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Federal Sunset Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5794
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Citizen participation
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional Research Service
Congressional agencies
Congressional committees
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional voting
Cost effectiveness
Discrimination in employment
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Federal libraries
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Freedom of information
Government downsizing
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Identification devices
Labor and Employment
Law
Legislation
Library of Congress
Performance measurement
Productivity in government
Relocation
Right of privacy
Sunset legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Federal Sunset Act of 2008 - Establishes the Federal Agency Sunset Commission to: (1) submit to Congress a schedule for review by the Commission, at least once every 12 years, of the abolishment or reorganization of each agency; (2) review and evaluate the efficiency and public need for each agency using specified criteria; (3) recommend whether each agency should be abolished or reorganized; and (4) report to Congress on all legislation introduced that would establish a new agency or a new program to be carried out by an existing agency. Requires the abolishment of any agency within one year of the Commission's review, unless the agency is reauthorized by Congress. Authorizes the deadline for abolishing an agency to be extended for an additional two years by legislation enacted by a super majority of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
 
Terminates the Commission on December 31, 2033.
 
Directs the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, in cooperation with the Director of the Congressional Research Service, to prepare an inventory of federal programs within each agency for the purpose of advising and assisting Congress and the Commission in carrying out the requirements of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of the Interior to notify units of local government when a Native American group files a petition to become a federally recognized Indian tribe and before the decision on the petition is made, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-5795
Sponsor: Rep. Campbell, John [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Congress
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Indian lands
Legislation
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to notify certain local governments: (1) within 60 days after a petition is filed requesting that a tribe be recognized, acknowledged, or reacknowledged as a federally recognized Indian tribe; (2) within 30 days after enactment of this Act regarding pending petitions; and (3) 90 days before a decision on a petition is announced.

Describes a local government to be notified as a local city, parish, or county government located within a 25-mile radius of land that would be taken into trust for or transferred to, or for which jurisdiction would be given to, a tribe pursuant to such a petition.

Prohibits Secretary from taking land into trust for the benefit of an Indian tribe or member thereof unless an Act enacted after this Act specifically instructs the Secretary to do so.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5796
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Authorization
Counseling
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Housing finance
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for specified mortgage foreclosure mitigation (namely housing counseling) activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Roth TSP Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5797
Sponsor: Rep. Drake, Thelma D. [R-VA-2]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Defined contribution plans
Federal employees
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Roth TSP Act of 2008 - Requires the Executive Director of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to provide for the inclusion in the Thrift Savings Plan of a qualified Roth contribution program (a program under which an employee may elect to make designated Roth contributions in lieu of elective deferrals under the retirement plan).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E620)
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Homefront Heroes Tax Relief Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5798
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Charitable contributions
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Postal service
Social Welfare
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Homefront Heroes Tax Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for up to $500 of amounts paid to provide care packages to members of the Armed Forces serving in a combat zone. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Reasonable Energy Price Protection Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5800
Sponsor: Rep. Kanjorski, Paul E. [D-PA-11]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Commerce
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy assistance for the poor
Excess profits tax
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Gas industry
Government Operations and Politics
Natural gas
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Consumer Reasonable Energy Price Protection Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a windfall profit tax on crude oil, natural gas, or fuel which is the product of crude oil or natural gas. Defines &quot;windfall profit&quot; as so much of the profit as exceeds a reasonable profit. Establishes a Reasonable Profits Board to determine reasonable profit. Dedicates the proceeds of such tax to the low-income home energy assistance program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Free Internet Filing Act

Bill: 110-hr-5801
Sponsor: Rep. Lampson, Nick [D-TX-22]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Electronic data interchange
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Income tax
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Internet
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax returns
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Free Internet Filing Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to enable individual taxpayers to file their income tax returns directly through the Internal Revenue Service website without the use of any intermediary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Food Assistance to Improve Reintegration Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5802
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Ex-offenders
Food stamps
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Food Assistance to Improve Reintegration Act of 2008 - Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to repeal the denial of food stamp eligibility for a person convicted of a felony which has as an element the possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance. 
 
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayer Responsibility, Accountability, and Consistency Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5804
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Commerce
Contractors
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Labor and Employment
Law
Tax evasion
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Taxpayer Responsibility, Accountability and Consistency Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require reporting to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of payments of $600 or more made to corporations; (2) set forth criteria and rules relating to the treatment of workers as employees or independent contractors; and (3) increase penalties for failure to file correct tax return information or comply with other information reporting requirements.

Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to issue an annual report on worker misclassification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Zeroing In American Energy Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5805
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Arizona
California
Electric power transmission
Energy
Energy development
Energy storage
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Governmental investigations
Land use
Leases
Nevada
New Mexico
Solar energy
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Zeroing In American Energy Act of 2008 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a program for the leasing of federal lands for the advancement, development, assessment, installation, and operation of commercial photovoltaic and concentrating solar power energy systems.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to: (1) identify lease sites comprising 6.4 million acres of federal lands under BLM jurisdiction in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah that are suitable and feasible for the installation and operation of such energy systems; and (2) incorporate solar energy development into the relevant agency land use and resource management plans or equivalent plans for such identified sites.

Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) the size of such sites; (2) annual milestones for the number of acres of sites to be leased by each of the years 2010-2019; and (3) the collection and payment of royalties from projects under such program.

Prohibits the following federal lands from being included within such program: (1) Components of the National Landscape Conservation System; (2) Wilderness and Wilderness Study Areas; (3) Wild and Scenic Rivers; (4) National Scenic and Historic Trails; (5) Monuments; and (6) Resource Natural Areas.

Requires the Secretary to complete: (1) a programmatic environmental impact statement for such program prior to implementing it; and (2) a study of federal lands available for a compressed air energy storage system, barriers to access to federal lands for transmission of energy produced under the program, and the need for energy transmission corridors on public lands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
School Emergency Notification Deployment Act

Bill: 110-hr-5806
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
School security
Secondary education
Telecommunication rates
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
School Emergency Notification Deployment Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish competitively neutral rules to permit universal service support to public and nonprofit elementary and secondary schools to be used for a communications service or system that can be used by school administrators and other public officials to deliver emergency messages to students and their parents, faculty, and staff, and their designated emergency contacts, via messages carried over telecommunications and information services, including those transmitted by providers of commercial mobile service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Oil Shale Reserve Fund Revenue Act

Bill: 110-hr-5807
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Colorado
Economics and Public Finance
Energy facilities
Environmental Protection
Environmental degradation
Government Operations and Politics
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil shales
Oil well drilling
Petroleum reserves
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Revenue sharing

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Oil Shale Reserve Fund Revenue Act - Requires that any amounts received by the United States, beginning on November 18, 1997, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act, from a lease under provisions relating to certain oil shale reserves be deposited in the U.S. Treasury. 
 
Requires that 50% of such amounts go to the Secretary of the Interior for the costs of all environmental restoration, waste management, and environmental compliance regarding the remediation of the land transferred under certain existing provisions, including the former Anvil Points oil shale facility in Colorado.
 
Requires that the remaining 50% go to Garfield, Rio Blanco, Moffat, and Mesa Counties, Colorado, to mitigate the effects of oil and gas development activities within the affected areas. Prohibits counting such funds in calculating payments for the counties under provisions relating to payment for entitlement land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2008-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Women's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5808
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Communication in medicine
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Environmental research
Epidemiology
Families
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Health information systems
Higher education
Medical education
Medical research
Nurses
Paramedical personnel
Physicians
Preventive medicine
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Women's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of centers to conduct multidisciplinary research on environmental factors that may be related to the development of women's health conditions. Requires each such center to: (1) conduct basic or clinical research; (2) develop protocols and conduct training programs for physicians, scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health professionals; (3) disseminate information to such professionals and the public; and (4) emphasize activities that are directed toward preventing the development in women of the diseases and conditions involved. Allows a center to use funds to provide stipends for health and allied health professionals enrolled in training programs.

Requires each center to establish and maintain ongoing collaborations with community organizations in the geographic area served by the center, including organizations that represent women or children with disorders that appear to stem from environmental factors.

Requires the Director to provide for the coordination of information among centers and ensure regular communication between them.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E615)
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
Mentor-Mentee Teen Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5810
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2008-04-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child development
Child welfare
Compensatory education
Counseling
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government lending
Higher education
Mentoring
Secondary education
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teenage pregnancy
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: 
Mentor-Mentee Teen Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2008 - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award competitive grants to local educational agencies or community-based organizations for the creation of school-based programs that provide mentoring to at-risk teenage girls to prevent and reduce teen pregnancy. 
 
Requires program mentors to be women who: (1) have received at least a baccalaureate degree from an institution of higher education; (2) are mentoring no more than two program mentees; and (3) are trained and screened to encourage mentees to engage in responsible, goal-orientated behavior, delay their sexual activity, and increase their participation in school.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide student loan forgiveness, under the Federal Family Education Loan, Direct Loan, or Perkins Loan programs of the Higher Education Act of 1965, to program mentors who serve for at least 200 hours in an academic year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-04-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Introduced in House