VA Accountability First and Appeals Modernization Act of 2016 [HB-5620]
VA Accountability First and Appeals Modernization Act of 2016 This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to remove or demote a VA employee based on performance or misconduct and provides that specified federal employee performance appraisal provisions shall not apply to such removals or demotions. The VA may remove such individual from the civil service or demote the individual through a reduction in grade or annual pay rate. A demoted individual shall not be placed on administrative leave or any other category of paid leave during
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HB-5620: VA Accountability First and Appeals Modernization Act of 2016
Sponsored by: Rep. Gus Bilirakis
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 09/15/2016
HB-5621: To posthumously award a Congressional Gold Medal to Lawrence Eugene "Larry" Doby in recognition of his achievements and contributions to American major league athletics, civil rights, and the Armed Forces during WWII.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney
Introduced In House on 07/05/2016
You have voted HB-5621: To posthumously award a Congressional Gold Medal to Lawrence Eugene "Larry" Doby in recognition of his achievements and contributions to American major league athletics, civil rights, and the Armed Forces during WWII..
Honoring Our WWII Merchant Mariners Act of 2015 [HB-563]
Honoring Our WWII Merchant Mariners Act of 2015 Establishes in the Treasury the Merchant Mariner Equity Compensation Fund from which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs is to make one payment of $25,000 to each individual who, between December 7, 1941, and December 31, 1946, was a documented member of the U.S. merchant marine (including the Army Transport Service and the Naval Transport Service) serving as a crewmember of a vessel that was operated in U.S. waters by the War Shipping Administration or the Office of Defense Transportation and under
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HB-563: Honoring Our WWII Merchant Mariners Act of 2015
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Disability Assistance And Memorial Affairs. on 02/06/2015
Solar Fuels Innovation Act [HB-5638]
Solar Fuels Innovation Act This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 by requiring the Department of Energy (DOE) to carry out the Solar Fuels Basic Research Initiative to expand scientific knowledge about converting solar energy into chemical energy. Specifically, DOE must support research about: (1) replicating natural photosynthetic processes in artificial photosynthesis processes, and (2) generating a variety of fuels produced from sunlight through artificial photosynthesis. (A photosynthetic process is one used by plants to convert light
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HB-5638: Solar Fuels Innovation Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Brian Babin
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. on 07/12/2016
Electricity Storage Innovation Act [HB-5640]
Electricity Storage Innovation Act (Sec. 2) This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish the Electricity Storage Basic Research Initiative. The initiative is designed to expand knowledge related to the control, storage, and conversion of electrical energy into chemical energy, and chemical energy into electrical energy. DOE must support specific programs within its Office of Science and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy as part of the initiative. In addition, DOE must organize activities under the initiative utilizing
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HB-5640: Electricity Storage Innovation Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Brian Babin
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. on 07/12/2016
Better Informing Veterans' Healthcare Decisions Act [HB-5726]
Better Informing Veterans' Healthcare Decisions Act This bill urges the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure that preventing veteran suicide and providing veterans access to mental health care is its top reform priority. The VA shall determine and post at each career counselor or career assistance advisor office, on a monthly basis, with respect to the previous year: the average national wait times (in days) for veterans enrolled in the VA health care system to receive appointments for mental health care and primary health care at VA medical
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ADVISE Now Act Agriculture Delivering Vastly Improved Science at the EPA Now Act [HB-5829]
ADVISE Now Act Agriculture Delivering Vastly Improved Science at the EPA Now Act This bill amends the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978 to require the Environmental Protection Agency and its Science Advisory Board to establish a standing agriculture-related committee (as the Act currently requires without a deadline) within 30 days of enactment of this bill. If an agriculture committee is not established by this deadline, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) shall establish and appoint members to such
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HB-5829: ADVISE Now Act Agriculture Delivering Vastly Improved Science at the EPA Now Act
Sponsored by: Rep. David Rouzer
Committee Consideration And Mark-up Session Held. on 09/21/2016
Emergency Forest Restoration Act [HB-5860]
Emergency Forest Restoration Act This bill allows the Department of Agriculture (USDA), regarding National Forest System lands, or the Department of the Interior, regarding public lands, to develop and carry out a forest management activity on lands of the department concerned in a state when the activity's primary purpose is to address an insect or disease infestation that has been declared an emergency by the state governor. With specified exceptions, a categorical exclusion shall be available to USDA or Interior for these purposes. A "categorical
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HB-5860: Emergency Forest Restoration Act
Sponsored by: Rep. David Valadao
Referred To The Subcommittee On Conservation And Forestry. on 08/30/2016
RCAF/RAF-Americans Congressional Gold Medal Act [HB-5887]
RCAF/RAF-Americans Congressional Gold Medal Act This bill directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the award of a Congressional Gold Medal in commemoration of all U.S. nationals who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force or the Royal Air Force during World War II.
HB-5887: RCAF/RAF-Americans Congressional Gold Medal Act
Sponsored by: Rep. James McGovern
Introduced In House on 07/14/2016