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Hire More Heroes Act of 2015 [HB-22]
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[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
[Trade ]
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[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
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[Science ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Telecommunications ]
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Hire More Heroes Act of 2015 DIVISION A--SURFACE TRANSPORTATION (Sec. 1002) Directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to reduce the amount apportioned for a surface transportation program, project, or activity for FY2016 by amounts apportioned or allocated under any extension of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) for the period beginning October 1, 2015, and ending upon enactment of this Act. TITLE I--FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS Subtitle A--Authorizations and Programs (Sec. 1101) Reauthorizes through FY2020: certain core
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Sponsored by: Rep. David G. Valadao
Message On Senate Action Sent To The House. on 12/04/2015
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Student Worker Exemption Act of 2016 [HB-210]
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[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Taxes ]
Student Worker Exemption Act of 2016 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude students who are employed by an institution of higher education (IHE) and carrying a full-time academic workload at the IHE from being counted as full-time employees in calculating the IHE's shared responsibility regarding health care coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Luke Messer
Reported (amended) By The Committee On Ways And Means. H. Rept. 114-655. on 07/05/2016
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EACH Act Equitable Access to Care and Health Act [HB-2061]
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[Religion ]
EACH Act Equitable Access to Care and Health Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the religious conscience exemption under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to exempt individuals who rely solely on a religious method of healing and for whom the acceptance of medical health services would be inconsistent with their religious beliefs from the requirement to purchase and maintain minimum essential health care coverage. The individual claiming such exemption must provide an attestation that he or she has not
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 09/29/2015
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Repeal Executive Amnesty Act of 2015 [HB-191]
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[Criminal Justice ]
[Human Rights ]
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Repeal Executive Amnesty Act of 2015 This bill shifts from the Attorney General to the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) the authority to parole an alien temporarily into the United States, on a case-by-case basis, and in the Secretary's sole discretion, for an urgent humanitarian reasons or for another reason strictly in the public interest. A humanitarian parole is limited to: a medical emergency or organ or tissue donation in certain circumstances; or a situation in which a close family member in the United States is dying and the alien could
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve King
Referred To The Subcommittee On Immigration And Border Security. on 02/02/2015
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To amend section 1341 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal the funding mechanism for the transitional reinsurance program in the individual market, and for other purposes. [HB-1886]
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To amend section 1341 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal the funding mechanism for the transitional reinsurance program in the individual market, and for other purposes. This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to eliminate the funding mechanism for the transitional reinsurance program. Currently, issuers of individual, group, and self-funded plans are required to pay a fee in 2014, 2015, and 2016 to fund the three-year transitional reinsurance program. Under the transitional reinsurance program, non-grandfathered
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Sponsored by: Rep. David G. Valadao
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/17/2015
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Health Insurance Freedom Act of 2015 [HB-1664]
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Health Insurance Freedom Act of 2015 Permits a health insurance issuer that had in effect health insurance coverage in the group or individual market on any date during 2013 to continue offering that coverage outside of a health care exchange established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Treats that coverage as a grandfathered health plan for purposes of an individual meeting the requirement to maintain minimum essential health coverage. Applies only to coverage in states where the state insurance commissioner elects to apply
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Newhouse
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/08/2015
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Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2015 [HB-1446]
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[Data Privacy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2015 Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that individuals who enter personal information on a health exchange website can remove their information from the website if they decide not to apply for health care coverage.
Sponsored by: Rep. Collin C. Peterson
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 03/20/2015
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Patient Freedom Act of 2014 [HB-143]
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Patient Freedom Act of 2014 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal, after 2013, the requirement that individuals maintain minimum essential health care coverage.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve King
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 02/27/2015
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Access to Insurance for All Americans Act [HB-138]
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Access to Insurance for All Americans Act Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of the enactment of such Act and provisions. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act and provisions. Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to administer a health insurance program for non-federal employees and to apply to such program the provisions governing the federal employee health insurance program to the greatest extent practicable.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Darrell E. Issa
Referred To The Subcommittee On Higher Education And Workforce Training. on 04/29/2015
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ObamaCare Repeal Act [HB-132]
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[Medicare and Medicaid ]
ObamaCare Repeal Act Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of their enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Acts.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert J. Wittman
Referred To The Subcommittee On Higher Education And Workforce Training. on 04/29/2015
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Medical Freedom Act of 2015 [HB-1234]
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Medical Freedom Act of 2015 This bill repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 relating to health insurance, health savings accounts, and health flexible spending accounts, including provisions prohibiting annual or lifetime limits on benefits, requiring preventive care without cost sharing, requiring dependent coverage until age 26, prohibiting preexisting condition exclusions, guaranteeing availability and renewability of coverage, and prohibiting
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert J. Wittman
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health, Employment, Labor, And Pensions. on 04/29/2015
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American Health Security Act of 2015 [HB-1200]
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American Health Security Act of 2015 Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives concerning recognition of health care as a human right. Establishes the State-Based American Health Security Program to provide every U.S. resident who is a U.S. citizen, national, or lawful resident alien with health care services. Requires each participating state to establish a state health security program. Eliminates benefits under: (1) titles XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), and XXI (Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP) of the Social Security Act; (2)
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Sponsored by: Rep. Loretta Sanchez
Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 08/13/2015
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Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act [HB-1191]
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[International ]
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Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to direct the President, within five days after reaching an agreement with Iran regarding Iran's nuclear program, to transmit to Congress: the text of the agreement and all related materials and annexes; a related verification assessment report of the Secretary of State; a certification that the agreement includes the appropriate terms, conditions, and duration of the agreement's requirements concerning Iran's nuclear activities,
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Sponsored by: Rep. H. Morgan Griffith
Signed By President. on 05/22/2015
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Reclaiming Individual Liberty Act [HB-117]
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Reclaiming Individual Liberty Act This bill repeals the provision in the Internal Revenue Code, as added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, that requires individual taxpayers to purchase and maintain minimum essential health care coverage.
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Garrett
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 03/30/2015
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit for health insurance costs of certain Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation pension recipients. [HB-1143]
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[Pensions ]
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[Senior Citizens ]
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit for health insurance costs of certain Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation pension recipients. This bill extends through December 31, 2019, the eligibility of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation pension recipients for the health care tax credit.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel T. Kildee
Introduced In House on 02/26/2015
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Show Your Exemption Act [HB-1011]
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[Public Health ]
Show Your Exemption Act This bill requires the House of Representatives and the Senate to make publicly available the determinations of each Member of the House of Representatives and each Senator regarding the designation of their employees (including leadership and committee staff) as congressional staff for purposes of requiring those employees to enroll in health insurance coverage offered through a health benefit exchange as required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Brad R. Wenstrup
Introduced In House on 02/13/2015
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A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Internal Revenue Service of the Department of the Treasury relating to liability under section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for the shared responsibility payment for not maintaining minimum essential coverage. [SJR-35]
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Disapproves and nullifies final regulations submitted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that provide guidance to individual taxpayers on the liability under section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code for the shared responsibility payment for not maintaining minimum essential health care coverage.
Sponsored by: Sen. Orrin G. Hatch
Referred To The Committee On Finance. (text Of Measure As Introduced: Cr S1831) on 03/27/2014
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A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Internal Revenue Service of the Department of the Treasury relating to liability under section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for the shared responsibility payment for not maintaining minimum essential coverage. [SJR-27]
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[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Disapproves and nullifies final regulations submitted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that provide guidance to individual taxpayers on the liability under section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code for the shared responsibility payment for not maintaining minimum essential health care coverage.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ron Johnson
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. (text Of Measure As Introduced: Cr S7732) on 10/31/2013
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A joint resolution making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes. [SJR-23]
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[Healthcare ]
[Veterans ]
[Food ]
Makes appropriations, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, and funds, for governmental entities for FY2014 and portions of FY2015, and for other purposes, namely, for programs, projects, or activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (division E of P.L. 113-6). Requires the rate of operations to be calculated to reflect the full amount of any reduction required in FY2013 pursuant to: (1) the Consolidated
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ted Cruz
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Appropriations. on 10/02/2013
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An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023. [SCR-8]
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[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Healthcare ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Veterans ]
[National Security ]
[Pensions ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Education ]
[Housing ]
[Small Business ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Science ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Water ]
[Mining ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Social Security ]
[Defense ]
[Aerospace ]
[Elections ]
[Trade ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disaster Relief ]
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Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2013, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015-FY2023. Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY2013-FY2023 with respect to: (1) federal revenues, (2) new budget authority, (3) budget outlays, (4) deficits, (5) public debt, and (6) debt held by the public. (Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority, outlays, and administrative expenses for the Social Security Administration (SSA),
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Sponsored by: Sen. Patty Murray
Conference Held. on 11/13/2013