👀 Foster Youth Tax Credit Foster youth tax credit 119th Congress: refundable credit for current/former foster youth aging out · transition-to-independence support. Composes with Save-the-World Paper 12 + Federal Juvenile Justice + #5 Family Table. 🟡 Provisional. Help Each Other Help Ourselves.
👀 Funeral Cost Transparency What Federal funeral cost transparency in the 119th Congress modernizing the FTC Funeral Rule for online and at-need price-disclosure. What it does Online price-list requirement · package-decomposition standards · FTC enforcement modernization · cooperative-class funeral-services provisions. Composes #5 The Family Table (end-of-life Trust Graph) · Older Americans Act Reauthorization. 🟡 Provisional. Help Each Other Help Ourselves.
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Hearing and Vision Medicare A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Medicare hearing and vision coverage expansion in the 119th Congress. Standard Medicare excludes hearing aids, hearing-aid exams, eyeglasses, and routine vision care. What does it actually do? Medicare hearing-aid coverage (typically every 5 years) Hearing-exam coverage Eyeglass coverage (one pair every 2 years) Routine vision-care coverage Provider-supply provisions to address current OTC-hearing-aid market How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes with #5 The Family Table (older-adult sensory-care impacts caregiver coordination) and #7 MSA (hearing/vision Substitution at participating providers). ...
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Immigration Court Reform A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Immigration court reform in the 119th Congress addressing the documented immigration-court backlog (~3.7M+ pending cases) and structural concerns about immigration-court independence (currently within DOJ rather than independent). What does it actually do? Article I court structure proposal (immigration courts independent of DOJ) Backlog-reduction funding Counsel-availability provisions for unaccompanied minors Procedural-fairness reforms How does this affect cooperative-class families? The cooperative does not endorse positions on immigration-policy bills. The Council exists to provide accurate plain-language explanation. Concrete impact: many cooperative-class members have family members in immigration proceedings; court-backlog and procedural-fairness affect daily life for those families. ...
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Indian Health Service Modernization A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Indian Health Service (IHS) modernization in the 119th Congress addressing chronic IHS underfunding (~50% of healthcare-need-based funding levels per documented HHS reports). What does it actually do? Advance appropriations for IHS (multi-year funding stability) Tribal Self-Governance expansion (more 638-contracted services) Workforce recruitment + retention programs Facilities modernization funding Mental and behavioral health expansion How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes with #6 Tatiana Schlossberg Health Accords Tribal-sovereignty composing layer, #7 MSA for cooperative-class supplemental capital pooling, and the Native American Self-Determination Act Amendments Bounty Poster. ...
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Inflation Reduction Act Amendments A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? A series of 119th Congress proposals to amend, extend, or roll back specific provisions of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), particularly its clean-energy tax credits and manufacturing incentives. What does it actually do? Clean energy tax credits: Modifications to wind/solar/battery production tax credits (PTC) and investment tax credits (ITC). Manufacturing incentives: Domestic-content requirements for clean-energy components. Methane fee: Implementation modifications for oil-and-gas methane emissions fees. EV credits: Eligibility rules for the $7,500 new-EV credit and used-EV credit. Drug pricing: Implementation of Medicare drug-price-negotiation provisions. Who votes when? Various committees, 119th Congress: Active markup Multiple vehicles: May be bundled into reconciliation or appropriations President: Signature dependent on which provisions reach desk How does this affect cooperative-class families? Energy costs: IRA clean-energy tax credits affect home solar payback periods and EV affordability for middle-class members. Manufacturing tax credits: Composes with #16 Brass Tacks reshoring infrastructure and the cooperative’s Step 4 Node manufacturing network. Drug pricing: Composes with #7 MSA member healthcare-cost transparency. Shirley Temple Truth Score 🟡 Provisional — Council vote pending. ...
👀 IRS Direct File Expansion IRS Direct File codification + expansion 119th Congress: free federal tax filing tool · state-tax integration · cooperative-class member-account integration. Composes with EITC Expansion + Child Tax Credit + Open Letter to IRS. 🟡 Provisional. Help Each Other Help Ourselves.
👀 LIHEAP Expansion Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program expansion 119th Congress: funding parity with documented need · cooling assistance expansion · weatherization composing. Composes with Save-the-World Paper 2 (Energy) + Renewable Energy PTC/ITC. 🟡 Provisional. Help Each Other Help Ourselves.
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Lower Costs, More Transparency Act A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Healthcare-cost transparency and Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) reform legislation in the 119th Congress. Focuses on hospital-price transparency, PBM transparency, and direct-to-consumer drug pricing. What does it actually do? Hospital price transparency: Strengthens existing CMS price-transparency rules; adds enforcement. PBM transparency: Requires PBMs to disclose rebate structures and pass-through pricing arrangements. Drug coupons: Modifies Medicare/Medicaid treatment of manufacturer drug coupons. Site-neutral payments: Adjusts Medicare payment differentials between hospital-outpatient and physician-office settings for the same procedures. PBM reform: Specific provisions limiting PBM “spread pricing” and clawback practices. Who votes when? House Energy & Commerce + Ways & Means + Senate Finance + HELP active consideration. How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes directly with three cooperative-healthcare initiatives: ...
👀 I’m Just a Bill — Medicaid Expansion Incentive A Liana Banyan “I’m Just a Bill” Bounty Poster What is this bill? Federal incentive legislation in the 119th Congress to encourage the ~10 remaining non-expansion states to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act framework. What does it actually do? Federal match enhancement — temporary higher federal match for newly-expanding states Direct federal-marketplace option — for states that decline expansion, enables federal-marketplace Medicaid-equivalent coverage Coverage-gap closure — addresses the ~2-4 million Americans who fall in the coverage gap (too much income for state Medicaid; too little for ACA subsidies) Provider rate provisions — supports rural-hospital sustainability in expansion contexts Who votes when? House Energy and Commerce + Senate Finance active consideration How does this affect cooperative-class families? Composes with #6 Tatiana Schlossberg Health Accords + #7 MSA. Cooperative-class members in non-expansion states currently fall in the coverage gap most acutely; this legislation directly addresses that gap. ...