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Protecting Seniors During Disasters Act

Bill: 115-hr-3826
Sponsor: Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-21]
Introduced: 2017-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Aging
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Emergency planning and evacuation
Health programs administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-25
text: 

Protecting Seniors During Disasters Act

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to establish the National Advisory Committee on Seniors and Disasters.
 
The duties of the committee are to:
 
 
provide advice and consultation related to activities to assist at-risk individuals (people with access and functional needs that may interfere with their ability to access or receive medical care before, during, or after a disaster or emergency); 
 
evaluate and provide input to the medical and public health needs of seniors related to preparation for, response to, and recovery from all-hazards emergencies; and 
 
provide advice and consultation related to seniors and state emergency preparedness and response activities. 

 
The committee shall terminate on September 30, 2021.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Workers and Improving Labor Standards Act

Bill: 115-hr-3827
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2017-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Federal preemption
Labor-management relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-25
text: 

Protecting Workers and Improving Labor Standards Act

 
This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to allow labor agreements to require membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment regardless of state law (thus preempting state laws that prohibit such agreements).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-25
text: Introduced in House
TUFGRID Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3829
Sponsor: Rep. Soto, Darren [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2017-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Atmospheric science and weather
Electric power generation and transmission
Materials
Natural disasters
Public utilities and utility rates

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: 

The Uniform Federal Grants for Resilient Infrastructure and Design Act of 2017 or the
 
TUFGRID Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE)to establish and carry out a program to provide grants to states, local governments, and electric utilities to make electric infrastructure more resilient to hurricanes, tornadoes, and other major weather-related events.
 
DOE must give priority in awarding grants to governments and electric utilities that serve areas historically prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, or other major weather-related events.
 
The federal share of the costs of a project or activity carried out using a grant under the program may not exceed 50%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
PRO Sports Act

Bill: 115-hr-3830
Sponsor: Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27]
Introduced: 2017-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Professional sports
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: 

Properly Reducing Overexemptions for Sports Act or the PRO Sports Act
 
 
 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to remove professional football leagues from the list of tax-exempt organizations.
 
No organization or entity shall be treated as tax-exempt if it: (1) is a professional sports league, organization, or association, a substantial activity of which is to foster national or international professional sports competitions (including by managing league business affairs, officiating or providing referees, coordinating schedules, managing sponsorships or broadcast sales, operating loan programs for competition facilities, or overseeing player conduct); and (2) has annual gross receipts in excess of $10 million. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
PROPEL Act

Bill: 115-hr-3831
Sponsor: Rep. Taylor, Scott [R-VA-2]
Introduced: 2017-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: 

Professional Pell Education Learning or the PROPEL Act

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow federal Pell Grants to be utilized at educational programs that consist of vocational or technical training, flight training, apprenticeship, or other on-job training. In addition, the bill modifies the eligibility requirements under the Federal Pell Grant program for the vocational and training programs, including allowing such programs to be unaccredited.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the child tax credit.

Bill: 115-hr-3833
Sponsor: Rep. Comstock, Barbara [R-VA-10]
Introduced: 2017-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the child tax credit, to: (1) increase the allowable amount of such credit from $1,000 to $2,000 for each qualifying child, (2) raise the modified adjusted gross income threshold amount at which the phase-out of the credit begins, and (3) increase such threshold amount by $15,000 for each qualifying child of the taxpayer beyond the first child. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Eliminating the Hidden Student Loan Tax Act

Bill: 115-hr-3835
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2017-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: 

Eliminating the Hidden Student Loan Tax Act

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to repeal the authority of the Department of Education (ED) to charge an origination fee on future loans under the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program. Specifically, the bill repeals ED's authority to charge an origination fee on a direct loan first disbursed, or, in the case of a direct consolidation loan, for which an application is received, on or after July 1, 2017. (Origination fees are the fees lenders charge for processing new loan applications.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Student Loan Fair Prepayment Act

Bill: 115-hr-3836
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2017-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Student aid and college costs
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: 

Student Loan Fair Prepayment Act

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to set forth how a student loan borrower's prepayment amount on a Federal Family Education Loan, Federal Direct Loan, or Federal Perkins Loan must be applied. 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Campaign Sunlight Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3837
Sponsor: Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-22]
Introduced: 2017-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Political advertising
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: 

Campaign Sunlight Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the Federal Election Commission to create a website that allows the public to view political advertisements. The sponsor of a political advertisement shall provide the advertisement to the commission within a certain time frame from when it was first disseminated and, if the advertisement refers to any source such as an article or quotation, shall also provide the full contents of that source. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Trust Preferred Securities Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3838
Sponsor: Rep. Duffy, Sean P. [R-WI-7]
Introduced: 2017-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: 

Trust Preferred Securities Act of 2017

 
This bill requires federal banking agencies to treat as qualifying capital instruments certain investments in the capital of unconsolidated financial institutions. Specifically, the bill applies to investments in trust-preferred securities held prior to July 21, 2010, by a depository institution or holding company.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Affordable College Textbook Act

Bill: 115-hr-3840
Sponsor: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2017-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Books and print media
Congressional oversight
Disability and paralysis
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Intellectual property
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Licensing and registrations
School administration
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: 

Affordable College Textbook Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to make grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) to support projects that expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students while maintaining or improving instruction and student learning outcomes. An open textbook is an educational resource that either resides in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual license that permits its free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3841
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike D. [R-AL-3]
Introduced: 2017-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Nutrition and diet

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: 

SNAP Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to allow Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) benefits to be used to purchase multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements for home consumption. 
 
The supplements: (1) must provide at least half of the vitamins and minerals for which the National Academy of Medicine establishes dietary reference intakes at 50% or more of the daily value for the intended life stage per daily serving, as determined by the Food and Drug Administration; and (2) may not exceed the tolerable upper intake levels for those nutrients for which an established tolerable upper intake level is determined by the National Academy of Medicine. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Start Reauthorization Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3842
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2017-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Health programs administration and funding
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: 

Healthy Start Reauthorization Act of 

2017

 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize through FY2023 the Healthy Start for Infants program. (The purpose of this program is to reduce infant mortality and improve perinatal outcomes.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Close Official Acts Loophole Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3843
Sponsor: Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3]
Introduced: 2017-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Federal officials
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government studies and investigations
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: 

Close Official Acts Loophole Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to modify the definition of &quot;official act&quot; for purposes of an offense involving bribery of public officials. 
 
Bribery of public officials includes offering a thing of value to (or acceptance of a thing of value by) a public official to influence an official act (or in return for being influenced in connection with an official act). Currently, an official act is any decision or action on a question, matter, cause, suit, proceeding, or controversy, which may at any time be pending, or which may by law be brought before a public official, in their official capacity. 
 
This bill broadens an official act to include the personal and substantial participation through, or investigation of, a question, matter, cause, suit, proceeding, or controversy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
End For-Profit Prisons Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3844
Sponsor: Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2017-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: 

End For-Profit Prisons Act of 

2017

 
This bill requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to phase out existing contracts with private prison companies and private community confinement facilities.
 
It amends the federal criminal code to require federal employees to perform the core correctional services&#8212;housing, safeguarding, protecting, and disciplining of offenders&#8212;at correctional facilities used by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) or the U.S. Marshals Service.
 
The bill also prohibits the BOP from entering into or maintaining contracts with private companies to manage community confinement facilities (e.g., halfway houses).
 
DOJ must evaluate the effectiveness of and develop guidelines for programs to improve community reintegration at community confinement facilities.
 
The Marshals Service must annually inspect each correctional facility it uses for confinement. 
 
The BOP must provide to prisoners, as part of prerelease procedures, information and counseling about: criminal record expungement; educational, employment, and treatment programs; and applications for public assistance programs. The BOP must also provide prisoners with post-release information about fines, assessments, surcharges, restitution, and other penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Reverse Mass Incarceration Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3845
Sponsor: Rep. Cárdenas, Tony [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2017-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Law enforcement administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: 

Reverse Mass Incarceration Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to establish a grant program for states to implement evidence-based programs designed to reduce crime rates and incarcerations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: Introduced in House
POWER Counties Act

Bill: 115-hr-3846
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Bill [R-OH-6]
Introduced: 2017-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy revenues and royalties
Oil and gas
State and local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: 

Providing Opportunity with Energy Revenues in Counties Act or the POWER Counties Act

 
This bill amends the Mineral Leasing Act to: (1) change from 40% to 20% the percentage of money received from sales, bonuses, royalties including interest charges collected under the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 that is to be paid into the reclamation fund created by the Reclamation Act; and (2) require 20% of such money to be paid to the county within the boundaries of which the leased lands or deposits are or were located and may be used by such county for its schools and roads. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-04-18
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Yurok Lands Act

Bill: 115-hr-3847
Sponsor: Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]
Introduced: 2017-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: California
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Federal-Indian relations
Forests, forestry, trees
Indian lands and resources rights
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: 

Yurok Lands Act

 
This bill gives the Yurok Tribe the option to expand its role in the environmental review process under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 with respect to major federal actions within: (1) the Revised Yurok Reservation, and (2) specified areas within the Klamath and Redwood Creek Watersheds.
 
The Department of the Interior must enter into a cooperative agreement with the tribe for protecting the natural resources of Redwood National Park.
 
The bill confirms the 2006 &quot;Cooperative Agreement between the Department of the Interior and the Yurok Tribe for the Cooperative Management of Tribal and Federal Lands and Resources in the Klamath River Basin of California&quot; and authorizes Interior to implement the agreement.
 
The Forest Service must transfer 1,229 acres in the Yurok Experimental Forest to Interior. That land must be held in trust for the benefit of the tribe and be managed by the tribe for conservation and research purposes. The trust land may not be: (1) used for gaming activity, and (2) subject to old growth logging.
 
Interior must revise the boundary of the reservation as depicted on the map titled &quot;Revised Yurok Reservation Boundary&quot; and dated December 7, 2016. National Forest System land and National Park System land within the revised reservation must be administered by the Forest Service and the National Park Service, respectively.
 
The bill designates the Bald Hills Road, which runs from U.S. Highway 101 to the Klamath River, as the &quot;Yurok Scenic Byway.&quot;
 
The bill ratifies and confirms the tribe's governing documents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Extension of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act

Bill: 115-hr-3849
Sponsor: Rep. Sewell, Terri A. [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2017-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Caribbean area
Manufacturing
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: 

Extension of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act 

 
This bill amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to extend preferential duty treatment related to certain apparel items through FY2030. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-09-27
text: Introduced in House