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Opioids and STOP Pain Initiative Act

Bill: 115-s-2260
Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2017-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug therapy
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Income tax credits
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Prescription drugs
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: 

Opioids and STOP Pain Initiative Act

 
This bill establishes and provides funds for the Opioids and STOP Pain Initiative at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support pain-related research, including:
 
 
understanding pain, therapies for chronic pain, and alternatives to opioids for pain treatment as directed in the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016; 
 
improving options and evidence for medication-assisted treatment and opioid overdose reversal treatments; and
 
supporting the Federal Pain Research Strategy.

 
NIH must establish the Pain Therapy Screening Program to award grants to support the development of new pre-clinical models for pain disorders, and the application of these models in drug, device, or other therapy screening.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Secure Elections Act

Bill: 115-s-2261
Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK]
Introduced: 2017-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Advisory bodies
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Intergovernmental relations
Public participation and lobbying
Right of privacy
Sanctions
State and local government operations
Subversive activities
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: 

Secure Elections Act

 
This bill gives the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) primary responsibility within the federal government for sharing information about election cybersecurity incidents, threats, and vulnerabilities with federal entities and election agencies. 
 
DHS shall establish an advisory panel of independent experts to develop guidelines on election cybersecurity, including standards for procuring, maintaining, testing, auditing, operating, and updating election systems.
 
DHS shall award election system cybersecurity and modernization grants to states to implement the advisory panel's guidelines. Grants shall be awarded to: (1) remediate vulnerabilities identified by a cybersecurity evaluation, (2) replace electronic voting systems that are not optical scanners that read paper ballots, and (3) reimburse states for the inspection of marked paper ballots.
 
DHS shall establish a Hack the Election program, including a recurring competition, to facilitate and encourage the identification and reporting of election cybersecurity vulnerabilities by independent technical experts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-06-20
text: Committee on Rules and Administration. Hearings held.
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Counterterrorism Advisory Board Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2262
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2017-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: 

Counterterrorism Advisory Board Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for a four-year period, a Counterterrorism Advisory Board, which shall: (1) be composed of senior representatives of DHS operational components and headquarters elements, and (2) coordinate DHS intelligence activities and policy and information related to DHS's counterterrorism mission and functions.
 
The board's charter shall: (1) direct it to focus on the current threat environment and the importance of aligning DHS counterterrorism activities under the Secretary's guidance, and (2) be reviewed and updated every four years.
 
The DHS Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis shall serve as the chair of the board and shall report to the congressional homeland security committees on the board's status and activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Fruit and Vegetable Planting Flexibility Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2263
Sponsor: Sen. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN]
Introduced: 2017-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Fruit and vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: 

Fruit and Vegetable Planting Flexibility Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to modify the effect that planting fruits, vegetables, or wild rice on a farm has on the acreage eligible for payments under Department of Agriculture (USDA) commodity programs. 
 
Under current law, payments acres on a farm must be reduced by specified amounts in any year in which fruits, vegetables (other than mung beans and pulse crops), or wild rice have been planted on base acres on the farm.
 
For each year in which there is a reduction in payment acres on a farm due to the planting of fruits, vegetables, or wild rice on base acres, the bill requires USDA to maintain the commodity program eligibility of those base acres by considering the acres to be planted or prevented from planting to a covered commodity when USDA recalculates the base acres for the farm under the commodity programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Rhode Island Fishermen's Fairness Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2264
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2017-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Rhode Island

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: 

Rhode Island Fishermen's Fairness Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to add Rhode Island to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council and increase Council membership from 21 to 23 members. The Council is not given authority over the fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean seaward of Rhode Island.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S8261)
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act (NICA) of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2265
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2017-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign loans and debt
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Human rights
International organizations and cooperation
Judicial procedure and administration
Latin America
Multilateral development programs
News media and reporting
Nicaragua
Oil and gas
Political parties and affiliation
Protest and dissent
Racial and ethnic relations
Rule of law and government transparency
Russia
Sovereignty, recognition, national governance and status
Venezuela

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: 

Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act (NICA) of 2017

 
This bill directs the President to instruct the U.S. Executive Director at each international financial institution to oppose a loan for budget support for the government of Nicaragua unless the Department of State reports that Nicaragua is taking effective steps to (1) hold free elections; (2) promote democracy; (3) strengthen the rule of law; (4) combat corruption; (5) protect the right to freedom of expression; (6) protect the rights of indigenous people; and (7) protect the rights of political opposition parties, journalists, and other civil society activists to operate without interference.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Abby Honold Act

Bill: 115-s-2266
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2017-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime victims
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Domestic violence and child abuse
Government information and archives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: 

Abby Honold Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women to make competitive grants to law enforcement agencies and victim services organizations to implement evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches in responding to and investigating domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-18
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2018-03-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Pension Priority Act

Bill: 115-s-2267
Sponsor: Sen. Franken, Al [D-MN]
Introduced: 2017-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: 

Pension Priority Act

 
This bill amends the federal bankruptcy code to add a new category of unsecured priority claims in bankruptcy proceedings.
 
Specifically, it gives eighth priority to certain claims related to an employer pension plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
HBCU Capital Financing Improvement Act

Bill: 115-s-2268
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2017-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Education

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: 

HBCU Capital Financing Improvement Act

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify the HBCU Capital Financing Program, which guarantees low-cost private loans to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to finance infrastructure repairs, maintenance, and construction.
 
It replaces statutory references to "escrow account" with "bond insurance fund."
 
The bill authorizes the Department of Education to provide financial counseling that prepares an eligible HBCU to qualify for, apply for, and maintain a capital improvement loan.
 
 It revises and expands reporting requirements for the HBCU Capital Financing Advisory Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Mitigating the Methamphetamine Epidemic and Promoting Tribal Health Act

Bill: 115-s-2270
Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2017-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Indian social and development programs
Minority health
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: 

Mitigating the Methamphetamine Epidemic and Promoting Tribal Health Act or the Mitigating METH Act

 
This bill amends the 21st Century Cures Act to make Indian tribes eligible for funding under the opioid grant program for states. In addition, the bill expands the grant program to allow states and tribes to use grants for the prevention and treatment of the use of other substances, such as methamphetamine, that have a substantial public health impact on states or tribes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8261-8262)
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Museum and Library Services Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2271
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2017-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Advisory bodies
Digital media
Economic development
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial literacy
Health information and medical records
Higher education
Humanities programs funding
Indian social and development programs
Libraries and archives
Minority education
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Rural conditions and development
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: 

Museum and Library Services Act of 2017

 
This bill amends and reauthorizes through FY2023 the Museum and Library Services Act and provides funding for library services and technology through FY2023. The bill expands the definition of &quot;library&quot; and &quot;museum&quot; to include a tribal library or museum and expands the services museums are authorized to provide. 
 
The Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the 21st Century Museum Professional Program established by this bill, may enter into arrangements with museum, museum consortia and associations, institutions of higher education, and other entities for projects to:
 
 
increase the number of students from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds enrolled in graduate and undergraduate museum-related programs;
 
recruit future museum professionals from such backgrounds;
 
develop new or enhance current professional development and retention programs for museum professionals and the museum workforce; and 
 
support and conduct research, needs assessments, pilot programs, and evaluation of education and professional development programs to recruit, prepare, educate, and retain the next generation of museum professionals.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S8262-8293)
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Revised Statutes to grant State attorneys general the ability to issue subpoenas to investigate suspected violations of State laws that are applicable to national banks.

Bill: 115-s-2272
Sponsor: Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA]
Introduced: 2017-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: 
This bill allows state attorneys general, with reasonable cause, to issue subpoenas or administer oversight to investigate national banks for state law compliance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2274
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2017-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Employee leave
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: 

Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 201

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This bill requires federal employees furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after December 22, 2017, to be compensated for the period of the lapse on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates. Employees required to work during the lapse in appropriations may use leave. The bill addresses a lapse in appropriations scheduled to occur if FY2018 appropriations legislation is not enacted prior to the expiration of the continuing resolution that currently funds federal agencies through December 22, 2017. 

action_date: 2018-12-21
text: 

Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act of 201

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(Sec. 2) This bill requires federal employees furloughed or required to work during a lapse in appropriations beginning on or after December 22, 2017, to be compensated for the period of the lapse on the earliest date possible after the lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates. Employees required to work during the lapse in appropriations may use leave. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-12-22
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2018-12-22
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2018-12-22
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2018-12-21
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8011; text: CR S8011)
action_date: 2018-12-21
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8011; text: CR S8011)
action_date: 2018-01-03
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 290.
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2017-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-2275
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2018-01-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Africa
Department of Homeland Security
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Liberia

Summary:
action_date: 2018-01-03
text: 

Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 2018 

 
 This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security to adjust to permanent resident status a qualifying Liberian national who: (1) has been continuously present in the United States between November 20, 2014, through the date of status adjustment application; or (2) is the spouse, child, or unmarried son or daughter of such an alien.
 
 Adjustment applications must be filed not later than one year after the date of enactment of this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S24)
action_date: 2018-01-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the delisting of Mexican gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 on a determination that the subspecies has been sufficiently recovered in the United States.

Bill: 115-s-2277
Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2018-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Endangered and threatened species
Mammals
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2018-01-04
text: 
This bill requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to determine whether a population of at least 100 Mexican gray wolves in a 5,000-square-mile area within the historic range of the Mexican gray wolf has been established, as described in the Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan of 1982. The term Mexican gray wolf includes any gray wolf that the USFWS determines will take the place of, or correspond with, the Mexican gray wolf.
 
If the USFWS makes a determination that the population has been established, then: (1) the Mexican gray wolf shall be excluded from a list of endangered species, threatened species, or experimental populations under the Endangered Species Act of 1973; and (2) the management of the Mexican gray wolf must be assumed by each state in which the wolf is present.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2018-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Bridge Investment Act

Bill: 115-s-2279
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2018-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2018-01-04
text: 

Bridge Investment Act

 
This bill establishes a bridge investment program to provide financial assistance for projects to repair, improve, rehabilitate, or replace a bridge on a public road. The program includes small, medium, and large bridge projects and nationally or regionally significant projects involving more than $500 million. The program's goals include improving the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of people and freight over bridges and the reduction of the number of bridges in need of significant repair. 
 
The Department of Transportation may award grants for bridge investment projects that meet specified criteria.
 
The Government Accountability Office shall conduct, and report on, an assessment of the bridge investment grant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2018-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Fallen Warrior Battlefield Cross Memorial Act

Bill: 115-s-2280
Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2018-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Monuments and memorials
Veterans' organizations and recognition

Summary:
action_date: 2018-01-04
text: 

Fallen Warrior Battlefield Cross Memorial Act

 
This bill states that the Department of Veterans Affairs may not prohibit the display of a Battlefield Cross in any national cemetery. 
 
&quot;Battlefield Cross&quot; means a memorial monument in honor of fallen members of the Armed Forces that may include a replica of an inverted rifle, boots, helmets, and identification tag.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2018-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the individual tax rates in effect for taxable years 2018 through 2025.

Bill: 115-s-2281
Sponsor: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2018-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax rates
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2018-01-04
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent provisions included in P.L. 115-97 (commonly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) that: (1) reduced the individual tax rates, and (2) modified the taxation of the unearned income of children. The existing individual tax rates (10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35%, and 37%) are currently scheduled to expire and revert to higher rates at the end of 2025. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2018-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Bankruptcy Venue Reform Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-2282
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2018-01-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Federal district courts
Jurisdiction and venue

Summary:
action_date: 2018-01-08
text: 

Bankruptcy Venue Reform Act of 2018

 
This bill revises venue requirements for a non-individual debtor (e.g., a corporate debtor) in chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S68)
action_date: 2018-01-08
text: Introduced in Senate