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Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2186
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2017-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Defense
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Justice
Disability and health-based discrimination
Government studies and investigations
HIV/AIDS
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial procedure and administration
Military law
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: 

Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act of 2017 or the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of
 
2017

This bill expresses the sense of Congress that federal and state laws, policies, and regulations regarding people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) should: (1) not place unique or additional burdens on such individuals solely as a result of their HIV status; and (2) demonstrate a public health-oriented, evidence-based, medically accurate, and contemporary understanding of HIV transmission, health implications, treatment, and the impact of punitive HIV-specific laws, policies, regulations, and judicial precedents and decisions on public health and on affected people, families, and communities. 
The bill directs the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Defense (DOD) to initiate a national review of federal (including military) and state laws, policies, regulations, and judicial precedents and decisions regarding criminal and related civil commitment cases involving people living with HIV. DOJ must transmit to Congress and make publicly available the results of such review with related recommendations.
 
DOJ and HHS must: (1) develop and publicly release guidance and best practice recommendations for states, and (2) establish an integrated monitoring and evaluation system to measure state progress.
 
DOJ, HHS, and DOD must transmit to the President and Congress any proposals necessary to implement adjustments to federal laws, policies, or regulations.
 
This bill shall not be construed to discourage the prosecution of individuals who intentionally transmit or attempt to transmit HIV to another individual.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish a regulatory framework for the comprehensive protection of personal data for individuals under the aegis of the Federal Trade Commission, to amend the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to improve provisions relating to collection, use, and disclosure of personal information of children, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-s-2187
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2017-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Computer security and identity theft
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Contracts and agency
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Religion
Right of privacy
Small business
State and local government operations
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: 
This bill addresses the protection of personal information by
 
 
requiring entities to carry out security measures to protect the personal information they collect and maintain,
 
limiting the collection and distribution of personal information,
 
requiring specified notice with respect to certain security breaches, 
 
restricting targeted marketing to children, and
 
otherwise modifying provisions relating to the collection and use of personal information of children or adults.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Consumer Data Protection Act

Bill: 115-s-2188
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2017-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Computer security and identity theft
Congressional oversight
Consumer credit
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Government studies and investigations
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: 

Consumer Data Protection Act

 
This bill amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to direct a consumer reporting agency experiencing a data breach to: (1) notify the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), other appropriate law enforcement agencies, and affected individuals; (2) provide affected individuals with free credit freezes and credit monitoring services; and (3) establish a consumer assistance unit.
 
The bill also establishes legal enforcement provisions concerning data breaches at consumer reporting agencies. 
 
The CFPB may examine a consumer reporting agency to assess compliance with personal information protection laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-12
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Plymouth 400th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2189
Sponsor: Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2017-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: 

Plymouth 400th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act of 2017

 

This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to issue up to 100,000 $5 gold coins, 500,000 $1 silver coins, and 750,000 half-dollar clad coins emblematic of the landing and settlement of Plymouth Colony, the signing of the Mayflower Compact, and the role of the indigenous Wampanoag tribes in the realization of the settlement. 
 
These coins may be issued only during a one-year period beginning January 1, 2020.
 
Sales of such coins shall include specified surcharges, which shall be paid by Treasury as follows:
 
 
30% to Plymouth 400, Inc.; 
 
5% to Plimoth Plantation, Inc.; 
 
20% to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe; 
 
5% to the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah); 
 
30% to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants; 
 
5% to the Pilgrim Society; and 
 
5% to Provincetown 400. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Livestock and Honey Bee Disaster Assistance Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2190
Sponsor: Sen. Heitkamp, Heidi [D-ND]
Introduced: 2017-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Disaster relief and insurance
Insects
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: 

Livestock and Honey Bee Disaster Assistance Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to remove the $20 million annual limit on mandatory funding for emergency assistance under the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-raised Fish Program (ELAP). The bill also removes a provision that permits funds provided under ELAP to remain available until expended. 
 
(ELAP provides financial assistance to eligible producers of livestock, honeybees and farm-raised fish for losses due to disease, certain adverse weather events, or loss conditions, including blizzards and wildfires.) 
 
The bill amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to specify that the maximum cost-share percentage permitted under the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) is 90% for an area that has been identified by the U.S. Drought Monitor as experiencing extreme or exceptional drought. 
 
(The ECP provides emergency funding and technical assistance to farmers and ranchers to rehabilitate farmland damaged by natural disasters and implement emergency conservation measures in periods of severe drought.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Green Banking Act

Bill: 115-s-2191
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2017-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business investment and capital
Consumer affairs
Energy assistance for the poor and aged

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: 

Green Banking Act

 
This bill amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to allow bank holding companies to own up to 20% of companies engaged solely in producing or storing renewable energy power, such as wind and solar power. This allowance terminates 30 years after enactment of this bill unless Congress enacts a joint resolution of approval.
 
This bill amends the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 to require both the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) to develop underwriting guidelines for financing residential solar energy systems to facilitate the secondary market for mortgages on housing with such systems for low- and moderate-income households.
 
The Federal Housing Finance Agency must identify ways to increase the financing for residential solar energy system property improvements in underserved markets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Fishing and Small Vessel Relief Act

Bill: 115-s-2194
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2017-12-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Marine pollution
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-05
text: 

Fishing and Small Vessel Relief Act

 
 This bill extends until December 18, 2020, an exemption from permit requirements of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act). The exemption allows certain incidental discharges from vessels that are either less than 79 feet in length or a fishing vessel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2017-12-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2195
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2017-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government studies and investigations
Judicial procedure and administration
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: 

Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the federal judicial code to establish the Office of Inspector General for the Judicial Branch to investigate alleged misconduct in the judicial branch, including the Supreme Court; to conduct and supervise audits and investigations; and to prevent and detect waste, fraud, and abuse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S7892-7893; text of measure as introduced: CR S7893)
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
21st Century Buy American Act

Bill: 115-s-2196
Sponsor: Sen. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT]
Introduced: 2017-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Buy American requirements
Congressional oversight
Digital media
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Infrastructure development
Manufacturing
Military procurement, research, weapons development
Public contracts and procurement
Public participation and lobbying
Transportation costs
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: 

21st Century Buy American Act

 
This bill modifies the requirements for federal agencies to grant exceptions and waivers to Buy American requirements. The bill also (1) requires the General Services Administration to establish a public website with details regarding waivers and exceptions that have been requested, are under consideration, or have been granted by agencies; (2) increases the domestic content percentage requirement to 60%; and (3) authorizes the Department of Defense to establish a program to make or guarantee loans under the Defense Production Act to certain domestic manufacturers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the credit for increasing research activities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-s-2197
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2017-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Computers and information technology
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Manufacturing
Research and development
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax credit for increasing research activities (known as the research and experimentation tax credit), to: 
 
 
 increase the alternative simplified credit rate to match the rate of the regular credit; 
 
 allow taxpayers to use reasonable estimation techniques in lieu of contemporaneous accounting to measure employee hours per business component; 
 
 allow employees engaging in the direct supervision or direct support of research activities which constitute qualified research to be included in the research expense calculation without regard to the employee's position or management level; 
 
 allow the credit to be used for research related to the adaptation of an existing business component to a particular customer's requirement or need, cost reduction, or obsolescence mitigation; and 
 
 allow taxpayers to make an election for a reduced credit (in order to be allowed a full deduction for research expenses) on an amended tax return. 
 
 
The bill also allows a business-related tax credit equal to 10% of the qualified connective manufacturing equipment expenditures made by the taxpayer during the year. The credit applies to expenditures relating to the purchase or installation of: (1) industrial equipment components that contain a microprocessor and can be connected to an electronic communication network; and (2) software, routing, or local area network components necessary to connect the components to an electronic communication network.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Superfund Polluter Pays Restoration Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2198
Sponsor: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2017-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Inflation and prices
Oil and gas
Pollution liability
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: 

Superfund Polluter Pays Restoration Act of 201

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 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reinstate the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate beginning 60 days after enactment of this bill; (2) increase such rate from 9.7 cents to 15.8 cents per barrel of crude oil (adjusted for inflation after 2018); (3) reinstate and increase the rates of tax on taxable chemicals (adjusted for inflation after 2018); and (4) modify the definition of &quot;crude oil&quot; to include any bitumen or bituminous mixture, any oil derived from such mixture (including oil derived from tar sands), and any oil derived form kerogen-bearing sources (including oil derived from oil shale).
 
The bill amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to allow the use of the Superfund for environmental remediation without further appropriation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Border Security and Deferred Action Recipient Relief Act

Bill: 115-s-2199
Sponsor: Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2017-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
California
Citizenship and naturalization
Congressional oversight
Crimes against property
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Evidence and witnesses
Foreign labor
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Human trafficking
Immigration status and procedures
Judicial review and appeals
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Latin America
Law enforcement officers
Mexico
Military personnel and dependents
Motor vehicles
Organized crime
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Right of privacy
Roads and highways
Texas
Violent crime
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: 

Border Security and Deferred Action Recipient Relief Act

 
This bill establishes the Border Security Trust Fund, which shall make funds available for: (1) specified border fencing and wall procurement, construction, and improvements in Texas and California; and (2) border wall planning activities. 
 
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may cancel removal of, and grant lawful permanent resident status on a conditional basis for up to 10 years to, qualifying resident aliens who: (1) have been continuously physically present in the United States since January 1, 2012; (2) were under 16 years old on the initial date of U.S. entry or, if 18 years or older when filing under this bill, have met certain educational, employment, or military requirements; (3) are not inadmissible or deportable on criminal, security, terrorism, or other grounds; (4) have not participated in persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion; and (5) have not been convicted of specified federal or state offenses. Such an alien may subsequently adjust to permanent resident status and become eligible for naturalization.
 
DHS may designate as a criminal gang or cartel a group, club, organization, or association comprised of five or more individuals that has as a primary purpose the commission of one or more specified criminal offenses and whose members engage in, or, during the five years immediately preceding the most recent commission of such an offense, have engaged in, a continuing series of such offenses.
 
The bill makes persons associated with gangs or cartels inadmissible or deportable.
 
 DHS shall complete the construction of roads along the southern border to facilitate U.S. Customs and Border Protection access.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-07
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 276.
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
ASPIRE Act

Bill: 115-s-2201
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2017-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Department of Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: 

Access, Success, and Persistence in Reshaping Education Act of 2017 or the ASPIRE Act

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 by requiring the Department of Education (ED) to rank institutions of higher education (IHEs) based on the percentage of first-time, full-time students who receive Pell Grants and are enrolled at the IHEs. The IHEs in the bottom 5% must improve the enrollment of those students by specific deadlines or pay a fee-per-student penalty.
 
Additionally, ED must rank IHEs based on the percentage of first-time, full-time students who enroll at the school and graduate within 6 years. The bill gives IHEs in the bottom 5% the option of receiving funding to improve student graduation rates. Those IHEs must improve those rates by specific deadlines or pay a penalty.
 
The bill establishes consumer warning requirements for IHEs with low enrollment or graduation rates.
 
ED must establish: (1) grant programs for improving graduation rates, and (2) a bonus program for providing nonfinancial rewards to IHEs that make college more affordable and increase college access and success for low-income or working class students and moderate-income students.
 
ED must collect the penalty fees and use them to fund the grant and award program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
National Transportation Safety Board Reauthorization Act

Bill: 115-s-2202
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2017-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: 

National Transportation Safety Board Reauthorization Act

 
This bill reauthorizes the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for FY2019-FY2023. 
 
The NTSB may include any still image obtained from a video recorder for an accident, but must protect from public disclosure any information that readily identifies an individual, including a decedent. 
 
The bill permits the NTSB to release confidential information to the public to protect health and safety and may share information with certain protections. 
 
The NTSB must report to Congress explaining its methodology to prioritize and select recommendations included on the Most Wanted List. The Most Wanted List sets forth NTSB advocacy priorities. It is designed to increase awareness of, and support for, critical changes needed to reduce accidents and save lives.
 
The bill also requires the NTSB to: (1) expand requirements for providing services to families of accident victims; and (2) review, every five years, its previously issued safety recommendations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-07-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 506.
action_date: 2018-07-10
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Thune with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 115-293.
action_date: 2018-07-10
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Thune with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 115-293.
action_date: 2017-12-13
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2017-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate