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Stop the Misuse of ITINs Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-849
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2007-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alien labor
Department of Homeland Security
Dismissal of employees
Electronic government information
Employee rights
Employers' liability
Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 
Stop the Misuse of ITINs Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) notify the Secretary of Homeland Security of any employer tax return which shows wages paid to an employee who is not authorized to be employed in the United States; and (2) provide a written notice to the employer and employee involved that such employment is illegal and must be terminated within 30 days after the date of said notice. Allows any employee who receives a notice to contest such notice and provide documentation substantiating such employee's claimed authorization to work in the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
IRS Illegal Immigrant Information Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-850
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2007-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alien labor
Department of Homeland Security
Dismissal of employees
Electronic government information
Employee rights
Employers' liability
Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 
IRS Illegal Immigrant Information Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require: (1) the Secretary of Homeland Security to request from the Secretary of the Treasury information (including mailing address, amount of wages earned, and identity of employer) about alien workers who are no longer authorized to work in the United States; (2) the Secretary of the Treasury to provide the requested information to the Department of Homeland Security; and (3) the Secretary of Homeland Security to notify the alien worker and and the worker's employer that such employment is illegal and must be terminated within 30 days of such notice. Allows any worker who receives a notice to contest such notice and to provide documentation substantiating such worker's authorization to be employed in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Death Penalty Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-851
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2007-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Airports
Capital punishment
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights enforcement
Conspiracy
Correctional personnel
Criminal procedure
Department of Justice
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Evidence (Law)
Federal employees
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Habeas corpus
Health
Homicide
Informers
Juries
Kidnapping
Law
Life imprisonment
Medical tests
Mentally disabled
Obstruction of justice
Pretrial procedure
Public defenders
Recidivists
Religion
Religious liberty
Right of privacy
Right to counsel
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
State employees
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Victims of crimes
Violence
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 
Death Penalty Reform Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to modify substantive law and procedures relating to the death penalty.

 Adds certain crimes that result in death, including obstruction of justice, as aggravating factors in death penalty deliberations.

Defines &quot;mentally retarded&quot; for death penalty purposes. Requires a defendant to give notice to the government of any mitigating factors, including mental retardation, which the defendant intends to present in a death penalty proceeding. Grants the government the right to an independent mental health examination of a defendant claiming mental retardation.

 Grants the Attorney General regulatory authority over the implementation of the death penalty. Repeals the prohibition against executing a person who is mentally retarded. Grants the government an unlimited right to rehearings of a finding of mental incapacity in death penalty cases.

 Requires a court in a death penalty case to: (1) assign a second attorney for the defendant when the government files a notice of intent to seek a sentence of death (currently, assignment is required upon indictment); and (2) permit the government to strike for cause jurors who oppose the death penalty.

 Modifies criteria relating to mitigating and aggravating factors in death penalty cases. 

Authorizes a court in the sentencing phase of a death penalty case to impanel a jury of less than 12 members upon a finding of good cause.

Amends the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to increase the number of alternative jurors and peremptory challenges to such jurors in criminal proceedings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-852
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2007-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Fraud
Internet
Restrictive trade practices
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Telecommunication industry
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 
Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2007 - Makes it unlawful for any person in interstate commerce to knowingly and intentionally: (1) obtain confidential phone records information under false pretenses; (2) sell or transfer confidential phone records information without prior authorization from the customer; and (3) receive or purchase confidential phone records information. Provides for Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforcement of such provisions.
 
Makes such provisions inapplicable to law enforcement agencies.
 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require a telecommunication carrier to notify a customer of any incidents in which proprietary network information relating to such customer is disclosed to someone other than the customer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Wellness and Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-853
Sponsor: Rep. Knollenberg, Joe [R-MI-9]
Introduced: 2007-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Cardiovascular diseases
Child health
Commerce
Drug abuse
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health counseling
Health education
Higher education
Income tax
Infants
Labor and Employment
Maternal health services
Medical education
Medical records
Medical screening
Medical tests
Mental depression
Mental health
Nutrition
Obesity
Physical fitness
Physicians
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Scholarships
Smoking
Sports and Recreation
Stress (Psychology)
Student loan funds
Tax credits
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 
Wellness and Prevention Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to pay up to a specified amount of the medical education loans incurred by any physician who receives board certification in preventive medicine from FY2008-FY2012.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a wellness program tax credit for employers that develop and implement a program that: (1) conducts health risk assessments for each program participant; (2) offers annually at least two preventive health screenings; (3) offers annual counseling sessions on at least three preventive health topics; and (4) includes as participants not less than 50% of full-time employees. Provides a tax credit for qualified employees that participate in their employer's qualified wellness program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9284)
action_date: 2007-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
City Youth Violence Recovery Act

Bill: 110-hr-854
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2007-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child health
Child psychology
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health
Mental health services
Mentoring
Nonprofit organizations
School health programs
Social Welfare
State-local relations
Urban affairs
Urban crime
Youth services
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 
City Youth Violence Recovery Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to partnerships between a state mental health authority and one or more local public or private entities to prevent or alleviate the effects of youth violence in urban communities with a high or increasing incidence of such violence by providing violence-prevention education, mentoring, counseling, and mental health services to children and adolescents.
 
Gives priority to grant applicants that agree to use the grant in communities that lack the resources to address youth violence. Requires grant applicants to agree to use no more than 15% of a grant for violence-prevention education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Criminal Terrorism Improvements Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-855
Sponsor: Rep. Lungren, Daniel E. [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2007-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Antiaircraft missiles
Armed Forces and National Security
Biological warfare
Capital punishment
Conspiracy
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic surveillance
Evidence (Law)
Federal aid programs
Finance and Financial Sector
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Homicide
International Affairs
Law
Licenses
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Military training
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Violence
Virus diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 
Criminal Terrorism Improvements Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose the death penalty or life imprisonment on individuals who cause the death of a person while committing a terrorist act.

Authorizes the death penalty for: (1) developing, possessing, or threatening to use radiological weapons against a person or against U.S. property; (2) causing the death of an individual by using missile systems designed to destroy aircraft, by using radiological dispersal devices, or by using the variola virus; and (3) use of atomic weapons with intent to injure the United States.

Increases criminal penalties for: (1) attempting or conspiring to kill a U.S. national; (2) engaging in physical violence with the intent to injure a U.S. national; (3) financing terrorism or concealing assets to be used for terrorist activities; and (4) providing material support to terrorists or receiving military-type training from a foreign terrorist organization. Amends the crime of receiving military-type training from a foreign terrorist organization to include attempts or conspiracies to receive such training.

Denies certain federal benefits to individuals convicted of a federal crime of terrorism. 

Expands the authorization for interception of communications (wiretapping) to include all federal crimes of terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Susan B. Anthony Birthday Act

Bill: 110-hr-856
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2007-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Holidays
Leave of absence
Women
Women's rights
Women's voting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 
Susan B. Anthony Birthday Act - Honors Susan B. Anthony by celebrating her legacy on the third Monday in February.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E267)
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the rules of origin for certain textile and apparel products.

Bill: 110-hr-857
Sponsor: Rep. McNulty, Michael R. [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2007-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Clothing
Import restrictions
Tariff
Textile fabrics

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 
Amends the Uruguay Round Agreements Act with respect to the rules of origin for certain textile and apparel products. 
 
Makes such amendments applicable to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the date that is 15 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 to authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide additional assistance to State and local governments for utility costs resulting from the provision of temporary housing units to evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes.

Bill: 110-hr-858
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2007-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Alabama
Commerce
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency housing
Energy
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Hurricanes
Leases
Louisiana
Mississippi
Public utilities
Public utility rates
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 
Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 to extend the authority of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide funds to state and local governments for utility costs resulting from the provision of temporary housing units to evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes of the 2005 season where the state or local government has previously arranged to pay for such utilities on behalf of the evacuees, to cover the term of any leases for up to 24 months (currently, 12 months) contracted by or prior to February 7, 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 110-hr-859
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2007-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Arts, Culture, Religion
Auditing
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colorado
Commemorations
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Hispanic Americans
Historic sites
History
Indian lands
Land use
Landowners
Landscape protection
Maps
Minorities
Mountains
National forests
National parks
Native Americans
Natural areas
Nonprofit organizations
Planning
Public meetings
Public-private partnerships
Recreation areas
Right of property
Signs and signboards
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
State parks
Water Resources Development
Water rights
West (U.S.)
Wilderness areas
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 
Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area in Colorado. Designates the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area Board of Directors as the management entity for the Heritage Area. Requires the Board to prepare and submit a management plan for the Heritage Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-861
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2007-02-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Airports
Alcoholic beverages
College sports
Courthouses
Education
Educational facilities
Federal preemption
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Interstate relations
Law
Licenses
Local laws
Prisons
Public meetings
Sports and Recreation
State laws
Transportation and Public Works
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 
National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to establish a national standard for the carrying of concealed firearms (other than a machinegun or destructive device) by non-residents. Authorizes a person who has a valid permit to carry a concealed firearm in one state and who is not prohibited from carrying a firearm under federal law to carry a concealed firearm in another state in accordance with the restrictions of that state or as specified under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in House