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National Homelessness Task Force Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3385
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Congressional agencies
Congressional reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Homeless
Policy sciences

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
National Homelessness Task Force Act of 2007 - Establishes in the legislative branch a National Homelessness Task Force to: (1) analyze reports by federal, state, and local agencies and academic institutions relating to homelessness; (2) evaluate the effectiveness of federal programs addressing homelessness, particularly their interaction with state and local entities which also address homelessness; (3) analyze options and make recommendations to alleviate the causes and effects of such homelessness; and (4) conduct related research and develop methods to improve, federal, state, and local agency coordination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Mickey Wright Act

Bill: 110-hr-3386
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Evidence (Law)
Fines (Penalties)
Homicide
Law
Obstruction of justice
Transportation and Public Works
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Mickey Wright Act - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the transportation of any portion of the corpse of a homicide victim across a state line to prevent its use as evidence in a criminal prosecution for such homicide.


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
To update and improve the codification of title 46, United States Code.

Bill: 110-hr-3387
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Marine transportation
Merchant marine
Merchant seamen
Merchant ships
Passenger ships
Service academies

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Makes revisions to the codification of title 46 (&quot;Shipping&quot;) of the United States Code.

action_date: 2007-11-08
text: 
Makes certain updates and improvements to reflect amendments made to newly codified title 46 (&quot;Shipping&quot;) of the United States Code.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 151.
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-437.
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-437.
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 8/4/2007 E1745)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
College Affordability Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3388
Sponsor: Rep. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY-20]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
College Affordability Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the tax deduction for tuition and related expenses; (2) allow an inflation adjustment after 2008 of taxpayer adjusted gross income levels used to determine eligibility for, and allowable amounts of, such deduction; and (3) make such deduction permanent.


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
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the election to treat the cost of qualified film and television productions as an expense which is not chargeable to capital account.

Bill: 110-hr-3389
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Income tax
Motion pictures
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions
Television industry
Television programs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the taxpayer election to expense qualified film and television production costs in the current taxable year.


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: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 8/4/2007 E1744-1745)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Military Family and Medical Leave Act

Bill: 110-hr-3391
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Caregivers
Families
Family leave
Health
Iraq compilation
Military dependents
Military medicine
National Guard
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Military Family and Medical Leave Act - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to entitle an eligible employee to up to 26 workweeks of leave during a 12-month period to care for a covered service member who is the employee's spouse, son, daughter, or parent.
 
Defines covered service member as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, including a member of the National Guard or a Reserve, who is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy, or is otherwise in medical hold or medical holdover status, for a serious injury or illness.
 
Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the availability of such leave during any other 12-month period.
 
Provides for the substitution of accrued paid vacation, personal, or family leave for any part of the 26-week period. Limits a husband and wife both working for the same employer to such 26 weeks altogether during a single 12-month period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the tariff classification of certain fiberboard core and laminate boards and panels.

Bill: 110-hr-3392
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Declares that Congress finds that the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States was amended on February 3, 2007, to provide that certain high-density fiberboard shall include laminate boards bonded in whole or in part, or impregnated, with synthetic resins. Applies such amendment retroactively to certain entries.


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
Reservist Access to Justice Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3393
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Civil actions and liability
Damages
Employee rights
Injunctions
Labor and Employment
Law
Punitive damages
Veterans' employment
Wage restitution

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Reservist Access to Justice Act of 2007 - Allows a court, if it determines that a federal, state, or private employer's failure to comply with a veteran's reemployment rights was willful, to require the employer to pay the individual the greater of any loss of wages or benefits, or $20,000. Requires (current law authorizes) a court to exercise injunctive relief to fully vindicate such rights.
 
Authorizes a court to require a state or private employer to pay punitive damages for violations found to be with malice or reckless indifference to the individual's federally-protected reemployment rights.
 
Makes federal arbitration procedures inapplicable to claims for veterans' employment and reemployment rights and benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-16
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Support Our Schools With Quality Teaching Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3394
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Colleges
Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Fees
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Illiteracy
Labor and Employment
Language arts
Law
Licenses
Literacy programs
Mentoring
Migrant education
Minorities
Minority education
Performance measurement
Recruiting of employees
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Support Our Schools With Quality Teaching Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award competitive five-year grants to up to 250 local educational agencies (LEAs) to recruit, support, and retain highly qualified and effective teachers through participation in the Targeted High Need Initiative Take One! program of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
 
Gives priority to LEAs that have: (1) the highest number of disadvantaged students; (2) the highest number of schools identified for school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring; and (3) the lowest number of teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
 
Requires LEAs to use such grants to: (1) partner with institutions of higher education or other appropriate entities in conducting grant activities; (2) provide teachers participating in the Take One! program with training, mentoring, and technological resources; (3) cover the assessment fee for teachers who apply for certification by such Board and agree to teach at the participating school for at least three years after their certification; (4) provide specified monetary awards to teachers and their sponsoring schools after completion of the Take One! program; and (5) conduct an independent evaluation of such program's affect on teaching quality and student performance.


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: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 8/4/2007 E1763)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act

Bill: 110-hr-3396
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, William D. [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Data banks
Electronic commerce
Excise tax
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental tax relations
Internet
Interstate compacts
Judicial review
Law
Right of privacy
Sales tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
State taxation
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Tax simplification
Telecommunication industry

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act - Grants the consent of Congress to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (Agreement), the multistate agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes adopted on November 12, 2002. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Agreement provides sufficient simplification and uniformity to warrant federal authorizations to states that are parties to it (member states) to require remote sellers (sellers without a physical presence in the taxing state) to collect and remit the sales and use taxes of such states and their local taxing jurisdictions.

Authorizes each member state, after 10 states (comprising at least 20% of all states imposing a sales tax) have petitioned for and become member states, to require all sellers, except those sellers with gross remote taxable sales nationwide of less than $5 million, to collect and remit sales and use taxes on remote sales owed to such member state under the terms of the Agreement.

Allows any person affected by the Agreement to petition the Governing Board established by the Agreement for a determination of any issue arising under the Agreement. Provides for judicial review of Governing Board determinations by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. 

Sets forth minimum simplification requirements for the Agreement.

Expresses the sense of Congress that member states should work with each other to prevent double taxation where a foreign country has imposed a transaction tax on a digital good or service


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Lead-Safe Housing for Kids Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3397
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Blood
Child safety
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Environmental Protection
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Lead
Lead poisoning
Paints and varnishes
Residential rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Lead-Safe Housing for Kids Act of 2007 - Amends the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 to set the environmental intervention blood lead level for a confirmed concentration of lead in whole blood as equal to or greater than ten micrograms of lead per deciliter for a single test, for purposes of provisions concerning lead-based paint hazards in housing. 

Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to amend relevant regulations to comply with this Act within 90 days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3401
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bonds
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to transportation
Federal aid to water resources development
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government securities
Governmental investigations
Highway finance
Income tax
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Mass rapid transit
Potable water
Public housing
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax exemption
Taxation
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2007 - Establishes an independent National Infrastructure Bank to: (1) designate qualified transit, public housing, water, highway, bridge, or road infrastructure projects for loans, loan guarantees, and other financial assistance; and (2) issue general purpose and project-based infrastructure bonds exempt from state and local taxation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2007-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Preventive Medicine and Public Health Training Act

Bill: 110-hr-3404
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Medical education
Medical residents
Preventive medicine
Public health personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Preventive Medicine and Public Health Training Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to or enter into contracts with certain eligible entities to provide training to graduate medical residents in preventive medicine specialties.
 
Requires grant funds to be used for: (1) residency programs for preventive medicine or public health; (2) financial assistance to resident physicians who plan to specialize in preventive medicine or public health; (3) preventive medicine or public health program costs, including curriculum development and practicum costs; and (4) the improvement of academic administrative units.


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
To require persons to certify that they have not violated foreign corrupt practices statutes before being awarded Government contracts, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3405
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Bribery
Business ethics
Commerce
Corporate corruption
Crime and Law Enforcement
Finance and Financial Sector
Government contractors
Government procurement
Securities fraud
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Prohibits an executive agency from: (1) entering into a contract for the procurement of goods or services with any person or entity unless that person or entity has certified that the person or entity, and each of its officers, employees, and agents, have not violated the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, or any comparable law of other countries; or (2) allowing any contractor awarded a contract by the agency to enter into a subcontract (at any tier) with any person or entity that has not made such certification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House