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Building on Local District Flexibility in IDEA Act

Bill: 114-hr-2965
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Tim [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Employee benefits and pensions
Natural disasters
Special education
State and local finance
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 

Building on Local District Flexibility in IDEA Act

 
This bill amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to add exceptions to the maintenance of effort requirement for local education agencies (LEAs). Specifically, an LEA may reduce its level of expenditures for the education of children with disabilities below the level of those expenditures for the preceding fiscal year where such reduction is attributable to: (1) improved efficiencies that do not result in a reduction of special education services; or (2) the reduction of expenditures for employment-related benefits provided to special education personnel, provided that such reduction of expenditures does not result in a reduction in special education services. 
 
Furthermore, a state may waive the maintenance of effort requirement for an LEA for one fiscal year at a time if the state determines that: (1) all children with disabilities have available to them a free, appropriate public education; or (2) the LEA has not reduced the level of expenditures for the education of children with disabilities for such fiscal year disproportionately to other expenditures, and granting a waiver would be equitable due to exceptional or uncontrollable circumstances or a precipitous and unforeseen decline in the LEA's financial resources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Reducing Poverty through Employment Act

Bill: 114-hr-2966
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Jason [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 

Reducing Poverty through Employment Act 

 
This bill amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to make it a purpose of the TANF program to reduce poverty by increasing employment entry, retention, and advancement.

action_date: 2016-06-28
text: 

Reducing Poverty through Employment Act 

 
(Sec. 2) This bill amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to make it a purpose of the TANF program to reduce child poverty by increasing employment entry, retention, and advancement of needy parents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-06-28
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 497.
action_date: 2016-06-28
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 114-645.
action_date: 2016-06-28
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 114-645.
action_date: 2016-05-11
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2016-05-11
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Using Evidence to Move Welfare Recipients into Work Act

Bill: 114-hr-2967
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Todd [R-IN-9]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Government information and archives
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 

Using Evidence to Move Welfare Recipients into Work Act

 
This bill amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to direct the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a database of the projects that used a proven approach or a promising approach in moving welfare recipients into work, which shall be called the What Works Clearinghouse of Proven and Promising Projects to Move Welfare Recipients into Work. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Coordinating Assistance for TANF Recipients Act

Bill: 114-hr-2968
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Todd [R-IN-9]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Performance measurement
Poverty and welfare assistance
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 

Coordinating Assistance for TANF Recipients Act

 
This bill amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act to direct the Department of Health and Human Services to make grants to states to conduct demonstration projects designed to implement and evaluate strategies to provide coordinated case management to help individuals receiving TANF assistance to increase their employment and self-sufficiency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
TANF Marriage Penalty Elimination Act

Bill: 114-hr-2969
Sponsor: Rep. Holding, George [R-NC-13]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Marriage and family status
Poverty and welfare assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 

TANF Marriage Penalty Elimination Act

 
This bill amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act with respect to mandatory work requirements to repeal the separate participation rate for two-parent families receiving TANF assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2015-07-08
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: 2015-07-08
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: 2015-07-08
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: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Rebuilding American Manufacturing Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2970
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Manufacturing

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 

Rebuilding American Manufacturing Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers engaged in domestic manufacturing in the United States a tax deduction equal to 50.5% (43% for C corporations) of the lesser of their domestic manufacturing income or their taxable income for the taxable year (thus effectively reducing their income tax rate to approximately 20%). Limits the amount of such deduction to 25% of such taxpayer's qualifying domestic investment (defined as the sum of the taxpayer's W-2 wages and certain allowable tax deductions, excluding any amounts not properly allocable to the taxpayer's domestic manufacturing gross receipts).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Highway Trust Fund Certainty Act

Bill: 114-hr-2971
Sponsor: Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Government trust funds
Income tax credits
Motor fuels
Public transit
Roads and highways
Sales and excise taxes
Transportation programs funding

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 

Highway Trust Fund Certainty Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the current excise tax rates on gasoline and diesel fuel or kerosene and special fuels and to repeal the reversion of increased fuel tax rates to 4.3 cents per gallon after September 30, 2016, (2) make permanent the excise tax on certain alcohol fuels and fuels used in certain buses, (3) allow U.S. citizens a new tax credit after 2015 for the lesser of 3.1% of earned income or $133, and (4) allow additional appropriations to the Highway and Mass Transit Accounts of the Highway Trust Fund and provide for repayments from such Fund to the general fund of the Treasury for amounts advanced to such Fund. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require for purposes of education tax credit that the student be lawfully present and that the taxpayer provide the social security number of the student and the employer identification number of the educational institution, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-2973
Sponsor: Rep. Black, Diane [R-TN-6]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Border security and unlawful immigration
Citizenship and naturalization
Government information and archives
Higher education
Immigration status and procedures
Income tax credits
Student aid and college costs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning tax credit, to require: (1) an individual claiming qualified tuition and related expenses under such credit to provide on the individual's tax return a social security number and the employer identification number of the educational institution to which such expenses were paid, (2) an individual claiming such credit to be a citizen or national of the United States or an alien lawfully present in the United States, and (3) paid tax return preparers to receive information on the immigration status of a taxpayer claiming such credit. 
 
The bill also requires the Social Security Administration to maintain a record of each social security account number issued to any individual who receives deferred action on removal by the Department of Homeland Security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Veteran Continuity of Care Act

Bill: 114-hr-2974
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Hospital care
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 

Veteran Continuity of Care Act

 
This bill amends the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to eliminate the 60-day limit on follow-up health care provided under the veterans choice program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act

Bill: 114-hr-2975
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 

Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act

 
This bill states that, in any case not involving negligent failure by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to investigate or monitor a fiduciary that results in fiduciary misuse of benefits, but in which any fiduciary misuses all or part of an individual's benefit paid to the fiduciary, the VA shall pay to the beneficiary or the beneficiary's successor fiduciary an amount equal to the amount of the misused benefit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2976
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-24]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Disability assistance
Employee benefits and pensions
Immigration status and procedures
Marriage and family status
Mining
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Protection of officials
Separation, divorce, custody, support
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Social security and elderly assistance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 

Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), the Social Security Act (SSAct), and other federal laws (including provisions concerning workers' compensation, retirement benefits, disability and death benefits, insurance, inheritances, or immigration) to replace: (1) references to "wife" or "husband" with references to "spouse"; and (2) references to "husband and wife" or "husband or wife" with references to "married couple" or " married person."
 
For purposes of federal laws or regulations, "marriage" is defined as a legal union between two people as spouses. The bill eliminates a definition of "spouse" that refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.
 
Requirements concerning compensation to a surviving wife after the disability or death of a person employed at a military, air, or naval base outside the United States are revised to make surviving spouses eligible for such compensation.
 
Under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, provisions concerning the amount of leave available to a husband and wife employed by the same employer are revised to apply to a married couple employed by the same employer.
 
Requirements under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 that make disability and death benefits payable to the wife or widow of a miner are revised to make the benefits payable to the spouse or surviving spouse of a miner.
 
IRC provisions that require a divorced wife's gross income to include the income of any trust she is entitled to receive that would otherwise be includible in the gross income of her husband, or vice versa, are revised to apply to the gross income of individuals who are divorced from their spouse. 
 
The bill revises title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the SSAct to consolidate separate provisions for a wife's insurance benefits and a husband's insurance benefits into a single standard for a spouse's insurance benefits.
 
Criminal penalties that currently apply to persons who threaten to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon a former President's wife or widow are revised to apply to threats made to a former President's spouse or surviving spouse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Thirteenth Amendment Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 114-hr-2978
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays
Constitution and constitutional amendments
Currency
District of Columbia
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 

Thirteenth Amendment Commemorative Coin Act

 
Directs the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue the following coins in commemoration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution:
 
 
up to 250,000 $50 bi-metallic platinum and gold coins,
 
up to 250,000 $20 gold coins, and
 
 up to 500,000 $1 silver coins.
 
 
Requires such coins to be considered legal tender and numismatic items.
 
Permits Treasury to issue such coins only during the one-year period beginning January 1 of the issuance year, except that sales may be initiated, without issuance, before such date.
 
Requires specified surcharges that Treasury receives from the sale of such coins to be paid to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
 
Directs Treasury to ensure that: (1) the minting and issuing of such coins will not result in any net cost to the U.S. government; and (2) no funds, including applicable surcharges, are disbursed to the Museum until the total cost of designing and issuing all such coins is recovered by the Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Military Consumer Protection Act

Bill: 114-hr-2979
Sponsor: Rep. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer credit
Contracts and agency
Housing finance and home ownership
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Lease and rental services
Military personnel and dependents
Motor vehicles
Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 

Military Consumer Protection Act

 
This bill amends the Consumer Financial Protection Act to extend Consumer Financial Protection Bureau oversight and protection to provisions under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act concerning: 
 
 
future financial transactions, excluding insurance;
 
default judgments, excluding child custody proceedings; 
 
interest rates on pre-service debts; 
 
evictions; 
 
purchase or lease installment contracts;
 
mortgages and trusts; 
 
motor vehicle leases; 
 
telephone service contracts; and 
 
waiver of rights pursuant to a written agreement, excluding bailments.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Mayflower Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 114-hr-2980
Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Currency
Massachusetts
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 

Mayflower Commemorative Coin Act

 
This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to issue up to 50,000 $5 gold commemorative coins, and up to 100,000 $1 silver commemorative coins, whose design is emblematic of the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts. 
 
These coins shall be issued only during the one-year period beginning on January 1, 2020. 
 
 The Department must pay all surcharges received from sales of the coins to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants for educational purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that congressional testimony by Department of Veterans Affairs employees is official duty, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-2981
Sponsor: Rep. Huelskamp, Tim [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2015-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Evidence and witnesses
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: 
This bill provides that an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs is performing official duty when testifying in an official capacity in front of either chamber of Congress, a committee of either chamber, or a joint or select committee of Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-07-08
text: Introduced in House