WashingtonWatch.com - Subject: Caregivers

H.R. 6307, The Fostering Connections to Success Act

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 6307 would amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to assist children in foster care in developing or maintaining connections to family, community, support, health care, and school....

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S. 2921, The Caring for Wounded Warriors Act of 2008

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2921 would require pilot programs on training and certification for family caregiver personal care attendants for veterans and members of the Armed Forces with traumatic brain injury, and it would require a pilot program on provision of respite care to such veterans and members....

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H.R. 5138, The Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2008

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 5138 would amend title 11 of the United States Code to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems....

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H.R. 5090, To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to permit a family member of a wounded veteran to take leave under such Act after a lesser period of service with an employer

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 5090 would amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to permit a family member of a wounded veteran to take leave under such Act after a lesser period of service with an employer....

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H.R. 4684, The Cancer and Terminal Illness Patient Health Care Act of 2007

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 4684 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to waive the employee portion of Social Security taxes imposed on individuals who have been diagnosed as having cancer or a terminal disease....

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H.R. 4039, The Child Care Family Tax Relief Act of 2007

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 4039 would 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....

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S. 2267, The Americans Giving care to Elders (AGE) Act of 2007

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2267 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an income tax credit for eldercare expenses....

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H.R. 3993, The Military Family Job Protection Act

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3993 would provide for a prohibition on discrimination in employment against certain family members caring for recovering members of the Armed Forces....

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S. 2237, The Crime Control and Prevention Act of 2007

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2237 would fight crime....

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H.R. 3963, The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $1283.92

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3963 would amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to extend and improve the Children's Health Insurance Program....

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H.R. 3906, The Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2007

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3906 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the deduction for State and local sales tax, the deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses, the deduction for mortgage interest premiums, and the modifications to the dependent care credit....

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H.R. 3758, The Family Tax Relief Act of 2007

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3758 would 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....

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S. 2121, The CARE Act of 2007

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2121 would provide funding and incentives for caregiver support and long-term care assistance....

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H.R. 3645, The Healthier Heroes Act

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3645 would implement recommendations of the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors....

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H.R. 3582, The Fair Home Health Care Act

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3582 would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify the exemption for home health care workers from certain provisions of that Act....

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S. 2061, The Fair Home Health Care Act of 2007

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2061 would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt certain home health workers from the provisions of such Act....

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H.R. 3556, To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act to provide an additional 12 weeks of leave for a family member to care for a member of the Armed Forces who is seriously injured in combat

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3556 would amend the Family and Medical Leave Act to provide an additional 12 weeks of leave for a family member to care for a member of the Armed Forces who is seriously injured in combat....

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H.R. 3502, The Wounded Warriors Commission Implementation Act of 2007

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3502 would provide for the prompt implementation of those recommendations of the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors that require congressional action....

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H.R. 3481, The Support for Injured Servicemembers Act

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3481 would expand family and medical leave in support of servicemembers with combat-related injuries....

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H.R. 3391, The Military Family and Medical Leave Act

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3391 would amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to expand family and medical leave for spouses, sons, daughters, and parents of servicemembers with combat-related injuries....

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H.R. 3409, The Place to Call Home Act

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3409 would create the conditions, structures, and supports needed to ensure permanency for the Nation's unaccompanied youth....

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S. 1975, The Support for Injured Servicemembers Act

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1975 would expand family and medical leave in support of servicemembers with combat-related injuries....

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S. 1898, The Military Family and Medical Leave Act

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1898 would amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to expand family and medical leave for spouses, sons, daughters, and parents of servicemembers with combat-related injuries....

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S. 1894, The Support for Injured Servicemembers Act of 2007

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1894 would amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to provide family and medical leave to primary caregivers of servicemembers with combat -related injuries....

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S. 1885, The Military Family Job Protection Act

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1885 would provide certain employment protections for family members who are caring for members of the Armed Forces recovering from illnesses and injuries incurred on active duty....

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