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American Dream Employment Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-97
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Congressional officers and employees
Foreign labor
Immigration status and procedures

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

American Dream Employment Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 to permit the compensation of congressional employees who have been issued employment authorization documents under the Department of Homeland Security's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program. 
 
The program enables many unlawfully present aliens who came to the United States as children to be granted deferred action (a type of relief from removal which does not confer immigration status) and work authorization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-98
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 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: 2017-01-03
text: 

Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act of
 
2017

 
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: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act

Bill: 115-hr-99
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Law enforcement officers
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers Act

 
This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend public safety officers' death benefits to Transportation Security Administration employees who are responsible for protecting the nation's transportation systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Support Local Transportation Act

Bill: 115-hr-100
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Roads and highways
Transportation programs funding
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Support Local Transportation Act

 
This bill revises requirements for the surface transportation block grant program to increase the percentages of program funds required to be allocated to states for each of FY2018-FY2020 for surface transportation projects in:
 
 
urbanized areas with a population of over 200,000,
 
non-urban areas with a population greater than 5,000, and
 
other areas of the state.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Healthcare Improvement Act

Bill: 115-hr-101
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Budget process
Congressional oversight
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Health programs administration and funding
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Veterans Healthcare Improvement Act

 
 This bill requires the Comptroller General, for each of FY2018-FY2020, to: (1) review the budget requests for the Department of Veterans Affairs' Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, and Medical Facilities accounts contained in the President's budget request for that fiscal year; and (2) report review results to the congressional veterans, appropriations, and budget committees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Care for Veterans Act

Bill: 115-hr-102
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government studies and investigations
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Medical education
Medical research
Mental health
Physical fitness and lifestyle
Research administration and funding
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Expanding Care for Veterans Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to develop a plan to expand the scope of VA's research and education on, and delivery and integration of, complementary and alternative medicine services.
 
The VA shall carry out, through its Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, a three-year program to: (1) assess the feasibility and advisability of integrating the delivery of selected complementary and alternative medicine services with other VA health care services for veterans, and (2) identify and resolve barriers to providing such services and integrating them with other VA health services.
 
Such program shall be conducted at not fewer than 15 VA medical centers by integrating the provision of complementary and alternative medicine services with other VA health care services provided to veterans who have a mental health condition, experience chronic pain, or have a chronic condition. Veterans' participation shall be voluntary.
 
The VA shall contract with a qualified independent entity for comprehensive studies of the barriers encountered by veterans in receiving, and by administrators and clinicians in providing, complementary and alternative medicine services through the VA. Such studies shall be conducted through surveys of veterans and VA administrators and clinicians.
 
The VA shall carry out a three-year program awarding grants to public or private nonprofit entities to assess the feasibility and advisability of using wellness programs to complement the provision of mental health care to veterans and family members who are eligible for readjustment counseling from the VA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act

Bill: 115-hr-103
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alternative treatments
Health care coverage and access
Health facilities and institutions
Health promotion and preventive care
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Musculoskeletal and skin diseases
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Chiropractic Care Available to All Veterans Act

 
This bill amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001 to require a program under which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs provides chiropractic care and services to veterans through Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers and clinics to be carried out at: (1) no fewer than 75 medical centers by December 31, 2017, and (2) all medical centers by December 31, 2019.
 
Chiropractic examinations and services are included within required VA medical, rehabilitative, and preventive health care services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Helping Homeless Veterans Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-104
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Appropriations
Mental health
Public contracts and procurement
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Helping Homeless Veterans Act of 2017 

 
 This bill makes the following Department of Veterans Affairs programs and services permanent: (1) homeless veterans reintegration programs, (2) referral and counseling services for veterans at risk of homelessness who are transitioning from certain institutions (including penal institutions), (3) financial assistance for supportive services for very low-income veteran families in permanent housing, (4) a grant program for homeless veterans with special needs, (5) treatment and rehabilitation for seriously mentally ill and homeless veterans, (6) housing assistance for homeless veterans, and (7) the Advisory Committee on Homeless Veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-105
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Veterans Affairs
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Mental health
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act
 

of 2017

 
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.
 
 An adverse determination by the VA of a veteran's mental capacity to manage VA monetary benefits may be appealed in accordance with provisions governing the Board of Veterans' Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2017-04-27
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2017-01-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Help Hire Our Heroes Act

Bill: 115-hr-106
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Help Hire Our Heroes Act

 
This bill amends the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 to make the veterans retraining assistance program permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Homeless Veterans with Children Reintegration Act

Bill: 115-hr-107
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Homeless Veterans with Children Reintegration Act

 
This bill directs the Department of Labor to give homeless veterans with dependent children service priority under homeless veterans reintegration programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Student Loan Repayment Assistance Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-108
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax credits
Small business
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Student Loan Repayment Assistance Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business-related tax credit for an employer's payments for employees under a student loan repayment program. The credit is equal to 10% of the amounts that an employer pays on behalf of any employee under a program and is refundable for certain small businesses and tax-exempt organizations. The payments for an employee may not exceed $500 per month. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Mortgage Insurance Tax Deduction Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-109
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax deductions
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Mortgage Insurance Tax Deduction Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax deduction for mortgage insurance premiums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Mortgage Debt Tax Forgiveness Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-110
Sponsor: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Mortgage Debt Tax Forgiveness Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the exclusion from gross income of income attributable to the discharge of qualified principal residence indebtedness. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Support Our Start-Ups Act

Bill: 115-hr-111
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Income tax deductions
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Support Our Start-Ups Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the tax deduction for new business expenditures to organizational expenditures, generally defined as expenditures incident to the creation of a corporation or a partnership.
 
The bill also increases the maximum deduction amount for start-up and organizational expenditures from $5,000 to $20,000 and increases from $50,000 to $120,000 the threshold amount after which the maximum deduction amount for such expenditures is reduced. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-112
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Forests, forestry, trees
Fruit and vegetables
Horticulture and plants
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act 

of 2017

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a full deduction in the current taxable year of the cost of replanting lost or damaged citrus plants. The taxpayer must own an equity interest of at least 50% in such replanted plants and may deduct costs paid or incurred through 2026. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Safeguard American Food Exports Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-113
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food supply, safety, and labeling
Mammals
Meat
Trade restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Safeguard American Food Exports Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem equine (horses and other members of the equidae family) parts to be an unsafe food additive or animal drug. 
 
 The bill prohibits the knowing sale or transport of equines or equine parts for human consumption.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Social Media Screening for Terrorists Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-114
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration
Government information and archives
Immigration status and procedures
Internet and video services
Internet, web applications, social media
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Social Media Screening for Terrorists Act of 2017

 
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to search all public records, including Internet sites and social media profiles, to determine if an alien applying for admission to the United States is inadmissible under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
Main Street Fairness Act

Bill: 115-hr-116
Sponsor: Rep. Buchanan, Vern [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2017-01-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax rates
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: 

Main Street Fairness Act 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to prevent qualified business income attributed to individuals from being taxed at a higher rate than corporate income.
 
(Under current law, business income attributed to individuals is taxed using individual income tax rates rather than the corporate tax rate.)
 
Qualified business income is all items of income, deduction, loss, or credit properly attributable to the taxpayer from the active conduct of a trade or business, including:
 
 
 a partnership in which the taxpayer holds a capital or profits interest; 
 
 an S corporation in which the taxpayer is a shareholder;
 
 a sole proprietorship or an entity otherwise disregarded as separate from its sole owner, in which the taxpayer is the sole owner; and 
 
 a trust or estate in which the taxpayer is a beneficiary. 
 
 
Qualified business income does not include any item taken into account in determining net capital gain or the financial services income of partnerships. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Introduced in House