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Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2016-05-26 00:00:00

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the tax-exempt financing of certain government-owned buildings by expanding the definition of "exempt facility bond" to include bonds used for qualified government buildings.

A qualified government building is a government-owned building or facility that consists of one or more of the following:

 an elementary or secondary school; facilities of a state college or university used for educational purposes; a public library; a court; hospital, health care, laboratory, or research facilities; public safety facilities; or offices for government employees. The bill excludes buildings or facilities that include specified recreational equipment or are used for the primary purpose of providing retail food and beverage services, recreation, or entertainment.

The bill establishes: (1) a $5 billion limit on the amount of tax-exempt financing which may be provided for government buildings, and (2) procedures for allocating and applying for the financing.

The bill exempts the bonds for government buildings from the volume cap on private activity bonds.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-06-13 00:00:00

This bill redesignates as the "Nancy Reagan Memorial Park" the Gravelly Point Park located along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Arlington County, Virginia.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2016-06-16 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House passed version is repeated here.)

(Sec. 1) This bill designates the  Department of Veterans Affairs temporary lodging facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, as the "Dr. Otis Bowen Veteran House."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-06-21 00:00:00

This bill requires the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to transfer administrative jurisdiction over the federal property located at 1700 G Street, Northwest, in the District of Columbia to the General Services Administration.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-06-28 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 810 N US Highway 83 in Zapata, Texas, as the "Zapata Veterans Post Office."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-07-01 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2886 Sandy Plains Road in Marietta, Georgia, as the "Marine Lance Corporal Squire 'Skip' Wells Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-07-07 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6300 N. Northwest Highway in Chicago, Illinois, as the "Officer Joseph P. Cali Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-07-14 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1101 Davis Street in Evanston, Illinois, as the "Abner J. Mikva Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-07-14 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

This bill designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 511 East San Antonio Avenue in El Paso, Texas, as the "R. E. Thomason Federal Building and United States Courthouse."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-07-14 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Chalan Kanoa VLG in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, as the "Segundo T. Sablan and CNMI Fallen Military Heroes Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2016-07-14 00:00:00

This bill designates the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Pueblo, Colorado, as the "PFC James Dunn VA Clinic."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-09-07 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 830 Kuhn Drive in Chula Vista, California, as the "Jonathan 'J.D.' De Guzman Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-09-22 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

This bill designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 719 Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "Fred D. Thompson Federal Building and United States Courthouse."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-09-22 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 560 East Pleasant Valley Road, Port Hueneme, California, as the "U.S. Naval Construction Battalion 'Seabees' Fallen Heroes Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-09-28 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2024 Jerome Avenue, in Bronx, New York, as the "Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-11-14 00:00:00

This bill designates:

 the United States Postal Service (USPS) facility located at 1221 State Street, Suite 12, Santa Barbara, California, as the "Special Warfare Operator Master Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Louis 'Lou' J. Langlais Post Office Building"; the facility located at 23323 Shelby Road, Shelby, Indiana, as the "Richard Allen Cable Post Office"; the facility located at 3031 Veterans Road West, Staten Island, New York, as the "Leonard Montalto Post Office Building"; the facility located at 401 McElroy Drive, Oxford, Mississippi, as the "Army First Lieutenant Donald C. Carwile Post Office Building"; the facility located at 14231 TX-150, Coldspring, Texas, as the "E. Marie Youngblood Post Office"; the facility located at 810 N. U.S. Highway 83, Zapata, Texas, as the "Zapata Veterans Post Office"; the facility located at 2886 Sandy Plains Road, Marietta, Georgia, as the "Marine Lance Corporal Squire 'Skip' Wells Post Office Building"; the facility located at 6300 N. Northwest Highway, Chicago, Illinois, as the "Officer Joseph P. Cali Post Office Building; the facility located at 1 Chalan Kanoa VLG, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, as the "Segundo T. Sablan and CNMI Fallen Military Heroes Post Office Building"; and the facility located at 1101 Davis Street, Evanstan, Illinois, as the "Abner J. Mikva Post Office Building." The USPS must designate, by September 30, 2017, a single, unique ZIP code for each of:

 Miami Lakes, Florida; Storey County, Nevada; Flanders, Northampton, and Riverside in Southampton, New York; Ocoee, Florida; and Glendale, New York.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-11-14 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 501 North Main Street in Florence, Arizona, as the "Adolfo 'Harpo' Celaya Post Office."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2016-11-15 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House passed version is repeated here.)

(Sec. 1) This bill designates the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system at 5901 East 7th Street, Long Beach, California, as the "Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-12-07 00:00:00

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey, without consideration, to the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, the reversionary interests of the United States in and to specified nonfederal land in Anchorage for the purpose of unencumbering its title and enabling its economic development.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2015-01-13 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14 3rd Avenue, NW, in Chisholm, Minnesota, as the "James L. Oberstar Memorial Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2015-01-22 00:00:00

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 523 East Railroad Street in Knox, Pennsylvania, as the "Specialist Ross A. McGinnis Memorial Post Office."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2015-01-27 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 200 NW 4th Street in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as the "William J. Holloway, Jr. United States Courthouse."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Energy
Date: 2015-02-12 00:00:00

Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act or the APPROVAL Act

This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to prohibit the Secretary of Energy and the Administrators of the Western Area Power Administration and of the Southwestern Power Administration from using the power of eminent domain to implement modernization of electricity transmission infrastructure, unless they have received explicit permission to do so by: (1) the state governor and the head of each applicable public utility commission or public service commission of the affected state, and (2) the head of the governing body of each Indian tribe whose land would be affected.

 An electricity transmission infrastructure project, to the greatest extent practicable, must be sited upon either an existing federal right-of-way or upon federal land managed by either: (1) the Bureau of Land Management, (2) the Forest Service, (3) the Bureau of Reclamation, or (4) the Corps of Engineers.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2015-04-16 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

This bill designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1 Walter Hammond Place in Waldwick, New Jersey, as the "Staff Sergeant Joseph D'Augustine Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2015-04-21 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 501 East Court Street in Jackson, Mississippi, as the "Charles Clark United States Courthouse."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2015-05-05 00:00:00

Point Reyes Coast Guard Housing Conveyance Act

This bill directs the Coast Guard to convey 32 acres of federal land (including all buildings, structures, utilities, and facilities on the land) known as CAMSPAC Housing in Point Reyes Station to Marin County, California, to be used for affordable housing or to provide a public benefit approved by the County.

The property must be sold at fair market value.

The Coast Guard may deposit the proceeds in the Coast Guard Housing Fund.

The Coast Guard's authority to convey the property expires after four years.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-06-03 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the Senate on March 15, 2016. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

This bill directs the General Services Administration, on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, to offer to convey to the city of Anchorage, Alaska, for not less than fair market value, a parcel of U.S. property in such city consisting of approximately nine acres and improvements located at 400 East Fortieth Avenue that is administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.

The city shall be responsible for paying the costs of a survey, an appraisal, and any other costs relating to the conveyance of the federal property.

Any net proceeds received by the Archivist as a result of the conveyance shall be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2015-06-17 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2082 Stringtown Road in Grove City, Ohio, as the "Specialist Joseph W. Riley Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-06-24 00:00:00

Plum Island Conservation Act

This bill amends the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009 and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 to repeal provisions requiring the sale of federal property and assets supporting the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York.

The bill requires DHS, in conjunction with other specified agencies, to submit a report to Congress, including: (1) recommendations for transferring jurisdiction over Plum Island from DHS to another federal agency, and (2) an analysis of remediation responsibilities, costs associated with assuming jurisdiction over Plum Island, the timing of the transfer, and the need for legislation to execute the transfer.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2015-07-22 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 99 West 2nd Street in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, as the Lieutenant Colonel James "Maggie" Megellas Post Office.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: International affairs
Date: 2015-07-28 00:00:00

Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to: (1) redesignate the Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking as the Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, and (2) require an Assistant Secretary to head the Bureau.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2015-08-05 00:00:00

This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to convey to the Danville Area Community College of Danville, Illinois, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain real property, including improvements, known as Building Number 48, which is part of the VA Illiana Health Care System.

As consideration for such conveyance the VA shall require the College to convey to the United States all right, title, and interest in and to certain real property, including improvements, near the College Library Building.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-04-20 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Ariel Rios Federal Building Designation Act

(Sec. 2) This bill designates the federal building housing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives headquarters located at 99 New York Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C., as the "Ariel Rios Federal Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2016-04-20 00:00:00

Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic located at 704 Veterans Drive, The Dalles, Oregon, as the "Loren R. Kaufman Memorial Veterans' Clinic."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-04-28 00:00:00

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 525 North Broadway in Aurora, Illinois, as the "Kenneth M. Christy Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-05-12 00:00:00

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3031 Veterans Road West in Staten Island, New York, as the "Leonard Montalto Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-05-23 00:00:00

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 229 West Main Cross Street in Findlay, Ohio, as the "Michael Garver Oxley Memorial Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-06-16 00:00:00

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 7802 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights, New York, as the "Jeanne and Jules Manford Post Office Building."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-06-23 00:00:00

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey, without consideration, to the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, the reversionary interests of the United States in and to specified nonfederal land in Anchorage for the purpose of unencumbering its title and enabling its economic development.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2016-07-13 00:00:00

Public Buildings Renewal Act of 2016

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the tax-exempt financing of certain government-owned buildings by expanding the definition of "exempt facility bond" to include bonds used for qualified government buildings.

A qualified government building is a government-owned building or facility that consists of one or more of the following:

 an elementary or secondary school; facilities of a state college or university used for educational purposes; a public library; a court; hospital, health care, laboratory, or research facilities; public safety facilities; or offices for government employees. The bill excludes buildings or facilities that include specified recreational equipment or are used for the primary purpose of providing retail food and beverage services, recreation, or entertainment.

The bill establishes: (1) a $5 billion limit on the amount of tax-exempt financing which may be provided for government buildings, and (2) procedures for allocating and applying for the financing.

The bill exempts the bonds for government buildings from the volume cap on private activity bonds.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2016-07-14 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate passed version is repeated here.)

(Sec. 1) This bill designates the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Pueblo, Colorado, as the "PFC James Dunn VA Clinic."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-09-15 00:00:00

Historic Routes Preservation Act

This bill allows any state, county, political subdivision or agency of a state, company, or other person that asserts public acceptance of a right-of-way granted for the construction of highways over public lands to file a claim within a 25-year period.

The bill sets forth a procedure for conclusively verifying, proving, and establishing the acceptance of such rights-of-way.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-09-22 00:00:00

This bill designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 719 Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "Fred D. Thompson Federal Building and United States Courthouse."
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-09-28 00:00:00

This bill directs the Commissioner of Reclamation to: (1) provide to the holder of a permit for a cabin site located on federal property around the Dickinson Reservoir in North Dakota the first option to purchase the site for fair market value; and (2) convey to a permittee who exercises such option all U.S. interest in the site, easements for access to the site, a dock for the site, and the improvements on it.

Beginning two years after enactment of this bill: (1) if a permittee has not exercised such option, the Commissioner shall transfer the site to Dickinson Parks & Recreation in Dickinson, North Dakota (the Department), without cost; and (2) the Commissioner shall transfer to the Department, without cost, land currently managed by the Department on which no cabin is located.

Each such conveyance and transfer shall be made subject to specified mineral rights and rights-of-way of third parties.

A permittee may not build any new permanent structure below an elevation of 2,430 feet. If a permittee builds such a structure, the permittee's site shall revert to the Department.

 Revenues from a sale of federal land pursuant to this bill shall be made available to the Commissioner for: (1) the costs of carrying out this bill, and (2) deferred maintenance activities relating to the operation of the dam in the Dickinson Reservoir.
Topic: Government Operations — Property Management
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Date: 2016-12-01 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate passed version is repeated here.)

(Sec. 1) This bill designates the Traverse City VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Traverse City, Michigan, as the "Colonel Demas T. Craw VA Clinic."
Topic: Public Lands — Dependencies & Territories
Subject: Health
Date: 2007-01-04 00:00:00

Amends titles XI and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) remove the cap on Medicaid payments for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa; and (2) adjust the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for those territories.