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To remove from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System the areas included in Indian Peninsula Unit FL-92 and Cape San Blas Unit P-30 in Florida. [HB-945]
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Amends the Coastal Barrier Resources Act to remove from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System and related maps the areas comprising Indian Peninsula Unit FL-92 and Cape San Blas Unit P-30 in Florida.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve II Southerland
Referred To The Subcommittee On Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, And Insular Affairs. on 03/07/2013
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Everglades for the Next Generation Act [HB-913]
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Everglades for the Next Generation Act - Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to authorize the Secretary of the Army, after completing a project implementation report prepared for a project under the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan and without any further congressional authorization, to carry out projects for: (1) the Caloosahatchee River (C-43) West Basin Storage Reservoir; (2) the Biscayne Bay coastal wetland; (3) Broward County water preserve areas; (4) the C-111 Spreader Canal; (5) any other project identified in the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alcee L. Hastings
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water Resources And Environment. on 03/01/2013
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Keep Our Commitment to Veterans Act [HB-902]
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Keep Our Commitment to Veterans Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out specified major medical facility leases in FY2013-FY2014 in New Mexico, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Reduces lease amounts authorized in previous fiscal years for VA outpatient clinics in: (1) Johnson County, Kansas; (2) San Diego, California; and (3) Tyler, Texas.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 03/08/2013
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Deficit Reduction, Job Creation, and Energy Security Act [HB-70]
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Deficit Reduction, Job Creation, and Energy Security Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct oil and gas lease sales under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act for an additional 10% of acreage of the outer Continental Shelf proposed to be leased under the Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017. Requires: (1) such additional acreage to be known as the Deficit Reduction Acreage, and (2) the Secretary to lease at least 20% of such Deficit Reduction Acreage in each such year. Establishes the Deficit
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Environment. on 02/04/2013
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To authorize the Central Everglades Planning Project, Florida, and for other purposes. [HB-5631]
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Authorizes funding for environmental restoration activities of the Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) in Florida as part of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan if the Army Corps of Engineers gives approval by December 30, 2015.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Castor
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water Resources And Environment. on 09/19/2014
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To amend the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1989 to expand the Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officers Training Program Pilot Program to include a Coast Guard unit at Pinellas Park High School in Pinellas Park, Florida, and for other purposes. [HB-5493]
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Amends the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1989 to expand the Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officers Training Program Pilot Program by authorizing the Coast Guard to establish and maintain a junior reserve officers training program in cooperation with the Pinellas County School District of Pinellas County, Florida.
Sponsored by: Rep. David W. Jolly
Referred To The Subcommittee On Coast Guard And Maritime Transportation. on 09/17/2014
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Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2014 [HB-5449]
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Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2014 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2015-FY2018 to the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) for: the Northeast Corridor Improvement Fund account, the National Network account, the Office of the Inspector General, and national infrastructure investment capital grants. Directs Amtrak to establish internal controls to ensure its costs and revenues are allocated to either the Northeast Corridor or the National Network. Directs the Secretary to establish
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Sponsored by: Rep. Roger Williams
Reported (amended) By The Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure. H. Rept. 113-629. on 12/01/2014
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Indian River Lagoon Nutrient Removal Assistance Act of 2014 [HB-5289]
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Indian River Lagoon Nutrient Removal Assistance Act of 2014 - Requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish an Indian River Lagoon Nutrient Removal Assistance Grant Program to assist projects related to the protection and restoration of the Indian River Lagoon in Florida. Directs the EPA to issue regulations regarding grant selection criteria that prioritize projects that: (1) produce the greatest nutrient load reductions, (2) result in the greatest environmental benefits to the Lagoon, and (3) advance the goals and objectives
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Murphy
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water Resources And Environment. on 07/31/2014
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To correct the boundaries of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Unit P16. [HB-5139]
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Revises the boundaries of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Unit P16 in Florida.
Sponsored by: Rep. James P. Moran
Reported (amended) By The Committee On Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-703. on 12/22/2014
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To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 Mulford Road in Mulberry, Florida, as the "Sergeant First Class Daniel M. Ferguson Post Office". [HB-5089]
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Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 Mulford Road in Mulberry, Florida, as the "Sergeant First Class Daniel M. Ferguson Post Office."
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Castor
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs. on 09/09/2014
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To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 13500 SW 250 Street in Princeton, Florida, as the "Corporal Christian A. Guzman Rivera Post Office Building". [HB-5030]
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Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 13500 SW 250 Street in Princeton, Florida, as the "Corporal Christian A. Guzman Rivera Post Office Building."
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Castor
Signed By President. on 12/16/2014
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To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 500 North Brevard Avenue in Cocoa Beach, Florida, as the "Richard K. Salick Post Office". [HB-451]
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Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 500 North Brevard Avenue in Cocoa Beach, Florida, as the "Richard K. Salick Post Office."
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Castor
Signed By President. on 12/16/2014
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To correct the boundaries of John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System units in Florida, and for other purposes. [HB-4222]
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[Water ]
Replaces the map included in the set of maps entitled "Coastal Barrier Resources System" (referred to in specified provisions of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act and relating to Indian Peninsula Unit FL-92 and Cape San Blas Unit P-30 in Florida) with another map relating to the same unit entitled "John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Corrected Indian Peninsula Unit FL-92 and Cape San Blas Unit P-30" of a date to be specified.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve II Southerland
Subcommittee Hearings Held. on 04/08/2014
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To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to Miami- Dade County certain federally owned land in Florida, and for other purposes. [HB-417]
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Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey to Miami-Dade County, Florida, federally owned land comprising the Subtropical Horticulture Research Station in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Directs the County to pay specified costs.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard
Referred To The Subcommittee On Department Operations, Oversight, And Nutrition. on 02/25/2013
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To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 18640 NW 2nd Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the "Father Richard Marquess-Barry Post Office Building". [HB-4030]
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Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 18640 NW 2nd Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the "Father Richard Marquess-Barry Post Office Building."
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Castor
Signed By President. on 12/19/2014
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Carl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 [HB-3979]
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Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (SAA, 2008) to extend emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) payments for eligible individuals to weeks of employment ending on or before June 1, 2014. (Authority for payment of unemployment compensation expired on December 31, 2013. This amendment authorizes payment of compensation for the entire period between January 1, 2014, and June 1, 2014.) (Sec. 3) Amends the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Signed By President. on 12/19/2014
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VA Construction Assistance Act of 2014 [HB-3593]
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VA Construction Assistance Act of 2014 - (Sec. 2) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the management of the major medical center construction projects of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been an abysmal failure; and (2) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs should fully implement all recommendations made by the Comptroller General in an April 2013 report to improve VA construction procedures. (Sec. 3) Requires the Secretary, for any construction or alteration project that is a major medical facility project, to: (1) use the services
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Sponsored by: Rep. David P. Roe
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 09/17/2014
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Department of Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization Act of 2013 [HB-3521]
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Department of Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out specified major medical facility leases (leases) in New Mexico, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, Nebraska, Arizona, and Oklahoma. Directs the Secretary, in exercising the authority to enter into such leases, to record as the full cost of the contractual obligation at the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 12/20/2013
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To name the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Bay Pines, Florida, as the "C.W. Bill Young Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center". [HB-3302]
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Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center in Bay Pines, Florida, as the "C.W. Bill Young Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center."
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Signed By President. on 11/13/2013
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Muscogee Nation of Florida Federal Recognition Act [HB-323]
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Muscogee Nation of Florida Federal Recognition Act - Extends federal recognition to the Muscogee Nation of Florida (the Nation), which makes its members eligible for the services and benefits provided to Indians due to their status as members of a federally recognized tribe. Considers the service area of the Nation, for the purpose of delivering federal services to members, to be: (1) the community of Bruce in Walton County, Florida; and (2) an area in Florida in which members reside that is bordered on the west by the Escambia River and on the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jeff Miller
Referred To The Subcommittee Indian And Alaska Native Affairs. on 01/31/2013