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Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-735
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Corporations
Criminal investigation
Damages
Emergency Management
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Informers
Law
Military personnel
Missing in action
Postal service
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Terrorism
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) extend the prohibition against conveying false information and hoaxes to include false information and hoaxes about any federal crime of terrorism; (2) increase maximum prison terms for hoaxes involving a member of the Armed Forces during war; (3) expand civil liability provisions relating to expenses incurred by emergency personnel in responding to a hoax; and (4) extend the prohibition against mailing threatening communications to include threats against corporations or governmental entities (as well as individuals).

action_date: 2007-05-04
text: 
Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) expand the prohibition against conveying false information and hoaxes to include false information and hoaxes about any federal crime of terrorism; (2) increase maximum prison terms for hoaxes involving a member of the Armed Forces during war; (3) revise civil liability provisions to allow emergency personnel to seek reimbursement of expenses from the perpetrator of a hoax who receives actual notice that such personnel are taking emergency or investigative actions in response to the hoax and who fails to inform one or more parties of the hoax; and (4) expand the prohibition against mailing threatening communications in the United States or to a foreign country to include threats against corporations and governmental entities (as well as individuals).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 134.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-61.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-61.
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2501-2502)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Laboratory Test Improvement Act

Bill: 110-s-736
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Electronic data interchange
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Internet
Labeling
Law
Medical laboratories
Medical supplies
Medical tests
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Tissue banks
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Laboratory Test Improvement Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to deem a laboratory-developed test that is a direct-to-consumer test to be a prescription test if it satisfies the requirements of this Act. 

Deems any laboratory-developed test to be a medical device.

Sets forth labeling and registration requirements for laboratory-developed tests.

Requires the manufacturer of a laboratory-developed test that has not been cleared or approved for its intended use to submit the analytical and clinical validity of the test for its intended use to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires the Secretary to include such information in a public database.

Requires the Secretary to provide guidance to: (1) facilitate the use of reviews of the peer-reviewed biomedical literature and other information and data about the clinical validity of laboratory-developed tests and in vitro diagnostic products when clearing or approving such tests and products under the FFDCA; and (2) clarify when modifications to a laboratory-developed test require updating of the submitted information.

Sets forth provisions regarding classification of laboratory-developed tests.

Requires the Secretary to issue a proposed rule to establish a specialty area for the certification of laboratories for laboratory-developed tests to acquire genetic information, which shall include standards for proficiency testing of such tests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2502-2503)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Voter Advocate and Democracy Index Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-737
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Ballots
Congress
Congressional elections
Congressional reporting requirements
Democracy
Economics and Public Finance
Election Assistance Commission
Election administration
Executive reorganization
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Presidential elections
Statistics
Voter registration
Voting
Voting machines

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Voter Advocate and Democracy Index Act of 2007 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to establish within the Election Assistance Commission an Office of the Voter Advocate to develop and administer a program to: (1) collect specified voter data from states with respect to each election for federal office; (2) develop, refine, and publish a Democracy Index; (3) make grants to eligible entities; and (4) make recommendations to states to improve their performance in the administration of federal elections (as determined based on a state-by-state comparison of the voter data collected under this Act.) 
 
Directs the Office to establish a Democracy Index Pilot Program for calendar year 2008 to make grants to eligible entities for the purpose of creating a Democracy Index.
 
Requires each state to submit to the Office of the Voter Advocate specified voter data with respect to each election for federal office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2503)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business International Trade Enhancements Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-738
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Exports
Federal employees
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade promotion
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Liens
Manufacturing industries
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Small Business International Trade Enhancements Act of 2007 - Amends the Small Business Act to establish an Associate Administrator for International Trade as the head of the Office of International Trade of the Small Business Administration (SBA), who shall be responsible for international trade policy. Grants the SBA Administrator the authority to appoint additional Associate Administrators. 
 
Requires United States Export Assistance Centers (export centers/one-stop shops) to aid the Office in maintaining a trade distribution network for trade promotion and trade assistance for small businesses. Requires the Office to establish annual goals to enhance the export capabilities of small businesses and small manufacturers to compete against foreign entities.
 
Directs the Office, in order to provide small businesses access to certain export financing programs, to appoint at least one trade financial specialist within the SBA to oversee international loan programs and assist SBA employees with trade finance issues.
 
Directs the SBA Administrator to ensure that the number of full-time equivalent Office employees assigned to one-stop shops for U.S. exporters is at least the number that were assigned on January 1, 2003.
 
Increases: (1) the total outstanding amount of an international trade loan guaranteed by the SBA under the Export Working Capital Program; (2) the maximum amount of an international trade loan; and (3) the maximum amount available for export working capital, supplies, or financing. Allows such loan to be secured by a second lien position on the property or equipment financed by the loan or on other assets of the small business concern. (Currently, a first lien position or first mortgage on the property, equipment, or other business assets is required.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2504-2505)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2503-2504)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Dental Health Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-739
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dental care
Dentistry
Dentists
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Discrimination in medical care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal officials
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health insurance
Health surveys
Higher education
Indian children
Indian education
Indian medical care
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical residents
Medical statistics
Medically uninsured
Minorities
Nursing
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Public health personnel
Salaries
School health programs
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Children's Dental Health Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to states to improve dental services to children enrolled in Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). 
 Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary, acting through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to establish a grant program to expand the availability of primary dental care services in dental health professional shortage areas or medically underserved areas. Authorizes retention bonuses for eligible dental officers of the Indian Health Service. 

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of HRSA and the Director of the Indian Health Service, to establish demonstration projects to increase access to dental services for children in underserved areas.

Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) an oral health initiative to reduce disparities in oral health; and (2) Chief Dental Officers for Medicaid and SCHIP, HRSA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Requires the Director of the CDC to collect data on dental, craniofacial, and oral health. 

Requires the Secretary to identify populations at high risk for early childhood caries (tooth decay) and to develop prevention programs. 

Revises the eligibility requirements for the school-based dental sealant program to include Indian tribes. 

Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the CDC, to award grants to states and Indian tribes to improve their basic capacity to improve the oral health of children and their families.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2507-2510)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2505-2507)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Invest USA Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-740
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Capital gains tax
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional-executive relations
Data banks
Department of Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Depressed areas
Economic development
Economic growth
Economic statistics
Economics and Public Finance
Employee benefit plans
Employee health benefits
Executive reorganization
Exports
Foreign investments
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Health
High technology
Imports
Income tax
International competitiveness
Labor and Employment
Presidential appointments
Regional economic development
Science, Technology, Communications
Skilled labor
Strategic planning
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Invest USA Act of 2007 - Establishes in the Department of Commerce a United States Direct Investment Administration, headed by an Under Secretary of Commerce for United States Direct Investment.
 
Requires the Under Secretary to collect, analyze, and report annually to the President and the appropriate congressional committees: (1) on specified data about direct investment in each state and region; and (2) an agenda based on such data and analysis.
 
Requires the President to establish, and the Under Secretary to assume lead responsibility for, an Interagency United States Direct Investment Promotion Committee.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code (relating to designation of renewal communities) to authorize the Under Secretary to designate an additional 10 nominated areas as renewal communities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2510-2512)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2510)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Working Waterfront Preservation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-741
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Aquaculture
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cooperative societies
Easements
Economics and Public Finance
Fishing boats
Grants-in-aid
Harbors
Land transfers
Land use
Law
Maintenance and repair
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Waterfronts

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Working Waterfront Preservation Act of 2007 - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to award a grant to a state or local government of a coastal state, a nonprofit organization, or a fishing cooperative for projects to: (1) acquire real property in a coastal state to provide access to commercial fishermen or persons in the aquaculture industry to coastal waters in working waterfront areas; or (2) make improvements to real property owned by an eligible entity in a coastal state to provide access to such persons to coastal waters in working waterfront areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2512)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 36, United States Code, to modify the individuals eligible for associate membership in the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the United States of America, Incorporated.

Bill: 110-s-743
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commemorations
Families
Federal incorporation
Married people
Military dependents
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Siblings

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Amends the federal charter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the United States of America, Incorporated (the corporation), to authorize the corporation to extend eligibility for associate membership in the corporation to the parents, spouse, siblings, and lineal descendants (currently, to parents and lineal descendants) of a Purple Heart recipient.

action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 

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

 
Amends the federal charter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the United States of America, Incorporated (the corporation), to authorize the corporation to extend eligibility for associate membership in the corporation to the parents, spouse, siblings, and lineal descendants (currently, to parents and lineal descendants) of a Purple Heart recipient.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S2540; text as passed Senate: CR S2540)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S2540; text as passed Senate: CR S2540)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Spectrum Availability for Emergency-Response and Law-Enforcement to Improve Vital Emergency Services Act

Bill: 110-s-744
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Auctions
Broadband
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporations
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal Communications Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Internet
Law
Licenses
Nonprofit organizations
Radio spectrum allocation
Social Welfare
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Spectrum Availability for Emergency-Response and Law-Enforcement to Improve Vital Emergency Services Act or the SAVE LIVES Act - Establishes the Public Safety Interoperable Communications Working Group to provide continuing advice to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Department of Homeland Security regarding public safety interoperable communications.
 
Declares that the 24 MHz band of spectrum allocated to public safety services should be used by state, local, and regional public safety organizations for interoperable voice and data communications. Requires the FCC to complete a specified Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the 700MHz Band and issue rules allowing certain channels within the current 24 MHz band of public safety spectrum to accommodate data communications.
 
Requires the FCC to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the allocation for auction of the 30MHz band of recovered analog spectrum and establish specifications for a national public safety broadband network. Establishes the Public Safety Broadband Trust Corporation and requires, if no bidder is successful, granting it a license for the use of such spectrum. Specifies Corporation duties, including facilitating development of such network. Authorizes the FCC to enter into an agreement with the Corporation to guarantee loans to the Corporation. Pledges the full faith and credit of the United States for principal and interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2512-2514)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Gulf Coast Export Recovery Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-745
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alabama
Department of Commerce
Federal employees
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade promotion
Government Operations and Politics
Louisiana
Mississippi
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Gulf Coast Export Recovery Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to hire one additional full-time international trade specialist for the United States Export Assistance Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, to provide export promotion services to specified Louisiana parishes.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to hire to the Office of International Trade of the SBA an additional full-time international finance specialist who shall be located at the Center to carry out export promotion activities in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2515)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2514)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterinary Public Health Workforce Expansion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-746
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-03-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Biological warfare
Building construction
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Federal aid to education
Food safety
Higher education
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical research
Medical residents
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: 
Veterinary Public Health Workforce Expansion Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to veterinary schools or institutions offering training for veterinarians to improve public health preparedness through increasing the number of veterinarians in the workforce. 
 
Requires the Secretary to give preference to applicants that demonstrate a comprehensive approach by involving more than one such school or institution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Introduced in Senate