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U.S. Territories Investor Protection Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1366
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2017-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Caribbean area
Financial services and investments
Puerto Rico
Securities
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: 

U.S. Territories Investor Protection Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to apply the Act to investment companies created under the laws of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or any other U.S. possession.

action_date: 2017-05-01
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 

U.S. Territories Investor Protection Act of 2017 

 
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to apply the Act to investment companies created under the laws of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or any other U.S. possession.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2017-05-02
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2982)
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H2982)
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1366.
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2981-2983)
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: Mr. Hill moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 60.
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 115-103.
action_date: 2017-05-01
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 115-103.
action_date: 2017-03-09
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 58 - 0.
action_date: 2017-03-09
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Indian Healthcare Improvement Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1369
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2017-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Abortion
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Comprehensive health care
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Indian social and development programs
Minority health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: 

Indian Healthcare Improvement Act of 2017

 
This bill reaffirms existing amendments to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act and certain other provisions of law relating to health care for Native Americans.
 
The bill prohibits federal funds provided by those amendments from being used to pay for any abortion or to cover any part of the costs of any health plan that covers abortion, except when a women's life would otherwise be endangered or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2017-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and the Budget, 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: 2017-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and the Budget, 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: 2017-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and the Budget, 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: 2017-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and the Budget, 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: 2017-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and the Budget, 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: 2017-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Vet Connect Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1371
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2017-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
HIV/AIDS
Health information and medical records
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: 

Vet Connect Act of 2017

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to disclose to non-VA entities that provide hospital care or medical treatment to veterans (including private entities and other federal agencies) records of the identity, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment of any patient in connection with a program relating to drug abuse, alcoholism or alcohol abuse, infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, or sickle cell anemia. Such an entity may not redisclose or use such record for a purpose other than that for which the disclosure was made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: Introduced in House
APPROVAL Act

Bill: 115-hr-1373
Sponsor: Rep. Womack, Steve [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2017-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Electric power generation and transmission
Federal-Indian relations
Intergovernmental relations
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: 

Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act or the APPROVAL Act

 
This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to prohibit the Department of Energy and the Southwestern and Western Area Power Administrations from using the power of eminent domain to implement modernization of electricity transmission infrastructure, unless they have received explicit permission to do so by: (1) the state governor and the head of each applicable public utility commission or public service commission of the affected state, and (2) the head of the governing body of each Indian tribe whose land would be affected.
 
 An electricity transmission infrastructure project, to the greatest extent practicable, must be sited upon either an existing federal right-of-way or upon federal land managed by either: (1) the Bureau of Land Management, (2) the Forest Service, (3) the Bureau of Reclamation, or (4) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Arbitration Fairness Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1374
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2017-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Competition and antitrust
Consumer affairs
Contracts and agency
Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: 

Arbitration Fairness Act of
 
2017

 
This bill prohibits a predispute arbitration agreement from being valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of an employment, consumer, antitrust, or civil rights dispute.
 
The validity and enforceability of an agreement to arbitrate shall be determined by a court, under federal law, rather than an arbitrator, irrespective of whether the party resisting arbitration challenges the arbitration agreement specifically or in conjunction with other terms of the contract containing such agreement.
 
Nothing in this bill applies to arbitration provisions in a contract between an employer and a labor organization or between labor organizations, except that no such arbitration provision shall have the effect of waiving the right of an employee to seek judicial enforcement of a right arising under the U.S. Constitution, a state constitution, a federal or state statute, or related public policy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
Prescriber Support Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1375
Sponsor: Rep. Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2017-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical education
Mental health
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: 

Prescriber Support Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to states for systems that help prescribers: (1) treat and manage patient pain; and (2) prevent, identify, and respond to patient substance misuse and substance abuse disorders. In awarding grants, HHS must give priority to states with the greatest need.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful Employment Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1377
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2017-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Government information and archives
Labor standards
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: 

Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful Employment Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to: (1) prohibit the Department of Labor from issuing new special wage certificates for individuals whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by age, physical or mental deficiency, or injury, and (2) repeal the authority for issuing such certificates six years after the enactment of this bill, at which time any outstanding special wage certificates shall be revoked. 
 
Labor shall not renew any special certificate previously provided to an employer unless the employer provides, on an annual basis: (1) individualized assessments of each employee paid subminimum wages under any such special certificate; (2) individualized assessments of each employee that identify how obstacles related to disability prevent each employee paid subminimum wages from transitioning into available job opportunities that pay at or above the minimum wage and the resources provided to each such employee in order to mitigate those disability-related obstacles; and (3) a transition plan for each such employee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1378
Sponsor: Rep. Harper, Gregg [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2017-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Education programs funding
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Medical education
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: 

National Health Service Corps Improvement Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to include chiropractic services in primary health services for purposes of the National Health Service Corps.
 
Doctors of chiropractic are eligible for the fellowship program for the delivery of primary health services in health professional shortage areas, the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program, and the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the entitlement to educational assistance under the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs for members of the Armed Forces awarded the Purple Heart.

Bill: 115-hr-1379
Sponsor: Rep. Peters, Scott H. [D-CA-52]
Introduced: 2017-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: 
This bill entitles members of the Armed Forces who have been awarded the Purple Heart for service occurring on or after September 11, 2001, to educational assistance under the Department of Veterans Affairs' Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
Requiring Individual Responsibility in Medicaid Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1381
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2017-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Medicaid
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: 

Requiring Individual Responsibility in Medicaid Act of 2017

 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow a state Medicaid program to impose a work requirement as a condition of eligibility.
 
A program may not apply such a requirement to: (1) a pregnant woman, (2) the sole parent or caretaker of either a child younger than age 6 or a child with disabilities, or (3) an individual younger than age 20 who is married or head of a household and either attends secondary school or participates in employment-related education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
GOFISH Act

Bill: 115-hr-1382
Sponsor: Rep. Weber, Randy K., Sr. [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2017-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Commerce
Fishes
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: 

Give Our Fishermen Immediate Snapper Help Act or the
 
GOFISH Act

 
This bill establishes requirements and restrictions for the 2017 and 2018 red snapper fishing seasons in the Gulf of Mexico.
 
The recreational season shall begin on July 1 of each year and last for 62 consecutive days.The bill also sets forth red snapper allocation and season duration requirements for the commercial and charter fishing sectors.
 
The catch and size limits for all three sectors shall be no less than the limits that applied to each sector for the 2016 fishing season.
 
Additionally, the National Marine Fisheries Service shall issue a proposed rule for the 2017 and 2018 red snapper fishing seasons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
Civil Service Incentives Integrity Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1385
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2017-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee hiring
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Labor-management relations
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: 

Civil Service Incentives Integrity Act of 2017

 
This bill requires the retraction and repayment of recruitment and relocation bonuses paid to federal employees who have spent at least 80% of the time they would otherwise be in a duty status on official time. Additionally, a retention bonus may not be paid to any such employee who, for a period of 6 consecutive months of service associated with the bonus, has spent at least 80% of the time they would otherwise be in a duty status on official time. Official time is time spent by federal employees performing representational work for a bargaining unit in lieu of their regularly assigned work.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish a pilot program to assess the operational benefits of remote air traffic control towers, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-1386
Sponsor: Rep. Katko, John [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2017-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish a five-year pilot program under which DOT shall install, operate, and assess the operational benefits of remote air traffic control towers at public-use airports.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
CLEAN Act

Bill: 115-hr-1388
Sponsor: Rep. O'Halleran, Tom [D-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2017-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional agencies
Congressional committees
Congressional operations and organization
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
House of Representatives
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: 

Clean Legislating and Ethical Accountability Now Act or the CLEAN Act

 
This bill enacts H.Res. 895, 110th Congress (establishing the Office of Congressional Ethics [OCE]) into permanent law, except that:
 
 
the OCE shall be treated as a standing House committee for purposes of procuring the temporary or intermittent services of individual consultants or organizations to study or advise the OCE on matters within its jurisdiction or on its administration of affairs,
 
references to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct shall be construed to be references to the House Committee on Ethics,
 
the prohibition on members of the OCE board serving more than four consecutive Congresses shall not apply,
 
individuals appointed for the remainder of a Congress may be reappointed for a second additional term of two Congresses,
 
individuals who are subjects of a preliminary review or second-phase review by the board shall be informed of the right to be represented by counsel, and invoking that right should not be held negatively against them,
 
 the OCE may not take actions that would deny persons rights or protection provided under the Constitution; and 
 
 the OCE shall have the same subpoena power as a House standing committee.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
Increasing State Flexibility in Care Coordination for the Most Vulnerable Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1389
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2017-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child health
Disability and paralysis
Health care costs and insurance
Medicaid
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: 

Increasing State Flexibility in Care Coordination for the Most Vulnerable Act of 2017

 
This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow a state Medicaid program to require enrollment with a managed care entity as a condition of Medicaid enrollment with respect to individuals who: (1) are younger than 19 years of age and have certain special needs, or (2) are dually eligible for Medicare.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-07
text: Introduced in House