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Resolution· HRESH.Res. 196 (107th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 2001
Sets forth the rule (modified closed) for the consideration of H.R. 7 (tax incentives for charitable contributions, and faith-based organizations as nongovernmental service providers).
Bill· HRH.R. 2501 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 2001
Appalachian Regional Development Reauthorization Act of 2001 - Amends the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 (the Act) to direct the President to establish the Interagency Coordinating Council on Appalachia. Authorizes the Appalachian Regional Commission to provide technical assistance and make grants, enter into contracts, and otherwise provide funds to: (1) increase affordable access to advanced telecommunications in the region; (2) provide education and training for people, businesses, and governments in the region in the use of telecommunications technology; (3) develop relevant technology readiness programs for industry groups and businesses in the region; and (4) support entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology in the region. Eliminates the growth center criteria with respect to factors in considering programs and projects to be given assistance under the Act. Directs that, for each fiscal year, at least half of the amount of grant expenditures approved by the Commission support activities or projects that benefit counties for which distressed county designations are in effect. Modifies Act provisions to direct that not more than 75 percent, for a development district that includes one or more counties for which a distressed county designation is in effect, of the costs of any activity eligible for financial assistance be provided from funds appropriated to carry out the Act. Adds Edmonson, Hart, and Metcalfe ( Kentucky), and Grenada, Montgomery, and Panola (in Mississippi), to the counties included in the Appalachian region. Reauthorizes appropriations and extends the Act until October 1, 2006.
Bill· HRH.R. 2504 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 2001
Zero Gravity, Zero Tax Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income: (1) space-related income; and (2) gain on the sale or exchange of any stock of a qualified space corporation. Establishes a space company investment credit for the purchase of qualified stock in a qualified space company.
Bill· HRH.R. 2502 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a small business refiner: (1) to expense a portion of the costs of complying with the Highway Diesel Fuel Sulfur Control Requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency; and (2) a limited tax credit for every gallon of 15 parts per million or less sulfur diesel produced at a facility by such small business refiner.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 192 (107th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 2001
Sets forth the rule (open) for the consideration of H.R. 2500 (FY 2002 Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies appropriations).
Bill· SS. 1172 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 2001
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2002 - Makes appropriations for the legislative branch for FY 2002. Title I: Congressional Operations - Congressional Operations Appropriations Act, 2002 - Makes appropriations for the Senate for: (1) expense allowances; (2) representation allowances for the Majority and Minority Leaders; (3) salaries of specified officers, employees, and committees (including the Committee on Appropriations); (4) agency contributions for employee benefits; (5) inquiries and investigations; (6) the U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control; (7) the Offices of the Secretary and of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate; (8) miscellaneous items; (9) the Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account; and (10) official mail costs. (Sec. 1) Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1977 to change the number of consultants: (1) from four to six that the Majority and Minority Leaders may appoint; and (2) from one to not more than two in the case of the President pro tempore. (Sec. 2) Allows the head of an employing office of the Senate to establish a program under which the office may agree to repay (by direct payments on behalf of a Senate employee) any student loan previously taken out by such employee. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 4) Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1996 to change the fiscal year designation of the appropriation to which payment must be charged for local and long distance telecommunications services provided to a Senator, an Officer of the Senate, and any Senate entity the funds of which are disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate. (Sec. 5) Increases from $75,000 to $100,000 the payment from the Senate contingent fund for the Conference of Majority and the Conference of Minority expenses. (Sec. 6) Increases by $50,000 the allowance for administrative and clerical assistance. Makes appropriations for: (1) the Joint Economic and Taxation Committees; (2) the Office of the Attending Physician; (3) the Capitol Police Board; (4) the Capitol Guide Service and Special Services Office; (5) the Office of Compliance; (6) the Congressional Budget Office; (7) the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) for salaries and expenses, Capitol buildings and grounds, Senate and House office buildings, and the Capitol power plant; (8) the Library of Congress for Congressional Research Service salaries and expenses; and (9) the Government Printing Office (GPO) for congressional printing and binding (including transfer of funds). (Sec. 102) Authorizes the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), by regulation, to apply Federal civil service training law as necessary to provide for training of CBO employees. (Sec. 103) Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1996 to allow the CBO to dispose of surplus or obsolete property by sale and trade-in (currently, only by inter-agency transfer, donation, or discarding). (Sec. 104) Authorizes the CBO to establish and maintain a program under which the Office may agree to repay (by direct payments on behalf of the employees) all or a portion of any student loan previously taken out by such employee in an amount not to exceed: (1) $6,000 for any employee in any calendar year; or (2) a total of $40,000 for any employee altogether. Prohibits CBO from reimbursing an employee for repayments made by such employee before CBO enters into an agreement with the employee under this Act. Requires any amount repaid by, or recovered from, an individual under this Act and its implementing regulations to be credited to the appropriation account available for CBO salaries and expenses at the time of repayment or recovery. Title II: Other Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Botanic Garden for salaries and expenses; (2) the Library of Congress for salaries and expenses, the Copyright Office, Books for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, and furniture and furnishings; (3) the AOC for a Capitol Visitor Center, the Congressional Cemetery, and for Library buildings and grounds; (4) salaries and expenses of the GPO's Office of Superintendent of Documents (including transfer of funds); (5) the General Accounting Office; and (6) a payment to the Russian Leadership Development Center Trust Fund. Specifies administrative provisions for the Library of Congress identical or similar to corresponding provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2001. (Sec. 202) Prohibits the Library from using funds appropriated in this Act to administer any flexible or compressed work schedule which: (1) applies to any manager or supervisor in a position the grade or level of which is equal to or higher than GS-15; and (2) grants such manager or supervisor the right to not be at work for all or a portion of a workday because of time worked by such individual on another workday. (Sec. 206) Reduces the obligational authority of the Library from FY 2001 levels for reimbursable and revolving fund activities funded from sources other than appropriations to the Library in appropriation Acts for the legislative branch. Authorizes the Librarian of Congress, under specified conditions, to temporarily transfer funds appropriated in this Act under the heading "Library of Congress Salaries and Expenses" to the revolving fund for the FEDLINK Program and the Federal Research Program established under the Library of Congress Fiscal Operations Improvement Act of 2000 (the Act). (Sec. 209) Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1999 to extend until October 1, 2004, the early retirement and voluntary separation incentive payments authorities for Government Printing Office employees. Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized or prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act identical or similar to corresponding provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2001. (Sec. 305) Sets forth Buy American requirements. (Sec. 311) Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1991 to authorize the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) to fix the rate of basic pay for not more than 12 positions under AOC jurisdiction (excluding the Architect and Assistant Architect), at a rate not less than the minimum rate nor more than the maximum rate for the Senior Executive Service, for the locality involved.
Bill· SS. 1173 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the current age 25 cap on qualified food stamp recipients to whose employment the work opportunity credit applies. Extends such credit to employment of any qualified food stamp recipients at least age18.
Bill· HRH.R. 2499 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 2001
Prohibits the Secretary of Energy from making any expenditure, for any fiscal year beginning with FY 2003, for the continued operation of the Fast Flux Test Facility at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington. Permits the use of funds for decommissioning, clean-up, removal of waste, treating of waste, or dismantling of such Test Facility.
Bill· HRH.R. 2485 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 2001
High Productivity Investment Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish two new depreciation provisions: (1) the rapid cost recovery system under which the cost of specified property may be depreciated more quickly than under current depreciation methods; and (2) the high productivity investment deduction under which the cost of specified property may be expensed. Modifies the alternative minimum tax. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a table showing classes of property and the modified class life of each class of property. Provides a schedule on which the Secretary's initial table shall be based.
Bill· HRH.R. 2478 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 2001
Comprehensive Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Act of 2001 - Sets forth a statutory framework to implement U.S. policy for research, development, demonstration and commercial applications programs designed to enable 20 percent of domestic energy from stationary sources to be generated from nonhydropower renewable energy sources by 2020. Prescribes requirements for: (1) such programs in renewable energy, energy efficiency, biomass energy, and aeronautical system energy efficiency; and (2) a National Building Performance Initiative. Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) provide private sector commercialization assistance for renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies; (2) establish a fuel cell technologies demonstration program; and (3) establish a National Electric System Public Benefits Board to administer a National Electric System Public Benefits Fund. Establishes the High Performance Schools grant program. Amends Federal transportation law to mandate: (1) increased vehicle fuel economy standards; and (2) a national tire fuel efficiency program. Establishes the Energy Star program to promote cost-effective energy-efficient products and buildings. Prescribes requirements for: (1) Federal electric power purchases; (2) Federal buildings energy efficiency; (3) guaranteed energy savings; and (4) Federal use of Energy Star standards. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits for: (1) certain energy efficient business property; (2) the manufacture of energy efficient appliances; (3) construction of a new energy-efficient home; (4) energy efficiency improvements to existing homes; (5) residential solar, wind, and fuel cell energy property; and (6) purchase of Energy Star products. Allows a deduction for energy-efficient commercial building property expenditures. Prescribes depreciation requirements for: (1) distributed power property; and (2) property used in electricity transmission. Increases the credit rate for electricity produced from renewable and waste products. Treats facilities using bagasse to produce energy as solid waste disposal facilities eligible for tax-exempt financing. Grants an investment tax credit for additional plant capacity for existing renewable resources facilities producing electricity. Allows tax credits for: (1) alternative motor vehicles placed in service; (2) retail sales of alternative fuels for motor vehicles; and (3) installation of alternative fueling stations. Extends the deduction for certain refueling property.
Bill· HRH.R. 2464 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction for qualified political contributions of up to $100 annually ($200 in the case of a joint return), whether or not the taxpayer itemizes.
Bill· HRH.R. 2462 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 2001
Public Pension Parity Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude from gross income any amount received by an individual as a qualified governmental pension which does not exceed the maximum excludable social security benefits of the taxpayer for such year reduced by the social security benefits received during such year which were excluded from gross income; and (2) prohibit applying clause (1) to any qualified governmental pension received during the taxable year unless the taxpayer (or the spouse or former spouse of the taxpayer) performed the service giving rise to such pension. Defines the term "maximum excludable social security benefits."
Bill· SS. 1158 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, concerning the active business definition relating to distributions of stock and securities of a controlled corporation, to require that all corporations that are members of the same affiliated group be treated as a single corporation.
Bill· HRH.R. 2449 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 2001
Health Care Access Improvement Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited tax credit to qualified primary health services providers who establish practices in health professional shortage areas.
Bill· SS. 1142 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 2001
Entrepreneurs Risk Incentive Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to adjustments in computing alternative minimum taxable income, to repeal the denial of an exclusion from an individual's income of the transfer of stock acquired pursuant to the exercise of an incentive stock option, which thus subjects the stock transfer to the alternative minimum tax (AMT). (This repeal exempts such a transfer from the AMT.)
Bill· SS. 1141 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 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· SS. 1150 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 2001
Interstate Highway System Toll-Free Holiday Act - Prohibits tolls from being collected, and vehicles from being required to stop at a toll booth, for any toll highway, bridge, or tunnel on the Interstate System during any peak holiday travel period. Directs: (1) the State transportation department or the public authority having jurisdiction over the toll highway, bridge, or tunnel to determine the number and duration of peak holiday travel periods, which shall include, at a minimum, the 24-hour period of each legal public holiday; (2) the Secretary of Transportation to reimburse the State or public authority for the amount of toll revenue not collected by reason of this Act, upon request; and (3) each State or public authority that desires a refund to submit to the Secretary a request for reimbursement, based on actual traffic data, for the amount of toll revenue not collected by reason of this Act during a fiscal year. Specifies that a request for reimbursement shall include a certification by the State or public authority that the amount of the reimbursement will be used only for debt service or for operation and maintenance of the toll facility.
Bill· SS. 1155 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 2001
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2002 for: (1) procurement, including aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and chemical agents and munitions destruction; (2) research, development, test and evaluation; (3) operation and maintenance, including defense working capital funds; (4) the Armed Forces Retirement Home; and (5) active and reserve military personnel, including authorized end strengths. Authorizes the President to dispose of specified obsolete and excess materials in the National Defense Stockpile. Increases as of January 1, 2002, the rates of military basic pay. Extends certain bonus and special and incentive pay authorities. Authorizes: (1) an accession bonus program for officers with critical skills; and (2) certain travel and transportation allowances. Sets forth provisions or requirements concerning: (1) commissaries and nonappropriated fund instrumentalities; (2) active and reserve military personnel policy, including the review of actions of personnel selection boards and the extension of certain military force drawdown transition authorities; (3) military education and training; (4) military decorations, awards, and commendations; (5) educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill; (6) acquisition policy and management, including acquisition workforce development; (7) general contracting procedures and limitations; (8) military construction, military family housing, and the leaseback of defense base closure property; (9) Department of Defense (DOD) organization and management, including the operation of regional centers for security studies; (10) matters relating to other nations, including cooperative research and development projects with allied countries; and (11) DOD civilian personnel, including a pilot program for the payment of retraining expenses.
Bill· SS. 1145 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 2001
Veterans Opportunity to Work Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include a "qualified low-income veteran" (a veteran whose gross income for the preceding taxable year was below the poverty line) as a member of a targeted group for purposes of computing the work opportunity credit. Provides special rules for determining the credit amount, and makes the credit permanent with respect to such veterans.
Bill· SS. 1134 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Venture Capital Gains and Growth Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a 100 percent (currently 50 percent) exclusion from gross income (a zero capital gains rate) for new long-term (three-year) investments in the stock of a small corporation (with $300 million or less in paid-in capital) acquired directly from the corporation. Repeals the minimum tax preference for such excluded capital gains.
Bill· SS. 1131 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Clean Power Plant and Modernization Act of 2001 - Requires fossil fuel-fired generating units that commence operation before ten years after this Act's enactment to achieve and maintain a specified combustion heat rate efficiency. Authorizes waivers for units that commence operation more than ten years after enactment. Requires units, not later than ten years after enactment, to operate in compliance with new source review requirements under the Clean Air Act. Establishes specified emission limitations for mercury, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides from units based on the respective efficiency standards. Requires units to obtain permits under such Act that require compliance with such standards and limitations. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate: (1) fuel sampling and emission monitoring techniques for use in calculating mercury emission reductions; and (2) regulations concerning disclosure to consumers of unit emissions levels and the transfer of captured or recovered mercury. Qualifies certain solar or geothermal power facilities for the renewable energy tax credit and extends the date by which eligible facilities must have been placed in service. Imposes an excise tax on covered fossil fuel-fired generating units based upon megawatt hour generation to fund the Clean Air Trust Fund established by this Act. Provides for: (1) accelerated depreciation and cost recovery for certain investor-owned units; and (2) annual grants for capital expenditures for new publicly owned units in amounts equal to the depreciation deduction that would be realized by similarly situated investor-owned units. Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to crediting permanent reductions in carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions to the utility sector and owners or operators in any climate change implementation program enacted by Congress and passing on accrued value to utility customers. Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) fund programs and partnerships to demonstrate the commercial viability and environmental benefits of power generation from biomass, geothermal, solar, and wind technologies and from fuel cells; and (2) establish a program to demonstrate the benefits of power generation from clean coal, advanced gas turbine, and combined heat and power technologies. Provides assistance for coal industry and community transition, carbon sequestration activities, and atmospheric monitoring programs.
Bill· SS. 1122 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for up to $3,000 of the amount paid or incurred by the taxpayer during the taxable year for qualified child disability expenses for services and equipment related to education and training of a child of the taxpayer with a developmental disability, including behavioral therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, auditory therapy, assistive communication technology, and other related services. Phases out the credit by $500 increments per $1,000 of modified adjusted gross income over $150,000.
Bill· HRH.R. 2357 (107th)failed
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a church to participate or intervene in a political campaign and maintain its tax-exempt status as long as such participation is not a substantial part of its activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 2408 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Yankton Sioux Tribe and Santee Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Yankton Sioux Tribe Development Trust Fund and the Santee Sioux Tribe Development Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to withdraw the aggregate amount of interest deposited into the Funds each fiscal year (beginning with the 11th fiscal year after this Act's enactment date) and transfer that amount to the Secretary of the Interior for making payments to the Yankton Sioux Tribe and the Santee Sioux Tribe for carrying out projects and programs under each Tribe's Tribal Plan. Directs the tribal council of each Tribe to prepare a Tribal Plan for using payments for carrying out projects and programs to promote: (1) economic development; (2) infrastructure development; or (3) the educational, health, recreational, and social welfare objectives of the Tribe and its members. Extinguishes all monetary claims of the Tribes against the United States for loss of value or use of land resulting from the Fort Randall and Gavins Point projects of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program upon the transfer of funds to such Tribes.
Bill· HRH.R. 2400 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Rural America Job Assistance and Creation Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make matching grants to regional consortia meeting specified criteria to improve the job skills necessary for employment in specific industries. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to provide financial assistance, through grants, for the establishment and support of entities that provide business incubator services (necessary for the initiation and initial sustainment of operations of a newly established business, including legal, intellectual property, and technology services and planning) for small- and medium-sized businesses. Directs the Comptroller General to study how rural infrastructure, venture capital, and Federal programs can enhance rural areas. Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to require employer notification of Federal and State elected officials (as well as local ones) prior to dislocation of workers. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require submission of H-1B labor condition applications at same time as H-1B nonimmigrant classification petitions. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to establish a National Rural Development Partnership, to be composed of a National Rural Development Council and State rural development councils. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude certain amounts of severance payments from gross income; and (2) expand the work opportunity tax credit to include qualified small business employees. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make a grant to the William C. Merwin Rural Services Institute of the State University of New York at Potsdam, New York, to establish and operate a Northern New York Travel and Tourism Research Center.
Bill· HRH.R. 2371 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer to: (1) the Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction over specified property at the Naval Security Group Activity, Winter Harbor, Maine, concurrently with the reversion of administrative jurisdiction over other specified property from the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of the Interior; and (2) the State of Maine, or any political subdivision or tax-supported agency therein, the former facilities of such Security Group Activity, except for the real property transferred above. Requires the Secretary to maintain the facilities to be transferred until the earlier of the date of transfer or September 30, 2003. Authorizes the Secretary to lease such property to any appropriate entity in the interim. Requires reimbursement to the Secretary for the costs of any environmental assessment, study, or analysis. Directs the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior specified amounts for: (1) the development of a research and education center at Acadia National Park, Maine; and (2) operation and maintenance activities there. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide financial assistance to Winter Harbor in each of FY 2002 through 2004 as reimbursement for costs incurred in making water and sewage system improvements for the benefit of the Group Activity there.
Bill· HRH.R. 2412 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Tribal Energy Self-Sufficiency Act - Amends the Indian Financing Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations, exempt from certain limitations, for Indian electric energy development, including electric generation, transmission, and distribution. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to transfer, upon tribal request, Federal water and power projects on Indian lands to the tribe upon whose land such projects are located. Directs the Secretary to continue trusteeship responsibilities to review agreements entered into between Indian tribes and other parties under: (1) the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982; and (2) the Indian Mineral Development Act of 1982. Instructs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on all dams and water impoundments on Indian land to determine their suitability for siting for electrical power projects. Requires the Western Area Power Administration to set up electric power transmission facilities for the development of wind power generation on certain Indian lands. Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 and the Department of Energy Organization Act to establish within the Department of Energy the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs to assist Indian tribes to meet certain energy needs. Creates the Indian Energy Loan Guaranty Fund to enable the Secretary to guarantee loans made to an Indian tribe for energy development. Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to make net metering available for renewable energy on Indian reservations. Amends the Federal Power Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, upon tribal application, to order the interconnection and wheeling of transmission or local distribution facilities owned by another person with those of the applicant tribe. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources to solar power, non-closed loop biomass, incremental hydropower, geothermal energy, and fuel cells on Indian lands; and (2) allow a tax credit for the production of Indian oil or gas. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to make electricity facilities owned or controlled by an Indian tribe or entity eligible for community development assistance. Directs the Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development and of the Interior to develop energy efficiency and conservation measures in connection with certain housing located on Indian lands. Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to authorize grants and zero interest loans for energy efficiency purposes, including provision or modernization of electric facilities for an Indian tribe.
Bill· HRH.R. 2401 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Rural America Digital Accessibility Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make grants or guarantee loans in order to facilitate the deployment by the private sector of broadband telecommunications networks and capabilities (including wireless and satellite services) to underserved rural areas. Limits to $100 million the total amount of such grants and loan guarantees. Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to research the enhancement or facilitation of broadband telecommunications services in rural and other remote areas, as well as Internet access through such services. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax credit to holders of qualified technology bonds (bonds representing an investment in projects to expand such telecommunications services). Sets a national technology bond limitation of $100 million for each of FY 2002 through 2006, and zero thereafter (with an exception) to be allocated by the Secretary among the qualified projects designated each year. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance for the establishment and support of regional centers for the commercial use of advanced technologies by small and medium-sized businesses.
Bill· HRH.R. 2415 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Amends Federal patent law to require the Director of the Patent and Trademark Office to adjust fees charged by the Office so that the fees collected in any fiscal year will equal, to the greatest extent practicable, the amount appropriated to the Office for that fiscal year.
Bill· HRH.R. 2432 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Waives time limitations relating to the filing of claim for a tax credit or refund of an overpayment of 1983 Federal income tax by Richard W. Schaffert.
Bill· HRH.R. 2427 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Low-Income Gasoline Assistance Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to enable States to establish emergency assistance programs to make certain payments to eligible households for the purchase of gasoline. Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to authorize a State to use funds from any grant made to the State under the TANF program for a fiscal year to carry out such an assistance program.
Bill· HRH.R. 2411 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Professional Educators Tax Relief Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit of up to $1,000 in the case of professional school personnel (including librarians) for any of the grades kindergarten through 12.
Bill· HRH.R. 2410 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Hope Plus Scholarship Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include qualified elementary and secondary education expenses within the definition of the term qualified tuition and related expenses for purposes of the Hope Scholarship Credit.
Bill· HRH.R. 2429 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
LAX Noise Community Accountability Act - Amends Federal aviation law to require the operator of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to mail each fiscal year a noise mitigation report to each household located in the ten-mile radius of the airport and any additional area covered under any noise compatibility program developed for the airport. Sets forth a civil penalty against the operator of LAX Airport for failure to comply with the requirements of this Act. Makes amounts collected from such penalties available to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration for making grants to non-profit organizations to provide educational services, health care services, environmental services, speech and hearing services, and services to persons with disabilities in communities impacted by noise from LAX Airport.
Bill· HRH.R. 2419 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Commercial Fishermen Safety Act of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited fishing safety equipment credit to commercial fisherman for the purchase of qualified fishing safety equipment.
Bill· HRH.R. 2370 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Small Business Welfare Benefits Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the exception from the treatment of welfare benefit funds for "ten or more employer plans."
Bill· HRH.R. 2431 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income as contributions to capital certain amounts received by electric energy, gas, steam, or water utilities. (Currently, the exclusion applies to water and sewage disposal utilities.)
Bill· HRH.R. 2414 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Requires any amounts appropriated for a Representational Allowance for a Member of the House of Representatives which remain after all payments are made under such Allowance to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction or, in fiscal years for which there is no Federal budget deficit, to reduce the Federal debt.
Bill· HRH.R. 2381 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the treatment of IRA distributions for higher education expenses after the annuitization of the account, to provide that distributions from an IRA for higher education expenses shall be exempt from the 10-percent early distribution tax even after annuitization of the account.
Bill· HRH.R. 2393 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Energy Cost and Tax Relief Act- Amends the Internal Code to provide, for an individual, tax credits equal to 50 percent of: (1) the expenditures (up to a limit of $2,500 annually for each dwelling unit) for qualified energy conservation property during a year; and (2) the expenditures (up to a limit of $2,500 annually) for the purchase of any qualified appliance.
Bill· HRH.R. 2392 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Clean Energy Incentives Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to renewable and alternative energy, alternative fuels and energy efficient vehicles, energy efficiency and conservation, and energy generation and management. Provides for: (1) a five year extension for the renewable resource credit for qualified facilities; (2) alternative resources (solar, biomass, incremental hydropower and geothermal, and geothermal energy) to qualify for the renewable resource credit; (3) a tradable resource credit for public utilities and other tax exempt organizations; (4) an extension of the deduction for certain refueling property; and (5) an energy efficient commercial building deduction. Provides tax credits for the following: (1) an alternative motor vehicle; (2) the retail sale of alternative fuels (compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, hydrogen, and fuel which is at least 85 percent methanol) as motor vehicle fuel; (3) the installation of alternative (clean) fueling stations; (4) property to convert waste to fuel; (5) construction of new highly energy efficient homes; (6) energy efficient appliances; (7) adjustable speed drives; (8) energy efficient recycling or remanufacturing equipment; (9) distributed energy generation and demand property (specified solar, geothermal, energy efficient building, and other property) used in business; (10) distributed energy generation and demand property (specified photovoltaic, solar water heating, wind energy, fuel cell, and energy efficient property) used in residences; (11) energy management systems using residential real time metering systems; and (12) and flywheel property.
Bill· HRH.R. 2374 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Treats certain motor vehicle dealer transitional assistance as an involuntary conversion for Internal Revenue Code purposes.
Bill· HRH.R. 2383 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Increases from 50 to 100 percent the amount of gain excluded from the sale of certain small business stock. Reduces from five to three years the holding period applicable to such a sale. Makes such exclusion available to corporations. Makes the stock of larger businesses eligible. Repeals the minimum tax preference for the exclusion for incentive stock options.
Bill· HRH.R. 2354 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow as capital expenditure deductions certain replanting, removal, and preproductive costs of crops for human consumption lost to freezing temperature, disease, drought, casualty, or pests.
Bill· HRH.R. 2416 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Employee Ownership Act of 2001 - Declares the policy of the United States that, by the year 2010, 30 percent of all U.S. corporations shall be owned and controlled by their employees. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for tax-exempt employee-owned and employee-controlled corporation (EOECC) trusts whose primary assets consist of the employer securities of an EOECC. Declares that: (1) there shall be no tax on the corporate income of an EOECC; and (2) the gross income of an employee owner shall not include any proceeds from the qualified sale of EOECC securities. Exempts from inclusion in gross income of property transferred in connection with performance of services any transfer (in lieu of compensation) of EOECC securities during the three years following a corporation's election to become an EOECC. Mandates nonrecognition of gain in the case of the sale or transfer of EOECC securities to an EOECC trust. Establishes a credit against the estate tax for the amount of EOECC securities considered to have been acquired from or to have passed from a decedent to an EOECC trust. Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on Federal regulations and policies affecting EOECCs. Directs the President to establish a Presidential Commission on Employee Ownership to study and report on all issues that affect ownership of businesses in the United States, with a primary focus on the issues that affect employee ownership of such businesses.
Bill· HRH.R. 2406 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include as an exception to the nonrecognition of gain or loss (thus subjecting to taxation) upon certain stock transfers the transfer of: (1) an interest in an entity if the return on such interest is limited and preferred; and (2) interests in any entity if substantially all of the entity assets consist of either limited and preferred assets or assets previously excepted from such nonrecognition requirement. Includes as an additional exception a transfer of property to a corporation if such property is marketable securities (other than a diversified portfolio of securities), the corporation is an investment company or engages in investment company activities, and the transfer results, directly or indirectly, in diversification of the transferor's interest. Includes as an exception to the nonrecognition of gain or loss for contributions to a partnership those gains realized on a transfer of property to a partnership if, were the partnership incorporated: (1) it would be treated as an investment company; or (2) the exceptions with regard to corporate stock transfers would not apply.
Bill· SS. 1117 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 2001
Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 2001 - Repeals a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 which provides funding limits for retirement or dismantlement of the B52H bomber, Trident submarines, and Minuteman III and Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles. Declares it to be U.S. policy to: (1) reduce the number of nuclear warheads and delivery systems of the United States and Russia, through bilateral agreements, to the lowest possible number consistent with national security, requiring any warhead removed to be kept safe and secure, accounted for, and eventually destroyed or eliminated in a verifiable manner; (2) pursue with Russia formal arrangements to remove as many nuclear weapons of the two nations as possible from immediate, launch-ready status, beginning with those weapons earmarked for downloading, dismantlement, or elimination under the START II Treaty; and (3) work cooperatively with Russia to prevent the diversion from Russia of nuclear weapons, materials, and expertise. Requires the President to submit to Congress a plan for nonproliferation programs with Russia, as well as a related study.
Bill· SS. 1108 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 2001
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer to: (1) the Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction over specified property at the Naval Security Group Activity, Winter Harbor, Maine concurrently with the reversion of administrative jurisdiction over other specified property from the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of the Interior; and (2) the State of Maine, or any political subdivision or tax-supported agency therein, the former facilities of such Security Group Activity, except for the property transferred above. Requires the Secretary to maintain the facilities to be transferred until the earlier of the date of transfer or September 30, 2003. Authorizes the Secretary to lease such property to any appropriate entity in the interim. Requires reimbursement to the Secretary for the costs of any environmental assessment, study, or analysis. Directs the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior specified amounts for: (1) the development of a research and education center at Acadia National Park, Maine; and (2) operation and maintenance activities there. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide financial assistance to Winter Harbor in each of FY 2002 through 2004 as reimbursement for costs incurred in making water and sewage system improvements for the benefit of the Group Activity there.
Bill· SS. 1109 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 2001
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the waiver requirement by a farm owner, operator, or tenant in order for an aerial applicator of agricultural fertilizer or other substances to qualify for a gasoline-farming use (excise) tax exemption in the case of an applicator who is the ultimate purchaser of the gasoline so used. Includes within such exemption: (1) gasoline used between the airfield and farm; and (2) aviation fuel. Exempts fixed-wing aerial applicators of fertilizer or other substances for forestry use from the passenger air transportation (excise) tax.
Bill· HRH.R. 2351 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 2001
Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 2001 - Repeals a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 which provides funding limits for retirement or dismantlement of the B52H bomber, Trident submarines, and Minuteman III and Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles. Declares it to be U.S. policy to: (1) reduce the number of nuclear warheads and delivery systems of the United States and Russia, through bilateral agreements, to the lowest possible number consistent with national security, requiring any warhead removed to be kept safe and secure, accounted for, and eventually destroyed or eliminated in a verifiable manner; (2) pursue with Russia formal arrangements to remove as many nuclear weapons of the two nations as feasible from immediate, launch-ready status, concentrating on those weapons earmarked for downloading, dismantlement, or elimination under the START II Treaty; and (3) work cooperatively with Russia to prevent the diversion from Russia of nuclear weapons, materials, and expertise. Requires the President to submit to Congress a plan for nonproliferation programs with Russia, as well as a related study.