3.0.0 833 2023-01-11T19:46:19Z 2023-01-11T19:46:19Z Senate S S 2007-03-09 110 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-03-09T17:06:18Z 2007-03-09 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2971-2973) IntroReferral 2007-03-09 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2970-2971) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2007-03-09 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001057 Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN] Norm Coleman R MN N P000590 Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR] Mark Pryor D AR Lunsford 2007-03-09 True Science, Technology, Communications Academic performance Charitable contributions Commerce Corporate philanthropy Corporation taxes Depressed areas Disabled Disaster relief Economics and Public Finance Education Education of the disadvantaged Educational accountability Elementary and secondary education Elementary education Emergency Management Employment of the disabled Engineering Engineers Enterprise zones Federal aid to education Foreign Trade and International Finance Higher education Housing and Community Development Income tax Indian economic development Information technology Infrastructure International competitiveness Job creation Labor and Employment Law Mathematics Mentoring Minorities Minority education Research and development tax credit Rural economic development Scholarships Scientific education Secondary education Small business Student employment Tax credits Tax deductions Technical education Tuition tax credits Women Women's education Science, Technology, Communications 00 2007-03-09 Introduced in Senate 2007-03-30T19:32:32Z Competitiveness through Education, Technology, and Enterprise Act of 2007 or the COMPETE Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide tax incentives for research and education by: (1) making permanent the credit for increasing research activities; (2) providing a credit for information and communications technology education; and (3) setting an alternative percentage limitation for corporate charitable contributions to the mathematics and science partnership program.

Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish an SBIR-STEM Workforce Development Grant Pilot program awarding bonus grants to grantees under the Small Business Innovation Research program to provide workforce development opportunities to college students in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the maximum Pell Grant should be increased from $4,600 for academic year 2008-2009 to $5,400 for academic year 2012-2013.

Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to award matching grants to institutions of higher education to: (1) provide stipends or other financial assistance for students enrolled in graduate programs in the sciences, technology, engineering, or mathematics; and (2) support outreach and mentoring activities to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences, technology, engineering, or mathematics at all or any level of education, including elementary, secondary and postsecondary education.

Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make partnership bonus grants annually to a certain number of elementary and of secondary schools in each state that show the most improvement in mathematics and in science, respectively.

]]> COMPETE Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to make the United States competitive in a global economy. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title COMPETE Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced COMPETE Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced Competitiveness through Education, Technology, and Enterprise Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-03-09T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s833is/xml/BILLS-110s833is.xml 2007-03-09 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2971-2973) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.