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To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal the sunset of the special immigrant nonminister religious worker program.

Bill: 113-hr-4460
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Religion
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make the special immigrant non-minister religious worker program permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Climate Change Education Act

Bill: 113-hr-4461
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Air quality
Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental health
Environmental technology
Government information and archives
Higher education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Climate Change Education Act - Declares that the evidence for human-induced climate change is overwhelming and undeniable.
 
Requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish a Climate Change Education Program to:
 
 
 broaden the understanding of human-induced climate change, possible consequences, and potential solutions;
 
 apply the latest scientific and technological discoveries to provide learning opportunities to people of all ages;
 
conduct a national information campaign to help people understand and promote implementation of new technologies, programs, and incentives related to energy conservation, renewable energy, and greenhouse gas reduction; and
 
 inform the public of impacts to human health and safety as a result of climate change.
 
 
Directs NOAA to establish a grant program to support climate change education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2014-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3223)
action_date: 2014-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Housing Financial Literacy Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4462
Sponsor: Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Financial literacy
Housing finance and home ownership
Life, casualty, property insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Housing Financial Literacy Act of 2014 - Amends the National Housing Act to revise the single insurance premium payment for a mortgage (secured by a one- to four-family dwelling that is an obligation of the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund) of a first-time homebuyer who completes a program of counseling on the responsibilities and financial management involved in homeownership that is approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
 
Repeals the current maximum premium payment of 2.75% of the amount of the mortgage's original insured principal obligation.
 
Sets the single mortgage insurance premium payment at 25 basis points lower than the premium payment amount otherwise established.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E570)
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Tax Refund Protection Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4463
Sponsor: Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Licensing and registrations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Tax Refund Protection Act of 2014 - Amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 to require the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to: (1) regulate refund anticipation payment arrangements, (2) establish a licensing or certification program governing tax return preparers subject to this Act, (3) regulate such preparers, and (4) require applicants to demonstrate qualifications and competency to perform tax return preparation sevices.
 
Authorizes the CFPB to impose a licensing or certification fee.
 
Directs the CFPB to require such preparers to make prescribed disclosures to a consumer, including: (1) a fee schedule for preparing or filing a federal income tax return, or executing a refund anticipation payment arrangement; and (2) the consumer's responsibility to pay any fees and interest associated with a refund anticipation payment arrangement even if the consumer does not receive a tax refund or the refund's amount is less than anticipated under the arrangement.
 
Empowers the CFPB to take enforcement action against a preparer for specified violations.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a federal income tax refund, on taxpayer request, to be split between the taxpayer and the preparer. Prohibits treatment of such a split as disreputable conduct merely because the taxpayer requested the split.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Permanent CFC Look-Through Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4464
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Foreign and international corporations
Income tax deferral
Taxation of foreign income
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income).

action_date: 2014-05-02
text: 
Permanent CFC Look-Through Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-02
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 316.
action_date: 2014-05-02
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 113-428.
action_date: 2014-05-02
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 113-428.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 14.
action_date: 2014-04-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
SNAPR Act

Bill: 113-hr-4465
Sponsor: Rep. Byrne, Bradley [R-AL-1]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Fishes
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Supporting New Avenues to Protect Our Fishermen's Resources Act or the SNAPR Act - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to repeal a provision that requires any fishery management plan, plan amendment, or regulation submitted by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council to contain conservation and management measures that establish catch limits (separate quotas for recreational and commercial fishing that, when reached, result in a prohibition on the retention of caught fish for the remainder of the fishing year) for the Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Financial Regulatory Clarity Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4466
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Commodities markets
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Congressional oversight
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve System
Financial services and investments
National Credit Union Administration
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Financial Regulatory Clarity Act of 2014 - Requires the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), before issuing a regulation or order, to assess other federal regulations and orders to determine whether the agency's proposal is in conflict with, is inconsistent with, or is duplicative of such other regulations or orders and whether such other federal regulations or orders are outdated.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-05-22
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 34 - 25.
action_date: 2014-05-22
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2014-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-12-04
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Prior to Introduction and Referral.
BRAIN Act

Bill: 113-hr-4467
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Foreign labor
Government studies and investigations
Higher education
Immigration status and procedures
Science and engineering education
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Best Return on America's Investment Now Act or BRAIN Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make up to 10% of the worldwide employment-based immigration level available to qualified immigrants who: (1) hold a doctorate degree in a field of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM degree) from a U.S. doctoral institution of higher education; and (2) have taken all doctoral courses in a STEM field, including all courses taken by correspondence or by distance education, while physically present in the United States.
 
Reduces the number of immigrant visas available to skilled workers, professionals, and other workers.
 
Revises the computation of the total number of immigrant visas that may be made available to natives of any single foreign state or dependent area in a fiscal year. 
 
States that: (1) the permanent priority date for any employment-based petition shall be the date on which the petition is filed with Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) (or the Secretary of State, if applicable), unless such filing was preceded by the filing of a labor certification with the Secretary of Labor, in which case that date shall constitute the priority date; and (2) an alien who is the beneficiary of an employment-based petition that was approvable when filed shall retain that petition's priority date in the consideration of any subsequently filed employment-based petition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Seafarers Educational Advancement Act

Bill: 113-hr-4468
Sponsor: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-14]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine and inland water transportation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Seafarers Educational Advancement Act - Amends the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 to require career and technical education program funds received by area career and technical education schools, educational service agencies, and local educational agencies to be used to provide career and technical education at the secondary level that leads to maritime careers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Cut Taxes for the Middle Class Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4469
Sponsor: Rep. Castro, Joaquin [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Financial services and investments
Higher education
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Low- and moderate-income housing
Military personnel and dependents
Research and development
Rural conditions and development
Sales and excise taxes
Securities
State and local taxation
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Cut Taxes for the Middle Class Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2014: (1) the tax deduction for state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes, (2) the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses, (3) the tax deduction for expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers, (4) the tax credit for differential wage payments to employees who are active duty members of the Uniformed Services, (5) the work opportunity tax credit, (6) the new markets tax credit, and (7) the tax credit for increasing research activities. 
 
Amends the Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008 to extend through 2014 the exemption of the basic military housing allowance from the income test for programs financed by tax-exempt housing bonds. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Tax Return Preparer Accountability Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4470
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Licensing and registrations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Tax Return Preparer Accountability Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of the Treasury to regulate tax return preparers who are not otherwise subject to regulation. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a $1,000 penalty for each federal tax return or other document prepared by a tax return preparer during a period in which such preparer: (1) is not in compliance with applicable Treasury regulations, or (2) is suspended or disbarred from acting as a tax return preparer under such regulations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Growth Zones Opportunity Act

Bill: 113-hr-4471
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Financial services and investments
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Rural conditions and development
Securities
Small business
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Growth Zones Opportunity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend: (1) through 2020, tax incentives for areas designated as empowerment zones; (2) through 2025, the increased exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale or exchange of the small business stock of empowerment zone businesses; and (3) through 2020, tax incentives for areas designated as a renewal community.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
US-Israel Global Neuroscience Partnership Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4472
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive agency funding and structure
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
International organizations and cooperation
Israel
Medical research
Middle East
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Neurological disorders
Research administration and funding
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
US-Israel Global Neuroscience Partnership Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to eligible entities for U.S.-Israel cooperative neuroscience research. 
 
Establishes in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) an International Neuroscience-Related Research Advisory Board. 
 
Terminates the grant program and the Advisory Board seven years after the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Growth in Manufacturing Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-4473
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business expenses
Employment and training programs
Income tax credits
Research and development
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Small Business Growth in Manufacturing Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow small business employers a business-related tax credit for up to 50% of qualified employee training expenses in a taxable year, (2) make permanent the tax credit for increasing research expenditures, and (3) increase the rate of the alternative simplified research tax credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To remove the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan from treatment as terrorist organizations and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-4474
Sponsor: Rep. Granger, Kay [R-TX-12]
Introduced: 2014-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures
Iraq
Middle East
Political movements and philosophies
Political parties and affiliation
Terrorism
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: 
Declares that the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan shall not be considered terrorist organizations under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Authorizes the Secretary of State, however, to suspend this declaration for either or both groups.
 
 Makes terrorist activity-related inadmissibility criteria inapplicable to an alien's activities undertaken in association with the Kurdistan Democratic Party or the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan if the alien is applying for a nonimmigrant visa, presents himself or herself for inspection at a port of entry as a nonimmigrant, or is applying in the United States for nonimmigrant status unless a consular officer or the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS): (1) knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the alien poses a threat to U.S. security; or (2) believes that the alien does not warrant a visa, U.S. admission, or a grant of nonimmigrant status. Authorizes the Secretary of State, however, to suspend the application of such relief.
 
Prohibits judicial review of any determination made pursuant to this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-04-10
text: Introduced in House