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Promoting More American Manufacturing Jobs Act [S.638]
[Manufacturing ]
[Taxes ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
[Economic Development ]
Promoting More American Manufacturing Jobs Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify rules for applying the deduction for income from domestic production activities to contract manufacturing or production arrangements. In a contract manufacturing or production arrangement, a person contracts with one or more unrelated persons for the manufacture, production, growth, or extraction of an item of qualifying production property (tangible personal property, computer software, and sound recordings) or film. The qualifying production property
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Sponsored by: Sen. Rob Portman
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 03/15/2017
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PACT Act Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act [S.654]
[Animals ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
PACT Act Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the federal criminal code to revise and expand provisions with respect to animal crushing. It retains existing criminal offenses that prohibit knowingly creating or distributing an animal crush video using interstate commerce. The bill also adds a new provision to criminalize an intentional act of animal crushing. A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to seven years, or both. It provides additional exceptions for conduct, or a video of
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Casey
Received In The House. on 12/15/2017
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Cameras in the Courtroom Act [S.649]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Media and Advertising ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Cameras in the Courtroom Act This bill requires the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless it decides by majority vote that allowing such coverage in a particular case would violate the due process rights of any of the parties involved.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chuck Grassley
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On The Judiciary. (text Of Measure As Introduced: Cr S1846) on 03/15/2017
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A bill to allow servicemembers to terminate their cable, satellite television, and Internet access service contracts while deployed. [S.624]
[Telecommunications ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
A bill to allow servicemembers to terminate their cable, satellite television, and Internet access service contracts while deployed. This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to allow a service member to terminate a commercial mobile, telephone exchange, Internet access, or multichannel video programming service contract at any time after the date the service member receives military orders to relocate for at least 90 days to a location that does not support such service contract. (Currently, such provision applies to a cellular telephone
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Sponsored by: Sen. Maria Cantwell
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 03/14/2017
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Foreign Agents Registration Modernization and Enforcement Act [S.625]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Media and Advertising ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[National Security ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Foreign Agents Registration Modernization and Enforcement Act This bill amends the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA) to provide that whenever the Department of Justice (DOJ) has reason to believe that a person or enterprise may be in possession or control of documentary material relevant to an investigation under FARA, the DOJ, before initiating a civil or criminal proceeding with respect to the production of such material, may serve a written demand upon the entity to produce the material for examination. The bill includes social media
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Sponsored by: Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Foreign Relations. on 03/14/2017
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PACT Act Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act [HB-1494]
[Animals ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
PACT Act Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act This bill amends the federal criminal code to revise and expand provisions with respect to animal crushing. It retains existing criminal offenses that prohibit knowingly creating or distributing an animal crush video using interstate commerce. The bill also adds a new provision to criminalize an intentional act of animal crushing. A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to seven years, or both. It provides additional exceptions for conduct, or a video of conduct,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Johnson
Referred To The Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations. on 03/21/2017
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Cybersecurity Responsibility Act of 2017 [HB-1335]
[Telecommunications ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
Cybersecurity Responsibility Act of 2017 This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue cybersecurity rules for communications networks (wireline or mobile telephone service, Internet access service, radio or television broadcasting, cable service, direct broadcast satellite service, or other communications service) to: (1) secure networks through managing, assessing, and prioritizing cyber risks and actions to reduce such risks; and (2) address the treatment of critical infrastructure information relating to such networks
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Sponsored by: Rep. Yvette Clarke
Referred To The Subcommittee On Communications And Technology. on 03/17/2017
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Interagency Cybersecurity Cooperation Act [HB-1340]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
Interagency Cybersecurity Cooperation Act This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish the Interagency Communications Security Committee as an advisory committee to: review communications security reports from federal agencies and communications network providers (wireline or mobile telephone service, Internet access service, radio or television broadcasting, cable service, direct broadcast satellite service, or other communications services); recommend investigation by relevant agencies into any such report; and issue
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Sponsored by: Rep. Eliot Engel
Referred To The Subcommittee On Communications And Technology. on 03/17/2017
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide appropriate rules for the application of the deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities with respect to certain contract manufacturing or production arrangements. [HB-1296]
[Taxes ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Small Business ]
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide appropriate rules for the application of the deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities with respect to certain contract manufacturing or production arrangements. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify rules for applying the deduction for income from domestic production activities to contract manufacturing or production arrangements. In a contract manufacturing or production arrangement, a person contracts with one or more unrelated persons for the manufacture,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Jordan
Introduced In House on 03/01/2017
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Eyes on the Courts Act of 2017 [HB-1025]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Media and Advertising ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Eyes on the Courts Act of 2017 This bill requires the presiding judge of a U.S. appellate court, including the Supreme Court, to permit the photographing, electronic recording, audio-visual coverage, broadcasting, televising, or streaming on the Internet of appellate court proceedings to or for the public, unless the judge determines, upon a motion of a party or the judge, that it would constitute a violation of the due process rights of a party or is not in the interests of justice. The Judicial Conference of the United States may promulgate mandatory
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gerald Connolly
Referred To The Subcommittee On Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet. on 03/02/2017
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Secure E-Waste Export and Recycling Act [HB-917]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Trade ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Environmental ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Secure E-Waste Export and Recycling Act This bill prohibits any person from exporting or reexporting electronic waste (specified items containing electronic components or fragments, including computers, televisions, video display devices, and consumer electronics) or exempted electronic waste items (tested, working used electronics, low-risk counterfeit electronics, or recalled electronics), except as specified. "Low-risk counterfeit electronics" means electronic components or items that: (1) have been subjected to destruction processes that render
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Introduced In House on 02/07/2017
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Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 [S.133]
[Defense ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[National Security ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Science ]
[Military ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 TITLE I--INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (Sec. 101) This bill authorizes FY2017 appropriations for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of: the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI); the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); the Department of Defense (DOD); the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA); the National Security Agency (NSA); the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; the U.S. Coast Guard; the Departments of State, the Treasury, Energy, and Justice;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Burr
Select Committee On Intelligence. Reported By Senator Burr Without Amendment. With Written Report No. 115-2. Additional Views Filed. on 01/20/2017
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North Korea State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act of 2017 [HB-479]
[International ]
[National Security ]
North Korea State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act of 2017 This bill expresses the sense of Congress that the government of North Korea likely meets the criteria for designation as a state sponsor of terrorism and, if so, should be so designated. The Department of State shall submit to Congress a determination as to whether such government meets the criteria for designation as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Foreign Relations. on 04/04/2017
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Cameras in the Courtroom Act [HB-464]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Media and Advertising ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Cameras in the Courtroom Act This bill requires the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless it decides by majority vote that allowing such coverage in a particular case would violate the due process rights of any of the parties involved.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet. on 02/06/2017
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Counteracting Russian Hostilities Act of 2017 [S.94]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Human Rights ]
[International ]
[National Security ]
[Elections ]
[Funding ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Military ]
[Trade ]
[Finance ]
Counteracting Russian Hostilities Act of 2017 This bill directs the President to impose U.S. entry and property blocking sanctions against: (1) a person that engages in significant activities for the government of the Russian Federation that undermine U.S. or allied cyber security, or (2) a foreign person responsible for serious human rights abuses in any territory occupied or controlled by Russia. The President shall impose specified financial and property sanctions against a person that: (1) engages in a significant transaction on behalf of Russian
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Sponsored by: Sen. John McCain
Committee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs. Hearings Held. on 04/27/2017
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Direct Broadcast Satellite Expansion Act of 2017 [HB-192]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Media and Advertising ]
Direct Broadcast Satellite Expansion Act of 2017 This bill amends federal copyright law and the Communications Act of 1934 to extend statutory licenses for secondary transmissions, and require satellite carriers to carry the analog and digital signals of licensed local television broadcast stations, in U.S. territories and possessions under the same requirements that apply in states.
Sponsored by: Rep. Stacey Plaskett
Referred To The Subcommittee On Communications And Technology. on 01/25/2017
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To allow servicemembers to terminate their cable, satellite television, and Internet access service contracts while deployed. [HB-2409]
[Telecommunications ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
To allow servicemembers to terminate their cable, satellite television, and Internet access service contracts while deployed. This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to allow a service member to terminate a commercial mobile, telephone exchange, Internet access, or multichannel video programming service contract at any time after the date the service member receives military orders to relocate for at least 90 days to a location that does not support such service contract. (Currently, such provision applies to a cellular telephone service
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dave Brat
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 07/25/2018
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North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization Act of 2017 [S.1118]
[Human Rights ]
[International ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Law Enforcement ]
North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization Act of 2017 This bill authorizes the President, through the Department of State, to: (1) provide grants to distribute information receiving devices, electronically readable devices, and other informational sources in North Korea; and (2) establish a grant program to develop and/or distribute new products or methods to allow North Koreans easier access to outside information. The Broadcasting Board of Governors may broadcast American, Korean, Chinese, and other popular music, television, movies, and popular
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Menendez
Committee On Foreign Relations. Reported By Senator Corker With An Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute. Without Written Report. on 12/11/2017
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DPRK Act of 2017 Distribution and Promotion of Rights and Knowledge Act of 2017 [HB-2397]
[Human Rights ]
[International ]
[Media and Advertising ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
DPRK Act of 2017 Distribution and Promotion of Rights and Knowledge Act of 2017 This bill amends the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 to authorize the President, through the Department of State, to: (1) distribute or provide grants to distribute information receiving devices, electronically readable devices, and other informational sources into North Korea; and (2) establish a grant program, which may involve public-private partnerships, to develop and/or distribute new products or methods to allow North Koreans easier access to outside information.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gerald Connolly
Subcommittee Consideration And Mark-up Session Held. Markup Report Cq on 06/15/2017
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To amend section 100905 of title 54, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to require annual permits and assess annual fees for commercial filming activities on Federal land for film crews of 5 persons or fewer, and for other purposes. [HB-1944]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Film Production ]
[Funding ]
[Recreation ]
To amend section 100905 of title 54, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to require annual permits and assess annual fees for commercial filming activities on Federal land for film crews of 5 persons or fewer, and for other purposes. This bill directs the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture to assess an annual fee of $200 for any film crew of five persons or fewer to conduct commercial filming activities or similar projects on federal land administered by such departments and to require
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Sponsored by: Rep. Tim Ryan
Referred To The Subcommittee On Conservation And Forestry. on 04/24/2017