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Adding Middle East Respiratory Syndrome to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act

Bill: 115-hr-3348
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-52]
Introduced: 2017-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
Infectious and parasitic diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: 

Adding Middle East Respiratory Syndrome to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act

 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to include Middle East respiratory syndrome under the priority review voucher program for tropical diseases, which awards a voucher to the sponsor of a new drug or biological product that is approved to prevent or treat a tropical disease. (A voucher entitles the holder to have a future new drug or biological product application acted upon by the Food and Drug Administration within six months.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Mechanical Insulation Installation Incentive Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3349
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2017-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax deductions
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: 

Mechanical Insulation Installation Incentive Act of 201

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 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an additional tax deduction for the cost of installing mechanical insulation property. The bill: (1) limits the amount of such deduction to the lesser of 30% of the cost or the reduction in energy loss from the installed mechanical insulation property compared to property that meets the minimum requirements of American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) standard 90.1-2007; and (2) allows the cost of mechanical insulation property that is placed in service to replace insulation property to be treated as a deductible business expense in the current taxable year.
 
The bill defines "mechanical insulation property" as insulation materials, facings, and accessory products: (1) placed in service in connection with a mechanical system which is located in the United States and of a character subject to an allowance for depreciation; and (2) utilized for thermal requirements for mechanical piping and equipment, hot and cold applications, and heating, venting and air conditioning applications which can be used in a variety of facilities.
 
The bill also allows a tax deduction for capital expenditures related to mechanical insulation property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Transparency in Music Licensing and Ownership Act

Bill: 115-hr-3350
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2017-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Government information and archives
Intellectual property
Library of Congress
Music
Sound recording

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: 

Transparency in Music Licensing and Ownership Act

 
This bill amends federal copyright law to direct the U.S. Copyright Office to establish and maintain a publicly accessible database of nondramatic musical works and sound recordings subject to copyright protection.
 
It limits available remedies, in copyright infringement actions against certain parties, for a copyright owner who fails to provide or maintain the minimum information required in the database.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3351
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2017-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Health personnel
Immigration status and procedures
Nursing
Visas and passports
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: 

Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for up to 8,000 employment-based immigrant visas per fiscal year for qualifying nurses, physical therapists, and other health care workers (excluding physicians) and their accompanying family members. Such aliens are exempted from worldwide and foreign state numerical limits.
 
A petition filed on behalf of such an immigrant must be accompanied by evidence that the prospective U.S. employer has the ability to pay the proffered wage. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Second Chance for Service Act

Bill: 115-hr-3352
Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]
Introduced: 2017-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Citizenship and naturalization
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: 

Second Chance for Service Act

 
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an applicant for citizenship who served honorably in the Armed Forces is not barred from becoming a U.S. citizen on the grounds of not being a person of good moral character based upon specified behaviors or having committed certain crimes, excluding crimes relating to murder, rape, sexual abuse of a minor, child pornography, prostitution, trafficking in persons, and national security. 
 
In determining whether an applicant is of good moral character, the applicant's honorable service shall be weighed against any finding of having committed such behaviors or crimes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Military Consumer Protection Act

Bill: 115-hr-3357
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2017-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer credit
Contracts and agency
Financial services and investments
Housing finance and home ownership
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Lease and rental services
Military personnel and dependents
Motor vehicles
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: 

Military Consumer Protection Act

 
This bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act to extend Consumer Financial Protection Bureau oversight and protection to persons covered by provisions of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act concerning: 
 
 
future financial transactions, excluding insurance; 
default judgments, excluding child custody proceedings; 
interest rates on pre-service debts; 
evictions; 
purchase or lease installment contracts; 
mortgages and trusts; 
motor vehicle leases; 
telephone service contracts; 
waiver of rights pursuant to a written agreement, excluding bailments; and 
the rights and protections of reserves ordered to report for military service and persons ordered to report for induction. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3360
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2017-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Computers and information technology
Department of Health and Human Services
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: 

Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2017

 
This bill (1) establishes Medicare payment incentives for hospitals that reduce readmissions; (2) provides for treatment, under Medicare, of individuals in health homes and medical homes; and (3) expands and otherwise revises coverage of telehealth services under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
SECURE Firearm Storage Act

Bill: 115-hr-3361
Sponsor: Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10]
Introduced: 2017-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Crime prevention
Crimes against property
Department of Justice
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Licensing and registrations
Manufacturing
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: 

Safety Enhancements for Communities Using Reasonable and Effective Firearm Storage Act or the SECURE Firearm Storage Act 

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to require that all licensed importers, licensed manufacturers, or licensed dealers of firearms shall keep and store all firearms in the business inventory of the licensee at the premises covered by the license. When the premises are not open for business, the licensee shall secure all firearms by complying with prescribed security measures, including trigger guards and safes. Further, when such premises are not open for business, the licensee shall store certain paper records in a secure location. 
 
The Department of Justice shall promulgate regulations prescribing additional security requirements as deemed necessary.
 
The bill includes a set of civil penalties, including fines and potential license suspension or revocation, for noncompliance with the foregoing security requirements.
 
An application for a firearms license must describe how the applicant plans to comply with these security requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6280)
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
CLAIM Act

Bill: 115-hr-3363
Sponsor: Rep. Kustoff, David [R-TN-8]
Introduced: 2017-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Insurance industry and regulation
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: 

Claims Licensing Advancement for Interstate Matters Act or the CLAIM Act

 
This bill authorizes an independent insurance claims adjuster to apply to the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers for membership for the purpose of licensure in any state that requires a license for such adjusters and that does not have in effect, four years after this bill's enactment: (1) uniform laws and regulations governing the licensure of individuals and entities within the state, and (2) reciprocity laws and regulations governing the licensure of nonresident individuals and entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Stop Waste in Government Contracting Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3365
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2017-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: 

Stop Waste in Government Contracting Act of 2017

 
This bill requires executive agencies to use competitive procedures for procurement contracts valued at $10 million or more, with a national security exception.
 
The Inspector General of the General Services Administration must report to Congress:
 
 
 on updating the Federal Procurement Data System and data stored on it during the preceding 10-year period,
 
identifying any issues of each agency relating to the use of such system that may have affected the reliability of data stored on it,
 
detailing which data is potentially unreliable, and 
 
including recommendations for improving the system.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Senior Housing IRA Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3366
Sponsor: Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2017-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deferral
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: 

Senior Housing Improvement and Retirement Accounts Act of 2017 or the Senior Housing IRA Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax treatment of gains from the sale or exchange of a principal residence, to: (1) allow a qualified individual to contribute the gains from the sale or exchange to a Roth Individual Retirement Arrangement (IRA) as a qualified rollover contribution which is exempt from contribution limits, and (2) increase the $250,000 limit on the exclusion from gross income for gains from the sale of a principal residence by the amount of the rollover contribution. 
 
The bill applies to individuals who: (1) have attained the age of 55 before the date of the sale or exchange, (2) have owned and used the property as a principal residence for at least 20 years, and (3) have not previously elected to treat a contribution to a Roth IRA as a qualified rollover contribution under the authority provided by this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
LNG Now Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3367
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2017-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Disaster relief and insurance
Government information and archives
Oil and gas
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Trade restrictions
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: 

License Natural Gas Now Act of 2017 or the LNG Now Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Natural Gas Act to prohibit the federal government from imposing any restriction on the importation and exportation of natural gas.
 
The bill does not limit the President's ability to restrict the importation or exportation of natural gas: (1)during national emergencies or disasters, and (2)to foreign countries if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such country.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the access to child care for certain veterans receiving health care at a facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 115-hr-3368
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2017-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child care and development
Health care coverage and access
Mental health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: 
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), beginning January 1, 2018, to provide assistance to qualified veterans to obtain child care so that such veterans can receive health care services at a VA health care facility during the time such a veteran requires travel to and return from such facility.
 
A &quot;qualified veteran&quot; is defined as a veteran who is the primary caretaker of a child and is: (1) receiving from the VA regular mental health care services, intensive mental health care services, or other intensive health care services such that the VA determines that providing assistance to the veteran to obtain child care would improve the veteran's access to such services, or (2) in need of regular or intensive mental health care services from the VA and, but for lack of child care services, would receive such health care services from the VA.
 
 
 
The VA shall carry out this bill using funds made available to the VA facility that provides the health care services for which the child care assistance is provided. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Fry Scholarship Enhancement Act

Bill: 115-hr-3370
Sponsor: Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2017-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
Military personnel and dependents
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: 

Fry Scholarship Enhancement Act

 
This bill includes under the Yellow Ribbon G.I. Education Enhancement Program (public-private contributions for educational assistance in addition to post-9/11 educational assistance): (1) the child or spouse of an individual who, on or after September 11, 2001, dies in the line of duty while serving on active duty (Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry scholarship recipients); and (2) an individual who, on or after such date, serves at least 90 days but less than 6 months on active duty and who, after completion of such service, either continues on active duty for an aggregate of less than 6 months or is discharged or released before completion of such amount of active duty service. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Modoc County Land Transfer and Economic Development Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3371
Sponsor: Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1]
Introduced: 2017-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Economic development
Forests, forestry, trees
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Soil pollution

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: 

Modoc County Land Transfer and Economic Development Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to convey, without consideration, to Modoc County, California, specified National Forest System land in Modoc National Forest which contains an obsolete Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar System receiving station. 
 
The purpose of such conveyance is to: (1) preserve and utilize the improvements constructed on such land, and (2) permit the county to use the conveyed property for economic development purposes.
 
 To expedite the conveyance, environmental remediation of such land by the Air Force shall be limited to the removal of the perimeter fence, which was treated with an arsenic-based weatherproof coating, and the treatment of the soil affected by the leaching of such chemical. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-07
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the restoration of entitlement to educational assistance and other relief for veterans affected by school closure or disapproval, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-3372
Sponsor: Rep. Messer, Luke [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2017-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
National Guard and reserves
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: 
This bill provides that if a veteran or reservist is forced to discontinue a certain course or program as a result of a school closure or disapproval of a necessary course and did not receive credit or lost training time toward completion of the education program, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) educational assistance payments shall not, for a specified period, be: 
 
 
 charged against the individual's entitlement to educational assistance, or 
 
 counted against the aggregate period for which such assistance may be provided.
 
 
The bill, with an exception, applies to education courses and programs discontinued after January 1, 2015.
 
The VA may continue to pay educational assistance and subsistence allowances to eligible veterans and eligible persons enrolled in specified courses for up to 4 weeks in any 12-month period when schools are temporarily closed under an established policy based on a presidential executive order or due to an emergency.
 
 The VA shall, within five business days after receiving notice of a closure or intended closure, notify each affected individual of such closure and its effect on the individual's entitlement to educational assistance. 
 
The VA may also continue to pay a monthly housing stipend following a permanent school closure or disapproval of a course of study, but only until the earlier of: (1) the end of the term, quarter, or semester during which the school closure or disapproval occurred; and (2) 120 days after the closure or disapproval.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-07-24
text: Introduced in House