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Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Bill TextProposing an amendment the Constitution of the United States relative to abolishing personal income, estate, and gift taxes and prohibiting the United States Government from engaging in business in competition with its citizens. 2/7/2007--Introduced. Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the U.S. government from engaging in any business, professional, commercial, financial, or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution. Prohibits the constitution or laws of any state, or the laws of the United States, from being subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment.Requires any activities of the U.S. government which violate the intent and purposes of this amendment to be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected to be sold within three years from the date of ratification of this amendment. Repeals the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution three years after ratification of this amendment and thereafter [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Bill TextProposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage. 2/6/2007--Introduced. Constitutional Amendment - Declares that marriage in the United States shall consist only of a legal union of a man and a woman. Prohibits any federal or state court from having jurisdiction to determine whether the U.S. Constitution or any state constitution requires the legal incidents of marriage to be conferred upon any union other than a legal union between one man and one woman. Provides that no state shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other state concerning a union between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage, or as having the legal incidents of marriage, under the laws of such other state.
Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. Bill TextTo amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for the establishment of a flexibility incentive grant program. 3/20/2007--Introduced. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a flexibility incentive grant pilot program to encourage states to establish new sources of revenue for public transportation projects and services and to reward states for creating more flexibility in the use of their existing transportation funds. Requires the Secretary to make a grant for FY2008-FY2011 to: (1) each state whose increase in expenditures for public transportation projects and services over the preceding fiscal year was 10% or more and aggregate expenditures for such projects and services was $1 billion or less; (2) each large state whose increase in expenditures for such projects and services over the preceding fiscal year was 1% or more and aggregate expenditures for such projects and services was more than $1 billion; (3) each state that established in the first [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-298. Bill TextA bill to amend the Act of February 22, 1889, and the Act of July 2, 1862, to provide for the management of public land trust funds in the State of North Dakota. 6/28/2007--Introduced. North Dakota Enabling Act and First Morrill Act Amendments Act of 2007 - Amends the Act of February 22, 1889 (relating to enabling North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to become states), and the Act of July 2, 1862, commonly known as the First Morrill Act (relating to land grant aid to states for agricultural and mechanical colleges), to set forth requirements for the management and disposition of the proceeds from certain public land trust funds in North Dakota. Grants, effective July 1, 2009, consent to the amendments to the Constitution of North Dakota proposed by North Dakota House Concurrent Resolution 3037 of the 59th Legislature concerning management of the common schools and other educational or charitable institution trust funds.
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Latest Action: 02/02/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Bill TextTo establish guidelines and incentives for States to establish criminal drug dealer registries and to require the Attorney General to establish a national criminal drug dealer registry and notification program, and for other purposes. 1/5/2007--Introduced. Communities Leading Everyone Away From Narcotics Through Online Warning Notification Act 0f 2007 or the CLEAN TOWN Act of 2007 - Requires states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, and federally recognized Indian tribes (jurisdictions) to establish and maintain jurisdiction-wide criminal drug dealer registries. Sets forth requirements for registration and types of information to be included. Requires jurisdictions to provide Internet access to information about each criminal drug dealer listed, with mandatory exemptions for certain confidential information.Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain: [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-298. Bill TextA bill to amend the Act of February 22, 1889, and the Act of July 2, 1862, to provide for the management of public land trust funds in the State of North Dakota. 6/28/2007--Introduced. North Dakota Enabling Act and First Morrill Act Amendments Act of 2007 - Amends the Act of February 22, 1889 (relating to enabling North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to become states), and the Act of July 2, 1862, commonly known as the First Morrill Act (relating to land grant aid to states for agricultural and mechanical colleges), to set forth requirements for the management and disposition of the proceeds from certain public land trust funds in North Dakota. Grants, effective July 1, 2009, consent to the amendments to the Constitution of North Dakota proposed by North Dakota House Concurrent Resolution 3037 of the 59th Legislature concerning management of the common schools and other educational or charitable institution trust funds.
Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. Bill TextTo amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for the establishment of a flexibility incentive grant program. 3/20/2007--Introduced. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a flexibility incentive grant pilot program to encourage states to establish new sources of revenue for public transportation projects and services and to reward states for creating more flexibility in the use of their existing transportation funds. Requires the Secretary to make a grant for FY2008-FY2011 to: (1) each state whose increase in expenditures for public transportation projects and services over the preceding fiscal year was 10% or more and aggregate expenditures for such projects and services was $1 billion or less; (2) each large state whose increase in expenditures for such projects and services over the preceding fiscal year was 1% or more and aggregate expenditures for such projects and services was more than $1 billion; (3) each state that established in the first [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Bill TextProposing an amendment the Constitution of the United States relative to abolishing personal income, estate, and gift taxes and prohibiting the United States Government from engaging in business in competition with its citizens. 2/7/2007--Introduced. Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the U.S. government from engaging in any business, professional, commercial, financial, or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution. Prohibits the constitution or laws of any state, or the laws of the United States, from being subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment.Requires any activities of the U.S. government which violate the intent and purposes of this amendment to be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected to be sold within three years from the date of ratification of this amendment. Repeals the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution three years after ratification of this amendment and thereafter [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Constitution, Constitutional amendments, Courts, Families, Interstate relations, Jurisdiction, Law, Marriage, Same-sex marriage, State and local government, State courts, State laws
Latest Action: 03/01/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Bill TextProposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage. 2/6/2007--Introduced. Constitutional Amendment - Declares that marriage in the United States shall consist only of a legal union of a man and a woman. Prohibits any federal or state court from having jurisdiction to determine whether the U.S. Constitution or any state constitution requires the legal incidents of marriage to be conferred upon any union other than a legal union between one man and one woman. Provides that no state shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other state concerning a union between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage, or as having the legal incidents of marriage, under the laws of such other state.
Also tagged in: Budgets, Computer software, Constitutions, Criminal justice, Criminal justice information, Data banks, Directories, Driver licenses, Drug abuse, Drug traffic, Electronic data interchange, Electronic government information, Federal aid to law enforcement, Fines (Penalties), Fingerprints, Government information, Government paperwork, Government publicity, Indian law enforcement, Indians, Informers, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Internet, Minorities, Recidivists, State and local government, State government-Indian relations, Technology, Telecommunication, Transportation, Web sites
Latest Action: 02/02/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Bill TextTo establish guidelines and incentives for States to establish criminal drug dealer registries and to require the Attorney General to establish a national criminal drug dealer registry and notification program, and for other purposes. 1/5/2007--Introduced. Communities Leading Everyone Away From Narcotics Through Online Warning Notification Act 0f 2007 or the CLEAN TOWN Act of 2007 - Requires states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, and federally recognized Indian tribes (jurisdictions) to establish and maintain jurisdiction-wide criminal drug dealer registries. Sets forth requirements for registration and types of information to be included. Requires jurisdictions to provide Internet access to information about each criminal drug dealer listed, with mandatory exemptions for certain confidential information.Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain: [...] show full description
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