Rep. Grace Meng

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District HD-NY-6
Party Democrat
Bills Introduced 199

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US Congress 115th Congress

Raise the Wage Act [HB-15]
Raise the Wage Act This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the federal minimum wage for regular employees over a 7-year period, for tipped employees, and for newly hired employees who are less than 20 years old. The bill sets forth a schedule of annual increases in the federal minimum wage for individuals with disabilities. The Department of Labor shall no longer issue special certificates for the payment of subminimum wages to such individuals after the final wage increase under this bill for such individuals takes effect. (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney Referred To The House Committee On Education And The Workforce. on 05/25/2017

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Establishing the Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention. [HR-367]
Establishing the Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention. Establishes the House Select Committee on Gun Violence Prevention to investigate and report on: the causes of mass shootings, methods to improve the federal firearms purchaser background check system, connections between access to firearms and dangerously mentally ill individuals, strengthening federal penalties for trafficking and straw purchasing of firearms, closing loopholes that allow some domestic abusers continued access to firearms, linkages between firearms and suicide, gun violence's (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney Introduced In House on 05/25/2017

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Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that a standing committee (or subcommittee thereof) hearing be held whenever there is a moment of silence in the House for a tragedy involving gun violence. [HR-370]
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require that a standing committee (or subcommittee thereof) hearing be held whenever there is a moment of silence in the House for a tragedy involving gun violence. Amends Rule XI (Procedures of Committees and Unfinished Business) of the Rules of the House of Representatives. Requires the Speaker, whenever a moment of silence related to a tragedy in the United States or its territories involving gun violence occurs on the floor of the House, to announce on the next legislative day the standing (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney Introduced In House on 05/26/2017

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Veteran Small Business Tax Credit Act of 2017 [HB-2764]
Veteran Small Business Tax Credit Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a new business-related tax credit for the start-up expenses of a veteran-owned small business. The allowable amount of such credit is 15% of start-up expenditures that do not exceed $80,000. The credit is allowed to any individual (or the surviving spouse of such individual) who: (1) has served on active duty in the Armed Forces, and (2) has not been discharged or released from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Alma Adams Introduced In House on 05/30/2017

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Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act of 2017 [HB-105]
Protect Veterans from Financial Fraud Act of 2017 This bill states that, in any case not involving negligent failure by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to investigate or monitor a fiduciary that results in fiduciary misuse of benefits, but in which any fiduciary misuses all or part of an individual's benefit paid to the fiduciary, the VA shall pay to the beneficiary or the beneficiary's successor fiduciary an amount equal to the amount of the misused benefit. An adverse determination by the VA of a veteran's mental capacity to manage VA (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Julia Brownley Subcommittee Consideration And Mark-up Session Held. Markup Report Cq on 04/27/2017

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Infant Formula Protection Act of 2017 [HB-2791]
Infant Formula Protection Act of 2017

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Grace Meng Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 06/09/2017

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Providing for a joint session of Congress to receive a presentation from the Comptroller General of the United States regarding the audited financial statement of the executive branch. [HCR-8]
Providing for a joint session of Congress to receive a presentation from the Comptroller General of the United States regarding the audited financial statement of the executive branch. Requires both chambers of Congress to assemble annually in the Hall of the House of Representatives to receive a presentation from the Comptroller General on the Government Accountability Office's audited financial statement of the accounts and associated activities of the executive branch, together with an analysis of the financial position and condition of the federal (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney Introduced In House on 01/06/2017

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Pell Grant Preservation and Expansion Act [HB-2451]
Pell Grant Preservation and Expansion Act This bill amends the title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise the Federal Pell Grant Program. Specifically, it: converts the Pell Grant program into a mandatory spending program; increases the maximum Pell Grant award for academic year 2019-2020 and adjusts it in subsequent award years to account for inflation; allows federal financial aid for higher education to be given to dreamer students (students who entered the country when they were under the age of 16 and who meet (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney Introduced In House on 05/16/2017

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Seniors Fraud Prevention Act of 2017 [HB-444]
Seniors Fraud Prevention Act of 2017 This bill directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to establish an office within the Bureau of Consumer Protection to advise the FTC on the prevention of fraud targeting seniors and to assist the FTC in monitoring the market for mail, television, Internet, telemarketing, and recorded message telephone call (robocall) fraud targeting seniors. The office must: (1) disseminate to seniors and their families and caregivers information on the most common fraud schemes, including methods of reporting complaints either (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva Referred To The Subcommittee On Digital Commerce And Consumer Protection. on 01/25/2017

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Action for Dental Health Act of 2017 [HB-2422]
Action for Dental Health Act of 2017 (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize oral health promotion and disease prevention programs through FY2022. The Department of Health and Human Services may award grants or enter into contracts to collaborate with state, county, or local public officials and other stakeholders to develop and implement initiatives to: (1) improve oral health education and dental disease prevention; (2) reduce geographic barriers, language barriers, cultural barriers, and other similar barriers in (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Russell Became Public Law No: 115-302. on 12/11/2018

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