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Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6264
Sponsor: Rep. Thomas, William M. [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Affiliated corporations
Alternative energy sources
Commerce
Commodity tax straddles
Corporation taxes
Dividends
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Income tax
Internal revenue law
Minimum tax
Partnerships
Service stations
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax returns
Underground storage

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2006 - Makes technical and clerical corrections to the Internal Revenue Code, including corrections to provisions enacted by: (1) the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005; (2) the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005; (3) the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users; (4) the Energy Policy Act of 2005; (5) the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004; (6) the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003; (7) the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001; (8) the Tax Relief Extension Act of 1999; and (9) the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Museum of Ideas Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6265
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Museums
Philosophy
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Sociology

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Museum of Ideas Act of 2006 - Establishes the Museum of Ideas Commission to develop a plan for establishing in Washington, D.C., a museum that presents the history and evolution of human ideas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the credits for residential energy efficient property and new energy efficient homes.

Bill: 109-hr-6267
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Electric appliances
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Fuel cells
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Solar energy
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax credits for expenditures for: (1) nonbusiness energy property; (2) residential energy efficient property; and (3) new energy efficient homes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against tax for expenses related to the collection and storage of umbilical cord blood.

Bill: 109-hr-6268
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Blood
Blood banks
Childbirth
Health
Income tax
Tax credits
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50% of qualified umbilical cord blood collection and storage expenses, up to $2,000 in a taxable year. Defines &quot;qualified umbilical cord blood collection and storage expenses&quot; as expenses directly related to the collection, storage, and maintenance of umbilical cord blood collected at the birth of a child.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Oil and Gas-to-Alternatives Swap (OGAS) Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6269
Sponsor: Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Coke industry
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Electric vehicles
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Gas industry
Geology
Geophysical prediction
Income tax
Natural gas vehicles
Petroleum industry
Prospecting
Service stations
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Oil and Gas-to-Alternatives Swap (OGAS) Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal: (1) the tax credit for facilities producing coke or coke gas-related fuel; (2) the classification of the tax credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source as a business-related credit; (3) accelerated amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures; and (4) the limitation on the number of new qualified hybrid and advanced lean-burn technology vehicles eligible for the tax credit for alternative motor vehicles. 

Extends through 2012 the alternative motor vehicles tax credit for: (1) advanced lean burn technology motor vehicles; (2) qualified hybrid motor vehicles; and (3) qualified alternative fuel vehicles. 

Increases from 30 to 60% the rate of the tax credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property and extends such credit through 2012.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
California Desert and Mountain Heritage Act

Bill: 109-hr-6270
Sponsor: Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
California
Commemorations
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
Maps
National forests
National monuments
National parks
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
California Desert and Mountain Heritage Act - Designates as wilderness: (1) certain Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in the Cleveland National Forest, to be part of the Agua Tibia Wilderness; (2) specified lands in the San Bernardino National Forest to be known as the Cahuilla Mountain Wilderness and the South Fork San Jacinto Wilderness and as part of the Santa Rosa Wilderness; (3) certain BLM land in Riverside County, California, to be known as the Beauty Mountain Wilderness; and (4) certain land in Joshua Tree National Park, to be part of the Joshua Tree Wilderness.
 
Designates certain lands in the Joshua Tree National Park as potential wilderness. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to manage such land as wilderness until it is incorporated into the Joshua Tree Wilderness (effective when the Secretary publishes notice that all uses of the land prohibited by the Wilderness Act have ceased or that sufficient inholdings have been acquired to establish a manageable wilderness unit).
 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate as wild, scenic, or recreational rivers specified segments of the North Fork San Jacinto River, Fuller Mill Creek, Palm Canyon Creek, and Bautista Creek in California.
 
Amends the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Act of 2000 to include additional lands within the boundaries of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.
action_date: 2006-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Erroneous Deployment Compensation Act

Bill: 109-hr-6271
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Labor and Employment
Military pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Erroneous Deployment Compensation Act - Increases nonregular service retirement credits for members or former members of reserve components of the Armed Forces who were ordered to active duty after September 11, 2001, and deployed to a combat area only by reason of an administrative error by the Department of Defense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Enhanced Emergency and Enforcement Authority Act

Bill: 109-hr-6272
Sponsor: Rep. Campbell, John [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Brokers
Civil actions and liability
Civil procedure
Commerce
Emergency Management
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Investment advisers
Investors
Law
Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities industry
Securities regulation
Subpoena

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Enhanced Emergency and Enforcement Authority Act - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to empower the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to reduce, eliminate, or prevent substantial disruption by an emergency of the ability of market participants to conduct securities activities or comply with obligations under the securities laws in a timely, orderly, or efficient manner.
 
Amends the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Investment Company Act of 1940 to provide that, in any action or proceeding instituted by the SEC in federal district court for any judicial district, subpoenas issued by or on behalf of such court to compel the attendance of witnesses or the production of documents or tangible things (or both) may be served in any other district (thus granting the SEC nationwide service of process).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide for enhanced protections against identity theft related to the public filing of separation forms of members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6273
Sponsor: Rep. Cardoza, Dennis A. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer credit
Department of Veterans Affairs
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identity theft
Law
Liability insurance
Military discharges
Public records
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish guidelines for: (1) states and local governments for protecting against identity theft related to the public filing of a separation form of a member of the Armed Forces; and (2) veterans for demonstrating that their personal identification information was misused by an unauthorized person as a direct result of such filing. 
 
 Requires the Secretary to provide credit monitoring services and fraud remediation for one year to an adversely affected veteran, including: (1) providing one copy of the veteran's credit report every three months; (2) fraud resolution services; and (3) identity theft insurance of up to $30,000 in aggregate liability for the insured.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Unemployment Tax Equity Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6274
Sponsor: Rep. Chocola, Chris [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Unemployment Tax Equity Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Secretary of Labor to enter into agreements with no more than five states for the establishment of demonstration programs to permit such states to assume primary responsibility for the administration of their unemployment compensation laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to alleviate poverty by encouraging the employment of residents by empowerment zone businesses through the employment of residents in designated areas of pervasive poverty, unemployment, and general distress.

Bill: 109-hr-6276
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Poverty
Residence requirements
Social Welfare
Unemployment
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow enterprise zone businesses operating in empowerment zones (economically depressed areas) who file necessary information with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development documenting reasonable efforts to meet the residency requirement applicable to zone employees to receive an exemption from such requirement if at least 35% of their employees during the final three months of a taxable year are residents of the empowerment zone or any area within a 15-mile radius of the qualified business which has been designated by any governmental unit as an area of pervasive poverty, unemployment, and general distress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Disabled American Financial Security Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6277
Sponsor: Rep. Crenshaw, Ander [R-FL-4]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disabled
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employment of the disabled
Health
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Housing for the disabled
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Relocation
Self-help devices for the disabled
Social Welfare
Special education
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation and the disabled
Trusts and trustees
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Disabled American Financial Security Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish tax-exempt Disabled American Financial Security Accounts to pay certain expenses, including expenses for education, medical care, and employment training, of disabled individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6278
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Anadromous fishes
Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fish kills
Fishery management
Government Operations and Politics
Idaho
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Montana
Oregon
Overhead costs
Power marketing administrations
Washington State
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2006 - Amends the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2000 to make the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Program a pass-through program. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to give priority to any project that has a total cost of less than $2.5 million (currently, $5 million). Makes development and implementation of projects on land or facilities owned by an Indian tribe nonreimbursable expenditures.
 
Requires: (1) any amounts provided by the Bonneville Power Administration directly or through a grant to another entity for a project carried out under the Program to be credited toward the non-federal share of project costs; and (2) the Secretary's report on projects under such Act to be made after partnering with local governmental entities and the states in the Pacific Ocean drainage area (Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho).
 
Authorizes appropriations for the Act through FY2012. Sets forth a formula for determining the amounts that may be used for federal (including tribal) and state administrative expenses (based on the amount made available for the Program each fiscal year). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Understanding Off-shoring and Outsourcing Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6279
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic statistics
Economics and Public Finance
Exports
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Imports
International corporations
Labor statistics
Layoffs
Relocation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Understanding Off-shoring and Outsourcing Act of 2006 - Requires the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce to revise its requirements for mandatory industry reporting of international services transactions to lower by 50% the per-company monetary thresholds above which companies must report import and export services transactions. 
 
Requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to make specified revisions to the procedures and methodologies related to its collection and disaggregation of data relating to mass layoffs, relocations, and employment.
 
Requires the Bureaus to study and report jointly to Congress on whether linking or coordinating their independent data relating to mass layoffs and import and export services transactions would improve the quality of information available about outsourcing and off-shoring of private sector business operations and services.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of screening tests for human papillomavirus (HPV).

Bill: 109-hr-6280
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cervical cancer
Medical fees
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medicare
Social Welfare
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of screening tests for human papillomavirus (HPV) associated with a higher risk of cervical cancer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Improving Medication Access for Veterans Act

Bill: 109-hr-6282
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Coinsurance
Commerce
Dental care
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Medical economics
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare
Vaccination
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
 Improving Medication Access for Veterans Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish certain prescribed drugs and medicines (i.e., only drugs and medicines included on the National Prescription Drug Formulary of the Department of Veterans Affairs) as specific therapy in the treatment of any illness or injury suffered by each veteran who is receiving additional compensation or allowance due to a service-connected disability, or an increased pension as a veteran of a period of war, by reason of being permanently housebound or in need of regular aid and attendance.
 
Allows any Medicare-eligible veteran to elect to be furnished by the Secretary, on an outpatient basis, such drugs and medicines as specific therapy for any illness or injury suffered by the veteran. Requires such election to last for a calendar year and be irrevocable. Allows for election renewal. Requires appropriate information to be furnished to each veteran prior to making an election.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to administer immunizations to veterans who voluntarily request such immunizations in connection with care for a disability in a Department of Veterans Affairs health care facility.
 
Provides for appropriate copayments for the drugs and medicines received by veterans under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House