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Social Security Integrity Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2777
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2015-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: 

Social Security Integrity Act of 2015

 
This bill directs the Commissioner of Social Security to implement all of the recommendations described in the memorandum from the Office of the Inspector General of the Social Security Administration entitled &quot;Numberholders Age 112 or Older Who Did Not Have a Death Entry on the Numident (A-06-14-34030)&quot; and dated March 4, 2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the 7-year restriction on eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits based on disability.

Bill: 114-hr-2779
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2015-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to repeal the seven-year restriction on eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits based on disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the two-year waiting period for divorced spouse's benefits following the divorce.

Bill: 114-hr-2780
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2015-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Separation, divorce, custody, support
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the two-year waiting period following a divorce for a divorced spouse to become entitled to a spouse's OASDI benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for full benefits for disabled widows and widowers without regard to age.

Bill: 114-hr-2781
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2015-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disability and paralysis
Marriage and family status
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide for full benefits for disabled widows and widowers without regard to age or any previous reduction in OASDI benefits.
 
Declares that there shall be no reduction in the widow's or widower's insurance benefit of an individual for any month in which such individual is under a disability. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for increases in widow's and widower's insurance benefits by reason of delayed retirement.

Bill: 114-hr-2782
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2015-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) increases in widow's and widower's insurance benefits by reason of delayed retirement, and (2) the treatment of delayed retirement in cases of simultaneous entitlement to OASDI benefits and widow's or widower's insurance benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Superfund Polluter Pays Act

Bill: 114-hr-2783
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2015-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Income tax rates
Pollution liability
Sales and excise taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: 

Superfund Polluter Pays Act 

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate and extend through December 31, 2020, the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate and the corporate environmental income tax. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Karl Hoerig Foreign Aid Suspension Act

Bill: 114-hr-2784
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2015-06-15 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Brazil
Congressional oversight
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Foreign aid and international relief
Latin America
Sanctions

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: 

Karl Hoerig Foreign Aid Suspension Act

 
Prohibits assistance to Brazil until the President certifies to Congress that the government of Brazil has removed the prohibition on extradition of Brazilian nationals to other countries.
 
Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition on a case-by-case basis if in the U.S. national interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
End Immuity for Brazilian Criminals Act

Bill: 114-hr-2785
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2015-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Brazil
Congressional oversight
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Latin America
Sanctions
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: 

End Immuity for Brazilian Criminals Act 

 
Prohibits the issuance of a visa to a citizen, subject, national, or resident of Brazil until the President certifies to Congress that the government of Brazil has removed the prohibition on extradition of Brazilian nationals to other countries.
 
Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition on a case-by-case basis if in the U.S. national interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
East Rosebud Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

Bill: 114-hr-2787
Sponsor: Rep. Zinke, Ryan K. [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Forests, forestry, trees
Montana
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: 

East Rosebud Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

 
 Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified river segments of the East Rosebud Creek in Montana as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-15
text: Introduced in House
S Corporation Modernization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2788
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2015-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Charitable contributions
Corporate finance and management
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: 

S Corporation Modernization Act of 2015 

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the tax treatment of S corporations by: (1) permanently reducing from 10 to 5 years the period during which S corporation built-in gains are subject to tax, (2) repealing mandatory termination of S corporation elections for excessive passive investment income, (3) allowing S corporations to increase passive investment income from 25 to 60% without incurring additional tax, (4) allowing nonresident aliens to be potential current beneficiaries of an electing small business trust (ESBT), (5) allowing individual retirement accounts to be S corporation shareholders, (6) allowing ESBTs to claim expanded charitable tax deductions, and (7) making permanent the rule requiring a basis adjustment to stock of an S corporation making charitable contributions of property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Capital Access for Small Business Banks Act

Bill: 114-hr-2789
Sponsor: Rep. Marchant, Kenny [R-TX-24]
Introduced: 2015-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business investment and capital
Corporate finance and management
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: 

Capital Access for Small Business Banks Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a bank or a depository institution holding company which is an S corporation to: (1) have 500 shareholders (the current limit is 100 shareholders), and (2) issue qualified preferred bank stock. The bill makes a distribution of qualified preferred bank stock to a shareholder includible in the gross income of the shareholder and allows the bank or holding company to deduct the amount of such distribution. 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Joint Base Pay Parity Act

Bill: 114-hr-2790
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2015-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of Defense
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Military facilities and property

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: 
 Requires that all civilian employees of military installations which are not located within the same pay locality and which are reorganized or associated as a single joint installation receive uniform locality pay at the percentage payable with respect to the locality then receiving the highest locality pay.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Manufacturers First Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2792
Sponsor: Rep. Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2015-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: 

Manufacturers First Act of 2015

 
This bill requires the primary and secondary national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for air pollutants under the Clean Air Act that are in effect on this bill's enactment date to remain in effect. The Environmental Protection Agency may not issue, implement, or enforce revisions to those NAAQS or any new NAAQS. (Primary NAAQS provide public health protection and secondary NAAQS provide public welfare protection.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Introduced in House
TRAC Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2793
Sponsor: Rep. Hice, Jody B. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2015-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Immigration status and procedures
Licensing and registrations
Sex offenses

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: 

Tracking Reoffending Alien Criminals Act of 2015 or the TRAC Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act to require the Department of Homeland Security to ensure that unlawfully present alien sex offenders in removal proceedings or with final orders for removal register as sex offenders as required under the Act. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Youth Summer Jobs and Public Service Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2796
Sponsor: Rep. Richmond, Cedric L. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2015-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Temporary and part-time employment
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: 

Youth Summer Jobs and Public Service Act of 2015

 
 Amends the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to direct the Department of Labor to award grants to states to help local areas with high concentrations of eligible youth to carry out summer employment programs to provide those youth with summer employment opportunities directly linked to academic and occupational learning.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-16
text: Introduced in House
FAST Act

Bill: 114-hr-2799
Sponsor: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2015-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare
Neurological disorders
User charges and fees

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: 

Furthering Access to Stroke Telemedicine Act or the FAST Act

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) expand access to certain stroke telehealth services to any originating site at which the eligible telehealth individual is located at the time the service is furnished, regardless of where the site is located; and (2) waive the facility fee for certain such originating sites.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Pregnancy Discrimination Amendment Act

Bill: 114-hr-2800
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2015-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Employment discrimination and employee rights
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Women's employment
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: 

Pregnancy Discrimination Amendment Act 

 
Amends provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that protect against pregnancy discrimination in the workplace to provide for women affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions to be treated the same for all employment-related purposes as any other persons who are applicants for employment with, or employees of, the same employer in work that is performed under similar working conditions and who are not so affected but are similar in their temporary ability or inability to work. 
 
Makes such treatment applicable to existing prohibited categories of employment discrimination on the basis of sex or because of sex. 
 
Prohibits this treatment from permitting a labor organization to cause an employer to commit an unlawful employment practice against an employee in violation of such provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2015-06-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4496)
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Introduced in House
No Office Space for Executive Amnesty Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2801
Sponsor: Rep. Babin, Brian [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2015-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Appropriations
Arizona
Border security and unlawful immigration
California
Citizenship and naturalization
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Detention of persons
Foreign labor
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Immigration status and procedures
Military personnel and dependents
New Mexico
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Texas
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: 

No Office Space for Executive Amnesty Act of 2015

 
This bill prohibits funds from being obligated or expended by the General Services Administration to lease any space for purposes of carrying out the policies set forth in: 
 
 
the memoranda from the Secretary of Homeland Security dated November 20, 2014, entitled "Southern Border and Approaches Campaign," "Policies for the Apprehension, Detention and Removal of Undocumented Immigrants," "Secure Communities," "Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children and with Respect to Certain Individuals Who Are the Parents of U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents," "Expansion of the Provisional Waiver Program," "Policies Supporting U.S. High-Skilled Businesses and Workers," "Families of U.S. Armed Forces Members and Enlistees," "Directive to Provide Consistency Regarding Advance Parole," and "Policies to Promote and Increase Access to U.S. Citizenship"; 
 
the memoranda issued by the President on November 21, 2014, entitled "Creating Welcoming Communities and Fully Integrating Immigrants and Refugees" and "Modernizing and Streamlining the U.S. Immigrant Visa System for the 21st Century"; and
 
any similar memorandum issued after November 21, 2014.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure State control over academic standards, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-2803
Sponsor: Rep. Zeldin, Lee M. [R-NY-1]
Introduced: 2015-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: 
This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow a state to withdraw from the Common Core State Standards developed under the Common Core State Standards Initiative, any other academic standards common to a significant number of states, or assessments tied to such standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-17
text: Introduced in House