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Small Business Credit Card Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5156
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2016-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Consumer credit
Credit and credit markets
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: 
 
Small Business Credit Card Act of 2016

 
 This bill amends the Truth in Lending Act to cover any qualified small business as a consumer with respect to a credit card account under an open end credit plan (thereby extending credit card protections under such Act to small businesses).
 
The bill defines &quot;qualified small business&quot; under the Act as any business concern having 50 or fewer employees, whether or not: (1) the credit card account is in the name of an individual or a business entity, and (2) any credit transaction involving such account is for business or personal purposes.
 
A qualified small business may elect to opt out of coverage by the Act.
 
Certain creditor disclosures are required before opening any account under an open end consumer credit plan for a qualified small business.
 
A creditor is prohibited from: (1) discriminating against any business concern having 50 or fewer employees in connection with any credit card account under an open end credit plan; or (2) requiring any qualified small business to make an opt-out election as a condition for opening a credit card account, or for providing more advantageous terms for such an account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
SMART Jobs Act

Bill: 114-hr-5157
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Sean Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2016-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Air quality
Building construction
Buy American requirements
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Disability and paralysis
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational facilities and institutions
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental technology
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Indian social and development programs
Metals
Natural disasters
Noise pollution
Preschool education
Public contracts and procurement
Vocational and technical education
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: 

School Modernization and Revitalization Through Jobs Act, the SMART Jobs Act, or the 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act

 
This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to make grants to states for the modernization, renovation, or repair of public schools, including early learning facilities and charter schools. The bill allocates grant funds among states on the basis of the relative portion of school improvement funds provided to local educational agencies (LEAs) in each state under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. States shall reallocate the grant funds to LEAs on the basis of each LEA's share of school improvement funds received by LEAs in the state for the previous fiscal year.
 
In addition, ED shall make grants to LEAs that serve specified disaster areas for the construction, modernization, renovation, or repair of public schools, including early learning facilities and charter schools. The bill allocates grant funds among LEAs on the basis of each LEA's share of infrastructure damage inflicted on public school facilities in such areas.
 
With specified exceptions, only U.S.-produced iron, steel, and manufactured goods shall be used in projects funded under the bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Make America Competitive Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5158
Sponsor: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2016-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Corporate finance and management
Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Income tax rates
Social security and elderly assistance
Taxation of foreign income
U.S. and foreign investments
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: 

Make America Competitive Act of 2016

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow corporations to elect a 10% tax rate on their taxable income if such corporations: (1) offer their full-time employees group health insurance coverage, (2) offer such employees a defined contribution pension plan, (3) provide their employees with regular pay increases, and (4) make additional social security contributions for employees who do not have a defined benefit pension plan. Such corporations may also elect to repatriate their current and accumulated foreign earnings at a 5% tax rate. 
 
The bill amends title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to increase the primary insurance amount (the retirement benefit a social security recipient would receive if benefits are taken at normal retirement age) of employees for whom additional social security contributions are made under this bill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Western Water Recycling and Drought Relief Act

Bill: 114-hr-5159
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2016-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Hawaii
Solid waste and recycling
Water resources funding
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: 

Western Water Recycling and Drought Relief Act

 
This bill amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Department of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of recycled water system facilities in California in cooperation with:
 
 
the cities of Benicia, Brentwood, Redwood City, Pleasanton, Hayward, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Sunnyvale; 
 
the cities of Ceres, Modesto, and Turlock, the Del Puerto Water District, and Stanislaus County; 
 
the Dublin San Ramon Services District;
 
the Santa Clara Valley Water District;
 
the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District;
 
the Delta Diablo;
 
the Ironhouse Sanitary District;
 
 the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency;
 
the San Jose Water Company; and
 
 the West Bay Sanitary District.
 
 
The bill also authorizes Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of recycled water system facilities in Hawaii in cooperation with Hawaii Water Service Company, Waikoloa.
 
The federal share of each project is limited to 25%. 
 
Interior must: (1) enter into individual agreements with the Western Recycled Water Coalition participating agencies to fund such projects (as well as existing projects done in cooperation with the California cities of Palo Alto, Mountain View, Pittsburg, Antioch, Redwood City, and San Jose and the Delta Diablo Sanitation District, the North Coast County Water District, the South County Regional Wastewater Authority, and the Santa Clara Valley Water District); and (2) include in such agreements a provision for the reimbursement of design, planning, and construction costs, but may not provide funds for project operation and maintenance.
 
The bill increases the authorization of appropriations for the recycled water system facilities of: (1) Antioch and the Delta Diablo Sanitation District, and (2) the South County Regional Wastewater Authority and the Santa Clara Valley Water District.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 40, United States Code, to include as part of the buildings and grounds of the National Gallery of Art any buildings and other areas within the boundaries of any real estate or other property interests acquired by the National Gallery of Art.

Bill: 114-hr-5160
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2016-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Art, artists, authorship
District of Columbia
Land transfers
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: 
This bill includes as part of the National Gallery of Art all buildings, service roads, walks, and other areas within the exterior boundaries of any real estate or interest in land that the Gallery acquires and that its director determines to be necessary for the adequate protection of individuals or property in the Gallery and suitable for administration as a part of it.

action_date: 2016-06-16
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
This bill includes as part of the National Gallery of Art all buildings, service roads, walks, and other areas within the exterior boundaries of any real estate or interest in land that the Gallery acquires and that its director determines to be necessary for the adequate protection of individuals or property in the Gallery and suitable for administration as a part of it.

action_date: 2016-11-29
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
 
This bill includes as part of the National Gallery of Art all buildings, service roads, walks, and other areas within the exterior boundaries of any real estate or interest in land that the Gallery acquires and that its director determines to be necessary for the adequate protection of individuals or property in the Gallery and suitable for administration as a part of it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-11-30
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2016-11-29
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2016-11-29
text: On passage Passed without objection. (text of measure as passed: CR H6353)
action_date: 2016-11-29
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text of measure as passed: CR H6353)
action_date: 2016-11-29
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H6353)
action_date: 2016-11-29
text: Mr. Harper asked unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table and consider.
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 485.
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Reported by the Committee on House Administration. H. Rept. 114-626.
action_date: 2016-06-16
text: Reported by the Committee on House Administration. H. Rept. 114-626.
action_date: 2016-05-17
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2016-05-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the qualifications for licensed mental health counselors of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 114-hr-5161
Sponsor: Rep. Mullin, Markwayne [R-OK-2]
Introduced: 2016-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Veterans Affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Health personnel
Licensing and registrations
Mental health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: 
This bill provides that persons with a degree that is equivalent to a master's degree in mental health counseling shall be eligible for appointment to a Department of Veterans Affairs licensed professional mental health counselor position. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Vet Connect Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5162
Sponsor: Rep. O'Rourke, Beto [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2016-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Blood and blood diseases
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
HIV/AIDS
Health information and medical records
Hospital care
Right of privacy
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: 

Vet Connect Act of 2016

 
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to disclose to non-VA entities that provide hospital care or medical treatment to veterans (including private entities and other federal agencies) records of the identity, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment of any patient in connection with a program relating to drug abuse, alcoholism or alcohol abuse, infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, or sickle cell anemia.

action_date: 2016-09-26
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
 

Vet Connect Act of 2016

 
(Sec. 2) This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to disclose to non-VA entities that provide hospital care or medical treatment to veterans (including private entities and other federal agencies) records of the identity, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment of any patient in connection with a program relating to drug abuse, alcoholism or alcohol abuse, infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, or sickle cell anemia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-27
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-09-26
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2016-09-26
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5887)
action_date: 2016-09-26
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5887)
action_date: 2016-09-26
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5162.
action_date: 2016-09-26
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5887-5888)
action_date: 2016-09-26
text: Mr. Miller (FL) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2016-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Territorial Economic Growth and Recovery Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5163
Sponsor: Del. Plaskett, Stacey E. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2016-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcoholic beverages
Caribbean area
Guam
Income tax credits
Northern Mariana Islands
Poverty and welfare assistance
Puerto Rico
Sales and excise taxes
Tax treatment of families
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virgin Islands
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: 

Territorial Economic Growth and Recovery Act of 2016 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the limitation on the amount of distilled spirits excise taxes covered over (paid into) to the treasuries of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. 
 
If Puerto Rico or the Northern Mariana Islands has a tax system that mirrors federal tax law (mirror code tax system), the Department of the Treasury must pay each possession amounts equal to the loss to the possession due to the application of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). 
 
If the possession does not have a mirror code tax system, Treasury must pay to the possession an amount equal to the aggregate benefits that would have been provided to residents of the possession by applying the EITC if a mirror code tax system had been in effect. 
 
Treasury must pay to the Virgin Islands and Guam amounts equal to the aggregate loss to the Virgin Islands or Guam due to the Child Tax Credit. 
 
The Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries must submit to Treasury's Office of Domestic Finance recommendations for actions that would be necessary to ensure that the public pension plans of the Virgin Islands can be sustainably maintained and funded by the government of the Virgin Islands for the next 20 years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Rural Hospital Regulatory Relief Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5164
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Lynn [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2016-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Health personnel
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Medicare
Rural conditions and development

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-03
text: 

Rural Hospital Regulatory Relief Act of 2016

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permanently extend the application by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of an instruction against the enforcement of certain physician supervision requirements with respect to outpatient therapeutic services in critical access hospitals and small rural hospitals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2016-05-03
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: 2016-05-03
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: 2016-05-03
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: 2016-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Technologies for Energy Security Act

Bill: 114-hr-5167
Sponsor: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2016-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Income tax credits
Lighting and heating
Lighting, heating, cooling
Residential rehabilitation and home repair

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: 

Technologies for Energy Security Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend and modify the tax credits for residential energy efficient property and investments in energy property. 
 
The bill modifies the tax credit for residential energy efficient property to extend through 2021 the credits for expenditures for fuel cell property, small wind energy property, and geothermal heat pump property. For each extended credit, the bill phases out the current credit rate of 30% of expenditures by reducing it to 26% or 22%, depending on the date that the property is placed in service.
 
The bill extends the tax credit for investments in energy property for the following property with construction that begins before January 1, 2022: 
 
 
 fiber-optic solar energy property, 
 
fuel cell property, 
 
 microturbine property, 
 
 combined heat and power system property, 
 
 small wind energy property, and 
 
 thermal energy property. 
 
 
The bill phases out the current credit rate of 30% for investments in fuel cell property, small wind energy property, and fiber-optic solar energy property by reducing it to 26% or 22%, depending on the date that the property is placed in service. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Christa McAuliffe Commemorative Coin Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5168
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2016-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Currency
Education programs funding
Science and engineering education
Space flight and exploration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: 

Christa McAuliffe Commemorative Coin Act of 2016

 
This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than 350,000 $1 silver coins in commemoration of Christa McAuliffe.
 
The design of the coins shall bear an image of and the name of Christa McAuliffe on the obverse side and a design on the reverse side that depicts the legacy of McAuliffe as a teacher.
 
Treasury may issue the coins from January 1-December 31, 2018.
 
All surcharges received by Treasury from the sale of the coins shall be paid to the FIRST robotics program for the purpose of engaging and inspiring young people, through mentor-based programs, to become leaders in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Legacy IRA Act

Bill: 114-hr-5171
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2016-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax exclusion
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: 

Legacy IRA Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the tax exclusion for distributions from individual retirement accounts (IRAs) for charitable purposes. 
 
The bill increases from $100,000 to $400,000 the annual limit on the aggregate amount of distributions for charitable purposes that may be excluded from the gross income of a taxpayer. 
 
The bill permits tax-free distributions from IRAs to a split-interest entity until December 31, 2020. A split-interest entity is exclusively funded by charitable distributions and includes: a charitable remainder annuity trust, a charitable remainder unitrust, or a charitable gift annuity. A charitable gift annuity must commence fixed payments of at least 5% no later than one year from the date of funding. 
 
A distribution to a split-interest entity may only be treated as a qualified charitable distribution if: (1) no person holds an income interest in the entity other than the individual for whose benefit the account is maintained, the spouse of such individual, or both; and (2) the income interest in the entity is nonassignable. 
 
The bill limits the exclusion annually to: $100,000 for distributions to charitable organizations, and $400,000 for distributions to split-interest entities. 
 
Tax-free distributions to a split-interest entity may be made when the account beneficiary attains age 65. (Under current law, the beneficiary must attain the age of 70-1/2 for IRA distributions to a charitable organization.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Introduced in House