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To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products in final package form for human consumption when the milk or milk product originates in a State that allows the sale of unpasteurized milk and milk products in final package form and is destined for another State that allows the sale of unpasteurized milk and milk products in final package form.

Bill: 110-hr-4077
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Commerce
Dairy industry
Government Operations and Politics
Interstate commerce
Milk
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: 
Authorizes the delivery into interstate traffic of any unpasteurized milk or unpasteurized milk product in final package form for human consumption if such product is: (1) produced in a state that allows the sale of unpasteurized milk and/or unpasteurized milk products in final package form; (2) delivered into interstate traffic in that state; and (3) intended for transport to and sale in another state that allows the sale of unpasteurized milk and or unpasteurized milk products in final package form. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2322)
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Education Professional Development Tax Credit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4078
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Continuing education
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax credits
Teacher education
Teachers
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: 
Education Professional Development Tax Credit Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow full-time elementary and secondary school teachers a tax credit for professional development and training expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Safe and Healthy Emergency Housing Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4079
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2007-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Air pollution control
Commerce
Disaster relief
Emergency housing
Environmental Protection
Formaldehyde
Housing and Community Development
Indoor air pollution
Mobile homes
Prefabricated buildings
Product safety
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: 
Safe and Healthy Emergency Housing Act of 2007 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide a temporary housing unit to an individual or household only if it complies with regulations of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development that establish formaldehyde emissions requirements applicable to manufactured homes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2321-2322)
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a separate nonimmigrant classification for fashion models.

Bill: 110-hr-4080
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Clothing
Labor and Employment
Skilled labor
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to replace the current nonimmigrant H-1B visa category for fashion models with a new (P-4) visa category. 
 
Defines such category as a fashion model who is of distinguished merit and ability and who is seeking to enter the United States temporarily to perform fashion modeling services that involve events or productions which have a distinguished reputation or that are performed for an organization or establishment that has a distinguished reputation for, or a record of, utilizing prominent modeling talent.

action_date: 2008-06-05
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to replace the current nonimmigrant (H-1B) visa category for fashion models with a new (P-4) visa category. 
 
Defines such category as a fashion model who is of distinguished merit and ability and who is seeking to enter the United States temporarily to perform fashion modeling services that involve events or productions which have a distinguished reputation or that are performed for an organization or establishment that has a distinguished reputation for, or a record of, utilizing prominent modeling talent.
 
Provides that such entrants may not: (1) exceed 1,000 in any fiscal year, not including accompanying spouses or children; and (2) stay in the United States for more than 10 years (initial five-year period with one five-year extension). 
 
Makes an employer petition for such alien models eligible for expedited consultation procedures.
 
States that applicable H-1B regulations, guidelines, and precedents in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act for the adjudication of fashion model petitions shall be applied to P-4 petitions, except to the extent modified by the Secretary of Homeland Security. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-05
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 442.
action_date: 2008-06-05
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-699.
action_date: 2008-06-05
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-699.
action_date: 2008-05-14
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 20 - 3.
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: 2007-12-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Non-Prescription Drug Modernization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4083
Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2007-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Deceptive advertising
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug adulteration
Drug industry
Drugs
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Labeling
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: 
Non-Prescription Drug Modernization Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize: (1) the amendment or repeal of an over-the-counter drug monograph without notice and public procedure if there is a finding by the Secretary of Health and Human Services that a category of drugs or a specific drug is associated with a significant risk or that such drugs lack evidence of effectiveness; and (2) the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate over-the-counter drug advertisements.

Directs the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to identify over-the-counter drug monographs that may require amendment or repeal and to report the findings to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Quality of Life Study Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4084
Sponsor: Rep. Hall, John J. [D-NY-19]
Introduced: 2007-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appellate courts
Claims
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Court congestion and delay
Courthouses
Courts of special jurisdiction
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Families
Governmental investigations
Labor and Employment
Law
Leases
Quality of life
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: 
Veterans Quality of Life Study Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to contract with the Institute of Medicine, or other appropriate entity, to conduct a study analyzing the extent to which the Department of Veterans Affairs schedule for rating disabilities accounts for or should be amended to account, measure, and compensate for loss of quality of life to veterans due to a disability resulting from a personal injury suffered or disease contracted in the line of duty.
 
Provides that if a veteran who is a claimant dies before completing the submission of a claim for benefits, the person who would receive any accrued benefits due to such veteran shall be treated as the claimant for purposes of completing submission of the claim.
 
Requires an annual report from the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (Court) to the congressional veterans' committees summarizing the Court's workload.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Court should be provided with appropriate office space, without undue disruption, inconvenience, or cost. Requires a report from the Administrator of General Services to the veterans' committees on the feasibility of leasing additional space for the Court, and using the entire building in which the Court is now housed as a Veterans Courthouse and Justice Center. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
Military Service Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4085
Sponsor: Rep. Klein, Ron [D-FL-22]
Introduced: 2007-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Earned income tax credit
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Military pay
Military personnel
Social Welfare
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: 
Military Service Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) penalty-free distributions from individual retirement plans to individuals called or ordered to active military duty; and (2) the taxpayer election to include combat zone compensation as earned income for purposes of computing the earned income tax credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Families and Dedicated Teachers Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4086
Sponsor: Rep. Klein, Ron [D-FL-22]
Introduced: 2007-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Charitable contributions
College costs
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Fuel cells
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Local taxation
Sales tax
Solar energy
State taxation
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Teachers
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: 
Healthy Families and Dedicated Teachers Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2013 the tax credit for residential energy efficient property expenditures; (2) extend through 2012 the tax deductions for expenses of elementary and secondary school educators and qualified tuition and related expenses; (3) make permanent the tax deduction for state and local general sales taxes; and (4) make permanent the exemption from tax penalties for premature retirement plan distributions for charitable purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4087
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2007-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Commerce
Fishery management
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Overfishing
Planning

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: 
Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act of 2007 - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to require fishery management plans, amendments, or regulations for overfished fisheries to specify a time period for ending overfishing and rebuilding the fishery that is as short as practicable. (Current law requires that the time period be as short as possible.) Modifies the exceptions to the requirement that such period not exceed ten years.
 
Requires, when the Secretary of Commerce extends the period under specified provisions, that the maximum rebuilding time not exceed the sum of the initial ten-year period, the expected time to rebuild the stock absent any fishing mortality and under prevailing environmental conditions, and the mean generation time of the stock.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the collective bargaining rights and procedures for review of adverse actions of certain employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-4089
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2007-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appellate courts
Collective bargaining
Department of Veterans Affairs
District courts
Employee rights
Employee-management relations in government
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grievance procedures
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: 
Repeals specified exceptions to rights of certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees to engage in collective bargaining.
 
Requires a final decision of the VA with respect to the review of an adverse personnel action against a VA employee to be issued not later than 60 days after such action has been appealed. Subjects such decision to judicial review in the appropriate U.S. District Court or, if the decision is made by a labor arbitrator, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt motor vehicle donations to certain charities from the limitations on such donations.

Bill: 110-hr-4090
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2007-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Income tax
Motor vehicles
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt donations of motor vehicles to charities from the limitations and substantiation requirements applicable to such donations if: (1) the employees of the charity are solely responsible for, and perform substantially all of the services for, the daily operations of the charity's vehicle donation program; (2) the charity does not regularly use the property or services of a third party in carrying out its vehicle donation program; and (3) not more than 20% of the annual net proceeds from the sale of donated motor vehicles is paid to third parties for services used by the charity's vehicle donation program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
Adoption Equality Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4091
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2007-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adoption
Aliens
Child abuse
Child safety
Child welfare
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disabled
Families
Foster home care
Immigration
Indian children
Minorities
Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: 
Adoption Equality Act of 2007 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for children with special needs in the adoption assistance program. Requires that the child be in the care of a public or licensed private child placement agency or Indian tribal organization pursuant to a voluntary placement agreement, relinquishment, or involuntary removal of the child from the home, where the state has determined that continuation in the home would be contrary to the child's safety or welfare. Specifies related requirements.

Prohibits adoption assistance to parents with respect to a child who is not a U.S. citizen or resident, and who was adopted outside of the United States or brought into the United States for the purposes of being adopted.

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the states should reinvest in child welfare programs any savings resulting from the implementation of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
Mountaintown National Scenic Area Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4092
Sponsor: Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2007-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Georgia
National forests
National scenic areas
Old growth forests

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: 
 Mountaintown National Scenic Area Act of 2007 - Establishes the Mountaintown National Scenic Area in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a management plan for the Scenic Area as an amendment to the land and resource management plan for the Forest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
Migratory Bird Treaty Act Penalty and Enforcement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4093
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2007-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Environmental Protection
Environmental law enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Migratory bird conservation
Poaching

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: 
 Migratory Bird Treaty Act Penalty and Enforcement Act of 2007 - Amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to: (1) make a person who intentionally takes any migratory bird by any manner not allowed by such Act guilty of a felony and subject to a fine of up to $50,000 and/or imprisonment for up to one year; and (2) make a person who intentionally commits any other act or omission in violation of such Act guilty of a felony punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment for up to six months.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 to modify the minimum standards required for the electronic monitoring units used in the pilot program for monitoring sexual offenders.

Bill: 110-hr-4094
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2007-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Electronic surveillance
Electronics
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex offenders
Telephone
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: 
Amends the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 to revise the minimum standards, under a pilot program, for electronic monitoring of sex offenders to eliminate requirements that the tracking device: (1) contain cellular technology in a single unit; and (2) provide two- and three-way voice communication.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
Aspheric Outside Rearview Mirror Timely Assessment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4095
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2007-11-06 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Automobile parts
Department of Transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Motor vehicle safety
Traffic accidents and safety

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: 
Aspheric Outside Rearview Mirror Timely Assessment Act of 2007 - Directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to conduct a rulemaking to amend federal regulations pertaining to rearview mirrors to determine whether to permit the use of aspheric mirrors as outside rearview mirrors on passenger cars. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Introduced in House