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Bill· SS. 741 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 2001
Nuclear Renewal Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code provide limited business tax credits for qualified nuclear power facilities and facility upgrades through tax year 2011. Extends such credit to certain tax exempt public utilities and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Classifies property used in the generation of electricity (property used in any qualified nuclear power facility or facility upgrade) as seven-year depreciable property (with a ten-year class life for alternative depreciation purposes).
Bill· SS. 732 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to classify certain restaurant buildings or any improvements to such buildings as 15-year depreciable property.
Bill· SS. 753 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 2001
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, with respect to sugars, syrups, and molasses (excluding cane or beet sugar) that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, during any fiscal year under certain quantitative import restrictions (tariff-rate quotas), to establish a duty on such articles and other articles if they are subsequently used for the commercial extraction or production of sugar for human consumption, or such articles are used in any manner that circumvents any quota imposed under the Schedule. Prohibits the imposition of a tariff-rate quota on molasses used for animal consumption or for the production of rum in the United States.
Bill· SS. 743 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 2001
Medical Education Trust Fund Act of 2001 - Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to add a new title XXII (Medical Education Trust Fund) establishing in the Treasury the Medical Education Trust Fund, consisting of various specified accounts. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make annual payments from the Fund to eligible medical schools and teaching hospitals applying for assistance to: (1) maintain and develop quality educational programs in an increasingly competitive health care system; and (2) meet the indirect and direct costs of graduate medical education. Outlines requirements for Fund investments and determination of payments. Amends SSA titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) to provide for annual transfers and make specified appropriations to the Fund. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax equal to 1.5 percent of premiums received under accident or health insurance policies (including applicable self-insured plans), and equal to 1.5 percent of the amount received for certain health-related administrative services, payable by the policy issuer and the service provider, respectively. Makes specified appropriations and transfers of such amounts collected to the Fund for allocation among the various specified accounts. Establishes the Medical Education Advisory Commission.
Bill· SS. 750 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat a danger pay allowance area in the same manner as if it were a combat zone.
Bill· SS. 726 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 2001
Municipal Utility Natural Gas Supply Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the definition of the term "investment property," as such term is used in defining "higher yield investments," any prepayment on a supply contract for the purpose of obtaining a supply of natural gas reasonably expected to be used by a utility which is owned and operated by a State or local government, or any State or local government political subdivision or instrumentality (thus permitting municipal gas systems to use their tax-exempt borrowing authority to fund the purchase of long-term, prepaid supplies of natural gas).
Bill· SS. 749 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 2001
Holocaust Victims Tax Fairness Act of 2001 - Excludes from gross income and from adjusted gross income computations which consider excluded income (including Social Security benefits) specified restitution payments received by persons (or heirs) persecuted for racial or religious reasons by Nazi Germany, its allied or controlled countries, or any other Axis regime. Excludes such payments from eligibility and benefits determinations for purposes of Federal or federally assisted means-tested programs.
Bill· SS. 725 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations covering the practice of enrolled agents before the Internal Revenue Service.
Bill· SS. 701 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 2001
Rural Heritage Conservation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to farm and ranch land, to: (1) establish special rules for the charitable contribution of such land; (2) treat a farmer or rancher as an individual with respect to any such contribution with respect to the charitable contribution limit; and (3) expand, for estate tax purposes, the definition of land which may qualify for a conservation contribution.
Bill· SS. 711 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to maintain the exemption of Alaska from dyeing requirements for diesel fuel and kerosene exempt from the gasoline tax. Repeals the exemption from such dyeing requirements for other States exempted by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from such requirements under the Clean Air Act.
Bill· SS. 717 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 2001
Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to States for private or public school choice vouchers for children from low-income families who are enrolled in low-performing elementary or secondary public schools. Requires each grantee State to provide scholarships (at $2,000 per year, but with continuing awards) to the parents of eligible children through a lottery system administered for all eligible schools by the State educational agency. Requires that a child eligible for such a scholarship be: (1) enrolled in an eligible public elementary or secondary school; and (2) a member a family with income not more than 200 percent of the poverty line. Allows the use of such funds for: (1) payment of tuition and fees at the school selected by the scholarship child's parents, plus reasonable transportation costs; (2) up to $500 of supplementary academic services, if the parents choose a provider (with an appropriate refund policy) which the State determines capable of rendering such services; and (3) educational programs that help the child achieve high levels of academic excellence, if the child chooses to attend a public school. Requires: (1) a grantee State to allow lawfully operating public and private elementary and secondary schools serving the area involved, including religious schools, to participate in the program; (2) participating schools or providers of supplementary academic services to comply with specified antidiscrimination requirements; and (3) national evaluation of the program by the Comptroller General. Directs specified congressional committees to identify, and report to certain congressional leaders on, wasteful Federal spending (including loopholes to revenue raising tax provisions) as a means of providing funding for this Act.
Bill· SS. 713 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 2001
Native Alaskan Subsistence Whaling Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a charitable deduction for up to $7,500 of the reasonable and necessary whaling expenses incurred in support of Native Alaskan subsistence bowhead whale hunting activities conducted pursuant to the management plan of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission. Limits such deduction to an individual recognized by the Commission as a whaling captain charged with the responsibility of maintaining and carrying out such sanctioned whaling activities. Lists as whaling expenses those for: (1) the acquisition and maintenance of whaling boats, weapons, and gear; (2) food and other provisions for the crew; and (3) storage and distribution of the catch.
Bill· SS. 719 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 2001
Clean Money, Clean Elections Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to: (1) prescribe eligibility and qualifying contribution requirements, seed money provisions, and benefits of clean money financing of Senate election campaigns; (2) set forth requirements applicable to clean money candidates; (3) direct the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to certify if a candidate is such a candidate and to assess a certain civil penalty against any such candidate making an expenditure from funds other than clean money funds; (4) establish in the Treasury a Senate Election Fund for clean money financing; (5) set forth requirements concerning reporting of certain expenditures of private money candidates and of independent expenditures, as redefined; (6) limit expenditures that may be made by political party committees in connection with the general election campaign of a Senate election in which one or more of the candidates is a clean money candidate; and (7) require a committee of a political party, before making coordinated expenditures in excess of $5,000 for a Federal election, to certify to the FEC that it has not and will not make any independent expenditures in connection with such campaign. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to entitle clean money candidates to receive specified free broadcast time. Amends: (1) FECA to outline political advertising provisions for specified communications; and (2) Federal postal law to limit franked mass mailings by Members of Congress. Amends FECA with respect to soft money to prohibit: (1) a national committee of a political party from soliciting or receiving contributions or making expenditures not subject to FECA; (2) a national, State, district, or local committee from soliciting or donating funds to a tax-exempt organization; and (3) an incumbent or candidate for Federal office from soliciting or receiving funds not subject to FECA, or from soliciting or receiving funds for a non-Federal election in excess of certain limits or from prohibited sources (with exceptions). Requires a State, district, or local committee of a political party to make Federal election year expenditures (with exceptions) from funds subject to FECA. Amends FECA to: (1) establish aggregate and separate individual contribution limits to State Party Grassroots Funds and all committees established by a State committee of a political party, and increase annual individual contribution limits; and (2) eliminate the exception for building funds relating to the definition of "contribution." Revises requirements concerning: (1) reporting persons to whom certain expenditures are made to meet candidate or committee operating expenses; and (2) FEC Commissioners and FEC powers, including those involving investigations. Authorizes the FEC to seek injunctive relief to prevent FECA violations. Prescribes reporting requirements with regard to: (1) soft money disbursements of persons other than political parties; (2) disbursements made by authorized committees; and (3) Senate candidates. Prohibits contributions made by, or solicited, accepted or received in connection with a Federal election from, foreign nationals. Increases and expands the penalties for FECA violations.
Bill· SS. 709 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 2001
Alaska Native Settlement Trust Tax Fairness Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to impose on an electing Alaska Native Settlement Trust, other than its net capital gain, the lowest rate of tax imposed by section one of the IRC (currently, 15 percent). Provides that in the case of an electing Settlement Trust with a net capital gain for the taxable year, a tax is imposed on such gain at the rate of tax which would apply to such gain if the taxpayer were subject to a tax on its other taxable income at only the lowest rate. Provides for the tax treatment of distributions to beneficiaries. Sets forth information reporting requirements.
Bill· SS. 694 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Artist-Museum Partnership Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a fair market value (determined at time of contribution) deduction for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, scholarly compositions, or the copyright created by a qualifying donor. Exempts certain non-personal letters and memoranda from such treatment. Limits such increased deduction to the donor's artistic adjusted income (as defined by this Act).
Bill· SS. 697 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Railroad Retirement and Survivors' Improvement Act of 2001 - Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to increase benefits to railroad employees and their beneficiaries and to revise financing of the pension part (tier II) of the railroad retirement system. Establishes a Railroad Retirement Trust Fund and a Railroad Retirement Investment Trust to manage and invest Fund assets. Abolishes the Railroad Retirement Supplemental Annuity Account and provides for transfer of its funds to the Fund. Provides for transfer to the Fund of certain portions of the Railroad Retirement Account and of Social Security Equivalent Benefit account funds. Transfers to the disbursing agent from the Dual Benefits Payments Account the amount necessary to make dual benefit payments. Requires the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) to calculate the ratio of assets to benefits to determine annual tier II tax rates for employers, employee representatives, and employees. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt the Fund from taxation. Repeals a supplemental annuity tax that railroad employers pay to finance a benefit for long-time rail employees. Provides for adjustments to railroad employers, employee representatives, and employee tier II tax rates.
Bill· SS. 687 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Higher Education Affordability and Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited tax deduction for qualified higher education tuition and related expenses. Provides that the increase in the Lifetime Learning Credit to 20 percent of $10,000 of tuition from $5,000 of tuition shall be effective starting in 2002 rather than 2003. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct an annual study to examine whether the Federal income tax incentives to provide education assistance affect higher education tuition rates in order to identify if institutions of higher education are absorbing the intended savings by raising tuition rates. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the maximum Pell Grant should be increased to $4,700 to pay approximately: (1) 20 percent of the tuition, fees, room and board, and other expenses of the average college; or (2) the tuition and fees of the average public college.
Bill· SS. 686 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Resource Efficient Appliance Incentives Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a limited credit, for a limited time period, for producers of qualified energy efficient clothes washers and energy efficient refrigerators.
Bill· HRH.R. 1498 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Retirement Security Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an individual a tax credit of up to $2,000 for qualified retirement savings contributions; (2) allow an eligible small employer a pension plan startup cost credit of up to $1,000 for the first year and $500 for each of the following two years; and (3) allow an eligible small employer a limited small employer pension plan contribution credit.
Bill· HRH.R. 1483 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Employee Educational Assistance Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permanently extend the exclusion from gross income of employer-provided educational assistance; and (2) restore the exclusion for such assistance on the graduate level.
Bill· HRH.R. 1471 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Child Support Distribution Act of 2001 - Amends title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to revise requirements for the distribution of child support collected by States on behalf of children receiving certain welfare benefits. Requires the chief executive officer of a State to certify that it has established procedures to ensure that the State agency administering the child support enforcement program will be notified of certain families leaving the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program under SSA title IV part A. Requires the State child support enforcement agency to review and, if appropriate, adjust any child support order relating to any individual leaving TANF. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop recommendations that address participation of public non-IV-D child support enforcement agencies in establishing and enforcing child support obligations. Prescribes requirements for ten demonstration projects involving establishment and enforcement of child support obligations by such agencies. Reduces the amount of child support arrearage which shall trigger denial of a passport. Revises requirements for the use of tax refund intercept program to collect past-due child support on behalf of non-minor children. Prohibits garnishment of certain compensation for a service-connected disability paid to a former member of the Armed Forces for alimony or child support less than 60 days in arrears. Limits to 50 percent such compensation allowable for garnishment. Directs the Secretary to award competitive matching grants to eligible entities, among other things to help fathers and their families avoid or leave cash welfare and improve their economic status. Establishes the Fatherhood Grants Recommendations Panel. Instructs the Secretary to award a specified grant to a fatherhood promotion organization meeting certain requirements. Requires the Secretary to disclose new hire information to a State to assist in unemployment compensation program administration. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make ineligible for visas and for admission to the United States certain nonimmigrant aliens with child support arrearages. Provides for an increase in payment rate to States for short term training of staff of State-licensed or State-approved child welfare agencies providing services.
Bill· HRH.R. 1472 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2001 - Authorizes appropriations to the National Science (NSF) for FY 2002 through 2005, with specific allocations for Research and Related Activities, Education and Human Resources, Major Research Equipment, Salaries and Expenses, and the Office of Inspector General. Requires NSF, in allocating resources made available for Research and Related Activities, to give priority to increasing average grant size and duration. Prohibits the Director of NSF from using more than $10,000 in each fiscal year for official consultation, representation, or other extraordinary expenses. Requires NSF to assess and report to Congress on: (1) the Major Research Instrumentation Program; and (2) precollege and undergraduate programs of NSF that are focused on increasing the numbers of individuals pursuing careers in science, mathematics, and engineering who are from segments of the population underrepresented in these career fields. Prohibits the application of the Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995 with respect to specified NSF reports.
Bill· HRH.R. 1504 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Vaccines for the New Millennium Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited business credit for the costs medical research related to developing vaccines against widespread diseases. Defines widespread diseases as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, or any infectious disease (of a single etiology) which, according to the World Health Organization, causes over one million human deaths annually. Allows a limited lifesaving vaccine sale credit equal to the amount of qualified vaccine sales. Defines qualified vaccine sales as the aggregate amount paid to the taxpayer for a qualified sale. Defines a qualified sale as a sale of a qualified vaccine: (1) to a nonprofit organization or to a government of any foreign country (or instrumentality of such a government); and (2) for distribution in a developing country. Establishes the Lifesaving Vaccine Purchase Fund. Expresses the sense of Congress concerning the manufacture, distribution, support for global efforts, and tiered pricing of vaccines.
Bill· HRH.R. 1511 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to eliminate the requirement that a covered military dependent obtain a nonavailability-of-health-care statement for the receipt of health care services related to pregnancy. Amends the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 to waive the requirement of such statement in the case of obstetrics and gynecological care related to the pregnancy of a covered beneficiary using TRICARE Extra (a Department of Defense managed health care program).
Bill· HRH.R. 1481 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
FHA Shutdown Prevention Act - Amends the National Housing Act to permit the use of negative credit subsidy from the General Insurance Fund or the Special Risk Insurance Fund for specific housing insurance mortgage or loan commitments. Considers such negative credit subsidies as new budget authority provided in advance of an appropriations Act for the fiscal year concerned.
Bill· HRH.R. 1514 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Structured Settlement Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on persons acquiring structured settlement payments in factoring transactions.
Bill· HRH.R. 1515 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that for purposes of applying the foreign tax credit limitation with respect to amounts attributable to transfers of certain intangible property such amounts shall be treated in the same manner as if such amounts were royalties.
Bill· HRH.R. 1493 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
See summary of: H.R. 1492
Bill· HRH.R. 1524 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Medical Savings Account Availability Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to medical savings accounts to: (1) repeal restrictions on the number of accounts which may be established; and (2) expand the availability of such accounts to individuals other than the self-employed and employees of small employers.
Bill· HRH.R. 1532 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the inclusion of any social security or tier I railroad retirement benefits in gross income. Appropriates non-appropriated Treasury amounts for the social security and railroad retirement funds to equal the amounts not transferred as a result of such repeal. Expresses the sense of Congress that tax increases will not be used to provide such revenue.
Bill· HRH.R. 1492 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions concerning the accelerated cost recovery system to provide that the alternative depreciation system shall be used for tangible property leased to a foreign person or entity.
Bill· HRH.R. 1507 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Small Business Franchise Property Recovery Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish certain franchise operations as 15-year property under the accelerated cost recovery system.
Bill· HRH.R. 1444 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Citizen Legislature and Political Freedom Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971(FECA) to terminate limitations on Federal election campaign contributions after 2002. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate after December 31, 2001, the designation of income tax payments to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. Terminates the Fund itself and the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account after December 31, 2002, and transfers any amounts remaining in the Fund to the general fund of the Treasury. Amends FECA, in the case of a political committee of a national political party, to require reports of all funds transferred to any political committee of a State or local political party, without regard to whether or not the funds are otherwise treated as contributions or expenditures under such Act (soft money). Requires any political committee of a State or local political party to file with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) a copy of any report on disbursements it is required under a State or local law, rule, or regulation to submit to the State or local government. Revises current deadlines for notification of contributions by a campaign committee. Declares that the "best efforts" exception to noncompliance with FECA shall not apply with respect to information regarding the identification of any contributor of more than $200 in the aggregate during a calendar year (thus requiring strict observance of reporting deadlines for all such contributions). Provides that, except with the separate, prior, written, voluntary authorization of each individual involved, it shall be unlawful for described labor organizations to collect from or to assess its members or nonmembers any dues, initiation fee, or other payment if any part of it will be used for political activity in which the labor organization is engaged. Changes the name of the FEC to the Federal Campaign Regulation Commission.
Bill· HRH.R. 1448 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the interest on any bonds issued by or on behalf of the Government of American Samoa shall be exempt from taxation by the Government of American Samoa and the governments of any of the several States, the District of Columbia, any territory or possession of the United States, and any subdivision thereof.
Bill· HRH.R. 1437 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Estate Tax Relief Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reduce the maximum estate and gift tax rate to 45 percent; (2) replace the unified credit against the estate and gift taxes with a unified exemption amount of $10 million; and (3) increase from $10,000 to $50,000 the annual gift exclusion amount.
Bill· HRH.R. 1398 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Tax Reduction Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) revise the existing 15 percent individual tax rate into a 12 percent and 15 percent rate based upon specified income bracket amounts; (2) revise the alternative minimum tax computation; (3) eliminate the alternative minimum tax-based reductions for the earned income and child tax credits; (4) revise the earned income tax credit with respect to credit percentages and amounts, includible income, phaseouts, and the joint return requirement; and (5) revise the standard deduction for joint filers and surviving spouses to twice the amount for an unmarried single filer. Revises estate tax provisions to: (1) increase the exemption equivalent of the unified credit; (2) repeal family-owned business interests deduction provisions; (3) repeal provisions providing for a credit for State death taxes and provide for the deduction from an estate's value of State death taxes paid; and (4) set forth valuation rules for certain transfers of nonbusiness assets, and eliminate location requirements with respect to land subject to a qualified conservation easement for gross estate determination purposes.
Bill· HRH.R. 1410 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Internet Tax Moratorium and Equity Act - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend, until December 31, 2005, provisions which prohibit a State or political subdivision from imposing: (1) taxes on Internet access, unless such tax was generally imposed and actually enforced prior to October 1, 1998; and (2) multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) States and localities should work together to develop a uniform streamlined sales and use tax system that addresses remote sales; and (2) a joint comprehensive study should be undertaken to determine the cost of collecting and remitting State and local sales and use taxes under such system. Authorizes States to enter into an Interstate Sales and Use Tax Compact which shall describe a uniform, streamlined sales and use tax system consistent with such system.
Bill· HRH.R. 1429 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
After School Education and Anti-Crime Act of 2001 - Amends the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Act to extend the maximum grant duration to five years. Revises grant application provisions to require: (1) information demonstrating that the grant recipient will provide a certain minimum portion of annual cost of assisted activities from sources other than such grants, with a certain maximum portion of such costs allowed to be from funds provided by the Secretary of Education under other Federal programs; and (2) assurance of maintenance of the recipient's fiscal effort from non-Federal sources. Allows the use of grant funds to establish or expand community learning centers. Allows such centers to provide one or more of specified listed activities, including after-school programs that include at least two of the following: mentoring programs, academic assistance, recreational activities, or technology training. Authorizes centers to include drug, alcohol, and gang prevention activities, health and nutrition counseling, and job skills preparation activities. Requires at least two-thirds of appropriated funds under such Act to be used for after-school programs. Directs local educational agencies (LEAs), schools, or consortia, in carrying out center activities, to: (1) request volunteers from business and academic communities, and law enforcement organizations, to serve as mentors or to assist in other ways; (2) ensure that youth in the local community participate in designing the after-school activities; (3) develop creative methods of conducting outreach to youth in the community; (4) request donations of computer equipment and other materials and equipment; and (5) work with State and local park and recreation agencies so that activities carried out by the agencies prior to this Act's enactment are not duplicated. Includes in the meaning of community learning center LEA operation of such a center in a school in conjunction with law enforcement organizations such as the Police Athletic and Activity League.
Bill· HRH.R. 1457 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Federal Living Wage Responsibility Act - Requires the Federal government and any employer under a Federal contract or subcontract exceeding $10,000 to pay each of their respective workers: (1) an hourly wage (or salary equivalent) necessary for such employee to earn, while working 40 hours a week on a full-time basis, the amount of the Federal poverty level for a family of four; and (2) an additional amount, based on the locality in which a worker resides, sufficient to cover the costs to such worker to obtain any fringe benefits not provided by the worker's employer. Exempts employers that are: (1) small business concerns; or (2) nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations, if the ratio of the total compensation of the chief executive officer to that of the full-time equivalent of their lowest-paid employee is not greater than 25 to 1. Directs the Secretary of Labor to enforce this Act. Makes Federal contractors that are part of a pattern or practice of violations of such wage requirements subject to Federal contract suspension, a five-year ineligibility period, and liability for Government costs of obtaining a replacement contractor. Provides for judicial review of the Secretary's determinations, and authorizes the President to suspend the provisions of this Act in times of emergency. Allows an aggrieved worker to bring a civil action against an employer for appropriate relief for a violation of this Act, if the employer has not paid or reinstated the worker as a result of the administrative action.
Bill· HRH.R. 1392 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Amends the Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention Programs Act to authorize appropriations for FY 2002 through 2006.
Bill· HRH.R. 1430 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Building, Renovating, Improving, and Constructing Kids' Schools Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make amounts in the Treasury stabilization fund available to States for loans for school construction bond interest payments and related support. Requires States to use at least 50 percent of such funds for loans to enable State, regional, or local entities to make annual interest payments on certain qualified school construction bonds they issue. Allows States to use up to 50 percent of such funds to support State revolving fund programs or other State-administered programs that assist such entities to pay for certain construction, rehabilitation, repair, or acquisition costs, with priority for projects for schools with the greatest need. Sets forth requirements for loan repayment and interest rate. Exempts a State from repayment and interest rate accrual before January 1, 2007, unless the amount appropriated to carry out assistance for education of all children with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act for any fiscal year before FY 2007 is sufficient to fully fund such assistance for the fiscal year at the originally promised level, which would provide to each State 40 percent of the average per-pupil expenditure for providing special education and related services for each child with a disability in the State. Directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and of Education to ensure that funds are used only to pay for the interest on qualified school construction bonds or for certain other costs. Denies the Secretaries authority to approve or disapprove school construction plans assisted under this Act, except to ensure that funds are used only to supplement, and not supplant, the amount of school construction, rehabilitation, and repair in the State that would have occurred in the absence of such funds.
Bill· HRH.R. 1389 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Amends the Head Start Act to authorize the appropriation of a specified amount for FY 2002 for Head Start programs (while continuing the authorization of appropriations for such programs in such amounts as may be necessary for FY 2003).
Bill· HRH.R. 1397 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Youth Violence Prevention Act of 2001- Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the use of drug control (Byrne) grants to develop or expand a State instant criminal background check system that includes allowing a person who sells a firearm and who is not a licensed dealer only limited access of the system regarding the eligibility status of a proposed firearm purchaser. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a non-refundable personal credit against Federal income tax for qualified firearm safe storage device expenses for a taxable year. Prohibits the manufacture of a handgun in the United States unless a child safety lock is attached to, or is an integral part of, the firearm. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to impose a civil fine of $5,000 for violations. Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to subject any person who keeps a loaded firearm, or an unloaded firearm and ammunition, within any premise under such person's control and who knows that a juvenile is capable of gaining access to the firearm without the permission of the parent or legal guardian, to one year's imprisonment and a $10,000 fine if a juvenile obtains access and causes death or bodily injury or illegally exhibits the firearm in a public place or school zone.
Bill· HRH.R. 1458 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1993 to: (1) remove certain exceptions from the prohibition against the use of Department of Defense funds for the procurement of certain items not grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States; and (2) require the Secretary of the military department concerned to certify that satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity of such an item cannot be procured as and when needed from U.S. suppliers or that an emergency exists and the procurement is vital to national security and the item is grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in a country that adheres to fair labor practices. Provides that, in determining whether a purchase is for an amount greater than the simplified acquisition threshold, multiple purchases of a similar item in a fiscal year shall be deemed a single purchase. Prohibits Defense Commissary Agency purchases of articles or items in excess of such threshold when not grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 1394 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Increases the maximum amount of defense funds that may be obligated in a fiscal year to carry out the National Guard civilian youth opportunities program.
Bill· HRH.R. 1470 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to increase from 4.25 percent to ten percent the amount of TANF funds a State may transfer to carry out State programs under SSA title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) for FY 2002. Amends SSA title XX to: (1) increase the authorization of appropriations for States and territories for FY 2001, 2002, and succeeding fiscal years; and (2) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to compile information on State activities carried out under SSA title XX and report it annually to Congress.
Bill· HRH.R. 1460 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2001 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit the use of appropriated funds for: (1) any system to implement the Act that does not require and result in the immediate destruction of all information submitted by or on behalf of any person who has been determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm; and (2) the implementation or collection of any tax or fee by any Federal officer, agent, or employee, or by any State or local officer or agent acting on behalf of the United States, in connection with such implementation. Authorizes any person aggrieved by a violation of this Act to bring an action in Federal district court and, if successful, to receive damages, punitive damages, and such other remedies as the court may determine to be appropriate, including a reasonable attorney's fee.
Bill· HRH.R. 1477 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a refundable credit of up to $500 to elementary and secondary school teachers for qualified teaching expenses.
Bill· HRH.R. 1463 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Publicly Traded Partnership Equity Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include distributions from publicly traded partnerships as qualifying income of regulated investment companies. Excludes such distributions from the source-based inclusion limitation applicable to other partnerships. Applies specified passive activity provisions for publicly traded partnerships to regulated investment companies.
Bill· HRH.R. 1411 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 2001
Expensing Technology Reform Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the expensing of the cost of any qualified technological property (depreciable property that is qualified technological equipment, wireless telecommunications equipment, advanced services equipment, or network or network system equipment, and computer software).
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