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Nuclear Waste Access to Yucca Act

Bill: 110-s-37
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2007-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air force
Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
Law
Licenses
Military bases
Military training
Mining leases
Mountains
Nevada
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear weapons
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Radioactive wastes
Railroad engineering
Right-of-way
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
Waste disposal sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: 
Nuclear Waste Access to Yucca Act - Withdraws specified lands in Nye County, Nevada, permanently from any form of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, including: (1) the mineral leasing laws; (2) the geothermal leasing laws; (3) materials sales laws; and (4) the mining laws.
 
Transfers jurisdiction over such lands to the Secretary of Energy.
 
Reserves use of such lands for certain activities associated with the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.
 
Requires the Secretary to manage the lands so withdrawn, and submit to Congress and the state of Nevada a management plan for their use.
 
Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to direct the Secretary to apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a license to construct and operate facilities to receive and store spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at the Yucca Mountain site.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to begin construction of connected infrastructure facilities after completion of a final environmental impact statement evaluating the activities involved. 
 
Requires the Secretary to acquire rights-of-way for construction and operation of railroad facilities to transport spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from existing rail systems to the site of surface facilities within the geologic repository operations area for the receipt, handling, packaging, and storage of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste prior to emplacement.
 
Revises requirements for new plant contracts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6551-6553)
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans' Mental Health Outreach and Access Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-38
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2007-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed forces reserves
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Demography
Families
Health
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Medical statistics
Mental health services
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military operations
National Guard
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
South Asia
Telemedicine
Veterans' employment
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: 
Veterans' Mental Health Outreach and Access Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a program to provide to veterans of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, particularly veterans who served in such Operations while in the National Guard and reserves: (1) peer outreach and support services; (2) readjustment counseling and related services; and (3) mental health services. Directs the Secretary to also provide to immediate family members of such veterans, during the three-year period following the return of the veterans from such a deployment, education, support, counseling, and mental health services to assist in: (1) readjustment to civilian life; (2) recovery from an injury or illness incurred during such deployment; and (3) readjustment of the family following the veteran's return.

 Authorizes the Secretary to contract with community health centers and other qualified entities to provide such services in areas not adequately served by health care facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Requires the Secretary to: (1) contract for a program to train veterans to provide the peer outreach and support services; and (2) conduct a training program for clinicians of community health centers and entities contracted to provide such services.

Extends the eligibility for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care for veterans who served on active duty in a theater of combat operations from two to five years after their discharge or release from such duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-328.
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6553-6554)
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6553)
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Research Competitiveness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-41
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bonds
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of the Treasury
Education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Income tax
Intellectual property
Investment tax credit
Law
Patents
Research and development
Research and development tax credit
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Tax administration
Tax-exempt organizations
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Research Competitiveness Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) modify the tax credit for increasing research expenses to establish a standard 20% credit rate for research expenses exceeding 50% of average expenses over the preceding three year period; (2) establish a uniform 80% reimbursement rate for all contract research expenses (100% for basic research payments); (3) make such tax credit permanent; (4) allow a tax credit for equity investments in small business innovation companies; and (5) allow the issuance of tax exempt facility bonds for research park facilities used in connection with research and experimentation.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) study and report to Congress on taxpayer compliance with the substantiation requirements for claiming the tax credit for increasing research activities; and (2) issue regulations on the application of private activity bond rules to the funding of federal research agreements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S70-72)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Arctic Research and Policy Amendments Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-42
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Arctic and polar regions
Energy
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Federal advisory bodies
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oceanographic research
Oceanography
Presidential commissions
Research
Salaries
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Arctic Research and Policy Amendments Act of 2007 - Amends the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 to increase the number of days per year the chairperson of the Arctic Research Commission shall be compensated for serving as a member of the Commission. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S72)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
STAR Act

Bill: 110-s-43
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Alien labor
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Immigration
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Legislative resolutions
Negotiations
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
President and foreign policy
Social security beneficiaries
Social security finance
Treaties
Vital statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Social Security Totalization Agreement Reform Act of 2007 or STAR Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide that any agreement to establish a totalization arrangement which is entered into with another country shall enter into force with respect to the United States if (and only if): (1) the President, at least 90 calendar days before the date on which he enters into the agreement, notifies each House of Congress of his intention to enter into it, and promply thereafter publishes notice of such intention in the Federal Register; (2) he transmits the text of such agreement to each House of the Congress; and (3) a joint resolution regarding such agreement has passed both Houses of Congress and been enacted into federal law.

Sets forth procedures for the consideration of such a joint resolution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require disclosure and payment of noncommercial air travel in the Senate.

Bill: 110-s-44
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Air travel
Campaign funds
Charter airlines
Congressional elections
Congressional ethics
Congressional travel
Election candidates
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial disclosure
Government Operations and Politics
Members of Congress
Private aviation
Senate
Senate rules and procedure
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends Rule XXXV (Gifts) of the Standing Rules of the Senate to require a Member, officer, or employee of the Senate to: (1) disclose a flight taken in connection with official duties on an aircraft that is not licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate for compensation or hire (unless it is owned, operated, or leased by a governmental entity); (2) reimburse the aircraft's owner or lessee for the pro rata share of the flight's fair market value; and (3) report to the Secretary of the Senate specified information about the trip, including its purpose and the persons on it (other than the pilot).
 
Declares that the fair market value of noncommercial air travel is the fair market value of the normal and usual charter fare or rental charge for a comparable plane of appropriate size.
 
Amends Rule XXXVIII (Prohibition of Unofficial Office Accounts) to prescribe the value for reimbursement purposes of the use of an aircraft that is not licensed by the FAA to operate for compensation or hire.
 
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to require a principal campaign committee disclosure report of such a flight by a federal office candidate (other than one for President or Vice President).
 
Excludes from the FECA definition of &quot;contribution&quot; any travel expense for such a flight if within seven days the candidate (or the candidate's authorize committee) pays the owner, lessee, or other individual providing the airplane the pro rata share of the flight's fair market value.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make a technical correction in the definition of outpatient speech-language pathology services.

Bill: 110-s-45
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Medical fees
Medicare
Social Welfare
Speech disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends part D (Miscellaneous) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to define outpatient speech-language pathology services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordability in the Individual Market Act

Bill: 110-s-46
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Medical savings accounts
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
 Affordability in the Individual Market Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the payment of insurance premiums for high deductible health plans from health savings accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
LEAF Act

Bill: 110-s-47
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disaster relief
Emergency medicine
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law enforcement officers
Police
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Law Enforcement Assistance Force Act of 2007 or the LEAF Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a Law Enforcement Assistance Force (Force) to facilitate the contributions of retired law enforcement officers and agents during major disasters. Outlines Force eligibility requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to request eligible participants to assist efforts of federal, state, or local government law enforcement agencies in responding to such disasters.

Requires a participant to remain in an assignment for the lesser of: (1) the period during which the law enforcement agency needs such services; or (2) 30 days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Private Property Rights Protection Act

Bill: 110-s-48
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Auditing
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Department of the Treasury
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Eminent domain
Federal aid programs
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Income tax
Judicial opinions
Judicial review
Land use
Law
Legal fees
Real estate development
Right of property
Tax credits
Tax expenditures
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Private Property Rights Protection Act - Makes ineligible for federal funds any condemning authority or acquiring party that engages or participates in a taking or condemnation of any real property interest not for a public use or public purpose using the power of eminent domain, without the owner's consent. Requires any entity applying for federal funds to certify eligibility. Allows the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to audit any condemning authority or acquiring party that has made such a certification.
 
Allows a property owner who is notified that his or her property will be taken to file for and attach a Fifth Amendment property protection statement (PPS) indicating that the condemning entity is exceeding its authority, which shall prohibit any acquiring party from claiming any benefit, deduction, or tax credit related to any activities conducted within the geographical boundaries comprising the jurisdiction of the condemning authority. Allows the condemning entity to seek a judicial determination of the statement's validity and an order releasing the PPS if not valid. 
 
Prohibits any government from engaging or participating in a taking or condemnation of any private real property interest under the power of eminent domain for any purpose that is not for a public purpose or a public use. Applies such prohibition to an exercise of eminent domain: (1) by the federal government; (2) related to a program or activity receiving federal financial assistance; or (3) that would affect commerce with foreign nations, among the states, or with Indian tribes.
 
Allows a person to assert a violation of this act as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding.
 
Allows the United States to bring an action for injunctive or declaratory relief to enforce compliance with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act

Bill: 110-s-49
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Consumer education
Credit unions
Crime and Law Enforcement
Electronic mail systems
Families
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign banks and banking
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Identification devices
Independent regulatory commissions
Injunctions
Internet
Law
Libraries
Parties to actions
Pornography
Restrictive trade practices
Right of privacy
Savings and loan associations
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Telephone
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue regulations requiring video services to prevent child pornography.
 
Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to triple the fines on providers of electronic communication services or remote computing services who knowingly and willfully fail to report child pornography. Requires warning labels for websites depicting sexually explicit material. 
 Deleting Online Predators Act of 2007 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require schools and libraries that receive universal service support to enforce a policy that: (1) prohibits access to a commercial social networking website or chat room unless used for an educational purpose with adult supervision; and (2) protects against access to visual depictions that are obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors. 
Directs the FCC to issue a consumer alert regarding use of the Internet by child predators and establish a website resource. 
Children's Listbroker Privacy Act - Makes it unlawful: (1) to sell personal information about an individual the seller knows to be a child (under age 16); (2) to purchase personal information about an individual identified by the seller as a child for the purpose of marketing to that child; or (3) for a purchaser who has provided a certification limiting the use of such information to engage in any practice that violates the certification terms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Paul Coverdell Homestead Open Space Preservation and Conservation Act of 2006

Bill: 110-s-50
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Conservation easements
Environmental Protection
Environmental protection groups
Farm lands
Forest conservation
Habitat conservation
Income tax
Land transfers
Nature conservation
Open space lands
Partnerships
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations
Unrelated business income tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Paul Coverdell Homestead Open Space Preservation and Conservation Act of 2006 (sic) - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain tax-exempt conservation organizations a tax credit for expenditures to acquire and maintain real property interests exclusively for conservation purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapy Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-51
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cytology
Department of Health and Human Services
Government Operations and Politics
Human embryology
Law
Medical research
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapy Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop techniques for the isolation, derivation, production, or testing of pluripotent stem cells that have the flexibility of embryonic stem cells (whether or not they have an embryonic source) and that may result in improved understanding of, or treatments for, diseases and other adverse health conditions, provided that such techniques do not involve: (1) the creation of a viable human embryo for research purposes; or (2) the destruction or discarding of a human embryo or embryos; or (3) knowingly subjecting a human embryo or embryos to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for federal research on fetuses in utero under current law.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) provide guidance concerning the next steps required for additional research; (2) prioritize research with the greatest potential for near-term clinical benefit; and (3) take into account techniques outlined by the President's Council on Bioethics and any other appropriate techniques and research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 to increase the membership of the Board of Directors and require that each State in the service area of the Tennessee Valley Authority be represented by at least 1 member.

Bill: 110-s-52
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation directors
Electric utilities
Energy
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Residence requirements
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 to increase from nine to 13 the number of members on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). 
 
Revises the current requirement that at least seven Board members be legal residents of the TVA service area. Requires, instead, that at least one member be a legal resident of each state in the TVA service area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate