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Student Breakfast and Education Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2143
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Agriculture and Food
Child nutrition
Colleges
Community and school
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational research
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Farm produce
Farmers
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Research centers
School districts
School lunch program
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Student Breakfast and Education Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states or local educational agencies (LEAs) for the establishment or enhancement of school breakfast programs at, and through the provision of subgrants to, schools where at least 65% of the students are eligible for free or reduced-price school lunches under the school lunch program.
 
Authorizes schools to use the school breakfast subgrants to: (1) increase the quantity of local or fresh food available under their programs; (2) provide nutrition education and first-hand knowledge of food systems to students; (3) extend the period during which breakfast is available, including during the school day; (4) increase participation in their breakfast programs, including through the provision of universal free breakfasts; or (5) collaborate with institutions of higher education or other research entities in compiling data and reports on their breakfast programs.
 
Gives priority to subgrant applicant schools at least 75% of whose students are eligible for free or reduced-price school lunches and which intend to use the funds to procure local produce, provide universal free breakfasts, or provide breakfast during the school day.
 
Directs state and LEA grantees, at least 180 days before the end of a grant term, to evaluate whether it would be cost-effective for subgrantee schools to provide universal free breakfasts under the school breakfast program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Study Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2144
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection
Governmental investigations
Petroleum
Pipelines
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Study Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Energy to study, and report the results to Congress on, the feasibility of the construction and operation of: (1) pipelines for the transportation of carbon dioxide for sequestration or enhanced oil recovery; and (2) carbon dioxide sequestration facilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-31
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-343.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12778)
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
American Indian Veteran Health Care Improvement Act

Bill: 110-s-2145
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Health
Minorities
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
American Indian Veteran Health Care Improvement Act - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS Secretary) to: (1) provide for veteran-related expenses incurred by eligible Indian veterans for medical services administered at an Indian Health Service facility pursuant to a local memorandum of understanding between the HHS Secretary and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA Secretary); and (2) establish guidelines regarding the method of payments to the VA Secretary for such expenses.

Requires the HHS Secretary, in negotiating such a local memorandum of understanding with the VA Secretary, to consult with each Indian tribe that would be affected.

Provides that expenses incurred by the HHS Secretary while providing for eligible Indian veterans' expenses shall not be considered Contract Health Service expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12779)
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Security Contractor Accountability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2147
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal investigation
Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal law enforcement officers
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Inspectors general
International Affairs
Iraq compilation
Jurisdiction
Military operations
Private police
Prosecution
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Security Contractor Accountability Act of 2007 - Provides that persons who, while employed under a federal agency contract in or in close proximity to an area where the Armed Forces are conducting a contingency operation, engage in conduct that would constitute an offense punishable by imprisonment for more than one year if engaged in within U.S. jurisdiction shall be punished as provided for that offense.

Requires the Inspector General of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to report to Congress on the status of the Department's investigations of violations alleged to have been committed by contract personnel and findings and recommendations about the Department's capacity and effectiveness in prosecuting misconduct by contract personnel.

Requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to ensure, through the creation of Theater Investigative Units, that there are adequate personnel to investigate allegations of criminal violations by contract personnel. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12991)
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Coal Fuels and Industrial Gasification Demonstration and Development Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2149
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Aviation fuels
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Chemical industries
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Depreciation and amortization
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Energy facilities
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Environmental technology
Fuel
Gasoline
Government lending
Governmental investigations
Income tax
Partnerships
Petroleum reserves
Pipelines
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Coal Fuels and Industrial Gasification Demonstration and Development Act of 2007 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to instruct the Secretary of Energy to implement a grants program for obtaining or implementing services for the planning and permitting of certain eligible projects that produce liquid transportation fuels, industrial chemicals, or electricity.
 
Requires the Secretary to make direct loans to eligible individuals and entities to implement such projects.
 
Directs the Secretary to select eligible projects to receive loans through a reverse auction, giving priority to eligible projects with the greatest percentage reduction of lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions in comparison to facilities that use conventional feedstocks and do not use carbon capture and sequestration technologies.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) establish a methodology for determining the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of coal-derived liquid transportation fuels; (2) implement a research and demonstration program to evaluate the emissions of the use of coal-to-liquid fuel for transportation, including gasoline, diesel, marine, and jet fuel; and (3) evaluate the effect of using coal-to-liquid transportation fuel on vehicle emissions, including motor vehicles, nonroad vehicles, and aircraft.
 
Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Defense to study and report to specified congressional committees on the feasibility and suitability of maintaining coal-to-liquid products in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide: (1) a business credit for sequestration of carbon dioxide captured within the United States; (2) a seven-year applicable recovery period for depreciation of qualified carbon dioxide pipeline property; (3) treatment of certain income and gains relating to industrial source carbon dioxide as qualifying income for publicly traded partnerships; and (4) extend and modify the alternative fuel credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4320 Blue Parkway in Kansas City, Missouri, as the "Wallace S. Hartsfield Post Office Building".

Bill: 110-s-2150
Sponsor: Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Missouri
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4320 Blue Parkway in Kansas City, Missouri, as the "Wallace S. Hartsfield Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-04
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S14748)
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 492.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2151
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster insurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Flood control
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Maps
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Community Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to publish, through the issuance of national flood insurance rate maps, specified notes to designate areas protected by certified flood control structures against at least: (1) the 100-year flood (1% annual chance); and (2) the 500-year flood (.2% annual chance).

Provides that publication of such a note shall not be considered a requirement of participation in the national flood insurance program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Kids First Act

Bill: 110-s-2152
Sponsor: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the Senate
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: 2007-10-04
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: 2007-10-15
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2007-10-05
text: Read the second time. Ordered Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 412.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR 10/15/2007 S12866-12870)
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Mortgage Disclosure Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2153
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Damages
Housing and Community Development
Law
Mortgage interest rates
Mortgages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Mortgage Disclosure Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require a creditor to disclose to a consumer with respect to an extension of credit secured by the consumer's dwelling that the consumer is not required to complete the credit agreement merely because the consumer has received required disclosures or signed a loan application.
 
Requires such disclosure to be furnished to the borrower not later than seven business days before the consummation of the transaction, as well as at the time of consummation.
 
Requires additional disclosures in such a circumstance regarding any variable rates or payment schedules.
 
Increases the actual damages for which a creditor is liable for noncompliance with such Act in the case of an individual action relating to a credit transaction not under an open end credit plan that is secured by real property or a dwelling. Replaces the current range of damages from $200 to $2,000 with a flat damages amount of $5,000, adjusted annually for inflation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12781)
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12780-12781)
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Local Officials Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2154
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2007-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment taxes
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Income tax exclusion
Social security and elderly assistance
State and local government operations
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: 
Local Officials Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and Title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to exempt from social security taxes remuneration paid to any elected or appointed member of any general governing board, commission, or committee of any political subdivision of a state if such remuneration is not more than $1,300 and is paid for service performed on or after January 1, 2008. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit Medicare beneficiaries to continue to rent certain items of complex durable medical equipment.

Bill: 110-s-2158
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2007-10-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Lease and rental services
Medical supplies
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit Medicare beneficiaries to continue to rent certain items of complex durable medical equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2161
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-10-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Antitrust law
Contracts
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Labor and Employment
Law
Managed care
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: 
Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007 - Entitles independent pharmacies negotiating contract terms with a health plan for the provision of health care items or services to the same treatment under the antitrust laws as the treatment to which bargaining units recognized under the National Labor Relations Act are entitled. Treats such a pharmacy as an employee engaged in concerted activities in connection with such negotiations. 

Exempts actions taken in good faith reliance on this Act from being subject to criminal sanctions or civil penalties beyond actual damages incurred. 
 
Prohibits: (1) exempting from the antitrust laws any agreement or otherwise unlawful conspiracy that excludes, limits the participation or reimbursement of, or otherwise limits the scope of services to be provided by any independent pharmacy or group of independent pharmacies with respect to the performance of services that are within their scope of practice as defined or permitted by relevant law or regulation; and (2) applying this Act to negotiations between independent pharmacies and health plans pertaining to federal health benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Relief for Private Forest Landowners Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2163
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2007-10-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Farm income
Income tax
Private forests
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax administration
Timber sales

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: 
Tax Relief for Private Forest Landowners Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow income averaging for individuals who sell or exchange timber, on the same basis as is currently allowed for individuals engaged in a farming or fishing business.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in Senate
NOAA Scholarship Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2164
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-10-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Atmosphere
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Meteorological satellites
Meteorology
Oceanography
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Scientific education
Weather forecasting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: 
NOAA Scholarship Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish a Science and Technology Scholarship Program to award scholarships to students at institutions of higher education to recruit and prepare them for careers in the National Weather Service and in NOAA marine research, atmospheric research, and satellite programs. Sets forth provisions governing such Program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12873-12874)
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12872-12873)
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in Senate