To make permanent the moratorium enacted by the Internet Tax Freedom Act as it applies to new, multiple, and discriminatory taxes on the Internet.
Expresses the sense of the Congress that a State tax relating to electronic commerce, to avoid being multiple or discriminatory, should include, among other things: (1) a centralized, one-stop, multi-State registration system for sellers; (2) uniform definitions for goods or services that might be included in the tax base; (3) uniform and simple rules for attributing transactions to particular taxing jurisdictions; (4) uniform procedures for the certification of software that sellers rely on to determine non-multiple and non-discriminatory taxes and taxability; and (5) consistent electronic filing and remittance methods.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S329)
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 431.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 496 and Rule XXIII.
The Speaker designated the Honorable John E. Sununu to act as Chairman of the Committee.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 3709.
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - The Chair put the question on agreeing to the Chabot amendment to the Delahunt amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 496, the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of agreeing to the Chabot amendment and to the Delahunt amendment, as amended or not, until later in the legislative day.
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - The Chair put the question on agreeing to the Istook amendment and by voice vote announced that the ayes had prevailed. A recorded vote was demanded and pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 496, further proceedings were postponed until later in the legislative day.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that proceedings would now resume on the amendments debated earlier and on which recorded votes had been postponed.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 3709.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. (text: CR H2801)
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Mr. Conyers moved to recommit with instructions to Judiciary.
DEBATE - The House is debating the motion for ten minutes.
The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 177 - 250 (Roll no. 158).
Roll Call #158 (House)Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 352 - 75 (Roll no. 159).
Roll Call #159 (House)On passage Passed by recorded vote: 352 - 75 (Roll no. 159).
Roll Call #159 (House)Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate.
Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 556.