Minnesota Congressional Bills

in committee · Minnesota · House Mar 9, 2021

HR 1695: TRICARE Reserve Select Improvement Act

TRICARE Reserve Select Improvement Act This bill expands TRICARE Reserve Select eligibility to include members of the Selected Reserve who are enrolled or eligible to enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.

Topics ✓ Veterans

Trent Kelly (R) · 98 co-sponsors

in committee · Minnesota · House Mar 9, 2021

HR 1712: Death Tax Repeal Act

Death Tax Repeal Act This bill repeals the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes. It also makes conforming amendments related to the gift tax.

Topics ✗ Budget & Taxes

Jason Smith (R) · 155 co-sponsors

in committee · Minnesota · House Mar 9, 2021

HR 1694: Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act

Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act This bill restricts the Department of Defense (DOD) from transferring certain surplus military property to federal, state, or local law enforcement agencies. Specifically, DOD may not transfer to such agencies specified property such as controlled firearms, ammunition, grenade launchers, explosives, certain vehicles or trucks, armored or weaponized drones, certain controlled aircraft, silencers, or long-range acoustic devices. DOD may waive this limitation and transfer certain vehicles or trucks if DOD determines that the transfer is necessary for disaster or rescue purposes or for another purpose where life and public safety are at risk. As a condition for a transfer of allowable property, DOD must require the federal or state agency that receives the property to return the property if the agency is investigated by the Department of Justice for civil liberties violations or is otherwise found to have engaged in widespread abuses of civil liberties. DOD must also periodically submit certain transfer-related information and certifications to Congress. Furthermore, as a condition for transfer, the recipient must receive the approval of its local governing body, provide specified notice to the local community, and submit specified information and certifications to DOD. A federal or state agency that receives controlled property under such a transfer may never take ownership of the property. The bill also eliminates the requirement for DOD to give preference to transfers of property that will be used in counter-drug, counterterrorism, disaster-related emergency preparedness, or border security activities.

Topics ✓ Criminal Justice

in committee · Minnesota · House Mar 9, 2021

HR 1670: Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act of 2021

Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act of 2021 This bill authorizes the use of certain foreign assistance funds to provide comprehensive reproductive health care services in developing countries, including abortion services, training, and equipment.

Topics ✓ Healthcare

in committee · Minnesota · House Mar 9, 2021

HR 1718: Ensuring Economic Recovery Act

Ensuring Economic Recovery Act This bill requires the Small Business Administration to report on the recovery of small businesses from the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic and the effects on small businesses of increasing the federal minimum hourly wage to $15.

in committee · Minnesota · House Mar 9, 2021

HR 1704: Universal Giving Pandemic Response and Recovery Act

Universal Giving Pandemic Response and Recovery Act This bill allows individual taxpayers who do not otherwise itemize their tax deductions a deduction in taxable years beginning in 2021 or 2022 for charitable contributions. The deduction is limited to one-third of the standard deduction allowed to such taxpayers.

Topics ✓ Budget & Taxes

Chris Pappas (D) · 29 co-sponsors

in committee · Minnesota · House Mar 9, 2021

HR 1611: Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act of 2021

Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act of 2021 This bill allows a physical therapist to receive payment under Medicare for services provided to the physical therapist's patients by another physical therapist through a qualifying temporary arrangement, regardless of the geographic area or population served. Currently, physical therapists may only receive payment with respect to such arrangements for services provided in medically underserved, rural, or health professional shortage areas.

Gus M. Bilirakis (R) · 41 co-sponsors

in committee · Minnesota · House Mar 9, 2021

HR 1655: Donald Payne Sr. Colorectal Cancer Detection Act of 2021

Donald Payne Sr. Colorectal Cancer Detection Act of 2021 This bill provides for Medicare coverage and payment, subject to specified frequency limits, of certain colorectal cancer screening blood-based tests.

Topics ✓ Healthcare

in committee · Minnesota · House Mar 9, 2021

HR 1637: To approve certain advanced biofuel registrations, to require the consideration of certain advanced biofuel pathways, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and for other purposes.

This bill expedites the approval process for renewable fuels under the renewable fuel standard (RFS) program. The existing RFS program requires transportation fuel to contain a minimum volume of renewable fuel. Producers must register renewable fuels under the program. The bill considers an application to register a renewable fuel under the RFS program to be approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) if the fuel has been approved under any state renewable fuel program. It also establishes a deadline for the EPA to make a decision on any pending application for a renewable fuel that has not yet been approved under any state program. In addition, the bill establishes deadlines for the EPA to make decisions on pending pathway petitions by producers to register biofuels. If the EPA does not make decisions on the petitions by the deadlines, then petitions are automatically approved.

Topics ✓ Energy ✓ Environment ✓ Transportation

in committee · Minnesota · House Mar 8, 2021

HRES 196: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the importance of taking a feminist approach to all aspects of foreign policy, including foreign assistance and humanitarian response, trade, diplomacy, defense, immigration, funding, and accountability mechanisms.

This resolution supports the goals of a feminist foreign policy (i.e., a foreign policy that requires analysis of and challenges to power structures and inequalities that are based on systems of discrimination), and it supports the adoption of policies that promote gender equity and women's participation in public life.

Jackie Speier (D) · 44 co-sponsors

in committee · Minnesota · House Mar 8, 2021

HR 1665: Employee Profit-Sharing Encouragement Act of 2021

Employee Profit-Sharing Encouragement Act of 2021 This bill denies the business tax deduction for the remuneration of highly-compensated corporate employees unless the corporation has average annual gross receipts of less than $25 million and maintains a plan for making qualified profit-sharing distributions to its employees. The bill defines qualified profit-sharing distributions as cash distributions under a written employer plan that gives employees who have been employed for at least one year a right to profit-sharing distributions and bases the amount of such distributions on the measure of the receipts, profit, revenues, or earnings of the employer.

Topics ✓ Budget & Taxes ✓ Labor & Employment

in committee · Minnesota · House Mar 8, 2021

HR 1633: Public Service Loan Forgiveness Inclusion Act of 2021

Public Service Loan Forgiveness Inclusion Act of 2021 This bill allows the first 60 monthly payments made by a borrower under a graduated repayment or extended repayment plan to become qualifying payments under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. However, the borrower must transfer to an eligible repayment plan, such as an income-based or standard repayment plan, for the remaining 60 monthly payments made under the PSLF program.

Topics ✓ Education

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