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Full Faith in Veterans Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5448
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Employee training
Evidence (Law)
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Law
Medical records
Mental health services
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Standards
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: 
Full Faith in Veterans Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to accept as sufficient proof of service-connection of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) alleged to have been incurred in or aggravated by active military service a diagnosis of PTSD by a mental health professional, together with a written determination that such disorder is related to the veteran's service, if consistent with the circumstances, conditions, or hardships of such service, notwithstanding that there is no official record of such incurrence or aggravation during such service. Requires the Secretary to resolve every reasonable doubt in favor of the veteran. Allows PTSD service-connection to be rebutted by clear and convincing evidence.
 
Directs the Secretary to require Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees responsible for rating disabilities, evaluating claims for disability compensation for PTSD, or adjudicating disability compensation ratings to complete a certification program established by the Secretary.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct audits of examinations of veterans who submit claims for disability compensation for PTSD; (2) update the schedule for rating disabilities with respect to PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and other mental disorders; (3) implement new PTSD criteria; (4) implement a holistic treatment approach for veterans with PTSD; and (5) require VA employees responsible for adjudicating disability compensation ratings to take into consideration veterans' treatment records from readjustment counseling centers and written opinions of mental health professionals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2008-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Modernize Our Bookkeeping In the Law for Employee's Cell Phone Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5450
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Income tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions
Telephone
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: 
Modernize Our Bookkeeping In the Law for Employee's Cell Phone Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to remove certain limitations on the tax deduction for employee use of cellular telephones.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Coastal Zone Reauthorization Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5451
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Authorization
Coastal zone
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Estuaries
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine resources conservation
Natural areas

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: 
Coastal Zone Reauthorization Act of 2008 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations for grants under provisions relating to administration of a state's coastal zone management program, resource management improvement, coastal zone enhancement, and national estuarine reserves.
 
Authorizes the use of amounts in the Coastal Zone Management Fund for expenses incidental to the administration of the Act.
 
Increases, beginning in FY2009, the portion of amounts appropriated to carry out provisions relating to administration of a state's coastal zone management program and resource management improvement to be retained for use in implementing coastal zone enhancement grant provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-04
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2008-06-04
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-02-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2008-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Coastal State Renewable Energy Promotion Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5452
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Coastal zone
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy development
Energy facilities
Grants-in-aid
Law
Leases
Licenses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Ocean energy resources
Surveying
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: 
Coastal State Renewable Energy Promotion Act of 2008 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize grants to eligible coastal states to support voluntary state efforts to initiate and complete surveys of portions of coastal state waters and federal waters adjacent to a state's coastal zone to identify potential areas suitable or unsuitable for the exploration, development, and production of renewable (wind, wave, current, tidal, or ocean thermal) energy that are consistent with the enforceable policies of coastal management plans.
 
Requires suitable areas to be given priority consideration by federal agencies for the siting, licensing, leasing, or permitting of renewable energy facilities and requires unsuitable areas to be avoided by federal agencies to the maximum extent practicable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2008-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Coastal State Climate Change Planning Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5453
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Aquatic pests
Biological diversity
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coastal zone
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Fisheries
Floods
Grants-in-aid
Great Lakes
Habitat conservation
Hurricanes
Land subsidence
Land use
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine ecology
Marine resources conservation
Non-native species
Pest control
Planning
Sea level
Sediment control
Sedimentation
Shore protection
Storms
Tourism
Tsunamis
Water Resources Development
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: 
Coastal State Climate Change Planning Act of 2008 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to establish a coastal climate change adaptation planning and response program to provide assistance to coastal states to voluntarily develop coastal climate change adaptation plans and to provide financial and technical assistance and training to enable coastal states to implement those plans through coastal states' enforceable policies.
 
Authorizes, subject to the availability of appropriations, grants to coastal states for developing the plans and grants for implementation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2008-02-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of service connection of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for purposes of the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 110-hr-5454
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Health
Nervous system diseases
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: 
Presumes to be service-connected, and therefore compensable through veterans' disability compensation, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis developing a 10% degree of disability or more at any time, in the case of a veteran who served for 90 days or more during a period of war.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2008-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 11 of the United States Code to make nondischargeable debts for personal injuries that result in permanent disability.

Bill: 110-hr-5455
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Collection of accounts
Damages
Debt
Debtor and creditor
Disabled
Law
Torts

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: 
 Amends federal bankruptcy law to declare nondischargeable in bankruptcy any debts for a personal injury that results in a permanent disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Tembotrione.

Bill: 110-hr-5456
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Tembotrione.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on Deltamethrin.

Bill: 110-hr-5457
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Deltamethrin.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Hydrazine monohydrate.

Bill: 110-hr-5458
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Hydrazine monohydrate.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on Triadimefon.

Bill: 110-hr-5459
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Triadimefon.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 and title 18, United States Code, to include waterboarding in the definition of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment and in the definition of torture, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-5460
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Human rights
International Affairs
Prisoners of war
Prisoners' rights
Punishment
Torture

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: 
Amends the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 and the federal criminal code to include waterboarding (simulated drowning) within the definitions of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, and torture.
 
Includes individuals under the custody or physical control of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) within the protection against cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by the government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
White House Conference on Children and Youth in 2010 Act

Bill: 110-hr-5461
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption
Child abuse
Child welfare
Crime and Law Enforcement
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Social Welfare
White House conferences
Youth

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: 
White House Conference on Children and Youth in 2010 Act - Directs the President to call a White House Conference on Children and Youth in 2010 to: (1) encourage improvements in each state and local child welfare system; and (2) develop recommendations for actions to implement express policy regarding federal, state, and local programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to deny Federal funds for any State or city, county, or other political subdivision of a State that prohibits or unduly restricts the establishment or operation of a military recruiting office.

Bill: 110-hr-5462
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Recruiting and enlistment
Small business
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: 
Prohibits any federal funds from being provided to a state, city, county, or other political subdivision thereof if the Secretary of Defense determines that such state or political subdivision prohibits or unreasonably restricts, through zoning requirements more restrictive than those imposed on most small businesses in that jurisdiction, the ability of the Armed Forces to establish and operate a military recruiting office.
 
Requires the Secretary to notify the President and Congress of each such determination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H973)
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Military Pain Care Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5465
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Hospital care
Iraq compilation
Managed care
Medical screening
Mental depression
Mental health services
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Pain
Sleep disorders
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: 
Military Pain Care Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretaries of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Health and Human Services and the Surgeon General of the United States to develop and implement a pain care initiative in all military health care facilities. Requires the initiative to ensure that all active and retired military personnel and dependents receiving treatment in military health care facilities: (1) are assessed for pain at the time of admission or initial treatment, and periodically thereafter, using a professionally recognized pain assessment tool or process; and (2) receive appropriate pain care consistent with recognized means for assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of acute and chronic pain, including, as appropriate, access to specialty pain management services.
 
Requires: (1) Department of Defense (DOD) contracts for medical care for military retirees, dependents, and survivors to include the provision of appropriate care for the treatment of pain; and (2) a Comptroller General study on the adequacy of pain care in DOD health care facilities, services, and programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
Invest in KIDS Act

Bill: 110-hr-5466
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2008-02-14 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adoption
Caregivers
Child health
Child safety
Child welfare
Criminal justice information
Day care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee training
Families
Family services
Federal aid to Indians
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health planning
Identification of criminals
Indian children
Judicial officers
Labor and Employment
Law
Minorities
Native Americans
Siblings
Standards
State employees

Summary:
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: 
Investment in Kids' Instruction, Development and Support Act, or the Invest in KIDS Act - Amends part B of title IV of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for foster care and adoption assistance and for child welfare services.
 
Authorizes a state foster care and adoption assistance plan, at state option, to include a child and family services component.
 
Eliminates certain income eligibility requirements for foster care and adoption assistance. Authorizes: (1) Indian tribes to receive federal funds for such assistance; and (2) separate standards for foster family homes in which a foster parent is a relative of the foster child that protect the child's safety and provide for criminal records checks.
 
Requires application to all children in state custody of state plan standards for foster family homes and child care institutions.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administration of Children and Families, to make child welfare service quality improvement grants to states.
 
Provides for an increased payment rate to states for short-term training of certain child welfare agency staff and court personnel.
 
Allows state coverage of children in foster care after age 18 and up to age 21.
 
Provides for state-optional kinship guardianship assistance payments for children. Authorizes the Secretary to make family connection grants to states.
 
Extends the adoption incentives program for five years, and increases incentives payments for special needs adoptions and older child adoptions.
 
Requires state plans to provide for siblings removed from their homes to be placed in the same foster care placement, unless contrary to their safety or well-being.
 
Requires a state child welfare services plan to provide for development of a plan for the ongoing oversight and coordination of health care services for any child in a foster care placement.
 
Requires case plans to include a plan for ensuring the educational stability of the child in foster care. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Introduced in House