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Algae-based Renewable Fuel Promotion Act of 2010

Bill: 111-hr-4168
Sponsor: Rep. Teague, Harry [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Business investment and capital
Income tax credits
Income tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: 
Algae-based Renewable Fuel Promotion Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) expand the definition of cellulosic biofuel to include algae-based biofuel for purposes of the cellulosic biofuel producer tax credit; and (2) allow accelerated depreciation of property used to produce algae-based biofuel. Defines &quot;algae-based biofuel&quot; as any liquid fuel which is produced from the biomass of an algal organism (i.e., an organism that is primarily aquatic and classified as a non-vascular plant).

action_date: 2010-09-28
text: 
Algae-based Renewable Fuel Promotion Act of 2010 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the definition of &quot;cellulosic biofuel&quot; for purposes of the cellulosic biofuel producer tax credit and the special depreciation allowance to mean any liquid fuel which is derived solely from qualified feedstocks. Defines &quot;qualified feedstocks&quot; as any lignocellulosic or hemicellulosic matter that is available on a renewable or recurring basis and any cultivated algae, cyanobacteria, or lemna.
 
Provides for compliance of the budgetary effects of this Act with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-11-15
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 639.
action_date: 2010-09-29
text: Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7070-7071)
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7070-7071)
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4168.
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7070-7073)
action_date: 2010-09-28
text: Mr. Van Hollen moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-01
text: Introduced in House
Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4169
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: General taxation matters

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2009 - Makes technical and clerical corrections to the Internal Revenue Code, including corrections to provisions enacted by: (1) the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009; (2) the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008; (3) the Tax Extenders and Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008; (4) the Housing Assistance Tax Act of 2008; (5) the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008; (6) the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008; (7) the Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2007; and (8) the Energy Tax Incentives Act of 2005. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
Stop Any TARP Extension Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4170
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Financial crises and stabilization
Interest, dividends, interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
Stop Any TARP Extension Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to: (1) terminate on December 31, 2009 (as under current law), the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to implement the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP); and (2) repeal the Secretary's authority to extend the TARP program through October 3, 2010, upon submission of a written certification to Congress.
 
Revises the requirement that revenues of and proceeds from the sale of troubled assets purchased under TARP, or from the sale, exercise, or surrender of warrants or senior debt instruments acquired under TARP, be paid into the general fund of the Treasury for reduction of the public debt.
 
 Establishes the Public Debt Reduction Payment Account. Directs the Secretary to deposit into the Account the following: (1) all remaining EESA funds; (2) amounts received for repayment of financial assistance, as well as payment of interest by a recipient of such assistance under TARP or any related program, including the Capital Purchase Program; and (3) revenues and proceeds from the sale of troubled assets that were purchased under EESA, or from the sale, exercise, or surrender of warrants or senior debt instruments, as under current law.
 
 
Instructs the Secretary to: (1) use amounts in the Account to pay at maturity (or to redeem or buy before maturity) any obligation of the government held by the public and included in the public debt; and (2) deposit into the Account specified funds received by the Secretary pursuant to EESA.
 
Lowers the statutory limit on the public debt by the aggregate amounts deposited into the Public Debt Reduction Payment Account.
 
Prohibits the receipts and disbursements of the Account from being counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for presidential or congressional budget purposes, and requires their exclusion from any official budget statements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to House Budget
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and 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: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
TARP Sunset and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4171
Sponsor: Rep. Teague, Harry [D-NM-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Financial crises and stabilization

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
TARP Sunset and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 - Amends the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) to terminate, on December 31, 2009 (as under current law), the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to implement the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
 
Repeals the Secretary's authority to extend the TARP program through October 3, 2010, upon submission of a written certification to Congress.
 
Requires all funds repaid, and profits paid, to the Secretary by TARP recipients to be used to pay down the national debt.
 
Reduces the statutory limit on the public debt to $700 billion minus the amount of troubled assets purchased by the Secretary under TARP outstanding on December 31, 2009.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to House Ways and Means
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to House Financial Services
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
To provide the same penalty rate for taxpayers who voluntarily disclose unreported income from offshore accounts as was afforded Timothy Geithner with respect to his failure to pay self-employment taxes with respect to his compensation from the International Monetary Fund.

Bill: 111-hr-4172
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Department of the Treasury
Employment taxes
Federal officials
Foreign and international banking
Sales and excise taxes
Self-employed
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
Requires the penalty for taxpayers who voluntarily disclose unreported income from offshore bank accounts to be equal to the penalty imposed upon Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, for his failure to pay self-employment taxes on his compensation from the International Monetary Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
Tax Relief for Business Growth and Sustainability Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4174
Sponsor: Rep. Nye, Glenn C. [D-VA-2]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Housing finance and home ownership
Income tax exclusion
Public contracts and procurement
Securities
Small business
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Transfer and inheritance taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
Tax Relief for Business Growth and Sustainability Act of 2009 - Makes the general terminating date of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (i.e., December 31, 2010) inapplicable to its estate and gift tax provisions, except for the repeal of the carryover basis. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a permanent increase (to $5 million) in the estate tax exclusion and a reduction in the maximum estate tax rate to 35%; (2) increase to $5 million the estate tax deduction for interests in family-owned businesses; (3) allow an estate tax deduction, up to $2 million, of the value of the principal residence of a decedent; (4) increase from 50 to 100% the exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock held for more than 5 years; (5) eliminate gain from the sale of qualified small business stock in calculating the alternative minimum tax (AMT); and (6) repeal the requirement that federal, state, and local governmental entities withhold 3% of payments due to vendors providing goods and services to such entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
End Discriminatory State Taxes for Automobile Renters Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4175
Sponsor: Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Motor vehicles
State and local taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
End Discriminatory State Taxes for Automobile Renters Act of 2009 - Prohibits states or local governments from levying or collecting a discriminatory tax (generally, a tax or tax assessment that is applicable to the rental of motor vehicles or motor vehicle businesses or property, but not to the majority of other rentals of tangible personal property within a state or locality) on the rental of motor vehicles, motor vehicle rental businesses, or motor vehicle rental property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-15
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2867)
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
Aegis Ashore Test Facility Construction Authorization Act

Bill: 111-hr-4176
Sponsor: Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Defense spending
Hawaii
Military facilities and property
Military procurement, research, weapons development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
Aegis Ashore Test Facility Construction Authorization Act - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 to authorize a military construction project at the Hawaii Pacific Missile Range Facility, relating to construction of an Aegis Ashore Test Facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4177
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief and insurance
Financial crises and stabilization
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) make a supplemental direct commodity payment to eligible producers that previously received such a payment; (2) make grants to states to assist eligible specialty crop producers for losses associated with drought or excessive rainfall during 2009; (3) provide supplemental assistance to eligible producers and first-handlers of the 2009 crop of cottonseed in disaster counties; (4) continue to carry out the 2002 livestock compensation program and provide assistance to any applicant that conducts a livestock operation located in a disaster county or produces fish classified within the family Ictaluridae (catfish); and (5) make payments to eligible producers for livestock losses occurring in a disaster county.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
action_date: 2010-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to House Appropriations
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
Shortening Hours and Retaining Employees Credit Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4179
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefits and pensions
Income tax credits
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
Shortening Hours and Retaining Employees Credit Act of 2009 or the SHARE Credit Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a refundable tax credit for wage subsidies paid to employees whose hours are reduced in accordance with a qualified work share program (i.e., a written employer plan under which employees work fewer hours without a reduction in pay). Limits the amount of such credit to the lesser of $3,000 per employee or 10% of the wages for periods in which an employee's hours are reduced under a work share program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
Honest and Open Testimony Act

Bill: 111-hr-4180
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Evidence and witnesses
Military personnel and dependents
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
Honest and Open Testimony Act - Includes within communications by a member of the Armed Forces that are protected from retaliatory personnel actions any testimony provided in a congressional hearing regarding the disclosure of sexual orientation, including that the member is homosexual, bisexual, or transgender.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2866-2867)
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
Graduation Promise Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-4181
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Elementary and secondary education
School administration
Teaching, teachers, curricula

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
Graduation Promise Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for differentiated high school improvement systems targeting support to schools with low student achievement and graduation rates after such schools fail for two consecutive years to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) pursuant to state academic performance standards. Allots grant funds to states pursuant to a formula that favors states with low graduation rates and a high percentage of students attending low-income LEAs.
 
Requires state grantees to establish comprehensive school performance indicators and minimum annual improvement benchmarks for use, in addition to current AYP measures, in analyzing school performance and determining the improvement category into which a school is placed.
 
 Directs LEA subgrantees to: (1) categorize each of their schools that fail to make AYP for two consecutive years as needing targeted intervention, whole school reforms, or replacement; (2) convene a local school improvement team for each of such schools that will use performance indicators, AYP measures, and other relevant data to conduct a school needs assessment and develop a multiyear school improvement plan tailored to the school's need categorization; and (3) support the successful implementation of such plans and district-wide high school improvement strategies. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive grants to LEAs, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education to develop and implement, or replicate, effective secondary school models for struggling students and dropouts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to limit the number of Urban Area Security Initiative grants awarded and to clarify the risk assessment formula to be used when making such grants, and for other purposes.

Bill: 111-hr-4182
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Homeland security
Law enforcement administration and funding
Terrorism
Urban and suburban affairs and development

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to: (1) limit to 35 the number of Urban Area Security Initiative grants awarded; (2) require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), when weighing "threat," "vulnerability," and "consequences from acts of terrorism" in allocating funds, to assign to "threat" a value that is not less than 33%; and (3) apply minimum allocation requirements only to state Homeland Security grants. 
 
Requires the Administrator, in carrying out the Urban Area Security Initiative grant program, to disregard the tier system used to determine the award of such grants and to not make use of any similar system in making such awards. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-01-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
Helping Unemployed Workers Act

Bill: 111-hr-4183
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Government trust funds
Intergovernmental relations
Labor-management relations
State and local finance
Temporary and part-time employment
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
Helping Unemployed Workers Act - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 with respect to the state-established individual emergency unemployment compensation account (EUCA). Extends the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program through March 31, 2011.
 
Amends the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act to extend through April 1, 2011: (1) federal-state agreements increasing regular unemployment compensation payments to individuals; and (2) requirements that federal payments to states cover 100% of EUC.
 
Requires the Secretary of Labor to establish a program under which the Secretary shall make payments to any state unemployment trust fund (including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) to be used for the payment of unemployment compensation if the Secretary approves an application to receive 100% reimbursement for up to 26 weeks for a short-time compensation program.
 

 

 

 
 Bars payments to a state for benefits paid to an individual who is employed by an employer: (1) whose workforce during the three months preceding the date of the submission of the employer's short-time compensation plan has been reduced by temporary layoffs of more than 20%; (2) on a seasonal, temporary, or intermittent basis; or (3) engaged in a labor dispute.
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the qualified tuition deduction.

Bill: 111-hr-4184
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2009-12-02 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Higher education
Income tax deductions
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-12-02
text: Introduced in House