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Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-851
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Books
College costs
Education
Higher education
Income tax
Tax deductions
Textbooks
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the hope and lifetime learning tax credits with a higher education opportunity tax credit.

Allows a higher education opportunity tax credit for 100% of qualified tuition and related expenses (including a certain allowance for books) up to $1,000, 50% for such expenses between $1,000 and $3,000, and 20% of such expenses between $3,000 and $5,500. Reduces credit amounts for taxpayers with modified adjusted gross incomes over $70,000 ($140,000 in the case of a joint return). 

Limits such credit to three eligible students per taxpayer in any taxable year and for four taxable years.
 
 Denies such credit to certain part-time students and students convicted of a felony drug offense. 
 
Repeals the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to deauthorize the project for navigation, Tenants Harbor, Maine.

Bill: 110-s-852
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Harbors
Maine
Navigation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Terminates authorization for a specified project for navigation in Tenants Harbor, Maine. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3066-3067)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to deauthorize the project for navigation, Northeast Harbor, Maine.

Bill: 110-s-853
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Harbors
Maine
Navigation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
 Terminates authorization for a specified project for navigation at Northeast Harbor, Maine. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3066-3067)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to modify the project for navigation, Union River, Maine.

Bill: 110-s-854
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Maine
Navigation
Rivers
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Modifies the Union River, Maine, navigation project by redesignating a specified portion of the project as an anchorage area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3066-3067)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to deauthorize a certain portion of the project for navigation, Rockland Harbor, Maine.

Bill: 110-s-855
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Dikes (Engineering)
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Everglades
Federal aid to water resources development
Flood control
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Harbors
Illinois
Lakes
Maine
Navigation
Restoration ecology
Rivers
Transportation and Public Works
Water storage
Waterways
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Deauthorizes: (1) a portion of the project for navigation at Rockland Harbor, Maine; and (2) the portion of the Illinois Waterway project authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1927 in the South Fork of the South Branch of the Chicago River.
 
Redesignates a portion of the navigation project, Saco River, Maine, described as a maneuvering basin as an anchorage area.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Army, by May 31, 2007, to publish a supplement to the major rehabilitation report for the Herbert Hoover Dike system, approved by the Chief of Engineers in November 2000, which shall: (1) evaluate existing conditions at the Herbert Hoover Dike system; (2) identify additional risks associated with flood events at the system that are equal to or greater than the standard projected flood risks; (3) evaluate the potential to integrate Corps of Engineers projects into an enhanced flood protection system for Lake Okeechobee, including the potential for additional water storage north of that lake and an analysis of other project features included in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan; and (4) review the report prepared for the South Florida Water Management District dated April 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3066-3067)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to terminate authorization for the project for navigation, Rockport Harbor, Maine.

Bill: 110-s-856
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Harbors
Maine
Navigation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
 Terminates authorization for a portion of the project for navigation, Rockport Harbor, Maine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3066-3067)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to redesignate the project for navigation, Saco River, Maine, as an anchorage area.

Bill: 110-s-857
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Boats and boating
Maine
Navigation
Rivers
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Redesignates a portion of the project for navigation, Saco River, Maine, as an anchorage area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7508-7511)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3066-3067)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Bicycle Commuters Benefits Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-858
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bicycles
Commuting
Fringe benefits
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Bicycle Commuters Benefits Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include a bicycle commuting allowance as a qualified transportation fringe benefit, excludable from gross income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3068)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3067-3068)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Ethanol Infrastructure Expansion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-859
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy transportation
Federal aid to transportation
Governmental investigations
Legislation
Pipelines
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Ethanol Infrastructure Expansion Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Energy, in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Transportation, to award up to $1 million to one or more eligible firms to conduct feasibility studies for the construction of one or more dedicated ethanol pipelines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3069-3070)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3068-3069)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Early Treatment for HIV Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-860
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
American Samoa
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare
Territories (U.S.)
Virgin Islands
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Early Treatment for HIV Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to give states the option of providing Medicaid coverage for certain low-income HIV-infected individuals. Provides states taking advantage of this option with an enhanced federal Medicaid match. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3070-3071)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3070)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the Federal building located at 131 East 4th Street in Davenport, Iowa, as the "James A. Leach Federal Building".

Bill: 110-s-861
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Federal office buildings
Iowa
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Designates the federal building located at 131 East 4th Street in Davenport, Iowa, as the "James A. Leach Federal Building."


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the Federal building located at 210 Walnut Street in Des Moines, Iowa, as the "Neal Smith Federal Building".

Bill: 110-s-862
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Federal office buildings
House of Representatives
Iowa
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Designates the federal building located at 210 Walnut Street in Des Moines, Iowa, as the &quot;Neal Smith Federal Building.&quot;

action_date: 2008-01-22
text: 

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

 
Designates the federal building located at 210 Walnut Street in Des Moines, Iowa, as the &quot;Neal Smith Federal Building.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-22
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 559.
action_date: 2008-01-22
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-01-22
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Competitive Power Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-864
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate finance
Cost effectiveness
Debt
Department of Energy
Electric power distribution
Electric power transmission
Electric utility rates
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Independent regulatory commissions
Power marketing administrations
Privatization
Tennessee Valley Authority

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Access to Competitive Power Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Power Act to authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to order transmission service by the administrator or board of directors of the Bonneville, Southeastern, Western Area, and Southwestern Power Administrations, and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
 

 
Grants FERC jurisdiction over the rates, terms, and conditions of TVA's provision of transmission service in interstate commerce.
 
Requires the TVA Board of Directors to file with FERC an open access transmission tariff containing just, reasonable, and not unduly preferential or discriminatory rates, terms, and conditions.
 
Prohibits certain territory-restricted electric utilities from recovering stranded costs associated with the provision of transmission services to a distributor.
 
Authorizes distributors which, by December 31, 2006, gave notice of termination of a power supply contract with a territory-restricted electric utility (such as TVA) to negotiate partial requirements services with such utility, as well as receive sufficient transmission services. Allows such distributors also to elect to rescind a termination notice without imposition of a reintegration or similar fee.
 
Authorizes distributors that did not give a termination notice by such date to receive partial requirements services from any such utility, subject to specified requirements.
 
Allows a distributor receiving any electric service or power from at least two generators to elect to retain it regardless of whether an applicable contract, or portion of it, has been terminated.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on: (1) the costs, benefits, and other effects of privatizing the TVA; and (2) the TVA's financial structure, as well as the amount of debt it holds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3074-3075)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3073-3074)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Camp Ellis Beach Restoration Act

Bill: 110-s-865
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Beaches
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Maine
Navigation
Rivers
Shore protection
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Camp Ellis Beach Restoration Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out a project for the mitigation of shore damages attributable to the navigation project for Saco River, Maine.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Lowell National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act

Bill: 110-s-867
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Commemorations
Commerce
Historic sites
History
Industrialization
Land transfers
Massachusetts
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Lowell National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act - Modifies the boundary of the Lowell National Historical Park to include certain properties in the City of Lowell, Massachusetts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-266.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Competitive and Open Markets That Protect and Enhance the Treatment of Entrepreneurs Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-869
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting
Auditing
Commerce
Competition
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate finance
Corporation reports
Europe
Financial statements
Governmental investigations
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Investors
Legislation
Securities regulation
Small business
Standards
United Kingdom

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
Competitive and Open Markets That Protect and Enhance the Treatment of Entrepreneurs Act of 2007, or the Compete Act of 2007 - Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes-Oxley) to revise requirements for the internal control assessment component of a securities issuer's annual report.

Requires the attestation and report by a registered public accounting firm on an issuer's management assessment of its internal control structure and procedures to focus upon the process and system used by management to identify and manage risks, identify and implement key controls, and come to a conclusion on the effectiveness of the internal controls over financial reporting. 

Prohibits an auditor's attestation and report from including a separate (pass/fail) opinion on the effectiveness of such internal controls.

Requires such attestation and report to be performed at three-year intervals.

Prescribes standards for such attestations and reports, including a risk-based evaluation.

Permits attestations and reports to rely on examinations and inspections by federal and state regulatory agencies.

Instructs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to develop a standard of materiality for such assessments and reports based upon the relationship of the internal control to the reasonably possible effects on the financial statements of the issuer, and its significance to the overall financial status of the issuer.

Exempts a smaller public company from the requirements for management assessment of internal controls, unless it voluntarily elects to comply with them.

Directs the SEC and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to jointly conduct studies: (1) examining the lack of, and impediments to, robust competition for the performance of audits for issuers; and (2) comparing and contrasting the principles-based Turnbull Guidance under the British securities laws to the implementation of section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley (concerning management assessment of internal controls).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Home Infusion Therapy Consolidated Coverage Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-870
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy
Drugs
Home care services
Medical fees
Medicare
Nursing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
Medicare Home Infusion Therapy Consolidated Coverage Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for the consolidated coverage of home infusion therapy under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Savings for Working Families Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-871
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [ID-CT]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts
Bank records
Capital
College costs
Community development banking
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Federal aid to Indians
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Personal budgets
Saving and investment
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
Savings for Working Families Act of 2007 - Allows certain low-income individuals between age 18 and 61 to establish tax-exempt individual development accounts (IDAs) to pay for certain qualified expenses, including education expenses, first-time homebuyer costs, and business capitalization or expansion costs. Sets forth rules for the establishment, maintenance, and termination of IDAs. Permits tax-free withdrawals from IDAs for qualified expenses, but requires IDA beneficiaries to complete one or more financial education courses prior to making an IDA withdrawal.

Allows certain financial institutions, tax-exempt organizations, and Indian tribes to sponsor and administer IDAs. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow such entities a business-related tax credit for the cost of administering IDAs and for making matching contributions to IDAs in parallel accounts. 

Provides that IDA amounts shall be disregarded for purposes of determining eligibility for assistance under certain means-tested federal programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the excise tax provisions and income tax credit for biodiesel.

Bill: 110-s-872
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Biomass energy
Diesel motor
Energy
Energy crops
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Income tax
Oils and fats
Refuse as fuel
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through December 31, 2017, the income tax credit for biodiesel used as fuel and the excise credits for biodiesel mixtures and biodiesel used to produce biodiesel mixtures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Incentives to Educate American Children (I Teach) Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-873
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Rural education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Incentives to Educate American Children (I Teach) Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a tax credit of $1,000 for: (1) teachers in public elementary or secondary schools or public kindergartens in rural areas or areas with high poverty; and (2) teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Grants a credit of $2,000 for a teacher meeting both criteria.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3126-3127)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate