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A bill to require the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation to use dynamic economic modeling in addition to static economic modeling in the preparation of budgetary estimates of proposed changes in Federal revenue law.

Bill: 110-s-91
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional Budget Office
Congressional agencies
Congressional joint committees
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic forecasting
Economic impact statements
Economic research
Economic statistics
Federal budgets
Fiscal policy
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Joint Taxation
Legislation
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that it is necessary to ensure that Congress is presented with reliable information from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation as to the dynamic macroeconomic feedback effects to changes in federal law and the probable behavioral responses of taxpayers, businesses, and other parties to such changes. 
 
Requires the Joint Committee and CBO, using among other methods dynamic estimating techniques, to prepare fiscal estimates of each proposed change in federal revenue law on the basis of assumptions that estimate the probable behavioral responses of personal and business taxpayers and other relevant entities to such change and its dynamic macroeconomic feedback effects. Applies such requirement only to proposed changes that, pursuant to static fiscal estimates, have a fiscal impact exceeding $250 million in any fiscal year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-09
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Consumer Phone Records Act

Bill: 110-s-92
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Computer security measures
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Data banks
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Federal preemption
Fines (Penalties)
Forfeiture
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Independent regulatory commissions
Injunctions
Internet
Law
Limitation of actions
Local laws
Parties to actions
Public service advertising
Punitive damages
Restrictive trade practices
Right of privacy
State laws
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Protecting Consumer Phone Records Act - Makes it unlawful to: (1) acquire or use customer proprietary network information without written consent; (2) represent that another person has consented in order to acquire such information; (3) obtain unauthorized access to certain systems or records in order to acquire such information; (4) sell or offer for sale such information; or (5) request that another person unlawfully obtain such information.
 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for a civil forfeiture penalty for violation of this Act.
 
Imposes on IP-enabled voice service providers a duty to protect the confidentiality of specified proprietary information.
 
Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require each telecommunications carrier to notify customers of unlawful disclosure of such information.
 
Prohibits a commercial mobile services provider from providing any customer's wireless telephone number information to any wireless directory assistance service without express prior customer authorization. Requires de-listing on customer request without cost to the customer. Prohibits providers from publishing the information without such authorization. Prohibits fees for exercising these rights. Preempts any inconsistent state or local requirements.
 
Requires that violations of certain provisions of this Act be enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and treated as unfair or deceptive acts or practices. Gives the FCC concurrent enforcement jurisdiction. Provides for enforcement by states and preemption of state law.
 
Requires public education about the protection afforded such information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
911 Modernization Act

Bill: 110-s-93
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Commerce
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Law
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
911 Modernization Act - Amends the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to authorize the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to borrow from the treasury to make payments to implement the ENHANCE 911 Act of 2004. Requires repayment, without interest, as funds are deposited into the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Fund.
 
Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to require issuance of regulations updating the criteria to provide priority for public safety answering points not capable of receiving 911 calls.

action_date: 2007-03-26
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
911 Modernization Act - Amends the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to authorize the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to borrow from the treasury to make payments to implement the ENHANCE 911 Act of 2004. Requires repayment, without interest, as funds are deposited into the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Fund.
 
Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to require the Assistant Secretary and the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to jointly issue regulations updating the criteria to provide priority for public safety answering points not capable of receiving 911 calls.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-26
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 86.
action_date: 2007-03-26
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Inouye without amendment. With written report No. 110-38.
action_date: 2007-03-26
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Inouye without amendment. With written report No. 110-38.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Gasoline Consumer Anti-price-gouging Protection Act

Bill: 110-s-94
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Crime and Law Enforcement
Energy
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Federal Trade Commission
Fines (Penalties)
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Profit
Restrictive trade practices
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Gasoline Consumer Anti-price-gouging Protection Act - Makes it unlawful for any supplier to increase the price for gasoline or petroleum distillates in an area covered by: (1) an emergency proclamation issued by the President that an abnormal market has or is expected to occur; or (2) a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) emergency order that an abnormal market disruption affecting more than one state has or is expected to occur. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to justifiable increases. Authorizes the President or FTC to issue such proclamations or orders.
 
Provides: (1) prohibition enforcement through the FTC; and (2) civil and criminal penalties for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Kids Come First Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-95
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aliens
Appropriations
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health insurance
Immigrant health
Immigration
Income
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medical savings accounts
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
State employees
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Taxation
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Kids Come First Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX of the Social Security Act (SSA) to give states the option to receive 100% Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentages (FMAPs) for medical assistance for children in poverty in exchange for expanded coverage of children in working poor families under Medicaid (SSA title XIX) or SCHIP (SSA title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance)). 
 
Eliminates the cap on SCHIP funding for states that expand eligibility for children.
 
Gives states the option to: (1) provide wrap-around SCHIP coverage to children who have other health coverage; (2) enroll low-income children of state employees in SCHIP; (3) provide optional coverage of legal immigrant children under Medicaid and SCHIP; and (4) provide for passive renewal of eligibility for children under Medicaid and SCHIP. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for: (1) a refundable income tax credit for health insurance coverage of children; and (2) forfeiture of the personal tax exemption for any child not covered by health insurance. 

Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to require group market health insurers to offer a dependent coverage option for workers and other individuals with children.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for partial repeal of rate reduction in the highest income tax bracket.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8616-8617)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S94-98)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S94)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Export Products Not Jobs Act

Bill: 110-s-96
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
Interest
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Tax rates
Tax shelters
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Export Products Not Jobs Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) revise rules and definitions relating to the taxation of controlled foreign corporations to limit deferral of tax for certain types of income earned overseas; (2) treat certain foreign corporations managed and controlled in the United States as domestic corporations for income tax purposes; (3) define &quot;economic substance&quot; for purposes of evaluating tax shelter transactions; (4) impose a penalty for underpayments of tax resulting from transactions lacking in economic substance; (5) deny a tax deduction for interest on such underpayments; and (6) eliminate the 35% income tax rate on corporations and personal service corporations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S100-104)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S98-100)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
College Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-97
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Graduate education
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Minimum tax
Tax refunds
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
College Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits with an increased, partially refundable college opportunity tax credit to cover up to four years (currently, limited to two years) of the tuition and related expenses of full or part-time postsecondary and graduate students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S105)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S104-105)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Minority Entrepreneurship Development Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-98
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Black colleges
Business education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Distance education
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Entrepreneurs
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to education
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Indian education
Management
Marketing
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Minority education
Ombudsman
Science, Technology, Communications
Small Business Administration
Small business
Technological innovations
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Minority Entrepreneurship Development Act of 2007 - Amends the Small Business Act to establish within the Small Business Administration (SBA) an Office of Minority Small Business Development to, among other things, formulate, execute, and promote SBA policies and programs that provide assistance to small businesses owned and controlled by minorities.
 
Authorizes the SBA Administrator to make grants to eligible educational institutions: (1) to assist in establishing an entrepreneurship curriculum for undergraduate or graduate studies; and (2) for the placement of a small business development center on the campus of the institution.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to eligible associations and organizations to: (1) assist in establishing the technical capacity to provide online or distance learning for businesses seeking to contract with the federal government; (2) develop curriculum for seminars that will provide businesses with the technical expertise for such contracting; and (3) provide training and technical expertise through distance learning to participant business owners and other interested parties.
 
Amends the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 to extend through FY2009 the socially and economically disadvantaged business program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S106-108)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S105-106)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Health Care Tax Credit Act

Bill: 110-s-99
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Small business
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Small Business Health Care Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small business employers a partially refundable business tax credit for the health insurance costs of employees who are not otherwise covered by a spouse's insurance or by a federal health insurance program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S108-109)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S108)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Students Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-100
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Charitable contributions
Child health
Child nutrition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Department of Agriculture
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Equipment and supplies
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health
Health education
Higher education
Income tax
Law
Nurses
Organic farming
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
Scholarships
School health programs
School lunch program
School personnel
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
Standards
Student loan funds
Tax deductions
Taxation
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Healthy Students Act of 2007 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a Commission to Improve School Meals composed of nutrition and children's health experts tasked with developing new nutritional standards for the School Lunch, Summer Food Service, Child and Adult Care Food, and School Breakfast programs. Requires such standards to ban foods of minimal nutritional value. Provides for the adjustment of program payment rates to compensate for compliance with such standards.
 
Repeals the current requirement that the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) issue guidance to states and school food authorities to increase the consumption of foods and food ingredients recommended in the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a pilot program providing grants to school districts or nonprofit organizations for use in promoting healthy food alternatives under the School Lunch and School Breakfast programs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to elementary and secondary schools for Healthy Hour pilot programs which increase each school day by an hour that is exclusively devoted to physical activity.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish a student loan forgiveness program for nurses who agree to employment as full-time nurses in elementary or secondary schools for three complete school years.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow corporations a tax deduction for the charitable contribution to a private foundation of exercise or gymnasium equipment for use by elementary and secondary school students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S109-110)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Universal Service for Americans Act

Bill: 110-s-101
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Arts, Culture, Religion
Auditing
Broadband
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost control
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal Communications Commission
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Housing and Community Development
Independent regulatory commissions
Internet
Law
Libraries
Minorities
Native Americans
Off-budget expenditures
Performance measurement
Rural health
Standards
State laws
Surveys
Telecommunication industry
Telecommunication rates
Telephone
Territories (U.S.)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Universal Service for Americans Act or USA Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require each communications service provider to contribute to support universal service (the provision of communications service in rural, insular, and high-cost areas), subject to exemptions. 
 
Modifies requirements regarding interconnection and rural telephone companies.
 
Imposes on facilities-based IP-enabled voice service providers the same rights, duties, and obligations as a requesting telecommunications carrier if the provider elects to assert those rights. Prohibits a carrier from refusing to transport or terminate IP-enabled voice traffic solely because it is IP-enabled and prohibits a provider originating, transmitting, or terminating IP-enabled voice traffic from being exempted from paying compensation for interstate traffic solely because the traffic is IP-enabled. Regulates IP-enabled voice service regarding: (1) accessibility for the disabled community; and (2) alarm or security systems or personal security or medical monitoring systems.
 
Applies universal service provisions to any services under FCC jurisdiction that can effectively substitute for interexchange telecommunications services, including any such substitute classified as an information service that uses telecommunications.
 
Establishes the Broadband for Unserved Areas Program to provide financial assistance for the deployment of broadband equipment and infrastructure to unserved areas throughout the United States. 
 
Declares that universal service support mechanisms and rules should be competitively neutral.
 
Requires telecommunications and IP-enabled voice service providers to ensure, as technically possible, that all traffic contains or preserves identification information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand relief from the alternative minimum tax and to repeal the extension of the lower rates for capital gains and dividends for 2009 and 2010.

Bill: 110-s-102
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the exemption from the alternative minimum tax for individual taxpayers in 2007; and (2) extend through 2007 the allowance of certain nonrefundable tax credits against alternative minimum tax liability.

Repeals provisions of the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 which extended reductions in capital gains and dividend tax rates through 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S110-111)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S110)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate