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Services to Prevent Veterans Homelessness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-874
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Case management
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to housing
Financial planning
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health
Health insurance
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Indian housing
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal services
Low-income housing
Mental health services
Minorities
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Poverty
Rural housing
Social Welfare
Trusts and trustees
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' employment
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
Services To Prevent Veterans Homelessness Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide financial assistance to eligible entities (private nonprofit organizations or consumer cooperatives) to provide and coordinate the provision of various supportive services for very low-income veteran families occupying permanent housing. Requires: (1) equitable geographic distribution of such assistance; and (2) the Secretary to provide training and technical assistance to participating entities regarding the planning, development, and provision of such services.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a two-year study of the effectiveness of the assistance program in meeting the needs of very low-income veteran families.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Controlling the Abuse of Prescriptions Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-877
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Drugs and athletes
Health
Hormones
Medical ethics
Physicians
Sports and Recreation
Steroids

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
Controlling the Abuse of Prescriptions Act of 2007 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to add growth hormone, recombinant human growth hormone, or human growth hormone as a schedule III controlled substance; and (2) establish a good faith standard for practitioners in dispensing prescriptions of controlled substances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Oil Industry Merger Antitrust Enforcement Act

Bill: 110-s-878
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Antitrust law
Competition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate mergers
Department of Justice
Energy
Energy demand
Energy supplies
Evidence (Law)
Federal Trade Commission
Gas industry
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Monopolies
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
Oil Industry Merger Antitrust Enforcement Act - Amends the Clayton Act to require, in any civil action in which the plaintiff alleges that the effect of a merger, acquisition, or other transaction (transaction) may be to substantially lessen competition or to create a monopoly in the business of exploring for, producing, refining, marketing, or selling petroleum, oil, natural gas, or their related products and that establishes that the transaction involves competitors in that business, the burden of proof shall be on the defendant to establish that such transaction will not substantially lessen competition or create a monopoly.
 
Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice to jointly review and revise applicable enforcement guidelines and policies in order to: (1) specifically address the above transactions; and (2) ensure that the guidelines will prevent any transaction which substantially lessens competition or creates a monopoly.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3134)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3133-3134)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-879
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Antitrust law
Cartels
Crime and Law Enforcement
Energy
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government liability (International law)
International Affairs
Law
OPEC countries
Petroleum industry
Privileges and immunities
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2007 or NOPEC - Amends the Sherman Act to declare it to be illegal and a violation of the Act for any foreign state or instrumentality thereof to act collectively or in combination with any other foreign state or any other person, whether by cartel or any other association or form of cooperation or joint action, to limit the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product (petroleum), to set or maintain the price of petroleum, or to otherwise take any action in restraint of trade for petroleum, when such action has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the market, supply, price, or distribution of petroleum in the United States. 
 
Denies a foreign state engaged in such conduct sovereign immunity from the jurisdiction or judgements of U.S. courts in any action brought to enforce this Act.
 
States that no U.S. court shall decline, based on the act of state doctrine, to make a determination on the merits in an action brought under this Act.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to bring an action in U.S. district court to enforce this Act.
 
Amends the Federal judicial code to make an exception to the jurisdictional immunity of a foreign state in an action brought under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-05-22
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 160.
action_date: 2007-05-22
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. With written report No. 110-68.
action_date: 2007-05-22
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. With written report No. 110-68.
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3135-3136)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3134-3135)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Senate Family Leave Act

Bill: 110-s-880
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Adoption
Child health
Childbirth
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional employees
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Family leave
Federal employees
Foster home care
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Health
Library of Congress
Parent-school relationships
Senate
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
Senate Family Leave Act - Amends the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (CAA) to entitle a covered legislative branch employee, other than an employee of the House of Representatives, and in accordance with the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), to paid leave of: (1) eight weeks for giving birth; (2) at least five days for a father (or partner) for the birth of a child; (3) at least five days for adopting a child or taking it into foster care; and (4) eight hours during any 12-month period to accompany a child to medical or school appointments.
 
Applies such leave separately for each child of the employee.
 
Extends certain FMLA employment and benefits protections to such an employee. Prescribes a remedy for any violation of such protections.
 
Applies the paid leave requirements of this Act to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Library of Congress, and each of their employees who has met certain length of employment requirements.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Short Line Railroad Investment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-881
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Maintenance and repair
Minimum tax
Railroad engineering
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
Short Line Railroad Investment Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the allowable amount of the railroad track maintenance tax credit; (2) extend such credit through 2010; and (3) allow such credit against alternative minimum tax liabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3136)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require a pilot program on the facilitation of the transition of members of the Armed Forces to receipt of veterans health care benefits upon completion of military service, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-882
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed forces reserves
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Health
Housing and Community Development
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Mental health services
Mentally disabled
Middle East and North Africa
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Military operations
National Guard
Rural health
South Asia
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation
War casualties
Women
Women soldiers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a five-year pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of awarding grants to eligible entities to assist members of the Armed Forces, particularly those with serious wounds, injuries, or mental disorders, women members, and members of the National Guard and reserves, in applying for and receiving health care benefits and services from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and otherwise after completion of military service, in order to ensure that such members receive a continuity of care and assistance in and after the transition from military service to civilian life.
 
Requires at least one location of the pilot program to be in the vicinity of: (1) a military medical facility that treats members who are seriously wounded or injured in Afghanistan or Iraq; (2) a VA medical center located in a rural area; and (3) a VA medical center located in an urban area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3136-3138)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Loan Forgiveness for Head Start Teachers Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-883
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child development
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Preschool education
Reading
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
Loan Forgiveness for Head Start Teachers Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to assume or cancel loans made under the Federal Family Education Loan or the Direct Loan programs to individuals who have been employed as Head Start teachers for five consecutive complete program years, if they have demonstrated knowledge and teaching skills in reading, writing, early childhood development, and other areas of a preschool curriculum, with a focus on cognitive learning.
 
Limits the benefits of this Act to individuals who earn a baccalaureate or graduate degree on or after the date of this Act's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3139)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3138-3139)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Family-Based Meth Treatment Access Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-884
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug addiction
Drug testing
Drugs and women
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to health facilities
Health counseling
Housing and Community Development
Medical statistics
Mental health services
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Minority health
Mortality
Parent and child
Parents
Pregnant women
Prison alternatives
Rehabilitation of criminals
Rural health
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
Family-Based Meth Treatment Access Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the grant program to provide residential substance abuse treatment to pregnant and postpartum women to include: (1) parenting women substance abuse treatment (including treatment for addiction to methamphetamine); and (2) outpatient treatment services. 

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to expand, intensify, and coordinate efforts to provide treatment for methamphetamine addiction to pregnant and parenting women.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to assist local jails and detention facilities in providing comprehensive, family-based substance abuse treatment services to pregnant and parenting adults who are considered nonviolent offenders. Sets forth criteria that must be met if such a grant is used for a family drug treatment program that is an alternative to incarceration.

Gives priority in awarding grants under this Act to any entity that agrees to use the award for programs serving an area that: (1) is a rural area, an area with a shortage of mental health professionals, or an area with a shortage of family-based substance abuse treatment options; and (2) has high rates of addiction to methamphetamine or other drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3139-3140)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3192-3193)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-885
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Antitrust law
Commerce
Contracts
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Labor and Employment
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
Community Pharmacy Fairness Act of 2007 - Entitles independent pharmacies negotiating contract terms with a health plan for the provision of health care items or services to the same treatment under the antitrust laws as the treatment to which bargaining units recognized under the National Labor Relations Act are entitled. Treats such a pharmacy as an employee engaged in concerted activities in connection with such negotiations. 
 
Exempts actions taken in good faith reliance on this Act from being subject under the antitrust laws to criminal sanctions or civil penalties beyond actual damages incurred. 
 
Confers no new right to participate in any collective cessation of service to patients not already permitted by existing law.
 
Prohibits: (1) exempting from the antitrust laws any agreement or otherwise unlawful conspiracy that excludes, limits the participation or reimbursement of, or otherwise limits the scope of services to be provided by any independent pharmacy or group of independent pharmacies with respect to the performance of services that are within their scope of practice as defined or permitted by relevant law or regulation; and (2) applying this Act to negotiations between independent pharmacies and health plans pertaining to federal health benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to restore import and entry agricultural inspection functions to the Department of Agriculture.

Bill: 110-s-887
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-03-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agriculture in foreign trade
Airports
Animal diseases
Animals
Business records
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Agriculture
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Endangered species
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Federal-state relations
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Freight
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Imports
Livestock
Marine terminals
Plant diseases
Plant protection
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Seeds
Strategic planning
Transportation and Public Works
User charges
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: 
 Amends the Homeland Security Act to repeal the transfer of agricultural import and entry inspection functions from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service the international agricultural inspection program to carry out import and entry agricultural inspections. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3142-3143)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3141-3142)
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Deepwater Accountability Act

Bill: 110-s-889
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Coast guard
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Cost overruns
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense industries
Defense procurement
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Governmental investigations
Joint ventures
Patrol aircraft
Patrol ships
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: 
Deepwater Accountability Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, after reaching the end of the period of performance currently under contract with Integrated Coast Guard Systems (ICGS) under the Deepwater program of the Coast Guard, to acquire all assets under that contract through new competitive contracts, subject to exception.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for certain administrative and support services for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-890
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Architecture
Arts, Culture, Religion
Associations, institutions, etc.
Eisenhower Administration
Government Operations and Politics
History
Monuments and memorials
Social Welfare
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: 
Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 to expand the powers of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. Authorizes the Commission to: (1) enter into contracts for specialized or professional services and hire staff without regard to competitive service requirements; (2) authorize the appointment of an architect; (3) obtain temporary, intermittent, and part-time services; and (4) accept volunteer services.

action_date: 2007-06-26
text: 
Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 to expand the powers of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. 

Authorizes the Commission to: (1) enter into contracts for specialized or professional services and hire staff without regard to civil service requirements; (2) appoint an architect; (3) enter into cooperative agreements with federal agencies, state, local, tribal, and international governments, and private organizations; and (4) obtain temporary, intermittent, and part-time services and accept volunteer services. 

Authorizes the head of a federal agency, at the Commission's request, to provide information or assistance to and detail personnel to the Commission.
 
Requires the Commission to: (1) appoint an Executive Director; and (2) obtain administrative and support services from the General Services Administration (GSA) on a reimbursable basis. 
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5530)
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 227.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with amendments. With written report No. 110-97.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with amendments. With written report No. 110-97.
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-88.
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3202-3203)
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3202)
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate