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Catalyst to Better Diabetes Care Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2479
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2007-12-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cost effectiveness
Diabetes
Education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Law
Licenses
Medical education
Medical records
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Public records
Social Welfare
Vital statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: 
Catalyst to Better Diabetes Care Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to: (1) review uptake and utilization of diabetes screening benefits to identify and address problems with utilization and data collection mechanisms; (2) establish an outreach program to identify existing efforts to increase awareness among seniors and providers of such benefits; and (3) maximize cost-effectiveness in increasing utilization of such benefits.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an advisory group to examine and recommend best practices of employee wellness and disease management programs.

Directs the Secretary to prepare, biennially, a diabetes report card for the nation and for each state.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) promote the education and training of physicians on how to properly complete birth and death certificates and the importance of such data; (2) encourage state adoption of the latest standard revisions of birth and death certificates; and (3) work with states to reengineer their vital statistics systems to provide cost-effective, timely, and vital systems data. Allows the Secretary to promote improvements to the collection of diabetes mortality data.

Requires the Secretary to conduct a study of the impact of diabetes on the practice of medicine in the United Sates and the level of diabetes medical education that should be required prior to licensure, board certification, and board recertification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15469)
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Nursing Home Quality and Transparency Act

Bill: 110-s-2480
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-12-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Internet
Nursing homes
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: 
Nursing Home Quality and Transparency Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to disclose, through the use of the Internet website of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the identities of those long-term care facilities that appear on the list of special focus facilities (poor-performing nursing homes) under the Special Focus Facility Program of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Introduced in Senate
ERPA

Bill: 110-s-2481
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-12-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Civil rights enforcement
Community policing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Department of Justice
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Injunctions
Law
Legal fees
Minorities
Police training
Racial discrimination
Searches and seizures

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: 
End Racial Profiling Act of 2007 or ERPA - Prohibits law enforcement agents or agencies from engaging in racial profiling. Defines &quot;racial profiling&quot; as the practice of a law enforcement agent or agency relying, to any degree, on race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion in selecting which individual to subject to routine or spontaneous investigatory activities or in deciding upon the scope and substance of law enforcement activity following the initial investigatory procedure. Allows the United States, or individuals injured by racial profiling, to bring civil actions for declaratory or injunctive relief. 

Requires federal law enforcement agencies to: (1) maintain adequate policies and procedures for eliminating racial profiling; and (2) cease existing practices that permit racial profiling. 

Requires states, local governments, and Indian tribes applying for federal law enforcement assistance grants to certify that they: (1) maintain adequate policies and procedures for eliminating racial profiling; (2) have eliminated any existing practices of racial profiling; and (3) have established an administrative complaint procedure and independent auditor program for addressing complaints of racial profiling. 

Requires the Attorney General to: (1) carry out a two-year demonstration project to collect data on hit rates for stops and searches by law enforcement agents; (2) make grants to develop and implement best practice devices and systems to eliminate racial profiling; and (3) issue regulations for data collection and make reports on racial profiling.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15471-15474)
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15469-15471)
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Physical Therapist Student Loan Repayment Eligibility Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2485
Sponsor: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2007-12-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Medical education
Physical therapy
Public health personnel
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: 
Physical Therapist Student Loan Repayment Eligibility Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) include physical therapy within the definition of &quot;primary health services&quot;; and (2) make physical therapists eligible for the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program (to assure an adequate supply of physical therapists among other health professionals).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15653)
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15652-15653)
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: Introduced in Senate
HIV Nondiscrimination in Travel and Immigration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2486
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-12-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Admission of nonimmigrants
Communicable diseases
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal advisory bodies
Governmental investigations
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Immigrant health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: 
HIV Nondiscrimination in Travel and Immigration Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) bar to U.S. admission.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) convene a panel of public health experts to review immigration policies regarding HIV as a communicable disease of public health significance (and thus a health-related ground for inadmissibility); and (2) make a determination and report to Congress regarding the continued listing of HIV as a health-related ground for inadmissibility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Depository Institution Community Development Investments Enhancement Act

Bill: 110-s-2487
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-12-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank capital
Community development
Community development banking
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Investments
Job creation
Law
Liability (Law)
Savings and loan associations
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: 
Depository Institution Community Development Investments Enhancement Act - Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to revise requirements for community development investments by federal savings associations.
 
Authorizes a federal savings association to make investments, directly or indirectly, each of which is designed primarily to promote the public welfare, including the welfare of low- and moderate-income communities or families through the provision of housing, services, and jobs (community development investments).
 
Permits such investments to be made directly or by purchase of interests in an entity primarily engaged in making such investments.
 
Prohibits a federal savings association from making an investment which would subject it to unlimited liability to any person.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision to establish: (1) the amount any savings association may invest in any one project; and (2) the aggregate amount of investment of any savings association.
 
Restricts the aggregate amount of investment of any savings association, subject to specified determinations made by the Director.
 
Prohibits the maximum aggregate amount of investments of any savings association from exceeding the same 15% of its capital stock actually paid in and unimpaired and 15% of its unimpaired surplus as imposed by this Act on national banking associations and state member banks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Reverse Mortgage Proceeds Protection Act

Bill: 110-s-2490
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2007-12-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Annuities
Commerce
Consumer protection
Counseling
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Home equity conversion
Housing for the aged
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Law
Long-term care insurance
Marketing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: 
Reverse Mortgage Proceeds Protection Act - Amends the National Housing Act of 1937 to modify the eligibility criteria for insurance of home equity conversion mortgages (reverse mortgages) of elderly home owners.
 
Excludes from the third party adequate counseling requirement counseling by a reverse mortgage lender, servicer or investor, or an entity engaged in the sale of annuities, investments, long-term care insurance, or any other type of financial or insurance product.
 

 
Repeals the waiver of up-front insurance premiums for mortgages to fund long-term care insurance.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to use a portion of reverse mortgage insurance premiums to fund mandatory counseling and disclosure activities, including counseling for homeowners who elect not to take out a home equity conversion mortgage.
 
Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to protect elderly homeowners from the marketing of financial and insurance products not in their interest, including the marketing or sale of an annuity as a precondition to obtaining a home equity conversion mortgage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize adjustments for inflation in payments of forfeited pay and allowances to members of the Armed Forces whose courtmartial sentences of confinement and forfeiture are later set aside.

Bill: 110-s-2491
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2007-12-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Forfeiture
Indexing (Economic policy)
Military pay
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: 
Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to require, when a court-martial sentence that resulted in forfeiture of pay and allowances is later set aside or disapproved or, as finally approved, does not provide for a punishment resulting in forfeiture, that the restoration of the forfeited amounts be adjusted for inflation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Housing Privatization Initiatives Projects Oversight and Accountability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2492
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-12-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense budgets
Defense contracts
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Housing and Community Development
Law
Leases
Military housing
Performance measurement
Privatization
Surety and fidelity

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-17
text: 
Military Housing Privatization Initiatives Projects Oversight and Accountability Act of 2007 - Requires each military housing privatization initiative project to be carried out under a guaranteed maximum price contract (to be reviewed by an independent third party) and accompanied by a performance schedule. Requires each Secretary concerned to prescribe regulations for effective oversight and management of projects under the Secretary's jurisdiction.

Establishes requirements for: (1) combining projects in the event of termination of a lease or foreclosure on a project; (2) funding reserves; (3) sequestration and release of funds to be paid under a contract; (4) community meetings to convey project information; (5) certification of construction experience; (6) bonding levels; and (7) communication, review, and the effect of unsatisfactory performance or default (including the selection of a successor contractor).

Requires annual reports on lessons learned regarding the operation of military housing privatization initiative projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-12-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair and Competitive Air Transportation Service in New York-New Jersey Region Act

Bill: 110-s-2493
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-12-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
New Jersey
New York City
Port authorities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-17
text: 
Fair and Competitive Air Transportation Service in New York-New Jersey Region Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from taking action that only limits commercial air traffic from one airport operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and not from all other airports operated by such Authority unless consent is given by the Authority. Provides an exception to such prohibition if such action is necessary to preserve air traffic safety or in cases of a national emergency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-12-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Bail Bond Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2495
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Bail
Criminal procedure
Forfeiture

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Bail Bond Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit a judicial officer from declaring forfeited a bail bond for violation of specified collateral release conditions other than failing to appear in court. Makes forfeiture of a bail bond for violation of such collateral release conditions unavailable as a sanction.
Amends the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to provide that if a defendant fails to appear physically before the court (currently, if there is a breach of a condition of a bond), the court shall declare a forfeiture of the bail.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15913-15914)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Enhancing Teaching Standards and License Portability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2496
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Interstate relations
Law
Licenses
Rating of teachers
Secondary education
Standards
State laws
Teachers
Teaching

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Enhancing Teaching Standards and License Portability Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award a competitive grant to a partnership between an organization representing state educational agency administrators and one or more independent professional organizations that have teacher preparation, licensure, and assessment expertise to: (1) enhance kindergarten through grade 12 teaching standards; (2) develop performance-based teaching assessments that are linked to such standards and can be used for licensing; and (3) provide technical assistance and matching subgrants to states to adopt such teaching standards and assessments, align their licensing systems to such standards, and facilitate teacher license portability across the states. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15915-15916)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15914-15915)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to ensure that families of members of the National Guard and Reserve have full access to mental health care during the mobilization, deployment, and demobilization of such members, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-2497
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Afghanistan
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Law
Legislation
Managed care
Mental health services
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military operations
National Guard
Quality of care
Social Welfare
South Asia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense (DOD) should undertake actions to ensure that family members of National Guard and Reserve personnel who are deployed have full access to mental health care during the periods of mobilization, deployment, and demobilization.

Requires the Secretary of Defense to undertake an initiative to increase access to mental health care, including education concerning mental health challenges and information on available resources, for family members of such personnel who are mobilized.

Requires reimbursement under the TRICARE program for certain mental health care services, including chemical dependency treatment, provided to a family member of a covered Guard or Reserve member during a period of deployment on active duty for more than 30 days in connection with Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom who, while on such duty, is covered by the TRICARE program on a for self and family basis.

Requires regular reports from the Secretary assessing the access and quality of such family mental health care services and recommendations for legislative and administrative action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Santa Fe 400th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2498
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Anniversaries
Archaeology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Capital cities
Coins and coinage
Finance and Financial Sector
Gold
Historic sites
History
New Mexico
Silver
Urban affairs
Urban areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Santa Fe 400th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act of 2007 - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue $5 gold coins and $1 silver coins emblematic of the settlement of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the oldest capital city in the United States.
 
Permits issuance of such coins only during calendar 2010.
 
 Requires the Secretary to pay 50% of surcharges received from such coin sales to: (1) the Santa Fe 400th Anniversary Committee, Inc.; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior to sustain the ongoing mission of preserving Santa Fe, including educational programs, infrastructure and archaeological research activities, and other programs to support commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Santa Fe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15916-15917)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15916-15917)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Performance Rights Act

Bill: 110-s-2500
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Copyright
Fees
Intellectual property
Law
Licenses
Music
Public broadcasting
Radio broadcasting
Radio stations
Sound recording and reproducing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Performance Rights Act - Amends federal copyright law to: (1) grant performers of sound recordings equal rights to compensation from terrestrial broadcasters; (2) establish a flat annual fee in lieu of payment of royalties for individual terrestrial broadcast stations with gross revenues of less than $1.25 million and for non-commercial, public broadcast stations; (3) grant an exemption from royalty payments for broadcasts of religious services and for incidental uses of musical sound recordings; and (4) grant terrestrial broadcast stations that make limited feature uses of sound recordings a per program license option.

Provides that nothing in this Act shall adversely affect the public performance rights or royalties payable to songwriters or copyright owners of musical works.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-29
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15918)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15917-15918)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate