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Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act

Bill: 115-s-1202
Sponsor: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2017-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arkansas
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Historic sites and heritage areas
Land transfers
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: 

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act

 
This bill adjusts the boundary of the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site in Arkansas to include the 7 residences on South Park Street in Little Rock, which consist of 1.47 acres of specified land. 
 
The Department of the Interior may enter into separate cooperative agreements with the owners of such residences to mark, interpret, improve, restore, and provide technical assistance for the preservation and interpretation of their properties. 
 
Such an agreement must include a provision specifying that no changes or alterations shall be made to the exterior of the properties except by mutual agreement. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-07-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 115-417.
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3099-3100)
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program under which the Administrator shall defer the designation of an area as a nonattainment area for purposes of the 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard if the area achieves and maintains certain standards under a voluntary early action compact plan.

Bill: 115-s-1203
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2017-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: 
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish an Early Action Compact Program, which allows an area that is not attaining the eight-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) to obtain a deferment of a nonattainment designation upon the relevant state, local, and tribal government voluntarily developing an early action compact plan. The eight-hour ozone NAAQS measures ozone levels over eight-hour periods to determine the amount of ground-level ozone (i.e., smog) in the environment. 
 
 The EPA: (1) must issue a decision on each early action compact plan no later than one year after it is submitted, and (2) may not designate an area as a nonattainment area until it has issued a decision to approve or deny a plan. 
 
 The EPA must establish separate requirements relating to winter ozone levels for each early action compact plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Post Office Discontinuance Accountability Act of 2018

Bill: 115-s-1204
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2017-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Natural disasters
Postal service
U.S. Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: 

Post Office Discontinuance Accountability Act of 2017

 
This bill establishes procedures under which the United States Postal Service (USPS) may carry out emergency suspensions of post offices because of a natural disaster, damage to or destruction of a post office, or a lack of qualified personnel to operate it or adequate measures to safeguard it. 
 
A District Manager implementing an emergency suspension must: (1) provide immediate notice to the Headquarters Review Coordinator or the Field Performance office, local officials of the USPS, and customers; (2) establish alternate service as quickly as possible; (3) temporarily reassign each employee of the post office; and (4) form a suspension review team, which shall review the suspension and recommend that the suspension continue or that the post office reopen. 
 
If the team recommends that the suspension continue, the District Manager shall either initiate discontinuance procedures for the post office or publish a plan to restore service within 180 days. If restoration is delayed, the District Manager must publish notice and either host a public forum in the affected community or initiate discontinuance procedures.
 
The District Manager shall immediately notify the affected community when a post office is reopened or service is restored.
 
 The bill authorizes the USPS to establish an alternative process to suspend postal services to a community based on the expiration of a lease or rental agreement for a post office. The District Manager shall take specified steps to: (1) negotiate an extension of an expiring agreement, the sale of the post office to the USPS, or a new agreement for postal service; (2) provide for the disruption of service if the negotiations fail and for the restoration of service; or (3) initiate discontinuance procedures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-04
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 561.
action_date: 2018-09-04
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 115-329.
action_date: 2018-09-04
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 115-329.
action_date: 2018-06-13
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
American Dream Accounts Act

Bill: 115-s-1205
Sponsor: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2017-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Congressional oversight
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Financial literacy
Higher education
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: 

American Dream Accounts Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Education to award competitive grants to eligible entities for establishing and administering American Dream Accounts for a group of at least 30 low-income public school students who, at the time of the grant application, are attending a grade no higher than ninth grade. An American dream account is a personal online account for low-income students that: (1) monitors their progress toward higher education; (2) includes a college savings account; and (3) provides students with opportunities to attain financial literacy, learn about preparing for enrollment in an institute of higher education (IHE), and identify their skills or interests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to ensure fair treatment in licensing requirements for the export of certain echinoderms.

Bill: 115-s-1206
Sponsor: Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME]
Introduced: 2017-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Interior
Endangered and threatened species
Hunting and fishing
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Seafood
Trade restrictions
User charges and fees
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: 
 This bill: (1) exempts exporters of sea urchins and sea cucumbers that are designated as food for humans or animals or taken for recreational purposes from licensing requirements; and (2) requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to amend regulations concerning transporting wildlife to clarify that those sea urchins and sea cucumbers are fishery products exempt from the export permission requirements under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Thus, those exporters will be exempted from: (1) inspections to ensure shipments of those fishery products do not contain endangered or threatened species, and (2) related inspection fees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
FUELS Act

Bill: 115-s-1207
Sponsor: Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE]
Introduced: 2017-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Environmental regulatory procedures
Licensing and registrations
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: 

Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act or the FUELS Act

 
This bill amends the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 to require the Environmental Protection Agency, in implementing the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule (concerning oil pollution prevention) with respect to any farm, to:
 
 
require certification by a professional engineer for a farm with an aggregate aboveground storage capacity of more than 42,000 gallons (currently, 20,000 gallons); 
 
allow self-certification by the owner or operator of a farm with an aggregate aboveground storage capacity of more than 10,000 gallons but less than 42,000 gallons (currently, of less than 20,000 gallons and more than the lesser of 6,000 gallons and the adjustment quantity established under such Act); and 
 
not require compliance with the rule by any farm with an aggregate aboveground storage capacity of 10,000 gallons or less (currently, of more than 2,500 gallons and less than the lesser of 6,000 gallons and such adjustment quantity). 

 
The rule shall apply to aboveground storage containers at farms on a separate parcel that have an individual capacity of not more than 1,320 gallons (currently, 1,000 gallons) and an aggregate capacity of not more than 3,000 gallons (currently, 2,500 gallons).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the amount of special pension for Medal of Honor recipients, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-s-1209
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2017-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Veterans' organizations and recognition
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: 
This bill increases the special monthly pension for living Medal of Honor recipients.
 
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) shall not make an annual pension increase for such recipients, effective December 1, 2017, if the increased monthly pension under this bill takes effect before such date. If the VA does not make the December 1, 2017 increase, however, annual increases shall resume as of December 1, 2018.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-215.
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce tax rates across the board.

Bill: 115-s-1210
Sponsor: Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD]
Introduced: 2017-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Corporate finance and management
Income tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the individual and corporate income tax rates by specified amounts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake remediation oversight of the West Lake Landfill located in Bridgeton, Missouri.

Bill: 115-s-1211
Sponsor: Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO]
Introduced: 2017-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Army Corps of Engineers
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Missouri
Pollution liability
Radioactive wastes and releases
Solid waste and recycling

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: 
This bill directs the Department of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to act as the lead agency with respect to radioactive contamination remediation at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, Missouri.
 
Nothing in this Act affects the site's designation as a Superfund site.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Gun Violence Prevention Order Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-1212
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2017-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Domestic violence and child abuse
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement administration and funding
State and local government operations
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: 

Gun Violence Prevention Order Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to prohibit firearm sale or transfer to or receipt or possession by a person who is subject to a gun violence prevention order. A gun violence prevention order is a court order that prohibits an individual from owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm.
 
The bill authorizes the Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to make grants to states that have in effect legislation that: (1) authorizes a family member, or a law enforcement officer, to apply for a gun violence prevention order against an individual who may pose a significant risk to themselves or others; (2) authorizes a law enforcement officer to temporarily seize firearms from that individual, subject to a warrant; and (3) requires law enforcement agencies to comply with certain requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-14
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3147-3148)
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of Transportation to post a copy of the most recent response plan for each onshore oil pipeline on a publicly accessible website.

Bill: 115-s-1213
Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]
Introduced: 2017-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Emergency planning and evacuation
Government information and archives
Oil and gas
Pipelines
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: 
This bill requires the Department of Transportation (DOT)to publish a copy of the most recent pipeline response plan for each onshore oil pipeline on a public website maintained by DOT.
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Hunting, Fishing, and Recreational Shooting Protection Act

Bill: 115-s-1214
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2017-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food supply, safety, and labeling
Health
Mammals
Meat
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: 

Hunting, Fishing, and Recreational Shooting Protection Act

 
This bill exempts components of firearms and ammunition and sport fishing equipment and its components (such as lead sinkers) from regulations on chemical substances under the Toxic Substances Control Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Foster Youth Independence Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-1215
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2017-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Families
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: 

Foster Youth Independence Act of 2017

 
This bill amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow the chief executive officer of a state to certify that the state will provide assistance and services under the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program to youths who have aged out of foster care and have not attained age 23 if:
 
 
the state has elected to extend the eligibility for foster care up to age 21, or 
the responsible state agency uses state or other funds not provided under the program to provide assistance and services comparable to those such youths would receive if the state had made such an election. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Due Process Guarantee Act

Bill: 115-s-1216
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2017-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Detention of persons
Immigration status and procedures
Military operations and strategy
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: 

Due Process Guarantee Act

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to limit the detention authority of the United States. 
 
Current law prohibits the indefinite detention of a U.S. citizen by the United States unless it is authorized by an act of Congress. This bill prohibits the indefinite detention of a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident by the United States unless it is consistent with the Constitution and expressly authorized by an act of Congress. 
 
Additionally, it specifies that a general authorization to use military force or similar measure, on its own, does not authorize the indefinite detention of a citizen or lawful permanent resident who is arrested in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Representation Fairness Restoration Act

Bill: 115-s-1217
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2017-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor-management relations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: 

Representation Fairness Restoration Act

 
This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to replace the current legal standard for determining the appropriateness of a collective bargaining unit. Under a 2011 ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in 
Specialty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center of Mobile
, the NLRB must approve a requested bargaining unit unless an employer can show that an overwhelming community of interest exists between the requested unit and some other portion of the workforce, thus allowing the formation of smaller bargaining units (i.e., micro-bargaining units). This bill requires the NLRB to determine a unit appropriate for collective bargaining if it consists of employees who share a sufficient community of interest and sets forth factors for the NLRB to consider in determining whether employees share a sufficient community of interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Lake Bistineau Land Title Stability Act

Bill: 115-s-1219
Sponsor: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2017-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Louisiana

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: 

Lake Bistineau Land Title Stability Act

 
This bill declares that the document titled &quot;Dependent Re-Survey, Extension Survey and Survey of Two Islands, Sections 17, 29, and 30&quot; (published in the Federal Register on February 27, 1969) shall not be considered to be, or serve as, a gross error determination and shall have no legal force or effect on the ownership of certain land surrounding Lake Bistineau in northern Louisiana. 
 
The meander lines recorded in the original survey of such land approved by the Surveyor General on December 8, 1842, shall be definitive for purposes of determining title to such land and two adjacent islands. 
 
The Department of the Interior shall prepare a disclaimer of any U.S. right, title, or interest in and to any such land that is located outside such meander lines and any omitted land that was in place, but not included, in the original survey. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-12-04
text: By Senator Murkowski from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 115-403.
action_date: 2018-12-04
text: By Senator Murkowski from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 115-403.
action_date: 2018-11-29
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 690.
action_date: 2018-11-29
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2018-11-29
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2018-10-02
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2018-02-07
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 115-502.
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-1220
Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2017-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Asia
Citizenship and naturalization
Conflicts and wars
Family relationships
Immigration status and procedures
Philippines
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: 

Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act of 2017

 
 This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt from worldwide or numerical limitations on immigrant visas the sons and daughters of Filipino World War II veterans who were naturalized under the Immigration Act of 1990 or other specified federal law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate