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Preventing Diabetes in Medicare Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2922
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Diabetes
Medicare
Nutrition
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Preventing Diabetes in Medicare Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend Medicare coverage to medical nutrition therapy services for people with pre-diabetes and risk factors for developing type-2 diabetes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Defense to make a grant to the National D-Day Museum Foundation for facilities and programs of America's National World War II Museum.

Bill: 110-hr-2923
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Building construction
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Exhibitions
Federal aid to the arts and humanities
Foundations
History
Louisiana
Military history
Museums
Names
Social Welfare
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to make a grant to the National D-Day Museum Foundation for facilities and programs of America's National World War II Museum in New Orleans, LA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Greater Access To Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2924
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Books
College costs
Education
Higher education
Income tax
Scholarships
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Teaching materials
Textbooks
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Greater Access to Education Act of 2007 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the Hope Scholarship tax credit to: (1) include room, board, fees, books, supplies, and equipment as expenses eligible for such credit; (2) exclude Pell and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants from types of scholarship assistance which reduce the allowable amount of such credit; and (3) exempt certain expenses eligible for such credit from tax information reporting requirements.

Makes the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning tax credits refundable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2925
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Continuing education
Curricula
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational innovations
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Gifted children
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Indian education
Minorities
Native Americans
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to states and, through them, competitive subgrants to local educational agencies for the development or expansion of gifted and talented education programs, and the provision of direct educational services and materials.
 
Specifies that such gifted and talented education programs include: (1) professional development for such students' teachers; (2) the implementation of innovative educational strategies; (3) making materials and services available through state regional educational service centers, institutions of higher education, or other entities; and (4) providing challenging, high-level coursework through technology.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Housing Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2926
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Housing discrimination
Law
Mortgages
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Housing Fairness Act of 2007 - Instructs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to conduct, and report to Congress on, a nationwide testing program to: (1) detect and document differences in the treatment of persons seeking to rent or purchase housing or obtain or refinance a home mortgage loan; (2) measure patterns of adverse treatment because of the race, color, religion, sex, familial status, disability status, or national origin of a renter, home buyer, or borrower; and (3) measure the prevalence of such discriminatory practices across housing and mortgage lending markets.
 

 
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to reauthorize the fair housing initiatives program.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should: (1) fully comply with such Act's requirements to establish, design, and maintain a national education and outreach program for the development and dissemination of the fair housing rights of individuals who seek to rent, purchase, sell, or facilitate the sale of a home; (2) use all amounts appropriated for such program; and (3) promulgate regulations on the fair housing obligations of each recipient of federal housing funds to affirmatively further fair housing.
 
Directs the Secretary to implement a competitive matching grant program to assist private nonprofit organizations in: (1) conducting comprehensive studies of specified aspects of the causes and effects of housing discrimination and segregation; and (2) implementing pilot projects that test solutions to help prevent or alleviate housing discrimination and segregation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
To increase the corporate average fuel economy standards for automobiles, to promote the domestic development and production of advanced technology vehicles, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-2927
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alternative energy sources
Automobile industry
Automobile tires
Automobiles
Commerce
Commercialization
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Electric vehicles
Energy conservation
Fines (Penalties)
Fuel consumption
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Law
Natural gas vehicles
Public service advertising
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Subsidies
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Revises corporate average fuel economy standards (CAFE standards) provisions for non-passenger and passenger automobiles to: (1) provide for increased average fuel economy standards for non-passenger and passenger automobiles; (2) permit separate average fuel economy standards for non-passenger and passenger automobiles based on vehicle attributes related to fuel economy; (3) establish a a corporate average fuel economy credit transferring program within a manufacturer's fleet; (4) establish an account to fund domestic commercialization and production of advanced technology vehicles and vehicle components; and (5) extend for 10 years provisions providing manufacturing incentives for alternative fuel automobiles.
 
Establishes a national tire fuel efficiency consumer information program.
 
Provides for the establishment of a public education campaign to provide information to U.S. drivers about immediate measures that may be taken to conserve transportation fuel.
 
 
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Graduation Promise Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2928
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Colleges
Community and school
Compensatory education
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Data banks
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Language arts
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Nonprofit organizations
Parent-school relationships
Reading
School administration
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Standards
State laws
Student records
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Graduation Promise Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for differentiated high school improvement systems targeting support to schools with low student achievement and graduation rates after the school fails for two consecutive years to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) pursuant to state academic performance standards.
 
Requires LEAs also to use funds to: (1) improve feeder middle schools; and (2) identify and support struggling students before they reach high school. 
 
Requires state grantees to establish comprehensive school performance indicators and minimum annual improvement benchmarks for use, in addition to current AYP measures, in analyzing school performance and determining the improvement category into which a school is placed. Directs LEA subgrantees to convene a local school improvement team for each school placed in an improvement category that will use performance indicators to conduct a school needs assessment and develop a multiyear school improvement plan tailored to the school's need categorization. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award competitive grants to: (1) LEAs, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education to develop and implement, or replicate, effective school models for struggling students and dropouts; and (2) states to adjust their policies to allow for educational innovations that improve high school graduation rates while ensuring rigorous education content standards and assessments, if such states implement differentiated high school improvement systems and statewide longitudinal student data systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Osteoporosis Early Detection and Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2931
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Bone diseases
Chemotherapy
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coinsurance
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Drug therapy
Employee health benefits
Estrogen
Finance and Financial Sector
Freedom of speech
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health insurance
Imaging systems in medicine
Insurance companies
Labor and Employment
Medical tests
Osteoporosis
Patients' rights
Physician-patient privilege
Preventive medicine
Radioisotopes in medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
State laws
Steroids
Thyroid diseases
Women
Women's health
X-rays

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Osteoporosis Early Detection and Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require a group health plan to include coverage for bone mass measurement for individuals who: (1) are at a clinical risk for osteoporosis, including estrogen-deficient women; (2) have vertebral abnormalities; (3) are receiving chemotherapy or long-term gluococorticoid (steroid) therapy; (4) have primary hyperparathyroidism, hyperthyroidism, or excess thyroid replacement; or (5) are being monitored to assess the response to or efficacy of approved osteoporosis drug therapy. 

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish standards regulating the frequency with which individuals are eligible to be provided this benefit. Prohibits specified actions by health care plans to discourage the use of this benefit. 

Applies these requirements to coverage offered in the individual market. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1439)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 39, United States Code, to make cigarettes and certain other tobacco products nonmailable, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-2932
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Cigarettes
Commerce
Drug abuse
Fines (Penalties)
Injunctions
Law
Mail-order business
Postal service
Smokeless tobacco
Tobacco
United States Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Amends federal postal law to make cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and roll-your-own-tobacco nonmailable. 
 
Requires tobacco products attempted to be mailed to be disposed of as the Postal Service directs.
 
Provides a civil penalty for each mailing violation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-2933
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Gary G. [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Civil War
Economics and Public Finance
History
Military history
Military parks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2007 - Amends the American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996 to extend the American Battlefield Protection Program until September 30, 2013. 

action_date: 2008-07-29
text: 
Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2008 - Amends the American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996 to authorize appropriations for FY2009-FY2013 for the provision of grants under the battlefield acquisition grant program. 

Eliminates the provision for the repealing of the Act on September 30, 2008. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1112.
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 9/22/2008 H8493)
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR 9/22/2008 H8493)
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H9406)
action_date: 2008-09-22
text: At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Young (AK) objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was withdrawn.
action_date: 2008-09-22
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2933.
action_date: 2008-09-22
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8493-8495)
action_date: 2008-09-22
text: Ms. Bordallo moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2008-07-29
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 510.
action_date: 2008-07-29
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-792.
action_date: 2008-07-29
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-792.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-07-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
To prevent Members of Congress from receiving the automatic pay adjustment scheduled to take effect in 2008.

Bill: 110-hr-2934
Sponsor: Rep. Mitchell, Harry E. [D-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional salaries
Cost of living adjustments

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Provides that no automatic pay adjustment shall be considered to have taken effect in FY2008 in the rates of basic pay for Members of Congress under the statutory pay system (thus eliminating the pay adjustment for Members for such fiscal year).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, 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.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House