Equal COLA Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Equal COLA Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration.
Who Benefits and How
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section H047D4F917D9B40BE825F6C90B578F4EB: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Equal COLA Act.
- Section H3437A0C6716C4E5AA614EE49D0B15E78: 2. Increase in COLA for FERS annuities Section 8462(b)(1) of title 5, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: Except as provided in subsection (c),...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Equal COLA Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration
Primary Purpose
This bill, Equal COLA Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Padilla (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Sanders, Mrs. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security …
Introduced in Senate
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "federal_implementing_agencies"
- → Federal agencies assigned duties by the bill
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