Urban Progress Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-5164
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2018-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Adult education and literacy
Advisory bodies
Assault and harassment offenses
Child care and development
Child health
Child safety and welfare
Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Crime prevention
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Criminal justice information and records
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug trafficking and controlled substances
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal district courts
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Government studies and investigations
Health information and medical records
Higher education
Homelessness and emergency shelter
Income tax credits
Juvenile crime and gang violence
Law enforcement administration and funding
Licensing and registrations
Mental health
National Guard and reserves
Performance measurement
Personnel records
Poverty and welfare assistance
Preschool education
Public-private cooperation
Research administration and funding
Retail and wholesale trades
Smuggling and trafficking
Teenage pregnancy
Temporary and part-time employment
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Unemployment
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Violent crime
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2018-03-05
text: 
 
 

Urban Progress Act of 2018

 
This bill amends various provisions of law and sets forth new provisions to promote economic development, expand employment opportunities, reduce gun violence, and limit the impact of poverty. Among other things, it:
 
 
makes permanent the work opportunity tax credit and increases it for employers who hire ex-felons; 
 
establishes grants to promote commercial development in underserved communities, to provide career training programs, and to support summer employment opportunities for youth; 
 
increases tax deductions for business start-up expenditures and for corporations' organizational expenditures; 
 
establishes a working group to develop a national plan to reduce child poverty; 
 
increases Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, when school is not in session, for households with minor children; 
 
increases the child tax credit for low-income taxpayers; 
 
creates a process to expunge and seal certain youth criminal records; 
 
authorizes grants to prevent juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity; 
 
makes trafficking in firearms a stand-alone criminal offense; 
 
 requires annual reports on the public health effects of gun violence; 
 
 broadens the categories of prohibited persons who are barred from receiving or possessing firearms; 
 
requires states to submit mental health and criminal history records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System; 
 
requires federal agencies and departments, including courts, to certify whether they provided disqualifying records of prohibited persons; 
 
prohibits firearm transfers between private parties unless a licensed dealer first conducts a background check; 
 
requires gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms; and 
 
prohibits licensed gun dealers from transferring firearms to unlicensed persons prior to background check completion. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2018-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
action_date: 2018-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2018-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Small Business, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Rules, and 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: 2018-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Small Business, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Rules, and 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: 2018-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Small Business, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Rules, and 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: 2018-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Small Business, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Rules, and 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: 2018-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Small Business, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Rules, and 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: 2018-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Small Business, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Rules, and 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: 2018-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Small Business, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Rules, and 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: 2018-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Small Business, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Rules, and 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: 2018-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Small Business, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Rules, and 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: 2018-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2018-03-05
text: Introduced in House