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Public Input for National Monuments Act

Bill: 115-hr-2074
Sponsor: Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Monuments and memorials
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Public Input for National Monuments Act

 
This bill applies the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to the designation of a national monument. The President must certify compliance with the Act when designating national monuments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Restoring the Patient's Voice Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2077
Sponsor: Rep. Wenstrup, Brad R. [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Restoring the Patient's Voice Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require a group health plan to establish an exception to medication step-therapy protocol in specified cases. A medication step-therapy protocol establishes a specific sequence in which prescription drugs are covered by a group health plan or a health insurance issuer. 
 
To warrant an exception to the protocol, at least one of the following circumstances must be met: (1) the treatment is contraindicated, (2) the treatment is expected to be ineffective, (3) the treatment will cause or is likely to cause an adverse reaction to the individual, (4) the treatment is expected to decrease the individual's ability either to perform daily activities or occupational responsibilities or adhere to the treatment plan, or (5) the individual is stable based on the prescription drugs already selected.
 
The bill requires a group health plan to implement a clear process for an individual to request an exception to the protocol. The process shall be readily available on the website of the group health plan and must list the requirements for a request and any necessary forms and contact information.
 
Requests shall be granted no later than three days after receipt of the request. In certain cases where the life, health, and ability of the individual are jeopardized by the protocol, the request shall be granted no later than 24 hours after receipt of the request.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Jump Start America Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2078
Sponsor: Rep. Williams, Roger [R-TX-25]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Corporate finance and management
Employment taxes
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Inflation and prices
Taxation of foreign income
Transfer and inheritance taxes
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Jump Start America Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to several corporate and individual income tax policies, to:
 
 
revise individual income tax rates to establish a 20% rate on taxable income of $1 million or less and a 30% rate on taxable income over $1 million, with an adjustment for inflation after 2016;
 
 revise the income tax rates on corporations to impose a single 20% rate on corporate taxable income; 
 
modify the formula for calculating the tax on the net capital gains of individual taxpayers to provide for a maximum 15% rate on the adjusted net capital gain of such taxpayers; 
 
 reduce the tax rate on current and accumulated foreign earnings of U.S. corporations reinvested in the United States and make the lower rate permanent;
 
 increase the additional depreciation allowance (bonus depreciation) from 50% to 100% of the adjusted basis of qualifying business property and to make such increased allowance permanent; 
 
reduce Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes for employers, employees, and the self-employed; and 
 
 repeal the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Young Fishermen's Development Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2079
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Business education
Education programs funding
Employment and training programs
Higher education
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Young Fishermen's Development Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the National Sea Grant Office in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a Young Fishermen's Development Grant Program to provide training, education, outreach, and technical assistance initiatives for young fishermen.
 
The office shall make competitive matching grants to support local and regional training, education, outreach, and technical assistance initiatives for young fishermen, including programs, workshops, and services related to seamanship, navigation, electronics, and safety, vessel and engine care, and sustainable fishing practices.Grant recipients must be a collaborative state, tribal, local, or regionally based network or partnership of public or private entities.
 
In awarding grants, the office shall give priority to partnerships and collaborations that are led by or include nongovernmental fishing community-based organizations and school-based fisheries educational organizations with expertise in fisheries and sustainable fishing training and outreach.
 
 Grants may not be used to purchase a fishing license, permit, quota, or other harvesting right.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Eastern Interior Alaska Land Use Protection Act

Bill: 115-hr-2080
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alaska
Department of the Interior
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 

Eastern Interior Alaska Land Use Protection Act

 
This bill declares that the management plan prepared by the Bureau of Land Management for the Eastern Interior Planning Area in Alaska, which is entitled the &quot;Eastern Interior Proposed Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement,&quot; for which a notice of availability was published in the Federal Register on July 29, 2016, shall have no force or effect. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 to modify the requirement to impose sanctions with respect to the provision of specialized financial messaging services to the Central Bank of Iran and other sanctioned Iranian financial institutions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-2081
Sponsor: Rep. Zeldin, Lee M. [R-NY-1]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Foreign and international banking
Iran
Middle East
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Sanctions
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: 
 This bill changes the current discretionary authority to a requirement that the President impose sanctions under the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 with respect to the provision of specialized financial messaging services to the Central Bank of Iran and other sanctioned Iranian financial institutions. This requirement may not be waived.
 
Sanctions are expanded to include, in the case of an alien who is a senior executive or member of the board of directors of a person that provides such messaging services, visa denial and exclusion from the United States, and revocation of any visa or other documentation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Daniela Vargas.

Bill: 115-hr-2082
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2017-04-06 in the House
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Provides for the relief of Daniela Vargas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E476)
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Year-Round Pell Grant Restoration Act

Bill: 115-hr-2084
Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40]
Introduced: 2017-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-08
text: 

Year-Round Pell Grant Restoration Act

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make qualified students eligible to receive more than one Pell Grant in an award year, thus allowing year-round Pell Grants. If a student receives more than one Pell Grant in an award year, the total amount of the Pell Grants awarded to the student may exceed the maximum Pell Grant available for an award year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-08
text: Introduced in House
No Coverage, No Penalty Act

Bill: 115-hr-2086
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2017-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: 

No Coverage, No Penalty Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the requirement to maintain minimum essential health coverage (commonly referred to as the individual mandate) individuals who reside in a rating area or county in which the Department of Health and Human Services certifies that no qualified health plans are offered through an exchange established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House
DAIRY Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2087
Sponsor: Rep. Duffy, Sean P. [R-WI-7]
Introduced: 2017-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Temporary and part-time employment
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: 

Defending the Agricultural Industry's Requirements Year-round Act of 2017 or the DAIRY Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include in the H-2A nonimmigrant visa category (temporary agricultural workers) an alien coming temporarily to the United States to perform agricultural labor or services as a dairy worker.
 
The initial period of admission for such dairy workers shall be 18 months, which may be extended for additional 18-month periods. No period of absence from the United States shall be required for such extensions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Empire State Equity Act

Bill: 115-hr-2088
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2017-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Hospital care
Medicaid
Property tax
State and local finance
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: 

Empire State Equity Act

 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to increase federal Medicaid funding for states that received, for FY2016, disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments greater than six times the national average. (DSHs are hospitals that receive additional payment under Medicaid for treating a large share of low-income patients.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House
PLEA Act

Bill: 115-hr-2089
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2017-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Justice
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement officers
Trade restrictions
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: 

Protect Law Enforcement Armor Act or the PLEA Act 

 
This bill requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to promulgate regulations for the uniform testing of firearms for their ability to penetrate the Body Armor Exemplar, which shall take into consideration various enumerated factors and any other considerations DOJ deems relevant, except in no case shall a handgun capable of piercing the Body Armor Exemplar be deemed exempt from any restrictions under federal firearms laws by reason of sporting use.
 
The bill makes it unlawful to transfer or possess an armor-piercing handgun subject to several exceptions. The bill exempts such handguns from this prohibition if they are lawfully possessed before the date this bill becomes effective. The bill also prohibits any person from transporting in interstate or foreign commerce any armor-piercing handgun or any licensed importer, manufacturer or dealer from selling or delivering such handguns except as specifically authorized by DOJ consistent with public safety and necessity. 
 
Persons who use, carry, or possess an armor-piercing handgun in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such crime, be subject to a 30-year mandatory minimum sentencing enhancement, and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction shall be imprisoned for life. Any person who conspires to commit such a crime shall be imprisoned for any term of years or life.
 
The exemption allowing qualified law enforcement officers and qualified retired law enforcement officers to carry a concealed firearm does not apply to armor-piercing handguns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Election Integrity Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2090
Sponsor: Rep. Messer, Luke [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2017-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Photography and imaging
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: 

Election Integrity Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit a state or local election official from providing a ballot for a federal election to an individual who desires to vote in person unless the individual presents a valid photo identification.
 
If an individual does not present a valid photo identification, the individual shall be permitted to cast a provisional ballot. An election official may not determine that such an individual is eligible under state law to vote in the election unless, not later than 10 days after casting the provisional ballot, the individual presents: (1) the identification required, or (2) an affidavit attesting that the individual does not possess the identification because the individual has a religious objection to being photographed.
 
With an exception for overseas military voters, an election official may not accept a ballot for a federal election provided by an individual who votes other than in person unless the individual submits with the ballot a copy of a valid photo identification.
 
If an individual presents an election official with an affidavit attesting that the individual is unable to afford to obtain a valid photo identification, the official shall provide the individual with a valid photo identification without charge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act

Bill: 115-hr-2091
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2017-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Motor vehicles
Sports and recreation facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: 

Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the accelerated depreciation (seven-year recovery period) of motorsports entertainment complexes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2092
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2017-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Department of the Treasury
Employee benefits and pensions
Executive agency funding and structure
Income tax deductions
Income tax deferral
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: 

Promotion and Expansion of Private Employee Ownership Act of 201

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This bill expands tax incentives and federal assistance for employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) that are sponsored by S corporations. 
 
The bill provides additional tax incentives for ESOPs by (1) extending to all domestic corporations, including S corporations, provisions allowing deferral of tax on gain from the sale of employer securities to an ESOP; and (2) allowing a tax deduction for 50% of the interest received by a bank on loans to S corporation-sponsored ESOPs for the purchase of employer securities. 
 
The Department of the Treasury must establish the S Corporation Employee Ownership Assistance Office to foster increased employee ownership of S corporations. 
 
The bill defines an &quot;ESOP business concern&quot; and allows such a concern to continue to qualify as a small business for the purposes of programs under the Small Business Act. An &quot;ESOP business concern&quot; is a business concern that was a small business concern eligible for a loan, preference, or other program under the Small Business Act before more than 49% of the business concern was acquired by an ESOP. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Small Business, 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: 2017-04-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Small Business, 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: 2017-04-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Small Business, 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: 2017-04-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Small Business, 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: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Introduced in House