IIB
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1905
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 20, 2007
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT
To provide for the treatment of the District of Columbia as a Congressional district for purposes of representation in the House of Representatives, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to adjust the estimated tax payment safe harbor based on income for the preceding year in the case of individuals with adjusted gross income greater than $5 million, and for other purposes.
Short Title
This Act may be cited as the
District of Columbia House Voting
Rights Act of 2007
.
Treatment of District of Columbia as Congressional district
In general
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the District of Columbia shall be considered a Congressional district for purposes of representation in the House of Representatives.
Conforming Amendments Relating to Apportionment of Members of House of Representatives
Inclusion of single District of Columbia member in reapportionment of members among States
Section 22 of the Act
entitled An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial
censuses and to provide for apportionment of Representatives in
Congress
, approved June 28, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a), is amended by adding at
the end the following new subsection:
This section shall apply with respect to the District of Columbia in the same manner as this section applies to a State, except that the District of Columbia may not receive more than one Member under any reapportionment of Members.
.
Clarification of determination of number of Presidential electors on basis of 23rd Amendment
Section 3 of title 3, United States
Code, is amended by striking come into office;
and inserting the
following: come into office (subject to the twenty-third article of
amendment to the Constitution of the United States in the case of the District
of Columbia);
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Increase in Membership of House of Representatives
Permanent Increase in Number of Members
Effective with respect to the One Hundred Tenth Congress and each succeeding Congress, the House of Representatives shall be composed of 437 Members, including any Members representing the District of Columbia pursuant to section 2(a).
Reapportionment of Members Resulting From Increase
In general
Section 22(a) of the Act entitled An Act to
provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for
apportionment of Representatives in Congress
, approved June 28, 1929
(2 U.S.C.
2a(a)), is amended by striking the then existing number
of Representatives
and inserting the number of Representatives
established with respect to the One Hundred Tenth Congress
.
Effective date
The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to the regular decennial census conducted for 2010 and each subsequent regular decennial census.
Special Rules for Period Prior to 2012 Reapportionment
Transmittal of revised statement of apportionment by President
Not later than 30
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall transmit
to Congress a revised version of the most recent statement of apportionment
submitted under section 22(a) of the Act entitled An Act to provide for
the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for
apportionment of Representatives in Congress
, approved June 28, 1929
(2 U.S.C.
2a(a)), to take into account this Act and the amendments made
by this Act.
Report by clerk
Not later than 15 calendar days after receiving the revised version of the statement of apportionment under paragraph (1), the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in accordance with section 22(b) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 2a(b)), shall send to the executive of each State a certificate of the number of Representatives to which such State is entitled under section 22 of such Act, and shall submit a report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives identifying the State (other than the District of Columbia) which is entitled to one additional Representative pursuant to this section.
Requirements for election of additional member
During the One Hundred Tenth Congress, the One Hundred Eleventh Congress, and the One Hundred Twelfth Congress—
notwithstanding
the final undesignated paragraph of the Act entitled An Act for the
relief of Doctor Ricardo Vallejo Samala and to provide for congressional
redistricting
, approved December 14, 1967 (2 U.S.C. 2c), the
additional Representative to which the State identified by the Clerk of the
House of Representatives in the report submitted under paragraph (2) is
entitled shall be elected from the State at large; and
the other Representatives to which such State is entitled shall be elected on the basis of the Congressional districts in effect in the State for the One Hundred Ninth Congress.
Nonseverability of provisions
If any provision of this Act, or any amendment made by this Act, is declared or held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this Act and any amendment made by this Act shall be treated and deemed invalid and shall have no force or effect of law.
Adjustment of estimated tax payment safe harbor for individual taxpayers with adjusted gross income greater than $5 million
In general
Subparagraph (C) of section 6654(d)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to limitation on use of preceding year’s tax) is amended by redesignating clauses (ii) and (iii) as clauses (iii) and (iv), respectively, and by inserting after clause (i) the following new clause:
Individual adjusted gross income greater than $5,000,000
If the adjusted gross income shown on the
return of the individual for such preceding taxable year exceeds $5,000,000,
clause (i) shall be applied by substituting 110.1
for
110
in the last row of the table
therein.
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Separate returns
Clause (iii) of section 6654(d)(1)(C) of such Code, as
redesignated by subsection (a), is amended by inserting and clause (ii)
shall be applied by substituting
before the period at the end.$2,500,000
for
$5,000,000
Effective date
The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Passed the House of Representatives April 19, 2007.
Lorraine C. Miller,
Clerk.
