Rep. Mike Kelly

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District HD-PA-16
Party Republican
Bills Introduced 95

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US Congress 116th Congress

Home Health Payment Innovation Act of 2019 [HB-2573]
Makes a series of changes relating to payment and coverage of home health services under Medicare and Medicare Advantage (MA). Specifically, the bill allows the home-confinement requirement (also known as the homebound requirement) for home health services to be waived under Medicare and MA. Currently, as a condition of eligibility for such services, a physician must certify that an individual has difficulty leaving home without assistance (e.g., a wheelchair, special transportation, or help from another person) due to an illness or injury. The (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Johnson Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 05/09/2019

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Community-Based Independence for Seniors Act of 2019 [HB-3461]
Establishes a Community-Based Institutional Special Needs Plan demonstration program through which up to five eligible Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations shall provide home and community-based care to eligible Medicare beneficiaries. For purposes of the demonstration program, an eligible Medicare beneficiary must be ineligible for Medicaid and unable to perform two or more activities of daily living. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall establish payment rates for eligible MA plans under the demonstration program. Such payment (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Gus Bilirakis Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 06/26/2019

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Restore Our Parks and Public Lands Act [HB-1225]
Establishes the National Park Service and Public Lands Legacy Restoration Fund into which, through FY2024, there shall be deposited an amount equal to 50% of all energy development revenues due and payable to the federal government from oil, gas, coal, or alternative or renewable energy development on federal lands and waters that would otherwise be credited, covered, or deposited as miscellaneous receipts under federal law. Deposited amounts must not exceed $1.3 billion for any such fiscal year. From such amounts 80% shall be allocated to the National (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney Reported (amended) By The Committee On Natural Resources. H. Rept. 116-250, Part I. on 10/22/2019

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FREED Vets Act Federally Requiring Earned Education-debt Discharges for Vets Act [HB-3598]
Requires the Department of Education (ED), after providing specified notice, to automatically discharge loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program for certain borrowers who are veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. Specifically, ED must notify a veteran borrower whom the Department of Veterans Affairs has assigned a rating of total disability for a service-connected disability, or who has been determined to be unemployable due to a service-connected condition, of ED's intent to discharge the borrower's loans; provide the borrower with a (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Lieu Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 03/11/2020

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Smithsonian Women's History Museum Act [HB-1980]
(Sec. 3) establishes in the Smithsonian Institution a comprehensive women's history museum. Such museum shall be named by the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. (Sec. 4) The bill establishes a council, that, among other things, shall make recommendations to the board on the planning, design, and construction of the museum. (Sec. 7) The board shall designate a site for the museum, with priority given to a site that is on or near the National Mall.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Johnson Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Rules And Administration. on 02/12/2020

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Medicare Audiologist Access and Services Act of 2019 [HB-4056]
Provides for Medicare coverage of certain audiologist services. Specifically, the bill expands coverage to include diagnostic and treatment services that are furnished by audiologists and that would otherwise be covered if provided by a physician, including incidental services, regardless of whether such services are provided pursuant to a referral from, or under the supervision of, a physician or other health care practitioner.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 07/26/2019

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Nuclear Powers America Act of 2019 [HB-2314]
Allows a tax credit for investments in qualified nuclear energy property placed in service before January 1, 2026. The credit applies to any amounts paid or incurred for refueling or other specified expenditures for a nuclear power plant for which an application for license renewal was or will be submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission before January 1, 2026.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Suozzi Introduced In House on 04/12/2019

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Legacy IRA Act [HB-3832]
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the tax exclusion for distributions from individual retirement accounts (IRAs) for charitable purposes. The bill increases from $100,000 to $400,000 the annual limit on the aggregate amount of distributions for charitable purposes that may be excluded from the gross income of a taxpayer. The bill permits tax-free distributions from IRAs to a split-interest entity for four years after the enactment of this bill. A split-interest entity is exclusively funded by charitable distributions and includes: a charitable (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Earl Blumenauer Introduced In House on 07/18/2019

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SWEET Act Saving Workers by Eliminating Economic Tampering Act [HB-3705]
Eliminates certain Department of Agriculture (USDA) sugar subsidy programs. Specifically, the bill eliminates (1) the price support loan program available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets, (2) the sugar marketing allotments and tariff-rate quotas that limit the quantities of domestically produced sugar that processors may sell and the sugar that may be imported under lower tariff rates, and (3) the feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers which operates to avoid loan forfeitures to the USDA's Commodity Credit (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Lloyd Smucker Referred To The Subcommittee On General Farm Commodities And Risk Management. on 08/09/2019

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Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2019 [HB-3077]
Revises provisions of the low-income housing tax credit and renames it as the affordable housing credit. The bill increases the per capita dollar amount of the credit and its minimum ceiling amount beginning in 2019 and extends the inflation adjustment for such amounts. The bill modifies tenant income eligibility requirements and the average income formula for determining such income. It also revises rules for student occupancy of rental units and tenant voucher payments and prohibits any refusal to rent to victims of domestic abuse. The bill further (continued...)

Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney Introduced In House on 06/04/2019

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