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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the treatment of qualified restaurant property as 15-year property for purposes of the depreciation deduction.

Bill: 110-hr-3622
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Income tax
Restaurants
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the 15-year recovery period for purposes of the tax deduction for depreciation of qualified restaurant property. Revises the term &quot;qualified restaurant property&quot; to include existing buildings as well as improvements to buildings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1940-1941)
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the deduction for contributions of real property made for conservation purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3623
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Nature conservation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real property
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2008 the tax deduction for charitable contributions of real property made for conservation purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Food Safety Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3624
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Agriculture in foreign trade
Authorization
Business records
Citizen lawsuits
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer education
Damages
Defective products
Department of Health and Human Services
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
District courts
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Evidence (Law)
Exports
Federal aid to research
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Food industry
Food safety
Foodborne diseases
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Grocery trade
Health
Health education
Imports
International Affairs
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Licenses
Medical research
Packaging
Public service advertising
Quality control
Reciprocity
Restaurants
Science, Technology, Communications
Signs and symbols
State employees
State laws
Trade agreements
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Consumer Food Safety Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) administer a national program to protect human health by ensuring that the food industry has effective programs to assure the safety of food; (2) prescribe regulations regarding harmful substances in food, registration of facilities, sanitary food processing, proper labeling, processing controls, and inspections of registered facilities; (3) establish tolerances to limit the quantity of contaminants in food; (4) establish a system to ensure the safety of imported food; (5) include food in an active surveillance system; (6) establish guidelines for a sampling system of food products; (7) rank food categories based on their health hazard and identify approaches to minimize such hazards; and (8) design and implement a food safety education program.
 
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require notification of the Secretary of any adulterated or misbranded food. Sets forth provisions regarding ceasing distribution of food, recalls, and civil penalties for violations of this Act.
 
Prohibits any person from being discriminated against because that person participated in any way in carrying out the purpose of specified federal food laws or refused to violate any law, rule, or regulation.
 
Allows the Secretary to impose traceability requirements on a type or class of food product as necessary to assure the protection of the public health.
 
Allows civil actions against the Secretary for failing to perform any nondiscretionary act or duty to ensure the safety of food products.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To provide for continued treatment for the reopening of certain facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Bill: 110-hr-3626
Sponsor: Rep. Shimkus, John [R-IL-19]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Building laws
Emergency Management
Fire prevention
Hospitals
Medicaid
Medicare
Nursing homes
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Declares that certain closed critical access hospitals and adjoining skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) that seek to reopen on or after the enactment of this Act shall be deemed to continue to be designated as a critical access hospital, and both the hospital and the SNF shall be deemed to continue to meet the applicable life safety code standards, for purposes of titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. 
 
Confines the application of this Act to a hospital and an adjoining SNF that operated under common management before 1983 and closed during 2005, if before such closure the hospital was designated as a critical access hospital and the hospital and SNF both met the National Fire Protection Agency Life Health Safety Code as a facility existing as of March 16, 1982.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-09-20
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: 2007-09-20
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: 2007-09-20
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: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Connect The Nation Act

Bill: 110-hr-3627
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadband
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Internet

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Connect The Nation Act - Provides for grants to develop and implement statewide initiatives to identify and track the availability and adoption of broadband service within each state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Promoting Charitable Actions Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3628
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Charitable contributions
Food relief
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Promoting Charitable Actions Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2011 the expansion of the tax deduction for charitable contributions of food inventory to taxpayers other than C corporations.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Providing Tax Fairness for Service Members and Veterans Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3629
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Bonds
Earned income tax credit
Finance and Financial Sector
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Military pay
Military personnel
Mortgages
Social Welfare
Veterans' benefits
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Providing Tax Fairness for Service Members and Veterans Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2011: (1) the taxpayer election to include combat pay as earned income for purposes of computing the earned income tax credit; and (2) eligibility of veterans for mortgage financing without regard to first-time homebuyer requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Enhancing Education through Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3630
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Bonds
Books
Building construction
Charitable contributions
Charities
College costs
Computers
Construction costs
Costs
Education
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Finance and Financial Sector
Higher education
Income tax
Libraries
Maintenance and repair
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Teachers
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Enhancing Education through Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2011: (1) the tax deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers; (2) the expanded tax deduction for charitable contributions of book inventories to public schools; (3) the expanded tax deduction for charitable contributions of computer technology or equipment to schools, charities, and public libraries; (4) the tax credit for holders of qualified zone academy bonds; and (5) the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Revolutionizing Education Through Digital Investment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3631
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational technology
Educational television
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to the arts and humanities
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Higher education
Learning
Libraries
Museums
Nonprofit organizations
Public broadcasting
Research and development
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Revolutionizing Education Through Digital Investment Act of 2007 - Establishes a National Center for Learning Science and Technology (the Center). 
 
Establishes in the Treasury the &quot;National Center for Learning Science and Technology Trust Fund,&quot; the amounts of which may be used for: (1) supporting basic and applied research development and demonstrations of innovative learning and assessment systems and the components and tools needed to create them; (2) supporting the testing and evaluation of those systems; and (3) encouraging the widespread adoption and use of effective approaches to learning. 
 
Creates a board of directors for the Center to oversee the administration of the Center. Authorizes the Director of the Center to award contracts and grants to colleges and universities, museums, libraries, public broadcasting entities and similar nonprofits and public institutions (with or without private partners). 
 
Requires: (1) the Director to submit, to the President and specified congressional committees, an annual report which shall include a statement from the Board of its plans and priorities for expenditures and an estimate of funds that will be available for such expenditures from the Trust Fund; and (2) the Director and the Center's principal officers to testify to appropriate congressional committees about such reports and any other appropriate matters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Naaman Ramez Damaa.

Bill: 110-hr-3632
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Provides for the relief of Naaman Ramez Damaa.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To provide for export controls of certain items relating to civil aircraft.

Bill: 110-hr-3633
Sponsor: Rep. Manzullo, Donald A. [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2007-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Aircraft
Aircraft engines
Commercial aircraft
Export controls
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: 
Subjects civil aircraft, aircraft engines, or propellers (including any component or technology related to such items) to export controls only under the Export Administration Act of 1979, as continued in effect pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Provides that such items shall not be subject to military export controls under the Arms Export Control Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Strategic Technology/Engineering Program Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3634
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2007-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Engineering
Engineers
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government lending
Graduate education
Higher education
Infrastructure
Law
Licenses
Mathematics
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Student loan funds
Technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: 
Strategic Technology/Engineering Program Act of 2007 or the STEP Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award renewable one-year STEP scholarships to students who pursue undergraduate or graduate degrees in engineering, technology, applied sciences, mathematics, or similar fields. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide student loan forgiveness to borrowers under the Federal Family Education Loan and Direct Loan programs who agree to remain employed as engineers for at least eight years and obtain licensure as professional engineers within eight years of obtaining a degree. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3635
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2007-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Directories
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Government Operations and Politics
Health information systems
Medical records
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: 
Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish a National Organ Tissue Donor Registry Resource Center, which shall: (1) advance the development, expansion, and evaluation of state organ and tissue donor registries; (2) facilitate timely access to, and the exchange of accurate donor information between, such registries 24 hours a day; (3) ensure that funded registries comply with requirements; (4) provide technical assistance to states for such registries; and (5) maintain a registry information clearinghouse.

Requires the Secretary to award grants or cooperative agreements to eligible entities for such registries. Requires recipients to agree to establish benchmarks for improvement in organ and tissue donation and to maintain registries that: (1) allow a donor to include a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift; (2) allow organ procurement organizations to access that information, at or near the donor's death, 24 hours a day; and (3) bar the use or disclosure of personally identifiable information for any other purpose without the donor's consent.

Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the feasibility of establishing a living donor database to track short- and long-term health effects for donors associated with living organ donation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Superfund Reinvestment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3636
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2007-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes
Income tax
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Petroleum
Pollution taxes
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Superfund Reinvestment Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code by reinstating until January 1, 2018, the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate and the corporate environmental income tax.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1960)
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Higher Education Sustainability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3637
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2007-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building materials
Community and school
Conferences
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Graduate education
Green products
Higher education
Industry-university relations
Nonprofit organizations
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Recycling of waste products
Refuse and refuse disposal
Research grants
School administration
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Sustainable development
Teacher education
Transportation and Public Works
Waste reduction

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: 
Higher Education Sustainability Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to establish sustainability programs at institutions of higher education. 
 
Requires such programs to develop and implement: (1) sustainability practices, including in the areas of energy management, green building, waste management, purchasing, transportation, and toxics management; and (2) other aspects of sustainability that integrate campus operations with multidisciplinary educational programs and are applicable to the private and government sectors.
 
Directs the Secretary to convene a summit of higher education experts, federal representatives, and business and industry leaders to encourage cooperative efforts to enhance sustainability programs at institutions of higher education and apply such programs to the community and workplace.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1952)
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Introduced in House