Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]

An amendment to define recommendations concerning 15 passenger van safety, railroad grade crossing safety, and medical certifications for a commercial driver's license as "significant safety recommendations.".

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An amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in House Report 108-46 that is identical to the bill, except that it does not include the section of the bill that would require state and local employees to work for five years in a job covered by Social Security in order to avoid the application of the government pension offset.

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An amendment numbered 10 printed in Part B of House Report 110-351 to provide a five year phase-in of flood insurance premiums for low-income homeowners or renters whose primary residence is placed within a flood plain through an updating of the flood insurance program maps if the value of the home does not exceed 75% of the state median home value.

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An amendment consisting of the text of two amendments, offered en bloc and printed in the Congressional Record on January 19, 1994 as amendments Nos. 73 and 153, exempt from the provisions of the bill any legislation regulating licensing, construction, and operation of nuclear reactors, and nuclear waste disposal.

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An amendment (printed as amendment No. 20 in the Congressional Record of February 22, 1995), to exempt from the regulatory rulemaking moratorium those regulations required to clarify the provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act.

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An amendment numbered 3 printed in Part B of House Report 115-235 to clarify the applicability of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to projects affected by the bill.

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An amendment to the Skelton amendment to exempt discretionary Medicare legislation in excess of $50,000,000, in addition to national defense programs, from the Presidential line item veto.

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Amendment creates a permitting process through the Department of Energy, FERC, and Department of State for cross-border infrastructure projects.

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An amendment to insert a new undesignated paragraph for carrying out section 340 of the Public Health Service Act (relating to the healty communities access program), $104,000,000.

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An amendment to delete the provisions of the bill relating to vocational rehabilitation. The intent of the amendment is to address vocational rehabilitation issues in separate legislation.

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An amendment to increase the authorization in the bill for emergency immigrant education from $40 million to $100 million.

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Part B amendment numbered 5 printed in House Report 107-178 to lift the ability of the state of California to utilize the Hinshaw exemption, which prevents the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from ensuring low-cost natural gas transmission inside the state.

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Amendment numbered 11 printed in the Congressional Record of February 12, 2002 to strike any bill language regarding preferential television advertising rates for candidates and parties.

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An amendment numbered 9 printed in House Report 112-540 to strike section 206 of the bill which would require the consideration of feasibility and costs in revising or supplementing national ambient air quality standards for ozone.

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An amendment, printed as amendment No. 1 in the Congressional Record of September 8, 1995, to clarify that nothing in the bill may be construed as prohibiting private pension plans from investing in domestic investments.

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To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11158 Highway 146 North in Hardin, Texas, as the "Lucas Lowe Post Office".

United States · United States Congress · 19 December 2018

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11158 Highway 146 North in Hardin, Texas, as the "Lucas Lowe Post Office."

IMPROVE Act

United States · United States Congress · 6 December 2018

Improving Medicaid Programs and Opportunities for Eligible Beneficiaries Act or the IMPROVE Act This bill establishes a state Medicaid option to provide for medical assistance with respect to coordinated care provided through a health home (i.e., a designated provider or team of health-care professionals) for children with medically complex conditions. States must determine payment methodologies in accordance with specified requirements; payments also temporarily qualify for an enhanced federal matching rate. The bill also makes a series of reductions relating to federal Medicaid expenditures. Among other changes, the bill reduces the federal matching rate for states that do not have required asset-verification programs for determining Medicaid eligibility. Further, drug manufacturers with Medicaid rebate agreements for covered outpatient drugs must disclose drug product information. Manufacturers are subject to civil penalties for knowingly misclassifying drugs. Manufacturers are also required to compensate for rebates that were initially underpaid as a result of misclassification (whether or not such misclassification was committed knowingly). Finally, the bill excludes specified wheelchairs and associated accessories from Medicare's competitive acquisition program (in which rates are set through a competitive bidding program rather than by an established fee schedule).

To amend title 35, United States Code, to include the exclusive economic zone as part of the United States for patent infringement, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 29 November 2018

This bill establishes that certain activities on or below the waters within the U.S. exclusive economic zone that infringe a U.S. patent shall be considered an infringing act that occurs within the United States.

No Federal Funds for Public Charge Act of 2018

United States · United States Congress · 9 October 2018

No Federal Funds for Public Charge Act of 2018 This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to implement, administer, enforce, or carry out the proposed rule of the Department of Homeland Security entitled "Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds." The rule makes aliens who are likely at any time to become a public charge and receive public benefits inadmissible.

Supporting the goals and ideals of October as "National Domestic Violence Awareness Month" and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should continue to raise awareness of domestic violence and its devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities, and support programs designed to end domestic violence in the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2018

Expresses support for the goals and ideals of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2018

United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2018

Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 201 8 This bill establishes a new formula for adjusting benefits under the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program for individuals who receive pensions based on certain non-covered employment. This formula replaces the existing formula (known as the "windfall elimination provision") for making such adjustments to OASDI benefits.  

Strengthening Social Security Act of 2018

United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2018

Strengthening Social Security Act of 201 8 This bill modifies the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits program, including with respect to the determination of (1) a beneficiary's taxable income and primary-insurance amount, (2) widow or widower's benefits, and (3) cost-of-living increases in benefits.

Expressing the policy of the United States to pursue and enter into a military treaty alliance of extended deterrence with the State of Israel.

United States · United States Congress · 26 September 2018

Expresses the policy of the United States to enter into a military treaty alliance of extended deterrence with Israel which would provide Israel with U.S. nuclear protection.

Strengthening Minority-Serving Institutions Act of 2018

United States · United States Congress · 25 September 2018

Strengthening Minority-Serving Institutions Act of 2018 This bill permanently extends mandatory funding programs for historically Black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions and increases the authorized funding levels for such programs.