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To prevent certain discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property.

Bill: 110-hr-2230
Sponsor: Rep. Cannon, Chris [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Commerce
District courts
Energy
Government Operations and Politics
Industrial property
Interstate commerce
Jurisdiction
Law
Local taxation
Natural gas
Pipelines
Property tax
Real estate appraisal
State taxation
Tax rates
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Describes the following as acts that unreasonably burden and discriminate against interstate commerce, and prohibits states, political subdivisions, and any other taxing authority from: (1) assessing natural gas pipeline property at a value that has a higher ratio to its true market value than the ratio used to assess other commercial and industrial property in the same assessment jurisdiction; (2) levying or collecting a tax on such an assessment; (3) levying or collecting an ad valorem property tax on natural gas pipeline property at a rate that exceeds the rate applicable to commercial and industrial property in the same assessment jurisdiction; or (4) imposing any other tax that discriminates against a natural gas pipeline providing transportation subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

 Grants jurisdiction to U.S. District Courts and provides for specified relief for claims of discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Access to Complex Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2231
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cerebral palsy
Competitive bidding
Disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Medical supplies
Medical technology
Medicare
Multiple sclerosis
Muscular diseases
Nervous system diseases
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-help devices for the disabled
Social Welfare
Spinal cord injuries

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Medicare Access to Complex Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exempt complex rehabilitation products and assistive technology products from the Medicare competititve acquisition program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Clarification of Federal Employment Protections Act

Bill: 110-hr-2232
Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in employment
Federal employees
Homosexuality
Labor and Employment
Sexual orientation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 

 

 
Clarification of Federal Employment Protections Act - Repudiates, in order to dispel any public confusion, any assertion that federal employees are not protected from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
 
Prohibits any federal employee who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend, or approve any personnel action, from discriminating for or against any federal employee or applicant for federal employment on the basis of sexual orientation. Affirms that, in the absence of such prohibition, discrimination against federal employees and applicants for federal employment on the basis of sexual orientation is already prohibited under current law.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act

Bill: 110-hr-2233
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Payroll deductions
State laws
Taxation
Unemployment insurance
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act - Amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Labor to make unemployment compensation modernization incentive payments in FY2008-FY2012 by certain transfers from the federal unemployment account to the accounts of the states in the Unemployment Trust Fund.
 
Prescribes a formula for determining the maximum allowable incentive payments.
 
Specifies requirements state law must meet for the state to qualify for such a payment.
 
Limits the use of transferred amounts to the payment of cash unemployment benefits to individuals (including for dependents' allowances and for unemployment compensation, exclusive of administrative expenses).
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to reserve specified funds out of the federal unemployment account for such incentive payments.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through FY2013 the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) excise tax imposed on every employer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2234
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Claims
Disabled
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Limitation of actions
Military pensions
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Disabled Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow members of the uniformed services whose retired pay in any taxable year is reduced due to an award of disability compensation by the Department of Veterans Affairs an extension of the three-year limitation period for filing tax refund claims until one year after the date of a disability determination. Limits the period for which such refund claims may be filed to taxable years beginning less than 15 years before the date of a disability determination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Resource Conservation and Community Development Enhancement Act

Bill: 110-hr-2235
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Community development
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Rural economic development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Resource Conservation and Community Development Enhancement Act - Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to provide for a locally led planning process under the resource conservation and development program.
 
Replaces the permanent authorization of appropriations with an annual obligation of specified amounts from the Commodity Credit Corporation for FY2008-FY2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-31
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2007-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for residents of Puerto Rico who participate in cafeteria plans under the Puerto Rican tax laws an exclusion from employment taxes which is comparable to the exclusion that applies to cafeteria plans under such Code.

Bill: 110-hr-2238
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Flexible benefit plans
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Payroll deductions
Puerto Ricans
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Unemployment insurance
Wages
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from employment and unemployment taxes payments made on behalf of Puerto Rican residents participating in tax-exempt employee benefit cafeteria plans established under Puerto Rican law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Early Access to Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Benefits Act

Bill: 110-hr-2239
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Labor and Employment
Military personnel
Veterans' rehabilitation
Vocational rehabilitation
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Early Access to Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Benefits Act - Entitles to veterans vocational rehabilitation benefits any member of the Armed Forces hospitalized or receiving outpatient medical care, services, or treatment who is: (1) determined to have a permanent total disability incurred or aggravated in the line of duty; and (2) likely to be discharged or released from active service for such disability.

action_date: 2007-05-23
text: 
Early Access to Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Benefits Act - Entitles to veterans vocational rehabilitation benefits any member of the Armed Forces hospitalized or receiving outpatient medical care, services, or treatment who is: (1) determined to have a permanent total disability incurred or aggravated in the line of duty; and (2) likely to be discharged or released from active service for such disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 414 - 0 (Roll no. 414). (text: CR H5678)
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 414 - 0 (Roll no. 414).(text: CR H5678)
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5683)
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2239.
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5678-5680)
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Mr. Filner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Discharged.
action_date: 2007-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Office for National Capital Region Coordination Restoration Act

Bill: 110-hr-2240
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Tom [R-VA-11]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
District of Columbia
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Metropolitan areas
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Office for National Capital Region Coordination Restoration Act - Provides that the Office for National Capital Region Coordination shall be administered within the Office of the Secretary of Homeland Security as provided in the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Excepts such Office from the Secretary's reorganization authority.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Diabetes Treatment and Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2241
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Clinical trials
Department of Health and Human Services
Diabetes
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Health surveys
Lifestyle
Medical screening
Preventive medicine
Quality of care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Diabetes Treatment and Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish the Division of Diabetes Translation to eliminate diabetes.

Requires the Director to develop pilot demonstration projects to evaluate various approaches to: (1) screening and identifying persons with pre-diabetes and undiagnosed diabetes; and (2) providing such persons with access to appropriate lifestyle interventions. Requires such projects to be carried out with the goal of translating the Diabetes Prevention Program clinical trial into interventions to reduce the incidence of type-2 diabetes and its related complications in the U.S. population.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director, to engage in partnerships with state and local health departments to carry out: (1) national, state, and local surveillance related to diabetes; and (2) education and information campaigns to increase awareness about the importance of primary prevention, ways to assess personal risk, and how to locate and access diabetes prevention programs.

Requires the Director, acting through the Division, to develop a pilot program to improve treatment for individuals with diabetes and other co-occurring chronic conditions for which treatment may complicate the treatment for diabetes. Requires the Director to give preference to research that: (1) focuses on conditions which have a high prevalence among individuals with diabetes or for which the treatment involved has the potential to impact adherence to diabetes treatment regiments; and (2) builds upon existing work designed to improve the quality of care for patients with diabetes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1000)
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit a State from imposing a discriminatory commuter tax on nonresidents, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-2242
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuter tax
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental tax relations
Interstate relations
Local taxation
State taxation
Tax incidence
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Prohibits a state from imposing a tax on the income earned in the state by nonresidents unless the tax is of substantial equality of treatment for the citizens of the state and the nonresidents so commuting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
To better provide for compensation for certain persons injured in the course of employment at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California.

Bill: 110-hr-2243
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Armed Forces and National Security
California
Claims
Compensation (Law)
Department of Energy
Energy
Environmental Protection
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Health
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear weapons
Occupational health and safety
Radiation victims
Science, Technology, Communications
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include within the meaning of the term &#147;member of the Special Exposure Cohort&#148; a Department of Energy employee, Department of Energy contractor employee, or atomic weapons employee who was so employed for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days before January 1, 2006, at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California.

Provides that a claim that an individual qualifies for compensation or benefits under such Act shall be considered notwithstanding any denial of any other claim for compensation with respect to such individual.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Geriatric Assessment and Chronic Care Coordination Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2244
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Chronically ill
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Finance and Financial Sector
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Medicare
Quality of care
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Geriatric Assessment and Chronic Care Coordination Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) coverage of geriatric assessments and chronic care coordination services for eligible individuals.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct outreach activities to inform likely eligible individuals of such assessments and services. 
 
Directs the Secretary to contract for a study and report to Congress and the Secretary on: (1) the effectiveness of such coverage in improving the quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions; and (2) the impact of such assessments and services on reducing Medicare expenditures.
 
Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on: (1) the effectiveness of pay-for-performance programs to serve Medicare beneficiaries with multiple conditions; (2) the cost-effectiveness of chronic care coordination under Medicare; and (3) whether the quality measures used for making Medicare part B payments improve the quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic illnesses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in House