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To require the Secretary of the Interior to issue new resource management plans applicable to the Beaver Dam Wash National Conservation Area and the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area and a new amendment to the St. George Field Office Resource Management Plan, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-2424
Sponsor: Rep. Stewart, Chris [R-UT-2]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
State and local government operations
Utah
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 
This bill prohibits the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from implementing or enforcing: (1) the resource management plans for the Beaver Dam Wash National Conservation Area or the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area in Utah; or (2) the amendment to the St. George Field Office Resource Management Plan described in the notice of the BLM titled &quot;Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plans for the Beaver Dam Wash and Red Cliffs National Conservation Areas; and Approved Amendment to the St. George Field Office Resource Management Plan in Washington, County, Utah&quot; (published in the Federal Register on December 21, 2016).
 
In their place the BLM shall issue new resource management plans and a new amendment that are prepared: (1) in accordance with the requirements for comprehensive plans for the long-term management of such conservation areas under the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, and (2) in coordination with affected local governments in accordance with certain criteria for the development and revision of land use plans under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Secure Government Buildings from Espionage Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2426
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Espionage and treason
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government information and archives
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Public contracts and procurement
Real estate business
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 

Secure Government Buildings from Espionage Act of 2017

 
This bill instructs the General Services Administration, the Architect of the Capitol, or any other federal agency (other than the Department of Defense), before entering into a lease agreement with a public or private entity to accommodate a federal agency in a building or other improvement that will be used for high-security leased space, to require such entity:
 
 
 to identify each beneficial owner of such entity;
 
to disclose to such agency any beneficial owner that is a foreign person; and 
 
if such agency is assigning the building or other improvement to a federal tenant, to notify that tenant of any such disclosure. 
 
 
The agency shall require such entity to: 
 
 
provide such identification and disclosure when first submitting a proposal in response to an agency solicitation, and
 
 update such information within 60 days of any change in the beneficial owners of that entity or the information required to be provided relating to each such owner. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Accurate Workplace Injury and Illness Records Restoration Act

Bill: 115-hr-2428
Sponsor: Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business records
Department of Labor
Government information and archives
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 

Accurate Workplace Injury and Illness Records Restoration Act

 
This bill amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to specify that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) may issue a citation for a violation of workplace safety requirements within the six-month period following an employer satisfying the requirements. Current law includes a limitation period that prevents OSHA from issuing citations six months after the occurrence of a violation. Thus, this bill specifies that the statute of limitations is tolled if there is a continuing violation of the requirements. 
 
OSHA must issue a rule that amends its record keeping regulations to clarify that the duty to make and maintain accurate records of work-related injuries and illnesses: (1) is an ongoing obligation, (2) continues for as long as the employer is required to keep records of the recordable injury or illness, and (3) does not expire solely because the employer fails to create the necessary records when first required to do so.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Volunteer Organization Protection Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2432
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 

Volunteer Organization Protection Act of
 
2017

 
This bill amends the Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 to expand liability protections to volunteer nonprofit organizations for harm caused by an act or omission of a volunteer on behalf of the organization. 
 
The bill prohibits such liability protections from applying if the organization: (1) would be liable under laws governing the direct or vicarious liability of organizations, and (2) expressly authorized the specific conduct constituting the act or omission.
 
The bill bars such an organization from liability for harm caused by the organization, or a volunteer acting on its behalf, if the act or omission was at the request of, or pursuant to an authorization by, a state, the United States, or another governmental subdivision, provided that: (1) the requesting or authorizing governmental entity would have been immune either from suit or from liability in damages if it had engaged in the acts or omissions itself or through employees or independent contractors; or (2) the governmental employee, agent, or contractor would have been immune either from suit or from liability in damages by virtue of immunity extended to individual governmental actors. 
 
The bill prohibits punitive damages from being awarded against a volunteer nonprofit organization for the actions of a volunteer within the scope of the volunteer's responsibilities to the organization unless the claimant establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the organization itself expressly authorized the volunteer's action with a conscious, flagrant indifference to the rights or safety of the individual harmed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists Use of Virtual Currencies Act

Bill: 115-hr-2433
Sponsor: Rep. Rice, Kathleen M. [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Currency
Digital media
Federal-Indian relations
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government studies and investigations
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
State and local government operations
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 

Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists Use of Virtual Currencies Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis: (1) in coordination with appropriate federal partners, to develop and disseminate a threat assessment regarding the threat posed by individuals using virtual currency to carry out activities in furtherance of an act of terrorism, including the provision of material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization; and (2) to share such assessment with state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials.

action_date: 2017-09-12
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 

Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists Use of Virtual Currencies Act

 
(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis: (1) in coordination with appropriate federal partners, to develop and disseminate a threat assessment regarding the threat posed by individuals using virtual currency to carry out activities in furtherance of an act of terrorism, including the provision of material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization; and (2) to share such assessment with state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-13
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7242)
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7242)
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2433.
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7242-7243)
action_date: 2017-09-12
text: Mr. Perry moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2017-05-18
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2017-05-18
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
College Transparency Act

Bill: 115-hr-2434
Sponsor: Rep. Mitchell, Paul [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Census and government statistics
Government information and archives
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
Student records
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 

College Transparency Act

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the National Center for Education Statistics to establish a secure and privacy-protected data system that contains information about postsecondary students. Specifically, the data system must: 
 
 
 evaluate student enrollment patterns, progression, completion, and post-collegiate outcomes, and higher education costs and financial aid at the student level;
 
provide complete and customizable information for students and families making decisions about postsecondary education; 
 
reduce the requirements for reporting by colleges and universities; and 
 
link with other federal systems of data. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Justice Safety Valve Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2435
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing
Judicial procedure and administration

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 

Justice Safety Valve Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to authorize a court to impose a sentence below the mandatory minimum if it determines, after considering certain factors, that the mandatory minimum sentence is greater than necessary. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Organic Agriculture Research Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2436
Sponsor: Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural research
Food supply, safety, and labeling
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 

Organic Agriculture Research Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to increase and make permanent mandatory funding for the organic agriculture research and extension initiative and extend discretionary funding for such initiative through FY2023.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Back the Blue Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2437
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Detention of persons
Firearms and explosives
Fires
First responders and emergency personnel
Judges
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Legal fees and court costs
Violent crime
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 

Back the Blue Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code:
 
 
 to establish new criminal offenses for killing, assaulting, and fleeing to avoid prosecution for killing a judge, law enforcement officer, or public safety officer; 
 
to expand the list of statutory aggravating factors in death penalty determinations to also include the killing or attempted killing of a law enforcement officer, judge, prosecutor, or firefighter or other first responder; and 
 
to broaden the authority of federal law enforcement officers to carry firearms. 
 
 
The bill amends the federal judicial code to limit federal court review of challenges to state court convictions for killing a public safety officer or judge.
 
It amends the Revised Statutes of the United States to limit the recovery of compensatory damages and prohibit the recovery of attorney's fees by an individual for a violation of rights that occurs as a result of (or in the course of) conduct that constitutes a felony or crime of violence.
 
Finally, it directs the Department of Justice to make grants to law enforcement agencies and nongovernmental organizations to promote trust and improve relations between law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Fighting Against Imbalanced Regulatory Burdens Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2438
Sponsor: Rep. Rothfus, Keith J. [R-PA-12]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Electric power generation and transmission
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Oil and gas

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 

Fighting Against Imbalanced Regulatory Burdens Act of 2017

 
 This bill amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit a regulation concerning emissions of carbon dioxide from a fossil fuel-fired electric generating unit from taking effect until the Environmental Protection Agency certifies that a sufficient number of countries have adopted climate change regulations for carbon dioxide that are at least as stringent.
 
A &quot;sufficient number&quot; is a number of countries that account for at least 80% of global carbon dioxide emissions in the last year, excluding those in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Fair Accountability and Innovative Research Drug Pricing Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2439
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Corporate finance and management
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Inflation and prices
Medical research
Prescription drugs
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 

Fair Accountability and Innovative Research Drug Pricing Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require manufacturers of certain drugs and biological products with a wholesale cost of $100 or more per month to report to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) price increases that result in a 10% or more increase in the cost of a drug over a 12-month period or a 25% or more increase over a 36-month period. Reports are required for prescription drugs and drugs commonly administered in hospitals, except vaccines, drugs for rare conditions, and drugs with annual sales for Medicare and Medicaid enrollees of less than $1. Reports must contain specified information including pricing history and a justification for each price increase in the relevant period.
 
Manufacturers that do not submit a required report are subject to a civil penalty. Collected penalty funds must be used to carry out activities related to this reporting requirement and to improve consumer and provider information about drug value and drug price transparency.
 HHS must publish manufacturer reports, a summary of those reports, and supporting analyses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Presidential Disclosure of Foreign Business Transactions Act

Bill: 115-hr-2440
Sponsor: Rep. Raskin, Jamie [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government information and archives
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 

Presidential Disclosure of Foreign Business Transactions Act

 
This bill directs the President: (1) within 90 days after first assuming office, to submit to the Department of the Treasury an initial report detailing any private business transaction with a foreign government conducted by the President during the previous 10 years; and (2) each month thereafter, to submit a report detailing any private business transaction between businesses affiliated with the President and foreign governments during that month. 
 
A &quot;business transaction&quot; is defined as any transaction of more than $10,000 in relation to any private businesses or investments listed in the President's financial disclosure reports, including any report submitted pursuant to the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.
 
Such reports shall be made available on Treasury's public website. 
 
A violation of this bill shall constitute a high crime and misdemeanor for purposes of the Constitution's impeachment provision.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
Sex Trafficking Demand Reduction Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2441
Sponsor: Rep. Hartzler, Vicky [R-MO-4]
Introduced: 2017-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Human trafficking
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: 

 Sex Trafficking Demand Reduction Act
 
of 2017

 
This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow grants under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program to be used for programs to combat human trafficking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-05-16
text: Introduced in House