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National Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3679
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2017-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Charitable contributions
Credit and credit markets
Disaster relief and insurance
Employee benefits and pensions
Financial services and investments
Health care costs and insurance
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Life, casualty, property insurance
Low- and moderate-income housing
Natural disasters
Poverty and welfare assistance
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Securities
State and local government operations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax treatment of families
Tax-exempt organizations
Wages and earnings
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-05
text: 

National Disaster Tax Relief Act of 
 
2017

 
 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide tax relief for federally-declared disasters in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. For individuals and businesses located in or investing in the affected areas, the bill allows: 
 
 
 expensing of certain disaster expenses, 
 
increased deductions for charitable contributions for disaster relief, 
 
modifications to rules regarding the deduction of losses attributable to disasters, 
 
 waivers of certain mortgage revenue bond requirements,
 
an extension of the additional depreciation allowance for business property (bonus depreciation),
 
 an increased new markets tax credit limitation, 
 
 penalty-free distributions from retirement plans, 
 
 an additional tax exemption for individuals who are displaced, 
 
 an exclusion from gross income for certain cancellations of indebtedness, 
 
a modified rule for determining the earned income of individuals for the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit, 
 
an increased rehabilitation tax credit for buildings, 
 
additional advance refundings of certain tax-exempt bonds, 
 
 disaster area recovery bonds, 
 
 additional low-income housing tax credit allocations, 
 
 payments of disaster assistance to tax-exempt mutual ditch or irrigation companies without affecting their tax-exempt status,
 
 an exclusion from gross income for disaster mitigation payments received from state and local governments, 
 
 a deduction for payments to a tax-exempt natural disaster fund,
 
 a five-year replacement period for property for purposes of the exclusion of gain from an involuntary conversion, 
 
 a tax credit for a portion of the wages paid to employees, and 
 
 an enhanced deduction for medical expenses. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to make permanent the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide financial assistance for supportive services for very low-income veteran families in permanent housing.

Bill: 115-hr-3680
Sponsor: Rep. Zeldin, Lee M. [R-NY-1]
Introduced: 2017-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Family services
Low- and moderate-income housing
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-05
text: 
This bill makes permanent the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide financial assistance for supportive services for very low-income veteran families in permanent housing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-05
text: Introduced in House
ARPA-E Reauthorization Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3681
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2017-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Business investment and capital
Energy research
Freedom of information
Licensing and registrations
Product development and innovation
Research administration and funding
Technology transfer and commercialization

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: 

ARPA-E Reauthorization Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the AMERICA Competes Act to declare that the following categories of information collected by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) from recipients of ARPA-E financial assistance awards are considered privileged and confidential and not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act: 
 
 
plans for the commercialization of technologies that have been developed under the award,
 
investments provided to an awardee from third parties,
 
additional financial support that the awardee plans to invest or has invested into the technology developed under the award or that the awardee is seeking from third parties, and 
 
revenue from the licensing or sale of new products or services resulting from the research that was conducted under the award. 
 
 
The bill reauthorizes the ARPA-E through FY2022. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1167)
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Blue Whales and Blue Skies Act

Bill: 115-hr-3682
Sponsor: Rep. Lowenthal, Alan S. [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2017-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air quality
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
California
Mammals
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Pacific Ocean
Transportation safety and security
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: 

Blue Whales and Blue Skies Act

 
This bill requires the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish the Blue Whales and Blue Skies Program and annually award Blue Whales and Blue Skies Excellence Awards to owners of certain vessels for successfully participating in, and complying with, the program. The program encourages the reduction in the speed of certain vessels transiting the Greater Santa Barbara Channel Region in California in order to reduce air pollution, harmful underwater acoustic impacts, and the risk of fatal whale strikes. 
 
The program must be modeled after the pilot Vessel Speed Reduction Program, except financial incentives for participation in the program may not be provided. The program must require, at a minimum, that each vessel of the awardee transit that region at speeds of 12 knots or lower. In addition, the program must require vessels to participate in the Port of Los Angeles or Port of Long Beach vessel speed reduction programs if the vessels call at those ports.
 
The Office must create an official seal to be recognized as the symbol of excellence in compliance with the program.
 
Within four years after this bill's enactment, the Office must consider and report on the feasibility of extending the program to encompass all shipping channels along the U.S. Pacific Coast between Canada and Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Student and Families Tax Reduction Act

Bill: 115-hr-3683
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2017-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax deductions
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: 

Student and Families Tax Reduction Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to permanently extend the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
PROVE Act

Bill: 115-hr-3684
Sponsor: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2017-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: 

Pre-Registration Of Voters Everywhere Act or the PROVE Act

 
This bill requires each state to implement a process to allow an individual who has turned 16 years old to register to vote in federal elections that occur after the individual turns 18 years old. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Radio Consumer Protection Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3685
Sponsor: Rep. Flores, Bill [R-TX-17]
Introduced: 2017-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Government trust funds
Licensing and registrations
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: 

Radio Consumer Protection Act of 2017

 
This bill establishes the Radio Consumer Protection Fund through FY2022 to make payments to a broadcast radio station for costs that the station incurred resulting from the reorganization of the broadcast television spectrum.
 
The Federal Communications Commission shall expedite applications from broadcast radio station licensees seeking to obtain special temporary authority to continue broadcasting during the reorganization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Farm to School Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3687
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2017-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Aquaculture
Congressional oversight
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Public contracts and procurement
Seafood

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: 

Farm to School Act of 201

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This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reauthorize the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Farm to School Program through FY2022 and modify the program. The program currently provides grants and technical assistance to schools, state and local agencies, Indian tribal organizations, agricultural producers, and nonprofit entities to improve access to local foods in schools. 
 
The bill makes schools participating in the Summer Food Service Program for children, the early care and afterschool portions of the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and the School Breakfast Program eligible to participate in the program. It also permits USDA to provide land-grant colleges and universities with grants, research, and technical assistance under the program. 
 
The purposes for grants awarded under the program are expanded to include agricultural literacy and nutrition education. The bill requires USDA to provide technical assistance, research, and information to increase awareness of and participation in farm to school programs among agricultural producers.
 
In awarding grants, USDA must seek to improve local food procurement and distribution options for agricultural producers and eligible schools. USDA is permitted to fund projects that include innovative approaches to aggregation, processing, transportation, and distribution. 
 
The bill establishes new limitations on the amount and duration of grants.
 
The bill also establishes reporting requirements and limits funds that may be used for administrative costs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3688
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2017-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands and resources rights
Iowa
Land transfers
Nebraska

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: 

Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 2017

 This bill takes specified federal land in Iowa into trust for the benefit of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. The land becomes part of the tribe's reservation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Student Exchange Program Parity Act

Bill: 115-hr-3689
Sponsor: Rep. MacArthur, Thomas [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2017-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Canada
Elementary and secondary education
Immigration status and procedures
International exchange and broadcasting
Latin America
Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: 

Student Exchange Program Parity Act

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the one-year limitation on the period of time an alien may be accorded nonimmigrant student status, including Mexican and Canadian full- or part-time commuting students, to study at a public secondary school.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Preserving America's Downtowns and Heritage Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3690
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2017-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Income tax credits
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: 

Preserving America's Downtowns and Heritage Act of 201

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This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rate of the rehabilitation tax credit for commercial buildings and for certified historic structures, and (2) allow a new 20% rehabilitation tax credit for certified historic buildings used by a taxpayer as a principal residence. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Child Performers Protection Act

Bill: 115-hr-3691
Sponsor: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2017-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Crimes against children
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Labor standards
Performing arts
Sex offenses
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: 

Child Performers Protection Act

 
This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to revise the application of child labor requirements and prohibitions with respect to child performers to specify new limitations on the number of hours such children may be employed at the place of employment. 
 
An employer or contractor may not: (1) employ any child performer unless a trust meeting specified requirements has been established on the child performer's behalf and the employer has obtained the account number of the trust account or other proof of its existence; or (2) compensate a child performer in any form besides cash wages, exclusive of board, lodging, or facilities.
 
Any employment or contracting of a child performer that is not in accordance with such limitations and requirements shall be treated as oppressive child labor. 
 
Certain work hour restrictions shall not apply to child performers employed in a live theatrical production.
 
Any individual in a supervisory role with respect to a child performer shall be liable for unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex against a child performer whether or not the individual is employed by or contracted by a covered employer or contractor.
 
Any child performer aggrieved by unlawful harassment on the basis of sex, or the performer's parent or guardian, may bring a civil action in any federal court of competent jurisdiction to recover equitable relief and compensatory and punitive damages, costs, and attorneys fees.
 
The employer of an individual who is alleged to have engaged in unlawful harassment on the basis of sex against a child performer shall conduct an internal review of its policies and procedures for protecting child performers and ensuring appropriate compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Addiction Treatment Access Improvement Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3692
Sponsor: Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2017-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug therapy
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health personnel
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: 

Addiction Treatment Access Improvement Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to revise the qualifications required for a practitioner to administer, dispense, or prescribe narcotic drugs for maintenance or detoxification treatment in an office-based opioid treatment program.
 
It increases the maximum patient limit for a qualifying practitioner who meets certain requirements. The maximum patient limit is the maximum number of patients a qualifying practitioner can treat at one time.
 
The bill expands qualifying practitioners to include additional nonphysician practitioners: clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and certified nurse midwives.
 
It makes permanent the authorization for certain nonphysician practitioners to become qualifying practitioners.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-04-25
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the debt ceiling.

Bill: 115-hr-3693
Sponsor: Rep. Boyle, Brendan F. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2017-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: 
This bill repeals the public debt limit, which applies to most debt held by the federal government. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Introduced in House
Future of the Nunn-Lugar Program Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3694
Sponsor: Rep. Banks, Jim [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2017-09-07 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Chemical and biological weapons
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Nuclear weapons
Research administration and funding
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: 

Future of the Nunn-Lugar Program Act of 2017

 
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to: (1) seek to enter into an agreement with a federally funded research and development center to assess requirements for cooperative threat reduction, and (2) provide such center with access to necessary information and resources. 
 
The center shall provide DOD with an interim and a final report that shall include: (1) a discussion of the requirements and capabilities necessary for reducing the threats of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons; (2) identification of capability gaps for cooperative threat reduction efforts; (3) recommendations for actions to modernize the DOD's Cooperative Threat Reduction Program; and (4) recommendations to modernize the command and control enterprise and the role of the Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. 
 
The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, with respect to foreign countries, is intended to facilitate the elimination and the safe and secure transportation and storage of nuclear, chemical, biological, or other weapons and prevent their proliferation. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Introduced in House
Protect DREAMer Confidentiality Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3695
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2017-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Law enforcement administration and funding
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: 

Protect DREAMer Confidentiality Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to protect individual application information submitted to DHS after June 15, 2012, as part of a request for consideration or reconsideration for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program from disclosure to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for any purpose other than implementing such program. Such information may be shared with national security and law enforcement agencies: (1) to identify or prevent fraudulent claims, (2) for national security purposes relating to an individual application, or (3) for the investigation or prosecution of a felony not related to immigration status.
 
DHS may not refer an individual whose case has been deferred pursuant to the DACA program to ICE, CBP, the Department of Justice, or any other law enforcement agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-07
text: Introduced in House