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Scarlett's Sunshine on Sudden Unexpected Death Act

Bill: 115-hr-6931
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Family services
Genetics
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Law enforcement administration and funding
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Product safety and quality

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Scarlett's Sunshine on Sudden Unexpected Death Act

 
This bill establishes several programs and requirements relating to sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC). 
 
Among other things, the bill establishes grant programs to:
 
 
promote comprehensive death scene investigations and autopsies relating to SUID and SUDC;
 
improve infant and child death review programs; and
 
 promote education, outreach, and support services relating to SUID and SUDC.
 
 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must also study the use of genetic analysis and publish specified data regarding SUID and SUDC.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve home health payment reforms under the Medicare program.

Bill: 115-hr-6932
Sponsor: Rep. Abraham, Ralph Lee [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Home and outpatient care
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 
This bill alters the payment methodology under the Medicare prospective payment system for home health services, including by eliminating the requirement that such methodology include certain behavioral assumptions regarding the implementation of specified changes to units of payment and case-mix adjustment factors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-10-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6933
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Intergovernmental relations
Social Security Administration
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local government operations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 201

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This bill establishes a new formula for adjusting benefits under the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program for individuals who receive pensions based on certain non-covered employment. This formula replaces the existing formula (known as the "windfall elimination provision") for making such adjustments to OASDI benefits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-10-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Breakfast After the Bell Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6934
Sponsor: Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Elementary and secondary education
Food assistance and relief
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Breakfast After the Bell Act of 2018 

 
This bill provides increased reimbursements under the School Breakfast Program to schools that serve breakfasts through a breakfast after the bell program. A &quot;breakfast after the bell program&quot; is a program that: (1) serves breakfast to students after the start of the school day; and (2) uses a service model, including service of breakfast in the classroom or at a kiosk outside the cafeteria of the school, that the state educational agency determines increases participation in the breakfast program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Access to PELL Act

Bill: 115-hr-6935
Sponsor: Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Access to Professional Education and Lifelong Learning Act or Access to PELL Act

 
This bill establishes a program under which the Department of Education must award job training Pell Grants to students in job training programs and increases student assistance for working students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Bridge to Medicare Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6936
Sponsor: Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Bridge to Medicare Act of 2018 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain retirees a tax deduction for health insurance premiums paid for a plan offered in the individual market. 
 
The deduction applies to individuals who: (1) have no earned income, (2) are not eligible for certain Medicare benefits, and (3) are not eligible for a premium assistance tax credit to purchase insurance on an exchange established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Health Savings Modernization Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6937
Sponsor: Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Income tax credits
Income tax exclusion
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Health Savings Modernization Act of 2018

 
This bill modifies the requirements for tax-favored health savings accounts (HSAs) to: 
 
 
 allow the high deductible health plans required for an HSA to provide certain coverage without a deductible, 
 
 allow HSAs to be used for the medical expenses of adult children who are under the age of 27, 
 
 allow excess payments of the premium assistance tax credit to be paid to the taxpayer's HSA, 
 
modify the limit on out-of-pocket expenses for high deductible health plans, and
 
 increase the HSA contribution limit to the amount of the limit for the sum of the deductible and out-of-pocket expenses for a high deductible health plan.
 
 
The bill also eliminates provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that restrict the individuals who may purchase catastrophic health plans. (Under current law, the plans are limited to individuals who are younger than 30 years of age or who have a hardship exemption.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Rightsizing the Federal Workforce Through Attrition Act

Bill: 115-hr-6938
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Mike [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee hiring
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Rightsizing the Federal Workforce Through Attrition Act

 
This bill directs the Office of Management and Budget to reduce the total number of federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Local Input and Access to Public Lands Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6939
Sponsor: Rep. Cheney, Liz [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Land use and conservation
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Restoring Local Input and Access to Public Lands Act of 2018

 
This bill releases wilderness study areas or parts of which that are in Lincoln, Sweetwater, or Bighorn Counties in Wyoming from further study for designation as wilderness areas. 
 
The bill prohibits the designation of any new wilderness or wilderness study area in Wyoming except by a federal statute that specifically designates such area and is enacted after enactment of this bill. 
 
Any federal land in Wyoming that was inventoried as a &quot;Land with Wilderness Characteristics&quot; or identified as having wilderness characteristics under the planning process of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) or the Forest Service shall no longer be inventoried or identified as such. These lands shall be managed under the multiple use and sustained yield mandate of the federal land agency concerned. The federal land agencies concerned shall no longer be bound in managing their respective lands in accordance with the non-impairment standard. 
 
Furthermore, after this bill's enactment, no federal land in Wyoming shall be inventoried as a &quot;Land with Wilderness Characteristics&quot; nor shall it be identified as having wilderness characteristics under the planning process of the BLM or the Forest Service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-12-20
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 845.
action_date: 2018-12-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-1092.
action_date: 2018-12-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-1092.
action_date: 2018-11-15
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 11.
action_date: 2018-11-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2018-11-15
text: Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2018-10-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Small Business Enhancement Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6940
Sponsor: Rep. Cook, Paul [R-CA-8]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Government buildings, facilities, and property
Intergovernmental relations
Small business
State and local government operations
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Veterans Small Business Enhancement Act of 2018

 
This bill amends the Small Business Act to direct the Small Business Administration (SBA) to give access to and manage the distribution of U.S-owned surplus property, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding between the SBA, the General Services Administration, and the head of the state agency for surplus properties, to small businesses owned and controlled by veterans. This includes access to foreign excess personal property returned to a state for handling as surplus property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Agent Orange Exposure Fairness Act

Bill: 115-hr-6941
Sponsor: Rep. Crist, Charlie [D-FL-13]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Conflicts and wars
Disability assistance
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Agent Orange Exposure Fairness Act

 
This bill reinstates and extends the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs to determine and regulate diseases that warrant a presumption of service connection after exposure to a herbicide agent. Under a presumption of service connection, specific diseases diagnosed in certain veterans are presumed to have been caused by the circumstances of their military service. Health care benefits may then be awarded.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Eviction Prevention Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6942
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Housing and community development funding
Lawyers and legal services
Low- and moderate-income housing
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Eviction Prevention Act of 2018

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Justice to award grants to states to provide legal counsel to low-income individuals in civil actions related to evictions.
 
The Government Accountability Office must study and report to Congress on evictions in the United States, including the rate of legal representation of tenants and landlords, the effect of full representation on eviction cases, and the potential cost savings from providing representation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
CEASE Robocalls Act

Bill: 115-hr-6943
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Creating Enforcement Authority to Stop Enablers of Robocalls Act or the CEASE Robocalls Act

 
This bill allows the Federal Trade Commission to implement and enforce the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act with respect to common carriers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Total Learning Act

Bill: 115-hr-6945
Sponsor: Rep. Himes, James A. [D-CT-4]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child care and development
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Family relationships
Government information and archives
Preschool education
Public-private cooperation
School administration
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Total Learning Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to award competitive grants to full-service community schools or to partnerships between local educational agencies and either social-service providers or full-service community schools to implement innovative early-learning curricula in high-need communities for children from birth through age nine.
 
The bill includes as grant-covered costs those incurred for: (1) extended school hours and days; (2) staff development, compensation, and retention; (3) comprehensive child and family support services; and (4) other activities ED deems appropriate to promote academic success for children living in poverty. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Supporting Early Learning Act

Bill: 115-hr-6946
Sponsor: Rep. Himes, James A. [D-CT-4]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appropriations
Cemeteries and funerals
Coast guard
Department of Homeland Security
Education
Executive agency funding and structure
Military education and training
Military personnel and dependents
Transportation costs

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Supporting Early Learning Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Education to award competitive grants to states that demonstrate either great progress in, or a commitment to, establishing and maintaining a high-quality system of early-learning programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
College Affordability and Innovation Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6947
Sponsor: Rep. Himes, James A. [D-CT-4]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Advisory bodies
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Performance measurement
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

College Affordability and Innovation Act of 2018

 
This bill provides incentives for institutions of higher education (IHEs) that receive federal financial aid to: (1) provide programs designed to decrease the cost and time required to obtain postsecondary degrees or certificates; and (2) meet accountability standards that focus on affordability, accessibility for low- and middle-income students, and value.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Diagnostic Radiopharmaceutical Payment Equity Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6948
Sponsor: Rep. Holding, George [R-NC-2]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy
Health care costs and insurance
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Medicare Diagnostic Radiopharmaceutical Payment Equity Act of 2018

 
This bill establishes separate payment requirements for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals under the Medicare prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-10-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2018-09-27
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: 2018-09-27
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: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
CHP Support Act

Bill: 115-hr-6949
Sponsor: Rep. Kinzinger, Adam [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Building construction
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Manufacturing
Public-private cooperation

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

CHP Support Act

 
This bill amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to redesignate the Department of Energy's Clean Energy Application Centers as the CHP Technical Assistance Partnership Program. The program must encourage deployment of combined heat and power technologies and provide project specific support to building and industrial professionals through economic and engineering assessments and advisory activities. This bill reauthorizes the program through FY2022.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Wild and Scenic River Act

Bill: 115-hr-6950
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2018-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Connecticut
Land use and conservation
Public-private cooperation
Rhode Island
Watersheds
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: 

Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Wild and Scenic River Act

 
This bill designates specified river segments in the Wood-Pawcatuck watershed in Rhode Island and Connecticut as scenic, recreational, or wild rivers and as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-10-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-09-27
text: Introduced in House