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Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage Contingent Cost Allocation Act

Bill: 110-s-1653
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Energy
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Insurance premiums
International Affairs
Judicial review
Liability for nuclear damages
Liability insurance
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear power plants
Risk
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: 
Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage Contingent Cost Allocation Act - Declares that certain funds designated under provisions (commonly known as the Price-Anderson Act) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide indemnification shall be used to cover the contingent cost resulting from any nuclear incident for which such funds would be available to compensate for public liability (Price-Anderson incident).

States that certain funds made available to the United States under the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage shall be used to satisfy public liability resulting from a Price-Anderson incident.

Requires participation by each nuclear supplier in a retrospective risk pooling program to cover the contingent cost resulting from a nuclear incident outside the United States that is not a Price-Anderson incident.

Requires the Secretary of Energy to report to Congress every five years on whether there is a need for continuation or amendment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the sale or provision of caller ID spoofing services.

Bill: 110-s-1654
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2007-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer protection
Fraud
Identification devices
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the generating or transmitting of: (1) false caller ID information with the intention of wrongfully obtaining anything of value; or (2) caller ID information pertaining to a person or entity without consent and with the intention of deceiving the recipient of a call about the identity of the caller.

Prohibits, with certain exceptions, selling any service that enables users to modify, generate, or transmit false or misleading caller ID information or attempting or conspiring to do so. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7895)
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7895-7896)
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize loans for renewable energy systems and energy efficiency projects under the Express Loan Program of the Small Business Administration.

Bill: 110-s-1656
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy efficiency
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Geothermal resources
Hydrogen
Small business
Solar energy
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: 
Amends the Small Business Act to allow loans to be made under the Express Loan Program for purchasing a renewable energy system or for an energy efficiency project for an existing business.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7897)
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Energy Efficiency Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1657
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Business education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Employment of the disabled
Energy
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Executive reorganization
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Hydrogen
Labor and Employment
Law
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Small Business Administration
Small business
Solar energy
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Telecommuting
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: 
Small Business Energy Efficiency Act of 2007 - Sets a deadline for final rules establishing a small business education and assistance program regarding energy efficiency. Creates in the Small Business Administration (SBA) the position of Assistant Administrator for Small Business Energy Policy.
 
Establishes a Small Business Energy Efficiency Pilot Program to provide energy efficiency assistance to small businesses through small business development centers. Makes centers selected for the program eligible for grants.
 
Creates a pilot program to provide information regarding telecommuting to small businesses and to encourage the businesses to offer telecommuting options to employees, including outreach regarding individuals with disabilities.
 
Amends the Small Business Act to require the SBA Administrator, in carrying out duties related to Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) solicitations by federal agencies, to ensure that the agencies give priority to small businesses that participate in or conduct energy efficiency or renewable energy system research and development projects.
 
Allows loans to be made under the Express Loan Program for purchasing a renewable energy system or for an energy efficiency project for an existing business.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7898-7900)
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7897-7898)
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide protection for child custody arrangements for parents who are members of the Armed Forces deployed in support of a contingency operation.

Bill: 110-s-1658
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2007-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Custody of children
Evidence (Law)
Families
Iraq compilation
Law
Military dependents
Military operations
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: 
Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the protection of child custody arrangements for parents who are members deployed in support of a contingency operation. States that if a motion for change of custody of a child of such a member is filed while the member is so deployed, no court may enter an order modifying or amending a previous child custody judgment, except if there is clear and convincing evidence that it is in the best interest of the child. Prohibits any court from considering a member's absence due to deployment in support of a contingency operation in determining the best interest of the child.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7900)
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to limit the simultaneous deployment to combat zones of dual-military couples who have minor dependents.

Bill: 110-s-1659
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2007-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Families
Iraq compilation
Married people
Military dependents
Military operations
Military pay
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: 
Provides that, in the case of a member with minor dependents who has a spouse who is also a member and that spouse is deployed in an area for which imminent danger pay is authorized, the member may request a deployment deferment from such an area until the spouse returns from such deployment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require studies on support services for families of members of the National Guard and Reserve who are undergoing deployment.

Bill: 110-s-1660
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2007-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Families
Family services
Governmental investigations
Iraq compilation
Military dependents
National Guard
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study to evaluate the feasibility and advisability of: (1) contracting with a private entity with expertise in the health and well-being of families and children in order to enhance and develop support services for the children of members of the National Guard and reserve who are deployed; and (2) establishing a pilot program on family-to-family support for families of deployed members of the National Guard and reserve.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
SEED Act

Bill: 110-s-1663
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Authorization
Community development
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Income tax
Infrastructure
Manufacturing industries
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Small Business Administration
Small business
Tax credits
Taxation
Venture capital
Women
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: 
Securing Equity for the Economic Development of Low Income Areas Act of 2007 or SEED Act - Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to select at least one company from each SBA geographic region when selecting companies to participate as New Markets Venture Capital companies.
 
Establishes in the Investment Division of the SBA the Office of New Markets Venture Capital.
 
Modifies the definition of low-income geographic area to reflect the new markets tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code.
 
Revises the formula for the amount of operational assistance grants for new markets venture capital companies. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Measure incorporated into measure S.1662 ordered to be reported.
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7906)
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7905)
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 110-s-1664
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-06-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Coins and coinage
Congress
Economics and Public Finance
Ex-Members of Congress
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Progressivism (U.S. politics)
Senate
Silver
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: 
Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue $1 coins in commemoration of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and emblematic of his life and accomplishments.

Restricts coin issuance to calendar year 2008. Imposes a surcharge of $10 per coin, to be deposited into the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the President to posthumously award a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Robert M. La Follette, Sr., in recognition of his important contributions to the Progressive movement, the State of Wisconsin, and the United States.

Bill: 110-s-1665
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-06-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional gold medals
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Progressivism (U.S. politics)
Senate
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: 
Authorizes the President, on behalf of Congress, to award a gold medal of appropriate design posthumously to Robert M. La Follette, Sr., in recognition of his important contributions to the Progressive movement, Wisconsin, and the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to improve the process for congressional consideration of international social security agreements.

Bill: 110-s-1666
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2007-06-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congress
House rules and procedure
International Affairs
Legislative resolutions
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Senate rules and procedure
Treaties
Treaty-making power

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to revise the process for congressional consideration of international social security agreements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8064)
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Schools Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1669
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-06-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Clinics
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
School health programs
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: 
Healthy Schools Act of 2007 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) to require the state to certify that it has implemented procedures to pay for covered items and services furnished by school-based health clinics under Medicaid and SCHIP. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Servicemembers' Healthcare Benefits and Rehabilitation Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1670
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-06-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Brain
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Head injuries
Health
Hospital care
Informed consent (Medical law)
Iraq compilation
Medical records
Mental health
Military discharges
Military medicine
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Science, Technology, Communications
Trauma care
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: 
Servicemembers' Healthcare Benefits and Rehabilitation Enhancement Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) assign a medical care manager and a caseworker to each member of the Armed Forces who is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy, or is otherwise in a medical hold or holdover status, for an injury, illness, or disease incurred or aggravated while on active duty (recovering member); and (2) undertake efforts to improve the speed and efficiency of the Department of Defense (DOD) physical disability evaluation system.
 
Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to the congressional defense and veterans' committees a plan to update the disability ratings schedule of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to reflect the effects on the modern workforce of mental health disorders, including traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) establish a system for the prioritization of processing the separation of members; (2) establish a medical record database to track and record the medical status of all members (and make such system accessible to the VA); (3) assess, both before and after, the mental health of each member who is deployed, or is expected to be deployed, to a combat theater; and (4) report, along with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, on plans to increase the role of private providers in the provision of rehabilitation to members and former members with TBI or PTSD when the VA is unable to provide such services.
 
Requires the: (1) Secretary of the military department concerned to notify the appropriate Members of Congress of the hospitalization of any recovering member evacuated from a theater of combat; and (2) recovering member to consent to such notification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8077-8078)
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Introduced in Senate
VA Vision Scholars Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1672
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2007-06-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Black colleges
Blind
Collection of accounts
College costs
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Eye care
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Medical education
Medical personnel
Minorities
Minority education
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Scholarships
Student loan funds
Veterans' education
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: 
VA Vision Scholars Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and carry out a scholarship program of financial assistance for individuals who: (1) are accepted for, or currently enrolled in, a program of study leading to a degree or certificate in visual impairment or orientation and mobility, or both; and (2) enter into an agreement to serve, after program completion, as a full-time Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee for three years within the first six years after program completion. Sets maximum assistance amounts of $15,000 per academic year and $45,000 total. Requires pro rate repayment for failure to satisfy education or service requirements, while allowing the Secretary to waive or suspend such repayment whenever noncompliance is due to circumstances beyond the control of the participant, or when waiver or suspension is in the best interests of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Promoting American Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1673
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2007-06-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Airline passenger traffic
Bank deposits
Caribbean area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cuba
Cubans
Economics and Public Finance
Excise tax
Export controls
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign banks and banking
Foreign trade promotion
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health
Intellectual property
International banking
Latin America
Medical supplies
President and foreign policy
Right to travel
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: 
Promoting American Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2007 - Prohibits the President from restricting direct transfers from a Cuban depository institution to a U.S. depository institution in payment for a product authorized for sale under the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide information and technical assistance to U.S. agricultural producers, cooperative organizations, or state agencies to promote U.S. agricultural exports products to Cuba. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that temporary entry visas should be issued to Cuban nationals to facilitate purchase of U.S. agricultural products.
 
Amends the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to repeal the prohibition on enforcement of rights to certain U.S. intellectual properties and such properties' transfer.
 
Prohibits the President from regulating or prohibiting travel to or from Cuba by U.S. citizens or legal residents, or any of the transactions ordinarily incident to such travel, and any regulation restricting or prohibiting such travel shall have no effect, relating to: (1) accompanied personal baggage; (2) payment of living expenses and the acquisition of personal-use goods or services; (3) travel arrangements; (4) nonscheduled air, sea, or land voyage transactions, (such provision does not permit the carriage of articles other than accompanied baggage into Cuba or the United States); and (5) normal banking transactions. States that such provision shall not apply in time of war or armed hostilities between the United States and Cuba, or of imminent danger to the public health or the physical safety of U.S. travelers.
 
Amends the Democracy Act of 1992 to repeal the requirement for onsite verification of certain medical exports to Cuba.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the airport ticket tax for transportation between the United States and Cuba by $1; and (2) establish in the Treasury the Agricultural Export Promotion Trust Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Committee on Finance. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-937.
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8234)
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to give preference to local communities in the application consideration process for the conservation reserve program.

Bill: 110-s-1674
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2007-06-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Environmental Protection

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: 
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to give conservation reserve program preference to an owner or operator who is a resident in the county in which the land is located, or in a contiguous county, if the land would provide at least equivalent conservation benefits to competing offers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Introduced in Senate