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Latest Action: 02/12/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1854-1855) Bill TextA bill to provide for the tax treatment of income received in connection with the litigation concerning the Exxon Valdez oil spill and for other purposes. 2/12/2007--Introduced. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Tax Treatment Act - Allows taxpayers who are plaintiffs in the civil action In re Exxon Valdez, No. 89-095-CV (HRH) (Consolidated) (D. Alaska), or their heirs or dependents, to: (1) elect to average, for income tax purposes, income received in settlement of such civil action for the period beginning on January 1, 1994, and ending on December 31 of the year in which any settlement income is received; and (2) make contributions of any amount of such settlement income to certain tax-exempt retirement plans in the year such income is received.
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Latest Action: 03/22/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3620-3621) Bill TextA bill to establish the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, to provide funding for the support of fundamental agricultural research of the highest quality, and for other purposes. 3/22/2007--Introduced. National Institute of Food and Agriculture Act of 2007 - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which shall be an agency composed of a Director (who shall be a scientist) and a Standing Council of Advisors. Authorizes the Director to establish standing scientific committees. Requires the Director to establish: (1) an Office of Advanced Science and Application which shall monitor national needs and advances in research to identify problems for which solutions are realistically achievable through research; (2) an Office of Scientific Assessment and Liaison which shall monitor programs and expenditures; (3) an Office of Scientific Personnel which shall assess the number of, and need for additional, agricultural [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 06/05/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. Bill TextTo establish a living wage, jobs for all policy for all peoples in the United States and its territories, and for other purposes. 2/14/2007--Introduced. A Living Wage, Jobs for All Act - Declares that Congress affirms the basic economic rights and responsibilities under the 1944 "Economic Bill of Rights," while updating and extending it to include: (1) certain rights to decent jobs, income security for individuals unable to work for pay, a decent living for farm families, freedom from monopolies, decent housing, adequate health services, Social Security in old age, sickness, accidental injury, and unemployment, and education and work training; and (2) certain other rights relating to collective bargaining, a safe working environment, information on trends in pollution sources and products and processes that affect the well-being of workers throughout the world, voting and campaigning, and personal security. Requires corporations registered with the Securities and Exchange [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 03/06/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo provide for the tax treatment of income received in connection with the litigation concerning the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and for other purposes. 3/6/2007--Introduced. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Tax Treatment Act - Allows taxpayers who are plaintiffs in the civil action In re Exxon Valdez, No. 89-095-CV (HRH) (Consolidated) (D. Alaska), or their heirs or dependents, to: (1) elect to average, for income tax purposes, income received in settlement of such civil action for the period beginning on January 1, 1994, and ending on December 31 of the year in which any settlement income is received; and (2) make contributions of any amount of such settlement income to certain tax-exempt retirement plans in the year such income is received.
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Latest Action: 05/17/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6301-6302) Bill TextA bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to provide to agricultural operators and producers a reserve to assist in the stabilization of farm income during low-revenue years, to assist operators and producers to invest in value-added farms, to promote higher levels of environmental stewardship, and for other purposes. 5/17/2007--Introduced. Farm Risk Management Act for the 21st Century - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to contract with eligible operators and producers (risk management account contracts) to: (1) provide a reserve to assist in the stabilization of farm income during low-revenue years; (2) assist operators and producers to invest in value-added farms; and (3) recognize high levels of environmental stewardship. Sets forth risk management account contract provisions, including: (1) administration; (2) direct payments; (3) stewardship payments; (4) account transfers; and (5) tax treatment. Extends counter-cyclical payments.[...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/17/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2013, and for other purposes. 5/17/2007--Introduced. Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007 - Extends and revises various agricultural programs, including programs respecting: (1) milk and dairy; (2) conservation security; (3) conservation reserve; (4) wetlands reserve; (5) environmental quality incentives; (6) farmland protection; (7) cooperative conservation partnership initiative; (8) wildlife habitat; (9) conservation loan guarantees; (10) market access; (11) food stamps; (12) farm and ranch profitability grants; (13) community forest and open space conservation; (14) healthy forests reserve; (15) biomass and renewable energy; (16) specialty crops, farmers' markets, and nutrition; (17) organic agriculture programs; (18) crop insurance; and (18) colony collapse disorder.
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Latest Action: 05/04/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to authorize agricultural producers to establish and contribute to tax-exempt farm risk management accounts in lieu of obtaining federally subsidized crop insurance or noninsured crop assistance, to provide for contributions to such accounts by the Secretary of Agriculture, to specify the situations in which amounts may be paid to producers from such accounts, and to limit the total amount of such distributions to a producer during a taxable year, and for other purposes. 4/17/2007--Introduced. Farm Risk Management Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt farm risk management accounts to allow taxpayers engaged in the business of farming or ranching to use distributions from such accounts to offset operational losses in lieu of receiving, after a specified transitional period, federal subsidies to purchase crop insurance; (2) allow a tax deduction for cash contributions to such accounts; (3) specify [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 10/25/2007 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 446. Bill TextAn original bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to establish supplemental agricultural disaster assistance and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for conservation and alternative energy sources and to provide tax relief for farmers, and for other purposes. 10/25/2007--Reported to Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Heartland, Habitat, Harvest, and Horticulture Act of 2007 - Title I: Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance from the Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund - (Sec. 101) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to establish a program of supplemental agricultural disaster assistance. Establishes an Agriculture Disaster Relief Trust Fund to provide payments to farmers and ranchers who suffer losses in areas declared as disaster areas by the [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 11/02/2007 - Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Harkin. With written report No. 110-220. Additional views filed. Bill TextAn original bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. 11/2/2007--Introduced. Food and Energy Security Act of 2007 - Revises agricultural and related programs and provisions respecting: (1) producer income; (2) conservation; (3) trade; (4) nutrition; (5) credit; (6) rural development and investment; (7) research and related matters; (8) forestry; (9) energy; (10) livestock marketing; and (11) agricultural security.
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Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S120-121) Bill TextA bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to extend benefits to service sector workers and firms, enhance certain trade adjustment assistance authorities, and for other purposes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Trade Adjustment Assistance Improvement Act of 2007 - Trade Adjustment Assistance Equity for Service Workers Act of 2007 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to allow the filing of a petition for certification of eligibility to apply for trade adjustment assistance by adversely affected: (1) workers in a service sector firm, its subdivision, or public agency; and (2) service sector firms. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to provide technical assistance to service industries adversely affected by import competition. Requires the Secretary of Labor to: (1) certify as eligible to apply for trade adjustment assistance adversely affected secondary workers in a service sector firm, its subdivision, or a public agency; and (2) upon the request of the President, the U.S. Trade Representative,[...] show full description
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Latest Action: 04/25/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to preparation for an influenza pandemic, including an avian influenza pandemic, and for other purposes. 12/6/2007--Introduced. Attacking Viral Influenza Across Nations Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit to the Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) a proposal related to establishing a Pandemic Fund for countries affected by pandemic influenza. Establishes the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Policy Coordinating Committee to develop an Interagency Preparedness Plan. Requires the Secretary to strengthen, expand, and coordinate domestic pandemic influenza preparedness activities. Requires states to have an approved state preparedness plan as a condition of receiving funds related to bioterrorism from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Acreage allotments, Administrative procedure, Administrative remedies, Aged, Agricultural conservation, Agricultural cooperatives, Agricultural credit, Agricultural estimating and reporting, Agricultural labor, Agricultural pollution, Agricultural prices, Agricultural research, Agricultural subsidies, Agriculture, Agriculture in foreign trade, Alaska, Alcohol as fuel, Ammonia, Animal diseases, Animals, Aquifers, Arid regions, Biomass energy, Biotechnology, Block grants, Broadband, Budgets, Business, Buy American, Chesapeake Bay, Child labor, Child nutrition, Children, Civil liberties, Civil rights, Civil rights enforcement, Collection of accounts, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Conservation easements, Consumer education, Consumers, Contracts, Cotton, Crop insurance, Customs unions, Dairy industry, Dairy products, Dams, Day care, Department of Agriculture, Developing countries, Disabled, Disaster relief, Discrimination, Dispute settlement, Droughts, Drug abuse, Economic policy, Electric power production, Electric power transmission, Electrification, Emergency management, Energy, Energy crops, Energy demand, Energy efficiency, Energy research, Environmental protection, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Export finance, Farm lands, Farmers, Federal aid to health facilities, Federally-guaranteed loans, Feed grains, Fertilizers, Finance, Floods, Food, Food relief, Food safety, Food stamps, Forced labor, Foreclosure, Foreign policy, Foreign trade promotion, Forest conservation, Foundations, Fraud, Free trade, Fruit, Germplasm resources, Goats, Government information, Government lending, Government publicity, Governmental investigations, Grading (Agricultural products), Grassland ecology, Grazing, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Groundwater, Habitat conservation, Hawaiians, Health education, Higher education, Historic sites, Honey, Horticulture, Hospitals, Human rights, Hunger, Identification devices, Income, Indian education, Indians, Indigenous peoples, Infrastructure, Insurance premiums, International affairs, Internet, Job training, Labeling, Labor, Labor supply, Lakes, Landscape protection, Latin America, Law, Limitation of actions, Livestock, Marketing of farm produce, Marketing orders, Meat inspection, Methamphetamine, Mexico, Migrant labor, Milk, Minorities, Natural resources, Non-native species, Nongovernmental organizations, Nutrition, Organic farming, Parasitic diseases, Peanuts, Performance measurement, Pest control, Plant breeding, Plant diseases, Plant protection, Potatoes, Poultry, Propane, Puerto Rico, Rabies, Railroad freight operations, Range management, Reinsurance, Research and development, Restoration ecology, Rice, Right of privacy, Rural affairs, Rural economic development, Rural health, Sales tax, Saline waters, Scholarships, Science policy, Seasonal labor, Seeds, Sheep, Small business, Social services, Soil conservation, Soil erosion, State and local government, Storage, Sugar, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Territories (U.S.), Texas, Trade, Trade agreements, Transportation, Unemployment, Vegetables, Veterinary medicine, Waste water treatment, Water conservation, Water pollution, Water pollution control, Water resources, Water supply, Watersheds, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, Wells, Wetlands, Wheat, Working poor
Latest Action: 11/02/2007 - Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Harkin. With written report No. 110-220. Additional views filed. Bill TextAn original bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. 11/2/2007--Introduced. Food and Energy Security Act of 2007 - Revises agricultural and related programs and provisions respecting: (1) producer income; (2) conservation; (3) trade; (4) nutrition; (5) credit; (6) rural development and investment; (7) research and related matters; (8) forestry; (9) energy; (10) livestock marketing; and (11) agricultural security.
Also tagged in: Agricultural chemicals, Agricultural conservation, Agricultural credit, Agricultural industries, Agricultural machinery, Agricultural subsidies, Agriculture, Air pollution, Alcohol as fuel, Alternative energy sources, Animals, Biomass energy, Bonds, Broadband, Brownfields, Budgets, Business, Capital gains tax, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Cellulose, Charitable contributions, Coal, Coal gasification, Compressed natural gas, Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Conservation easements, Corporation taxes, Crop insurance, Depreciation and amortization, Diesel motor, Disaster relief, Drug approvals, Easements, Economic policy, Electric appliances, Electric power plants, Electric power transmission, Emergency management, Employee training, Endangered species, Energy, Energy efficiency, Environmental protection, Excise tax, Farm lands, Federal preemption, Fertilizers, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Forest conservation, Government trust funds, Grassland ecology, Habitat conservation, Hazardous substances, Hazardous waste sites, Hazardous wastes, Horticulture, Income tax, Indemnity, Infrastructure, Internet, Irrigation, Job training, Land transfers, Land use, Landfills, Law, Leases, Liquefied natural gas, Livestock, Local laws, Losses, Medical care, Medicine, Methane, Mining royalties, Natural resources, Open space lands, Pest control, Pesticides, Range management, Real estate investment trusts, Reservoirs, Restoration ecology, Rural affairs, Rural economic development, Security measures, Self-employed, Service stations, Social security, Social security taxes, Solar energy, Solid wastes, State and local government, State laws, Stocks, Tariff, Tax administration, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax evasion, Tax exclusion, Tax penalties, Tax returns, Tax shelters, Tax-exempt organizations, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Timber sales, Trade, Trees, Veterinary medicine, Water resources, Wetlands, Wildlife conservation, Wind power
Latest Action: 10/25/2007 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 446. Bill TextAn original bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to establish supplemental agricultural disaster assistance and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for conservation and alternative energy sources and to provide tax relief for farmers, and for other purposes. 10/25/2007--Reported to Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Heartland, Habitat, Harvest, and Horticulture Act of 2007 - Title I: Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance from the Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund - (Sec. 101) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to establish a program of supplemental agricultural disaster assistance. Establishes an Agriculture Disaster Relief Trust Fund to provide payments to farmers and ranchers who suffer losses in areas declared as disaster areas by the [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Agricultural subsidies, Agriculture, Crop insurance, Farmers, Finance, Income tax, Insurance premiums, Law, Saving and investment, Tax deductions, Tax exemption, Tax penalties, Taxation, Trusts and trustees
Latest Action: 10/16/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to authorize agricultural producers to establish and contribute to tax-exempt farm savings accounts in lieu of obtaining federally subsidized crop insurance or noninsured crop assistance, to provide for contributions to such accounts by the Secretary of Agriculture, to specify the situations in which amounts may be paid to producers from such accounts, and to limit the total amount of such distributions to a producer during a taxable year, and for other purposes. 10/16/2007--Introduced. Farm Savings Account Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt farm savings accounts to allow taxpayers engaged in the business of farming or ranching to use distributions from such accounts to offset operational losses in lieu of receiving, after a specified transitional period, federal subsidies to purchase crop insurance; (2) allow a tax deduction for cash contributions to such accounts; (3) specify minimum [...] show full description
Latest Action: 10/15/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow income averaging for private forest landowners. 10/15/2007--Introduced. Tax Relief for Private Forest Landowners Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow income averaging for individuals who sell or exchange timber, on the same basis as is currently allowed for individuals engaged in a farming or fishing business.
Also tagged in: Acreage allotments, Agricultural conservation, Agricultural credit, Agricultural subsidies, Agriculture, Alternative energy sources, American Samoa, Biomass energy, Block grants, Budgets, Child nutrition, Children, Crop insurance, Dairy industry, Dairy products, Day care, Disaster relief, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Emergency management, Energy, Energy crops, Energy research, Environmental protection, Farm lands, Finance, Food, Food relief, Food stamps, Foreign aid, Foreign policy, Forest conservation, Fruit, Government procurement, Groundwater, Income tax, Individual retirement accounts, International affairs, International relief, Marketing of farm produce, Military pay, Natural resources, Nongovernmental organizations, Nutrition, Pensions, Public contracts, Puerto Rico, Range management, Research and development, School lunch program, Science policy, State and local government, Taxation, Vegetables, Water conservation, Water resources, Welfare
Latest Action: 05/17/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6301-6302) Bill TextA bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to provide to agricultural operators and producers a reserve to assist in the stabilization of farm income during low-revenue years, to assist operators and producers to invest in value-added farms, to promote higher levels of environmental stewardship, and for other purposes. 5/17/2007--Introduced. Farm Risk Management Act for the 21st Century - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to contract with eligible operators and producers (risk management account contracts) to: (1) provide a reserve to assist in the stabilization of farm income during low-revenue years; (2) assist operators and producers to invest in value-added farms; and (3) recognize high levels of environmental stewardship. Sets forth risk management account contract provisions, including: (1) administration; (2) direct payments; (3) stewardship payments; (4) account transfers; and (5) tax treatment. Extends counter-cyclical payments.[...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/17/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2013, and for other purposes. 5/17/2007--Introduced. Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007 - Extends and revises various agricultural programs, including programs respecting: (1) milk and dairy; (2) conservation security; (3) conservation reserve; (4) wetlands reserve; (5) environmental quality incentives; (6) farmland protection; (7) cooperative conservation partnership initiative; (8) wildlife habitat; (9) conservation loan guarantees; (10) market access; (11) food stamps; (12) farm and ranch profitability grants; (13) community forest and open space conservation; (14) healthy forests reserve; (15) biomass and renewable energy; (16) specialty crops, farmers' markets, and nutrition; (17) organic agriculture programs; (18) crop insurance; and (18) colony collapse disorder.
Also tagged in: Agricultural subsidies, Agriculture, Crop insurance, Farmers, Finance, Income tax, Insurance premiums, Law, Saving and investment, Tax deductions, Tax exemption, Tax penalties, Taxation, Trusts and trustees
Latest Action: 05/04/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to authorize agricultural producers to establish and contribute to tax-exempt farm risk management accounts in lieu of obtaining federally subsidized crop insurance or noninsured crop assistance, to provide for contributions to such accounts by the Secretary of Agriculture, to specify the situations in which amounts may be paid to producers from such accounts, and to limit the total amount of such distributions to a producer during a taxable year, and for other purposes. 4/17/2007--Introduced. Farm Risk Management Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt farm risk management accounts to allow taxpayers engaged in the business of farming or ranching to use distributions from such accounts to offset operational losses in lieu of receiving, after a specified transitional period, federal subsidies to purchase crop insurance; (2) allow a tax deduction for cash contributions to such accounts; (3) specify [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 03/22/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3620-3621) Bill TextA bill to establish the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, to provide funding for the support of fundamental agricultural research of the highest quality, and for other purposes. 3/22/2007--Introduced. National Institute of Food and Agriculture Act of 2007 - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which shall be an agency composed of a Director (who shall be a scientist) and a Standing Council of Advisors. Authorizes the Director to establish standing scientific committees. Requires the Director to establish: (1) an Office of Advanced Science and Application which shall monitor national needs and advances in research to identify problems for which solutions are realistically achievable through research; (2) an Office of Scientific Assessment and Liaison which shall monitor programs and expenditures; (3) an Office of Scientific Personnel which shall assess the number of, and need for additional, agricultural [...] show full description
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