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Cyber Scholarship Opportunities Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2184
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Higher education
Science and engineering education
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 

Cyber Scholarship Opportunities Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 to require the federal cyber scholarship-for-service program that the National Science Foundation (NSF) coordinates with the Department of Homeland Security to include scholarship recipients who are students pursuing an associate's degree in a cybersecurity field without the intent of transferring to a bachelor's degree program and who either have a bachelor's degree already or are veterans of the Armed Forces.
 
The post-award employment obligations of scholarship recipients pursuing a doctoral or master's degree may include work at an institution of higher education or for a local educational agency teaching cybersecurity skills.
 
Scholarship eligibility factors are revised to include: (1) an individual's skills and abilities under the National Institute of Standards and Technology's national cybersecurity awareness and education program, and (2) students pursuing a degree on a less than full-time but not less than half-time basis.
 
The NSF must work with the Office of Personnel Management to consolidate information about cyber scholarships programs and job opportunities into a single online resource center. 
 
The NSF may carry out a program to improve cybersecurity education at the K-12 level.
 
The NSF may: (1) grant exceptions from the post-award employment obligations to students who agree to work in a critical infrastructure mission at a federal government corporation or a state, local, or tribal government-affiliated component of a critical infrastructure sector; or (2) develop a pilot program to enhance critical infrastructure protection training for students pursuing careers in cybersecurity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Iran Sanctions Relief Review Act

Bill: 115-hr-2185
Sponsor: Rep. Pittenger, Robert [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arms control and nonproliferation
Chemical and biological weapons
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Foreign and international banking
Foreign property
Human rights
International law and treaties
Iran
Middle East
Nuclear weapons
Sanctions
Syria
Terrorism
Trade restrictions
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 

Iran Sanctions Relief Review Act

 
This bill requires the President to transmit to Congress every six months for five years determinations and certifications of whether, on or after January 30, 2016: (1) specified foreign financial institutions, including Iranian financial institutions, have facilitated significant transactions or provided services for foreign terrorist organizations, sanctioned foreign persons, or Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps or any of its officials, agents, or affiliates; and (2) specified foreign persons have knowingly materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services for, any such persons or entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
EL CHAPO Act

Bill: 115-hr-2186
Sponsor: Rep. Brooks, Mo [R-AL-5]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Latin America
Mexico
Organized crime

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 

Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order Act or the EL CHAPO Act

 
This bill requires the forfeited profits of Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera (El Chapo) from his illicit drug trafficking enterprise to be reserved for border security measures between the United States and Mexico, including the completion of a wall.
 
Additionally, it requires the forfeited funds from the felony conviction of a member of a drug cartel to be reserved for border security measures between the United States and Mexico, including the completion of a wall. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the treatment of certain retirement plan contributions picked up by governmental employers.

Bill: 115-hr-2187
Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Income tax deferral

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the treatment of certain employer contributions made to public retirement plans as picked up by a governmental employing unit regardless of whether the participating employee is allowed to make an irrevocable election between the application of two alternative benefit formulas involving the same or different levels of employee contributions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
SEAT Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2191
Sponsor: Rep. Dunn, Neal P. [R-FL-2]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Consumer affairs
Department of Transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 

Secure Equity in Airline Transportation Act of 2017 or the SEAT Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to issue a final rule to revise a federal regulation relating to oversold flights to prohibit an air carrier from denying air transportation to a passenger on an oversold aircraft that the passenger has boarded based on the status of the passenger with respect to the carrier's priority rules and criteria for determining which passengers holding a confirmed reserved seat shall be denied boarding in the event that an insufficient number of volunteers come forward.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Remote Transactions Parity Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2193
Sponsor: Rep. Noem, Kristi L. [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Retail and wholesale trades
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 

 Remote Transactions Parity Act of 201

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 This bill authorizes each member state under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (the multistate agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes adopted on November 12, 2002) to require all remote sellers not qualifying for a small remote seller exception to collect and remit sales and use taxes with respect to remote sales under provisions of the agreement, but only if such agreement includes minimum simplification requirements relating to the administration of the tax, audits, and streamlined filing. 
 
States that have not adopted the agreement must adopt and implement minimum simplification requirements for the administration of sales and use taxes in order to require the collection of such taxes.
 
Under the remote seller exception, a state may only require the collection of sales and use taxes by a remote seller if the seller: (1) has gross annual receipts exceeding specified amounts, which are phased in from $10 million for the first year following the effective date, to $5 million for the second year, and $1 million for the third year; or (2) utilizes an electronic marketplace for the purpose of making products or services available for sale to the public.
 
The bill defines "remote sale" as a sale that originates in one state and is sourced to another state in which the seller would not legally be required to pay, collect, or remit state or local sales and use taxes without the authority provided by this bill. 
 
The bill also prohibits states from beginning to exercise the authority granted by this bill for a specified period after enactment.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Cigarette Smoking Reduction and Electronic Vapor Alternatives Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2194
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal preemption
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government studies and investigations
Manufacturing
Marketing and advertising
Medical research
Product safety and quality
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 

Cigarette Smoking Reduction and Electronic Vapor Alternatives Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate electronic cigarettes through regulation of e-liquids (solutions used in electronic cigarettes) and personal electronic vaporizers (products that convert e-liquids into inhalable vapor).
 
E-liquids and personal electronic vaporizers are excluded from the definition of tobacco products.
 
The bill sets forth requirements for the sale and manufacturing of e-liquids and personal electronic vaporizers including: (1) prohibiting sales to persons younger than 18, (2) establishing manufacturing standards, and (3) requiring certification of compliance with manufacturing standards.
 
The FDA may prohibit advertising of e-liquids and vaporizers to minors. The Office of E-Liquid and Personal Vaporizer Standards Compliance is created in the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products and Tobacco Harm Reduction.
 
State and local laws on e-liquids and personal electronic vaporizers are preempted by this bill.
 
The FDA shall provide Congress a comparative health risk assessment of tobacco products and other nicotine delivery alternatives and rank them based on morbidity and mortality risk as compared to smoking cigarettes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
OSC Access Act

Bill: 115-hr-2195
Sponsor: Rep. Blum, Rod [R-IA-1]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Office of Special Counsel

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 

OSC Access Act 

 
This bill expands the authority of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) by allowing it to: (1) have timely access to material available to an agency that relates to an investigation, review, or inquiry relating to whistle-blower allegations or prohibited personnel practices; (2) request from any agency the information or assistance that may be necessary for it to carry out its duties and responsibilities; and (3) require, during an investigation, review, or inquiry of an agency, the agency to provide it any record or other information related to an investigation, review, or inquiry. 
 
A claim of common law privilege by an agency, or an officer or employee of an agency, shall not prevent the OSC from obtaining any material from such agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 193.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 115-268.
action_date: 2017-07-28
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 115-268.
action_date: 2017-05-02
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2017-05-02
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Energy to establish an energy efficiency materials pilot program.

Bill: 115-hr-2197
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Building construction
Educational facilities and institutions
Energy efficiency and conservation
Health facilities and institutions
Materials
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 
This bill requires the Department of Energy to establish a pilot program to award grants for providing nonprofit buildings with energy-efficiency materials.
 
The bill reduces the authorization of appropriations for the zero net energy commercial buildings initiative for FY2018.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Crisis Line Improvement Act

Bill: 115-hr-2198
Sponsor: Rep. Castro, Joaquin [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Health facilities and institutions
Mental health
Telephone and wireless communication
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 

Veterans Crisis Line Improvement Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that the first message a person hears upon calling the main telephone number of any VA medical facility allows the caller to choose to be quickly redirected to the Veterans Crisis Line without ending the call.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Chiropractic Membership in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2202
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Department of Health and Human Services
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 

Chiropractic Membership in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to make certain doctors of chiropractic (chiropractors) eligible for appointment to the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. To be appointed, a chiropractor must be eligible for licensure in a majority of the states or approved by a body acceptable to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS and the Surgeon General must ensure that such chiropractors are trained, equipped, and otherwise prepared to fulfill public health and emergency response service responsibilities in the Commissioned Corps. 
 
The President must appoint at least six chiropractors to the commissioned Regular Corps and the Ready Reserve Corps.
 
The Surgeon General must report to Congress on measures taken by the President, Surgeon General, and HHS to carry out this bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Coral Reef Sustainability Through Innovation Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2203
Sponsor: Rep. Hanabusa, Colleen [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Air quality
Aquatic ecology
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Economic performance and conditions
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Research administration and funding
Rural conditions and development
Travel and tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 

Coral Reef Sustainability Through Innovation Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Coral Reef Conservation Act to authorize the 12 federal agencies on the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force, which includes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to carry out, either individually or cooperatively, prize competitions that promote coral reef research and conservation. The prize competitions should be designed to help the United States achieve its goal of developing new and effective ways to advance the understanding, monitoring, and sustainability of coral reef ecosystems. 
 
Priority is given to establish programs that address communities, environments, or industries that are in distress due to the decline or degradation of coral reef ecosystems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
action_date: 2017-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
Homeowner Information Privacy Protection Act

Bill: 115-hr-2204
Sponsor: Rep. Hultgren, Randy [R-IL-14]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Government studies and investigations
Housing finance and home ownership
Marketing and advertising
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 

Homeowner Information Privacy Protection Act

 
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to study specified privacy issues related to the collection of certain personal information, as required by regulation, from mortgage applicants and borrowers under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975.
 
The bill suspends specified regulatory requirements related to data sharing and reporting under the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
ECORA Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2205
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2017-04-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Credit and credit markets
Farmland
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: 

Enhancing Credit Opportunities in Rural America Act of 2017 or the ECORA Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income interest received by a lender from real estate loans secured by agricultural real estate or by a leasehold mortgage (with a status as a lien) on agricultural real estate.
 
Agricultural real estate includes real property that is substantially used for the production of one or more agricultural products. It also includes any single family residence that is: (1) the principal residence of its occupant, (2) located in a rural area which is not within a Metropolitan Statistical Area and has a population of 2,500 or less; and (3) is purchased or improved with the proceeds of a loan secured by property used for the production of one or more agricultural products. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Introduced in House