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Shays'
Sponsored Bills
H.Res. 561, Recognizing the
20th Anniversary of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance
Act
- Recognizes the 20th Anniversary of McKinney-Vento and
the impact it has made on homelessness and endeavoring to
continue working to eliminate homelessness in the United
States.
- Supports the efforts of federal, state, and local governments
and private non-profit organizations to prevent and end
homelessness through the development of affordable housing,
including efforts to prevent and end homelessness among
armed forces veterans.
- Commends the dedication and commitment of service providers,
including faith-based and nonprofit organizations, to end
homelessness in their communities and provide emergency
food, shelter, and services to homeless
Americans.
- Declares that the House of Representatives
endeavors to work with the same courage, dignity, and determination
exemplified by Representatives McKinney and Vento to eliminate
homelessness in the United States.
H.R. 1360, the Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act
- Eliminates the Convenience of the Employer Rule, which
the State of New York has applied to telecommuters from
other states subjecting them to double taxation on income
they earned while working from another state
- Mirrors Senator Dodd’s Legislation
- Not Retroactive
H.R. 1577, the Wounded Warriors Joint Health Care
Patient Navigators Act
- Creates a DoD Patient Navigators program for wounded service
members.
- The Navigators will be representatives for patients and
their families, independent of current military service
and DoD processing authorities.
- The Navigators proposal gives these servicemembers advocacy
from outside the current stovepiped system.
- The navigator’s sole responsibility is representing
and pushing the system to work for individual and immediately
stops the perception that personnel involved are serving
the broken system, not the patient.
- These advocates should be independent of the military
administrative chain and given the authority to help the
wounded navigate between the medical and administrative
processes that will affect the health status, course of
treatment, family support, finances and benefits, and disability
ratings.
H.R. 1578, the Wounded Warriors Joint Health Care Performance
Metrics and Transparency Act
- Establishes, publishes and monitors medical holdover
(MHO) process performance standards, which will allow patients,
their families, case managers and others who need to know
where the process stands and how to keep it moving.
- The performance standards in this amendment would let
everyone involved know what was supposed to happen, when
it was supposed to happen and what should happen when it
doesn’t.
- These metrics should set process standards, establish
uniform guidance to managers and patients and drive manning
and resource projections to maintain the expected standard
of care.
- Without performance measures, the military medical system
cannot be sure its meeting the standard of care wounded
service members deserve.
H.R. 1836,
the Weir Farm National Historic Site Amendment Act
- Allows the Weir Farm Administrative HQ to be moved from
Wilton to Georgetown in Redding
H.R. 1837, to
require the President to develop a plan containing dates certain
for the commencement and completion of a phased redeployment
of United States Armed Forces from Iraq, and for other purposes.
- Requires the President, within 90 days, to provide dates
certain for the beginning and completion of a phased redeployment
of troops from Iraq.
- Once the President reports these dates, encourages the
Iraqi government to hold either a vote within its parliament
or a plebiscite, or both, within 180 days.
- Unless 60 percent vote for the President's plan, the bill
states the President should begin redeploying troops within
60 days.
H.Con.Res. 110,
A resolution regarding the United States presence in Iraq
- The Government of Iraq should hold a vote in the Iraqi
Council of Representatives or among the Iraqi general voting
public to approve or disapprove the continued deployment
of United States Armed Forces to Iraq;
- unless 60 percent of the members of the Iraqi Council
of Representatives or the Iraqi general voting public vote
to approve the continued deployment of United States Armed
Forces to Iraq, the President of the United States should
commence the phased redeployment of United States Armed
Forces from Iraq within 60 days of the Iraqi vote.
H.R. 1945, the
Energy for Our Future Act
- This legislation has three principle goals for our national
energy policy: improving the fuel efficiency of passenger
vehicles, incentivizing the purchase of energy-efficient
appliances, and repealing extraneous tax breaks for industries
that are very profitable and have plenty of incentive to
develop additional supply.
- Saves oil by increasing corporate average fuel economy
(CAFE) standards for cars and light trucks to 40 mpg, include
vehicles that weight up to 10,000 lbs., and closing the
SUV tax loophole;
- Encourages the purchase and manufacturing of hybrid vehicles,
promotes the use of Public Transportation, and the building
of energy efficient modes of transport like clean buses
and light rails;
- Reduces heat and electric bills by increasing and extending
energy efficiency tax incentives to both businesses and
individuals
• Saves taxpayer dollars by repealing tax breaks for
oil companies
• Restores state authority with regards to LNG siting
and setting CAFE standards
H.R. 2545, the
Congressional Research Accessibility Act
- This legislation requires the Director of CRS to maintain
a centralized, searchable, electronic database the public
can use through Member and Committee websites to access
CRS products including reports, issue briefs and appropriations
products
- This is the same information that is currently available
to all congressional offices and that was available to the
public until the termination of the pilot program in 2004.
- It also exempts from the accessibility requirements any
document that is the product of an individual, office, or
committee research request as well as information determined
to be confidential by the CRS Director or the head of a
federal department or agency that provided the information
to CRS.
H.R. 2598, the
Independent Expenditure Opt Out Act
- This legislation makes clear if candidates ask their campaign
committees not to run any campaign advertisements on their
behalf, the request shall not be interpreted as coordination
by the Federal Election Commission.
- The law even prohibits candidates from asking their party
committee not to run advertisements in their race.
H.R. 2944, the
Claire Collier Social Security Disability Insurance Fairness
Act
- This legislation would waive the requirement to pay into
Social Security for 20 quarters out of the last 40 (5 out
of the last 10 years, not necessarily consecutively) for
an individual suffering from a terminal illness to receive
Social Security.
- The legislation would require the Social Security Administration
to define which illnesses would be considered “terminal.”
H.R. 3178, to
limit the length of deployment of members of the Armed Forces
for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
- Prohibits the deployment or extension of deployment for
Army or Army Reserve soldiers for more than 12 consecutive
months, and for Marine and Marine Reservists for more than
7 consecutive months.
- Does not apply to designated key command headquarters
personnel or other members of the Armed Forces who are required
to maintain continuity of mission and situational awareness
between rotating forces.
- The President may waive the applicability of the limitation
in subsection (a) in the event of a requirement for the
use of military force in time of national emergency following
consultation with the congressional defense committees.
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