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MAR-A-LAGO Act

Bill: 115-hr-1711
Sponsor: Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2017-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: 

Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness Act or the MAR-A-LAGO Act

 
This bill directs the President to establish and update, every 90 days, a publicly available database that contains records of:
 
 
the name of each visitor at the White House, residence of the Vice-President, or any other location at which the President or Vice President regularly conducts official business (covered location);
 
the name of each individual with whom the visitor met at the covered location; and 
 
the purpose of the visit. 
 
 
The President shall not include in the database any such record: (1) the posting of which would implicate personal privacy or law enforcement concerns or threaten national security, or (2) relating to a purely personal guest at a covered location. 
 
For a particularly sensitive meeting, the President shall: (1) include in the database the number of visitors at the covered location, and (2) post the applicable records in the database when their release is no longer sensitive. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Protection and Advocacy for Veterans Act

Bill: 115-hr-1712
Sponsor: Rep. Roby, Martha [R-AL-2]
Introduced: 2017-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care quality
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Mental health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: 

Protection and Advocacy for Veterans Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a five-year grant program to improve the monitoring of VA mental health and substance abuse treatment programs. 
 
The VA shall award a grant to four protection and advocacy systems under which each recipient shall investigate and monitor VA facilities care and treatment of veterans with mental illness or substance abuse issues. Criteria for selecting recipients shall include whether the state in which the protection and advocacy system operates has low mental health, performance, and access scores. 
 
During each year in which a protection and advocacy system carries out a demonstration project, the VA shall award a joint grant to a national organization with extensive knowledge of the protection and advocacy system and a veterans service organization to: (1) coordinate training and technical assistance, and (2) provide for related data collection, reporting, and analysis.
 
 &quot;Protection and advocacy system&quot; means the state-established system to protect and advocate the rights of persons with developmental disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Free Market Flights Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1713
Sponsor: Rep. Russell, Steve [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2017-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Budget deficits and national debt
Rural conditions and development
Small towns
Transportation programs funding
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: 

Free Market Flights Act of 2017

 
This bill terminates on October 1, 2017, Department of Transportation authority to carry out the essential air service program.
 
The bill requires deposit in the Treasury for deficit reduction of any overflight fees collected by the Federal Aviation Administration for air traffic control and related services that would otherwise be made available for the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Small Business Opportunities to all Women Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1714
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2017-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business education
Marriage and family status
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: 

Expanding Small Business Opportunities to all Women Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Small Business Act to revise the Small Business Administration's criteria for awarding a grant to a women's business center to include the ability of the applicant to provide training and services to a representative number of unmarried women who are both socially and economically disadvantaged.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Medgar Evers House Study Act

Bill: 115-hr-1715
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2017-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government studies and investigations
Historic sites and heritage areas
Land use and conservation
Mississippi
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: 

Medgar Evers House Study Act

 
 This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the home of the late civil rights activist Medgar Evers, which is located at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, Mississippi. 
 
 Interior shall: (1) evaluate the national significance of the site, and (2) determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System. 

action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 

Medgar Evers House Study Act

 
 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the home of the late civil rights activist Medgar Evers, located at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, Mississippi. 
 
 Interior shall: (1) evaluate the national significance of the site; (2) determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the site as a unit of the National Park System (NPS); (3) determine the effect of the site's designation on existing commercial and recreational uses and on state and local government management of those activities; and (4) identify any authorities, including condemnation, that will compel or permit Interior to influence or participate in local land use decisions or place restrictions on nonfederal land if the site is designated as an NPS unit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 76.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-123.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-123.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2017-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit any hiring freeze from affecting the Environmental Protection Agency.

Bill: 115-hr-1716
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2017-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee hiring
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: 
This bill exempts the Environmental Protection Agency from any action by the President to freeze the hiring of federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
PATH Fairness Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1717
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health programs administration and funding
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: 

PATH Fairness Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness, which provide services to individuals who: (1) are suffering from serious mental illness, or are suffering from serious mental illness and from substance abuse; and (2) are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. The minimum allotment of program funding for each state and territory is increased on the condition that appropriations are sufficient to provide the minimum allotment to all states and territories.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-23
text: Introduced in House
LOSAP CAP Act

Bill: 115-hr-1720
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-2]
Introduced: 2017-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Health personnel
Income tax deferral
Inflation and prices
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: 

Length of Service Award Program Cap Adjustment Priority Act or the LOSAP CAP Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to deferred compensation plans, to increase the limit on accruals that is required for length of service award plans (LOSAPs) for bona fide volunteers to be exempt from treatment as a deferred compensation plan. 
 
(Under current law, plans paying solely length of service awards to bona fide volunteers or their beneficiaries on the account of firefighting and prevention services, emergency medical services, and ambulance services performed by the volunteers are not treated as deferred compensation plans if they meet certain requirements. One of the requirements is a limit on the aggregate amount of length of service awards that may accrue with respect to any year of service for any bona fide volunteer.) 
 
The bill modifies the limit on accruals to: (1) increase the limit from $3,000 to $6,000; (2) provide for a cost-of-living adjustment to the limit after 2017; and (3) specify that, in the case of LOSAPs that are defined benefit plans, the limit applies to the actuarial present value of the aggregate amount of length of service awards accruing with respect to any year of service. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to designate at least one city in the United States each year as an "American World War II City", and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-1721
Sponsor: Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7]
Introduced: 2017-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Military history
North Carolina
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: 
This bill directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to designate at least one city in the United States each year as an "American World War II City" based on the city's: (1) contributions to the war effort during World War II; and (2) efforts to preserve the history of such contributions, including through establishment of preservation organizations or museums, restoration of World War II facilities, and recognition of World War II veterans.
 
The bill designates Wilmington, North Carolina, as the first such city.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-13
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Protecting American Jobs Act

Bill: 115-hr-1722
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Austin [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2017-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Labor-management relations
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: 

Protecting American Jobs Act

 
This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act, with respect to the authority of the National Labor Relations Board, to: 
 
 
repeal the authority of the General Counsel of the board to issue, and prosecute before the board, complaints of unfair labor practices; 
 
limit the board's rulemaking authority to rules concerning the internal functions of the board; 
 
prohibit the board from promulgating rules that affect the substantive rights of any person, employer, employee, or labor organization; 
 
repeal the board's authority to prevent persons from engaging in unfair labor practices, limiting such authority to the investigation of allegations of such practices; and 
 
repeal the board's authority to petition courts for enforcement of its orders, seek injunctions, or hold hearings on jurisdictional strikes. 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Let It Go Act

Bill: 115-hr-1723
Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]
Introduced: 2017-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Political parties and affiliation
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: 

Let It Go Act

 
 This bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require individuals to use contributions or donations not later than six years following the most recent federal election in which the individual was a candidate and before the individual becomes a registered lobbyist.
 
 This bill requires remaining contributions or donations to be disposed of within 30 days, first by paying debts or obligations owed in connection with the campaign for that office. Additional remaining funds must be disposed of by: (1) returning those contributions or donations to the individuals, entities, or both, who made them; (2) making contributions to a charitable organization; or (3) making transfers to a national, state, or local committee of a political party.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Introduced in House
End of Debtors Prison Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1724
Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]
Introduced: 2017-03-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Debt collection
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Public contracts and procurement
State and local government operations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: 

End of Debtors Prison Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to prohibit the Department of Justice from allocating Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program funding to a state or local government that has a contract with a person (e.g., a private probation company) who: (1) collects unpaid debt (i.e., state- or court-imposed fines or fees) from an individual placed on probation for failing to pay such debt; and (2) charges separate fees (e.g., monthly fees) to the probationer with respect to the collection. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-24
text: Introduced in House
Limiting Inhumane Federal Trapping Act

Bill: 115-hr-1727
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2017-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Crimes against animals and natural resources
Forests, forestry, trees
Hunting and fishing
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-27
text: 

Limiting Inhumane Federal Trapping Act

 
This bill prohibits any personnel of the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture (USDA), in performing their duties, from using, recommending, training in the use of, or planning for the use of, any body-gripping trap used to kill or capture an animal. This prohibition does not apply to training in the dismantling of body-gripping traps that have been illegally placed.
 
No person shall use or possess any body-gripping trap on property under the administrative jurisdiction of Interior or USDA, except in Indian country, regardless of whether the person is employed by, or is working under a contract with, Interior or USDA.
 
Such prohibitions shall not apply to the use of a body-gripping trap to:
 
 
control documented, invasive species to achieve resource management objectives where alternative methods have failed; or
 
protect a species that is listed as an endangered or threatened species or treated by the Forest Service as a sensitive species. 
 
 
Such exceptions shall not apply unless:
 
 
such use of a body-gripping trap is in accordance with state and federal law;
 
prior to using such a trap, all available and viable nonlethal methods for such control or protection have been attempted; and 
 
such attempts have been documented in writing, and the documentation is maintained at the headquarters of the department that employs the individual engaging in such attempt.
 
 
The bill imposes criminal penalties for violating the prohibitions in this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2017-04-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2017-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2017-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2017-03-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E391)
action_date: 2017-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-27
text: Introduced in House
To modify the boundaries of the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-1728
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2017-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Department of the Interior
Electric power generation and transmission
Historical and cultural resources
Hunting and fishing
Idaho
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Livestock
Mammals
Mining
Motor vehicles
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Roads and highways
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-27
text: 
This bill modifies the boundary of the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in Idaho to: (1) include specified Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administered land and certain Bureau of Reclamation administered land, and (2) exclude specified lands identified as the Segment 8 Revised Proposed Route and as the Segment 9 Revised Proposed Route. 
 
The Department of the Interior shall issue to Gateway West (a high-voltage transmission line project in Idaho and Wyoming) a right-of-way for such proposed routes, which is to be used for the construction and maintenance of transmission lines and for access roads and activities related to fire prevention and suppression, subject to construction mitigation and conservation requirements. 
 
Interior shall: (1) administer the BLM and Reclamation administered lands as part of the National Landscape Conservation System, and (2) continue to administer the proposed route lands as lands that are not included in the conservation area. 
 
The bill transfers from Reclamation to the BLM administrative jurisdiction over the Reclamation administered lands. 
 
Interior shall amend the management plan for the conservation area in order to address the long-term management of the BLM and Reclamation administered lands, including for livestock grazing, hunting, fishing, and motorized access. 
 
Specified federal land in the Cotterel Wind Power Project area may not be used for producing electricity from wind. 
 
Interior shall establish a Bureau of Land Management Foundation and grant it the same authorities granted to the National Park Foundation for National Park Service activities, for the purpose of providing opportunities for the BLM to address specific challenges that may be better addressed with the support of a foundation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2017-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-27
text: Introduced in House