VA Regional Office Accountability Act [HB-1824]
VA Regional Office Accountability Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to include in a required annual report on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) expenditures and activities a report on each VA regional office that failed to reach administrative goals concerning the timeliness and accuracy of veterans' claims adjudication.
HB-1824: VA Regional Office Accountability Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Disability Assistance And Memorial Affairs. on 05/08/2013
Pediatric Subspecialty and Mental Health Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2013 [HB-1827]
Pediatric Subspecialty and Mental Health Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2013 - Reauthorizes through FY2018 a pediatric specialty educational loan repayment program for health professionals providing pediatric medical subspecialty, pediatric surgical specialty, or child and adolescent mental and behavioral health care in an area with a shortage of the specified pediatric subspecialty that has a sufficient pediatric population to support the subspecialty.
HB-1827: Pediatric Subspecialty and Mental Health Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2013
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/10/2013
Veterans Dog Training Therapy Act [HB-183]
Veterans Dog Training Therapy Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program for assessing the effectiveness of addressing post-deployment mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms through a therapeutic medium of service dog training and handling for veterans with disabilities. Requires such program to be carried out at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers that can provide training areas for such purposes.
HB-183: Veterans Dog Training Therapy Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney
Subcommittee Hearings Held. on 03/27/2014
Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act of 2013 [HB-1830]
Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act of 2013 - Directs the President to establish the Commission to Accelerate the End of Breast Cancer to help end breast cancer by January 1, 2020. Directs the Commission to: (1) identify opportunities and ideas within government and the private sector that are key components in achieving the end of breast cancer and which have been overlooked, yet are ripe for collaboration and investment; (2) recommend projects to leverage such opportunities and ideas in the areas of the primary prevention of breast cancer
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HB-1830: Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act of 2013
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/10/2013
Clean Water Protection Act [HB-1837]
Clean Water Protection Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to define "fill material" to mean any pollutant that replaces portions of waters of the United States with dry land or that changes the bottom elevation of a water body for any purpose and to exclude any pollutant discharged into the water primarily to dispose of waste.
HB-1837: Clean Water Protection Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water Resources And Environment. on 05/07/2013
Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services Act of 2013 [HB-1838]
Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services Act of 2013 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to apply the Medicaid primary care payment rate in 2013 and 2014 to additional physicians with a primary specialty designation of neurology, psychiatry, or obstetrics and gynecology.
HB-1838: Enhanced Access to Medicaid Services Act of 2013
Sponsored by: Rep. Dina Titus
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/10/2013
Military Family Home Protection Act [HB-1842]
Military Family Home Protection Act - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (the Act) to allow a court, in an action to enforce an obligation on real or personal property secured by a mortgage against a servicemember who is, or was, eligible for hostile fire or imminent danger pay during a period of military service, a servicemember placed on convalescent status, a veteran who was medically discharged and retired, or the surviving spouse of a member who died during military service, to stay such proceedings, upon request of a covered individual,
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HB-1842: Military Family Home Protection Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Janice Schakowsky
Subcommittee Consideration And Mark-up Session Held. on 07/18/2013
Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 [HB-1843]
Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 or the REPEAL HIV Discrimination Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of Congress that federal and state laws, policies, and regulations regarding people living with HIV/AIDS should: (1) not place unique or additional burdens on such individuals solely as a result of their HIV status; and (2) demonstrate a public health-oriented, evidence-based, medically accurate, and contemporary understanding of HIV transmission, health implications, treatment, and the impact
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HB-1843: Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act of 2013
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 06/20/2013
Email Privacy Act [HB-1852]
Email Privacy Act - Amends the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 to prohibit a provider of remote computing service or electronic communication service to the public from knowingly divulging to any governmental entity the contents of any communication that is in electronic storage or otherwise maintained by the provider. Revises provisions under which the government may require, pursuant to a warrant, the disclosure by such a provider of the contents of such communications. Eliminates the different requirements applicable under current
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HB-1852: Email Privacy Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations. on 06/14/2013
Biennial Budgeting and Enhanced Oversight Act of 2014 [HB-1869]
Biennial Budgeting and Enhanced Oversight Act of 2014 - Title I: Congressional Budget Process - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA), including the Congressional Impoundment Control Act of 1974, to revise the federal and congressional budget processes by establishing a two-year budgeting and appropriations cycle and timetable, beginning with the 115th Congress. (Defines the budget biennium as the two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year.) (Sec. 103) Devotes the first session of any Congress to the
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HB-1869: Biennial Budgeting and Enhanced Oversight Act of 2014
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Scalise
Committee On Rules Discharged. on 12/11/2014