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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend the running of periods of limitation for credit or refund of overpayment of Federal income tax by veterans while their service-connected compensation determinations are pending with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 110-hr-951
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Income tax
Limitation of actions
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend the limitation period for filing refund claims for overpayments of tax for any veteran whose overpayment relates to a determination by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs that such veteran was entitled to service-connected disability compensation. Provides that the suspension period begins on the date a veteran submits a claim for compensation and ends on the date the Secretary makes a determination. Permits a veteran to file a refund claim for overpayment of tax (relating to benefit determinations made by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs after 1995) even if the claim is barred by law, if the claim is filed before the end of one year after enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Heritage Homes Tax Incentive Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-952
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commemorations
Finance and Financial Sector
Historic sites
History
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Interest
Mortgages
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Heritage Homes Tax Incentive Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to grant a tax deduction (whether or not the taxpayer itemizes deductions) for 125 percent of residence interest paid or accrued on acquisition indebtedness for heritage homes. Defines a &quot;heritage home&quot; as a taxpayer's principal residence that is at least 50 years old and a certified historic structure in a registered historic district.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

Bill: 110-hr-953
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional salaries
Cost of living adjustments

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
To repeal section 10(f) of Public Law 93-531, commonly known as the "Bennett Freeze".

Bill: 110-hr-956
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Building construction
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-Indian relations
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Indian economic development
Indian housing
Indian lands
Minorities
Real estate development
Residential rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Amends federal law to repeal the requirement regarding the freeze on the development of lands in litigation under the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act of 1974.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Data Accountability and Trust Act

Bill: 110-hr-958
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Computer security measures
Congress
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Electronic data interchange
Electronic mail systems
Encryption
Evidence (Law)
Federal Trade Commission
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health
Health information systems
Identification devices
Identity theft
Independent regulatory commissions
Information services
Injunctions
Interactive media
Internet
Language and languages
Law
Medical records
Parties to actions
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Standards
Sunset legislation
Telecommunication industry
Telephone
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Data Accountability and Trust Act - Requires the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC) to promulgate regulations requiring each person engaged in interstate commerce that owns or possesses electronic data containing personal information to establish security policies and procedures.
 
Authorizes the FTC to require a standard method or methods for destroying obsolete nonelectronic data.
 
Requires information brokers to submit their security policies to the FTC in conjunction with a security breach notification or on FTC request. Requires the FTC to conduct or require an audit of security practices when information brokers are required to provide notification of such a breach. Authorizes additional audits after a breach. 
 
Requires information brokers to: (1) establish procedures to verify the accuracy of information that identifies individuals; (2) provide to individuals whose personal information it maintains a means to review it; (3) place notice on the Internet instructing individuals how to request access to such information; and (4) correct inaccurate information.
 
Directs the FTC to require information brokers to establish measures which facilitate the auditing or retracing of access to, or transmissions of, electronic data containing personal information. 
 
Prohibits information brokers from obtaining or disclosing personal information by false pretenses (pretexting).
 
Prescribes procedures for notification to the FTC and affected individuals of information security breaches. Sets forth special notification requirements for breaches: (1) by contractors who maintain or process electronic data containing personal information; (2) involving telecommunications and computer services; and (3) of health information.
 
Preempts state information security laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Forgotten Military Widows Annuity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-959
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Annuities
Divorce
Families
Labor and Employment
Marriage
Married people
Military dependents
Military pensions
Survivors' benefits
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Forgotten Military Widows Annuity Act of 2007 - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to make eligible under a Department of Defense (DOD) survivor annuity program that currently allows a survivor annuity to be paid to the unremarried surviving spouses of certain members of the Armed Forces who died before October 1, 1978, those surviving spouses who: (1) remarried after age 55; or (2) remarried at any age, but whose subsequent marriage was terminated due to death, annulment, or divorce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Respirator Access Assurance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-961
Sponsor: Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Commerce
Environmental Protection
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Licenses
Local laws
Occupational health and safety
Products liability
Respiratory diseases
Safety appliances
State laws
Warning labels

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Respirator Access Assurance Act of 2007 - Declares that manufacturers or sellers of respirators shall not be subject to claims for defective design or warning, or any claims based on such allegations, if the respirator in question received National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) approval and was manufactured in compliance with NIOSH-approved design and labeling. 
 
Preempts all state and local laws with regard to such claims.
 
Makes this Act applicable to any civil action in federal or state court for harm allegedly caused by a respirator, respirator manufacturer, or respirator seller.
 
Applies this Act to any action than has not proceeded to trial as of the date of enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-962
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animal diseases
Animals
Antibiotics
Business records
Commerce
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drug resistance in microorganisms
Drugs
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Livestock
Medicated feeds
Pharmaceutical research
Science, Technology, Communications
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to deny an application for a new animal drug that is a critical antimicrobial animal drug unless the applicant demonstrates that there is a reasonably certainty of no harm to human health due to the development of antimicrobial resistance attributable to the nontherapeutic use of the drug. Defines &quot;critical antimicrobial animal drug&quot; as a drug intended for use in food-producing animals that contains specified antibiotics or other drugs used in humans to treat or prevent disease or infection caused by microorganisms.
 
Requires the Secretary to withdraw approval of a nontherapeutic use of such drugs in food-producing animals two years after the date of enactment of this Act unless certain safety requirements are met.
 
Requires the manufacturer of such a drug or an animal feed for food-producing animals containing such a drug to report sales information to the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 2/12/2007 E309)
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Travel Fairness Act

Bill: 110-hr-963
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Automobiles
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Veterans Travel Fairness Act - Makes the rate of reimbursement for private motor vehicle travel under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) beneficiary travel program the same as that for private vehicle travel for federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 to modify the definition of "Indian student count".

Bill: 110-hr-965
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Indian education
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 with respect to grants to tribally controlled postsecondary vocational and technical institutions that are not receiving federal support under the Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978 or the Navajo Community College Act to provide basic support for the education and training of Indian students.
 
Revises the definition of &quot;Indian student count&quot; (essential to the formula for the determination of grant amounts).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-02-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 2/12/2007 E300-301)
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Indian Financing Act of 1974 to provide for sale and assignment of loans and underlying security, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-966
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Community development banking
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federally-assisted loans
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Minorities
Surety and fidelity

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Amends the Indian Financing Act of 1974 with respect to loan guaranty and insurance to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Interior to guarantee or insure loans to both for-profit and nonprofit borrowers; and (2) allow all or any portion of a guaranteed or insured loan, including its security, to be transferred by the lender by sale or assignment to any person, and be retransferred by the transferee.

Allows a fiscal transfer agent to be compensated through any of the fees assessed and any interest earned on any funds or fees the agent has collected while the funds or fees are in the agent's control and before the time at which the agent is contractually required to transfer such funds to the Secretary or to transferees or other holders. Makes loans made by an eligible Community Development Finance Institution eligible for guaranty or insurance. Increases from $500 million to $1.5 billion the amount of loans the Bureau of Indian Affairs can have outstanding. 

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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 2/9/207 E300-301)
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
To establish the treatment of actual rental proceeds from leases of land acquired under an Act providing for loans to Indian tribes and tribal corporations.

Bill: 110-hr-967
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Finance and Financial Sector
Indian lands
Leases
Minorities
Real estate appraisal
Rent

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Provides that any actual rental proceeds from the lease of land acquired with a Farmers Home Administration Direct Loan by an Indian tribe or tribal corporation certified by the Secretary of the Interior shall be deemed to: (1) constitute the rental value of that land; and (2) satisfy the requirement for appraisal of that land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 2/12/2007 E300-301)
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
National Fund for Excellence in American Indian Education Amendments Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-968
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Authorization
Cabinet officers
Chief executive officers
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Indian education
Minorities
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
National Fund for Excellence in American Indian Education Amendments Act of 2007 - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act with respect to the National Fund for Excellence in American Indian Education (Foundation). Requires the Foundation Board to appoint a chief operating officer for the Foundation separate from the Secretary of the Interior (who currently acts as chief operating officer).
 
Places limitations on the administrative costs of the Foundation. Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2010. Authorizes the Secretary to provide funds to pay the operating expenses of the Foundation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-02-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 2/12/2007  E300-301)
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title VI of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a Federal renewable energy portfolio standard for certain retail electric utilities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-969
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Aquatic plants
Auditing
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cooperative societies
Cost effectiveness
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Energy assistance for the poor
Energy conservation
Energy crops
Energy demand
Energy development
Energy efficiency
Energy prices
Environmental Protection
Farm manure
Fibers
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Green marketing
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Hydroelectric power
Indexing (Economic policy)
Indian lands
Landfills
Law
Licenses
Lumber trade
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Methane
Minorities
National forests
Natural gas
Ocean energy resources
Oils and fats
Plants
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public utilities
Refuse as fuel
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Sunset legislation
Technological innovations
Trees
Water Resources Development
Wind power
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to prescribe requirements for a Federal Renewable Portfolio Standard for calendar years 2010 through 2039. Specifies a schedule of graduated annual percentages of a supplier's base amount that shall be generated from renewable energy resources, from 1% in 2010 up to 20 % in 2020 and thereafter. 
 
Authorizes a retail electric supplier to satisfy such requirements through submission of renewable energy credits to the Secretary of Energy. Provides for energy credit trading or borrowing among suppliers.
 
 Directs the Secretary to: (1) encourage federally-owned utilities, municipally-owned utilities, and rural electric cooperatives that sell electric energy to electric consumers for purposes other than resale to participate in the renewable portfolio standard program; and (2) establish by December 31, 2009, a state renewable energy account program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House