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Behavioral Health Care Integration Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2336
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2017-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: 

Behavioral Health Care Integration Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to replace a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) program to support demonstration projects for providing integrated health care to certain patient populations with a program to support integration of primary and behavioral health care.
 
The program must be designed to lead to full collaboration between primary care and behavioral health providers in the same facility to ensure support for individuals with mental illness and a physical condition or substance use disorder.
 Under the program, grants and cooperative agreements may be awarded to state departments of health, state mental health or addiction agencies, state Medicaid agencies, and health care providers and institutions. Recipients must report to SAMHSA on progress in reducing barriers to integrated care and outcomes for certain patient populations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for a State Medicaid option to enhance administrative matching funds to support statewide behavioral health access program activities for children under 21 years of age, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-2337
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2017-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health care coverage and access
Health information and medical records
Medicaid
Mental health
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow a state Medicaid program to provide, and receive an enhanced federal matching rate for providing, administrative activities carried out with respect to a behavioral health access program for individuals under 21 years of age.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
501(c)(4) Reform Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2338
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan Grisham, Michelle [D-NM-1]
Introduced: 2017-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Political advertising
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: 

501(c)(4) Reform Act of 201

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This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax exemption under section 501(c)(4) for social welfare organizations and local associations of employees, to prohibit such entities from participating or intervening (including the publishing or distributing of statements) in any political campaign on behalf of, or in opposition to, any candidate for public office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Capital Access for Small Business Banks Act

Bill: 115-hr-2339
Sponsor: Rep. Marchant, Kenny [R-TX-24]
Introduced: 2017-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business investment and capital
Corporate finance and management
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: 

Capital Access for Small Business Banks Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a bank or a depository institution holding company which is an S corporation to: (1) have 500 shareholders (the current limit is 100 shareholders), and (2) issue qualified preferred bank stock. The bill makes a distribution of qualified preferred bank stock to a shareholder includible in the gross income of the shareholder and allows the bank or holding company to deduct the amount of such distribution. 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
To extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000.

Bill: 115-hr-2340
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2017-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Civil actions and liability
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Land use and conservation
Property tax
Public contracts and procurement
State and local finance
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: 
This bill extends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 through FY2017, including provisions concerning secure payments to eligible states, territories, and counties containing federal land. 
 
The bill: (1) sets forth special rules for state and county payments for FY2016, and (2) requires all FY2016 payments to be made within 45 days of enactment of this bill. 
 
No funds made available to eligible counties under such Act may be used in lieu of, or to otherwise offset, a state funding source for a local school, facility, or educational purpose. 
 
The merchantable timber contracting pilot program is repealed.
 
 The bill extends through FY2019 the authority under such Act to initiate special projects on such federal lands and certain county activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2017-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
SERVE Act

Bill: 115-hr-2341
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2017-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deferral
Religion
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: 
 
Seeking an End to Restrictions on Votive Employees Act or the SERVE Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify that a retirement income account provided by a church or a convention or association of churches may cover: (1) a duly ordained, commissioned, or licensed minister of a church in the exercise of his ministry, regardless of the source of his compensation; (2) an employee of a tax-exempt organization, whether a civil law corporation or otherwise, that is controlled by or associated with a church or a convention or association of churches; and (3) certain employees who have been separated from service with a church, a convention or association of churches, or an organization described above.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Common Sense Employer Notification of Special Enrollment Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2342
Sponsor: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10]
Introduced: 2017-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: 

Common SENSE Act of 2017 or the Common Sense Employer Notification of Special Enrollment Act of 2017

 This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Internal Revenue Code, and the Public Health Service Act to expand notification requirements for health plans regarding beneficiaries who would lose coverage if not for continuation coverage (e.g., due to job termination) to include providing notice of: (1) guaranteed availability of coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including special enrollment periods; and (2) special enrollment periods for Medicare.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4379)
action_date: 2017-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-03
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: 2017-05-03
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: 2017-05-03
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: 2017-05-03
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: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
United States Library Trust Fund Act

Bill: 115-hr-2343
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2017-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Government trust funds
Libraries and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: 

United States Library Trust Fund Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish in the Treasury the United States Library Trust Fund, and (2) allow taxpayers to designate a portion of any tax overpayment (not less than $1) to the fund. The bill also authorizes public libraries or public school libraries to receive grants from the fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Crab Emergency Disaster Assistance Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2344
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2017-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Appropriations
Aquatic ecology
California
Disaster relief and insurance
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Oregon
Seafood
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: 

Crab Emergency Disaster Assistance Act of 201

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This bill appropriates funds to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide disaster relief funds to the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. These funds will assist fisherman and small businesses, including restaurants, which have suffered economic hardship due to the shutdown of the commercial Dungeness and rock crab season on the U.S. West Coast. These funds become available when the Department of Commerce makes a determination declaring a fishery disaster for either the Dungeness crab fishery or the rock crab fishery.
 
Dungeness and rock crab fisheries on the West Coast may contain dangerous levels of domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by harmful algal blooms that can cause shellfish poisoning. The bill appropriates funds to NOAA for the sampling and monitoring of domoic acid found in the fisheries. In addition, NOAA must distribute grants for research on harmful algal blooms and domoic acid toxicity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Support and Defend Our Military Personnel and Their Families Act

Bill: 115-hr-2346
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2017-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Citizenship and naturalization
Immigration status and procedures
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
User charges and fees
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: 

Support and Defend Our Military Personnel and Their Families Act

 
This bill states that any person who serves or has served under honorable conditions as a member of the Armed Forces in support of contingency operations shall be eligible for naturalization as if the person had served during a period of presidentially-designated military hostilities. 
 
 The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is amended to extend the period for filing a naturalization application to one year after completion of eligible military service.
 
 An alien who is eligible for a family-sponsored immigrant visa and is either the spouse or child of a permanent resident alien who is serving in the Armed Forces shall be exempt from worldwide immigrant visa numerical limitations. 
 
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may adjust to permanent resident status an alien who is a parent, spouse, child, son or daughter, or minor sibling of a person who is serving or has served in the Armed Forces under honorable conditions. The bill permits posthumous benefits under specified circumstances. 
 
 With respect to a removal proceeding under INA: 
 
 
a notice to appear shall not be issued against an alien who serves or has served under honorable conditions in the Armed Forces without prior DHS approval; 
 
 DHS, in determining whether to issue a notice, shall consider the alien's eligibility for naturalization, military service record, grounds of deportability, and any hardship to the Armed Forces, the alien, and his or her family if the alien were to be placed in removal proceedings; and 
 
an alien who serves or has served under honorable conditions in the Armed Forces shall not be removed from the United States on specified grounds.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
American Infrastructure Opportunity Bonds Act

Bill: 115-hr-2348
Sponsor: Rep. Torres, Norma J. [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2017-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Government trust funds
Infrastructure development
Public transit
Roads and highways
Securities
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: 

American Infrastructure Opportunity Bonds Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Treasury, when the real rate (the interest rate on outstanding marketable U.S. obligations with remaining maturity periods of approximately one year minus the inflation rate) equals zero percent or less, to:
 
 
 issue government bonds (American Infrastructure Opportunity Bonds) with a face value of $20 billion; and
 
 deposit amounts equivalent to the proceeds from such issuance into the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), of which 20% shall be deposited into the Mass Transit Account.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Hands off Passengers Act

Bill: 115-hr-2349
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-10]
Introduced: 2017-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Consumer affairs
Department of Transportation
Transportation costs
Transportation employees

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: 

Hands off Passengers Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to modify a federal regulation relating to oversold flights to prohibit the involuntary deplaning of, or denial of boarding a flight by, any passenger holding a confirmed reserved seat on an oversold flight to accommodate a member of the air carrier's flight crew or staff.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3073)
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Know-Before-You-Bid Construction Transparency Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2350
Sponsor: Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2017-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Building construction
Government information and archives
Public contracts and procurement
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-04
text: 

Small Business Know-Before-You-Bid Construction Transparency Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Small Business Act to require the Small Business Administration to make available a secured electronic system through which each agency shall provide access to documents relating to each construction contract it awards to a small business concern, including:
 
 
any payment bond provided for the contract and any bond modification required by the agency; and
 
the date and amount of each payment made to the prime contractor, any amounts withheld, and a general explanation of why an amount was withheld.
 
 
The bill requires that such documents be made available in such system within 15 days after they are included in the contract file.
 
For solicitations for the award of a construction contract anticipated to be awarded to a small business concern, the agency shall provide a notice along with the solicitation about the agency's required policies or practices relating to the timely definitization of requests for an equitable adjustment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2017-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Minority Diabetes Initiative Act

Bill: 115-hr-2351
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2017-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-04
text: 

Minority Diabetes Initiative Act

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to public and nonprofit private health care providers to provide treatment for diabetes in minority communities. HHS must ensure that these grants cover a variety of diabetes-related health care services, including routine care for diabetic patients, public education on diabetes prevention and control, eye care, foot care, and treatment for kidney disease and other complications of diabetes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Lumbee Recognition Act

Bill: 115-hr-2352
Sponsor: Rep. Pittenger, Robert [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2017-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
North Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-04
text: 

Lumbee Recognition Act

 
This bill amends the Act of June 7, 1956, to extend federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and make its members eligible for the services and benefits provided to members of federally recognized tribes. 
 
Members of the tribe residing in Robeson, Cumberland, Hoke, and Scotland Counties in North Carolina are deemed to be within the delivery area for such services.
 
The Department of Health and Human Services must develop, in consultation with the tribe, a determination of needs to provide the services for which members of the tribe are eligible.
 
The Department of the Interior may take land into trust for the tribe.
 
North Carolina must exercise jurisdiction over all criminal offenses committed, and all civil actions that arise, on North Carolina lands owned by, or held in trust for, the Lumbee Tribe or any dependent Indian community of the tribe unless jurisdiction is transferred to the United States pursuant to an agreement between the tribe and the state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2017-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-04
text: Introduced in House