Puerto Rico Task Force Economic Empowerment Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2429
Sponsor: Rep. MacArthur, Thomas [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Border security and unlawful immigration
Business education
Caribbean area
Census and government statistics
Congressional oversight
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Labor
Disaster relief and insurance
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Foreign labor
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Health care quality
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Hospital care
Immigration status and procedures
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Inflation and prices
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Law enforcement administration and funding
Medicaid
Medicare
Performance measurement
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement
Puerto Rico
Securities
Small Business Administration
Small business
State and local finance
Travel and tourism
U.S. territories and protectorates
Unemployment
User charges and fees
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 

Puerto Rico Task Force Economic Empowerment Act of 2017

 

Puerto Rico Opportunity, Small Business Prosperity, and Economic Revitalization Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Small Business Act to modify requirements for the microloan program for Puerto Rico small businesses and increase access to capital for such program.
 
The Small Business Administration shall establish: (1) a Veteran Business Outreach Center in Puerto Rico, and (2) a temporary Federal and State Technology (FAST) grant program to provide assistance to Puerto Rico businesses.
 
The bill amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to apply the oversight requirements of that Act to investment companies in U.S. territories.
 
The bill includes Puerto Rico in the Department of Labor reemployment demonstration projects grant program.
 
For FY2018, Labor may transfer funding to the Bureau of Labor Statistics for feasibility studies of the Puerto Rico economy.
 
The bill amends Social Security Act provisions affecting hospitals in Puerto Rico and health care and prescription drug coverage in U.S. territories.
 
The Office of National Drug Control Policy shall develop a publicly available Caribbean Border Counternarcotics Strategy, with emphasis on the borders of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House