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Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4195
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Capital gains tax
Charitable contributions
Commerce
Commodity tax straddles
Congress
Diesel motor
Dividends
Electric power production
Energy
Energy research
Estate tax
Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Foreign tax credit
Foundations
Gasoline
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Hotels, motels, etc.
Hydrogen
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Interest
Investments
Labor and Employment
Legislation
Minimum tax
Nuclear power plants
Public records
Real estate investment
Rent
Research and development tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Small business
Sulphur
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations
Transportation and Public Works
Unrelated business income tax
Valuation
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2007 - Makes technical and clerical corrections to the Internal Revenue Code, including corrections to provisions enacted by: (1) the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006; (2) the Pension Protection Act of 2006; (3) the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005; (4) the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users; (5) the Energy Policy Act of 2005; (6) the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004; (7) the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003; (8) the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001; (9) the Tax Relief Extension Act of 1999; and (10) the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
To prevent the admission of any member or leader of the Magyar Garda into the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-4197
Sponsor: Rep. Lantos, Tom [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Antisemitism
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Europe
Government Operations and Politics
History
Hungary
Immigrants
International Affairs
Jewish holocaust (1939-1945)
Nationalism
Paramilitary forces
President and foreign policy
Religion
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
 Denies U.S. admission to any alien who is or was a leader or member of the Magyar Garda (Hungarian Guard) or an immediate family member of such person.
 
Authorizes the President, with congressional notification, to waive such prohibition if in the U.S. national interest. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
Foster and Adoptive Parent Recruitment Programs Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4198
Sponsor: Rep. Lampson, Nick [D-TX-22]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption
Charities
Church and social problems
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Family services
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Nonprofit organizations
Religion
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Foster and Adoptive Parent Recruitment Programs Act of 2007 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make competitive grants to support establishment and expansion of programs that use networks of public, private, and faith-based organizations to recruit and train foster and adoptive parents and provide support services to foster and adoptive children and their families. Makes eligible for such grants state or local governments, local public agencies, community-based or nonprofit organizations, or private entities, including charitable or faith-based organizations.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide for a National Clearinghouse for Adoption Promotion and Foster Parent Recruitment Programs through a contract with a nationally recognized, nonprofit adoption promotion and foster parent recruitment organization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for medical research related to developing qualified infectious disease products.

Bill: 110-hr-4200
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Antibiotics
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Drug industry
Health
Income tax
Medical tests
Pharmaceutical research
Preventive medicine
Research and development tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications
Vaccines
Virus diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general business tax credit for 50% of expenses paid for research and development of any qualified infectious disease product. Defines &quot;qualified infectious disease product&quot; as any antibiotic drug, antiviral, diagnostic test, biological product, or vaccine developed to treat, detect, prevent, or identify certain pathogens. Terminates such credit after 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
Justice for the Newark College Students Act

Bill: 110-hr-4201
Sponsor: Rep. Dent, Charles W. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Arrest
Court records
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Deportation
Detention of persons
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Illegal aliens
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Justice for the Newark College Students Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require: (1) the Secretary of Homeland Security (current law refers to the Attorney General) to make investigative resources available to state and local law enforcement agencies to determine whether an individual arrested for a felony or an aggravated felony (current law refers to only an aggravated felony) is unlawfully in the United States; (2) state and local agencies to use such information to determine whether an arrested individual is unlawfully in the United States and to provide the appropriate court with such information; (3) the court to report such case's disposition to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and (4) mandatory federal detention of such individuals pending removal, and release only in furtherance of the felony case for which the arrest was made. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
Inclusive Home Design Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4202
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Architecture and the disabled
Armed Forces and National Security
Building construction
Building laws
Civil actions and liability
Damages
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Federal preemption
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Housing for the disabled
Housing subsidies
Income tax
Injunctions
Land transfers
Law
Leases
Legal fees
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Parties to actions
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public housing
Punitive damages
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Taxation
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Inclusive Home Design Act of 2007 - Requires, with exceptions, newly constructed, federally assisted single family houses and town houses to include at least one level that complies with the following accessibility features for persons with disabilities: (1) accessible entrance; (2) accessible interior doors; (3) accessible environmental controls; and (4) accessible habitable space and an accessible bathroom.
 
Requires: (1) each applicant for federal financial assistance to submit compliance assurances to the relevant federal agency; and (2) each person who arranges for design or construction of a covered dwelling to submit architectural and construction plans for state or local approval. Prohibits federal financial assistance to a state or local government unit unless the recipient is taking certain enforcement actions with regard to covered dwellings.
 
Permits: (1) private civil actions in a U.S. District Court or state court for violations under this Act; and (2) the Attorney General to commence civil actions or intervene in civil actions under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Suicide Study Act

Bill: 110-hr-4204
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Health
Iraq compilation
Mental health
Suicide
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Veterans Suicide Study Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs conduct a study to determine the number of veterans who have committed suicide between January 1, 1997, and the date of the enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
National Health Services Corps and Loan Repayment Programs Renewal Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4205
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Authorization
Clinics
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Medical education
Medical personnel
Minorities
Minority health
Rural health
Scholarships

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
National Health Services Corps and Loan Repayment Programs Renewal Act of 2007 - Reauthorizes appropriations for the National Health Service Corps for FY2008-FY2012.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in approving applications for assignment of members of the Corps, to give the highest preference to entities that are federally-qualified health centers, that are rural health clinics, and that primarily serve health disparity populations or medically underserved populations.

Repeals the requirement that federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics demonstate that they meet health professional shortage area requirements every six years after such a center or clinic is designated as having such a shortage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Fracture Prevention and Osteoporosis Testing Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4206
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Bone fractures
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Medical fees
Medical tests
Medicare
Osteoporosis
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Medicare Fracture Prevention and Osteoporosis Testing Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a national minimum payment amount for CPT code 77080 (relating to dual energy x-ray absorptiometry, or DXA, the most widely accepted method of measuring bone mass to predict fracture risk) and CPT code 77082 (relating to vertebral fracture assessment, or VFA), and any successor to such codes as identified by the Secretary (bone mass scans). 
 
Directs the Secretary to arrange with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies to conduct a study for a report to the Secretary and Congress on: (1) the ramifications of Medicare reimbursement reductions for DXA and VFA on beneficiary access to bone mass measurement benefits; and (2) the methods to increase use of bone mass measurement by Medicare beneficiaries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
Partnership for Children and Families Act

Bill: 110-hr-4207
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption
Child welfare
Employee training
Family services
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Social Welfare
State employees
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Partnership for Children and Families Act - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to revise the eligibility requirements for adoption assistance and foster care maintenance payments, eliminating certain income criteria.
 
Allows each state with an approved part E plan to apply to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) receive foster care maintenance payment savings achieved (in a &quot;child welfare reinvestment fund&quot;) by reducing the total number of days children in the state experience in foster care during the fiscal year; and (2) use the savings to provide children with family preservation services, family support services, time-limited family reunification services, and adoption promotion and support services, and to train the staff of state and local child welfare agencies in effective service practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
Reconnecting Youth to Prevent Homelessness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4208
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Child welfare
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Runaway children
State laws
Tax credits
Taxation
Teenage pregnancy
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Reconnecting Youth to Prevent Homelessness Act of 2007 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require State part E plans to provide that the state shall have in effect such laws and procedures as are necessary to ensure that: (1) a child may not be placed in foster care under state responsibility solely because the family with which the child is living is homeless or living in substandard housing; and (2) the state will work with the family and state housing authorities to secure permanent housing for any family that includes a minor child and is homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to report to appropriate congressional committees on state policies and practices regarding: (1) access to federally funded child welfare services by children who have attained age 13; and (2) consideration of runaway and homeless situations as risk assessment factors for determining the appropriateness of placement in the child welfare system. 
 
Requires state part E plans to describe state policies and procedures regarding runaway or missing foster children.
 

 
Provides for extension of child welfare services to emancipated youth between ages 18 and 21.
 
Revises the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program.
 
Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) to revise the requirement that the state provide adult-supervised living arrangements for teenage parents not yet living in such an arrangement.
 
Suspends the five-year time limit on TANF assistance for parents under age 21 who are involved in education or training.
 
Prohibits the imposition of sanctions under TANF with respect to minor parents unless the state has established procedures that help TANF recipients understand, avoid, or end sanctions, and has applied the procedures to the recipient. 
 
Requires the Secretary to study and report to Congress on: (1) TANF recipients who are parents and have not attained age 20; and (2) a representative sample of low-income teen parents who are not TANF recipients.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include homeless youth as a qualified targeted population for the work opportunity business income tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the voluntary purchase of certain properties in Treece, Kansas endangered by the Cherokee County National Priorities List Site, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-4209
Sponsor: Rep. Boyda, Nancy E. [D-KS-2]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Environmental health
Grants-in-aid
Hazardous wastes
Health
Infrastructure
Kansas
Land subsidence
Land transfers
Oklahoma
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Relocation
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide specified funds to Kansas in FY2009 to purchase (with the owners' consent), and to provide relocation assistance to the residents of: (1) properties in Treece, Kansas, that are in danger of being destroyed by subsidence relating to the Cherokee County National Priorities List Site that may endanger the health of occupants; and (2) residential properties of water customers of Picher, Oklahoma, residing in or near Treece, Kansas.

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to deem certain small business concerns qualified HUBZone small business concerns.

Bill: 110-hr-4212
Sponsor: Rep. Cramer, Robert E. (Bud), Jr. [D-AL-5]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Residence requirements
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to deem a small business a qualified HUBZone (heavily underutilized business zone) small business if such small business has certified to the Administrator that: (1) it is not currently a HUBZone small business; (2) its principal office is located in a census tract adjacent to a HUBZone; (3) at least 35% of the employees reside in a HUBZone; and (4) it meets current SBA requirements applicable to qualified HUBZone small businesses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in House