Vehicle Association, American Motorcycle Heritage Foundation, and other appropriate organizations in order to invite owners of historic vehicles to participate in the register; and (2) develop criteria for the inclusion of historic vehicles on the register. 
 
 When developing such criteria, the NPS shall consider whether a vehicle is: (1) associated with an important event or a significant individual in automotive or U.S. history; (2) distinctive based on design, engineering, craftsmanship, or aesthetic value; or (3) of a particular type that was the first or last produced or among the most well-preserved or authentically restored examples of that type.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Kazakhstan.

Bill: 115-hr-4067
Sponsor: Rep. Walorski, Jackie [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2017-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
Kazakhstan
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: 
This bill authorizes the President to extend nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Kazakhstan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Introduced in House
Competitive Need Limitations Modernization Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4068
Sponsor: Rep. Walorski, Jackie [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2017-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Tariffs
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: 

Competitive Need Limitations Modernization Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Trade Act of 1974 to revise the competitive need limitation review process by: (1) modifying the deadline for the review process, and (2) establishing the relevant domestic production time frame for such review as within the preceding three years (currently on January 1, 1995). (The competitive need limitation terminates duty-free treatment with respect to articles from a beneficiary developing country if certain import limits are exceeded.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to clarify the treatment of authentic Alaska Native articles of handicraft containing nonedible migratory bird parts, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-4069
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Art, artists, authorship
Birds
Indian lands and resources rights
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: 
This bill amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to provide that nothing in such Actprohibits possessing, selling, bartering, purchasing, shipping, and transporting any authentic Alaska Native handicraft, clothing, or art on the basis that it contains a nonedible migratory bird part, so long as the bird was not taken in a wasteful manner.
 

action_date: 2018-05-15
text: 
This bill amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to provide that nothing in such Actprohibits possessing, selling, bartering, purchasing, shipping, and transporting any authentic Alaska Native handicraft, clothing, or art on the basis that it contains a nonedible migratory bird part, so long as the bird was not taken in a wasteful manner.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-05-15
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 520.
action_date: 2018-05-15
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-675.
action_date: 2018-05-15
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-675.
action_date: 2018-04-18
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2018-04-18
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2018-04-18
text: Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2017-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-12
text: Introduced in House
Article I Amicus and Intervention Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4070
Sponsor: Rep. Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2017-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Constitution and constitutional amendments
House of Representatives
Judicial review and appeals
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: 

Article I Amicus and Intervention Act of 2017

 
This bill provides additional statutory authority for Congress to participate in judicial proceedings involving the constitutionality of a federal law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Introduced in House
SOAR Act

Bill: 115-hr-4071
Sponsor: Rep. Blunt Rochester, Lisa [D-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business education
Business investment and capital
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Disability and paralysis
Government information and archives
Indian social and development programs
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: 

Startup Opportunity Accelerator Act of 2017 or the SOAR Act

 
This bill amends the Small Business Act to require the Small Business Administration to develop and begin implementing a program to award cash prizes or grants of up to $50,000 to an organization to support new small businesses operating for five years or less. These awards may be used for construction costs, space acquisition, and programmatic purposes, but may not be used to provide capital or professional services to such businesses directly or through the subaward of funds.
 
 The organization must be located in the United States, with a primary purpose to support new small businesses and be often classified as an accelerator. The term &quot;accelerator&quot; means an organization that (1) frequently provides, but is not exclusively designed to provide, seed investment in exchange for a small amount of equity; (2) works with a startup for a predetermined amount of time; (3) provides mentorship and instruction to scale businesses; or (4) offers startup capital or the opportunity to raise capital from outside investors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Central Coast Heritage Protection Act

Bill: 115-hr-4072
Sponsor: Rep. Carbajal, Salud O. [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2017-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Electric power generation and transmission
Federal-Indian relations
Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Historical and cultural resources
Lakes and rivers
Motor vehicles
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Pedestrians and bicycling
Religion
Right of privacy
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: 

Central Coast Heritage Protection Act
 
 
 This bill designates specified lands in the Bakersfield Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and in the Lost Padres National Forest in California as wilderness areas and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
It also designates certain land in Los Padres National Forest as the Machesna Mountain Potential Wilderness Area, which shall be incorporated into the Machesna Mountain Wilderness Area. 
 
Specified segments of the Indian, Mono, Matilija, Sespe, and Piru Creeks and Sisquoc River in California are designated as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 
 
Certain land in the Los Padres National Forest in California is designated as the Fox Mountain Potential Wilderness Area, which shall be incorporated into the San Rafael Wilderness. 
 
This bill designates specified land: (1) in Los Padres National Forest as the Condor Ridge Scenic Area; and (2) in Los Padres National Forest and in the BLM Bakersfield Field Office as the Black Mountain Scenic Area. 
 
The Department of Agriculture shall: (1) study connecting the northern and southern parts of the Los Padres National Forest using a trail corridor across parts of the Northern and Southern Santa Lucia Mountains of the Southern California Coastal Range; (2) designate the Condor National Recreation Trail, extending from Lake Piru to the Botchers Gap Campground in the Monterey County corridor in California; and (3) conduct a study to improve nonmotorized recreation trail opportunities (including mountain bicycling) on land not designated as wilderness within the Santa Barbara, Ojai, and Mt. Pinos ranger districts.
 
The Forest Service shall study the feasibility of opening a new trail, for vehicles measuring 50 inches or less, connecting Forest Service Highway 95 to the existing off-highway vehicle trail system in the Ballinger Canyon off-highway vehicle area. 
 
Indian tribes shall be assured access to the wilderness areas, scenic areas, and potential wilderness areas designated by this bill for traditional cultural and religious purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Opioid Immediate Suspension Order Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4073
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2017-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Licensing and registrations
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: 
 
Opioid Immediate Suspension Order Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to eliminate the provision that defines the phrase &quot;imminent danger to the public health and safety.&quot; Under current law, the Drug Enforcement Administration may immediately suspend the registration of a controlled substances manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser to prevent imminent danger to the public health and safety.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-10-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2017-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2017-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Improve Addiction Education Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4075
Sponsor: Rep. Norcross, Donald [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2017-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health programs administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Medical research
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: 

Improve Addiction Education Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to require a practitioner (other than a hospital, pharmacy, or veterinarian) to comply with a training or education requirement, as a condition of obtaining or renewing a registration to prescribe or dispense a controlled substance in schedule II or III for the treatment of pain or pain management.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-10-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2017-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2017-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Seniors' Security Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4076
Sponsor: Rep. Norcross, Donald [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2017-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Inflation and prices
Medicare
Military personnel and dependents
Social security and elderly assistance
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: 

Seniors'

 Security Act of 201

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This bill requires the use of a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI-E) to calculate certain cost-of-living adjustments with respect to the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits program and certain other federal retirement benefits. The Department of Labor must prepare and publish the CPI-E for each calendar month.
 
The bill also limits certain increases in Medicare premiums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2017-10-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Armed Services, 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: 2017-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Armed Services, 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: 2017-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Armed Services, 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: 2017-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Armed Services, 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: 2017-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Armed Services, 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: 2017-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Honest Ads Act

Bill: 115-hr-4077
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2017-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Business records
Congressional oversight
Digital media
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
News media and reporting
Political advertising
Subversive activities
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: 

Honest Ads Act

 
This bill expands source disclosure requirements for political advertisements by (1) establishing that paid internet and paid digital communications may qualify as &ldquo;public communications&rdquo; or &ldquo;electioneering communications&rdquo; that may be subject to such requirements, and (2) imposing additional requirements relating to the form of such source disclosures and the information contained within. The bill also requires certain online platform companies to maintain publicly available records about qualified political advertisements that have been purchased on their platforms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: Introduced in House
Expanding America's Workforce Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4078
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2017-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Congressional oversight
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: 

Expanding America's Workforce Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to create a workforce Federal Pell Grant program, under which the Department of Education awards grants to students for attending career and technical education programs at institutions of higher education. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: Introduced in House
RESTORE Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4079
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2017-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Justice
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Prescription drugs
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: 

Restoring Enforcement Standards to Track Opioids Responsively and Effectively Act of 2017 or the RESTORE Act of 2017

 
This bill repeals the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016. Provisions of the Controlled Substances Act amended by the Act are restored.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-10-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2017-10-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2017-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-10-19
text: Introduced in House