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Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6257
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2008-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Ammunition
Assault weapons
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Firearms control
Governmental investigations
Identification devices
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: 
Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization Act of 2008 - Amends the federal criminal code to reinstate, for 10 years, the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act's assault weapons ban to prohibit the manufacture, transfer, or possession of a semiautomatic assault weapon or a large capacity ammunition feeding device. Specifies models and features of banned weapons. 

Sets forth exceptions to such ban, including: (1) firearms or devices lawfully possessed under federal law on the date of enactment of this Act; (2) certain firearms, replicas, or duplicates listed in an appendix as they were manufactured on October 1, 1993; (3) any firearm that is manually operated by bolt, pump, lever, or slide action and that has been rendered permanently inoperable or that is an antique firearm; (4) any semiautomatic rifle that cannot accept a detachable magazine that holds more than five rounds of ammunition; (5) any semiautomatic shotgun that cannot hold more than five rounds in a fixed or detachable magazine; and (6) firearms manufactured for, transferred to, or possessed by a federal, state, or local government agency or for law enforcement.

Requires the serial number of any weapon or device manufactured after enactment of this Act to clearly show the date of manufacture.

Directs the Attorney General to study and report to Congress on the effects of this Act on violent and drug trafficking crime.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1229)
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Huntington's Disease Parity Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6259
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2008-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disability evaluation
Disabled
Huntington's disease
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: 
Huntington's Disease Parity Act of 2008 - Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to revise the medical criteria for evaluating disability caused by adult-onset and juvenile Huntington's Disease.
 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 24-month waiting period for Medicare eligibility for individuals disabled by Huntington's Disease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Midwest Storm Victim Relief Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6261
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2008-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief
Floods
Income tax
Indiana
Iowa
Losses
Minnesota
Storms
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: 
Midwest Storm Victim Relief Act of 2008 - Directs the President, in providing financial assistance to individuals and households in connection with major disasters declared for storm damage and flooding in Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin from May 26-June 15, 2008, to double the maximum assistance available under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend certain limitations on personal casualty losses attributable to major disasters declared for such storm damage and flooding. Excludes from gross income, for purposes of the Code, any amount received as compensation for a loss for which a deduction is allowed by reason of such a declaration if such compensation is received in a subsequent taxable year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Online Job Training Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6262
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2008-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Internet
Science, Technology, Communications
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: 
Online Job Training Act of 2008 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to make: (1) grants to states to assist them in implementing workforce investment programs that enable individuals to take courses on the Internet to enhance employment opportunities within the state workforce investment system; and (2) a grant to an eligible postsecondary educational institution to provide technical assistance to such states in implementing such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
To prevent excessive speculation in over-the-counter derivatives markets for certain energy commodities by limiting participation in those markets to persons who are capable of producing, manufacturing, or taking physical delivery of the commodities.

Bill: 110-hr-6264
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2008-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Diesel motor
Energy
Futures trading
Gasoline
Heating
Licenses
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Swaps (Finance)
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: 
Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to make it unlawful for a person to enter into or execute an otherwise excluded swap transaction or exempt transaction involving crude oil, heating oil, gasoline, or diesel fuel (specified energy commodity), unless the person has been certified by the Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC) as having the capacity of accepting physical delivery of the commodity.
 
Makes it unlawful, as well, for any person to hold a contract or agreement of sale of a specified energy commodity for future delivery, which is otherwise an excluded swap transaction or an exempt transaction, unless the CFTC has certified that the person has the capacity to produce or manufacture the commodity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 41 Purdy Avenue in Rye, New York, as the "Caroline O'Day Post Office Building".

Bill: 110-hr-6265
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2008-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Names
New York State
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 41 Purdy Avenue in Rye, New York, as the "Caroline O'Day Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to waive the penalties for failure to disclose reportable transactions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-6266
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2008-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Tax administration
Tax evasion
Tax penalties
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify provisions relating to the waiver of penalties for failure to disclose reportable transactions (i.e., transactions which have a potential for tax avoidance or evasion) to grant authority to the Secretary of the Treasury (instead of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue) to rescind or waive all or a portion of such penalties and to allow a waiver if there was reasonable cause for the failure to disclose such transactions and the taxpayer acted in good faith.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
To make the Davis-Bacon Act applicable to rural development loan and loan guarantee programs.

Bill: 110-hr-6267
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2008-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Construction industries
Construction workers
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government contractors
Government lending
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Minimum wages
Rural economic development
Subcontractors
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: 
Requires that laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on construction and minor remodeling projects assisted under a rural development loan or loan guarantee program be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar projects in the locality pursuant to the Davis-Bacon Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
American Commercial Ethanol Fairness Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6269
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Timothy [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2008-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Chemicals
Commerce
Energy
Feedstock
Income tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: 
American Commercial Ethanol Fairness Act of 2008- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the tax credit for alcohol used as fuel to include ethanol used in tetra ethyl ortho silicate (TEOS) production. Allows taxpayers a credit for 45 cents per gallon of alcohol which is ethanol used in the production of TEOS. Requires that the TEOS be manufactured in the United States and sold in a trade or business of the taxpayer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
To provide for a green building certification program as part of the Energy Star program.

Bill: 110-hr-6271
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2008-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Building construction
Building materials
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Housing and Community Development
Indoor air pollution
Labeling
Mass rapid transit
Pollution control
Real estate development
Standards
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Energy to: (1) expand the Energy Star program to include the certification of buildings as green buildings; and (2) study and make recommendations concerning the streamlining of the certification process, development of an online certification program, and design of a program allowing certification by those without green building expertise.

Defines &quot;green building&quot; as a building constructed taking into account sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, indoor environmental quality, life-cycle concerns of building materials (including emissions and environmental impact), and transit and density-oriented development.

Requires a report to Congress setting forth the design of the expanded program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
SMOCTA Reauthorization Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6272
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2008-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Labor and Employment
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: 
SMOCTA Reauthorization Act of 2008 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2018 to carry out the Service Members Occupational Conversion and Training Act of 1992. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2008-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Education and Labor, 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: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Education and Labor, 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: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Education and Labor, 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: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Education and Labor, 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: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Responsible Highway Investment Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6273
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2008-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government securities
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Highway use tax
Interest
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: 
Responsible Highway Investment Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate the requirement that obligations held by the Highway Trust Fund be U.S. obligations that are not interest-bearing. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Boumediene Jurisdiction Correction Act

Bill: 110-hr-6274
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2008-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cuba
Habeas corpus
Jurisdiction
Latin America
Prisoners' rights
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: 
Boumediene Jurisdiction Correction Act - Allows any person being held under military authority in the part of Cuba leased to the United States to challenge the circumstances and legality of that person's detention to the same extent and with the same rights as are provided under the writ of habeas corpus.
 
Grants the courts established under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and operating in that part of Cuba exclusive original jurisdiction to hear and determine any such challenge. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2008-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2008-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2008-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Veterans and Survivors Dental Insurance Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6277
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2008-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Dental care
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Military dependents
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: 
Veterans and Survivors Dental Insurance Act of 2008 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide a dental insurance plan for any veteran enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) annual patient enrollment system, as well as their survivors and dependents.
 
Provides for: (1) the payment of premiums for plan enrollment; and (2) voluntary plan disenrollment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1237-1238)
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Horse Transportation Safety Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6278
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2008-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Animals
Fines (Penalties)
Horses
Law
Protection of animals
Traffic accidents and safety

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: 
Horse Transportation Safety Act of 2008 - Prohibits a person from transporting a horse in interstate commerce in a motor vehicle containing two or more levels stacked on top of one another. Sets forth civil penalties for persons who knowingly violate such prohibition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1251)
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: Introduced in House