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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend for one year the credit for energy-efficient existing homes.

Bill: 114-hr-2158
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Income tax credits
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015 the tax credit for residential energy efficiency improvements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for one year the credit for energy-efficient new homes.

Bill: 114-hr-2159
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015 the tax credit for new energy efficient homes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend for one year the employer wage credit for employees who are active duty members of the uniformed services.

Bill: 114-hr-2160
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Military personnel and dependents
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015 the tax credit for differential wage payments to employees who are active duty members of the uniformed services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend for one year the enhanced charitable deduction for contributions of food inventory.

Bill: 114-hr-2161
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Food assistance and relief
Income tax deductions
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015 the special rule allowing taxpayers other than C corporations a tax deduction for charitable contributions of food inventory. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend for one year the deduction for mortgage insurance premiums.

Bill: 114-hr-2162
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015 the tax deduction for mortgage insurance premiums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend for one year the deduction of State and local general sales taxes.

Bill: 114-hr-2163
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015 the taxpayer election to deduct state and local general sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend for one year the 15-year straight-line cost recovery for qualified leasehold improvements, qualified restaurant buildings and improvements, and qualified retail improvements.

Bill: 114-hr-2164
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Business investment and capital
Food industry and services
Income tax deductions
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015 the classification, for depreciation purposes, of leasehold, restaurant buildings, and retail improvements as 15-year property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend for one year the above-the-line deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses.

Bill: 114-hr-2165
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax deductions
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015 the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
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: 114-hr-2166
Sponsor: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
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: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Administration Accountability Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2169
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-26]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Social Security Administration
Social Welfare
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Social Security Administration Accountability Act of 2015

 
 Amends title VII (Administration) of the Social Security Act to require the Commissioner of Social Security to submit an annual budget estimate of the Social Security Administration (SSA) (instead of a budget) directly to Congress and the President (instead of first to the President, who would submit it to Congress).
 
Revises requirements for the general contents of the SSA budget, requiring inclusion of the number of cases pending at each hearing office and the average processing time.
 
Prohibits the Commissioner from closing or consolidating SSA field or hearing offices, or otherwise limiting public access to one, until 180 days after submitting to specified congressional committees a detailed report outlining and justifying the process for selecting field offices to be closed, consolidated, or otherwise have limited access.
 
Prohibits the Commissioner from closing an SSA field or hearing office, consolidating two or more such offices, or otherwise imposing any new limitation on public access to any such office unless the Commissioner follows certain administrative procedures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Ghost Army Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 114-hr-2170
Sponsor: Rep. Kuster, Ann M. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Military history
Military operations and strategy
Military personnel and dependents
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Smithsonian Institution

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Ghost Army Congressional Gold Medal Act

 
This bill directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, known collectively as the &quot;Ghost Army,&quot; in recognition of its service during World War II. 
 
The bill expresses the sense of Congress that the Smithsonian Institution should make the medal available for display elsewhere, particularly at appropriate locations associated with the Ghost Army, and that preference should be given to locations affiliated with the Smithsonian.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Owyhee Wilderness Areas Boundary Modifications Act

Bill: 114-hr-2171
Sponsor: Rep. Labrador, Raul R. [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Idaho
Land use and conservation
Livestock
Motor vehicles
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Owyhee Wilderness Areas Boundary Modifications Act 

 
Adjusts the boundaries of the North Fork Owyhee Wilderness, the Owyhee River Wilderness, and the Pole Creek Wilderness in Idaho to exclude certain land.
 
Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to allow motor vehicles to continue to be used for livestock monitoring, herding, and gathering in the Big Jacks Creek Wilderness, Bruneau-Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness, Little Jacks Creek Wilderness, North Fork Owyhee Wilderness, Owyhee River Wilderness, and Pole Creek Wilderness.
 
Requires the Department of the Interior to: (1) report to Congress on all livestock grazing management activities that were authorized in such wilderness areas on the day before they were designated as wilderness, and (2) use the report to assist in the management of livestock grazing in those areas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To establish a pilot toll credit market place program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-2172
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Railroads
Regional and metropolitan planning
Roads and highways
State and local finance
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish a pilot toll credit marketplace program for states, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), or local governments to buy and sell toll credits and use the proceeds for highway, transit, and other related projects. States, MPOs, or local governments may not use federal funds to purchase toll credits on the marketplace or use them for more than 10% of its annual apportionment of federal-aid highway funds in a fiscal year.
 
The Federal Highway Administration shall determine how a toll credit marketplace will work.
 
The Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 is amended to revise railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing program requirements. Toll credits earned shall be eligible as collateral in determining credit risk premium amounts for direct loans or loan guarantees for railroad improvement projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Redistricting Reform Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2173
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-19]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional districts and representation
Government information and archives
Judicial review and appeals
Political parties and affiliation
Public participation and lobbying
State and local finance
State and local government operations
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Redistricting Reform Act of 2015

 
Prohibits a state that has been redistricted after an apportionment from being redistricted again until after the next apportionment of Representatives, unless the state is ordered by a court to conduct a subsequent redistricting in order to comply with the U.S. Constitution or enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 
 
Requires such redistricting to be conducted in accordance with the plan developed and enacted into law by the independent redistricting commission established in the state or, if such a plan is not enacted into law, with the redistricting plan developed and enacted into law by a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. 
 
Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) the establishment by a nonpartisan agency of a state independent redistricting commission (including requirements for holding each of its meetings in public and maintaining a public Internet site); (2) the development and publication of a preliminary redistricting plan and the holding of at least three public hearings on such plan; (3) the enactment of a redistricting plan, under specified conditions, by a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; (4) redistricting conducted under a federal court order; and (5) Election Assistance Commission payments to states for carrying out redistricting.
 
Authorizes the Department of Justice to bring a civil action to enforce this Act, which shall be given expedited consideration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Native American Languages Reauthorization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2174
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 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: 2015-04-30
text: 

Native American Languages Reauthorization Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to reauthorize through FY2020 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: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
FEHBP Prescription Drug Oversight and Cost Savings Act

Bill: 114-hr-2175
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business records
Consumer affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Prescription drugs
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

FEHBP Prescription Drug Oversight and Cost Savings Act

 
 Prohibits the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from entering a contract or approving a health benefits plan with a carrier that is a party to a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) carrier arrangement to provide or administer prescription drug coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) unless the PBM and the carrier comply with the requirements for PBM carrier arrangements set forth by this Act. Directs OPM to terminate a contract or discontinue a plan that fails to comply with such requirements.
 
Prohibits: (1) a PBM under a carrier arrangement from being under common corporate control with a prescription drug manufacturer or a retail pharmacy, and (2) OPM from permitting a carrier under common corporate control with a PBM to earn a profit from such control.
 
Sets forth terms and requirements for PBM carrier arrangements under the FEHBP, including: (1) drug substitution restrictions, (2) PBM reimbursement of carriers, (3) sale by a PBM of utilization and claims data, (4) drug pricing and the basis for reimbursement, (5) PBM provision to plan enrollees of an explanation of benefits statement regarding prescription drugs, (6) nondiscriminatory contracts regarding required participation, (7) OPM access to PBM contract information, and (8) civil monetary penalties for making false statements or claims to the government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Duwamish Tribal Recognition Act

Bill: 114-hr-2176
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Land transfers
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Duwamish Tribal Recognition Act

 
 Extends federal recognition to the Duwamish Tribe. 
 
Makes the Tribe and its members eligible for all services and benefits provided by the federal government to federally recognized tribes without regard to the existence of a reservation for the Tribe or the location of the residence of any member on or near any Indian reservation. Defines the Tribe's service area for purposes of the delivery of federal services.
 
Requires the Tribe to submit to the Department of the Interior a membership roll of all individuals enrolled in the Tribe.
 
Requires the Tribe to conduct an election by secret ballot to adopt a constitution and bylaws for the Tribe. Requires the Tribe to elect a governing body in accordance with the procedures set forth in its constitution and bylaws.
 
Requires Interior to take Tribe service area or aboriginal lands into trust for the benefit of the Tribe if the Tribe transfers all interest in and to the land to Interior within ten years. Requires Interior and the Department of Agriculture to identify those lands which shall be considered the aboriginal homelands of the Tribe. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E636-637)
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
PARTNER Act

Bill: 114-hr-2179
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Patrick [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Inflation and prices
Research and development
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Partnerships to Advance Revolutionary Technology and Novel Entrepreneurial Research Act or the PARTNER Act

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the definition of "passive activity," for purposes of the passive loss tax rules, any qualified research activity carried on by a high technology research small business pass-thru entity.
 
Defines "high technology research small business pass-thru entity" as any domestic pass-thru entity if: (1) more than 75% of the entity's expenditures are paid or incurred in connection with qualified research, or (2) more than 50% of the entity's expenditures constitute qualified research expenses. Designates a high technology research entity as a small business if such entity has 250 or fewer full-time employees and does not have aggregate gross assets in excess of $150 million. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Local Task Forces on 21st Century Policing Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2180
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Community life and organization
Crime prevention
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Racial and ethnic relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: 

Local Task Forces on 21st Century Policing Act of 2015

 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the use of funds under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program by state and local governments for the establishment of a task force to identify the best ways to create an effective partnership between local law enforcement officers and the community those officers serve that reduces crime and increases trust.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E631)
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-04-30
text: Introduced in House