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Lead by Example Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-307
Sponsor: Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional officers and employees
Congressional oversight
Health care costs and insurance
Members of Congress
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 

Lead by Example Act of 2017

 
This bill provides that, beginning January 3, 2019, the only health care plan the federal government may make available to Members of Congress and congressional staff shall be health care provided through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
 
By September 15, 2017, the VA and the Office of Personnel Management shall jointly submit to Congress a plan to carry out this bill, including recommendations for any necessary legislative actions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Protect Family Farms and Businesses Act

Bill: 115-hr-308
Sponsor: Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 

Protect Family Farms and Businesses Act 

 
This bill prohibits proposed Internal Revenue Service regulations published on August 4, 2016, relating to restrictions on liquidation of an interest with respect to estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes from taking effect. The bill prohibits funds from being used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed regulations or any substantially similar regulations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Southwestern Oregon Watershed and Salmon Protection Act

Bill: 115-hr-310
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Oregon
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 

Southwestern Oregon Watershed and Salmon Protection Act

 
This bill withdraws specified federal land in Curry and Josephine Counties in Oregon from: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and (3) operation under the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws. 
 
 The bill amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to revise the segment designations for the Chetco River in Oregon. 
 
 The federal land within the boundaries of such segments of the Chetco River is withdrawn from: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) operation under the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Refusing to Assist Paying for United Nations Actions Against Israel Act

Bill: 115-hr-311
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arab-Israeli relations
Foreign aid and international relief
International organizations and cooperation
Israel
Middle East
Palestinians
United Nations
West Bank

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 

Refusing to Assist Paying for United Nations Actions Against Israel Act

 
This bill prohibits funds from being made available for U.S. contributions to the United Nations (U.N.) or to any affiliated body of the U.N. until Security Council Resolution 2334, regarding Israel's settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, is repealed in its entirety. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Tsunami Warning, Education, and Research Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-312
Sponsor: Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Alaska
Atlantic Ocean
Atmospheric science and weather
California
Caribbean Sea
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Emergency planning and evacuation
Floods and storm protection
Government studies and investigations
Gulf of Mexico
Hawaii
Idaho
International organizations and cooperation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Natural disasters
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Oregon
Pacific Ocean
Research administration and funding
Technology transfer and commercialization
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 

Tsunami Warning, Education, and Research Act of 2017
 
 
 This bill revises and reauthorizes through FY2021 the Tsunami Warning and Education Act.
 
The tsunami warning systems for the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and for the Atlantic Ocean are consolidated into a single warning system. The system must support international tsunami forecasting and warning efforts. 
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) must support or maintain tsunami warning centers to support the national warning system and develop uniform operational procedures for the centers. Warning centers are given additional responsibilities, including maintaining a fail-safe warning capability and an ability to perform back-up duties for each other.
 
The tsunami hazard mitigation program must provide for: (1) technical and financial assistance; (2) activities to support the development of regional hazard and risk assessments; (3) activities to promote preparedness in at-risk ports and harbors; and (4) dissemination of guidelines and standards for community planning, education, and training products, programs, and tools.
 
The tsunami research program must develop the technical basis for validation of tsunami maps, models, and forecasts. 
 
NOAA no longer has to operate an International Tsunami Information Center to improve tsunami preparedness for Pacific Ocean nations. 
 
NOAA must: (1) designate an existing working group to serve as the Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Panel to provide advice on matters regarding tsunami science, technology, and regional preparedness; (2) maintain a coordinating committee to assist in the national tsunami hazard mitigation program; and (3) develop formal outreach activities to improve tsunami education and awareness and foster the development of resilient communities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Savings for Seniors Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-313
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Financial services and investments
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 

Savings for Seniors Act of 2017

 
 This bill amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to establish in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund a Social Security Surplus Protection Account.
 
The Managing Trustee of the Social Security trust funds (the Secretary of the Treasury) must: (1) transfer annual Social Security surpluses to the account; and (2) may not invest the balance in the account until a law takes effect after FY2017 that authorizes, for amounts in the trust fund, an investment vehicle other than U.S. obligations resulting in the transfer of trust fund assets to the general fund of the Treasury.
 
 The bill establishes in the executive branch a commission to study the most effective vehicles for investment of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund other than investments in the form of U.S. obligations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Choice Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-314
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 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: 2017-01-05
text: 

Health Care Choice Act of 2017

 
This bill repeals the health insurance and health coverage expansion requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Provisions of law amended or repealed by those provisions are restored. 
 
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: 2017-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Futures Investor Protection Act

Bill: 115-hr-316
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Commodities markets
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Financial services and investments
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Government studies and investigations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 

Futures Investor Protection Act

 
This bill establishes the Futures Investor Protection Corporation (FIPC) as a nonprofit membership corporation for all futures commission merchants registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). In general, the FIPC's powers and duties shall mirror those of the Security Investors Protection Corporation (the nonprofit membership corporation for registered broker-dealers).
 
In addition, the bill amends the Commodity Exchange Act to establish suitability rules with respect to recommendations by a futures commission merchant to a customer.
 
The CFTC must review certain guidelines regarding proof of claims, as specified by the bill.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Keep Repos to Maturity on Balance Sheet Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-317
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Financial services and investments
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 

Keep Repos to Maturity on Balance Sheet Act of 2017

 
This bill requires the Securities and Exchange Commission, in establishing accounting principles or standards for purposes of the securities laws, to require that a repurchase-to-maturity transaction be treated as a secured borrowing in which the transferred asset serves as collateral.
 
A "repurchase-to-maturity transaction" is one in which: (1) a financial asset is transferred in exchange for cash, other financial assets, or letters of credit; and (2) the transferor and transferee agree that the transferee may return or redeem the transferred asset upon the asset's maturity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Nothing Off Balance Sheet Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-318
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Corporate finance and management
Financial services and investments
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 

Nothing Off Balance Sheet Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the Securities and Exchange Commission, in establishing accounting principles or standards under the securities laws, to require any person subject to those principles or standards to show all transactions on the person's balance sheet.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the limit on the amount of certain contributions which may be made to a candidate with respect to an election for Federal office.

Bill: 115-hr-319
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 
 This bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce from $2,000 to $1,000 the maximum contribution that may be made to candidates for federal office for elections occurring after 2018. An increase to this reduced contribution level, based on increases in the price index, must be made in calendar years after 2018. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to give members of the United States Capitol Police the option to delay mandatory retirement until age 60.

Bill: 115-hr-320
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional agencies
Congressional officers and employees
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement officers
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Physical fitness and lifestyle

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 
 This bill revises mandatory retirement requirements for members of the U.S. Capitol Police under the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees Retirement System.
 
 The Capitol Police Board, at a member's request, shall exempt the individual from automatic separation requirements until he or she becomes age 60, if the member: (1) undergoes a physical examination during the six-month period ending on the day the member turns age 57, and (2) on the basis of the examination meets appropriate physical fitness criteria.
 
(Currently, the Board, when in its judgement the public interest so requires, may exempt such a member from automatic separation until that member becomes 60 years of age.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
EPIC Act

Bill: 115-hr-322
Sponsor: Rep. DeSantis, Ron [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 

End Pensions in Congress Act 
or the 
 EPIC Act

 
 This bill amends the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) to exclude Members of Congress, except the Vice President, from further CSRS and FERS retirement coverage.
 
The bill prohibits further government contributions or deductions from such Member's basic pay for deposit in the Treasury to the credit of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund.
 
Nothing in this bill shall: (1) be considered to nullify, modify, or otherwise affect any right, entitlement, or benefit under CSRS or FERS for any Member covering any period before enactment of this bill; or (2) affect the eligibility of a Member to participate in the Thrift Savings Plan in accordance with otherwise applicable law.
 
Members covered by such exclusion, within 90 days after enactment of this bill, may elect to remain subject to CSRS or FERS, as the case may be.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Black Lung Benefits Act to provide equity for certain eligible survivors, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-323
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2017-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Coal
Disability assistance
Mining
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: 
This bill amends the Black Lung Benefits Act to preserve specified amendments made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in the event those amendments are repealed. The amendments expanded the application of certain eligibility requirements for black lung benefits to claims that were pending on or after the enactment of PPACA. Those requirements: (1) established a rebuttable presumption for claims filed by a miner who worked at least 15 years in an underground coal mine that a disabling lung or respiratory condition was due to black lung disease, and (2) entitled the survivors of a miner who, before death, was determined to be eligible for benefits to those benefits without the survivors being required to revalidate the miner's claim. (Previously, survivors were required to prove that the miner's death was caused by black lung disease).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-05
text: Introduced in House