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Native American Languages Reauthorization Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5765
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2014-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Department of the Interior
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Indian social and development programs

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: 
Native American Languages Reauthorization Act of 2014 - Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to reauthorize through FY2019 and revise a grant program administered by the Administration for Native Americans at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages. 
 
Decreases the required minimum number of enrollees in educational programs funded by the grant program from:
 
 
10 to 5 enrollees in Native American language nests, and 
 
15 to 10 enrollees in the Native American language survival schools. 

 
Changes the duration of grants provided under the program. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Introduced in House
21st Century SCASDP Act

Bill: 113-hr-5766
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2014-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aviation and airports
Small towns
Transportation programs funding
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: 
21st Century SCASDP Act - Revises certain criteria the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) must apply in selecting communities, or consortia of communities, with an underserved airport for participation in the Small Community Air Service Development Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Don't Tax Our Fallen Public Safety Heroes Act

Bill: 113-hr-5767
Sponsor: Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2014-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Income tax exclusion
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: 
Don't Tax Our Fallen Public Safety Heroes Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, federal public safety officer death benefits or amounts paid under a state program to surviving dependents of a public safety officer who died as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Separation of Powers Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5768
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2014-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Appropriations
Border security and unlawful immigration
Executive agency funding and structure
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: 
Separation of Powers Act of 2014 - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to any federal department or agency to: 
 
 
parole an alien into the United States or grant deferred action on a final order of removal for any reason other than on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons; or 
 
issue to an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States any document attesting to such alien's lawful permanent resident status or U.S. employment authorization.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8262)
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Disaster Assistance Recoupment Fairness Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5770
Sponsor: Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2014-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief and insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: 
Disaster Assistance Recoupment Fairness Act of 2014 - Amends the Disaster Assistance Recoupment Fairness Act of 2011 to make the authority of the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to waive certain debts relating to disaster assistance provided to individuals and households applicable to such assistance provided between August 28, 2005, and December 31, 2014 (currently, December 31, 2010).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
Safeguarding Individual Privacy Against Government Invasion Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5772
Sponsor: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2014-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Government liability
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: 
Safeguarding Individual Privacy Against Government Invasion Act of 2014 - Amends the Privacy Act of 1974 to specify that the liability of the United States in a civil action brought by an individual adversely affected by a federal agency's intentional or willful failure to maintain accurate records concerning the individual is provable damages, including damages that are not pecuniary damages, sustained by the individual as a result of the refusal or failure, or $1,000, whichever is greater. (Currently, the United States is liable for actual damages, a term that is interpreted to be limited to economic harm or pecuniary damages, which excludes damages for mental or emotional distress.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2014-12-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to extend certain provisions relating to multiemployer defined benefit pension plans.

Bill: 113-hr-5773
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2014-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deferral

Summary:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to extend through 2015 the automatic extensions of amortization periods for multiemployer defined benefit plans. 
 
Amends the Pension Protection Act of 2006 to extend through 2015 rules relating to funding improvement and rehabilitation plans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2014-12-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2014-12-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1680-1681)
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
No Social Security Numbers and Benefits for Illegal Aliens Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5774
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2014-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Foreign labor
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Social security and elderly assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: 
No Social Security Numbers and Benefits for Illegal Aliens Act of 2014 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the Commissioner of Social Security from assigning a Social Security account number to any individual who, according to the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), has been authorized to be employed in the United States in accordance with a certain DHS memorandum dated November 20, 2014, and who would not be so authorized but for that memorandum.
 
Prohibits the payment of OASDI benefits to such individuals. 
 
Denies the crediting of quarters of coverage toward benefits for earnings from unauthorized work by an individual who is not a U.S. citizen or national and who was not authorized to be employed in the United States.
 
Prohibits counting an individual's annual wages or self-employment income for any year for which no quarter of coverage may be credited.
 
Directs the Commissioner and the Secretary to enter into an agreement to establish a system to transmit to the Secretary any Social Security account number assigned to an individual after the enactment of this Act, as well as other identifying information, in any case in which the individual is not a U.S. citizen or national at the time that number is assigned.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
Powering American Jobs Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5775
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2014-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Building construction
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Income tax credits
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: 
Powering American Jobs Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015: (1) the tax credit for nonbusiness energy efficient improvements; (2) excise tax credits and payments for alternative fuels, biodiesel and renewable diesel fuel mixtures, and alternative fuels relating to liquefied hydrogen; (3) the tax credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property expenditures; and (4) the income tax credit for biodiesel and renewable fuels. Equalizes the excise tax rate for liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas. Modifies energy efficiency standards for windows, doors, skylights, roofing, water heaters, biomass stoves, and furnaces or hot water boilers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
Tenant Income Verification Relief Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5776
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2014-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: 
Tenant Income Verification Relief Act of 2014 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 with respect to annual review of low-income families' income for eligibility requirements for certain federal assisted housing programs.
 
Prohibits, after the initial review of any family's fix income, the public housing agency (PHA) or owner from being required to review its income for any year for which the family certifies, in accordance with specified requirements as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shall establish.
 
 Requires the PHA or owner to review each such family's income at least once every three years.
 
Requires PHAs to also review a family's income receiving Section 8 (rental assistance voucher program) at least once every three years (currently, at least annually).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
Boko Haram Disarmament and Northeast Nigeria Recovery Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5778
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24]
Introduced: 2014-12-01 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Africa
Cameroon
Chad
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Crimes against women
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign aid and international relief
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Human trafficking
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
International organizations and cooperation
Law enforcement officers
Mental health
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Military operations and strategy
Niger
Nigeria
Performance measurement
Reconstruction and stabilization
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Terrorism
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: 
Boko Haram Disarmament and Northeast Nigeria Recovery Act of 2014 - Directs the President to develop and submit to Congress a regional strategy to guide U.S. support for multilateral efforts to: (1) eliminate the threat to civilians and regional stability from Boko Haram, and (2) enforce the rule of law and ensure full humanitarian access in Boko Haram-affected areas.
 
States that such strategy should include a plan to work with Nigeria and other international partners to liberate Boko Haram's kidnapping victims. 
 
Authorizes the President to provide humanitarian and development assistance to the populations in Boko Haram-affected areas. Makes funds available for such assistance pursuant to final judgment of a specified legal case.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should support efforts by the people of Boko Haram-affected areas and the governments of Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, and Niger to: 
 
 
assist internally displaced people and returnees; 
 
enhance the administrative competency of state and local governance institutions and public agencies in northeast Nigeria; 
 
provide all children with a quality basic education while ensuring student and faculty safety; 
 
strengthen the operational capacity of the civilian police in Nigeria, and strengthen measures to prevent corruption; and 
 
promote programs to address physical harm and psychosocial trauma. 
 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: 
 
 
the Secretary of State and Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) should work with Congress to increase future assistance to support reconstruction activities if Nigeria demonstrates a commitment to transparent reconstruction in Boko Haram-affected areas of Nigeria, and 
 
the Secretary should withhold assistance if Nigeria is not committed to transparent reconstruction and reconciliation in the Boko Haram-affected areas of Nigeria.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-12-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a deduction for elementary and secondary private school tuition, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-5779
Sponsor: Rep. Bentivolio, Kerry L. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2014-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2014-12-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a tax deduction for the qualified expenses, up to $10,000 in a taxable year, of attending a private school. Includes within the definition of "qualified expenses" expenses for tuition, fees, books, supplies, and other equipment in connection with the enrollment or attendance of an individual at an elementary or secondary school at a private institutional day or residential school, including a parochial school, or a home school, that provides elementary or secondary education. Disallows any amount claimed as home school tuition. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-12-02
text: Introduced in House
GI Bill STEM Extension Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5784
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2014-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Higher education
Medical education
Science and engineering education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: 
GI Bill STEM Extension Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to pay up to nine months of additional Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to a veteran who has used all of the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance to which he or she was entitled and who: (1) is enrolled in a postsecondary education program that requires more than the standard 128 semester (or 192 quarter) credit hours for completion in a specified science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) field; or (2) has earned a postsecondary degree in one of those fields and is enrolled in a teaching certification program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the exclusion from gross income of discharges of qualified principal residence indebtedness.

Bill: 113-hr-5785
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2014-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the exclusion from gross income of income attributable to the discharge of indebtedness on a principal residence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude payments received under the Work Colleges Program from gross income, including payments made from institutional funds.

Bill: 113-hr-5787
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2014-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs
Wages and earnings
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income payments received by a student under a comprehensive work-learning-service program operated by a work college. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Introduced in House
To designate the Junction City Community-Based Outpatient Clinic located at 715 Southwind Drive, Junction City, Kansas, as the Lieutenant General Richard J. Seitz Community-Based Outpatient Clinic.

Bill: 113-hr-5788
Sponsor: Rep. Huelskamp, Tim [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2014-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Health facilities and institutions
Home and outpatient care
Kansas
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: 
 Designates the Junction City Community-Based Outpatient Clinic located at 715 Southwind Drive, Junction City, Kansas, as the &quot;Lieutenant General Richard J. Seitz Community-Based Outpatient Clinic.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Introduced in House
Rapid DNA Act of 2014

Bill: 113-hr-5789
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2014-12-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Congressional oversight
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
District of Columbia
Evidence and witnesses
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Genetics
Law enforcement officers
Performance measurement
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: 
Rapid DNA Act of 2014 - Amends the DNA Identification Act of 1994 to require:
 
 
 the advisory board on DNA quality assurance methods appointed by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to include members from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies;
 
such board to develop, and the Director to issue, standards for testing the proficiency of qualified agencies (i.e., booking stations, jails, prisons, detention centers, other law enforcement organizations and facilities outside of forensic laboratories) and operators in conducting analyses of DNA samples using sample-to-answer DNA analysis systems (i.e., fully automated systems that prepare and analyze DNA samples with no operator intervention);
 
the National Institute of Justice to certify that the blind external proficiency testing program for DNA analyses has been established and made available to such qualified agencies or is not feasible; and 
 
the Index to facilitate law enforcement exchange of DNA identification information to include information on DNA identification records and DNA analyses prepared by such qualified agencies that are engaged in the intake, processing, booking, detention, or incarceration of individuals charged or convicted of qualifying offenses and that conduct the analysis of DNA samples on a sample-to-answer DNA analysis system.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-12-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2014-12-03
text: Introduced in House