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Bill· HRH.R. 6291 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Stimulus Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the time limits applicable to tax credits for: (1) electricity produced from certain renewable resources; (2) clean renewable energy bonds; (3) new energy efficient homes; (4) residential energy efficient property; (5) business solar investment; and (6) biodiesel and alternative fuels. Extends the time limit for the deduction for energy efficient commercial buildings. Declares inapplicable to certain qualified electric vehicles and alternative motor vehicles the depreciation limitation pertaining to luxury automobiles. Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to provide assistance to states for consultations with respect to weatherization and energy efficiency of residences and small businesses.
Bill· HRH.R. 6310 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a nonrefundable tax credit for the purchase of tires certified by the Department of Transportation as energy efficient. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish a system for the permanent labeling of tires as energy efficient.
Bill· HRH.R. 6284 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat certain development costs related to cinematic properties as current year loss deductions.
Bill· HRH.R. 6274 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Unemployment Tax Equity Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Secretary of Labor to enter into agreements with no more than five states for the establishment of demonstration programs to permit such states to assume primary responsibility for the administration of their unemployment compensation laws.
Bill· HRH.R. 6288 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
International Tax Simplification Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise rules relating to foreign income and income earned by controlled foreign corporations (Subpart F income), including to: (1) make permanent the active financing exemption for qualified insurance income and the look-thru treatment applicable to related foreign corporations; (2) eliminate foreign base company sales and services income and oil related income from foreign base company income; (3) repeal certain rules for the application of the foreign tax credit to foreign oil and gas income; (4) extend from 10 to 20 years the carryforward period for excess foreign taxes; (5) accelerate from 2008 to 2006 the election to allocate interest earned by an affiliated group of corporations on a worldwide basis; and (6) increase to $5 million the tax exclusion for foreign base company or gross insurance income (de minimis rule).
Bill· HRH.R. 6264 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2006 - Makes technical and clerical corrections to the Internal Revenue Code, including corrections to provisions enacted by: (1) the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005; (2) the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005; (3) the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users; (4) the Energy Policy Act of 2005; (5) the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004; (6) the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003; (7) the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001; (8) the Tax Relief Extension Act of 1999; and (9) the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998.
Bill· HRH.R. 6278 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2006 - Amends the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2000 to make the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Program a pass-through program. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to give priority to any project that has a total cost of less than $2.5 million (currently, $5 million). Makes development and implementation of projects on land or facilities owned by an Indian tribe nonreimbursable expenditures. Requires: (1) any amounts provided by the Bonneville Power Administration directly or through a grant to another entity for a project carried out under the Program to be credited toward the non-federal share of project costs; and (2) the Secretary's report on projects under such Act to be made after partnering with local governmental entities and the states in the Pacific Ocean drainage area (Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho). Authorizes appropriations for the Act through FY2012. Sets forth a formula for determining the amounts that may be used for federal (including tribal) and state administrative expenses (based on the amount made available for the Program each fiscal year).
Bill· HRH.R. 6268 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50% of qualified umbilical cord blood collection and storage expenses, up to $2,000 in a taxable year. Defines "qualified umbilical cord blood collection and storage expenses" as expenses directly related to the collection, storage, and maintenance of umbilical cord blood collected at the birth of a child.
Bill· HRH.R. 6257 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Access to Life-Saving Medicine Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish a process for the approval of a comparable biological product based on its similarity to a previously licensed biological product (the reference product). Allows a person to file an abbreviated comparable product application with the Secretary of Health and Human Services that includes: (1) data demonstrating that the product is comparable to the reference product; (2) information to show that the conditions or conditions of use prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the labeling proposed for the comparable product have been previously approved for the reference product; and (3) information to show that the route of administration, the dosage form, and the strength of the comparable product are the same as those of the reference product. Sets forth conditions for approval of such an application by the Secretary. Allows an applicant to request that the Secretary make a determination as to the interchangeability of a comparable product and the reference product. Provides market exclusivity to such an interchangeable product. Requires the Secretary to establish requirements for the efficient review, approval, suspension, and revocation of comparable product applications. Sets forth provisions governing patent infringement claims against the license holder of a comparable product. Amends the Internal Review Code to allow a tax credit for qualified clinical testing expenses.
Bill· HRH.R. 6292 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Grants competitive status to certain Internal Revenue Service employees in Estate and Gift Tax Attorney positions (GS-905) subject to a reduction in force in FY2006.
Bill· HRH.R. 6283 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Nuclear Family Priority Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to replace existing family-sponsored immigrant categories with a single preference allocation for spouses and children of permanent resident aliens. Reduces the number of, and revises the calculation for, fiscal year family-sponsored immigrant entrants.
Bill· HRH.R. 6277 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Disabled American Financial Security Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish tax-exempt Disabled American Financial Security Accounts to pay certain expenses, including expenses for education, medical care, and employment training, of disabled individuals.
Bill· HRH.R. 6267 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax credits for expenditures for: (1) nonbusiness energy property; (2) residential energy efficient property; and (3) new energy efficient homes.
Bill· HRH.R. 6276 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow enterprise zone businesses operating in empowerment zones (economically depressed areas) who file necessary information with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development documenting reasonable efforts to meet the residency requirement applicable to zone employees to receive an exemption from such requirement if at least 35% of their employees during the final three months of a taxable year are residents of the empowerment zone or any area within a 15-mile radius of the qualified business which has been designated by any governmental unit as an area of pervasive poverty, unemployment, and general distress.
Bill· HRH.R. 6269 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Oil and Gas-to-Alternatives Swap (OGAS) Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal: (1) the tax credit for facilities producing coke or coke gas-related fuel; (2) the classification of the tax credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source as a business-related credit; (3) accelerated amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures; and (4) the limitation on the number of new qualified hybrid and advanced lean-burn technology vehicles eligible for the tax credit for alternative motor vehicles. Extends through 2012 the alternative motor vehicles tax credit for: (1) advanced lean burn technology motor vehicles; (2) qualified hybrid motor vehicles; and (3) qualified alternative fuel vehicles. Increases from 30 to 60% the rate of the tax credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property and extends such credit through 2012.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1060 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Amends Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to allow a Member to designate the amount of the reduction in new budget authority that should be used to reduce the federal budget deficit (or to increase the federal budget surplus) if an amendment offered by the Member to any general appropriation bill (or resolution making continuing appropriations to the end of a fiscal year) to reduce new budget authority (and resulting outlays) is agreed to. Requires the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, whenever such legislation is engrossed in the House, to: (1) reduce the suballocation of new budget authority and outlays to the appropriate subcommittee by the net amount of such reductions; and (2) promptly report those revisions to the House. Prohibits the Committee from reallocating such reductions to other subcommittees. Deems the revised suballocations to be made under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 in the House. Requires the chairman of the Committee on the Budget to make appropriate revisions in allocations to the Committee on Appropriations to reflect the revised suballocations and report them to the House.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1062 (109th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 2006
Waives points of order against consideration of the conference report on H.R. 5122 (John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007).
Bill· SS. 3974 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2006
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a special amortization tax deduction for up to $5 million of the intangible property acquired from an eligible small business (i.e., gross receipts not exceeding $5 million for the three preceding taxable years) after December 31, 2005.
Bill· SS. 3972 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2006
Fiscal Accountability, Integrity, and Responsibility in SCHIP Act of 2006, or FAIR-SCHIP Act of 2006 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) to set forth special rules to fund the FY2007 SCHIP allotment shortfalls, including through a redistribution of certain unused FY2005 allotments. Extends authority for qualifying states to use certain funds for Medicaid (SSA title XIX) expenditures.
Bill· SS. 3977 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2006
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer certified as a Patriot employer by the Secretary of the Treasury a tax credit for one percent of such employer's taxable income. Defines a "Patriot employer" as any taxpayer who: (1) maintains its headquarters in the United States; (2) pays at least 60% of the health care premiums of its employees; (3) maintains or increases the number of its full-time workers in the United States relative to its full-time workers outside of the United States: (4) provides its employees with a certain level of compensation and retirement benefits; and (5) provides full differential salary and insurance benefits for all National Guard and Reserve employees called to active duty.
Bill· SS. 3989 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2006
Homeland Security Trust Fund Act of 2006 - Establishes in the Treasury the Homeland Security and Neighborhood Safety Trust Fund. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Senate Finance Committee should report legislation that: (1) increases revenues by $53.3 billion during taxable years 2007-2011 by reducing income tax reductions for taxpayers with taxable incomes exceeding $1 million; and (2) appropriates such revenues to the Fund. Makes amounts in the Fund available for and authorizes appropriations for specified expenditures for: (1) supporting law enforcement, including for hiring additional Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) field agents, customs agents, and rail police; (2) utilizing new technologies, including for consolidating terrorist watch lists and improving passport security, information sharing, and screening of airline passengers and ship and airline cargo; (3) protecting critical infrastructure and eliminating threats, including for hardening soft targets, reducing the risk of attack on dangerous chemicals, and responding to terrorist attacks and natural disasters; and (4) preventing the growth of radical Islamic fundamentalism. Requires specified reports with respect to implementation of recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, including reports on: (1) creation of a national security workforce and a biometric entry-exit screening system; (2) improvements in cargo and passenger screening; (3) critical infrastructure risks and vulnerabilities; (4) efforts to secure weapons of mass destruction; (5) identifying and prioritizing terrorist sanctuaries; (6) progress toward engaging other countries in developing a comprehensive strategy for combating Islamist terrorism; (7) expansion of U.S. scholarship, exchange, and library programs in the Islamic world; (8) establishment of a unified Incident Command System and the National Counterterrorism Center; (9) the Director of National Intelligence; (10) homeland airspace defense; (11) the balance between security and civil liberties; (12) privacy guidelines for government sharing of personal information; (13) development of a common coalition approach toward the detention and humane treatment of captured terrorists; (14) development of economic policies to combat terrorism; (15) international collaboration on borders and document security; (16) standardization of secure identification; and (17) establishment of a national strategy for transportation security.
Bill· HRH.R. 6234 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2006
Get Information on Financial Transactions Act - Amends title VI (International Education Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to require, as part of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) annual data collection, that each institution of higher education receiving federal funds for its international education programs include data concerning: (1) the total cost such a program or center; (2) state and private contributors whose total aggregate contributions exceed $100,000 for the fiscal year; and (3) the use of such contributions. Directs the Secretary to prepare an annual report summarizing such data.
Bill· HRH.R. 6225 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2006
National Insurance Act of 2006 - Establishes in the Department of the Treasury an Office of National Insurance, headed by a Commissioner of National Insurance, with Divisions of Insurance Fraud and of Consumer Affairs, and an Office of the Ombudsman. Authorizes the Commissioner to supervise, regulate, and provide for registration of insurance self-regulatory organizations. Requires the Commissioner to supervise National Insurers and National Agencies, including chartering and licensing. Removes them, as well as federally licensed insurance producers from state oversight of insurance business practices. Authorizes the Commissioner to provide for the organization, operation, and regulation of National Insurance Companies and National Insurance Agencies, including U.S. branches of non-U.S. Insurers. Requires National Insurers to obtain a federal license. Provides for conversion of State Insurers to National Insurers or State Insurance Agencies to National Agencies, and vice versa. Prescribes requirements for National Life Insurer product regulation. Authorizes the Commissioner to: (1) license insurers that are not National Insurers to provide reinsurance; and (2) issue federal insurance producer licenses. Provides for: (1) mergers, consolidations, and acquisitions of National Insurers and National Agencies; and (2) conversion of stock life insurers to National Life Insurer in mutual form, and vice versa. Subjects National Insurers and National Agencies to state taxation. Prohibits states from preventing or restricting National Insurers from engaging in specified insurance business practices. Requires registration with the Commissioner of National Insurers that belong to an insurance holding company system. Provides for prompt corrective action to resolve any hazardous financial condition of a National Insurer, or receivership to rehabilitate or liquidate it. Requires National Insurers to join guaranty associations in each state, which may levy assessments on them for purposes of insolvency protection. Establishes a National Insurance Guaranty Corporation to provide benefits to policyholders of a National Life Insurer placed in federal receivership. Applies federal antitrust laws to National Insurers, National Agencies, and federally licensed insurance producers, except regarding standard insurance policy forms. Exempts National Insurers, National Agencies, and federally licensed insurance producers from state regulation, except as expressly provided in this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6242 (109th)open
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2006
Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2006 - Repeals provisions of the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 requiring federal, state, and local governmental entities to withhold 3% of payments due to vendors providing goods and services to such entities.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 98 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2006
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits outlays for a fiscal year (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding total receipts for that fiscal year (except those derived from borrowing) unless Congress, by a three-fifths rollcall vote of each Chamber, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. Requires a three-fifths rollcall vote of each Chamber to increase the public debt limit. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget to Congress annually. Prohibits any bill to increase revenue from becoming law unless approved by a majority of each Chamber by rollcall vote. Authorizes waivers of these provisions when a declaration of war is in effect or under other specified circumstances involving military conflict.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1054 (109th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2006
Waives points of order against the conference report to accompany H.R. 5441 making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes. Provides for consideration of S. 3930 to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for consideration of H.R. 4772 to simplify and expedite access to the federal courts for injured parties whose rights and privileges under the United States Constitution have been deprived by final actions of federal agencies or other government officials or entities acting under color of state law.
Bill· SS. 3951 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Women's Retirement Security Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain small employers who do not provide retirement plans for their employees to allow eligible employees to participate in a payroll deposit individual retirement account arrangement (automatic IRA); (2) increase the tax credit for retirement savings contributions (saver's credit) for certain low-income taxpayers; (3) allow certain part-time employees to participate in qualified cash or deferred arrangements; (4) allow the transfer of up to $500 of unused health plan benefits to qualified retirement plans; (5) treat wage replacement income (e.g., disability pay or unemployment compensation) as earned income for purposes of IRA contribution limits; (6) allow a rollover of military death benefits to IRAs and other benefit plans; (7) allow a limited tax exclusion for certain lifetime annuity payments; (8) allow certain small employers a tax credit for contributions to employee pension plans; (9) allow self-employed individuals to deduct pension plan contributions from their self-employment income; and (10) allow employees a tax exclusion for qualified retirement planning services. Allows divorced spouses and widows and widowers to remarry after attaining age 60 without losing retirement benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to make grants to qualified low-income taxpayer clinics to provide retirement savings counseling to low-income taxpayers. Requires the Commissioner of Social Security to prepare a financial reference handbook and a retirement readiness checklist for distribution to social security recipients.
Bill· SS. 3960 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Grants competitive status to certain Internal Revenue Service employees in Estate and Gift Tax Attorney positions (GS-905) subject to a reduction in force in FY2006.
Bill· SS. 3950 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain investors a business tax credit for 25% of equity investments made in small businesses, up to an annual limit of $500,000. Terminates such credit after 2011.
Bill· SS. 3952 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Automatic IRA Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain small employers who do not offer qualified retirement plans or arrangements to their employees to allow eligible employees to participate in a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRAs); (2) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing a payroll deposit IRA arrangement; and (3) treat automatic IRAs as individual retirement accounts (and as Roth IRAs) for income tax purposes. Establishes in the executive branch the TSP II Board to establish policies and procedures relating to payroll deposit IRA arrangements.
Bill· SS. 3957 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Religious Freedom Act of 2006 - Prohibits denial of: (1) a federal tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code to any church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or other house of worship or meditation (including any affiliated organization) because it engages in activity protected by the U.S. Constitution, including comment on public issues, election contests, and pending legislation made in a theological or philosophical context; or (2) the tax deductibility of donor contributions to such organizations.
Bill· SS. 3959 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Federal Employee Combat Zone Tax Parity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of civilian federal employees compensation for active service in a combat zone or for periods of hospitalization for wounds, diseases, or injuries incurred while serving in a combat zone.
Bill· HRH.R. 6211 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Comprehensive Long-Term Care Support Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction from gross income (available for taxpayers who do not itemize deductions) for the cost of long-term care premiums for the taxpayer and certain family members, including the taxpayer's spouse, ancestors, or lineal descendants. Phases in the deduction by allowing the deduction of 50 percent of the cost of premiums in 2007, 75 percent in 2008, and 100 percent in 2009 or thereafter. Allows long-term care insurance as a benefit under tax-qualified cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements. Allows a tax credit for caregivers of individuals with long-term health care needs. Phases in a $3,000 credit amount for 2011 or thereafter, beginning with $1,000 in 2007, $1,500 in 2008, $2,000 in 2009, and $2,500 in 2010. Reduces the amount of the credit for taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes over $75,000 ($150,000 for joint returns), adjusted for inflation after 2007. Increases funding for the the National Family Caregiver Support Program and the Native American Caregiver Support Program.
Bill· HRH.R. 6208 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
American Competitiveness and Adjustment Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to: (1) trade adjustment assistance; (2) data collection; (3) industry-wide certifications; (4) trade assistance for farmers; (5) trade adjustment assistance for firms; and (6) trade adjustment assistance for service workers and firms and industries. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise and increase the health care tax credit. Establishes in the International Trade Administration of the Department of Commerce an Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Bill· HRH.R. 6201 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Budget and Transparency Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the Rules of the House of Representatives to require biennial budget resolutions, appropriations Acts, and government strategic and performance plans, with the biennium beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to report to Congress on the impact and feasibility of changing to a two-year fiscal period. Makes it out of order in the House or Senate to consider: (1) any reported bills or conference reports if the accompanying reports or joint statements include earmarks or tax earmarks; or (3) any reported bills whose accompanying reports do not list each earmark in the bills and its sponsor's name. Makes it out of order in the House or Senate to consider a bill carrying a tax measure reported by the Committee on Ways and Means or the Committee on Finance in which the Joint Committee on Taxation has: (1) identified a tax earmark unless the report includes a list of tax earmarks in it (and the names of the requesting Members); or (2) failed to provide such analysis. Requires the Joint Committee to: (1) review any such reported bill containing a tax measure; (2) identify whether it contains any tax earmarks; and (3) provide the reporting Committee with a statement identifying such earmarks or declaring that the legislation does not contain any. Allows a point of order to be made by any Member in the House or the Senate against consideration of a conference report that includes any earmark or tax earmark not committed to conference by either chamber.
Bill· HRH.R. 6210 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Automatic IRA Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain small employers who do not offer qualified retirement plans or arrangements to their employees to allow eligible employees to participate in a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRAs); (2) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing a payroll deposit IRA arrangement; and (3) treat automatic IRAs as individual retirement accounts (and as Roth IRAs) for income tax purposes. Establishes in the executive branch the TSP II Board to establish policies and procedures relating to payroll deposit IRA arrangements.
Bill· HRH.R. 6223 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
American Fuels Act of 2006 - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Office of Energy Security to oversee all federal energy security programs, including coordination of federal agency efforts to assist the United States in achieving full energy independence. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide: (1) a tax credit for production of qualified flexible fuel motor vehicles, including allowance of the credit against the alternative minimum tax; and (2) an alternative fuel retail sales credit. Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations to ensure that diesel sold or introduced into U.S. commerce, on an annual average basis, contains the applicable volume of alternative diesel fuel. Requires such regulations to provide for the generation of an appropriate amount of credits by any person that refines, blends, or imports diesel containing a quantity of alternative diesel fuel greater than certain prescribed quantities. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the alcohol fuel mixture excise tax credit to cellulosic biomass ethanol. Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to include within the term alternative fueled vehicle a medium or heavy duty hybrid vehicle. Sets a deadline by which: (1) any federal property with at least one fuel refueling station must include at least one alternative fuel refueling station; and (2) any alternative fuel refueling station on federally-owned property must permit full public access for the purpose of refueling using alternative fuel. Amends federal transportation law to require that any bus purchased with funds from the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund be a clean fuel bus. Requires the Secretary of Defense to implement a program to evaluate the commercial and technical viability of advanced technologies for the production of alternative transportation fuels having applications for the Department of Defense.
Bill· HRH.R. 6220 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Requires the particular governmental entity to pay treble compensation to a property owner if: (1) the federal government or any federal authority, or a state or local government during a fiscal year in which it receives federal economic development funds, exercises its power of eminent domain, or allows its exercise by any delegated person or entity; and (2) the property over which that power is exercised is planned, or subsequently used, for economic development.
Bill· HRH.R. 6205 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Public Safety Ex-Offender Self-Sufficiency Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business related tax credit for investment in residential housing units for certain low-income individuals who were convicted of a crime punishable under state or federal law by a prison term of six months or longer (ex-offenders) and who participate in a program of support services, including job and entrepreneurial training, designed to make such ex-offenders self sufficient.
Bill· HRH.R. 6212 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Ethanol Stimulus Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an increased small ethanol producer tax credit for ethanol production in states which have a gasoline consumption rate of more than 2% of aggregate nationwide consumption and which produce less than 2% of the aggregate nationwide amount of ethanol (two-two states).
Bill· HRH.R. 6207 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat income earned by mutual funds from interests holding certain gold, silver, platinum, or palladium bullion that are regularly traded on an established U.S. securities market as qualifying income (i.e., passed through and taxed at individual income tax rates).
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 486 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2006
Expresses the sense of Congress that the government of Turkmenistan should: (1) release from prison and psychiatric institutions all prisoners of conscience and political prisoners, including Mukhametkuli Aimuradov, Sapardurdy Khajiev, Annakurba Amanklychev, Kakabai Tedjenov, Cheper Annaniyazova, and Nasrullah ibn Ibadullah; (2) provide the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with access to all detained persons, including Batyr Berdyev and Boris Shikhmuradov; (3) investigate the death in custody of Ogulsapar Muradova; (4) provide fair retrials of those imprisoned for the alleged 2002 assassination attempt of President Niyazov; (5) provide independent investigations into allegations of torture, ill-treatment; and deaths in custody; (6) permit the normal functioning of opposition groups, independent nongovernmental groups; (7) cease the use of collective punishment, psychiatric hospitals, and house arrest of relatives and associates of perceived dissidents; (8) allow press and related freedoms; (9) end the diversion of state funds into President Niyazov's personal offshore accounts; (10) make educational reforms; (11) continue to discuss human rights and democratization in Turkmenistan and; and (12) support increased Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) activities in Turkmenistan. Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should consider: (1) appropriate responses if the government of Turkmenistan continues to ban peaceful independent political party participation in the upcoming December elections; (2) designating Turkmenistan a "country of particular concern;" (3) withholding Turkmenistan's waiver under the Jackson-Vanik amendment until the right to freedom of movement is ensured; (4) encouraging companies which transport Turkmen gas to account for revenues and make public the identities of all their shareholders and beneficiaries; (5) raising with the European Union (EU), as well as transit and purchasing countries, the importance of not entering into trade agreements with Turkmenistan until the government demonstrates a commitment to implementing basic norms of fiscal transparency; (6) issuing a report on the personal assets and wealth of President Niyazov; and (7) working with other U.N. member states to introduce a resolution denouncing human rights violations in Turkmenistan.
Bill· SS. 3941 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 2006
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain full-time students to live in housing units eligible for the low-income housing tax credit if they are: (1) single parents with children; (2) married and filing a joint return; or (3) adult students fulfilling the requirements for a high school diploma. Exempts any individual under the age of 19 years who attends kindergarten through grade 12 from classification as a full-time student for purposes of the tax credit.
Bill· SS. 3940 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 2006
Educational Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase, make permanent, and make athletic coaches, trainers, or assistants eligible for the tax deduction for the expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers; (2) allow the Hope scholarship credit for the first three years (currently, two years) of postsecondary education, expand the type of expenses eligible for the credit, and allow the receipt of Pell Grants and federal supplemental educational opportunity grants without a reduction in the allowable credit; (3) increase the employee tax exclusion for employer-provided educational assistance; (4) increase the tax deduction for student loan interest; (5) extend through 2010 the authority for issuing qualified zone academy bonds (QZABs) and include bonds issued for public schools in rural counties and counties with National Forest System Lands; and (6) increase the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses.
Bill· HRH.R. 6180 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 2006
Older Kids Act of 2006 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions allowing a tax credit for adoption expenses to increase: (1) the dollar limitation on the amount of adoption expenses eligible for the credit for children with special needs or children age nine or older; and (2) the adjusted gross income limitation applicable to such credit.
Bill· HRH.R. 6183 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 2006
No Match Immigration Enforcement Act of 2006 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish by regulation a program providing for employer data sharing by the Commissioner of Social Security with the Secretary regarding employers of employees with mismatched Social Security numbers. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require disclosure of certain tax return information, upon written request by the Secretary, for purposes of the employer data-sharing program regarding mismatched Social Security account numbers.
Bill· HRH.R. 6176 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 2006
Makes it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any measure making supplemental appropriations for two or more unrelated emergencies. Prohibits any provisions containing spending that is not designated as emergency spending from being reported in a measure making supplemental appropriations. Makes it out of order in the House or the Senate to consider: (1) the conference report on a measure making supplemental appropriations if such measure contains such spending; or (2) any bill, joint resolution, or conference report if the accompanying report or joint statement of managers does not comply with this Act. Requires the Committee on Appropriations or any other House or Senate committee that reports any bill or joint resolution that provides budget authority for any emergency, the accompanying report, or the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on the measure to: (1) identify all provisions that provide budget authority and the resulting outlays for such emergency; (2) state the reasons why such budget authority meets the definition of an emergency; and (3) justify why such funding is in a supplemental appropriation and not the regular appropriation for the next fiscal year. Prohibits a provision containing an earmark from being reported in a measure making supplemental appropriations. Makes it out of order in the House or the Senate to consider the conference report on any measure making supplemental appropriations containing earmarks.
Bill· SS. 3932 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 2006
Limits to $724 million the aggregate funds available to the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during FY2007 and following fiscal years.
Bill· HRH.R. 6170 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 2006
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses; (2) increase the maximum amount of such deduction to $5,000 and repeal provisions requiring a phaseout of the deduction based on adjusted gross income; and (3) allow grandparents to claim a deduction for the tuition and related expenses of their grandchildren.
Bill· HRH.R. 6173 (109th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 2006
Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the qualifying advanced coal project tax credit to provide an alternate sulfur dioxide removal measurement for advanced coal-based generation technology electric generation units.