Sen. Jim Banks

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Bills Introduced 150

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US Congress 115th Congress

Repeal Sequestration for Defense Act [HB-1441]
Repeal Sequestration for Defense Act This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to eliminate the sequestration for security and defense spending. (Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Comstock Introduced In House on 03/08/2017

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BRAVE Act of 2017 Burial Rights for America's Veterans' Efforts Act of 2017 [HB-1212]
BRAVE Act of 2017 Burial Rights for America's Veterans' Efforts Act of 2017 This bill increases the amounts payable through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for: (1) burial and funeral expenses of certain veterans, and (2) such expenses in connection with a veteran's death due to a service-connected disability. The VA shall increase such amounts each fiscal year by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. James Langevin Referred To The Subcommittee On Disability Assistance And Memorial Affairs. on 03/06/2017

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MERIT Act of 2017 Modern Employment Reform, Improvement, and Transformation Act of 2017 [HB-559]
MERIT Act of 2017 Modern Employment Reform, Improvement, and Transformation Act of 2017 This bill establishes an alternative mechanism for the expedited removal by agency heads of federal employees for performance or misconduct by: (1) limiting an appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) to appeals made not later than 7 days after the date of such removal; and (2) making inapplicable to removals employee protections affording employees at least 30 days advance written notice of the proposed action and a reasonable time to answer the proposal (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney Committee Consideration And Mark-up Session Held. on 07/17/2018

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Protection of Children Act of 2017 [HB-495]
Protection of Children Act of 2017 This bill amends the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to eliminate the special repatriation requirements for unaccompanied alien children (UAC) who are nationals or residents of a country contiguous to the United States. (The same removal requirements are applied to all UACs who are not victims of a severe form of trafficking in persons and who do not have a fear of returning to their country of nationality or last habitual residence.) An immigration officer who finds (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Gaetz Committee Consideration And Mark-up Session Held. Markup Report Cq on 06/21/2017

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Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2017 [HB-506]
Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2017 This bill amends the federal criminal code to declare that any person who knowingly engages in any scheme or artifice to defraud an individual of veterans' benefits, or in connection with obtaining veteran's benefits for that individual, shall be fined, imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Lieu Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On The Judiciary. on 03/15/2018

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Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act of 2017 [HB-391]
Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act of 2017 This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: prohibit the government from bearing any expense of counsel for any person in a removal or related appeal proceedings, add a requirement to establish a credible fear of persecution claim in an asylum interview, limit humanitarian and public interest parole authority, and prohibits the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from using parole authority for an alien who is ineligible for refugee status. The bill amends the Homeland Security Act of (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Dave Brat Committee Consideration And Mark-up Session Held. on 07/26/2017

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IRGC Terrorist Designation Act [HB-380]
IRGC Terrorist Designation Act This bill expresses the sense of Congress that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) meets the criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization and should be so designated by the Department of State. State shall submit to Congress: (1) a detailed report on whether the IRGC meets such criteria; and (2) if State determines the IRGC doe not meet such criteria, a detailed justification as to which criteria have not been met.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Comstock Referred To The Subcommittee On Immigration And Border Security. on 02/06/2017

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Save American Workers Act of 2017 [HB-3798]
Save American Workers Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to change the definition of "full-time employee" for purposes of the employer mandate to provide minimum essential health care coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from an employee who is employed on average at least 30 hours of service a week to an employee who is employed on average at least 40 hours of service a week.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. H. Morgan Griffith Introduced In House on 09/14/2017

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Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans". [HJR-122]
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans". This joint resolution nullifies the rule finalized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on November 17, 2017, regarding payday, vehicle title, and other high-cost installment loans.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Andy Biggs Introduced In House on 12/01/2017

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Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2017 [HB-1881]
Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2017 This bill prohibits the federal government, and any state or local government that receives federal funding for any program that provides child welfare services under part B (Child and Family Services) or part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSAct), from discriminating or taking an adverse action against a child welfare service provider that declines to provide, facilitate, or refer for a child welfare service that conflicts with the provider's sincerely (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney Referred To The Subcommittee On Human Resources. on 04/17/2017

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