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Protecting Children's Health in Schools Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1017
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child health
Competitive bidding
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Law
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical fees
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Poor children
School health programs
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Protecting Children's Health in Schools Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish requirements for providing and receiving reimbursement for school-based health care for children, including children with special needs, and the related administrative and transportation costs covered under Medicaid. Includes health care provided through Medicaid managed care organizations.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Education, acting jointly, to develop and implement a uniform methodology for claims under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing or carrying out a National Animal Identification System or similar requirement and to require the Secretary to protect information obtained as part of any voluntary animal identification system.

Bill: 110-hr-1018
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Animal diseases
Animals
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Livestock
Local laws
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Amends the Animal Health Protection Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing or carrying out (and prohibits use of federal funds to implement or carry out) a National Animal Identification System or similar requirement that mandates the participation of livestock owners.
 
Sets forth requirements governing disclosure of information obtained through a voluntary animal identification system established by the Secretary to identify and trace animals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Urban Area Security Initiative Grant Enhancement and Authorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1020
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fire fighters
Grants-in-aid
Health
Labor and Employment
Paramedical personnel
Police
Police training
Risk
Terrorism
Urban affairs
Urban areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Urban Area Security Initiative Grant Enhancement and Authorization Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to carry out an Urban Areas Security Initiative Grants Program, under which the Secretary may make grants: (1) to purchase equipment, conduct exercises, and provide training and technical assistance to state and local first responders and for facilities to provide training or assistance to responders; and (2) to provide reimbursement for specified expenses if 100 or more personnel in the relevant jurisdiction are dedicated exclusively to counterterrorism and intelligence activities.
 
Directs the Secretary to make such grants: (1) generally in accordance with the procedures, terms, and conditions under which grants were made under the program in FY2005; and (2) based solely on a quantitative assessment of the risk of a terrorist attack on high-threat, high-density urban areas that considers the threat of a terrorist attack to particular assets and the vulnerability of particular assets to, and the consequences of, such an attack.
 
Directs the Secretary, upon finding any problem in a grant application, to notify the applicant and provide an opportunity to correct it before making a grant. Makes: (1) fund allocations and grant approvals by the Secretary subject to modification by the President; and (2) provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act regarding the state and local domestic preparedness support grant program inapplicable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1022
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Ammunition
Assault weapons
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms control
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Import restrictions
Mandatory sentences
Retail trade
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sunset legislation
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2007 - Reinstates for ten years repealed criminal provisions regarding assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices (the assault weapons ban).

Revises the definition of &quot;semiautomatic assault weapon&quot; to include conversion kits (for converting a firearm to such a weapon) and any semiautomatic rifle or pistol that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and that has specified characteristics, including a telescoping stock.
 
Prohibits the transfer of such a weapon except through a licensed dealer or a state or local law enforcement agency, subject to specified requirements. Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish and maintain a record of the make, model, and date of manufacture of any such weapon which the Attorney General is made aware has been used in relation to a crime, and of the nature and circumstances of the crime involved; and (2) annually submit the record to Congress and make it available to the public.
 
Prohibits: (1) the transfer of any assault weapon with a large capacity ammunition feeding device; and (2) a licensed manufacturer, importer, or dealer who transfers such a device that was manufactured on or before this Act's enactment from failing to certify to the Attorney General, within 60 days of the transfer date, that the device was manufactured on or before that date. Sets forth penalties for violations.

Prohibits: (1) the transfer of such a weapon or device to a juvenile; and (2) the importation of such a device.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the imposition of withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities.

Bill: 110-hr-1023
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government service contracts
Income tax
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Repeals provisions of the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 requiring federal, state, and local governmental entities to withhold 3% of payments due to vendors providing goods and services to such entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E343)
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the issuance of a postage stamp commemorating the 450th anniversary of the founding of the first European settlement in the continental United States, at Pensacola, Florida, by Tristan de Luna in 1559.

Bill: 110-hr-1024
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Anniversaries
European American ethnic groups
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
History
Postage stamps

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Requires the Postmaster General to provide for the issuance of a postage stamp to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the founding of the first European settlement in the continental United States at Pensacola, Florida, by Tristan de Luna in 1559. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 36, United States Code, to authorize the spouse and siblings of a recipient of the Purple Heart medal to become associate members in the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the United States of America, Incorporated.

Bill: 110-hr-1027
Sponsor: Rep. Murtha, John P. [D-PA-12]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commemorations
Families
Federal incorporation
Married people
Military dependents
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Siblings

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Amends the federal charter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the United States of America, Incorporated (the corporation), to authorize the corporation to extend eligibility for associate membership in the corporation to the spouse and siblings (currently, to lineal descendants) of a Purple Heart recipient.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To create a Rural Policing Institute as part of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

Bill: 110-hr-1028
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Curricula
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Drug law enforcement
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Family violence
Georgia
Housing and Community Development
Indian law enforcement
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Police training
Rural crime
School security

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Establishes a Rural Policing Institute to be administered by the Office of State and Local Training of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in the Department of Homeland Security. Requires the Institute to: (1) evaluate the needs of law enforcement agencies of local and tribal governments in rural areas; (2) develop expert training programs to address the needs of such agencies regarding combating methamphetamine addiction and distribution, domestic violence, and response to school shootings; and (3) conduct outreach to ensure that its training programs reach law enforcement officers of such agencies.
 
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Damaged Vehicle Information Act

Bill: 110-hr-1029
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Automobile industry
Automobile theft
Business records
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Transportation
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Fires
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Insurance companies
Law
Motor vehicle safety
Motor vehicles
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Damaged Vehicle Information Act - Amends federal transportation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue a regulation to require persons who terminate a motor vehicle contract due to flood or water damage, collision, fire damage, theft and recovery, or any circumstance that adversely affects the fair market value of the vehicle to disclose information of such vehicle damage to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Cancer Testing, Education, Screening, and Treatment Act

Bill: 110-hr-1030
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Clinics
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health counseling
Health education
Homeless
Language and languages
Medical screening
Medical tests
Minorities
Minority health
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Cancer Testing, Education, Screening, and Treatment Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to qualifying health centers and nonprofit organizations to develop, expand, or operate programs to provide: (1) information and education on cancer prevention; (2) screenings for cancer; (3) counseling on cancer, including counseling upon a diagnosis of cancer; and (4) treatment for cancer. Requires the Secretary to give preference to applicants that: (1) have service populations that include a significant number of low-income minority individuals who are at-risk for cancer; (2) will emphasize early detection of and comprehensive treatment for cancer; (3) will provide comprehensive treatment services for cancer in its earliest stages; (4) will provide such early detection and treatment for two or more types of cancer; and (5) have established or will establish referral arrangements with entities that provide screenings for low-income individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Minority Diabetes Initiative Act

Bill: 110-hr-1031
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Community health services
Diabetes
Economics and Public Finance
Eye care
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Kidney diseases
Language and languages
Minorities
Minority health
Preventive medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Minority Diabetes Initiative Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit private health care providers to provide treatment for diabetes in minority communities. Requires the Secretary to ensure that such grants cover a variety of diabetes-related health care services, including routine care for diabetic patients, public education on diabetes prevention and control, eye care, foot care, and treatment for kidney disease and other complications of diabetes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Alzheimer's Treatment and Caregiver Support Act

Bill: 110-hr-1032
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease
Caregivers
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing homes
Senior centers
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Alzheimer's Treatment and Caregiver Support Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit private health care providers to expand treatment services for patients with Alzheimer's disease and training and support services for families and caregivers of such patients. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Ari's Law

Bill: 110-hr-1033
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Governmental investigations
Railroad engineering
Railroad safety

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Ari's Law - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to provide railroad safety grants to local government units that own or control land along a railroad right-of-way or to any other person providing railroad transportation for fence construction and maintenance and other protective structures along railroad tracks.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration to study and report on best practices for railroad safety related to the construction, monitoring, and repair of fencing and other protective structures along railroad tracks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National Guard Youth Challenge Program under title 32, United States Code, to exclude non-defense funds made available by other Federal agencies for the Program from the matching requirements of the Program.

Bill: 110-hr-1034
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Authorization
Compensatory education
Department of Defense
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Mentoring
Military training
National Guard
Secondary education
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Excludes funds provided for the National Guard Youth Challenge Program by federal agencies other than the Department of Defense from the matching-funds requirement.
 
 Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 to the Secretary of Defense to carry out the Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Living Organ Donor Tax Credit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1035
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Costs
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Tax credits
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: 
Living Organ Donor Tax Credit Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable tax credit for a donation of a qualified life-saving organ for transplantation by a living individual into another individual. Defines &quot;qualified life-saving organ&quot; as a kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, intestine, bone marrow, or any part thereof. Limits the annual amount of such credit to $5,000 of the unreimbursed costs and lost wages incurred by an organ donor in connection with an organ transplant.

Amends: (1) the Public Health Service Act to reduce federal living organ donation grants by any tax credit for organ donation received under this Act; and (2) the National Organ Transplant Act to provide that any such tax credit shall not be deemed valuable consideration for purposes of the ban against organ purchases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Rosa Isela Figueroa Rincon, Miguel Angel Figueroa Rincon, Blanca Azucena Figueroa Rincon, and Nancy Araceli Figueroa Rincon.

Bill: 110-hr-1037
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2007-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Provides for the relief of Rosa Isela Figueroa Rincon, Miguel Angel Figueroa Rincon, Blanca Azucena Figueroa Rincon, and Nancy Araceli Figueroa Rincon.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Introduced in House