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Biodiesel, Renewable Diesel, and Alternative Fuels Extension Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3264
Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2017-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Income tax credits
Motor fuels
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: 

Biodiesel, Renewable Diesel, and Alternative Fuels Extension Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend and modify the tax credits for biodiesel, renewable diesel, and alternative fuels. 
 
The bill extends through 2021: (1) the income tax credit for biodiesel and renewable diesel used as fuel, (2) the excise tax credit for biodiesel mixtures, (3) the excise tax credit for alternative fuels, (4) the excise tax credit for alternative fuel mixtures, and (5) the payments that are equivalent to the excise tax credits for biodiesel mixtures and alternative fuels. 
 
Beginning in 2019, the bill phases down the credits for biodiesel, biodiesel mixtures, alternative fuels, and alternative fuel mixtures by reducing the credits by specified amounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
E-2 Visa Improvement Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3265
Sponsor: Rep. Rutherford, John H. [R-FL-4]
Introduced: 2017-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
U.S. and foreign investments
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: 

E-2 Visa Improvement Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit a nonimmigrant E-2 alien (treaty investor) who has been in the United States in such status for at least 10 years and has created full-time employment for at least 2 individuals to apply for immediate employment-based immigrant status.
 
Up to 10,000 such visas may be made available each fiscal year.
 
 Sons and daughters of E-2 aliens (or aliens seeking such status) can remain on their parent's visa as a child until age 26. Employment authorization may be granted at age 18.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-08-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employee Pension Fairness Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3269
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2017-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: 

Federal Employee Pension Fairness Act of 2017

 
This bill repeals provisions requiring federal employees, including foreign service employees, who began service after 2012 to pay an increased contribution (4.4%, up from 0.8%) toward funding their annuities under the Federal Employees Retirement System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Historic Routes Preservation Act

Bill: 115-hr-3270
Sponsor: Rep. Cook, Paul [R-CA-8]
Introduced: 2017-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Department of the Interior
Government liability
Judicial review and appeals
Land use and conservation
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: 

Historic Routes Preservation Act

 
This bill allows any state, county, political subdivision or agency of a state, company, or other person asserting the public acceptance of an open-ended grant or dedication of land by the United States for a right-of-way allowing public use and passage for the construction of highways over public lands to file a claim within the 25-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this bill if such claimant, before enactment of this bill: (1) filed a notice of an intent to file suit with respect to a claim asserting the public acceptance of such a right-of-way; or (2) filed suit with respect to such a claim under the Quiet Title Act. 
 
The bill sets forth: (1) a procedure for conclusively verifying, proving, and establishing the acceptance of such rights-of-way; and (2) provisions governing judicial review of a denial of such a claim.
 
This bill and the procedures and process implemented under it are applicable to: (1) claims filed after this bill's enactment, and (2) claims filed before this bill's enactment for which a final determination has not been issued. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Veteran Education Empowerment Act

Bill: 115-hr-3272
Sponsor: Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-21]
Introduced: 2017-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Disability and paralysis
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Higher education
Military personnel and dependents
School administration
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: 

Veteran Education Empowerment Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to make grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) or consortia of IHEs for the establishment, maintenance, improvement, and operation of veteran student centers. A veteran student center is a dedicated space on a campus that provides students who are veterans or members of the Armed Forces with: (1) a lounge or meeting space for themselves, their spouses or partners, and veterans in the community; (2) a centralized office for veteran services that serves as a single point of contact to coordinate veterans support services; and (3) comprehensive academic and tutoring services to veterans.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
LGBT Data Inclusion Act

Bill: 115-hr-3273
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2017-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Government information and archives
Right of privacy
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: 

LGBT Data Inclusion Act

 
This bill requires federal agencies that collect information through a survey that includes demographic data (where subjects self-report information or a proxy provides information about the subject or responds for all persons in a household) to establish data standards that require: 
 
 
a determination of which existing data sets exclude information about sexual orientation and gender identity; 
 
an identification, and a use, of appropriate methods to include questions on sexual orientation and gender identity in surveys that facilitate categorization and voluntary participation and that preserve privacy and confidentiality; and 
 
a routine assessment of needed changes in survey methods related to asking such questions. 

 
Agencies that publish reports relying on survey demographic data must include information on sexual orientation and gender identity.
 
Individuals shall not be: (1) required by this bill to disclose their sexual orientation or gender identity to an agency; or (2) subjected to fines or penalties for refusing to answer, or providing a false answer to, any survey question regarding gender identity or sexual orientation.
 
Nothing in this bill shall be construed to permit the use of such collected information in a manner that would adversely affect an individual. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
President John F. Kennedy Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 115-hr-3274
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-23]
Introduced: 2017-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Currency
Libraries and archives
Massachusetts
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: 

President John F. Kennedy Commemorative Coin Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than 500,000 $1 silver coins in commemoration of President John F. Kennedy. 
 
The bill requires all sales of such coins to include a surcharge of $10 per coin, which shall be paid by Treasury to the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation to support the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction for health insurance premiums.

Bill: 115-hr-3277
Sponsor: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2017-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: 

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer a deduction from gross income of insurance premiums paid for the health care coverage of the taxpayer and the taxpayer's spouse and dependents. The bill makes the deduction available whether or not the taxpayer itemizes other deductions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage.

Bill: 115-hr-3278
Sponsor: Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2017-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Comprehensive health care
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Insurance industry and regulation
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that the laws of a state designated by a health insurer (primary state) apply to individual health insurance coverage offered by that insurer in any state (secondary state) if the coverage, states, and insurer comply with the conditions of this bill. Insurers are exempted from any secondary state's laws that would prohibit or regulate the operation of the insurer in that state. The primary state is given sole jurisdiction to enforce its covered laws in any secondary state.
 
The Government Accountability Office must study the effect of this bill on specified health insurance issues.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
ELD Extension Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3282
Sponsor: Rep. Babin, Brian [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2017-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Department of Transportation
Government information and archives
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Transportation employees
Transportation safety and security
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: 

ELD Extension Act of 2017

 
This bill delays for an additional two years the effective date of regulations implementing the requirement that a commercial motor vehicle involved in interstate commerce and operated by a driver subject to federal hours of service (HOS) and record of duty status regulations be equipped with an electronic logging device to improve vehicle operator compliance with HOS regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
To restrict the mailability of tableting machines, encapsulating machines, and controlled substance counterfeiting materials, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-3283
Sponsor: Rep. Donovan, Daniel M., Jr. [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2017-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: 
This bill restricts the mailability of tableting machines, encapsulating machines, or controlled substance counterfeiting materials. 
 
Additionally, it amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime to knowingly mail to an unauthorized person equipment that that may be used to manufacture counterfeit controlled substances. A violator is subject to criminal penalties&#8212;a fine, a prison term of up to one year, or both.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-08-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-07-18
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: 2017-07-18
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: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Know Your Oil Act

Bill: 115-hr-3286
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2017-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Business records
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Department of Energy
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Government information and archives
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: 

Know Your Oil Act 

 
This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE)to issue regulations thatrequire companies that extract, refine, or transport oil or refined products to disclose oil data, including the amounts and sourcesof greenhouse gas emitted during the oilextraction, refining, and combustion process.
 
DOE must consult with federal agencies and state and tribal governments to carry out this bill.Additionally, DOE must publicly disclose and maintain thedata it collects on greenhouse gas emissions and oil field resources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Carbon Pollution Transparency Act

Bill: 115-hr-3287
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2017-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Appropriations
Budget process
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: 

Carbon Pollution Transparency Act 

 
 This bill requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to calculate a carbon score for legislation. The carbon score is the projected net greenhouse gas emissions that would result from: (1) enactment and implementation of a bill or resolution, and (2) the appropriation of any amounts authorized in the legislation. 
 
The CBO must include the carbon score in cost estimates for reported legislation that are submitted to congressional committees pursuant to the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2017-07-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require identification and description on the website of the Federal Communications Commission of items to be decided on authority delegated by the Commission.

Bill: 115-hr-3289
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2017-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: 
This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require identification and description on the website of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of items the FCC has delegated to commissioner panels, employee boards, or individual commissioners or employees, unless the publication is likely to lead to the disclosure of certain classified national defense or foreign policy matters, internal personnel practices, trade secrets, personal information, investigatory records for law enforcement, or other deliberation information exempt from disclosure under federal administrative procedure laws.
 
The bill requires such identification and description be published on the FCC website at least 48 hours before an order, decision, report, or action is made or taken pursuant to such a delegation of authority by the FCC.
 
The bill does not apply to an order, decision, report, or action that: (1) does not receive a delegated authority number, (2) is delegated to an administrative law judge, or (3) is taken to address an immediate threat to health or safety that constitutes an emergency requiring an expedited response from the FCC.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Energy to initiate the development of voluntary model pathways for modernizing the electric grid, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-3290
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2017-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Department of Energy
Electric power generation and transmission
Executive agency funding and structure
Public utilities and utility rates
Public-private cooperation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: 
This bill requires the Department of Energy to initiate development of voluntary model pathways for modernizing the electric grid through a collaborative, public-private effort and establish a steering committee to facilitate development of the pathways.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Alleviating Adverse Childhood Experiences Act

Bill: 115-hr-3291
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2017-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Adoption and foster care
Advisory bodies
Child care and development
Child health
Congressional oversight
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health promotion and preventive care
Home and outpatient care
Medicaid
Medical research
Poverty and welfare assistance
Unemployment
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: 

Alleviating Adverse Childhood Experiences Act

 
This bill amends XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow a state Medicaid program to cover, as medical assistance, services furnished under an early-childhood home-visitation program that: 
 
 
conforms to a clear, consistent, research-based home-visitation model; 
 
is designed to result in improvements for participating families in areas related to maternal and newborn health, child health and development, school readiness and academic achievement, crime and domestic violence, economic self-sufficiency, parenting skills, and resource coordination; 
 
gives priority to serving certain high-risk populations; and 
 
meets other specified requirements. 

 
A state Medicaid program that opts to cover such services must establish procedures to ensure that the participation of each eligible family is voluntary.
 
In addition, the bill requires each state to conduct a statewide needs-assessment to identify:
 
 
at-risk communities in the state, according to specified indicators; 
 
the capacity of existing home-visitation programs and initiatives in the state; and 
 
the state's capacity for providing substance-abuse treatment and counseling services to individuals and families in need.

 
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must carry out specified research and evaluation activities related to the implementation and effectiveness of home-visitation programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Concrete Pump Tax Fairness Act

Bill: 115-hr-3292
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Jason [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2017-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government trust funds
Motor carriers
Motor vehicles
Roads and highways
Sales and excise taxes
Transportation costs
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: 

Concrete Pump Tax Fairness Act 
 
 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose a mileage-based user fee on owners of mobile mounted concrete boom pump vehicles, (2) allow a credit against the fee for certain fuel taxes and other specified taxes that currently apply to the owners of the vehicles, and (3) require the revenues from the fee to be deposited into the Highway Trust Fund.
 
The bill defines "mobile mounted concrete boom pump vehicle" as a vehicle that is mobile machinery and on which the mounted machinery consists of a concrete boom pump and related subordinate parts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-18
text: Introduced in House