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Iraq Shared Investment Act

Bill: 110-hr-5899
Sponsor: Rep. Boyd, Allen [D-FL-2]
Introduced: 2008-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Economics and Public Finance
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military assistance
Military occupation
Military operations
Public debt
War relief

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: 
Iraq Shared Investment Act - Requires that amounts made available under the Iraq Security Forces Fund shall be provided as loans subject to full repayment to the U.S. government.
 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 to provide that: (1) for each of FY2008-FY2009, the Secretary of Defense shall withhold from obligation and expenditure not less than 20% of the amount made available for the Commanders' Emergency Response Program until the Secretary certifies to the congressional defense committees that the government of Iraq has agreed to provide an amount equal to 20% of the amount made available under the Commanders' Emergency Response Program from its own resources to be used to enable military commanders in Iraq to respond to urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction requirements; and (2) if the Secretary is unable to make such certification the amount withheld from obligation and expenditure shall be available for national debt reduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Schools in Homeland Security Planning Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5900
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2008-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Decision making
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
School personnel
State officials

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: 
Schools in Homeland Security Planning Act of 2008 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to condition the receipt of certain state homeland security grants on a state including a representative of the state department of education in each homeland security decision-making body of the state that has authority to determine how such grants will be used. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5901
Sponsor: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-11]
Introduced: 2008-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Breast cancer
Communication in medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Medical fees
Medical records
Medicare
Performance measurement
Quality of care
Social Welfare
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: 
Eliminating Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Act of 2008 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a breast cancer treatment quality performance system to: (1) assess and disclose publicly, through the use of quality measures, the quality of care provided for the treatment of breast cancer by specified health care providers; and (2) base payment to such providers for such treatment on their performance with respect to such measures.
 
Requires reduced payments to providers that either do not submit data in accordance with the reporting process in the system, or furnish low quality care for treatment of breast cancer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
GREEN Act

Bill: 110-hr-5902
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2008-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Asthma
Career education
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commerce
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Environmental justice
Federal aid to education
Hazardous wastes
Health
Landfills
Lead poisoning
Mentoring
Organic farming
Paints and varnishes
Pollution
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public-private partnerships
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Sustainable agriculture
Urban affairs
Urban education

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: 
Getting Youth Re-invested in Environmental Education Now Act, or the GREEN Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states and local educational agencies for the development of environmental justice curricula and co-op programs for middle and high school students at schools: (1) receiving school improvement funds under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; and (2) located in urban communities that may be disproportionately affected by climate change, pollution, and other environmental issues.
 
Requires co-op programs to: (1) link students with career opportunities in the environmental field; (2) allow students to earn course or service learning credits during the summer through experiential learning; and (3) provide students with mentors to assist them in building the skills necessary for workforce success.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the Federal building and United States Courthouse located at 200 East Wall Street in Midland, Texas, as the "George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush United States Courthouse and George Mahon Federal Building ".

Bill: 110-hr-5903
Sponsor: Rep. Conaway, K. Michael [R-TX-11]
Introduced: 2008-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Bush (George W.) Administration
Bush Administration
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Ex-Members of Congress
Ex-presidents
Federal office buildings
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Names
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: 
Redesignates the federal building and courthouse located at 200 East Wall Street in Midland, Texas, known as the George Mahon Federal Building, as the &quot;George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush United States Courthouse and George Mahon Federal Building.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Safe Food Enforcement, Assessment, Standards and Targeting Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5904
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2008-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture in foreign trade
Business records
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Emergency Management
Food industry
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Imports
Information technology
International Affairs
Laboratories
Meat packing industry
Packaging
Quality control
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Technical assistance
Trade agreements
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: 
Safe Food Enforcement, Assessment, Standards and Targeting Act of 2008 or Safe FEAST Act of 2008 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to grant the Secretary of Health and Human Services access to certain records relating to an article of food during a food-related emergency. 

Requires: (1) owners and operators of facilities engaged in manufacturing, processing, packing, or holding food for consumption in the United States (with specified exceptions) to take specified steps regarding hazard evaluation, implementation of risk-based preventive controls, monitoring and verification of control performance, corrective actions, recordkeeping, and facility inspection; and (2) the Secretary to establish minimum standards for implementation of those requirements. 

Prohibits operation of a facility that processes or packs food for sale in the United States if the operator has not conducted the required hazard analysis or implemented reasonably appropriate science-based preventive controls or has failed to conduct a required reanalysis or to have a plan documenting compliance with such requirements.

Requires each U.S. importer to adopt and document a foreign supplier safety assurance program to assure that imported food is in compliance, is not adulterated, and does not pose a threat of serious adverse health consequences or death.

Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) certification of imports by a competent authority of an exporting country; (2) establishment of a voluntary qualified importer program; (3) recognition of qualified laboratories for analyses of imported foods; (4) establishment of regulations for the safe production, harvesting, and packaging of fruits and vegetables; and (5) recognition of third party certification programs.

Grants the Secretary mandatory recall authority of food that will cause serious adverse health consequences.

Directs the Secretary to develop a comprehensive plan to expand the technical, scientific, and regulatory capacity of foreign governments and food industries from which foods are exported to the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Commuter Aid and Relief for Suburbs Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5905
Sponsor: Rep. Diaz-Balart, Mario [R-FL-25]
Introduced: 2008-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuting
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: 
Commuter Aid and Relief for Suburbs Act of 2008 or the CARS Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a tax deduction for a specified percentage of the cost of commuting between their residence and place of employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Capitol Expansion and Improvement Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5906
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2008-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Income tax
Real property
Small business
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: 
Small Business Capitol [
sic
] Expansion and Improvement Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers whose average annual gross receipts over a three-year period do not exceed $5 million an election to expense up to $125,000 of the cost of depreciable real property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Eagle Employers Act

Bill: 110-hr-5907
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2008-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Corporate management
Defined benefit pension plans
Defined contribution plans
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Iraq compilation
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
National Guard
Salaries
Tax credits
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: 
 Eagle Employers Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer certified as an Eagle employer by the Secretary of the Treasury a tax credit for one percent of such employer's taxable income. Defines an &quot; Eagle employer&quot; as any taxpayer who: (1) maintains its headquarters in the United States; (2) pays at least 60% of the health care premiums of its employees; (3) maintains or increases the number of its full-time workers in the United States relative to its full-time workers outside of the United States; (4) provides full differential salary and insurance benefits for all National Guard and Reserve employees called to active duty; and (5) provides its employees with a certain level of compensation and retirement benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a permanent zero percent capital gains rate for individuals and corporations.

Bill: 110-hr-5908
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2008-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Minimum tax
Tax exemption
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish, on a permanent basis, a zero percent tax rate for the net capital gains of individuals and corporations for purposes of the regular and alternative minimum tax. Eliminates the terminating date in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (i.e., December 31, 2008) for provisions that reduce the capital gains tax rate for individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5910
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2008-04-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Animals
Cloning
Fines (Penalties)
Health
Human embryology
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: 
Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2008- Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit and to set penalties for: (1) creating or attempting to create a human-animal hybrid (a being with human and non-human tissue as specified in this Act); (2) transferring or attempting to transfer a human embryo into a non-human womb, or a non-human embryo into a human womb; or (3) transporting or receiving for any purpose a human-animal hybrid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Introduced in House
Remove Incentives for Producing Ethanol Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5911
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2008-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Imports
Income tax
Motor vehicle pollution control
Reformulated gasoline
Standards
Tariff
Tax credits
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: 
Remove Incentives for Producing Ethanol Act of 2008 or the RIPE Act of 2008 - Amends the Clean Air Act to repeal the renewable fuel standard.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate the excise tax credit for alcohol fuel mixtures and the income tax credit for alcohol used as fuel.

Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty free treatment for ethyl alcohol or a mixture containing ethyl alcohol if it is to be used as fuel. Applies such treatment to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouses for consumption, on or after the 15th day after this Act's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2008-04-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2008-04-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2008-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 39, United States Code, to make cigarettes and certain other tobacco products nonmailable, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-5912
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2008-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Cigarettes
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Drug abuse
Evidence (Law)
Fines (Penalties)
Injunctions
Law
Mail-order business
Postal service
Smokeless tobacco
Tobacco
United States Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: 
Amends federal postal law to make cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and roll-your-own-tobacco nonmailable. 
 
Requires tobacco products attempted to be mailed to be disposed of as the Postal Service directs.
 
Provides a civil penalty for each mailing violation.
 
Authorizes the Postal Service, on evidence satisfactory to the Postal Service that any person is, for commercial or moneymaking purposes, engaged in the sending of such matter, to: (1) refuse to accept any mailing from that person or his representative unless the person or his representative establishes to the satisfaction of the postmaster that the mailing does not contain such matter; and (2) order the person to cease and desist from mailing such matter.
 
Authorizes civil actions by states to: (1) enjoin mailings to residents of that state; and (2) obtain damages.

action_date: 2008-06-12
text: 
Amends federal postal law to make cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and roll-your-own-tobacco nonmailable. 
 
Requires tobacco products attempted to be mailed to be disposed of as the Postal Service directs.
 
Provides a civil penalty for each mailing violation.
 
Authorizes the Postal Service, on evidence satisfactory to the Postal Service that any person is, for commercial or moneymaking purposes, engaged in the sending of such matter, to: (1) refuse to accept any mailing from that person or his representative unless the person or his representative establishes to the satisfaction of the postmaster that the mailing does not contain such matter; and (2) order the person to cease and desist from mailing such matter.
 
Authorizes civil actions by states to: (1) enjoin mailings to residents of that state; (2) impose civil penalties; or (3) obtain other relief.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 452.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government. H. Rept. 110-711.
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government. H. Rept. 110-711.
action_date: 2008-05-01
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2008-05-01
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Americans from Unsafe Foreign Products Act

Bill: 110-hr-5913
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2008-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Aliens
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Consumer protection
Defective products
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Imports
Jurisdiction

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: 
Protecting Americans from Unsafe Foreign Products Act - Amends the federal judicial code to provide for service of process on foreign citizens or subjects (nationals), or their agents, in cases involving defective products causing injury in the United States which were manufactured by the foreign national outside the United States.
 
Conditions jursidiction for service of process on the fact that the foreign national: (1) knew or reasonably should have known that the product or component would be imported for sale or use in the United States; or (2) had contacts with the United States, whether or not such contacts occurred in the place where the injury occurred.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E755)
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Introduced in House