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Paying a Fair Share Act of 2017 [S.955]
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[Budget and Spending ]
[Inflation ]
Paying a Fair Share Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require an individual taxpayer whose adjusted gross income exceeds $1 million (high-income taxpayer) to pay a minimum tax rate of 30% of the excess of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income over the taxpayer's modified charitable contribution deduction for the taxable year (tentative fair share tax). The amount of the tax is the excess (if any) of the tentative fair share tax over the excess of: (1) the sum of the taxpayer's regular tax liability, the alternative minimum
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A resolution designating April 2017 as "Financial Literacy Month". [SR-145]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Finance ]
[Education ]
A resolution designating April 2017 as "Financial Literacy Month". Designates April 2017 as Financial Literacy Month.
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Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2017 [S.957]
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[Reproductive Rights ]
[Military ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Access to Contraception for Women Servicemembers and Dependents Act of 2017
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Empowering State Forestry to Improve Forest Health Act of 2017 [S.962]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Energy ]
[Water ]
[Climate Change ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
Empowering State Forestry to Improve Forest Health Act of 2017 This bill amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to direct the Forest Service to establish a landscape-scale restoration program to provide financial and technical assistance for landscape-scale restoration projects on state and private forest lands that maintain or improve benefits from trees and forests on such lands. The program shall: address the national private forest conservation priorities specified under the Act; and enhance public benefits from trees and forests,
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Rural Access to Hospice Act of 2017 [S.980]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Social Security ]
[Public Health ]
Rural Access to Hospice Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to allow payment under Medicare for certain services furnished to hospice patients by rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). With respect to a patient who elects to receive hospice care under Medicare, current law generally limits payment for services that are either duplicative of such care or related to the treatment of the individual's terminal illness. However, current law exempts from this limitation: (1) physicians'
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Recognizing Achievement in Classified School Employees Act [S.978]
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[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Children and Youth ]
Recognizing Achievement in Classified School Employees Act This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to grant "Recognizing Inspirational School Employees (RISE)" awards to classified public school employees, within certain occupational specialties, who provide exemplary service to students in prekindergarten through higher education. ED must annually select an awardee, out of nominations received from states, from any of the following occupational specialties: (1) paraeducator services, (2) clerical and administrative services, (3) transportation
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Marketplace Fairness Act of 2017 [S.976]
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[Small Business ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Trade ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
Marketplace Fairness Act of 2017 This bill authorizes each member state under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (the multistate agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes adopted on November 12, 2002) to require all sellers not qualifying for a small-seller exception (applicable to sellers with annual gross receipts in total U.S. remote sales not exceeding $1 million) to collect and remit sales and use taxes with respect to remote sales under provisions of the agreement, but only if such agreement includes minimum
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CREATES Act of 2018 Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act of 2018 [S.974]
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CREATES Act of 2018 Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act of 2018
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Newborn Care Improvement Act of 2017 [S.970]
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[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Newborn Care Improvement Act of 2017 Newborn Care Improvement Act of 2017
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Supporting Children of the National Guard and Reserve Act [S.969]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Military ]
[Veterans ]
Supporting Children of the National Guard and Reserve Act This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include students with a parent who serves in the reserve component of the Armed Forces under the military student identifier program. Thus, schools must assign those students identification numbers that allow the schools to monitor their achievement on academic assessments.