Legal Workforce Act [HB-1772]
Legal Workforce Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish an employment eligibility verification system (EEVS), patterned after the E-Verify system. (Eliminates the current paper-based I-9 system.) Requires an employer to attest, during the verification period and under penalty of perjury, that the employer has verified that an individual is not an unauthorized alien by: (1) obtaining and recording the individual's social security account number, and (2) examining specified
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HB-1772: Legal Workforce Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Reported (amended) By The Committee On Judiciary. H. Rept. 113-677, Part I. on 12/16/2014
Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act [HB-1797]
Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit any person from performing or attempting to perform an abortion except in conformity with this Act's requirements. Requires the physician to first determine the probable post-fertilization age of the unborn child, or reasonably rely upon such a determination made by another physician, by making inquiries of the pregnant woman and performing such medical examinations and tests as a reasonably prudent physician would consider necessary. Prohibits the abortion
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HB-1797: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On The Judiciary. on 06/19/2013
EACH Act [HB-1814]
Equitable Access to Care and Health Act or the EACH Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to minimum essential health care coverage requirements added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to allow an additional religious exemption from such requirements for individuals whose sincerely held religious beliefs would cause them to object to medical health care provided under such coverage. Defines "medical health care" to mean voluntary health treatment by or supervised by a medical doctor that would be covered under minimum
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HB-1814: EACH Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Received In The Senate. on 03/12/2014
Email Privacy Act [HB-1852]
Email Privacy Act - Amends the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 to prohibit a provider of remote computing service or electronic communication service to the public from knowingly divulging to any governmental entity the contents of any communication that is in electronic storage or otherwise maintained by the provider. Revises provisions under which the government may require, pursuant to a warrant, the disclosure by such a provider of the contents of such communications. Eliminates the different requirements applicable under current
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HB-1852: Email Privacy Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations. on 06/14/2013
Federal Repeal of Expensive Exchanges Act [HB-1908]
Federal Repeal of Expensive Exchanges Act or the FREE Act - Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) providing for: (1) a health insurance premium assistance tax credit and advance payments for credit amounts, (2) reductions in out-of-pocket health care expenses for certain low income taxpayers (cost-sharing) and advance payments of cost-sharing amounts, (3) the individual mandate to purchase health care coverage under PPACA, and (4) the employer mandate to provide health care coverage
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HB-1908: Federal Repeal of Expensive Exchanges Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health, Employment, Labor, And Pensions. on 07/08/2013
Free Flow of Information Act of 2013 [HB-1962]
Free Flow of Information Act of 2013 - Prohibits a federal entity (an entity or employee of the judicial or executive branch or an administrative agency of the federal government), in any matter arising under federal law, from compelling a covered person to testify or produce any document related to information obtained or created as part of engaging in journalism unless a court makes specified determinations by a preponderance of the evidence, including determinations that: (1) alternative sources have been exhausted; (2) the testimony or document
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HB-1962: Free Flow of Information Act of 2013
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Courts, Intellectual Property, And The Internet. on 06/14/2013
Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act [HB-2000]
Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act - Authorizes the State Elections Commission of Puerto Rico to provide for a ratification vote on the admission of Puerto Rico as a state of the United States on an equal footing with the several states in all respects. Requires (if a majority of votes cast in the ratification vote are for the admission of Puerto Rico as a state): (1) the President to submit to Congress legislation to admit Puerto Rico as a state, and (2) Congress to act, through legislation, to admit Puerto Rico as a state.
HB-2000: Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure. (cr H2611-2612) on 05/15/2013
Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013 [HB-2009]
Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013 - Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury, or any delegate of the Secretary, from implementing or enforcing any provisions of or amendments made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
HB-2009: Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act of 2013
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Read The Second Time. Placed On Senate Legislative Calendar Under General Orders. Calendar No. 192. on 09/18/2013
Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013 [HB-2026]
Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from requiring, or from promulgating regulations that direct a state to require, a permit under the national pollutant discharge elimination system for a discharge of stormwater runoff resulting from the conduct of the following silviculture activities: nursery operations, site preparation, reforestation, thinning, prescribed burning, pest
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HB-2026: Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act of 2013
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Wittman
Reported By The Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure. H. Rept. 113-607. on 11/12/2014
Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act Reauthorization of 2013 [HB-2068]
Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act Reauthorization of 2013 - Amends the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (FLTFA) to reauthorize, until July 25, 2020, the program for the completion of appraisals and satisfaction of other legal requirements for the sale or exchange of public land identified for disposal under approved land use plans under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) establish and maintain a database containing a comprehensive list of all of the public land identified
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HB-2068: Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act Reauthorization of 2013
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Subcommittee Hearings Held. on 07/19/2013