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Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2015 [S.1012]
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Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to: (1) make permanent the reduction in the income threshold (from $10,000 to $3,000) for determining the refundable portion of the child tax credit, (2) eliminate the inflation adjustment to such amount, and (3) allow an annual inflation adjustment after 2014 to the $1,000 maximum credit amount and the adjusted gross income threshold amounts used to reduce the allowable amount of such credit. Modifies the earned
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert P. Casey
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 04/20/2015
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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the House should consider legislation to protect traditional marriage and prevent taxpayer funding of abortion. [HR-399]
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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the House should consider legislation to protect traditional marriage and prevent taxpayer funding of abortion. Calls upon the Speaker of the House of Representatives to encourage committee chairs to schedule the following legislation for immediate consideration and, if reported favorably by their respective committees, for votes on the House floor: H.B. 2802, the First Amendment Defense Act; H. Res. 359, providing that the House of Representatives disagrees with the Supreme Court's majority
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Sponsored by: Rep. Walter B. Jones
Referred To The Subcommittee On The Constitution And Civil Justice. on 09/08/2015
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Providing that the House of Representatives disagrees with the majority opinion in Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, and for other purposes. [HR-359]
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Providing that the House of Representatives disagrees with the majority opinion in Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, and for other purposes. Declares that the House of Representatives: (1) disagrees with the Supreme Court's majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges and its holdings that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution requires states to license marriages between same-sex couples and requires states to recognize same-sex marriages performed out-of-state; and (2) agrees with the four dissenting opinions, which uphold the traditional definition
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve King
Referred To The Subcommittee On The Constitution And Civil Justice. on 07/29/2015
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Disapproving the action of the Council of the District of Columbia in approving section 3(a) of the Human Rights Amendment Act of 2014. [HJR-44]
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Disapproving the action of the Council of the District of Columbia in approving section 3(a) of the Human Rights Amendment Act of 2014.
Sponsored by: Rep. David P. Roe
Introduced In House on 04/14/2015
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Marriage Protection Amendment [HJR-32]
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Marriage Protection Amendment Defines marriage in the United States as consisting only of the union of a man and a woman. Prohibits either the U.S. Constitution or the constitution of any state from being construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents of marriage be conferred upon any other union.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve King
Introduced In House on 02/12/2015
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Healthy Families Act [HB-932]
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Healthy Families Act Requires certain employers, who employ 15 or more employees for each working day during 20 or more workweeks a year, to permit each employee to earn at least 1 hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked. Authorizes small employers with fewer than 15 employees to provide the same paid sick time, but allows them to opt out. Requires any small employer that opts out to provide at least 56 hours of unpaid sick time to each employee per calendar year. Declares that an employer shall not be required to permit an employee to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Workforce Protections. on 04/29/2015
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Earned Income Tax Credit Improvement and Simplification Act 2015 [HB-902]
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Earned Income Tax Credit Improvement and Simplification Act 2015 Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the earned income tax credit, to: (1) make permanent the increase in the rate of such credit for taxpayers with three or more qualifying children and the reduction in the amount of the marriage penalty for such credit; (2) allow such credit for an individual with no qualifying children who has attained the age of 21 but not 25 and is not a full-time student, and whose qualifying children do not have valid social security numbers; (3)
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Introduced In House on 02/11/2015
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State Marriage Defense Act of 2015 [HB-824]
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State Marriage Defense Act of 2015 Prohibits, in determining the meaning of any Act of Congress or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of U.S. administrative bureaus and agencies as applied with respect to individuals domiciled in a state or in any other territory or possession of the United States: (1) the term "marriage" from including any relationship that the state, territory, or possession does not recognize as a marriage; and (2) the term "spouse" from including an individual who is a party to a relationship that is not recognized
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Rouzer
Referred To The Subcommittee On The Constitution And Civil Justice. on 03/16/2015
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To provide that members of the Armed Forces performing services in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt shall be entitled to tax benefits in the same manner as if such services were performed in a combat zone. [HB-5924]
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To provide that members of the Armed Forces performing services in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt shall be entitled to tax benefits in the same manner as if such services were performed in a combat zone. This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require a qualified hazardous duty area to be treated in the same manner as a combat zone for certain tax provisions. A "qualified hazardous duty area" is the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt if a member of the Armed Forces performs services in such location that qualify for special pay for duty subject to hostile
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael T. McCaul
Introduced In House on 07/21/2016
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Mom and Mom SHOP Act of 2016 Mom and Pop SHOP Act of 2016 Pop and Pop SHOP Act of 2016 [HB-5856]
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Mom and Mom SHOP Act of 2016 Mom and Pop SHOP Act of 2016 Pop and Pop SHOP Act of 2016 This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to make eligible for the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP health insurance exchange) an individual (and his or her spouse or domestic partner) who owns, or is a partner in, a business that has no employees.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney
Introduced In House on 07/14/2016
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Protecting Girls' Access to Education in Vulnerable Settings Act [HB-5735]
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Protecting Girls' Access to Education in Vulnerable Settings Act This bill expresses the sense of Congress that it is critical to ensure that children, particularly girls, displaced by conflicts overseas are able to receive a quality education and that the educational needs of women and girls are considered in implementing U.S. foreign assistance policies and programs. The Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) may advance programs that: provide safe, quality, primary and secondary education for displaced children;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gerald E. Connolly
Introduced In House on 07/12/2016
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Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2016 [HB-5475]
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Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2016
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Higher Education And Workforce Training. on 09/19/2016
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Health Care Security Act of 2016 [HB-5445]
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Health Care Security Act of 2016 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the rules for health savings accounts (HSAs) with respect to catch-up contributions for married couples, medical expenses incurred before an HSA is established, and contribution limits. (Sec. 2) If both spouses of a married couple have family coverage under a high deductible health plan, each spouse may make catch-up contributions to the same HSA. (Catch-up contributions are additional contributions which individuals who are at least 55 years of age may make to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Stivers
Reported (amended) By The Committee On Ways And Means. H. Rept. 114-627. on 06/17/2016
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Military Residency Choice Act [HB-5428]
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Military Residency Choice Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to permit the spouse of a servicemember to elect to use the same residence as the servicemember for purposes of taxation and voting, regardless of the date on which the marriage of the spouse and the servicemember occurred.
Sponsored by: Rep. Elise Stefanik
Reported By The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 114-816. on 11/14/2016
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Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2017 [HB-5325]
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Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2017 (Sec. 3) Specifies 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) Specifies that the sums in this bill are appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for FY2017. (Sec. 5) Specifies that each amount in this bill designated by Congress as an emergency requirement is contingent on the President also designating all of the emergency amounts and transmitting the designations
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Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Graves
Presented To President. on 09/29/2016
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Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act [HB-5170]
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Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends title IV of the Social Security Act (SSAct) to require the Department of the Treasury to publish in the Federal Register a request for proposals from states or local governments for social impact partnership projects which produce one or more measurable, clearly defined outcomes that result in social benefit, such as employment for the unemployed between ages 16 and 24, high school graduation, and reduction of teen and unplanned pregnancies as well as incidences and adverse
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Sponsored by: Rep. James R. Langevin
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 06/22/2016
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What Works to Move Welfare Recipients into Jobs Act [HB-5169]
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What Works to Move Welfare Recipients into Jobs Act This bill amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title VI of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for research by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the benefits, effects, and costs of operating different state programs funded under part A and any other state program funded with qualified state expenditures. (Sec. 2) Such research shall focus on the effect of these programs as well as of healthy marriage promotion and responsible fatherhood
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vern Buchanan
Reported (amended) By The Committee On Ways And Means. H. Rept. 114-615, Part I. on 06/10/2016
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Love Lives On Act of 2016 [HB-5059]
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Love Lives On Act of 2016 This bill amends the definition of a veteran's "surviving spouse," for the purpose of veterans benefits provisions, to eliminate the requirement that such person: (1) has not remarried; or (2) has not, since the death of the veteran and after September 19, 1962, lived with another person and held himself or herself out to be the other person's spouse. The effective date of an award of specified veterans benefits to a surviving spouse based upon termination of a remarriage by death or divorce occurring before the date of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Corrine Brown
Referred To The Subcommittee On Disability Assistance And Memorial Affairs. on 05/13/2016
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Protecting Families with Disabilities Act of 2016 [HB-5036]
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Protecting Families with Disabilities Act of 2016 This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with respect to how a state that had an approved home- and community-based Medicaid waiver as of January 1, 2014, may treat spousal income and assets for purposes of determining an individual's financial eligibility for services under the waiver. With respect to such a state that disregarded an individual's spousal income and assets for those purposes, specified provisions of current law shall not prohibit the state from continuing to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Collin C. Peterson
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 04/22/2016
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Reuniting Families Act [HB-4798]
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Reuniting Families Act This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to establish the fiscal year worldwide level of employment-based immigrants at 140,000 plus: (1) the previous year's unused visas, and (2) the number of unused visas from FY1992-FY2015. The bill establishes the fiscal year worldwide level of family-sponsored immigrants at 480,000 plus: (1) the previous year's unused visas, and (2) the number of unused visas from FY1992-FY2015. The bill redefines "immediate relative" to: mean a child, spouse, permanent partner, or parent
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Immigration And Border Security. on 04/01/2016