1. What is the bill number and title of the bill? Bill number: H.R.122 Bill title shortened: Original Living Wage Act of 2015 Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to provide for the calculation of the minimum wage based on the Federal poverty threshold for a family of 4, as determined by the Bureau of the Census. 1. In your own words, what does the bill strive to accomplish? This bill is striving to assure that minimum wage workers are making enough money to be able to financially support themselves and their families. This bill calls for the federal minimum wage to be adjusted every four years so that the received annual income of these employees is at least 15% above the federal poverty edge for a four-person …show more content…
Green, Al [D-TX-9]. 3. What is the latest action on the bill? The latest action on this bill was made by House Education and the Workforce on April 29, 2015. The type of action was Committee Consideration. 4. Have there been any major recorded votes on the bill? If so, did the vote take place in the House or the Senate and what was the result? There have been no major votes on this bill. The trackers displays the bill being introduced still and it has not yet passed the House. 5. Which database did you use to find the bill and why did you choose that particular one? I used congress.gov to find the bill because when we had a class meeting with the librarian we were told that congress.gov was a beneficial website to search for bills. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/122?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22%5C%22hr122%5C%22%22%5D%7D&resultIndex=1 7. In one to two paragraphs in your own words, describe the effect the bill may have on the business community if passed. Do not copy and paste the summary or language of the bill. Read the summary and think about what requirements it may place on a business or what it may require a business to do and how that will affect the daily operations of a business. Cite to one reputable source supporting your
Congress passed the Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility Act Notice Act in a unanimous vote on July 29, 2015. The President signed the bill on August 6, 2015.
The bill agreed to a simple resolution on Aug 5, 2015. The “latest major action: May 8, 2015, Passed/agreed to in Senate. Status: Resolution agreed to in Senate without
On March 23, 2010 the federal statute was signed into law in the United States by President Barack Obama. The Act is the product of the healthcare reform agenda of the Democratic 111th Congress and the Obama administration. The law includes numerous health-related provisions to take effect over a four-year period. Ultimately, the plan will extend
Poverty- the state of being extremely poor. The United States minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. For the average family of two working adults and two children the U.S. poverty level is “$24,037” (Nadeau 1) per year. “45 million” (Gongloff 1) American citizens are living below the poverty line as of late 2014, because the federal minimum wage isn’t enough to support their basic needs. Increasing minimum wage would reduce poverty because the federal minimum wage isn’t enough to comfortably support a family as things cost more than they did in 2009 when the wage was last raised and with the U.S. minimum wage of $7.25 an hour families have to choose between food and paying their rent.
With Republicans on the committee insisting on introducing private competition with traditional government-run Medicare, and Democrats vehemently opposed to premium support, it appeared as though the bill would not make it out alive (KSG 17-18). However, Speaker of the House Hastert and Majority Leader Frist introduced a compromise to committee Chairman Thomas. This eventually was the bill that was signed into law (KSG,
The minimum wage was set with the passage of The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA). Its initial price point was $0.25 per hour, and it has been raised twenty-two times since. It allowed for federal protections against employers like minimum wage, overtime pay for time worked over a set number of hours in a workweek, restrictions on the employment of children, and recordkeeping requirements (uc davis). “In that year, the act applied to industries whose
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to more forward with debate on the chamber's tax bill, with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., among those already voicing their support of the legislation.
Of the 234 Republicans, just 20% are reliably loyal to the speaker. More than half of the members went against him on two or more of the biggest votes during his speakership, including the vote relating to immigration reform. In the draft bill, immigration law enforcement was fortified, temporary worker programs were expanded, and path was paved that would allow unauthorized immigrants to remain in the U.S and eventually apply for citizenship, and while not perfect, it was a compromise that moved America towards a phase of change. In the senate, the bill was passed with a vote of 68-32 (14 republicans voted in favor of the bill), and a similar coalition was waiting in the House of Representative. However, the House never voted on it as a result of the Hastert rule being enacted. Had the House of Representatives allowed the bill to be considered under a simple yes-or-no vote, it would have passed with the support from both parties. But because Boehner lacked the support from the majority of his party (he experienced less partisanship), the bill continues to remains in a state of stagnancy – unable to see its
Last legislative session, the Combat-Injured Tax Fairness Act was passed unanimously by both the House and Senate and was signed by then President Obama on December 12, 2016. The law was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means along with the Committee on Armed Services. The law instructs the
a 91-5 Senate vote.2 It seems now that the wide bill might not be what it
The bill had confronted resistance a year ago in Congress. Reshaping migration is a focal precept of President-elect Donald Trump's push for organizations to put and contract more in the US. Trump has recorded migration change among five official moves he wants to make on his first day in office. They incorporate soliciting the Department from Labor to explore "all misuse of the visa programs that undercut the American specialist."
Information is one of the most powerful tools in the world, even going so far as to make or break countries. There is a constant effort to censor information that puts people or countries in a negative light. This makes the citizens of those countries blind to the truths of the government turning them into sheep. The people shouldn’t be sheep because we need them to shape the future. This bill has the sole purpose of loosening internet censorship because it eliminates free will, causes people to have a dangerous amount of patriotism and ultimately makes the internet a more dangerous place than it is.
This Act was signed into law by former President Barack Obama in November 2012 and was done so by a unanimous bipartisan consensus of every member of Senate and House of Representatives constituting the 112th Congress (Peffer, S. L., et al, 2015). However, coming to this collective agreement was not done with ease and took over a decade with countless blocks of the bill through procedural sabotage and government principal officer protest. In the end, unanimous consensus was gained mostly due to no political figure can afford to stand out in the public eye of a free society as opposing freedom of speech (Peffer, S. L., et al,
Even though the program was signed in 2014, it was never allowed to be implemented because of an ongoing blockage from courts. In the United States v. Texas case, 26 states filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration arguing that the program went against the constitution. This
on 19 December 2014. The Bill was passed by the House on 6 May 2015, receiving