Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Single-parent families

Bill Introduced: H.R.6504 Coordinate to Educate Act

2008-07-15T00:00:00Z

To authorize grants to local educational agencies to develop and implement coordinated services programs.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5774 Pathways Advancing Career Training Act

2008-04-10T00:00:00Z

To provide effective employment, training, and career and technical education programs and to address barriers that result from family responsibilities, and to encourage and support individuals to enter nontraditional occupational fields.

Bill Introduced: S.2666 Affordable Housing Investment Act of 2008

2008-02-25T00:00:00Z

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage investment in affordable housing, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.2580 CURE Act

2008-01-30T00:00:00Z

A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve the participation in higher education of, and to increase opportunities in employment for, residents of rural areas.

Bill Enacted: H.R.3648 Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007

2007-12-20T00:00:00Z

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude discharges of indebtedness on principal residences from gross income, and for other purposes.

December 20, 2007: Became Public Law No: 110-142.

Bill Signed by President: H.R.3648 Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007

2007-12-20T00:00:00Z

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude discharges of indebtedness on principal residences from gross income, and for other purposes.

December 20, 2007: Signed by President.

Bill Sent To President: H.R.3648 Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007

2007-12-19T00:00:00Z

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude discharges of indebtedness on principal residences from gross income, and for other purposes.

December 19, 2007: Presented to President.

Bill Sent To President: H.R.3648 Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007

2007-12-18T00:00:00Z

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude discharges of indebtedness on principal residences from gross income, and for other purposes.

December 18, 2007: Cleared for White House.

Bill Introduced: H.R.4139 College and University Rural Education (CURE) Act of 2007

2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve participation in higher education of, and increase opportunities in employment for, residents of rural areas.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3648 Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007

2007-09-25T00:00:00Z

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude discharges of indebtedness on principal residences from gross income, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.1642 Higher Education Amendments of 2007

2007-06-18T00:00:00Z

A bill to extend the authorization of programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: S.1241 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify student housing eligible for the low-income housing credit, and for other purposes.

2007-04-26T00:00:00Z

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify student housing eligible for the low-income housing credit, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.750 Immigration Reform bill

2007-01-31T00:00:00Z

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to comprehensively reform immigration law, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.4873 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage investment in affordable housing.

2006-03-02T00:00:00Z

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage investment in affordable housing.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3972 Pathways Advancing Career Training Act

2005-10-06T00:00:00Z

To provide effective training and education programs for displaced homemakers, single parents, and individuals entering nontraditional employment.

Bill Introduced: S.1826 Older Worker Opportunity Act

2005-10-06T00:00:00Z

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit to encourage employers to offer flexible and phased work opportunities to older workers, to expand the credit for dependent care expenses to cover eldercare expenses, to extend COBRA coverage for certain older workers who lose health insurance coverage due to a reduction in work, to improve older workers' access to job training services, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.2092 Save America Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2005

2005-05-04T00:00:00Z

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to comprehensively reform immigration law and to better protect immigrant victims of violence, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.366 Vocational and Technical Education for the Future Act

2005-01-26T00:00:00Z

To amend the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 to strengthen and improve programs under that Act.

Bill Introduced: S.6 Needy Families Assistance bill

2005-01-24T00:00:00Z

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide permanent family tax relief, to reauthorize and improve the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families and to improve access to quality child care, and to provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses, to improve the public disclosure of activities of exempt organizations, and to enhance the ability of low-income Americans to gain financial security by building assets, and for other purposes.