Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6408
Sponsor: Rep. Thomas, William M. [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Alabama
Alcohol as fuel
Alcohol tax
Alternative energy sources
American Samoa
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Aviation fuels
Biomass energy
Bonds
Brownfields
Building construction
Capital gains tax
Caribbean area
Cellulose
Charitable contributions
Coal
Coke industry
Commerce
Computers
Construction costs
Corporate philanthropy
Cost of living adjustments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Depletion allowances
Depreciation and amortization
District of Columbia
Earned income tax credit
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Electric power production
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Employee health benefits
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Gas industry
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Groundwater
Gulf of Mexico
Health
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Hurricanes
Hydroelectric power
Incineration
Income tax
Indian economic development
Indian lands
Individual retirement accounts
Insurance premiums
Irrigation
Judicial officers
Labor and Employment
Landfills
Law
Local taxation
Louisiana
Marine transportation
Medical savings accounts
Medicare
Mental health services
Methane
Methanol
Military pay
Mine safety
Minorities
Minority employment
Mississippi
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Music
Native Americans
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Puerto Rico
Refuse as fuel
Research and development tax credit
Restaurants
Sales tax
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific instruments and apparatus
Secondary recovery of gas
Secondary recovery of oil
Social Welfare
Solar energy
Standards
State taxation
Sulphur dioxide
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax incentives
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Tax-exempt securities
Teachers
Teaching materials
Textbooks
Transportation and Public Works
Undercover operations
Unrelated business income tax
Urban areas
Urban economic development
Vaccines
Virus diseases
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Welfare work participation
Whistle blowing
Wind power
Wine

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend and modify certain expiring tax provisions relating to education, business investment and economic development, research, health care, environmental remediation, and energy conservation.
 
Health Opportunity Patient Empowerment Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide tax and other incentives for funding health savings accounts.
 
Medicare Improvements and Extension Act of 2006 - Amends the Social Security Act to extend and modify various Medicare and Medicaid provisions, including provisions relating to physician fee schedules, health care reporting requirements, hospital and medical provider reimbursements for certain medical procedures, Medicare fraud and abuse prevention, and the transitional medical assistance and abstinence education program.
 
Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 - Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to offer certain areas in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas leasing.
 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2006 - Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to reauthorize the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and reduce rate of reclamation fees payable by mine operators to the Fund. Allows certain mine operators to prepay health care premium liabilities to the Combined Benefits Fund.
 
Modifies rules relating to the reimportation of exported tobacco products for personal use.
 
Extends through 2008 tariff duties on ethyl alcohol (ethanol).
 
Allows a tax exclusion of gain from the sale of certain mineral or geothermal interests.
 
Extends the school choice scholarship program for low-income children in the District of Columbia.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study on establishing a uniform national database on elder abuse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Resources, Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, 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.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Resources, Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, 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.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Resources, Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, 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.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Resources, Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, 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.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Resources, Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, 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.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Resources, Education and the Workforce, and Government Reform, 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.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House