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OPEN Government Data Act

Bill: 115-hr-1770
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act or the OPEN Government Data Act 

 
This bill requires open government data assets made available by federal agencies (excluding the Government Accountability Office, the Federal Election Commission, and certain other government entities) to be published as machine-readable data. When not otherwise prohibited by law, and to the extent practicable, public data assets and nonpublic data assets maintained by the federal government must be available: (1) in an open format that does not impede use or reuse and that has standards maintained by a standards organization; and (2) under open licenses with a legal guarantee that the data be available at no cost to the public with no restrictions on copying, publishing, distributing, transmitting, citing, or adapting.
 
If published government data assets are not available under an open license, the data must be considered part of the worldwide public domain. Agencies may engage with outside organizations and citizens to leverage public data assets for innovation in public and private sectors. 
 
Agencies must: (1) make their enterprise data inventories available to the public on Data.gov, and (2) designate a point of contact to assist the public and respond to complaints about adherence to open data requirements. For privacy, security, confidentiality, or regulatory reasons, agencies may maintain a nonpublic portion of their inventories.
 
The General Services Administration must maintain a single public interface online as a point of entry dedicated to sharing open government data with the public.
 
The Office of Management and Budget must develop and maintain an online repository of tools, best practices, and schema standards to facilitate the adoption of open data practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
AIM HIGH Act

Bill: 115-hr-1772
Sponsor: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Civil actions and liability
Computers and information technology
Department of Education
Disability and paralysis
Educational technology and distance education
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Accessible Instructional Materials in Higher Education Act or the AIM HIGH Act

 
This bill directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President pro tempore of the Senate, and the Secretary of Education to establish an independent commission to develop and issue voluntary accessibility guidelines for postsecondary electronic instructional materials and an annotated list of information technology standards.
 
The Department of Education must review and, as appropriate, update the voluntary guidelines and information technology standards every five years. 
 
An institution of higher education (IHE) that uses electronic instructional materials or related technologies that conform to the voluntary guidelines is deemed to be in compliance with its obligations under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. An IHE that uses electronic instructional materials or related technologies that do not fully conform to the voluntary guidelines qualifies for a limited safe harbor from monetary liability under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 if the IHE complies with specified requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Clarity for America's Small Contractors Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1773
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Congressional oversight
Economic development
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Public contracts and procurement
Small Business Administration
Small business
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Clarity for America's Small Contractors Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Small Business Act to require the annual Small Business Administration (SBA) reports to the President and Congress analyzing the number and dollar amount of prime contracts awarded by federal agencies each fiscal year to specified kinds of small business concerns to include awards that were purchased by another entity after the initial contract was awarded. The concern would no longer be deemed to be a small business because of such purchase. The SBA must also report on awards to small businesses that were awarded using a procurement method other than a small business set-aside, preference, or full and open competition.
 
The bill revises the range of the anticipated value of federal procurement contracts that must be reserved exclusively for small business concerns to between the micro-purchase threshold ($3,000) and the simplified acquisition threshold ($100,000). (Currently the range of the anticipated value must be between $2,500 and $100,000.)
 
The bill specifies the principal duties of commercial market representatives, including to help prime contractors find small business concerns that are capable of performing subcontracts.
 
This bill: (1) extends for three years the deadline after which a person serving as an SBA business opportunity specialist must have a Level I Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting or the equivalent Department of Defense certification; and (2) declares that the exclusive duties of such a specialist who reports to the senior official appointed by the SBA with certain SBA loan responsibilities, including the procurement program for small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans and the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) program, shall be to implement specified SBA loan programs and to complete other duties related to contracting programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Developing the Next Generation of Small Businesses Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1774
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Business education
Business investment and capital
Congressional oversight
Economic development
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Marketing and advertising
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Public contracts and procurement
Public-private cooperation
Right of privacy
Small business
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax-exempt organizations
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Developing the Next Generation of Small Businesses Act of 2017

 

Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2017

 
 This bill amends the Small Business Act to revise the authority of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to use certain SBA programs, including the small business development center (SBDC) program, to provide grants, financial assistance, loans, export assistance, and subcontracting opportunities on federal contracts to specified small businesses, organizations, state governments, universities, companies, and other entities that assist smaller enterprises.
 
The SBA shall:
 
 
use such programs only to deliver entrepreneurial development services, entrepreneurial education, support for the development and maintenance of clusters, or business training (excepts services provided to assist small businesses owned by an Indian tribe);
 
not prohibit SBDC grant recipients from marketing and advertising their services to individuals and small business concerns; and
 
establish a Data Collection Working Group.
 
 
The SBA may not award SBDC grants to entities other than those that received them before September 30, 2015, and that seek to renew them after that date, with an exception for not-for-profit institutions of higher education.
 

Women's Business Centers Improvements Act of 2017

 
 The bill revises the duties of the Office of Women's Business Ownership and declares it is the Office's mission to assist women entrepreneurs to start, grow, and compete in global markets by providing quality support with access to capital, access to markets, job creation, growth, and counseling.
 
 The SBA shall establish standards for a program to accredit specified eligible entities receiving a grant to operate one or more women's business centers.
 

SCORE for Small Business Act of 2017

 
 The bill reauthorizes the SCORE program (Service Corps of Retired Executives) for FY2018-FY2019. The program is renamed as simply the SCORE program.
 
 The SBA shall award a grant to the SCORE Association (or any successor group) to manage the program.
 
 The bill prescribes duties of volunteers participating in, and requirements of, the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Prescription Reduction in Costs for Everyone (PRICE) Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1775
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicare
Prescription drugs
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Prescription Reduction in Costs for Everyone (PRICE) Act of 2017
 
 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the President, with respect to offering one or more Medicare-operated prescription drug plan options, to: (1) negotiate prices with drug manufacturers, and (2) establish and apply a formulary and formulary incentives. In general, a Medicare-operated drug plan must meet the same requirements as apply to other prescription drug plans.
 
The President must report to Congress biannually on negotiations conducted by the President to achieve lower prices for Medicare beneficiaries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-29
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: 2017-03-29
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: 2017-03-29
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: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend titles 10 and 32, United States Code, to improve and enhance authorities relating to the employment, use, status, and benefits of military technicians (dual status), and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-1777
Sponsor: Rep. Abraham, Ralph Lee [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health care costs and insurance
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 
This bill revises provisions concerning military technicians (dual status), including by: (1) transferring authority to issue regulations regarding the employment, use, and status of such technicians from the Departments of the Army and the Air Force to the Department of Defense (DOD); and (2) requiring that such individuals be outside the competitive service and be appointed and administered by an adjutant general.
 
An individual who becomes employed as such a technician while already a member of a reserve component of the armed forces shall not have to repay any enlistment, reenlistment, or affiliation bonus provided before such employment.
 
The bill: (1) makes such technicians eligible for TRICARE, and (2) sets forth FY2018 end strengths for the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard.
 
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 is amended to reduce from 20% to 4.8% the percentage of technician positions filled in administration, clerical, finance, and office service occupations as of October 1, 2017, that DOD must convert to civilian positions.
 
 A governor or the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard may order a member of the National Guard to perform active Guard and Reserve duty in support of state missions.
 
The bill modifies personnel management authorities of the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, including by requiring adjutants general to exercise the Chief's authority to employ, administer, and assign certain persons within their jurisdictions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To provide that an order by the Secretary of the Interior imposing a moratorium on Federal coal leasing shall not take effect unless a joint resolution of approval is enacted, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-1778
Sponsor: Rep. Cheney, Liz [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Coal
Congressional oversight
Department of the Interior
Legislative rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 
This bill provides that an order by the Department of the Interior imposing a moratorium on federal coal leasing shall not take effect unless Interior submits the order to Congress and a joint resolution of approval is enacted by Congress within 30 legislative days of receipt.

action_date: 2018-02-05
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 
(Sec.1)This bill provides that an order by the Department of the Interior imposing a moratorium on federal coal leasing shall not take effect unless Interior submits the order to Congress and a joint resolution of approval is enacted by Congress within 30 legislative days of receipt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-02-05
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 410.
action_date: 2018-02-05
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-545.
action_date: 2018-02-05
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-545.
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 17 - 12.
action_date: 2017-11-30
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-11-29
text: Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Discharged.
action_date: 2017-07-27
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
No Budget, No Pay Act

Bill: 115-hr-1779
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Legislative rules and procedure
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

No Budget, No Pay Act

 
This bill prohibits the payment of any pay to any Member of Congress (excluding the Vice President): (1) if both houses of Congress have not approved a concurrent resolution on the budget for a fiscal year before October 1 of that fiscal year and have not passed all the regular appropriations bills for the next fiscal year by such date, or (2) until both houses of Congress approve such a budget resolution and pass all such appropriations bills. Retroactive pay is prohibited for such a period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Senior Accessible Housing Act

Bill: 115-hr-1780
Sponsor: Rep. Crist, Charlie [D-FL-13]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Housing for the elderly and disabled
Income tax credits
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Senior Accessible Housing Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable personal tax credit for senior citizens who modify their residences to enhance their ability to remain living safely, independently, and comfortably in the residences. 
 
The credit applies to up to $30,000 of the expenses that individuals who are at least 60 years old incur over their lifetime to make modifications to their residences, including: 
 
 
 the installation of entrance and exit ramps; 
 
the widening of doorways;
 
 the installation of handrails or grab bars;
 
 the installation of non-slip flooring; and 
 
 other modifications that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) includes on a list of modifications that would enhance the ability of the individuals to remain living safely, independently, and comfortably in their residences. 
 
 
The IRS must establish and maintain the list of acceptable modifications after consulting with the Department of Health and Human Services and receiving input from the public 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Passenger Fee Restructuring Exemptions Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1782
Sponsor: Rep. Gabbard, Tulsi [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alaska
Aviation and airports
Department of Transportation
Hawaii
Transportation safety and security
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Passenger Fee Restructuring Exemptions Act of 2017

 
 This bill revises aviation security service fee requirements. 
 
The bill makes an exception to the $5.60 per one-way trip fee for certain passengers for domestic flights that originate at a U.S. airport.
 
The bill limits such fees to $2.50 per enplanement, with the total not to exceed $5.00 per one-way trip, for any passengers: (1) boarding to an eligible small community for which essential air service compensation is paid; or (2) on flights, including flight segments, between two or more points in Hawaii or two or more points in Alaska.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Protective Security.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Improving Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-1783
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2017-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability and paralysis
Education programs funding
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Military medicine
Nursing
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: 

Improving Veterans Access to Quality Care Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) develop a plan for working with institutions of higher education to develop partnerships for the establishment or expansion of programs of advanced degrees in prosthetics and orthotics in order to improve and enhance the availability of high quality prosthetic and orthotic care for veterans; and (2) provide full practice authority to advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, and such other licensed VA health care professionals as is consistent with the education, training, and certification of such professionals without regard to any limitation that would otherwise be imposed on the health care practice of such professionals by a state licensing or credentialing body. 
 
The Department of Defense (DOD) must transfer to the VA upon request the credentialing data of a DOD health care provider who is hired by the VA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-03-29
text: Introduced in House