115 HR 333 IH: Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act
U.S. House of Representatives
2017-01-05
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I115th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 333IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESJanuary 5, 2017Mr. Bishop of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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 concernedA BILLTo amend title 10, United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed Forces who have a
			 service-connected disability rated less than 50 percent to receive
			 concurrent payment of both retired pay and veterans’ disability
			 compensation, to extend eligibility for concurrent receipt to chapter 61
			 disability retirees with less than 20 years of service, and for other
			 purposes.

 1.Short titleThis Act may be cited as the Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act. 2.Concurrent receipt of both retired pay and veterans’ disability compensation for military retirees with compensable service-connected disabilities (a)Inclusion of Retirees With Service-Connected Disabilities Rated Less Than 50 PercentSection 1414(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended—
 (1)by striking Compensation in the subsection heading and all that follows through Subject and inserting Compensation.—Subject; (2)by striking qualifying service-connected disability and inserting service-connected disability; and
 (3)by striking paragraph (2). (b)Inclusion of disability retirees with less than 20 years of serviceSection 1414(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended—
 (1)in paragraph (1), by striking member retired and inserting qualified retiree who is retired; and (2)by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following new paragraph:

 (2)Disability retirees with less than 20 years of serviceThe retired pay of a qualified retiree who is retired under chapter 61 of this title with fewer than 20 years of creditable service is subject to reduction under sections 5304 and 5305 of title 38, but only by the amount (if any) by which the amount of the member’s retired pay under such chapter exceeds the amount equal to 2½ percent of the member’s years of creditable service multiplied by the member’s retired pay base under section 1406(b)(1) or 1407 of this title, whichever is applicable to the member..
 (c)Conforming amendments reflecting end of Concurrent Receipt phase-In periodSection 1414 of title 10, United States Code, is further amended— (1)in subsection (a), as amended by subsection (a) of this section, by striking the final sentence;
 (2)by striking subsection (c) and redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as subsections (c) and (d), respectively; and
 (3)in subsection (d), as so redesignated, by striking paragraphs (3) and (4). (d)Clerical Amendments (1)Section headingThe heading for section 1414 of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

						1414.Members eligible for retired pay who are also eligible for veterans’ disability compensation:
			 Concurrent payment of retired pay and disability compensation.
 (2)Table of sectionsThe item relating to such section in the table of sections at the beginning of chapter 71 of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

							1414. Members eligible for retired pay who are also eligible for veterans’ disability compensation:
			 Concurrent payment of retired pay and disability compensation..
 (e)Conforming amendment reflecting subsection redesignationSection 1413a(f) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking Subsection (d) and inserting Subsection (c). (f)Effective DateThe amendments made by this section shall take effect on the first day of the first month beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to payments for months beginning on or after that date.


115 HRES 282 IH: Supporting State, local, and community initiatives to encourage parents, teachers, camp counselors, and childcare professionals to take measures to prevent sunburns in the minors they care for, and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that State, local, and community entities should continue to support efforts to curb the incidences of skin cancer beginning with childhood skin protection.
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IV115th CONGRESS1st SessionH. RES. 282IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESApril 26, 2017Mr. Dent (for himself, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Joyce of Ohio, Mr. Jenkins of West Virginia, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, and Mr. Cooper) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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 concernedRESOLUTIONSupporting State, local, and community initiatives to encourage parents, teachers, camp counselors, and childcare professionals to take measures to prevent sunburns in the minors they care for, and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that State, local, and community entities should continue to support efforts to curb the incidences of skin cancer beginning with childhood skin protection.
Whereas increasing intermittent sun exposure in childhood and during one’s lifetime is associated with an increased risk of squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, and melanoma;  Whereas even one blistering sunburn during childhood or adolescence can nearly double a person's chance of developing melanoma later in life, while five or more blistering sunburns in late adolescence increases one’s melanoma risk by 80 percent and nonmelanoma risk by 68 percent;
Whereas despite an excellent safety profile, sunscreen is not allowed in many schools without physician authorization;  Whereas in these cases, sunscreen is usually required to be stored in a locked cabinet in the nurse’s office;
Whereas no published studies show that sunscreens that meet FDA standards are toxic to humans or hazardous to human health; and  Whereas research shows that wearing sunscreen can prevent sunburn and reduce the risk of skin cancer and premature aging: Now, therefore, be it
That the House of Representatives— (1)supports Federal, State, and local efforts to exempt sunscreen from over-the-counter medication bans in schools and encourages all schools to allow students to possess sunscreen at school without restriction and without requiring physician authorization;
(2)encourages State, local, and community entities, including schools and summer camps, to develop policies that provide for the use of and access to sunscreen and articles of sun-protective clothing; and (3)supports initiatives and efforts to encourage physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals, through pediatric wellness exams and other opportunities, to educate parents and their children about sun-safe behaviors, including instructions on how to apply sunscreen and effectively wear comprehensive sun-protective clothing.


		II
		112th CONGRESS
		1st Session
		S. 1591
		IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

			September 21, 2011
			Mrs. Gillibrand (for
			 herself, Mr. Kirk,
			 Mr. Levin, and Mr. Johanns) introduced the following bill; which
			 was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban
			 Affairs

		A BILL
		To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Raoul Wallenberg,
		  in recognition of his achievements and heroic actions during the
		  Holocaust.

		1.Short titleThis Act may be cited as the
			 Raoul Wallenberg Centennial
			 Celebration Act .
		2.FindingsThe Congress finds as follows:
			(1)Raoul Wallenberg
			 was born in Europe on August 4, 1912, to Swedish Christian parents.
			(2)In 1935, he
			 graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
			(3)In a letter to his
			 grandfather, Wallenberg wrote of his time in America: I feel so at home
			 in my little Ann Arbor that I’m beginning to sink down roots here and have a
			 hard time imagining my leaving it … Every now and then I feel strange when I
			 think about how tiny my own country is and how large and wonderful America
			 is..
			(4)Raoul returned to
			 Sweden, where he began a career as a businessman, and afterwards, a Swedish
			 diplomat.
			(5)In 1936, Raoul’s
			 grandfather arranged a position for him at the Holland Bank in Haifa,
			 Palestine. There, Raoul began to meet young Jews who had already been forced to
			 flee from Nazi persecution in Germany. Their stories affected him
			 deeply.
			(6)He was greatly
			 troubled by the fate of Jews in Europe, confiding to actress Viveca Lindfors
			 the horrific plight of Jews under Nazi Europe.
			(7)Under the
			 direction of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the War Refugee Board was
			 established in January 1944, to aid civilians who fell victim to the Nazi and
			 Axis powers in Europe.
			(8)One of War Refugee
			 Board’s top priorities was protection of the 750,000 remaining Jews in
			 Hungary.
			(9)It was decided
			 that Raoul Wallenberg, aged 31 at the time, would be most effective in
			 protecting Jews and victims of the Nazis in Hungary under the War Refugee
			 Board. He was recruited by Iver Olsen, an agent for the United States Office of
			 Strategic Services and sent to Budapest, Hungary, under his official profession
			 as a Swedish diplomat. He was instructed to use passports and other creative
			 means to save as many lives as possible.
			(10)Wallenberg
			 created a new Swedish passport, the Schutzpass, which looked more imposing and
			 official than the actual Swedish passport. He reportedly put up huge placards
			 of it throughout Budapest to familiarize the Nazis with it. He unilaterally
			 announced that it granted the holder immunity from the death camps. The
			 Schutzpasses alone are credited with saving 20,000 Jewish lives.
			(11)In one example of
			 his heroism, Wallenberg was told of a Nazi plot to round up several thousand
			 Jewish women and acted swiftly to save them. Former Wallenberg staffer, Agnes
			 Adachi, recalls the time, when she and her colleagues spent the whole night
			 making approximately 2,000 Schutzpasses before 6 a.m. They were all completed
			 and personally delivered to the women in time to save their lives.
			(12)Using the money
			 the United States deposited with the War Refugee Board, Wallenberg was able to
			 purchase approximately 30 buildings, which he used as hospitals, schools, soup
			 kitchens, and safe houses for over 8,000 children whose parents had already
			 been deported or killed.
			(13)Tommy Lapid, a
			 young boy who was staying with his mother in a Swedish safe house (his father
			 was already dead), gave an eyewitness account of how his family was helped by
			 Wallenberg and the War Refugee Board: One morning, a group of Hungarian
			 Fascists came into the house and said that all the able-bodied women must go
			 with them. We knew what this meant. My mother kissed me and I cried and she
			 cried. We knew we were parting forever and she left me there, an orphan to all
			 intents and purposes. Then two or three hours later, to my amazement, my mother
			 returned with the other women. It seemed like a mirage, a miracle. My mother
			 was there—she was alive and she was hugging me and kissing me, and she said one
			 word: Wallenberg..
			(14)Even as the war
			 was coming to a close, Wallenberg remained vigilant and attentive to the people
			 under his care. Adolf Eichmann, the SS colonel charged with the extermination
			 of Jews in Eastern Europe, was determined to exterminate the 70,000 Jews kept
			 as prisoners in a guarded ghetto in Budapest. As soon as Wallenberg heard of
			 the plot, he sent Pal Szalay, an Arrow-Crossman senior official, who defected
			 and turned to Wallenberg. Szalay was sent to speak to General Schmidthuber, who
			 was ordered to spearhead the ghetto extermination in Budapest. Szalay informed
			 Schmidthuber that, seeing as the war was coming to an end, if the planned
			 massacre took place, Wallenberg would see to it personally that Schmidthuber
			 would be prosecuted as a war criminal and hanged. The plans were ultimately
			 abandoned and considered Wallenberg’s last big victory.
			(15)Of the 120,000
			 Jews in Hungary that survived, Raoul Wallenberg, acting under the War Refugee
			 Board, is credited with saving an estimated 100,000 of them in a 6-month
			 period.
			(16)These findings
			 show that Raoul Wallenberg showed exceptional heroism and bravery with his
			 actions during the Holocaust. Working with the War Refugee Board, a United
			 States agency, he was able to save approximately 100,000 Jews in Hungary, many
			 of whom were later able to immigrate to the United States.
			(17)Indeed, many American Jews can directly or
			 indirectly attribute their own lives to Raoul Wallenberg’s actions during World
			 War II. Many of the people Wallenberg saved have been influential citizens
			 contributing to American institutions and culture, including Congressman Tom
			 Lantos (February 1, 1928–February 11, 2008) and the Liska Rebbe, Rabbi Yoizef
			 (Joseph) Friedlander, who carried forth the Liska Hassidic dynasty from Hungary
			 to the United States after being saved by Raoul Wallenberg.
			(18)His actions and
			 character make him an excellent contender for a Congressional Gold Medal in
			 time for the centennial of his birth, to celebrate his achievements and
			 humanitarian accomplishments.
			3.Congressional
			 Gold Medal
			(a)Presentation
			 authorizedThe Speaker of the
			 House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make
			 appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of the Congress, of a
			 gold medal of appropriate design to the next of kin or personal representative
			 of Raoul Wallenberg, in recognition of his achievements and heroic actions
			 during the Holocaust.
			(b)Design and
			 strikingFor the purpose of the presentation referred to in
			 subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury (in this Act referred to as the
			 Secretary) shall strike a gold medal with suitable emblems,
			 devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the Secretary.
			4.Duplicate
			 medalsUnder such regulations
			 as the Secretary (in this Act referred to as the Secretary) may
			 prescribe, the Secretary may strike duplicate medals in bronze of the gold
			 medal struck pursuant to section 3 and sell such duplicate medals at a price
			 sufficient to cover the costs of the duplicate medals (including labor,
			 materials, dies, use of machinery, overhead expenses) and the cost of the gold
			 medal.
		5.Status of
			 medals
			(a)National
			 medalsThe medals struck pursuant to this Act are national medals
			 for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code.
			(b)Numismatic
			 itemsFor purposes of section 5134 of title 31, United States
			 Code, all medals struck under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic
			 items.
			6.Authority to use
			 fund amounts; Proceeds of sale
			(a)Authorization of
			 chargesThere is authorized
			 to be charged against the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund, such
			 amounts as may be necessary to pay for the costs of the medals struck pursuant
			 to this Act.
			(b)Proceeds of
			 saleAmounts received from the sale of duplicate bronze medals
			 under section 4 shall be deposited in the United States Mint Public Enterprise
			 Fund.


115 HR 3745 IH: Decentralized Wastewater Grant Act of 2021
U.S. House of Representatives
2021-06-08
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I117th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 3745IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESJune 8, 2021Ms. Sewell (for herself and Mr. Babin) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureA BILLTo amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a decentralized wastewater grant program, and for other purposes.1.Short titleThis Act may be cited as the Decentralized Wastewater Grant Act of 2021.2.Decentralized wastewater grant program(a)In generalTitle II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1281 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:222.Grants for construction, repair, or replacement of individual household decentralized wastewater treatment systems(a)DefinitionIn this section, the term eligible individual means a member of a household, the members of which have a combined income (for the most recent 12-month period for which information is available) equal to not more than 50 percent of the median nonmetropolitan household income for the State in which the household is located, according to the most recent decennial census.(b)Grant programThe Administrator shall establish a program to provide a grant to a qualified nonprofit organization, as determined by the Administrator, to provide a subgrant to an eligible individual—(1)for the construction, repair, or replacement of an individual household decentralized wastewater treatment system;(2)if the eligible individual resides in a household that could be cost-effectively connected to an available publicly owned treatment works, for the connection of the household of the eligible individual to the publicly owned treatment works; or(3)for the installation of a larger decentralized wastewater system designed to provide treatment for 2 or more households in which eligible individuals reside, if—(A)site conditions at the households are unsuitable for the installation of an individually owned decentralized wastewater system;(B)multiple examples of unsuitable site conditions exist in close geographic proximity to each other; and(C)a larger decentralized wastewater system could be cost-effectively installed.(c)PriorityIn awarding subgrants under this section, a qualified nonprofit organization that receives a grant under this section shall give priority to—(1)an eligible individual who does not have access to a functioning sanitary sewage disposal system; and(2)a group of eligible individuals that do not have access to a functioning sanitary sewage disposal system.(d)ApplicationTo be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a qualified nonprofit organization shall submit to the Administrator an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator may require.(e)Authorization of appropriations(1)In generalThere is authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator to carry out this section $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.(2)Limitation on use of fundsOf the amounts made available for grants under paragraph (1), not more than 2 percent may be used to pay the administrative costs of the Administrator..(b)Water pollution control revolving loan fundsSection 603 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1383) is amended—(1)in subsection (c)—(A)in paragraph (10), by adding and at the end;(B)in paragraph (11)(B), by striking ; and at the end and inserting a period; and(C)by striking paragraph (12); and(2)by striking subsection (j).(c)No reporting requirementSection 4107 of the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–270; 132 Stat. 3877) is amended by striking subsection (b).


113 S367 IS: Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2013
U.S. Senate
2013-02-14
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		II
		113th CONGRESS
		1st Session
		S. 367
		IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

			February 14, 2013
			Mr. Cardin (for himself
			 and Ms. Collins) introduced the following
			 bill; which was read twice and referred to the
			 Committee on
			 Finance

		A BILL
		To amend title XVIII of the Social Security
		  Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation therapy
		  caps.

		1.Short titleThis Act may be cited as the
			 Medicare Access to Rehabilitation
			 Services Act of 2013.
		2.Outpatient therapy cap
			 repealSection 1833 of the
			 Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395(l))
			 is amended by striking subsection (g).


114 HR 173 IH: Death Tax Repeal Act
U.S. House of Representatives
2015-01-06
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		I
		114th CONGRESS
		1st Session
		H. R. 173
		IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

			January 6, 2015
			Mr. Thornberry (for himself, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Sessions, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Cook, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Huizenga of Michigan, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Olson, Ms. Granger, Mr. Lance, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Turner, Mr. Womack, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Massie, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Jones, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Goodlatte, Mr. Bilirakis, and Mr. Miller of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

		A BILL
		To repeal the Federal estate and gift taxes.

		1.Short titleThis Act may be cited as the Death Tax Repeal Act.
		2.Repeal of estate and gift taxes
			(a)In generalSubtitle B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to estate, gift, and generation-skipping
			 taxes) is hereby repealed.
			(b)Effective dateThe repeal made by subsection (a) shall apply to estates of decedents dying, gifts made, and
			 generation-skipping transfers made after the date of the enactment of this
			 Act.