US Congress House Bill 4074 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-0)
Status: Introduced on October 16 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-10-26 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
Pending: House Nutrition Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Pathways Out of Poverty Act of 2017 This bill establishes and expands various programs related to education, housing, employment, and social welfare. The Department of Education must award grants to states for the development and implementation of prekindergarten programs. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention within the Department of Justice may award grants to assist communities in addressing juvenile delinquency and gang prevention. The bill expands: the Pell Grant program, the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program, and the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs. With respect to housing, the bill: phases out the federal mortgage-interest income-tax deduction, replacing it with a new mortgage-interest income-tax credit; expands the federal low-income housing income-tax credit; expands certain affordable-housing programs; and establishes a federal income-tax credit for low-income renters. With respect to employment, the bill: expands unemployment compensation benefits; establishes several new employment-related programs to be carried out by the Department of Labor; establishes a tax credit for employers that hire long-term unemployed individuals; establishes prohibitions on employment discrimination based on an individual's status as unemployed; increases the federal minimum wage, incrementally over a period of seven years, to $15.00 per hour. In addition, the bill: expands the federal earned-income tax credit, makes refundable a federal income-tax credit for dependent care expenses, and expands eligibility for certain child-care benefits. The bill also establishes: within the Congressional Budget Office, a Poverty Impact Division; and within the Department of Health and Human Services, a Federal Interagency Working Group on Reducing Poverty.

Pathways Out of Poverty Act of 2017

Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]
Rep. Joyce Beatty [D-OH]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Norma Torres [D-CA]
Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. G. Butterfield [D-NC]
Rep. Adriano Espaillat [D-NY]	Rep. Pramila Jayapal [D-WA]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]
Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]
Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]	Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]
Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-10-26	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
2017-10-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
2017-10-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, the Budget, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-10-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, the Budget, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-10-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, the Budget, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-10-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, the Budget, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-10-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, the Budget, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-10-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, the Budget, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-10-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, the Budget, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-10-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, the Budget, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-10-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, the Budget, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-10-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, the Budget, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2017-10-16	House	Introduced in House

HB948 (Related) 2017-02-07 - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
HB1432 (Related) 2017-03-08 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
HB2451 (Related) 2017-05-16 - Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
HB2490 (Related) 2017-05-17 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
HB3468 (Related) 2017-07-27 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
SB1125 (Related) 2017-05-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2934)
SB1136 (Related) 2017-05-16 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
SB1242 (Related) 2017-05-25 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
SB1651 (Related) 2017-07-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S4426-4427)
HB6956 (Related) 2018-09-27 - Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
HB7010 (Related) 2018-10-02 - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
HB5393 (Related) 2018-03-22 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
HB6456 (Related) 2018-07-19 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4074/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr4074/BILLS-115hr4074ih.pdf