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Foreign Earnings Reinvestment Act [S.397]
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[Trade ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
Foreign Earnings Reinvestment Act Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the election allowed to a domestic corporation to deduct current and accumulated dividends received from a controlled foreign corporation to the corporation's last taxable year beginning before the enactment of this Act or the first taxable year which begins during the one-year period beginning on such enactment date, (2) reduce tax rates on foreign earnings of domestic corporations that reinvest such earnings in the United States and that expand their payrolls over
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Proprietary Education Oversight Coordination Improvement Act [S.396]
[Education ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Veterans ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Student Loans ]
Proprietary Education Oversight Coordination Improvement Act Establishes the Proprietary Education Oversight Coordination Committee to: coordinate federal oversight of proprietary institutions of higher education (IHEs); coordinate federal activities to protect students from unfair, deceptive, abusive, unethical, fraudulent, or predatory practices, policies, or procedures of proprietary IHEs; encourage information sharing among federal agencies regarding federal investigations, audits, or inquiries of such IHEs; increase coordination and cooperation
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Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 2015 [S.384]
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[Taxes ]
[Water ]
Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit tax-exempt mutual ditch or irrigation companies to earn income from dispositions of certain real property and stock interests without affecting their tax-exempt status. Requires that such income be used to pay the costs of operations, maintenance, and capital improvements of such a company.
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Start-up Jobs and Innovation Act [S.341]
[Taxes ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Small Business ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Science ]
[Economic Development ]
Start-up Jobs and Innovation Act Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the increase to $500,000 of the expensing allowance for business assets, including computer software, and the treatment of qualified real property as depreciable business property; (2) make permanent the 100% exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale or exchange of small business stock; (3) increase and equalize the tax deduction for business start-up expenses and organizational expenditures; (4) increase from $5 million to $10 million the gross receipt
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A bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to provide for the issuance of Green Bonds and to establish the United States Green Bank, and for other purposes. [S.3382]
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[Energy ]
[Climate Change ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
A bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to provide for the issuance of Green Bonds and to establish the United States Green Bank, and for other purposes.
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S Corporation Modernization Act of 2016 [S.3181]
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[Small Business ]
S Corporation Modernization Act of 2016
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A bill to include the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and to provide for the consideration by that Committee of the national security effects of foreign investment on agricultural assets. [S.3161]
[Agriculture ]
[Defense ]
[National Security ]
[Trade ]
[Food ]
[Investments ]
A bill to include the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and to provide for the consideration by that Committee of the national security effects of foreign investment on agricultural assets. This bill amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and to require CFIUS to consider the national security-related effects on agricultural assets in reviewing transactions. (CFIUS is an interagency committee
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Empowering Employees through Stock Ownership Act [S.3152]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Taxes ]
[Small Business ]
[Finance ]
[Retirement ]
Empowering Employees through Stock Ownership Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employee to elect to defer, for income tax purposes, income attributable to certain stock transferred to the employee by an employer. The employee may defer the inclusion of income from the stock until the year that includes the earliest of the dates on which: the stock is sold, exchanged, or otherwise transferred; the employee becomes an excluded employee; stock of the corporation becomes readily tradable on an established securities market;
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Coal Cleanup Taxpayer Protection Act [S.3066]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Mining ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
Coal Cleanup Taxpayer Protection Act This bill amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act to prohibit the Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation Enforcement (OSMRE) and state regulatory authorities from accepting new self-bonds for coal reclamation. In addition, any existing self-bonds or corporate bonds utilized for coal reclamation are required to be converted to surety or collateral bonds. The OSMRE may approve state or federal alternative coal mining bond programs that result in no greater risk of financial liability to the federal
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SEC Small Business Advocate Act of 2016 [S.2867]
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[Small Business ]
[Investments ]
[Funding ]
[Economic Development ]
SEC Small Business Advocate Act of 2016 This bill amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to establish within the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) an Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation. The Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation shall: assist small businesses and small business investors in resolving significant problems they may have with the SEC or with self-regulatory organizations; identify areas in which such businesses and investors would benefit from changes in SEC regulations or the rules of such
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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to preserve taxpayers' rights to administrative appeal of deficiency determinations, and for other purposes. [S.2809]
[Taxes ]
[Consumer Protection ]
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to preserve taxpayers' rights to administrative appeal of deficiency determinations, and for other purposes. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish new procedures and requirements for administrative appeals of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) deficiency determinations. If the IRS determines that there is a deficiency with respect to a tax imposed, it may send a notice of deficiency to a taxpayer after: the taxpayer has been issued a letter of proposed deficiency that explains the basis
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In the Red Act of 2016 [S.2677]
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In the Red Act of 2016
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Corporate Inverters Earnings Stripping Reform Act of 2016 [S.2666]
[Taxes ]
[Finance ]
Corporate Inverters Earnings Stripping Reform Act of 2016 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose limitations on the tax deduction for interest paid by corporations which are designated as applicable entities (i.e., members of an expanded affiliated group which includes a surrogate foreign corporation which is not treated as a domestic corporation). Such an entity may not claim a tax deduction for interest that exceeds 25% of its adjusted taxable income and may not carry forward interest which is paid or accrued during the first year
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Pay What You Owe Before You Go Act [S.2662]
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[International ]
Pay What You Owe Before You Go Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the recapture in subpart F income (i.e., income of a controlled foreign corporation earned outside the United States which is not tax deferred) of the accumulated deferred foreign income of such corporation (i.e., the undistributed earnings of the controlled foreign corporation over its undistributed U.S. earnings) for its last taxable year.
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No Windfalls for Bailed Out Executives Act [S.2546]
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No Windfalls for Bailed Out Executives Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny deferred compensation to, or to require repayment of deferred compensation received by, key employees, members of the board of directors or other officers of a corporation, or any other employee having annual compensation of more than $1 million during any 36-month period in which their employer receives extraordinary assistance from the federal government. The bill defines "extraordinary governmental assistance" as grants, loans, loan guarantees, or other
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Child CARE Act Child Care Access to Resources for Early-learning Act [S.2539]
[Children and Youth ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Taxes ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
Child CARE Act Child Care Access to Resources for Early-learning Act This bill amends title IV part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act to make appropriations for FY2017-FY2021 to the Department of Health and Human Services for allotments to states to: expand access to high-quality child care for infants and toddlers from low-income families who do not receive child care funded through the Child Care and Development (CCD) Fund, and increase the quality of such care for infants and toddlers who do receive
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Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act [S.2489]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act
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Clean Energy Worker Just Transition Act [S.2398]
[Energy ]
[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
[Healthcare ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Water ]
[Air Quality ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Climate Change ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
[Unemployment ]
Clean Energy Worker Just Transition Act This bill prescribes eligibility requirements and procedures for the award of temporary adjustment assistance to a group of workers of adversely affected coal-related or coal-dependent or similar energy industries who are totally or partially separated, or threatened with total or partial separation, because of the low cost of competing alternative forms of energy. Such assistance shall include temporary additional unemployment compensation, health insurance premium subsidy tax credits, training and support
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Bosnia and Herzegovina-American Enterprise Fund Act [S.2307]
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[Economic Development ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Trade ]
[Nonprofit ]
Bosnia and Herzegovina-American Enterprise Fund Act This bill authorizes the President to designate a private, nonprofit organization as the Bosnia and Herzegovina-American Enterprise Fund to promote the private sector, job creation, and creation of a middle class in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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DISCLOSE Act of 2015 Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act of 2015 [S.229]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Finance ]
DISCLOSE Act of 2015 Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act of 2015 Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to redefine the term "independent expenditure" as an expenditure by a person that, when taken as a whole, expressly advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, or is the functional equivalent of express advocacy because it can be interpreted by a reasonable person only as advocating the election or defeat of a candidate, taking into account whether the communication involved
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