Tuesday, December 6, 2016
The House will meet at 10:00 a.m. for morning hour and 12:00 p.m. for legislative business.
21 Suspensions
1) H.R. 756 - Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act of 2015 (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) | Energy and Commerce Committee
Topline Summary: This bill directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a clearinghouse to disseminate information regarding available Federal programs and financing mechanisms that may be used to help initiate, develop, and finance energy efficiency, distributed generation, and energy retrofitting projects for schools.
2) H.R. 6375 - Power And Security Systems (PASS) Act (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) | Energy and Commerce Committee
Topline Summary: This bill directs the Department of Energy to decide by 2021 whether standards for class A external power supply (EPS) should be amended
3) H.R. 3381 - Childhood Cancer STAR Act, as amended (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) | Energy and Commerce Committee
Topline Summary:This bill expands opportunities for childhood cancer research, improves efforts to identify and track childhood cancer incidences, enhanced the quality of life for childhood cancer survivors, and ensures publicly accessible expanded access policies that provide hope for patients who have run out of options.
4) S. 2873 - Expanding Capacity for Health Outcomes Act (PDF)
Sponsor: Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) | Energy and Commerce Committee
Topline Summary: This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Health Resources and Services Administration, to study technology-enabled collaborated learning and capacity building models and the ability of those models to improve patient care and provider education.
5) H.R. 6394 - Improving Broadband Access for Veterans Act of 2016 (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) | Energy and Commerce Committee
Topline Summary: This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission to submit to Congress a report on promoting broadband Internet access service for veterans.
6) H.Res ____ - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that all students should have access to the digital tools necessary to further their education and compete in the 21st century economy (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Peter Welch (D-VI) | Energy and Commerce Committee
Topline Summary: This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that all students should have access to the digital tools necessary to further their education and compete in the 21st century economy.
7) H.Res. 932 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to third-party charges on consumer telephone bills (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Jan Schakowsky(D-IL) | Energy and Commerce Committee
Topline Summary: This resolution provides that the House of Representatives improves protections against Telephone Company cramming practices and empowers consumers to stop unwanted third-party charges on their telephone bills.
8) H.R. 4680 - National Park Service Centennial Act, as amended (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) | Natural Resources Committee
Topline Summary: This bill commemorates the National Park Service Centennial and provides the National Park Service with new tools for a subsequent century of promoting and protecting the natural, historic, and cultural resources of our National Parks.
9) H.R. 1219 - Arbuckle Project Maintenance Complex and District Office Conveyance Act of 2016 (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) | Natural Resources Committee
Topline Summary: This bill authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey all of the United States’ right, title and interest Maintenance Complex and District Office of the Arbuckle Project, Oklahoma to the Arbuckle Master Conservancy District.
10) H.R. 6401 - Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Gregorio Sablan (D-MP) | Natural Resources Committee
Topline Summary: This bill makes certain changes to the foreign worker permitting process for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
11) S. 817 - To provide for the addition of certain real property to the reservation of the Siletz Tribe in the State of Oregon (PDF)
Sponsor: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) | Natural Resources Committee
Topline Summary: This bill clarifies how the Secretary of the Interior evaluates land to be taken into trust for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon.
12) S. 818 - To amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act to make technical corrections, and for other purposes (PDF)
Sponsor: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) | Natural Resources Committee
Topline Summary: This bill establishes a reservation for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon.
13) S. 3028 - Daniel J. Evans Olympic National Park Wilderness Act (PDF)
Sponsor: Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) | Natural Resources Committee
Topline Summary: This bill redesignates the Olympic Wilderness, which is located in Northwest Washington State, as the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness
14) H.R. 875 - Cross-Border Trade Enhancement Act of 2016, as amended (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) | Ways and Means Committee
Topline Summary: This bill provides Custom and Border Protection with the authority to negotiate alternative financing arrangements, such as cost-sharing arrangements, for the provision of certain services and the construction and maintenance of infrastructure at land ports of entry.
15) H.R. 6416 - Jeff Miller and Richard Blumenthal Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 2016 (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) | Veterans Affairs Committee
Topline Summary: This bill makes a number of improvements to VA disability compensation, appeals, burial, education, vocational rehabilitation, small business, health care, and homeless programs.
16) H.R. 5399 - Ethical Patient Care for Veterans Act of 2016 (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) | Veterans Affairs Committee
Topline Summary: This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that each VA physician is informed of the duty to report any “covered” or unethical health care activity committed by another physician that the physician witnesses or otherwise discovers to the applicable state licensing authority within five days of occurrence.
17) H.R. 4150 - Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Medical Staffing Recruitment and Retention Act, as amended (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) | Veterans Affairs Committee
Topline Summary: This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to modify the hours of employment for a full-time VA physician or physician assistant to be more than or less than 80 hours in a biweekly pay period if the total of such employee’s hours of employment in a calendar year does not exceed 2,080 hours.
18) H.R. 4352 - Faster Care for Veterans Act of 2016 (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) | Veterans Affairs Committee
Topline Summary: This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a pilot program for veterans to self-schedule medical appointments online in at least three Veterans Integrated Service Networks.
19) H.R. 5428 - Military Residency Choice Act (PDF)
Sponsor: Rep. Randy J. Forbes (R-VA) | Veterans Affairs Committee
Topline Summary: This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to permit the spouse of a servicemember to claim the same state of residence as the servicemember for taxation and voting purposes, even if the spouse has not previously lived in that state.
20) S. 3492 - To designate the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Traverse City, Michigan, as the "Colonel Demas T. Craw VA Clinic" (PDF)
Sponsor: Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) | Veterans Affairs Committee
Topline Summary: This bill designates the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Traverse City, Michigan, as the “Colonel Demas T. Craw VA Clinic.”
21) S. 3076 - Charles Duncan Buried with Honor Act of 2016 (PDF)
Sponsor: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) | Veterans Affairs Committee
Topline Summary: This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide a casket or urn for a deceased veteran to be buried in a national veterans’ cemetery, state veterans’ cemetery, or tribal cemetery, if the deceased veteran does not have sufficient resources to cover to cost.