bill_id,congress,bill_type,bill_number,title,policy_area,introduced_date,latest_action_date,latest_action_text,origin_chamber,sponsor_name,sponsor_state,sponsor_party,sponsor_bioguide_id,cosponsor_count,summary_text,update_date,url
113-hr-5889,113,hr,5889,Justifiable Homicide Accuracy in Reporting Act of 2014,Crime and Law Enforcement,2015-01-02,2015-01-02,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]",TX,D,J000032,0,Justifiable Homicide Accuracy in Reporting Act of 2014 - Requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to revise the Uniform Crime Reports and the National Incident-Based Reporting System to include information pertaining to law enforcement-involved justifiable homicides.,2023-01-11T13:29:18Z,
113-hr-5890,113,hr,5890,No Missing Planes Act,Transportation and Public Works,2015-01-02,2015-01-02,Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.,House,"Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]",TX,D,J000032,0,"No Missing Planes Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to study the feasibility of technology to: (1) improve communications between commercial aircraft and air traffic control towers when an aircraft leaves its flight plan or experiences dangerous conditions, (2) pinpoint the location of missing aircraft within 30 minutes by disseminating the information globally in less than hour to rescue and recovery agencies, and (3) accomplish specified related tasks.",2023-01-11T13:29:18Z,
113-hr-5891,113,hr,5891,Michelle Obama Nutritional Act,Agriculture and Food,2015-01-02,2015-01-02,Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.,House,"Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]",TX,R,S000937,0,"Michelle Obama Nutritional Act - Requires the nutrition and calorie standards for food purchased under the National School Lunch Program to be the same as the nutrition and calorie standards for food purchased under the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program).",2023-01-11T13:29:18Z,
113-hr-5892,113,hr,5892,Online Market Protection Act of 2014,Finance and Financial Sector,2015-01-02,2015-01-02,"Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.",House,"Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]",TX,R,S000937,0,"Online Market Protection Act of 2014 - Prohibits, for a five-year moratorium period beginning June 1, 2015, federal, state, and local governments from imposing statutory restrictions or regulations specifically identifying and governing the creation, use, exploitation, possession, or transfer of any algorithmic protocols governing the operation of any virtual, non-physical algorithm or computer source code-based medium for exchange (cryptocurrency).  Defines cryptocurrency as a popular term encompassing code-based protocols supporting an electronic, non-physical medium for the exchange of value. Prohibits all such governmental entities, during the moratorium period, from imposing further statutory restrictions or regulations affecting Smart Contract platforms such as cryptographic escrow services, multi-signature transactions, and oracles in order to allow for the growth and facilitation of these facets of cryptological technology. Requires federal and state agencies to consider cryptocurrencies "exempt commodities" akin to gold and silver, rather than "excluded commodities" such as national fiat currencies. Declares that the Bitcoin cryptological protocol is not strictly a currency, but rather a broad multifaceted protocol which allows for myriad novel applications.  Denies federal and state agencies jurisdiction over Cryptocurrency Economy Transactions or Bitcoin Economy Transactions. States it is the public policy of the United States that:   until the expiration of the five-year moratorium no new statutes, regulations, or advisory opinions be passed, implemented, enforced, or issued governing the creation, use, possession or taxation of cryptocurrencies, including governing protocols, data, codes, algorithms, or other calculations;  development and use of any medium of exchange which utilizes cryptographic proof of and for a transaction of cryptocurrency without the need for or reliance upon third-party intermediaries or verification will enhance the economic well-being of the American people and result in significant economic growth; production, possession or use of cryptocurrency, whether in trade, commerce, or personal non-commercial transfers, should not be disfavored or discouraged by either the federal tax code or other governmental statute or regulation; and the current guidance released by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in its Notice 2014-21 is advisory, subject to public comment, and not in final form pending the expiration of the comment period, and is less than optimal for the American people and economy.    Directs the IRS to issue or revise interim regulations consistent with U.S. public policy that:  virtual currencies should be treated as currency instead of property in order to foster an equitable tax treatment and prevent a tax treatment that would discourage the use of cryptocurrency; taxpayers accepting cryptocurrency in trade or commerce should be deemed to realize actual income only when cryptocurrency is monetized through conversion or exchange into dollars or any official government currency, and that fair market value should be calculated as net proceeds from the conversion; and mined or produced cryptocurrency should be taxed as income only when actual income is realized by a transfer and conversion of proceeds into dollars.",2023-01-11T13:29:18Z,
113-hr-5893,113,hr,5893,Ansel Adams Act,Government Operations and Politics,2015-01-02,2015-01-02,"Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.",House,"Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]",TX,R,S000937,0,"Ansel Adams Act - Declares that it is contrary to U.S. public policy to prohibit or restrict photography in public spaces, whether for private, news media, or commercial use. Requires a federal agency, should it seek to restrict photography of its installations or personnel, to obtain a court order that outlines the national security or other reasons for the restriction. Instructs that such court order shall allow restrictions of such photography when it may lead to the endangerment of public safety or national security.  Prohibits any federal government agency from requiring fees, permits, or insurance as a condition to take still or moving images on federal lands, National Parks and Forests, and public spaces, whether for private, media, or commercial use. Prohibits federal law enforcement officers or private contractors from seizing any photographic equipment or their contents or memory cards or film nor from ordering a photographer to erase the contents of a camera or memory card or film.",2023-01-11T13:29:18Z,
113-hres-784,113,hres,784,Designating December 20 of each year as a national day of remembrance for victims of anti-police violence.,Crime and Law Enforcement,2015-01-02,2015-01-02,Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.,House,"Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]",TX,R,S000937,0,Expresses support for the designation of a day of remembrance for victims of anti-police violence.,2023-01-11T13:29:17Z,
113-hr-5887,113,hr,5887,"To repeal the provisions of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, which amended the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish separate contribution limits for contributions made to national parties to support Presidential nominating conventions, national party headquarters buildings, and recounts.",Government Operations and Politics,2014-12-16,2014-12-16,Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.,House,"Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]",WA,D,K000381,0,"Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended by the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, to repeal certain limits on separate contributions by persons or multicandidate political committees to political committees of a national political party which are not the authorized political committees of any candidate. Specifies those contributions used to defray expenses for:  a presidential nominating convention; the construction, purchase, renovation, operation, and furnishing of party headquarters buildings; and the preparation for and the conduct of election recounts, contests, and other legal proceedings.",2023-01-11T13:25:08Z,
113-hr-5888,113,hr,5888,"To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 200 Westport Road in Kansas City, Missouri, as the ""Nutterville Post Office Building"".",Government Operations and Politics,2014-12-16,2014-12-16,Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.,House,"Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]",MO,D,C001061,0,"Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 200 Westport Road in Kansas City, Missouri, as the ""Nutterville Post Office Building.""",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-s-3018,113,s,3018,Partnership Auditing Fairness Act,Taxation,2014-12-16,2014-12-16,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]",MI,D,L000261,0,"Partnership Auditing Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise rules for audits of large for-profit partnerships (partnerships with more than 100 partners). Repeals existing audit rules under Chapter 1 and Chapter 63 of the Internal Revenue Code. Allows partnerships with 100 or fewer partners to elect not to be covered by this provisions of this Act.  Provides that items of partnership income, gain, loss, deductions, or credits shall be determined at the partnership level, instead of for each individual partner. Makes adjustments to partnership taxes applicable in the tax year in which such adjustments are finalized.  Sets forth new procedures for notifying a partnership of an audit or an adjustment of partnership taxes. Requires partnerships to participate in an audit through a designated partnership representative.  Allows partnerships to include audit adjustments on tax returns for the year in which such adjustments are finalized. Provides for the collection of additional taxes resulting from an audit and tax penalties from the partnership, instead of from individual partners.  Permits partnerships to request judicial review of audit adjustments by filing a petition with the Tax Court, a district court, or the Court of Claims. Grants such courts jurisdiction to determine all items of income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit of the partnership. Establishes a three-year limitation period for making adjustments to partnership tax returns.",2023-01-11T13:25:03Z,
113-s-3019,113,s,3019,War Powers Against Non-State Actors Act of 2014,International Affairs,2014-12-16,2014-12-16,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.,Senate,"Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]",MI,D,L000261,0,"War Powers Against Non-State Actors Act of 2014 - Amends the War Powers Resolution to declare that the authority to use U.S. Armed Forces against non-state actors would terminate 60 days after submission of a specified presidential report explaining that use, unless: (1) the President's actions are based on a law providing for the use of military force against a non-state actor; or (2) the President notifies Congress that continued use of military force is necessary because the non-state actor poses a continuing and imminent threat to the United States or U.S. persons, and Congress does not enact a joint resolution of disapproval under expedited procedures.",2023-01-11T13:25:03Z,
113-s-3020,113,s,3020,A bill to establish the composition known as America the Beautiful as the national anthem.,Government Operations and Politics,2014-12-16,2014-12-16,Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]",IA,D,H000206,0,"Designates the composition consisting of the words and music known as "America the Beautiful" as the national anthem. (Under current law, the composition known as the Star-Spangled Banner is recognized as the nation's national anthem.)",2023-01-11T13:25:03Z,
113-sjres-47,113,sjres,47,Authorization for the Use of Military Force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,International Affairs,2014-12-13,2014-12-13,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 653.,Senate,"Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]",NJ,D,M000639,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Authorization for the Use of Military Force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - Authorizes the President to use the U.S. Armed Forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or associated persons or forces. Declares that this resolution is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization pursuant to section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution.  States that the authority granted by this resolution does not authorize use of the U.S. Armed Forces for ground combat operations except as necessary:   for the protection or rescue of U.S. Armed Forces members or U.S. citizens from imminent danger posed by ISIL; or  to conduct missions not intended to result in ground combat operations by U.S. forces, such as intelligence collection and sharing, enabling kinetic strikes, operational planning, or other forms of advice and assistance to forces fighting ISIL in Iraq or Syria.  Terminates such military use authorization in three years.",2022-03-03T21:28:15Z,
113-hconres-125,113,hconres,125,Providing for the sine die adjournment of the second session of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress.,Congress,2014-12-12,2014-12-17,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,House,"Rep. Flores, Bill [R-TX-17]",TX,R,F000461,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Declares that when the House adjourns on: (1) any legislative day from Friday, December 12, 2014, through Wednesday, December 31, 2014, it stand adjourned until 1 p.m. on Friday, January 2, 2015; and (2) the legislative day of Friday, January 2, 2015, it stand adjourned sine die.  Declares that when the Senate recesses or adjourns on any day from Friday, December 12, 2014, through Friday, January 2, 2015, it stand adjourned sine die.",2023-01-11T13:25:17Z,
113-hjres-131,113,hjres,131,"Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015, and for other purposes.",Economics and Public Finance,2014-12-12,2014-12-13,Became Public Law No: 113-203.,House,"Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5]",KY,R,R000395,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 to extend the continuing FY2015 appropriations to federal agencies at the current annual rate until December 17, 2014, or enactment of specified appropriations legislation.",2023-03-22T18:49:13Z,
113-hres-782,113,hres,782,Honoring Steve Sauls on his retirement as Florida International University's Vice President of Governmental Relations.,Education,2014-12-12,2014-12-12,Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.,House,"Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24]",FL,D,W000808,0,"Honors Steve Sauls for his invaluable service to Florida International University, Florida, and the United States.",2023-01-11T13:25:07Z,
113-hres-783,113,hres,783,"Recognizing the 30th anniversary of Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.'s 1984 presidential campaign and honoring his heroism and extraordinary service to the United States and the international community.",Government Operations and Politics,2014-12-12,2014-12-12,Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.,House,"Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24]",FL,D,W000808,0,"Recognizes the 30th anniversary of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.'s 1984 presidential campaign. Recognizes and commends Rev. Jesse L. Jackson for his invaluable service to the nation, efforts to empower disenfranchised people, and to work to protect civil and human rights.",2023-01-11T13:25:07Z,
113-s-3009,113,s,3009,Advance Planning and Compassionate Care Act of 2014,Health,2014-12-12,2014-12-12,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]",CT,D,B001277,1,"Advance Planning and Compassionate Care Act of 2014 - Directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish and operate directly, or by grant, contract, or interagency agreement, a 24-hour toll free telephone hotline to provide consumer information regarding advance care planning, which is the process of determining an individual's wishes for care in the future when the individual is no longer able to express his or her wishes. Directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop an online clearinghouse to provide comprehensive information on advance care planning and pediatric advance care planning.  Directs HHS to develop an online advance care planning toolkit for availability on specified websites. Requires the CDC, directly or through grants, contracts, or interagency agreements, to develop a national campaign to inform the public of the importance of advance care planning and of the right of individuals to direct their health care decisions. Directs HHS and the Social Security Administration to update the online versions of the "Plan Ahead for Long-Term Care" section of the Medicare & You Handbook and the Social Security Handbook to include information about advance care planning and advance directives and provide this information in subsequently published paper and online versions. Amends the Legal Services Corporation Act to authorize financial and legal assistance for advance care planning. Directs HHS to award grants to states for certain state health insurance assistance programs to provide advance care planning services to Medicare beneficiaries, their personal representatives, and their families. Authorizes Medicaid transformation grants for advance care planning and advance care planning community training grants.  Directs HHS to make grants to establish new or expand existing state or local programs for orders regarding life sustaining treatment.  Directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, to establish a website for providers under Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the Indian Health Service, and other public health providers on each individual's right to make decisions concerning medical care, including the right to refuse treatment, and the existence of advance directives, which are legal documents that indicate an individual's wishes regarding medical treatment in the event of future incompetence (e.g., living will). Requires the Health Resources and Services Administration to develop a curriculum for continuing education that states may adopt for physicians and nurses on advance care planning and end-of-life care. Amends titles XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), and XXI (CHIP) of the Social Security Act with respect to inclusion of advance directives in patient medical records, discussion of advance directives with patients, the portability of advance directives, and actual knowledge of a patient's desires. Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to require the CDC to award competitive grants to establish and operate state advance directive registries to store and make available to medical providers advance directive documents.  Requires the CDC to award grants to states to establish a mechanism to include notice of an advance directive on driver's licenses. Requires various specified studies and reports to Congress by the Government Accountability Office and HHS.Amends the PHSA to direct HHS to establish within the National Health Service Corps a National Geriatric and Palliative Care Services Corps to provide geriatric and palliative care services in health professional shortage areas. Exempts palliative medicine fellowship training from Medicare graduate medical education caps. Directs HHS to establish guidelines for the imposition by medical schools of a minimum amount of end-of-life training as a requirement for obtaining a Doctor of Medicine degree in the field of allopathic or osteopathic medicine.  Authorizes coverage of advance care planning under Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP. Revises Medicare requirements for hospice payments and related matters. Allows Medicare to make payments for an individual's hospice care and treatments for their terminal illness if the individual is 18 years of age or younger. Makes hospice care a required Medicaid and CHIP benefit. Requires CMS, HHS, and the CDC to survey patient satisfaction with end-of-life care, hospice programs, and end-of-life care, respectively. Directs the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to designate an entity to develop requirements, standards, and procedures for accreditation of hospital-based palliative care programs. Amends the PHSA to establish, within the National Institutes of Health, a National Center on Palliative and End-of-Life Care. Directs HHS to establish a demonstration program for the use of telemedicine services in advance care planning.",2023-01-11T13:25:03Z,
113-s-3010,113,s,3010,Robocall Enforcement Improvements Act of 2014,"Science, Technology, Communications",2014-12-12,2014-12-12,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.",Senate,"Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]",MO,D,M001170,0,"Robocall Enforcement Improvements Act of 2014 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to impose forfeiture penalties without first sending a citation regarding the charged violation against persons not licensed by the FCC who violate prohibitions on the use of automated telephone equipment. (Currently, if existing exceptions do not apply, forfeiture penalties may not be imposed unless the person is sent a citation prior to a notice of apparent liability and that person subsequently engages in the same type of conduct described in the citation.) Expands the statute of limitations period and increases the maximum forfeiture penalty applicable to non-licensed automated telephone equipment violations. Expands prohibitions on the provision of inaccurate caller identification information to persons outside the United States if the recipient is within the United States. Directs providers of spoofing services to take such steps as the FCC may prescribe to verify that users do not engage in caller identification information violations. Defines "spoofing service" as a service that substitutes, or permits a user to substitute, another name or any number for display as the caller identification information for a call or text message.  Requires the FCC to impose recordkeeping and reporting obligations on spoofing service providers. Authorizes the FCC to subpoena caller identification information transmitted by a subscriber to or customer of the spoofing service. Expands the definition "caller identification information" to include text messages. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) telecommunications carriers have the legal authority to offer consumers services that block or filter robocalls, and (2) the federal government should encourage telecommunications carriers to develop and implement such services.",2023-01-11T13:25:03Z,
113-s-3011,113,s,3011,SCRUB Act of 2014,Government Operations and Politics,2014-12-12,2014-12-12,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]",UT,R,H000338,0,"Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act of 2014 or the SCRUB Act of 2014 - Establishes the Retrospective Regulatory Review Commission to review the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) to identify, using specified criteria, rules and sets of rules that collectively implement a regulatory program that should be repealed to lower the cost of regulation to the economy, giving priority to major rules that: (1) have been in effect more than 15 years, (2) impose paperwork burdens that could be reduced substantially without significantly diminishing regulatory effectiveness, (3) impose disproportionately high costs on small business entities, and (4) could be strengthened in their effectiveness while reducing regulatory costs. Requires the Commission to establish a public website to make regulatory information accessible to the public at no cost.  Requires a federal agency that makes a new rule to: (1) repeal rules identified by the Commission to offset the cost to the economy of such new rule (cut-go procedures), and (2) include in the final issuance of such rule a plan for reviewing the rule not later than 10 years after it is promulgated. Requires the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to review and certify the accuracy of agency determinations of the cost of new rules. Makes agency compliance with the requirements of this Act subject to judicial review.",2023-01-11T13:25:04Z,
113-s-3012,113,s,3012,North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2014,International Affairs,2014-12-12,2014-12-12,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.,Senate,"Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]",NJ,D,M000639,0,"North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2014 - Authorizes the President to investigate credible information of sanctionable activities involving North Korea and to designate and apply sanctions with respect to any person (including business entities, nongovernmental organizations, and governmental entities operating as business enterprises) the President determines knowingly:  contributes, through the export to or import from North Korea of any controlled goods, services, or technology, to the use, development, production, stockpiling, or acquisition of nuclear, radiological, chemical, or biological weapons, or any device or system designed to deliver such weapons; provided training, advice, or other services or assistance, or engaged in significant financial transactions, relating to the manufacture, maintenance, or use of any such weapon or system to be imported, exported, or reexported to, into, or from North Korea; imported, exported, or reexported luxury goods to or into North Korea;  engaged in money laundering, the counterfeiting of goods or currency, bulk cash smuggling, or narcotics trafficking that supports the government of North Korea or any of its senior officials;  engaging in or being responsbile censorship by North Korea;  committing or being responsbile for serious human rights abuses by North Korea; or attempted to engage in any of these activities.  Specifies addtional financial activities for which the President may designate a person. Directs the President to exercise all powers granted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in property and interests in property of a designated person if that property and those property interests are in the United States, come within the United States, or are or come within the possession or control of a U.S. person. Subjects such property to civil and criminal forfeiture. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) determine whether reasonable grounds exist for concluding that North Korea is a jurisdiction of primary money laundering concern, and if so (2) impose one or more of certain special measures.         Requires a validated license for exports to North Korea under the Export Administration Act of 1979. Prohibits approval of defense articles for North Korea. Directs the President to withhold assistance to the governments of countries providing lethal military equipment to North Korea.  Bars U.S. government contracts with designated persons. Directs the President to identify annually to the appropriate congressional committees any foreign ports and airports whose inspections of ships, aircraft, and conveyances originating in North Korea, carrying North Korean property, or operated by the government of North Korea are not sufficient effectively to prevent the facilitation of any of the activities sanctionable under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to require enhanced inspections of any cargo landed in the United States or entering the stream of interstate commerce that has been transported through any of such ports or airports. Authorizes the seizure or forfeiture of vessels or aircraft used to facilitate sanctionable activities. Authorizes the Secretary of State to deny a visa, and the DHS Secretary to deny entry into the Unite States, to any alien who is a designated person or a corporate officer or principal shareholder with a controlling interest in one. Exempts certain activities from sanctions and authorizes the President to waive them, for up to one year, for national security, law enforcement, or humanitarian reasons.  Amends the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 to require the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees: (1) a detailed plan for making unrestricted, unmonitored, and inexpensive electronic mass communications available to the people of North Korea; and (2) a description of the population, geographical coordinates, primary industries and products, and responsible persons and agencies in each political prison camp in North Korea. Requires the Secretary of State to brief the appropriate congressional committees on serious human rights abuses or serious censorship undertaken by the North Korean government in the most recent year. Prescribes circumstances in which sanctions or measures under this Act may be suspended for up to one year or terminated altogether. Establishes the North Korea Enforcement and Humanitarian Fund in which assets subject to criminal, civil, or administrative forfeiture or penalties are to be deposited for the enforcement of this Act and to carry out humanitarian activities under the North Korea Human Rights Act of 2004.",2023-01-11T13:25:03Z,
113-s-3013,113,s,3013,Ending Insider Trading in Commodities Act,Finance and Financial Sector,2014-12-12,2014-12-12,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.",Senate,"Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]",MI,D,L000261,1,"Ending Insider Trading in Commodities Act - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to make it unlawful for any large financial institution, either directly or indirectly, to purchase or sell any swap, any commodity in interstate commerce, or any contract for future delivery of any commodity while in possession of material, nonpublic information related to the storage, shipment, or use of the commodity arising from the institution's ownership or interest in a business or facility used to store, ship, or use the commodity.",2023-01-11T13:25:03Z,
113-s-3014,113,s,3014,Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Care Improvement Act of 2014,Armed Forces and National Security,2014-12-12,2014-12-12,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH]",NH,R,A000368,1,"Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Care Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 to alter the reporting requirements under the pilot program to assess the effectiveness of providing assistance to eligible veterans with traumatic brain injury to enhance their rehabilitation, quality of life, and community integration. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to submit reports to the congressional veterans committees on the pilot program for each quarter occurring between January 1, 2015, and September 30, 2017. Requires each quarterly report to include for the preceding quarter:   the number of individuals who participated in the pilot program, the number of individuals who successfully completed the program, the degree to which pilot program participants and their family members were satisfied with the program, and the interim findings and conclusions of the Secretary regarding the success of the program and recommendations for improving it. Requires the Secretary to include in the report the Secretary submits to the congressional veterans committees after the completion of the pilot program:    an evaluation of the pilot program in light of the VA's independent living programs, including an assessment of whether  the pilot program should be incorporated into such independent living programs; and   recommendations for improving the pilot program. Replaces references to ""assisted living"" with the term ""community-based brain injury residential rehabilitative care,"" including rehabilitation services within the meaning of such care. Requires this Act and its amendments to be carried out using funds already available for such purposes.",2023-01-11T13:25:03Z,
113-s-3015,113,s,3015,Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014,Immigration,2014-12-12,2014-12-12,Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Paul, Rand [R-KY]",KY,R,P000603,1,"Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act of 2014 - Prohibits the executive branch of the government from:   exempting or deferring from removal, by executive order, regulation, or any other means, categories of aliens considered under the immigration laws to be unlawfully present in the United States;  treating such aliens as if they were lawfully present or had a lawful immigration status; or treating them other than as unauthorized aliens.   States that such prohibition shall not apply:   to the extent prohibited by the Constitution;  upon the request of federal, state, or local law enforcement agencies for purposes of maintaining aliens in the United States to be tried for crimes or to be trial witnesses; or  for humanitarian purposes where the aliens are at imminent risk of serious bodily harm or death.   Declares that any executive branch action intending to circumvent the objectives of this Act shall be null and void and without legal effect. States that this Act shall take effect as if enacted on November 20, 2014, and shall apply to requests (whether the request is original or for reopening of a previously denied request) submitted on or after that date for: (1) work authorization; or (2) exemption from, or deferral of, removal.",2023-01-11T13:25:03Z,
113-s-3016,113,s,3016,Mineral Materials Contracts Termination Act,Public Lands and Natural Resources,2014-12-12,2014-12-12,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]",NM,D,H001046,0,"Mineral Materials Contracts Termination Act - Amends the Materials Act of 1947 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to terminate a mineral materials contract and to return to the contract holder any bid deposit and performance bond paid to the Bureau of Land Management if the contract holder submits a request to terminate the contract before production is initiated and before any surface disturbance has occurred. States that the contract holder's acceptance of the amount returned by the Secretary to terminate the contract constitutes: (1) full and final settlement of the contract, and (2) an agreement not to bring a civil action against the United States with respect to it.",2023-01-11T13:25:03Z,
113-s-3017,113,s,3017,Sage-Grouse Habitat Conservation and Restoration Act of 2014,Environmental Protection,2014-12-12,2014-12-12,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]",UT,R,H000338,0,"Sage-Grouse Habitat Conservation and Restoration Act of 2014 - Provides a categorical  exclusion under the National Environmental  Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) for a vegetation management project by the  Bureau of Land  Management (BLM) or the Forest Service involving removal or  treatment of  any Pinyon or Juniper tree to conserve or restore the  habitat of the greater sage-grouse. (Under NEPA a categorical exclusion is a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment and which have been found to have no such effect in procedures adopted by a federal agency in implementing environmental regulations and for which, therefore, neither an Environmental Assessment nor an Environmental Impact Statement is required.)",2023-01-11T13:25:03Z,
113-sres-600,113,sres,600,A resolution to limit certain uses of the filibuster in the Senate to improve the legislative process.,Congress,2014-12-12,2014-12-12,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6789-6790),Senate,"Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM]",NM,D,U000039,1,"Amends Rule XXII (Precedence of Motions) of the Standing Rules of the Senate to limit, with exceptions, consideration of a motion to proceed to the consideration of any debatable matter to not more than two hours, equally divided between, and controlled by, the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader or their designees. Considers cloture of debate to have been invoked upon affirmative vote on the question of closing debate by three-fifths of Senators (two-thirds of those present and voting on a measure or motion to amend the Senate rules). Makes it in order for the Majority Leader (or his or her designee), if the question on closing debate is decided in the affirmative by a majority of Senators voting but less than three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn (or less than two-thirds of the Senators voting, a quorum being present, in the case of a measure or motion to amend the Senate rules), to initiate a period of extended debate, to begin one hour later, upon the measure, motion, or other matter pending before the Senate, or the unfinished business, in relation to which the motion to close debate was offered. Provides procedures applicable during such extended debate concerning: (1) the consideration of the measure, motion, or other pending matter, or the unfinished business, as the unfinished business to the exclusion of all other business; (2) the raising of a question about the presence of a quorum; (3) motions to adjourn or recess during such debate; (4) the number of times a Senator may speak; (5) postponement of a vote by the Majority Leader; and (6) the effects upon cloture if at any time no Senator seeks recognition. Limits to two hours post-cloture debate on the question of advice and consent to a nomination other than one to a position as Justice of the Supreme Court. Amends Rule XXVIII (Conference Committees; Reports; Open Meetings) to make in order and limit to two hours consideration of a nondivisible motion to: (1) disagree to a House amendment or insist upon a Senate amendment, (2) request a committee of conference with the House or to agree to a House request for a committee of conference, and (3) authorize the Presiding Officer to appoint conferees. Amends Rule XXII (Precedence of Motions) to authorize either Leader, after debate has concluded but before final disposition of the pending matter, to offer up to three leadership amendments if they have been timely filed and are germane to the matter being amended. Limits debate on such an amendment to one hour equally divided. Prohibits a leadership amendment from being divided.",2023-01-11T13:29:18Z,
113-sres-601,113,sres,601,A resolution recognizing 35 years of cooperation in science and technology between the United States and the People's Republic of China.,Foreign Trade and International Finance,2014-12-12,2014-12-12,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6790),Senate,"Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]",NJ,D,M000639,3,"Recognizes the cooperation in science and technology between the governments of the United States and China since 1979.  Emphasizes the importance of open markets, intellectual property rights, and the free exchange of information to the development of science and technology.  Supports the principles of the Agreement Between the Government of the United States and the Government of the People's Republic of China on Cooperation in Science and Technology, done at Washington January 31, 1979, to which both countries remain committed.",2023-01-11T13:29:18Z,
113-hr-5848,113,hr,5848,Early Warning Reporting System Improvement Act of 2014,Transportation and Public Works,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.,House,"Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]",PA,D,C001090,1,"Early Warning Reporting System Improvement Act of 2014 - Revises early warning reporting requirements for manufacturers of motor vehicles regarding possible defects of motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment. Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to require a manufacturer in cases where the defect has caused a fatality to provide certain additional information as part of its report to the Secretary. Requires that information to be publicly disclosed and entered into the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) early warning reporting database. Directs the Secretary to: (1) take specified actions to improve public accessibility to information on NHTSA's public vehicle safety databases; and (2) give public notice via the internet of all inspections or investigations conducted by the Secretary to enforce a motor vehicle safety requirement or order, or that are related to a motor vehicle accident due to a possible defect.",2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5849,113,hr,5849,Paid Sick Leave Act,Labor and Employment,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,"Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, House Administration, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.",House,"Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]",FL,D,G000556,0,"Paid Sick Leave Act - Requires certain employers, who employ 15 or more employees for each working day during 20 or more workweeks a year, to permit each employee to earn at least 1 hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked. Allows employees to use such time to: (1) meet their own medical needs; (2) care for the medical needs of certain family members ; or (3) seek medical attention, assist a related person, take legal action, or engage in other specified activities relating to domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.",2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5850,113,hr,5850,You Earned It Act,Taxation,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]",FL,D,G000556,0,"You Earned It Act - Amends the Internet Revenue Code to repeal the inclusion in gross income of Social Security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits, and so exclude them.",2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5851,113,hr,5851,Honoring Our Veterans By Exercising The Right To Vote On Veterans Day Act,Government Operations and Politics,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.,House,"Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]",FL,D,G000556,0,Honoring Our Veterans By Exercising The Right To Vote On Veterans Day Act - Moves Veterans Day from November 11 to the Tuesday after the first Monday in November each year.,2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5852,113,hr,5852,Scrap the Cap Act,Taxation,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]",FL,D,G000556,0,"Scrap the Cap Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the cap ($117,000 in 2014) on income that is subject to employment and self-employment taxes used to fund social security benefits.",2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5853,113,hr,5853,"Seniors Have Eyes, Ears, and Teeth Act",Health,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,"Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.",House,"Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]",FL,D,G000556,0,"Seniors Have Eyes, Ears, and Teeth Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the exclusion from coverage (and so include) eyeglasses and eye exams for prescribing eye glasses, hearing aids and examinations therefor, and dental care.",2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5854,113,hr,5854,"To allow the importation, distribution, and sale of investigational drugs and devices intended for use by terminally ill patients who execute an informed consent document.",Health,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.,House,"Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]",FL,D,G000556,0,"Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to declare that nothing in it or in the Public Health Service Act shall prevent or restrict, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shall not implement or enforce any law to prevent or restrict, the importation, distribution, or sale of investigational drugs or devices for terminally ill patients.",2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5855,113,hr,5855,To require a report on procurement supply chain vulnerabilities within the Department of Defense.,Armed Forces and National Security,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.,House,"Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]",FL,D,G000556,0,"Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to report to Congress regarding how sole source suppliers of components to the DOD procurement supply chain create vulnerabilities to military attack, terrorism, natural disaster, industrial shock, financial crisis, or geopolitical crisis, such as an embargo of key raw materials or industrial inputs. Requires the report to include: (1) a list of the supply chain components for which there is a supplier that controls over 50% of the global market; (2) a list of parts of the supply chain where there is inadequate information to ascertain whether there is a single source supplier of components; and (3) the Secretary's recommendations on which single source suppliers create vulnerabilities and on how to reduce those vulnerabilities.",2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5856,113,hr,5856,No Armed Drones for DHS Act,Emergency Management,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.,House,"Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]",FL,D,G000556,0,"No Armed Drones for DHS Act - Prohibits the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from purchasing, operating, or maintaining armed unmanned aerial vehicles.",2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5857,113,hr,5857,Infrastructure and Global Tax Competitiveness Act of 2014,Taxation,2014-12-11,2014-12-12,Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.,House,"Rep. Delaney, John K. [D-MD-6]",MD,D,D000620,0,"Infrastructure and Global Tax Competitiveness Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the taxation of earnings and profits of a deferred foreign income corporation, to: (1) make such earnings and profit subject to taxation in the last taxable year prior to January 1, 2015, (2) reduce the rate of tax on such earnings and profits by allowing an exemption of 75%, and (3) allow such corporations to elect to pay such tax in eight installments.  Establishes the American Infrastructure Fund to provide assistance to states, local governments, and other public and private entities for investment in public infrastructure projects.  Appropriates tax revenues from this Act to the Highway Trust Fund.  Establishes the Highway Trust Fund Solvency Commission to propose recommendations and legislation for achieving long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund. Establishes an 18-month deadline for the enactment of legislation that reforms the international tax system by eliminating the incentive to hold earnings in low-tax jurisdictions. Sets forth provisions for the reform of the international tax system (to be effective if reform legislation is not enacted by the 18-month deadline established by this Act), including provisions relating to subpart F income and insurance income, gains and losses from the sale or exchange of stock in controlled foreign corporations, limitations on the foreign tax credit, and the tax treatment of previously deferred foreign income.",2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5858,113,hr,5858,Build TRUST Act of 2014,Crime and Law Enforcement,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]",TX,D,J000032,0,"Building Bridges and Transforming Resentment and Unfairness to Support and Trust for Municipal Law Enforcement Act of 2014 or the Build TRUST Act of 2014 - Reduces the amount that would otherwise be awarded to a unit of local government under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program: (1) by 75% for any such unit that, during the previous three fiscal years, funded an amount that on average was greater than 18% of its operating budget using revenue generated from collecting fines and other fees related to violations of traffic laws; and (2) by 95% for any such unit for which, during the previous fiscal year, the percentage of individuals who identify as a race who were employees of the law enforcement agency for that unit and the percentage of individuals who identify as that race who live in the jurisdiction such agency serves differ by greater than 30%. Reduces by 50% the amount that would otherwise be awarded under such Program to a state that did not reduce a subgrant award to a unit of local government in accordance with this Act in the preceding fiscal year. Requires the Attorney General to reallocate funds withheld from a state or unit of local government pursuant to this Act in accordance with the Program. Exempts any local governmental unit which certifies that it serves a population of less than 15,000 or to which the Attorney General has granted a waiver for good cause shown based on specified factors, including that: (1) such unit has taken affirmative action to ensure that adequate practices and procedures are in place to increase public trust and confidence in the impartial and equitable administration of justice, and (2) the minority community is equitably represented in the unit's legislative body and executive departments.",2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5859,113,hr,5859,Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014,International Affairs,2014-12-11,2014-12-18,Became Public Law No: 113-272.,House,"Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]",PA,R,G000549,1,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House passed version is repeated here.) Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014 - (Sec. 3) States that it is U.S. policy to assist the government of Ukraine in restoring its sovereignty and territorial integrity in order to deter the government of the Russian Federation from further destabilizing and invading Ukraine and other independent countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. (Sec. 4) Directs the President to impose three or more specified sanctions against:   Rosoboronexport;   an entity owned by the government of the Russian Federation or controlled by its nationals that transfers or brokers the transfer to, or knowingly manufactures or sells defense articles transferred to, Syria or into the territory of a specified country without its government's consent; or   a person (individual or entity) that knowingly sponsors or provides financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, such an entity.   Defines "specified country" as Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, or any other country of significant concern for purposes of this Act, such as Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and the Central Asia republics.   Authorizes the President to impose three or more specified sanctions against a person that knowingly makes a significant investment in a special Russian crude oil project.  Authorizes the President, through the Bureau of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce or the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury, to impose additional licensing requirements or other restrictions on the export of items for Russia's energy sector, including equipment used for tertiary oil recovery.  Directs the President to impose specified sanctions on Gazprom if it is withholding significant natural gas supplies from North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member countries, or further withholds significant natural gas supplies from countries such as Ukraine, Georgia, or Moldova.  Sets forth sanctions against a foreign person, including executive officers of an entity, relating to:   Export-Import Bank of the United States assistance,  executive agency procurement,  arms and dual-use item exports,  U.S. property transactions,  banking transactions,  investing in or purchasing equity or debt instruments, and  U.S. entry prohibition or visa revocation.    Excludes import sanctions from the authority to block and prohibit U.S. property transactions.   Sets forth the conditions under which the President shall not be required to apply or maintain the sanctions with respect to:    procurement of defense articles or services;  products, technology, or services provided under contracts entered into before the date on which the President publishes in the Federal Register the name of a sanctioned person;   spare or component parts essential to U.S. products or production, or to the servicing and maintenance of U.S. products;   information and technology essential to U.S. products or production; or   food, medicine, medical devices, or agricultural commodities.   Authorizes the President to waive the application of sanctions, or waive sanctions for a specific transaction, for purposes of U.S. national security, and with congressional notification.   Applies specified penalties under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to violations of this section.  Terminates sanctions under this section upon the President's certification to Congress that the Russian Federation has ceased directing, supporting, or financing significant acts intended to undermine the peace, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine, including through an agreement between the appropriate parties.  States that such termination date shall not apply to defense article transfers into Syria or related sanctions.  (Sec. 5) Authorizes the President to impose a prohibition on the opening, and a prohibition or the imposition of strict conditions on the maintaining, in the United States of a correspondent account or a payable-through account by a foreign financial institution that knowingly:   engages in significant transactions involving sanctioned persons; or   with respect to the Ukrainian crisis, facilitated a significant financial transaction on behalf of any Russian person included on the list of specially designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.    Authorizes the President to waive the application of sanctions against a foreign financial institution for purposes of U.S. national security, and with congressional notification.  Applies specified penalties under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to violations of this section.  Terminates sanctions under this section upon the President's certification to Congress that the Russian Federation has ceased directing, supporting, or financing significant acts intended to undermine the peace, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine, including through an agreement between the appropriate parties. (Sec. 6) Authorizes:   the President to provide Ukraine with defense articles, services, and training in order to counter offensive weapons and reestablish its sovereignty and territorial integrity; and  FY2015-FY2017 appropriations.  (Sec. 7) Directs the Secretary of State (Secretary) to submit a plan to Congress to meet the need for protection of and assistance for internally displaced persons in Ukraine.  Directs the President to use U.S. influence at United Nations (U.N.) voluntary agencies to support assistance for internally displaced persons in Ukraine.   Urges the Secretary and the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to assist Ukrainian defense sector entities reorient exports from Russian Federation customers to alternative markets in the Ukrainian defense sector that have already significantly reduced exports to and cooperation with Russian defense sector entities.  Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to work with Ukrainian officials to develop an emergency energy assistance plan to help Ukraine address the potentially severe heating fuel and electricity shortages facing Ukraine in 2014 and 2015.  Directs the Secretary to work with Ukrainian officials to increase energy security by helping Ukraine reduce its dependence on natural gas imported from the Russian Federation. Authorizes FY2016-FY2018 appropriations for such activities. Directs:   the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to prioritize support for investments to increase energy efficiency, develop domestic oil and natural gas reserves, and develop renewable energy sources in Ukraine; and  the President to use U.S. influence to encourage the World Bank Group, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and other international financial institutions to invest in and stimulate private investment in such projects.    Directs the Secretary and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to: (1) strengthen democratic civil society in Ukraine, (2) support independent media outlets, and (3) counter government corruption and improve accountability. Authorizes FY2016 appropriations for such activities. (Sec. 8) Directs the Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors to submit to Congress a plan for increasing and maintaining through FY2017 the quantity of Russian-language broadcasting into the countries of the former Soviet Union in order to counter Russian Federation propaganda.  Requires such plan to prioritize broadcasting into Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova by the Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.   Authorizes FY2016-FY2018 appropriations for the Broadcasting Board of Governors for such activities. (Sec. 9) Directs the Secretary to: (1) improve and strengthen democratic institutions and political and civil society organizations in the Russian Federation, and (2) expand uncensored Internet and independent media access.  Authorizes FY2016-FY2018 appropriations for such activities. (Sec. 10) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) hold the Russian Federation accountable for being in violation of its obligations under the The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty; and (2) demand that the Russian Federation verifiably eliminate the military systems that constitute such violation. (Sec. 11) States that nothing in this Act shall be construed as an authorization for the use of military force.",2023-03-22T18:49:21Z,
113-hr-5860,113,hr,5860,Small Business Healthcare Relief Act of 2014,Taxation,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]",LA,R,B001255,1,Small Business Healthcare Relief Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat employer payments for employee health care premiums and for amounts paid on behalf of an employee to a health reimbursement arrangement as medical expenses under an accident or health plan and thus excludible from gross income for income tax purposes.,2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5861,113,hr,5861,Guarding Our Great Lakes Act,Environmental Protection,2014-12-11,2014-12-22,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.,House,"Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]",MI,R,C000071,11,"Guarding Our Great Lakes Act - Requires the Chief of Engineers, the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and each other applicable federal agency to take actions to prevent the transfer of aquatic invasive species, with a focus on Asian carp species, through the Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Illinois River.  Directs the Chief to: (1) construct measures to prevent the upstream transfer of swimming aquatic invasive species through the Lock and Dam; and (2) submit a cost estimate for, and schedule for completion of, measures to be constructed. Requires the Director of the USFWS to implement all appropriate measures in compliance with applicable state and federal law around the Lock and Dam to prevent the upstream and downstream transfer of swimming and floating aquatic invasive species, with a focus on Asian carp species. Authorizes the Chief, the Director of the USFWS, and the Director of the USGS to acquire real estate to carry out this Act.  Directs the EPA Administrator, acting through the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force, to coordinate with the governor of Illinois, the city of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago to carry out engineering and construction of flood mitigation and water quality measures on the Chicago Area Waterway System related to permanent prevention of the transfer of aquatic nuisance species between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins. Permits the federal share of the cost of a project to be up to 100%.",2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5862,113,hr,5862,Improvements in Global MOMS Act,International Affairs,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.,House,"Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-24]",CA,D,C001036,0,"Improvements in Global Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes while Maximizing Successes Act or Improvements in Global MOMS Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish assistance to reduce newborn mortality and improve maternal health and the health of newborns in developing countries, including HIV/AIDS prevention programs.  Directs the President to implement a comprehensive strategy to reduce mortality and improve the health of mothers and newborns in developing countries that integrates U.S. government efforts on improving maternal and newborn health, including strategies with respect to HIV/AIDS, gender, child survival.",2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5863,113,hr,5863,Federal Protective Service Parity Act of 2014,Government Operations and Politics,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.,House,"Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]",IN,D,C001072,0,"Federal Protective Service Parity Act of 2014 - Includes Federal Protective Service (FPS) law enforcement officers within the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees Retirement System. Defines ""Federal Protective Service law enforcement officer"" as an FPS employee who holds a position within specified General Schedule job series and is authorized to carry firearms and empowered to make arrests related to the protection of buildings, grounds, and property owned by the federal government and persons on the property. Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to determine and fix the maximum age limit for an original appointment to a position as an FPS officer. Establishes a minimum annuity amount for individuals serving as FPS officers on the effective date of this Act.",2023-01-11T13:25:10Z,
113-hr-5864,113,hr,5864,FPS Improvement Act of 2014,Government Operations and Politics,2014-12-11,2014-12-12,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.",House,"Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]",IN,D,C001072,0,"FPS Improvement Act of 2014 - Assigns responsibility to the Federal Protective Service (FPS) for the protection of federal buildings, grounds, and property and persons on the property. Authorizes FPS to: (1) designate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees with enhanced law enforcement powers for duty in connection with the protection of federal property and persons on the property, (2) authorize protective service guards for the protection of federal buildings and grounds, and (3) assess security charges to owners or tenants of a federal facility protected by FPS that is not in compliance with federal security standards. Requires tenants at federal facilities to maintain a Facility Security Committee. Establishes the Interagency Security Committee to develop safety and security standards and best practices to mitigate the effects of natural and manmade hazards in federal facilities.  Requires reports on: (1) FPS personnel needs, (2) the feasibility of federalizing the protective service guard workforce, (3) a method for funding FPS, and (4) methods to detect or prevent explosives from entering federal facilities.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5865,113,hr,5865,CAM Act of 2014,Crime and Law Enforcement,2014-12-11,2014-12-18,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.",House,"Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]",MO,D,C001061,0,"Camera Authorization and Maintenance Act of 2014 or the CAM Act of 2014 - Prohibits a state or local government that does not require its law enforcement officers to use body-worn cameras from receiving any grant from the Attorney General in the following fiscal year, subject to a financial hardship waiver. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to states, local governments, and Indian tribes for the acquisition, operation, and maintenance of body-worn cameras for law enforcement officers. Sets forth requirements for the wearing and use of such body cameras and for recordings made. Requires funds to be awarded to each qualifying local government with fewer than 100,000 residents, with any remaining funds awarded to other qualifying applicants on a pro rata basis.  Establishes in the Department of Justice (DOJ) a task force to:  provide recommendations on community policing; develop proper body-worn camera training protocol; study the impact that citizen review boards could have on investigating cases of alleged police misconduct; and  conduct a survey, one year after implementation of the body camera requirement policy, to determine best practices and policy effectiveness.  Directs the Comptroller General to submit a report on the Department of Defense Excess Personal Property Program that includes information on which jurisdictions equipment is sent to, the value of equipment sent to each jurisdiction, the level of training provided, and how the equipment is used.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5866,113,hr,5866,National Statistics on Deadly Force Transparency Act of 2014,Crime and Law Enforcement,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]",TN,D,C001068,7,"National Statistics on Deadly Force Transparency Act of 2014 - Requires the Attorney General to issue regulations for the collection and compilation of data pertaining to the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers, which shall require:   the collection of data on all instances wherein deadly force was used;  the data to include information on the characteristics of the officer and the person who was the target of deadly force (excluding personally identifiable information), the alleged criminal activity of such person, when and where the deadly force occurred, the nature of the deadly force used, the law enforcement agency's explanation of why deadly force was used, any deadly force guidelines of the law enforcement agency in effect at the time, and any non-lethal efforts employed to apprehend or subdue the person before deadly force was used;  a standardized form be made available to law enforcement agencies for the submission of data collected to the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics; and  law enforcement agencies to maintain all data collected for not less than four years.  Requires the Bureau to provide the data to Congress and make it available to the public. Restricts the disclosure of the name or identifying information of a law enforcement officer, person who was the target of deadly force, or any other individual involved in any activity for which such data is collected. Directs the Attorney General to reduce by 10% the amount that would otherwise be awarded under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program to a state or local government that fails to comply with the requirements of this Act.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5867,113,hr,5867,To extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project involving the Gibson Dam.,Energy,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.,House,"Rep. Daines, Steve [R-MT-At Large]",MT,R,D000618,0,"Authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), upon the request of the licensee for the project numbered 12478-003 (Gibson Dam, Montana), to extend for six years the time period during which the licensee is required to commence construction. Commences such time period upon expiration of the previous extension issued by FERC before enactment of this Act.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5868,113,hr,5868,"To provide for a study by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies on the impact of diverting certain freight rail traffic to avoid urban areas, and for other purposes.",Transportation and Public Works,2014-12-11,2014-12-12,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.",House,"Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]",MN,D,E000288,0,"Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to make appropriate arrangements with the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council to study the cost and impact of rerouting freight rail traffic of hazardous material to avoid its transportation through urban areas.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5869,113,hr,5869,Lynnette's Law,Crime and Law Enforcement,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]",FL,D,G000556,0,Lynnette's Law - Amends the federal criminal code to make an interstate act to conceal (or attempt to conceal) a homicide a federal offense punishable by imprisonment for any term of years or for life.,2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5870,113,hr,5870,"To prohibit the negotiation of trade agreements that include waivers of the ""Buy American Act"".",Foreign Trade and International Finance,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]",FL,D,G000556,0,Prohibits the use of funds appropriated for FY2015 or any ensuing fiscal year for negotiating a trade agreement that includes a waiver of Buy American Act requirements.,2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5871,113,hr,5871,Dollar is a Dollar Act,Taxation,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]",FL,D,G000556,0,Dollar is a Dollar Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions allowing a lower income tax rate for capital gains income.,2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5872,113,hr,5872,American Solution for Simplifying the Estate Tax Act of 2014,Taxation,2014-12-11,2014-12-12,Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1807-1808),House,"Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1]",MD,R,H001052,0,"American Solution for Simplifying the Estate Tax Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue to: (1) allow taxpayers an election to make annual payments of 1% of their adjusted gross income for a minimum seven-year period in lieu of existing estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes, and (2) allow a step-up in basis for estate property of a taxpayer making an election under this Act. Sets forth requirements for the filing of an estate tax return for taxpayers who have made an election under this Act.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5873,113,hr,5873,Gas Tax Replacement Act of 2014,Taxation,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,"Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.",House,"Rep. Huffman, Jared [D-CA-2]",CA,D,H001068,0,"Gas Tax Replacement Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuels; (2) add a carbon dioxide equivalent rate to the tax on crude oil and petroleum products; and (3) impose an new excise tax on the carbon content of methanol, ethanol, and biodiesel produced in the United States and entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing.  Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to send to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and make public a report on the total life-cycle emissions of carbon dioxide for gasoline, diesel fuel, biofuel, and other regulated fuels.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5874,113,hr,5874,Counterfeit Drug Enforcement Act of 2014,Health,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.,House,"Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3]",NY,D,I000057,0,"Tim Fagan's Law or Counterfeit Drug Enforcement Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to establish a criminal fine and/or imprisonment for a person who: (1) knowingly causes a prescription drug to be adulterated, misbranded, or misrepresented as an approved prescription drug and sells or trades the drug; or (2) purchases or trades for a drug knowing or having reason to know that the drug was knowingly adulterated, misbranded, or misrepresented. Requires a manufacturer of a drug to notify the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) within 48 hours after first receiving or becoming aware of information that reasonably suggests that such a violation may have occurred.  Deems a drug to be misbranded if it is not manufactured using technologies that HHS determines are technically feasible and assist in preventing such violations. Authorizes additional appropriations for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspections, examinations, and investigations. Requires HHS to educate the public and health care professionals on counterfeit drugs. Directs HHS, upon a finding that a drug intended for human use may constitute a threat to the public health, to issue an order requiring the appropriate person (including the manufacturers, importers, distributors, or retailers of the drug) to cease distribution of the drug and to notify and instruct health professionals to cease administering, distributing, selling, or prescribing the drug. Requires HHS, after providing the person with an opportunity for an informal hearing, to amend the order to include a recall, if appropriate. Requires HHS and the Attorney General to establish a procedure through which the FDA is authorized to issue subpoenas.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5875,113,hr,5875,SAVE Act of 2014,Taxation,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,"Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.",House,"Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]",WI,D,K000188,1,"Small Businesses Add Value for Employees Act of 2014 or the SAVE Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to employer-established simple individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and pension plans, to:   repeal restrictions on rollovers from simple IRAs to qualified retirement plans;   allow employers to elect to terminate simple IRAs at any time during the year;   repeal the increased 25% penalty on premature distributions from simple IRAs within the first two plan years;  allow additional nonelective employer contributions to simple IRAs not exceeding 10% of compensation;   establish automatic deferral IRAs to permit the automatic enrollment of employees earning at least $5,000 in a preceding year;  establish secure deferral arrangements for automatically enrolling employees at 6% of pay with annual increases; allow small employers a new tax credit for the cost of adopting safe harbor requirements for secure deferral arrangements; allow a transfer of unused benefits in a flexible spending arrangement to a qualified retirement or eligible deferred compensation plan;   increase the tax credit for small employer pension plan startup costs; and   establish multiple small employer retirement plans that provide for automatic employee contributions.  Requires: (1) the Secretary of the Treasury to promulgate regulations regarding the timing of notices to participants in automatic contribution pension plans; (2) the Office of Financial Education of the Department of the Treasury to develop and implement an outreach plan to educate small businesses on the types and benefits of available retirement plans; (3) the Secretaries of the Treasury and Labor to develop recommendations for small businesses to improve retirement outcomes; and (4) the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to develop age-appropriate financial literacy curricula for elementary and secondary schools. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to: (1) exempt IRAs that permit payroll deductions from additional pension plan requirements, (2) require disclosures relating to lifetime income from pension plans and annuities, and (3) set forth safe harbor criteria for the selection of an annuity contract and an insurer.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5876,113,hr,5876,Responsible Skies Act of 2014,Transportation and Public Works,2014-12-11,2014-12-12,Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.,House,"Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-5]",NY,D,M001137,0,"Responsible Skies Act of 2014 - Amends the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 to require the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to prohibit the operator of an unmanned recreational aircraft (drone) from flying it:  above 400 feet and within 5 miles of the perimeter of a commercial airport, or where it may be seen from the airport's perimeter.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5877,113,hr,5877,American Pension Investments Modernization Act of 2014,Labor and Employment,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,"Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.",House,"Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-5]",NY,D,M001137,1,"American Pension Investments Modernization Act of 2014 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require the fiduciary of an employee benefit plan to establish policies for appointment of an investment manager or managers to manage any plan assets or business enterprise or enterprises for brokerage and investment banking services. Requires the fiduciary, under these policies, to consider:  the concentration level of the plan's exposure to firm-specific risks, including operational, compliance, and fraud risks; the inclusion, to the greatest extent feasible, of minority business enterprises for brokerage and investment banking services (including enterprises owned or controlled by specified percentages of African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, Subcontinent Asian Americans, Native Americans, women, or veterans); and the utilization of diverse asset managers, taking into consideration the investment opportunities they offer in sectors, strategies, geographies, and demographics not meaningfully available to the plans.  Defines "diverse asset manager" as a minority business enterprise that manages an investment portfolio of between $100 million and $25 billion. Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue related guidance and requires the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) to take this guidance into account. Directs the FRTIB to give current and former federal employees and Members of Congress in FERS the option to participate in actively managed funds within the employee's or Member's Thrift Savings Fund account (but no more than 20% of a current or former employee's or Member's funds). Prohibits the FRTIB from subjecting more than 20% of the total assets under management of the Thrift Savings Fund to active management.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5878,113,hr,5878,Shahbaz Bhatti International Religious Freedom Act of 2014,International Affairs,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,"Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.",House,"Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]",PA,R,P000373,1,"Shahbaz Bhatti International Religious Freedom Act of 2014 - Amends the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to include violations of religious freedom by non-state actors in the annual Department of State report to Congress on international religious freedom.  Requires the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold hearings on specified Department and U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reports concerning the status of religious freedom. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to require Foreign Service officers to receive training about the religious demography, status of religious freedom, and U.S. strategies for advancing religious freedom in their country of posting. Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) transmit to specified congressional committees certain lists of persons imprisoned, detained, or placed under house arrest; and (2) report to Congress on the best uses of foreign assistance to promote the goals of religious freedom and religious engagement. Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress after the date on which the President designates countries as a country of particular concern for religious freedom on the lack of the President's designation of Pakistan and and any other countries recommended for such designation by the Commission. Directs the President to take specified actions in response to violations of religious freedom by non-state actors. Authorizes certain funds for democracy programs to be used to implement innovative uses of the Internet and other electronic methods to support freedom of religion or belief abroad.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5879,113,hr,5879,Humane Enforcement and Legal Protections for Separated Children Act,Immigration,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40]",CA,D,R000486,0,"Humane Enforcement and Legal Protections for Separated Children Act or the HELP Separated Children Act - Sets forth apprehension procedures for immigration enforcement-related activities engaged in by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and cooperating entities, Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) require DHS detention facilities to implement procedures to ensure that child custody and family interests can be considered in any immigration detention action, (2) develop memoranda of understanding with child welfare agencies and community organizations that protect the best interests of children of detained individuals, and (3) provide DHS personnel with appropriate training.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5880,113,hr,5880,Eliminate So-Called Right-to-Work Legislation Nationwide Act of 2013,Labor and Employment,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.,House,"Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-30]",CA,D,S000344,28,Eliminate So-Called Right-to-Work Legislation Nationwide Act of 2013 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to repeal the disclaimer that nothing in the law shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment in any state or territory in which such execution or application is prohibited by state or territorial law. (Preempts contrary state or territorial law to allow the execution or application of agreements requiring union membership.),2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5881,113,hr,5881,Securing American Families Everywhere (SAFE Kids) Act,Families,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.,House,"Rep. Stivers, Steve [R-OH-15]",OH,R,S001187,1,"Securing American Families Everywhere (SAFE Kids) Act - Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to report to Congress on: (1) the extent of adoption disruption and dissolution in the United States and efforts by state and local governments and private child welfare agencies to prevent the disruption and dissolution; and (2) set forth legislative options to require such agencies to track and report on disrupted or dissolved adoptions, and to prepare prospective adoptive parents and support them after an adoption.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5882,113,hr,5882,Flat Tax Rate Act,Taxation,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]",TX,R,S000937,0,"Flat Tax Rate Act - Imposes a federal income tax rate of 15% on all income of all U.S. citizens, regardless of annual income or current economic standing. Allows exemptions for single and joint tax return filers and for each child of a taxpayer up to the age of 18.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5883,113,hr,5883,Fair Tax for Repatriation Act,Taxation,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]",TX,R,S000937,0,Fair Tax for Repatriation Act - Declares that the federal tax on U.S. corporations earning profits abroad shall be a flat 5%. Makes the Department of the Treasury responsible for administering and enforcing such tax.,2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5884,113,hr,5884,Don't Track Me Act,Taxation,2014-12-11,2014-12-12,Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.,House,"Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]",TX,R,S000937,0,"Don't Track Me Act - Declares that it is contrary to U.S. public policy to require the placement or use of any global positioning satellite (GPS), location, or distance tracking system to collect identities of vehicle owners by remote means. Prohibits the federal gasoline excise tax from being replaced or supplemented with any tax, fee, or fine based upon vehicle location or distance traveled that is determined by GPS, license plate reading cameras, or other methods of determining vehicle location, travel distance, or registration and identity data. Prohibits motor vehicles from being required to have certain devices that track or transmit location, distance, or driver identity information.  Bars public funds from being used to study, implement, or require the use of any method of tracking or reporting vehicle movement or location for the purpose of taxes, user fees, traffic fines, accident investigation, or communication with other vehicles or infrastructure. Prohibits vehicle-to-vehicle or vehicle-to-infrastructure communication systems for the purposes of recording or transmitting or storing for later retrieval location, registration, identity, or speed data. Allows such transmissions to be used only for momentary accident avoidance or anonymized traffic reporting. Bars federal agencies from requiring motor vehicles to have a "black box" accident data recorder that records vehicle data for longer than the last five minutes of vehicle operation. Prohibits such devices from: (1) recording audio, images, or video from inside the vehicle; or (2) broadcasting or transmitting any data except by a direct cable connection to a computer.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5885,113,hr,5885,Pribilof Islands Transition Act Amendments of 2014,Public Lands and Natural Resources,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.,House,"Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]",AK,R,Y000033,0,"Pribilof Islands Transition Act Amendments of 2014 - Amends the Fur Seal Act of 1966 to revise requirements for the disposal of federal property on the Pribilof Islands (a group of five islands off the coast of mainland Alaska named Saint Paul, Saint George, Walrus, Otter, and Sea Lion Rock), including by: (1) authorizing the Department of Commerce to transfer or exchange specified land on the Islands to the village corporations of Saint Paul and Saint George Islands, and (2) giving those village corporations the first priority right to acquire that land on their respective islands. Requires Commerce to publish promptly and submit to the Senate notice of certification that Alaska has confirmed that no further corrective action is required at sites and operable units covered by the Pribilof Islands Environmental Restoration Agreement between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Alaska.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hr-5886,113,hr,5886,African Elephant Conservation and Legal Ivory Possession Act of 2014,Animals,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.,House,"Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]",AK,R,Y000033,1,"African Elephant Conservation and Legal Ivory Possession Act of 2014 - Reauthorizes the African Elephant Conservation Act (AECA) through FY2019.  Authorizes ivory to be imported or exported under the AECA and the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) if: (1) the raw ivory or worked ivory is solely for a museum; (2) it was lawfully importable into the United States on February 24, 2014, regardless of when it was acquired; or (3) the worked ivory was previously lawfully possessed in the United States. Authorizes the Department of the Interior to station one U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service law enforcement officer in the primary U.S. diplomatic or consular post in each African country that has a significant population of African elephants to assist local wildlife rangers in protecting the elephants and facilitating the apprehension of individuals who illegally kill them or assist in killing them. Requires Interior to certify a finding that a county is a significant transit or destination point for illegal ivory trade and report the certification to the President for the purposes of the Pelly Amendment to the Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967. (The Pelly Amendment authorizes the President to embargo wildlife products when the Interior certifies that a country is engaging in trade or certain actions that diminish the effectiveness of an international agreement for the conservation of endangered or threatened species.) Authorizes under the AECA and ESA: (1) the possession, sale, delivery, receipt, shipment, or transportation of African elephant ivory that has been lawfully imported or crafted in the United States, and (2) the importation of a sport-hunted African elephant trophy if the country in which the elephant was taken has elephants that are listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the time the trophy is imported.",2023-01-11T13:25:09Z,
113-hres-779,113,hres,779,"To establish prospective standards effective January 20, 2017 defining impeachable ""high crimes and misdemeanors"" within the meaning of Article II, section 4 as applied to the President of the United States to provide fair warning and evenhandedness in the administration of the impeachment power of the House of Representatives.",Government Operations and Politics,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Bentivolio, Kerry L. [R-MI-11]",MI,R,B001280,0,"Declares that the following presidential actions shall constitute impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors," which will cause the House of Representatives to vote articles of impeachment to send to the Senate for trial:   initiating war without express congressional authorization;   killing American citizens in the United States or abroad who are not engaged in active hostilities against the United States without due process (unless the citizen was under indictment for a felony and the killing was necessary to prevent imminent serious physical danger to third parties);   failing to superintend subordinates guilty of chronic constitutional abuses;   expending money in violation of conditions imposed for the expenditure of appropriated funds;   intentionally lying to Congress to obtain an authorization for war;   failing to take care that the laws be faithfully executed through signing statements or systematic policies of non-enforcement;   substituting executive agreements for treaties;   intentionally lying under oath to a federal judge or grand jury;   misusing federal agencies to advance a partisan political agenda; and   refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena for documents or testimony issued for a legitimate legislative purpose.   Makes this Act effective January 20, 2017.",2023-01-11T13:25:07Z,
113-hres-780,113,hres,780,"Honoring the life, accomplishments, and legacy of Chokwe Lumumba.","Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues",2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.,House,"Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13]",MI,D,C000714,0,"Honors the life, accomplishments, and legacy of the dedicated political activist and community leader Chokwe Lumumba.",2023-01-11T13:25:07Z,
113-hres-781,113,hres,781,Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce of 1914.,International Affairs,2014-12-11,2014-12-12,Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1827),House,"Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]",NY,D,C001038,2,"Honors the 100th Anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce of 1914, and recognizes the Truce's symbol of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity.  Commemorates the Christmas Truce of 1914 and its legacy as a message of future peace and unity between all nations.",2023-01-11T13:25:07Z,
113-s-2998,113,s,2998,Expanding School Choice Act,Education,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.",Senate,"Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]",LA,R,V000127,0,Expanding School Choice Act - Amends part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to allocate school improvement grant funds among their local educational agencies (LEAs) on the basis of the number of children aged 5 through 17 whose family income lies below the federal poverty level and who are enrolled in the public and state-accredited private schools within each LEA's geographic jurisdiction.,2023-01-11T13:25:04Z,
113-s-2999,113,s,2999,Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2014,Crime and Law Enforcement,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]",RI,D,W000802,1,"Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to:   reauthorize such Act for FY2015-FY2019;   include as one of the purposes of such Act the support of a trauma-informed continuum of programs to address the needs of at-risk youth and youth who come into contact the the justice system;  require states to implement plans to ensure fairness and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the detention of juveniles;  enhance requirements for separating juveniles from sight or sound contact with adult lock-ups;  terminate, three years after the enactment of this Act, the authority of a court to issue an order detaining juveniles who have not been charged with adult criminal offenses (status offenders) in secure detention or correctional facilities ;  require the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to report annually on policies and procedures to eliminate dangerous practices and unreasonable use of restraints in the detention of juveniles;  expand requirements for state plans for juvenile justice and delinquency prevention to include community-based alternatives to the detention of juveniles in correctional facilities;  provide technical assistance to states and local governments for achieving compliance with the requirements of this Act; and  authorize the Administrator to make incentive grants to states and local governments to increase the use of evidence-based or promising prevention and intervention programs for juveniles who enter the criminal justice system and for the recruitment and training of professional personnel.  Amends the Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention Programs Act of 2002 to include mentoring programs in delinquency prevention grant programs. Requires the Comptroller General (GAO) to conduct: (1) a comprehensive evaluation of the performance of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; and (2) a comprehensive audit and evaluation of selected grant recipients, including a review of internal controls to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. Requires states, as a condition of receiving juvenile accountability block grants, to provide assurances of compliance with the core requirement of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 applicable to the detention and confinement of juveniles.",2023-01-11T13:25:04Z,
113-s-3000,113,s,3000,Hurricane Sand Dunes National Recreation Area Act of 2014,Public Lands and Natural Resources,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]",UT,R,H000338,0,"Hurricane Sand Dunes National Recreation Area Act of 2014 - Establishes the Hurricane Sand Dunes National Recreation Area in Utah to provide for the enhancement of recreational uses and the use of off-highway vehicles. Provides for the conveyance of federal lands in Washington County in an equal-value exchange for certain state lands identified on a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) map for the area dated November 14, 2014.",2023-01-11T13:25:04Z,
113-s-3001,113,s,3001,Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014,Government Operations and Politics,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]",MT,D,T000464,1,"Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act of 2014 - Entitles any federal employee who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rated at 30% or more, during the 12-month period beginning on the first day of employment, to up to 104 hours of leave, without loss or reduction in pay, for purposes of undergoing medical treatment for such disability for which sick leave could regularly be used. Requires the forfeiture of any such leave that is not used during such 12-month period. Requires such employee to submit to the head of the employing agency certification that such employee used such leave for purposes of being furnished treatment for such disability by a health care provider.",2023-01-11T13:25:04Z,
113-s-3002,113,s,3002,Guarding Our Great Lakes Act,Environmental Protection,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]",MI,D,S000770,3,"Guarding Our Great Lakes Act - Requires the Chief of Engineers, the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and each other applicable federal agency to take actions to prevent the transfer of aquatic invasive species, with a focus on Asian carp species, through the Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Illinois River.  Directs the Chief to: (1) construct measures to prevent the upstream transfer of swimming aquatic invasive species through the Lock and Dam; and (2) submit a cost estimate for, and schedule for completion of, measures to be constructed. Requires the Director of the USFWS to implement all appropriate measures in compliance with applicable state and federal law around the Lock and Dam to prevent the upstream and downstream transfer of swimming and floating aquatic invasive species, with a focus on Asian carp species. Authorizes the Chief, the Director of the USFWS, and the Director of the USGS to acquire real estate to carry out this Act.  Directs the EPA Administrator, acting through the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force, to coordinate with the governor of Illinois, the city of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago to carry out engineering and construction of flood mitigation and water quality measures on the Chicago Area Waterway System related to permanent prevention of the transfer of aquatic nuisance species between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins. Permits the federal share of the cost of a project to be up to 100%.",2023-01-11T13:25:04Z,
113-s-3003,113,s,3003,Protecting Social Security Disability Act of 2014,Social Welfare,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]",OK,R,C000560,0,"Protecting Social Security Disability Act of 2014 - Amends title II (Old, Age and Survivors Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSAct) to revise the Disability Insurance program to declare any individual who is entitled to both an old-age insurance benefit and a disability insurance benefit for a month to be entitled only to the old-age insurance benefit for that month, except those whose medical improvement is not expected. Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to establish a system for classifying any individual who is determined to be entitled to disability insurance benefits or to monthly OASDI benefits in a specified manner on the basis of the expectation of medical improvement.  Revises continuing disability review standards.  Time-limits disability benefits for certain individuals.  Prohibits age from being considered a vocational factor for any individual who has not attained the age 12 years below the retirement age.   Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require all W-2s to be submitted electronically, with a hardship exception for certain small businesses. Amends SSAct title II to: (1) eliminate the reconsideration review level for an initial adverse determination of an application for disability insurance benefits, and (2) require any such determination to be reviewed before an administrative law judge (ALJ). Modifies the deadline for the submission of medical evidence.  Directs the Commissioner to establish: (1) disability hearing attorney positions within the Office of Appellate Operations of the Social Security Administration (SSA), as well as (2) procedural rules for hearings. Requires attorneys to certify to the Commissioner that they have never been disbarred or suspended from any court or relinquished a license in the face of a misconduct investigation. Subjects ALJs to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges. Directs the Commissioner to ensure that all ALJs within the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review receive training on how to evaluate medical evidence appropriately. Requires the Commissioner to establish rules and regulations relating to the fees payable to representatives of individuals claiming entitlement to disability insurance benefits, in particular to prohibit SSA reimbursement of a representative for travel expenses. Requires the Inspector General to review the practices of a sample of the highest-earning claimant representatives to ensure compliance with SSA policies.  Directs the Division of Quality of the SSA Office of Appellate Operations to: (1) review a sample of determinations by outlier ALJs that individuals are entitled to disability insurance benefits, and (2) identify any determinations not supported by the evidence.  Requires any amounts made available by the SSA for Social Security program integrity spending to be included in a separate account within the federal budget and funded in a separate account in the appropriate annual appropriations bill. Requires the Commissioner to consult the National Directory of New Hires when determining whether an individual is making above the substantial gainful activity limits. Amends SSA title XI to eliminate the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program. Directs the Commissioner to: (1) establish a Work Incentive Benefit System under which an eligible individual entitled to a disability insurance benefit may elect to return to employment and receive an adjusted disability insurance benefit amount, and (2) conduct a demonstration project designed to examine the effectiveness of providing targeted early-intervention support to eligible individuals. Prohibits an eligible individual who elects to participate in such demonstration project from being eligible for disability assistance for as long as the individual receives assistance through the demonstration project. Directs the Commissioner to study whether reducing the rate at which an employer is taxed with respect to OASDI in exchange for the employer's offering its employees private disability insurance, and other disability supports, would be an effective means of reducing the rate at which such employees enter the disability insurance program.",2023-01-11T13:25:04Z,
113-s-3004,113,s,3004,Dormant Therapies Act of 2014,Health,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.",Senate,"Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]",UT,R,H000338,1,"Dormant Therapies Act of 2014 - Requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to designate medicines being, or intended to be, investigated to address unmet medical needs as dormant therapies. Gives a dormant therapy a 15-year protection period during which no drug can be approved by relying on the approval of the dormant therapy absent a right of reference from the holder of the approved application for the dormant therapy. Requires the sponsor of a potential dormant therapy to have a clinical plan to investigate the medicine and intend to file an application for approval or licensure of the medicine as a new drug or biological product. Prohibits the active moiety of the medicine from being the same as an active moiety in a drug or highly similar to one in a biological product for which an application has been submitted. Requires the sponsor of a potential dormant therapy to list their patents that apply to the medicine and waive rights to those patents at the end of the dormant therapy protection period if the medicine is approved. Allows a sponsor to withdraw a dormant therapy designation request unless the medicine has been approved or licensed. Entitles the sponsor of a dormant therapy to extend patents that apply to the medicine to the end of the protection period. Prohibits a dormant therapy from receiving specified protections that apply to pediatric, infectious disease, or rare disease or condition medicines. Directs HHS to require a sponsor to certify that the clinical plan for a dormant therapy has been completed and that approval was based on investigations in the clinical plan.",2023-01-11T13:25:04Z,
113-s-3005,113,s,3005,Progressive Consumption Tax Act of 2014,Taxation,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]",MD,D,C000141,0,"Progressive Consumption Tax Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a consumption tax of 10% of the taxable amount of domestic goods and services. Exempts from such tax certain goods and services exported or used outside the United States.  Lowers individual and corporate income tax rates. Repeals specified income tax credits and deductions, except for the deductions for mortgage interest, charitable contributions, state and local income taxes, gambling losses, alimony payments, and investment interest.  Provides for a family allowance of up to $100,000 for married individuals filing a joint tax return.  Allows a rebate for U.S. taxpayers consisting of an earned income amount and a child benefit amount.  Provides for a refund of excess consumption tax revenue (net consumption tax revenues that exceed 10% of gross domestic product in a calendar year) to individual taxpayers.",2023-01-11T13:25:04Z,
113-s-3006,113,s,3006,A bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to use existing authorities to furnish health care at non-Department of Veterans Affairs facilities to veterans who live more than 40 miles driving distance from the closest medical facility of the Department that furnishes the care sought by the veteran.,Armed Forces and National Security,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Moran, Jerry [R-KS]",KS,R,M000934,0,Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to use the Secretary's existing authority to furnish health care to veterans at non-VA facilities to provide health care at non-VA facilities to veterans who reside more than 40 miles driving distance from the closest VA medical facility providing the care they seek.,2023-01-11T13:25:04Z,
113-s-3007,113,s,3007,Ensuring Enhanced Access to Primary Care Act,Health,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]",MN,D,K000367,1,"Ensuring Enhanced Access to Primary Care Act - Extends through calendar 2016 the requirement that state plans under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act provide for payment of 100% of the payment rate for primary care services. Adds physicians with primary specialties in neurology, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology to the types of those eligible for reimbursement for providing such services.",2023-01-11T13:25:04Z,
113-s-3008,113,s,3008,Foreclosure Relief and Extension for Servicemembers Act of 2014,Armed Forces and National Security,2014-12-11,2014-12-18,Became Public Law No: 113-286.,Senate,"Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]",RI,D,W000802,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)  Foreclosure Relief and Extension for Servicemembers Act of 2014 - Amends the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 to extend through calendar year 2015 the one-year period after a service member's military service during which: (1) a court may stay proceedings to enforce an obligation on real or personal property owned by the service member before such military service; and (2) any sale, foreclosure, or seizure of such property shall be invalid without a court order or waiver agreement signed by the service member. Revives, effective January 1, 2016 (currently, January 1, 2015), the old nine-month period in place of the one-year period granted by such Act.",2023-03-22T18:49:24Z,
113-sres-599,113,sres,599,A resolution recognizing the 100-year anniversary of Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania.,Social Welfare,2014-12-11,2014-12-11,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6698; text as passed Senate: CR S6631)",Senate,"Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA]",PA,R,T000461,1,(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Recognizes the 100-year anniversary of Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania.,2022-03-03T21:27:53Z,
113-hconres-122,113,hconres,122,Providing for a correction in the enrollment of H.R. 83.,Congress,2014-12-10,2014-12-15,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,House,"Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5]",KY,R,R000395,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of H.R. 83 to amend the long title to read "Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and for other purposes."",2023-01-11T13:25:17Z,
113-hconres-123,113,hconres,123,Directing the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of the bill H.R. 3979.,Congress,2014-12-10,2014-12-12,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,House,"Rep. McKeon, Howard P. ""Buck"" [R-CA-25]",CA,R,M000508,0,(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make a correction in the enrollment of H.R. 3979 (Carl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015) to change specified categories of the United States Munitions list referred to in the definition of "personnel protection and personnel survivability equipment.",2023-01-11T13:25:17Z,
113-hconres-124,113,hconres,124,Providing for a correction in the enrollment of H.R. 5771.,Congress,2014-12-10,2014-12-17,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,House,"Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]",MI,R,C000071,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to amend the enrollment of H.R.5771 to cite Division B of such Act as the Stephen Beck, Jr., Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014 or the Stephen Beck, Jr., ABLE Act of 2014.",2023-01-11T13:25:17Z,
113-hjres-130,113,hjres,130,"Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015, and for other purposes.",Economics and Public Finance,2014-12-10,2014-12-12,Became Public Law No: 113-202.,House,"Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5]",KY,R,R000395,0,"(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 to extend the continuing FY2015 appropriations to federal agencies at the current annual rate until December 13, 2014, or enactment of specified appropriations legislation.",2023-03-22T18:49:13Z,
113-hr-1,113,hr,1,Tax Reform Act of 2014,Taxation,2014-12-10,2014-12-12,Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1800-1801),House,"Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]",MI,R,C000071,0,"Tax Reform Act of 2014 - Title I: Tax Reform for Individuals - Subtitle A: Individual Income Tax Rate Reform - Revises individual income tax rates to establish three tax brackets (10%, 25%, and 35%). Allows individual taxpayers a deduction from gross income for 40% of adjusted net capital gain.  Subtitle B: Simplification of Tax Benefits for Families - Establishes a single standard deduction of $22,000 for married couples filing jointly and $11,000 for single filers. Allows single filers with at least one qualifying child an additional deduction of $5,500, whether or not they itemize deductions. Requires a phaseout of the standard deduction amounts based on adjusted gross income.  Increases the amount of the child tax credit. Requires taxpayers who claim the refundable portion of the child tax credit to provide their social security numbers on their tax returns.  Modifies the earned income tax credit to provide for a refund of employment and self-employment taxes.  Repeals the deduction for personal exemptions after 2014.  Subtitle C: Simplification of Education Incentives - Replaces the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning tax credits and the tax deduction for tuition and qualified expenses with a new American Opportunity Tax Credit that allows a 100% tax credit for the first $2,000 of certain higher education expenses and a 25% tax credit for the next $2,000 of such expenses.  Expands the tax exclusion for Pell Grants to allow the use of excludible grant funds for any purpose. Repeals specified deductions and exclusions of expenses for educational purposes.  Subtitle D: Repeal of Certain Credits for Individuals - Repeals specified tax credits for individuals, including the tax credits for employment-related dependent care expenses, adoption expenses, nonbusiness and residential energy efficiency improvements, investment in qualified electric vehicles and alternative vehicles and refueling property, plug-in electric drive vehicles, health insurance costs, and the tax credit for first-time homebuyers.  Subtitle E: Deductions, Exclusions, and Certain Other Provisions - Revises the tax exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence to require a taxpayer to have used the residence as a principal residence for five of the previous eight years. Limits the use of such exclusion to once every five years.  Modifies the tax deduction for mortgage interest to allow such deduction for acquisition indebtedness up to $500,000 (currently, $1 million).  Revises rules for the tax deduction for charitable contributions.  Denies a tax deduction for expenses attributable to the trade or business of performing services as an employee. Repeals or modifies specified tax deductions, including deductions for personal casualty losses, gambling losses, tax preparation expenses, medical expenses, moving expenses, alimony, and contributions to medical savings accounts. Repeals the tax exclusion for employee achievement awards.  Subtitle F: Employment Tax Modifications - Revises rules for the deduction of self employment taxes in computing net earnings from self-employment.  Eliminates the exemption from employment taxes for certain foreign workers and students.  Makes supplemental unemployment benefit payments subject to employment tax.  Treats professional employer organizations (PEOs), certified by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as employers for employment tax purposes (thus allowing such PEOs to pay wages and collect and remit payroll taxes on behalf of an employer).  Subtitle G: Pensions and Retirement - Revises the tax treatment of individual and employer-provided retirement plans.  Eliminates income eligibility limits for contributing to a Roth individual retirement account (Roth IRA). Prohibits new contributions to traditional IRAs. Repeals the exemption from the 10% penalty for early withdrawals from an IRA for first-time homebuyers.  Prohibits employers from establishing new SIMPLE 401(k)s (Simplified Employee Pension plans) after 2014.  Subtitle H: Certain Provisions Related to Members of Indian Tribes - Excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, the value of an Indian general welfare benefit. Defines ""Indian general welfare benefit"" as any payment made or services provided to or on behalf of a member of an Indian tribe under an Indian tribal government program if: (1) such program is administered under specified guidelines and does not discriminate in favor of members of the governing body of the Indian tribe; and (2) the program benefits are available to any tribal member, are for the promotion of general welfare, are not lavish or extravagant, and are not compensation for services.  Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) establish a Tribal Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary on the taxation of Indians, and (2) establish and require training and education for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) field agents on federal Indian law and the implementation of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to waive any interest or tax penalties related to the exclusion from gross income of Indian general welfare benefits. Title II: Alternative Minimum Tax Repeal - Repeals the alternative minimum tax (AMT).  Title III: Business Tax Reform - Subtitle A: Tax Rates - Reduces the maximum income tax rate on corporations to 25% beginning in 2019. Subtitle B: Reform of Business-Related Exclusions and Deductions - Revises the treatment of contributions to the capital of a corporation to require such contributions to be included in gross income.  Repeals or modifies business-related tax deductions, including the amortization of pollution control facilities, the net operating loss deduction, amortization of research and experimental expenditures and certain advertising expenses, expensing elections for refineries and environmental remediation costs, the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities, entertainment expenses, percentage depletion, like-kind exchanges, and the exclusion of gain from the sale of small business stock. Revises the accelerated cost recovery system for the depreciation of business assets.  Subtitle C: Reform of Business Credits - Repeals tax credits for alcohol and biodiesel used as fuel. Modifies and makes permanent the tax credit for increasing research expenditures. Modifies or repeals specified business-related tax credits, including the low-income housing tax credit, the enhanced oil recovery credit, the Indian employment credit, the employer-provided child care credit, energy-related credits, the rehabilitation credit, and the work opportunity tax credit.  Subtitle D: Accounting Methods - Limits the use of the cash method of accounting to a natural person, a farming business, and other entities that meet the gross receipts test. Repeals specified accounting and inventory methods, including the last-in, first-out method of inventory (LIFO) and the lower of cost or market method of inventory. Subtitle E: Financial Instruments - Sets forth rules for the tax treatment of certain financial instruments, including derivatives, hedges, and debt instruments. Terminates tax preferences for private activity bonds and advance refunding bonds and the tax credit for interest on home mortgages.  Subtitle F: Insurance Reforms - Modifies rules for the tax treatment of insurance companies, including life insurance companies, property and casualty insurance companies, and certain health insurance organizations.  Subtitle G: Pass-Thru and Certain Other Entities - Modifies rules for the tax treatment of S corporations, partnerships, real estate investment trusts, and regulated investment companies.  Subtitle H: Taxation of Foreign Persons - Prohibits U.S. insurance companies from deducting reinsurance premiums paid to a related company that is not subject to U.S. taxation on such premiums, unless the related company elects to treat the premium income as effectively connected to a U.S. trade or business subject to U.S. taxation.  Makes income of foreign taxpayers that is derived from the operation of passenger cruise ships within U.S. territorial waters subject to U.S. tax.  Modifies rules for the deduction of interest payments by a U.S. corporation to a related entity. Prohibits a reduction under any treaty of the United States of tax withholding for a tax deductible payment made between persons who are members of the same foreign controlled group of entities unless there would be a similar reduction for payments made directly to the foreign parent corporation of such entities.  Subtitle I: Provisions Related to Compensation - Modifies tax rules relating to executive compensation, including a repeal of exceptions to the $1 million limitation for commissions and performance-based compensation. Imposes a 25% excise tax on the compensation in excess of $1 million paid to any of the five highest paid employees of tax-exempt organizations. Denies a tax deduction for transfers of stock under an incentive stock option plan or an employee stock purchase plan. Sets forth a safe harbor rule for the classification of an individual as an employee or an independent contractor for employment tax purposes. Subtitle J: Zones and Short-Term Regional Benefits - Repeals tax preferences for empowerment zones and enterprise communities, District of Columbia Zones, renewal communities, New York Liberty Zones, and Gulf Opportunity Zones. Title IV: Participation Exemption System for the Taxation of Foreign Income - Subtitle A: Establishment of Exemption System - Revises rules for the taxation of foreign source income to: (1) allow an exemption of 95% of dividends paid by a foreign corporation to a U.S. corporate shareholder that owns 10% or more of the foreign corporation; (2) allow a U.S. parent corporation to reduce the basis of its stock in a foreign subsidiary by the amount of any exempt dividends received by the parent from its foreign subsidiary; (3) allow a U.S. shareholder who owns at least 10% of a foreign subsidiary to include in income for the last tax year beginning before 2015 the pro rata share of historical earnings and profits of the foreign subsidiary to the extent such earnings and profits have not been previously subject to U.S. taxation; and (4) make permanent the look through tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting deferral of the tax on such income).  Subtitle B: Modifications Related to Foreign Tax Credit System - Modifies rules relating to the foreign tax credit. Subtitle C: Rules Related to Passive and Mobile Income - Modifies rules relating to subpart F income (i.e., income of a controlled foreign corporation).  Title V: Tax Exempt Entities - Subtitle A: Unrelated Business Income Tax - Revises the unrelated business income tax (UBIT) applicable to tax-exempt organizations by: (1) making all tax-exempt organizations, including government-sponsored entities, subject to UBIT; (2) requiring an exempt organization to calculate separately the net unrelated taxable income of each of its unrelated trades or businesses; (3) limiting the exemption from UBIT for research-related income fundamental research that is made available to the public: (4) increasing from $1,000 to $10,000 the deduction against gross income for UBIT; and (5) eliminating the exemption from UBIT for distressed property (i.e., property in foreclosure).  Subtitle B: Penalties - Increases penalties on tax-exempt organizations for failure to file required returns and other information.  Subtitle C: Excise Taxes - Expands the excise tax on excess-benefit transactions to labor, agricultural, and horticultural organizations and business leagues, chambers of commerce, real estate boards, and boards of trade.  Reduces from 2% to 1% the excise tax rate on the net investment income of tax-exempt private foundations and repeals the 1% reduction in such tax rate for private foundations that meet certain distribution requirements. Makes certain private colleges and universities subject to a 1% excise tax on net investment income.  Subtitle D: Requirements for Organizations Exempt From Tax - Repeals the tax exemption for professional sports leagues, for qualified property and casualty insurance companies and qualified health insurance issuers, and for type II and type III supporting organizations.  Allows a tax exemption for a workmen's compensation insurance organization only if it provides no insurance coverage other than workmen's compensation insurance required by state law.  Title VI: Tax Administration And Compliance - Subtitle A: IRS Investigation-Related Reforms - Requires organizations that intend to operate as a tax-exempt social welfare organization to notify the IRS of such intent not later than 60 days after such organization is established. Allows social welfare organizations to seek declaratory judgment relief in cases involving the initial or continuing qualification of their tax-exempt status. Expands the limitation on mandatory disclosures of information about donors to a social welfare organization to require information about a donor who is either an officer or director of the organization or is one of the five highest compensated employees of the organization for the current or any preceding taxable year.  Requires all tax-exempt organizations to file their annual tax returns electronically. Expands the obligation of the IRS to ensure that its employees are familiar, and act in accordance with, specified taxpayer rights.  Expands the grounds for mandatory termination of the employment of an IRS employee for performing, delaying, or failing to perform (or threatening to perform, delay, or fail to perform) any official action or audit for the purpose of extracting personal gain or benefit for political purposes.  Authorizes the disclosure to any person who provides information indicating a violation of internal revenue laws relating to unauthorized disclosure or inspection of tax information or to unlawful acts of revenue officers or agents: (1) whether an investigation based on such information has been initiated and is open or closed; (2) whether any such investigation substantiated a violation; and (3) whether any action has been taken against a violator, including a referral for prosecution. Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to study and report on the process used for determining how IRS enforcement cases are selected and processed. Prohibits any IRS officer or employee from using a personal email account to conduct official business. Prohibits the IRS from holding any conference until the the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration certifies to Congress that the IRS has implemented recommendations in a specified report of the Inspector General. Requires the IRS to apply standards and definitions in effect on January 1, 2010, to determine whether an organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare. Subtitle B: Taxpayer Protection and Service Reforms - Authorizes the IRS to use an identifying number in lieu of an employee's social security number on tax information forms.  Directs the IRS, in cooperation with the private sector technology industry, to maintain a program of free tax preparation and electronic filing services to low-income and elderly taxpayers.  Directs the IRS to make a simplified form 1040SR (similar to Form 1040EZ) available to taxpayers who have attained age 65.  Provides that any refund or credit in excess of $5 million due to a C corporation taxpayer may not be made until the Secretary of the Treasury submits a report to the Joint Committee on Taxation providing information on such refund or credit. Subtitle C: Tax Return Due Date Simplification - Requires the Secretary, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2014, to modify by regulation the due dates for extensions of tax returns for partnerships, trusts and estates, employee benefit plans, tax-exempt organizations, and certain trust funds. Sets a due date of April 15 for the annual information return of a foreign trust with a U.S. owner and for the report of foreign bank and financial accounts (with extensions until October 15). Extends the automatic extension for corporation income tax returns from three to six months.   Subtitle D: Compliance Reforms - Increases penalties for failure to file a tax return or to provide correct tax information and payee statements. Makes the six-year limitation period for assessing additional tax applicable to underpayments resulting from an incorrect adjusted basis that is more than 125% of the correct adjusted basis.  Directs the Secretary to enter into qualified tax collection contracts to collect outstanding inactive tax receivables. Extends the 100% continuous levy to payments due to Medicare providers and suppliers with delinquent tax debts.  Requires that all refundable credit amounts be taken into account in computing the tax penalty for underpayment of tax.  Title VII: Excise Taxes - Repeals the medical device excise tax.  Extends the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund Financing Rate of 9 cents per barrel for 2018 through 2023. Expands the definition of ""crude oil,"" for purposes of the excise tax on petroleum, to include any bitumen or bituminous mixture, any oil derived from a bitumen or bituminous mixture (including oil derived from tar sands), and any oil derived from kerogen-bearing sources (including oil derived from oil shale).  Increases the Inland Waterways Trust Fund financing rate to 26 cents per gallon for fuel used after 2014.  Imposes a quarterly excise tax on each systemically important financial institution equal to .035 % of the institution's total consolidated assets in excess of $500 billion (indexed after 2015 for increases in the gross domestic product). Expands the exemption from the annual fee on branded prescription drug sales to include sales of any drug or biological product that is approved or licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) solely for one or more rare diseases or conditions (diseases or conditions affecting less than 200,000 persons).  Title VIII: Deadwood And Technical Provisions - Subtitle A: Repeal of Deadwood - Eliminates provisions in the Internal Revenue Code that are not used in computing current tax liabilities (referred to as deadwood provisions).  Subtitle B: Conforming Amendments Related to Multiple Sections - Sets forth conforming amendments.",2023-01-11T13:25:17Z,
113-hr-5825,113,hr,5825,No Healthcare Subsidies for Foreign Diplomats Act of 2014,Taxation,2014-12-10,2014-12-10,"Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.",House,"Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-39]",CA,R,R000487,1,"No Healthcare Subsidies for Foreign Diplomats Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a tax credit for the cost of health insurance premiums and health insurance cost-sharing reductions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to foreign diplomats. Requires the Secretary of State to notify all foreign missions in the United States, permanent missions to the United Nations, and the United Nations Secretariat that health insurance premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions are not available for their foreign personnel with nonimmigrant status under the Immigration and Nationality Act.",2023-01-11T13:25:12Z,
113-hr-5826,113,hr,5826,Water Quality Investment Act of 2014,Environmental Protection,2014-12-10,2014-12-11,Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.,House,"Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9]",NJ,D,P000096,0,"Water Quality Investment Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to reauthorize the sewer overflow control grants program through FY2019. Requires a project that receives a grant to be carried out under the same requirements as a project that receives assistance from a state water pollution control revolving fund, unless the state determines the requirements are inconsistent with treating sewer overflow.",2023-01-11T13:25:12Z,
113-hr-5827,113,hr,5827,Christmas Tree Tax Exclusion Act,Agriculture and Food,2014-12-10,2014-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.,House,"Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]",TX,R,M001157,2,"Christmas Tree Tax Exclusion Act - Excludes "choose and cut" Christmas tree producers from the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Christmas Tree Promotion, Research, and Information Order, which was authorized by the Commodity Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1996 and includes an assessment on Christmas tree producers to fund a promotion, research, and information program for fresh cut Christmas trees.",2023-01-11T13:25:12Z,
113-hr-5828,113,hr,5828,USA Retirement Funds Act,Labor and Employment,2014-12-10,2014-12-10,"Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.",House,"Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]",PA,D,C001090,1,"USA Retirement Funds Act - Requires each employer (except certain small employers, governments, and churches) that does not maintain a qualifying plan or arrangement meeting specified criteria for any part of a calendar year to make available to each qualifying employee for the calendar year an automatic USA Retirement Fund arrangement. Defines an "automatic USA Retirement Fund arrangement" as one that covers each qualifying employee of the covered employer for the calendar year and under which a qualifying employee: (1) may elect to contribute to an automatic USA Retirement Fund through payroll deductions or other periodic direct deposits (including electronic payments), or to have such payments made to the employee directly in cash; (2) is treated as having made such an election in a certain amount unless the individual specifically elects not to have such contributions made or to have them made at a different percentage or in a different amount; and (3) may elect annually to modify the selection of the USA Retirement Fund to which contributions are made for such year. Requires an employer to make all contributions on behalf of employees to the USA Retirement Fund the employee has specified, or to the one designated by the employer if the employee has not selected one. Specifies requirements for the establishment of each USA Retirement Fund and its board of trustees. Limits an employer's contribution to a Fund on behalf of each employee to $5,000. Prohibits an employee from contributing more than $15,000 per year to a Fund. Requires a Fund to pay benefits in the form of an annuity meeting certain criteria. Exempts a Fund from income taxation. Imposes, however, a tax on Fund income as unrelated business income of a charitable organization. Allows a qualifying employee to take a deduction for the taxable year equal to the amount of contributions made to a Fund. Directs the Secretary of Labor (Secretary, unless otherwise provided) to recognize an independent, private Commission for USA Retirement Funds Funding to make recommendations on the funding of Funds. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to declare that an employer shall not be a fiduciary with respect to the selection, management, or administration of a USA Retirement Fund solely because it makes the Fund available through an automatic USA Retirement Fund arrangement. Affirms a participating employer's responsibility, however, for meeting enrollment requirements and transmitting contributions. Prescribes civil monetary penalties and enforcement measures for employer failure to remit timely contributions to Automatic USA Retirement Fund arrangements, and criminal penalties for false statements. Amends ERISA to treat a pooled employer plan, under which a single individual account plan provides benefits to the employees of two or more employers, as a single employee pension benefit plan or single pension plan without regard to whether the participating employers share a common interest other than participation in the plan. Declares that a small employer that is a plan sponsor of an employee pension benefit plan shall not be liable for a breach of fiduciary responsibility of a small employer plan service provider with respect to the same plan if the small employer prudently selects and monitors the small employer plan named fiduciary. Declares the sense of Congress that a person may be providing investment advice meeting specified requirements when advising a plan participant to take a permissible plan distribution, and such advice is combined with a recommendation as to how the distribution should be invested. Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to study the extent to which advisors, broker-dealers, and other financial professionals dealing with individual and employer-provided retirement plans are aware of, and receive ongoing training regarding, specified fiduciary requirements. Amends ERISA to require statements reporting a participant's benefit rights to illustrate the participant's benefit as an estimated lifetime income stream beginning at retirement. Prescribes safe harbor criteria for a fiduciary to satisfy requirements for the selection of an insurer and lifetime retirement income contract. Declares that the availability of annuity purchase rights, death benefit guarantees, investment guarantees, or other features in insurance contracts will not, in and of themselves, affect the status of a fund, product, or portfolio as a default investment. Limits the liability of a named fiduciary or any appointing fiduciary for any act or omission of the annuity administrator of an individual account plan. Amends ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code to prescribe requirements for treatment of a fixed annual crediting rate of 3% (or lower but not zero) for an applicable defined benefit plan (hybrid plan) as a reasonable minimum guaranteed rate of return. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe by regulation that a rate of return available in the market, and based exclusively or primarily on the returns on employer securities, on alternative investments generally not appropriate as an exclusive or primary investment for retirement, or on other similar investments, is not permitted if it: (1) is designed to evade the requirement that any interest credit (or an equivalent amount) for any plan year under the terms of an applicable defined benefit plan be at a rate not greater than a market rate of return, and (2) is not consistent with the purposes of a defined benefit plan. Prescribes requirements to protect plan participants from retroactive benefit decreases and plan freezes. Formulates a special rule for determining normal retirement age for certain existing defined benefit plans. Prohibits the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) from bringing any new action against a plan sponsor to enforce before January 30, 2016, the (shutdown) liability of an employer that ceases operations at a facility and as a result more than 20% of the total number of its employees participating under a plan established and maintained by the employer are separated from employment. Directs GAO to study the effectiveness, fairness, and utility of such shutdown liability requirements. Revises requirements for determination of the alternative funding target attainment percentage with respect to the prohibition against a single-employer plan's providing an unpredictable contingent event benefit if the adjusted funding target attainment percentage for a plan year is less than 60%, or would be less than 60% taking into account that specified occurrence. Requires the alternative funding target attainment percentage to be determined without regard to reductions by the amount of the prefunding balance and the funding standard carryover balance otherwise deemed for the value of plan assets in certain circumstances. Revises or prescribes requirements for: (1) the method for determining changes for quarterly contributions, (2) a plan sponsor election to discount contributions from a final due date, (3) the timeliness of plan sponsor elections and notices, (4) multiemployer plan disclosures and reporting, (5) the payment of lump sum distributions in bankruptcy, (6) PBGC authority to institute proceedings to terminate a plan, and (7) appointment of the PBGC to administer a plan. Directs the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the PBGC jointly to establish an electronic database containing each: (1) defined benefit plan funding notice submitted to the PBGC by a multiemployer plan, (2) report submitted by a multiemployer plan with respect to whether it is in endangered and critical status or making scheduled progress in meeting the requirements of a funding improvement or rehabilitation plan, and (3) notice submitted to the Secretary of Labor and the PBGC by a multiemployer plan on whether it is or will be in endangered or critical status for a plan year. Makes technical modifications to the formula for determining the liability of any person who is, on the date a single-employer plan is terminated in a distress termination or one otherwise instituted by the PBGC, a contributing sponsor of the plan, or a member of such a contributing sponsor's controlled group. Authorizes the PBGC to apply to the appropriate U.S. district court for a decree enforcing a determination that a plan be terminated. Authorizes the PBGC to issue regulations to require plan sponsors or plan administrators to maintain records necessary to enable them to determine benefits as of a plan termination date. Repeals the requirement that the terminating date of a pension plan for PBGC purposes be the date the plan sponsor files for bankruptcy. Authorizes the Secretary, if an accountant or accounting firm has engaged in any act or practice, or failed to act, in violation of requirements for the preparation and issuance of audit reports, or of professional standards, to issue an order to bar an accountant or accounting firm (or one of its divisions or components), on a temporary or permanent basis, from directly or indirectly engaging in specified activities relating to performing or supervising plan audits. Requires a plan administrator to account separately for 50% of a participant's benefits during a specified segregation period if an action concerning such benefits is pending pursuant to a state domestic relations law. Makes it unlawful for any person to discharge, fine, suspend, expel, or discriminate against any person because he has filed or made any oral or written complaint (including to a fiduciary, an employer, or the Secretary) in any inquiry or proceeding relating to ERISA or the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act.",2023-01-11T13:25:12Z,
113-hr-5829,113,hr,5829,To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exception for certain public-private research arrangements from the business use test for purposes of determining private activity bonds.,Taxation,2014-12-10,2014-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]",IL,D,L000563,0,"Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax exemption for private activity bond interest if the proceeds from such a bond are to be used for basic research (i.e., any original investigation for the advancement of scientific knowledge not having a specific commercial objective) at a government unit, a tax-exempt charitable organization, or a private organization that has a bona-fide contractual arrangement with a government unit or tax-exempt organization.",2023-01-11T13:25:12Z,
113-hr-5830,113,hr,5830,Grand Jury Reform Act of 2014,Crime and Law Enforcement,2014-12-10,2014-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Johnson, Henry C. ""Hank,"" Jr. [D-GA-4]",GA,D,J000288,13,"Grand Jury Reform Act of 2014 - Requires a state to comply with the requirements of this Act in order for it, or a local governmental unit thereof, to be eligible to receive funding under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program. Directs the governor of a state to: (1) appoint a special prosecutor to present evidence on the state's behalf at a hearing before a judge to determine whether probable cause exists to bring criminal charges against a law enforcement officer who uses deadly force against a person and thereby causes his or her death; and (2) use a random process to select the special prosecutor from among the prosecutors in the state, excluding the prosecutors of the locality in which the death took place. Requires: (1) the judge to issue the determination in writing and submit it to the chief prosecutor of the locality in which the death took place; (2) the special prosecutor, upon conclusion of the hearing, to submit written recommendations to such chief prosecutor, including regarding whether criminal charges should be brought against the officer; and (3) the court to remain open to the public in such hearing, except as determined appropriate by the presiding judge.",2023-01-11T13:25:12Z,
113-hr-5831,113,hr,5831,Police Accountability Act of 2014,Crime and Law Enforcement,2014-12-10,2014-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Johnson, Henry C. ""Hank,"" Jr. [D-GA-4]",GA,D,J000288,3,"Police Accountability Act of 2014 - Amends the federal criminal code to require a state or local law enforcement officer in a public agency which receives federal justice assistance, who engages in conduct that would constitute a federal crime of violence if it were to occur in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, to be punished as provided for that offense under federal law.",2023-01-11T13:25:11Z,
113-hr-5832,113,hr,5832,PROPER Act,Armed Forces and National Security,2014-12-10,2014-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.,House,"Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-5]",PA,R,T000467,15,"Proudly Restoring Officers of Prior Enlistment Retirement Act or the PROPER Act - Reduces to four the number of years that previously enlisted commissioned officers who have performed a certain minimum number of years of military service to become eligible for retirement must have actively served in the rank of commissioned officer in order to retire in the officer rank instead of in their previous enlisted rank. (Currently, a requirement for 10 years of active service as a commissioned officer has been reduced temporarily to 8 years.) Makes the reduction to four years applicable during the period from January 1, 2014, to September 30, 2016.",2023-01-11T13:25:12Z,
113-hr-5833,113,hr,5833,Taxpayer Protections Against Abusive Seizures Act,Finance and Financial Sector,2014-12-10,2014-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]",MI,R,C000071,1,"Taxpayer Protections Against Abusive Seizures Act - Requires notice of a right to request a court hearing to each person whose property is seized or restrained because of an alleged violation of the prohibition against structuring transactions to evade reporting requirements.  Requires the seized or restrained property to be returned, if the person requests a court hearing within 14 days after receiving such notice, unless within 14 days of that request the court holds an adversarial hearing and finds probable cause to believe that such a violation exists.",2023-01-11T13:25:11Z,
113-hr-5834,113,hr,5834,Closing the Digital Divide for Students Act of 2014,"Science, Technology, Communications",2014-12-10,2014-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11]",IL,D,F000454,1,"Closing the Digital Divide for Students Act of 2014 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to require high-speed Internet service costs to be included in public housing utility allowances for households with children who qualify for free and reduced price school lunches.  Prohibits a dwelling unit's Internet cost allowance from: (1) exceeding the lowest cost available in the area, and (2) including costs for cable or satellite television or for joint packages for Internet service together with cable or satellite television.  Conditions Internet cost allowances on the service including technology to block visual depictions that are obscene or harmful to minors.",2023-01-11T13:25:11Z,
113-hr-5835,113,hr,5835,Comprehensive TB Elimination Act of 2014,Health,2014-12-10,2014-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.,House,"Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]",TX,D,G000410,0,"Comprehensive TB Elimination Act of 2014 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Drug Shortages Strategic Plan to include plans to ensure coordination between the Drug Shortages Task Force and the Federal Tuberculosis Task Force. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services, when awarding grants for the prevention, control, and elimination of tuberculosis, to give priority to state health departments proposing to focus on high-risk populations, including foreign-born, homeless, and uninsured populations. Authorizes the Health Resources and Services Administration to award grants to state and local governments and federally qualified health centers to coordinate their programs and services to ensure timely and appropriate prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis. Requires the Federal Tuberculosis Task Force to advise federal officials on strategies and systems to prevent and mitigate shortages of tuberculosis drugs. Reauthorizes the national strategy for combating and eliminating tuberculosis through FY2019. Allows the National Institutes of Health to enhance research on pediatric tuberculosis and tuberculosis infection and progression.",2023-01-11T13:25:11Z,
113-hr-5836,113,hr,5836,Rare Cats and Canids Act of 2014,Animals,2014-12-10,2014-12-22,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.",House,"Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3]",AZ,D,G000551,1,"Rare Cats and Canids Act of 2014 This bill establishes a Rare Cats and Canids Conservation Fund as a separate account within the Multinational Species Conservation Fund. The Department of the Interior must use amounts in the fund to provide assistance for the conservation of rare felids and rare canids. Grant amounts may not be used for captive breeding unless it is a part of an accredited reintroduction or restoration program. Rare felids or rare canids are any population in the family Felidae (cats) or Canidae (dogs), respectively, that are listed in the Red List of Threatened Species Maintained by the World Conservation Union as near-threatened, vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered, excluding any population native to the United States or Canada. Tigers are not considered to be rare felids.  Interior may convene an advisory group of individuals representing organizations actively involved in the conservation of felids and canids.",2023-01-11T13:25:11Z,
113-hr-5837,113,hr,5837,African Descent Act of 2014,International Affairs,2014-12-10,2014-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.,House,"Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-20]",FL,D,H000324,2,"African Descent Act of 2014 - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to direct the Secretary of State to establish within the Department of State an Office of Global African Descent Affairs, to be headed by the Director and Special Advisor to the Secretary on Global African Descent Affairs. Includes among Office functions: (1) advising the Secretary and directing policies, programs, and funding relating to the human rights and the advancement of people of African descent internationally; (2) managing a fund for people of African descent to invest in solutions to combat racial discrimination and create economic and political opportunities for people of African descent internationally; and (3) compiling an annual report on U.S. government activities relating to people of African descent.  Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to include in the annual human rights report for countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East a description of the status and the people of African descent in each country.  Directs the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to appoint a Senior Advisor to the Administrator on Global African Descent Affairs who shall: (1) advise the Administrator and direct policies, programs, and funding relating to the human rights and advancement of people of African descent internationally; and (2) develop a uniform set of indicators and standards for monitoring and evaluating foreign assistance for people of African descent.  Requires the Director and Special Advisor to the Secretary on Global African Descent Affairs to develop or update annually (for five years) a U.S. global strategy to empower, prevent, and respond to discrimination and violence against people of African descent.",2023-01-11T13:25:11Z,
113-hr-5838,113,hr,5838,Private Prison Information Act of 2014,Crime and Law Enforcement,2014-12-10,2014-12-10,Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]",TX,D,J000032,7,"Private Prison Information Act of 2014 - Subjects records relating to the operation of and prisoners in a prison or other correctional or detention facility that is owned or operated by a nongovernmental entity, state, or local government and that incarcerates or detains federal prisoners pursuant to a contract or agreement with a federal agency to the Freedom of Information Act in the same manner as records maintained by a federal agency operating a federal prison or detention facility.",2023-01-11T13:25:11Z,