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Rural America Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-110
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Compensation (Law)
Dredging
Eminent domain
Hydrology
Law
Licenses
Real estate appraisal
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Rural America Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Army or a state from issuing a permit to a governmental entity for the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters where Act compliance is based on a permit condition requiring mitigation of adverse impacts to wetlands through the acquisition of private property if the property is: (1) being acquired by condemnation; and (2) located outside a certain U.S. Geological Survey cataloging unit in which the wetland is located. 
Allows issuance of such a permit upon payment of compensation equaling or exceeding the property's fair market value or the average fair market value of a parcel the size of the property in the cataloging unit in which the wetland is located.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Community Choice in Real Estate Act

Bill: 110-hr-111
Sponsor: Rep. Kanjorski, Paul E. [D-PA-11]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank holding companies
Commerce
Housing and Community Development
Real estate business
Subsidiary corporations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Community Choice in Real Estate Act - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 and the Revised Statutes of the United States to prohibit the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, from determining that real estate brokerage activity or real estate management activity is financial in nature, is incidental to any financial activity, or is complementary to a financial activity. (In effect, prohibits financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities.)
 
Exempts from such prohibition: (1) activities of a bank holding company (or any affiliate) that directly relate to managing any real property owned by national banks or their affiliates; and (2) the right, power, or ability of any financial holding company to engage in any activity, or acquire or retain the shares of any company engaged in an activity authorized for financial holding companies on December 6, 2001 ("grandfather clause").

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
G.I. Advanced Education in Science and Technology Act

Bill: 110-hr-112
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Education
Engineering
Graduate education
Higher education
Mathematics
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Technical education
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
G.I. Advanced Education in Science and Technology Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay a monthly stipend to each individual who is entitled to veterans' basic educational assistance and is pursuing full-time a doctoral degree in the sciences of engineering, mathematics, or other technology disciplines. Allows such payment in addition to any other authorized Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance.
 
Makes such payment $1,200 a month (adjusted for inflation for fiscal years after 2005) for up to 60 months.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Women's Health and Cancer Rights Conforming Amendments of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-113
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Mastectomy
Plastic surgery
Prosthesis
Standards
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Women's Health and Cancer Rights Conforming Amendments of 2007- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require group health plans to provide coverage for post-mastectomy reconstructive surgery.

Legislative actions:
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
Homeowner's Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-114
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Local taxation
Property tax
State taxation
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Homeowner's Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers an additional tax deduction (whether or not such taxpayers itemize deductions) for state and local real property taxes paid for a principal residence that exceed the national average, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. Denies such deduction for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income exceeds $80,000 ($160,000 for joint returns).


Legislative actions:
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
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against tax for expenses related to the collection and storage of umbilical cord blood.

Bill: 110-hr-115
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Blood
Blood banks
Childbirth
Health
Income tax
Tax credits
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50% of qualified umbilical cord blood collection and storage expenses, up to $2,000 in a taxable year. Defines &quot;qualified umbilical cord blood collection and storage expenses&quot; as expenses directly related to the collection, storage, and maintenance of umbilical cord blood collected at the birth of a child.


Legislative actions:
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
Fallen Heroes Tax Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-116
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Limitation of actions
Military personnel
Tax credits
Tax exemption
Tax refunds
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Fallen Heroes Tax Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise provisions exempting deceased members of the Armed Forces who die from wounds, disease, or injury incurred while serving in a combat zone from income tax to extend the tax exemption to the last taxable year ending before such wounds, disease, or injury were incurred.


Legislative actions:
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
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a permanent hold harmless provision for sole community hospitals under the Medicare prospective payment system for covered outpatient department services.

Bill: 110-hr-117
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for a permanent hold harmless provision for sole community hospitals under the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for covered outpatient department (OPD) services.

Declares that, in the case of a sole community hospital for covered OPD services furnished after December 31, 2005, for which the PPS amount is less than the pre-BBA amount, the amount of payment shall be increased by the amount of such difference.

(Pre-BBA amount means an amount equal to the product of the reasonable cost of the hospital for such services for the portions of the hospital's cost reporting period (or periods) occurring in the year and the base OPD payment-to-cost ratio for the hospital.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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 Ways and Means, 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 Ways and Means, 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
To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate prices for part D covered drugs for Medicare beneficiaries.

Bill: 110-hr-118
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer discounts
Drug industry
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Medical economics
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Rebates
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate with drug manufacturers and pharmacies prices charged to prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsors and Medicare Advantage organizations for covered part D drugs provided under Medicare.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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 Ways and Means, 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 Ways and Means, 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
Farm Programs Payment Limitation Integrity Act

Bill: 110-hr-124
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural subsidies
Department of Agriculture
Farm management
Farmers
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Sharecropping

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Farm Programs Payment Limitation Integrity Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations to establish measurable standards to prevent the use of separate entities to exceed commodity payment limitations and to provide payments only to active farmers.
 
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to provide that if the Secretary determines that a person has committed fraud in connection with the adoption of a scheme or device to evade payment limitations such person shall be ineligible for farm program payments in the crop year for which the scheme or device was adopted and the succeeding five crop years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To provide for a temporary increase in the number of Iraqi and Afghan translators in the United States Armed Forces who may be provided status as special immigrants.

Bill: 110-hr-125
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Afghanistan
Aliens
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
South Asia
Translating and interpreting
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 to increase from 50 to 300, for FY2007-FY2009 only, the number of Iraqi and Afghan translators working directly with U.S. Armed Forces who may be provided special immigrant status under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow loans from individual retirement plans for qualified small business capital assets.

Bill: 110-hr-126
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital investments
Commerce
Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Loans
Partnerships
Small business
Stocks
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the penalty tax for prohibited transactions loans from an individual retirement plan to acquire certain small business capital assets. Requires such loans to be repaid within five years.


Legislative actions:
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
FHA Multifamily Loan Limit Adjustment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-127
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Apartment houses
Condominium (Housing)
Cooperative housing
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Families
Federal aid to housing
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing for the aged
Moderate income housing
Mortgages
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Social Welfare
Urban affairs
Urban renewal

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
FHA Multifamily Loan Limit Adjustment Act of 2007 - Amends the National Housing Act to increase high-cost area and project-based additional mortgage loan limits for Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured mortgages for: (1) rental housing; (2) cooperative housing; (3) rehabilitation and neighborhood conservation housing insurance; (4) moderate income and displaced family housing; (5) housing for the elderly; and (6) condominiums. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
David Shick Honesty in Campus Justice Act

Bill: 110-hr-128
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colleges
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
School discipline
Sex crimes
Sex offenders
Student records
Victims of crimes
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
David Shick Honesty in Campus Justice Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act to require an institution of postsecondary education to disclose to the alleged victim of any crime of violence or a nonforcible sex offense (or to a deceased victim's next of kin) the final results of any disciplinary proceeding conducted by such institution against a student who is the alleged perpetrator. (Current law states that such disclosure is not prohibited.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
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
To direct the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to designate New Jersey Task Force 1 as part of the National Urban Search and Rescue System.

Bill: 110-hr-129
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Emergency medicine
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Medical personnel
New Jersey
Paramedical personnel
Rescue work

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to designate New Jersey Task Force 1 as part of the National Urban Search and Rescue System.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To impose a mandatory minimum sentence on a deportable alien who fails to depart or fails to attend a removal proceeding.

Bill: 110-hr-131
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Deportation
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Illegal aliens
Mandatory sentences
Smuggling
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an alien who fails to appear at a removal proceeding shall be fined and imprisoned for not less than one year and not more than four years (or 10 years if deportable under smuggling, security, criminal, or document falsification grounds). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E3-4)
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
To impose a criminal penalty on an alien who fails voluntarily to depart the United States after securing permission to do so, or who unlawfully returns to the United States after voluntarily departing.

Bill: 110-hr-132
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Illegal aliens
Mandatory sentences

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a criminal penalty for an alien permitted to depart voluntarily from the United States who: (1) fails to do so within the time period specified (currently, subject to civil penalty only); or (2) after such departure, illegally reenters, attempts to reenter, or is present in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E3-4)
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
Citizenship Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-133
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Child support
Citizenship
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Mothers
Nonmarital births
Parents
Paternity
Residence requirements
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Citizenship Reform Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit automatic citizenship at birth to a child born in the United States who was born: (1) in wedlock in the United States to a parent who is a U.S. citizen or national or is an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence who maintains such residence; (2) out of wedlock in the United States to a mother who is a U.S. citizen or national or is an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence who maintains such residence; or (3) out of wedlock in the United States to a father who is a U.S. citizen or national or is an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence who maintains such residence, but only if a blood relationship between the father and the child is established by clear and convincing evidence, the father had U.S. nationality or was a U.S. permanent resident at the time of the child's birth, the father (unless deceased) has agreed in writing to provide financial support for the child until the child reaches 18, and, while the child is under 18, the father either acknowledges paternity under oath or paternity is established in court. 
 
Defines &quot;born in wedlock&quot; to exclude common law marriages.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E3-4)
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