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To provide that goods that are manufactured in a foreign trade zone and comply with the rules of origin under a trade agreement to which the United States is a party may enter the customs territory of the United States at the rate of duty applicable under that agreement.

Bill: 110-hr-6415
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Canada
Customs administration
Customs unions
Free trade
Imports
International Affairs
Latin America
Mexico
Tariff
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Amends the Foreign Trade Zones Act to provide that goods that are manufactured in a foreign trade zone and comply with the rules of origin under a trade agreement to which the United States is a party may enter the U.S. customs territory at the rate of duty applicable under such agreement.
 
Amends the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Implementation Act to repeal certain rules of origin requirements with respect to goods made of nonoriginating material that are produced in a foreign-trade zone or subzone that enter a U.S. customs territory.
 
Adds a rule with respect to goods produced entirely in the territory of one or more NAFTA countries, but where any nonoriginating materials, provided for as parts and used in a good's production, do not undergo a change in tariff classification. Requires, in such an instance, that a good be treated as originating in a NAFTA country if: (1) the regional value-content of the good is at least 60% where the transaction value method is used, or at least 50% where the net cost method is used; and (2) the good satisfies all other applicable requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Just and Lasting Peace in Sudan Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6416
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil War
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Diplomacy
Energy
Ethnic relations
Extradition
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign leaders
Genocide
Government Operations and Politics
Human rights
Insurgency
International agencies
International courts
International relief
Islamic fundamentalism
Minorities
Oil and gas royalties
Peace treaties
Peacekeeping forces
President and foreign policy
Prosecution
Religion
Sanctions (International law)
State-sponsored terrorism
Sudan
United Nations
War crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Just and Lasting Peace in Sudan Act of 2008 - Prohibits sanctions imposed against the government of Sudan from being lifted until the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the following conditions have been met for at least one year: (1) the government of Sudan (government) implements the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Darfur Peace Agreement; (2) the Abyei Boundary Commission recommendations are implemented and oil revenue shares are paid retroactively; (3) the government hands over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) all indicted individuals; (4) the government ends its atrocities against innocent civilians in Darfur and other parts of Sudan; (5) the government allows the deployment of United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur forces and allows unhindered access to humanitarian workers; (6) the government ends its terrorist ties; and (7) senior government officials are held accountable for crimes committed in the Nuba, South Sudan, Southern Blue Nile, and Eastern Sudan, and for their support for Osama bin Laden and other terrorist groups.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the U.S. government should not normalize relations with Sudan until such conditions have been implemented for at least one year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To prevent Members of Congress from receiving the automatic pay adjustment scheduled to take effect in 2009.

Bill: 110-hr-6417
Sponsor: Rep. Barrett, J. Gresham [R-SC-3]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget deficits
Congressional salaries
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets
Government spending reductions

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Provides that no automatic pay adjustment shall be considered to have taken effect in FY2009 in the rates of basic pay for Members of Congress under the statutory pay system (thus eliminating the pay adjustment for Members for such fiscal year).
 
 Expresses the sense of Congress that any savings resulting from the enactment of this Act should be dedicated to reducing the federal budget deficit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
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: 2008-06-26
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: 2008-06-26
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: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Developing Resources Immediately and Long-Term through Leases on Our Nation's Offshore Waters Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6418
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alabama
Alternative energy sources
Appropriations
Coastal zone
Continental shelf
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal-state relations
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Law
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Mississippi
Natural gas
Ocean energy resources
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil pollution
Oil well drilling
Petroleum
Petroleum in submerged lands
Presidential powers
Prospecting
Revenue sharing
Texas
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Developing Resources Immediately and Long-Term through Leases on Our Nation's Offshore Waters Act of 2008, or DRILL NOW Act of 2008 - Declares without force or effect all existing federal law which prohibits spending appropriated funds to conduct oil and natural gas leasing and preleasing on the outer Continental Shelf.
 
Revokes: (1) all withdrawals from leasing on federal submerged lands of the outer Continental Shelf (including withdrawals by the President); and (2) Presidential authorities with respect to such leasing (except in the interest of national security).
 
Amends of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize a state governor to petition the Secretary of the Interior to issue leases for oil and natural gas exploration and extraction activities in any area that is at least 50 miles beyond the state's coastal zone.
 
Cites circumstances under which the Secretary shall approve or deny the petition.

Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit revenues from leasing operations into designated funds and accounts.
 
Provides that any funds that would be received by the United States as royalties under any existing federal oil and gas lease on the outer Continental Shelf that lies within 50 miles of the coastal zone of the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama shall be paid to that state if it enacts an expenditure plan for those funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
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-6419
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 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: 2008-06-26
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; and (2) any gain on such stock if held by such employee for not less than 10 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To toll the congressional notification period for removing North Korea from the state sponsors of terrorism list.

Bill: 110-hr-6420
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
East Asia
Energy
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
North Korea
Nuclear exports
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons
President and foreign policy
Sanctions (International law)
State-sponsored terrorism
Uranium enrichment

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Provides that the 45-day period referred to in specified Acts shall be tolled with respect to any rescission of the Secretary of State's determination that the government of North Korea has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism until the President certifies to Congress that the government of North Korea has made a complete and verifiable declaration regarding: (1) the existence, number, and disposition of any assembled or partially assembled nuclear explosive devices; (2) attempts to enrich uranium or develop the capability to do so; and (3) nuclear assistance provided to any other countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Health Care Relief Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6422
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Employee health benefits
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Small business
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Small Business Health Care Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small business owners with 50 or fewer employees a refundable tax credit for the payment of a portion of the health care expenses of their employees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Private First Class Billy MacLeod Respectful Return Act

Bill: 110-hr-6423
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military personnel
Military transportation
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Private First Class Billy MacLeod Respectful Return Act - Amends the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 to provide that requirements for the military transportation to the United States of the remains of a member of the Armed Forces who dies in a combat theater of operations shall also apply to the remains of any member found after the date of enactment of this Act in any theater of U.S. combat operations since April 6, 1917, who died while participating in such operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Property Mitigation Assistance Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6424
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Government lending
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Revolving funds

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Property Mitigation Assistance Act of 2008 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Assistance and Emergency Relief Act to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a grant program to provide assistance to states to promote pre-disaster property mitigation measures within their jurisdictions.
 
Requires a state, to be eligible for assistance, to have: (1) submitted a mitigation plan; (2) established a process for accepting and processing grant and loan applications from individual homeowners and business owners; (3) established a revolving loan fund into which any grant amounts received under this Act shall be deposited; and (4) submitted a detailed plan for how terms and conditions for authorized loans and grants will be set.
 
Directs the Administrator to allocate grant amounts to eligible states according to a formula based on specified factors, including the nature and extent of potential hazards to property in the state, the number of properties at risk in the event that a hazard or natural disaster should occur, the amount of prior property damage incurred by the state during any previous hazard or natural disaster, and any available data on the future risk of occurrence of any hazard or natural disaster in a state.

Sets forth provisions regarding baseline amounts for eligible states and matching requirements. 

Authorizes each state to make grants or loans to assist individual homeowners and businesses in undertaking pre-disaster property mitigation measures from a revolving loan fund established under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1374)
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
KC-X Tanker Recompete Act

Bill: 110-hr-6426
Sponsor: Rep. Tiahrt, Todd [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Cost accounting
Defense budgets
Defense contracts
Defense industries
Defense procurement
Economics and Public Finance
Export subsidies
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Income tax
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Military aircraft
Public corruption
Tanker aircraft
Taxation
Trade agreements
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
KC-X Tanker Recompete Act - Prohibits funds from being used by the Department of Defense (DOD) on the KC-X (aerial refueling) tanker contract. Defines such contract as the contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force on February 29, 2008, for such aircraft.
 
Outlines requirements and conditions as part of the acquisition process for the award of a contract for a replacement for the KC-135 tanker, including: (1) an independent cost estimate; (2) an increase in the proposal cost or price by the amount of any illegal subsidization by a subsidized person; (3) ensuring an evaluation of the cost borne by a supplier and the cost borne by a foreign government; (4) the consideration of national security impacts; (5) defense industrial base considerations; (6) consideration of the loss of U.S. employee and corporate tax revenue when awarding contracts to foreign entities; and (7) the impact of U.S. regulatory burdens.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense and the contract source selection authority to require any prospective defense contractor or subcontractor not already covered by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to comply with such Act's requirements as a contract award condition. Allows a waiver of such requirement for national security purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Warm in Winter and Cool in Summer Act

Bill: 110-hr-6427
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Appropriations
Economics and Public Finance
Energy assistance for the poor
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Warm in Winter and Cool in Summer Act - Makes appropriations for FY2008 for payments under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 (LIHEAP Program).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Budget, 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: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Energy Emergency Relief Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6429
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2008-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Disaster loans
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Energy
Energy prices
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Heating
Petroleum
Propane
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-08
text: 
Small Business Energy Emergency Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Small Business Administration to make disaster loans to assist small businesses that have suffered or are likely to suffer substantial economic injury as the result of a significant increase in the price of heating fuel occurring on or after October 1, 2007. Prohibits such loan from being made if the total amount outstanding and committed to the borrower would exceed $1.5 million, unless the borrower is a major source of employment in its surrounding area.
 
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans to farm operations that qualify as a small business and that have or are likely to suffer substantial economic injury on or after October 1, 2007, as the result of a significant increase in energy costs in connection with an energy emergency declared by the President or the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2008-07-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2008-07-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2008-07-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2008-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Health Scholarship Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6430
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2008-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Health
Higher education
Medical education
Scholarships
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-08
text: 
Veterans Health Scholarship Act of 2008 - Amends federal provisions concerning the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Professional Scholarship Program to: (1) continue the Program through 2012; and (2) establish a priority for applicants who are veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-07-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1402)
action_date: 2008-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-08
text: Introduced in House