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Prepare All Kids Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1374
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2007-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child development
Class size
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Family services
Federal aid to education
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Higher education
Homeless
Illiteracy
Parent-school relationships
Poor children
Preschool education
School administration
Social Welfare
Special education
Student transportation
Teacher education
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-11
text: 
Prepare All Kids Act of 2007 - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Prekindergarten Incentive Fund from which matching grants shall be awarded to states and, through them, subgrants to qualified prekindergarten providers to establish, expand, or enhance voluntary high quality full-day prekindergarten programs serving children ages three through five.
 
Requires prekindergarten providers to target children from families with incomes at or below 200% of the poverty line and provide them with program services free of charge. 
 
Directs state grantees to set aside: (1) at least 10% of a grant for quality early childhood development programs for children ages zero through three; and (2) at least 10% of a grant to extend the hours of early childhood programs to create extended day and year programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6021-6022)
action_date: 2007-05-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6021)
action_date: 2007-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
MOTHERS Act

Bill: 110-s-1375
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Case management
Childbirth
Communication in medicine
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Fathers
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health planning
Home care services
Maternal health services
Medical research
Medical screening
Mental depression
Mental health services
Mothers
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-11
text: 
Mom's Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act or the MOTHERS Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to: (1) states to provide to women who have recently given birth and their families, before such women leave their birthing centers, education concerning postpartum depression, postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, and postpartum psychosis and to screen new mothers for such postpartum conditions during their first year of postnatal checkup visits; and (2) public or nonprofit private entities to provide for the delivery of essential services to individuals with such postpartum conditions and their families. 
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the heads of other federal agencies that administer federal health programs, to organize a series of national meetings that are designed to develop a research plan for postpartum depression and psychosis. 
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to expand and intensify research relating to postpartum conditions to carry out such plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-05-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6022-6023)
action_date: 2007-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
340B Program Improvement and Integrity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1376
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative remedies
Ambulatory care
Commerce
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug industry
Drugs
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Law
Medicaid
Prescription pricing
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: 
340B Program Improvement and Integrity Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the drug discount program to allow participation as a covered entity by certain children's hospitals, critical access hospitals, and rural referral centers or sole community hospitals. Prohibits enrolled hospitals from obtaining covered outpatient drugs through a group purchasing arrangement. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish reasonable exceptions to such prohibition, including for drugs unavailable through the program and to facilitate generic substitution when a generic covered drug is available at a lower price. 

Expands the program to include a drug used in connection with an inpatient or outpatient service by enrolled hospitals. (Currently, only outpatient drugs are covered under the program.)

Requires hospitals enrolled in the 340B drug discount program to provide to each state a credit on the estimated annual costs to such hospital of single source and innovator multiple source drugs and noninnovator multiple source drugs provided to Medicaid recipients for inpatient use. Sets forth a formula for calculating the credit. Allows a hospital to avoid paying such credits under certain circumstances. 

Requires the Secretary to: (1) carry out activities to improve compliance by manufacturers and covered entities with the requirements of the drug discount program; and (2) establish an administrative process for resolving claims by covered entities and manufacturers of violations of such requirements.

Requires manufacturers to offer each covered entity covered drugs for purchase at or below the applicable ceiling price if such a drug is made available to any other purchaser at any price.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6057-6060)
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6057)
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Dextromethorphan Distribution Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1378
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug adulteration
Drug traffic
Drugs
Fines (Penalties)
Retail trade

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: 
Dextromethorphan Distribution Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem to be adulterated any unfinished dextromethorphan that is possessed, received, or distributed in violation of this Act.

Prohibits a person from: (1) possessing or receiving unfinished dextromethorphan unless the person is registered with the Secretary of Health and Human Services as a producer of a drug or device or otherwise registered, licensed, or approved pursuant to federal or state law to engage in the practice of pharmacy, pharmaceutical production, or manufacture or distribution of pharmaceutical ingredients; or (2) distributing unfinished dextromethorphan to any person other than a registered or otherwise authorized person. Excludes from such prohibitions common carriers that possess, receive, or distribute unfinished dextromethorphan for purposes of distributing it between authorized persons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
United States Attorney Local Residency Restoration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1379
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Department of Justice
Government Operations and Politics
Judicial districts
Law
Public prosecutors
Residence requirements

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: 
United States Attorney Local Residency Restoration Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to repeal authority of the Attorney General to assign a U.S. attorney or an assistant U.S. attorney dual or additional responsibilities that exempt such officer from the requirement that each U.S. attorney and assistant U.S. attorney reside in the district for which he or she is appointed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6061)
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6061)
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Federal Trade Commission to monitor and investigate gasoline prices under certain circumstances.

Bill: 110-s-1381
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Federal Trade Commission
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Independent regulatory commissions
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Public meetings
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: 
 Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the retail price of gasoline in a state in which the average price of regular grade gasoline has increased 20 percent or more for at least seven days during any three-month period in order to determine if the price is being artificially manipulated by reducing refinery capacity or by any other form of manipulation.
 
 
Requires the FTC to: (1) report to Congress within 30 days after initiating an investigation; and (2) present investigation results, within 14 days after reporting to Congress, at a public hearing in the state in which the retail price of gasoline was investigated.
 
Requires the FTC, in cooperation with the Attorney General of the relevant state, to take appropriate action if it determines that the increase in gasoline prices in a state is a result of market manipulation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Drug Sentencing Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1383
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2007-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cocaine
Crack (Drug)
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Imprisonment
Law
Long-term care
Mandatory sentences
Nursing homes
Prison alternatives
Sentencing guidelines
Social Welfare
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Violence
Weapons

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: 
Drug Sentencing Reform Act of 2007 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to to decrease mandatory minimum sentencing thresholds for powder cocaine and increase such thresholds for crack cocaine. 

Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to review and amend federal sentencing guidelines to: (1) reflect changes to mandatory minimum sentences made by this Act; (2) provide increased sentences for defendants who use violence or weapons in the course of a drug trafficking offense or who play an active role in the commission of such offenses; and (3) limit sentencing for defendants who play a lesser role in the commission of drug offenses and who receive little or no compensation from their crime. 

Requires the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to carry out a pilot program for home detention of nonviolent prisoners age 65 or older.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-12
text: Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal authority for adjustments to per diem payments to homeless veterans service centers for receipt of other sources of income, to extend authorities for certain programs to benefit homeless veterans, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-1384
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Counseling
Health
Home care services
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Social Welfare
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' medical care
Women
Women veterans
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: 
Repeals the requirement that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs adjust the per diem payments made to veterans under the homeless veterans' comprehensive services program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to exclude sources of income from other federal, state, or local governments, departments, agencies, or entities.
 
Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration program to prevent veterans who are at risk of homelessness after discharge or release from active military duty from becoming homeless.
 
Amends a demonstration program of referral and counseling for veterans transitioning from certain institutions who are at risk of homelessness to: (1) remove the &quot;demonstration&quot; designation of the program; (2) require the program to be carried out in 12 (under current law, at least six) locations; and (3) extend the program through FY2012.
 
Allows homeless veterans' comprehensive services grant funds to be used to provide funding for service center staff.
 
Repeals a provision limiting to FY2003 and FY2004 the funding for VA domiciliary care programs for homeless veterans. Requires the Secretary to ensure that such programs are adequate, with respect to capacity and safety, to meet the needs of women veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6064)
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6063-6064)
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the United States courthouse facility located at 301 North Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida, as the "C. Clyde Atkins United States Courthouse".

Bill: 110-s-1385
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2007-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Courthouses
District courts
Florida
Judges
Law
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: 
Designates the United States courthouse facililty located at 301 North Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida, as the &quot;C. Clyde Atkins United States Courthouse.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6065)
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Homeownership Protection and Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1386
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2007-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Counseling
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Home ownership
Loan defaults
Low-income housing
Moderate income housing
Mortgage banks
Mortgages
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: 
Homeownership Protection and Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to reauthorize and revise requirements for assistance with respect to housing for low- and moderate-income families. 
 
Specifies additional circumstances making a homeowner eligible for homeownership counseling from an organization that has received a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide it.
 
Requires a proposed mortgagee to notify any eligible mortgage applicant of the availability of pre-purchase homeownership counseling, homeownership counseling, and homeownership protection center services.
 
Requires a proposed mortgagee, also, to notify a homeowner at closing of the availability of counseling upon delinquency and of the services of State Homeownership Protection Centers.
 
Requires specified mortgagee notices to homeowners in the event of mortgage payment delinquencies.
 
Directs the Secretary of HUD to award competitive grants to enable state housing finance agencies to establish State Homeownership Protection Centers.
 
Requires any State Homeownership Protection Center to provide a centralized location for information on, and referral to, public services for assisting a homeowner in default on a home loan.
 
Requires the Secretary also to award competitive grants to enable state housing finance agencies in states with such Centers to provide one-time emergency grants or subsidized home preservation loans to assist eligible homeowners in satisfying any amounts past due on their home loans.
 
Requires mortgagees to engage in reasonable loss mitigation activities to provide an alternative to foreclosure.
 
Prohibits a mortgagee from initiating or continuing a foreclosure upon written confirmation that the homeowner has applied for a home preservation loan.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop a plan to monitor the mortgage industry in order to predict likely future trends in foreclosures.
 
Requires the Secretary to develop recommendations for a national database on mortgage defaults and foreclosures.
 
Directs the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council to create such a database.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6066-6069)
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6065)
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Commercial Truck Highway Safety Demonstration Program Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1388
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government statistics
Highway finance
Interstate highway system
Maine
Traffic accidents and safety
Trucking
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: 
Commercial Truck Highway Safety Demonstration Program Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to carry out a program to demonstrate the effects on the safety of the highway network in Maine of permitting operation on the Interstate System highways within the state of a vehicle that weighs over 80,000 pounds, that consists of a three-axle tractor unit hauling a single trailer or semitrailer, and that does not exceed any vehicle weight limitation applicable under Maine law.
 
Waives highway funding reduction relating to weight of vehicles using Interstate System highways with respect to vehicles allowed pursuant to this program. 
Provides for program termination and for the responsibilities of the state of Maine, including: (1) submitting a plan to the Secretary; (2) establishing a highway safety committee; and (3) collecting data on the net effects of the operation of such vehicles on safety.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6069-6070)
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Climate Change Education Act

Bill: 110-s-1389
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy
Energy conservation
Environmental education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: 
Climate Change Education Act - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to establish a Climate Change Education Program to: (1) broaden the understanding of climate change, possible long and short-term consequences, and potential solutions; (2) apply the latest scientific and technological discoveries to provide learning opportunities to people; and (3) emphasize actionable information to help people understand and to promote implementation of new technologies, programs, and incentives related to energy conservation, renewable energy, and greenhouse gas reduction.

Requires such Program to include: (1) a national information campaign to disseminate information on and promote implementation of the new technologies, programs, and incentives; and (2) a competitive grant program to provide grants to states, municipalities, educational institutions, and other organizations to create materials relevant to climate change and climate science, develop climate science kindergarten through grade 12 curriculum and supplementary educational materials, or publish climate change and climate science information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6070-6071)
action_date: 2007-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Perpetual Purple Heart Stamp Act

Bill: 110-s-1390
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commemorations
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Postage stamps
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: 
Perpetual Purple Heart Stamp Act - Directs the Postmaster General to provide for the issuance of a forever stamp (a stamp that meets first-class postage requirements even if postage rates increase) to honor the sacrifices of the men and women of the Armed Forces who have been awarded the Purple Heart.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate