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To extend the temporary suspension of duty on Dinotefuran.

Bill: 110-hr-5023
Sponsor: Rep. Tauscher, Ellen O. [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2008-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Dinotefuran.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on Etoxazole.

Bill: 110-hr-5024
Sponsor: Rep. Tauscher, Ellen O. [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2008-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Etoxazole.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on Pyriproxyfen.

Bill: 110-hr-5025
Sponsor: Rep. Tauscher, Ellen O. [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2008-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Pyriproxyfen.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on Uniconazole.

Bill: 110-hr-5026
Sponsor: Rep. Tauscher, Ellen O. [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2008-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Uniconazole.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on integral flow controllers, certified by the importer exclusively for installation in semiconductor wafer fabrication machines.

Bill: 110-hr-5027
Sponsor: Rep. Wexler, Robert [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2008-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on integral flow controllers, certified by the importer exclusively for installation in semiconductor wafer fabrication machines.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Autism Treatment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-5028
Sponsor: Rep. Wexler, Robert [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2008-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Autism
Child development
Child health
Commerce
Consumer education
Disabled
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Respite care
Small business
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: 
Fairness in Autism Treatment Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan that provides both medical and surgical benefits to also provide coverage for pervasive developmental disorders, including coverage for therapeutic, respite, and rehabilitative care for participants or beneficiaries who have not attained 22 years of age. 

Applies the requirements of this Act separately with respect to benefits provided in-network and out-of-network.

Prohibits a group health plan from: (1) imposing any annual or lifetime dollar limitation on benefits for pervasive developmental disorders unless such limitation applies to all medical and surgical benefits as well; (2) imposing a deductible, coinsurance, or other cost-sharing for such disorders that is greater than the cost-sharing imposed for medical and surgical benefits; or (3) denying eligibility, or continued eligibility, to enroll or renew coverage under the term of the plan solely for the purpose of avoiding the requirements of this Act.

Considers the requirements of this Act a material change for the purpose of notice requirements. 

Excludes from the requirements of this Act: (1) a group health plan of a small employer; or (2) a group health plan if the application of this Act results in an increase in the cost under the plan of at least 1%.

Provides that this Act shall not be construed to preempt any state law that at least meets the requirements of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2008-01-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2008-01-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
To designate the name for the medical facilities being constructed at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, to replace Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Bill: 110-hr-5029
Sponsor: Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]
Introduced: 2008-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health
Maryland
Medical centers
Military hospitals
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to designate as the &quot;National Military Medical Center,&quot; upon their completion, the medical facilities being constructed at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, to replace Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the District of Columbia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Corina de Chalup Turcinovic.

Bill: 110-hr-5030
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2008-01-16 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Provides for the relief of Corina de Chalup Turcinovic.

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 H8137-8138)
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by voice vote.(text: CR H8137-8138)
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Considered from the Private Calendar. (consideration: CR H8137-8138)
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. 3.
action_date: 2008-07-08
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-743.
action_date: 2008-07-08
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-743.
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: 2008-02-13
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2008-02-13
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-16
text: Introduced in House
Stealth Tax Relief Extension Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5031
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2008-01-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: 
Stealth Tax Relief Extension Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the exemption from the alternative minimum tax for individual taxpayers in 2008; and (2) extend through 2008 the allowance of certain nonrefundable tax credits against alternative minimum tax liability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E42)
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
Ultrasound Informed Consent Act

Bill: 110-hr-5032
Sponsor: Rep. Jordan, Jim [R-OH-4]
Introduced: 2008-01-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Fetus
Fines (Penalties)
Imaging systems in medicine
Informed consent (Medical law)
Law
Obstetrics
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: 
Ultrasound Informed Consent Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require abortion providers, before a woman gives informed consent to any part of an abortion, to perform an obstetric ultrasound on the pregnant woman, explain the results, display the ultrasound images so the woman may view them, and provide a medical description of the ultrasound images, including the dimensions of the embryo or fetus and the presence of external members and internal organs, if present and viewable. Provides for: (1) civil penalties for willful failure to comply; and (2) a medical emergency exception.
 
 Prohibits construing this Act to require a woman to view the images or penalizing the physician or the woman if she refuses to look at the images.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
Hospital Price Reporting and Disclosure Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-5033
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2008-01-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Ambulatory care
Commerce
Consumer education
Department of Health and Human Services
Drugs
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Law
Medical records
Medical statistics
Prescription pricing
Surgery

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: 
Hospital Price Reporting and Disclosure Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require a hospital or ambulatory surgical center to: (1) report data to the Secretary of Health and Human Services regarding the frequency of performing certain services and administering certain drugs and the charge by the hospital or center for such services or drugs; and (2) prominently post such information at each admission site. Requires the Secretary to: (1) publicly post such information in a manner that promotes charge comparisons among hospitals and centers; and (2) select which services or drugs are to be reported based on how frequently each service is performed or each drug is administered.
 
Allows the Secretary to impose a civil monetary penalty for violations of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Education Benefits Extension Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5034
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2008-01-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Education
Families
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: 
Veterans Education Benefits Extension Act of 2008 - Eliminates the ten-year time limit for use of entitlement to education assistance under the Montgomery GI bill.
 
Prohibits, however, any increase in the rate of benefit payments after the end of the ten-year period following the last discharge or release from active duty of an individual entitled to educational assistance. Prohibits, furthermore, any transfer of an individual's entitlement to a dependent after the end of such ten-year period.
 
Extends the time periods for the use of educational assistance benefits to which members of the selected reserve and members of the reserve component supporting contingency operations are entitled. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2008-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5035
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2008-01-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Authorization
Cocaine
Crack (Drug)
Drug abuse
Drug courts
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Law
Mandatory sentences
Probation
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: 
Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2008 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to eliminate: (1) increased and mandatory minimum penalties for drug offenses involving mixtures or substances which contain cocaine base (i.e., crack cocaine); and (2) restrictions on judicial authority to grant probation or suspended sentences for certain cocaine offenses.

Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2013 for federal pretrial diversion and post conviction drug courts.

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize appropriations for FY2009-FY2013 for the drug courts grant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
Legislative Branch Recognizes the Value of Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5037
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2008-01-17 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Congressional office operations
Disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Labor and Employment
Small business
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: 
Legislative Branch Recognizes the Value of Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Act of 2008 - Requires each official responsible for entering into procurement contracts for goods and services for a legislative branch office to ensure that at least 3% of the aggregate value of all contracts entered into during a fiscal year is attributable to contracts awarded to eligible disabled veterans small businesses.
 
 
Defines &quot;eligible disabled veterans small business&quot; as a small business concern listed on the database maintained by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs as a small business concern owned and controlled by a veteran with a service-connected disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
Caging Prohibition Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5038
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2008-01-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Election administration
Fines (Penalties)
Government paperwork
Law
State laws
Voter registration
Voting
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: 
Caging Prohibition Act of 2008 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit state or local election officials from preventing an individual from registering or voting in any election for federal office, or from permitting a formal challenge under state law to an individual's registration status or eligibility to vote, if the basis for such decision is evidence consisting of: (1) a voter caging document or voter caging list; (2) an unverified match list; (3) an error or omission on voter application or registration documents that is not material to an individual's eligibility to vote; or (4) any other evidence so designated by the Election Assistance Commission. 

Defines &quot;voter caging document&quot; as: (1) a nonforwardable document that is returned to the sender or a third party as undelivered or undeliverable despite an attempt to deliver it to the address of a registered voter or applicant; or (2) any document with instructions to an addressee that the document be returned to a sender or third party but is not so returned, despite an attempt to deliver it to the address of a registered voter, unless at least two federal election cycles have passed since the date of the attempted delivery.

Defines &quot;unverified match list&quot; as a list produced by matching the information of registered voters or applicants to a list of individuals ineligible to vote in the registrar's jurisdiction due to death, conviction, change of address, or otherwise, unless one of the pieces of information matched includes a signature, photograph, or unique identifying number ensuring that the information from each source refers to the same individual. 

Requires any private individual who challenges the right of another citizen to vote to set forth in writing, under penalty of perjury, personal, first-hand knowledge establishing the grounds for ineligibility. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2008-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E43)
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 1,2,4 Triazole.

Bill: 110-hr-5039
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2008-01-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 1,2,4 Triazole.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Fluopicolide.

Bill: 110-hr-5040
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2008-01-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Fluopicolide.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Fenhexamid.

Bill: 110-hr-5041
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2008-01-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Fenhexamid.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Belt & Synapse.

Bill: 110-hr-5042
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2008-01-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Belt & Synapse.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-01-17
text: Introduced in House