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A bill to provide for the sale of approximately 25 acres of public land to the Turnabout Ranch, Escalante, Utah, at fair market value.

Bill: 110-s-832
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Land transfers
Land use
National monuments
Real estate appraisal
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
 Directs the Secretary of the Interior, if Turnabout Ranch of Escalante, Utah, submits an offer to the Secretary to acquire specified federal land for the appraised value, to convey to the Ranch all right, title, and interest to such land. 
 
Requires Turnabout Ranch to pay: (1) to the Secretary an amount equal to the appraised value of the federal land; and (2) any costs of the conveyance of such land. 
 
Modifies the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah to exclude the federal land conveyed to Turnabout Ranch when the conveyance is completed.

action_date: 2008-06-16
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, if Turnabout Ranch of Escalante, Utah, submits an offer to the Secretary to acquire specified federal land for the appraised value, to convey to the Ranch all right, title, and interest to such land. 

Requires the Secretary to complete an appraisal of the federal land, as specified in this Act. 

Requires Turnabout Ranch to pay: (1) to the Secretary an amount equal to the appraised value of the federal land; and (2) any costs of the conveyance.

Requires the Secretary to deposit the proceeds from the conveyance of the federal land in the Federal Land Deposit Account established by the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, to be spent in accordance with such Act. 

Modifies the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah to exclude the federal land conveyed to Turnabout Ranch when the conveyance is completed. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 786.
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with amendments. With written report No. 110-354.
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with amendments. With written report No. 110-354.
action_date: 2008-05-07
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2008-02-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-364.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2970)
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Promoting Transparency in Financial Reporting Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-834
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Associations, institutions, etc.
Auditing
Business records
Commerce
Congress
Congressional committees (House)
Congressional committees (Senate)
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional witnesses
Corporate finance
Federal officials
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
House Financial Services
Independent regulatory commissions
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Interactive media
Investors
Law
Nonprofit organizations
Science, Technology, Communications
Securities and Exchange Commission
Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Social Welfare
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Promoting Transparency in Financial Reporting Act of 2007 - Requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to provide oral testimony by their respective chairpersons (or a designee), beginning in 2007, and annually for five years, to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives on their efforts to reduce the complexity in financial reporting, so that investors are provided with more accurate and clear financial information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2973-2974)
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2973)
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to redesignate the Federal building located at 167 North Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee, as the "Clifford Davis and Odell Horton Federal Building".

Bill: 110-s-835
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Federal office buildings
Judges
Names
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Designates the federal building located at 167 North Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee, as the &quot;Clifford Davis and Odell Horton Federal Building.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2974)
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Water Quality Investment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-836
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Authorization
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Revolving funds
Sewage treatment
Sewerage

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Water Quality Investment Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require projects receiving sewer overflow control grant assistance to be carried out subject to the requirements applicable to projects receiving assistance from state water pollution control revolving funds, except to the extent that the governor of the state in which the project is located determines that a revolving fund requirement is inconsistent with the purposes of the sewer overflow control grant program. 

Reauthorizes appropriations for sewer overflow control grants through FY2012.

Modifies grant funding allocation provisions to reflect new dates of authorization and reauthorized amounts. 

Establishes a December 31, 2010, deadline for the report to Congress of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on recommended funding levels for sewer overflow control grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
I LEAD Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-837
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Community and school
Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational research
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Mentoring
Parent-school relationships
Recruiting and enlistment
Rural education
School administration
School districts
School personnel
School security
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Urban affairs
Urban education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Improving the Leadership and Effectiveness of Administrators for Districts Act of 2007 or the I LEAD Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to direct the Secretary of Education to establish a national competitive grant program awarding grants to partnerships, each composed of a state and a consortium of high-need local educational agencies (LEAs), to: (1) contract with experienced external agencies for research-based evaluations of the effectiveness of state school leader certification or licensure requirements in recruiting, training, and retaining effective school leaders who improve student achievement at schools receiving improvement funds under part A of title I of the Act; (2) use such evaluations, if the certification or licensure requirements are shown to be ineffective, to develop plans to improve such requirements and the training, incentives, and support offered current and prospective school leaders; and (3) if they were required to develop a plan, create model school leadership zones by implementing such plans in an urban and a rural high-need LEA participating in their partnerships.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) contract with an experienced external agency to evaluate the effectiveness of school leadership zones in recruiting, training, and retraining school leaders and improving student achievement; and (2) award an additional grant to partnership grantees that successfully create model school leadership zones so that they can revise school leader certification or licensure requirements in order to replicate the practices of such zones in other LEAs within their states.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2974-2975)
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Access to Housing Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-839
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2007-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Bonds
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Income tax
Low-income housing
Military housing
Military pay
Rental housing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: 
Military Access to Housing Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude military basic housing allowances from income for purposes of establishing eligibility for housing in qualified residential rental projects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-840
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Authorization
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Continuing education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Democracy
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee training
Executive Office of the President
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Human rights
Immigrants
Immigration
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal services
Medical education
Medical research
Mental health services
Refugees
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Torture
United Nations
United Nations finances
Victims of crimes
War relief

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: 
Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize appropriations for FY2008-FY2009 to: (1) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide grants to programs in the United States to cover the costs of services provided by domestic treatment centers in the rehabilitation of victims of torture (including treatment of the physical and psychological effects of torture), social and legal services, and research and training of health care providers outside of treatment centers or programs to enable them to provide such services; (2) the President for grants to treatment centers and programs in foreign countries that carry out projects and activities specifically designed to treat victims of torture for the physical and psychological effects of torture; and (3) the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Alfredo Plascencia Lopez and Maria Del Refugio Plascencia.

Bill: 110-s-841
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Provides for the relief of Alfredo Plascencia Lopez and Maria Del Refugio Plascencia.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3003)
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3002-3003)
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize to be appropriated $9,200,000 for fiscal year 2008 to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico.

Bill: 110-s-842
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2007-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Air force
Authorization
Defense budgets
Economics and Public Finance
Flight training
Land transfers
Military aircraft
Military bases
Military construction operations
New Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico.
 
Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 for such purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3004)
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3003-3004)
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act

Bill: 110-s-843
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Algae
Animals
Bioaccumulation
Birds
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental monitoring
Federal advisory bodies
Fisheries
Fishes
Government Operations and Politics
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mercury
Reptiles
Soil pollution

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: 
Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a national-scale mercury monitoring program. Requires such program to monitor: (1) long-term changes in mercury levels in the air and watersheds; (2) mercury levels in water and soil chemistry; and (3) mercury levels in plants and animals. 

Establishes the Mercury Monitoring Advisory Committee to advise the Administrator on the establishment and operation of the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 2007

Bill: 110-s-846
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cemeteries and funerals
Collection of accounts
Debtor and creditor
Department of Labor
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Evidence (Law)
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Guardian and ward
Health
Hearing disorders
Insurance premiums
Law
Liability (Law)
Limitation of actions
Longshoremen
Medical records
Medical tests
Physicians
Survivors' benefits
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: 
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 2007 - Amends the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to declare that it is the intent of Congress that: (1) in a claim brought under such Act, the facts are not to be given a broad liberal construction in favor of the employee or of the employer; (2) the laws pertaining to the claim are to be construed in accordance with the basic principles of statutory construction and not liberally in favor of either the employee or employer; and (3) the system established under the Act shall be efficient and self-executing, but not an economic or administrative burden.
 
Makes compensation under the Act payable regardless of fault as a cause of an injury (no-fault). 
 
Specifies requirements for proportional payment of compensation, the last employer doctrine, intervening employment, and noncontributing employment exposure.
 
Prescribes criteria for the preemption of state law providing additional or alternative remedies for an injured employee, the employee's legal representative, spouse, next of kin, or anyone otherwise entitled to recover from an employer on account of an employee's injury or death.
 
Revises requirements for physician selection. Allows a carrier to designate one or more participating networks or one or more health care panels, or both, to provide medical services to employees.
 
Modifies the formula used to determine disability compensation, including for loss of hearing.
 
Increases allowed funeral expenses.
 Revises requirements for: (1) determination of death compensation to survivors; (2) timing and recipients of a notice of such injury or death; (3) filing of claims; (4) date of payment of compensation; (5) assignment and exemption from the claims of creditors; (6) presumptions, burdens, and rules of evidence; (7) review of compensation orders; (8) modification of compensation awards for fraud or overpayment; (9) reports of fraud; and (10) payments into the special fund in the absence of an entitled survivor of an employee.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3010-3011)
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the period of time during which a veteran's multiple sclerosis is to be considered to have been incurred in, or aggravated by, military service during a period of war.

Bill: 110-s-847
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Health
Multiple sclerosis
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Eliminates the period following separation from service within which a veteran's multiple sclerosis must have developed to a degree of disability of 10% or more to be considered to have been incurred in or aggravated by such service during a period of war.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Prisoner of War Benefits Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-848
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Veterans Affairs
Diabetes
Disabled
Evidence (Law)
Ex-prisoners of war
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labor and Employment
Law
Medical research
Osteoporosis
Science, Technology, Communications
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Prisoner of War Benefits Act of 2007 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions with respect to former prisoners of war (POW) to repeal the currently required 30-day minimum period of internment prior to the presumption of service connection for certain listed diseases, for purposes of the payment of veterans' disability compensation. Adds the following diseases to the above listed diseases: diabetes (type 2) and osteoporosis. Requires: (1) such presumption also with respect to any disease that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs determines warrants such presumption by reason of having a positive association with the experience of being a prisoner of war; and (2) the Secretary to make such a determination within 60 days after a recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War that such presumption be established for a non-listed disease.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Scott Gardner Act

Bill: 110-s-850
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Aliens
Arrest
Building construction
Compensation (Law)
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Detention of persons
Drug abuse
Drug testing
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Illegal aliens
Imprisonment
Informers
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Local employees
Local officials
Police
Police communication systems
Police training
Prisons
Science, Technology, Communications
State employees
State laws
State officials
Transportation and Public Works
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Scott Gardner Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to share immigration information with the Attorney General. Requires a joint report from such officials to Congress on improving the performance of federal immigration databases to ensure the prompt entry of immigration information.
 
Requires: (1) the director of each state and local law enforcement agency receiving federal incarceration funds under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to collect and report to the Secretary all immigration and DWI (driving while intoxicated) information collected in the course of normal duties; (2) such information to appear in the wanted person file of the National Criminal Information Center (NCIC) database; and (3) state or local detention of an arrested flagged alien pending federal transfer.
 
Amends INA to: (1) require the Secretary to reimburse the costs of training state and local law enforcement employees on federal immigration laws; and (2) authorize the apprehension and detention of an alien for DWI or a similar violation, as long as the alien is deportable on any other grounds or is an illegal alien. 
 
Requires each state motor vehicle administrator to share with the Secretary all information concerning aliens with records of DWI convictions or refusals to take sobriety tests.
 
Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a formula for the allocation of federal detention facilities for aliens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate