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Federal Acupuncture Coverage Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1479
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2007-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Acupuncture
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Medical fees
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: 
Federal Acupuncture Coverage Act of 2007 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act and federal civil service law relating to the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to cover qualified acupuncturist services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-03-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-03-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-03-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in House
To impose a 2-year moratorium on implementation of a proposed rule relating to the Federal-State financial partnerships under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

Bill: 110-hr-1480
Sponsor: Rep. Klein, Ron [D-FL-22]
Introduced: 2007-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: 
Imposes a two-year moratorium on implementation of a proposed rule (&quot;Medicaid Program; Cost Limit for Providers Operated by Units of Government and Provisions To Ensure the Integrity of Federal-State Financial Partnership&quot;) relating to the federal-state financial partnerships under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) under titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Military Access to Housing Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1481
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2007-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Bonds
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Income tax
Low-income housing
Military housing
Military pay
Rental housing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: 
Military Access to Housing Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude military basic housing allowances from income for purposes of establishing eligibility for housing in qualified residential rental projects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Citizen Involvement in Campaigns Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1482
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2007-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Presidential elections
Tax credits
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: 
Citizen Involvement in Campaigns Act of 2007- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a $200 tax credit ($400 for joint returns) for contributions to a candidate for federal elective public office or to the national committee of a national political party; and (2) a tax deduction (available to taxpayers who do not itemize deductions) for such political contributions up to $600 ($1,200 for joint returns). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E518)
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Esther Karinge.

Bill: 110-hr-1485
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2007-03-12 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Provides for the relief of Esther Karinge.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-09-17
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: On passage Passed by voice vote. (text: CR H8138)
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by voice vote.(text: CR H8138)
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Considered from the Private Calendar. (consideration: CR H8138)
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Called up from the Private Calendar for consideration.
action_date: 2008-07-08
text: Placed on the Private Calendar, Calendar No. 1.
action_date: 2008-07-08
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-741.
action_date: 2008-07-08
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-741.
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-05-13
text: Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Discharged.
action_date: 2007-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Introduced in House
Empowering Parents Through Choice Act

Bill: 110-hr-1486
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Compensatory education
Congressional reporting requirements
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Language arts
Mathematics
Nondiscrimination provisions
Nonprofit organizations
Private schools
Reading
Religion
Religious liberty
Scholarships
School choice
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Empowering Parents Through Choice Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require local educational agencies (LEAs) to provide students with Promise Scholarships, covering the cost of attending private elementary or secondary schools chosen by their parents, if their schools are subject to restructuring for failing to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) pursuant to state academic performance standards.
 
Requires: (1) each scholarship to remain in effect until the student completes the grade that is the last grade taught at the school from which the student transfers; and (2) such students to be assessed in reading, language arts, mathematics, and science at the same grade levels as public school students to determine if the schools and LEAs are making AYP. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states, LEAs, or nonprofit organizations to support projects that enable students from low-income families that have been attending schools subject to restructuring, as well as their siblings, to receive: (1) Opportunity Scholarships to attend the private elementary or secondary school of their parents' choice or a public school of their parents' choice outside their school district, if allowed by state law; and (2) intensive, sustained supplemental educational services on an annual basis.
 
Requires grantees to: (1) continue each scholarship until the student completes the grade that is the last grade taught at the school from which the student transferred, or the student's family income exceeds a specified poverty level higher than the level required for initial eligibility; and (2) fund the scholarships before funding supplemental educational services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to make available additional amounts to address funding shortfalls in the State Children's Health Insurance Program for fiscal year 2007.

Bill: 110-hr-1487
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health insurance
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to apply specified rules for an additional redistribution of amounts from unexpended FY2005-FY2006 allotments to address funding shortfalls in SCHIP for FY2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
Family Friendly Employers Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1488
Sponsor: Rep. Keller, Ric [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefit plans
Families
Higher education
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Scholarships
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Family Friendly Employers Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the tax exclusion for employer-provided educational assistance to include assistance provided to dependents of an employee. Limits the annual amount of the exclusion for such dependents to $2,500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to eliminate the remainder of the funding shortfalls in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for fiscal year 2007.

Bill: 110-hr-1489
Sponsor: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to allot to each remaining shortfall state the amount that the Secretary determines will eliminate the estimated shortfall for the SCHIP program for the state for FY2007. Makes necessary appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
To provide for a presumption of service-connectedness for certain claims for benefits under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-1490
Sponsor: Rep. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN-2]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Claims
Counseling
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disabled
Evidence (Law)
Families
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Law
Mental health services
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Transfer of employees
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Presumes a claimant presenting a claim for veterans' benefits with respect to a service-connected disability or death to have presented a valid claim of service-connectedness, unless the Secretary of Veterans Affairs determines there is positive evidence to the contrary. Requires the claimant to support the claim with proof of service in a conflict referred to in the claim, as well as a brief description of the nature, including service-connection, of the disability or claim.
 
Directs the Secretary to redeploy, for the purpose of assisting veterans applying for benefits, those employees involved with processing claims that are no longer needed to evaluate claims due to the above presumption.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
Affordable Housing Preservation Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1491
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Affordable housing
Apartment houses
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Residential rehabilitation
Tax exclusion
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Affordable Housing Preservation Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue to exclude from gross income gain from the sale or exchange of certain multifamily housing property to a housing credit agency or related organization (preservation entity) that agrees to maintain certain affordability and use restrictions for such property. Limits the excludable amount of such gain to the depreciation adjustments for such property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
Innovations for our Nation's Vital Educational Needs for Technology Act

Bill: 110-hr-1492
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Awards, medals, prizes
Commemorations
Commerce
Creative thinking
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Engineering
Entrepreneurs
Exhibitions
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Infrastructure
Intellectual property
Inventions
Inventors
Learning
Mentoring
Parent and child
Patents
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Secondary education
Social science research
Surveys
Sustainable development
Teacher education
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching materials
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Innovations for our Nation's Vital Educational Needs for Technology Act - Directs the National Science Foundation (NSF) to: (1) establish a competitive grant program, with the goal of developing, and making available for use at the elementary, secondary, and undergraduate levels within two years after enactment of this Act, curriculum tools that will help foster inventiveness; and (2) develop and implement measures for the dissemination of such curriculum tools.
 
Directs the NSF to: (1) implement a public awareness and outreach campaign relating to invention and inventiveness; and (2) establish engineering and social science research programs on the process of invention and the teaching of inventiveness. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1494
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Biomedical engineering
Business records
Child health
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health information systems
Health surveys
Medical research
Medical supplies
Nonprofit organizations
Product development
Product safety
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require an application for the approval of a medical device or a product development protocol to include: (1) a description of any pediatric subpopulations that suffer from the disease or condition that the device is intended to treat, diagnose, or cure; and (2) the number of affected pediatric patients.
 
Excludes a medical device distributed pursuant to the humanitarian device exemption from the prohibition that no device be sold for an amount that exceeds the cost of the device if: (1) the device is intended for the treatment or diagnosis of a disease or condition that occurs in pediatric patients; and (2) other specified requirements are met.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to designate a contact point to help innovators and physicians access funding for pediatric medical device development.
 
 Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for demonstration projects to promote pediatric device development.
 
Includes as a duty of the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics increasing pediatric access to medical devices.
 
Allows the Secretary to require: (1) postmarket surveillance on certain devices that are expected to have significant use in pediatric populations; and (2) a prospective surveillance period of more than 36 months for such devices, as necessary.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to establish a publicly accessible database of all studies and surveillance of medical devices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters.

Bill: 110-hr-1498
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bicycles
Commuting
Fringe benefits
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include a bicycle commuting allowance as a qualified transportation fringe benefit, excludable from gross income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E529)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
Short Sea Shipping Promotion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1499
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2007-03-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Excise tax
Freight
Great Lakes
Harbors
Marine terminals
St. Lawrence Seaway
Transportation and Public Works
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: 
Short Sea Shipping Promotion Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the harbor maintenance tax cargo contained in intermodal cargo containers and loaded by crane on a vessel, or cargo loaded on a vessel by means of wheeled technology, that is: (1) loaded at a U.S. port and unloaded at another U.S. port or a port in Canada located in the Great Lakes Saint Lawrence Seaway System; or (2) loaded at a port in Canada located in the Great Lakes Saint Lawrence Seaway System and unloaded at a U.S. port.

 Defines the &quot;Great Lakes Saint Lawrence Seaway System&quot; as the waterway between Duluth, Minnesota and Sept. Iles, Quebec, Canada, encompassing the five Great Lakes, their connecting channels, and the Saint Lawrence River.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2464)
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Introduced in House