| HB961 | Intro
Sine Die | Ban Aquaculture in the Great Lakes Act This bill prohibits persons from engaging in aquaculture in the Great Lakes, to the extent that the lakes and waters, including connecting waters, are within U.S. jurisdiction. The prohibition does not apply to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture |
| HB1203 | Intro
Sine Die | Safe RESEARCH Act Safe Responsible Ethical Scientific Endeavors Assuring Research for Compassionate Healthcare Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the use of tissue from an induced abortion in research conducted or supporte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB904 | Intro
Sine Die | Buy American Improvement Act of 2017 This bill amends the Buy American Act and federal grant programs to: (1) standardize guidelines for federal agencies to waive Buy American requirements for their construction contracts and direct purchases of mate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security |
| HB950 | Intro
Sine Die | SAFETI Act Security for the Administration of Federal Election from Terrorists Intervention Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to submit to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Congress a report on acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection |
| HB906 | Intro
Sine Die | Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency (FACT) Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill amends federal bankruptcy law to establish disclosure requirements with respect to a trust that is formed under a reorganization plan, following the discharge in bankruptcy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 6. |
| HB940 | Intro
Sine Die | SCOUTS Act Securing Communications of Utilities from Terrorist Threats This bill authorizes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to work with critical infrastructure owners and operators and state, local, tribal, and territorial entities to seek...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence |
| HB886 | Intro
Sine Die | Continuity of Education for Military Retired Dependents Act This bill authorizes the Department of Defense (DOD) to permit dependents of retired members of the Armed Forces who reside on military installations to attend DOD-provided elementary or sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB945 | Intro
Sine Die | Terrorism Prevention and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to: work with critical infrastructure owners and operators and state, local, tribal, and territorial entities to manag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection |
| HR134 | Intro
Sine Die | Supporting the goals and ideals of Black History Month and honoring the outstanding contributions of African-American Medal of Honor recipients. Recognizes Black History Month as an important time to acknowledge and reflect on the significant contrib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB994 | Intro
Sine Die | Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 2017 This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to report on inpatient and outpatient treatment capacity, availability, and needs, including detoxification programs, clinical stabilization...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs |
| HB1218 | Intro
Sine Die | Social Security and Medicare Lock-Box Act This bill establishes: (1) in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, a Social Security Surplus Protection Account; and (2) in the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, a Medicare Surplus Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Ways And Means Committee |
| HB928 | Intro
Sine Die | Fracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands Act This bill gives states the sole authority to promulgate or enforce any regulation, guidance, or permit requirement regarding hydraulic fracturing on or under any land within their boundaries. Hy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Conservation and Forestry Committee |
| HB1015 | Intro
Sine Die | Complete America's Great Trails Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for the fair market value of any National Scenic Trail conservation contribution. The Department of the Interior must study and report on the efficac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Subcommittee on Federal Lands |
| HB834 | Intro
Sine Die | To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Doris Miller for acts of valor during World War II while a member of the Navy. This bill authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Doris Miller for acts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB1006 | Intro
Sine Die | To clarify the rights of all persons who are held or detained at a port of entry or at any detention facility overseen by U.S. Customs and Border Protection or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security |
| HB831 | Intro
Sine Die | BALE Act of 2017 Beginning Agriculturalist Lifetime Employment Act of 2017 This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 1961 to revise the limits for the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) conservation loan guarantee program. The bill replaces the exis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-24
To House Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Committee |
| HB943 | Intro
Sine Die | Finding Innovative Lionfish Elimination Technologies Act of 2017 This bill directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to award competitive grants for colleges, universities, and nonprofit research organizations to research lionfish a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-23
To House Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans |
| HB991 | Intro
Sine Die | Guaranteed 3 Percent COLA for Seniors Act of 2017 This bill directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics to prepare and publish a monthly Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers that indicates changes over time in expenditures for consumption which are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-22
To House Subcommittee on Social Security |
| HB947 | Intro
Sine Die | FAMILY Act Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act This bill establishes the Office of Paid Family and Medical Leave within the Social Security Administration (SSA). The bill entitles every individual to a family and medical leave insurance (FMLI) ben...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-22
To House Subcommittee on Human Resources |
| HB900 | Intro
Sine Die | To recognize Puerto Rico's sovereign nationhood under either independence or free association and to provide for a transition process, and for other purposes. This bill requires the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico to provide for a referendum in P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-22
To House Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs |
| HB303 | Intro
Sine Die | Retired Pay Restoration Act This bill: (1) allows the receipt of both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation with respect to any service-connected disability (currently, only for a disability rated at 50% or more), and (2) repeals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB753 | Intro
Sine Die | Military Infrastructure Consolidation and Efficiency Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to: (1) develop a force structure plan (plan) for the Armed Forces based on a DOD assessment of threats to U.S. national security for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| HR46 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing the increased risk of sleep apnea among soldiers returning from active duty and the benefits of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy on treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in soldiers suffering from Posttraumatic Stress D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB403 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensuring the Safety of Our Military Aviators Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the Department of Defense from approving any application for the construction or alteration of a wind turbine that is proposed to be constructed or altered within 25 miles o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| HB295 | Intro
Sine Die | REDUCE Act Rebalance for an Effective Defense Uniformed and Civilian Employees Act This bill limits full-time positions in the Department of Defense (DOD), in each of FY2024-FY2028, subject to specified adjustments to be made by the DOD Secretary, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| HB406 | Intro
Sine Die | Honoring our Heroes Act This bill permits, where there is no living immediate next of kin of a deceased member of the Armed Forces, a covered relative to request the one-time free replacement of certain military decorations of such deceased member. "...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB664 | Intro
Sine Die | STOP OD Act of 2017 Stem the Tide of Overdose Prevalence from Opiate Drugs Act of 2017 This bill permits the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to award grants: (1) to expand educational efforts to prevent abuse of opioids, which are dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities |
| HB124 | Intro
Sine Die | CAM TIP Act of 2017 Camera Accountability Maintenance and Transparency in Policing Act of 2017 This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to establish a grant program for state, local, and tribal governments to acquire, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| HB333 | Intro
Sine Die | Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act This bill amends federal military retired pay provisions to: (1) permit veterans with a service-connected disability of less than 50% to concurrently receive both retired pay and disability compensation; (2) elim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB450 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend title 10, United States Code, to ensure that every military chaplain has the prerogative to close a prayer outside of a religious service according to the dictates of the chaplain's own conscience. This bill authorizes a military chaplain to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB569 | Intro
Sine Die | Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act This bill provides for retroactive calculation as of October 7, 2001, (the start of combat operations in Afghanistan) of qualifying active duty or active service days as a member of the Ready Reserv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB426 | Intro
Sine Die | Protecting Lives Using Surplus Equipment Act of 2017 This bill invalidates any regulation, rule, guidance, recommendation, or policy issued after May 15, 2015, that limits the sale or donation of excess federal property to state and local law enforce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| HB412 | Intro
Sine Die | Enlisted Legal Assistance Act This bill requires the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide personal civil legal assistance to: an active duty member of the Armed Forces in pay grades E-1 through E-5 and his or her dependents; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HCR19 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing the sense of Congress regarding reconsideration of the merits of awarding the Medal of Honor posthumously to Doris Miller for acts of valor during World War II for which he was originally awarded the Navy Cross. Expresses the sense of Cong...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HR21 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the firefight that occurred on March 4, 2007, between members of the United States Marine Corps and enemy forces in Bati Kot District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Expresses the sense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities |
| HB930 | Intro
Sine Die | Lymphedema Treatment Act This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover certain lymphedema compression treatment items as durable medical equipment under Medicare. (Lymphedema is a condition of localized fluid retention a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB279 | Intro
Sine Die | Military Family Stability Act of 2017 This bill allows a member of the Armed Forces undergoing a permanent change of station and the member's spouse to elect jointly that the spouse may relocate to the new location at the time during the covered relo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Readiness |
| HB751 | Intro
Sine Die | To authorize the President to award the Medal of Honor to James Megellas, formerly of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and currently of Colleyville, Texas, for acts of valor on January 28, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. This bill author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Military Personnel |
| HB908 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicare Advantage Quality Payment Relief Act of 2017 This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to disregard the application of certain percentage quality increases when calculating the maximum payment that may be made to a Medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB1183 | Intro
Sine Die | Wildfire Prevention Act of 2017 This bill amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide hazard mitigation assistance in any area affected by a fire for which fire management assistanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management |
| HB1071 | Intro
Sine Die | Assistance, Quality, and Affordability Act of 2017 This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize for FY2018-FY2022 and revise the drinking water state revolving fund (SRF), including to require SRF-funded projects to use iron and steel ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Subcommittee on Environment |
| HB1068 | Intro
Sine Die | Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 2017 This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to revise regulations for drinking water contaminants, including by: requiring the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine whether or not to regulate n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Subcommittee on Environment |
| HJR77 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Army Corps of Engineers relating to the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Water Control Master Manual. This joint resoluti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management |
| HB892 | Intro
Sine Die | Locality-based Social Security Benefits Act of 2017 This bill directs the Social Security Administration to increase an individual's monthly Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefit amount in accordance with the locality-based comparabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Subcommittee on Social Security |
| SB439 | Intro
Sine Die | Timely Mental Health for Foster Youth Act This bill amends part B (Child and Family Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act with respect to state plans for the ongoing oversight and coordination of health care services for children in a fost...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1082 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid HOME Improvement Act Medicaid Home Owner Maximum Equity Improvement Act This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to disallow a state from using, for purposes of determining Medicaid eligibility for long-term care assi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HR130 | Intro
Sine Die | Supporting efforts to increase competition and accountability in the health insurance marketplace, and to extend accessible, quality, affordable health care coverage to every American through the choice of a public insurance plan. Expresses support f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Subcommittee on Health |
| HB1097 | Intro
Sine Die | Unsubscribe Act of 2017 This bill prohibits a negative option agreement from being entered on the Internet with consumers unless it provides the consumers a mechanism to cancel in the same manner, and by the same means, in which the agreement was ent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection |
| SR64 | Intro
Sine Die | A resolution congratulating the Plastics Industry Association on its 80th anniversary. Congratulates the Plastics Industry Association on its 80th anniversary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1092 | Intro
Sine Die | Chief Manufacturing Officer Act This bill: (1) expresses the sense of Congress that a well-designed national manufacturing strategy would benefit the U.S. economy, and (2) directs the President to appoint a United States Chief Manufacturing Officer, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-17
To House Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection |
