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Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Health
Date: 2013-01-22 00:00:00

Competitive Health Insurance Act - Amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to provide that nothing in that Act shall modify, impair, or supersede the operation of any of the antitrust laws with respect to the business of health insurance.

Applies prohibitions against using unfair methods of competition to the business of health insurance without regard to whether such business is carried on for profit.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2013-02-14 00:00:00

Corporate Tax Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the taxation of the foreign-source income of domestic corporations, to: (1) eliminate the deferral of tax on the foreign-source income of U.S. corporations for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2013, (2) deny the foreign tax credit to large integrated oil companies that are dual capacity taxpayers, (3) limit the offset of the foreign tax credit to income that is subject to U.S. tax, and (4) treat foreign corporations managed and controlled in the United States as domestic corporations for U.S. tax purposes.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Health
Date: 2013-02-15 00:00:00

Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act - Amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to provide that nothing in that Act shall modify, impair, or supersede the operation of any of the antitrust laws with respect to the business of health insurance.

Applies prohibitions against using unfair methods of competition to the business of health insurance without regard to whether such business is carried on for profit.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2013-02-28 00:00:00

S Corporation Modernization Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the tax treatment of S corporations by: (1) permanently reducing from 10 to 5 years the period during which S corporation built-in gains are subject to tax; (2) repealing mandatory termination of S corporation elections for excessive passive investment income; (3) allowing S corporations to increase passive investment income from 25 to 60% without incurring additional tax; (4) allowing nonresident aliens to be potential current beneficiaries of an electing small business trust (ESBT); (5) allowing individual retirement accounts (IRAs) to be S corporation shareholders; (6) allowing ESBTs to claim expanded charitable tax deductions; and (7) making permanent the rule requiring a basis adjustment to stock of an S corporation making charitable contributions of property.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2013-02-28 00:00:00

Tax Return Due Date Simplification and Modernization Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to change tax return due dates for partnerships (from April 15 to March 15, with a six-month extension), S corporations (from March 15 to March 31), and C corporations (from March 15 to April 15).

Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2013, to modify by regulation the due dates for extensions of tax returns for partnerships, trusts and estates, employee benefit plans, tax-exempt organizations, and certain trust funds. Sets a due date of April 15 for the annual information return of a foreign trust with a U.S. owner and for the report of foreign bank and financial accounts (with extensions until October 15).

Extends the automatic extension for corporation income tax returns from three to six months.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Health
Date: 2013-02-28 00:00:00

Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2013 - Amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to declare that nothing in that Act shall modify, impair, or supersede the operation of any of the antitrust laws with respect to the business of health insurance, including the business of dental insurance.

Specifically excludes from the business of health (and dental) insurance covered by this Act the business of life insurance (including annuities) or of property or casualty insurance, including but not limited to: (1) accident only, or disability income insurance only, or any combination of them; (2) liability insurance, including supplemental insurance, general liability insurance, and automobile liability insurance; (3) workers' compensation or similar insurance; (4) automobile medical payment insurance; (5) credit-only insurance; (6) insurance coverage for on-site medical clinics; (7) other similar insurance coverage, specified in regulations, under which benefits for medical care are secondary or incidental to other insurance benefits; (8) insurance for long-term care, nursing home care, home health care, community-based care, or any combination of them; (9) insurance coverage only for a specified disease or illness offered as independent, noncoordinated benefits; and (10) hospital indemnity or other fixed indemnity insurance offered as independent, noncoordinated benefits.

Applies prohibitions against using unfair methods of competition to the business of health insurance without regard to whether such business is carried on for profit.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2013-04-15 00:00:00

Fairness in International Taxation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a reduction under any treaty of the United States of tax withholding for a tax deductible payment made between persons who are members of the same foreign controlled group of entities unless there would be a similar reduction for payments made directly to the foreign parent corporation of such entities.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Agriculture and food
Date: 2013-04-15 00:00:00

New Fair Deal Consolidating and Eliminating Outdated Subsidies Act of 2013 or New Fair Deal CEO's Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to repeal the sugar price support and production adjustment programs, and terminate sugar marketing quotas and allotments.

Eliminates tariffs on: (1) raw sugar cane, (2) beet sugar, and (3) certain refined sugar.

Repeals the Fish and Seafood Promotion Act of 1986.

Amends federal shipping law to terminate the authority of the Secretary of Commerce or the Administrator of the Maritime Administration to guarantee the payment of principal and interest on direct loans for fisheries.

Repeals: (1) the high-speed rail corridor development program, (2) the authority of the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) (Secretary) under the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 to provide direct loans and loan guarantees for railroad rehabilitation and improvement projects, and (3) the Secretary's authority to carry out railroad safety research and development programs.

Repeals the Maritime Guaranteed Loan Program.

Repeals the Secretary's authority to reimburse (subsidize) the Secretary of Agriculture and the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) for increased ocean freight and ocean freight differential transportation charges incurred in the export of agricultural commodities and their products.

Terminates: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission, and (2) the Economic Development Administration (EDA) of the Department of Commerce.

Repeals the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965.

Requires the President to take necessary action to conclude the outstanding affairs of each program and activity terminated by this Act.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Finance and financial sector
Date: 2013-08-02 00:00:00

Investor Choice Act of 2013 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to revise the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to prohibit, or impose conditions or limitations on the use of, agreements that require customers or clients of any broker, dealer, or municipal securities dealer to arbitrate any future dispute between them arising under the federal securities laws, related rules and regulations, or the rules of a self-regulatory organization if it finds that prohibition, imposition of conditions, or limitations are in the public interest and for the protection of investors.

Declares unlawful for a broker, dealer, funding portal, or municipal securities dealer (entities) to enter into, modify, or extend an agreement with customers or clients governing a future dispute between the parties that would mandate arbitration.

Declares likewise unlawful acts by such entities that would restrict, limit, or condition the ability of a customer or client to: (1) select or designate a forum for dispute resolution, or (2) pursue a claim relating to a dispute in an individual or representative capacity or on a class action or consolidated basis.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Health
Date: 2014-02-25 00:00:00

Quality Health Care Coalition Act of 2014 - Exempts health care professionals, including individuals and entities, from federal and state antitrust laws in connection with negotiations with a health plan regarding contract terms under which the professionals provide health care items or services for which plan benefits are provided.

Declares that this Act: (1) applies only to health care professionals excluded from the National Labor Relations Act; and (2) does not apply to such negotiations relating to Medicare or Medicaid programs, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP), medical and dental care for members of the uniformed services, veterans' medical care, the federal employees health benefits program, or the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-04-10 00:00:00

S Corporation Permanent Tax Relief Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the taxation of S corporations, to make permanent: (1) the reduction of the period (10 to 5 years) during which the built-in gains of such corporations are subject to tax, and (2) the rule requiring an adjustment to the basis of an shareholder's stock in an S corporation that makes tax deductible contributions of appreciated property. 

Prohibits the entry of the budgetary effects of this Act on any PAYGO (Pay As You Go) scorecard.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-04-10 00:00:00

Permanent S Corporation Charitable Contributions Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax rule requiring an adjustment to the basis of a shareholder's stock in an S corporation that makes tax deductible charitable contributions of appreciated property in taxable years beginning after 2013.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-05-20 00:00:00

Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise rules for the taxation of inverted corporations (i.e., U.S. corporations that acquire foreign companies to reincorporate in a foreign jurisdiction with income tax rates lower than the United States) to provide that a foreign corporation that acquires the properties of a U.S. corporation or partnership after May 8, 2014, shall be treated as an inverted corporation and thus subject to U.S. taxation if, after such acquisition: (1) it holds more than 50% of the stock of the new entity (expanded affiliated group), or (2) the management or control of the new entity occurs primarily within the United States and the new entity has significant domestic business activities.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Finance and financial sector
Date: 2014-06-19 00:00:00

Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2014 - Amends federal bankruptcy law to cite circumstances under which a medically distressed debtor may elect to exempt from the property of the estate in bankruptcy up to $250,000 of the debtor's aggregate interest in: (1) specified real or personal property that the debtor (or debtor's dependent) uses as a residence, (2) a cooperative that owns the property used as a residence by the debtor or a dependent of the debtor, or (3) a burial plot for the debtor or debtor's dependent.

Applies the same election to certain other property of a medically distressed debtor, including certain retirement funds held in a tax-exempt account.

Declares inapplicable to a medically distressed debtor: (1) certain presumptions that granting relief under Chapter 7 would constitute abuse of Chapter 7, and (2) mandatory court disapproval of a debtor's plan under chapter 13 upon objection by the trustee or the holder of an allowed unsecured claim.

Waives the credit counseling prerequisite for filing for debt relief in the case of a medically distressed debtor.

Permits a medically distressed debtor to discharge in bankruptcy debts for certain educational loans. Requires a debtor who seeks relief as a medically distressed debtor to attest in writing, and under penalty of perjury, that debtor's medical expenses are genuine, and are not specifically incurred to bring the debtor within the meaning of "medically distressed debtor."
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-06-26 00:00:00

Stop Corporate Expatriation and Invest in America's Infrastructure Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise rules for the taxation of inverted corporations (i.e., U.S. corporations that acquire foreign companies to reincorporate in a foreign jurisdiction with income tax rates lower than the United States) to provide that a foreign corporation that acquires the properties of a U.S. corporation or partnership after May 8, 2014, shall be treated as an inverted corporation and thus subject to U.S. taxation if, after such acquisition: (1) it holds more than 50% of the stock of the new entity (expanded affiliated group), or (2) the management or control of the new entity occurs primarily within the United States and the new entity has significant domestic business activities.

Authorizes additional appropriations to the Highway Account and Mass Transit Account in the Highway Trust Fund.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Finance and financial sector
Date: 2014-07-17 00:00:00

Preventing Termination of Utility Services in Bankruptcy Act of 2014 - Amends federal bankruptcy law, with respect to the prohibition against disruption of utility services to a debtor, to declare that an individual debtor may not be required to furnish assurance of payment if he or she pays, within 20 days after the date of the order for relief, those debts owed to a utility for service during that period, and afterward also pays when due debts owed for service during the pendency of the case in bankruptcy.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2014-09-08 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2014 - Amends the Clayton Act with respect to actions brought by the Attorney General for violations of antitrust laws. Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), but only under the Clayton Act, to exercise the same authority and procedures of the Attorney General specified in the Act with respect to the prohibition against acquisition by one corporation of the stock of another (merger) that may substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly.

Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTCA) to exclude proposed mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, or similar transactions from FTC proceedings.

Grants jurisdiction to the U.S. district courts to issue writs of mandamus commanding compliance with the FTCA or any FTC order, if the FTC applies to such courts with respect to any activity related to consummation of a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or similar transaction that results in an unfair method of competition.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Finance and financial sector
Date: 2014-09-09 00:00:00

Financial Institution Bankruptcy Act of 2014 - (Sec. 2) Amends federal bankruptcy law with respect to a "covered financial corporation" incorporated or organized under any federal or state law (other than a stockbroker, a commodity broker, or a domestic or foreign insurance company or financial institution meeting certain criteria) that is: (1) a bank holding company; or (2) a corporation that exists for the primary purpose of owning, controlling, and financing its subsidiaries, has total consolidated assets of $50 billion or greater, and whose annual gross revenues or consolidated assets meet specified tests.

Allows a case under subchapter V (established by this Act) to be converted to chapter 7 (Liquidation) if certain conditions are met, including: (1) a court-ordered appointment of a special trustee, and 2) the court finds that conversion is in the best interest of creditors and the estate.

(Sec. 3) Adds "Subchapter V - Liquidation, Reorganization, or Recapitalization of a Covered Financial Corporation," setting forth requirements and prohibitions regarding: (1) commencement of a case concerning a covered financial corporation; (2) a special trustee and bridge company; (3) special transfer of the property of the estate in bankruptcy; (4) treatment of qualified financial contracts and affiliate contracts; (5) licenses, permits, and registrations; (6) exemption from securities laws; and (7) inapplicability of certain avoiding powers.

Authorizes the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the Department of the Treasury, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to raise and be heard on any issue in any case or proceeding under Subchapter V.

(Sec. 4) Amends the federal judicial code to require the Chief Justice of the United States to designate: (1) at least three appellate judges in at least four circuits to serve on an appellate panel available to hear appeals in a bankruptcy case concerning a covered financial corporation, and (2) a panel of at least 10 bankruptcy judges to be available to hear a case under subchapter V.

Prescribes requirements for the assignment of bankruptcy judges to subchapter V cases.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-09-10 00:00:00

Corporate Fair Share Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit the tax deduction of the interest expense of a U.S. corporation that is a member of a financial reporting group (a group that prepares consolidated financial statements according to accepted accounting principles or international financial reporting standards) to: (1) the amount of interest on indebtedness of the corporation includible in the corporation's gross income for the taxable year plus its proportionate share of the group's net interest expense in the taxable year; or (2) 10% of the corporation's adjusted taxable income, if the corporation fails to substantiate its proportionate share of interest expense. Exempts a corporation that is predominantly engaged in the active conduct of a banking, financing, or similar business or that has less than $5 million of net interest expense for the taxable year.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2013-01-22 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the Senate on October 31, 2013. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2013 - Amends the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 to prohibit an employer from discharging, demoting, suspending, harassing, or in any other manner discriminating against an employee, contractor, subcontractor, or agent of such employer who: (1) provided information to the employer or the federal government concerning a violation of antitrust law or of another criminal law committed in conjunction with a potential violation of antitrust law or in conjunction with an antitrust investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ); or (2) filed, testified, participated, or otherwise assisted in an investigation relating to such a violation. Excludes from such protection any individual who planned and initiated such a violation or an obstruction to the investigation of such a violation.

Authorizes an individual who alleges discharge or other discrimination by an employer in violation of such prohibition to seek relief: (1) by filing a complaint with the Secretary of Labor; or (2) if the Secretary has not issued a final decision within 180 days of such filing, by bringing an action at law or equity in the appropriate U.S. district court. Entitles an individual who prevails in any such action to all relief necessary to make such individual whole, including reinstatement with the same status, back pay plus interest, and compensation for special damages sustained.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2013-05-21 00:00:00

Anti-Trust Freedom Act of 2013 - Provides that the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act prohibiting unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce shall not be construed to prohibit, ban, or otherwise extend to any voluntary economic coordination, cooperation, agreement, or other association, compact, contract, or covenant entered into by or between any individual or group of individuals.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2014-05-20 00:00:00

Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise rules for the taxation of inverted corporations (i.e., U.S. corporations that acquire foreign companies to reincorporate in a foreign jurisdiction with income tax rates lower than the United States) to provide that during the period beginning after May 8, 2014, and before May 9, 2016, a foreign corporation that acquires the properties of a U.S. corporation or partnership shall be treated as an inverted corporation and thus subject to U.S. taxation if, after such acquisition: (1) it holds more than 50% of the stock of the new entity (expanded affiliated group), or (2) the management or control of the new entity occurs primarily within the United States and the new entity has significant domestic business activities.
Topic: Domestic Commerce — Corporate Management
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2014-06-02 00:00:00

Worker Ownership, Readiness, and Knowledge Act or the WORK Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, to establish within the Employment and Training Administration an Employee Ownership and Participation Initiative to promote employee ownership and employee participation in business decisionmaking.

Requires the Secretary to establish a program, which may include grants for outreach, technical assistance, and training, to encourage new and existing state programs designed to foster employee ownership and employee participation in business decisionmaking throughout the United States.

Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on progress related to employee ownership and participation in U.S. businesses.