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Also tagged in: Aged, Chronically ill, Dietary supplements, Disabled, Employee health benefits, Families, Finance, Flexible benefit plans, Food, Health insurance, Health policy, Income tax, Indian medical care, Indians, Insurance premiums, Labor, Medical care, Medical fees, Medical savings accounts, Medicare, Medicine, Minorities, Nutrition, Physical fitness, Physicians, Preventive medicine, Sports, Tax deductions, Tax returns, Taxation, Veterans, Veterans' medical care
Latest Action: 09/26/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9708-9709) Bill TextA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve access to health care through expanded health savings accounts, and for other purposes. 9/26/2008--Introduced. Family and Retirement Health Investment Act of 2008 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to health savings accounts (HSAs) to: (1) permit holders of HSAs and their spouses who are age 55 or older to make an additional (catch-up) contribution to a joint HSA; (2) allow Medicare beneficiaries to continue to contribute to HSA accounts after reaching age 65 and to make contributions to medical savings accounts; (3) permit veterans with service-connected disabilities and Native Americans to contribute to an HSA regardless of utilization of Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) medical services or Indian Health Service or tribal medical services; (4) allow increased rollovers from flexible spending arrangements or health reimbursement arrangements into HSAs; (5) permit the payment of Medicare premiums [...] show full description
Latest Action: 09/29/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the phasedown of the credit percentage for the dependent care credit. 9/29/2008--Introduced. Middle Class Dependent Care Fairness Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the mandatory reduction in the rate of the tax credit for household and dependent care services for taxpayers whose adjusted gross incomes exceed $15,000.
Also tagged in: Aged, Business, Caregivers, Child health, Children, Community organization, Day care, Dental care, Education, Education of the disadvantaged, Elementary and secondary education, Elementary education, Families, Family leave, Federal employees, Geriatrics, Government employees, Government information, Government paperwork, Grandparents, Group homes, Health policy, Labor, Leave of absence, Medical care, Medicine, Nursing homes, Parent-school relationships, Physical examinations, Preschool education, Secondary education, Sick leave, Small business, Student activities, Students, Vaccination, Welfare
Latest Action: 09/30/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2164) Bill TextTo amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to allow employees to take, as additional leave, parental involvement leave to participate in or attend their children's and grandchildren's educational and extracurricular activities and to clarify that leave may be taken for routine family medical needs and to assist elderly relatives, and for other purposes. 9/29/2008--Introduced. Family and Medical Leave Enhancement Act of 2008 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) to cover employees at worksites that employ fewer than 50 employees, but not fewer than 25 employees. Continues to exempt from FMLA coverage employees at worksites that employ fewer than 25 employees (currently 50), if the total number of employees employed by that employer within 75 miles of that worksite is fewer than 25 (currently 50).Allows an employee covered by FMLA to take up to 4 hours during any 30-day period, and up to 24 hours during any 12-month period, of parental involvement [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative remedies, Alien labor, Children, Deportation, East Asia, Families, Immigrants, Immigration, Labor, Law, Orphans, Parents, Philippines, Visas
Latest Action: 09/18/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Bill Text
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote family unity and for other purposes.
Also tagged in: Administrative remedies, Alien labor, Children, Deportation, East Asia, Families, Immigrants, Immigration, Labor, Law, Orphans, Parents, Philippines, Visas
Latest Action: 09/18/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Bill Text
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote family unity, and for other purposes.
Also tagged in: Administrative fees, Alaska, Alternative energy sources, Animals, Annuities, Apprenticeship, Appropriations, Armed forces, Armed forces reserves, Budgets, Business, Business education, Civil service retirement, Coastal zone, Collection of accounts, Continental shelf, Defense policy, Department of Veterans Affairs, Disabled, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Energy, Energy development, Environmental protection, Executive departments, Families, Federal employees, Federal-local relations, Federal-state relations, Gas in submerged lands, Government employees, Government employees' health insurance, Government trust funds, Health policy, Higher education, Impact aid, Information technology, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Job training, Judicial review, Labor, Law, Licenses, Natural gas, Natural resources, Ocean energy resources, Oil and gas leases, Oil well drilling, Pensions, Petroleum, Prospecting, Public lands, Recruiting of employees, Revenue sharing, Right-of-way, Standards, State and local government, State laws, Student employment, Student loan funds, Technology, Transportation, Veterans, Veterans' benefits, Veterans' education, Veterans' employment, Wildlife refuges
Latest Action: 07/25/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Bill TextTo amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements in the basic educational assistance program administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. 6/26/2008--Introduced. Veterans Education Improvement Act of 2008 - Amends the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program for veterans to: (1) increase the rates of basic educational assistance and the time limit for entitlement to and use of such assistance; (2) provide a stipend for individuals using such assistance to pursue a program of education at an institution of higher learning; (3) extend the period for the collection of a fee for the use of such assistance; (4) authorize the use of such assistance for business courses and seminars, courses taken to prepare for licensing or certification tests, and the repayment of federal student loans; (5) allow for withdrawal of the election not to enroll in the program; (6) state that such assistance shall not reduce eligibility for other [...] show full description
Latest Action: 07/28/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Bill TextTo amend title 1, United States Code, to eliminate any Federal policy on the definition of marriage. 5/21/2008--Introduced. State Regulation of Marriage Is Appropriate Act - Amends the Defense of Marriage Act to repeal the statutory definition of "marriage" as meaning only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and of "spouse" as referring only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.
Also tagged in: Armed forces, Congress, Congressional elections, Defense policy, Election administration, Elections, Families, Income tax, Military dependents, Presidential elections, Presidents, Residence requirements, Tax administration, Taxation
Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. Bill TextTo amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to guarantee the residency of spouses of military personnel. 5/15/2008--Introduced. Military Spouses Residency Relief Act - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to prohibit, for purposes of voting for a federal, state, or local office, deeming a person to have lost a residence or domicile in a state, acquired a residence or domicile in any other state, or become a resident in or of any other state solely because the person is absent from a state because the person is accompanying the person's spouse who is absent from the state in compliance with military or naval orders. Prohibits a servicemember's spouse from either losing or acquiring a residence or domicile for purposes of taxation because of being absent or present in any U.S. tax jurisdiction solely to be with the servicemember in compliance with the servicemember's military orders if the residence or domicile is the same for the servicemember and the spouse.
Also tagged in: Administrative remedies, Aliens, Armed forces, Children, Criminal aliens, Criminal justice, Defense policy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Deportation, Executive departments, Families, Illegal aliens, Immigrants, Immigration, Law, Military dependents, Military operations, Military personnel, Naturalization, Parents, Right of asylum, Siblings, Veterans, Veterans' benefits, Visas
Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-912. Bill TextTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to protect the well-being of soldiers and their families, and for other purposes. 5/8/2008--Introduced. States that any person who served honorably as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces (Armed Forces) in support of contingency operations shall be eligible for naturalization as if the person had served during a period of presidentially-designated military hostilities. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the period for filing a naturalization application after completion of eligible military service. Eliminates conditional permanent resident status for certain alien spouses (and sons or daughters) who are members or veterans of the Armed Forces. Sets forth factors to be considered in initiating removal proceedings against active duty members of the Armed Forces or veterans. Prohibits removal of an alien who is a member or veteran of the Armed Forces based upon: (1) illegal reentry; (2) [...] show full description
Latest Action: 04/29/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Bill TextA bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide a plot allowance for spouses and children of certain veterans who are buried in State cemeteries. 4/29/2008--Introduced. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay a $300 plot allowance to a state for spouses and children of certain veterans who are buried in state cemeteries.
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