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Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-772
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Building construction
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational facilities
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Educational tests
Federal aid to education
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Graduate education
Higher education
Information technology
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Maintenance and repair
Medical education
Medical residents
Minorities
Minority education
Nurses
Nursing education
Recruiting of employees
Salaries
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Student enrollment
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to award a grant to each eligible school of nursing to increase the number of nursing faculty and students.
 
Requires such schools to formulate and implement a plan to accomplish at least two of specified goals, which include: (1) establishing or significantly expanding an accelerated baccalaureate degree nursing program designed to graduate new nurses in 12 to 18 months; (2) establishing cooperative interdisciplinary training between schools of nursing and other specified health related fields; (3) increasing admissions, enrollment, and retention of qualified individuals who are financially disadvantaged; (4) increasing enrollment of minority and diverse student populations; (5) increasing enrollment of new graduate baccalaureate nursing students in graduate programs that educate nurse faculty members; (6) developing post-baccalaureate residency programs to prepare nurses for practice in specialty areas where nursing shortages are more severe; and (7) increasing integration of geriatric content into the core curriculum.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to study ways to increase participation in the nurse faculty profession and to submit a report to Congress that includes: (1) a discussion of the master's degree and doctoral degree programs that are successful in placing graduates as faculty in schools of nursing; and (2) an examination of compensation disparities throughout the nursing profession and between higher education instructional faculty generally and higher education instructional nursing faculty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Rape Prevention and Education Grant Program Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-774
Sponsor: Rep. McCotter, Thaddeus G. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Authorization
Crime prevention
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Victims of crimes
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Rape Prevention and Education Grant Program Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY2008-FY2012 for grants to states for rape prevention and education programs conducted by rape crisis centers, state sexual assault coalitions, and other public and private nonprofit entities. Earmarks a portion of such funds for the provision of resource information, policy, training, and technical assistance to federal, state, local, and Indian tribal agencies, state sexual assault coalitions, local sexual assault programs, and other professionals and interested parties on issues relating to sexual assault, including maintenance of a central resource library to collect, prepare, analyze, and disseminate information, statistics, and analyses relating to the incidence and prevention of sexual assault.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq, 2007

Bill: 110-hr-775
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Arms control
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Constitutional amendments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Government Operations and Politics
Insurgency
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Law
Middle East and North Africa
Military assistance
Military command and control
Military occupation
Military operations
Military posture
Militia movements
Officer personnel
Peacekeeping forces
Performance measurement
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Police
War relief

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq, 2007 - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY2007 for defense and for the reconstruction of Iraq, with specific appropriations for: (1) military operations in Iraq; and (2) security, relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction in Iraq.
 
Directs the President to transmit to Congress a request for such additional appropriations for the remainder of FY2007 as the President considers necessary for defense and the reconstruction of Iraq.
 
Expresses the sense that Congress should consider providing additional appropriations pursuant to any request by the President predicated on progress by the government of Iraq in achieving performance measures relating to: (1) Iraqi forces; (2) an oil revenue sharing law; (3) a reformed de-Baathification process; (4) the disarmament of militias; (5) Iraq economic development; and (6) Iraqi constitutional reform.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-Drilling Act

Bill: 110-hr-777
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Continental shelf
Gas in submerged lands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mining leases
Ocean mining
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Submarine oil well drilling

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-Drilling Act, or the COAST Anti-Drilling Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease for the exploration, development, or production of oil, natural gas, or any other mineral in either the Mid-Atlantic or the North Atlantic planning areas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the residential energy efficient property credit.

Bill: 110-hr-778
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Electric appliances
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Fuel cells
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Solar energy
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax credit for residential energy efficient property expenditures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Tax Snooping Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-779
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Department of the Treasury
Dismissal of employees
Federal employees
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government ethics
Income tax
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Law
Misconduct in office
Right of privacy
Tax auditing
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Tax Snooping Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to double the dollar amount of civil damages available and the criminal fines for unauthorized inspection or disclosure of tax returns and return information.

Amends the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 to require the firing of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees who violate IRS policy on unauthorized inspection of tax returns or return information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Counterfeit Drug Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-780
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Death
Drug adulteration
Drugs
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Labeling
Product counterfeiting
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Counterfeit Drug Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish criminal penalties of a fine and imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both, for any person who commits a prohibited act relating to counterfeiting knowing that: (1) the conduct concerns the rendering of a drug as a counterfeit drug; (2) the conduct will cause a drug to be a counterfeit drug; or (3) a drug, held, sold, or dispensed is a counterfeit drug. Increases the term of imprisonment to any term of years or for life if the use of a counterfeit drug is the proximate cause of a consumer's death.
 
Modifies provisions pertaining to criminal fines for committing certain prohibited acts involving food, drugs, devices, or cosmetics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to change the effective date for paid-up coverage under the military Survivor Benefit Plan.

Bill: 110-hr-784
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Families
Labor and Employment
Military dependents
Military pensions
Retired military personnel
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Amends federal provisions relating to the military Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) to change from October 1, 2008, to October 1, 2007, the effective date on or after which no reduction may be made in the retired pay of an SBP participant for any month after the later of: (1) the 360th month for which such pay was so reduced; and (2) the month during which the participant attains 70 years of age.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-785
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administration of justice
Auditing
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional-judicial relations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Inspectors general
Judges
Judicial ethics
Judicial officers
Misconduct in office
Waste in government spending
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to establish the Office of Inspector General for the Judicial Branch of the U.S. government, to be headed by an Inspector General appointed by the Chief Justice. Sets a term of four years, which may be extended by additional reappointments. Authorizes the Chief Justice to remove an Inspector General from office.
 
Requires the Office, except with respect to the Supreme Court, to: (1) conduct investigations of alleged misconduct in the Judicial Branch; (2) conduct and supervise audits and investigations; and (3) prevent and detect waste, fraud, and abuse.
 
Provides for whistleblower protection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Food and Drug Administration Safety Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-788
Sponsor: Rep. Tierney, John F. [D-MA-6]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Advertising
Biomedical engineering
Clinical trials
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug adulteration
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health information systems
Law
Licenses
Medical supplies
Pharmaceutical research
Product safety
Risk
Sales promotion
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Food and Drug Administration Safety Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish the Center for Postmarket Evaluation and Research for Drugs and Biologics within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
 
Requires the Director of the Center to conduct activities to ensure the safety and effectiveness of FDA-approved drugs and licensed biological products, including by: (1) conducting postmarket risk assessment and surveillance of such drugs and products; (2) determining whether a postmarket study is required; (3) contracting, or requiring the sponsor of such a drug or product to contract, with the holders of domestic and international patient databases to conduct epidemiologic and other observational studies; (4) determining whether a drug or product may present an unreasonable risk to the health of patients or the general public; (5) taking corrective action if such an unreasonable risk may exist; and (6) making information about the safety and effectiveness of such drugs and biological products available to the public and health care providers in a timely manner.
 
Requires the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the Director on postmarket studies, drugs and biological products that may present an unreasonable risk, and appropriate corrective actions.
 
Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to assess civil penalties for violations of this Act.
 
Allows the Director to withdraw or suspend approval of a drug or license for a biological product using expedited procedures under certain circumstances.
 
Transfers to the Center the functions and duties of the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Office of Men's Health Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-789
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Alaska
Asian American ethnic groups
Black colleges
Blacks
Cancer
Cardiovascular diseases
Chronically ill
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Communication in medicine
Conferences
Congressional reporting requirements
Dental care
Department of Health and Human Services
Discrimination in medical care
Education
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Hawaiians
Health education
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Indian education
Indian medical care
Indigenous peoples
Liver diseases
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medically uninsured
Men
Mental health
Minorities
Minorities in medicine
Minority education
Minority health
Native Americans
Pacific Islanders
Performance measurement
Public service advertising
Respiratory diseases
Science, Technology, Communications
Suicide

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Office of Men's Health Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Office of Men's Health within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Office, to collaborate with relevant federal agencies and offices to identify and report on men's health data, including health disparities for chronic diseases and health conditions related to men of color. 
 
Requires the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education to: (1) conduct conferences on men's health; (2) conduct public education campaigns to reduce health disparities relating to men's health; (3) evaluate the effectiveness of resources that focus on men's health; and (4) report on the gaps and problems that men of color have in utilizing health resources. 
 
Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Institute of Medicine to conduct a study on men's health that includes information on racial and ethnic minority men and their health disparities. Requires the agreement to provide for the establishment of a panel of independent experts to assist in the conduct of the study by reviewing and providing guidance on appropriate outcomes and assessments for men's health and health disparities of men of color. 
 
Requires the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to include an analysis of available data on racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities in men's health in the annual report to Congress on health disparities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
PILT and Refuge Revenue Sharing Permanent Funding Act

Bill: 110-hr-790
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Authorization
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Payments in lieu of taxes
Revenue sharing
Taxation
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
PILT and Refuge Revenue Sharing Permanent Funding Act - Provides permanent funding for the following programs: (1) Bureau of Land Management Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT); and (2) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's refuge revenue sharing program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E241)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
To increase the renewable fuel content of gasoline sold in the United States by the year 2025 to 25 billion gallons, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-791
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Environmental Protection
Motor vehicle pollution control
Oils and fats
Reformulated gasoline
Refuse as fuel
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to prescribe: (1) the volume of renewable fuel that gasoline sold in the United States must contain in calendar years 2013 through 2025; and (2) a formula for determining the applicable volume for calendar years after 2025. Repeals provisions requiring a minimum quantity of renewable fuel to be derived from cellulosic biomass. Provides that 1.0 gallon of a fuel blend containing 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline shall be considered to be the equivalent of 1.5 gallons of renewable fuel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E238)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in House