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Pro bono Work to Empower and Represent Act of 2018
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vs 3,805 other S bills in the 115th — cohort avg 41d
Pro bono Work to Empower and Represent Act of 2018 or the POWER Act (Sec. 3) This bill requires the chief judge for each judicial district to conduct public events to promote pro bono legal services for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Additionally, the chief judge for a judicial district that contains an Indian tribe or tribal organization must conduct, at least once during each two-year period, a public event to promote pro bono legal services for Indian or Alaska Native victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. A chief judge must, in conducting public events, seek to maximize the local impact and the provision of high-quality pro bono legal services to survivors. (Sec. 4) Chief judges must report to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on the public events they conduct. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts must compile and summarize the reports and submit them to Congress.
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2018 · fourth_quarter · Government Issues
S. 3387, to restore Administrative Law Judges to competitive Service H.R. 6755, the Judiciary ROOM Act, providing for new judgeships, and addressing cameras in the courts, judicial conduct, recusal, medical exams fort all judges, and the electronic court document system H.R. 3487, to provide that diversity of citizenship jurisdiction is met if any one party to the case is diverse in citizenship from any one adverse party in the case H.R. 6714, the Electronic Records Court Reform Act H.R. 6730, the Injunctive Authority Clarification Act of 2018 S.237, H.R. 720, Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act H.R. 985, Fairness in Class Action Litigation S.295, Circuit Court of Appeals Restructuring and Modernization Act S.276, Judicial Administration and Improvement Act of 2017 H.R. 250, Judicial Administration and Improvement Act H.R.196, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2017 H.R. 6754, the CIRCUIT Act of 2018 S. 717, H.R. 1762, the POWER Act requiring the chief judge for each judicial circuit to promote certain pro bono legal services H.R. 2811, S.625, the Foreign Agents Registration Modernization and Enforcement Act H.R. 4170, S. 2039, the Disclosing Foreign Influence Act S. 2482, the Foreign Agents Registration Amendments Act H.R. 6249, the REFUSE Act S.1679, the Foreign Agent Lobbying Transparency Enforcement Act General advocacy on filling of judicial vacancies Draft legislation expanding public access to materials that has been incorporated by reference into proposed or final federal agency regulations Draft legislation amending 28 U.S.C. 1500 to clarify the respective jurisdiction of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. District Court and allowing plaintiffs with claims against the U.S. government to bring simultaneous claims in both courts, with a presumptive stay of the first-filed action S.1894, H.R. 3966, a bill to exempt Puerto Rico from the coastwise laws of the United States
Became Public Law No: 115-237.
Became Public Law No: 115-237.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Senate agreed to the House amendment to the Senate bill by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5669)
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment to the Senate bill by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S5669)
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
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Client expense: $190,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Education, Dept of, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
2017 · second_quarter · Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
H.R 1437, the No Money Bail Act of 2017 -- provisions relating to the use of money as a condition of pretrial release in state criminal cases where the state receives federal grant funding and as a condition of pretrial release in Article III court. The Redeem Act (S. 827, H.R. 1906), the Mercy Act (S. 329, H.R. 901), Kaliefs Law (H.R. 47) and the Protecting Youth from Solitary Confinement Act (H.R. 1926), as they pertain to the use of solitary confinement and other juvenile justice issues. H.R. 115 and S.1085, the Thin Blue Line -provisions relating to adding aggravating factors to criminal offenses involving law enforcement. H.R.2437 and S. 1134, the Back the Blue Act of 2017 - provisions relating to expanding the federal criminal code to add new crimes and impose new mandatory minimum sentences for certain offenses. H.R. 1762 and S. 717, the POWER Act, as it relates to increasing pro bono legal services to domestic violence victims. H.R. 2612, the Community Reentry Act of 2017, as it pertains to formerly incarcerated individuals being housed in residential reentry centers. S.860, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2017 H.R.584, the Cyber Preparedness Act of 2017 H.R.1795, DUE PROCESS Act-provisions designed to help harmonize certain aspects of the federal civil asset forfeiture laws with the federal bankruptcy laws S.178, the Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act (114th Congress), general discussions about potential sentencing reform in the 115th Congress. Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Proposed Rule on Amendments Relating to Disclosure of Records and Information; Docket No. CFPB-2016-0039; RIN 3170-AA63, 81 Fed. Reg. 58310 (August 24, 2016)-provisions (1) expanding the Bureaus discretion to share confidential information it receives from supervised and regulated entities with other foreign, state, and other governmental agencies and (2) prohibiting subjects of investigations and other recipients of civil investigative demands from disclosing information regarding the Bureaus investigation. Proposed changes to Customs and Border Protection Directive No. 3340-049 (Border Search of Electronic Devices Containing Information, dated August 20, 2009) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Directive No. 7-6.1 (Border Searches of Electronic Devices, dated August 18, 2009) to prevent border officials from reading, duplicating, seizing, or sharing attorney-client privileged or confidential client documents or information contained on lawyers laptop computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices at U.S. border crossings unless the officials first obtain a subpoena based on reasonable suspicion or a warrant supported by probable cause
Client expense: $280,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Labor, Dept of (DOL), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6282-6283)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6282-6283)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 717.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6282-6285)
Mr. Goodlatte moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Received in the House.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S4694-4695)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S4694-4695)
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4694-4695)
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4694-4695)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
| August 1, 2017 |
| Introduced in Senate | March 23, 2017 |
| Enrolled Bill | -- |
| Democratic |
| NH |
| Joe Donnelly | Democratic | IN |
| John Cornyn | Republican | TX |
| Lisa Murkowski | Republican | AK |
| Orrin G. Hatch | Republican | UT |
| Patrick J. Leahy | Democratic | VT |
| Shelley Moore Capito | Republican | WV |
| Steve Daines | Republican | MT |