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9/11 Heroes Health Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-120
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Health insurance
Health surveys
Medical screening
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
New York City
Physical examinations
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
9/11 Heroes Health Improvement Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to eligible entities to provide medical and mental health monitoring, tracking, and treatment to individuals whose health has been directly impacted as a result of the attacks on New York City and at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Includes as eligible individuals firefighters, police officers, paramedics, workers, volunteers, residents, and any other individual who worked at Ground Zero, Fresh Kills (recovery site on Staten Island), or the Pentagon or lived or worked in the vicinity of such areas, whose health has deteriorated as a result of the attacks, and who has been evaluated by a physician or mental health professional for 9/11-related health conditions and needs treatment for such conditions. Sets the order of priority for individuals covered under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the redeployment of United States forces from Iraq.

Bill: 110-s-121
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
Military strategy
Military training
Military withdrawal
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
States that it is U.S. policy to redeploy U.S. forces within 180 days after enactment of this Act while maintaining in Iraq the minimal level of U.S. forces sufficient to engage directly in targeted counterterrorism activities, train Iraq security forces, and protect U.S. infrastructure and personnel in Iraq. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to jointly submit to Congress a report setting forth the strategy for such redeployment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1398-1400)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the project for hurricane and storm damage reduction, Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana.

Bill: 110-s-123
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Canals
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to water resources development
Floods
Gulf of Mexico
Hurricanes
Intracoastal waterways
Louisiana
Maintenance and repair
Navigation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army to carry out the hurricane and storm damage reduction project, Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, in accordance with the Chief of Engineer's reports of August 23, 2002, and July 22, 2003, at specified federal and non-federal costs. 
 
Requires the Secretary to credit toward the non-federal share of the cost of the project elements the cost of design and construction work carried out by the non-federal interest before the date of the partnership agreement for the project elements if the work is integral to the project elements. 
 
Makes the operation, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of the Houma Navigation Canal lock complex and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway floodgate features of the project that provide for inland waterway transportation a federal responsibility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S125)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S125)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Satellite and Cable Access Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-124
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Cable television
Copyright
Direct broadcast satellites
Intellectual property
Law
Licenses
Subscription television
Television broadcasting
Television relay systems
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Satellite and Cable Access Act of 2007 - Amends federal copyright law and the Communications Act of 1934 to allow certain counties and areas to receive broadcast transmissions of network television stations located in the capital of the state in which such counties and areas are located. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S125-126)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Granada Relocation Center National Historic Site Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-125
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Commemorations
Concentration camps
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Japanese Americans
Land transfers
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Granada Relocation Center National Historic Site Act of 2007 - Establishes the Granada Relocation Center National Historic Site, consisting of parts of Camp Amache, located in Granada, Colorado, as an affiliated site of the National Park System. Designates the &quot;Friends of Amache&quot; as the management entity for the Site.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to develop a general management plan for the Site. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S126)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Mesa Verde National Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-126
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Archaeology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Boundaries
Colorado
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Habitat conservation
History
Land transfers
National parks
Plants

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Mesa Verde National Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire specified land adjacent to the Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado or an interest in such land for addition to the Park. Revises the boundary of the Park to reflect the acquisition of such land. Requires the Secretary to administer any land or interest in land acquired under this Act as part of the Park. 

action_date: 2007-06-26
text: 
Mesa Verde National Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire specified land adjacent to the Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado or an interest in such land for addition to the Park. 
 
Revises the boundary of the Park to reflect the acquisition of such land. 
 
Requires the Secretary to administer any land or interest in land acquired under this Act as part of the Park. 
 
Authorizes appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 223.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment. With written report No. 110-93.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment. With written report No. 110-93.
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-73.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S126)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Act of 2000 to explain the purpose and provide for the administration of the Baca National Wildlife Refuge.

Bill: 110-s-127
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Colorado
Habitat conservation
Landscape protection
Migratory bird conservation
Riparian ecology
Water Resources Development
Water rights
Wetlands
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Act of 2000 to provide that the purpose of the Baca National Wildlife Refuge shall be to restore, enhance, and maintain wetland, upland, riparian, and other habitats for native wildlife, plant, and fish species in the San Luis Valley. Instructs the Secretary of the Interior, in administering the Refuge, to: (1) emphasize migratory bird conservation; and (2) take into consideration the role of the Refuge in broader landscape conservation efforts. Provides for the Secretary, in administering water resources for the Refuge, to use decreed water rights on the Refuge in approximately the same manner that the water rights have been used historically. 

action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
Amends the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Act of 2000 to provide that the purpose of the Baca National Wildlife Refuge shall be to restore, enhance, and maintain wetland, upland, riparian, and other habitats for native wildlife, plant, and fish species in the San Luis Valley. Instructs the Secretary of the Interior, in administering the Refuge, to: (1) emphasize migratory bird conservation; and (2) take into consideration the role of the Refuge in broader landscape conservation efforts. Provides for the Secretary, in administering water resources for the Refuge and subject to any existing agreement and to the extent consistent with the purposes of the Refuge, to use decreed water rights on the Refuge in approximately the same manner that the water rights have been used historically. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 636.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment. With written report No. 110-284.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment. With written report No. 110-284.
action_date: 2008-01-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-213.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S126)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Cache La Poudre River National Heritage Area Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-128
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Boundaries
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colorado
Commemorations
Cultural property
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Historic sites
History
Landscape protection
Nature conservation
Nonprofit organizations
Right of property
Rivers
Social Welfare
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area Technical Amendments Act of 2007 - Amends the Cache La Poudre River Corridor Act to redesignate the Cache La Poudre Corridor as the &quot;Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area.&quot; 
 
Designates the Poudre Heritage Alliance as the management entity for the Area. Provides for the removal of private property included within the boundary of the Area upon request from the owner. 
 
Prohibits the Alliance from using federal funds received under this Act to acquire real property. Bars the acquisition of any land or interest in land by the Secretary of the Interior or the Alliance under this Act without the owner's consent. 
 
Requires the Alliance to prepare and submit a management plan for the Area. 
 
Allows the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with the Alliance for the purpose of carrying out the plan.
 
Prohibits any private property from being preserved, conserved, or promoted under the plan until: (1) the Alliance notifies the owner; and (2) the owner provides to the Alliance consent for the preservation, conservation, or promotion. 
 
Specifies private property protections.
 
Terminates the authority of the Secretary to provide financial assistance to the Alliance (excluding technical assistance and administrative oversight) under the Act 10 years after enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 637.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-285.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-285.
action_date: 2008-01-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-266.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S126)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to study and promote the use of energy-efficient computer servers in the United States.

Bill: 110-s-129
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Commerce
Computer industry
Computers
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost control
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Energy consumption
Energy demand
Energy efficiency
Energy supplies
Finance and Financial Sector
Fuel cells
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Governmental investigations
Quality of products
Science, Technology, Communications
Superconductivity

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), through the Energy Star program, to analyze and report to Congress on the growth and energy consumption of computer data centers by the federal government and private enterprise.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that it is in the United States' best interest for purchasers of computer servers to give high priority to energy efficiency as a factor in determining best value and performance for purchases of servers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S126)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-130
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Managed care
Medical economics
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) extend the period reasonable cost reimbursement contracts under Medicare can remain in the market, and the period during which they can be modified to expand their service area; and (2) apply to extended or renewed reasonable cost contracts certain requirements under Medicare part C (Medicare Advantage).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S126-127)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Mark-to-Market Extension Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-131
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Apartment houses
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing management
Housing subsidies
Mortgages
Nonprofit organizations
Rent
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Mark-to-Market Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 to reauthorize through FY2011: (1) the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured MultifamilyHousing Mortgage and Housing Assistance Restructuring (Mark-to-Market) program; and (2) the Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring.
 
Permits the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to waive rent level limits for: (1) disaster-damaged eligible projects; and (2) up to 9% (currently 5%) of all units subject to restructured mortgages in any fiscal year, based on certain findings of special need.
 
Redefines multifamily housing project eligible for the Mark-to-Market program to authorize eligibility treatment, upon owner request, for certain projects whose rents do not, on an average per unit or per room basis, exceed the rent of comparable properties in the same market area, if the Secretary determines that such treatment is necessary to preserve a project in the most cost-effective manner in relation to other alternative preservation options.
 
Requires each mortgage restructuring and rental assistance sufficiency plan to determine, for units assisted with project-based assistance in eligible multifamily housing projects, adjusted rent levels for disaster-damaged eligible projects equal to 100% of the fair market rents for the relevant market area.
 
Revises requirements for an approved mortgage restructuring and rental assistance sufficiency plan with respect to modification or forgiveness of all or part of a second mortgage held by the Secretary (debt relief) if the project concerned is acquired by a tenant organization or tenant-endorsed community-based nonprofit or public agency.
 
 Sets forth requirements for alternative periods of eligibility for such nonprofit debt relief if the purchaser acquires the project subsequent to the date of recordation of the related affordability agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S127)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Methamphetamine Trafficking Enforcement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-132
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Chemicals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Exchange of persons programs
Indian law enforcement
International Affairs
International cooperation
Life imprisonment
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Native Americans
Negotiations
Organized crime
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Methamphetamine Trafficking Enforcement Act of 2007 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to reduce the threshold requirements for imposing enhanced criminal penalties on individuals engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise involving methamphetamine.

Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the U.S. Trade Representative, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security should address methamphetamine controls in multilateral or bilateral negotiations with foreign countries; and (2) the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration should collaborate with foreign law enforcement officials to combat methamphetamine trafficking into the United States.

Requires the Attorney General to report to Congress on problems faced by Indian reservations relating to methamphetamine trafficking and abuse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S127)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Arkansas Valley Conduit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-134
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Colorado
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Infrastructure
Pipelines
Transportation and Public Works
Water districts
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Arkansas Valley Conduit Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to plan, design, and construct a water delivery pipeline, to be known as the Arkansas Valley Conduit, from a location in the vicinity of Pueblo Reservoir, Pueblo, to Lamar, Colorado.
 
Designates the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District, or its designee that is recognized under state law as an entity that has taxing authority, as the lead non-federal entity for the Conduit. Directs such entity to: (1) act as the official agent of the Conduit; (2) pay the non-federal share of any increased costs, including construction costs, under this Act; and (3) pay costs for and perform the operations, maintenance, and replacement of the Conduit. Sets the federal share of: (1) total planning, design, and construction costs at 80%; and (2) any increased costs that are a result of fundamental design changes conducted at the request of anyone other than such entity at 100%. Directs the Secretary, upon completion, to transfer ownership of the Conduit to such entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S133)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate