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Rural Main Street Investment Credit Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4868
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2016-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Rural conditions and development
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: 

Rural Main Street Investment Credit Act of 2016

 
 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business-related tax credit for 35% of new investment in a rural microbusiness. There is a limit on such credit, for any rural microbusiness or any taxpayer, of $10,000 in a taxable year reduced by the amount allowed as a credit for all preceding taxable years.
 
A &quot;rural microbusiness&quot; is a trade or business that employs not more than five full-time employees in a taxable year and that is carried on, and physically located, in a distressed rural area. A "distressed rural area" as an area that has lost at least 5% of its population over the last 10 years or 10% of its population over the last 20 years, that has a median family income below 85 % of the national median family income, that has a poverty rate that exceeds 12.5%, or where average unemployment in the preceding year exceeds 120% of the national average.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Promise Zone Job Creation Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4870
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2016-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Economic development
Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Indian social and development programs
Rural conditions and development
Urban and suburban affairs and development
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: 

Promise Zone Job Creation Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Agriculture, acting jointly, to designate, before January 1, 2017, not more than 20 areas as Promise Zones for purposes of priority consideration in federal grant programs and initiatives. Six of such areas shall be outside of a metropolitan statistical area or shall be determined to be rural areas. 
 
A "Promise Zone" is any area with a continuous boundary and a population of not more than 200,000 that is nominated by one or more local governments or Indian tribes and designated on the basis of unemployment rates, poverty rates, household income, home ownership, labor force participation, and educational attainment. An application for designation as a Promise Zone shall include a competitiveness plan that addresses the need of the area to attract investment and jobs and improve educational opportunities.
 
The bill allows: (1) a Promise Zone employment tax credit for wages paid to a qualified zone or resident employee, and (2) expensing of Promise Zone property. 
 
A "Promise Zone property" is a property that is: (1) tangible property with a recovery period of 20 years or less for depreciation purposes, water utility property, computer software, or qualified leasehold improvement property; (2) acquired by purchase for use in the active conduct of a trade or business; and (3) originally placed in service in a Promise Zone. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Study Act

Bill: 114-hr-4871
Sponsor: Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2016-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Government studies and investigations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: 

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Study Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the lands, waters, and interests of the coastline and specified areas adjacent to the Santa Monica Bay in California to evaluate a range of alternatives for protecting the study area's resources, including: 
 
 
expanding and redesignating the Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area as the &quot;Santa Monica Mountains and Coastal Recreation Area,&quot; or 
 
creating a new coastal recreation area designated as the &quot;Los Angeles Coastal Recreation Area.&quot; 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Save for Success Act

Bill: 114-hr-4872
Sponsor: Rep. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2016-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Higher education
Income tax credits
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: 

Save for Success Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) modify the American Opportunity Tax Credit to include an increased credit amount for college savings contributions, and (2) direct the Departments of the Treasury and Education to jointly establish a pilot program to make periodic payments of educational expenses for a student as such expenses are incurred during the taxable year.
 
Treasury shall establish a taxpayer awareness program to inform the public of the availability of the American Opportunity Tax Credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
TUITION Act

Bill: 114-hr-4873
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Patrick [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2016-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: 

Tuition Use Information Transparently Identified Online Act or the TUITION Act

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand disclosure requirements for an institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in federal student aid programs.
 
Specifically, it requires an IHE to publish annually on its website for students and parents: (1) the total revenue it generated from tuition and fees, disaggregated by the proportion of such revenue it applied to any type of institutional expense (e.g., faculty salaries); and (2) a description of each such expense. 

 
 This requirement takes effect in academic year 2016-2017. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Prevent ABUSE Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4874
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Patrick [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2016-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Law enforcement administration and funding
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: 

Prevent Abuse By Using Interstate Exchange Act of 2016 or the Prevent ABUSE Act of 2016

 
This bill requires a state that receives a prescription drug monitoring program implementation and enhancement grant to set aside at least 20% of grant funds to facilitate interstate electronic information sharing about prescriptions for controlled substances. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3130 Grants Lake Boulevard in Sugar Land, Texas, as the "LCpl Garrett W. Gamble, USMC Post Office Building".

Bill: 114-hr-4877
Sponsor: Rep. Olson, Pete [R-TX-22]
Introduced: 2016-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Military personnel and dependents
Postal service
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3130 Grants Lake Boulevard in Sugar Land, Texas, as the "LCpl Garrett W. Gamble, USMC Post Office Building."
action_date: 2016-07-29
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3130 Grants Lake Boulevard in Sugar Land, Texas, as the "LCpl Garrett W. Gamble, USMC Post Office Building."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-07-29
text: Became Public Law No: 114-209.
action_date: 2016-07-29
text: Became Public Law No: 114-209.
action_date: 2016-07-29
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2016-07-29
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2016-07-19
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2016-07-19
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2016-07-15
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5192-5193)
action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S5192-5193)
action_date: 2016-05-24
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2016-05-23
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2016-05-23
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2925)
action_date: 2016-05-23
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H2925)
action_date: 2016-05-23
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4877.
action_date: 2016-05-23
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2925-2926)
action_date: 2016-05-23
text: Mr. Walker moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2016-05-17
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2016-05-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 114-209
TEST for Lead Act

Bill: 114-hr-4879
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M., Jr. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2016-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Child health
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: 

Transparent Environment in School Testing for Lead Act or the
 
TEST for Lead Act 

 
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to condition a state's receipt of funding from the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund on the state establishing a program to test for lead in school drinking water.
 
Program requirements include testing water from: (1) faucets used for food preparation, (2)sinks in bathrooms, and (3)drinking water coolers.Testing must be conducted at least biannually at schools built prior to 1996 and at least annually at schools built in 1996 or after.
 
Additionally, local education agencies must notify parents, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the state in which they are located within 48 hours if a level of lead exceeds the EPA's lead action level.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Lives Using Surplus Equipment Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4880
Sponsor: Rep. Ratcliffe, John [R-TX-4]
Introduced: 2016-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Firearms and explosives
Law enforcement administration and funding
Military facilities and property
Terrorism
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: 

Protecting Lives Using Surplus Equipment Act of 2016

 
This bill invalidates any regulation, rule, guidance, recommendation, or policy issued after May 15, 2015, that limits the sale or donation of excess federal property to state and local law enforcement agencies unless enacted by Congress.
 
Additionally, it prohibits the use of federal funds to implement such regulation, rule, guidance, recommendation, or policy.
 
Property that was recalled or seized on or after May 15, 2015, must be returned, replaced, or reissued to the state or local law enforcement agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2016-04-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4881
Sponsor: Rep. Roe, David P. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2016-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food assistance and relief
Fruit and vegetables
Meat
Nutrition and diet
Poverty and welfare assistance
Seafood

Summary:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: 

Healthy Food Choices Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to apply nutritional standards for the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to foods purchased for USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program), with the addition of: 
 
 
 meat, fish, and poultry; 
 
 beans, soups, and immature varieties of legumes (such as those used in canned green peas, green beans, snap beans, yellow beans, and wax beans); and 
 
 baked beans with meat. 
 
 
(Foods purchased for WIC must: (1) contain nutrients determined by nutritional research to be lacking in the diets of pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, or children; or (2) promote the health of the population served by the program.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Cesar Chavez National Historical Park Act

Bill: 114-hr-4882
Sponsor: Rep. Ruiz, Raul [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2016-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
California
Historic sites and heritage areas
Labor-management relations
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Monuments and memorials
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Parks, recreation areas, trails

Summary:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: 

Cesar Chavez National Historical Park Act

 
This bill establishes as a unit of the National Park System the Cesar Chavez National Historical Park in California and Arizona, replacing the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument and incorporating the Monument lands and interests within, and as part of, the Historical Park. 
 
The Department of the Interior may provide staff and technical assistance for the interpretation of historic sites, museums, and resources on lands not administered by Interior related to the life of Cesar Chavez and the history of the farm worker movement. 
 
Interior may designate a vehicular tour route, to be known as the American Farm Worker Movement Interpretive Route, to link properties in California and Arizona that are historically and thematically associated with Cesar Chavez and the farm worker movement. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Department of State from obligating or expending any funds to hire a contractor to deliver interactive, professional training seminars for senior-level officials on effective congressional testimony and briefing skills, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-4883
Sponsor: Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2016-03-23 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional oversight
Department of State
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Public contracts and procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: 
 This bill prohibits the Department of State from obligating or expending any funds to hire a contractor to deliver interactive, professional training seminars for senior-level officials on effective congressional testimony and briefing skills.
 
The bill also rescinds any unobligated balances of funds for such purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
CURB Lifeline Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4884
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Austin [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2016-03-23 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Poverty and welfare assistance
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: 

Controlling the Unchecked and Reckless Ballooning of Lifeline Act of 2016 or the CURB Lifeline Act of 2016

 
This bill prohibits the total amount of annual support that may be provided through the Lifeline program of the Federal Communications Commission from exceeding $1.5 billion.
 
Support provided through the Lifeline program may not be applied to: (1) any amount charged to a consumer for the sale, lease, or other provision of a mobile telephone or similar device; or (2) mobile service if the service offering is limited to voice communications service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-19
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 17 - 11 .
action_date: 2016-04-19
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Introduced in House
Technical Corrections Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4891
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2016-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: General taxation matters
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-11
text: 

Technical Corrections Act of 2016 

 
This bill makes technical and clerical amendments to: 
 
 
 the Protecting Americans From Tax Hikes Act of 2015; 
 
 the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016; 
 
 the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act; 
 
 the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015; 
 
 the Stephen Beck, Jr., ABLE Act of 2014; 
 
 the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012; 
 
 the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act; and 
 
 other specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. 
 
 
The bill also amends various provisions in the Internal Revenue Code that are not used in computing current tax liabilities (referred to as deadwood provisions). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-11
text: Introduced in House