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H.R. 7145 (110th)

People for the Planet Act of 2008

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Introduced

26 September 2008

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Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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Summary

People for the Planet Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish in the Treasury the Environmental Protection Trust Fund to promote ecosystem restoration, reforestation, reclamation of timber roads in national forests, watershed protection, preservation of Great Lakes and other bodies of water, and funding of biodiversity partnerships. Allows individual taxpayers (other than nonresident aliens) to designate on their income tax returns a payment of $3 of their income tax liability to such Trust Fund. Makes permanent the tax deduction for individual and corporate contributions of conservation easements. Allows a tax deduction for reforestation expenditures. Expresses the sense of Congress that the government should encourage biodiversity partnerships.

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