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PREP for All Students Act of 2020 Promoting Responsible Emergency Protocols for All Students Act [S.4956]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Public Health ]
A bill to create a Council on Emergency Response Protocols to ensure the establishment of accessible, developmentally appropriate, culturally aware, and trauma-informed emergency response protocols in public schools, early childcare and education settings, and institutions of higher education, and for other purposes.
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Encouraging Masks for All Act of 2020 [S.4948]
[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Provides funding for (1) grants to prevent COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) for jurisdictions that mandate the use of face coverings in accordance with guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and (2) grants for jurisdictions to promote the use of face coverings. It also requires the use of face coverings in federal facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID Community Care Act [S.4941]
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[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Provides FY2020 supplemental funding for the Department of Health and Human Services and the Indian Health Service to implement programs to prevent and respond to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) in medically underserved areas and among tribal populations, respectively. The bill designates the funding as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits.
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EXTEND Act Enabling Extra Time to Extend Network Deployment Act [HB-8808]
[Telecommunications ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
Authorizes the use of payments received under the Coronavirus Relief Fund for grants for the deployment of infrastructure for the provision of broadband internet access service. Such grants must be awarded by December 31, 2021. The bill sets forth limitations on the grants, including restrictions on using grants for infrastructure in areas that already have broadband service and a requirement that awards be made in a technologically neutral manner.
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A resolution designating the week beginning on February 8, 2015, as "National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week". [SR-62]
[Education ]
[Native American Affairs ]
A resolution designating the week beginning on February 8, 2015, as "National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week". Designates the week beginning on February 8, 2015, as National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week.
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A resolution designating May 5, 2017, as the "National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls". [SR-514]
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[Native American Affairs ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
A resolution designating May 5, 2017, as the "National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls". Designates May 5, 2017, as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.
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A resolution designating the week beginning February 7, 2016, as "National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week". [SR-355]
[Education ]
[Native American Affairs ]
A resolution designating the week beginning February 7, 2016, as "National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week". Designates the week beginning on February 7, 2016, as National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week.
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A resolution calling on the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation to modify the accreditation standards of the Council to prevent the standards from negatively impacting Alaska Native and Native American teacher candidates. [SR-301]
[Education ]
[Native American Affairs ]
A resolution calling on the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation to modify the accreditation standards of the Council to prevent the standards from negatively impacting Alaska Native and Native American teacher candidates. Calls on the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation to: (1) consult with American Indian tribes and Alaska Native organizations, and (2) jointly develop and expeditiously adopt changes to its accreditation standards to ensure that American Indian and Alaska Native teacher candidates will not be
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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the depreciation rules for property used predominantly within an Indian reservation. [S.947]
[Taxes ]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Property Tax ]
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the depreciation rules for property used predominantly within an Indian reservation. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the special depreciation rules for property used predominantly within an Indian reservation and to permit a taxpayer to elect not to have such rules apply to any class of property for any taxable year.
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EPIC Act of 2015 Energy Productivity Innovation Challenge Act of 2015 [S.893]
[Energy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Climate Change ]
[Construction ]
[Economic Development ]
[Grants ]
EPIC Act of 2015 Energy Productivity Innovation Challenge Act of 2015 This bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a voluntary electric and thermal energy productivity challenge grant program for providing support to states for: advancing industrial energy efficiency, waste heat recovery, combined heat and power, and waste heat-to-power utilization; advancing energy efficiency construction and retrofits for commercial buildings, schools, hospitals, and residential buildings; expanding residential policies and programs designed
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Tribal Adoption Parity Act [S.835]
[Taxes ]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Children and Youth ]
Tribal Adoption Parity Act Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow Indian tribes to make the determination that a child is a child with special needs for purposes of the adoption tax credit.
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Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2015 [S.710]
[Housing ]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Veterans ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Requires an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to be the head of the HUD Office of Native American Programs. TITLE I--BLOCK GRANTS AND GRANT REQUIREMENTS (Sec. 101) Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) to require any income realized by a recipient from an affordable and self-determined housing assistance grant to: (1) be considered nonprogram income, and (2) have no restrictions
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Next Generation High Schools Act [S.696]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
Next Generation High Schools Act Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) or charter schools that partner with at least one institution of higher education, at least one community-based partner, and a qualified intermediary to provide high school students with challenging, engaging, and relevant academic and career-related learning opportunities that are aligned with rigorous, challenging academic content that prepares them to transition to postsecondary education and careers. Sets the grant
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Foster Care Tax Credit Act [S.664]
[Taxes ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Healthcare ]
Foster Care Tax Credit Act Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a partially refundable tax credit for each qualifying foster child who resides in the home of an eligible taxpayer for at least one calendar month during the taxable year. Defines "qualifying foster child" as a child in foster care who has not attained age 17, who is a citizen, national, or resident of the United States, and with respect to whom the child tax credit is not allowable. Requires the name and taxpayer identification number of a foster child to be included on the taxpayer's
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Local Taxpayer Relief Act [S.658]
[Taxes ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Property Tax ]
[Military ]
[Native American Affairs ]
Local Taxpayer Relief Act Amends the Impact Aid Improvement Act of 2012 to make permanent amendments that Act made to the Impact Aid program (which compensates local educational agencies [LEAs] for the financial burden of federal activities affecting their school districts) that: require the valuation of the federal property located within the boundaries of an LEA by calculating the valuation, for property tax purposes, of all property within the LEA's boundaries and then multiplying that value by the proportion of that property that is federal
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Family Engagement in Education Act of 2015 [S.622]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Family Engagement in Education Act of 2015 Amends title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to authorize states to reserve school improvement funds to: award a grant to a statewide nonprofit organization to establish a Statewide Family Engagement Center that provides comprehensive training, technical assistance, and capacity building to local educational agencies (LEAs), organizations that support family-school partnerships, and other organizations that carry out
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Comprehensive Dental Reform Act of 2015 [S.570]
[Healthcare ]
[Veterans ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Comprehensive Dental Reform Act of 2015 Removes restrictions on the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide dental care to veterans (thereby requiring dental care on the same basis as other VA-provided medical care and services). Authorizes the VA, Department of Defense, Bureau of Prisons, and Indian Health Service to carry out demonstration programs to train and employ alternative dental health care providers in order to increase access to dental services. Directs the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a
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Farm to School Act of 2015 [S.569]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Farm to School Act of 2015 This bill amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reauthorize the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Farm to School Program through FY2021 and modify the program. The program currently provides grants and technical assistance to schools, state and local agencies, Indian tribal organizations, agricultural producers, and nonprofit entities to improve access to local foods in schools. The bill makes schools participating in the Summer Food Service Program for children, the early care and afterschool portions
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Indian Health Service Health Professions Tax Fairness Act of 2015 [S.536]
[Healthcare ]
[Taxes ]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Student Loans ]
Indian Health Service Health Professions Tax Fairness Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income amounts received under the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program and the Indian Health Professions Scholarships Program.
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Promise Neighborhoods Authorization Act of 2015 [S.514]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Poverty ]
[Human Services ]
Promise Neighborhoods Authorization Act of 2015 Amends title IV (21st Century Schools) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a new part D, entitled "the Promise Neighborhoods Act of 2015." Directs the Secretary, under subpart 1 (Promise Neighborhood Partnership Grants), to award renewable, competitive, matching grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs), Indian tribes or tribal organizations, or nonprofit organizations to implement a comprehensive continuum of coordinated services and supports that engage community
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