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CREEPER Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4655
Sponsor: Rep. Donovan, Daniel M., Jr. [R-NY-11]
Introduced: 2017-12-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against children
Sex offenses
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: 

Curbing Realistic Exploitative Electronic Pedophilic Robots Act of 2017 or the CREEPER Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to broaden the prohibition on importation or transportation of obscene materials.
 
Specifically, the bill makes it a crime to import, or knowingly use a common carrier or interactive computer service to transport in interstate or foreign commerce, a child sex doll.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-06-14
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2018-06-13
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2018-06-13
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5119-5120)
action_date: 2018-06-13
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5119-5120)
action_date: 2018-06-13
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4655.
action_date: 2018-06-13
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5119-5121)
action_date: 2018-06-13
text: Mr. Goodlatte moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2018-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Introduced in House
Fishing and Small Vessel Relief Act

Bill: 115-hr-4656
Sponsor: Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3]
Introduced: 2017-12-14 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Marine pollution
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: 

Fishing and Small Vessel Relief Act

 
 This bill extends until December 18, 2020, an exemption from permit requirements of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act). The exemption allows certain incidental discharges from vessels that are either less than 79 feet in length or a fishing vessel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Introduced in House
Customs Business Fairness Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4657
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-2]
Introduced: 2017-12-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Bankruptcy
Financial services and investments

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: 

Customs Business Fairness Act of 2017

 
This bill modifies the treatment of claims by customs brokers for unpaid customs duties in chapter 11 (reorganization) bankruptcy proceedings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Students from Worthless Degrees Act

Bill: 115-hr-4658
Sponsor: Rep. Krishnamoorthi, Raja [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2017-12-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Department of Education
Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: 

Protecting Students from Worthless Degrees Act

 
 This bill makes a postsecondary program designed to prepare students for a recognized occupation or profession requiring licensing or other entry pre-conditions ineligible to participate in a federal financial assistance program, unless it meets specified student consumer protection requirements within one year. 
 
Each program must: (1) fully prepare students to satisfy those entry pre-conditions in the metropolitan statistical areas and states in which the students reside and in any state the program claims a successful program graduate will be prepared to work in the particular occupation or profession involved; and (2) provide timely placement of students in required pre-licensure positions, such as clinical placements, internships, or apprenticeships.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Veterans' 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: 2017-12-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Veterans' 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: 2017-12-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Veterans' 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: 2017-12-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Introduced in House
To require the appropriate Federal banking agencies to recognize the exposure-reducing nature of client margin for cleared derivatives.

Bill: 115-hr-4659
Sponsor: Rep. Luetkemeyer, Blaine [R-MO-3]
Introduced: 2017-12-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: 
This bill amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, and the Home Owners' Loan Act to exclude initial client margin funds (i.e., funds lent to a client by a broker to facilitate a derivatives contract) from leverage-exposure calculations for purposes of determining whether an insured depository institution, a bank holding company, or a savings and loan holding company is in compliance with federal leverage-based capital standards.

action_date: 2018-08-03
text: 
This bill amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, and the Home Owners' Loan Act to exclude initial client margin funds (i.e., funds lent to a client by a broker to facilitate a derivatives contract) from leverage-exposure calculations for purposes of determining whether an insured depository institution, a bank holding company, or a savings and loan holding company is in compliance with federal leverage-based capital standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-08-03
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 680.
action_date: 2018-08-03
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 115-882.
action_date: 2018-08-03
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 115-882.
action_date: 2018-03-21
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 16.
action_date: 2018-03-21
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2018-02-14
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Capital Markets Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Introduced in House
Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4660
Sponsor: Rep. Wagner, Ann [R-MO-2]
Introduced: 2017-12-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Right of privacy
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: 

Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) of
 
2017

 
This bill imposes criminal penalties on anyone who knowingly or knowingly attempts to: (1) perform an abortion knowing that the abortion is sought based on the sex or gender of the child, (2) use force or the threat of force to coerce a sex-selection abortion, (3) solicit or accept funds for the performance of such an abortion, or (4) transport a woman into the United States or across a state line for the purpose of obtaining such an abortion.
 The bill authorizes civil actions by: (1) fathers, or maternal grandparents if the mother is an unemancipated minor, of unborn children who are the subject of a prohibited sex-selection abortion; or (2) women upon whom an abortion has been performed or attempted with a knowing or attempted use of force or threat of force to coerce a sex-selection abortion. 
The bill also authorizes injunctive relief to prevent an abortion provider from performing or attempting further such abortions.
 
Violations of this bill are deemed to be prohibited discrimination under title VI (Federally Assisted Programs) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
 
Medical and mental health professionals must report known or suspected violations to law enforcement authorities.
 
A woman having such an abortion may not be prosecuted or held civilly liable.
 
Courts must make such orders as necessary to protect the anonymity of any woman upon whom an abortion has been performed or attempted if she does not give her written consent to such disclosure. In the absence of such consent, any party, other than a public official, who brings an action must use a pseudonym.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-14
text: Introduced in House
Student Aid Enhancement Act

Bill: 115-hr-4662
Sponsor: Rep. Lawson, Al, Jr. [D-FL-5]
Introduced: 2017-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: 

Student Aid Enhancement Act

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify the calculation used to determine a dependent student's amount of need for financial assistance. Specifically, the bill excludes the income and assets of the dependent student in the calculation of the expected family contribution for the student.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Know Your Vets Act

Bill: 115-hr-4663
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Sean Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2017-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Military personnel and dependents
Personnel records

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: 

Know Your Vets Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) to: 
 
 
ensure that a separating or retiring member of the Armed Forces may elect to have DOD form DD-214 transmitted to the appropriate county veterans service officers who are county, local, or tribal employees who assist veterans with Department of Veterans Affairs interactions; and 
 
maintain a database of all such officers.
 
 
Form DD 214 contains a member's record of service and information that may be used for veteran's benefits, retirement, employment, and veteran's organization membership.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: Introduced in House
RIP MSP Act

Bill: 115-hr-4664
Sponsor: Rep. Meadows, Mark [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2017-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: 

Repeal Insurance Plans of the Multi-State Program Act of 2017 or the RIP MSP Act

 
This bill repeals a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that allows the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to enter into contracts with health insurance issuers to offer multi-state plan options.
 
OPM must report about specified efforts in its process to wind down the multi-state program.
 
The bill rescinds specified unobligated funds that were provided to OPM for staffing and administering the multi-state program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2017-12-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2017-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Financial Services for the Underserved Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4665
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2017-12-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Community life and organization
Government information and archives
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: 

Financial Services for the Underserved Act of 2017 

 
This bill revises procedures for federal credit unions to obtain approval to extend membership to individuals who are from underserved areas but who do not necessarily share a common bond of occupation or association.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-15
text: Introduced in House
Premium Relief Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4666
Sponsor: Rep. Costello, Ryan A. [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2017-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Dental care
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Executive agency funding and structure
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Mental health
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: 

Premium Relief Act of 2017

 
This bill establishes and provides funding for the Patient and State Stability Fund. The fund shall be used to support specified state efforts to increase access to health-insurance coverage and help stabilize the individual market.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Advanced Cybersecurity Enhancements Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4668
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2017-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Department of Commerce
Government information and archives
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: 

Small Business Advanced Cybersecurity Enhancements Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Small Business Act to direct the Small Business Administration in coordination with the Department of Commerce to create a central small business cybersecurity assistance unit and small business cybersecurity assistance units in each small business development center.
 
The units shall serve as the primary interface for small business concerns to receive and share cyber threat indicators and defensive measures with the federal government.

action_date: 2018-04-25
text: 

Small Business Advanced Cybersecurity Enhancements Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Small Business Act to direct the Small Business Administration in coordination with the Department of Commerce to create a central small business cybersecurity assistance unit and small business cybersecurity assistance units in each small business development center.
 
The units shall serve as the primary interface for small business concerns to receive and share cyber threat indicators and defensive measures with the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-04-25
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 502.
action_date: 2018-04-25
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 115-654.
action_date: 2018-04-25
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 115-654.
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Special Counsel Integrity Act

Bill: 115-hr-4669
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2017-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Department of Justice
Federal officials
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Judicial review and appeals
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: 

Special Counsel Integrity Act

 
This bill sets forth requirements and limitations with respect to the discipline or removal from office of a special counsel appointed under Department of Justice (DOJ) regulations. 
 
Specifically, a special counsel may be disciplined or removed only by the personal action of an Attorney General who has been confirmed by the Senate. If the Attorney General is recused from the matter, then a special counsel may be disciplined or removed by the most senior DOJ official who has been confirmed by the Senate and is not recused from the matter.
 
A special counsel: (1) may only be removed for misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or other good cause, including violation of DOJ policies; (2) must be informed in writing of the specific reason for the removal; and (3) may file an action for judicial review of the removal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-21
text: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Cohen. Petition No: 115-8. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/115/lrc/pd/petitions/DisPet0008.xml">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.)
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Introduced in House
EARNED Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-4670
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2017-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: 

Education Assistance to Realign New Eligibilities for Dependents Act of 2017 or the EARNED Act of 2017

 
This bill expands the category of individuals who may transfer Department of Veterans Affairs Post-9/11 educational assistance to a spouse or dependent child to include any service member or veteran who, at the time of approval of a benefits transfer request, has completed at least 20 years of active-duty service, including at least 90 days of post-September 10, 2001, service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Organic Farmers Access Act

Bill: 115-hr-4671
Sponsor: Rep. Duffy, Sean P. [R-WI-7]
Introduced: 2017-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural practices and innovations
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: 

Organic Farmers Access Act 

 
This bill amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act and the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to expand the eligibility of organic farmers for assistance under Department of Agriculture (USDA) rural development grant and loan programs. 
 
The bill authorizes additional assistance for certified organic farms and certified organic handling operations under USDA programs that provide: (1) rural business development grants, (2) loans and loan guarantees for locally or regionally produced agricultural food products, and (3) value-added agricultural product market development grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-12-18
text: Introduced in House