BREATHE Act Bringing Reductions to Energy's Airborne Toxic Health Effects Act [HB-1548]
BREATHE Act Bringing Reductions to Energy's Airborne Toxic Health Effects Act This bill amends the Clean Air Act to repeal prohibitions against: (1) aggregating emissions from any oil or gas exploration or production well and emissions from any pipeline compressor or pump station with emissions from other similar units, whether or not the units are in a contiguous area or under common control, to determine whether the units or stations are major sources of listed toxic air pollutants under such Act; (2) aggregating such emissions for any purpose
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HB-1548: BREATHE Act Bringing Reductions to Energy's Airborne Toxic Health Effects Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Energy And Power. on 03/27/2015
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2015 [HB-1552]
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require an applicant for approval of a new animal drug that is a medically important antimicrobial to demonstrate that there is a reasonable certainty of no harm to human health from antimicrobial resistance attributable to the nontherapeutic use of the drug. Medically important antimicrobials are drugs intended for use in food-producing animals that contain: (1) specified antibiotics, or (2) certain drugs on the World Health
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HB-1552: Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2015
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 03/27/2015
Global Food Security Act of 2016 [HB-1567]
Global Food Security Act of 2016 This bill requires the President to develop and implement a Global Food Security Strategy to promote global food security, resilience, and nutrition. (Sec. 2) This section specifies that it is in the U.S. national security interest to promote global food security, resilience, and nutrition, consistent with national food security investment plans through programs and activities that: accelerate inclusive, agricultural-led economic growth that reduces global poverty, hunger, and malnutrition; increase the productivity,
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HB-1567: Global Food Security Act of 2016
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Foreign Relations. on 07/14/2016
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2015 [HB-1571]
Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2015 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to deem an individual receiving outpatient observation services in a hospital to be an inpatient with respect to satisfying the three-day inpatient hospital requirement in order to entitle the individual to Medicare coverage of any post-hospital extended care services in a skilled nursing facility.
HB-1571: Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2015
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/07/2015
Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 [HB-158]
Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act regarding the visa waiver program to require that an alien, when applying for program admission, possess a valid unexpired passport that: is machine-readable, tamper-resistant, incorporates document authentication identifiers, and otherwise satisfies the internationally accepted standard for machine readability; and beginning on April 1, 2016, is an electronic passport that is fraud-resistant, contains relevant
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HB-158: Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Quigley
Received In The Senate. on 12/09/2015
Forest Legacy Management Flexibility Act [HB-1582]
Forest Legacy Management Flexibility Act This bill amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to permit states to allow qualified (tax-exempt) organizations, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, to acquire, hold, and manage conservation easements using funds provided to the state under the Forest Legacy Program. The qualified organizations must be organized for specified conservation purposes.
HB-1582: Forest Legacy Management Flexibility Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Conservation And Forestry. on 04/08/2015
Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act [HB-1594]
Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act Repeals certain provisions which require the offset of amounts paid in dependency and indemnity compensation from Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities for the surviving spouses of former military personnel who are entitled to military retired pay or who would be entitled to retired pay except for being under 60 years of age. Prohibits requiring repayment of certain amounts previously paid to SBP recipients in the form of a retired pay refund. Repeals the optional authority of (and instead requires) the Secretary
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HB-1594: Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Russell
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 08/13/2015
Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2015 [HB-1600]
Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2015 Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish cost-sharing limits for health plans that cover prescription drugs and use a formulary or other tiered cost-sharing structure. Prohibits such a health plan from imposing higher cost-sharing requirements, including co-payment and co-insurance, for specialty drugs than for other prescription drugs in a non-preferred brand drug tier. Applies the non-preferred brand drug tier for which beneficiary cost-sharing is lowest, if a formulary used by the health plan
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HB-1600: Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2015
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 03/27/2015
Ruth Moore Act of 2015 [HB-1607]
Ruth Moore Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to report to Congress, by December 1, 2015 and each year thereafter through 2019, on claims submitted during the previous fiscal year for disability compensation based on a covered mental health condition alleged to have been incurred or aggravated by military sexual trauma (covered claims). Each report shall include: the number of covered claims submitted or considered; the number and percentage of such claims submitted by each sex, and the number of claims
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HB-1607: Ruth Moore Act of 2015
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 07/28/2015