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Flexibility for Individual Excellence in Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3426
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Authorization
Compensatory education
Continuing education
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Illiteracy
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Minorities
Minority education
Rating of teachers
Recruiting of employees
Rural education
School choice
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Flexibility for Individual Excellence in Education Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to alter the requirement that teachers be highly qualified by: (1) applying it only to teachers of core subjects; (2) allowing new middle or secondary school teachers to teach subjects for which they earned a college minor; (3) allowing greater consideration to be given to the time experienced teachers have spent teaching a subject; and (4) extending the deadline for rural teachers to meet such requirements.
 
Provides additional funding for rural teacher recruitment, retention, and professional development activities.
 
Allows state determinations of students' adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards to: (1) assess disabled students at the instructional level most closely corresponding to their individualized education plans; and (2) use growth models and multiple measures of student achievement.
 
Requires local educational agencies (LEAs) to identify schools as needing improvement, corrective action, or restructuring only if they fail to make AYP in the same subject for the same group of students over the requisite period of time. Provides school transfers and supplemental services to students in the failing group, rather than to all students in an affected school. Gives LEAs the option of providing such students with supplemental services rather than transfers for the year following a school's identification as needing improvement.


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
To prohibit the revocation of waivers of the competitive need limitation under the Generalized System of Preferences program unless certain conditions are met.

Bill: 110-hr-3427
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Developing countries
Dumping
Imports
International Affairs
Tariff preferences

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to prohibit the President from revoking any waiver of the competitive need limitation in effect, on or after June 20, 2007, with respect to an article from a beneficiary developing country under the Generalized System of Preferences program unless certain conditions are met. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
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
Hire a Hero Act

Bill: 110-hr-3429
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aerospace industries
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Employment subsidies
Energy
Energy industries
Grants-in-aid
Iraq compilation
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Military personnel
National Guard
Nonprofit organizations
Salaries
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' employment
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Hire a Hero Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the federal government should support private sector employment initiatives for military personnel to help ensure that those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces have access to gainful employment.
 
Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau (Chief) to award grants to nonprofit organizations to assist the following individuals in securing employment in the private sector: (1) a member of the National Guard or reserve; (2) a member of the Armed Forces who is nearing separation, discharge, or release; and (3) a former member of the Armed Forces.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Chief, in awarding such grants, should consider organizations that partner with private entities and associations involved in construction, energy, transportation, aerospace, domestic security, and other areas in which the employment of individuals having past military service would be of particular utility.
 
Requires the Chief to establish fiscal control, accountability, and program performance measures for grantees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Mental Health in Schools Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3430
Sponsor: Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Community health services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee training
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Health education
Labor and Employment
Mental health services
Performance measurement
School health programs
School personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Mental Health in Schools Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to make changes to the program to apply a public health approach to mental health services, including by revising eligibility requirements for a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement. Makes only a consortium that includes at least one educational agency eligible for such funding. Allows such a consortium to: (1) include a community program, an agency that is involved in mental health, or a school; and (2) consist of a consortium in which the members select an agent (such as a local educational agency or community health care entity) to act on the consortium's behalf.

 Sets forth assurances required for eligibility, including assurances that: (1) the local education agency will enter into a memorandum of understanding with relevant community-based entities that clearly states the responsibilities of each consortium member; (2) the program will include comprehensive staff development for school and community service personnel working in the school and training for children with mental health disorders, for family members of such children, and for concerned members of the community; and (3) the program will demonstrate the measures to be taken to sustain the program after funding terminates.

Requires the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to develop a process for evaluating grant program activities, including: (1) the development of guidelines for the submission of program data by recipients; and (2) the development of measures of outcomes to be applied by recipients in evaluating programs, to include student and family measures and local educational measures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9662)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Work and Empowerment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3431
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caribbean area
Earned income tax credit
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Puerto Ricans
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Puerto Rico Work and Empowerment Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make residents of Puerto Rico eligible for the earned income tax credit. 


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
Methamphetamine Treatment and Rehabilitation Best Practices Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3433
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug addiction
Health surveys
Medical research
Methamphetamine
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Methamphetamine Treatment and Rehabilitation Best Practices Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to conduct a survey of research available on methamphetamine addiction and treatment, with a focus on reviewing research on the best treatment for methamphetamine addiction, rehabilitation, and recovery. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the findings of the survey and include recommendations for additional research avenues focusing on methamphetamine addiction and treatment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 8/4/2007 E1748)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Americans Saving Through Health Research Bonds Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3434
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Interest
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research centers
Research grants
Savings bonds
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Americans Saving Through Health Research Bonds Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to designate one or more series of savings bonds or savings certificates for each institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Requires the Secretary to: (1) deduct and withhold 10% of the amount of any interest payable under such a Health Research Bond; and (2) pay any withheld amount to the relevant NIH institute to carry out institute research activities. Terminates the program ten years after the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 8/4/2007 E1750)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
To provide for greater judicial discretion in sentencing for certain firearms offenses committed in exceptional circumstances.

Bill: 110-hr-3436
Sponsor: Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms
Law enforcement officers
Mandatory sentences
Police
Private police
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to allow an exception to certain minimum mandatory prison terms for the use of firearms in the commission of violent crimes for individuals who are authorized to carry firearms in the lawful performance of an employment duty and who committed the offense during or in relation to such employment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
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
Bullying and Gang Reduction for Improved Education Act

Bill: 110-hr-3438
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Juvenile delinquency
Lifestyle
Mentoring
Outdoor recreation
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
School security
Secondary education
Sports and Recreation
Youth services
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Bullying and Gang Reduction for Improved Education Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to add bullying and gang prevention to the violence and drug abuse prevention activities currently supported under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program.
 
Provides that, in addition to fostering a safe and drug-free learning environment, such program should facilitate healthy, physically active lifestyles.
 
Makes local park and recreation agencies eligible for funding under the program's mentoring programs for children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
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
Put School Counselors Where They're Needed Act

Bill: 110-hr-3439
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational counseling
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Labor and Employment
Recruiting of employees
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Put School Counselors Where They're Needed Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to implement a demonstration project providing competitive, four-year grants to at least 10 secondary schools that have a four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate of 60% or lower, for the provision of additional school counselors and counselor resources.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that grantees should provide one additional counselor for every 250 students at risk.
 
Requires the additional school counselors to serve primarily students identified as being at risk of not graduating in four years.
 
Makes grantees that demonstrate progress in improving their graduation rates eligible for subsequent grants.


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
Law Enforcement Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3440
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Criminal investigation
Disciplining of employees
Due process of law
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Personnel records
Police
Police brutality
Police corruption
Police questioning
Police-community relations
Right of privacy
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Law Enforcement Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act of 2007 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to set forth the due process rights, including procedures, that shall be afforded a law enforcement officer who is the subject of an investigation or disciplinary hearing.

Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt and comply with a written complaint procedure that: (1) authorizes written complaints about a law enforcement officer from within and outside a law enforcement agency; (2) sets forth procedures for the investigation and disposition of such complaints; (3) provides for public access to required forms and information for submitting complaints; and (4) requires written notification to the complainant of the final disposition of the complaint and the reasons for such disposition.

Sets forth requirements for the initiation of a investigation of a law enforcement officer, interrogations, disciplinary action, administrative appeals, and the confidentiality and protection of officer personnel files. Requires that an investigation based on a complaint against an officer begin not later than 15 days after the receipt of such complaint.

Prohibits an officer from being compelled to submit to a lie detector test during an investigation.. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
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
Instructional Leadership Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3441
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colleges
Community and school
Continuing education
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational technology
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Law
Leadership
Licenses
Nonprofit organizations
Rating of teachers
School administration
School districts
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Standards
Teacher education
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Instructional Leadership Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states, local educational agencies, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, or partnerships or consortia which include at least one of those entities to develop innovative programs and sites (such as leadership development schools) to train school principals in instructional leadership skills.
 
Requires the Secretary to award additional competitive grants to states or partnerships or consortia which include states for pilot programs that evaluate and promote the incorporation of instructional leadership standards into state principal certification or licensure.
 
 Directs the Secretary to establish a definition of &quot;highly-qualified principal&quot; that is based on reports from this Act's grantees and emphasizes instructional leadership standards. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
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
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3442
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Anesthetics
Civil actions and liability
Communication in medicine
Damages
Electronic government information
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal preemption
Fetus
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Health education
Informed consent (Medical law)
Internet
Law
Licenses
Medicaid
Medical associations
Medical records
Pain
Physicians
Pregnant women
Punitive damages
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State laws
Web sites
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require an abortion provider who knowingly performs an abortion of a pain-capable unborn child (defined as an unborn child who has reached a probable stage of development of 20 weeks or more after fertilization), to first: (1) inform the woman of the probable age of the child; (2) provide to the woman an Unborn Child Pain Awareness Brochure (unless she waives receipt); (3) provide information that pain medicine administered to the mother may not prevent pain in the child, but in some cases anesthesia or pain-reducing drugs can be administered directly to the child; (4) give the woman the provider's best medical judgment of the risks and costs of such anesthesia or analgesic; and (5) obtain the woman's signature on the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Decision Form and her explicit request for or refusal of the administration of drugs to the child. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Brochure that includes a statement that there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child pain and that the mother has the option of having pain-reducing drugs administered directly to the child.
 
Creates an exception to save the life of the mother. 
 
Establishes civil penalties for willfully failing to comply with this Act. Authorizes: (1) the U.S. Attorney General to bring a civil action under this Act; and (2) private rights of action for violations of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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
Drawback Simplification Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3443
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Exports
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Drawback Simplification Act of 2007 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to revise eligibility requirements for the drawback (refund) of duties on merchandise exported from the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
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