CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC.

Immigration

S. 744, the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act," (employment verification and disaster recovery)

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Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Support lower rates on taxation of dividends; Tax reform; Dodd-Frank end-user recordkeeping reform; Promote the development of the natural gas vehicle market by supporting various incentives; H.R. 1364 New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2013; Support incentives for high effiiency natural gas furnaces, boilers and water heaters (25C tax credits); Discussion draft to amend the Internal RevenueCode of 1986 to provide for comprehensive income tax reform (taxation of derivatives); H.R. 1486, the "No Carbon Tax Act of 2013"; H. Con. Res 24, expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy; S. 795, the Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act; Discussion draft to prevent certain discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline prperty

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Utilities

H.R. 1944, the "Private Property Rights Protection Act," to preserve traditional eminent domain authority for public utilities