Also tagged in: Aged, Children, Day care, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Food, Food relief, Food stamps, Milk, School lunch program, Welfare
Latest Action: 09/26/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9680-9681) Bill TextA bill to require semiannual indexing of mandatory Federal food assistance programs. 9/26/2008--Introduced. National Hunger Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to revise, and provide for increases in, the annual October adjustments to the thrifty food plan upon which supplemental nutrition assistance program (formerly, the food stamp program) benefits are based. Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to provide semiannual reimbursement rate adjustments for: (1) national school lunch and breakfast programs; (2) the special milk program; (3) the child and adult day care program; and (4) the summer food service program.
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: Adoption, Aged, Books, Children, College costs, Cost of living adjustments, Day care, Disabled, Economic policy, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Families, Fringe benefits, Higher education, Humanities, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Labor, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax exclusion, Taxation, Teacher education, Teachers, Teaching materials, Textbooks
Latest Action: 06/04/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide income tax relief for families, and for other purposes. 6/4/2008--Introduced. Family Tax Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase and make refundable the tax credit for employment-related dependent care expenses; and (2) increase and make permanent the tax deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers. Makes permanent provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2011 which allow: (1) an expanded tax credit for adoption expenses; and (2) an increased exclusion from the gross income of employees for employer-paid adoption expenses.
Also tagged in: Aged, Budgets, Construction costs, Federal aid to health facilities, Federal aid to Indians, Hospital care, Indian medical care, Job training, Labor, Medicine, Minorities, Nursing homes, Veterans, Veterans' employment, Veterans' medical care
Latest Action: 05/08/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3979) Bill TextA bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to include Federally recognized tribal organizations in certain grant programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs for the several States and territories, and for other purposes. 5/8/2008--Introduced. Native American Veterans Access Act of 2008 - Provides for treatment of a health facility of a tribal organization as a state home for purposes of grant payments to such homes for veterans' domiciliary care, nursing home care, and hospital care. Exempts a health facility of a tribal organization from the prohibition against the Secretary of Veterans Affairs treating a new facility as a state home after September 30, 2009.Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to assist tribal organizations in constructing or acquiring facilities for furnishing domiciliary or nursing home care to veterans and in expanding, remodeling, or altering existing buildings for furnishing domiciliary care, nursing home care, adult day health care,[...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Aged, Caregivers, Children, Day care, Department of the Treasury, Disabled, Executive departments, Families, Income tax, Law, Married people, Tax credits, Tax refunds, Taxation
Latest Action: 03/14/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand and improve the dependent care tax credit. 3/14/2008--Introduced. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the dollar limitation on employment-related expenses that qualify for the tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment (dependent care tax credit); (2) repeal the requirement that a disabled dependent and the taxpayer share the same residence to qualify for such credit; (3) require the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations to qualify retirees for such credit; and (4) make such credit refundable. Makes permanent the increases in the dependent care tax credit enacted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.
Also tagged in: Aged, Children, Cost of living adjustments, Day care, Disabled, Economic policy, Families, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Married people, Mentally disabled, Parents, Social services, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax refunds, Taxation
Latest Action: 11/14/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2402) Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for expenses paid for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment and to increase, and make refundable, the credit for such expenses. 11/13/2007--Introduced. Child Care Affordability Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax deduction for expenses paid for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment; (2) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for such expenses; (3) provide for an inflation adjustment after 2008 to the dollar amounts for such tax deduction and tax credit; and (4) make such tax credit refundable.
Also tagged in: Aged, Caregivers, Children, Day care, Disabled, Economic policy, Families, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Married people, Tax credits, Taxation
Latest Action: 11/01/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase, expand the availability of, and repeal the sunset with respect to, the dependent care tax credit. 11/1/2007--Introduced. Child Care Family Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rate of the tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services; and (2) allow an inflation adjustment after 2007 to the adjusted gross income limitation applicable to such credit. Makes such increased tax credit permanent.
Also tagged in: Adoption, Aged, Caregivers, Children, Day care, Disabled, Economic policy, Families, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Married people, Minimum tax, Tax credits, Tax exemption, Taxation
Latest Action: 10/04/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the alternative minimum tax by increasing the exemption amounts and adjusting them for inflation and by making permanent law the allowance of the dependent care credit, the child credit, and the adoption credit against such tax. 10/4/2007--Introduced. Family Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) the increase the alternative minimum tax (AMT) exemption amounts and adjust such amounts for inflation after 2008; and (2) make permanent the allowance of the dependent care tax credit, the child tax credit, and the adoption tax credit against the AMT.
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Accreditation (Medical care), Aged, AIDS (Disease), Alabama, Ambulances, Ambulatory care, American Samoa, Armed forces, Birth control, Budgets, Business, Cancer, Cardiovascular diseases, Child health, Children, Chronically ill, Clinics, Coinsurance, Collection of accounts, Colon cancer, Communication in medicine, Communications, Congressional reporting requirements, Connecticut, Consumer discounts, Consumers, Defense policy, Dental care, Diabetes, Drug therapy, Drugs, Education, Electronic data interchange, Emergency management, Emergency medicine, Employee health benefits, Energy, Estates (Law), Excise tax, Executive departments, Eye diseases, Families, Family services, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to child health services, Finance, Food, Foreign corporations, Gasoline, Government contractors, Government information, Government paperwork, Government trust funds, Governmental investigations, Guam, Health information systems, Health insurance, Health maintenance organizations, Health policy, Hepatitis, Higher education, Home care services, Hospital care, Hospital rates, Hospitals, Human immunodeficiency viruses, Illinois, Imaging systems in medicine, Immigrant health, Immigration, Indian medical care, Indians, Influenza, Information technology, Inspectors general, Insurance companies, Insurance premiums, Kidney diseases, Labor, Language and languages, Law, Long-term care, Lung diseases, Mammography, Managed care, Marriage counseling, Massachusetts, Maternal health services, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical centers, Medical economics, Medical education, Medical fees, Medical instruments and apparatus, Medical laboratories, Medical records, Medical research, Medical residents, Medical screening, Medical statistics, Medical supplies, Medical tests, Medically uninsured, Medicare, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Medicine, Medigap, Mental depression, Mental health services, Metropolitan areas, Michigan, Midwives, Military personnel, Minnesota, Minorities, New Jersey, New York State, Northern Mariana Islands, Nursing homes, Nutrition, Osteoporosis, Oxygen, Pensions, Physical therapy, Physicians, Pneumonia, Politics and government, Poor children, Pregnant women, Prescription pricing, Preventive medicine, Psychotherapy, Public contracts, Puerto Rico, Quality of care, Rebates, Reinsurance, Rural affairs, Rural health, Science policy, Sexual abstinence, Social services, Social work, Speech disorders, Tax exemption, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Telemedicine, Tennessee, Tobacco tax, Trade, Urban affairs, Vaccines, Virgin Islands, Welfare, Wisconsin, Women
Latest Action: 09/04/2007 - Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 338. Bill TextTo amend titles XVIII, XIX, and XXI of the Social Security Act to extend and improve the children's health insurance program, to improve beneficiary protections under the Medicare, Medicaid, and the CHIP program, and for other purposes. 8/1/2007--Reported to House amended, Part I. (There are 2 other summaries) Children's Health and Medicare Protection (CHAMP) Act of 2007 - Title I: Children's Health Insurance Program - (Sec. 100) States that it is the purpose of this title to provide dependable and stable funding for children's health insurance under titles XXI (Children's Health Insurance Program) (CHIP) (also known as SCHIP) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) in order to enroll all six million uninsured children who are eligible, but not enrolled, for coverage today. Subtitle A: Funding - (Sec. 101) Prescribes formulae for new base CHIP allotments for states and territories beginning with FY2008. (Sec. [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Administrative procedure, Administrative remedies, Afghanistan, Armed forces, Brain, Business, Caregivers, Case management, Congress, Congressional oversight, Consumer credit, Consumers, Counterterrorism, Credit bureaus, Criminal justice, Debt, Debtor and creditor, Defense policy, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Disability evaluation, Disabled, Eviction, Executive departments, Executive Office of the President, Executive reorganization, Families, Family services, Federal advisory bodies, Finance, Foreclosure, Government contractors, Government information, Government paperwork, Governmental investigations, Head injuries, Health counseling, Health policy, Home care services, Hospital care, Hospital rates, Hospitals, Housing, Income tax, Iraq, Iraq compilation, Labor, Law, Long-term care, Medical care, Medical fees, Medicine, Mental health services, Middle East and North Africa, Military dependents, Military discharges, Military pay, Physical examinations, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Presidential appointments, Presidents, Public contracts, Rehabilitation of the disabled, Relocation, Respite care, South Asia, Standard of living, Tax credits, Taxation, Terminal care, Terrorism, Transportation, Travel costs, Veterans, Veterans' disability compensation, Veterans' employment, Veterans' medical care, Vocational rehabilitation, Wages, War casualties
Latest Action: 07/25/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Bill TextTo provide for transitional emergency assistance to certain members of the Armed Forces and veterans who are severely injured while serving on active duty, to expand and improve programs for caregiver services for those members and veterans, to require improved screening and care for traumatic brain injury for returning servicemembers and veterans, and for other purposes. 6/25/2007--Introduced. Wounded Heroes' Bill of Rights Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide prompt emergency cash assistance to a member of the Armed Forces or veteran who, on or after September 11, 2001, was or is severely injured while serving on active duty (to be known as a Wounded Hero) and, due to such injury, is undergoing significant financial difficulty. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a business tax credit for employers hiring Wounded Heroes. Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide increased protections under such Act for Wounded Heroes and persons [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Aged, Children, Cost of living adjustments, Day care, Disabled, Economic policy, Families, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Married people, Mentally disabled, Parents, Social services, Tax credits, Taxation
Latest Action: 04/17/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase, expand the availability of, and repeal the sunset with respect to, the dependent care tax credit. 4/17/2007--Introduced. Family Care Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rate of the tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services; and (2) allow an inflation adjustment after 2007 to the adjusted gross income limitation applicable to such credit. Makes such increased tax credit permanent.
Also tagged in: Aged, Agricultural surpluses, Agriculture, Budgets, Children, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Day care, Department of Agriculture, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Federal advisory bodies, Food, Food relief, Fruit, Nutrition, Public contracts, Research grants, School lunch program, Science policy, Social services, Vegetables, Welfare
Latest Action: 03/29/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Bill TextA bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to provide coordination and direction for commodity programs, and to ensure the distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables to schools and service institutions in the United States. 3/29/2007--Introduced. School Food Fresh Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish in the office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services a task force to coordinate commodity programs. Directs the Secretary to provide five (for each of five specified food categories) competitive grants to nonprofit research institutions to evaluate commodity program products to determine: (1) consistency with program nutritional goals; (2) product acceptability by recipient agencies and consumers; and (3) commercial counterpart comparability. Amends the the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary to: (1) enter into agreements with qualifying local and regional [...] show full description
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