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To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and construct a facility on the campus of Saint Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia to serve as the headquarters for the United States Coast Guard.

Bill: 110-hr-7291
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2008-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Building construction
Coast guard
Department of Homeland Security
District of Columbia
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Health facilities and institutions
Military facilities and property

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and construct a facility on the campus of Saint Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia to serve as the headquarters for the United States Coast Guard.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income compensation received by employees consisting of qualified distributions of employer stock.

Bill: 110-hr-7292
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2008-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Employee ownership
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Stocks
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee: (1) shares of stock received from an employer in a qualified employee stock distribution not exceeding the lowest number of shares received by any employee in such distribution; (2) any gain on such stock if held by such employee for not less than 10 years, and (3) in the case of any qualified disposition of stock that meets such holding requirement, any gain on so much stock acquired during the 60-day period beginning on the date of such disposition as does not exceed the fair market value of the stock so disposed.

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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Introduced in House
Financial Security in Retirement Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7293
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2008-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax deferral
Income tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: 
Financial Security in Retirement Act of 2008 - Suspends, for calendar 2008 and 2009, minimum distribution requirements for up to $300,000 of an individual's interest in all eligible defined contribution plans as of December 31, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand the authorized concurrent receipt of disability severance pay from the Department of Defense and compensation for the same disability under any law administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs to cover all veterans who have a combat-related disability, as defined under section 1413a of such title.

Bill: 110-hr-7294
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2008-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability assistance
Military personnel and dependents
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: 
Extends the authorized concurrent receipt of disability severance pay from the Department of Defense (DOD) and compensation for the same disability under any law administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to include all veterans with a combat-related disability. (Under current law, such concurrent receipt is limited to those veterans who incur a disability in the line of duty in a combat zone or during the performance of duty in combat-related operations.)
 
Makes such amendment effective as of January 28, 2008 (the date of enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Francisca Lino.

Bill: 110-hr-7295
Sponsor: Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2008-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Provides for the relief of Francisca Lino.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Introduced in House
Midnight Rule Act

Bill: 110-hr-7296
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Midnight Rule Act - Amends federal civil service law to provide that a midnight rule (i.e., a rule adopted by an agency within the final 90 days a President serves in office) shall not take effect until 90 days after the agency head is appointed by the new President. Makes exceptions if the President serving his final term makes a determination by executive order, and submits written notice to Congress, that the rule should take effect because it is: (1) necessary because of an imminent threat to health or safety or other emergency; (2) necessary for the enforcement of criminal laws; (3) necessary for national security; or (4) issued pursuant to any statute implementing an international trade agreement.

Provides that an exercise by the President of such authority shall have no effect on existing provisions governing congressional disapproval of agency rules.

Authorizes the agency head appointed by the new President to disapprove of a midnight rule (by publishing a statement of disapproval in the Federal Register and sending a notice of disapproval to the congressional committees of jurisdiction) no later than 90 days after being appointed.

Makes this Act applicable to any rule adopted on or after October 22, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Automobile Industry American Jobs Protection Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7297
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Corporate finance and management
Employee hiring
Foreign and international corporations
Government lending and loan guarantees
Manufacturing
Motor vehicles
Retail and wholesale trades

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Emergency Automobile Industry American Jobs Protection Act of 2008 - States that any distribution of loan funds to General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler (Big Three) should be conditioned upon their certifying to Congress, before the disbursement, that: (1) U.S. automobile jobs will not be decreased by relocation to foreign countries; (2) automobile dealerships will benefit from the receipt of these loan funds; (3) the Big Three shall provide for the stability of such dealerships; and (4) U.S. automobile suppliers will also be supported by and stabilized such loan funding. 
 
States that no loan funds should be used by the Big Three to allow them to relocate overseas if the relocation causes the loss of U.S. automobile industry jobs, dealerships, or suppliers.
 
Declares that such loan funds should be used to: (1) ensure the stability of the Big Three; and (2) establish a long-term plan of growth for automobile dealerships and automotive industry suppliers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the deduction for expensing certain depreciable business assets and to allow a deduction for the original purchase of domestically manufactured automobiles.

Bill: 110-hr-7298
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business investment and capital
Buy American requirements
Income tax deductions
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase and make permanent the expensing allowance for depreciable business assets; and (2) allow a tax deduction, up to $10,000, for the purchase of a motor vehicle manufactured in the United States. Terminates such tax deduction after 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make payments for certain treatments of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Bill: 110-hr-7299
Sponsor: Rep. Cannon, Chris [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health information and medical records
Mental health
Military medicine
Neurological disorders
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to: (1) each establish a process to provide payments for treatments of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) received by members of the Armed Forces or veterans in health care facilities other than Department of Defense (DOD) or Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities; (2) jointly develop and maintain a patient database involving the use of a treatment under this Act; and (3) ensure that the database ensures patient confidentiality.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the proper application under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 of the limitations on built-in losses following an ownership change of a bank.

Bill: 110-hr-7300
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Business investment and capital
Congressional oversight
Corporate finance and management
Department of the Treasury
Government studies and investigations
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Limits the applicability of Treasury Notice 2008-83 (suspending restrictions on the offset of net operating losses and unrealized built-in losses against the taxable income of certain corporate entities that acquire or merge with other entities) to a period beginning on September 30, 2008, and ending on the earlier of the date of the first committee action on this Act or the date on which the Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance issue a joint statement indicating their intent to to terminate the application of such notice. Directs the Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury to conduct an investigation into the issuance of Treasury Notice 2008-83 and report to Congress on such investigation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Miami Dade College Land Conveyance Act

Bill: 110-hr-7301
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Education
Florida
Higher education
Land transfers
Parking facilities
School buildings
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Miami Dade College Land Conveyance Act - Directs the Attorney General to convey to Miami Dade College in Miami Dade County, Florida, a parcel of land held by the Bureau of Prisons for a new educational building that includes a parking area with designated parking spaces for the Bureau of Prisons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Health Professions and Primary Care Reinvestment Act

Bill: 110-hr-7302
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Child health
Community health services
Dentistry
Dentists
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Medical education
Medical personnel
Mental health services
Minorities
Minorities in medicine
Minority health
Psychologists

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Health Professions and Primary Care Reinvestment Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise provisions related to: (1) addressing workforce shortages for primary care health professions; and (2) assisting underrepresented minorities or disadvantaged students to enter health professions.

Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) make grants for the training of primary care physicians teaching in community-based settings; (2) provide for programs that improve clinical teaching and research in primary care; (3) provide for community health needs assessments; (4) provide for the establishment of Primary Care Training Institutes within academic health centers; and (5) provide for approved professional training programs in the field of general or pediatric dentistry.

Revises provisions governing area health education centers, including to require the Secretary to make awards to improve the effectiveness and capabilities of existing programs.

Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the development and implementation of interdisciplinary training of psychology graduate students to provide behavioral and mental health services.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis; (2) designate regional workforce analysis centers; (3) award grants or contracts to regional centers for research on high-priority workforce questions; (4) provide for monitoring of the supply, need for, and diversity and distribution of health professionals; and (5) establish the Advisory Committee on Health Workforce Information, Evaluation, and Assessment.

Requires the Secretary, acting in conjunction with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award competitive grants to establish Academic Health Departments to provide for collaboration between the academic and practice aspects of public health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Consumer and Automotive Recovery Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7303
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax credits
Motor vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Consumer and Automotive Recovery Act of 2008 or the CAR Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a one-time tax credit for the purchase of a U.S. manufactured motor vehicle with a gross weight rating of not more than 14,000 pounds. Limits the amount of such credit to $1,500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to address the use of intrathecal pumps.

Bill: 110-hr-7304
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2008-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Medical supplies

Summary:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: 
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to revise the definition of &quot;dispense&quot; to include the delivery of a controlled substance through the use of an intrathecal pump by a practitioner acting in the usual course of professional practice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-11-20
text: Introduced in House
State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Expansion Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7308
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2008-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax deductions
Sales and excise taxes
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: 
State and Local Sales Tax Deduction Expansion Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow all individual taxpayers a tax deduction for state and local general sales taxes (current law allows taxpayers an election to deduct either state and local income taxes or sales taxes).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend employment and income taxes for the first two months of 2009, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-7309
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2008-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts, deposits, capital
Corporate finance and management
Employment taxes
Financial crises and stabilization
Government trust funds
Income tax exclusion
Medicare
Securities
Social security and elderly assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reduce to 0% the employment tax on employers, employees, and self-employed individuals during the first two months of 2009; and (2) exclude from gross income any wage and self-employment income earned during the first two months of 2009.

Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to repeal procedures for authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obligate additional amounts under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

Requires the Secretary to: (1) estimate the impact of this Act on the income and balances of the social security trust funds; and (2) transfer amounts from the Treasury to such trust funds if there is any reduction in the income and balances of such trust funds resulting from this Act. 

Terminates the authority of the Secretary under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to purchase troubled assets or any preferred or other stock or equity in any financial institution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2008-12-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2008-12-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2008-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Patients and Health Care Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7310
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2008-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Congressional oversight
Department of Health and Human Services
Health facilities and institutions
Health personnel
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: 
Protecting Patients and Health Care Act of 2008 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from finalizing, enforcing, implementing, or taking other action in furtherance of specified proposed regulations regarding conscience clause protections for health care workers and facilities (under the authority of provisions commonly referred to as the Church Amendments and the Weldon Amendment).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the selling and counterfeiting of tickets for a Presidential inaugural ceremony.

Bill: 110-hr-7312
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2008-12-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Forgery
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Presidential inaugurations

Summary:
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: 
Makes it unlawful to knowingly and intentionally sell or forge a ticket to a presidential inaugural ceremony or to use, unlawfully possess, or exhibit a forged ticket with the intent to defraud. Exempts the sale of tickets to a presidential inaugural ceremony that has already occurred. Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to one year for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2346)
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-12-09
text: Introduced in House