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Universal Prekindergarten Act

Bill: 110-hr-4060
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Accreditation (Education)
Child development
Class size
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Day care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Parent-school relationships
Preschool education
Salaries
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Special education
Student aid
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 
Universal Prekindergarten Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide grants to a designated state agency for development of universal prekindergaten programs for all children three, four, and five years old in the state. 
 
Requires the state to: (1) match federal funds by at least 20%; and (2) submit with its grant application a plan to establish, coordinate, and implement a statewide universal prekindergarten program. 
Authorizes state agencies to set aside up to 5% of a grant for ongoing professional development activities for teachers and staff of prekindergarten programs that wish to participate.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
To allow employees of a commercial passenger airline carrier who receive payments in a bankruptcy proceeding to roll over such payments into an individual retirement plan, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-4061
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Airline employees
Airlines
Bankruptcy
Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 
Allows employees of commercial passenger airlines who receive payments from a bankruptcy case filed between September 11, 2001, and January 1, 2007, as compensation for lost pension plan benefits to rollover such payments into an individual retirement account (IRA), except for a Roth IRA, without tax or tax penalty. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2341)
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
Federal Accountability for Nuclear Waste Storage Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4062
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear power plants
Radioactive wastes

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 
 Federal Accountability for Nuclear Waste Storage Act of 2007 - Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to require commercial nuclear power plant operators to transfer, within six years after enactment of this Act, spent nuclear fuel from spent nuclear fuel pools into spent nuclear fuel dry casks at an independent spent fuel storage facility generally licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and located at the power reactor site.

Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) make grants to compensate a contractor for expenses incurred in carrying out such transfer; and (2) accept conveyance of title to a spent nuclear fuel dry cask (including its contents) from the contractor following certification of compliance by the NRC.
 
States that conveyance of title confers upon the Secretary full responsibility for the possession, stewardship, maintenance, monitoring, and ultimate disposition of all transferred spent nuclear fuel. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with the holder of an NRC operating license for power reactors located on or adjacent to the spent nuclear fuel dry cask for the performance of such tasks. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
Restitution for the Exonerated Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4063
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Compensation (Law)
Compensatory education
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Family services
Grants-in-aid
Health
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Imprisonment
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal aid
Mental health services
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 
Restitution for the Exonerated Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants, including emergency grants, to nonprofit organizations for programs to provide support services (e.g., employment training, health care services, and legal assistance) to exonerees. Defines &quot;exoneree&quot; as an individual who has been convicted of a crime carrying a prison sentence of one year or more, has served at least six months of such prison sentence, and has been determined to be factually innocent of the crime. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit the Secretary of State to waive certain requirements with respect to special immigrants described in section 101(a)(27)(D) of such Act who have performed service for the United States abroad under extraordinary conditions.

Bill: 110-hr-4064
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Aliens
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Labor and Employment
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit the Secretary of State to reduce the period of an alien's required service performed for the U.S. government or the American Institute in Taiwan in order for such alien to qualify for special immigrant status in instances of service performed under extraordinary conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
Close the Enron Loophole Act

Bill: 110-hr-4066
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Commodity exchanges
Electric power
Energy
Energy prices
Fraud
Futures trading
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Heating
Independent regulatory commissions
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Law
Methane
Natural gas
Petroleum
Propane

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 
Close the Enron Loophole Act - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to provide that it applies to an agreement, contract, or transaction in an exempt commodity that is executed or traded on an electronic trading facility that is an energy trading center.

Prohibits any person from entering into an agreement, contract, or transaction for future delivery of an energy commodity that is not a spot sale of cash commodity or a sale of a cash commodity for deferred shipment or delivery on or through an energy trading facility that is not registered as such with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Sets forth registration criteria.

Requires CFTC to ensure that the position limits and accountability levels applicable to contracts in an energy commodity listed for trading on a designated contract market and similar contracts in the same energy commodity listed for trading on an energy trading facility: (1) prevent price manipulation, excessive speculation, price distortion, and disruption of the delivery or cash-settlement process; and (2) are on a parity with each other and are applied in a functionally equivalent manner.

Requires CFTC to take necessary action to direct an energy trading facility or a designated contract market to require a person who has exceeded an applicable position limit or accountability level in an energy commodity to limit, reduce, or liquidate any position to prevent or reduce the threat of price manipulation, excessive speculation, price distortion, or disruption of the delivery or cash-settlement process.
 
Sets forth provisions concerning the provision of information and records about energy trading contracts to CFTC.
 
Revises provisions concerning the prohibition on energy contracts designed to defraud or mislead, including by prohibiting any person from cheating or defrauding another person in connection with any contract of sale of any commodity in interstate commerce or for future delivery that is made subject to the rules of a designated contract market for or on behalf of any such person (currently the provisions prohibit members of registered entities, correspondent agents, or employees of members from such actions.)

Requires CFTC to issue a rule regarding the requirements for an application for registration for an energy trading facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
Bridges from Jobs to Careers Act

Bill: 110-hr-4067
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adult education
Compensatory education
Curricula
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational counseling
Educational innovations
Elementary and secondary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Reading
School administration
Science, Technology, Communications
Teacher education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 
Bridges from Jobs to Careers Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) to improve remedial education, customize remediation to student career goals, and help remedial students progress into and through for-credit occupational programs.
 
Gives grant priority to IHEs: (1) in which at least 50% of the first-year students are enrolled in remedial courses designed to give them collegiate reading, writing, or mathematics skills; and (2) that propose to collaborate with adult education providers and replicate practices that have proven effective with adults.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Richelle Starnes.

Bill: 110-hr-4068
Sponsor: Rep. Feeney, Tom [R-FL-24]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Provides for the relief of Richelle Starnes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Rrustem Neza.

Bill: 110-hr-4069
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Provides for the relief of Rrustem Neza.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Rrustem Neza.

Bill: 110-hr-4070
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Provides for the relief of Rrustem Neza.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veterans Right to Commissaries and Space Available Travel Act

Bill: 110-hr-4071
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2007-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Families
Military dependents
Military transportation
Post exchanges
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: 
Disabled Veterans Right to Commissaries and Space Available Travel Act - Requires veterans with disabilities rated at 30% or more to be permitted to use commissary and exchange stores on the same basis as members of the Armed Forces eligible for retired or retainer pay. Extends such benefit to dependents on the same basis.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide transportation on Department of Defense aircraft on a space-available basis for any veteran with a service-connected disability rated at 50% or more on the same basis as members entitled to retired or retainer pay. Extends such benefit to dependents on the same basis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2320)
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-4072
Sponsor: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2007-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Education
Electric appliances
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Hazardous wastes
Income tax
Liability for environmental damages
Secondary education
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Teachers
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2009: (1) the taxpayer election to expense certain environmental remediation costs; (2) the energy efficient appliance tax credit; and (3) the tax deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers. Increases the maximum allowable amount of such deduction to $500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Non-Citizen Identification Act

Bill: 110-hr-4073
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2007-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative fees
Crime and Law Enforcement
Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Security measures
Social security beneficiaries
Social security eligibility
Social security numbers
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: 
Non-Citizen Identification Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require the issuance of Social Security cards with specified enhanced security features. 
 
Allows the Commissioner of Social Security to charge a reasonable fee to the recipient as a condition for issuance of such a card. 
 
Provides that, in the computation of an individual's average indexed monthly earnings, or in certain circumstances an individual's average monthly wage, the individual shall not be credited with any wages paid, or any self-employment income derived, while such individual was not a U.S. citizen or national and was illegally in the United States.
 
Requires issuance of special Social Security cards to adult illegal aliens. Prescribes criminal penalties for illegal aliens who do not possess such a Social Security card.
 
Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to plan and implement a campaign to educate the people of the United States about the new Social Security cards provided for in this Act, and the requirement that illegal alien adults have such a card.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Accessing College through Comprehensive Early Outreach and State Partnerships Act

Bill: 110-hr-4075
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2007-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Charities
Colleges
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Mentoring
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student aid

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: 
Accessing College through Comprehensive Early Outreach and State Partnerships Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to replace the current special leveraging educational assistance partnership program with a program of allotments to enable states to: (1) expand and enhance partnerships with institutions of higher education, early information and intervention, mentoring, or outreach programs, private corporations, philanthropic organizations, and other interested parties to carry out specified activities and provide coordination and cohesion among federal, state, and local governmental and private efforts providing financial assistance to help low-income students attend college; (2) provide need-based grants for college access and increased college persistence to eligible low-income students; (3) provide early notification to low-income students of their eligibility for financial aid; and (4) encourage increased participation in early information and intervention, mentoring, or outreach programs.
 
Requires partnerships for the award of grants between a state agency and: (1) at least one public and one private degree granting institution of higher education located in the state; (2) new or existing early information and intervention, mentoring, or outreach programs also located in the state; and (3) at least one philanthropic organization located in, or providing funding in, the state, or one private corporation located in, or doing business in, the state. 
 
Requires different federal shares of program costs and different amounts of grants awarded in partnerships with institutions of higher learning: (1) serving less than a majority of students in the state; and (2) serving the majority of students in the state.
 
Requires annual early notification of low-income students of their potential eligibility for student financial assistance. Prescribes minimum eligibility requirements for such students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Counterfeit Drug Enforcement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4076
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2007-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Business records
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Deceptive advertising
Defective products
Department of Health and Human Services
Directories
Drug adulteration
Drug industry
Drugs
Fines (Penalties)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health education
Identification devices
Informers
Intellectual property
Labeling
Law
Medical personnel
Packaging
Product counterfeiting
Science, Technology, Communications
Subpoena
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: 
Tim Fagan's Law or the Counterfeit Drug Enforcement Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish a criminal fine and/or imprisonment for a person who: (1) knowingly causes a prescription drug to be adulterated, misbranded, or misrepresented as an approved prescription drug and sells or trades the drug; or (2) purchases or trades for such drug knowing or having reason to know that the drug was knowingly adulterated, misbranded, or misrepresented. Requires a manufacturer of a drug to notify the Secretary of Health and Human Services within 48 hours after first receiving or becoming aware of information that reasonably suggests that such a violation may have occurred. 
 
Deems a drug to be misbranded if it is not manufactured in accordance with the use of technologies that the Secretary determines are technically feasible and will assist in preventing such violations.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish alternative requirements to the extent that such requirements provide greater certainty on the chain of custody and are technically feasible.
 
Increases funding for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspections, examinations, and investigations.
 
Requires the Secretary to educate the public and health care professionals on counterfeit drugs.
 
Directs the Secretary: (1) upon a finding of reasonable probability that a drug intended for human use would cause serious health consequences or death, to issue an order requiring the appropriate person (including the manufacturers, importers, distributors, or retailers of the drug) to cease distribution of the drug and to notify and instruct health professionals to cease administering or prescribing the drug; and (2) amend the order to include a recall if necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House