Enhanced Financial Recovery and Equitable Retirement Treatment Act of 2007
Latest action · Nov 1, 2007 Subcommittee Hearings Held.
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.
- IntroducedJun 27, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Enhanced Financial Recovery and Equitable Retirement Treatment Act of 2007 - Imposes surcharges for unpaid criminal monetary penalties and for unpaid balances on money judgments obtained by the United States.
Increases special assessments on persons convicted of certain criminal offenses against the United States.
Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Justice Enhanced Financial Recovery Fund to support Department of Justice debt collection activities.
Requires assistant U.S. attorneys to be treated in the same manner as federal law enforcement officers for purposes of federal employee retirement benefit provisions.
Cosponsors 41
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 27, 2007 to Apr 17, 2008; 11 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Original | Jun 27, 2007 |
| D-MA | Bill Delahunt | Original | Jun 27, 2007 |
| R-UT | Chris Cannon | Original | Jun 27, 2007 |
| R-CT | Christopher Shays | Original | Jun 27, 2007 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Jun 27, 2007 |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Original | Jun 27, 2007 |
| R-FL | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | Original | Jun 27, 2007 |
| D-VA | James P. Moran | Original | Jun 27, 2007 |
| R-TX | Michael T. McCaul | Original | Jun 27, 2007 |
| R-VA | Tom Davis | Original | Jun 27, 2007 |
| D-NM | Tom Udall | Original | Jun 27, 2007 |
| R-MS | Charles W. "Chip" Pickering | Jul 12, 2007 | |
| R-LA | Bobby Jindal | Sep 25, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Sep 25, 2007 | |
| R-CA | Daniel E. Lungren | Oct 1, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Linda T. Sánchez | Oct 1, 2007 | |
| R-VA | Virgil H. Goode Jr. | Oct 1, 2007 | |
| R-CA | Darrell Issa | Oct 9, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Solomon P. Ortiz | Oct 9, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| R-TN | David Davis | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| R-NJ | Mike Ferguson | Oct 10, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Oct 16, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Louise McIntosh Slaughter | Oct 16, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Luis V. Gutierrez | Oct 16, 2007 | |
| D-AZ | Ed Pastor | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Ellen O. Tauscher | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Jerry McNerney | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-UT | Jim Matheson | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| R-TX | Louie Gohmert | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-CO | Mark Udall | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Tom Lantos | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| R-AZ | Trent Franks | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Zachary T. Space | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | Nov 14, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Jane Harman | Nov 14, 2007 | |
| D-VA | Rick Boucher | Nov 14, 2007 | |
| R-MI | Thaddeus G. McCotter | Mar 31, 2008 | |
| D-CA | Susan A. Davis | Apr 17, 2008 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jun 27, 2007 |
| Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee | Referred Jul 16, 2007Hearings Nov 1, 2007 | |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jun 27, 2007 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 1, 2007Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Jul 16, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
- Jun 28, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1429-1430)
- Jun 27, 2007Introduced in House
- Jun 27, 2007Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E1429 | Artur Davis D-AL | Jun 28, 2007 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 110-124 | ENHANCED FINANCIAL RECOVERY AND EQUITABLE RETIREMENT TREATMENT ACT OF 200763 pages | Judiciary Committee | Nov 1, 2007 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1729 | Enhanced Financial Recovery and Equitable Retirement Treatment Act of 2007 | Related bill | Jun 28, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend titles 18 and 28 of the United States Code to provide incentives for the prompt payments of debts owed to the United States and the victims of crime by imposing surcharges on unpaid judgments owed to the United States and to the victims of crime, to provide for offsets on amounts collected by the Department of Justice for Federal agencies, and to increase the amount of special assessments imposed upon convicted persons; to establish an Enhanced Financial Recovery Fund to enhance, supplement and improve the debt collection activities of the Department of Justice; to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide to assistant United States attorneys the same retirement benefits as are afforded to Federal law enforcements officers, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Enhanced Financial Recovery and Equitable Retirement Treatment Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.
- Civil service retirement
- Collection of accounts
- Compensation for victims of crime
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Economics and Public Finance
- Federal employees
- Federal law enforcement officers
- Fines (Penalties)
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government trust funds
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Public prosecutors
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 27, 2007Introduced in House
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; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
