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For the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical.

Bill: 110-hr-240
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Provides for the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-241
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Bankruptcy
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Delegation of powers
Department of Labor
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Federal advisory bodies
Federal preemption
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Flexible benefit plans
Franchises (Retail trade)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Health care fraud
Health insurance
Injunctions
Insurance
Insurance agents
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Labor unions
Law
Licenses
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Professional associations
Small business
Standards
State laws
State taxation
Surety and fidelity
Tax rates
Taxation
Trade associations
Trusts and trustees
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide for establishment and governance of association health plans (AHPs), which are group health plans whose sponsors are trade, industry, professional, chamber of commerce, or similar business associations, and which meet certain ERISA certification requirements. 
 
Sets forth rules governing AHPs, including requirements relating to certification, sponsors and boards of trustees, participation and coverage, nondiscrimination, contribution rates, notice of voluntary termination, correction actions, and mandatory termination.
 
Establishes the Association Health Plan Fund to be used by the Secretary of Labor to make payments to an insurer to maintain coverage for a plan if there is a reasonable expectation that, without such payments, claims would not be satisfied by reason of termination of coverage.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a Solvency Standards Working Group.
 
Allows a state to impose a contribution tax on an association health plan that commenced operations in such state after the enactment of this Act.
 
Preempts any state law that may preclude a health insurance issuer from: (1) offering health insurance coverage in connection with a certified AHP; or (2) offering health insurance coverage of the same policy type to other employers operating in the state that are eligible for coverage under such AHPs, whether or not such other employers are participating employers in such plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Social Security KidSave Accounts Act

Bill: 110-hr-242
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Annuities
Bonds
Civil service retirement
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Government securities
Government trust funds
Grandparents
Individual retirement accounts
Inheritance tax
Investments
Labor and Employment
Law
Mutual funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Parents
Social security finance
Social security numbers
Stocks
Tax exemption
Tax refunds
Taxation
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Social Security KidSave Accounts Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to create a new part B (KidSave Accounts). Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to establish in the name of each individual born on or after January 1, 2008, an individual retirement account in the Thrift Savings Fund known as a KidSave Account. Requires such Account to be treated in the same manner as an account maintained by a federal employee under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) (into which contributions by or on behalf of the individual are deposited into one or more designated investment funds).

Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund to each account holder's KidSave Account: (1) $2,000, on the date such individual's KidSave Account is established; plus (2) other, including rollover, contributions, by or on behalf of the individual, the aggregate amount of which in the case of any individual below age 19 is capped at $500 for any taxable year. Provides for the treatment of distributions.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any rollovers into a KidSave Account. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E26-27)
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Combat Military Medically Retired Veteran's Fairness Act

Bill: 110-hr-243
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorations
Disabled
Labor and Employment
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Military pensions
Retired military personnel
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Combat Military Medically Retired Veteran's Fairness Act - Authorizes the payment of special compensation to members of the Armed Forces retired due to disability with less than 20 years of active service who were awarded the Purple Heart. States that such payments shall be made without regard to special rules applicable to other disability retirees which require offsetting reductions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E25-26)
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Technology Retraining and Investment Now Act for the 21st Century

Bill: 110-hr-244
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Commerce
Computer literacy
Curricula
Depressed areas
Disabled
Disaster relief
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Employee training
Enterprise zones
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Indian education
Indian lands
Information technology
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Native Americans
Rural economic development
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Technical education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Technology Retraining and Investment Now Act for the 21st Century - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50 percent of the information and communications technology education and training program expenses of individuals and employees, up to $4,000 in a taxable year. Increases the allowable amount of such credit to $5,000 for expenses for a program operated: (1) in an empowerment zone, enterprise community, or renewal community; (2) in a school district in which at least 50 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced-cost lunches; (3) in an federally-declared disaster area; (4) in certain rural areas receiving federal assistance; (5) in an Indian tribal jurisdiction; (6) by an employer with 200 or fewer employees during a specified period; or (7) for a disabled individual.
 
Defines &quot;information technology education and training program expenses&quot; to include: (1) course work; (2) certification testing; (3) apprenticeship programs registered by the Department of Labor; and (4) other expenses essential to assessing skill acquisition. 
 
Redefines &quot;eligible educational institution&quot; to include a commercial information and communications technology training provider. 
 
Establishes an Information Technology Training Certification Advisory Board to develop: (1) guidelines for computer science, information technology, and related college courses; and (2) a list of the information technology training and certifications that qualify for the tax credit established by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E27)
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Personal Health Investment Today Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-245
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Equipment and supplies
Exercise
Health
Income tax
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
Sports and Recreation
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Personal Health Investment Today Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat up to $1,000 of amounts paid annually for exercise equipment and physical exercise programs as tax deductible medical expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E25)
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Methamphetamine and Identity Theft Study Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-246
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Conspiracy
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Data banks
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Identity theft
Legislation
Methamphetamine
Postal service
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Methamphetamine and Identity Theft Study Act of 2007 - Directs the Attorney General to conduct a study evaluating whether there is a connection between the commission of crimes involving methamphetamine and the commission of identity theft crimes. Requires such study to include a statistical analysis of any correlation and to evaluate: (1) imposing a sentencing enhancement if a person commits both; (2) establishing a password-protected electronic clearinghouse within the Department of Justice for federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to share information on crimes involving both; and (3) whether individuals who use methamphetamine are more likely to commit certain kinds of identity theft crimes, such as through the use of mail, than are others who commit identity theft crimes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Robo Calls Off Phones (Robo COP) Act

Bill: 110-hr-248
Sponsor: Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Campaign funds
Commerce
Consumer protection
Directories
Federal Trade Commission
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Political advertising
Telemarketing
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Robo COP Act: Robo Calls Off Phones - Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), notwithstanding any other provision of law, to revise the do-not-call registry provisions of the Telemarketing Sales Rule to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to telephone numbers listed on that registry. 
 
Defines politically-oriented recorded message telephone call.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Save Our Children: Stop the Violent Predators Against Children DNA Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-252
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child abuse
Child sexual abuse
Criminal justice information
DNA
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Identification of criminals
Mandatory sentences
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex offenders
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Save Our Children: Stop the Violent Predators Against Children DNA Act of 2007 - Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a database solely for collecting DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) information with respect to violent predators against children. Authorizes federal, state, and local agencies and other entities to submit DNA information for the database and to compare DNA information within the database. 
Directs the Attorney General to make grants to states to improve programs to decrease recidivism of such predators.
Requires the maximum sentence to be imposed for a crime of violence, including a sex crime, against an individual under age 18 that would, in and of itself, establish the offender as such a predator, without regard to any mitigating circumstance that would otherwise apply.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-253
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal statistics
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Evidence (Law)
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Informers
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Minorities
Police
Police corruption
Rating of employees
State laws
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 2007 - Prohibits a state from receiving for a fiscal year any drug control and system improvement (Byrne) grant funds under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, or any amount from any other law enforcement assistance program of the Department of Justice, unless the state does not fund any antidrug task forces for that fiscal year or the state has in effect laws that ensure that: (1) a person is not convicted of a drug offense unless the facts that a drug offense was committed and that the person committed that offense are supported by evidence other than the eyewitness testimony of a law enforcement officer (officer) or individuals acting on an officer's behalf; and (2) an officer does not participate in a antidrug task force unless that officer's honesty and integrity is evaluated and found to be at an appropriately high level. 

Requires states receiving federal funds under this Act to collect data on the racial distribution of drug charges, the nature of the criminal law specified in the charges, and the jurisdictions in which such charges are made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
David's Law

Bill: 110-hr-254
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Arson
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights enforcement
Crime prevention
Crimes against women
Department of Justice
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Explosives
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Hate crimes
Juvenile delinquency
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Law
Life imprisonment
Minorities
Murder
Racial violence
Rape
Recruiting of employees
Religion
Religious liberty
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sentencing guidelines
Sex crimes
Sex discrimination
Sexual orientation
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Voting rights
Women
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 or David's Law - Amends the federal criminal code to impose penalties for willfully causing bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, or an explosive device, attempting to cause such injury, whether or not acting under color of law, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability of any person, where the offense is in or affects interstate or foreign commerce. 

Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to study the issue of adult recruitment of juveniles to commit hate crimes and, if appropriate, to amend the federal sentencing guidelines to provide sentencing enhancements for such an offense.

Requires the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to make grants to state and local programs designed to combat hate crimes committed by juveniles.

Authorizes appropriations to the Department of the Treasury and to DOJ for FY2007-FY2009 to increase the number of personnel to protect against criminal interference with federally-protected activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Manufacturing Technology Competitiveness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-255
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Antitrust law
Auditing
Authorization
Awards, medals, prizes
Building construction
Commemorations
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee training
Engineering
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Graduate education
Higher education
Industrial engineering
Industrial production
Industrial research
Industrial standards
Infrastructure
Intellectual property
International competitiveness
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Manufacturing industries
Materials
Performance measurement
Policy sciences
Presidential commissions
Public-private partnerships
Quality control
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Research centers
Research grants
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Small business
Standards
Strategic planning
Surveys
Technical education
Technological innovations
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Manufacturing Technology Competitiveness Act of 2007 - Directs the President to establish or designate an Interagency Committee to plan and coordinate Federal efforts in manufacturing research and development, with an Advisory Committee from the non-Federal sector. 
 
 Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (NIST Act) to establish: (1) a pilot program of collaborative manufacturing research grants; (2) manufacturing sciences research fellowships; (3) manufacturing extension center competitive grants; and (4) standards education grants to develop higher education curricula on the role of standards in engineering, business, science, and economics.
 
Revises requirements under the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership program. 
 
Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Commerce for the following NIST programs: (1) scientific and technical research and services laboratory activities; (2) the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (under the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980); (3) construction and maintenance of facilities; (4) Teacher Science and Technology Enhancement Institute; (5) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (through the Secretary or other appropriate Federal agencies); (6) Collaborative Manufacturing Research Pilot Grants; and (7) Manufacturing Fellowships.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House