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To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide for a National Resource Center for Positive Youth Development and School Success.

Bill: 110-hr-3853
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2007-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Child development
Curricula
Data banks
Department of Education
Educational research
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Executive reorganization
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to establish a National Resource Center for Positive Youth Development and School Success that assists state and local educational agencies, schools, parent-teacher associations, and community groups in incorporating developmental assets, supports, and strengths into existing educational programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Construction Quality Assurance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3854
Sponsor: Rep. Kanjorski, Paul E. [D-PA-11]
Introduced: 2007-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commerce
Construction costs
Construction industries
Damages
Fines (Penalties)
Government contractors
Government procurement
Law
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: 
Construction Quality Assurance Act of 2007 - Provides implementation dates for proposed revisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulation and final regulations necessitated by this Act.
 
Requires each solicitation by an executive agency for the procurement of construction in excess of $1 million to require each bidder to submit as part of such bid the name, business location, and nature of work of each subcontractor with whom such bidder, if awarded the contract, will subcontract for work in excess of $100,000. Considers as non-responsive any bidder that fails to list such subcontractors. 
Outlines required procedures for the substitution of a listed subcontractor, including consent by the contracting officer for good cause shown. Outlines examples of good cause and requirements for substitution requests. Prohibits, without good cause shown, the assignment or transfer of a subcontract. Imposes damages upon a contractor for violation of substitution requirements. States that the imposition of such damages shall be grounds for the disbarment or suspension of a contractor from federal contracts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit the disposal by the Department of Defense of surplus military items designated as Identification Friend or Foe items, to amend title 18, United States Code, to make it a misdemeanor to possess or traffics in Identification Friend or Foe items, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3855
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2007-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense contracts
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Infrared technology
Iraq compilation
Labeling
Military and naval supplies
Military technology
Science, Technology, Communications
Surplus government property

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: 
Prohibits the sale or donation of Department of Defense designated as Identification Friend or Foe equipment or accessories, with specified exceptions. Subjects to civil or criminal penalties, or both, persons who manufacture, sell, or possess such items without authorization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2007-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-10-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-10-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2155)
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to guarantee the right of deployed members of the Armed Forces who are elected members of State and local legislatures to vote on matters pending before such legislatures.

Bill: 110-hr-3856
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2007-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Iraq compilation
Legislative voting
Legislators
Military operations
State legislators

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: 
Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to state that a person who is an elected member of a state or local legislature who is absent from the state or local area in compliance with military or naval orders shall not, solely by reason of that absence, be denied the right to vote on any pending legislative matter.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
To establish requirements for the consideration of supplemental appropriation bills.

Bill: 110-hr-3857
Sponsor: Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2007-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Authorization
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Legislative resolutions
Senate rules and procedure
Supplemental appropriations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: 
Makes it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any measure making supplemental appropriations for two or more unrelated emergencies.
 
Prohibits any provisions containing spending that is not designated as emergency spending from being reported in a measure making supplemental appropriations.
 
Makes it out of order in the House or the Senate to consider: (1) the conference report on a measure making supplemental appropriations if such measure contains such spending; or (2) any bill, joint resolution, or conference report if the accompanying report or joint statement of managers does not comply with this Act.
 
Requires the Committee on Appropriations or any other House or Senate committee that reports any bill or joint resolution that provides budget authority for any emergency, the accompanying report, or the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on the measure to: (1) identify all provisions that provide budget authority and the resulting outlays for such emergency; (2) state the reasons why such budget authority meets the definition of an emergency; and (3) justify why such funding is in a supplemental appropriation and not the regular appropriation for the next fiscal year.
 
Prohibits a provision containing an earmark from being reported in a measure making supplemental appropriations.
 
Makes it out of order in the House or the Senate to consider the conference report on any measure making supplemental appropriations containing earmarks.
 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
To improve the further development of water resources in Colorado and New Mexico, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3858
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Colorado
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-Indian relations
Housing and Community Development
Indian economic development
Infrastructure
Minorities
New Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: 
Amends the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 1988 to require: (1) the Secretary of the Interior to assure that not less than one-third of funds appropriated for economic development through each tribe's Tribal Resource Fund be expended for municipal or rural water development; and (2) funds appropriated by this Act and placed in the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Tribal Resource Funds which have not been disbursed by December 31, 2020, to be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the use of DNA testing for purposes of confirming a biological relationship, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3860
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2007-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Aliens
DNA
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Forensic medicine
Health
Immigrants
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require DNA testing for an alien seeking a visa based on a biological relationship to a family member.
 
Sets forth related provisions respecting fees and testing facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
AMT Credit Fairness and Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3861
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2007-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee stock options
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: 
AMT Credit Fairness and Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the alternative minimum tax (AMT) refundable credit amount for individuals who have long-term unused minimum tax credits from prior taxable years; and (2) abate any underpayment of tax attributable to the application of special AMT rules for the treatment of incentive stock options.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Preparing America's Seniors for the Digital Transition Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3862
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2007-10-16 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advertising
Cable television
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against the elderly
Electronics industry
Federal advisory bodies
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Law
Retail trade
Social Welfare
Television broadcasting
Television programs
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: 
Preparing America's Seniors for the Digital Transition Act of 2007 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), commencing not later than January 1, 2008, or 60 days after enactment, to enter into a partnership with the Administration on Aging and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to create a comprehensive nationwide public education campaign that provides information and assistance to older individuals to ensure that such individuals receive uninterrupted television service during the transition from analog to digital television that is to occur on February 17, 2009, and to mitigate the likelihood of success of fraudulent schemes relating to such transition that may target such older individuals. Provides for an advisory board which shall include representatives from minorities, the disabled, non-native English speakers, tribal groups, and other vulnerable populations.
 
Sets forth: (1) public notification (and labeling and advertising, as appropriate) requirements for full power commercial television broadcast licensees, noncommercial broadcasters, multichannel video programming distributors, electronic retailers, and manufacturers; and (2) penalties for noncompliance.
 
Provides for grants for provide public education outreach and installation assistance to older individuals and other vulnerable populations.
 
Amends the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to revise the program specifications of the digital-to-analog converter box program, including requiring a standard application to receive a coupon.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Introduced in House
Kids First Act

Bill: 110-hr-3864
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2007-10-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Fetus
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Subsidies
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: 
Kids First Act - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to revise, reauthorize, and extend the SCHIP program through FY2012 at increased levels.

Provides for determination of allotments for the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on expenditures and numbers of low-income children. 

Sets limitations on matching rates for populations other than targeted low-income children or pregnant women covered through a Section 1115 waiver.

Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from approving, extending, renewing, or amending a waiver, experimental, pilot, or demonstration project with respect to a state after the enactment of this Act that would allow funds made available under SCHIP to be used to provide child health assistance or other health benefits coverage for any other adult other than a pregnant woman whose family income does not exceed the income eligibility level specified for a targeted low-income child in that state under a waiver or approved project.

Requires a state to determine family income eligibility for child health assistance or other health benefits coverage under the state child health plan solely on the basis of the family's gross income.

Directs the Secretary to award grants to eligible entities to conduct outreach and enrollment efforts designed to increase the enrollment and participation of eligible children under SCHIP and SSA title XIX (Medicaid).
Allows a state to elect to offer a premium assistance subsidy for qualified employer sponsored coverage to all targeted low-income children eligible for child health assistance. 
Allows any state the option to include an unborn child as a child under SCHIP.

Repeals current federal payment rates at different specified percentages for different specified aspects of Medicaid administrative costs to prescribe a flat 50% rate for all such costs.

Requires a 25% reduction in payments for Medicaid administrative costs (to prevent duplication of such payments under part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of SSA title IV).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in House
Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3865
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Case mix (Medical care)
Department of Health and Human Services
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Home care services
Law
Medical fees
Medicare
Social Welfare
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: 
Home Health Care Access Protection Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the prospective payment system (PPS) for home health services and adjustments to it for case mix changes.

Prohibits any adjustment in the PPS for payment in 2008. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for any adjustment in a subsequent year, to evaluate changes in case mix using standards developed consistent with specified processes, taking certain criteria into account.

Directs the Secretary to convene a Technical Advisory Group to advise on the development of such standards.

Prohibits the Secretary from taking any action to implement or otherwise carry out provisions in the final rule published on August 29, 2007, that propose to make a case mix adjustment to the standardized payment amounts under the PPS to account for changes in coding that were not related to an underlying change in patient health status. Directs the Secretary to republish any rates specified in such rule to take into account the application of such prohibition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in House
To provide an orderly transition to new requirements, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3868
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-10-17 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee benefit plans
Pension funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: 
Amends the Pension Protection Act of 2006, the Internal Revenue Code, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to delay until January 1, 2009, the implementation of pension plan funding rules enacted by the Pension Protection Act of 2006. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in House
Minnesota Bridge Repair Act

Bill: 110-hr-3869
Sponsor: Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2007-10-17 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Authorization
Bridges
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Minnesota
Rescission of appropriated funds
Road construction

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: 
Minnesota Bridge Repair Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Transportation for emergency repairs and reconstruction of the Interstate I-35W bridge located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that collapsed on August 1, 2007. Rescinds the total amount required to offset the new discretionary budget authority provided in this Act.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in House
Quality Child Care for America Act

Bill: 110-hr-3870
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-17 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Authorization
Block grants
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Government Operations and Politics
Indian children
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: 
Quality Child Care for America Act - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for child care workforce development initiatives.
 
Provides for funds to state and local governments and Indian tribes to carry out one or more specified child care workforce development initiatives.
 
Requires a state plan to specify the activities that it will provide through any particular workforce development initiative.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in House