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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and modify the renewable energy production tax credit and the solar energy and fuel cell investment tax credit.

Bill: 110-hr-6133
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Coal
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Energy
Environmental Protection
Fuel cells
Geothermal resources
Hydroelectric power
Incineration
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Irrigation
Landfills
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Methane
Natural gas
Ocean energy resources
Refuse as fuel
Solar energy
Tax credits
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2013 the tax credit for producing electricity from wind, open and closed-loop biomass, geothermal or solar energy, small irrigation power, landfill gas, trash combustion, refined coal, and hydropower facilities; (2) include marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy as a resource eligible for such credit; (3) extend through 2017 the investment tax credit for solar, fuel cell, and microturbine property; (4) repeal the dollar per kilowatt limitation for fuel cell property for purposes of the investment tax credit; and (5) allow public utility property to qualify for the investment tax credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Renewable Fuel Adjustment Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6134
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corn
Feed grains
Feeds
Food industry
Food prices
Food supply
Forest products
Governmental investigations
Income tax
Livestock
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reformulated gasoline
Soybeans
Standards
Tax credits
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Renewable Fuel Adjustment Act of 2008 - Repeals specified amendments made to renewable fuel program provisions of the Clean Air Act by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, including the renewable fuel standards and related definitions prescribed by such Act. 

Requires the President to recommend changes to renewable fuel standards based upon the findings of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) study of the impact of the renewable fuel program on producers of feed grains, livestock, food, forest products, and energy when the Secretary of Energy submits it to Congress.

Requires the Secretary to enter into an arrangement with NAS to assess the impact of federal and state requirements to use ethanol on such producers and producers of other consumer goods.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for reductions in the ethanol blender credits for ethanol derived from corn kernels, soybeans, or any other substances that are suitable for human food or livestock feed consumption.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-05-22
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: 2008-05-22
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: 2008-05-22
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: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To establish a program for providing scholarships for nuclear science and nuclear engineering students, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-6135
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Engineers
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Labor supply
Nuclear engineering
Nuclear physics
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientists

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to award at least 65 four-year grants per year to undergraduate institutions to fund scholarships for students majoring in nuclear science or nuclear engineering.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide Congress with recommendations for developing a robust nuclear workforce in this country.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to authorize the President to waive any requirement for an applicable volume of renewable fuels if he finds that the applicable volume is not technologically feasible or that the fuel concerned is not commercially available in the required volume.

Bill: 110-hr-6136
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Environmental Protection
Motor vehicle pollution control
Reformulated gasoline
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to authorize the President to waive the requirement concerning the applicable volume of renewable fuels in gasoline in any year after 2007 through 2022 if the President finds that complying with such requirement in that year is not technologically feasible or that the fuel concerned is not commercially available in the required volume for that year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To remove the additional tariff on ethanol.

Bill: 110-hr-6137
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to eliminate the additional tariff on ethanol used as fuel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the prohibition on using certain funds to issue regulations on oil shale resources.

Bill: 110-hr-6138
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of the Interior
Energy
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Oil and gas leases
Oil shales

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 to repeal the prohibition on using certain funds to issue regulations for: (1) a commercial leasing program for oil shale resources on public lands; or (2) an oil shale lease sale.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Protecting the Retirement of Our Troops by Ensuring Compensation is Timely Act

Bill: 110-hr-6140
Sponsor: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed forces abroad
Crime and Law Enforcement
Death
Families
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military occupation
Military operations
Military pensions
Retired military personnel
South Asia
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
PROTECT Act or Protecting the Retirement of Our Troops by Ensuring Compensation is Timely Act - Prohibits the Secretary of a military department, regarding a participant in the Survivor Benefit Plan who the Secretary of State has determined was kidnapped in Iraq or Afghanistan on or after October 7, 2001, from making a determination that the participant is missing, with the presumption of death, until the earlier of: (1) at least seven years after the Secretary of State's determination; or (2) the date on which the participant is confirmed dead.
 
Directs the Secretary of a military department, regarding such a participant who was presumed to be dead before enactment of this Act, to pay retired pay for periods before and after enactment of this Act until one of the above conditions is met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Elder Serve Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6141
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Clothing
Counseling
Economics and Public Finance
Elder abuse
Emergency Management
Emergency housing
Families
Family services
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Housing for the aged
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Legal services
Medical screening
Medical tests
Mental health services
Social Welfare
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Elder Serve Act of 2008 - Directs the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Office of Victims of Crime of the Department of Justice (DOJ), to carry out a three-year Elder Serve Coordinating Councils grant program to provide grants to eligible entities to establish pilot programs to facilitate and coordinate Emergency Crisis Response Team programs to provide short-term emergency services for victims of elder abuse. 

Requires grant recipients, within one year, to establish counseling, mental health screening, legal advocacy, job placement assistance, and family bereavement counseling programs for such victims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide, in the case of an employee welfare benefit plan providing benefits in the event of disability, an exemption from preemption under such title for State tort actions to recover damages arising from the failure of the plan to timely provide such benefits.

Bill: 110-hr-6142
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Damages
Disability insurance
Disabled
Employee benefit plans
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Law
State laws
Torts

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to exempt from ERISA preemption state tort actions to recover damages arising from an employee welfare benefit plan's failure to provide plan disability benefits in a timely manner. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Education Assistance Creating Hope for Our Future Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6144
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government lending
Higher education
Public schools
Rating of teachers
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Teacher Education Assistance Creating Hope for Our Future Act of 2008 or the TEACH for Our Future Act of 2008 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand the loan forgiveness available to public elementary and secondary school teachers under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) and Direct Loan (DL) programs.
 
Makes inapplicable to public school teachers the requirements limiting loan forgiveness to: (1) new borrowers on or after October 1, 1998; and (2) highly qualified teachers in certain schools that serve a high proportion of disadvantaged students. Maintains the requirement that such teachers teach full-time for five consecutive complete school years before becoming eligible for loan forgiveness.
 
Raises to $25,000 the amount of the FFEL or DL outstanding that may be forgiven after a public school teacher's fifth complete school year of teaching. 
 
Maintains current loan forgiveness eligibility requirements for private elementary and secondary school teachers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Our Children Online Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6145
Sponsor: Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Child safety
Computer crimes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Education
Electronic mail systems
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Internet
Libraries
Secondary education
Telecommunication rates
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Protecting Our Children Online Act of 2008 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require schools and libraries that receive telecommunications services at discounted rates under specified provisions to educate minors about safe online behavior. Requires that education to include information about: (1) interacting with other individuals through social networking websites, chat rooms, electronic mail, bulletin boards, instant messaging, and other means of online communication; and (2) cyberbullying awareness and response.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 28, United States Code, to prohibit recognition and enforcement of foreign defamation judgments.

Bill: 110-hr-6146
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Civil procedure
Evidence (Law)
Freedom of speech
International Affairs
Libel and slander

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Amends the federal judicial code to prohibit a domestic court from recognizing or enforcing a foreign judgment concerning defamation unless the domestic court determines that the foreign judgment is consistent with the First Amendment to the Constitution.

action_date: 2008-09-27
text: 
Amends the federal judicial code to prohibit a domestic court from recognizing or enforcing a foreign judgment for defamation that is based upon a publication concerning a public figure or a matter of public concern, unless the domestic court determines that the judgment is consistent with the First Amendment to the Constitution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H10258)
action_date: 2008-09-27
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 H10258)
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6146.
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H10258-10263)
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: Mr. Conyers moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2008-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1088)
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Trade Agreement Benchmarks and Accountability Act

Bill: 110-hr-6148
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional voting
Employee rights
Environmental Protection
Exports
House rules and procedure
International Affairs
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Legislation
Legislative resolutions
Senate rules and procedure
Standards
Trade agreements
Unemployment
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Trade Agreement Benchmarks and Accountability Act - Subjects bills implementing trade agreements to a point of order in both the Senate and the House of Representatives unless certain conditions are met.
 
Withdraws congressional approval of a bill implementing a trade agreement if a report by the International Trade Commission (ITC) indicates that certain benchmarks and predictions made with respect to an agreement are not being met unless a joint resolution waiving such benchmarks and predictions is enacted by Congress. Describes the benchmarks as analyses of the following effects of the agreement: (1) resulting job creation and job losses; (2) resulting improvement in wages for U.S. workers; (3) implementation and enforcement of the labor and environmental standards by each country that is a party to the agreement; and (4) the extent to which the agreement will result in an increase in access by U.S. businesses to the market of each country that is a party to the agreement, particularly those sectors identified by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) as of special importance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To facilitate the installation of wind turbines and other renewable energy generating technology on the Massachusetts Military Reservation.

Bill: 110-hr-6149
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, William D. [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Air force
Alternative energy sources
Army
Energy
Massachusetts
Military bases
Military construction operations
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force to spend from operations and maintenance appropriations whatever amounts are necessary to carry out unspecified minor military construction projects at the Massachusetts Military Reservation for the installation of wind turbines and other renewable energy generating technology, notwithstanding provisions limiting the amount that may be spent on unspecified minor military construction projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Responsibility in Drug and Device Advertising Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6151
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Deceptive advertising
Drug advertising
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drugs
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health education
Law
Public service advertising
Sales promotion
Science, Technology, Communications
Television advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Responsibility in Drug and Device Advertising Act of 2008 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit direct-to-consumer advertising in the first three years after approval of a new drug or device. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) waive such prohibition if such advertising would have an affirmative value to public health; and (2) continue such prohibition in subsequent years if the drug or device has significant adverse health effects.

Requires any direct-to-consumer advertisement to include a fair balance of the benefits and risks associated with the drug or device.

Deems a drug to be misbranded if a direct-to-consumer television advertisement for such drug does not prominently display a statement encouraging individuals to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Requires the Secretary to discontinue the study designed to determine if such a statement is appropriate for television advertisements.

Deems a device to be misbranded if a direct-to-consumer television advertisement for such device does not include a statement encouraging individuals to report negative side effects of medical devices to the FDA.

Sets forth civil monetary penalties for violations relating to the advertising and promotion of a drug or device. Allows the Secretary to order the distribution of materials to notify the public and the medical community of such a violation and to provide corrective information.

Requires the Secretary to conduct an education campaign to increase public awareness of risks that, for some patients, may outweigh the benefits of using a particular drug or device.

Authorizes additional appropriations to regulate direct-to-consumer drug and device advertisements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in House