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Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2017 [S.362] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Family-Related Legislation ] [Human Services ] [Children and Youth ]
Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2017 This bill allows executive branch employees to substitute any available paid leave for any leave without pay for either: (1) the birth of a child, or (2) the placement of a child for adoption or foster care. It makes available for any of the 12 weeks of leave an employee is entitled to for such purposes: (1) six administrative weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth or placement involved, and (2) any accumulated annual or sick leave. The bill authorizes the Office of Personnel Management (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Edward Markey Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs. on 02/13/2017

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Lawrence J. Hackett Jr. Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Fairness Act [HB-1007] [Veterans ] [Healthcare ] [Military ] [Public Health ] [Science ]
Lawrence J. Hackett Jr. Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Fairness Act This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish a task force to assess and make recommendations about the care and compensation that should be provided to veterans who have been exposed to Agent Orange, their spouses, and multiple generations of their offspring. The task force shall make recommendations: to establish the Agent Orange Illness Compensation Program to provide an exposed veteran or eligible survivor a lump sum payment for the veteran's injury, illness, (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Costello Introduced In House on 02/13/2017

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Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule of the Office of Natural Resources Revenue of the Department of the Interior relating to consolidated Federal oil and gas and Federal and Indian coal valuation reform. [HJR-71] [Energy ] [Mining ] [Public Lands and National Parks ]
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule of the Office of Natural Resources Revenue of the Department of the Interior relating to consolidated Federal oil and gas and Federal and Indian coal valuation reform. This joint resolution nullifies the rule submitted by the Office of Natural Resources Revenue titled "Consolidated Federal Oil & Gas and Federal & Indian Coal Valuation Reform." The rule published in the Federal Register on July 1, 2016, addresses royalties generated from oil, (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Scalise Introduced In House on 02/13/2017

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Stop Terrorist Operational Resources and Money Act [S.358] [Finance ] [International ] [National Security ] [Law Enforcement ] [Crime ]
Stop Terrorist Operational Resources and Money Act This bill expresses the sense of Congress regarding the importance of the United States and its partners curtailing the financial resources of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The President may designate a country as a Jurisdiction of Terrorism Financing Concern if the President determines that government officials know, or should know, that activities are taking place within the country that substantially finance the operations of, or acts of international terrorism by, foreign (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Foreign Relations. on 02/13/2017

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Regulatory Integrity Act of 2017 [HB-1004] [Technology and Innovation ] [Data Privacy ] [Ethics ]
Regulatory Integrity Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill directs each executive agency to make publicly available on the agency website or in the rulemaking docket on Regulations.gov a list of pending agency regulatory actions and for each such action: the date the agency began to develop or consider the action, its status, an estimate of the date it will be final and in effect, a brief description of such action, and a list of any applicable agency regulatory actions issued by the agency, or any other executive agency, that duplicate or overlap with (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Collin Peterson H.amdt.64 Amendment (a002) Offered By Mr. Farenthold. (consideration: Cr H1476-1477, H1480-1481; Text: Cr H1476) on 03/02/2017

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To provide for a study by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies on the impact of diverting certain freight rail traffic to avoid urban areas, and for other purposes. [HB-988] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Infrastructure ] [Public Safety ]
To provide for a study by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies on the impact of diverting certain freight rail traffic to avoid urban areas, and for other purposes. This bill directs the Department of Transportation to make appropriate arrangements with the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies to study the cost and impact of rerouting freight rail traffic of hazardous material to avoid its transportation through urban areas.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Keith Ellison Referred To The Subcommittee On Railroads, Pipelines, And Hazardous Materials. on 02/10/2017

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Of inquiry directing the Attorney General to transmit certain documents to the House of Representatives relating to the financial practices of the President. [HR-111] [Finance ] [Law Enforcement ] [National Security ] [Ethics ] [Crime ]
Of inquiry directing the Attorney General to transmit certain documents to the House of Representatives relating to the financial practices of the President. This bill directs the Department of Justice to transmit to the House of Representatives copies of any of its documents, records, memos, correspondence, or other communications that refer or relate to: (1) any criminal or counterintelligence investigation targeting President Donald J. Trump, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, Roger Stone, or any employee of (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney Reported Adversely (amended) By The Committee On Judiciary. H. Rept. 115-28. on 03/08/2017

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SCRUB Act Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act [HB-998] [Small Business ] [Technology and Innovation ] [Budget and Spending ] [Consumer Protection ] [Economic Development ] [Inflation ]
SCRUB Act Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act TITLE I--RETROSPECTIVE REGULATORY REVIEW COMMISSION (Sec. 101) This bill establishes the Retrospective Regulatory Review Commission to conduct a review of the Code of Federal Regulations to identify rules and sets of rules that collectively implement a regulatory program that should be repealed to lower the cost of regulation. The commission shall give priority to the review of rules or sets of rules that are major rules or that include major rules, that have been (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Chaffetz Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs. on 03/02/2017

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Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 2017 [HB-994] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Overdose Prevention ] [Native American Affairs ] [Mental Health ]
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 programs, transitional residential support services, rehabilitation programs, treatment programs for pregnant women or adolescents, and treatment through Indian health programs. The report must include the barriers to real-time reporting of drug overdoses at the federal, state, and local level and ways (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Comstock Referred To The Subcommittee On Indian, Insular And Alaska Native Affairs. on 02/24/2017

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Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior regarding requirements for exploratory drilling on the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf. [HJR-70] [Energy ] [Environmental ] [Public Lands and National Parks ] [Mining ]
Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior regarding requirements for exploratory drilling on the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf. This joint resolution nullifies the rule submitted by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management titled "Oil and Gas and Sulfur Operations on the Outer Continental Shelf Requirements for Exploratory Drilling on the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf." The rule published in the Federal Register on July 15, 2016, limits exploration of oil and gas resources (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Andy Biggs Introduced In House on 02/09/2017

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Russia Sanctions Review Act of 2017 [S.341] [Cybersecurity ] [International ] [National Security ] [Technology and Innovation ]
Russia Sanctions Review Act of 2017 This bill provides that the following executive orders, as in effect on January 1, 2017, and any sanctions imposed pursuant to such orders, shall remain in effect: (1) Executive Order 13694 (relating to blocking property of certain persons engaging in significant malicious cyber-enabled activities); (2) Executive Orders 13660, 13661, and 13662 (relating to blocking property of certain persons contributing to the situation in Ukraine); and (3) Executive Order 13685 (relating to blocking property of certain persons (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs. Hearings Held. on 04/27/2017

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Prescription Drug and Health Improvement Act of 2017 [S.348] [Healthcare ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Pharmaceuticals ] [Veterans ] [Budget and Spending ] [Public Health ]
Prescription Drug and Health Improvement Act of 2017 This bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to negotiate lower prices on behalf of Medicare and Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries for covered prescription drugs that the CMS deems appropriate for negotiation based on: (1) program and per-beneficiary spending, (2) unit price increases over the preceding years, (3) initial launch price, (4) availability of similarly effective alternative treatments, (5) status of the drug as a follow-on to previously approved drugs, (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Reed Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 02/09/2017

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Opioid Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 2017 [HB-993] [Healthcare ] [Public Health ] [Overdose Prevention ] [Pharmaceuticals ] [Mental Health ] [Law Enforcement ]
Opioid Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to states to develop a peer review process to identify and investigate questionable or inappropriate prescribing and dispensing patterns of drugs classified as schedule II or III under the Controlled Substances Act, which are drugs with an accepted medical use that have the potential to be abused and addictive. This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require HHS to establish grant programs to: (1) facilitate (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 02/10/2017

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Cyber Defense National Guard Act [HB-955] [Cybersecurity ] [National Security ] [Technology and Innovation ] [Defense ] [Military ] [Disaster Relief ] [Telecommunications ] [Infrastructure ]
Cyber Defense National Guard Act This bill requires the Director of National Intelligence to report to Congress regarding the feasibility of establishing a Cyber Defense National Guard. The report must address: (1) the number of persons who would be needed to defend the critical infrastructure of the United States from a cyber attack or man-made intentional or unintentional catastrophic incident; (2) elements of the federal government that would be best equipped to recruit, train, and manage such a National Guard; (3) resources that can be pre-positioned (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee Introduced In House on 02/07/2017

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Strong Families Act [S.344] [Family-Related Legislation ] [Taxes ] [Budget and Spending ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Strong Families Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow certain employers a business-related tax credit for up to 25% of the amount of wages paid to their employees during any period (not exceeding 12 weeks) in which such employees are on family and medical leave, (2) limit the allowable amount of such credit to $3,000 per employee for any taxable year, and (3) terminate such credit two years after the enactment of this bill. The Government Accountability Office shall complete a study on the effectiveness of the tax credit for (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Angus King Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 02/08/2017

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Improving Corporate Governance Through Diversity Act of 2017 [HB-970] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Race and Civil Rights ] [Veterans ] [Disabilities ] [Human Rights ] [Finance ]
Improving Corporate Governance Through Diversity Act of 2017 This bill directs executive agencies to require any covered contractor (a for-profit business with gross receipts exceeding $1 billion for the previous year) awarded a contract of $5 million or more to submit, within 60 days: data on the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of such contractor's board of directors and senior executives; data on the affiliation of any such board member or executive to a historically underrepresented group, including veterans and individuals with disabilities; (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee Introduced In House on 02/07/2017

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Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act [HB-913] [Immigration ] [Law Enforcement ] [Human Rights ] [Criminal Justice ]
Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act This bill directs the Department of Justice to: establish within the Executive Office for Immigration Review an Office of Legal Access Programs to administer a system of legal orientation programs to make immigration proceedings more efficient by educating aliens regarding administrative procedures and legal rights under U.S. immigration law and to establish other programs to assist in providing aliens access to legal information; and submit a plan to Congress that includes a schedule to develop and deploy legal (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Henry Johnson Referred To The Subcommittee On Immigration And Border Security. on 03/09/2017

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Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to savings arrangements established by States for non-governmental employees. [HJR-66] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Pensions ] [Retirement ]
Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to savings arrangements established by States for non-governmental employees. This joint resolution nullifies a rule submitted by the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration regarding savings arrangements established by states for non-governmental employees. (The rule describes circumstances in which state payroll deduction savings programs with automatic enrollment would not give rise to the establishment of employee pension benefit plans under the Employee (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Roe Became Public Law No: 115-35. (txt | Pdf) on 05/17/2017

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Sensible Environmental Protection Act of 2017 [S.340] [Environmental ] [Water ] [Agriculture ] [Public Health ]
Sensible Environmental Protection Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency or a state from requiring a permit under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) for a discharge of a pesticide from a point source into navigable waters if the discharge is approved under FIFRA. Point source pollution is waste discharged from a distinct place, such as a (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Flake Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Environment And Public Works. on 02/07/2017

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SAFETI Act Security for the Administration of Federal Election from Terrorists Intervention Act of 2017 [HB-950] [Cybersecurity ] [Elections ] [National Security ] [Voting Rights ]
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 actions taken by DHS relating to terrorist threats to the integrity of the 2016 federal elections. The GAO shall conduct an assessment of the effectiveness of such actions and include recommendations for improvements.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee Referred To The Subcommittee On Cybersecurity And Infrastructure Protection. on 02/24/2017

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