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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the credit for increasing research activities permanent.

Bill: 109-hr-1454
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2005-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Research and development tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-20
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax credit for increasing research activities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5 and title 3, United States Code, to include the Department of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Homeland Security in lists of executive departments and officers.

Bill: 109-hr-1455
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Tom [R-VA-11]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Cabinet officers
Department of Homeland Security
Directories
Presidential succession

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Includes: (1) the Department of Homeland Security in the list of executive departments of the Federal Government; and (2) the Secretary of Homeland Security in the line of presidential succession after the Attorney General. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
Christopher Kangas Fallen Firefighter Apprentice Act

Bill: 109-hr-1456
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Curt [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Apprenticeship
Emergency Management
Families
Fire fighters
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Volunteer workers
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Christopher Kangas Fallen Firefighter Apprentice Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the definition of &quot;firefighter&quot; for purposes of death benefit provisions to include fire department members regardless of age, status as an apprentice or trainee, or related duty restrictions. Makes this Act applicable to deaths and injuries which occur on or after May 4, 2002.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the deduction for the travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business travel.

Bill: 109-hr-1457
Sponsor: Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business travel
Commerce
Families
Income tax
Married people
Parent and child
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the restrictions on the tax deduction for the travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse, dependent, or other individual accompanying the taxpayer on business travel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
To require any Federal or State court to recognize any notarization made by a notary public licensed by a State other than the State where the court is located when such notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce.

Bill: 109-hr-1458
Sponsor: Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. [R-AL-4]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil procedure
District courts
Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Interstate relations
Licenses
State courts
State laws
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Requires each Federal and State court to recognize any notarization made by a notary public licensed under the laws of a State other than the State where the court is located when such notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Requires each federal and state court to recognize any lawful notarization occurring in or affecting interstate commerce which is made by a notary public licensed or commissioned under the laws of a state other than the state where the federal court is located.
 
Requires such a notarization to: (1) use a seal of office as symbol of the notary public's authority; or (2) have the seal information, in the case of an electronic record, securely attached to, or logically associated with, the electronic record so as to render the record tamper-resistant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 12/7/2006 H8808)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR 12/7/2006 H8808)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1458.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR 12/7/2006 H8808-8809)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Mr. Sensenbrenner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2006-05-24
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2006-05-24
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
Boutique Fuels Reduction Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1459
Sponsor: Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Disasters
Emergency Management
Energy prices
Energy shortages
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental assessment
Environmental research
Federal advisory bodies
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Ozone
Reformulated gasoline
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Boutique Fuels Reduction Act of 2005 - Amends the Clean Air Act (CAA) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to temporarily waive controls or prohibitions on the use of a fuel or fuel additive regulated under specified provisions of that Act or prescribed in an applicable State Implementation Plan (SIP) if the Administrator determines that: (1) extreme and unusual circumstances exist in a State or region that prevent distribution of an adequate supply of the fuel or fuel additive to consumers; (2) such circumstances are the result of a natural disaster, an Act of God, a pipeline or refinery equipment failure, or another unforeseeable event; and (3) it is in the public interest to grant the waiver. Permits such a waiver only if specified requirements are met.
 
States that the Administrator shall have no authority, when considering a SIP or SIP revision regarding State controls or prohibitions on motor vehicle fuel or fuel additives, to approve any fuel: (1) if doing so would increase the total number of approved and fully implemented fuels as of September 1, 2004, in all SIPs; and (2) unless that fuel was approved and fully implemented in at least one SIP in the applicable Petroleum Administration for Defense District (with the exception of fuels with a specified summertime Reid Vapor Pressure).
 
Requires the Administrator and the Secretary of Energy jointly to study and report to Congress on the effects of SIPs adopted pursuant to CAA provisions regarding State controls or prohibitions on motor vehicle fuel or fuel additives. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to reduce from age 57 to age 55 the age after which the remarriage of the surviving spouse of a deceased veteran shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation otherwise payable to that surviving spouse.

Bill: 109-hr-1462
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Michael [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Families
Labor and Employment
Marriage
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' pensions
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Reduces from age 57 to age 55 the age after which the remarriage of the surviving spouse of a deceased veteran shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation otherwise payable to that surviving spouse. Prohibits payment of retroactive benefits. Permits eligibility for such benefits by an individual who but for having remarried would be eligible for such benefits by reason such age reduction and whose remarriage was before the date of the enactment of this Act and after the individual had attained age 57 only if the individual submits an application for such benefits within one year of enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain pimientos (capsicum anuum), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid.

Bill: 109-hr-1464
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Spices
Tariff
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on certain pimientos (capsicum anuum), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain pimientos (capsicum anuum), prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid.

Bill: 109-hr-1465
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Spices
Tariff
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on certain pimientos (capsicum anuum), prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain pimientos (capsicum anuum), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid.

Bill: 109-hr-1466
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Spices
Tariff
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on certain pimientos (capsicum anuum), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management land in the State of Nevada to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1467
Sponsor: Rep. Gibbons, Jim [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Nevada
Parking facilities
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Provides for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Nevada to the Nevada Speedway, LLC.
 
Requires: (1) Nevada Speedway, LLC, to pay to the Secretary of the Interior the appraised value of such land; and (2) any costs of the conveyance to be paid by Nevada Speedway, LLC.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to replace the recapture bond provisions of the low income housing tax credit program.

Bill: 109-hr-1468
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Limitation of actions
Low-income housing
Social Welfare
Surety and fidelity
Tax credits
Tax penalties
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions of the low income housing tax credit requiring a bond to cover recapture amounts from the disposition, prior to a 15-year compliance period, of a building (or interest therein) eligible for the credit. Provides for a three-year statute of limitation (from the end of the compliance period) for assessing a recapture deficiency.
 
Requires owners of buildings eligible for the low income housing tax credit to file informational returns with the Secretary of the Treasury upon the occurrence of a recapture event and to provide persons who are named in such returns with specified information. Imposes penalties for failure to file required returns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Interior shall make full payment to each unit of general local government in which entitlement land is located as set forth in chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1469
Sponsor: Rep. Otter, C. L. (Butch) [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Land transfers
Payments in lieu of taxes
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to make full payment to each unit of general local government in which entitlement land is located pursuant to current Federal law relating to payment for such land.
 
Instructs the Secretary, if funds are not appropriated in amounts required for the Secretary to make full payment to a local government entity as required above, to convey to that local entity Federal land with a fair market value equal to the deficiency in the payment within the geographic boundary of that local government, with the exception of: (1) a unit of the National Park System; (2) a National Wilderness Area; and (3) a unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
 
Requires conveyances under this Act to be completed not more than 90 days after the Secretary receives written notification of the selection from the local government. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to individuals who make contributions to finance the non-Federal share of projects of the Army Corps of Engineers.

Bill: 109-hr-1470
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Construction costs
Income tax
Infrastructure
Tax credits
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for contributions to a governmental entity for the non-Federal share of any water resources project carried out by the Secretary of the Army acting through the Chief of Engineers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act

Bill: 109-hr-1471
Sponsor: Rep. Pryce, Deborah [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Affordable housing
Case management
Community health services
Congregate housing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Dental care
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family services
Federal aid to housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Management information systems
Mental health services
Mental illness
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Performance measurement
Personal budgets
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to design national strategies for providing services in supportive housing that will assist in ending chronic homelessness and to implement programs that address chronic homelessness.
 
Requires the Secretary to make matching grants to eligible entities to provide services that promote recovery and self-sufficiency and that address barriers to housing stability to chronically homeless individuals in, or who are scheduled to become residents of, permanent supportive housing and to other individuals and families who have voluntarily chosen to seek other housing opportunities after a period of tenancy in supportive housing.
 
Directs the Secretary to require grantees to report data regarding the performance outcomes of projects carried out under this Act, which shall include measuring and reporting specific performance outcomes related to the long-term goals of: (1) increasing stability within the community for people who have been chronically homeless; and (2) decreasing recurrence of periods of homelessness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
Telecommunications Ownership Diversification Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1473
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Auditing
Broadband
Cable television
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Direct broadcast satellites
Enterprise zones
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Law
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Partnerships
Radio stations
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Stocks
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion
Telecommunication industry
Telephone
Television stations
Urban affairs
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Telecommunications Ownership Diversification Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer election to exclude from gross income a portion of the gain from the sale of the assets of a telecommunications business to an eligible purchaser. Defines &quot;eligible purchaser&quot; as: (1) any economically and socially disadvantaged business as designated by the Secretary of the Treasury using specified criteria; or (2) a corporation or partnership which, following the sale of a telecommunications business, owns substantially all of the assets of such business and is at least five percent owned by the Telecommunications Development Fund established under the Communications Act of 1934. 
Allows an investment tax credit of ten percent of the taxable income of any local exchange carrier that is not a Bell operating company and is headquartered in an area designated as an empowerment zone by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 
Allows the exclusion from gross income of 50 percent of the gain from the sale or exchange of stock, held for more than five years, in an eligible purchaser engaged in a telecommunications business. 
Directs the Comptroller General, not later than January 1, 2007, and two years thereafter, to audit and report on the administration of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in House