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Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 [HB-2029] [Defense ] [Veterans ] [Agriculture ] [Food ] [Healthcare ] [International ] [Trade ] [Budget and Spending ] [Small Business ] [Technology and Innovation ] [Telecommunications ] [Energy ] [Environmental ] [Public Health ] [Science ] [Cybersecurity ] [Military ] [National Security ] [Construction ] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Consumer Protection ] [Housing ] [Crime ] [Criminal Justice ] [Disaster Relief ] [Economic Development ] [Education ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Human Services ] [Medicare and Medicaid ] [Poverty ] [Public Safety ] [Senior Citizens ] [Water ] [Animals ] [Air Quality ] [Waste Management / Recycling ] [Alcoholic Beverages ] [Arts and Culture ] [Cannabis ] [Children and Youth ] [Climate Change ] [Community Development ] [Data Privacy ] [Disabilities ] [Drones ] [Elections ] [Ethics ] [Family-Related Legislation ] [Film Production ] [Finance ] [Firearms/Gun Control ] [Gaming ] [Human Rights ] [Inflation ] [Insurance ] [Investments ] [Libraries ] [Manufacturing ] [Media and Advertising ] [Mental Health ] [Mining ] [Native American Affairs ] [Nonprofit ] [Overdose Prevention ] [Pensions ] [Pharmaceuticals ] [Property Tax ] [Race and Civil Rights ] [Real Estate ] [Recreation ] [Religion ] [Reproductive Rights / Abortion ] [Retirement ] [Social Security ] [Sports ] [Student Loans ] [Taxes ] [Tourism ] [Unemployment ] [Voting Rights ] [Workers' Compensation ] [Artificial Intelligence ] [Aerospace ] [Immigration ] [Infrastructure ] [Public Lands and National Parks ]
Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016 (Sec. 3) Provides that references to "this Act" included in any division refer only to the provisions of the division unless the bill expressly provides otherwise. (Sec. 4) Provides that the explanatory statement printed in the Congressional Record regarding this bill has the same effect as a joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference. (Sec. 5) Provides that the sums in this bill are appropriated for FY2016. (Sec. 6) Provides that amounts designated (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Dent Considered As Unfinished Business (consideration: Cr H10696) on 12/18/2015

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No Social Security Numbers and Benefits for Illegal Aliens Act of 2015 [HB-1996] [Immigration ] [Social Security ] [Human Services ] [Poverty ]
No Social Security Numbers and Benefits for Illegal Aliens Act of 2015 Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the Commissioner of Social Security from assigning a Social Security account number to any individual who receives deferred action on removal in accordance with certain Department of Homeland Security memoranda dated June 15, 2012 and November 20, 2014, and who would be subject to removal but for such memoranda. Prohibits the payment of OASDI benefits to such individuals. (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Steve King Referred To The Subcommittee On Social Security. on 05/11/2015

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Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2015 [HB-1987] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Environmental ] [Technology and Innovation ] [Trade ] [Budget and Spending ] [Science ] [Water ] [Construction ] [Military ] [National Security ]
Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2015 TITLE I--AUTHORIZATIONS (Sec. 101) This bill authorizes FY2016-FY2017 appropriations for the Coast Guard for: (1) the operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard; (2) the acquisition, construction, renovation, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore facilities, vessels, and aircraft; (3) the Coast Guard Reserve program; (4) the Coast Guard's environmental compliance and restoration functions; and (5) research, development, test, and evaluation. The Coast Guard is authorized an end-of-year strength for (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Peter DeFazio Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Commerce, Science, And Transportation. on 05/19/2015

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SHUT Act of 2015 Stop Handouts to Unauthorized Taxpayers Act of 2015 [HB-192] [Taxes ] [Immigration ] [Children and Youth ]
SHUT Act of 2015 Stop Handouts to Unauthorized Taxpayers Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the refundable portion of the child tax credit to individuals unless they include their social security number on their tax return or otherwise demonstrate that they are authorized to be employed in the United States. Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury or any delegate of the Secretary employed by the Department of the Treasury from issuing an individual taxpayer identification number unless supporting documentary evidence is submitted.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Gus Bilirakis Introduced In House on 01/07/2015

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Repeal Executive Amnesty Act of 2015 [HB-191] [Immigration ] [Law Enforcement ] [National Security ] [Criminal Justice ] [Human Rights ] [Public Safety ] [Crime ]
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 (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Steve King Referred To The Subcommittee On Immigration And Border Security. on 02/02/2015

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E-2 Visa Improvement Act of 2015 [HB-1834] [Immigration ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
E-2 Visa Improvement Act of 2015 This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit a nonimmigrant E-2 alien (treaty investor) who has been in the United States in such status for at least 10 years and has created full-time employment for at least 2 individuals to apply for immediate employment-based immigrant status. Up to 10,000 such visas may be made available each fiscal year. Sons and daughters of E-2 aliens (or aliens seeking such status) can remain on their parent's visa as a child until age 26. Employment authorization may be (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ann Kuster Referred To The Subcommittee On Immigration And Border Security. on 05/15/2015

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Family Farm Relief Act of 2015 [HB-1805] [Agriculture ] [Immigration ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Animals ]
Family Farm Relief Act of 2015 Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a process for receiving H-2A nonimmigrant visas (temporary agricultural workers) which shall ensure that that petitioners may file such petitions over the Internet or in paper form. (Transfers administration of the H-2A program from the Department of Labor to USDA.) Includes year-round livestock workers, including dairy workers, in the H-2A category with a maximum three-year period of admissions which may be renewed three months after the end of each such period. (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney Referred To The Subcommittee On Immigration And Border Security. on 05/15/2015

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No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2015 [HB-1716] [Immigration ] [Social Security ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2015 Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to exclude from creditable wages and self-employment income any wages earned for services by aliens performed in the United States, and self-employment income derived from a trade or business conducted in the United States, while the alien was not authorized to be so employed or to perform a function or service in such a trade or business.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe Referred To The Subcommittee On Social Security. on 04/14/2015

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Executive Amnesty Prevention Act [HB-1715] [Immigration ] [Law Enforcement ] [National Security ]
Executive Amnesty Prevention Act This bill prohibits the use of funds to implement specified memoranda from the President, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), or other related memoranda. No deposit in the Immigration Examinations Fee Account may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the policies in such memoranda. Such memoranda or substantially similar policy changes are declared to have no statutory or constitutional basis and therefore no legal effect. No funds or fees made (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Dave Brat Referred To The Subcommittee On Immigration And Border Security. on 04/29/2015

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Fairness for Americans in Internal Revenue Refunds Act [HB-1657] [Taxes ] [Immigration ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Human Services ]
Fairness for Americans in Internal Revenue Refunds Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to prevent a taxpayer whose social security number was issued for purposes of granting a work authorization under a deferred action on removal program from claiming an earned income tax credit using such social security number. The bill directs: (1) the Department of Homeland Security to place a notation on employment authorization cards that the holder of such card has received it under a deferred action on removal program, and (2) the Social Security (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Johnson Introduced In House on 03/26/2015

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Defund Amnesty Act of 2015 [HB-155] [Immigration ] [Budget and Spending ]
Defund Amnesty Act of 2015 This bill prohibits the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to implement or enforce specified immigration-related policies in: the memoranda issued by the Secretary of Homeland Security on November 20, 2014, the memoranda issued by the President on November 21, 2014, and any substantially similar memorandum issued after November 21, 2014.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe Referred To The Subcommittee On Immigration And Border Security. on 02/02/2015

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Fairness for Farmers Act of 2015 [HB-1387] [Agriculture ] [Healthcare ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Taxes ] [Immigration ]
Fairness for Farmers Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude nonimmigrant agricultural seasonal workers from the definition of "full-time employee" for purposes of the employer mandate to provide employees with minimum essential health care coverage.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Luke Messer Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 03/27/2015

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Deny Amnesty Credits Act of 2015 [HB-1332] [Immigration ]
Deny Amnesty Credits Act of 2015

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Glenn Grothman Sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure. (cr H1854-1855) on 03/24/2015

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Denying Amnesty Bonuses Act [HB-1328] [Taxes ] [Immigration ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Denying Amnesty Bonuses Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the earned income tax credit to a taxpayer or a taxpayer's spouse who, in any taxable year, received temporary deportation relief and work authorization in accordance with any program not specifically established by Congress.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Rod Blum Introduced In House on 03/04/2015

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No Amnesty Tax Refunds For Illegals Act [HB-1298] [Taxes ] [Immigration ] [Finance ] [Law Enforcement ]
No Amnesty Tax Refunds For Illegals Act Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the earned income tax credit to a taxpayer to whom a social security number was issued after the close of the taxable year for which such credit is being claimed, unless the taxpayer can demonstrate citizenship or lawful presence in the United States and eligibility for such social security number in such taxable year. Requires tax return preparers to obtain from such a taxpayer social security and immigration status information relating to eligibility for such credit. (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Roe Introduced In House on 03/04/2015

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Doctors Helping Heroes Act of 2015 [HB-1272] [Healthcare ] [Immigration ] [Veterans ] [Public Health ]
Doctors Helping Heroes Act of 2015 Amends the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 to make permanent the J-1 visa waiver program (Conrad state 30/medical services in underserved areas). Excludes from numerical immigration limitations alien physicians who have completed national interest waiver requirements by working in a health care shortage area (including alien physicians who completed such service before enactment of this Act and any of their spouses or children). Sets forth specified employment protections and contract (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Ruiz Referred To The Subcommittee On Immigration And Border Security. on 03/31/2015

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No Free Rides Act [HB-1249] [Taxes ] [Immigration ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
No Free Rides Act Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the earned income tax credit to any taxpayer whose identifying social security number was issued pursuant to a work authorization obtained under any program not specifically established by law that provides aliens deferred action from removal.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Steve King Introduced In House on 03/04/2015

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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the retroactive claim of the earned income tax credit after issuance of a social security number. [HB-1223] [Taxes ] [Budget and Spending ] [Social Security ] [Poverty ]
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the retroactive claim of the earned income tax credit after issuance of a social security number. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the earned income tax credit to a taxpayer to whom a social security number was issued after the close of the taxable year for which the credit is being claimed, unless such taxpayer can demonstrate eligibility for the social security number in such taxable year. A valid social security number is required to claim the earned income tax credit.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jeff Fortenberry Introduced In House on 03/03/2015

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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent retroactive claims of the earned income tax credit by individuals receiving work authorizations pursuant to certain deferred action programs. [HB-1182] [Taxes ] [Immigration ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent retroactive claims of the earned income tax credit by individuals receiving work authorizations pursuant to certain deferred action programs. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny the earned income tax credit to aliens who have been granted employment authorization under a program of temporary deportation relief that has not been specifically established by law.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Schweikert Introduced In House on 02/27/2015

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Legal Workforce Act [HB-1147] [Immigration ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Small Business ] [Agriculture ] [Data Privacy ] [Law Enforcement ] [National Security ]
Legal Workforce Act Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish an employment eligibility verification system (EEVS), patterned after the E-Verify system. (Eliminates the current paper-based I-9 system.) Requires an employer to attest, during the verification period and under penalty of perjury, that the employer has verified that an individual is not an unauthorized alien by: (1) obtaining and recording the individual's social security account number, and (2) examining specified documents (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Dave Brat Referred To The Subcommittee On Social Security. on 03/27/2015

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