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Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2875
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2015-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Child safety and welfare
Community life and organization
Congressional oversight
Crime victims
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Department of Justice
Detention of persons
Due process and equal protection
Elementary and secondary education
Employee hiring
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Law enforcement officers
Mental health
Monuments and memorials
Pedestrians and bicycling
Performance measurement
Racial and ethnic relations
State and local government operations

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: 

Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act of 2015

 
This bill requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to analyze existing law enforcement accreditation standards, recommend additional areas for the development of national standards, recommend the adoption of additional standards, and adopt policies and procedures to encourage accreditation of law enforcement agencies. It authorizes DOJ to make grants to federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to obtain accreditation from certified organizations. 
 
The legislation authorizes DOJ to make grants to state, local, or tribal governments, public and private entities, or consortia to study law enforcement agency management and operations standards and to develop pilot programs to address law enforcement misconduct. 
 
DOJ must study the prevalence and effect of any law, rule, or procedure that allows a law enforcement officer to delay the investigation and prosecution of law enforcement misconduct. 
 
The legislation establishes the Task Force on Law Enforcement Oversight within DOJ to coordinate the detection and referral of complaints of alleged law enforcement misconduct.
 
Law enforcement agencies must report data regarding practices on traffic violation stops, pedestrian stops, frisk and body searches, and use of deadly force. Data must include the number of incidents of each practice broken down by race, ethnicity, age, and gender of the officers, employees, and members of the public involved in the practice.
 
DOJ must create a medallion for distribution to survivors of each law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty and memorialized on the wall of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E967-968)
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To designate an existing Federal officer to coordinate efforts to secure the release of United States persons who are hostages of hostile groups or state sponsors of terrorism, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-2877
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2015-06-24 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
Conflicts and wars
Congressional oversight
Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
North Korea
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: 
This bill directs the President to designate an existing federal officer as the Interagency Hostage Recovery Coordinator, who shall coordinate efforts to secure the release of U.S. persons held hostage outside the United States by hostile groups or state sponsors of terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2015.

Bill: 114-hr-2878
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2015-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to continue to instruct Medicare contractors not to enforce requirements for direct physician supervision of outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-06-24
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: 2015-06-24
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: 2015-06-24
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: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Amendment Act

Bill: 114-hr-2879
Sponsor: Rep. Kinzinger, Adam [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2015-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites and heritage areas
Illinois
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
U.S. history

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: 

Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Amendment Act

 
This bill amends the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 to add Livingston County, the city of Jonesboro in Union County, and the city of Freeport in Stephenson County in Illinois to the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Job Protection Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2881
Sponsor: Rep. Messer, Luke [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2015-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Sales and excise taxes
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: 

Small Business Job Protection Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to redefine "applicable large employer," for purposes of the mandate requiring employers to provide health insurance for their employees, to mean an employer with at least 100 full-time employees (currently, 50).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Promise Neighborhoods Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2882
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M., Jr. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2015-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Child care and development
Child health
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Mental health
Preschool education
Special education
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: 

Promise Neighborhoods Act of 2015

 
This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to award competitive, matching Promise Neighborhood Partnership grants to nonprofit organizations that partner with a local educational agency to implement a comprehensive continuum of supports and services that engage community partners in improving the academic achievement, health and social development, and college and career readiness of children who live in distressed neighborhoods with underperforming schools.
 
ED may renew Promise Neighborhood Partnership grants if the grantees demonstrate significant success in: (1) ensuring children's school readiness; (2) improving their academic outcomes; (3) increasing their college and career readiness; and (4) improving their health, mental health, and social and emotional well-being.
 
ED must evaluate this Act's grant program and disseminate research on best practices for improving the academic achievement of children living in the most distressed communities.
 
Matching planning grants are available to enable communities to assess needs and assets and support the communities as they prepare to apply for a program grant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act

Bill: 114-hr-2883
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2015-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Corporate finance and management
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy storage, supplies, demand
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Motor fuels
Solid waste and recycling
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: 

Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act

 
 Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the tax treatment of publicly traded partnerships as corporations, to expand the definition of &quot;qualifying income&quot; for such partnerships to include income and gains from renewable and alternative fuels (in addition to fossil fuels), including energy derived from thermal resources, waste, renewable fuels and chemicals, energy efficient buildings, gasification, and carbon capture in secure geological storage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to eliminate the firewalls between defense and nondefense discretionary spending limits.

Bill: 114-hr-2884
Sponsor: Rep. Ribble, Reid J. [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2015-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Defense spending

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: 
This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to modify provisions that allocate spending between defense and nondefense spending. 
 
The bill replaces the separate annual discretionary spending limits (commonly known as firewalls) for security and nonsecurity spending for FY2016-FY2021, with annual limits for total discretionary spending. 
 
The bill also revises procedures for sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals. The requirement that automatic cuts be evenly distributed between defense and nondefense spending is replaced with specified cuts in nondefense and defense direct spending for FY2016-FY2021. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4602)
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Senior and Retired Volunteers Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2885
Sponsor: Rep. Tsongas, Niki [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2015-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aging
Disability and paralysis
Employment taxes
Income tax exclusion
Property tax
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: 

Senior and Retired Volunteers Act of 2015

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals who have attained age 60 or are disabled an exemption from income and employment taxes for real property tax abatements received under a state or local program in which such individuals have provided services in exchange for such abatements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Time Off to Vote Act

Bill: 114-hr-2887
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2015-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional elections
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Employee leave
Employment discrimination and employee rights

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: 

Time Off to Vote Act 

 
 Entitles an employee to two hours of paid leave on the day of any federal election in order to vote.
 
Gives the employer the right to determine the two-hour-period, excluding any lunch break or other break. 
 
Prohibits the loss of benefits for any employee taking such leave under this Act.
 
Makes it unlawful for any employer to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of or the attempt to exercise, the right to take leave under this Act, or to discriminate against an employee in any manner for taking leave under this Act.
 
Makes it unlawful for any employer to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any individual for: (1) opposing any practice made unlawful by this Act; (2) filing any charge, or instituting or causing to be instituted any proceeding, under or related to this Act; or (3) testifying or preparing to testifying in any inquiry or proceeding relating to any leave provided under this Act.
 
Specifies the penalties for any employer who violates this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Carried Interest Fairness Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-2889
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-9]
Introduced: 2015-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting and auditing
Capital gains tax
Financial services and investments
Income tax rates
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: 

Carried Interest Fairness Act of 201

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Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) set forth a special rule for the inclusion in gross income of partnership interests transferred in connection with the performance of services, (2) treat as ordinary income the net capital gain with respect to an investment services partnership interest except to the extent such gain is attributable to a partner's qualified capital interest, (3) exempt income from investment services partnership interests from treatment as qualifying income of a publicly traded partnership, (4) exempt certain family partnerships from the application of this Act; (5) increase the penalty for underpayments of tax resulting from failure to treat income from an investment services partnership interest as ordinary income, and (6) include income and loss from an investment services partnership interest for purposes of determining net earnings from self-employment and applicable self-employment taxes.
 
Defines "investment services partnership interest" as any interest in a partnership held by a person who provides services to a partnership by: (1) advising the partnership about investing in, purchasing, or selling specified assets; (2) managing, acquiring, or disposing of specified assets; or (3) arranging financing with respect to acquiring specified assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Modernizing American Manufacturing Bonds Act

Bill: 114-hr-2890
Sponsor: Rep. Hultgren, Randy [R-IL-14]
Introduced: 2015-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax exclusion
Industrial facilities
Manufacturing
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: 

Modernizing American Manufacturing Bonds Act

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to qualified small issue bonds for manufacturing purposes, to: (1) expand the definition of &quot;manufacturing facility&quot; to include a facility which is used in the creation or production of intangible property and which is functionally related and subordinate to a facility located on the same site and financed with not more than 25% of bond proceeds, and (2) increase from $10 million to $30 million the maximum bond limitation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to inflation adjust the $5,000 limitation with respect to dependent care assistance programs and flexible spending arrangements.

Bill: 114-hr-2891
Sponsor: Rep. Moolenaar, John R. [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2015-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child care and development
Disability and paralysis
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Inflation and prices

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an annual adjustment for inflation in taxable years beginning after 2015 to the $5,000 exclusion from the gross income of employees who receive employer-provided dependent care assistance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Autocycle Safety Act

Bill: 114-hr-2892
Sponsor: Rep. Moolenaar, John R. [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2015-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Transportation
Energy efficiency and conservation
Motor vehicles
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: 

Autocycle Safety Act

 
This bill defines &quot;autocycle&quot; as a motor vehicle with three wheels, a fully enclosed occupant compartment, and a steering wheel, which is subject to applicable federal motor vehicle safety standards.
 
Specified interim automotive and motorcycle safety standards apply to autocycles until at most three years after enactment of this Act, by which time the Department of Transportation shall issue appropriate final rules, interpretations, and test procedures.
 
Automotive fuel standards also apply to autocyles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House
MADE Act

Bill: 114-hr-2893
Sponsor: Rep. MacArthur, Thomas [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2015-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Department of Defense
Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information
Military procurement, research, weapons development
National symbols

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: 

Manufacturing American Defense Emblems Act or MADE Act

 
This bill requires the 100% U.S.-manufacture of any decorative object that depicts the seals for the Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, the Armed Forces, the defense intelligence agencies, and any other defense agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House
CARE for All Veterans Act

Bill: 114-hr-2894
Sponsor: Rep. Esty, Elizabeth H. [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2015-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care
Mental health
Military personnel and dependents
Neurological disorders
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: 

Caregivers Access and Responsible Expansion for All Veterans Act or the CARE for All Veterans Act

 
Expands eligibility for the family caregiver program of the Department of Veterans Affairs to include members of the Armed Forces or veterans who are seriously injured or who became ill (or aggravated such injury or illness) on active duty before September 11, 2001 (currently, limited to service after September 11, 2001). 
 
 Establishes three monthly caregiver stipend starting dates for pre-September 11, 2001, members of the Armed Forces or veterans based upon the amount and degree of personal care services provided.
 
 Includes among program eligibility criteria a veteran's need for regular or extensive instruction or supervision in completing two or more instrumental activities of daily living.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-06-25
text: Introduced in House