H.R. 5164
115th Congress
House
Urban Progress Act of 2018
Official title: To expand economic opportunities, improve community policing, and promote common-sense gun violence prevention in underserved communities, and for other purposes.
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Child care and developmentChild healthChild safety and welfareCivil actions and liabilityCongressional oversightCorrectional facilities and imprisonmentCrime preventionCriminal investigation, prosecution, interrogationCriminal justice information and recordsCriminal procedure and sentencingDepartment of Health and Human ServicesDrug trafficking and controlled substancesDrug, alcohol, tobacco useEducation programs fundingElementary and secondary educationEmergency medical services and trauma careEmployee hiringEmployment and training programsEvidence and witnessesExecutive agency funding and structureFederal district courtsFirearms and explosivesGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsHealth information and medical recordsHigher educationHomelessness and emergency shelterIncome tax creditsJuvenile crime and gang violenceLaw enforcement administration and fundingLicensing and registrationsMental healthNational Guard and reservesPerformance measurementPersonnel recordsPoverty and welfare assistancePreschool educationPublic-private cooperationResearch administration and fundingRetail and wholesale tradesSmuggling and traffickingTeenage pregnancyTemporary and part-time employmentU.S. Sentencing CommissionUnemploymentVeterans' education, employment, rehabilitationViolent crimeVocational and technical educationWages and earningsYouth employment and child labor
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Introduced
In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 6, 2018
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Mar 28, 2018
Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition.
Mar 9, 2018
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 5, 2018
Introduced in House
Mar 5, 2018
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Ways and Means, Small Business, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Rules, and Energy and Commerce, 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.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Plain-English summary
Urban Progress Act of 2018
This bill amends various provisions of law and sets forth new provisions to promote economic development, expand employment opportunities, reduce gun violence, and limit the impact of poverty. Among other things, it:
- makes permanent the work opportunity tax credit and increases it for employers who hire ex-felons;
- establishes grants to promote commercial development in underserved communities, to provide career training programs, and to support summer employment opportunities for youth;
- increases tax deductions for business start-up expenditures and for corporations' organizational expenditures;
- establishes a working group to develop a national plan to reduce child poverty;
- increases Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, when school is not in session, for households with minor children;
- increases the child tax credit for low-income taxpayers;
- creates a process to expunge and seal certain youth criminal records;
- authorizes grants to prevent juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity;
- makes trafficking in firearms a stand-alone criminal offense;
- requires annual reports on the public health effects of gun violence;
- broadens the categories of prohibited persons who are barred from receiving or possessing firearms;
- requires states to submit mental health and criminal history records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System;
- requires federal agencies and departments, including courts, to certify whether they provided disqualifying records of prohibited persons;
- prohibits firearm transfers between private parties unless a licensed dealer first conducts a background check;
- requires gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms; and
- prohibits licensed gun dealers from transferring firearms to unlicensed persons prior to background check completion.
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Committees of jurisdiction
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- Agriculture Committee
- Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee
- Education and Workforce Committee
- Energy and Commerce Committee
- Financial Services Committee
- Health Subcommittee
- Judiciary Committee
- Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee
- Oversight and Government Reform Committee
- Rules Committee
- Small Business Committee
- Ways and Means Committee
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