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Safe Toys for Kids Act

Bill: 110-hr-3716
Sponsor: Rep. Walsh, James T. [R-NY-25]
Introduced: 2007-10-01 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Child safety
Electronic government information
Families
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Import restrictions
Manufacturing industries
Product safety
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-01
text: 
Safe Toys for Kids Act - Amends the Consumer Product Safety Act to require every manufacturer (and any related private labeler) of an article for use by a child under 60 months of age which is subject to a consumer product safety standard or a rule under any Act administered by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) declaring a consumer product a banned hazardous product to certify, based on testing conducted by a nongovernmental independent third party, that the product conforms to such standard or is not a banned hazardous product.
 
Bars importation of such articles lacking independent third party certification.
 
 Allows the CPSC, by rule, to designate as a banned manufacturing site any facility in which consumer products are manufactured that has regularly produced consumer products which fail to comply with any applicable consumer product safety standard or engages in acts or practices likely to result in the production of imminently hazardous consumer products. Prohibits imports from banned sites.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-10-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-10-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-01
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Workforce Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3717
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefit plans
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health education
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Medical screening
Preventive medicine
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: 
Healthy Workforce Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a 50% tax credit for the costs of providing employees with a qualified wellness program. Defines &quot;qualified wellness program&quot; as a program that is certified by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and that consists of a health awareness and education component, a behavioral change component, and a supportive environment component. Terminates such credit after 2017. 

Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to institute an outreach program to inform businesses about the availability of such wellness program tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2042-2043)
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
Educational Advisor and Contractor Integrity Act

Bill: 110-hr-3718
Sponsor: Rep. Altmire, Jason [D-PA-4]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Conflict of interests
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial disclosure
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government ethics
Government paperwork
Law
Secondary education
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: 
Educational Advisor and Contractor Integrity Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to establish a screening process to address conflicts of interest on the part of individuals being considered for service on advisory committees used in the Act's administration.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to grant an exemption to individuals that have a conflict of interest if: (1) the conflict does not compromise the integrity, in fact or appearance, of the committee's efforts; (2) the conflict can be sufficiently mitigated; and (3) reasonable efforts were made to identify alternate conflict-free individuals.
 
Considers such advisory committee members to be special government employees for purposes of the federal criminal code.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) work with the Office of Government Ethics to develop policies and procedures to address conflicts of interest on the part of advisory committee members, including the adoption of an alternative confidential financial disclosure form for such members; and (2) seek advice, before convening an advisory group, from the Committee Management Secretariat within the General Services Administration (GSA) as to the applicability of the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to screen potential providers of technical assistance under the Act for conflicts of interest and implement a process for continually monitoring whether technical assistance providers are appropriately implementing required conflicts of interest policies and procedures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit implementation of a guidance letter proposing rules relating to the Federal-State financial partnerships under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

Bill: 110-hr-3719
Sponsor: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-11]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
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
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing a guidance letter proposing rules relating to the federal-state financial partnerships under titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from applying any requirement under such letter, or any similar requirement, to any state health plan amendment or waiver expanding the income eligibility level for children under SCHIP.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for expenditures from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for certain harbor construction activities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3722
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Economics and Public Finance
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Government trust funds
Habitat conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Restoration ecology
Shore protection
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit automatic expenditures from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for: (1) annual shoreline erosion control projects, including breakwater construction and sand replenishment; and (2) an environmental mitigation or remediation component, granting priority to projects containing a critical habitat as defined by the Endangered Species Act of 1973.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission Act

Bill: 110-hr-3724
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congress
Congressional conference committees
Economics and Public Finance
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Senate rules and procedure
Social security finance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: 
Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission Act - Establishes the National Commission on Entitlement Solvency to review and report to the President and Congress on the Social Security and Medicare programs with respect to: (1) their current and long-term actuarial financial condition; (2) problems that may threaten their long-term solvency, and potential solutions; and (3) recommendations and proposed legislative language that will ensure their long-term solvency and the provision of appropriate benefits.

Provides for expedited congressional consideration of Commission recommendations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Rules, 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: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Rules, 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: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Rules, 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: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Rules, 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: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
Mortgage Disclosure Simplification Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3725
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Consumer education
Debtor and creditor
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Housing finance
Law
Mortgage banks
Mortgage interest rates
Mortgages
Settlement costs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: 
Mortgage Disclosure Simplification Act of 2007 - Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to instruct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to develop and prescribe standard written forms stating the essential terms of a federally related mortgage loan, which lenders or mortgage brokers shall provide to prospective mortgagors.
 
Requires such disclosures to include: (1) a statement of terms regarding a federally related mortgage loan; and (2) a statement of basic easy-to-understand definitions or explanations of such terms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
Property Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3726
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Local taxation
Minimum tax
Property tax
State taxation
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: 
Property Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow state and local real property taxes paid on a principal residence as a deduction from gross income (thus allowing taxpayers who do not itemize their tax deductions to claim such deduction); and (2) exclude such deduction from the calculation of alternative minimum taxable income for purposes of the alternative minimum tax on individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
One America, Many Voices Act

Bill: 110-hr-3727
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Federal employees
Language and languages
Salaries

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: 
One America, Many Voices Act - Entitles an employee in a position requiring the use of one or more languages besides English to premium pay amounting to 5% of the employee's rate of basic pay. Declares that this requirement does not apply to an employee in a position the classification of which takes into account such language requirement, except: (1) to the extent that the rates of basic pay for the position are not at least 5% greater than the rates that would otherwise apply in the absence of the language requirement; and (2) in other circumstances as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) may prescribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 427 North Street in Taft, California, as the "Larry S. Pierce Post Office".

Bill: 110-hr-3729
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: California
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 427 North Street in Taft, California, as the "Larry S. Pierce Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2051)
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
United States-India Interparliamentary Exchange Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3730
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congress
Congressional delegations
Diplomacy
India
South Asia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: 
United States-India Interparliamentary Exchange Act of 2007 - Establishes the United States-India Interparliamentary Exchange Group.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on lutetium oxide.

Bill: 110-hr-3731
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on lutetium oxide.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on phosphoric acid, lanthanum salt, cerium terbium-doped.

Bill: 110-hr-3732
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on phosphoric acid, lanthanum salt, cerium terbium-doped.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
National Foundation on Physical Fitness and Sports Establishment Act

Bill: 110-hr-3733
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Advertising
Charities
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Deceptive advertising
Emblems
Federal incorporation
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Intellectual property
Law
Physical fitness
Signs and symbols
Social Welfare
Trademarks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: 
National Foundation on Physical Fitness and Sports Establishment Act - Establishes the National Foundation on Physical Fitness and Sports as a charitable, nonprofit corporation to promote participation by private organizations in the activities of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. 
Subjects any person who uses the Council's or Foundation's official seal or any trademark, trade name, sign, symbol, or insignia falsely representing association with, or authorization by, the Council or Foundation for the purpose of trade, to induce the sale of any goods or services, or to promote any theatrical exhibition, athletic performance, or competition without the Foundation's consent to a civil action for remedies provided in the Trademark Act of 1946. Allows the Foundation, in conjunction with the Council, to authorize contributors and suppliers of goods or services to use such trade name, trademark, seal, symbol, insignia, or emblem in advertising under specified conditions. 

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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-10-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H11227)
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area Act

Bill: 110-hr-3734
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Idaho
Names
Natural areas
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: 
Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area Act - Renames the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in Idaho as the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in honor of the late Morley Nelson, an international authority on birds of prey, who was instrumental in the establishment of this National Conservation Area. 

action_date: 2008-04-22
text: 

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

Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area Act - Renames the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in Idaho as the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in honor of the late Morley Nelson, an international authority on birds of prey, who was instrumental in the establishment of this National Conservation Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 714.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2500)
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H2500)
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3734.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2500-2501)
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Mr. Rahall moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2008-04-17
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 207.
action_date: 2008-04-17
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-593.
action_date: 2008-04-17
text: Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-593.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the look-through treatment of payments between related controlled foreign corporations.

Bill: 110-hr-3735
Sponsor: Rep. Tanner, John S. [D-TN-8]
Introduced: 2007-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Affiliated corporations
Commerce
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Holding companies
Income tax
Tax deferral
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2013 the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Introduced in House