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Justice for Yazidis Act [HB-379]
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Justice for Yazidis Act This bill states that Syrian and Iraqi nationals who are members of a religious minority in their country of origin: (1) shall be classified as refugees of special humanitarian concern, (2) shall be eligible for priority-2 refugee resettlement processing, and (3) may apply directly to the U.S. refugee admissions program. No alien shall be denied the opportunity to apply for admission under this bill solely because he or she: (1) qualifies as an immediate relative, (2) is eligible for any other immigrant classification, or
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Introduced In House on 01/09/2017
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Keep Our Communities Safe Act of 2017 [S.36]
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Keep Our Communities Safe Act of 2017 This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise requirements for the detention and removal of aliens ordered removed. The bill expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) constitutional rights should be upheld and protected, (2) Congress intends to uphold the constitutional principle of due process, and (3) due process of the law is a right afforded to everyone in the United States. The bill expands the authority of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to take a criminal alien into custody
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Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On The Judiciary. on 01/05/2017
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Medicaid Bump Act of 2017 [HB-324]
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Medicaid Bump Act of 2017 This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to increase the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) to 90% with respect to increased state Medicaid program expenditures for mental and behavioral health services. In general, a state's FMAP may range from 50% to 83% under current law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Earl Blumenauer
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 01/25/2017
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Family First Prevention Services Act of 2017 [HB-253]
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Family First Prevention Services Act of 2017 This bill amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSAct) regarding, among other matters: (1) mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services and in-home parenting skill-based programs, (2) foster care maintenance payments for children with parents in a licensed residential family-based treatment facility for substance abuse, and (3) payments for evidence-based kinship navigator programs. Part B of title IV (Child and Family Services)
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Sponsored by: Rep. David N. Cicilline
Referred To The Subcommittee On Human Resources. on 01/13/2017
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HIRE Vets Act Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing American Military Veterans Act of 2017 [HB-244]
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HIRE Vets Act Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing American Military Veterans Act of 2017 (Sec. 3) Provides that references to "this Act" included in any division of this bill refer only to the provisions of the division unless the bill expressly provides otherwise. (Sec. 4) Provides that the explanatory statement printed in the Congressional Record regarding this bill has the same effect as a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference. (Sec. 5) Provides that the sums in this bill are appropriated for FY2017. (Sec. 6) Provides
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Sponsored by: Rep. David G. Valadao
Became Public Law No: 115-31. (txt | Pdf) on 05/05/2017
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Military Family Stability Act of 2017 [HB-279]
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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 relocation period as the member and spouse jointly select. A member and spouse may make such an election if: the spouse is employed, or enrolled in a degree-, certificate-, or license-granting program, at the beginning of the covered relocation period; the member and spouse have one or more children in school;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Elise Stefanik
Referred To The Subcommittee On Readiness. on 02/21/2017
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Building Supportive Networks for Women Veterans Act [HB-91]
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Building Supportive Networks for Women Veterans Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan A. Costello
Reported By The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 115-197. on 06/28/2017
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Concurrent Resolution Declaring Mental Health Issues to Be a Public Health Crisis At Utah Higher Education Institutions [HCR-16]
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Concurrent Resolution Declaring Mental Health Issues to Be a Public Health Crisis At Utah Higher Education Institutions
Sponsored by: Rep. Edward H. Redd
Governor Signed In Lieutenant Governor's Office For Filing on 03/20/2017
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RAISE Act of 2017 Reforming Alternatives to Incarceration and Sentencing to Establish a Better Path for Youth Act of 2017 [HB-65]
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RAISE Act of 2017 Reforming Alternatives to Incarceration and Sentencing to Establish a Better Path for Youth Act of 2017 This bill amends the federal criminal code to permit a court to impose a sentence below the mandatory minimum for certain nonviolent youth offenses if the mandatory minimum is unjust to the youth and not necessary to protect public safety. The term "youth" means an individual prosecuted or sentenced for a criminal offense committed at age 21 or younger. The bill requires the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to release early, subject to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Cohen
Referred To The Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations. on 01/12/2017
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Outpatient Mental Health Modernization Act of 2017 [HB-166]
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Outpatient Mental Health Modernization Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover nutritional planning, meals, and transportation as partial-hospitalization services under Medicare. The Department of Health and Human Services shall convene a Behavioral Health Advisory Committee.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alcee L. Hastings
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 01/25/2017
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Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act of 2017 [HB-105]
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Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act of 2017 This bill states that, in any case not involving negligent failure by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to investigate or monitor a fiduciary that results in fiduciary misuse of benefits, but in which any fiduciary misuses all or part of an individual's benefit paid to the fiduciary, the VA shall pay to the beneficiary or the beneficiary's successor fiduciary an amount equal to the amount of the misused benefit. An adverse determination by the VA of a veteran's mental capacity to manage VA
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Sponsored by: Rep. Julia Brownley
Subcommittee Consideration And Mark-up Session Held. on 04/27/2017
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Providing Veterans Overdue Care Act of 2017 [HB-90]
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Providing Veterans Overdue Care Act of 2017 This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out major medical facility leases in specified amounts for: outpatient clinics in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Daytona Beach, Gainesville, and Ocala, Florida; Hampton Roads, Virginia; Missoula, Montana; Northern Colorado, Colorado; Oxnard and Santa Rosa, California; Pike County, Georgia; Portland, Maine; and Raleigh, North Carolina; an outpatient mental health clinic and an outpatient specialty clinic in Birmingham, Alabama; research space in Boston,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael E. Capuano
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 01/19/2017
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Equal Rights and Access for the Women of South Sudan Act [HB-48]
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Equal Rights and Access for the Women of South Sudan Act This bill requires that activities carried out by the United States in South Sudan relating to governance, post-conflict reconstruction and development, police and military training, and refugee relief and assistance support the human rights of women and their full political, social, and economic participation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Introduced In House on 01/03/2017
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Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2017 [HB-164]
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Increasing Access to Voluntary Screening for HIV/AIDS and STIs Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require Medicare and state Medicaid programs to provide routine HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening services. State Medicaid programs must provide these services without cost sharing for the screened individual.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 01/25/2017
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Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act [HB-161]
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Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to design national strategies and implement programs to address chronic homelessness. To promote an end to chronic homelessness, the Department of Health and Human Services must award grants to provide: mental health services; substance use disorder treatment; integrated, coordinated treatment for co-occurring disorders; health education; services designed to help individuals and families
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alcee L. Hastings
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 01/25/2017
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Effective and Humane Treatment of Youth Act of 2017 Kalief's Law [HB-47]
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Effective and Humane Treatment of Youth Act of 2017 Kalief's Law This legislation amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant (JABG) program for FY2018-FY2022. It requires a state or local government that receives JABG funding to implement policies that, with respect to youth: (1) provide a right to speedy trial; (2) provide a right to timely bail consideration; and (3) restrict solitary confinement. The term "youth" means an individual who is 21 years of age or younger. Additionally,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Cohen
Referred To The Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations. on 01/12/2017
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Helping Homeless Veterans Act of 2017 [HB-104]
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Helping Homeless Veterans Act of 2017 This bill makes the following Department of Veterans Affairs programs and services permanent: (1) homeless veterans reintegration programs, (2) referral and counseling services for veterans at risk of homelessness who are transitioning from certain institutions (including penal institutions), (3) financial assistance for supportive services for very low-income veteran families in permanent housing, (4) a grant program for homeless veterans with special needs, (5) treatment and rehabilitation for seriously mentally
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Sponsored by: Rep. Earl Blumenauer
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 01/19/2017
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Expanding Care for Veterans Act [HB-102]
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Expanding Care for Veterans Act This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop a plan to expand the scope of VA's research and education on, and delivery and integration of, complementary and alternative medicine services. The VA shall carry out, through its Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, a three-year program to: (1) assess the feasibility and advisability of integrating the delivery of selected complementary and alternative medicine services with other VA health care services for veterans, and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ann M. Kuster
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 01/19/2017
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Veterans' Access to Child Care Act [HB-95]
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Veterans' Access to Child Care Act (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide child care assistance to an eligible veteran for any period that the veteran: (1) receives covered health care services at a VA facility, and (2) is required to travel to and return from such facility for the receipt of such services. The bill defines: (1) "covered health care services" to mean regular mental health care services, intensive mental health care services, or such other intensive health care services to which the VA determines
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Cohen
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 07/31/2017
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Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow's America Act [HB-2479]
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[Energy ]
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Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow's America Act This bill authorizes appropriations for the nation's infrastructure, including appropriations for: secure broadband internet access, with a prioritization on expanding broadband access in unserved areas; drinking water improvements, such as appropriations for the drinking water state revolving fund and programs for reducing lead in drinking water; the electric power grid, with a focus on grid modernization, security, resiliency, and efficiency; energy efficiency in buildings, including homes and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky
Referred To The Subcommittee On Energy. on 05/22/2018