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Federal Retirement Fairness Act

Bill: 115-hr-5389
Sponsor: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Temporary and part-time employment

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Federal Retirement Fairness Act

 
This bill modifies the federal civilian service that is creditable service under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). 
 
Specifically, it allows service as a temporary or intermittent employee performed after December 1, 1988, to be creditable under FERS if an employee or Member deposits a certain amount into the retirement fund. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
FAFSA Fairness Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-5390
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

FAFSA Fairness Act of 2018

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise the free application for federal student aid (FAFSA) process for certain students. Specifically, the Department of Education must allow students to complete FAFSA as independent students under special circumstances.
 
Financial aid administrators must provide those students with an initial determination regarding their assistance in the same manner as, and by no later than the date that, they provide other independent students with that determination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act

Bill: 115-hr-5391
Sponsor: Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Executive agency funding and structure
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act

 
This bill requires federal employees furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations that begins on or about March 23, 2018, to be compensated at their standard rate of compensation for the period of such lapse as soon as practicable after such lapse ends.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
MINOR Act

Bill: 115-hr-5392
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Jurisdiction and venue
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Military facilities and property
State and local courts

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Military Installation Non-Adult Offender Reform Act or the MINOR Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Defense to enter into memoranda of understanding with state and local jurisdictions to allow a minor who commits a criminal offense on a federal military installation to be referred to the state or local prosecutor for adjudication.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Working Together to End Homelessness Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-5393
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-39]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Interagency Council on Homelessness

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Working Together to End Homelessness Act of 2018

 
This bill permanently reauthorizes the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Iran Responsible Reporting Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-5394
Sponsor: Rep. Boyle, Brendan F. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
China
Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Europe
European Union
Foreign and international corporations
Human rights
India
Iran
Middle East
Sanctions
Terrorism
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Iran Responsible Reporting Act of 2018

 
This bill amends the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 to require that reports on diplomatic efforts concerning Iran include information about efforts by other countries to sanction Iran for human rights violations and support for terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Hezbollah.
 
The Department of State may host an annual summit with Iran's major trading partners to identify and take appropriate actions regarding front companies and funding mechanisms of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. 
 
(Major trading partners of Iran are European Union member countries, China, India, and other countries that have a trade relationship with Iran exceeding $500 million in the most recent calendar year for which data is available.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 116 Main Street in Dansville, New York, as the "Staff Sergeant Alexandria Gleason-Morrow Post Office Building".

Bill: 115-hr-5395
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Chris [R-NY-27]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
New York State
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 116 Main Street in Dansville, New York, as the "Staff Sergeant Alexandria Gleason-Morrow Post Office Building."
action_date: 2018-12-21
text: 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 116 Main Street in Dansville, New York, as the "Staff Sergeant Alexandria Gleason-Morrow Post Office Building."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-12-21
text: Became Public Law No: 115-355.
action_date: 2018-12-21
text: Became Public Law No: 115-355.
action_date: 2018-12-21
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2018-12-21
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2018-12-21
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2018-12-21
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2018-12-13
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7528)
action_date: 2018-12-12
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7528)
action_date: 2018-12-03
text: Received in the Senate, read twice.
action_date: 2018-11-29
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2018-11-29
text: On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H9726-9727)
action_date: 2018-11-29
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H9726-9727)
action_date: 2018-11-29
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H9726-9727)
action_date: 2018-11-29
text: Committee on Oversight and Government discharged.
action_date: 2018-11-29
text: Committee on Oversight and Government discharged.
action_date: 2018-11-29
text: Mr. Comer asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
action_date: 2018-07-17
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2018-07-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 115-355
GAP Act

Bill: 115-hr-5396
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Graduate Assistants Parity Act or the GAP Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow all graduate students who are employees of educational organizations to exclude tuition reductions from gross income. (Under current law, the exclusion for graduate students is limited to teaching and research assistants.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Residential Care Choice Act

Bill: 115-hr-5397
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Adult day care
Disability and paralysis
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Veterans' medical care
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Veterans Residential Care Choice Act

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), at the request of an eligible veteran for whom the VA is required to provide domiciliary, nursing home, adult day health, or hospital care, or who is determined to be in need of such care, to place the veteran (at the expense of the United States) in a state licensed or certified residential care facility that meets VA standards if the cost of providing such care through the facility is less than the cost of providing the care through any other available option.
 
An eligible veteran is a veteran who is eligible for hospital care or medical services based on: (1) specified service-related disabilities, (2) who is a former prisoner of war, who was awarded the medal of honor or who was awarded the Purple Heart; (3) who is a veteran of the Mexican border period or of World War I; (4) who was exposed to a toxic substance, radiation, or other conditions; or (5) who is unable to defray the expenses of necessary care. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
21 to Buy Act

Bill: 115-hr-5398
Sponsor: Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-22]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement officers
Military personnel and dependents
National Guard and reserves
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

21 to Buy Act

 
This bill generally prohibits a licensed gun dealer, manufacturer, importer, or collector from selling or transferring a shotgun or rifle to an individual who is under age 21.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Civil Defense Preparedness Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-5399
Sponsor: Rep. Gabbard, Tulsi [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Chemical and biological weapons
Congressional oversight
Emergency planning and evacuation
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Homeland security
Nuclear weapons
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Civil Defense Preparedness Act of 2018

 
This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the use of grants under the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) and the State Homeland Security Grant Program (SHSGP) to assist high-risk urban areas and high-risk states, respectively, to increase preparedness against rocket-propelled or other forms of kinetically-delivered weapons of mass destruction (WMD), including nuclear, biological, and chemical attacks.
 
The bill includes a rocket-propelled or other form of kinetically-delivered WMD among the types of threats to critical infrastructure sectors and to U.S. populations that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) must assess.
 
FEMA must permit a grant recipient under the UASI and the SHSGP to use grant funds for joint projects with governmental entities for the procurement of WMD protective equipment and nuclear weapons attack building reinforcement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Make Schools Safe Again Act

Bill: 115-hr-5400
Sponsor: Rep. Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Elementary and secondary education
Juvenile crime and gang violence
School administration

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Make Schools Safe Again Act

 
This bill prohibits the Department of Education and the Department of Justice from authorizing or encouraging a school to have a policy of not referring a student suspected of criminal activity to law enforcement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Child CARE Act

Bill: 115-hr-5401
Sponsor: Rep. Krishnamoorthi, Raja [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child care and development
Employee benefits and pensions
Public contracts and procurement
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Child Care at Responsible Employers Act or the Child CARE Act

 
This bill requires executive agencies to give priority to entities with on-site child care for employees in awarding a contract for an amount exceeding $4 million dollars.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Government Customer Service Accountability and Improvement Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-5402
Sponsor: Rep. Loudermilk, Barry [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Government studies and investigations
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Government Customer Service Accountability and Improvement Act of 2018

 
This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to select certain agencies, including at a minimum the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Internal Revenue Service, to develop customer experience standards and performance plans for such agencies.
 
The senior accountable official for customer experience for each agency shall develop customer experience standards and performance plans, subject to approval by the agency and the OMB. The standards and performance plans shall be: (1) based on customer and market research that identifies the aspects of service delivery that are most important to citizens, and (2) collected through both qualitative and quantitative research methods that incorporate voluntary feedback from citizens. The approved standards and performance plans shall be included in the agency performance plans.
 
The OMB shall establish the Service Improvement and Accountability Unit Pilot Program to provide assistance to an agency that does not meet applicable customer experience standards. 
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
SWAMP Act

Bill: 115-hr-5403
Sponsor: Rep. Messer, Luke [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Building construction
District of Columbia
Executive agency funding and structure
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Maryland
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Strategic Withdrawal of Agencies for Meaningful Placement Act of 2018 or the SWAMP Act

 
This bill: (1) repeals the requirement that all offices attached to the seat of government be exercised in the District of Columbia, and not elsewhere; and (2) prohibits new construction or major renovation of certain executive agency headquarters in the Washington Metropolitan area.
 
The General Services Administration (GSA) must: (1) establish a process to allow an executive agency to request GSA to issue a solicitation for the relocation of its headquarters; (2) allow any state to bid for the relocation of the agency's headquarters; and (3) in consultation with the executive agency, select a state for the relocation of the agency's headquarters using a competitive bidding procedure based on certain considerations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
To define the dollar as a fixed weight of gold.

Bill: 115-hr-5404
Sponsor: Rep. Mooney, Alexander X. [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Currency
Government information and archives
Monetary policy

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 
This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to define the dollar in terms of a fixed weight of gold, based on that day's closing market price of gold. The Federal Reserve Banks shall make Federal Reserve notes exchangeable with gold at the statutory gold definition of the dollar.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to provide a limited exception to the prohibition on price loss coverage payments or agriculture risk coverage payments when the sum of the base acres on a farm is 10 acres or less.

Bill: 115-hr-5405
Sponsor: Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 
This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to provide an exception to the rule that prohibits the Department of Agriculture from providing price loss coverage payments or agriculture risk coverage payments to a producer on a farm if the sum of the base acres on the farm is 10 acres or less. The exception applies if the sum of the base acres on the farm, when combined with the base acres of other farms in which the producer has an interest, is more than 10 acres.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Intelligence Budget Transparency Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-5406
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget process
Congressional oversight
Executive agency funding and structure
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Intelligence Budget Transparency Act of 2018

 
This bill requires the President's annual budget to include the total amount proposed for intelligence or intelligence related activities of each element of the government engaged in these activities in the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted. The budget must also include the estimated appropriation required for these activities for each of the next four fiscal years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
Prevent Trafficking in Our Schools Act

Bill: 115-hr-5407
Sponsor: Rep. Yoho, Ted S. [R-FL-3]
Introduced: 2018-03-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime victims
Crimes against children
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Elementary and secondary education
Human trafficking
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: 

Prevent Trafficking in Our Schools Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security, at the request of the Department of Education (ED), to develop educational materials that ED may use to provide teachers, school leaders, and other personnel of elementary and secondary schools (covered educational personnel) with training in human trafficking awareness and techniques for identifying victims of human trafficking in elementary and secondary schools.
 
The bill sets forth matters that the educational materials must address and requires that such materials emphasize that covered educational personnel who notice indicators of potential human trafficking should contact law enforcement and should not attempt to engage in counter-trafficking operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-22
text: Introduced in House