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A bill to prohibit the introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of children's products that contain lead, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-2038
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2007-09-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Environmental Protection
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Lead
Standards
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: 
Requires that any children's product (any consumer product marketed for use by, or foreseeably substantially used by, children under the age of seven) that contains lead be treated as a banned hazardous substance under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act. Applies the prohibitions contained in specified provisions of that Act without regard to whether the lead contained in such children's product is accessible to children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Strategic Deterrent Sustainment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2039
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2007-09-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense industries
Deterrence
Intercontinental ballistic missiles
Submarines

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: 
Strategic Deterrent Sustainment Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the congressional defense committees respecting the capability of the U.S. industrial base to: (1) maintain, modernize, and sustain the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system until at least 2030; and (2) replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile with a follow-on land-based strategic deterrent system after 2030.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11417)
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11416-11417)
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the alternative tax liability limitation for small property and casualty insurance companies.

Bill: 110-s-2040
Sponsor: Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]
Introduced: 2007-09-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Casualty insurance
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Property insurance
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the eligibility of certain small insurance companies (other than life insurance companies) for the alternative corporate income tax by increasing the premium limitation used to determine such eligibility to $1.971 million (from $1.2 million), with an annual inflation adjustment to that increased amount after 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Introduced in Senate
SMA Treatment Acceleration Act

Bill: 110-s-2042
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-09-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Clinical trials
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug therapy
Epidemiology
Families
Hereditary diseases
Medical research
Muscular diseases
Orphan drugs
Pharmaceutical research
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: 
SMA Treatment Acceleration Act - Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to upgrade and unify existing spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) clinical trial sites to establish a national clinical trials network for SMA. Requires the Director of NIH to ensure that such network: (1) conducts coordinated, multisite, clinical trials of pharmacological approaches to the treatment of SMA; and (2) rapidly and effectively disseminates scientific findings to the field.

Requires the Director of NIH to: (1) establish an SMA data coordinating center; and (2) expand and intensify NIH programs with respect to preclinical translation research and medicinal chemistry related to SMA.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to enhance and provide ongoing support to the existing SMA patient registry to provide for expanded research on the epidemiology of SMA. Directs the Secretary to ensure the collection and analysis of longitudinal data related to individuals of all ages with SMA.

Requires the Secretary to establish the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Coordinating Committee to: (1) coordinate activities across NIH and with other federal health programs and activities relating to SMA; and (2) conduct a study to identify barriers to the development of drugs for treating SMA and similar genetic disorders.

Requires the Director of NIH to establish a trans-National Institutes of Health cooperative research initiative on SMA to ensure the success of the SMA projects led by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. 

Requires the Secretary to submit recommendations to Congress to improve and expand on incentives provided under the Orphan Drug Act and related statutes to promote SMA drug development.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11510-11511)
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-2043
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2007-09-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Authorization
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal office buildings
Government Operations and Politics
Legislation
Relocation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from closing or relocating any Farm Service Agency (FSA) county or field office until at least one year after enactment of an omnibus law to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs for fiscal years after 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Independent Contractor Proper Classification Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2044
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-09-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Auditing
Contractors
Department of the Treasury
Employee rights
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Hours of labor
Internal revenue law
Labor and Employment
Law
Minimum wages
Self-employed
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Unemployment insurance
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: 
Independent Contractor Proper Classification Act of 2007 - Amends the Revenue Act of 1978 to: (1) require employers to treat workers misclassified as independent contractors as employees for employment tax purposes upon a determination of misclassification by the Secretary of the Treasury; (2) repeal the ban on Treasury regulations or revenue rulings on employee/independent contractor classifications; and (3) eliminate the defense of industry practice as a justification for misclassifying workers as independent contractors. 

Requires the Secretary to establish a procedure for workers to petition for a determination of their status as employees or independent contractors. Prohibits employers from retaliating against workers filing a petition. Requires the Secretary to take certain actions upon determining that an employee has been misclassified as an independent contractor, including informing the Department of Labor of such misclassification.

Requires the Secretaries of the Treasury and Labor to issue annual reports and exchange information on worker misclassification cases. Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) identify and track complaints involving worker misclassification for purposes of enforcing wage and hour laws; and (2) investigate industries identified by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as misclassifying workers.

Directs the Secretary of Labor to include on workplace posters required by the Fair Labor Standards Act a notice informing workers of their right to seek a status determination (i.e., whether they are employees or independent contractors) from the IRS.

Requires employers to: (1) notify their independent contractors of their federal tax obligations, the labor and employment protections inapplicable to independent contractors, and their right to seek a status determination from the IRS; and (2) maintain for three years a list of their independent contractors, including names and tax identification numbers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Text a Tip Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2046
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-09-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Informers
Science, Technology, Communications
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: 
Text a Tip Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to state or local police departments to implement an anonymous tip program using cell phone text messaging to assist police in preventing and solving crimes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Flood Insurance Disclosure Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2047
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-09-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Disaster insurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Insurance companies
Property insurance
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: 
Flood Insurance Disclosure Act of 2007 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to require insurers to disclose, in writing, to purchasers of a homeowner's or renter's insurance policy: (1) that such policy does not include certain flood insurance coverage; (2) that such person may be eligible to purchase such coverage; and (3) the telephone number and Internet address to contact the National Flood Insurance Program in order to obtain such coverage.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11512)
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11511-11512)
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Jose Buendia Balderas, Alicia Aranda De Buendia, and Ana Laura Beundia Aranda.

Bill: 110-s-2048
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-09-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Provides for the relief of Jose Buendia Balderas, Alicia Aranda De Buendia, and Ana Laura Beundia Aranda.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11512-11513)
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11512)
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the implementation of policies to prohibit States from providing quality health coverage to children in need under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

Bill: 110-s-2049
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-09-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Law
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: 
Makes null and void the August 17, 2007, letter to State Health Officials from the Director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requiring states that have established or that expand the income eligibility level for children under title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act above 250% of the federal poverty level to comply with new requirements as a condition of covering such children. Declares that such letter shall not be applied.

Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from: (1) promulgating or implementing any requirement, rule, or provision similar to any requirement in the August 17, 2007, letter; or (2) applying any such requirement to any state plan amendment or waiver expanding the income eligibility level for children under title XXI.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11513)
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Arthur Woolweaver, Jr. Social Security Act Improvements for the Terminally Ill Act

Bill: 110-s-2050
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2007-09-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Health
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Terminally ill

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: 
Arthur Woolweaver, Jr. Social Security Act Improvements for the Terminally Ill Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the waiting period for disability insurance benefits for terminally ill individuals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11513-11514)
action_date: 2007-09-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Education Achievement Program Reauthorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2051
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Continuing education
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Immigrant education
Immigration
Language and languages
Literacy programs
Recruiting of employees
Rural education
School districts
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 
Rural Education Achievement Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends part B (Rural Education Initiative) of title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise the Small, Rural School Achievement program, which gives rural local educational agencies (LEAs) federal formula grants and greater flexibility in the use of state educational funds.
 
Limits eligibility to LEAs whose schools are all designated with a school locale code of Fringe Rural, Distant Rural, or Remote Rural, unless located in an area the state defines as rural.
 
Raises federal grant limits when funds available to implement the program equal or exceed $100 million.
 
Alters LEAs' eligibility for federal funds under the Rural and Low-Income School program by requiring that: (1) at least 40% of the children ages 5 through 17 that LEAs serve be eligible for a free or reduced price lunch under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act; and (2) all of their schools be designated with a school locale code of Distant Town, Remote Town, Fringe Rural, Distant Rural, or Remote Rural.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Equal Justice for United States Military Personnel Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2052
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Appellate courts
Appellate procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Jurisdiction
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 
Equal Justice for United States Military Personnel Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to allow for review by writ of certiorari of certain cases denied relief or review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.

action_date: 2008-09-12
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Equal Justice for United States Military Personnel Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to allow for review by writ of certiorari of certain cases denied relief or review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-12
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 959.
action_date: 2008-09-12
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-12
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-11
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S11589)
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11588-11589)
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Neighborhood Reclamation and Revitalization Program Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2054
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Residential rehabilitation
Urban affairs
Urban housing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 
Neighborhood Reclamation and Revitalization Program Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make grants to a local government to fund the demolition of vacant housing, or such demolition in combination with a study of neighborhood revitalization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Alejandro Gomez and Juan Sebastian Gomez.

Bill: 110-s-2055
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Provides for the relief of Alejandro Gomez and Juan Sebastian Gomez.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11592)
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Anesthesiology Teaching Funding Restoration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2056
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2007-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Anesthetics
Education
Higher education
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical residents
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 
Medicare Anesthesiology Teaching Funding Restoration Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) to set forth a special payment rule of 100% of the fee schedule amount for teaching anesthesiologists involved in the training of physician residents, if certain presence and availability requirements are met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S11593)
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11592-11593)
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Merit System Reauthorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2057
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Authorization
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Due process of law
Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Government ethics
Homosexuality
Law
Merit Systems Protection Board
Office of Special Counsel
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 
Federal Merit System Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 to authorize appropriations for FY2008-FY2010 for the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and the Office of Special Counsel (OSC).

Repudiates assertions that federal employees are not protected from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Expresses the sense of Congress that discrimination on such basis against federal employees and applicants is currently prohibited. Prohibits any federal employee who has authority to take, direct, recommend, or approve any personnel action from discriminating for or against any federal employee or applicant on such basis.

Revises procedures of the MSPB and OSC, including by requiring the MSPB to use the National Labor Relations Board model for procedural due process and by requiring the OSC to prescribe regulations necessary to receive and investigate allegations of prohibited personnel practices.

Requires the Special Counsel to have professional experience that demonstrates an understanding of and a commitment to protecting the merit based civil service.

Requires the OSC to publish specified whistleblower disclosures and reports.

Sets forth MSPB and OSC reporting requirements with respect to incidences of prohibited personnel practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S11594-11596)
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11593-11594)
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate