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Permanent Active Financing Exception Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-961
Sponsor: Rep. Tiberi, Patrick J. [R-OH-12]
Introduced: 2015-02-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Financial services and investments
Foreign and international banking
Foreign and international corporations
Income tax exclusion
Insurance industry and regulation
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the subpart F foreign personal holding company income exemption for income that is derived in the active conduct of a banking, financing, or similar business, as a securities dealer, or in the conduct of an insurance business. 

action_date: 2015-10-23
text: 

Permanent Active Financing Exception Act of 2015

 
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the subpart F foreign personal holding company income exemption for income that is derived in the active conduct of a banking, financing, or similar business, as a securities dealer, or in the conduct of an insurance business. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-10-23
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 233.
action_date: 2015-10-23
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 114-307.
action_date: 2015-10-23
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 114-307.
action_date: 2015-09-17
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 11.
action_date: 2015-09-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-12
text: Introduced in House
Working Parent Support Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-964
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2015-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child care and development
Income tax deductions
Tax treatment of families

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: 

Working Parent Support Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers who do not otherwise itemize their tax deductions a deduction from gross income (above-the-line deduction) for their employment-related expenses incurred in caring for a child under the age of 13 or a child who is physicaly or mentaly incapable of self care (qualifying child). Limits the dollar amount of such deduction in a taxable year to $7,000 for taxpayers with one qualifying child or $14,000 for taxpayers with two or more qualifying children. Allows an annual inflation adjustment to such amounts for taxable years beginning after 2015. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Facilitating Participation in Clinical Data Registries Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-965
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2015-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health information and medical records
Medical ethics
Medical research
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: 

Facilitating Participation in Clinical Data Registries Act of 2015

 This bill requires the Office for Human Research Protections of the Department of Health and Human Services to issue guidance within one year on the application of the Common Rule, which provides protections for human research subjects, to clinical data registries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Ready-to-Compete Act

Bill: 114-hr-966
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adult education and literacy
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Preschool education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Television and film

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: 

Ready-to-Compete Act

 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to public telecommunications entities to coordinate the development, production, and distribution of innovative multiplatform educational programming and services for young children and youth and their parents, educators, and caregivers.
 
Requires grantees to award subcontracts or enter into agreements with public television stations and producers or distributors of educational programming for the operation of Ready-to-Learn programs.
 
Requires Ready-to-Learn programs to: (1) include programming that is aligned with state academic content and achievement standards; (2) include training and materials for educators and caregivers to facilitate their use of the programming and services; (3) address specific community and school needs, ascertained via ongoing community outreach programs; and (4) include programming in reading, social and emotional development, and at least one other topic in an academic or developmentally appropriate area.
 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary to award competitive grants to public television stations that partner with states, state workforce investment boards, or institutions of higher education to develop, disseminate, and provide on-line and on-air education and training services for adults.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Protecting America's Sovereignty Act

Bill: 114-hr-967
Sponsor: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Free trade and trade barriers
Government liability
International organizations and cooperation
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Specialized courts
Trade agreements and negotiations
U.S. and foreign investments

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: 

Protecting America's Sovereignty Act

 
Prohibits the President from entering into any free trade agreement or investment treaty with a foreign country or countries that grants foreign investors the right to access an international tribunal to seek cash damages from or injunctive relief against the U.S. government if such investors believe that U.S. actions are in breach of rights conferred on foreign investors in the agreement or treaty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
P.J.'s Act

Bill: 114-hr-968
Sponsor: Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2015-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Crime prevention
Housing and community development funding
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Public housing

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: 

P.J.'s Act

 
 Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to make eligible for community development block grant assistance rehabilitation to improve public safety, including the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of security cameras, safety lighting, and building locking mechanisms in public housing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-969
Sponsor: Rep. Gibson, Christopher P. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2015-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia
Conflicts and wars
Disability and paralysis
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: 

Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2015

 
 Includes as part of the Republic of Vietnam its territorial seas for purposes of the presumption of service connection for diseases associated with exposure by veterans to certain herbicide agents while in Vietnam. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Supporting Academic Freedom through Regulatory Relief Act

Bill: 114-hr-970
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2015-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Business ethics
Consumer affairs
Contracts and agency
Department of Education
Education programs funding
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Intergovernmental relations
Performance measurement
Right of privacy
School administration
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: 

Supporting Academic Freedom through Regulatory Relief Act

 
Repeals certain Department of Education (ED) regulations that for purposes of determining whether a school is eligible to participate in programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA): (1) require institutions of higher education (IHEs) and postsecondary vocational institutions (except religious schools) to be legally authorized by the state in which they are situated, (2) delineate what such legal authorization requires of states and schools, (3) impose standards and disclosure requirements on programs that prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation, and (4) define "credit hour." 
 
Prohibits ED from promulgating or enforcing any regulation or rule not in effect on the date of this Act's enactment regarding: (1) the state authorization for IHEs to operate within a state, (2) the definition or application of the term &quot;gainful employment,&quot; or (3) a teacher preparation program accountability system. Ends that prohibition when a law is enacted that extends by at least two fiscal years the authorization or duration of one or more programs under the HEA.
 
Prohibits ED from promulgating or enforcing any regulation or rule that defines "credit hour" for any purpose under the HEA.
 
Prohibits ED from carrying out, developing, refining, promulgating, publishing, implementing, administering, or enforcing a postsecondary institution ratings system or any other performance system to rate IHEs.
 
Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the HEA to authorize nonprofit IHEs to make payments to third-party entities for services that include student recruitment and are based on the amount of tuition that the IHE generates from student enrollment if the third-party entity: (1) is not affiliated with the IHE, (2) does not provide incentive payments to its employees for their success in enrolling students or securing financial aid for them, (3) is not paid by the IHE solely or separately for student recruitment services, and (4) will not make student recruitment information available to any other person or entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Orphan Product Extensions Now Accelerating Cures and Treatments Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-971
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2015-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug therapy
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government information and archives
Intellectual property
Prescription drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: 

Orphan Product Extensions Now Accelerating Cures and Treatments Act of 2015

 
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to extend by six months the exclusivity period for an approved drug or biological product when the product is additionally approved to prevent, diagnose, or treat a new indication that is a rare disease or condition (also known as an &ldquo;orphan disease&rdquo;).
 
Allows the FDA to revoke an extension if the application for the new indication contained an untrue material statement.
 
Requires the sponsor of a product receiving an extension to notify the FDA one year prior to discontinuing production for commercial reasons.
 
Requires the FDA to notify the public of products that receive this extension and patents related to those products.
 
Limits a product to one extension under this Act. Sets forth that extensions under this Act are in addition to other extensions.
 Applies only to products approved after enactment of this Act for a new indication that is a rare disease or condition.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Fairness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-973
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2015-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: 

Social Security Fairness Act of 2015

 
 Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to repeal the government pension offset requirement applicable to and reducing husband's and wife's insurance benefits, widow's and widower's insurance benefits, and divorced mother's and divorced father's insurance benefits with respect to federal, state, or local government employees who receive a government pension and did not pay Social Security taxes during their years of government service, and so did not earn entitlement to Social Security benefits for those years.
 
Repeals also the windfall elimination requirement with respect to computation of an individual's primary insurance amount under which OASDI retirement or disability benefits are reduced if the individual receives a federal, state, or local government pension, did not pay Social Security taxes during the years of government service, and so did not earn entitlement to Social Security benefits for those years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Health Freedom for Seniors Act

Bill: 114-hr-975
Sponsor: Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2015-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: 

Health Freedom for Seniors Act
 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-free transfers of required distributions after age 70 1/2 from an individual retirement account (IRA) and other tax-exempt retirement accounts to a health savings account. Exempts such transfers from the excise tax on excess contributions to tax-favored accounts and annuities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-976
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2015-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Medical ethics
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: 

Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2015

 
Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to repeal the prohibition against Medicare participation by physician-owned hospitals that do not have a provider agreement by August 1, 2010, which nonetheless allows their Medicare participation under a rural provider and hospital exception to a specified ownership or investment prohibition if they meet certain requirements.
 
Amends the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (HCERA) to repeal provisions: (1) postponing from August 1, 2010, to December 31, 2010, the date by which physician-owned hospitals must have a provider agreement in order to participate in Medicare under a rural provider and hospital exception to the physician-ownership or -investment prohibition if they also meet certain requirements addressing conflicts of interest, bona fide investments, patient safety issues, and expansion limitations; and (2) modifying the expansion limitation imposed on such a rural hospital 
 
 
Restores related previous law amended or repealed by PPACA and HCERA as if PPACA or HCERA had not been enacted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-13
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: 2015-02-13
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: 2015-02-13
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: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
MEND Act

Bill: 114-hr-977
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2015-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Allied health services
Department of Health and Human Services
Medical education
Medicare
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: 

Making the Education of Nurses Dependable for Schools Act or the MEND Act 

 
Requires the Department of Health and Human Services, for any reimbursements to providers under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for the costs of nursing and allied health education activities, to apply the regulation establishing the payment methodology for such reimbursements by treating a provider as meeting the requirements:
 
 
for consideration as operating an approved nursing or allied health education program if the provider or a wholly owned subsidiary educational institution singly or collectively meets all such requirements;
 
for payment for certain nonprovider-operated programs at wholly owned subsidiary educational institutions if the provider meets all such requirements except that the transfer of a nursing or allied health education program to that wholly owned subsidiary educational institution to meet accreditation standards occurred after October 1, 2003, and
 
if the provider or its wholly owned subsidiary educational institution has been in continuous operation since October 1, 2003. 
 
 
Defines "wholly owned subsidiary educational institution" as one that: (1) is organized as a legal entity distinct from the provider, (2) has the provider as its sole owner or sole member, and (3) is organized in the same state in which the provider is organized or registered to do business.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Low Value Shipment Regulatory Modernization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-978
Sponsor: Rep. Schock, Aaron [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2015-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Customs enforcement
Economic performance and conditions
Inflation and prices
Tariffs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: 

Low Value Shipment Regulatory Modernization Act of 2015

 
 Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States Trade Representative should encourage other countries, through bilateral, regional, and multilateral fora, to establish commercially meaningful de minimis values for express and postal shipments of articles that are exempt from customs duties and certain entry documentation requirements, as appropriate.
 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to increase from $200 to $800 for 2016, and to $800 adjusted annually for inflation after 2016, the aggregate retail value in the country of shipment of articles that may be imported duty-free into the United States by one person on one day.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-02-13
text: Introduced in House