TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a summary for US Congressional and California state bill, your task is to generate a Title for this bill. The preferred titles are under forty words and mention the purpose of the bill.
PROBLEM: Clarifications to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act - Amends the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to state that formal pleadings in a civil action shall not be considered the kind of communication (initial or otherwise) required for a validation of debt notice.

Prescribes an alternative version of the initial communication debt collectors are required to give consumers, incorporating the three statements currently specified.

States that collection activities and communications may continue during the 30 days following a debt collector's initial notice to the debtor.

States that, if the consumer's attorney at law fails to respond to a communication from a debt collector within 30 days (currently, a reasonable period of time) after receiving a communication from the collector, such collector may communicate directly with the consumer.

Limits to one the number of additional communications a debt collector may make to a consumer after the consumer has notified the collector in writing that the consumer refuses to pay the debt or wishes the collector to cease further communication. Limits the content of any such additional communication to one of the three purposes already specified by the Act.

Revises notice of debt guidelines to require one of the debt collector's mandatory statements to specify that a consumer's dispute of the validity of a debt be submitted in writing in order to preclude an assumption by the collector that the debt is valid.

SOLUTION: To amend the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to make certain technical corrections, and for other purposes.

PROBLEM: Title II: Election to Expense United States Flag Vessels
 - Permits, under the IRC, a taxpayer to elect to treat the cost of any vessel that is a qualified U. S. flag vessel as an expense which is not chargeable to its capital account.
Title III: Income Exclusion for Merchant Seamen
 - Permits the income of certain merchant seaman to be excluded from gross income under IRC provisions permitting such exclusion for U.S. citizens or residents living abroad.
Title IV: Exemption from Alternative Minimum Tax
 - Provides that the tentative minimum tax shall be zero for certain corporations which derive substantially all of their assets from the operation of U.S. flag vessels.
Title V: Conventions on United States-Flag Cruise Ships
 - Eliminates the requirements that a cruise ship be U.S. registered and that all points of call be in the U.S. or its possessions in order to qualify for the deduction allowed for the attendance of a convention on a cruise ship.

SOLUTION: National Security Sealift Enhancement Act of 1999

PROBLEM: Home Energy Affordability Tax Relief Act of 2011 or the HEATR Act of 2011- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer an income-based refundable tax credit for energy costs for the taxpayer's principal residence. Limits such credit to the lesser of 33% of such costs or $500. Terminates such credit on December 31, 2012.

SOLUTION:
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a refundable credit against income tax to assist individuals with high residential energy costs.