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Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3034
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2008-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Housing subsidies
Landlord and tenant
Leases
Public housing
Rent
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-19
text: 
Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2008 - States that any immediate successor in interest to residential property in foreclosure assumes such interest subject to: (1) giving the existing bona fide tenant at least 90-day notice to vacate; and (2) specified rights of such tenant to occupy the premises until the end of the remaining term of the lease.
 
Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to require a housing assistance payment contract to provide that in the case of an owner who is an immediate successor in interest pursuant to foreclosure: (1) during the initial term of the lease vacating the property prior to sale shall not constitute other good cause for termination of the lease; but (2) in subsequent lease terms, vacating the property prior to sale may constitute good cause if the property is unmarketable while occupied, or if such owner will occupy the unit as a primary residence.
 
Authorizes a housing assistance payment contract entered into by the public housing agency and the owner of a dwelling unit to provide that the immediate successor in interest to property in foreclosure in which a housing assistance recipient resides, assumes such interest subject to the lease between the prior owner and the tenant, and subject to the housing assistance payments contract between the prior owner and the public housing agency for the occupied unit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2008-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to temporarily extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

Bill: 110-s-3035
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2008-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Scholarships
Student aid
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: 
Amends the Higher Education Extension Act of 2005 to extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 through June 30, 2008.

action_date: 2008-05-20
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the Higher Education Extension Act of 2005 to extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 through June 30, 2008.

action_date: 2008-05-20
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the Higher Education Extension Act of 2005 to extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 through June 30, 2008.

action_date: 2008-05-30
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the Higher Education Extension Act of 2005 to extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 through June 30, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-30
text: Became Public Law No: 110-238.
action_date: 2008-05-30
text: Became Public Law No: 110-238.
action_date: 2008-05-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2008-05-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2008-05-23
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2008-05-23
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4278)
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H4278)
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 3035.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4278-4279)
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Mr. Bishop (NY) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4425-4426; text as passed Senate: CR S4425-4426)
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4425-4426; text as passed Senate: CR S4425-4426)
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate

Enacted as: number: 110-238
AmeriCorps: Together Improving Our Nation Act

Bill: 110-s-3037
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2008-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Cabinet officers
Commerce
Corporation for National and Community Service
Economics and Public Finance
Executive compensation
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to education
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Higher education
Income tax
National service
Salaries
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: 
AmeriCorps: Together Improving Our Nation Act or the ACTION Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to alter the formula for determining the amount of the national service educational award to base the award on the average cost of attending a four-year institution of higher education, rather than a portion of a veteran's basic educational assistance allowance.
 
Excludes the national service educational award from an individual's gross income for tax purposes.
 
Permits the Corporation for National and Community Service to support a national service program that is carried out by another federal agency and implements the priorities of such agency.
 
Makes Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation a Cabinet position. Raises the Officer's compensation to Level I of the Executive Schedule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4488-4489)
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Northern Neck National Heritage Area Study Act

Bill: 110-s-3039
Sponsor: Sen. Webb, Jim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2008-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Historic sites
History
Land use
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Northern Neck National Heritage Area Study Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to study and report to specified congressional committees on the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Northern Neck National Heritage Area to be comprised of: (1) the part of eastern coastal Virginia between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers; (2) Westmoreland, Northumberland, Richmond, King George, and Lancaster Counties, Virginia; and (3) other areas adjacent to or in the vicinity of those areas that have similar heritage aspects.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Intelligence and Information Commission Act

Bill: 110-s-3041
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2008-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Congress
Congressional reorganization
Diplomacy
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Foreign service
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Language and languages
Strategic planning

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: 
Foreign Intelligence and Information Commission Act - Establishes in the legislative branch a Foreign Intelligence and Information Commission to undertake certain evaluations, and provide recommendations, relating to the collection, coordination, and reporting of foreign intelligence and information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4489-4490)
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Land Avalanche Protection Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3042
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2008-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Artillery
Avalanches
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Explosives
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Military and naval supplies
Ordnance
Outdoor recreation
Research
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation
Surplus government property

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: 
Federal Land Avalanche Protection Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to establish an avalanche protection program to: (1) identify the potential for avalanches on federal land and inform the public about the probability of avalanches and the potential adverse effects; (2) carry out ongoing research to improve avalanche forecasting; and (3) reduce the risks and mitigate the effects of avalanches.

Requires the Secretary: (1) to coordinate the program to ensure protection for recreational users of public land under the Secretary's and Secretary of the Interior's jurisdiction, using resources of the Forest Service's National Avalanche Center; (2) to establish an advisory committee to assist in program development and implementation; and (3) with the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of the Army, to establish a central depository for weapons, ammunition, and parts for avalanche control purposes.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to carry out projects and activities to: (1) assist in the prevention, forecasting, detection, and mitigation of avalanches; (2) maintain essential transportation, utilities, and communications; (3) assist avalanche artillery users to ensure the availability of adequate supplies of artillery and explosives required for avalanche control in specified areas; and (4) assist persons in providing public education about avalanches and in conducting research and development activities for alternatives to minimize reliance on military weapons for avalanche control.

Directs the Secretary to give priority to projects carried out in avalanche zones with a high frequency or severity of avalanches or in which deaths, injuries, or damage to public facilities and communities have occurred. 

Requires the Administrator of General Services to transfer specified property suitable for avalanche control purposes to a user of surplus ordnance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3043
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2008-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Boundaries
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost control
Data banks
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Geodesy
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Housing and Community Development
Identification devices
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Land use
Law
Legislation
Maps
Nature conservation
Photography
Real estate development
Remote sensing
Science, Technology, Communications
Space activities
Standards
Surveying

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: 
Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre of federal real property (an inventory of real property of the federal government) to assist with federal land management, resource conservation, environmental protection, and use of real property. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cost-sharing agreements with states to include any non-federal lands in a state in such cadastre. Limits the federal share of any such agreement to 50% of the total cost to a state for the development of the cadastre of the non-federal lands in the state. 

Requires the Secretary to submit a report on: (1) existing real property inventories or any components of any cadastre; (2) consolidation of inventories and components; (3) the use of existing inventories and components of any cadastre; (4) the cost savings that will be achieved; and (5) recommendations for legislation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4490-4491)
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 110-s-3045
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2008-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Commemorations
Forest management
Historic sites
History
Mountains
National forests

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: 
Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm Area National Forest Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Forest Heritage Area in Alaska. Designates the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Forest Heritage Corridor Communities Association as the Area's local coordinating entity. Requires the Association to prepare and submit a management plan for the Area. 

action_date: 2008-09-16
text: 

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

Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm Area National Forest Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Forest Heritage Area in Alaska. Designates the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Forest Heritage Corridor Communities Association as the Area's local coordinating entity. Requires the Association to prepare and submit a management plan for the Area. 

Requires the Secretary of the Interior to evaluate the accomplishments of the Area and to prepare and submit a report that includes recommendations for the future role of the National Park Service (NPS), if any, respecting the Area. 

Authorizes appropriations. Sets a limit on the total amounts that may be made available to carry out this Act. 

Limits the federal share of the total cost of any activity carried out under this Act to 50%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 995.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2008-06-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-539.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4623-4625)
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4623)
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Access, Compassion, Care, and Ethics for Seriously Ill Patients Act

Bill: 110-s-3046
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2008-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Clinical trials
Commerce
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drugs
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Medical supplies
Medical technology
Medicare
Patients' rights
Product safety
Products liability
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: 
Access, Compassion, Care, and Ethics for Seriously Ill Patients Act or the ACCESS Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to permit an investigational drug, biological product, or device to be made available for expanded access under a treatment investigational new drug application or treatment investigational device exemption if specified Compassionate Investigational Access requirements are met.

Gives immunity to the manufacturer, distributor, administrator, sponsor, or physician from suit or liability relating to products approved under this Act. 

Establishes a procedure for accelerated approval of an investigational drug, biological product, or device that is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit to a patient suffering from a serious or life-threatening condition.

Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) the Accelerated Approval Advisory Committee; (2) a new program to expand access to investigational treatments for individuals with serious or life threatening conditions and diseases; and (3) a demonstration project under the Medicare program to pay for drugs, biological, products, and devices approved under this Act.

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the definition of &quot;medically accepted indication&quot; to provide for coverage of a covered Part D drug based on the sponsor's or organization's determination that the drug is for a medically accepted indication.

Requires the Secretary to consider the clinical judgment and risks to the patient from the disease or condition in evaluating the safety and effectiveness of drugs, biological products, and devices that treat serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions, including the evaluation of nonstatistical information.

Requires any committee evaluating investigational drugs, devices, or biological product applications to have at least two patient representatives as voting members.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4625)
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3047
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2008-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Commerce
Curricula
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational innovations
Educational research
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Engineering
Engineers
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to education
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Infrastructure
Mathematics
Minority education
Public-private partnerships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Special education
Teacher education
Teaching
Women
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: 
Enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Act of 2008 - Requires the President to establish, in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, a Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education (STEM education) within the National Science and Technology Council.

Establishes an Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education in the Department of Education, to be administered by an Assistant Secretary. Requires the Assistant Secretary to conduct an annual evaluation of the STEM education programs administered by the department.

Requires the Secretary of Education to award a grant to establish a voluntary State Consortium on STEM Education and a grant to the National Science Digital Library to establish a National STEM Education Research Repository.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the allowance of bonus depreciation and the increased expensing limitations permanent.

Bill: 110-s-3048
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the special depreciation allowance for certain property acquired after December 31, 2007 (bonus depreciation); and (2) the increased $250,000 expensing allowance for depreciable business assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the capital gains and dividends rate permanent and to provide estate tax relief and reform, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-3049
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Dividends
Estate tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Gift tax
Income tax
Tax credits
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: 
Makes permanent the tax rate reductions for dividends and capital gains enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. 

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) restore the unified credit against the estate and gift tax after 2009; (2) establish the amount of such credit at $3.5 million; and (3) provide for a single 15% estate and gift tax rate. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reduce temporarily the duty on certain isotopic separation machinery and apparatus, and parts thereof, for use in the construction of an isotopic separation facility in southern New Mexico.

Bill: 110-s-3050
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2008-05-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on certain isotopic separation machinery and apparatus, and parts thereof, for use in the construction of an isotopic separation facility in southern New Mexico.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Introduced in Senate