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Charities Helping Americans Regularly Throughout the Year Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2916
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Mike [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2017-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Charitable contributions
Employee benefits and pensions
Financial services and investments
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Sales and excise taxes
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: 

Charities Helping Americans Regularly Throughout the Year Act 

of 2017

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify several tax provisions affecting charitable contributions and tax-exempt organizations. 
 
The Internal Revenue Service may determine the standard mileage rate for deducting the cost of using a passenger automobile for charitable purposes (currently set by statute at 14 cents per mile), and the rate may not be less than the rate for medical purposes (17 cents per mile for 2017). 
 
The bill modifies the substantiation requirements for charitable contributions to eliminate an exemption for contributions that are reported on a return filed by a tax-exempt organization.
 
Tax-exempt organizations must file their returns in electronic form.
 
The bill excludes from the gross income of an individual who is at least 70-1/2 years of age up to $100,000 in distributions from an individual retirement plan to a donor-advised fund (DAF). The bill also modifies disclosure requirements for DAFs. 
 
(A DAF is a fund or account that is separately identified by reference to contributions of a donor or donors. The account is owned and controlled by a sponsoring charitable organization, while the donor retains advisory privileges with respect to the distribution and investment of funds in the account.) 
 
The bill reduces from 2% to 1% the excise tax on the investment income of private foundations and eliminates a provision that reduces the rate to 1% if a foundation meets certain distribution requirements. 
 
The bill exempts certain philanthropic business holdings from the tax on excess business holdings of private foundations if a foundation meets requirements for exclusive ownership, donating all profits to charity, and independent operation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Regulatory Certainty Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2917
Sponsor: Rep. Gibbs, Bob [R-OH-7]
Introduced: 2017-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Army Corps of Engineers
Department of Defense
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Licensing and registrations
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: 

Regulatory Certainty Act of 2017
 
 
This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to limit the period during which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may prohibit the specification, or restrict the use, of an area as a disposal site for discharges of dredged or fill materials into waters of the United States to the period that:
 
 
begins on the date that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provides notice to the EPA that the Corps of Engineers has completed all procedures for processing an application for a permit for dredged or fill material and is ready to determine whether the permit should be issued, and
 
ends on the date that the Corps of Engineers issues the permit. 
 
 
The Corps of Engineers must ensure that the period consists of at least 30 consecutive days.
 
The Corps of Engineers may issue a permit for dredged or fill material only after the Corps of Engineers provides notice to the EPA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Patients First Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2918
Sponsor: Rep. Banks, Jim [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2017-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Cell biology and embryology
Department of Health and Human Services
Government studies and investigations
Medical ethics
Medical research
Research administration and funding

Summary:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: 

Patients First Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to conduct and support basic and applied research to develop techniques for the isolation, derivation, production, testing, and human clinical use of stem cells that may result in improved understanding of, or treatments for, diseases and other adverse health conditions, provided that the techniques will not involve: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; (2) the destruction or discarding of, or risk of injury to, a living human embryo; or (3) the use of any stem cell the derivation or provision of which would be inconsistent with this bill.
 
HHS must issue guidelines to ensure that any research (including any clinical trial) supported under this bill: (1) is clearly consistent with the standards established in this bill, if conducted using human cells; and (2) is prioritized in terms of potential for near-term clinical benefit in human patients.
 
HHS must report on peer reviewed stem cell research proposals that were not funded.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Teacher Loan Forgiveness for Military Spouses Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2919
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2017-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Military personnel and dependents
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: 

Preserving Teacher Loan Forgiveness for Military Spouses Act of 2017

 
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify the qualifying service requirement of the teacher loan forgiveness program for certain military spouses who are borrowers under the Federal Family Education Loan program or the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program.
 
Under current law, an otherwise qualified full-time teacher must complete five consecutive years of service to be eligible for the teacher loan forgiveness program. This bill permits a teacher who completes five full-time years of non-consecutive service to be eligible for loan forgiveness if the teacher was a qualified military spouse during a break in teaching service.
 
A qualified military spouse is an individual who: (1) is a highly-qualified teacher at a high-need school, (2) is the spouse of a servicemember, (3) experienced a break in teaching service to relocate with servicemember spouse pursuant to military orders, and (4) resumed teaching the following year. 
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Gulf States Coordination Act

Bill: 115-hr-2923
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Garret [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2017-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Appropriations
Aquatic ecology
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Intergovernmental relations
Latin America
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Mexico
Mississippi
Research administration and funding
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Solid waste and recycling
State and local government operations
Texas
Water quality
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: 

Gulf States Coordination Act

 
This bill designates the Gulf of Mexico Alliance as a regional coordination partnership that will strengthen collaboration efforts among federal, state, local, and private participants in the five Gulf states (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas) to restore and protect the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem.
 
The alliance may provide grants to carry out this bill, including to research the effects of natural and human-induced environmental changes on the water quality and living resources of the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
action_date: 2017-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Science, Space, and Technology, 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: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for wigs as durable medical equipment under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-2925
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2017-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Health technology, devices, supplies
Medicare

Summary:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: 
This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover medically necessary cranial prostheses (e.g., wigs) as durable medical equipment under the Medicare program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2017-06-15
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: 2017-06-15
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: 2017-06-15
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: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
REACH Act

Bill: 115-hr-2926
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Patrick [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2017-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information and records
Education programs funding
Government information and archives
Higher education
Mental health

Summary:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: 

Report and Educate About Campus Hazing Act or the REACH Act

 
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify campus security reporting requirements for an institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in federal student aid programs. Specifically, an IHE must disclose hazing incidents that were reported to campus security authorities or local police agencies in its annual security report.
 
In addition, each IHE must provide students with an educational program on hazing, which includes information on hazing awareness, hazing prevention, and the IHE's policies on hazing.
 
Hazing means any intentional, knowing, or reckless act committed by a student, or a former student, of an IHE against another student, that: (1) was committed in connection with an initiation into, an affiliation with, or the maintenance of membership in, any organization that is affiliated with the IHE; and (2) contributes to a substantial risk of physical injury, mental harm, or degradation or causes physical injury, mental harm or personal degradation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-09-12
text: ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Lance asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 2926, a bill originally introduced by Representative Meehan, for the purpose of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
HIRED Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2927
Sponsor: Rep. Messer, Luke [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2017-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Income tax credits
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: 

Helpful Incentives to Restore the Economic Dream Act of 2017 or the HIRED Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business-related tax credit for 40% of the first-year wages (up to $6,000) paid to an employee as part of an apprenticeship program registered under the National Apprenticeship Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to require air carriers to disclose to consumers the actual wheels-off and wheels-on times for certain domestic passenger flight segments, and for other purposes.

Bill: 115-hr-2928
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M., Jr. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2017-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Consumer affairs
Department of Transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation to modify federal consumer disclosure regulations to ensure that a reporting carrier: (1) discloses, upon the reasonable request of a consumer during the course of a reservation or ticketing discussion, the projected period between the actual wheels-off and wheels-on times for a reportable flight; and (2) displays on its public website information on such times for the most recent calendar month for a reportable flight. 
 
A &quot;reporting carrier&quot; is an air carrier that accounts for at least 1% of domestic scheduled-passenger revenues in the most recently reported 12-month period.
 
A &quot;reportable flight&quot; is a nonstop flight to or from any airport within the 48 states that accounts for 1% of domestic scheduled-passenger enplanements in the previous calendar year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employee Combat Zone Tax Parity Act

Bill: 115-hr-2929
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2017-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Income tax exclusion
Military operations and strategy

Summary:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: 

Federal Employee Combat Zone Tax Parity Act

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, the compensation of a federal employee who served in a combat zone or was hospitalized as a result of wounds, disease, or injury incurred while serving in a combat zone. The bill terminates the exclusion two years after the end of combatant activities in such combat zone. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Drone Innovation Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2930
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Jason [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2017-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aviation and airports
Congressional oversight
Department of Transportation
Federal-Indian relations
Intergovernmental relations
Land use and conservation
Noise pollution
Property rights
Right of privacy
State and local government operations
Transportation safety and security

Summary:
action_date: 2017-06-16
text: 

Drone Innovation Act of 2017

 
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to publish a civil unmanned aircraft (drone) local operation policy framework in the Federal Register. The framework shall provide guidelines to standardize restrictions on the operation of drones and create an environment that encourages innovation and fosters the rapid integration of drones into the national airspace system. DOT shall establish pilot programs to provide technical assistance to governmental entities for regulating the operation of drones. 
 
DOT shall not authorize the operation of drones in local airspace above property where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy without the property owner's permission. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2017-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2017-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Community Economic Assistance Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-2931
Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2017-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Capital gains tax
Coal
Economic development
Electric power generation and transmission
Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions
Industrial facilities
Mining
Securities
Small business
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2017-06-16
text: 

Community Economic Assistance Act of 2017 

 
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the establishment of community economic assistance zones that are eligible for certain tax deductions and credits.
 
A zone must be nominated by the governor of the state where it is located and designated by the Department of the Treasury. A nominated area must:
 
 
have received a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice after December 31, 2014, and met other criteria related to loss of employment;
 
have been (or will be) seriously impacted by changes in trade through loss of employment; or
 
satisfy at least two specified conditions, including status as an energy-transitioning or low-income community and other factors related to employment and economic activity. 
 
 
For businesses or individuals located in or investing in a zone, the bill allows: 
 
 
 an employment tax credit, 
 
 increased expensing, 
 
 nonrecognition of gain from certain investments, 
 
 a 3-year carryback of net operating losses, 
 
 a tax credit for bonds issued for a community economic development plan, 
 
 a 15-year depreciation period for certain rebuilt and retrofitted property, 
 
an increased deduction for start-up expenditures, and 
 
 an increased new markets tax credit. 
 
 
Treasury must approve community economic development plans using specified criteria and may award grants for assessments to develop the plans. 
 
The Department of Commerce must deploy teams to provide support and assistance to a region if: (1) it is requested by the governor, and (2) the region is experiencing or threatened with an abrupt rise of unemployment or other specified economic hardships. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2017-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2017-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2017-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2017-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2017-06-16
text: Introduced in House