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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Authorization Act

Bill: 115-hr-2751
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2017-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Citizenship and naturalization
Computer security and identity theft
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Customs enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Firearms and explosives
Foreign labor
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Human rights
Human trafficking
Immigration status and procedures
Intellectual property
Organized crime
Smuggling and trafficking
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Authorization Act

 
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to: (1) establish, by statute, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security; (2) establish within ICE the Offices of Homeland Security Investigations, Enforcement and Removal Operations, Principal Legal Advisor, and Professional Responsibility; and (3) remove references to the Bureau of Border Security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2017-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Authorization Act

Bill: 115-hr-2752
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2017-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Citizenship and naturalization
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: 

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Authorization Act

 
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to: (1) establish, by statute, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services within the Department of Homeland Security; and (2) remove references to the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Loan Repayment Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2753
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2017-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: 

Teacher Loan Repayment Act of 2017

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify the financial aid programs for teachers.
 
Specifically, it terminates the authority of the Department of Education (ED) to: (1) award new grants under the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant program, and (2) enter new loan forgiveness agreements under the Teacher Loan Forgiveness program.
 
The bill authorizes and directs ED to administer a new loan repayment for teachers program. To qualify, a borrower must be a full-time teacher in a low-income school or location and meet other requirements. ED, on behalf of a qualified borrower, makes $250-$400 direct monthly payments on Federal Family Education Loan or Direct Loan program subsidized, unsubsidized, and, in certain circumstances, consolidation Loans.
 
To remain eligible for loan repayment, a borrower must continue to be employed in the school or location of initial eligibility.
 
The total maximum loan repayment amount is $23,400 over six years. A borrower must repay the remaining principal and interest.
 
An individual who currently participates in the Teacher Loan Forgiveness program may continue participating in such program or enter the new loan repayment for teachers program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Atomic Veterans Service Medal Act

Bill: 115-hr-2754
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2017-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Nuclear weapons
Radiation
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: 

Atomic Veterans Service Medal Act 

 
This bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) to design and produce an Atomic Veterans Service Medal to honor retired and former members of the Armed Forces who are radiation-exposed veterans.
 
DOD may provide for issuance of the Medal to the next-of-kin of a deceased radiation-exposed veteran.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Beach Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2755
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2017-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Aquatic ecology
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Outdoor recreation
Seashores and lakeshores
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: 

Beach Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to revise and reauthorize through FY2021 a grant program for monitoring, and notifying the public of, any pathogens in coastal recreation waters bordering public beaches.
 
The bill reauthorizes through FY2021 the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000.
 
The bill establishes requirements with respect to: (1) using rapid testing methods to detect unsafe levels of pathogens or pathogen indicators in such coastal recreation waters, and (2) notifying governmental agencies when pathogens exceed water quality standards. Those methods must provide testing results within four hours of receiving a sample. The applicable state or local government must communicate the presence of any pathogens within two hours of receipt of a water quality sample.
 
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must assess state and local compliance with coastal recreation water quality monitoring and notification legal requirements and grant conditions. The bill limits federal share of grants to non-compliant state or local governments. The Government Accountability Office must review the EPA's compliance assessments and corrective actions.
 
States with coastal recreation waters must adopt the most protective water quality criteria and standards practicable for pathogens.
 
The EPA must: (1) update the national list of beaches that are used by the public regardless of the presence of a lifeguard within 12 months and biennially thereafter (currently, periodically); (2) study the long-term impact of climate change on pathogenic contamination of coastal recreation waters; and (3) study the impacts of excess nutrients on coastal recreation waters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Public Health Violence Prevention Act

Bill: 115-hr-2757
Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2017-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Aging
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Health and Human Services
Domestic violence and child abuse
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Executive agency funding and structure
Firearms and explosives
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Law enforcement administration and funding
Medical education
Medical research
Mental health
Research administration and funding
Sex offenses
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: 

Public Health Violence Prevention Act

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Center for Violence Prevention in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to take over the duties and authorities relating to violence prevention from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The National Center for Violence Prevention, to address violence and prevention as health issues, must establish: (1) the Public Health Violence Prevention Program to award competitive grants to public health departments, schools of public health, criminal justice agencies, and public school districts, with preference given to projects serving areas with the highest rates of violence or the highest increases in violence; and (2) the Private Health Care Sector Violence Prevention Program to award competitive grants to health care providers, community-based organizations, and academic medical centers.
 
The bill establishes the National Health Violence Prevention Program with the following offices and programs:
 
 
the Office of Applied Violence Prevention Research, 
 
the National Advisory Board on Violence Prevention, 
 
the Violence Prevention Training Program, 
 
the Office of Data Collection and Evaluation, and 
 
the Office of Violence Prevention Education and Outreach. 

 
 The Department of Health and Human Services must rename the Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury, and Environmental Health as the Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Violence, Injury, and Environmental Health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
SOS Act

Bill: 115-hr-2758
Sponsor: Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7]
Introduced: 2017-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: 

Survey Our Servicemembers Act or the SOS Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to contract with an experienced non-government entity to conduct an annual survey, over a five-year period, to determine the experiences of veterans in obtaining hospital care and medical services at each VA medical facility.
 
Those surveys shall include questions relating to: 
 
the factors considered by the veteran in choosing whether to receive hospital care or medical services at a VA facility or at a non-VA facility,
 
the quality of hospital care or medical services received at non-VA facilities, and 
 
 the differences in cost to the veteran of receiving care or services at VA or at non-VA facilities.
 
 
The VA shall make the survey results publicly available on its website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
NATS Act

Bill: 115-hr-2759
Sponsor: Rep. Vargas, Juan [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2017-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Citizenship and naturalization
Coast guard
Immigration status and procedures
Military education and training
Military facilities and property
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: 

Naturalization at Training Sites Act of 2017 or the NATS Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard, to establish a naturalization office with trained personnel at each initial military training site of the Armed Forces. 
 
The military department concerned shall: (1) identify members of the Armed Forces who are not U.S. citizens and inform them of the availability of naturalization services at such offices; and (2) pending establishment of a naturalization office at all initial military training sites, assign new non-citizen members of the Armed Forces to an initial military training site that has such an office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Immigrant Veterans Eligibility Tracking System (I-VETS) Act

Bill: 115-hr-2760
Sponsor: Rep. Vargas, Juan [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2017-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Citizenship and naturalization
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: 

Immigrant Veterans Eligibility Tracking System (I-VETS) Act

 
 This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to: 
 
 
identify aliens, when they apply for an immigration benefit or are placed in an immigration enforcement proceeding, who are serving, or have served, as a member of a regular or reserve component of the Armed Forces on active duty or as a member of a reserve component in an active status; and 
 
 annotate all DHS immigration and naturalization records relating to an identified alien to reflect such identification and afford an opportunity to track the outcomes for such aliens. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Healthcare Opportunities for Patriots in Exile (HOPE) Act

Bill: 115-hr-2761
Sponsor: Rep. Vargas, Juan [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2017-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Immigration status and procedures
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: 

Healthcare Opportunities for Patriots in Exile (HOPE) Act

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Department of Homeland Security to parole into the United States an alien veteran who: (1) is seeking temporary admission to receive health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and (2) resides permanently abroad after having been removed or voluntarily departed from the United States.
 
Such parole shall not be available for an alien who is inadmissible due to a criminal conviction for: (1) a crime of violence for which the alien has served at least five years in prison, or (2) a crime that endangers U.S. national security for which the alien has served at least five years in prison.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-26
text: Introduced in House
White House Ethics Transparency Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2762
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2017-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Federal officials
Financial services and investments
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: 

White House Ethics Transparency Act of 2017

 
This bill requires an federal official who issues or approves a waiver or authorization relating to ethical standards applicable to executive branch political appointees under specified executive orders to transmit, within 30 days after issuing or approving such waiver or authorization, a written copy of the waiver or authorization to the Office of Government Ethics and make them available to the public on the websites of the agencies employing such appointees and the Office of Government Ethics. This requirement applies retroactively to January 20, 2017.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2017-05-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2017-05-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2017-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Veteran Small Business Tax Credit Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2764
Sponsor: Rep. Adams, Alma S. [D-NC-12]
Introduced: 2017-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: 

Veteran Small Business Tax Credit Act of 201

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This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a new business-related tax credit for the start-up expenses of a veteran-owned small business. The allowable amount of such credit is 15% of start-up expenditures that do not exceed $80,000. The credit is allowed to any individual (or the surviving spouse of such individual) who: (1) has served on active duty in the Armed Forces, and (2) has not been discharged or released from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Perpetual POW/MIA Stamp Act

Bill: 115-hr-2765
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2017-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Military personnel and dependents
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: 

Perpetual POW/MIA Stamp Act

 
This bill directs the Postmaster General to provide for the issuance of a forever stamp that honors the sacrifices of the members of the U.S. Armed Forces who have been prisoners, missing, or unaccounted for and that depicts the National League of Families POW/MIA flag.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: Introduced in House
Balancing Trade Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2766
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2017-05-30 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits
Congressional oversight
Trade agreements and negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: 

Balancing Trade Act of 2017

 
 This bill requires the President, if in three consecutive calendar years the United States has a trade deficit with another country of $10 billion or more, to take the necessary steps to create a trading relationship that would eliminate or substantially reduce that trade deficit by entering into an agreement with that country. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5289)
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E742)
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-30
text: Introduced in House