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Q: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Transparency and Honesty in Energy 
Regulations Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following--
            (1) As a tool to justify Federal actions by the Department 
        of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency (hereinafter 
        in this section referred to as the ``EPA'') addressing 
        greenhouse gas emissions, including those regulating or 
        prohibiting the exploration, mining, production, and use of 
        coal as well as other fossil fuels as energy sources, the 
        Social Cost of Carbon (hereinafter in this section referred to 
        as the ``SCC'') and the Social Cost of Methane (hereinafter in 
        this section referred to as the ``SCM'') in theory represent 
        the hypothetical cost of an incremental ton of carbon dioxide 
        (CO&lt;INF&gt;2&lt;/INF&gt;) or methane emissions in a given year.
            (2) Office of Management and Budget (hereinafter in this 
        section referred to as the ``OMB'') Circular A-4 guides Federal 
        agencies on the development of regulatory impact analysis 
        required under Executive Order 12866 as well as other 
        authorities, instructing agencies to include discount rates of 
        3 and 7 percent while also evaluating the cost and benefits 
        that accrue to citizens and residents of the United States.
            (3) First developed in 2009 by an interagency working 
        group, including the Department of Energy and the EPA, the SCC 
        estimates fail to comply with OMB Circular A-4 prescribed 
        discount rates of 3 and 7 percent.
            (4) While OMB Circular A-4 specifies that an evaluation of 
        the global effects, when undertaken, is to be reported 
        separately from domestic costs and benefits, the SCC instead 
        calculated the global benefits in lieu of and not in addition 
        to the domestic effects.
            (5) The use of the SCC estimates in Department of Energy 
        and EPA rulemakings prior to any opportunity for public notice 
        and comment violated not only scientific peer-review 
        requirements but also the President's commitment to transparent 
        and open government as outlined in his January 21, 2009, 
        memorandum to the heads of executive departments and agencies.
            (6) In July 2015, as part of a revision of the SCC in 
        response to over 150 substantive comments and in acknowledgment 
        of the faulty process by which the SCC estimates were 
        developed, the OMB requested the National Academies of Science, 
        Engineering and Medicine (hereinafter in this section referred 
        to as the ``NAS'') review and make recommendations for the 
        improvement of the SCC estimates.
            (7) Shortly after the commencement of the NAS review, the 
        EPA, without appropriate peer review and an opportunity for 
        public notice and comment, utilized the EPA-developed SCM 
        estimates in justifying the costs and benefits of the September 
        2015 proposed and recently finalized rules under the Clean Air 
        Act for methane emissions from new, modified, and reconstructed 
        sources in the oil and gas sector.
            (8) Continued use by the Department of Energy and the EPA 
        of the SCC and the SCM ignores sound science in order to 
        eliminate the exploration, mining, production, and use of our 
        abundant domestic sources of fossil fuel energy.
            (9) The Department of Energy and EPA regulations, which are 
        costing American families billions of dollars per year, are 
        being justified in large part by SCC and SCM estimates.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON CONSIDERING THE SOCIAL COST OF CARBON AND THE 
              SOCIAL COST OF METHANE.

    The Secretary of Energy, when acting under any authority, and the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, when acting under 
the authority of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.), may not 
consider the social cost of carbon or the social cost of methane as 
part of any cost benefit analysis required under law or under Executive 
Order 12866 or 13563, in any rulemaking, in the issuance of any 
guidance, or in taking any other agency action, or as a justification 
for any rulemaking, guidance document, or agency action, unless a 
Federal law is enacted, after the date of enactment of this Act, 
explicitly authorizing such consideration.

SEC. 4. REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE EPA.

    Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in 
coordination and consultation with the Secretary of Energy, the 
Secretary of the Interior, and the Council on Environmental Quality 
shall submit a report to the Committees on Energy and Commerce and on 
Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committees on 
the Environment and Public Works and on Energy and Natural Resources of 
the Senate, detailing the number of proposed and final rulemakings, 
guidance documents, and agency actions since January 2009 that use the 
social cost of carbon or the social cost of methane, including as part 
of any cost benefit analysis required under Executive Order 12866 and 
other relevant authorities.

SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) The term ``social cost of carbon'' means--
                    (A) the social cost of carbon as described in--
                            (i) the document entitled ``Technical 
                        Support Document: Social Cost of Carbon for 
                        Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive 
                        Order 12866'' published by the Interagency 
                        Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon, United 
                        States Government, in February 2010; or
                            (ii) the document entitled ``Technical 
                        Support Document: Technical Update of the 
                        Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact 
                        Analysis Under Executive Order 12866'' 
                        published by the Interagency Working Group on 
                        Social Cost of Carbon, United States 
                        Government, in May 2013, and revised in 
                        November 2013 and July 2015, or any other 
                        successor or substantially related document; or
                    (B) any other estimate of the monetized damages 
                associated with an incremental increase in carbon 
                dioxide emissions in a given year.
            (2) The term ``social cost of methane'' means the estimate 
        of the social cost of methane--
                    (A) as described in--
                            (i) the proposed rule entitled ``Oil and 
                        Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New 
                        and Modified Sources'' published by the 
                        Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal 
                        Register on September 18, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 
                        56593);
                            (ii) the final rule entitled ``Oil and 
                        Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, 
                        Reconstructed, and Modified Sources'' published 
                        by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 
                        Federal Register on June 3, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 
                        35824); or
                            (iii) the ``Regulatory Impact Analysis of 
                        the Final Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission 
                        Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified 
                        Sources'' prepared by the Environmental 
                        Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation, 
                        in May 2016, and identified by docket ID number 
                        EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-0505-7630; or
                    (B) any other successor or substantially related 
                estimate.

A: Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act of 2016 This bill prohibits the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from considering the social cost of carbon or methane as part of any cost benefit analysis, unless a federal law is enacted authorizing such consideration. The EPA must report on the number of proposed and final rulemakings, guidance documents, and agency actions since January 2009 that use either of those social costs, including as part of any cost benefit analysis required under Executive Order 12866 and other relevant authorities.
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Q: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Affordable Mortgage for Homeowners 
Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. PRINCIPAL REDUCTION OF MORTGAGES OWNED OR GUARANTEED BY FANNIE 
              MAE AND FREDDIE MAC.

    (a) Program Authority.--The Federal National Mortgage Association 
and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation shall each carry out a 
program under this section to provide for the reduction of the interest 
rates on qualified mortgages on single-family housing owned or 
guaranteed by such enterprises, in accordance with this section and 
policies and procedures that the Director of the Federal Housing 
Finance Agency shall establish.
    (b) Timing.--Each enterprise shall commence the program required 
under subsection (a) upon the expiration of the 90-day period beginning 
upon the date of the enactment of this Act and shall complete all 
reductions of the interest rates of qualified mortgages required under 
the program not later than the expiration of the 12-month period 
beginning upon the commencement of such program.
    (c) Interest Rate Reduction.--In reducing the interest rate on a 
qualified mortgage under a program of an enterprise required under this 
section, the enterprise shall reduce the annual rate of interest 
charged with respect to the outstanding principal obligation of the 
mortgage for the remainder of the term of the mortgage, notwithstanding 
whether the interest rate under the mortgage is otherwise subject to 
adjustment during such mortgage term, to a fixed interest rate that is 
the lesser of--
            (1) 4 percent annually; or
            (2) the rate for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage, as most 
        recently published in the Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey 
        of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, as of the time 
        of such interest rate reduction for such qualified mortgage.
    (d) Exempt Mortgages.--The Director shall provide that the 
following qualified mortgages shall not be subject to reduction of the 
interest rate under a program under this section:
            (1) Fixed-rate mortgages.--In the case of a qualified 
        mortgage having a rate of interest that is fixed for the entire 
        term of the mortgage, any mortgage having such an interest rate 
        that is a lower than the interest rate determined for the 
        mortgage under subsection (c).
            (2) Adjustable-rate mortgages.--In the case of a mortgage 
        having a rate of interest that is subject to adjustment during 
        the term of the mortgage, any mortgage for which the interest 
        rate cannot, as a result of the terms of the terms and 
        conditions of the mortgage, exceed the interest rate determined 
        for the mortgage under subsection (c) at any time during the 
        term of the mortgage.
    (e) Option to Opt-Out.--Each program of an enterprise required 
under this section shall provide for the enterprise to--
            (1) notify the mortgagor under a qualified mortgage in 
        writing, before the proposed reduction of the interest rate on 
        qualified mortgage of the mortgagor, of--
                    (A) such proposed reduction and the interest rate 
                applicable to the mortgage upon such reduction; and
                    (B) the opportunity, in accordance with paragraph 
                (2), for the mortgagor to request that no such interest 
                rate reduction be applied with respect to such 
                mortgage; and
            (2) forego such interest rate reduction with respect to the 
        qualified mortgage of a mortgagor upon receipt by the 
        enterprise of a request by the mortgagor that no such interest 
        rate reduction be applied with respect to such mortgage.
    (f) Maintenance of Loan Status.--Any reduction of the interest rate 
on a qualified mortgage under a program under this section shall not 
result in the treatment of the modified mortgage as a new mortgage.
    (g) Definitions.--For purposes of this section, the following 
definitions shall apply:
            (1) Director.--The term ``Director'' means the Director of 
        the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
            (2) Enterprise.--The term ``enterprise'' means the Federal 
        National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan 
        Mortgage Corporation.
            (3) Qualified mortgage.--The term ``qualified mortgage'' 
        means a mortgage, without regard to whether the mortgagor is 
        current or in default on payments due under the mortgage, 
        that--
                    (A) is an existing first mortgage that was made for 
                purchase of, or refinancing another first mortgage on, 
                a one- to four-family dwelling, including a condominium 
                or a share in a cooperative ownership housing 
                association, that is occupied by the mortgagor as the 
                principal residence of the mortgagor;
                    (B) is owned or guaranteed by the Federal National 
                Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage 
                Corporation; and
                    (C) was originated on or before the date of the 
                enactment of this Act.
    (h) Regulations.--The Director shall issue any regulations or 
guidance necessary to carry out the programs required under this 
section not later than the expiration of the 90-day period that begins 
on the date of the enactment of this Act.

A: Affordable Mortgage for Homeowners Act of 2011 - Directs the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) each to carry out a program to provide for the reduction of the interest rates on qualified mortgage mortgages (other than fixed-rate or adjustable-rate mortgages) on single-family housing owned or guaranteed by such enterprises, in accordance with policies and procedures that the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) shall establish.

Requires each program to provide a procedure for mortgagors to opt-out of an interest rate reduction.
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Q: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Bias Crimes Compensation Act of 
1997''.

SEC. 2. CIVIL RIGHTS.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
            (1) bias-motivated crimes of violence constitute crimes in 
        violation of the victim's right to be free from discrimination 
        on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, gender, 
        religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or 
        physical or mental disability;
            (2) State and Federal criminal laws do not adequately 
        protect against the bias element of bias-motivated crimes of 
        violence, which separates these crimes from acts of random 
        violence, nor do those laws adequately provide victims of bias-
        motivated crimes of violence the opportunity to vindicate their 
        interests;
            (3) existing bias and discrimination in the criminal 
        justice system often deprive victims of bias-motivated crimes 
        of violence of equal protection of the laws and the redress to 
        which they are entitled;
            (4) bias-motivated crimes of violence have a substantial 
        adverse effect on interstate commerce, by deterring potential 
        victims from traveling interstate, from engaging in employment 
        in interstate business, and from transacting with business, and 
        in places involved, in interstate commerce;
            (5) bias-motivated crimes of violence have a substantial 
        adverse effect on interstate commerce, by diminishing national 
        productivity, increasing medical and other costs, and 
        decreasing the supply of and the demand for interstate 
        products;
            (6) a Federal civil rights claim, as created in this 
        section, is necessary to guarantee equal protection of the laws 
        and to reduce the substantial adverse effects of bias-motivated 
        crimes of violence on interstate commerce; and
            (7) victims of bias-motivated crimes of violence have a 
        right to equal protection of the laws, including a system of 
        justice that is unaffected by bias or discrimination and that, 
        at every relevant stage, treats such crimes as seriously as 
        other violent crimes.
    (b) Right.--All individuals within the United States, and the 
special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, 
shall have the right to be free from bias-motivated crimes of violence.
    (c) Claim.--Any person, including a person who acts under color of 
any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State, who 
deprives an individual of the right secured by subsection (b) shall be 
liable to the individual injured, in a civil action in any court of 
competent jurisdiction, for compensatory damages of not less than 
$100,000, punitive damages, injunctive relief, declaratory relief, or 
any combination thereof.
    (d) Limitation, Procedure, and Rule of Construction.--
            (1) Limitation.--Nothing in this section entitles an 
        individual to a claim under subsection (c) for random acts of 
        violence unrelated to bias or for acts that cannot be 
        demonstrated, by a preponderance of the evidence, to be bias-
        motivated crimes of violence.
            (2) No prior criminal action.--Nothing in this section 
        requires a prior criminal complaint, prosecution, or conviction 
        to establish the necessary elements of a claim under subsection 
        (c).
            (3) Concurrent jurisdiction.--The Federal and State courts 
        shall have concurrent jurisdiction over actions brought 
        pursuant to this section.
            (4) Rule of construction.--Neither section 1367 of title 28 
        of the United States Code nor subsection (c) of this section 
        shall be construed, by reason of a claim arising under such 
        subsection, to confer on the courts of the United States 
        supplemental jurisdiction of any State law claim seeking the 
        establishment of a divorce, alimony, equitable distribution of 
        marital property, or child custody decree.
    (e) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
            (1) the term ``bias-motivated'' means committed because of, 
        on the basis of, and due to (at least in part) an animus based 
        on, actual or perceived race, color, gender, religion, national 
        origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or physical or mental 
        disability of the victim;
            (2) the term ``crime of violence'' means--
                    (A) an act or series of acts that would constitute 
                State or Federal offense of a kind described in section 
                16 of title 18, United States Code, and punishable by a 
                maximum term of imprisonment exceeding one year, but 
                excludes an offense against property that presents no 
                serious risk of physical or mental disability injury to 
                an individual; or
                    (B) one or more actions that would constitute such 
                offense but for the relationship between the person who 
                takes such actions and the individual against whom such 
                actions are taken;
        whether or not such offense or such actions result in criminal 
        charges, prosecution, or conviction and whether or not such 
        actions were taken within the United States or the special 
        maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States;
            (3) the term ``disability'' has the meaning given it in 
        section 3(2) of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 
        U.S.C. 12102(2)); and
            (4) the term ``special maritime and territorial 
        jurisdiction of the United States'' has the meaning given such 
        term in section 7 of title 18, United States Code.
    (f) Limitation on Removal.--Section 1445 of title 28, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) A civil action in any State court arising under section 2 of 
the Bias Crimes Compensation Act of 1993 may not be removed to any 
district court of the United States.''.
    (g) Authority To Award Attorney's Fee.--Section 722(b) of the 
Revised Statutes of the United States (42 U.S.C. 1988(b)) is amended by 
inserting ``section 2 of the Bias Crimes Compensation Act of 1993,'' 
after ``Public Law 92-318,''.

A:
Bias Crimes Compensation Act of 1997 - Declares that all individuals within the United States, and its special maritime and territorial jurisdiction, shall have the right to be free from bias-motivated crimes of violence. 
Makes any person, including one who acts under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State, who deprives an individual of such right, liable to the individual injured, in a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction, for compensatory damages of not less than $100,000, punitive damages, injunctive relief, declaratory relief, or any combination thereof. 
Specifies that nothing in this Act:  (1) entitles an individual to a claim herein for random acts of violence unrelated to bias or for acts that cannot be demonstrated, by a preponderance of the evidence, to be bias-motivated crimes of violence; and (2) requires a prior criminal complaint, prosecution, or conviction to establish the necessary elements of such a claim. 
Grants the Federal and State courts concurrent jurisdiction over actions brought under this Act. 
Prohibits a civil action in State court arising under this Act from being removed to U.S. district court. 
Authorizes the court to award attorney's fees to the prevailing party in cases brought under this Act, subject to specified limitations.
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