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Katrina Recovery Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2187
Sponsor: Rep. Alexander, Rodney [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2007-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Alabama
Civil engineering
Coastal zone
Commemorations
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Department of Transportation
Department of the Interior
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal aid to transportation
Fisheries
Flood control
Florida
Higher education
Historic sites
History
Housing and Community Development
Hurricanes
Infrastructure
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mass rapid transit
Mississippi
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Off-budget expenditures
Public housing
Rental housing
Rescission of appropriated funds
Road construction
Secondary education
Shellfish
Small business
Space activities
Space exploration
Supplemental appropriations
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: 
Katrina Recovery Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2007 - Makes emergency supplemental FY2007 appropriations for disaster relief and recovery related to Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, Dennis, and Rita to the Departments of Agriculture, of Justice, of Commerce, of Defense (Civil), of Homeland Security, of Interior, of Education, of Transportation, of Housing and Urban Development, and the Small Business Administration (SBA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Advisory Committee on Rural Veterans Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2190
Sponsor: Rep. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Housing and Community Development
Long-term care
Mental health services
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: 
Advisory Committee on Rural Veterans Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish the Advisory Committee on Rural Veterans to consult with and advise the Secretary on the administration of benefits by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for rural veterans, reports and studies relating to rural veterans, and the needs of rural veterans with respect to primary care, mental health care, and long-term care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Volunteer Pilot Organization Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2191
Sponsor: Rep. Drake, Thelma D. [R-VA-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Aircraft pilots
Aviation insurance
Aviation safety
Finance and Financial Sector
Liability (Law)
Licenses
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare
Torts
Transportation and Public Works
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: 
Volunteer Pilot Organization Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 to exempt from liability a nonprofit volunteer pilot organization (or its referring agency) that flies for public benefit, its staff members, and its volunteers for harm caused by a volunteer while flying, in furtherance of the organization's purpose, an aircraft for which the volunteer was properly licensed and insured.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Animal Protection Accountability Improvement Act

Bill: 110-hr-2193
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Advertising
Air cargo
Auctions
Business records
Commerce
Commercial aircraft
Congressional reporting requirements
Employee training
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Labor and Employment
Laboratory animals
Marketing
Medical ethics
Medical research
Medical supplies
Protection of animals
Research centers
Sales personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Transportation and Public Works
Video tape recording

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: 
Animal Protection Accountability Improvement Act - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit a person from using a live animal to: (1) demonstrate a medical device or product to a sales representative, or in a workshop or training session, for marketing purposes; (2) train a sales representative to use a medical device or product; or (3) create a multimedia recording for the purpose of marketing a medical device or product. Exempts from this requirement the training of medical personnel for a purpose other than marketing a medical device or product.

Increases the cap on the fine for violations of humane standards and record keeping requirements at auction sales from $2,500 to $10,000 for each violation. Provides that each animal that is the subject of a violation shall be a separate offense.

Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to include in a report to Congress an identification of all research facilities, intermediate handlers, carriers, and exhibitors registered under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize an allowance for civilian clothing for members of the Armed Forces traveling in connection with medical evacuation.

Bill: 110-hr-2194
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2007-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Air cargo
Clothing
Disabled
Military pay
Military personnel
Military transportation
Transportation and Public Works
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to furnish up to $250 worth of civilian clothing and luggage to a member of the Armed Forces, or to reimburse the member up to such amount for the purchase of such civilian clothing and luggage, for use for travel in connection with a medical evacuation. (Under current law $250 is allowed, but only for furnishing civilian clothing or reimbursement for such clothing.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to expand the education loan repayment program for members of the Selected Reserve.

Bill: 110-hr-2195
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2007-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Bank loans
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
Officer personnel
Pension funds
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: 
Includes within educational loans eligible for repayment by the Department of Defense (DOD) under the Selected Reserve education loan repayment program any educational loan made by a lender that is: (1) an agency or instrumentality of a state; (2) a financial or credit institution subject to examination and supervision by the United States or a state; (3) a pension fund approved by the Secretary of Defense; or (2) a nonprofit private entity designated and regulated by a state, and approved by the Secretary.
 
Makes officers (under current law, only enlisted personnel) eligible for such repayments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Knowledge Is Power Act

Bill: 110-hr-2196
Sponsor: Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2007-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Coal
Commerce
Consumer education
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Environmental Protection
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Hydroelectric power
Landfills
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Municipal solid waste
Natural gas
Nuclear energy
Ocean currents
Ocean energy resources
Refuse as fuel
Solar energy
State laws
Water Resources Development
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: 
Knowledge Is Power Act - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to require electric utilities to disclose prominently on consumers' periodic billing statements the percentage mix of energy technologies and fuels used to generate the electricity sold within the distribution utility's distribution area.
 
 Requires such disclosure to specify the percentage of electricity generated from coal, from gas, from nuclear, from any other fuel, and from any particular type of renewable energy (including solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, ocean tidal, ocean wave, ocean current, ocean thermal, geothermal, municipal solid waste, or hydroelectric).
 
 Declares compliance requirements inapplicable if before enactment of this Act: (1) the state has implemented for such utility the standard concerned, or a comparable one; (2) the state regulatory authority or relevant nonregulated electric utility has conducted a proceeding to consider the standard's implementation; or (3) the state legislature has voted on its implementation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Contractor Accountability Act

Bill: 110-hr-2198
Sponsor: Rep. Sutton, Betty [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2007-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Government contractors
Government procurement
Government publicity

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: 
Contractor Accountability Act - Requires the head of each federal agency to annually report to Congress on each covered contract or order awarded or issued by the agency during the year. Requires the report to contain: (1) a certification that the agency has exercised oversight over each contract or order sufficient to ensure that each contractor is fulfilling the obligations specified; and (2) a list of the names of each contractor found to not be fulfilling its obligations.

Requires each report to be publicly available on the agency's website. 

Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress on agency compliance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, relating to the use of the leave transfer program by wounded veterans who are Federal employees.

Bill: 110-hr-2200
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Disabled
Federal employees
Health
Leave of absence
Sick leave
Veterans' medical care
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Amends federal provisions concerning the federal employee leave transfer program to exempt an employee who is undergoing medical treatment for a combat-related disability sustained while such individual was a member of the Armed Forces from the requirement that his or her annual and sick leave be exhausted before any transferred leave may be used. Limits the exemption to no more than five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Caring for Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2201
Sponsor: Rep. McNerney, Jerry [D-CA-11]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Brain
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disabled
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Head injuries
Health
Iraq compilation
Medical research
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Science, Technology, Communications
Trauma care
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Caring for Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) the Committee on Care of Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury to continually assess VHA capability to meet the treatment and rehabilitation needs of veterans with traumatic brain injury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Worker Empowerment Act

Bill: 110-hr-2202
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Employment subsidies
Excise tax
Government trust funds
Taxation
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Worker Empowerment Act - Amends the Social Security Act to require each state to implement a reemployment adjustment assistance program that provides payment of 50% of the amount by which the wages received by an individual at the time of his or her separation from employment exceeds (if at all) the wages received by such individual from reemployment.
 

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code (relating to employment taxes) to impose a wage insurance contribution excise tax on every employer.
 
Establishes a Wage Insurance Trust Fund in the Treasury, to which the equivalent of any such taxes received shall be appropriated to carry out this Act.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Improving Supplemental Education by Ensuring Parental Awareness Act

Bill: 110-hr-2203
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative remedies
Compensatory education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational surveys
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Illiteracy
Language arts
Law
Mathematics
Parent-school relationships
Performance measurement
Rating of teachers
Reading
School choice
School districts
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Improving Supplemental Education by Improving Parental Awareness Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require local educational agencies (LEAs) to make supplemental educational services (SES) available to needy students at the beginning of the school year following a school's identification as needing improvement for failing for two consecutive years to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards. (Currently, such services are provided after an additional year of failure.)
 
Expands the availability of school improvement funds for SES.
 
Requires LEAs to: (1) provide parents with information concerning SES instructors; (2) choose SES providers using a fair, open, and objective process to operate at school sites for, at most, a reasonable fee; and (3) provide logistical information to providers and outreach to parents.
 
Directs states to: (1) use valid and reliable methods based on nationally recognized professional standards to monitor SES providers; (2) establish fair removal procedures for providers subject to repeated complaints; (3) assist LEAs with the SES student enrollment process; (4) ensure that such process is fair to all SES providers; (5) if appropriate, require LEAs to use different methods to recruit SES eligible students; (6) if appropriate, provide incentives to rural SES providers; and (7) ensure that disabled and limited English proficient (LEP) children have a choice of at least two SES providers.
 
Adds to the annual reporting requirement of states and LEAs receiving school improvement funds to require information regarding spending on, and student participation in, school choice and SES.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education's assessment of SES effectiveness to employ scientifically-based criteria and weigh the participation of disabled and LEP children.
 
Makes LEAs identified as needing improvement or corrective action ineligible as SES providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Retirement Security for Life Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2205
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Stephanie Tubbs [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Life insurance
Retirement income
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Retirement Security for Life Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an exclusion from gross income for 50 percent of the amount otherwise includible in gross income as guaranteed payments from certain annuity or life insurance contracts. Limits the amount of such exclusion to $20,000 in any taxable year. Provides for an inflation adjustment of the $20,000 limitation beginning in 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Coal Liquid Fuel Act

Bill: 110-hr-2208
Sponsor: Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Coal
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Energy industries
Environmental Protection
Fuel
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Petroleum refineries
Profit sharing
Refuse as fuel
Small business
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Coal Liquid Fuel Act - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to authorize the Secretary of Energy to enter into: (1) standby loan agreements with up to six qualifying CTL projects, at least one of which shall be owned by two or more small coal producers; and (2) a profit-sharing agreement with the project at the time the standby loan agreement is executed. 
 
Defines &quot;qualifying CTL project&quot; as: (1) a commercial-scale project that converts coal to liquid or gaseous transportation fuels; or (2) not more than one project at a facility that converts petroleum refinery waste products, including petroleum coke, into liquids or gaseous transportation fuels, and demonstrates the capture, sequestration, or disposition of carbon dioxide produced in the conversion process.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-09
text: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Roskam. Petition No: 110-12. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/110/lrc/pd/Petitions/Dis12.htm">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.)
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2007-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2007-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in House