Southern Empowerment and Economic Development Act to authorize the Delta Black Belt Regional Authority

Bill: 110-hr-2403
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2007-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Access to health care
Adult education
Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Alabama
Arkansas
Authorization
Church and social problems
Colleges
Community development
Community organization
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional districts
Congressional reporting requirements
County politics and government
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Florida
Georgia
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Labor and Employment
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Public meetings
Regional economic development
Regional planning
Religion
Residential rehabilitation
Rural economic development
Rural education
Secondary education
South Carolina
Sunset legislation
Term limits
Texas
Transportation and Public Works
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-21
text: Southern Empowerment and Economic Development Act to authorize the Delta Black Belt Regional Authority - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to rename the Delta Regional Authority as the Delta/Black Belt Regional Authority. Extends the Authority's termination date. 
Directs the Authority to establish a Constituency Representation Board which shall: (1) ascertain state and congressional district community strategic planning efforts; and (2) evaluate and fund programs. 
Amends the Delta Development Act to revise the definition of the "Lower Mississippi" region.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and 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: 2007-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and 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: 2007-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and 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: 2007-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and 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: 2007-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-21
text: Introduced in House