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Bill· HRH.R. 3242 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 2001
Biological and Chemical Weapons Preparedness Act of 2001 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a coordinated plan to achieve the following biological or chemical preparedness goals by 2010: (1) first responders (law enforcement, fire, and medical services) will have adequate response capacity, training, and technology; (2) sophisticated electronic disease surveillance and information exchange; and (3) development of the health care and public health workforce in key biopreparedness priority areas. Requires such plan to include specific benchmarks and outcome measures. Funds activities through block grants to States. Includes Indian tribes in this program at their request. Requires each participating States' public health agency to develop (with the recommendations of a State Bioterrorism Preparedness Advisory Committee) a certifiable plan. Sets forth uniform data collection and reporting requirements. Requires fiscal controls on the use of such funds, including audits, repayments, and withholding (after investigation). Requires compliance with specified nondiscrimination acts. Establishes criminal penalties for fraudulently collecting payments. Directs the Secretary to award competitive grants with an emphasis on building emergency surge capacity, biocontainment, and decontamination capabilities. Authorizes additional appropriations for programs concerning; (1) vaccine, antibiotic, and therapeutic research and development; (2) protecting the food supply (including interdiction); and (3) research by specified federal agencies and departments. Requires the Secretary to review Federal counterterrorism efforts in light of unique rural community requirements.
Bill· HRH.R. 3249 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the prohibition on producing distilled spirits in specified locations, including dwelling houses, sheds, yards, and enclosed areas connected with any dwelling house.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 279 (107th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 2001
Waives points of order against the consideration of the conference report on H.R. 2620 (FY 2002 Departments of Veterans Affairs and of Housing and Urban Development and independent agencies appropriations).
Bill· SS. 1637 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 November 2001
Provides that with respect to the use of the emergency fund authorized under Federal highway provisions to pay the costs of projects in response to the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, notwithstanding otherwise applicable limitations: (1) the Federal cost share of each such project shall be 100 percent; and (2) the Secretary of Transportation may obligate more than $100 million in any one fiscal year and more than $100 million for those projects.
Bill· SS. 1641 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 November 2001
Provides, with respect to the earned income credit, for simplified applications and fixed deadlines for their return. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend eligibility for advance payment of the earned income credit to employees without qualifying children.
Bill· SS. 1629 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 November 2001
Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act, respecting crop years 2002 through 2008, to provide nonrecourse commodity loans, based upon planted acres and payment yield, up to a specified maximum acreage. Requires conservation and wetlands program compliance. Provides for an annual national and individual loan rate determination. Increases 2002 loan rates for wheat, corn, soybeans, upland cotton, and rice. States that the national average loan rate for a commodity shall be 80 percent of economic production costs. Makes loan deficiency payments available for eligible producers who forgo such nonrecourse loans. Establishes loan eligibility income and production limitations. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Farmer Owned Production Loss Reserve. Authorizes the Secretary to establish: (1) a Humanitarian Food Assistance Reserve; and (2) a Renewable Energy Reserve. Discretionary Inventory Management, Program Cost-Containment, and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2001 - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act to authorize the Secretary to establish a voluntary inventory management program for loan commodities, which shall, in a year of projected surpluses, provide increased loan rates for conservation use acreage set-asides.
Bill· SS. 1610 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 2001
American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2001 - Prohibits U.S. cooperation with the International Criminal Court. Specifies restrictions on: (1) participation by covered U.S. persons in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations; (2) transfer to the Court of U.S. classified national security and law enforcement information; and (3) the provision of U.S. military assistance, with specified exceptions, to the government of a country that is a party to the Court. Prescribes conditions for a presidential waiver of the prohibitions and requirements of this Act. Declares that the requirements of this Act shall not prohibit: (1) any action authorized by the President to bring about the release from captivity of any U.S. military personnel (covered U.S. persons) and certain other persons (covered allied persons) who are being detained or imprisoned against their will by or on behalf of the Court; or (2) communication by the United States of its policy with respect to a matter. Authorizes the President to use all means necessary (including the provision of legal assistance) to bring about the release of covered U.S. persons and covered allied persons held captive by, on behalf, or at the request of the Court. Urges the President to report to appropriate congressional committees on the degree to which: (1) each military alliance to which the United States is a party may place U.S. armed forces under foreign control subject to the Court's jurisdiction; and (2) U.S. armed forces engaged in military operations pursuant to such alliance may be exposed to greater risks as a result of being placed under such foreign control. Authorizes funds withheld from the U.S. share of assessments to the UN or other international organizations pursuant to the Admiral James W. Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001 to be transferred to the Embassy Security, Construction and Maintenance Account of the Department of State. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should rescind the signature made on behalf of the United States to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted by the UN Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court on July 17, 1998.
Bill· HRH.R. 3220 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 2001
Secure Transportation for America Act of 2001 - Declares that no Federal agency shall prohibit a pilot, copilot, or navigator of an aircraft, or any law enforcement personnel specifically detailed for the protection of such aircraft, from carrying a firearm. Amends the Revised Statutes of the United States to apply the terms "piratical aggressions and depredation" and "act of piracy" to certain acts committed in the air against aircraft. Prescribes criminal penalties. Deems property and any person subject to seizure under a duly issued letter of marque and reprisal as enemy property subject to confiscation and forfeiture or an enemy belligerent of the United States subject to court-marshal, respectively. Amends Federal transportation law to require: (1) airport operators to establish air transportation security programs that also provide for a military presence at each airport, including locations where passengers are screened; (2) the deployment of Federal air marshals on selected passenger flights; (3) establishment of new Subcommittees on Airline Security under the House Transportation Committee and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; (4) submission of passenger and crew manifests from air carriers and foreign air carriers in foreign transportation; (5) the Federal share for costs to be 100 percent for projects (incurred after September 11, 2001) relating to the hiring, training, and compensation of law enforcement personnel at non-hub or small airports, activities at certain non-primary airports, and payments for airport sponsor debt service; (6) corporations seeking the tax credit for airport and airline security expenditures (under this Act) to implement policies requiring all airport screeners to be U.S. citizens or permanent resident aliens, including a hiring preference for armed forces personnel, or a survivor or family member of a victim, or an individual who lost employment as a result, of the September 11, 2001 attacks; and (7) the application of certain employment standards and training requirements to airport security personnel, including screeners of passengers and property. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exempt the salary of airport screeners and security personnel from Federal income taxation; and (2) allow a tax credit to corporations for expenditures to enhance airport and airline security. Authorizes airport operators to conduct threat assessments with regard to passenger vehicles parked within 300 feet of an airport terminal.
Bill· HRH.R. 3222 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 2001
High-tech Work Fairness and Economic Stimulus Act of 2001 - Limits the number of fiscal year H-1B (specialty occupation) visas, with a reduction in such number based upon specified U.S. unemployment rates.
Bill· HRH.R. 3218 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 2001
Abandoned Mine Land Area Redevelopment Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a credit for holders of qualified abandoned mine land area redevelopment bonds, as specified. Sets forth rules and formulae concerning the annual credit (including limits and carryover), the applicable credit rate, bond issuance and redemption, the amount of bonds designated, and a national volume cap. Includes the credit in gross income, to be treated as interest income. Permits the the credit to be stripped (owner of bond different from person entitled to the credit). Treats the allowed credit as a payment of estimated tax. Permits the credit to be transferred. Limits the program to ten years from the issuance of the first qualified abandoned mine land area redevelopment bond.
Bill· SS. 1600 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 2001
Rx Relief for Seniors Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited credit for the purchase of outpatient prescriptions not covered by Medicare or insurance by persons eligible for Medicare. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to notify those entitled to Medicare of this credit.
Bill· SS. 1599 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 2001
Tax Relief for Unemployed Workers Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the requirement to include unemployment compensation in gross income and the provision concerning the voluntary withholding on unemployment benefits.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 272 (107th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 2001
Waives points of order against the consideration of the conference report on H.R. 2311 (FY 2002 energy and water development appropriations).
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 273 (107th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 2001
Waives points of order against the consideration of the conference report on H.R. 2647 (FY 2002 legislative branch appropriations).
Bill· SS. 1582 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to delay the mandatory April 1, 2002, beginning date for distributions from individual retirement plans (IRA's) until April 1, 2003. Accelerates to December 31, 2001, the effective date for modification of the Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) limit for conversions to Roth IRA's.
Bill· SS. 1581 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 2001
American Security Enhancement Investment Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow businesses to expense the costs of purchasing and installing qualifying security enhancement property.
Bill· SS. 1583 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 2001
Travel and Tourism Promotion Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a consumer travel credit. Establishes in the Department of Commerce a United States Travel and Tourism Promotion Bureau to promote tourism and restore consumer confidence in the wake of September 11, 2001. Establishes a United States Travel and Tourism Promotion Bureau Advisory Committee.
Bill· SS. 1575 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 2001
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to increase the discretionary spending limits for FY 2002. Provides a new allocation to the appropriations committees for FY 2002. Increases the recommended levels of total new budget authority and budget outlays for FY 2002. Limits the adjustments for emergency discretionary spending required in certain sequestration reports under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Excludes from such adjustment limit emergency funding in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in preparing the final pay-as-you-go and deficit sequestration reports, to change any balance of direct spending and receipts legislation for FY 2002 so as to eliminate any balances resulting from legislation enacted prior to the date of the enactment of this Act. Repeals the mechanism for congressional implementation of an increase of FY 2002 discretionary spending limits and the Senate defense firewall prohibiting consideration of any legislation that exceeds specified limits for defense and non-defense discretionary spending.
Bill· HRH.R. 3170 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited credit to holders of qualified brownfields cleanup bonds. Sets a national limit on the amount of such bonds and provides for allocation among the States.
Bill· HRH.R. 3172 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 2001
Sales Tax Holiday Act of 2001 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to reimburse States and New York City for lost sales tax on tangible personal property during a moratorium between November 23, 2001, and December 2, 2001.
Bill· HRH.R. 3166 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 2001
Rebuild America: Financing Infrastructure Renewal and Security for Transportation Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited tax credit to holders of qualified Amtrak bonds. Requires Secretary of Transportation approval of qualified Amtrak projects funded by such bonds. Amends Federal rail transportation law to authorize appropriations to the Secretary for Amtrak capital expenditures, including specified tunnel life safety projects, bridges, tracks, and other improvements, and equipment, including acquisition of trainsets and rolling stock. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of capital grants to class II and class III railroads (or with the concurrence of such railroads, to a State or local government) to rehabilitate, preserve, or improve certain railroad track. Amends the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 to set forth additional requirements with respect to cohorts of direct loans and loan guarantees for certain railroad rehabilitation and improvement projects. Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to remove certain requirements for States with respect to construction of treatment works under capitalization grant agreements. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to assist States in establishing simplified procedures for small water systems to obtain assistance under this Act. Requires revolving funds to be used only for providing assistance for activities which have as a principal benefit the improvement or protection of water quality. Provides for an extended repayment period and additional subsidization with respect to loans from revolving funds to financially distressed communities. Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to increase the Federal-Aid Highway program obligation ceiling for FY 2002. Authorizes additional appropriations from the Mass Transit Account and the Highway Trust Fund for FY 2002 for certain formula grants for mass transportation projects, including projects for special needs of elderly individuals and individuals with disabilities and non-urbanized areas. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to raise the $100 transportation fringe benefit limitation (applicable to commuter highway vehicles and transit passes) to $175. Amends Federal aviation law to increase appropriations from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for FY 2002 for airport planning and airport development, including airport noise compatibility planning and programs. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 2002 and 2003 for guaranteed loans for ferries using a streamlined process. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to U.S. port or maritime cargo terminal operators to acquire the best available technology, equipment, or infrastructure. Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, and the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize additional FY 2002 appropriations, respectively, for public works and economic development, Appalachian regional development, and Delta, Mississippi regional development. Authorizes additional FY 2002 appropriations to: (1) carry out construction, operation, and maintenance activities (including security measures) for Corps of Engineers projects; and (2) enhance the security of General Services Administration properties. Amends the John F. Kennedy Center Act to authorize additional appropriations for FY 2002 to enhance the security of: (1) the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; and (2) the Smithsonian Institution.
Bill· HRH.R. 3168 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to designate a section of lower Manhattan as an empowerment zone as authorized by the Community Renewal Tax Relief Act of 2000.
Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 70 (107th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 2001
Extends the law making continuing appropriations for FY 2002 through November 16, 2001.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 270 (107th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 2001
Sets forth the rule (modified closed) for the consideration of H.R. 3090 (providing tax incentives for economic recovery).
Bill· SS. 1567 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 2001
Internet Tax Moratorium and Equity Act - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend: (1) permanently provisions which prohibit a State or political subdivision from imposing taxes on Internet access, unless such tax was generally imposed and actually enforced prior to October 1, 1998; and (2) until December 31, 2005, the State or political subdivision prohibition on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce. Expresses the sense of the 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 study should be commissioned to determine seller costs of collecting and remitting State and local sales and use taxes from remote sales. 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 the above system.
Bill· SS. 1566 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 2001
Renewable Energy Incentives Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code respecting the renewable resource credit to: (1) include alternative resources (solar, open loop biomass, incremental hydropower, incremental geothermal, geothermal, and landfill gas); (2) provide an increased credit for certain co-production facilities, and for qualified facilities on Indian and Alaskan Native Indian lands; (3) allow a credit (and its subsequent transferability) for a qualified facility of a tax-exempt organization or governmental unit; (4) provide for credit transferability; (5) require facility compliance with pollution laws; and (6) eliminate the January 1, 2002, placed-in-service date for purposes of qualified facility eligibility.
Bill· HRH.R. 3159 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the allowable deduction for meals and entertainment expenses. Increases the limit on expensing certain depreciable business assets. Increases the amount of property which triggers the phaseout of the maximum deductibility. Reduces the depreciation recovery period for qualified technological equipment from five to two years. Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to increase the micro-purchase threshold for purchases from small businesses. Excludes contracts funded under the 2001 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States from certain award price limitations restricting their award to disadvantaged or HubZone small business concerns.
Bill· HRH.R. 3156 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit qualified contributions to retirement plans made between the enactment of this Act and December 31, 2001, to be treated as if they had been made in 2002.
Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 69 (107th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 2001
Extends the law making continuing appropriations for FY 2002 through October 31, 2001.
Bill· SS. 1554 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an increased low-income housing credit for property which is contiguous to a qualified census tract and which meets qualified allocation plan criteria.
Bill· SS. 1553 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 2001
Economic Stimulus Through Bonus Depreciation Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a 50 percent bonus (first-year) deduction for qualified business property (including computer software) acquired or contracted for between September 11, 2001 and July 1, 2002, and placed in service before January 1, 2003. Sets forth related provisions respecting: (1) alternative depreciation property; (2) original use; and (3) alternative minimum tax.
Bill· HRH.R. 3129 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 2001
Customs Border Security Act of 2001 - Amends the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for the U.S. Customs Service for: (1) noncommercial and commercial operations; and (2) the air and marine interdiction program. Earmarks amounts for: (1) the acquisition and deployment of antiterrorist and illicit narcotics detection equipment along the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S.-Canada border, and Florida and Gulf Coast seaports; and (2) acquisition of technologically superior detection equipment. Authorizes appropriations to carry out a program to prevent child pornography/child exploitation established by the Child Cyber-Smuggling Center of the Customs Service. Amends Federal customs law to increase from $25,000 to $30,000 the maximum aggregate overtime pay that a customs officer may be paid in any fiscal year. Sets forth certain overtime and premium pay requirements and limitations. Sets forth requirements with respect to: (1) immunity for U.S. customs employees that perform searches in good faith; (2) emergency adjustments to offices, ports of entry, or staffing of the Customs Service; (3) mandatory electronic transmission of passenger and cargo manifest information by motor, air, or vessel carriers; and (4) border searches of domestic mail going out of the United States. Authorizes appropriations for reestablishment of Customs Service operations in New York, New York. Directs a General Accounting Office audit of the Customs Service system to monitor textile transshipments. Authorizes appropriations for textile transshipment enforcement operations of the Customs Service. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; and (2) the U.S. International Trade Commission. Increases the aggregate value of articles exempt from duty acquired abroad by U.S. residents. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to revise regulatory audit procedures.
Bill· HRH.R. 3140 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 2001
Tourism Revitalization and Valued Employee Labor Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a (temporary) personal travel credit ($500 single, $1,000 joint) for qualified personal travel expenses on a qualifying personal trip. Exempts dependent expenses from such credit. Extends the work opportunity credit. Provides a temporary: (1) deduction increase for business meals and entertainment; and (2) net operating loss carry back for travel and tourism industry losses. Authorizes: (1) the Secretary of Commerce to award grants and make direct expenditures for a public-private partnership to stimulate travel to and within the United States; and (2) the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to make loans to travel or tourism small business entities that suffered substantial economic injury from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Provides COBRA continuation coverage and other specified health insurance coverage and unemployment compensation for certain separated or separation-threatened travel or tourism industry employees. Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to provide employment and training assistance for travel or tourism workers dislocated by such attacks.
Bill· HRH.R. 3131 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 2001
United States Independent Film and Television Production Incentive Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish an annual tax credit for 25 percent of up to the first $25,000 of qualified wages paid or incurred per qualified U.S. independent film and television production. Increases the credit to 35 percent if the production is located in an area eligible for designation as a low-income community or eligible for designation by the Delta Regional Authority as a distressed county or isolated area of distress.
Bill· HRH.R. 3144 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 2001
Investment Tax Credit Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an investment credit for certain investment credit property acquired, completed, or placed in service within 18 months of enactment. Covers tangible personal property and other non-building tangible property as specified. Makes such property ineligible for other investment credits (energy or rehabilitation).
Bill· HRH.R. 3134 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the definition of hard cider for purposes of the alcohol excise tax.
Bill· HRH.R. 3137 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 2001
Terrorist Response Tax Exemption Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from gross income compensation received by a civilian uniformed employee for any month during any part of which such employee provides security, safety, fire management, or medical services in a terrorist attack zone.
Bill· HRH.R. 3143 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 2001
Freedom to Travel Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the business deduction for travel, meals, entertainment, and lodging from 50 percent to 80 percent of qualifying expenses. Provides a personal deduction for 50 percent of qualifying domestic travel expenses (limited to $1,000, $2,000 joint) for personal travel expenses and $500 ($1,000 joint) for meals). Defines specified terms.
Bill· HRH.R. 3139 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 2001
Fair Tax Treatment for Insurance Agents' Termination Payments Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to consider a qualified termination payment received from an insurance company by a former insurance salesman for such company as a sale or exchange of a capital asset held for more than 12 months.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 267 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 2001
Waives points of order against the consideration of the conference report on H.R. 2217 (FY 2002 Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations).
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 268 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 2001
Waives points of order against the consideration of the conference report on H.R. 2904 (FY 2002 Department of Defense appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure).
Bill· SS. 1543 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 15 October 2001
District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2002 - Makes appropriations to the District of Columbia for FY 2002, including amounts for the Federal payments: (1) for District of Columbia Resident Tuition Support; (2) to District of Columbia Courts; (3) for Defender Services in District of Columbia Courts; (4) to the District of Columbia Corrections Trustee Operations; (5) to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (including transfer of funds); (6) to the District of Columbia for security costs related to the presence of the Federal Government in the District; (7) to the Thurgood Marshall Academy Charter School; (8) to the District of Columbia Public Schools; (9) to the George Washington University Center for Excellence in Municipal Management; (10) to the Children's National Medical Center; (11) for a Child and Family Social Services Computer Integration Plan; (12) for District of Columbia and Federal Law Enforcement Mobile Wireless Interoperability; (13) to the Chief Financial Officer of the District; (14) to the District of Columbia Court Appointed Special Advocates Unit; and (15) to the District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency for activities authorized by the Family Court Act of 2001. Requires the Federal payment made available in the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2001: (1) for the District of Columbia Public Schools and the Metropolitan Police Department to remain available for the purposes intended through FY 2002; and (2) for the Brownfield Remediation to be available until expended. Appropriates specified sums out of the District's general fund (and other funds, in some cases) for the current fiscal year for: (1) operating expenses (with limitations); (2) governmental direction and support; (3) economic development and regulation; (4) public safety and justice; (5) the public education system; (6) human support services (including transfer of funds); (7) public works; (8) receivership programs; (9) workforce investments; (10) the Reserve; (11) reserve relief; (12) the Emergency and Contingency Reserve Fund; (13) repayment of certain loans and interest; (14) repayment of General Fund Recovery Debt; (15) the John A. Wilson Building; (16) for certain non-departmental agency costs; (17) the Water and Sewer Authority; (18) the Washington Aqueduct; (19) the Stormwater Permit Compliance Enterprise Fund; (20) the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund; (21) the Sports and Entertainment Commission; (22) the District of Columbia Retirement Board; (23) the Washington Convention Center Enterprise Fund; (24) the Housing Finance Agency; (25) the National Capital Revitalization Corporation; and (26) capital outlay (including rescissions). Transfers limited funds to the Emergency Reserve Fund.
Bill· SS. 1547 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 October 2001
Nonconventional Natural Gas Reliability Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code respecting the credit for nonconventional-source fuel production to: (1) extend the credit for existing wells; and (2) provide a credit for qualifying new wells. Revises the credit allowance.
Bill· HRH.R. 3124 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 2001
Built-In Gain Economic Growth Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the tax imposed on the recognition of built-in gain by an S corporation shall not apply to the extent such gain is reinvested in the business.
Bill· HRH.R. 3114 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the increase in the cover over of tax on distilled spirits to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Requires, for a five year period, the treasury of Puerto Rico to make a Conservation Trust Fund transfer within 30 days from the date of each cover over payment made during such period. Permits a good cause exception. Defines a Conservation Trust Fund transfer.
Bill· HRH.R. 3116 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the credit for alcohol used as fuel; (2) tax fuel alcohol to the same extent as gasoline and diesel fuel; and (3) repeal specified incentives for alcohol fuels.
Bill· SS. 1542 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 2001
Internet Tax Moratorium and Equity Act - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend: (1) permanently provisions which prohibit a State or political subdivision from imposing taxes on Internet access, unless such tax was generally imposed and actually enforced prior to October 1, 1998; and (2) until December 31, 2005, the State or political subdivision prohibition on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce. Expresses the sense of the 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 study should be commissioned to determine seller costs of collecting and remitting State and local sales and use taxes from remote sales. 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 the above system.
Bill· SS. 1531 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 2001
Military Call-up Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to waive the ten percent early withdrawal penalty for distributions from qualified retirement plans to individuals called to active duty during the national emergency declared by the President on September 14, 2001.
Bill· HRH.R. 3100 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow for the expansion of areas designated as renewal communities based upon 2000 census population and poverty rate data.
Law· HRH.R. 3090 (107th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 2001
Economic Security and Recovery Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide temporary (extensions for one or two years or provisions applicable only to events occurring after September 10, 2001, and before a certain date) and permanent tax relief for both individuals and businesses, including: (1) allowing additional specified depreciation for qualified property; (2) increased expensing; (3) repealing the alternative minimum tax on corporations; (4) extending the net operating loss carry back period; (5) accelerating the 25 percent individual income tax rate effective date; (6) repealing the five year holding requirement for reduced individual capital gains rates; (7) increasing the deduction for capital losses of individual taxpayers; (8) expanding the penalty free withdrawal exception for IRA distributions used for health insurance of unemployed individuals; (9) extending the period during which nonrefundable personal credits are allowed against regular and alternative minimum tax liability; (10) extending the credits for qualified electric vehicles, electricity produced from renewable resources, work opportunity, and welfare-to-work; and (11) provisions concerning the deduction for clean fuel vehicles and certain refueling property, qualified zone academy bonds, parity in the application of certain limits to mental health benefits, Archer medical savings accounts, and the subpart F (Controlled Foreign Corporations) exemption for active financing. Provides for a supplemental rebate. Provides for the transfer of specified Federal unemployment account amounts to State unemployment accounts. Amends title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act to increase funding for FY 2002.