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in committee · Maine · Senate Feb 2, 2021

S 181: Fred Korematsu Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2021

Fred Korematsu Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2021 This bill provides for the award of a Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Fred Korematsu in recognition of his contributions to civil rights, his loyalty and patriotism to the nation, and his dedication to justice and equality.

Mazie K. Hirono (D) · 25 co-sponsors

in committee · Maine · House Feb 2, 2021

HR 696: CARES Windfall for the Wealthiest Repeal Act

CARES Windfall for the Wealthiest Repeal Act This bill restores and makes permanent the limitation on excess businesses losses of noncorporate taxpayers. It also allows taxpayers a carryback of their net operating losses arising in 2019 and 2020.

Lloyd Doggett (D) · 31 co-sponsors

in committee · Maine · House Feb 2, 2021

HR 695: USPS Fairness Act

USPS Fairness Act This bill repeals the requirement that the U.S. Postal Service annually prepay future retirement health benefits.

Peter A. DeFazio (D) · 277 co-sponsors

in committee · Maine · House Feb 2, 2021

HR 685: Coronavirus Unemployment Benefits Tax Relief Act

Coronavirus Unemployment Benefits Tax Relief Act This bill excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, up to $10,200 of unemployment compensation received by an individual in a taxable year beginning in 2020.

Topics ✓ Budget & Taxes ✓ Labor & Employment

Cynthia Axne (D) · 33 co-sponsors

in committee · Maine · House Feb 2, 2021

HR 596: ACCESS Act

Advancing Connectivity during the Coronavirus to Ensure Support for Seniors Act or the ACCESS Act This bill provides funding to increase access to telehealth services and virtual visits in skilled and other nursing facilities during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency. The bill designates the funding as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits. Specifically, the bill provides additional funding for FY2021, to remain available through FY2022, to the Telehealth Resource Center Program to address barriers to telehealth faced by skilled and other nursing facilities. The Office for the Advancement of Telehealth within the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy in the Health Resources and Services Administration manages this program. In addition, the bill provides funding for FY2021, to remain available through one month after the emergency period ends, to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for grants to nursing facilities to support virtual visits for residents during the COVID-19 emergency. HHS must develop relevant guidance for these grants within 15 days. HHS must also coordinate with the Federal Communications Commission to ensure grantees have access to telecommunications and broadband services.

in committee · Maine · House Feb 2, 2021

HR 616: Emergency Water is a Human Right Act

Emergency Water is a Human Right Act This bill creates a grant program, administered by the Department of Health and Human Services, to provide funds to states and Indian tribes to assist low-income households that pay a high proportion of household income for drinking water and wastewater services. Further, any entity receiving financial assistance under this grant program must ensure that no home energy service or public water system service is or remains disconnected or interrupted during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency.

Rashida Tlaib (D) · 115 co-sponsors

in committee · Maine · House Feb 2, 2021

HR 501: Climate Smart Ports Act

Climate Smart Ports Act This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a grant program for purchasing or installing equipment and technology to reduce pollution at ports. Specifically, the grants must be used for equipment or technology that produces zero exhaust emissions of certain pollutants and greenhouse gases or captures 100% of the exhaust emissions produced by an ocean-going vessel at berth.

Topics ✓ Energy ✓ Environment ✓ Transportation

in committee · Maine · House Feb 2, 2021

HR 516: Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act of 2021

Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act of 2021 This bill establishes an interagency Environmental Justice Mapping Committee that must create a tool to identify environmental justice communities. Environmental justice communities are communities with significant representation of communities of color, low-income communities, or tribal and indigenous communities that experience, or are at risk of experiencing, higher or more adverse human health or environmental effects, as compared to other communities. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must establish an environmental justice data repository to maintain the data collected by the committee. The EPA must make the repository available to regional, state, local, and tribal governments.

Topics ✓ Environment

Cori Bush (D) · 56 co-sponsors

in committee · Maine · House Feb 2, 2021

HR 448: Energy Resilient Communities Act

Energy Resilient Communities Act This bill requires the Department of Energy to establish a program that awards grants to make critical energy infrastructure more resilient to climate change hazards, such as grants for developing clean energy microgrids that support critical community infrastructure or customers of electric utilities with special energy needs due to medical conditions.

Topics ✓ Energy ✓ Environment

in committee · Maine · House Feb 2, 2021

HR 477: Ally’s Act

Ally's Act This bill requires private health insurance plans to cover certain hearing devices and systems (e.g., bone-anchored auditory implants) and related items and services. The bill also imposes limits on cost sharing.

Topics ✓ Healthcare

Joe Neguse (D) · 52 co-sponsors

in committee · Maine · House Feb 2, 2021

HR 480: Medicare Economic Security Solutions Act

Medicare Economic Security Solutions Act This bill modifies provisions relating to enrollment periods for Medicare medical services. Among other things, the bill establishes a late enrollment penalty of 15% of monthly premiums and applies the penalty for a period equal to twice the number of months in each 12-month period during which the individual was not enrolled. Currently, the late enrollment penalty is 10% of monthly premiums for each 12-month period during which the individual was not enrolled, and the penalty continues to apply for as long as the individual is enrolled in Medicare medical services. The bill also expands the special enrollment periods to individuals who have health insurance coverage other than through their employer.

Katie Porter (D) · 32 co-sponsors

in committee · Maine · House Feb 2, 2021

HR 432: Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2021

Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2021 This bill provides for coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under Medicare. It also excludes such services from the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system, and authorizes marriage and family therapists and mental health counselors to develop discharge plans for post-hospital services.

Topics ✓ Healthcare

Mike Thompson (D) · 97 co-sponsors