New Urban Agenda Act of 2001
Latest action · Jan 22, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S264-269)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 22, 2001
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Requires specified amounts of foreign assistance to be in the form of credits for the purchase of goods produced in such zones and communities.
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to provide assistance preference to Manufacturing Technology Outreach Centers located in such zones and communities.
Establishes a preference for Federal facility construction or relocation in distressed urban areas.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide specified tax incentives to stimulate urban development, including provisions respecting: (1) rehabilitation credit treatment; (2) tax-exempt commercial development bonds; (3) small issue bonds; (4) arbitrage interest rebate waiver; (5) residential rental project bonds; and (6) the targeted jobs tax credit.
Allows a home buyer tax credit for principal residence purchases in such zones or communities.
Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to study the feasibility of consolidating public and low-income housing programs into a comprehensive block grant system.
Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act and the Housing and Community Development Act, respectively, to make home ownership assistance available to qualifying municipal employees and teachers.
Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to establish a Brownfield program in the Environmental Protection Agency.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 24, 2001.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Jan 24, 2001 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 22, 2001Introduced in Senate
- Jan 22, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S264-269)
- Jan 22, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S261-264)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Housing and Community Development.
- Administrative procedure
- Air pollution control
- American economic assistance
- American military assistance
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Arms sales
- Authorization
- Block grants
- Brownfields
- Business income tax
- Business losses
- Capital gains tax
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cost effectiveness
- Depressed areas
- Economic impact statements
- Economics and Public Finance
- Employment tax credits
- Enterprise zones
- Environmental Protection
- Federal aid to community development
- Federal aid to housing
- Federal installations
- Federal office buildings
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government downsizing
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government procurement
- Government trust funds
- Hazardous waste site remediation
- Home ownership
- Housing and Community Development
- Income tax
- Industrial development bonds
- Industrial parks
- Infrastructure
- Interest
- International Affairs
- Investment tax credit
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Legislation
- Liability for toxic substances pollution damages
- Low-income housing
- Manufacturing industries
- Minimum tax
- Mortgage interest rates
- Mortgage loans
- Municipal employees
- Mutual funds
- Parking facilities
- Partnerships
- Personal income tax
- Public housing
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Recycling of waste products
- Relocation of federal installations
- Rent subsidies
- Rental housing
- Residential rehabilitation
- Small business
- Social Welfare
- Sports and Recreation
- Sports facilities
- Stocks
- Tax credits
- Tax exclusion
- Tax-exempt securities
- Taxation
- Transportation and Public Works
- Trees
- Urban affairs
- Urban economic development
- Urban renewal
- Wages
- Water pollution control
- Water treatment plants
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.
