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Subcontractor Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-1935
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commerce
Electronic government information
Fines (Penalties)
Government contractors
Law
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Social Welfare
Subcontractors
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Subcontractor Protection Act - Amends the Small Business Act to require a Federal agency to include in contracts awarded pursuant to a subcontracting plan calling for the maximum practicable opportunity for participation by small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals (qualified small businesses) a clause providing for the withholding of a specified amount or percentage of the total contract if the contractor does not achieve the percentage goal for the utilization of the qualified small businesses. Directs the awarding agency to require the contractor to provide written justification for not entering into a subcontract as required under the plan. Directs the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish a telephone line or other electronic means of communication through which a qualified small business may inform the SBA of any concerns regarding major deviations by prime contractors from the use of such qualified small businesses.
Requires the consideration of the use of such qualified small businesses as subcontractors when determining a contractor's past compliance with other subcontracting plans.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Small Business Act to increase the minimum Government-wide goal for procurement contracts awarded to small business concerns.

Bill: 110-hr-1936
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Depressed areas
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Government contractors
Government procurement
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Small business
Social Welfare
Veterans' benefits
Women
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Amends the Small Business Act to increase the government-wide goal for procurement contracts awarded to small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, qualified HUBZone small businesses, and small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals or women to 25 percent (currently, 23 percent) of the total amount of federal procurement contracts awarded in a fiscal year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Timber Revitalization and Economic Enhancement (TREE) Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1937
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Lumber trade
Mining royalties
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real estate investment
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Timber sales

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Timber Revitalization and Economic Enhancement (TREE) Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax deduction for 60% of qualified timber gains; (2) exempt deductible timber gains from the excise tax on the undistributed income of real estate investment trusts (REITs); (3) provide for the treatment of timber gains as qualifying REIT income and for mineral royalty income as qualifying income for timber REITs; and (4) provide special rules relating to income limitations and prohibited transactions for timber REITs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Hunger-Free Communities Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1938
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Census
Child nutrition
Community organization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Entitlements
Families
Food relief
Food supply insurance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Hunger
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
Nutrition
Poverty
Social Welfare
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Hunger-Free Communities Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture conduct a study of hunger in the United States and develop recommendations on reducing domestic hunger.
 
Directs the Secretary to make: (1) hunger-free communities collaborative grants to eligible public food program service providers or nonprofit organizations; (2) hunger-free communities infrastructure grants to eligible emergency feeding organizations; and (3) hunger-free communities training and technical assistance grants to eligible national or regional nonprofit organizations. (States that such grants' federal share shall not exceed 80%.)
 
Sets forth grant priorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Reading First Improvement Act

Bill: 110-hr-1939
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Conflict of interests
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee selection
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Labor and Employment
Performance measurement
Reading
Social Welfare
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Reading First Improvement Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide for the creation of a Reading First Advisory Committee, governed by the Federal Advisory Committee Act, to replace the peer review panel that reviews state grant applications under the Reading First program, designed to improve the reading skills of children in kindergarten through grade three.
 
Prohibits the Committee from being composed of a majority of members selected by one individual or entity. Allows the Committee to form one or more subcommittees. Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) establish a process to screen Committee or subcommittee members for potential conflicts of interest; and (2) develop guidance for how the Committee and any subcommittees will review applications, and provide feedback to states and the Secretary.
 
Directs the Secretary to ensure that the independent organization tasked with evaluating the Reading First program does not hold a contract or subcontract to implement any aspect of the program and does not subcontract with an entity that has such a conflict.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to contract with independent entities for the provision of Reading First technical assistance to states, local educational agencies, and schools; but requires such entities and their subcontractors to screen potential employees for conflicts of interest and clearly separate their provision of such technical assistance from their other activities.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide guidance to Department of Education employees implementing the program on compliance with the prohibition against federal government usurpation of state or local control over school administration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Birthright Citizenship Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1940
Sponsor: Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Citizenship
Immigrants
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Birthright Citizenship Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to consider a person born in the United States &quot;subject to the jurisdiction&quot; of the United States for citizenship at birth purposes if the person is born in the United States of parents, one of whom is: (1) a U.S. citizen or national; (2) a lawful permanent resident alien whose residence is in the United States; or (3) an alien performing active service in the armed forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Liberian Refugee Immigration Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1941
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Africans
Alien labor
Aliens
Department of Justice
Deportation
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Injunctions
Labor and Employment
Law
Liberia
Married people
Refugees
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Liberian Refugee Immigration Protection Act of 2007 - Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain Liberian nationals who were granted, or are eligible to apply for, temporary protected status on or after March 27, 1991.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
AMT Middle Class Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1942
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Local taxation
Minimum tax
Property tax
State taxation
Tax deductions
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
AMT Middle Class Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the alternative minimum tax (AMT) on individuals to: (1) allow a deduction from such tax for state and local taxes; and (2) adjust the AMT exemption amounts for inflation after 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1944
Sponsor: Rep. Altmire, Jason [D-PA-4]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Brain
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Comprehensive health care
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Veterans Affairs
Directories
Disabled
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Head injuries
Health
Health information systems
Home care services
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Long-term care
Medical economics
Medical records
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Science, Technology, Communications
South Asia
Terrorism
Trauma care
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) establish a program to screen veterans eligible for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital, medical, and nursing home care for symptoms of traumatic brain injury (TBI); (2) develop and carry out a program of long-term care for post-acute TBI rehabilitation; (3) establish a TBI transition office at each VA polytrauma network site to coordinate the provision of health care and services to veterans who suffer from moderate to severe TBI and are in need of health care and services not immediately offered by the VA; and (4) establish and maintain the Traumatic Brain Injury Veterans' Health Registry.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians Recognition Act

Bill: 110-hr-1946
Sponsor: Rep. Bonner, Jo [R-AL-1]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alabama
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Indian claims
Indian lands
Land transfers
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians Recognition Act - Extends federal recognition and associated services and benefits to the Mowa Band of Choctaw Indians of Alabama. Restores federal rights and privileges abrogated by earlier statutes. 
Approves and ratifies the cession to the United States of all historical tribal lands of the Band. 
 
Extinguishes all specified claims against the United States, a state or local government, or any other person or entity, by the Band arising subsequent to such cession, and based upon any interest in or right involving the land. 
 
Prohibits the Band from using its federal recognition to assert any historical land claim. 
 
Transfers all interests in lands held by the Band upon enactment of this Act to the United States, to be held in trust for the benefit of the Band. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Haley's Act

Bill: 110-hr-1947
Sponsor: Rep. Boyda, Nancy E. [D-KS-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Arts, Culture, Religion
Cats
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Agriculture
Exhibitions
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Human-animal relationships
Laboratory animals
Law
Licenses
Lions
Protection of animals
Safety measures
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Tigers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Haley's Act - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to: (1) define the term &quot;big cat&quot; to mean any live species of lion, tiger, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, or cougar or any hybrid of such species; (2) allow the Secretary of Agriculture to deny or revoke licenses to animal dealers and exhibitors based on recommendations from state or local officials with jurisdiction over captive wildlife; (3) require the Secretary to include in standards that govern the humane handling, care, treatment, and transportation of animals by dealers, research facilities, and exhibitors a minimum requirement to provide for public safety; (4) increase civil and criminal penalties for violations of such Act; (5) prohibit a licensed exhibitor or dealer from allowing direct contact between a big cat and a member of the public, with an exception for zoos; and (6) prohibit the Secretary from granting a license to a dealer or exhibitor of a big cat until the Secretary has issued regulations to implement this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Favorable Executive Comment Received from USDA.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Joseph E. Keane Federal Employees Freedom Act

Bill: 110-hr-1948
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Caregivers
Cost of living adjustments
Disabled
Federal employees
Labor and Employment
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Joseph E. Keane Federal Employees Freedom Act - Increases the amount of additional compensation payable to an employee who is disabled and requires the services of an attendant. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Amendments Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1949
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Commemorations
Commerce
Connecticut
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Land use
Landscape protection
Nature conservation
Public-private partnerships
Tourism
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Amendments Act of 2007 - Amends the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994 to: (1) extend the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to make grants or provide any assistance under the Act for the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor to September 30, 2015; and (2) increase the total amount that may be appropriated for the Corridor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit local public agencies to act as Medicaid enrollment brokers.

Bill: 110-hr-1950
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Conflict of interests
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Health maintenance organizations
Managed care
Medicaid
Social Welfare
State-local relations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to permit local public agencies to act as Medicaid enrollment brokers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers Act

Bill: 110-hr-1953
Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer price indexes
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Old age, survivors and disability insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers Act - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish a monthly Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI) that indicates changes over time in expenditures for consumption which are typical for individuals aged 62 years of age or older. 

Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to provide for the use of such new CPI in the computation of cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits under such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-04-19
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: 2007-04-19
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: 2007-04-19
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: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Indian tribal governments to transfer the credit for electricity produced from renewable resources.

Bill: 110-hr-1954
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Electric power production
Energy
Federal-Indian relations
Income tax
Minorities
Native Americans
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an Indian tribal government, in the case of a facility that uses a renewable energy resource to produce electricity in which such government has an ownership interest in the gross sales from such facility, to assign to any other person who has such an ownership interest in such facility any portion of the production from the facility that would, but for this Act, be allocated to such government for purposes of the renewable electricity production credit. 
 
Makes such amendment applicable to electricity produced and sold after December 31, 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in House