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Federal Judicial Salary Restoration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3753
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Judicial compensation
Supreme Court justices

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Federal Judicial Salary Restoration Act of 2007 - Increases the salaries of certain federal judges and Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
 
Amends Public Law 97-92 (the joint resolution making further continuing appropriations for FY1982), as amended by the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002, to repeal the prohibition on salary increases for such officials. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 28 - 5.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to accept, as part of a settlement, diesel emission reduction Supplemental Environmental Projects, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3754
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Diesel motor
Environmental law enforcement
Motor vehicle pollution control
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to accept, as part of a settlement of any alleged violations of environmental law, diesel emissions reduction Supplemental Environmental Projects if the projects: (1) protect human health or the environment; (2) are related to the underlying alleged violations; (3) do not constitute activities that the defendant would otherwise be legally required to perform; and (4) do not provide funds for EPA's staff or for contractors to carry out EPA's internal operations.

action_date: 2008-06-10
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to accept, as part of a settlement of any alleged violations of environmental law, diesel emissions reduction Supplemental Environmental Projects if the projects: (1) protect human health or the environment; (2) are related to the underlying alleged violations; (3) do not constitute activities that the defendant would otherwise be legally required to perform; and (4) do not provide funds for EPA's staff or for contractors to carry out EPA's internal operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 447.
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 110-705.
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 110-705.
action_date: 2008-03-13
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2008-03-13
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-02-13
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee .
action_date: 2008-02-13
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-02-13
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
Immunity from Claims Related to Donated Horses Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3755
Sponsor: Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.
Department of Homeland Security
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Horses
Human-animal relationships
Law
Protection of animals

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Immunity from Claims Related to Donated Horses Act of 2007 - Requires each humane organization that receives any horse or mule to hold the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, harmless from any demand, suit, action, or claim arising from or related to the government's donation of the horse or mule, including damages to the organization's property and any personal injury, disability, or death of any officer, employee, or agent.

Authorizes horses and mules belonging to the federal government that have become unfit for service to be adopted by the DHS agents who have worked with such horse or mule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
Colorado Wilderness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3756
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Army
Colorado
Flight training
Labor and Employment
Military training
National Guard
Water Resources Development
Water rights
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
 Colorado Wilderness Act of 2007 - Designates specified lands in Colorado, administered by the Bureau of Land Management or the U.S. Forest Service, as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 

 Authorizes the Colorado Army National Guard, through the High Altitude ARNG Aviation Training Site, to conduct aerial navigation training maneuver exercises over and upon the lands designated as potential wilderness by this Act. 

 Provides for the obtaining, exercise, and protection of U.S. water rights for the wilderness and potential wilderness areas. 

Designates specified lands (proposed as Deep Creek Wilderness and Pisgah Mountain Wilderness) as potential wilderness areas. Requires such lands to be designated as wilderness upon publication of a notice that all nonconforming uses of those lands have ceased.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
Alaska Rainforest Conservation Act

Bill: 110-hr-3757
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Land use
National forests
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Alaska Rainforest Conservation Act - Designates specified public lands in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska, as wilderness areas or components of the National Wilderness Reservation System. 
Provides with respect to specified public lands in the Tongass National Forest for: (1) designation as Land Use Designation II lands; (2) designation as restoration lands; and (3) designation as special management areas. 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate as wild, scenic, and recreational rivers specified waters in the Tongass National Forest.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
Family Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3758
Sponsor: Rep. Hall, John J. [D-NY-19]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption
Adult day care
Caregivers
Day care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Married people
Minimum tax
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Family Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) the increase the alternative minimum tax (AMT) exemption amounts and adjust such amounts for inflation after 2008; and (2) make permanent the allowance of the dependent care tax credit, the child tax credit, and the adoption tax credit against the AMT.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to enable local educational agencies to use amounts received from the Fund for the Improvement of Education for innovative programs to increase learning in financial literacy.

Bill: 110-hr-3759
Sponsor: Rep. Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Educational innovations
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Personal budgets
Saving and investment
School districts
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow local educational agencies to use amounts received under part A (Innovative Programs) of title V for programs to increase students' financial literacy through classroom learning or after school programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to enable local educational agencies to use amounts received from the Fund for the Improvement of Education for innovative programs to increase learning in nutrition and exercise.

Bill: 110-hr-3760
Sponsor: Rep. Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Child health
Child nutrition
Economics and Public Finance
Educational innovations
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Exercise
Families
Federal aid to education
Health
Physical education and training
Preventive medicine
School districts
School health programs
Secondary education
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow local educational agencies to use amounts received under part A (Innovative Programs) of title V for programs to increase nutrition and exercise education that focuses on illness prevention and is provided in classroom or after school settings. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
Northeast Corridor Rail Tunnel Safety Act

Bill: 110-hr-3761
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Transportation
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Infrastructure
Inspectors general
Maryland
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
New York City
Planning-programming-budgeting
Railroad engineering
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroad safety
Tunnels

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
 Northeast Corridor Rail Tunnel Safety Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Transportation for Amtrak use, after the Secretary has received and approved a project engineering and financial plan, to complete New York tunnel life safety projects and to rehabilitate tunnels in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
WE CARE Act

Bill: 110-hr-3762
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Agriculture and Food
Alcoholism
Apprenticeship
Business and social problems
Career education
Child development
Child health
Child nutrition
Child welfare
Church and education
Church and social problems
Class size
Commerce
Community and school
Compensatory education
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Higher education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Mental health services
Mentoring
Nonprofit organizations
Parent-school relationships
Performance measurement
Religion
School discipline
School districts
School security
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Student transportation
Teacher education
Transportation and Public Works
Youth services
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Working to Encourage Community Action and Responsibility in Education Act or the WE CARE Act - Amends title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states and local educational agencies (LEAs) to assess the nonacademic factors affecting student academic performance and work with other public, private, nonprofit, and community-based entities to address those factors. 
 
Requires the annual report cards issued by states and LEAs to include additional performance data, including information on their efforts to increase community and parental involvement in students' education.
 
Establishes a new program requiring the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to LEAs for the development and implementation of community involvement policies that leverage the resources, services, and opportunities available from public, private, nonprofit, and community-based partners to address students' academic and nonacademic needs and thereby support their attainment of state academic performance standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
GRADUATES Act

Bill: 110-hr-3763
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Apprenticeship
Arts
Colleges
Commerce
Community and school
Compensatory education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Disabled
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational counseling
Educational innovations
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
English language
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Language arts
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Mentoring
Nonprofit organizations
Parent-school relationships
Performance measurement
Reading
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Special education
Standards
Student aid
Student employment
Technical education
Teenage pregnancy
Vocational and technical education
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Getting Retention and Diplomas Up Among Today's Enrolled Students Act or the GRADUATES Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to establish a Secondary School Innovation Fund program awarding competitive matching grants to partnerships, which must include at least one state or local educational agency, for the implementation of innovative strategies to improve the achievement of at-risk students in secondary schools. Permits partnerships to award subgrants to schools for the implementation of such strategies.
 
Lists activities, one or more of which grantees or subgrantees must implement, that include: (1) creating multiple pathways that offer students a range of educational options aligned with their needs and interests and preparing them for postsecondary education and the workforce; (2) creating expanded learning time opportunities, such as arts, service, higher, and work-based education; (3) improving student transitions from middle school to high school or from high school to postsecondary education and the workforce; (4) increasing the autonomy and flexibility of secondary schools; (5) improving rural education through educational technology; (6) redesigning middle schools; and (7) improving teaching and increasing academic rigor at the secondary school level.
 
Requires the Secretary to disseminate best practices in improving secondary school student achievement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
Peace Corps Volunteers Tax Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3764
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Capital gains tax
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
International Affairs
Peace Corps
Social Welfare
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Peace Corps Volunteers Tax Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer election to suspend the five-year ownership and use requirements for the tax exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence during any period in which such taxpayer (or spouse) is serving outside the United States as a Peace Corps employee or volunteer.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Director of the Peace Corps, to publish guidance on allowable tax deductions related to Peace Corps service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
Defined Contribution Plan Fee Transparency Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3765
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Contracts
Defined benefit pension plans
Employee benefit plans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Investments
Labor and Employment
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Defined Contribution Plan Fee Transparency Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose penalties on: (1) employers and multi-employer defined contribution plans for the failure of their plan administrators to provide to plan participants or beneficiaries written notices of plan fees and expenses and investment alternatives; and (2) providers of services to defined contribution plans for failure to provide certain information to plan administrators, including an estimate of total fees and expenses expected to be paid under a service contract and an itemization of the services to be provided under such contract. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/9/2007 E2077-2078)
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
Nationwide Gun Buyback Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3766
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Firearms
Firearms control

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Nationwide Gun Buyback Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to local governments to conduct gun buyback programs. Defines &quot;gun buyback program&quot; as a local law enforcement program for purchasing, or accepting donations of, firearms (as defined by the federal criminal code) from individuals or groups desiring to dispose of firearms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/9/2007 E2074)
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
To provide the Secretary with the authority to increase the number of Customs and Border Protection personnel at Fresno Yosemite International Airport.

Bill: 110-hr-3767
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Airports
Border patrols
California
Crime and Law Enforcement
Customs administration
Department of Homeland Security
Federal law enforcement officers
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Recruiting of employees
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to increase by 10 the number of U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel stationed at Fresno Yosemite International Airport in Fresno County, California.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
San Joaquin River Settlement Water Management Goal Implementation Act

Bill: 110-hr-3768
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Canals
Central Valley Reclamation Project (California)
Governmental investigations
Irrigation
Rivers
Water storage
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
San Joaquin River Settlement Water Management Goal Implementation Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, to: (1) prepare feasibility studies for the design, planning, and construction of all projects and programs that are included in the Friant Water Users Authority document titled "San Joaquin River Restoration Program: Water Management Goal-Recirculation, Recapture of Restoration Flows and Mitigation of Water Supply Reductions"; and (2) carry out any projects and programs determined to be feasible pursuant to any such completed study.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in House