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Boutique Fuel Reduction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2493
Sponsor: Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Energy shortages
Energy supplies
Energy transportation
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Reformulated gasoline
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Boutique Fuel Reduction Act of 2007 - Amends the Clean Air Act to add as &quot;extreme and unusual circumstances that prevent the distribution of an adequate supply of fuel or fuel additives to consumers&quot; under which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may temporarily waive a control or prohibition on the use of a fuel or fuel additive circumstances that are the result of unexpected problems with equipment necessary for transportation and delivery of fuel or fuel additives. 

States that EPA shall have no authority, when considering a state implementation plan (SIP) or SIP revision, to approve any fuel included in such plan or revision if the effect of such approval increases the total number of fuels set forth on the published list of approved fuels (currently EPA does not have the authority to approve a fuel if it increases the total number of fuels approved as of September 1, 2004, in all SIPs).

Requires notice and opportunity for comment before the Administrator removes a fuel from the list. Requires EPA to remove a fuel from the list if such fuel has ceased to be included in an SIP or is identical to a federal fuel control or prohibition. Repeals provisions prohibiting EPA from reducing the total number of authorized fuels. Requires EPA to publish a revised list reflecting the reduction in the number of fuels. Deletes as a condition under which the Administrator's authority to approve a control or prohibition respecting any new fuel is limited that such new fuel will increase the total number of fuels on the list.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-15
text: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mrs. Drake. Petition No: 110-13. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/110/lrc/pd/Petitions/Dis13.htm">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.)
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase from 1 year to 2 years the post-employment restrictions of Members and elected officers of either House of Congress.

Bill: 110-hr-2494
Sponsor: Rep. Boyda, Nancy E. [D-KS-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional ethics
Congressional officers
Ex-Members of Congress
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Lobbying
Public corruption

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to increase from one year to two years after leaving office the period during which former Members or elected officers of Congress may not engage in certain lobbying activities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9057)
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veterans Commissary and Exchange Store Benefits Act

Bill: 110-hr-2495
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Families
Post exchanges
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Disabled Veterans Commissary and Exchange Store Benefits Act - Permits a veteran with any compensable service-connected disability (and the veteran's dependents) to use commissary and exchange stores on the same basis as a member of the Armed Forces entitled to retired or retainer pay.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Fuel Consumption Education Act

Bill: 110-hr-2496
Sponsor: Rep. Conaway, K. Michael [R-TX-11]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Automobile industry
Commerce
Energy conservation
Federal advisory bodies
Fuel consumption
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Petroleum industry
Public service advertising
Public-private partnerships
Science, Technology, Communications
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Fuel Consumption Education Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to enter into a partnership with interested industry groups to create a public education campaign for U.S. drivers about immediate measures that can be taken to conserve transportation fuel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Fair and Reliable Medical Justice Act

Bill: 110-hr-2497
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Grants-in-aid
Law
Medical malpractice
Medical statistics
Quality of care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Fair and Reliable Medical Justice Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award up to ten demonstration grants to states for the development, implementation, and evaluation of alternatives to current tort litigation for resolving disputes over injuries allegedly caused by health care providers or health care organizations. Requires such states to: (1) develop such an alternative to current tort litigation; and (2) promote a reduction of health care errors by allowing for patient safety data related to such disputes to be collected and analyzed by organizations that engage in efforts to improve patient safety and the quality of health care.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To provide for a study regarding development of a comprehensive integrated regional water management plan that would address four general areas of regional water planning in both the San Joaquin River Hydrologic Region and the Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region, inclusive of Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin Counties, California, and to provide that such plan be the guide by which those counties use as a mechanism to address and solve long-term water needs in a sustainable and equitable manner.

Bill: 110-hr-2498
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water resources development
Flood control
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Groundwater
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Population
Regional planning
Saline waters
Water quality
Water supply
Water use
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to award a grant to the California Water Institute, located at California State University at Fresno, to conduct a study coordinating and integrating sub-regional integrated regional water management plans into a unified Integrated Regional Water Management Plan for Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin counties in the San Joaquin River Hydrologic Region and the Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region that would address issues related to: (1) water quality, supply, conveyance, and reliability; (2) flood control; (3) water resource-related environmental enhancement; and (4) population growth.
 
Provides that the Plan developed for the two hydrologic basins shall serve as a guide for the eight counties in the study area to use as a mechanism to address and solve long-term water needs in a sustainable and equitable manner. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee Without Recommendation (Amended) by Unanimous Consent .
action_date: 2007-10-16
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-09-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
SBDC Colonias Outreach Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2499
Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Arizona
Boundaries
California
Colonias
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Mexico
New Mexico
Small business
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
SBDC Colonias Outreach Act of 2007 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize an applicant funded by the Small Business Administration (SBA) as a small business development center (SBDC) and that is in a state along the United States-Mexico border that has individuals residing in colonias (areas comprised of low- or very low-income families and usually lacking basic services such as clean water, roads, sewage, schools, and law enforcement) to apply for grants to provide services to assist with outreach, development, and enhancement of small business startups and expansions within colonias.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
NASA and JPL 50th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 110-hr-2500
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Aeronautics
Anniversaries
Astronautics
Astronauts
Auditing
Coins and coinage
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Foundations
Gold
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Higher education
Historic sites
History
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Manned space flight
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Planets
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Silver
Social Welfare
Space activities
Space shuttles
Spacecraft
Survivors' benefits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
NASA and JPL 50th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), to mint and issue $50 dollar gold and $1 dollar silver coins emblematic of the fifty years of exemplary and unparalleled achievements of NASA and JPL. 
 
Requires all such coin sales to include a surcharge of $50 per $50 dollar coin, and of $10 per $1 dollar coin.
 
Requires distribution of the first $4 million to the NASA Family Assistance Fund for financial assistance to the families of NASA personnel who die as a result of injuries suffered in the performance of their official duties.
 
Requires distribution of: (1) one-half of the next $1 million of the remaining amounts to the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Educational (D.R.E.M.E.) Science Literacy Foundation and the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence; and (2) the remainder to Save America's Treasures at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
 

 
Authorizes the Secretary to strike and sell bronze duplicates of the $50 gold coins.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Rocky Mountain Science Collections Center Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2501
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Animals
Archaeology
Colorado
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to the arts and humanities
Geology
History
Museums
Paleontology
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Zoology

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Rocky Mountain Science Collections Center Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide a grant to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Denver, Colorado, to pay the federal share of the cost of: (1) constructing one or more on-site collection facilities that meet the standards of the Museum; and (2) obtaining goods and services required by the Museum, including the acquisition of designs, plans, furnishings, equipment, and other support for the Museum.
 
Requires the Museum, as a condition of receiving such assistance, to match any amounts provided to the Museum under this Act. States that, in order to meet such matching requirement, the Museum may provide to the Secretary cash, in-kind donations, and services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Geriatricians Loan Forgiveness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2502
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Health personnel
Medical education
Mental health
Student aid and college costs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Geriatricians Loan Forgiveness Act of 2007- Amends the Public Health Service Act to include each year of fellowship training in geriatric medicine or geriatric psychiatry required in order to obtain a certificate of added qualification in those fields as a year of obligated service under the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program. Requires an individual to provide services in geriatric medicine or geriatric psychiatry during the period of obligated service upon completion of training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
FDA Scientific Fairness for Women Act

Bill: 110-hr-2503
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child health
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Conferences
Consumer education
Contraceptives
Department of Health and Human Services
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Families
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Ionizing radiation
Labeling
Law
Medical research
Medical supplies
Platinum
Product safety
Prosthesis
Science, Technology, Communications
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
FDA Scientific Fairness for Women Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish the Office of Women's Health within the Office of the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 

Deems a breast implant to be a class III medical device. Requires premarket approval of breast implants irrespective of whether the implant has been cleared for commercial distribution in interstate commerce before the date of enactment of this Act.

Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from finding that a reasonable assurance of safety has been shown for an application for premarket approval for a a breast implant unless the applicant involved has demonstrated its safety for the life of the implant. Deems an already approved breast implant to be unsafe under the conditions of use prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the labeling. 

Requires the Secretary to: (1) issue appropriate, voluntary guidance for clinical care, removal, and replacement for breast implants; (2) require such guidance to be clearly expressed in the labeling and all marketing materials; and (3) require dissemination of such guidance to patients who have already received the implant. 

Requires the Breast Implant Advisory Panel of the General and Plastic Surgery Advisory Committee to review the results and quality of the research on saline breast implants and silicone gel implants.

Requires the Secretary to study the ionization and levels of platinum in silicone breast implants.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to convene a scientific workshop to review and evaluate current scientific data on the use of emergency contraception by females of childbearing potential under the age of 18.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
E-85 PUMP Act

Bill: 110-hr-2505
Sponsor: Rep. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Commerce
Energy
Income tax
Restrictive trade practices
Service stations
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Promoting the Use of Mixed Petroleum Act or the E-85 PUMP Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rate of the tax credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property from 30 to 50%; (2) increase the limit on such credit for commercial properties to $50,000; and (3) extend such credit through 2014.

Amends the Clayton Antitrust Act to make it an unlawful restriction of trade to prohibit a service station franchisee from installing alternative fuel vehicle refueling property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Tule Lake Segregation Center Special Resource Study Act

Bill: 110-hr-2506
Sponsor: Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Concentration camps
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Japanese Americans
National parks
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Tule Lake Segregation Center Special Resource Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of including the Tule Lake Segregation Center in Modoc County, California, in the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Seniors Financial Security Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2507
Sponsor: Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Seniors Financial Security Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the inclusion in gross income for income tax purposes of social security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To require Federal contractors to participate in the basic pilot program for employment eligibility verification.

Bill: 110-hr-2508
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Data banks
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Illegal aliens
Labor and Employment
Science, Technology, Communications
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Amends the the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to require federal contractors and subcontractors (as defined by this Act) to participate in the employment eligibility verification pilot program.
 
Directs the Attorney General to ensure that the pilot program is applied to all of the contractor's or subcontractor's employees and not just to those performing the contract or subcontract.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House