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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; AMENDMENT OF 1986 CODE.

(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ''Working Family
Child Care Tax Relief Act of 1996''.
(b) Amendment of 1986 Code.--Except as otherwise expressly
provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in
terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision,
the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other
provision of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF CHILD AND DEPENDENT CARE CREDIT.

(a) Increase in Credit.--Paragraph (2) of section 21(a) (relating
to credit for expenses for household and dependent care services
necessary for gainful employment) is amended to read as follows:
''(2) Applicable percentage defined.--For purposes of
paragraph (1), the term 'applicable percentage' means 30
percent reduced (but not below 20 percent) by 1 percentage
point for each $3,000 (or fraction thereof) by which the
taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds $50,000.''
(b) Increase in Maximum Amount Creditable.--
(1) In general.--Section 21(c) (relating to dollar limit on
amount creditable) is amended--
(A) by striking ''$2,400'' in paragraph (1) and
inserting ''$4,000'', and
(B) by striking ''$4,800'' in paragraph (2) and
inserting ''$8,000''.
(2) Phaseout for taxpayers with adjusted gross income in
excess of $50,000.--
(A) In general.--Section 21(c) is amended by adding
at the end the following new paragraph:
''(2) Limitation based on adjusted gross income.--If the
taxpayer's adjusted gross income for the taxable year exceeds
$50,000, the applicable dollar amount under paragraph (1) shall
be reduced as follows:
''(A) The $4,000 amount under paragraph (1)(A)
shall be reduced (but not below $2,400) by $53.33 for
each $1,000 (or fraction thereof) of such excess.
''(B) The $8,000 amount under paragraph (1)(B)
shall be reduced (but not below $4,800) by $106.66 for
each $1,000 (or fraction thereof) of such excess.''
(2) Conforming amendments.--Section 21(c), as amended by
subsection (b), is amended--
(A) by striking ''The amount'' and inserting:
''(1) In general.--The amount'',
(B) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as
subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and
(C) by striking ''paragraph (1) or (2)'' and
inserting ''subparagraph (A) or (B)''.
(c) Credit Made Refundable.--
(1) In general.--Section 21 (relating to credit for
expenses for household and dependent care services), as amended
by this section, is transferred to subpart C of part IV of
subchapter A of chapter 1, inserted after section 35, and
redesignated as section 36.
(2) Conforming amendments.--
(A) Section 129 is amended--
(i) by striking ''21(e)'' in subsection
(a)(2)(C) and inserting ''36(e)'',
(ii) by striking ''21(d)(2)'' in subsection
(b)(2) and inserting ''36(d)(2)'', and
(iii) by striking ''21(b)(2)'' in
subsection (e)(1) and inserting ''36(b)(2)''.
(B) Section 213(e) is amended by striking ''section
21'' and inserting ''section 36''.
(3) Clerical amendments.--
(A) The table of sections for subpart A of part IV
of subchapter A of chapter 1 is amended by striking the
item relating to section 21.
(B) The table of sections for subpart C of part IV
of subchapter A of chapter 1 is amended by adding at
the end the following new item:

''Sec. 36. Expenses for household and
dependent care services
necessary for gainful
employment.''
(d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall
apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1997.

SEC. 3. OFFSETS OF REVENUE LOSS.

(a) Modifications to Foreign Earned Income Exclusion.--
(1) Repeal of $70,000 exclusion.--Paragraph (1) of section
911(a) (relating to exclusion from gross income) is amended by
inserting ''in the case of taxable years beginning before
January 1, 1998,'' before ''the foreign earned income''.
(2) Qualified schooling expenses.--
(A) In general.--Section 911(a) is amended by
striking ''and'' at the end of paragraph (1), by
striking the period at the end of paragraph (2) and
inserting '', and'', and by adding at the end the
following new paragraph:
''(3) the qualified schooling expenses of such
individual.''
(B) Qualified schooling expenses.--Section 911 is
amended by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as
subsections (f) and (g) and by inserting after
subsection (d) the following new subsection:
''(e) Qualified Schooling Expenses.--For purposes of this section--
''(1) In general.--For purposes of this section, the term
'qualified schooling expenses' means the reasonable schooling
expenses paid or incurred by or on behalf of the individual
during the taxable year for the education of each dependent of
the individual at the elementary or secondary level. For
purposes of the preceding sentence, the elementary or secondary
level means education which is the equivalent of education from
the kindergarten through the 12th grade in a United States-type
school.
''(2) Expenses included.--For purposes of paragraph (1),
the term 'schooling expenses' means the cost of tuition, fees,
books, and local transportation and of other expenses required
by the school. Except as provided in paragraph (3), such term
does not include expenses of room and board or expenses of
transportation other than local transportation.
''(3) Room, board, and travel allowed in certain cases.--If
an adequate United States-type school is not available within a
reasonable commuting distance of the individual's tax home, the
expenses of room and board of the dependent and the expenses of
the transportation of the dependent each school year between
such tax home and the location of the school shall be treated
as schooling expenses.
''(4) Determination of reasonable expenses.--If--
''(A) there is an adequate United States-type
school available within a reasonable commuting distance
of the individual's tax home, and
''(B) the dependent attends a school other than the
school referred to in subparagraph (A),
then the amount taken into account under paragraph (2) shall
not exceed the aggregate amount which would be charged for the
period by the school referred to in subparagraph (A).
''(5) Period taken into account.--An amount shall be taken
into account as a qualified schooling expense only if it is
attributable to education for a period during which the
individual's tax home is in a foreign country.
''(6) Special rules where schooling expenses not provided
by employer.--
''(A) In general.--To the extent the qualified
schooling expenses of any individual for any taxable
year is not attributable to employer provided amounts,
such expenses shall be treated as a deduction allowable
in computing adjusted gross income to the extent of the
limitation of subparagraph (B).
''(B) Limitation.--For purposes of subparagraph
(A), the limitation of this subparagraph is the excess
of--
''(i) the foreign earned income of the
individual for the taxable year, over
''(ii) the amount of such income excluded
from gross income under subsection (a) for the
taxable year.
''(C) 1-year carryover of expenses not allowed by
reason of subparagraph (b).--
''(i) In general.--The amount not allowable
as a deduction for any taxable year under
subparagraph (A) by reason of the limitation of
subparagraph (B) shall be treated as a
deduction allowable in computing adjusted gross
income for the succeeding taxable year (and
only for the succeeding taxable year) to the
extent of the limitation of clause (ii) for
such succeeding taxable year.
''(ii) Limitation.--For purposes of clause
(i), the limitation of this clause for any
taxable year is the excess of--
''(I) the limitation of
subparagraph (B) for such taxable year,
over
''(II) amounts treated as a
deduction under subparagraph (A) for
such taxable year.
''(D) Employer provided amounts.--For purposes of
this paragraph, the term 'employer provided amounts'
means any amount paid or incurred on behalf of the
individual by the individual's employer which is
foreign earned income included in the individual's
gross income for the taxable year (without regard to
this section).''
(C) Conforming amendment.--Section 911(d)(7) is
amended by inserting ''or (e)(6)(A)'' after
''subsection (c)(3)(A)''.
(3) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection
shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1997.
(b) Savings From Welfare Reform.--If there is an overall decrease
in Federal revenues for any fiscal year by reason of this Act (without
regard to this subsection), such decrease shall be offset by the
decrease in Federal expenditures for such fiscal year by reason of the
amendments made by, and provisions of, the Personal Responsibility and
Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-193).
Working Family Child Care Tax Relief Act of 1996 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the child and dependent care credit to: (1) increase such credit and make it refundable; and (2) provide it with an income-based phaseout and limitation.
Eliminates the foreign earned income exclusion as of a specified date. Allows an exclusion for overseas qualified elementary and secondary schooling expenses.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Advancing Research for Neurological
Diseases Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM.

Part P of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.
280g et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

''SEC. 399V-6 SURVEILLANCE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES.

''(a) In General.--The Secretary, acting through the Director of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall--
''(1) enhance and expand infrastructure and activities to
track the epidemiology of neurological diseases, including
multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease; and
''(2) incorporate information obtained through such
activities into a statistically-sound, scientifically-credible,
integrated surveillance system, to be known as the National
Neurological Diseases Surveillance System.
''(b) Research.--The Secretary shall ensure that the National
Neurological Diseases Surveillance System is designed in a manner that
facilitates further research on neurological diseases.
''(c) Content.--In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary--
''(1) shall provide for the collection and storage of
information on the incidence and prevalence of neurological
diseases in the United States;
''(2) to the extent practicable, shall provide for the
collection and storage of other available information on
neurological diseases, such as information concerning--
''(A) demographics and other information associated
or possibly associated with neurological diseases, such
as age, race, ethnicity, sex, geographic location, and
family history;
''(B) risk factors associated or possibly
associated with neurological diseases, including
genetic and environmental risk factors; and
''(C) diagnosis and progression markers;
''(3) may provide for the collection and storage of
information relevant to analysis on neurological diseases, such
as information concerning--
''(A) the epidemiology of the diseases;
''(B) the natural history of the diseases;
''(C) the prevention of the diseases;
''(D) the detection, management, and treatment
approaches for the diseases; and
''(E) the development of outcomes measures; and
''(4) may address issues identified during the consultation
process under subsection (d).
''(d) Consultation.--In carrying out this section, the Secretary
shall consult with individuals with appropriate expertise, including--
''(1) epidemiologists with experience in disease
surveillance or registries;
''(2) representatives of national voluntary health
associations that--
''(A) focus on neurological diseases, including
multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease; and
''(B) have demonstrated experience in research,
care, or patient services;
''(3) health information technology experts or other
information management specialists;
''(4) clinicians with expertise in neurological diseases;
and
''(5) research scientists with experience conducting
translational research or utilizing surveillance systems for
scientific research purposes.
''(e) Grants.--The Secretary may award grants to, or enter into
contracts or cooperative agreements with, public or private nonprofit
entities to carry out activities under this section.
''(f) Coordination With Other Federal Agencies.--Subject to
subsection (h), the Secretary shall make information and analysis in
the National Neurological Diseases Surveillance System available, as
appropriate, to Federal departments and agencies, such as the National
Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of
Defense.
''(g) Public Access.--Subject to subsection (h), the Secretary
shall make information and analysis in the National Neurological
Diseases Surveillance System available, as appropriate, to the public,
including researchers.
''(h) Privacy.--The Secretary shall ensure that privacy and
security protections applicable to the National Neurological Diseases
Surveillance System are at least as stringent as the privacy and
security protections under HIPAA privacy and security law (as defined
in section 3009(a)(2)).
''(i) Report.--Not later than 4 years after the date of the
enactment of this section, the Secretary shall submit a report to the
Congress concerning the implementation of this section. Such report
shall include information on--
''(1) the development and maintenance of the National
Neurological Diseases Surveillance System;
''(2) the type of information collected and stored in the
System;
''(3) the use and availability of such information,
including guidelines for such use; and
''(4) the use and coordination of databases that collect or
maintain information on neurological diseases.
''(j) Definition.--In this section, the term 'national voluntary
health association' means a national nonprofit organization with
chapters, other affiliated organizations, or networks in States
throughout the United States.
''(k) Authorization of Appropriations.--To carry out this section,
there is authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2015 through 2019.''.
Advancing Research for Neurological Diseases Act of 2015 Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to: (1) enhance and expand infrastructure and activities to track the epidemiology of neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease; and (2) incorporate information obtained through those activities into a National Neurological Diseases Surveillance System. Requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure that the System facilitates further research on neurological diseases. Requires HHS to provide for the collection and storage of information on neurological diseases, including the incidence, prevalence, and other information, to the extent practicable. Requires HHS to: (1) make information and analysis in the System available to federal agencies and to the public, including researchers; and (2) ensure that privacy and security protections applicable to the System are at least as stringent as the protections under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Permanent Emergency Agricultural
Assistance Act''.

SEC. 2. CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR 2001, 2002, AND 2003 CROP LOSSES.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall make emergency
financial assistance available to producers on a farm who have incurred
qualifying crop losses for the 2001, 2002, or 2003 crop, or any
combination of those crops, due to damaging weather or related
condition, as determined by the Secretary.
(b) Administration.--Except as provided in subsection (c), the
Secretary shall make assistance available under this section in the
same manner as provided under section 815 of the Agriculture, Rural
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106-387; 114 Stat. 1549A-55),
including using the same loss thresholds for the quantity and quality
losses as were used in administering that section.
(c) Payment Rates.--The Secretary shall make a disaster payment
available to producers on a farm for a crop under this section at a
rate equal to--
(1) 40 percent of the established price for the crop for
any deficiency in production greater than 20 percent, but less
than 35 percent, for the crop; and
(2) 65 percent of the established price for the crop for
any deficiency in production of 35 percent or more for the
crop.
(d) Crop Insurance.--In carrying out this section, the Secretary
shall not discriminate against or penalize producers on a farm that
have purchased crop insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.).
(e) Other Assistance.--Subject to subsection (d), the amount of
assistance that producers on a farm would otherwise receive under this
section shall be reduced by the amount of assistance provided to the
producers on the farm for crop losses described in subsection (a) under
any other Federal law.

SEC. 3. CROP DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR FUTURE CROP YEARS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall make emergency
financial assistance available to producers on a farm who incur
qualifying crop losses for an insurable crop due to damaging weather or
related condition, as determined by the Secretary, which results in the
designation of the county in which the farm is located as a federally
declared disaster area.
(b) Administration.--Except as provided in subsections (c) and (d),
the Secretary shall make assistance available under this section in the
same manner as provided under section 815 of the Agriculture, Rural
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106-387; 114 Stat. 1549A-55),
including using the same loss thresholds for the quantity and quality
losses as were used in administering that section.
(c) Payment Rate.--Subject to subsection (e), the Secretary shall
make assistance available to producers on a farm for a crop under this
section at a rate equal to 65 percent of the established price for the
crop for any deficiency in production of 35 percent or more for the
crop.
(d) Receipt Conditioned on Having Crop Insurance.--The producers on
a farm shall not be eligible for assistance under subsection (a) with
respect to losses to a crop unless the producers obtained, before the
losses were incurred, a policy or plan of insurance for the crop under
the Federal Crop Insurance Act that provided a level of coverage equal
to or greater than 60 percent.
(e) Payment Limitation.--
(1) Limitation.--Assistance provided under subsection (a)
to a producer for losses to a crop, together with the amounts
specified in paragraph (2) applicable to the same crop, may not
exceed 95 percent of what the value of the crop would have been
in the absence of the losses, as estimated by the Secretary.
(2) Other payments.--In applying the limitation in
paragraph (1), the Secretary shall include the following:
(A) Crop insurance payments made under the Federal
Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) that the
producer receives for losses to the same crop.
(B) The value of the crop that was not lost (if
any), as estimated by the Secretary.
(f) Definition.--In this section, the term ''federally declared
disaster area'' is a county covered by a Presidential declaration of
major disaster issued under section 301 of the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170) or
determined to be a disaster area by the Secretary under subpart A of
part 1945 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations. The term does not
include a contiguous county.
(g) Effective Date.--This section applies to crop years after the
2003 crop year.

SEC. 4. LIVESTOCK ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall make and
administer payments for livestock losses to producers for 2001, 2002,
or 2003, or any combination of those years, in a county that has
received a corresponding emergency designation by the President or the
Secretary, of which an amount determined by the Secretary shall be made
available for the American Indian livestock program under section 806
of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration,
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106-387; 114
Stat. 1549, 1549A-51).
(b) Administration.--The Secretary shall make assistance available
under this section in the same manner as provided under section 806 of
the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106-387; 114
Stat. 1549, 1549A-51).
(c) Other Assistance.--The amount of assistance that a producer
would otherwise receive under this section shall be reduced by the
amount of assistance provided to the producer for losses described in
subsection (a) under any other Federal law.

SEC. 5. FUNDING AND REIMBURSEMENT.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall use the funds
of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out this Act.
(b) Permanent Program.--There is hereby authorized to be
appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to reimburse the
Commodity Credit Corporation for funds expended by the Secretary under
section 3.

SEC. 6. EMERGENCY DESIGNATIONS.

(a) In General.--The amounts referred to in sections 2 and 4 are
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
502 of H. Con. Res. 95 (108th Congress), the concurrent resolution on
the budget for fiscal year 2004.
(b) Permanent Program.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to the
authorization of appropriations in section 5(b) to reimburse the
Commodity Credit Corporation shall be treated as emergency spending.
The allocation for a fiscal year otherwise made to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate pursuant
to section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall be
increased by the amount appropriated pursuant to such authorization of
appropriations for the same fiscal year.

SEC. 7. REGULATIONS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture may promulgate such
regulations as are necessary to carry out this Act.
(b) Procedure.--The promulgation of the regulations and
administration of this Act shall be made without regard to--
(1) the notice and comment provisions of section 553 of
title 5, United States Code;
(2) the Statement of Policy of the Secretary of Agriculture
effective July 24, 1971 (36 Fed. Reg. 13804), relating to
notices of proposed rulemaking and public participation in
rulemaking; and
(3) chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code (commonly
known as the ''Paperwork Reduction Act'').
(c) Congressional Review of Agency Rulemaking.--In carrying out
this section, the Secretary shall use the authority provided under
section 808 of title 5, United States Code.
Permanent Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use Commodity Credit Corporation funds for emergency financial assistance to: (1) crop producers who have suffered qualifying weather-caused crop losses in 2001, 2002, or 2003; and (2) livestock producers for losses in 2001, 2002, or 2003, including livestock under the American Indian livestock program, in a disaster-designated county. Reduces (other than crop insurance) other agricultural assistance by amounts received under this Act.

Directs the Secretary to make emergency financial assistance available after 2003 to producers with specified crop insurance coverage who have suffered qualifying weather-caused crop damage in a disaster-designated area.