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Helping Fill the Medicare Rx Gap Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2058
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Bribery
Coinsurance
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug industry
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Hospitals
Indian medical care
Managed care
Medical economics
Medicare
Minorities
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Helping Fill the Medicare Rx Gap Act of 2007 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), with respect to the annual out of pocket threshold, to count costs incurred in providing prescription drugs by the Indian Health Service, a federally-qualified health center, an AIDS drug assistance program, certain hospitals, or a pharmaceutical manufacturer patient assistance program.

Amends SSA title XI, with respect to criminal penalties for certain illegal remunerations, to exclude from prohibited remunerations (provide safe harbor for) any remuneration paid by a pharmaceutical manufacturer patient assistance program, either in cash or through the distribution or donation of covered Part D drugs, to an individual enrolled in a Part D plan or a Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plan under SSA title XVIII part C.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 32, United States Code, to provide members of the National Guard additional time to transition to civilian life when they return from active duty in support of contingency operations or homeland defense missions.

Bill: 110-hr-2059
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Counseling
Disaster relief
Education
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services
Health
Labor and Employment
Military medicine
Military operations
National Guard
Personal budgets
Social Welfare
Veterans' education
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Provides that if a member of the National Guard serves on active duty for one year or more in support of a contingency operation or homeland defense mission, that member shall be given the option of serving on full-time National Guard duty for up to 90 days upon being relieved from that active duty, in order to ease the transition to civilian life.
 
Allows reintegration (transition) programs for such members to include: (1) mandatory decompression time; (2) education and employment workshops; (3) financial counseling; (4) health and welfare briefings; and (5) disaster mitigation or emergency response duties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Predatory Mortgage Lending Practices Reduction Act

Bill: 110-hr-2061
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Stephanie Tubbs [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Community development
Consumer complaints
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Contractors
Debtor and creditor
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Discrimination in consumer credit
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Employment tests
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Federally-assisted loans
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Financial services
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Independent regulatory commissions
Infrastructure
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Mortgage banks
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgage interest rates
Mortgages
Real estate appraisal
Restrictive trade practices
Social Welfare
Subcontractors
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Predatory Mortgage Lending Practices Reduction Act - Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to prohibit any person, in connection with a subprime federally related mortgage loan, from providing mortgage lending services or mortgage brokerage services unless such person is certified by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as having been adequately trained with regard to subprime lending. 
 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require lenders to establish a best practices plan, meeting certain criteria, to ensure compliance with such Act for high cost mortgages. 
Proscribes unfair or deceptive acts or practices in providing: (1) mortgage lending services for either a subprime federally related mortgage loan; (2) mortgage brokerage services for such a loan; and (3) appraisal of a property offered as security for repayment of the loan.
Sets forth civil penalties for violations. 
Consumer Fairness Act - Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to declare unenforceable a written provision in any consumer contract or transaction which requires binding arbitration to resolve any controversy arising out of such transaction or contract, or the refusal to perform all or any part of the transaction. (Permits post-controversy arbitration agreements.) 
Amends the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994 to authorize the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund to make grants to nonprofit community development corporations to educate and train borrowers and community groups regarding illegal and inappropriate predatory lending practices.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10456)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E856)
Compassionate Care for Servicewomen Act

Bill: 110-hr-2064
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Contraceptives
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Health
Military medicine
Women
Women soldiers
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Compassionate Care for Servicewomen Act - Requires emergency contraception to be included on the basic core formulary of the uniform formulary of pharmaceutical agents for the pharmacy benefits program of the Department of Defense.
 
States that prior authorization shall not be required for such contraception.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Drug Savings Through Choice Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2065
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Medicare Drug Savings Through Choice Act of 2007 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) offer a Medicare operated prescription drug plan with a service area that consists of the entire United States; (2) negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers to reduce the purchase cost of covered Medicare part D drugs; and (3) encourage the use of more affordable therapeutic equivalents.
 
Requires the monthly beneficiary premium charged under such a plan to be uniform nationally. Requires adjustment of such premium amount in case of supplemental prescription drug coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants Access Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2066
Sponsor: Rep. Olver, John W. [D-MA-1]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Case management
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical fees
Midwives
Nurse practitioners
Physicians' assistants
Social Welfare
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Medicaid Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants Access Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the state option to include nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives, and physician assistants as primary care case managers. Specifies as primary care case managers any nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife, or physician assistant that provides primary care case management services under a primary care case management contract.

Revises the coverage of certain nurse practitioner services under the Medicaid fee-for-service program to remove the specification of certified pediatric nurse practitioner and certified family nurse practitioner in order to extend such coverage to services furnished by a nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist. Includes nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, physician assistants, certified nurse midwives, and certified registered nurse anesthetists in the mix of service providers which Medicaid managed care organizations are required to maintain. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Good Samaritan Protection for Construction, Architectural, and Engineering Volunteers Act

Bill: 110-hr-2067
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Architecture
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commerce
Construction industries
Construction workers
Disaster relief
Disasters
Emergency Management
Engineering
Federal preemption
Good samaritan laws
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Liability (Law)
Social Welfare
State laws
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Good Samaritan Protection for Construction, Architectural, and Engineering Volunteers Act - Grants construction companies and architectural and engineering firms and their employees immunity from liability for negligence, except for gross negligence or willful misconduct, when providing emergency assistance on a voluntary basis in response to a declared emergency or disaster, in good faith, and without expectation of compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Save Our Climate Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2069
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air pollution control
Carbon dioxide
Coal
Commerce
Energy
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Gas industry
Natural gas
Peat
Petroleum
Petroleum industry

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Save Our Climate Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on the carbon content of any taxable fuel sold by a manufacturer, producer, or importer. Sets the amount of such tax at $10 per ton of the carbon content in such fuel. Defines &quot;taxable fuel&quot; as coal (including lignite and peat), petroleum and any petroleum product, and natural gas. Exempts from such tax the sale or in-kind exchange of fuel for deposit in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and certain exports or resales of such fuel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E882-883)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Learning Assessment for Students and Schools (CLASS) Act

Bill: 110-hr-2070
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Compensatory education
Curricula
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Illiteracy
Minorities
Minority education
School choice
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Standards
Teaching

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Comprehensive Learning Assessment for Students and Schools (CLASS) Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise requirements affecting adequate yearly progress (AYP) assessments of students against state academic performance standards.
 
Allows AYP longitudinal growth calculations and the averaging of school data in a manner designed to stabilize school-building results from year to year.
 
Identifies a school as needing improvement, corrective action, or restructuring only on the basis of the unsatisfactory AYP of a particular group of students in the same academic subject for the requisite period of time.
 
Requires multiple measures of student academic achievement.
 
Requires academic achievement standards to calculate AYP within a continuum of achievement by children within advanced, proficient, and basic achievement levels.
 
Allows states to use the results of subsequent assessments of students who take more than one assessment for the same grade and subject.
 
Limits the provision of supplemental services and transfers to those students who fall within a group whose underperformance results in the school's failure to make AYP.
 
Requires state assessments to be aligned with curriculum and instruction so their effectiveness may be assessed.
 
Requires alternate standards and assessments for disabled children aligned with the child's individualized education program.
 
Allows states to measure the AYP of limited English proficient (LEP) children by including children that have attained English proficiency and excluding LEP children who have resided in the country for less than three years.
 
Allows states to set separate starting points for measuring the AYP of each student group.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E879)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
New Mexico Aquifer Assessment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2071
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Aquifers
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Geology
Groundwater
Hydrology
New Mexico
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Saline waters
Science, Technology, Communications
Water quality
Water supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
New Mexico Aquifer Assessment Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), to conduct a study of water resources in New Mexico, to include: (1) a survey of groundwater resources and a characterization of surface and bedrock geology; and (2) the Salt Basin, the Tularosa Basin, and the middle Rio Grande Aquifer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To authorize and request the President to award the Medal of Honor to Richard Gresko, of Newtown, Pennsylvania, for acts of valor in the Republic of Vietnam on March 11 and 12, 1970, while serving as a lance corporal in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.

Bill: 110-hr-2072
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Military medals, decorations, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Authorizes and requests the President to award the Medal of Honor to Richard Gresko of Newtown, Pennsylvania, for acts of valor in the Republic of Vietnam on March 11-12, 1970, while serving as a lance corporal in the Marines during the Vietnam War.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2074
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2007-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil actions and liability
Classified defense information
Evidence (Law)
Explosives
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Licenses
Official secrets
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: 
Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to grant the Attorney General the authority to deny the transfer of firearms or the issuance of a federal firearms and explosives license to any individual if the Attorney General: (1) determines that such individual has been engaged in or has provided material support or resources for terrorist activities; and (2) has a reasonable belief that such individual may use a firearm or explosive in connection with terrorism. Allows any individual whose firearm or explosives license application has been been denied to bring legal action challenging the denial.

Prohibits the sale or disribution of firearms or explosives to any individual whom the Attorney General has determined to be engaged in terrorist activities. 

Permits the Attorney General to withhold information in firearms and explosives license denial revocation suits if the Attorney General determines that the disclosure of such information would likely compromise national security

Authorizes the Attorney General to revoke firearms and explosives licenses and permits held by individuals determined to be engaged in terrorism. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Introduced in House
New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2075
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Community development
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Infrastructure
Investments
Stocks
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: 
New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the new markets tax credit through 2013; and (2) provide for an inflation adjustment to the limitation amount for such credit after 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E888-889)
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2079
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2007-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air pollution control
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commercialization
Economics and Public Finance
Electric batteries
Electric vehicles
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to transportation
Motor vehicle pollution control
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Transportation and Public Works
Waste reduction

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: 
Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) conduct a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of technologies needed for the development of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; and (2) establish a competitive grant pilot demonstration program to provide up to 25 grants annually to state and local governments and metropolitan transportation authorities, or combinations of them, to implement demonstration projects for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Introduced in House