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New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-855
Sponsor: Rep. Tiberi, Patrick J. [R-OH-12]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Economic development
Financial services and investments
Income tax credits
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the new markets tax credit, (2) provide for an inflation adjustment to the limitation amount for such credit after 2014, and (3) allow an offset against the alternative minimum tax for such credit (determined with respect to qualified equity investments initially made after the enactment of this Act).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Gold Butte National Conservation Area Act

Bill: 114-hr-856
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Land transfers
Nevada
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Travel and tourism
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

Gold Butte National Conservation Area Act 

 
 Establishes the Gold Butte National Conservation Area in Nevada, which shall consist of 348,515 acres of public land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Withdraws public land within the conservation area from: (1) entry, appropriation, operation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and the geothermal leasing laws. 
 
Establishes the Gold Butte National Conservation Area Advisory Council.
 
Designates specified wilderness areas administered by the National Park Service or BLM in Clark County, Nevada, as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
Authorizes BLM to establish a visitor center and field office in Mesquite, Nevada, to assist in fulfilling the purposes of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, and the conservation area. 
 
 Terminates the withdrawal of specified parcels of BLM lands for use by the Bureau of Reclamation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Garden Valley Withdrawal Act

Bill: 114-hr-857
Sponsor: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 

Garden Valley Withdrawal Act

 
 Withdraws 805,100 acres of federal land in Garden Valley, Nevada, from: (1) entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) operation of the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Literacy Education for All, Results for the Nation Act

Bill: 114-hr-858
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Government information and archives
Language arts
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: 
 
Literacy Education for All, Results for the Nation Act or the LEARN Act

 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to states to develop or improve a comprehensive plan to improve the literacy of children from birth through grade 12. 
 
Directs the Secretary to award grants to states to implement their comprehensive literacy plans for such children through: 
 
 
 competitive subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) or early learning programs for specified activities that support early language and literacy development in children from birth through kindergarten entry; 
 
 competitive subgrants to LEAs that have the highest numbers or percentages of disadvantaged students and students reading or writing below grade level for specified activities to improve the literacy of students in kindergarten through grade 12, including the provision of family literacy services; and 
 
 additional state activities that include providing technical assistance to subgrantees, coordinating literacy programs and resources throughout the state, disseminating information on promising literacy programs, and enhancing the credentials of literacy instructors. 
 
 
Allots implementation grants to states on the basis of each state's share of disadvantaged students.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) perform a five-year national evaluation of the implementation and effect of the literacy initiatives supported by this Act, and (2) provide technical assistance and information on literacy instruction to educational entities.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to withhold this Act's funding from states and subgrantees, and states to withhold funding from subgrantees, whose initiatives are not making significant progress in improving student literacy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of certain aliens who were aboard the Golden Venture.

Bill: 114-hr-859
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2015-02-10 in the House
Subjects: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Provides for the relief of certain aliens who were aboard the Golden Venture.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-10
text: Introduced in House
FAFSA Fairness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-860
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

FAFSA Fairness Act of 2015

 
Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to disclose, on the form notifying students of their expected family contribution, the special circumstances under which students may qualify as independent for purposes of the determination regarding their need and eligibility for title IV assistance. 
 
Allows students who may qualify as independent on the basis of those special circumstances to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid as independent students for purposes of the initial determination of their title IV assistance by a financial aid administrator at an institution of higher education to which they are applying.
 
Requires the financial aid administrators to: (1) provide those students with an initial determination regarding their title IV assistance in the same manner as, and by no later than the date that, they provide other independent students with that determination; and (2) use, in making a final determination regarding that assistance, the discretion provided to them under title IV to verify whether such students meet the special circumstances to qualify as independent students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
You Own Devices Act

Bill: 114-hr-862
Sponsor: Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft
Computers and information technology
Intellectual property
Lease and rental services
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

You Own Devices Act

 
Amends federal copyright law to allow the owner of a machine or other product operated in any part by a computer program to transfer an authorized copy of the computer program, or the right to obtain such copy, when the owner sells, leases, or otherwise transfers the machine or product to another person. Prohibits such right to transfer the computer program from being waived by any agreement.
 
Requires any right to receive modifications to such a computer program relating to security or error correction that applied to the owner of the machine or product to apply to the person to whom the machine or product and the copy of the computer program are transferred.
 
Prohibits this Act from being construed to permit the owner to retain an unauthorized copy of the computer program after such a transfer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
STARS Act

Bill: 114-hr-863
Sponsor: Rep. Renacci, James B. [R-OH-16]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor
Sales and excise taxes
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Simplifying Technical Aspects Regarding Seasonality Act of 2015 or the STARS Act

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt seasonal employees from the definition of "full-time employee" for purposes of the employer mandate to provide employees with minimum essential health care coverage. Defines "seasonal employee" as an employee who is employed in a position for which the customary annual employment is not more than six months and which requires performing labor or services that are ordinarily performed at certain seasons or periods of the year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Juror Non-Discrimination Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-864
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Federal district courts
Judicial procedure and administration
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Specialized courts

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Juror Non-Discrimination Act of 2015

 
Amends the federal judicial code to prohibit the exclusion of citizens from service as a grand or petit juror in U.S. district courts or the Court of International Trade on account of sexual orientation or gender identity (thereby expanding the current prohibition on exclusion on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or economic status).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-865
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Evidence and witnesses
Federal preemption
Health care quality
Health personnel
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2015

 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to shield a health care professional from liability under federal or state law for harm caused by any act or omission if: (1) the professional is serving as a volunteer in response to a disaster; and (2) the act or omission occurs during the period of the disaster, in the professional's capacity as a volunteer, and in a good faith belief that the individual being treated is in need of health care services.
 
Makes exceptions where: (1) the harm was caused by an act or omission constituting willful or criminal misconduct, gross negligence, reckless misconduct, or a conscious flagrant indifference to the rights or safety of the individual harmed; or (2) the professional rendered the health care services under the influence of alcohol or an intoxicating drug.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Federal Land Freedom Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-866
Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Endangered and threatened species
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Historic sites and heritage areas
Intergovernmental relations
Licensing and registrations
Oil and gas
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Federal Land Freedom Act of 2015

 
This bill permits a state that has an established leasing, permitting, and regulatory program to: (1) declare to the Secretaries of the Interior, of Agriculture, and of Energy that it has either established or amended the program; and (2) seek to transfer to itself, and to implement, existing federal responsibilities for leasing, permitting, and regulating oil and natural gas development. 
 
Any state action to lease, permit, or regulate oil and gas exploration and development shall not be subject to, or considered, a federal action, a federal permit, or a federal license with respect to specified administrative and environmental laws and is therefore exempt from them. 
 
State-issued leases or permits must provide for: (1) the collection of royalties or other revenues in an amount equal to what would have been collected if the lease or permit had been federally issued, and (2) their deposit into the same federal account in which they would have been deposited if the lease or permit had been federally issued. 
 
A state may collect and retain lease or permit application processing fees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-11-15
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Aged Distilled Spirits Competitiveness Act

Bill: 114-hr-867
Sponsor: Rep. Barr, Andy [R-KY-6]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Food industry and services
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Aged Distilled Spirits Competitiveness Act

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from determination of the production period for distilled spirits any period allocated to the natural aging process for purposes of determining whether a taxpayer can expense, rather than capitalize, interest costs paid or incurred during the production period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Veterans TRICARE Choice Act

Bill: 114-hr-868
Sponsor: Rep. Stewart, Chris [R-UT-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Government information and archives
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Military medicine
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Veterans TRICARE Choice Act

 
 Allows an individual who is eligible to participate in the TRICARE program (a Department of Defense [DOD] managed health care program) to: (1) elect to be ineligible to enroll in such program, (2) make tax deductible contributions to a health savings account during the period such individual elects to be ineligible for TRICARE coverage, and (3) enroll in the TRICARE program at a later date during a special enrollment period.
 
Requires DOD to: (1) submit to the Internal Revenue Service information on each TRICARE-eligible individual who makes such election for purposes of determining such individual's eligibility for a health savings account; and (2) report to Congress, annually, on elections by TRICARE-eligible individuals under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to broaden the special rules for certain governmental plans under section 105(j) to include plans established by political subdivisions.

Bill: 114-hr-869
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax exclusion
State and local government operations
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the special rule for the exclusion from gross income of amounts received by an employee from a governmental accident or health plan to include amounts paid from plans established by or on behalf of a state or political subdivision. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Chapter 9 Uniformity Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-870
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Pierluisi, Pedro R. [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Caribbean area
Puerto Rico
State and local finance
U.S. territories and protectorates

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 
 
Puerto Rico Chapter 9 Uniformity Act of 2015

 
Amends the federal bankruptcy code to treat Puerto Rico as a state under chapter 9 (Adjustment of the Debts of a Municipality).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Formerly Incarcerated Voter Registration Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-871
Sponsor: Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2015-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Government information and archives

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: 

Formerly Incarcerated

 Voter Registration Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the federal criminal code to direct the Bureau of Prisons to include among reentry planning procedures the provision to federal prisoners of information about: (1) the laws and regulations governing the right of an individual convicted of a felony who has been released from prison to vote in each state, and (2) any voter registration or application forms the prisoner will need to complete in order to vote in the state in which the prisoner will reside upon release.
 
The term &quot;state&quot; includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-11
text: Introduced in House