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Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-73
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Consumer education
Damages
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Electronic government information
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Hospital care
Hospital personnel
Hospitals
Internet
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Medicare
Nurses
Paramedical personnel
Patients' rights
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Wage restitution
Web sites
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2007 - Amends part D (Miscellaneous) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) require each participating hospital to adopt and implement a staffing system that ensures a number of registered nurses on each shift and in each unit of the hospital to ensure appropriate staffing levels for patient care; (2) provide for the public reporting of certain staffing information, including a daily posting for each shift in the hospital of the current number of licensed and unlicensed nursing staff directly responsible for patient care; (3) prescribe recordkeeping, data collection, and evaluation requirements for participating hospitals; (4) specify civil monetary penalties for violations of such requirements; and (5) provide whistleblower protections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S85-86)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S84-85)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
High Risk Protection Act

Bill: 110-s-74
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Appropriations
Boundaries
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Grants-in-aid
Hours of labor
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Members of Congress
National monuments
Population
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Salaries
Terrorism
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Urban areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
High Risk Protection Act - Requires amounts appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the Urban Area Security Initiative Grant Program to be allocated based solely on risk (which shall include an evaluation of threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences and consideration of any previous terrorist attacks).
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security: (1) in determining which areas qualify as high-threat areas, to consider whether the area contains critical infrastructure and is located on an international border or coastline and the area's population, population density, law enforcement investigative and enforcement activity, and tourism; and (2) in allocating amounts among high-threat areas, to evaluate all threats (including threats to national monuments and icons) and critical infrastructure vulnerabilities.
 
Provides that the Program shall not be subject to the DHS peer review process. Allows funds made available under the Program to be used for overtime and other employment costs directly relating to the prevention of terrorist activities. 
 
Requires the Secretary to submit reports to each Member of Congress who represents a high-threat area regarding the proposed allocation of funds and to specified congressional committees on the determinations made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Flight 800 Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-75
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Aircraft industry
Airlines
Aviation fuels
Aviation safety
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Flammable materials
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Law
Transport aircraft

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Flight 800 Improvement Act of 2007 - Directs the Federal Aviation Administration to: (1) finalize and implement, not later than January 1, 2008, a proposed rule relating to the reduction of fuel tank flammability in transport category airplanes; and (2) study and report on ways to improve the safety and reduce the flammability of fuel tanks located on airplane wings. Authorizes the Administrator to provide matching funds to airplane operators and manufacturers for complying with such rule. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
False Travel Documents Prohibition Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-76
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Aviation safety
Counterfeiting
Fraud
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroad safety
Transportation and Public Works
Travel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
False Travel Documents Prohibition Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the production, transfer, possession, and use of false travel documents. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Anti-Gun Trafficking Penalties Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-77
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Commerce
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification of criminals
Larceny
Organized crime
Retail trade
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Anti-Gun Trafficking Penalties Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 to repeal restrictions on disclosure of the content of the Firearms Trace System database. Directs the Attorney General to provide state and local governments or law enforcement agencies with information from such database upon receipt of a written request.

Requires federal law enforcement agencies investigating a crime to provide information about firearms stolen or used in such crime to the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, and Explosives (BAFTE). 

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require state and local law enforcement agencies investigating a crime to provide information about firearms stolen or used in such crime to BAFTE. 

Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) permit the Attorney General to inspect the inventory and records of a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer to insure compliance with recordkeeping requirements at any time (currently, not more than once in 12 months); (2) increase penalties for firearms violations; and (3) include illegal firearms sales and trafficking in the definition of racketeering activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical.

Bill: 110-s-78
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Provides for the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Witness Security and Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-79
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Homicide
Law
Murder
Public prosecutors
Violence
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Witness Security and Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to establish in the U.S. Marshals Service a Short Term State Witness Protection Program to provide protection for witnesses in state and local trials involving homicide or other major violent crimes pursuant to cooperative agreements with state and local criminal prosecutor's offices and the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to eligible prosecutor's offices for the purpose of providing short term protection to witnesses in trials involving homicide or serious violent felony.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Executive Branch Family Leave Act

Bill: 110-s-80
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Adoption
Child health
Childbirth
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Family leave
Federal employees
Health
Sick leave

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Executive Branch Family Leave Act - Entitles a federal employee of the executive branch to paid leave of: (1) eight weeks for giving birth; (2) at least five days for a father for the birth of a child; (3) at least five days for adopting a child; and (4) eight hours during any 12-month period to accompany a child to medical or school appointments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2007-02-12
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
West Valley Remediation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-81
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy
Environmental assessment
Federal-state relations
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government paperwork
Hazardous wastes
Impact aid
Independent regulatory commissions
Land transfers
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Licenses
New York State
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear facilities
Payments in lieu of taxes
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public meetings
Radioactive wastes
Science, Technology, Communications
Storage
Taxation
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
 West Valley Remediation Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to remediate the Western New York Nuclear Service Center in West Valley, New York. 
 
Requires the Secretary to decontaminate and decommission: (1) Center facilities in which certain solidified high level radioactive waste was stored; (2) facilities used in waste solidification; and (3) material and hardware used in connection with the West Valley Demonstration Project.
 
Makes the Secretary responsible for all remediation costs.
 
Instructs the Secretary to: (1) transport high level radioactive waste at the Center to a federal repository for permanent disposal; (2) safeguard and ensure safe storage of such waste; and (3) dispose of low level radioactive waste and transuranic waste located at the Center, including future radioactive waste generated as a result of remediation.
 
Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to regulate the remediation of radioactive waste and nuclear materials at the Center.
 
Requires the Secretary to develop and submit a specified decommissioning plan for NRC approval.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) enter into a consultation agreement with New York State regarding remediation of the Center; (2) prepare an environmental impact statement for decommissioning or long-term stewardship of the Center; and (3) assume exclusive use and possession of the Center after execution of a Cooperative Agreement with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.
 
Requires the Secretary to take title to any land or facilities at the Center that have not been approved by the NRC for release for unrestricted use, and title to all radioactive and nonradioactive wastes and materials located at the Center.
 
Repeals the West Valley Demonstration Project Act upon assumption of exclusive use and possession of the Center by the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Intelligence Community Audit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-82
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Auditing
Classified defense information
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Covert operations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Intelligence Community Audit Act of 2007 - Reaffirms the authority of the Comptroller General to audit and evaluate financial transactions, programs, and activities of elements of the intelligence community (those elements identified in the National Security Act of 1947) and obtain access to records for such purposes.
 
Allows the Comptroller General to conduct an audit or evaluation of intelligence sources and methods or covert actions only upon a request of a congressional intelligence committee or the majority or minority leader of the Senate or the House of Representatives. Requires the Comptroller General to disclose the results of any such audit or evaluation only to the original requestor, the Director of National Intelligence, and the head of the relevant element of the intelligence community. 

Requires the Comptroller General to establish safeguards to protect the unauthorized disclosure of all classified and other sensitive information furnished to the Comptroller General in conducting an audit or evaluation.

Requires elements of the intelligence community to cooperate with the Comptroller General in providing documentation and information necessary for audits and evaluations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-29
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence. (text of measure as introduced: CR S91)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S86-91)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Indian Tribes Methamphetamine Reduction Grants Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-85
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety
Child welfare
Drug abuse
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Indian children
Indian law enforcement
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Pregnant women
Prisoners
Rehabilitation of criminals
Social Welfare
Territories (U.S.)
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Indian Tribes Methamphetamine Reduction Grants Act of 2007 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include territories and Indian tribes as eligible grant recipients (or reaffirm such eligibility) under the programs to: (1) address the manufacture, sale, and use of methamphetamine; (2) aid children in homes in which methamphetamine or other drugs are unlawfully manufactured, distributed, dispensed, or used; and (3) address methamphetamine use by pregnant and parenting women offenders. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S93)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Fossil Creek Wild and Scenic River Act

Bill: 110-s-86
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Electric utilities
Energy
Hydroelectric power
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Fossil Creek Wild and Scenic River Act of 2007 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified segments of Fossil Creek, a tributary to the Verde River in Arizona, as components of the national wild and scenic rivers system. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to submit a river management plan for the designated segments. 

action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Fossil Creek Wild and Scenic River Act - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified segments of Fossil Creek, a tributary to the Verde River in Arizona, as components of the national wild and scenic rivers system, to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture. 

Permits the Arizona Public Service Company, the former licensee for the Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Project (FERC project number 2069), to conduct project decommissioning and restoration activities agreed to in the surrender application and relevant docketed filings with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 

Allows federal and state agencies to conduct native fish restoration and barrier maintenance activities in accordance with the environmental assessment, decision notice, and finding of no significant impact for the document entitled &quot;Native Fish Restoration in Fossil Creek&quot; (2004). 

Authorizes the U.S. Geological Survey or any other entity that has been given written permission by the Secretary, to undertake any necessary activities, including access by any existing road, to install, operate, maintain, or otherwise manage one or more stream flow gauges in Fossil Creek in cooperation with the Forest Service for monitoring and collecting stream flow and other water resource information. 

Authorizes appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 635.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-283.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-283.
action_date: 2008-01-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-282.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S93-94)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to permit the cancellation of certain loans under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

Bill: 110-s-87
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Local finance
Local taxation
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Community Disaster Loan Act of 2005 to permit the cancellation of certain loans under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. (Makes this Act effective as if enacted as part of the Community Disaster Loan Act of 2005.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to increase the penalty for failure to comply with lobbying disclosure requirements.

Bill: 110-s-88
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial disclosure
Fines (Penalties)
Government paperwork
Law
Licenses
Lobbying

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA) to increase from $50,000 to $200,00 the civil fine for noncompliance with LDA disclosure requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit authorized committees and leadership PACs from employing the spouse or immediate family members of any candidate or Federal office holder connected to the committee.

Bill: 110-s-89
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional elections
Election candidates
Families
Married people
Political action committees
Political ethics
Politicians' families

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit any authorized committee of a candidate or any other political committee established, maintained, or controlled by a candidate or person who holds a federal office from employing the spouse or any immediate family member of such candidate or federal office holder.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to modify the application of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to Indian tribes.

Bill: 110-s-90
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Commerce
Corporations
Minorities
Native Americans
Stockholders

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to treat members of an unincorporated Indian tribe in the same manner as the stockholders of a corporation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate