TAX RELIEF ACT

Amendments

Enact (S. 2020), S12938, S13034, S13035, S13036, S13037, S13038 [16NO], S13082, S13085, S13090, S13097, S13104, S13113, S13115, S13116, S13119, S13120, S13122, S13123, S13127, S13130, S13131, S13132, S13133, S13134, S13135, S13136, S13186, S13187, S13206, S13207, S13208, S13209, S13210, S13211, S13212, S13215, S13216, S13218, S13219, S13221, S13222, S13224, S13225, S13226, S13227, S13228, S13229, S13230, S13231, S13232, S13233, S13234, S13235, S13236, S13237 [17NO]

Bills and resolutions

Enact (see S. 2020), S12949 [16NO]

Letters

Improve ability of FTC to protect consumers from price-gouging during energy emergencies: Eliot Spitzer, New York Attorney General, S13087 [17NO]

———several State attorneys general, S13088 [17NO]

Lists

Extraneous provisions in S. 2020, provisions, S13141 [17NO]

Motions

Enact (S. 2020), S13080, S13101, S13102, S13103, S13104, S13114, S13123, S13124, S13126, S13128, S13129, S13131, S13132, S13133, S13134 [17NO]

Remarks in Senate

Budget: reinstate pay-as-you-go requirement, S13115, S13121, S13122, S13126 [17NO]

Children and youth: impose a tax surcharge to eliminate child poverty, S13093, S13124, S13125 [17NO]

Community service: provide incentives for communities and individuals to serve the poor and others in need and enhance ability of low-income individuals to build assets, S13117 [17NO]

Enact (S. 2020), S12923-S12934, S12936-S12940 [16NO], S13072-S13146 [17NO], S13339, S13344, S13352-S13354 [18NO]

———unanimous-consent agreement, S13092 [17NO]

FEMA: re-bid noncompetitive contracts and give priority to businesses in areas affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, S13090, S13124 [17NO]

Foreign policy: clarify conditions for U.S. to become a signatory to any multilateral trade agreement resulting from World Trade Organization Doha Development Agenda Round, S13136 [17NO]

FTC: improve ability to protect consumers from price-gouging during energy emergencies, S13086-S13089, S13103 [17NO]

Insurance: guarantee comprehensive health care coverage for all children, S12939 [16NO], S13123, S13124 [17NO]

IRS: establish disability preference program for qualified tax collection contracts, S13121, S13130 [17NO]

LIHEAP: funding, S13136 [17NO]

Medicare: provide extended and additional protection to beneficiaries enrolled in prescription drug benefit plans, S13119, S13128, S13129 [17NO]

Senate: clarify treatment of outside income and expenses relative to the practice of medicine, S13104-S13114 [17NO]

Taxation: accelerate marriage penalty relief and extend inclusion of combat pay relative to the earned income tax credit through modification of effective date of the tax treatment of leases to foreign entities, S13131, S13132 [17NO]

———allow employers a tax credit for employment and business practices favorable to U.S. employees, S13120, S13129 [17NO]

———allow refundable tax credit for certain energy costs of farmers and ranchers, S13133 [17NO]

———extend certain expiring provisions to provide deficit reduction and to provide tax relief for the victims of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, S13072-S13080 [17NO]

———impose windfall profit tax on crude oil and rebate the tax collected back to consumers, S12926-S12934, S12936 [16NO], S13078, S13094, S13098-S13102, S13117, S13128 [17NO]

———impose windfall profit tax on oil and natural gas and appropriate the proceeds for LIHEAP, S13097, S13098, S13125 [17NO]

———income averaging of awards received by commercial fisherman for damages suffered as a result of the Exxon Valdez (vessel) oil spill, S13139 [17NO]

———modify excise tax on amounts received under insurance policies in which certain exempt organizations hold an interest, S13138 [17NO]

———modify the income threshold used to calculate the refundable portion of the child tax credit, S13127 [17NO]

———provide a refundable credit to small businesses for the costs of qualified health insurance, S13120, S13129 [17NO]

———provide incentives for renewable energy production and energy efficient building construction, S13128 [17NO]

———provide relief from the alternative minimum tax, S13137 [17NO]

———reinstate certain rates for higher brackets, rates on capital gains and dividends, and repeal termination of phase out of personal exemptions and limitation on itemized deductions until deficit is eliminated, S13083, S13089, S13102 [17NO]

———repeal certain benefits relative to oil and gas well intangible drilling and development costs, S13082-S13085 [17NO]

———repeal State and local exemptions applicable to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, S13116, S13127 [17NO]

———repeal sunset on reduction of capital gains rates for individuals and on taxation of dividends of individuals at capital gain rates, S13141 [17NO]

———restore the phaseout of personal exemptions and the overall limitation on itemized deductions and reduce the income threshold for the child tax credit, S13133, S13134 [17NO]

———restrict use of abusive tax shelters and offshore tax havens to inappropriately avoid Federal taxation, S13138 [17NO]

———treatment of employer provided housing assistance for individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina, S13135 [17NO]

———treatment of holdings of certain Type III charitable supporting organizations, S13138, S13139 [17NO]

———valuation of employee personal use of noncommercial aircraft for purposes of Federal income tax inclusion, S13134 [17NO]

Veterans: increase treatment and support services funding through reduction in tax cuts, S13130 [17NO]

Reports filed

Provisions: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 2020), S12948 [16NO]

Rulings of the Chair

Enact (S. 2020), S13102, S13103, S13104, S13123, S13124, S13125, S13126, S13127, S13128, S13129, S13131, S13132, S13133, S13134 [17NO]