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Comprehensive Health Care Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3343
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coinsurance
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Flexible benefit plans
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Medical savings accounts
Medigap
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: 
Comprehensive Health Care Reform Act of 2007- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) revise the tax credit for the health insurance costs of a taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents to increase the amount of, and expand eligibility criteria for, such credit; (2) permit up to $500 of unused health benefits under a health flexible spending arrangement to be carried over to a succeeding plan year or paid directly to an employee as compensation; (3) revise the tax deduction for payments to a health savings account to eliminate the requirement for coverage under a high deductible health plan; and (4) repeal the 7.5% threshold limitation on the tax deduction of medical and dental expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1726)
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Treat Physicians Fairly Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3344
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Health
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Income tax
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medically uninsured
Tax credits
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: 
Treat Physicians Fairly Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow medical care providers a tax credit and hospitals a tax deduction for all uncompensated emergency medical care which is not paid within six months after such care is provided.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1727)
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Substitute Teaching Improvement Act

Bill: 110-hr-3345
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2007-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Colleges
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Nonprofit organizations
Performance measurement
Rating of teachers
School administration
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teaching

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: 
Substitute Teaching Improvement Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive demonstration grants to high-need local educational agencies (LEAs) or partnerships between such LEAs and institutions of higher education or nonprofit education organizations for the establishment of comprehensive training programs to increase the effectiveness of substitute teaching.
 
Requires LEAs to use such grants to: (1) train substitute teachers; (2) train principals and permanent teachers in effectively integrating substitute teachers into school operations; (3) develop a resource kit for substitute teachers; and (4) collect data on substitute teachers and practices for managing substitute teachers in participating districts.
 
Directs the Secretary to commission an independent evaluation of the prevalence of substitute teaching and current state and local efforts to improve its effectiveness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Student Credit Card Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3347
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2007-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Credit cards
Education
Federal Reserve System
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Law
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: 
Student Credit Card Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to limit by a specified formula the total credit which may be extended by a creditor during any full calendar year to a full time, traditional-aged college student under a college student credit card account, unless a parent, legal guardian, or spouse of the student assumes joint liability for debts incurred.
 
Prohibits increasing the credit limit on an account for which a parent, guardian, or spouse has assumed joint liability without that person's written approval.
 
States that a creditor must require adequate proof of income, income history, and credit history, before any such college student credit card account may be opened.
 
Prohibits a creditor from opening a credit card account for, or issue any credit card to, any college student who: (1) has no verifiable annual gross income; and (2) already maintains a credit card account under an open end consumer credit plan with the same creditor or any affiliate.
 
 Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to promulgate implementing regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1727)
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
United Nations Economic and Social Council Accountability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3348
Sponsor: Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2007-08-02 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Consultants
Economics and Public Finance
International agencies
Terrorism
United Nations
United Nations finances

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: 
United Nations Economic and Social Council Accountability Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of State to withhold from the U.S. contribution to the regularly assessed biennial budget of the United Nations an amount equal to the percentage of such contribution that would be allocated to support the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) until the Secretary certifies to Congress that the United Nations and ECOSOC have withdrawn consultative status for all terrorist-affiliated organizations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Alaska Native Self-Governance in Housing Demonstration Program Act

Bill: 110-hr-3349
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Alaska
Community development
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to housing
Housing subsidies
Indian housing
Indigenous peoples
Infrastructure
Minorities
Native Americans
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: 
Alaska Native Self-Governance in Housing Demonstration Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish and implement an Alaska Native Housing Assistance Demonstration Program according to the provisions of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1711)
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act

Bill: 110-hr-3350
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alaska
Armed Forces and National Security
Department of the Interior
Estates (Law)
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Indian claims
Indian lands
Indigenous peoples
Land transfers
Law
Minorities
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Vietnam veterans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: 
Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) with respect to the open season during which certain Alaska Native Vietnam veterans are eligible to file for allotments of up to two parcels of federal land totaling up to 160 acres. 
 
Revises the requirement that allotments may be selected only from lands that were vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved on the date when the person eligible for the allotment first used and occupied them. Allows allotments to be selected from vacant federal lands or lands that have been selected or conveyed to the state of Alaska or a Native Corporation, if the state or Corporation voluntarily relinquishes or conveys to the United States for allotment.
 
Limits the prohibition against the conveyance of certain allotments to: (1) lands within the right-of-way granted for the TransAlaska Pipeline; or (2) the inner or outer corridor of that right-of-way withdrawal. Repeals the prohibition against conveying allotments containing wilderness lands, National Forest Lands, lands within a recorded mining claim, home sites, trade and manufacturing sites, reindeer sites, and cemetery sites, among others.
 
Limits the eligibility for allotments to veterans who served between August 5, 1964, and May 7, 1975. Allows an heir to apply for and receive the allotment.
 
Allows a Native Corporation to select an equal amount of acres of appropriate Federal land within Alaska to replace lands voluntarily relinquished or conveyed to the United States for allotment.
 
Permits any person who made an allotment selection under ANCSA before the enactment of this Act to withdraw it and reselect lands if those originally selected were not conveyed to that person before the enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1710)
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
Native American Challenge Demonstration Project Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3351
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Housing and Community Development
Indian economic development
Minorities
Planning

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: 
Native American Challenge Demonstration Project Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish and implement the Native American Challenge Demonstration Project through which federal economic development assistance may be provided for certain Native American communities. Authorizes the Secretary to provide such assistance to eligible entities that enter into Native American Challenge Compacts with the United States pursuant to this Act. 
 
Requires that Compacts establish a multi-year plan for achieving development objectives in furthering the purposes of this Act, including to adapt the lessons of foreign aid to underdeveloped economies to the provision of federal economic development assistance to similarly situated remote Native American communities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Terrence George.

Bill: 110-hr-3353
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2007-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Provides for the relief of Terrence George.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Paul Ladd and Jennifer Ladd.

Bill: 110-hr-3354
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2007-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Provides for the relief of Paul Ladd and Jennifer Ladd.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-02
text: Introduced in House
To reauthorize the National Writing Project.

Bill: 110-hr-3357
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Colleges
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Language arts
Nonprofit organizations
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teaching

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to raise monetary caps on the federal share of National Writing Project teacher training costs.
 
Reauthorizes the National Writing Project through FY2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Renewing Our Commitment to Safe and Clean Power Act

Bill: 110-hr-3358
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Nevada
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear reactors
Radioactive wastes
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Renewing Our Commitment to Safe and Clean Power Act - Requires fees collected and deposited by the Secretary of Energy into the Nuclear Waste Fund to be credited to such Fund as discretionary offsetting collections each year in amounts not to exceed the amounts appropriated from the Nuclear Waste Fund for that year.

Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 governing uses of such Fund to authorize costs incurred by the Secretary in connection with infrastructure activities to support construction or operation of a repository at the Yucca Mountain site or transportation to such site of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
 
Instructs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), when it decides whether to permit construction or operation of a nuclear reactor, to deem without further consideration that sufficient capacity will be available in a timely manner to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste resulting from the operation of the reactor and related facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3359
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Local taxation
Residence requirements
State taxation
Wages
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2007- Limits state or local taxation of the compensation of any employee who performs duties in more than one state or locality to: (1) the state or locality of the employee's residence; and (2) the state or locality in which the employee is physically present performing duties for more than 60 days. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3360
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Citizen participation
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Great Lakes
Interstate relations
Law
Licenses
State laws
Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc.
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to prohibit either the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or any Great Lakes state from issuing a permit for the discharge of a pollutant into a body of water that is part of the Great Lakes, or that is within the boundaries of two or more of such states, without the concurrence of all such states. Authorizes a state to concur only after providing notice in the vicinity of the portion of the body of water within its boundaries and an opportunity for public comment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Tax Fairness for Small Business Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3362
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporate mergers
Depreciation and amortization
Estates (Law)
Income tax
Intangible property
Law
Small business
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Tax Fairness for Small Business Act of 2007- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an accelerated five-year amortization period for goodwill and other business intangibles acquired from certain small businesses (businesses whose average three-year gross receipts do not exceed $5 million) after December 31, 2006. Limits the amount eligible for such amortization to $5 million.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3363
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer protection
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Flexible benefit plans
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Long-term care insurance
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Long-Term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) include long-term care insurance as a benefit under tax-exempt employee benefit cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements; and (2) make certain consumer protections applicable to long-term care insurance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow parents of murdered children to continue to claim the deduction for the personal exemption with respect to such child.

Bill: 110-hr-3364
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Income tax
Murder
Parent and child
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow parents of a murdered child to continue to claim a personal tax exemption for such child for five years after the death of such child or the date on which such child would have attained the age of 18, whichever is earlier. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
FAIR (Foreign Air Impact Regulation) AIR Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3365
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Air pollution control
Boundaries
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Law
Negotiations
Planning
Standards
Transboundary pollution

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
FAIR (Foreign Air Impact Regulation) AIR Act of 2007 - Amends the Clean Air Act to delay the effective date of reclassification of a nonattainment area to a higher classification of nonattainment for failing to meet national ambient air quality standards by applicable deadlines if: (1) the area is adjacent to a foreign country; and (2) the state in which the area is located submits a claim to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the area would have attained the relevant standard by the attainment date but for emissions emanating from outside the United States.

Prohibits such reclassification from taking effect unless: (1) the Secretary of State has entered into negotiations with the foreign country involved to develop an air quality improvement plan for the international area encompassing the nonattainment area and submitted that plan to Congress; and (2) taking such plan into consideration, the Administrator has taken appropriate action to improve air quality in the nonattainment area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House