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To authorize the appropriation of funds to be used to recruit, hire, and train 100,000 new classroom paraprofessionals in order to improve educational achievement for children.

Bill: 110-hr-209
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Bilingualism
Continuing education
Disabled
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Immigration
Labor and Employment
Migrant education
Paraprofessional school personnel
Parent-school relationships
Recruiting of employees
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Education to allot funds to states for distribution to local educational agencies (LEAs) to recruit, hire, and train 100,000 new classroom paraprofessionals in order to improve educational achievement for children. 
 
Requires that 80% of a state's allotment be allocated to LEAs on the basis of relative numbers of children from families with incomes below the poverty line residing in their school districts, and that the remainder be allocated on the basis of relative enrollments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Newborn Coverage Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-210
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Citizenship
Families
Immigration
Infants
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Medicaid Newborn Coverage Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to waive the requirement for proof of citizenship during the first year of life for children born in the United States to a Medicaid-eligible mother.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-211
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Access to health care
Church and social problems
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Information services
Internet
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
Religion
Social Welfare
Telephone
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award a grant to each state to carry out a program for making available throughout that state the 2-1-1 telephone service for information and referral on human services. Requires a participating state to ensure that at least 50% of the resources of the program funded by the grant will be derived from other sources. Requires a state seeking a grant to carry out its activities through a lead entity to be known as a 2-1-1 Collaborative.
 
Requires grant amounts to be used solely to make available to a state 2-1-1 telephone service for community information and referral on human services to all citizens of that state with phone access, including telephone connections between families and individuals seeking services and the service providers.
 
Requires grant recipients to: (1) abide by the Key Standards for 2-1-1 Centers; and (2) collaborate with human service organizations to provide an exhaustive database of services with which to provide information or referral to individuals utilizing the 2-1-1 service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E22)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To permit members of the House of Representatives to donate used computer equipment to public elementary and secondary schools designated by the members.

Bill: 110-hr-212
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Computers
Congressional office operations
Education
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Surplus government property

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1987 to allow the Clerk of the House of Representatives, at the request of a Member of the House, to donate computers and related peripheral tools previously used by the Member to a public elementary or secondary school designated by such Member without regard to whether the donation: (1) is a cost to the government; or (2) has a recoverable value. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To provide discretionary authority to an immigration judge to determine that an alien parent of a United States citizen child should not be ordered removed from the United States.

Bill: 110-hr-213
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Child welfare
Citizenship
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Deportation
Families
Illegal aliens
Judges
Law
Parent and child

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize an immigration judge to not order the removal of a deportable alien parent of a U.S. citizen if the judge determines that such removal is against the best interests of the child, except that such discretionary authority shall not apply to an alien deportable on grounds of: (1) security; or (2) sex trafficking or severe forms of trafficking in persons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
General Slocum Memorial Study Act

Bill: 110-hr-214
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Emergency Management
Fires
Governmental investigations
History
Islands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine safety
National parks
New York City
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
General Slocum Memorial Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to study in Bronx County, New York, the shoreline of the area roughly bounded by 149th Street on the west and Oak Point Rail Yard spurs on the east, including North Brother Island, to evaluate the national significance of the area and the suitability and feasibility of designating the area as a unit of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Sewage Sludge in Food Production Consumer Notification Act

Bill: 110-hr-215
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Animals
Commerce
Consumer education
Environmental Protection
Feeds
Fertilizers
Food safety
Grazing
Labeling
Livestock
Meat
Natural foods
Organic farming
Poultry
Sewage sludge
Waste disposal sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Sewage Sludge in Food Production Consumer Notification Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Egg Products Inspection Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to deem as adulterated food that is: (1) produced on land on which sewage sludge was applied; (2) derived from poultry that were raised, or that consumed animal feed produced, on such land; and (3) derived from livestock that grazed, or consumed animal feed produced, on such land.
 
Permits exceptions if: (1) the application of sewage sludge ended more than one year before producing food, raising poultry, producing animal feed, or grazing livestock; (2) the food labeling includes notice that is was produced on such land; or (3) a sign providing such notice is posted in close proximity to the product for those foods generally offered for sale without labeling.
 
 
States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to modify the prohibition on the use of sewage sludge in organic food production under the National Organic Program of the Department of Agriculture.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Baseball Diplomacy Act

Bill: 110-hr-216
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Athletes
Baseball
Caribbean area
Cuba
Cubans
Earnings
Embargo
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Immigration
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Sports and Recreation
Trading with the enemy
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Baseball Diplomacy Act - Waives certain foreign assistance and trade and travel prohibitions against Cuba under specified federal law regarding Cuban nationals who: (1) enter the United States on a visa to play organized professional baseball; and (2) return to Cuba with their baseball earnings. States that such visa shall be valid only for the duration of the season and need not be renewed as long as the player remains with the same team.
 
Prohibits the President from denying visas to such nationals based upon authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act to restrict any entry of aliens or class of aliens that would be detrimental to U.S. interests. 
 
Declares that this Act shall not be affected by the economic embargo requirements against Cuba under the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
United States Library Trust Fund Act

Bill: 110-hr-218
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Checkoff
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to the arts and humanities
Gifts
Government trust funds
Income tax
Libraries
School libraries
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
United States Library Trust Fund Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish in the Treasury the United States Library Trust Fund (Fund); and (2) allow taxpayers to designate a portion of any tax overpayment (not less than $1) to the Fund. Authorizes public libraries or public school libraries to receive grants from the Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Preservation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-219
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Bank deposits
Budget surpluses
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Debt limit
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government securities
Government trust funds
Investment of public funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security finance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Social Security Preservation Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require the Managing Trustee of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund (Social Security Trust Funds) to ensure that the annual surplus of the Social Security Trust Funds is invested in: (1) marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States or obligations guaranteed by the United States; or (2) certificates of deposit in insured depository institutions. Outlines requirements for determining the annual surplus of the Trust Funds.
 
Prohibits disinvestment of Social Security Trust Fund amounts from public debt obligations, any refraining from making such investments, or any delay in making normal deposits in such Trust Funds for public debt limit-related purposes. Authorizes, with certain conditions, the sale of Social Security Trust Fund public debt obligations for the payment of cash benefits and administrative expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E4)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-220
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid programs
Federal mandates
Identification devices
Identity theft
Right of privacy
Right of property
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit using a Social Security account number except for specified Social Security and tax purposes. Prohibits the Social Security Administration from divulging the Social Security account number of an individual to any federal, state, or local government agency or instrumentality, or to any other individual. 
 
Amends the Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit any federal, state, or local government agency or instrumentality from requesting an individual to disclose his Social Security account number on either a mandatory or a voluntary basis. 
 
Prohibits any two federal agencies or instrumentalities from implementing the same identifying number with respect to any individual (except as authorized by the Social Security Act). 
 
Prohibits any federal agency from: (1) establishing or mandating a uniform standard for identification of an individual that is required to be used by any other federal or state agency, or by a private person, for any purpose other than that of conducting the authorized activities of the standard-establishing or -mandating federal agency; or (2) conditioning receipt of any federal grant, contract, or other federal funding on the adoption, by a state or local government, or by a state agency, of such a uniform standard.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E5-6)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-221
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administration of justice
Advice and consent of the Senate
Alaska
Appellate courts
Arizona
California
Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Hawaii
Idaho
Judges
Judicial districts
Judicial reform
Montana
Nevada
Northern Mariana Islands
Oregon
Presidential appointments
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2007 - Divides the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit into: (1) the Ninth Circuit, composed of California, Guam, Hawaii, and Northern Mariana Islands; and (2) the Twelfth Circuit, composed of Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.

Directs the President to appoint two additional judges for the former Ninth Circuit, three additional judges for the new Ninth Circuit, and two temporary judges for the former Ninth Circuit. 

Specifies the locations where new circuits are to hold regular sessions. 

Assigns active circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to the new circuits. Allows senior circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to elect assignment. 

Provides for the disposition of cases pending in the former Ninth Circuit before the effective date of this Act as follows: (1) proceedings in matters that have been submitted for decision shall continue without regard to this Act; (2) matters not yet submitted for decision must be transferred to the court to which they would have been submitted under this Act; and (3) proceedings on petitions for rehearing or rehearing en banc in matters submitted or decided shall continue without regard to this Act. 

Authorizes the temporary assignment of circuit and district judges of the former Ninth Circuit between the new circuits. Authorizes administrative coordination between any two contiguous new circuits. 

Directs that the former Ninth Circuit shall cease to exist for administrative purposes two years after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House