Compact Impact Relief Act of 2016
Latest action · Mar 23, 2016 Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 12, 2016
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Compact Impact Relief Act of 2016
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to make quarterly increases in the federal medical assistance percentage, under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, to cover expenditures for medical assistance provided to qualified nonimmigrants under the Compact of Free Association by American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the State of Hawaii.
The bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to make local educational agencies eligible for impact aid (aid to jurisdictions that lose property tax revenue due to federal activities or location within tax-exempt federal areas) for educating alien children admitted to the United States as citizens of one of the Freely Associated States.
The bill amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 to grant a preference to citizens and nationals of the United States within Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in the receipt of housing assistance over any non-resident alien.
The bill directs the Department of State to contract with an eligible organization to conduct an independent assessment of the strategic importance of the relationship between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 12, 2016.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MP | Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan | Original | Jan 12, 2016 |
| D-HI | Mark Takai | Original | Jan 12, 2016 |
Committees 5
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Jan 12, 2016 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jan 15, 2016 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jan 12, 2016 |
| Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee | Referred Mar 23, 2016 | |
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Jan 12, 2016 |
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Jan 12, 2016 |
| East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee | Referred Feb 12, 2016 | |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Jan 12, 2016 |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Jan 19, 2016 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 23, 2016Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
- Feb 12, 2016Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
- Jan 19, 2016Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
- Jan 15, 2016Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 12, 2016Introduced in House
- Jan 12, 2016Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H289-290, E35-36)
- Jan 12, 2016Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, and Natural Resources, 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.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House · Extensions | Debate and remarks E35, H289 | Madeleine Z. Bordallo D-GU | Jan 12, 2016 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 162, no. 7, January 12, 2016, page H331.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To comprehensively address the challenges of providing public services to citizens of the Freely Associated States in the United States, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Compact Impact Relief Act of 2016
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- American Samoa
- Education programs funding
- Elementary and secondary education
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government studies and investigations
- Guam
- Hawaii
- Housing and community development funding
- Marshall Islands
- Medicaid
- Micronesia
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palau
- Property tax
- State and local taxation
- U.S. territories and protectorates
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 12, 2016Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
