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Offshore Deferred Compensation Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2199
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
Offshore Deferred Compensation Reform Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the inclusion in gross income for income tax purposes of employee compensation deferred under a nonqualified deferred compensation plan of a nonqualified foreign corporation when there is no substantial risk of forfeiture of the rights to such compensation. Defines &quot;nonqualified foreign corporation&quot; as any foreign corporation unless substantially all of its income is: (1) effectively connected with a trade or business in the United States; or (2) subject to an income tax imposed by a foreign country that has a comprehensive tax treaty with the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13089-13090)
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13089)
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Tribal Water Resources Innovative Financing Act

Bill: 110-s-2200
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Bonds
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Finance and Financial Sector
Infrastructure
Leases
Minorities
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
Tribal Water Resources Innovative Financing Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to reimburse an Indian tribe for specified expenses and costs incurred by the tribe with respect to an eligible debt financing instrument. Defines &quot;eligible debt financing instrument&quot; to mean a bond or other debt financing instrument (including a note, certificate, mortgage, or lease agreement) issued by an Indian tribe, the proceeds of which are used for construction of an authorized Indian tribal municipal, rural, or industrial water project.
 
Allows the Secretary to reimburse an Indian tribe for a project funded by an eligible debt financing instrument if the project is being carried out by the Indian tribe pursuant to a contract or cooperative agreement with the Secretary in accordance with the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. 
 
Limits the federal cost share for a project under this Act to the federal cost share for the project as determined under the authorizing statute. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13090)
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in Senate
HOME Act

Bill: 110-s-2201
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Loan defaults
Mortgages
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
Home Ownership Mortgage Emergency Act, or the HOME Act - Exempts any qualified mortgage delinquency relief distribution from the 10% additional tax imposed by the Internal Revenue Code on early distributions from qualified retirement plans.

Provides that the aggregate amount of distributions received by an individual which may be treated as qualified mortgage delinquency relief distributions for any taxable year shall not exceed the excess (if any) of $100,000, over the aggregate amounts treated as qualified mortgage delinquency relief distributions received by such individual for all prior taxable years.

Defines the term &quot;qualified mortgage delinquency relief distribution,&quot; with the exception of such aggregate dollar limitation, as any distribution from an eligible retirement plan made on or after the enactment of this Act and before January 1, 2010, to an individual whose: (1) acquisition indebtedness, with respect to the taxpayer's principal residence, is in delinquency for at least 60 days; and (2) adjusted gross income for the taxable year of such distribution does not exceed a specified amount.

Declares that qualified mortgage delinquency relief distributions shall not be treated as eligible rollover distributions (thus exempting them from certain trustee to trustee transfer and withholding rules).

Treats such relief distributions as meeting certain plan distribution requirements of the Code.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13091)
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13090-13091)
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Renewable Fuel Standard Extension Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2202
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Energy
Gasoline
Motor vehicle pollution control
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Standards
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
Renewable Fuel Standard Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Clean Air Act to redefine the term &quot;cellulosic biomass ethanol&quot; to mean ethanol derived from any cellulose, hemicellulose, or lignin that is derived from renewable biomass. Redefines the term &quot;renewable fuel&quot; to include motor vehicle fuel that is derived from renewable biomass other than ethanol derived from corn starch.

Increases the volume of renewable fuel that gasoline is required to contain for 2008-2012. Sets forth the applicable volume of renewable fuel for 2013-2016.

Revises the calculation used to determine the applicable volume of renewable fuel for 2017 and beyond by using the ratio of 18 billion gallons (currently, 7.5 billion gallons) of renewable fuels to the number of gallons of gasoline sold or introduced into commerce in 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund Reauthorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2203
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Appropriations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Nuclear facilities
Uranium enrichment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to reauthorize, and increase the maximum mandatory amounts in, the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund.

Directs the Secretary of Energy to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the manner in which proceeds from the sale of the product of the enrichment of uranium tailings may be used to reduce or supplement the amount of appropriations necessary to: (1) fund the Fund; and (2) provide assistance to local governments and community reuse organizations at sites eligible for assistance from the Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-307.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act

Bill: 110-s-2204
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Animals
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coastal zone
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Endangered species
Environmental assessment
Federal advisory bodies
Freshwater resources conservation
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Great Lakes
Habitat conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine ecology
Marine pollution
Marine resources conservation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Sea level
Water Resources Development
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish: (1) a national strategy for assisting wildlife populations and habitats in adapting to the impact of global warming; (2) an advisory board on such impact; (3) the National Global Warming and Wildlife Science Center within the United States Geological Survey (USGS); and (4) a State and Tribal Wildlife Grants Program.

Global Warming and Acidification Coastal and Ocean Resiliency Act - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) establish a national strategy to protect, maintain, and restore coastal and marine ecosystems so that they are more resilient and better able to withstand the additional stresses associated with global warming, including relative sea level rise, and ocean acidification; (2) establish an advisory board on the impact of global warming on the ocean and coastal communities; (3) make grants for protecting, maintaining, or restoring the resilience and health of coastal, ocean, and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources; and (4) arrange with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for a report to Congress on such impact.

Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to require the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) establish a coastal climate change resiliency planning and response program; and (2) issue guidelines for the implementation of climate change resiliency planning grants to states.

Requires the Director of USGS to convene regional scientific symposia to examine the ecological impact of global warming on each imperiled species in each U.S. ecosystem. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to arrange with NAS to convene a panel to report on: (1) such impact; (2) different ecological scenarios that may result from different intensities, rates, and other critical manifestations of global warming; and (3) assisting such species.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13092-13097)
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13091-13092)
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Green McAdoo School National Historic Site Study Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-2207
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2007-10-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Congressional reporting requirements
Desegregation in education
District courts
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Judicial opinions
Law
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: 
Green McAdoo School National Historic Site Study Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the site of Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee, so as to evaluate the national significance of the site and the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System. 

action_date: 2008-06-16
text: 
Green McAdoo School National Historic Site Study Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a a special resource study of the site of Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee, so as to evaluate the national significance of the site and the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System. 

Requires such study to: (1) include cost estimates for any necessary acquisition, development, operation, and maintenance of the site; and (2) identify alternatives for the management, administration, and protection of the site. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 794.
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-362.
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-362.
action_date: 2008-05-07
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2008-04-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-480.
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Safety for Americans from Nuclear Weapons Testing Act

Bill: 110-s-2208
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2007-10-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arizona
Classified defense information
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental monitoring
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government publicity
Groundwater
Health
Health information systems
Higher education
Internet
Law
Legislation
Medical research
Nevada
Nuclear weapons
Pollution measurement
Public meetings
Radiation
Radiation victims
Radioactive pollution
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: 
Safety for Americans from Nuclear Weapons Testing Act - Deems the resumption of underground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site or the use of any other location for such testing to be a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment for which a separate environmental impact statement is required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Outlines information required to be included in such statement, including: (1) the possibility of radiation containment failure and the effects of such failure; (2) possible long-term effects on the water table from underground radiation leakage; and (3) information with respect to categories of weapons subject to testing.

Prohibits the United States from resuming any such testing unless authorized by a law enacted after the enactment of this Act.

Requires: (1) advance (seven days) public notice of each test; (2) prompt notice of each release of radiation resulting from a test; and (3) a study by the National Academy of Sciences on the safety and health of citizens in the vicinity of the Site. Establishes a Nevada Test Site Citizens Review Board to address environmental, health, and safety issues related to nuclear testing at the Site.

Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to make grants to institutions of higher education to acquire and operate for ten years radiation detection equipment and sensors.

Directs the Secretary of Energy, through the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to monitor any radiation released into the atmosphere as a result of such testing. Requires: (1) DOE radiation containment assessment; and (2) public notice of monitoring data.

Requires the: (1) Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to make a grant to establish the National Center for the Study of Radiation and Human Health; and (2) Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study of individuals exposed to nuclear weapons tests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Research Credit Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2209
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2007-10-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Research and development tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: 
Research Credit Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the tax credit for increasing research activities by: (1) phasing-in increases in the alternative simplified tax credit rate through 2009; (2) establishing a 20% alternative simplified tax credit rate in 2010 in lieu of the standard research tax credit rate; (3) increasing the amount of basic and contract research expenses eligible for such tax credit; and (4) making such tax credit permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13154-13155)
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13153-13154)
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Medical Innovation Prize Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2210
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2007-10-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Auditing
Awards, medals, prizes
Commemorations
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Congress
Congressional investigations
Cost effectiveness
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Intellectual property
Marketing
Medical innovations
Orphan drugs
Patents
Pharmaceutical research
Research and development
Revolving funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: 
Medical Innovation Prize Act of 2007 - Prohibits any person from having the right to exclusively manufacture, distribute, sell, or use in interstate commerce a drug, a biological product, or a drug or biological product manufacturing process, including the exclusive right to rely on health registration data or the 30-month stay-of-effectiveness period for Orange Book patents under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, notwithstanding provisions of that Act and other specified laws. 

Establishes the Fund for Medical Innovation Prizes. Requires the Board of Trustees for the Fund to award prize payments for medical innovations relating to a drug, biological product, or manufacturing process. Requires an eligible award recipient to be either the first person to receive market clearance or the holder of the patent. Directs the Board to consider: (1) the number of patients who benefited from the drug, including non-U.S. patients; (2) the incremental therapeutic benefit of the drug to treat the same disease or condition, except that the Board shall provide for cases where drugs, biological products, or manufacturing processes are developed at roughly the same time so that the comparison is to products that were not recently developed; (3) the degree to which the drug addresses priority health care needs, such as global infectious diseases and neglected diseases that primarily afflict the poor in developing countries; and (4) the improved efficiency of manufacturing processes for drugs or biological processes. Allows the Board to award prize payments for no more than ten years. Allocates certain minimum payments from the Fund for priority research and development.

Requires the Comptroller General to conduct an audit to determine the Board's effectiveness in bringing to market new drugs, vaccines, biological products, and manufacturing processes in a cost-effective manner and in addressing society's global medical needs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Global Warming and Acidification Coastal and Ocean Resiliency Act

Bill: 110-s-2211
Sponsor: Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]
Introduced: 2007-10-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coastal zone
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Great Lakes
Habitat conservation
Land use
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine ecology
Marine pollution
Marine resources conservation
Restoration ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Sea level
Water Resources Development
Water use

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: 
Global Warming and Acidification Coastal and Ocean Resiliency Act - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) establish a national strategy to protect, maintain, and restore coastal and marine ecosystems so that they are more resilient and better able to withstand the additional stresses associated with global warming, including relative sea level rise, and ocean acidification; and (2) revise the strategy within five years and every ten years thereafter to reflect new information.

Requires the Secretary to establish an Advisory Board to provide advice on: (1) the impact of global warming and strategies and mechanisms to mitigate the impact on the ocean and coastal communities; (2) priorities for research or information collection; and (3) priority needs for achieving systematic improvements in ocean and coastal resiliency.

Requires the Secretary to make grants for protecting, maintaining, or restoring the resilience and health of coastal, ocean, and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources.

Requires the Secretary to arrange with the National Academy of Sciences for a report to Congress on the impact of global warming, including relative sea level rise, and ocean acidification and on effective mitigation strategies for the ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems and U.S. resources.

Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to require the Secretary to establish a coastal climate change resiliency planning and response program and to issue guidelines for the implementation of climate change resiliency planning grants (authorized by this Act) to states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Introduced in Senate