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Credit Score Competition Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4211
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-39]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Consumer credit
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
Housing finance and home ownership

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 

Credit Score Competition Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to authorize the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (government sponsored enterprises, or GSEs) to use credit scores in purchasing residential mortgages only under certain conditions, including that the GSE has established and made publicly available a description of the process it will use to validate and approve credit scoring models.
 
The Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency may, by regulation, establish standards and criteria for any process used by a GSE to validate and approve credit scoring models pursuant to the Acts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-27
text: Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Prior to Referral.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Community-Based Independence for Seniors Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4212
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adult day care
Aging
Health care costs and insurance
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medicaid
Medicare
Nursing

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 

Community-Based Independence for Seniors Act of 2015

 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish a Community-Based Institutional Special Needs Plan demonstration program through which up to five eligible Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations shall provide home and community-based care to eligible Medicare beneficiaries. For purposes of the demonstration program, an eligible Medicare beneficiary is ineligible for Medicaid and unable to perform two or more activities of daily living.
 
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall establish payment rates for eligible MA plans under the demonstration program. Such payment rates are capped but shall be in addition to payments otherwise made to MA organizations with respect to such plans.
 
CMS shall also: (1) help to educate eligible Medicare beneficiaries on the availability of the program, and (2) provide for program evaluation by an independent third party.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Tax Equity and Prosperity for Puerto Rican Families Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4213
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caribbean area
Income tax credits
Poverty and welfare assistance
Puerto Rico
Tax treatment of families
U.S. territories and protectorates
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 

Tax Equity and Prosperity for Puerto Rican Families Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make citizens of Puerto Rico eligible for the federal earned income tax credit and allow them to claim the refundable portion of the child tax credit on the same basis as U.S. taxpayers. In making the earned income tax credit applicable to Puerto Rican citizens, the bill modifies credit requirements to allow taxpayers in Puerto Rico to claim the credit at age 21 (rather than age 25) and to allow a credit percentage of 40, without regard to the number of qualifying children claimed by the taxpayer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary and Needless Evasion of Regulations Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4215
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Alternative and renewable resources
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Oil and gas
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 

CLEANER Act of 2015 or the Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary and Needless Evasion of Regulations Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act to eliminate the exemption for waste derived from the exploration, development, or production of crude oil, natural gas, or geothermal energy from regulations governing the disposal of hazardous waste.
 
Within a year of this bill's enactment, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must:
 
 
determine whether waste associated with oil, gas, or geothermal energy activities meet the criteria promulgated for the identification or listing of hazardous waste; 
 
identify or list as hazardous waste any of those wastes if they meet the identification or listing criteria; and
 
promulgate regulations regarding standards applicable to generators, transporters, and owners and operators of facilities for the treatment, storage, or disposal of those wastes.
 
 
The EPA may modify the regulation of those standards to consider the special characteristics of those wastes so long as the modified regulations protect human health and the environment.
 
Within a year of this bill's enactment, the EPA must promulgate revisions of certain criteria concerning landfills and waste management practices of open dumping for facilities that may receive wastes that are: (1) associated with those activities, and (2) not identified or listed as hazardous waste. Those revisions must:
 
 
 protect human health and the environment, while allowing consideration of the practicable capability of such facilities; and
 
require groundwater monitoring as necessary to detect contamination; 
 
establish criteria for the acceptable location of new or existing facilities; and 
 
provide for corrective action and financial assurance as appropriate.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to determine eligibility for health insurance subsidies without regard to amounts included in income by reason of conversion to a Roth IRA.

Bill: 114-hr-4217
Sponsor: Rep. Bera, Ami [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Income tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude any amount includible in gross income for converting to a Roth Individual Retirement Account from the calculation of adjusted gross income used to determine eligibility for, and the amount of, the tax credit for health care insurance premium assistance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
To suspend the admission to the United States of refugees, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-4218
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Immigrant health and welfare
Immigration status and procedures
Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 
This bill prohibits a federal agency or instrumentality from using federal funds, fees, or resources to admit an alien into the United States as a refugee or to provide refugee resettlement assistance until each of the following occur: 
 
 
a joint resolution is enacted into law approving the most recent number of refugee admissions determined by the President; 
 
the Congressional Budget Office reports to Congress regarding specified refugee-related costs; 
 
the Department of Homeland Security reports to Congress regarding terrorist- and criminal-related activities of aliens admitted as refugees and asylees, and the number of such aliens subsequently removed from the United States for any reason; and 
 
the President reports to Congress regarding the preceding year's cost of refugee admissions, and recommendations for federal program spending cuts to offset such cost.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Kazakhstan.

Bill: 114-hr-4219
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Asia
Kazakhstan
Normal trade relations, most-favored-nation treatment

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 
This bill authorizes the President to extend nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Kazakhstan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-4220
Sponsor: Rep. Buck, Ken [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Corporate finance and management
Farmland
Financial services and investments
Land transfers
Securities
Tax-exempt organizations
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 

Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit tax-exempt mutual ditch or irrigation companies to earn income from dispositions of certain real property and stock interests without affecting their tax-exempt status, but requires that such income be used to pay the costs of operations, maintenance, and capital improvements of such a company.

action_date: 2016-12-08
text: 

Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 
 
2016

 
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit tax-exempt mutual ditch or irrigation companies to earn income from dispositions of certain real property and stock interests without affecting their tax-exempt status, but requires that such income be used to pay the costs of operations, maintenance, and capital improvements of such a company.
 
The bill also establishes a rule regarding the organizational governance of mutual ditch or irrigation companies. Where state law provides that such a company may be organized in a manner that permits voting on a basis that is pro rata to share ownership on corporate governance matters, an organization's qualification as a mutual ditch or irrigation company must be determined without taking into account whether its member shareholders have one vote on corporate governance matters per share held in the corporation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 675.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 114-862.
action_date: 2016-12-08
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 114-862.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2016-09-21
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
SMART Grant Reauthorization Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4221
Sponsor: Rep. Carney, John C., Jr. [D-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding
Foreign language and bilingual programs
Higher education
Science and engineering education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 

SMART Grant Reauthorization Act of 2015

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to eliminate the program awarding Academic Competitiveness Grants to first- and second-year undergraduates who completed a rigorous high school curriculum and are eligible for Federal Pell Grants.
 
It reauthorizes and appropriates funds through FY2022 for National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grants (SMART Grants) currently awarded to third, fourth, and fifth-year undergraduates who are eligible for Pell Grants and are pursuing: 
 
 
 a major in the physical, life, or computer sciences, mathematics, technology, or engineering or a critical foreign language; or 
 
 equivalent coursework in a qualifying liberal arts program that does not allow students to declare a major in a particular subject matter.
 
 
The bill limits SMART Grant eligibility to students who are pursuing a major in the physical sciences or are pursuing equivalent coursework in a qualifying liberal arts program that does not allow students to declare a major in a particular subject matter.
 
It terminates the Department of Education's authority to award SMART Grants at the end of award year 2020-2021.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Higher Education Savings Accounts Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4222
Sponsor: Rep. Carney, John C., Jr. [D-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax exclusion
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 

Higher Education Savings Accounts Act of 2015

 
This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to carry out a pilot program under which tax-exempt savings accounts (to be known as higher education pledge accounts) are established for the benefit of 9th and 10th grade students who are eligible to receive free or reduced price lunches under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act.
 
ED: (1) shall deposit into each account for a selected student an initial amount equal to the amount of the maximum federal Pell Grant for the award year, and (2) may make additional deposits of such amount based on the student's academic progress.
 
A student may use funds from such account only to pay the cost of attendance at a qualified institution. Any contribution to or distribution from such account shall not be includible in gross income. The amount of any Pell Grant awarded to a student attending a qualified institution shall be reduced by the amount in such student's account.
 
ED shall: (1) monitor the academic progress of each student for whose benefit an account is maintained; and (2) ensure that each such student receives at least 12 hours of financial counseling on the rules pertaining to deposits, distributions, and the tax treatment of funds in the account and on sources of federal financial assistance for higher education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
POST GRAD Act

Bill: 114-hr-4223
Sponsor: Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Education
Higher education
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 

Protecting Our Students by Terminating Graduate Rates that Add to Debt Act or the POST GRAD Act

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make graduate and professional students eligible to receive subsidized Stafford Loans under the Federal Direct Loan Program beginning on July 1, 2016. (Graduate and professional students have been ineligible to receive subsidized Stafford Loans since July 1, 2012.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 121 Spring Street SE in Gainesville, Georgia, as the "Sidney Olsin Smith, Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse".

Bill: 114-hr-4224
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Doug [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Georgia
Government buildings, facilities, and property

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 
This bill designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 121 Spring Street S.E. in Gainesville, Georgia, as the "Sidney Olsin Smith, Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-4225
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Caribbean area
Delaware
Florida
Judges
Maryland
Michigan
Nevada
North Carolina
Puerto Rico
Tennessee
U.S. territories and protectorates
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 

Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2015

 
This bill amends the federal judicial code to:
 
 
convert certain temporary bankruptcy judges to permanent bankruptcy judges and authorize the appointment of additional bankruptcy judges in Delaware and Michigan; 
 
convert temporary bankruptcy judges to permanent bankruptcy judges in specified judicial districts in Florida, Maryland, Nevada, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, and Virginia; and 
 
authorize the appointment of additional bankruptcy judges in the middle district of Florida. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1761)
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to provide relief for agricultural producers adversely impacted by the Oriental fruit fly.

Bill: 114-hr-4226
Sponsor: Rep. Curbelo, Carlos [R-FL-26]
Introduced: 2015-12-10 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Disaster relief and insurance
Fruit and vegetables
Insects
Pest management

Summary:
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: 
This bill amends the Agricultural Act of 2014 to require the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reimburse producers on farms for losses that are due to the inability to plant, grow, or ship a crop to market due to a federal or state government quarantine to control the Oriental fruit fly. 
 
The payments are limited to 70% of the market value of the affected crop and end as soon as possible once the producer is able to resume marketing a crop after the quarantine is lifted. 
 
In implementing this bill, USDA must not discriminate against or penalize a producer that obtained, or did not obtain, crop insurance, noninsured crop disaster assistance, or similar risk protection for the same type of crop, except that assistance provided by this bill must be reduced by the amount of assistance provided for the same losses under any other federal law. 
 
Producers receiving assistance under this bill must agree to obtain crop insurance, noninsured crop disaster assistance, or similar risk protection for the same type of crop for at least the next two crop years, if the insurance, assistance, or protection is available.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-12-10
text: Introduced in House