US Congress House Bill 635 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30)
Status: Introduced on February 2 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-16 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Promoting American Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2015 Prohibits the President from restricting direct transfers from a Cuban depository institution to a U.S. depository institution in payment for a product authorized for sale under the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide information and technical assistance to U.S. agricultural producers, cooperative organizations, or state agencies to promote U.S. agricultural exports products to Cuba. Authorizes the issuance of temporary entry visas to Cuban nationals to facilitate purchase of U.S. agricultural products. Amends the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to repeal the prohibition on enforcement of rights to certain U.S. intellectual properties and such properties' transfer. Prohibits the regulation or prohibition of travel to or from Cuba by U.S. citizens or legal residents, or any of the transactions ordinarily incident to such travel if such travel would be lawful in the United States. Directs the President to rescind all regulations in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act that regulate or prohibit such travel or transactions. Includes in such transactions: (1) accompanied personal baggage; (2) payment of living expenses and the acquisition of personal-use goods or services; (3) travel arrangements; (4) nonscheduled air, sea, or land voyage transactions, (such provision does not permit the carriage of articles other than accompanied baggage into Cuba or the United States); and (5) normal banking transactions. States that such provision shall not apply in time of war or armed hostilities between the United States and Cuba, or of imminent danger to the public health or the physical safety of U.S. citizens or legal residents. Amends the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 to repeal the requirement for onsite verification of certain medical exports to Cuba. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the airport ticket tax for transportation between the United States and Cuba by $1, and (2) establish in the Treasury the Agricultural Export Promotion Trust Fund.

Promoting American Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2015

Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]
Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]
Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Collin Peterson [D-MN]	Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]	Rep. Richard Nolan [D-MN]
Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]	Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA]
Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]
Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]
Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]	Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]	Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]
Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-16	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
2015-02-12	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
2015-02-02	House	Referred to House Financial Services
2015-02-02	House	Referred to House Agriculture
2015-02-02	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2015-02-02	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-02-02	House	Referred to House Foreign Affairs
2015-02-02	House	Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and 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.
2015-02-02	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/635/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr635/BILLS-114hr635ih.pdf