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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the deduction for local lobbying expenses.

Bill: 115-s-2170
Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Introduced: 2017-11-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the tax deduction for lobbying expenditures to influence the legislation of any local council or similar governing body, including an Indian tribal government. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: Introduced in Senate
CFPB Pay Fairness Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2171
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2017-11-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: 

CFPB Pay Fairness Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to require Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees to be compensated according to the General Schedule pay scale for federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Medical Innovation Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2172
Sponsor: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2017-11-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Civil actions and liability
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Executive agency funding and structure
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Prescription drugs
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: 

Medical Innovation Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require certain drug manufacturers to make payments to fund research supported by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
 
A drug manufacturer with over $1 billion in net income in a fiscal year that has entered into a settlement agreement in the previous five years with a federal agency regarding specified violations must pay 0.75%-1.5% of its net income to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for each of its covered blockbuster drugs. A covered blockbuster drug is a drug that has at least $1 billion in net sales in a year and was developed, in whole or in part, through federal investments in medical research, including a drug for which a patent contains information that relates to, or is based upon, federally funded research.
 
Each fiscal year, HHS must publish a list of manufacturers that make payments, each manufacturer's covered blockbuster drugs, and payment amounts.
 
Payments are divided between the FDA and the NIH in proportion to the discretionary funding of those agencies, excluding FDA user fees. Payments are not disbursed if appropriations for the FDA or the NIH are lower than in the prior fiscal year.
 
The FDA's priority use for payments must include advancing regulatory science for medical products.
 
The NIH's priority use for payments must include supporting: (1) research that fosters radical innovation, (2) research that advances fundamental knowledge and technology, (3) research related to diseases that disproportionately account for federal health care spending, and (4) early career scientists.
 A covered blockbuster drug for which a manufacturer has not made a required payment is considered misbranded and may not be sold until payment is made.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: Introduced in Senate
COURTS Act

Bill: 115-s-2173
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2017-11-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Indian social and development programs
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local courts

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: 

Continuation of Useful Resources to States Act or COURTS Act

 
This bill extends and otherwise revises funding for programs related to child welfare. Specifically, the bill extends through FY2022 funding for (1) the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program, and (2) the grant program for improving courts' handling of foster-care and adoption proceedings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7407)
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Crisis Line Study Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2174
Sponsor: Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced: 2017-11-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Health promotion and preventive care
Hospital care
Mental health
Telephone and wireless communication
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: 

Veterans Crisis Line Study Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct a study on the outcomes and the efficacy of the Veterans Crisis Line during the five-year period beginning January 1, 2014, based on an analysis of national suicide data and data collected from the line. 
 
Such study shall address: (1) the efficacy of the line in leading veterans to sustained mental health regimens and suicide prevention; (2) the line's visibility; (3) the role of the line as part of the VA's mental health care services; and (4) whether receiving sustained mental health care affects suicidality, including among veterans who are at high risk for suicide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Introduced in Senate
BREATH Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2175
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2017-11-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: 
 
Beneficiary Respiratory Equipment Access and Transparency to Home Ventilator Care Act of 201
 
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This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish by January 1, 2018, policies and standards for determining the appropriate use of certain ventilators under the Medicare program. The CMS may delay such establishment until January 1, 2020, for certain ventilators furnished to individuals with specified medical diagnoses. 
 
Subject to budget neutrality requirements, the bill increases the Medicare payment rate for such ventilators for 2018 and subsequent years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Safeguarding America's Future and Environment Act

Bill: 115-s-2176
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2017-11-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Air quality
Animal protection and human-animal relationships
Aquatic ecology
Atmospheric science and weather
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Department of the Interior
Ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Executive agency funding and structure
Fishes
Horticulture and plants
Indian lands and resources rights
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Scientific communication
State and local government operations
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: 

Safeguarding America's Future and Environment Act or the SAFE Act

 
 This bill requires the President to establish a National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy Joint Implementation Working Group to address the effects of extreme weather and climate change on fish, wildlife, and plants, including by adopting a national strategy and completing strategy implementation plans.
 
Federal agencies must integrate the elements of the national strategy that relate to conservation, management, and protection of fish, wildlife, and plants into their plans, environmental reviews, and programs.
 
The Department of the Interior must establish: (1) a National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center to assess and develop scientific information, tools, strategies, and techniques to support interested parties in addressing the effects of extreme weather and climate change on fish, wildlife, and plants; and (2) an Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Sciences to advise the working group.
 
In order to be eligible to receive funds under this bill, a state must submit to Interior and the Department of Commerce a fish, wildlife, and plant adaptation plan detailing efforts to address the effects of climate change on fish, wildlife, and plants and coastal areas within the state's jurisdiction. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2177
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2017-11-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Labor
Labor standards
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: 

Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2017

 
This bill requires the Department of Labor to update the salary threshold applicable to bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees for purposes of determining eligibility for overtime pay. The bill adopts rulemaking promulgated by Labor in 2016 that established the threshold for exempting such employees from overtime requirements at the 40th percentile of earnings for full-time salaried employees in the lowest-wage census region. The bill also requires updates to the threshold amount every three years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Inspector General Recommendation Transparency Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-2178
Sponsor: Sen. Heitkamp, Heidi [D-ND]
Introduced: 2017-11-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: 

Inspector General Recommendation Transparency Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to require the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency to establish and operate a public database of open Inspector General recommendations on which corrective action has not been completed within one year of issuance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2018-05-25
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2018-05-24
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2018-05-23
text: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2885; text: CR S2885)
action_date: 2018-05-23
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2885; text: CR S2885)
action_date: 2018-05-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 409.
action_date: 2018-05-10
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 115-245.
action_date: 2018-05-10
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 115-245.
action_date: 2018-02-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Data Security and Breach Notification Act

Bill: 115-s-2179
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2017-11-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Right of privacy
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: 

Data Security and Breach Notification Act

 
This bill requires the Federal Trade Commission to require certain entities that own or possess data containing personal information, or that contract with a third-party to maintain or process such information, to implement certain information-security policies and procedures for the treatment and protection of the information. 
 
Such entities must provide specified notice following the discovery of a security breach of such information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Christopher's Law

Bill: 115-s-2180
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2017-11-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer credit
Disability and paralysis
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: 

Christopher Bryski Student Loan Protection Act or Christopher's Law

 
This bill amends the Truth in Lending Act to require a private student loan lender to disclose clearly and conspicuously in writing a cosigner's obligations regarding a private student loan. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) must publish a model form for such disclosure.
 
 The bill prohibits a private student loan lender from taking an adverse action against a borrower (e.g., placing a loan in default or accelerating a loan balance) upon a cosigner's death, disability, or bankruptcy. It also prohibits adverse actions against a cosigner for a borrower's death, disability, or bankruptcy. 
 
 The CFPB must establish and a private student loan lender must disclose criteria for releasing a cosigner from a private student loan obligation.
 
A private student loan lender must also: 
 
 
 provide prompt notice of a cosigner's release; 
 
allow a borrower to designate a legal representative to make decisions upon the death or disability of such borrower; and 
 
 
ensure a borrower and cosigner receive comprehensive counseling on the terms, conditions, and responsibilities of a private student loan. 
 
 
Additionally, this bill amendsthe Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand the required elements of entrance counseling for a federal student loan borrower to include: 
 
 
conditions for loan discharge upon the death or disability of a borrower,
 
options for loan repayment and forgiveness upon the death or disability of a borrower or cosigner, and
 
obligations of a borrower or cosigner upon the death or disability of a borrower.
 
 
It requires clear and conspicuous disclosure of a student's option to designate a legal representative to make decisions about a federal student loan upon such student's death or disability. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Families Credit Reporting Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2181
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2017-11-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: 

Military Families Credit Reporting Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to: (1) allow a consumer to provide proof to a consumer reporting agency that an adverse credit report item occurred while on active duty, and (2) require a consumer reporting agency to provide an active duty military consumer's relevant active duty status on adverse credit report items.
 
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is required to publish a model form that allows a consumer to: (1) notify a consumer reporting agency that the consumer is an active duty military consumer, and (2) provide contact information for communicating with the consumer while on active duty.
 
Notice of active duty status may not be the basis for an adverse credit action.
 
A consumer reporting agency must notify an active duty military consumer of negative information received about that consumer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Bikini Resettlement and Relocation Act

Bill: 115-s-2182
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2017-12-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Marshall Islands
Nuclear weapons
Oceania
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-01
text: 

Bikini Resettlement and Relocation Act

 
This bill amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1982, to: (1) allocate funds for the relocation and resettlement of the Bikini people living on Kili and Ejit Islands, subject to the right of disapproval of the Department of the Interior; and (2) limit annual expenditures from the Resettlement Fund to 5% of the principal amount of the fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-06
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-501.
action_date: 2017-12-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-12-01
text: Introduced in Senate
CHIP Stability Act

Bill: 115-s-2183
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2017-12-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Poverty and welfare assistance
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-01
text: 

CHIP Stability Act

 
This bill amends title XXI (Children's Health Insurance Program [CHIP]) of the Social Security Act to establish a special rule, with respect to the first quarter of FY2018, for the redistribution of unused CHIP allotments to state child health plans experiencing emergency shortfalls. Specifically, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must redistribute unused allotments to each such state in an amount equal to the state's emergency shortfall before the CMS may redistribute the allotments to any state that is experiencing a nonemergency shortfall. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-12-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Community Care and Access Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-2184
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2017-12-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
California
Congressional oversight
Dental care
Department of Veterans Affairs
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health technology, devices, supplies
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Indian social and development programs
Licensing and registrations
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical education
Medical ethics
Medicare
Mental health
Minority health
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement
Rural conditions and development
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-01
text: 

Veterans Community Care and Access Act of 2017

 
This bill revises requirements governing health care benefits provided to veterans under programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), including to: (1) replace the existing VA programs that provide hospital care, medical services, and extended care services to veterans in their communities at non-VA facilities or through non-VA providers with a new Veterans Community Care Program; and (2) provide funds for veterans health care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-12-01
text: Introduced in Senate
FLTFA Reauthorization Act

Bill: 115-s-2185
Sponsor: Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Introduced: 2017-12-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Land use and conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: 

FLTFA Reauthorization Act

 This bill amends the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (FLTFA) to reauthorize and make permanent the program for the completion of appraisals and satisfaction of other legal requirements for the sale or exchange of public land identified for disposal in approved land use plans under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. 
The bill makes the FLTFA inapplicable to land eligible for sale under specified public land laws. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-12-04
text: Introduced in Senate