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Small Business SOX Compliance Extension Act

Bill: 110-hr-2727
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2007-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Corporate finance
Corporate management
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Independent regulatory commissions
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Law
Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities regulation
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: 
Small Business SOX Compliance Extension Act - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to modify its regulations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) for annual management assessments of, and reports on, internal financial controls.
 
Requires such regulations to provide that a non-accelerated filer does not have to provide management's report on internal control over financial reporting until it files an annual report for its first fiscal year ending on or after December 15, 2008 (thereby extending the current moratorium on such requirements for small businesses).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
Prostate Cancer Research and Prevention Act

Bill: 110-hr-2729
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2007-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Authorization
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Medical screening
Medical tests
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Preventive medicine
Prostate cancer
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: 
Prostate Cancer Research and Prevention Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations through FY2012 for: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to make grants to states and local health departments to carry out preventive health measures related to prostate cancer; and (2) the Director of the National Cancer Institute to expand, intensify, and coordinate prostate cancer research activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
Numismatic Rarities Certainty Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2730
Sponsor: Rep. Lucas, Frank D. [R-OK-3]
Introduced: 2007-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Auctions
Awards, medals, prizes
Coins and coinage
Commemorations
Congressional reporting requirements
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government property
Surplus government property

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: 
Numismatic Rarities Certainty Act of 2007 - Declares that any coin, medal, numismatic item, or any other piece made or struck by the U.S. Mint before January 1, 1933, that is not in federal government possession shall not be considered to be U.S. property unless it is reacquired by the United States for value given in a sale or exchange. 
 
Instructs Secretary of the Treasury periodically to compile and report to the President and Congress on an inventory of such items owned by the Department of the Treasury.
 
Requires transfer to the Secretary of any such item that comes into U.S. government possession. 
 
Prescribes procedures for disposition of such items, including historic preservation, public display, and sales at public auction.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
Safe Tissue Act

Bill: 110-hr-2731
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2007-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative procedure
Auditing
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cytology
Department of Health and Human Services
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Economics and Public Finance
Federal preemption
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Informed consent (Medical law)
Law
Medical ethics
Medical records
State laws
Tissue banks
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: 
Safe Tissue Act - Requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to inspect, at least once every two years, each establishment that engages in the manufacture of human cells, tissues, and cellular and tissue-based products. Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a user fee to fund such inspections.
 
Requires the FDA to conduct periodic audits of all documentation submitted by each such establishment to determine compliance with all applicable requirements, including requirements related to ensuring: (1) that human cells, tissues, or cellular or tissue-based products are obtained legally; (2) that donor eligibility and donor medical history interviews are based on accurate information that was not provided or obtained in a fraudulent manner; and (3) current good tissue practice. 
 
Requires the Secretary to publish a model form containing minimum requirements for establishments to use in obtaining consent from a potential donor of human cells, tissues, or cellular or tissue-based products. Sets forth penalties for failing to comply with model form requirements or for knowingly using fraudulent information.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) accredit establishments and the personnel of such establishments who participate in the recovery, processing, storage, labeling, packaging, or distribution of human cells, tissues, or cellular or tissue-based products; and (2) define &quot;reasonable payments&quot; that are associated with donation of human tissue and tissue-based products for purposes of the National Organ Transplant Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Act of July 3, 1890, to provide for the granting to a State of a parcel of land for use as an agricultural college and to proscribe the use of earnings and proceeds thereof.

Bill: 110-hr-2732
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2007-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural colleges
Agriculture and Food
Building construction
Construction costs
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Idaho
Land transfers
Land use

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: 
Allows the state of Idaho, notwithstanding provisions of the First Morrill Act, to: (1) invest and manage earnings and proceeds derived from land granted for use as an agricultural college in accordance with the standards applicable to a trustee under Idaho law; (2) deduct from earnings and proceeds generated from granted land any expenses that a trustee is authorized to deduct pursuant to Idaho law; and (3) use earnings and proceeds generated by the granted land for any uses and purposes described in that Act without regard to limitations prohibiting the state from exceeding 10% on the purchase of land and from purchasing, erecting, preserving, or repairing buildings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
Trinity River Restoration Fund Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2733
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2007-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Central Valley Reclamation Project (California)
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-Indian relations
Fisheries
Fishery management
Government trust funds
Minorities
Native Americans
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: 
Trinity River Restoration Fund Act of 2007 - Establishes in the Treasury the Trinity River Restoration Fund to be available to the Secretary of the Interior for use solely for the purpose of implementing the preferred alternative identified in the Record of Decision issued by the Secretary with the concurrence of the Hoopa Valley Tribe on December 19, 2000, on Trinity River Mainstem Fishery Restoration. Authorizes the Secretary to accept and expend funds from public and private sources to assist in the implementation of the Record of Decision. 

Provides that amounts deposited into the Fund for specific purposes shall be expended for those purposes only and shall not be subject to appropriation. Requires specified deposits to the Fund from: (1) the capital component of payments made pursuant to long-term contracts with the Bureau of Reclamation by Central Valley Project (CVP) water and power contractors; and (2) non-federal funds contributed to the United States for implementation of the Record of Decision or federal funds appropriated to the Trinity River Restoration Fund. 

Makes federal costs of implementing this Act nonreimburseable under federal reclamation law. 

Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) funding in the event Central Valley Project (CVP) capital repayments fall below necessary levels; (2) biennial summary reports from the Secretary; (3) required cost of living adjustments; and (4) a reduction of CVP's capital repayment obligation by the amount paid into the Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-18
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2734
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Timothy [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2007-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
College costs
Commerce
Congress
Depreciation and amortization
Dividends
Education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Income tax
Legislation
Local taxation
Research and development tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
State taxation
Sunset legislation
Tax deductions
Tax rates
Tax simplification

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: 
Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2007 - Repeals the general termination date of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (i.e., December 31, 2010), thus making the tax reductions enacted by that Act permanent. 

Repeals the termination date for provisions of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 reducing income tax rates on dividends and capital gains.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the tax deduction for state and local sales taxes; (2) the tax deduction for tuition and related expenses; (3) the increased expensing allowance for small business assets and related provisions; and (4) the tax credit for increasing research activities. 

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Committee on Ways and Means should report legislation on or before December 31, 2008, to simplify the federal income tax system. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 6/12/2007 H6245)
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
National Wildlife Refuge System Operations Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2735
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Checkoff
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Hunting
Income tax
Migratory bird conservation
Postage stamps
Sports and Recreation
Tax returns
Taxation
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: 
National Wildlife Refuge System Operations Enhancement Act of 2007 - Increases the price of Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps.
 
Requires amounts received for such stamps sold in excess of $15.00 to be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the costs of national wildlife refuge operations. 
 
National Wildlife Refuge System Semipostal Stamp Act of 2007 - Sets forth provisions for the issuance and sale of a special postage stamp in order to afford a convenient way for the public to contribute toward funding the operations of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
 
National Wildlife Refuge Checkoff Act of 2007 - Permits a taxpayer to designate that $1 of any tax overpayment, and any cash contribution which the taxpayer includes with such return, shall be deposited into the National Wildlife Refuge System Trust Fund established by this Act. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) from such Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Ways and Means, 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.
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1292-1293)
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Introduced in House
HIV Emergency Local Partnership Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2736
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2007-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Minorities
Minority health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: 
HIV Emergency Local Partnership Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible entities located in communities in which racial or ethnic minorities comprise a majority of the population to provide comprehensive HIV/AIDS service to racial and ethnic minorities in such communities.
 
Directs the Secretary to continue funding grants awarded through the Minority HIV/AIDS Initiatives of the Health Resources and Services Administration until the Secretary begins to provide funds for such initiative through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act of 2006.
 
Excludes amounts expended for medical assistance for individuals with HIV/AIDS when calculating the caps for Medicaid payments to territories.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2737
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2007-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Employee health benefits
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Married people
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Small business
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: 
Health Care Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a refundable tax credit up to $1,000 for the health insurance coverage costs of a previously uninsured taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents; and (2) certain small business employers a business tax credit for amounts paid under a new health plan for employee health insurance coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Family and Consumer Choice Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2738
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2007-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cable television
Child welfare
Commerce
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Pornography
Subscription television
Television programs
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: 
Family and Consumer Choice Act of 2007 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt rules to protect children from indecent video programming carried by a multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD). Gives MVPDs the option to either: (1) in accordance with FCC indecency and profanity policies and standards, not transmit indecent or profane material in the expanded basic tier between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. in the Eastern or Pacific time zones or between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. in the Central or Mountain times zones; (2) scramble or block any channel that a subscriber does not wish to receive; or (3) allow a subscriber to subscribe to a family tier of programming (defined as including all channels on the expanded basic tier, except those that carry programs rated TV-14 or TV-MA during those hours). Requires MVPDs that elect to scramble or block channels to issue credit in certain circumstances to a subscriber for any channel the subscriber elects to block. Requires MVPDs that elect to provide a family tier to allow a subscriber to obtain the family tier of programming for one or more of the subscriber's reception devices while simultaneously obtaining other tiers for other of the subscriber's reception devices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Introduced in House
TRICARE Mental Health Services Enhancement Act

Bill: 110-hr-2739
Sponsor: Rep. Hayes, Robin [R-NC-8]
Introduced: 2007-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Clinical trials
Defense contracts
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government service contracts
Health
Health counseling
Law
Licenses
Mental health services
Military medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: 
TRICARE Mental Health Services Enhancement Act - Amends the TRICARE program (a Department of Defense (DOD) managed health care program) to authorize the provision of mental health counseling for TRICARE participants. Authorizes the provision of mental health services in DOD clinical trials.
 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to authorize the Secretary of Defense to enter into personal service contracts with mental health counselors.
 
Includes mental health counselors within DOD licensure requirements for health-care professionals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Introduced in House