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Latin America Military Training Review Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1707
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Army
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Democracy
Department of Defense
Due process of law
Education
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Human rights
International Affairs
International law
Latin America
Law
Military assistance
Military education
Military training
Service academies
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: 
Latin America Military Training Review Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Army to suspend operation of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (Institute). Suspends the authority of the Secretary of Defense to operate such an education and training facility until submission of a report containing the results of an investigation in response to violations of human rights to which training at such Institute contributed. 
 
Establishes: (1) a joint congressional task force to assess appropriate education and training for DOD to provide to military personnel of Latin American nations; and (2) a commission to investigate activities of the United States Army School of the Americas and its successor institution, the Institute.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 49, United States Code, to expand passenger facility fee eligibility for noise compatibility projects.

Bill: 110-hr-1708
Sponsor: Rep. Harman, Jane [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Building construction
California
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Higher education
Noise
School buildings
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: 
Allows a passenger facility fee imposed at a large hub airport (that is subject to an amended judgment and final order in condemnation filed on January 7, 1980, by the Superior Court of the State of California for the county of Los Angeles) to be used as an eligible project cost to carry out noise mitigation for certain school buildings in the noise impacted area surrounding the airport if: (1) the buildings are adversely affected by airport noise; and (2) certain other requirements are met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Pollinator Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-1709
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural extension work
Agricultural research
Animal diseases
Animals
Authorization
Bees
Biological research
California
Department of Agriculture
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Florida
Fungicides
Genetic engineering
Genetic research
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Herbicides
Immunology and vaccination
Insect control
Insects
Laboratories
Medical research
New York State
Pesticides
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Texas
Toxicology
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: 
Pollinator Protection Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Agricultural Research Service, for: (1) personnel, facilities improvement, and additional research at Department of Agriculture Apicultural Research Laboratories; (2) research on honey bee physiology, insect pathology, insect chemical ecology, and honey bee toxicology at other Department facilities in New York, Florida, California, and Texas; and (3) research to identify causes and solutions for Colony Collapse Disorder.
 
Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary, through the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, for research grants to investigate: (1) honey bee immunology, genomics, biology, ecology, and bioinformatics; (2) pollination biology; and (3) the effects of genetically modified crops, insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides on honey bees and other beneficial insects and pollinators.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E663-664)
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
To modify the calculation of back pay for persons who were approved for promotion as members of the Navy and Marine Corps while interned as prisoners of war during World War II to take into account changes in the Consumer Price Index.

Bill: 110-hr-1710
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Ex-prisoners of war
Families
History
Labor and Employment
Marines
Military dependents
Military pay
Military personnel
Military promotions
Navy
Survivors' benefits
Wage restitution
Widowers
Widows
Women
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Amends the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 to increase the amount of back pay received by members of the Navy and Marine Corps selected for promotion while interned as prisoners of war during World War II to reflect increases in the cost of living since basic pay was paid to or for that person.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Flexibility in Assessments for Individuals Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1711
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Disabled
Disasters
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
English language
Government Operations and Politics
Illiteracy
Language arts
Literacy programs
Reading
Religion
Religious liberty
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: 
Flexibility in Assessments for Individuals Reform Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to alter requirements regarding state assessments of whether students are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward academic achievement standards by allowing states to: (1) track AYP on a longitudinal basis; (2) permit disabled students and students for religious reasons to opt out of the assessments; (3) reschedule assessments for students who for specified reasons cannot attend scheduled assessments; and (4) count disabled students who graduate from secondary school within reasonable periods of time in favorable AYP graduation rates. 
 
Includes students in the limited-English proficient subgroup for three school years after they attain English proficiency, when determining whether the subgroup has made AYP. Requires limited-English proficient students to be included in English proficiency assessments if they have attended U.S. schools for more than five consecutive years. (Currently, they are subject to such assessments after attending U.S. schools for three or more consecutive years.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Research and Development Tax Credit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1712
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bonds
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of the Treasury
Education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Income tax
Intellectual property
Investment tax credit
Law
Patents
Research and development
Research and development tax credit
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Tax administration
Tax-exempt organizations
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: 
Research and Development Tax Credit Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) modify the tax credit for increasing research expenses to establish a standard 20% credit rate for research expenses exceeding 50% of average expenses over the preceding three year period; (2) establish a uniform 80% reimbursement rate for all contract research expenses (100% for basic research payments); (3) make such tax credit permanent; (4) allow a tax credit for equity investments in small business innovation companies; and (5) allow the issuance of tax exempt facility bonds for research park facilities used in connection with research and experimentation.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) study and report to Congress on taxpayer compliance with the substantiation requirements for claiming the tax credit for increasing research activities; and (2) issue regulations on the application of private activity bond rules to the funding of federal research agreements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Protection Against Transmission of HIV for Women and Youth Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1713
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Contraceptives
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against women
Economic assistance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Equality before the law
Families
Family planning and birth control
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health planning
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
International agencies
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Law
Preventive medicine
Rape
Sex crimes
Sex discrimination
Sexual abstinence
Women
Women's education
Women's employment
Women's health
Women's rights
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: 
Protection Against Transmission of HIV for Women and Youth Act of 2007 - States that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) pursue a global HIV prevention strategy that emphasizes the needs of married and unmarried women and girls and addresses the factors that lead to gender disparities in HIV infection rates; and (2) balance funding for HIV prevention methods.
 
Directs the President to: (1) formulate and submit to the appropriate congressional committees, and make available to the public, a comprehensive and culturally appropriate global HIV prevention strategy that addresses the HIV vulnerability of married and unmarried women and girls and seeks to reduce the factors that lead to gender disparities in HIV infection rates; (2) ensure that the United States coordinates its overall HIV/AIDS policy and programs with foreign governments, international organizations, other donor countries, and indigenous organizations; and (3) provide clear guidance to U.S. field missions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Domestic Preparedness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1715
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
County politics and government
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labor and Employment
Nuclear terrorism
Paramedical personnel
Police
Police training
Public health
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: 
Domestic Preparedness Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to make grants to address homeland security preparedness shortcomings of units of municipal and county government. 
 
Specifies that each grant shall be made for one of the following categories: (1) equipment and training; or (2) improving interoperability between members of a consortium of municipal and county governments.
 
Sets limitations on the federal share of the costs of activities carried out with such grants.
 
Mandates that an applicant be a unit of municipal or county government or a consortium of such units in order to be eligible for a grant under this Act.
 
States that the Secretary may not make a grant under this Act unless the applicant conducts an assessment of the applicant's risk and vulnerability to possible acts of terrorism, including conventional, biological, nuclear, and chemical attacks.
 
Provides that grant amounts: (1) shall be used only for the category of use for which the grant is made; (2) may be used only for new domestic preparedness initiatives; (3) shall not be used to sustain or supplement an existing program; and (4) may be distributed to fire departments, police departments, emergency services, and public health agencies of the grantee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Foreign Language Education Expansion Act

Bill: 110-hr-1718
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: 
Foreign Language Education Expansion Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to assume or cancel loans made under the Federal Family Education Loan or the Direct Loan programs to individuals who have been employed for five consecutive complete school years as full-time foreign language teachers in secondary schools whose enrollment of disadvantaged students exceeds 30% and whose local educational agencies are eligible for funding under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
 
Caps loan forgiveness at $17,500.
 
Limits the benefits of this Act to new borrowers on or after October 1, 2001.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Securing Equity for the Economic Development of Low Income Areas Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1719
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Authorization
Bonds
Congressional reporting requirements
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Law
Loans
Manufacturing industries
Small Business Administration
Small business
Subsidies
Venture capital

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: 
Securing Equity for the Economic Development of Low Income Areas Act of 2007 - Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), in selecting companies to participate in the New Markets Venture Capital Program (Program), to select at least one company from each geographic region of the SBA. Requires (currently, authorizes) the Administrator to make grants to such companies to be used for loans to new-market small businesses, and to guarantee debentures issued by such companies.
 
Establishes the Office of New Markets Venture Capital, headed by a Director, to administer the Program.
 
Revises the definition of &quot;low income geographic area&quot; for Program eligibility purposes.
 
Requires a study by the SBA's Chief Counsel for Advocacy on the availability of equity capital in low-income urban and rural areas.
 
Authorizes operational assistance grants to conditionally approved companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Agriculture Education Freedom Act

Bill: 110-hr-1720
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural education
Agricultural societies
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Higher education
Income tax
Livestock
Secondary education
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Agriculture Education Freedom Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an individual any gain from the sale of any animal raised and sold by such individual as part of his or her participation in the 4-H program under the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture, the Future Farmers of America, any tax-exempt similar organization, or any program of a tax-exempt educational organization.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E662)
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Fair FHA Appraisals Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1723
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Charles A. [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Apartment houses
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Law
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Real estate appraisal
Rural housing
Single family housing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: 
Fair FHA Appraisals Act of 2007 - Amends the National Housing Act to subject to civil money penalties actions that improperly influence appraisals for an FHA insured mortgage for a small-family residence by compensating, instructing, inducing, coercing, or intimidating any person who conducts an appraisal in connection with such mortgage in order to cause the appraised value to be based on any other factor other than the independent judgment exercised in accordance with professional standards.
 
Modifies FHA mortgage insurance appraisal standards to require that: (1) the appraisal be conducted by an appraiser selected by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development on a rotating basis, mortgage-by-mortgage, from a list of appraisers (blind draws) developed by the Secretary; and (2) an authorized mortgagee use only appraisers selected in accordance with such list.
 
 Restricts use by a qualified appraiser of the assistance of others to cases where a limited number of appraisals is conducted within a limited rural area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Maria Manzano.

Bill: 110-hr-1724
Sponsor: Rep. Walsh, James T. [R-NY-25]
Introduced: 2007-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Provides for the relief of Maria Manzano.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Farm Animal Stewardship Purchasing Act

Bill: 110-hr-1726
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2007-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Health
Livestock
Protection of animals
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: 
Farm Animal Stewardship Purchasing Act - Prohibits the federal government from purchasing any product derived from a covered animal unless the animal is raised with: (1) adequate shelter which allows the animal to stand, lie down, walk, and turn around completely and fully extend all limbs or wings without touching any part of an enclosure or other animal; (2) daily access to adequate food and water; (3) adequate veterinary care; and (4) in the case of a mammal, the offspring of a dam that was kept in compliance with such provisions during pregnancy. 
 
States that this Act shall not apply to a covered animal: (1) during lawful transport; (2) in lawful rodeo exhibitions, state or county fair exhibitions, or other similar exhibitions; (3) in lawful scientific or agricultural research; (4) undergoing veterinary care; or (5) in the case of a sow, during the seven day period prior to the date the sow is expected to give birth.
 
Defines &quot;covered animal&quot; as any non-aquatic farm animal, including a pig, head of bison or cattle, chicken, turkey, duck, goose, goat, sheep, rabbit, ostrich, emu, or rhea intended for food production use. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House