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An original bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an investment tax credit for waste heat to power technology.

Bill: 114-s-913
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2015-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Income tax credits
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an energy tax credit for investment in waste heat to power property. 
 
The bill defines "waste heat to power property" as property: (1) comprising a system which generates electricity through the recovery of a qualified waste heat resource; and (2) that is placed in service before January 1, 2017. "Qualified waste heat resource" is defined as: (1) exhaust heat or flared gas from an industrial process that does not have as its primary purpose the production of electricity, and (2) a pressure drop in any gas for an industrial or commercial process.
 
The bill also increases from 30% to 35% the rate of the continuous levy on payments to Medicare providers and suppliers for unpaid taxes. 

action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 
(Sec. 1) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an energy tax credit for investment in waste heat to power property. The property cannot have a capacity in excess of 50 megawatts.
 
The bill defines &quot;waste heat to power property&quot; as property: (1) comprising a system which generates electricity through the recovery of a qualified waste heat resource; and (2) that is placed in service before January 1, 2017. &quot;Qualified waste heat resource&quot; is defined as: (1) exhaust heat or flared gas from an industrial process that does not have as its primary purpose the production of electricity, and (2) a pressure drop in any gas for an industrial or commercial process.
 
The bill provides for a formula to limit the basis of any waste heat to power property for purposes of calculating the credit.
 
The amendments made by this section apply to taxable years ending after the enactment date of this Act. 
 
(Sec. 2) The bill also increases from 30% to 35% the rate of the continuous levy on payments made after 180 days after the enactment date of this Act to Medicare providers and suppliers for unpaid taxes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 46.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-23.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-23.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
An original bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to clarify the use of credentials by enrolled agents.

Bill: 114-s-914
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2015-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Licensing and registrations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 
Permits any enrolled agent properly licensed to represent taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service to use the credentials or designation of "enrolled agent," "EA," or "E.A."

action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
Permits any enrolled agent properly licensed to represent taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service to use the credentials or designation of "enrolled agent," "EA," or "E.A."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 47.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-24.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-24.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Don't Tax Our Fallen Public Safety Heroes Act

Bill: 114-s-916
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2015-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Income tax exclusion
Law enforcement officers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-14
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.

action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 

Don't Tax Our Fallen Public Safety Heroes Act 

 
(Sec. 2) 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: 2015-04-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 49.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-26.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-26.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
LNG and LPG Excise Tax Equalization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-917
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2015-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Debt collection
Medicare
Oil and gas
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 

LNG and LPG Excise Tax Equalization Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to equalize the excise tax on liquefied petroleum gas and liquefied natural gas by establishing a rate of 18.3 cents per energy equivalent of a gallon of gasoline for liquefied petroleum gas and 24.3 cents per energy equivalent of a gallon of diesel for liquefied natural gas. 
 
The bill also increases from 30% to 35% the rate of the continuous levy on payments made to Medicare providers and suppliers for unpaid taxes. 

action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 

LNG and LPG Excise Tax Equalization Act of 2015

 
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to equalize the excise tax on liquefied petroleum gas and liquefied natural gas by establishing a rate of 18.3 cents per energy equivalent of a gallon of gasoline for liquefied petroleum gas and 24.3 cents per energy equivalent of a gallon of diesel for liquefied natural gas. 
 
(Sec. 3) The bill also increases from 30% to 35% the rate of the continuous levy on payments made after 180 days after the enactment date of this Act to Medicare providers and suppliers for unpaid taxes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 50.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-27.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-27.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Notice for Organizations That Include Charities is Essential (NOTICE) Act

Bill: 114-s-918
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2015-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 

Notice for Organizations That Include Charities is Essential (NOTICE) Act
 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Department of the Treasury to notify any tax-exempt organization, not later than 300 days after such an organization fails to file its annual tax return or other required information for 2 consecutive years, that: (1) the Internal Revenue Service has no record of its return or information for 2 consecutive years, and (2) a penalty will occur if the organization fails to file its return or information by the next filing deadline. Allows the reinstatement of the tax-exempt status of such an organization without the requirement of an application if: (1) the organization demonstrates to the satisfaction of Treasury that it did not receive the notice required by this Act, and (2) it files an annual return or required information for the current year. 

action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 

Notice for Organizations That Include Charities is Essential (NOTICE) Act
 
 
(Sec. 2) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Department of the Treasury to notify any tax-exempt organization, not later than 300 days after such an organization fails to file its annual tax return or other required information for 2 consecutive years, that: (1) the Internal Revenue Service has no record of its return or information for 2 consecutive years, and (2) a penalty will occur if the organization fails to file its return or information by the next filing deadline. Allows the reinstatement of the tax-exempt status of such an organization without the requirement of an application if: (1) the organization demonstrates to the satisfaction of Treasury that it did not receive the notice required by this Act, and (2) it files an annual return or required information for the current year. Makes this Act applicable to notices and returns required to be filed after December 31, 2014. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 51.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-28.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-28.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
An original bill to exclude from gross income certain clean coal power grants to non-corporate taxpayers.

Bill: 114-s-919
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2015-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Coal
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 
This bill excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, any amount received by a non-corporate taxpayer as a clean coal power grant, award, or allowance under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. To the extent that such grant, award, or allowance is related to depreciable property, the adjusted basis of such property is reduced by the amount excluded from gross income. Each non-corporate taxpayer allowed a tax exclusion under this Act must make a payment to the federal government of 1.18% of the value of the grant, award, or allowance received. 

action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 
This bill excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, any amount received by a non-corporate taxpayer as a clean coal power grant, award, or allowance under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. To the extent that such grant, award, or allowance is related to depreciable property, the adjusted basis of such property is reduced by the amount excluded from gross income. Each non-corporate taxpayer allowed a tax exclusion under this Act must make a payment to the federal government of 1.18% of the value of the grant, award, or allowance received. 
 
This bill is applicable to grant amounts received in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2011. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 52.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-29.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-29.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Spouse Job Continuity Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-920
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2015-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Debt collection
Income tax credits
Licensing and registrations
Medicare
Military personnel and dependents
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 

Military Spouse Job Continuity Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces (military spouse) who moves with such member to another state under a permanent change of station order a tax credit for up to $500 of qualified relicensing costs incurred by such spouse. Defines "qualified relicensing costs" as costs for a state license or certification to engage in the profession that such military spouse engaged in while residing in the former state. 
 
Increases from 30% to 40% the rate of the continuous levy on payments to Medicare providers and suppliers for unpaid taxes.

action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 

Military Spouse Job Continuity Act of 2015

 
(Sec. 2) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces (military spouse) who moves with such member to another state under a permanent change of station order a tax credit for up to $500 of qualified relicensing costs incurred by such spouse for each change of duty station. Defines "qualified relicensing costs" as costs for a state license or certification to engage in the profession that such military spouse engaged in while residing in the former state and which are paid or incurred during the period beginning when the relocation order is issued and ending one year after the reporting date specified in such order. Requires a reduction in the amount of such credit by any tax deduction or other credit allowed for qualified relicensing costs. Makes this tax credit effective for taxable years beginning after 2014. 
 
(Sec. 3) Increases from 30% to 40% the rate of the continuous levy on payments to Medicare providers and suppliers for unpaid taxes, effective for payments made after 180 days after the enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 53.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-30.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Committee on Finance. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Hatch. With written report No. 114-30.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act

Bill: 114-s-922
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2015-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Oil and gas
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 

Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act 

 
 Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the taxation of the foreign-source income of domestic corporations, to:
 
 
 eliminate the deferral of tax on the foreign-source income of U.S. corporations for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015; 
 
 deny the foreign tax credit to large integrated oil companies that are dual capacity taxpayers; 
 
 limit the offset of the foreign tax credit to income that is subject to U.S. tax;
 
 treat foreign corporations managed and controlled in the United States as domestic corporations for U.S. tax purposes;
 
limit the tax deduction of the interest expense of a U.S. corporation that is a member of a financial reporting group (i.e., a group that prepares consolidated financial statements according to generally accepted accounting principles or international financial reporting standards); and 
 
 revise rules for the taxation of inverted corporations (i.e., U.S. corporations that acquire foreign companies to reincorporate in a foreign jurisdiction with income tax rates lower than the United States) to provide that a foreign corporation that acquires the properties of a U.S. corporation or partnership after May 8, 2014, shall be treated as an inverted corporation and thus subject to U.S. taxation if, after such acquisition it holds more than 50% of the stock of the new entity (expanded affiliated group).
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Relationships Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-923
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2015-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Family planning and birth control
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Marriage and family status
Sex and reproductive health
Sexually transmitted diseases
Teenage pregnancy

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 

Healthy Relationships Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Health Resources and Services Administration to award grants for qualified sexual risk avoidance education for youth and their parents.
 
The unambiguous message that postponing sexual activity is the optimal sexual health behavior for youth must be the primary emphasis and context for each topic covered by the education. The education must be age appropriate, medically accurate, and evidence based.
 
The education must address specified topics, including:
 
 
 the benefits associated with personal responsibility, success sequencing (sequential progression through: completing school, securing a job, and marrying before bearing children), goal setting, healthy decision making, and a focus on the future;
 
the research-based advantage of reserving sexual activity for marriage;
 
the skills needed to resist the pervasive, sex-saturated culture;
 
the foundational components of healthy relationships; and
 
how to avoid sexual coercion, dating violence, and risk behaviors, such as drugs, alcohol, and the misuse of social media.
 
 Priority in awarding grants must be given to programs serving youth in middle school and high school that will promote parent-child communication regarding healthy sexual decision making.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
National Credit Union Administration Budget Transparency Act

Bill: 114-s-924
Sponsor: Sen. Heller, Dean [R-NV]
Introduced: 2015-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
National Credit Union Administration
Public participation and lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 

National Credit Union Administration Budget Transparency Act

 
This bill amends the Federal Credit Union Act to require the National Credit Union Administration Board, before the annual submission of its required detailed business-type budget, to: (1) print a draft of the budget in the Federal Register; (2) hold a public hearing to receive comments from the public on the draft; and (3) include in the required integral set of accounts statements in which the budget will address any of such comments. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Women on the Twenty Act

Bill: 114-s-925
Sponsor: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2015-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Currency
U.S. history
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 

Women on the Twenty Act

 
This bill amends the Federal Reserve Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to convene a panel of private citizens to advise and make recommendations regarding the likeness of a woman to appear on the face of $20 federal reserve notes.
 
 Requires the Secretary and the panel to consider and weigh input from the American people.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Grace Period Restoration Act of 2015

Bill: 114-s-926
Sponsor: Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI]
Introduced: 2015-04-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Intellectual property

Summary:
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: 

Grace Period Restoration Act of 2015

 
Amends federal patent law to revise the one-year grace period under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) that prohibits certain pre-filing disclosures made during the year preceding the effective filing date of a claimed invention from being considered prior art that would make the claim ineligible for a patent based on lack of novelty or obvious subject matter grounds. (A disclosure that is prior art generally means that a patent cannot be issued for a claimed invention because the invention was already patented, described in a printed publication, in public use, on sale, available to the public, or described in an issued patent or a previously filed application.)
 
Prohibits an inventor's or any other person's pre-filing disclosure from barring the patentability of certain claims based on lack of novelty or obvious subject matter grounds if, before such disclosure and within the one-year period before the filing date, the claimed invention was already publicly disclosed in a printed publication by the inventor, a joint inventor, or another who obtained the claimed invention from the inventor or a joint inventor. Allows an inventor who discloses an invention in a printed publication in such a manner in the year before filing a patent claim for the invention to remain entitled to the patent, regardless of any subsequent disclosures by third parties.
 
Excludes certain disclosures from being considered prior art under the revised grace period.
 
Requires the amendments made by this Act to take effect as if enacted as part of the AIA. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-02-25
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-603.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-04-14
text: Introduced in Senate